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ICCSA 2019: COA Workshop - Deadline Extension March 15
by Ana Rocha 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Dear colleague, This is an invitation to submit a contribution for the: Computational Optimization and Applications (COA 2019) Workshop of the 19th International Conference on Computational Science and Applications (ICCSA 2019, http://www.iccsa.org/) will be held on July 1 - 4, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. TOPICS ====== The scope of the Workshop is to bring together scientists working in Computational Optimization and its applications in science and engineering. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Computational Optimization: new issues in computational algorithms for continuous and discrete optimization; deterministic and stochastic algorithms, nature-inspired algorithms and other metaheuristic algorithms for solving optimization problems. * Applications: case studies in all areas of sciences, engineering and industry, including economics, medicine, biology, earth sciences and social sciences. IMPORTANT DATES ================ March 15, 2019: Deadline for abstract and paper submission to the COA Workshop (extended deadline) April 7, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 8, 2019: Early-bird Registration ends. May 8, 2019: Submission deadline for the final version of the Proceeding Papers July 1-4, 2019: ICCSA 2019 Conference PROCEEDINGS ============ The proceedings of the COA 2019 Workshop will appear in the Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The paper must be camera-ready, between 10 and 16 pages long and formatted according to the LNCS rules SUBMISSION DETAILS ================== All accepted papers will be included in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs ) series and indexed by Scopus, EI Engineering Index, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (included in ISI Web of Science), and several other indexing services. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Submitted papers will be subject to stringent peer review by at least three experts and carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. The authors can submit abstracts and papers to your session accessing the electronic submission site: http://ess.iccsa.org/ You can find the instructions to prepare and submit papers on the web site (http://www.iccsa.org/instructions-for-authors ) If you are not registered, you must to register before the submission. From the personal page the author is able to submit first an abstract (phase 1), then a full paper (phase 2), selecting the session from the list of sessions in the submission forms. The author will be able to update the paper until the submission deadline. ORGANIZERS =========== * Ana Maria A. C. Rocha (arocha(a)dps.uminho.pt <mailto:arocha@dps.uminho.pt> ), Dep. of Production and Systems <http://www.dps.uminho.pt/> (University of Minho), Algoritmi Research Centre <http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/> (University of Minho), Portugal * Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt <mailto:hrocha@mat.uc.pt> ), Inesc Coimbra <http://www.inescc.pt/> (University of Coimbra), Portugal If you have some doubts or problems so not hesitate to contact the organizers. Best regards, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha and Humberto Rocha (COA 2019 organizers)

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ICCSA 2019: 2nd Call for Papers, Short papers, PHD Showcase Papers
by Osvaldo Gervasi 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

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CFP: The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) - Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-8 August 2019
by zhou 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) Rotorua, New Zealand,5-8 August 2019 INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------- Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies have been proposed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size. It is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. SCOPE ---------------------------------------- The 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (IEEE BigDataSE-19) will be held in Rotorua, New Zealand during August 5th - August 8th, 2019. IEEE BigDataSE aims to provide an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in Big Data from both of the academia and industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Systems, models, standards, algorithms and applications for Big Data Big Data mining and analytics Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing Big Data visualization Big Data semantics, scientific discovery and intelligence Security, privacy, trust, and legal issues to big data Large data stream processing and incremental datasets on cloud Distributed and federated datasets NoSQL data stores and DB scalability Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization Distributed file systems for Big Data MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization Simulation and debugging systems and tools for Big Data Storage and computation management of Big Data Large-scale big data workflow management Sensor network and social network for Big Data Edge processing and intelligence for Big Data SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ---------------------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://edas.info/N25994) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/. Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------------------------- General Chairs: Sherman Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada Yaoxue Zhang, Central South University, China TPC Chairs: Ju Ren, Central South University, China Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan Steering Committee Chairs: Laurance T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------- Paper Submission Deadline: 1 April, 2019 Authors Notification: 30 April, 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 20 May, 2019 Early Registration Due: 20 May, 2019 Conference Date: 5-8 August, 2019 -- Xiaokang Zhou (周暁康), Ph.D. Faculty of Data Science, The Center for Data Science Education and Research, Shiga University 1-1-1 Banba, Hikone, Shiga 522-8522, Japan Email: zhou(a)biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp<mailto:zhou@biwako.shiga-u.ac.jp> Phone: +81-749-27-1290

