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Call for Workshop Proposals: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, ITALY
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

[Apologies for multiple copies] --- IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING (SMARTCOMP 2020) Bologna, Italy 22-25 June 2020 http://www.smart-comp.org Call for workshop proposals ------------------------------- Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, SMARTCOMP 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data. The Workshops Committee of SMARTCOMP 2020 invites proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to SMARTCOMP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Internet of Things, Software-Defined Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications and Smart Grid. Papers presented in the SMARTCOMP 2020 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore®. Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Each workshop proposal must include the following: * the name of the workshop; * the names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers; * a brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the workshop’s focus will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time; * the names of potential Program Committee members; * the planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions and involvement of the attendees; * if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the potential keynote speaker(s); * if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers, number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees; * if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected number of submissions and attendees; * a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible); * a description of the plans for publicity and Workshop Web site. Submission Method ------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than 23 November 2019, in PDF format by email with the subject line "SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Proposal" to the Workshop Chairs: Dario Bruneo (dbruneo(a)unime.it) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (eirini(a)unm.edu) Important Dates ------------------------------- Proposal for workshop submission deadline: 8 December 2019 Notification of workshop acceptance: 20 December 2020 Paper submission deadline: 6 April 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: 30 April 2020 Submission of camera-ready deadline: 15 May 2020 SMARTCOMP 2020 Workshop Chair Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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Call for Papers: IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020, Bologna, Italy
by Shameek Bhattacharjee 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Apologies if you have received multiple copies [SMARTCOMP 2020]: Call for papers -------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE SMARTCOMP 2020 Call for Papers 22-25 June 2020, Bologna, Italy http://www.smart-comp.org -------------------------------------------------------------- SMARTCOMP is the premier IEEE conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge cloud computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of edge cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living. SMARTCOMP 2020 is the 6th edition of the conference and will be held in the historical city of Bologna, Italy, hosted by the University of Bologna, the holdest University of the western world. SMARTCOMP 2020 will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, edge cloud computing, sensor networks, IoT, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living. Submission Guidelines -------------------- Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class. Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that), through EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26894) Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Extended versions of selected high quality papers accepted in IEEE SmartComp 2020 will be considered for publication in the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing journal. Topics ------ SMARTCOMP 2020 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest: SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND ALGORITHMS: ----------------------------------------------- Future Smart Computing Paradigms Models of Smart Environments Algorithms for Smart Computing AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing Edge computing algorithms SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES: ------------------------ Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments Cloud/Edge/Fog computing technologies for Smart Systems Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT technologies for Smart Systems Smart Networking Technologies Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments SMART COMPUTING APPLICATIONS: ---------------------------------------------- Smart Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Smart Precision Agriculture Smart Transportation Smart FinTech Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis Smart Health Smart Communities Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities Smart Energy Management and Analytics Organizing Committee -------------------- General Co-Chairs: Paolo Bellavista (University of Bologna, Italy) Qi Han (Colorado School of Mines, USA) Technical Program Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Carlo Vallati (University of Pisa, Italy) Publicity Co-Chairs: Shameek Bhattacharjee (Western Michigan University, USA) Sanjay Purushotham (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA) Wei Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China) Riccardo Venanzi (University of Bologna, Italy) Web Co-Chairs: Domenico Scotece (University of Bologna, Italy) Francesco Di Rienzo (University of Pisa, Italy) Workshop Co-Chairs: Dario Bruneo (University of Messina) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico) Steering Committee ------------------ Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA) TPC (In Progress) --- Antonio A.F. Loureiro (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) Ana Aguiar (University of Porto, Portugal) Christine Bassem (Wellesley College, USA) Shuvra Bhattacharyya (University of Maryland, USA) Dario Bruneo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Alessandra De Paola (University of Palermo, Italy) Pranita Dewan (IBM, USA) Sujit Dey (University of California, San Diego, USA) Ashutosh Dhekne (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) Jonathan Fink (Portland State University, USA) Angelo Furno (IFSTTAR, ENTPE, Université de Lyon, France) Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), USA) Raghu Ganti (IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA) Hassan Ghasemzadeh (Washington State University, USA) Jason Hallstrom (Florida Atlantic University, USA) Salil Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia) Fanxin Kong (Syracuse University, USA) Ulf Kulau (DSI Aerospace Technology, Germany) Francesco Longo (Universita di Messina, Italy) Sudip Mittal (University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA) Marco Morana (University of Palermo, Italy) Abhishek Mukherji (Cisco Systems Inc., USA) Paolo Nesi (DSI, University of Florence, Italy) Biplab Pal (MachineSense, USA) Symeon Papavassiliou (ICCS/National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Kyung-Joon Park (DGIST, Korea) Lucas Pereira (M-ITI / LARSyS, Portugal) Dirk Pesch (University College Cork, Ireland) Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy) Carlo Puliafito (University of Florence, Italy) Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA) Maryam Rahnemoonfar (University of Maryland, USA) Andreas Reinhardt (TU Clausthal, Germany) Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy) Nirupam Roy (UMD College Park, USA) Vijay Shah (Virginia Tech, USA) Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA) Neeraj Suri (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany) Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico, USA) Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA) Antonio Virdis (University of Pisa, Italy) Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Desheng Zhang (Rutgers University, USA) Eugenio Zimeo (University of Sannio, Italy) Nilavra Pathak (Expedia Group, Seattle, USA) Amrita Anam (Amazon, USA) Jorge Ortiz (The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA) Archan Misra (Singapore Management University) Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island, USA) Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Nebraska Omaha, USA) Jiaqi Gong (UMBC, USA) Vaskar Raychoudhury (Miami University, Ohio, USA) H M Sajjad Hossain (Microsoft AI, Cambridge MA, USA) Daniele Riboni (University of Cagliari, Italy) Claudio Cicconetti (CNT-IIT, Pisa) Important Dates --------------- Paper Registration Deadline: 17 January 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: 24 January 2020 Acceptance Notification: 31 March 2020 Camera Ready Deadline: 30 April 2020 Venue ----- The 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2020) will be held in Bologna, Italy. Contact ------- For any Information about the conference, please contact the TPC Co-Chairs: Nirmalya Roy or Carlo Vallati. Regards, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI Room B-241, Ph: 269-276-3156. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yP7rQY8AAAAJ&hl=en

