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[DEADLINE APPROCHING] The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019)
by Massimo CAFARO 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

WPDM 2019 The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Third Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2019) will be held in conjunction with The 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2019), http://www.iccsa.org Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg, Russia July 1-4 2019 Final deadline for submissions extended to: April 7, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Data mining techniques and algorithms to process huge amount of data in order to extract useful and interesting information have become popular in many different contexts. Algorithms are required to make sense of data automatically and in efficient ways. Nonetheless, even though sequential computer systems performance is improving, they are not suitable to keep up with the increase in the demand for data mining applications and the data size. Moreover, the main memory of sequential systems may not be enough to hold all the data related to current applications. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel data mining algorithms. On parallel computers, by exploiting the vast aggregate main memory and processing power of processors and accelerators, parallel algorithms can easily address both the running time and memory requirement issues. Anyway, parallelizing existing algorithms in order to achieve good performance and scalability with regard to massive datasets is not trivial. Indeed, it is of paramount importance a good data organization and decomposition strategy in order to balance the workload while minimizing data dependences. Another concern is related to minimizing synchronization and communication overhead. Finally, I/O costs should be minimized as well. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going research, focusing on high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms and applications. Creating breakthrough parallel algorithms for high-performance data mining applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in high-performance data mining algorithms and applications, and related topics. The WPDM Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must be between 10 to 16 pages long and formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules, Guidelines and templates can be found at the url http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please connect to the Submission site from the link available at the ICCSA 2019 web site: http://ess.iccsa.org. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. Please pay attention, when submitting your contribution to the workshop, to select the right entry in the listbox shown in the submission form. CONFERENCE POLICY By submitting the paper to ICCSA conference, all authors agree to abide by all ICCSA conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies. Namely, authors confirm that the work is original, has not appeared in literature in any form in the past and will not be submitted to any other venue concurrently with ICCSA submission or until it appears in ICCSA proceedings (in the case of acceptance). Furthermore, upon paper acceptance, authors agree to transfer copyright on the accepted paper to ICCSA, and one of the authors will register the paper and present the paper at the event. No paper withdrawals can be accepted after Conference pre-registration date or within three months of the actual event, whichever date comes first. Paper withdrawal request can be only accepted in writing through email, letter or fax to conference organizers. The conference has no responsibility for any intentional or accidental misuse, misinterpretation, or failure to follow above rules and conditions and holds no legal, civil or other responsibility for opinions, content or utilization of any methods/algorithms expressed in the Conference Proceedings. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organisers. IMPORTANT DATES April 7, 2019: Deadline for paper submission April 24, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Massimo Cafaro University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it Italo Epicoco University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297235 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: italo.epicoco(a)unisalento.it Marco Pulimeno University of Salento, Italy Phone: +39 0832 297371 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: marco.pulimeno(a)unisalento.it Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation, Italy Phone: +39 334 6501704 Fax: +39 0832 297235 Email: giovanni.aloisio(a)unisalento.it All submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members. International Program Committee: Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Donato Malerba, University of Bari, Italy Barbara Masucci, University of Salerno, Italy Mitsunori Ogihara, University of Miami, USA Takahiko Shintani, The University of Electro-Communications , Japan Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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Conferece on computational methods in Andalucia Spain
by Prof. Jesús Vigo Aguiar 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