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CFP Societal Automation Conference - SAC2019 Krakow, 4-6 September 2019
by Martin Gilje Jaatun 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Call for Papers Societal Automation - Technological & Architectural Frameworks First international conference - Krakow, 4-6 September 2019 https://sac2019.org/ *Regular and special sessions papers* Submission deadline April 14, 2019 Acceptance notification June 3, 2019 Deadline for final manuscripts June 30, 2019 *Work-in-progress/ Industry practice papers* Submission deadline: May 19, 2019 Acceptance notification: June 16, 2019 Deadline for final manuscripts: July 30, 2019 Background: The 4th Industrial Revolution and emerging Societal Automation initiatives deeply rooted in advances in Electronics, Communication, and Computer Science has been heralded by numerous visionary initiatives sponsored and advanced by industry, private consortia, and governments alike, all over the industrialized world – to mention smart factories, smart grid, smart homes, smart buildings, smart highways, smart transportation systems, urban automation, ... . The household names of the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems provide conceptual and architectural frameworks as well as a technical infrastructure for those initiatives. Societal Automation is a human endeavor to make human-made engineering systems human-centered, safe in their usage and energy efficient, without degrading the surrounding natural environment. Societal Automation is not limited to integration of existing technologies in larger systems such as building automation, smart grid, or urban automation. Actually, some of the most remarkable advances have been achieved in automating personal space/life. Human companion is a good example; not only providing a day-to-day psychological support for elderly, but some with, though, still limited, “abilities” to assist in the body maintenance and feeding infirm. The functional and technical scope of those initiatives is broad. Various application domains intersect at the crossroads of the initiatives. Vision is necessary to carve the image of the initiatives. But insufficient for their realization. At the root of the success in implementing and deploying visions is technology. Technology is a tangible “realization” of solutions, which arise from innovative thinking. Specific technological solutions and devices to be blended within the adopted architectural framework representing developed system need sophisticated software tools underpinned by solid formal methodologies to assist in and guide through the design, validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring phases of the system life-cycle. The challenge laid for the broad automation of human activities and societies is vast, and requires visionary innovative thinking. Requires revolution in innovative thinking and the way we think of innovation. Nothing short of the 4th revolution in innovative thinking: Innovation 4.0. The first in the series conference on Societal Automation will attempt to take a stock of where the area id now; of the expectations and concrete plans of decision makers; of existing technologies and technologies still to be invented to support further and planned developments; of the supporting design & development software tools to make systems eventuate. The most crucial, however, are the expectations of us, individuals without major say in the Societal Automation evolution to ensure the developments serve our interest and do not threaten our privacy, body and psychological integrity, and safety in general. Paper submissions The SAC2019 conference is seeking submissions of up to 8 double-column pages reporting on novel and significant contributions to the field of industrial communication systems. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit a pdf version of their papers through the SAC2019 submission system. The submitted material (in English language) must be unpublished and not under review elsewhere. Submissions must include e-mail addresses and fax/phone numbers of the corresponding author. Work-in-Progress (WIP) sessions These sessions are intended for presentation of recent ideas and on-going works up to 4 double-column pages, describing research that has not yet produced the results required for a regular paper, but that due to its novelty and potential impact deserves to be shared with the community at an early stage. WIP submissions should be prepared according to the same guidelines as regular papers, and should be submitted through their own WIP electronic submission system. Accepted WIP papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted WiP paper will give a 5 minute oral presentation at the WiP sessions, and will also present an A0 poster during the poster sessions. Style guides for SAC2019 papers Please see here:http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/template… Tracks/Topics T1: Electronic Systems in Societal Automation Track Chair: Adam Kostrzewa, TU Braunschweig, Germany - kostrzewa at ida.ing.tu-bs.de System-level Design - methodologies & tools for reconfigurable platforms (programmable logic, partial reconfiguration); FPGA architectures, design, and CAD; robust & power aware computing and systems; energy management; data integration and fusion; communication modes; compensation mechanisms for aging and temperature; methodologies & tools for fault-tolerant designs; hardware attacks detection, threat modeling & defense; hardware-based security design; trusted design automation & tools; adaptive and compositional architectures. Networked Embedded Systems - design, dependability and tooling for networked systems including real-time, safety, security, maintainability aspects; middleware solutions for distributed and networked systems; network protocols for distributed systems including resource control, admission control, self-aware adjustments, time synchronization, routing and energy consumption. Cognitive Computing in Cyber-Physical Systems - hardware and architectures, software and algorithmic approaches for artificial intelligence, hardware accelerators for machine/deep learning algorithms; algorithmic optimizations for general purpose computing; modeling, design and analysis of networked control, switched control, and distributed control systems. Embedded Systems and Architectures - design methodologies and tools; parallel and distributed embedded systems; multi/many-core embedded systems; timing and schedulability analysis; quality of service control; distributed and system-on-chip architectures; real-time and dependable mechanisms and architectures; static and dynamic reconfigurable systems; embedded systems case studies. T2: Communication Systems in Societal Automation Track Chair: Stig Petersen, SINTEF, Norway - Stig.Petersen at sintef.no IP-based and web-based communication - protocols and technologies Wireless Networks - WLAN; WPAN; 6LoWPAN, CoAP; Wireless coexistence and spectrum-sharing; Radio resource management in noisy environments; Internetworking and interoperability; Wireless Instrumentation and Wireless Sensor Network; Mesh, Relay, and Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Network; Software-defined and cognitive radio networks Design Issues - Event-driven and Time-Triggered communications; Security and safety; Dependability and fault tolerance; Remote configuration and network management; Real-time communication and precise synchronization; Quality of Service (QoS) and performance indexes; Message schedulability analysis Specialized Communication Networks in Diverse Application Domains - Home & Building Automation; Automotive Networks; Rail Transportation Networks; Avionics Networks Networks; Industrial Automation –Industrial Ethernet,, Wireless Industrial Networks; Power Systems – Protocols for Automatic Meter Reading, Protocols for Power System Automation. T3: Computing in Societal Automation Track Chair: Krzysztof Zielinski, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland - kz at agh.edu.pl Algorithms and Models of Computing - Approximate and inexact computing Quantum computing, Probabilistic computing; Cloud and fog computing; Pervasive computing Biological Computing Models - Brain computing; Neural computing; Computational neuroscience; Biologically-inspired architectures Big Data Analytics - High performance data analytics; Data search and representation; Architecture and system design Fault tolerance and resilience - Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems; Hardware and software approaches to cope with adverse environments Compiler Technologies - Advanced/novel analyses; Hardware/software integrated solutions; Domain-specific languages; High-level synthesis T4: AI, Machine & Deep Learning in Societal Automation Track Chair: Krystian Jobczyk, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland - krystian_jobczyk at op.pl Algorithms; Natural Language Processing; Computer Vision and Speech Understanding; Pattern Recognition; Data Mining and Information Retrieval; Soft Computing and tools - Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, Heuristic and AI Planning Strategies, Knowledge-based Systems; Automated Decision Systems; Computational Theories of Learning; Knowledge Representation; Reasoning and Evolution; Machine Learning – Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Neural Networks & Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning; Ambient intelligence – contextual awareness, natural interaction, adaptability, robustness, fault-tolerance, security; Ambient intelligence and IoT – case studies; Semantic Web ; Hybrid Intelligent Systems; Software & Hardware Architectures & Accelerators; AI Systems in Societal Automation – Cars & Automotive and Service Industries; Home & Building automation; Transportation Systems; Smart Cities & Urban Automation; Energy Systems: Case Studies – experience emerging trends. T5: Sensors in Societal Automation Track Chair: Joerg Gebhardt, ABB Corporate Research, Germany - joerg.gebhardt at de.abb.com Novel components, devices and architectures for networked sensing; Network and system architectures and protocols; Network health monitoring and management; Detection, classification, tracking, reasoning, and decision making; Sensor data processing, mining, and machine learning; (distributed) signal processing; Energy harvested systems; Sensor tasking, control, and actuation; Innovative applications and deployment experiences; System modeling, simulation, measurements, and analysis. T6: Human Companion Human companion to provide day-to-day interaction with humans – computer systems, robotic pets, robotic humanoids; Emotions recognition and replication; Intuition; Day-to-day assistance with emotional challenges; Body construction – skeleton, muscle, skin; Making human companion robots self protecting; AI, Computing and Signal Processing; Dedicated communication networking; Novel research results. Prototypes & deployments – experience and emerging trends. T7: Merging Humans and Machines Track Chair: Valentina Emilia Balas, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad, Romania - valentina.balas at uav.ro Brain-computer interfaces – Novel research and Technology; Noninvasive electromagnetic methods for brain monitoring; Algorithms & translation techniques; Wireless technology in communication; Implant technology; Bio-tech hybrids; Human enhancement; Cyborgs; Turing test; Virtual reality; Non-verbal and extra-sensory communication; Humans as biological machines; Spiritual machines; T8: Architectural Frameworks for Societal Automation – IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems Track Chair: Marcel Baunach, TU Graz, Austria - baunach at tugraz.at IOT & Cyber-Physical Systems Design and Technology; IoT and Sensor systems; Industrial IoT Systems; Distributed Architectures for Adaptive Systems; Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems; Self-Adaption and Self-Organization; Learning and Self-Optimizing Cyber-Physical Systems. Novel Protocols and Network Technology; Data Streaming Architectures; Application areas of IoT & CPS; Case Studies, deployment, arising experience and emerging trends. T9: Cyber-Security in Societal Automation Track Chair: Martin Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway - Martin.G.Jaatun at sintef.no Access control; Authentication; Trust management; Accountability; Anonymity and privacy; Formal methods and verification; Hardware-based security; Language-based security; Software security; Data and system integrity; Database security; Distributed systems security; Network security; Intrusion detection; Mobile security; Web security; Security metrics; Security protocols; Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols; Security issues specific to application domain: wearable automation, home and building automation, vehicles and transportation systems, smart city & urban automation, smart metering and power systems. T10: Development of Ultra Complex Man-Made Engineering Systems Track Chair: Athanasios Kalogeras, ISI, Greece - kalogeras at isi.gr Large Scale and Ultra Large Scale System Design: Requirement Determination and Management; Design at All Levels; Design Representation; Methodologies and Tools; Component-Integration; Legacy Systems. Human Interaction: Context-Aware Computing; User-Centered Specification; User Modeling; Non-Competitive Social Collaboration; Longevity. Use of Computational Resources to Solve Complex Systems Challenges: Computational Complexity; Metaheuristics. Large and Ultra Scale System Engineering: Representation Languages and Semantics; Specification, Verification, and Certification; Model Based Validation; Systems of Systems; Simulation; Modularity & Composability. Adaptive Systems: Integrated operation; Distribution and decentralization; Interoperability; Security,Trust and Resilience; Robustness and Adaptation, Applications of Systems Engineering to Diverse Industrial and Societal Application Areas. T11: Socio-Technological Aspects of Societal Automation HMI; Technology and solutions for assisting elderly and disadvantaged; Smart Systems to assist kids in learning; Easing access to technology and assisting with an efficient usage; Social acceptance of technology and technological changes; Novel research results, deployment, case studies, experience and emerging trends T12: Application Areas of Societal Automation Track Chair: Thomas Strasser, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria - thomas.strasser at ait.ac.at Novel research results, deployment, case studies, experience and emerging trends. Areas – Digital Arts & Entertainment, Digital Lifestyle, Digital Education; Wearable Automation; Social Robotics: applications of robotics to human tasks and activity areas to assist or replace humans in diverse application areas: home, school, hospital, employment place, city – for instance in feeding infirm and elderly, exoskeletons; Smart and self driving cars; Smart Vehicles – ground, air and water based; Transportation Systems; Urban Automation and Systems; Smart Cities; Energy Systems; Health delivery and systems – consultations, patient's monitoring, tele-surgery, etc; Military Logistic Systems, Space Station, Space Cities, Space Urban Automation, etc.

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Call for papers extended for IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019 in Hawaii - deadline March 25, 2019
by Alvin Chin 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Dear colleague, Please consider submitting a paper to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019 in Hawaii. Details of the CFP are below and can be found at http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/cfp.php. VTC2019-Fall in Honolulu, Hawaii will feature world-class technical sessions, workshops, and tutorials on, but not limited to, the following technical tracks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php>. Prospective authors are invited to submit 5-page, original, and unpublished full papers: 1. Antenna Systems, Propagation, and RF Design <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_1> 2. Signal Transmission and Reception <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_2> 3. Spectrum Sharing, Spectrum Management, and Cognitive Radio <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_3> 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_4> 5. Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_5> 6. Green Communications and Networks <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_6> 7. IoT, M2M, Sensor Networks, and Ad-Hoc Networking <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_7> 8. Wireless Networks: Protocols, Security and Services <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_8> 9. Positioning, Navigation and Mobile Satellite System <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_9> 10. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Communications, Vehicular Networks, and Telematics <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_10> 11. Electric Vehicles, Vehicular Electronics, and Intelligent Transportation <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_11> 12. Future Trends and Emerging Technologies <http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2019fall/tracks.php#TK_12> Submission Deadline: 25 March 2019 Submission requirements: 5-page paper ONLY Up to 2 additional pages are allowed with the purchase of additional page charges in the amount of $100 USD per additional page at the time of registration and final paper submission *Acceptance notification: 3 May 2019* Final paper submission deadline: 1 July 2019 Regards, Alvin -- Alvin Chin Industry Sessions Co-Chair IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference Fall-2019

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[CFP] IEEE EdgeCom2019 - Deadline extension
