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Press Release - Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2019
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 04 Jun '19

04 Jun '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 *** Check out tutorials and workshop! *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html *** Exhibition Opening & Welcome Aperitif on Tuesday *** *** Full Program available on conference web site *** *** Register now! *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Press release: 24th Ada-Europe Conference on Reliable Software Technologies International experts meet in Warsaw Warsaw, Poland (5 June 2019) - Ada-Europe together with EDC (the Engineering Design Center, a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation), organize from 11 to 14 June 2019 the "24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019" in Warsaw, Poland. The event is in cooperation with the Ada Resource Association (ARA), and with ACM's Special Interest Groups on Ada (SIGAda), on Embedded Systems (SIGBED) and on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN). The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. This year's conference offers tutorials and a workshop, two keynotes, a technical program of refereed papers and industrial presentations, an industrial exhibition and vendor presentations, and a social program. Two tutorials are scheduled on Tuesday, targeting different audiences: "An Introduction to Ada", for those who want to understand the benefits of using Ada; and "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol", for those willing to develop Ada programs that control external hardware devices. On Friday the conference hosts for the 6th consecutive year the workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019): registration is complementary for conference participants. The industrial exhibition opens Tuesday mid-afternoon in the networking area and runs until the end of Thursday afternoon. Exhibitors include AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector, and Ada-Europe. All tutorial and conference participants are invited to the exhibition opening, as well as to the Welcome Aperitif afterwards. Two eminent keynote speakers have been invited to open each day of the core conference program: Michael Klemm (OpenMP, Germany), on "OpenMP API: A Story about Threads, Tasks and Devices"; and Tucker Taft (AdaCore, USA), on "A 2020 View of Ada". The technical program on Wednesday and Thursday presents 9 refereed technical papers and 8 industrial presentations in sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, and Real-Time Systems. Also included is a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada", and vendor presentations. Peer-reviewed papers will be published in an open-access journal, industrial presentations and tutorial abstracts in the Ada User Journal, the quarterly magazine of Ada-Europe. The social program includes on Tuesday evening a Welcome Aperitif on the terrace of the Institute of Aviation, enjoying a wonderful view of the Warsaw airport and city center, accompanied by drinks and typical Polish snacks. On Wednesday evening will be the traditional Ada-Europe Conference Banquet, with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music, in the restaurant "Przepis na kompot" in the town where Chopin was born. The Best Paper Award will be presented during the Conference Banquet, the Best Presentation Award during the Closing session. The full program is available on the conference web site. Online registration is still possible. ------- Latest updates: The 12-page "Final Program" is available at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019-Final-Program.pdf> Check out the tutorials in the PDF program, or in the schedule at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html>. Registration fees are lower than ever and the registration process is done on-line. Don't delay! For all details, select "Registration" at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019> or go directly to <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html>. A printed Conference Booklet with abstracts of all technical papers and industrial presentations will be included in every conference handout. Help promote the conference by advertising for it: <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/promotion.html>. Put up the poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf>. Recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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Paper Deadline Extended - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 02 Jun '19

02 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 HiPC 2019 Call For Papers HiPC 2019 will be the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. HiPC serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. High Performance Computing tracks: Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 is co-sponsored by • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) • HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with • ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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Summer School on Signal Processing-Machine Learning at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
by nmyrsini＠csd.auth.gr 31 May '19