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CFP The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020)
by Henry Q 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

The 3rd International Conference on Smart BlockChain (SmartBlock 2020) June 6-8, Zhengzhou, China http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartblock/2020/ *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: *January 15th, 2020* Author notification: April 1st, 2020 Camera-Ready: April 15th, 2020 Registration: April 15th, 2020 Conference date: June 6th-8th, 2020 *CALL FOR PAPERS*Recent rapid development of blockchain has attracted a giant attention by both academia and the industry. Migrating a centralized computing to decentralized computing seems to be a main stream to establish a trust and secure storage and trading environment. However, it is actually too early to make a solid statement about the adoption of blockchain technology, since there are many unsolved problems in the field. The success of blockchain technique in Bitcoin does not mean the technique can be successfully deployed in all domains. This international conference aims to gather most updated papers in the field of blockchain and provides a platform for both scholars and practitioners. The scope of SmartBlock conference involves a broad range related to blockchain realms, from privacy-preserving solutions to designing advanced blockchain mechanism, from empirical studies to practical manuuals. All high quality updated work is highly welcomed. smartblock 2020 will be held in Zhengzhou, Henan, China and its conference proceedings publisher is Springer. - - Blockchain theory - Legal, ethical and societal aspects of blockchain - Blockchain application in social networking - Smart contract and distributed ledger - P2P network analysis for blockchain - Blockchain-enabled cloud/edge computing - Blockchain-enabled services - Distributed consensus and fault tolerance mechanisms - Permissioned and permissionless blockchains - Privacy and anonymity-enhancing techniques in blockchain - Security, privacy and trust of blockchain - Blockchain performance optimization - Cryptocurrency adoption and economic impacts in blockchain - Lightweight protocols and algorithms of blockchain - Forensics and monitoring in blockchain - Blockchain based lightweight data structures for IoT data - Blockchain based IoT security and privacy - Blockchain in cyber physical systems - Attacks on blockchain based systems - Bolckchain in crowdsourcing and crowdsensing - Fraud detection and financial crime prevention in blockchain - Trust management in blockchain - Smart Blockchain and token economy - Smart Blockchain and applications - Smart Blockchain and digital economy