by Han Qiu 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Paper (CFP).] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE EdgeCom2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud - June 21–23, 2019 Paris, France http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION With edge devices (e.g. mobile phones, wearable devices, and IoT devices) are universally used and become more powerful, edge computing has evolved to a new computing paradigm where computing tasks are completed closer to data sources (i.e. at edge) rather than in a centralized location (e.g. in cloud). Compared with cloud computing, edge computing has many advantages: 1) Services can be done without network access. 2) Users can choose not to upload private data in exchange of cloud services. 3) Real-time service with extremely low latency is possible without the overhead of moving data to the cloud. However, the restricted resources (e.g., computation, DRAM space, and battery) of edge devices bring many new challenges to edge computing as well. IEEE Edgecom 2019 provides a forum for researchers and engineers from academia and industry to present innovative research and best practices in edge computing, discuss the opportunities and challenges that arise from rethinking cloud computing architectures and embracing edge computing. TOPIC IEEE Edgecom 2019 welcomes contributions from diverse perspectives of edge computing, which include (but are not limited to) the following topics: - Edge computing in IoT - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Privacy protection in edge computing - Software/Algorithm optimization for edge computing - Cyber security in mobile embedded systems - Edge computing infrastructure - Workload characterization and analysis of applications running on edge devices - Digital forensics and privacy issues in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring approaches - Case studies of real-world edge computing applications - Monitoring and diagnosis tools for edge computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - On-device artificial intelligence - Heterogeneous clouds and vulnerabilities - Secure methods for heterogeneous cloud resource sharing - Architecture support for edge computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Energy efficient edge computing - Case studies for cyber security applications - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - New attack methods and applications - Green cloud computing - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Edge-Cloud coordinated computing - Cloud-based sensor network and security issues PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeedgecom2019) The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/ssc/submission.html) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 1, 2019 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: May 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu(a)telecom-paristech.fr.

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Wivace 2019 CFP
by Antonio Guerrieri 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

[image: WIVACE_header1.png] *WIVACE 2019* *XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary ComputationRende (CS), ItalySeptember 18-20, 2019* *Web site: https://wivace.org/2019 <https://wivace.org/2019>* The International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation aims at bringing together researchers working in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation to present and share their research in a multidisciplinary context. The workshop provides a forum for the discussion of new research directions and applications in these fields, where different disciplines could effectively meet. It was first held in 2007 in Sampieri (Ragusa), as the incorporation of two previously separately running workshops (WIVA and GSICE). After the success of the first edition, the workshop was organized in the following years in Venice (2008), Naples (2009), Parma (2012), Milan (2013), Vietri (2014), Bari (2015), Salerno (2016), Venice (2017) and Parma (2018). This year WIVACE will host a Special Session on Cognitive Systems and Applications. Interested authors are invited to contribute papers on theory and applications of Artificial Life, Evolutionary Computation, and complex smart systems. Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Bioinspired Algorithms - Bioinspired Robotics - Coevolution and Collective Behavior - Complex Systems - Data-driven Self-regulating Systems - Evolutionary Computation - Evolutionary Approaches to Big Data and Big Data Streams - Evolutionary Learning Systems - Evolutionary Agents - Modeling and Simulation of Artificial and Biological Systems - Modeling and Simulation of Social and Economical Systems - Modeling of Business Intelligence Systems - Neural Computers - Neuroevolution: Improving Deep Learning with Evolutionary Computation - Self-organizing Cyber-Physical Systems - Socio-inspired Swarm Intelligence Algorithms - Synthetic and Systems Biology - Systems Chemistry - Theories and Applications of Artificial Life *SUBMISSION DETAILS* Contributions may be submitted in one of the following forms: - Full research papers (up to 12 pages). - Simple Abstracts (1-4 pages). Full research papers should present original unpublished work. Simple abstracts should describe original work in progress or a summary of a full paper. The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The authors of accepted papers or abstracts will have to improve their paper on the basis of reviewers’ comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference, attend the conference and present his work. Accepted full research papers will be published in a post-conference proceedings volume for Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series. The series is abstracted/indexed in SI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. Accepted abstracts describing unpublished work will be considered for publication of extended versions (up to 12 pages) in the same volume. Submit your manuscript in Springer Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies series format at the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wivace2019 *IMPORTANT DATES* - Abstract/paper submission deadline: 17th June 2019 - Notification of acceptance: 15th July 2019 - Early Registration: 29th July 2019 *GENERAL CHAIRS* - Clara Pizzuti (ICAR - National Research Council of Italy) - pizzuti(a)icar.cnr.it - Giandomenico Spezzano (ICAR - National Research Council of Italy) - spezzano(a)icar.cnr.it *LOCAL CHAIRS* - Franco Cicirelli (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - franco.cicirelli(a)icar.cnr.it - Antonio Guerrieri (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - antonio.guerrieri(a)icar.cnr.it - Annalisia Socievole (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - annalisa.socievole(a)icar.cnr.it - Andrea Vinci (ICAR- National Research Council of Italy) - andrea.vinci(a)icar.cnr.it *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* - Michele Amoretti (University of Parma) - Vito Antonio Bevilacqua (Politecnico di Bari) - Leonardo Bich (Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)) - Leonardo Bocchi (University of Florence) - Michele Braccini (University of Bologna) - Stefano Cagnoni (University of Parma) - Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth) - Giulio Caravagna (Università di Milano Bicocca) - Timoteo Carletti (University of Namur) - Antonio Chella (University of Palermo) - Antonio Della Cioppa (University of Salerno) - Francesco Fontanella (Università di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale) - Mario Giacobini (University of Turin) - Alex Graudenzi (University of Milan "Bicocca") - Giovanni Iacca (University of Trento) - Francesco Masulli (University of Genoa) - Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milan "Bicocca") - Orazio Miglino (University of Napoli "Federico II") - Marco Mirolli (ISTC-CNR) - Sara Montagna (University of Bologna) - Monica Mordonini (University of Parma - Stefano Nolfi (ICST-CNR) - Mario Pavone (University of Catania) - Riccardo Righi (European Commission, Joint research Center) - Andrea Roli (University of Bologna) - Federico Rossi (University of Salerno) - Roberto Serra (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Debora Slanzi (European Centre for Living Technology) - Pasquale Stano (University of Salento) For further information, please send an email wivace2019(a)icar.cnr.it *WIVACE 2019 Chairs*

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[CFP] First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making
by Fulvio Frati 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

***Big Data for public health policy making Workshop*** [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ****************************************************** The First IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making In conjunction with the IEEE SERVICES 2019, July 8-13, 2019, Milan, Italy http://conferences.computer.org/services/2019/ ****************************************************** ** Description and Scope As acknowledged by the World Health Organization, by a number of governmental institutions, and patient associations, the effective management of health-related problems depends on and requires appropriate public health policies. A public health policy may have a significant effect on the prevention and early diagnosis and early treatment of several diffuse and debilitating conditions including, for instance, cognitive decline. The management of such health problems and their consequences through public health policies can benefit from the analysis of heterogeneous data (e.g., collected from modern IoT sensors as well as from standard clinical trials). Big Data Analytic techniques enable the investigation of specific health problems, their possible relations to other comorbidities and contextual factors, and patterns of such relations. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects concerning the adoption of Big Data Analytics in the context of evidence-based public health policy making. The workshop targets innovative techniques and solutions for supporting policy makers and clinicians in: i) taking decisions based on evidence and on ii) simulating scenarios aimed at predicting evolutions of health diseases at epidemiological level. It also aims to investigate security and privacy concerns related to the analysis of health data and the possible impact that security and privacy measures may produce on the achievable quality of analyses and the effectiveness of health policies. The workshop aims also to investigate: i) the modelling and adoption of advanced Artificial Intelligence models for policy making based on simulations and open data and ii) the possible trade-off between the design and implementation of health policies that may require years to produce their expected results and solutions able to rapidly produce tangible results. The workshop will bring together researchers of different disciplines, policy makers and clinicians, from academia and industry, all sharing a common goal: to go beyond the frontier of today's public health policy making process by envisioning how to exploit the full potential of Big Data Analytics in ways compliant with the principles and needs of modern societies, like satisfying security and privacy requirements. Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Data driven public health policy making models - Model based Big data solutions for health-related policy making - Decision support systems for clinicals and policy making - Innovative Big Data as a service architecture for health - Security aspects of Big Data analytics threating sensible data - Privacy aware Big Data models and analytics in health scenarios - AI models for health-related policy making - Mixing simulations and open data for health policies predictions - Advanced reaction-oriented policy models for health ** Organization Workshop Chairs: - Marco Anisetti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy - George Spanoudakis, City University of London, UK ** Submission We call for original and unpublished papers no longer than 6 pages (up to 2 additional pages may be purchased subject to approval by the Publication Chair.). All papers will be reviewed with a minimum of 3 good-quality reviews per paper. The manuscripts should be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and be submitted as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The submission URL is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeservices2019 Authors wishing to submit a paper to this workshop must select the track entitled IEEE SERVICES Workshop on Big Data for public health policy making in order to be considered. ** Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2019 Notification to Author: April 15, 2019 Camera-ready & Registration: 1 May 2019 For general questions about this workshop, please contact either workshop organizer: Marco Anisetti at: marco.anisetti(a)unimi.it <mailto:marco.anisetti@unimi.it> George Spanoudakis at: G.E.Spanoudakis(a)city.ac.uk <mailto:G.E.Spanoudakis@city.ac.uk>

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ECYPS 2019 - 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