CMMSE 2019 19th Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Barceló Costa Ballena Golf & SPA June 30-July 6, Cadiz, Andalucia, Spain. http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2019/ Call for Presentations and special sessions CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: The 2019 Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering Conference (CMMSE-2019), is the fourteen of this conference series. CMMSE2019 aims to be a unifying, cross-cutting, interdisciplinary gathering, where specialists can have exposure to diverse fields and participate in special sessions different from but still close to their own interests. Standard presentation: 20 minutes in length. Special Sessions: Minimum of 8 presentations. Symposiums more than 12 presentations. Symposiums chairs can act as plenary speakers. FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS contact: cmmse(a)usal.es IMPORTANT DATES: May 10-- Deadline for submission of Abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers (12 pages). May 15 -- Notification of Acceptance June 1 –- Registration (with podium) PLEASE RESERVE YOUR HOTEL BEFORE MAY 31th. CANCELLATION IS FREE until 2 days previous to the conference Special issues selection: August 1, 2019 -- Deadline for submission (SPECIAL ISSUES). Sept. 10, 2019-- Special issue final selection. Proceedings will appear at Computer and Mathematical Methods Journal (Willey). Post conference extended versions can be selected to: JOURNALS INVOLVED: (all indexed by SCI-ISI) Computational Chemistry & Mathematical Chemistry • Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, (Springer) • Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures (Taylor & Francis). Computational Mathematics • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, (Elsevier) (solicited) • Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences , (John Wiley & Sons). • International Journal of Computer Mathematics, (Taylor & Francis). Computer Science • Journal of Supercomputing, (Springer). 2 EXCURSIONS: (Visit 3 countries in one conference) - Gibraltar and city of Tarifa - Morocco ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Please check the Conference Web site http://cmmse.usal.es/cmmse2019/ regularly for the most up to date information. ABOUT CADIZ: Being one of the ancient cities of Occidental Europe, the Province of Cadiz, which was baptized by the poet Lord Byron as “Ocean Mermaid”, can be highlighted by many things: its beaches, its places, its people... Inland, its climate with warm temperatures throughout the year and clear skies, harbours a maze of dunes, creeks, salt marshes and beaches of high ecological value, and has been chosen as the scenery of some films like James Bond’s film Die another day or the American film Knight and day. Numerous famous people have been in this city The coast: Cadiz, located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, has 260 km of coast which can be enjoyed with its great variety of miles of sandy beaches with fine and white sand and clear blue water. Along the coast you can also appreciate the wildlife features of this area. Its history is ancient. Tartessos and Phoenicians visited this land more than 3,000 years ago. The Romans and Visigoths also dwelt it and from 711 was a Muslim territory until the second half of the thirteenth century. The passage of different cultures has left their mark in art and culture as well as in the gastronomy and the Flamenco that you will be able to enjoy. There are many places of interest and a large number of activities to be enjoyed in Cadiz. However, the beauty of it is that you can make it as active or as relaxing as you wish during your stay! To find out more about Cadiz and Andalucía have a look in http://www.cadizturismo.com/ and http://www.andalucia.org/. You can find interesting this video about Cadiz: https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=322&v=5nScr1_iih8&ebc=ANyPxKq1q4s…

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Call for Paper - BDAA 2019 : The 6th International Symposium on Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications
by Hoffmann, Max 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Dear researchers, Please find below the CFP for the 6th International Symposium on Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2019), which will be held as part of the 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019): http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia/symp02-bdaa SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The challenge of "Big Data" continues to grow and is an active area of significant research. This track focuses on techniques, experiences, applications, and lessons learned for large-scale/big data science, data intensive, and data analytics, particularly in the realms of high performance computing that lead organizations through major transformations. The symposium is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art and practice in the broad multidisciplinary field of Big Data Science. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all disciplines and specialties. The symposium aims at providing a forum to bring together researchers and scientists to share and exchange big data related research, technologies, experiences, and lessons for building various types large-scale data intensive and data analytics, with interoperability and coordination capabilities in a high performance and high availability setting. This symposium solicits contributions that address contemporary and future challenges in big data Science, data analytics, and Data Intensive, particularly in collaboration systems, social networks and media, and information technologies. BDAA topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Theories and Methodologies for Big Data processing - Architectures, Frameworks and Design of Big Data processing systems - Distributed data-intensive computing systems - Managing large-scale big data platforms - Use of big data technologies for science (Hadoop, NoSQL/NewSQL, etc.) - Big data simulation, visualization, modeling tools, and algorithms - Big data intelligence and predictive analysis - (Analysis of dynamic data, such as those collected through sensors, etc.) - Discovery, Collection, and Extraction of information in Big Data sources - Processing of Big Data Streaming - Big Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Data Analytics techniques and solutions - Visualization of Big Data and Data Analytics - Applications using big data (WEB, Bio-Data, Industrial Data, etc.) - Big data business implications - Data culture - Experiences, Case Studies and Lessons Learned PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications for High Performance Computing Systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdaa2019 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2019 conference to present the paper at the symposium as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. The symposium policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a manuscript under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge which that access provides. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2019 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Symposium, please contact the Symposium organizers. Best regards The organizers of BDAA 2019 --- Dr.-Ing. Max Hoffmann MBA Group Leader "Industrial Big Data" Institute of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering Faculty for Mechanical Engineering Cybernetics Lab IMA & IfU RWTH Aachen University