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Springer(LNCS)-11th Int.Symposium on Software Quality@University of Cagliari, Italy.
by Sanjay Misra 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

ISSQ 2020 : 11th International Symposium on Software Quality[image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/eve…>[image: Twitter] <http://twitter.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showc…>[image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http://www.wikicfp.com/c…>[image: Google] <https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.…> Link: http://sq.covenantuniversity.edu.ng When Jul 1, 2020 - Jul 4, 2020 Where Cagliari Submission Deadline Feb 29, 2020 Notification Due Apr 15, 2020 Final Version Due May 8, 2020 *Categories* <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/allcat> software quality assurance <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=software%20quality%20assurance> quality standards <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20standards> quality models <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20models> quality practics <http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/call?conference=quality%20practics> Call For Papers ISSQ 2020: Tenth International Symposium on Software Quality(Springer-LNCS) in conjunction with ICCSA 2020 (The accepted papers of ISSQ 2020 will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science and extended version of all papers will be invited to publish in several International Journals- All Web of Science/SCOPUS Indexed Journals,A special issue of a SCIE Journal(Information Technology and Control-Impact Factor-0.800) is also confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums and workshops@ICCSA 2020). Following the grand success of SQ 2019 (in Saint Petersburg, Italy), SQ 2018 (in Melbourne, Australia), SQ 2017 (in Trieste, Italy), SQ 2016 (in Beijing, China), SQ 2015 (in Banff, Canada), SQ 2014 (in Guimaraes, Portugal), SQ 2013 (in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), SQ 2012 (in Salvador, Brazil), SQ 2011 in conjunction with ICCSA 2011 (in Santander, Spain), and SQ 2009 in ISCIS 2009 (in Middle East Technical University North Cyprus Campus, Cyprus), the Eleventh International Workshop on "Software Quality SQ" (SQ 2020) will be held in conjunction with the 2020 International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020) on July 1-4, 2020, in collaboration with University of Cagliari, Italy. Submission deadline: February 29, 2020 About the Workshop and Topics This symposium extends the discussion of software quality issues in modern software development processes. It covers all the aspects of the process and product quality, quality assurance and standards, quality planning, quality control and software quality challenges. It also covers the frontier issues and trends for achieving quality objectives. It includes a quality management process, the role of software metrics, predictor metrics and control metrics, the role of measurement in accessing the quality and limitations. Topics include (related to quality issues in software, software applications in any related area-cloud, agile, IoT, Big data, smart applications) but not limited to: 1. Software development fundamentals, 2. Extreme Programming (XP), Agile, Scrum, 3. Software requirements techniques, 4. Software testing & QA fundamentals, 5. Software testing models and approaches, 6. Software testing tools and frameworks, 7. Software test design, 8. Types of software maintenance, 9. Software maintenance process models, 10. Software maintenance standards, 11. Software maintenance tools 12. Software Reviews (SR) 13. Software Metrics (SM) 14. Software Process Assessment (SPA) 15. Software Process Improvement (SPI) 16. Software Standardization and Certification ISSQ: 2020 invites you to submit your work that describes original and significant contribution in all above-mentioned area of software engineering processes. The paper submitted to ISSQ 2020 must not be submitted elsewhere either in conference or journal. Papers selected after peer review will be included in the conference proceedings (after registration) and presented orally at the conference. Publication All contributions will