by Jozwiak, L. 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues, Please find below and attached to this e-mail the Calls for Papers of ECYPS’2019 - the 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and MECO’2019 - the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing. We are encouraging you to submit your papers and special session proposals to these two conferences, as well as, to participate in the collocated CPS&IoT'2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things, that will be held in Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2018. Paper submission deadline to ECYPS'2019 and MECO'2019: February 28, 2019 For participants registered to the CPS&IoT'2019 Summer School participation in the sessions of ECYPS’2019 and MECO’2019 is free. For those of them who want to publish and present a paper in ECYPS’2019 or MECO’2019 the additional publication fee to cover a paper publication costs in ECYPS’2019 or MECO’2019 Proceedings is only 70 Euro per paper. Best regards, Lech Jozwiak and Radovan Stojanović Conference Chairmen __________________________________ ECYPS’2019 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Budva • Montenegro • June 10-14, 2019 Hotel Budva**** http://embeddedcomputing.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=3nptVQCIDRXy3sPO24B4MpLM_IqMyqgjo9E…> Call for Papers ECYPS’2019 - the 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems will be held in the scope of MECO’2018 - the 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, in Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2019. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are smart compound systems engineered through seamless integration of embedded information processing sub-systems and physical sub-systems. The vision of smart systems connected and collaborating through various interfaces and communication media to form the global Internet of Things (IoT) is not a science-fiction anymore, but is quickly becoming an actual reality. The smart collaborating CPS with important applications in virtually all economic and social segments will have enormous economic and societal impact. ECYPS’2018 mainly focuses on CPS for modern (mobile) applications that require high-performance or low energy consumption, as well as, high safety, security and reliability. It addresses the applications, specification, validation, architectures, technology, hardware, software, design methodology and EDA tools for such systems. Its target participants are academic researchers and teachers; industrial researchers, developers and decision-makers; and Ph.D. students. It gives an excellent opportunity to disseminate fresh research results from European, international and other R&D projects. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: ñ advanced applications and case studies of systems in consumer appliances, healthcare, personal assistance, environmental and safety monitoring, industrial and leaving-space automation, transportation, automotive, aerospace, aviation, energy generation, communications, tele-operation, control, robotics, infrastructure, etc. ñ mobile, autonomous, wearable and implantable systems ñ development platforms and tools for CPS ñ deep-learning and AI for CPS ñ application/software modeling, analysis, parallelization and mapping for high-performance and low-energy computing ñ multi-domain modeling, analysis, synthesis, simulation, integration and validation of heterogeneous systems ñ multi-objective and multi-domain optimization and co-design of heterogeneous systems ñ advanced processors, MPSoCs, SiPs, sensors, actuators and MEMS for CPS ñ sensor-based (distributed, networked) monitoring and control ñ sub-system arrangement and communication in complex heterogeneous systems ñ safety, security and reliability of complex heterogeneous systems ñ IoT, and cloud, fog, dew and edge computing Venue: ECYPS’2019 will be held in Hotel Budva***** (http://www.hotelbudva.me/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=W26zen4_fZ_6-88553BBAd51ZTNBZFSDUrj…>) Budva (https://www.visit-montenegro.com/main-cities/budva/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=XEa2brcUgL-BX9fACXjcqir67n5SBlbSXDq…>), Montenegro (http://www.visit-montenegro.com/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=uh9BdLpr6d1abc6jTmAFlk44YDqUmJrt9HO…>). Budva is a 3500 years old town located at the Adriatic Sea coast of Montenegro. It is a popular touristic destination, with its charming Old Town, beautiful natural environment, 35 clean sandy beaches, and proximity to many famous touristic attractions as Kotor, Boka Kotorska, Sveti Stefan, Dubrovnik, and several national parks. Budva is well connected with European cities by air, sea, road and train. Useful Links: Conference web-site: http://embeddedcomputing.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=3nptVQCIDRXy3sPO24B4MpLM_IqMyqgjo9E…> Hotel Budva *****: http://www.hotelbudva.me/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=W26zen4_fZ_6-88553BBAd51ZTNBZFSDUrj…> City of Budva: https://www.visit-montenegro.com/main-cities/budva/<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=XEa2brcUgL-BX9fACXjcqir67n5SBlbSXDq…> Montenegro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegro<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=khunIJkxTDh-zOg3SA64TKo44eCP0NoQkfX…> Submission of papers: Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length, four-page papers, strictly according to the IEEE Conference Standards and via http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/meco-2019/submission<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=IMykhP-H3KTy9BiSBVeq5Uk4YozHG_bj3eo…>. Submission deadline: February 28, 2019 Conference quality: Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. In particular, ECYPS is covered by SCOPUS, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Research Gate, etc. Extended versions of selected papers from ECYPS will be published in the Elsevier/Euromicro journal of Microprocessors and Microsystems (MICPRO) having the 2016 Impact Factor