31 May '19

Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies) 1st EURASIP-GAIPDM Seasonal School on” Learning from Signals, Images and Video” https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/ July 15th- 19th, 2019 Thessaloniki, Greece EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 20th, 2019 https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/registration/ The European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) https://www.eurasip.org/ and the Greek Association for Image Processing and Digital Media (GAIPDM) https://gaipdm.web.auth.gr/ invite you to attend the 1st Seasonal School on “Learning from Signals, Images, and Video”. The school aims at introducing practitioners to all the aspects of current and future digital media processing and analysis, employing associated technologies. Digital media refer to content found in audio, images, videos, written or aural speech, and biosignals. To analyze the aforementioned content, one needs to step into the fields of Signal Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition/ Machine Learning, and Computational Intelligence. These fields are exactly addressed in the school. Besides theoretical advances, the attendees will gather practical experience through hands-on workshops and participation to hackathons. The workshop provides the attendees an excellent opportunity to develop skills in some of the most dynamic fields in processing and analysis of big data extracted from multimedia, social networks, and the web. Information for keynote speakers, topics taught, and hackathons can be found at the website https://gaipdm-schools.web.auth.gr/. The school is sponsored by the PROMOTE project (https://promote.web.auth.gr/) the MSc Program on Digital Media-Computational Intelligence (https://dmci.csd.auth.gr) and the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/) Contact Us: gaipdm.schools(a)gmail.com Follow us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/summer-school-on-learning-from-signals-imag…

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CFP Cybersecurity and Biometrics 2019 in conjunction with CW 2019, Kyoto, Japan, October 2-4, 2019
by Marina Gavrilova 24 May '19

24 May '19

CALL FOR PAPERS 6rd International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Biometrics 2019 in conjunction with ACM/IEEE 2019 International Conference on CyberWorlds CW 2019 http://www.cyberworlds-conference.org/ October 2-4, 2019 Kyoto, Japan Workshop Description International Conference on CyberWorlds is a well-established key international event in the field of virtual worlds and computer graphics. The conference is designated as ACM SIGGRAPH small conference, and is supported by Eurographics and IEEE, with proceedings published by IEEE-CS. Recently, the research focus has shifted towards security and privacy aspects in virtual worlds, with cybersecurity emerged as one of the emerging research directions. Security research domain has recently witnessed tremendous growth in respect to all aspects of information access and sharing. There has been notable progress in developing successful approaches to tackle the problem of user authentication. Among those approaches, biometric-based authentication firmly established itself as one of the most reliable, efficient, and versatile tools for providing discretionary access control to a secure resource or system. While state-of-the art methods for biometric authentication are becoming increasingly more popular and better understood, the same unfortunately cannot be said about security of users populating on-line communities or cyberworld. The workshop invites high-quality, original and previously unpublished research in all areas of biometric and cyber security, including both theoretical foundations, system design, empirical studies on individual and multi-modal biometrics, as well as emerging biometric research trends. Image processing, machine intelligence, cognitive sciences and information fusion provide strong theoretical foundations and drive current state-pf-the-art biometric research. Biometric template protection, on-line security, social biometrics, context-based biometrics, cancelable biometrics, robotic biometrics are emerging areas of biometric, which fit perfectly with overall Cyberworlds Conference themes. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Security protocols; Authentication protocols; Privacy protocols; Password security; Security of personal data; Content protection and digital rights management; Risk and reputation management; Identity and trust management; Privacy, security and trust in social media; Security of embedded systems; Behavioral biometrics; Performance evaluation of biometric systems; Multi-biometrics; Biometric fusion; Cancelable biometrics: Quality of biometric data; Biometric template protection; Presentation attack detection; Cloud computing and Biometrics; Emerging biometrics For information on paper submission and to submit your paper please go to CW'19 web site and chose Biometric Security Workshop. All workshop papers will undergo rigorous refereeing, accepted papers will be published as part of main Cyberworlds Conference IEEE-CS Proceedings and indexed by major citation engines. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS with all accepted papers will be published by Conference Publishing Services as well as submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library and reference databases of all major referencing indices including EI Compendex, Scopus, and SCI SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUES will consider for publications extended versions of all accepted full papers: Computers & Graphics (Elsevier); The Visual Computer (Springer); Transactions on Computational Science (Springer, LNCS); Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier); Journal of Future Generation Systems (Elsevier); International Journal of Art, Culture, and Design Technologies (IGI Global) IMPORTANT DATES: ? Paper submission: May 31 ? Papers (Full/Short) notification : Jul 1 ? Poster papers submission : Jul 6 ? Poster papers notification : Jul 15 ? Author registration : Jul 24 ? Camera-ready papers submission : Jul 24 Workshop Organizers Christophe Rosenberger, christophe.rosenberger(a)ensicaen.fr Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca

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CFP: Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019)
by Sanjay Chaudhary 24 May '19

24 May '19

Seventh International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) December 17-20, 2019, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India Website: http://bda2019.org Dear Colleagues, The 7th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA2019) will be held during December 17-20, 2019 at Ahmedabad University, India. *********************************************** Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials *********************************************** BDA2019 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends. BDA 2019 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * Analytics as a Service * Architectural Design for Big Data * Big Data Analytics for Governance * Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics * Clustering of Big Data * Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics * Data Models for Big Data Analytics * Domain-specific Analytics * Index Structures for Big Data Analytics * Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics * Machine Learning techniques for Big Data * Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis * Model Discovery from Big Data * NoSQL and non-standard Data Models * Physical Data Organization for Big Data * Predictive Modelling * Pattern and Rule Mining from Big Data * Scalability and Performance issues * Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data * Semantics of Big Data * Streaming Data Analytics * Summarization and Materialized views * Topic Modelling * Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining Publication: The proceedings of BDA2019 will be published in Springer LNCS series (approval pending) Research track submissions: Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one author of the accepted paper must register for the conference. LaTeX and Word Templates & Submission Guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in Springer LNCS series. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bda20190 Journal Special Issue: Selected papers from BDA conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their paper for possible publications in Special Issue of Distributed and Parallel Databases journal. Important Dates: Abstract submission: July 5, 2019, 23:59 PST Full paper submissions: July 19, 2019, 23:59 PST Author notifications: September 16, 2019, 23:59 PST Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2019, 23:59 PST The call for tutorials is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/tutalks.html The call for workshops is available at http://bda2019.org/pages/workshops.html Chief Patrons Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University Sudhir Jain, Director, IIT, Gandhinagar General Chair Sanjay Chaudhary, Ahmedabad University, India Steering Committe Chair: P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Members: S.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India Srinath Srinivasa, IIIT Bangalore, India Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Raj K. Bhatnagar, University of Cincinnati, USA Vasudha Bhatnagar, University of Delhi, India Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research, Australia H.V. Jagadish, University of Michigan, USA Ramesh Kumar Agrawal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Divyakant Agrawal, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Arun Agarwal, University of Hyderabad, India Subhash Bhalla, The University of Aizu, Japan Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, USA Anirban Mondal, Ashoka University, India Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Program Committee Chairs Sanjay Kumar Madria, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA Philippe Fournier-Viger, Herbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China Organizing Chair Mehul Raval, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India Kumar Shashi Prabh, Ahmedabad University, India Sponsorship Chair Anil Roy, DA-IICT, India Financial Chair Dhaval Patel, Ahmedabad University, India Publication Chair P. Krishna Reddy, IIIT Hyderabad, India Workshop Chair Srikrishnan Divakaran, Ahmedabad University, India Tutorial Chairs Mukesh Mohania, IBM, Australia Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Publicity Chairs Shelly Sachdeva, NIT Delhi, India M. T. Savaliya, Vishwakarma Government Engineering College, India Panel Chairs TBD Website Chair Pratik Trivedi, Ahmedabad University, India Organizing Committee Barbara Moraswka, Ahmedabad University, India Anurag Lakhlani, Ahmedabad University, India C K Bhensdadia, Dharmsinh Desai University, India Amit Ganatra, CHARUSAT, India Sanjay Sampat, Government Polytechnic College - Surat, India Rahul Bhathiji, Ahmedabad University, India Aman Dave, Ahmedabad University, India Kruti Yadav, Ahmedabad University, India Manav Shah, Ahmedabad University, India Contact: Admin Office, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380009 E-mail: bda2019conference(a)gmail.com Phone: +91 79 61911111/ 61911112 <http://seas.ahduni.edu.in/people-details/faculty-list/sanjay_chaudhary> <http://ict.ahduni.edu.in/>