be peer-reviewed and will be judged on their quality and relevance. The accepted papers for SQ 2020 will be published in Proceedings of ICCSA by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Please note that one of the authors of the accepted paper must register for the conference. Extended and modified version of all accepted paper is invited to publish in various journals (all SCIE/Web of Science/SCOPUS/ESCI indexed) including best papers in SCIE indexed Journal*. *A special issue of an SCIE Journal- Information Technology And Control(IF 0.800) is confirmed for best papers of the software engineering symposiums(SEPA & ISSQ) and workshop(TTSDP)@ICCSA 2020). Submission Please submit your paper through the ICCSA 2020 conference website. Submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/cgi-bin/login.py While submitting to the conference site, please check the track of your submission "12th International Symposium on Software Quality (ISSQ 2020)" Important Dates Feb 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2020:SEPA 2020@ ICCSA 2020 Conference Organizing Chair Prof. Sanjay Misra Professor of Computer Engineering, Covenant University Contact: ssopam(a)gmail.com Programme Committee Chair Dr. Luis Fernandez Department of Computer Science University De Alcala, Spain International Programme Committee Members Mario Fusani,National Research Council of Italy Daniel Rodríguez, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Spain Emilia Mendes, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Robertas Damasevicius Kaunas University of Technology Antonio de Amescua Seco, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada Vahid Garousi, Hacettepe University Ankara, Turkey Broderick Crawford, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso, PUCV, Chile Michel dos Santos Soares, Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil V. B. Singh, University of Delhi, India José Alfonso Aguilar,Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Maxico Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Valparaiso,Chile Eduardo Guerra, National Institute of space research, Sao Jose, Brazil Murat Koyuncu, Atilim University, Turkey Tolga Pustali, Cankaya University, Turkey P. Debba, CSIR, South Africa Cristina Casado Lumbreras, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Ibrahim Akman, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey Marco Crasso, UNICEN University, Argentina Markus Holopainen, University of Helsinki, Finland Takashi Michikawa, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), Japan Cristian Mateos, UNICEN University, Argentina Jose Luis Ordiales Coscia, UNICEN University, Argentina Osman Abul, PhD, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, Turkey. Pham Quoc Trung, HCMC University of Technology, HCMC, Vietnam Alejandro Zunino, UNICEN University, Argentina Eudisley Anjos, Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) - Brazil -- Sanjay Misra <https://covenantuniversity.edu.ng/Profiles/Misra-Sanjay#.W6Psi2hKjDc> Professor of Computer(Software) Engineering, Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria (Researchgate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sanjay_Misra2>, Researcherid <http://www.researcherid.com/rid/K-2203-2014>:K-2203-2014, DBLP <http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/m/Misra:Sanjay>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=AFjvjTgAAAAJ&hl=en>, Scopus <http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=AuthorProfile&authorId=56962…>) Editor in Chief- (Call for Papers and book proposals)- 1. International Journal of Human Capital and Information Technology Professionals <https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-human-capital-info…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 2. Advances in IT Personnel and Project Management <https://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-personnel-project-managemen…> (Clarivate Analytics(Web of Science), SCOPUS) 3. COVENANT JOURNAL OF INFORMATICS AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY <https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjict> 4. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES <https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/editors>