as high as 1.025. Accompanying events: ECYPS’2018 will be held in the scope of MECO’2018 (the 7th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing) which will host a CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things (http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/cps-iot) special sessions, workshops and dissemination of international projects. Proposals of accompanying workshops/sessions/dissemination should be submitted to Radovan Stojanović (stox(a)ac.me<https://webmail.tue.nl/owa/redir.aspx?C=oDqrK7a9oZvKmRS9yRl4Pwaj8po0bAvRKb5…>). Important Deadlines: February 28, 2019, Paper submission deadline March 15, 2019, Acceptance/rejection notification March 27, 2019, Final paper submission and author registration deadline May 10, 2019, Registration deadline Fees: The participation fees of MECO and ECYPS are low (see: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/meco-2019/registration) to encourage participation of young scientists and colleagues from developing countries. Conference Chairmen: Lech Jóźwiak, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Radovan Stojanović, University of Montenego, Montenegro Scientific Committee: Koen Bertels, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Zlatan Car, University of Rijeka, Croatia Victor Goulart, Kyushu University, Japan Yervant Zorian. Synopsys, USA Miguel Figueroa, University of Concepcion, Chile Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy Erwin Grosspietsch, Euromicro, Germany Ilker Hamzaoglu, Sabanci University, Turkey Lech Jóźwiak, EUT, Netherlands Paris Kitsos, Open Hellenic University, Patras, Greece Akash Kumar, National Univ. Singapore, Singapore Francesco Leporati, University of Pavia, Italy Menno Lindwer, Intel, Netherlands Jan Madsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade, Serbia Nadia Nedjah, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Smail Niar, University of Valenciennes, France Horácio .C Neto, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Alex Orailoglu, University of California at San Diego, USA Sri Parameswaran, UNSW, Australia Adam Postula, University of Queensland, Australia Peter Puschner, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria Davide Quaglia, University of Verona, Italy Majid Sarrafzadeh, UCLA, California, USA Karolj Skala, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia Radovan Stojanović, University of Montenegro, Montenegro Ioannis Sourdis, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden Alice M. Tokarnia, State University of Campinas, Brazil Heinrich Vierhaus, Brandenburg Uni. of Technology, Germany Eugenio Villar, University of Cantabria, Spain Arda Yurdakul, Bogazici University, Turkey Andrej Žemva, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organizing Committee: Budimir Lutovac, University of Montenegro, Chair Dmitry Tarasov, MANT, Montenegro, Co-Chair Marko Kaludjerović, MANT, Montenegro

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Deadline of March 3rd for CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT2019)
by Uday Kurkure 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

The deadline of March 3rd for CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT2019) si fast approaching. Please refer to http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session01-virt. *The Second Special Session on **Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2019)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of* *The 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019)* *http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19>* *15 - 19 July 2019* *Dublin, Ireland* *Paper Submission Deadline: 03 March 2019* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE and SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs § Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack § Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - *Containers in HPC* o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning*o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. 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. 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 completed online web based form (can also 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), 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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2019 . 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 soundness, 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 special session 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. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/6-participants/authors-info> and Registration Info <http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/6-participants/registration-info> pages. *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 special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 03 March 2019* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 22 March 2019* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 19 April 2019* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 15–19 July 2019* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure* VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu* VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2019 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2019 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres,* Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *Isaac Gelado,* Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale,* Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Brian Kocoloski*, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA - *Xiaoyi Lu,* The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano,* Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla,* Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran,* University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese, *Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Andrew Younge*, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - *Dong Ping Zhang, *AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang,* Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Na Zhang, *VMware Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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