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CFP BSC 2019 (Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019)
by Marina Gavrilova 24 May '19

24 May '19

BSC 2019 (Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019) The 1st international Workshop on Biometrics for Smart Cities in Conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) Taipei, Taiwan, Sep. 21, 2019 https://ucalgary.ca/btlab/bss-avss-2019 Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results related to biometrics for Smart Cities at the BSC Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- Biometrics is a rapidly expanding research area in the field of computer science and has become a ubiquitous term in industrial and governmental problems in different disciplinary fields such as privacy, security, engineering, applied mathematics, medicine, computational biology, healthcare, social networks, finance, business, government, education, transportation and telecommunications. The goal of the Biometrics for Smart Cities Workshop (BSC19) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their ideas and experiences in the fields of Biometrics, Intelligent Sensor and Technology. BSC19 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in Biometrics and Smart Sensors. BSC19 will be held on Sep. 21, 2019, as a part of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS) in Taipei, Taiwan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Face, Iris, Fingerprint and Ear - Periocular - Palm Prints - Multi-Modal and Multi-Spectral Biometrics - Mobile-based biometrics - Template protection - Gait and gesture - Soft biometrics (including marks, scars and tattoos) - Template design, selection and update - Finance-related applications - Database, protocol and benchmarking - Large scale ID - Law enforcement and forensic applications - Performance modelling and prediction - Ethical, social and legal issues - Modeling, simulation and performance evaluation - Security applications - Biometrics in healthcare and societal applications ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Research Article: Paper Submission July 07, 2019 Author Notification July 26, 2019 Camera‐ready submission August 2, 2019 ------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via The CMT system under the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/BSC2019/Submission/Index IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html<https://deref-web-02.de/mail/client/-k3LY0g-PVY/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=htt…> ------------------------------- Organizing Committees ------------------------------- Workshop Organizers Gee‐Sern Jison Hsu, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, jison(a)mail.ntust.edu.tw Moritz Sontheimer, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, D10703815(a)mail.ntust.edu.tw Svetlana Yanushkevich, University of Calgary, syanshk(a)ucalgary.ca Marina L. Gavrilova, University of Calgary, marina(a)cpsc.ucalgary.ca Orly Yadid‐Pecht, University of Calgary, orly.yadid‐pecht(a)ucalgary.ca

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CFP - DPM 2019 (Data Privacy Management), ESORICS 2019, Springer, LNCS
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 23 May '19

23 May '19

[apologies for cross-posting] DPM 2019 14th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (DPM 2019) Co-located with ESORICS 2019 (Luxembourg, September 26-27, 2019) http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2019/ IMPORTANT DATES ================== Full paper submission: ** June 17, 2019 ** Short paper submission: ** June 17, 2019 ** Notification to authors: July 25, 2019 Camera ready: August 06, 2019 ************************************************************************* DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data privacy management. DPM 2019, the 14th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, will be held in Luxembourg, in conjunction with the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019). SCOPE ===== The aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange the ideas related to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Privacy Information Management * Privacy Policy-Based Infrastructures and Architectures * Privacy-Oriented Access Control Languages and Models * Privacy in Trust Management * Privacy in Cryptocurrencies * Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance * Privacy Services * Cryptography and Cryptanalysis * Privacy Policy Analysis * Query Execution over Privacy-Sensitive Data * Privacy Preserving Data Mining * Privacy for IntegrityBased Computing * Privacy Monitoring and Auditing * Privacy in Social Networks * Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications * Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security * Privacy in Computer Networks * Privacy and RFIDs * Privacy and Big Data * Privacy in Sensor Networks * Privacy in Cloud Computing * Privacy in the IoT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ====================== Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers can be submitted as Full Papers or Short Papers. Full papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Short papers should be at most 8 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so papers should be intelligible without them. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2019) Authors must indicate whether they are submitting a full or short paper by selecting the appropriate choice in the EasyChair submission form. All submissions must be written in English, and only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. Accepted conference papers will be published by Springer in their LNCS series. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. The LNCS template can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: ================== Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ================== Archita Agarwal (Brown University) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Jordi Castellà-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Mauro Conti (University of Padua) Frédéric Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne) Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (IMT Atlantique) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Christian Duncan (Quinnipiac University) José M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal) Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis) Marit Hansen (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein) Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Marc Juarez (KU Leuven) Florian Kammueller (Middlesex University London and TU Berlin) Hiroaki Kikuchi (Meiji University) Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University) Alptekin Küpçü (Koç University) Maryline Laurent (Institut Mines-Telecom) Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Anna Monreale (University of Pisa) Jordi Nin (BBVA Data & Analytics, Universitat de Barcelona) Melek Önen (EURECOM) Javier Parra-Arnau (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit) Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt) Ruben Rios (University of Malaga) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan) David Sanchez (University Rovira i Virgili) Claudio Soriente (NEC Laboratories Europe) Iraklis Symeonidis (SnT/APSIA) Vicenç Torra (Maynooth University) Yasuyuki Tsukada (Kanto Gakuin University) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (De Montfort University) Lena Wiese (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) Nicola Zannone (<Eindhoven University of Technology)> This call for papers and additional information about the workshop can be found at http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2017/