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EUSPN 2019: Call for Workshops Proposals
by Muhammad ADNAN 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

------- Call for Workshops Proposals ------------ The 10th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) November 4-7, 2019 Coimbra, Portugal Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-19/ **************************************************** *Important Dates* =========== - Workshop Proposal Due: May 30, 2019 The EUSPN-2019 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops. The main objective of the workshops is to provide a forum for researchers and professionals to discuss a specific topic from the field of EUSPN-2019 and its related areas. All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2019 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2019 Website. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. *Pre-proposal Submission Inquiries* ====================== If you are interested to organize a workshop and you wish to discuss ideas for a workshop proposal, please feel free to contact the Workshops Chair. *Proposal Format* =========== - Title of the workshop - Workshop website: tentative address, or old address (if applicable) - Draft call for papers of the workshop - Tentative list of TPC members *Workshops Chair* ============== Dr. Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium (Email: muhammad.adnan(a)uhasselt.be) Dr. Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA (Email: malikh(a)marshall.edu) Regards -- Dr. Muhammad Adnan Senior Navorser - Senior Researcher Instituut voor Mobiliteit (IMOB) - Transportation Research Institute T +32(0)11 26 91 47 - F +32(0)11 26 91 99 www.uhasselt.be\imob Universiteit Hasselt - Campus Diepenbeek Wetenschapspark 5 bus 6 - B-3590 Diepenbeek Kantoor WETP5-0.10

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3-year PhD on Computat. Visual Neurosci.
by Jesus Malo Lopez 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

A 3-year PhD contract in the intersection between visual neuroscience and artificial neural networks is available to work with Prof. Jesus Malo at the Image and Signal Processing Group (http://isp.uv.es) at the Universitat de Valencia (Spain). Salary is 22000 euros/year (gross salary including health care). Candidates should: (1) hold a degree in Computer Science, Physics, Maths, quantitative Neuroscience / Psychology or similar. Call requires that this degree has to be posterior to january 2015 and be from a non-spanish university. (2) have strong analytical and computational skills [e.g. statistics / machine learning / matlab / python]. (3) have genuine interest in biological vision and in participating in psychophysical/physiological experiments to build models applicable in computer vision or image processing, and (4) be able to communicate in english. Candidates may hold a master degree (some postgraduate experience). Master is preferable but not a mandatory condition. We offer a multidisciplinary atmosphere (regular meetings on machine learning and visual perception with other PhD students) and international contacts with possibility of frequent travels for cooperation with other experimental/theoretical labs. The succesful candidate will have the possibility of obtaining a PhD with several high-impact publications. Work will start by september 2019 (i.e. eventual visa issues should be solved before hand!). How to apply: Candidates should [a] write a 1 page statement connecting their previous work (or studies) with our previous work ( see general context in http://isp.uv.es/exchatedra.html or, more specifically, a recent publication from our lab such as https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201326 ); and [b] send complete CV and the 1 page statement to jesus.malo(a)uv.es