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IHPCES 2020 -- Submission Deadline Extension (to February 7)
by Dominik Bartuschat 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

*** CALL FOR PAPERS -- Submission Deadline Extension *** Tenth International Workshop on Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences: Applications and Frameworks (IHPCES 2020) https://www.cspp.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/IHPCES2020/ Dear colleagues, IHPCES 2020, the 10th workshop in the series of "Advances in High-Performance Computational Earth Sciences" workshops, will take place in conjunction with the ICCS 2020 Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from June 3-5, 2020. The objective of this series of workshops is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art research in high performance computational earth sciences. IHPCES workshops foster communication between Earth scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer scientists. The workshop therefore presents a unique opportunity to exchange advanced knowledge, computational methods, and science discoveries in computational geosciences. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large-scale simulations on supercomputing systems in earth sciences Advanced modeling and simulations on natural disaster prevention and mitigation Advanced numerical methods for high performance computational earth sciences Parallel and distributed algorithms and programming strategies for supercomputers Software engineering for parallel systems with multi-core processors and accelerators Algorithms for Big Data analytics and applications for large-scale data processing Methodologies and tools designed for extreme-scale computing We welcome full (up to 14 pages) and short (up to 7 pages) papers in Springer LNCS format (we do not accept "Abstract Only" submissions). All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings of ICCS2020, published by Springer in its LNCS series. Important dates: February 7, 2020 Paper Submission Due (final extension) March 12, 2020 Author Notification April 2, 2020 Camera-Ready Papers IHPCES 2020 co-chairs: Takashi Shimokawabe - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kohei Fujita - The University of Tokyo, Japan Dominik Bartuschat - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Program committee: Hideo Aochi - Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres, France Joern Behrens - University of Hamburg, Germany Xing Cai - Simula Research Laboratory/University of Oslo, Norway Yifeng Cui - San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Takeshi Fukaya - Hokkaido University, Japan Takashi Furumura - University of Tokyo, Japan Lutz Gross - University of Queensland, Australia Alexander Heinecke - Intel, USA Sebastian Kuckuk - University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany Johannes Langguth - Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Osni Marques - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Hiromichi Nagao - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kengo Nakajima - The University of Tokyo, Japan Kenji Ono - Kyushu University, Japan Olaf Schenk - Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland Osamu Tatebe - University of Tsukuba, Japan Peng Wang - NVIDIA, USA Mei Wen - National University of Defense Technology, China Huilin Xing - University of Queensland, Australia We are looking forward to your contributions to IHPCES 2020. With best regards, Dominik Bartuschat on behalf of the IHPCES 2020 co-chairs

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[CFP] GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning (co-located with IPDPS 2020)
by Tumeo, Antonino 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

[Please accept our apologies for multiple postings.] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************************* GrAPL 2020: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ May 18, 2020 Co-Located with IPDPS 2020 New Orleans Louisiana, USA GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ****************************************************************************** SUMMARY ------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad and encompasses the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. In particular, we are interested, but not limited to the following topics: • Provide tractability and performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows; • Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; • Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; • Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; • Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; Besides regular papers, short papers (up to four pages) describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Position or full paper submission: February 3, 2020 Author Notification: February 29, 2020 Camera-ready: March 15, 2020 Workshop: May 18, 20120 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ----------------- Submissions will be done through Linklings: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Please visit GrAPL'20 website for instructions: https://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl/ Authors can submit two types of papers: Short papers (up to 4 pages) and long papers (up to 10 pages). All submissions must be single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ORGANIZATION ------------ General co-Chairs: Scott McMillan (CMU SEI), smcmillan(a)sei.cmu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Program Chairs: Danai Koutra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), dkoutra(a)umich.edu Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), hala(a)pnnl.gov GrAPL's Little Helpers: Tim Mattson (Intel) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) Program Committee: Nesreen K Ahmed, Intel Research and Intel AI, USA Sasikanth Avancha, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Lab, India Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, USA Jana Doppa, Washington State University, USA John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Sergio Gómez, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Will Hamilton, McGill University, Mila, Canada Stratis Ioannidis, Northeastern University, Boston, USA Bharat Kaul, Intel Labs - Parallel Computing Labs, India Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Henning Meyerhenke, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Indranil Roy, Natural Intelligence, USA Robert Rallo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA P. Sadayappan, University of Utah, USA Yizhou Sun, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, Italy Steering Committee: David A. Bader (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Tim Mattson (Intel) Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Antonino Tumeo (PNNL)

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ICCSA 2020: COA Workshop
by Ana Rocha 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2020) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 15, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site (http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt) Dep. of Production and Systems (University of Minho), Centro ALGORITMI (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)fe.uc.pt) Economics Faculty (University of Coimbra), CeBER (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2020 organizers)