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CfP: 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD 2019)
by Zoltán Mann 23 May '19

23 May '19

2nd Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture Challenges in Big Data (SACBD 2019) Co-located with ECSA 2019, the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture 9-10 September 2019, Paris, France Paper submission deadline: 31 May 2019 http://www.bdva.eu/node/1262 BACKGROUND ========== Software systems managing big data have very challenging architectural requirements, e.g., in terms of performance, flexibility, and reliability. Big data systems often embody a number of technologies, such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), fog computing, high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular machine learning (ML). These technologies come with their own technical limitations and constraints that also impact the architecture of big data systems. Enforcing security, privacy, transparency, and ethics are also concerns of increasing importance, with potential architectural implications. OBJECTIVES ========== The Big Data Value Association (BDVA, http://www.bdva.eu/) initiated the SACBD workshop series to provide a forum for discussing all aspects of the software architecture challenges of big data systems. The workshop welcomes the contributions of practitioners and researchers alike. The workshop is open to all, both BDVA members and non-members. Technical issues and challenges related to software architecture are well covered by the European Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (http://www.bdva.eu/SRIA) Such software architecture trends are facilitating new data-driven operations and services which are at the core of the new economy revolving around big data value. As organizations become more and more data-centric, they need to re-design their software architectures accordingly. For example, data-intensive systems and applications need to be put in place and properly integrated with traditional systems (e.g. web applications). This affects not only the architecture design but also its implementation and non-functional aspects. For example, performance and data protection are paramount when dealing with Big Data. This situation creates a need for new methods and tools to design and reason about software architectures in Big Data scenarios and paves the way for various research directions. For example, how to design software architectures when dealing with Big Data? Which are the typical architectural patterns? How to assess the performance or the privacy risk of Big Data architectures? The workshop will focus on these and many others aspects of software architectures in the Big Data era. TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of software architecture for big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Software architectures in genuine big data scenarios * Architectural patterns for big data * Architectures of big data systems (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop) * Integration of Big Data systems with other business systems * Non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, privacy, reliability) * Combining big data with IoT, HPC, cloud computing, fog computing * Applying machine learning to big data scenarios, big data integration with artificial intelligence * Fostering business with big data and analytics SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== Original, high-quality papers are solicited, from researchers and practitioners alike. Both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages) will be considered. All papers must be written in English and follow the ACM formatting instructions and templates for conference papers, as specified under https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. Independently from the length, several types of papers will be considered (experience reports, new approaches, review or analysis of existing approaches, empirical studies, theoretical results, negative results, position papers, vision papers). The contribution of a paper must be commensurate with its length. Submitted papers must be original, not submitted and not published elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the ECSA companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the online submission system under the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacbd2019. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics. FURTHER INFORMATION =================== SACBD 2019 will be co-located with ECSA 2019, the 13th European Conference on Software Architecture (https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.fr/) The workshop will take place on 9-10 September 2019 in Paris, right before the main ECSA conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the workshop, and present the work. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the ECSA 2019 conference. Workshop website: http://www.bdva.eu/node/1262 IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper submission: May 31, 2019 Notification: June 26, 2019 Camera-ready: July 5, 2019 Workshop: September 9-10, 2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== Zoltán Ádám Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Daniel Alonso Román, Technology Institute of Valencia, Spain Michele Guerriero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Ali Serdar Atalay, BitNet, Turkey Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Arne Berre, SINTEF, Norway David Bowden, DELL, Ireland Sergio Campos, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain Alexandru Costan, IRISA / INSA Rennes, France Carlos E. Cuesta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Omar Elloumi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland Ibai Laña, Tecnalia, Spain Daphne Lopez, Vellore Institute of Technology, India Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Ignacio Olabarrieta Palacios, Tecnalia, Spain Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden Zoheir Sabeur, Bournemouth University, UK Andrey Sadovykh, Innopolis University, Russia Angel Serrano Sánchez de León, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands Ana Isabel Torre, Tecnalia, Spain Anwar Vahed, Meraka Institute, South Africa Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