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Special session on Water-based optimization at IEEE SMC'19: Deadline extension
by FERNANDO RUBIO DIEZ 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Dear colleagues, The deadline of the water-based session of IEEE SMC has been extended until April 19th. More details about the session can be found at http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~fernando/SMC19/ Best wishes, Fernando Rubio El lun., 11 mar. 2019 a las 10:16, FERNANDO RUBIO DIEZ (<fernando(a)sip.ucm.es>) escribió: > CALL FOR PAPERS > http://antares.sip.ucm.es/~fernando/SMC19/ > > The last decade has witnessed the emergence of several optimization > metaheuristics based on water mechanics. These general purpose methods deal > with both continuous optimization (e.g. Water Cycle Algorithm, Water Wave > Optimization) and combinatorial optimization (e.g. River Formation > Dynamics, Intelligent Water Drops). Although water-based metaheuristics > are relatively new, they have attracted much attention due to their good > results when applied to a wide variety of optimization problems. In > addition, other problem-specific optimization algorithms where the water > plays a key role have also been proposed in domains such as flood control > or river flow management. > > The goal of this session is to introduce new research on water-based > optimization, emphasizing two main synergies: first, between researchers > developing water-based metaheuristics and researchers facing specific > water-domain optimization problems; and second, between researchers working > on the design of water-based methods and researchers dealing with specific > industrial optimization problems. > > The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: > > · Definition and evaluation of water-based metaheuristics. > > · Hybridization of water-based metaheuristics with other methods > (e.g. other swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms, neural > networks, fuzzy logic, etc.). > > · Application of water-based metaheuristcs to new domains. > > · Comparison of water-based algorithms. > > · River flow management. > > · > > Industrial application of water-based methods. > > > *DEADLINES* > > March 31, 2019: deadline for paper submission > > June 7, 2019: notification of acceptance/rejection > > July 7, 2019: deadline for final camera-ready papers. > > > > >

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CFP - The 2019 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019)
by Peter Mueller 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

Call for Papers and Participation The 2019 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference (HPCS 2019) July 15-19, 2019 Dublin, Ireland http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/home In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP (Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 08 April 2019 - Final Extension) (Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions have their own deadlines - please check the track of interest) HPCS Proceedings are planned to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed by all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc. You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions (have different deadlines): Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest. We also welcome colleagues interested in organizing tracks, including those without current organizers. Symposia: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia Workshops: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops Special Sessions: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions Tutorials: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu… DDC: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-do… Demos: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de… Panels: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-pa… Posters: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… Sponsorships: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp… Exhibits: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-ex… SPECIAL ISSUES Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. FOLLOW US ON Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference ================================================================= Important Dates: Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline: 08 April 2019 - Final Extension Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline: 15 April 2019 Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts: 25 April 2019 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due: 10 May 2019 Conference Dates: 15-19 July 2019 ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/home or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Dublin in July. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2019 Organizers

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CfP VHPC19: HPC Virtualization-Containers: Paper due May 1, 2019 (extended)
by Michael Alexander 02 Apr '19

02 Apr '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2019 (extended) Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates May 1, 2019 - Abstract/Paper extended submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 20, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA François Diakhaté, CEA, France Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Bob Killen, University of Michigan, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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02 Apr '19

Dear Colleague, The 18th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC'19) will be held at Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy during July 23-25, 2019 (http://www.ucalgary.ca/icci_cc/iccicc-19) The IEEE ICCI*CC series is a flagship conference of its field sponsored by IEEE CS, SMCS and etc. The theme of ICCI*CC’18 is on Cognitive Learning Systems, Brain-Inspired Systems, and Cognitive Robotics, as well as a Cognitive Arts & Science Track jointly sponsored by WAAS, and a Symbiotic Autonomous System Track jointly sponsored by the IEEE SAS Initiative. You are welcome to submit a paper to IEEE ICCI*CC'19 or to organize a special session related to the theme of the conference. The Proceedings of ICCI*CC'19 will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI Indexed). A good rate of selected papers from the conference will be recommended to leading international journals and/or IEEE transactions with ISI/EI indexes. Paper submission site is at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeiccicc2019 . Submission deadline will be on March 1 , 2019. We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'19. Sincerely, IEEE ICCI*CC'19 Co-Chairs HONORARY CHAIR: Prof. Bernard Widrow (Stanford Univ.) and Prof. Jerome Feldman (UC Berkeley) GENERAL CO-CHAIRS: Prof. Rodolfo A. Fiorini (PolyU Milan, Italy), Prof. Yingxu Wang (U Calgary, Canada), and Prof. Newton Howard (U Oxford, UK) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Dr. Garry Jacobs (WAAS, USA) and Prof. Paolo Soda (U. of Rome, Italy) _______________________________________________ This message was sent to all subscribers of IEEEicci13-L To unsubscribe, see instructions at: http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/email/mailman E-mail: IEEEicci13-L(a)mailman.ucalgary.ca Homepage: http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo/ieeeicci13-l