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CFP: The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020
by Amro NAJJAR 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

The Humanities and the Rise of AI - Luxembourg, 14-18 June 2020 --------------- http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=97474&copyownerid=… The Humanities and the Rise of AI Implications of Cultural and Societal Engineering Organized by the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences in cooperation with the Department of Computer Science (University of Luxembourg) We invite paper presentations of 20 minutes in one of our 4 sections (see below): Submission deadline for abstracts (up to 2 pages) January 31, 2020 - please send to: cfp(a)endsofthehumanities.com<mailto:cfp@endsofthehumanities.com> Travel grants for early career researchers are available. For further information, please visit http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/travel-grants/ Digitization and the rise of artificial intelligence forecast radical change on all aspects of human practice, especially given the ever-improving abilities of algorithms in tasks like pattern recognition and their practical application. Powerful technology arises from AI research, opening the gate for various forms of cultural and societal engineering, i.e., a reshaping of culture and society by dint of algorithmic models and ‘intelligent’ applications. Although the development of artificial intelligence is still in its beginnings, it has already triggered an enormous rush of utopian and dystopian thinking. While some dream of immortality and the vanquishing of poverty, disease, and warfare, others foresee a grim future for those parts of humanity that will find themselves outpaced by technology. Potential consequences of the changes imposed by technological advancement on human practice reach from the level of the individual, through cultural techniques, to the organization of society as a whole, raising fundamental questions which we will address in the four sections of the conference resp. special events. Special events are planned by the AI-team around the topics "Social robotics" and "A technological roadmap for AI after 2050". We consider a special issue of a high-ranked journal for extended versions of high-quality computer-science-oriented contributions. More information will be provided in the coming months. Invited speakers include, among others: -------------------------------------- - Armin Grunwald (Head of Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis, KIT, Karlsruhe ) - Koen V. Hindriks (Prof. Artificial intelligence, VU Amsterdam, focusing on Social Robotics, Co-Founder "Interactive Robotics") - Lyse Langlois (Scientific director of the International Observatory of the Societal Impact of AI and Digitization, Université Laval) Luís Moniz Pereira (Prof. emeritus of Computer Science at the New university of Lisbon, author of several books on Machine Ethics) - Giuseppe Longo (Prof. emeritus, Centre Cavaillès, CNRS, Collège de France & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) - Jan Broersen (Professor of logical methods in AI, University of Utrecht, ERC on Responsible Intelligent Systems 2013-18) - Raja Chatila (Sorbonne, Paris, Professor and director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics) - Marija Slavkovik (Associate Professor, University of Bergen, Norway, Advisory group on Ethical, Legal, Social Issues of CLAIRE) Conference sections: -------------------- • Section I – Mind and Consciousness: How does artificial intelligence impact our understanding of the human mind, especially in relation to the role of its computational equivalents that reach more and more aspects of everyday life (e.g., chatbots, driverless mobility, risk assessment software in the banking and insurance sector)? • Section II – Learning and Inventing What are the consequences of digitization and machine learning algorithms for education and our understanding of learning and creativity (e.g., in schooling through adaptive tutors, but also against the background of our current notion of creativity as a unique human ability)? • Section III – Reading and Data Modeling How will the increasing use of computational methodology change the ways we relate to the past and envision the future (e.g., by reading), both in academia and in society? How can the enrichment of algorithmic models with methods and results from the humanities shape and improve computational assessment of human practice (e.g., data mining of big text corpora, automated translation, racial bias in neural networks)? • Section IV – Complexity and Control: How does the use of artificial intelligence in all domains of human practice influence how we deal with complexity (e.g., of society) and human control thereof? Can computational methods help to reduce, organize, and analyze cultural complexity, or do they pose a threat to human control over different aspects of the lifeworld (e.g., security and network technology, automation of industrial production, autonomous weaponry)? Against the background of such questions, the conference aims to foster an open and critical reflection on the consequences of cultural and societal engineering. The conference investigates not only opportunities and shortcomings of AI research, but also implications and potential structural effects of technological innovation for the organization of societal practice (e.g., work) and techniques of cultural self-reflection (e.g., history). It will not only ask what technologies can do (or will be able to do in the future), but also how these capabilities can be compared and related to their human equivalents, e.g., perception, cognition, and communication. The original general CfP can be found at http://endsofthehumanities.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/CfP-Humanities… Dr. Amro Najjar AI RoboLab FSTC / CSC UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG CAMPUS BELVAL 6, avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette T (+352) 46 66 44 5473 amro.najjar(a)uni.lu<mailto:amro.najjar@uni.lu> / www.uni.lu<http://www.uni.lu>