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OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019
by Kenneth Tan 18 May '19

18 May '19

The Event: OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019 =============================== OpenInfra Days Nordics 2019 will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on 2 — 3 October 2019. 2018 marked the beginning of a new era as the OpenStack Foundation announced their full support to all adjacent open source communities dedicated to building and operating open infrastructure. The Foundation changed the name of their community gathering to Open Infrastructure Summit, encouraging wide spread collaboration with communities such as Ansible, Ceph, Docker, Kata Containers, Kubernetes, ONAP, Open cSwitch, OPNFV, StarlingX, Zuul and more. As a satellite event to the Open Infrastructure Summit, and as supporters of the new and improved mission, it is now our turn to head in the same direction. This is why we are officially changing the name of this event and extend a warm welcome to the entire Nordic open infrastructure community. Let’s all help create, experience, learn and improve both our community and all of the open infra solutions and technologies we are dedicated to! For more info: https://openinfranordics.com Ticket deals ========= As with many other aspects of this event, we have also changed the ticket deals. Gone are the various species of birds and instead we encourage early registration through a single set of discounts. 30% OFF for 30 This deal is valid for the first 30 attendees and has no expiry date. Students We keep 50 student tickets reserved until 2019-08-30. Call for papers =========== Call for papers is open and as usual, we are relying on our fantastic community to help fill this event with great content. If you haven’t yet considered hosting a presentation, here is what you need to know: Our attendees are eager to learn and explore new areas of open source infrastructure using OpenStack, Kubernetes, and 30+ other technologies. A good presentation free of sales content is the best and most valued presentation. Submit your presentations: https://papercall.io/oidn-stockholm-2019 Exhibit for free! ============ We came up with something new and we quite simply call it for what it is. The Southwest Community Corner. We are determined to make this event an extraordinary meeting place for the Nordic open infrastructure community. This space serves to recognise all of the hard working community teams, charitable organisations and student projects in the open source space. The actual Southwest corner of the marketplace will host a total of 8 charitable organisations, community project teams and student projects a chance to exhibit at the event for free! These opportunities are applied for, in contrast to sponsorships which are sold on a first come – first served basis. Applications are then reviewed and approved by the advisory team. Exhibitors to the Southwest Community Corner will be selected continuously. Read more and apply now: https://openinfranordics.com/southwest-community-corner/ Kenneth Tan ----------------- Kenneth Tan cjtan(a)sardinasystems.com | +421948251435‬ www.sardinasystems.com | @sardinasystems | https://www.linkedin.com/company/sardina-systems

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Ada-Europe 2019 - early registration until May 20
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 16 May '19