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SI Big Data Semantics IJDS
by Paolo Ceravolo 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS SPECIAL ISSUE: BIG DATA SEMANTICS Call for papers The complexity of Big Data applications in conjunction with the lack of standards for representing their components, computations, and processes, have made the design of data-intensive applications a failure prone and resource-intensive activity. One of the reasons behind it can be identified in a lack of sound modeling practices. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g. data analytics and reporting. We believe that a major challenges of Big Data research requires - even more than developing new analytics - devising innovative data management techniques capable to deliver functional and non-functional properties like among others: data quality, data integration, metadata discovery, reconciliation and augmentation, model compliance, or regulatory compliance. Data Semantics research can address such challenges in future research according to the FAIR principles, for implementing design procedures that generate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to this goal. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, for example, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles into Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. representing the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. This special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics aims at sharing research and practical achievements in the field of Big Data integration, storage, and processing. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: • Big Data Management • Metadata Management • Big Data Persistence and Preservation • Big Data Quality and Provenance Control • Big Data Storage and Retrieval • Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques • Data Source Discovery • Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery • Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories • Caching and Materializing Query Results • Quality of Big Data Services • Big Data Service Performance Evaluation • Big Data Service Reliability and Availability • Reproducibility of Big Data Services JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS • Verifiability of Big Data Services • Assurance in Big Data Services • Big Data Visualization • Real Time Visualisation • Visualization Analytics for Big Data • Big Social Media Mining • Big Data Security and Privacy • Big Data System Security and Integrity • Big Data Information Security • Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics • Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data • Performance of Big Data Architectures • Query Optimization • Optimal Selection of Analytics • Physical Structures Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Sylvio Barbon Junior, State University of Londrina, Brazil Editorial Board Antonia Azzini, Consortium for the Technology Transfer (C2T), Italy Clodis Boscarioli, State University of West Paraná - UNIOESTE, Brazil Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lyon 2, France Omar Boussaid, Université Lyon 2, France Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jerome Darmont, Université Lyon 2, France Luke Immes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento, Italy Marcello Leida, StrabioDB, Spain M. Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University of Beirut, Lebanon JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany Darja Solodovnikova, University of Latvia, Latvia Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Fadi Zaraket, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina, Brazil Timetable: 10 Nov 2019 - paper submission 25 Jan 2020 - author notification 15 Mar 2020 - revision submission 25 Apr 2020 - final acceptance notification 10 Jun 2020 - camera-ready submission Submission Guidelines JoDS is looking for high-quality papers on any topic relevant to the journal, including regular papers, survey papers, industry papers, short papers, position papers, and reports. Submissions should contain original material that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. The submission should include an abstract and keywords, authors, and specify which author serves as contact author. All submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal’s guidelines at http://www.springer.com/13740 and have to be uploaded into Springer’s Electronic Management System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods JoDS is abstracted/indexed in: Google Scholar, DBLP, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. Selected sample articles are available at http://www.springer.com/13740 ISSN: 1861-2032 (print version) ISSN: 1861-2040 (electronic version) Any questions should be addressed to the Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it Robert Wrembel, robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl Sylvio Barbon Junior, barbon(a)uel.br

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