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CFP - IEEE INFOCOM: The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20)
by Peter Mueller 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf’20) ----------------------------------------------------------------- in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2020 April 27, 2020, Beijing, China https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-big-data-and-cloud-performance The 10th Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPerf'20) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE INFOCOM'20 in Beijing, China on April 27, 2020. The goal of DCPerf is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. Submissions on any topics of datacenter, cloud and bigdata performance are welcome. Submission site will remain open until Jan. 8th, 2020. Cloud data centers are the backbone infrastructure for tomorrow's information technology. Their advantages are efficient resource provisioning and low operational costs for supporting a wide range of computing needs, be it in business, scientific or mobile/pervasive environments. Because of the rapid growth in user-defined and user-generated applications and content, the range of services provided at data centers will expand tremendously and unpredictably. Particularly, big data applications and services, e.g., social and environmental sensing, and IoT monitoring, present a unique class of challenges in the Cloud. In addition, the high volume of mixed workloads and the diversity of services offered render the performance optimization of data centers even more challenging. Moreover, important optimization criteria, such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs, are often conflicting. The increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas adds another dimension to optimizing big data and cloud applications. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems for hosting big data analytics in the cloud. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Big data applications and services - Emerging IoT applications - Data flow management - Processing platforms - Empirical studies - Cloud systems - Novel architectures - Resource allocation - Content distribution - Evaluation/modeling methodology - Big data and cloud performance - Cost/pricing design - Power/energy management - Reliability/dependability - Performance evaluation/modeling - Big data in the cloud - Intra/Inter communication - Network protocols - Security - Real-time analytics Important Dates: Full Paper Submission: Jan. 20th, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 15th, 2020 Final Manuscript Due: March 6, 2020 Submission Guideline: Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5x11-inch format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined INFOCOM 2020 Workshop proceedings and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore. Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The reviews will be single blinded. Manuscripts should be submitted as PDF files via EDAS link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26866&track=99584 Committee: General Chair Wanyang Dai, Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University, China TPC co-Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Rui Han, School of Computer Science&Technology, Beijing Instititute of Technology

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Advanced Transport Tools and Methods at ICCSA 2020 (Scopus and ISI index) - 1st call
by Massimiliano Petri 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear Colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Advanced Transport Tools and Methods (A2TM 2020) Workshop of the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2020, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2020 in Cagliari, Italy. TOPICS ====== The aim of A2TM workshop is to bring together scientists working on mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Sustainable Mobility, Innovation in Mobility, MaaS-Mobility as a Service, Transport Modelling Methods and Techniques, BigData in Transport, Logistic and Freight Transport, Transport Planning IMPORTANT DATES ================ February 29, 2020: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the A2TM Workshop. April 15, 2020: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2020: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2020: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers. July 1-4, 2020: ICCSA 2020 Conference. PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the A2TM 2020 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site: http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Massimiliano Petri (m.petri(a)ing.unipi.it) * Antonio Pratelli (a.pratelli(a)ing.unipi.it) Dep. of Industrial and Civil Engineering (University of Pisa), Italy. If you have some doubts or problems, do not hesitate to contact organizers. Best regards, Massimiliano Petri and Antonio Pratelli (A2TM 2020 organizers)

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