16 May '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** UPDATED Program Summary *** 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 11-14 June 2019, Warsaw, Poland http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019 Organized by EDC and Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Add a tutorial or workshop to your conference registration *** http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/tutorials.html http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/workshops.html *** EARLY REGISTRATION discount until MAY 20 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 24th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2019 visits Poland, for the first time, and is hosted in Warsaw from the 11th to the 14th of June. The conference is the latest in a series of annual international conferences started in the early 80's, under the auspices of Ada-Europe, the international organization that promotes knowledge and use of Ada and Reliable Software in general, into academic education and research, and industrial practice. The Ada-Europe series of conferences has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in general and in safety- and security-critical systems in particular, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is on the conference web site, such as an overview of the program, the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and descriptions of workshops, tutorials, keynote presentations, and social events. Also check the conference site for registration, accommodation and travel information. The 12-page Advance Program brochure is available there as well. The 2019 edition of the conference features a number of important innovations: - lower registration fee for conference, unified for all participants; - further reduced fee for all authors; - lower registration fee for all tutorials; - journal-based open-access publication model for peer-reviewed papers; - an educational tutorial offered especially for those new to Ada; - more compact program with two core days (Wed & Thu); tutorials on Tuesday, then exhibition opening mid-afternoon, followed by welcome aperitif for all participants; - full-day DeCPS workshop on Friday, complementary with conference registration. Quick overview - Tue 11: tutorials, opening exhibition + AE GA, welcome reception - Wed 12 & Thu 13: core program - Fri 14: workshop Venue - Engineering Design Center (EDC), Warsaw, Poland - EDC is a partnership of General Electric and the Institute of Aviation, one of Europe's largest engineering institutions Proceedings - peer-reviewed papers in open-access journal - industrial presentation and tutorial abstracts in Ada User Journal Conference & Program Chair - Tullio Vardanega, University of Padua, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Keynote speakers - Michael Klemm, OpenMP, Germany "OpenMP API: A Story about Threads, Tasks and Devices" - Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA "A 2020 View of Ada" Workshop (full day) - 6th International Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (DeCPS 2019) - registration is complementary for conference participants Tutorials (full day) - "Controlling I/O Devices with Ada, using the Remote I/O Protocol" Philip Munts, Sweden - "An Introduction to Ada" Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Papers and Presentations - sessions on Assurance Issues in Critical Systems, Tooling Aid for Verification, Best Practices for Critical Applications, Uses of Ada in Challenging Environments, Verification Challenges, Real-Time Systems - 9 refereed technical papers - 8 industrial presentations and experience reports - a speaker's corner on "Experience from 40 years of teaching Ada" - submissions by authors from 11 countries, and accepted contributions from Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA Vendor exhibition and networking area - area features exhibitor booths, project posters, reserved vendor tables, and general networking options - 4 companies already committed: AdaCore, PTC Developer Tools, Rapita Systems, Vector; some exhibition slots still available - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday afternoon: opening of exhibition & Ada-Europe General Assembly, Welcome Aperitif on terrace overlooking Warsaw Airport - Wednesday evening: transportation to restaurant in town where Chopin was born, banquet with Polish cuisine, drinks, and live piano music - Best Paper and Best Presentation awards will be handed out Registration - online registration is open at <https://registration.ada-europe.org/index.html> - early registration discount until Monday May 20, 2019 - special low fee for authors - discount for Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - extra discount for students - registration includes coffee breaks and lunches - full conference registration includes all social events - tutorial fees substantially reduced - payment possible by credit card or bank transfer - see registration page for all details Promotion - recommended Twitter hashtags: #AdaEurope and/or #AdaEurope2019 - 12-page Advance Program brochure online at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/AE-2019%20AP.pdf> - support Ada-Europe 2019 with promotional poster at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019/picts/AE2019_poster.pdf> Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at <http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2019>. We look forward to seeing you in Warsaw in June 2019! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2019 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 24th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2019 June 11-14, 2019 * Warsaw, Poland * www.ada-europe.org/conference2019

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