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[Call for chapter] Book: Incompleteness in Information
by Maria Vanina Martinez 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

============================================================ ================================================================ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ============================================================ ================================================================ Incompleteness in Information John Grant and Maria Vanina Martinez (Eds) ============================================================ ================================================================ After the successful completion and publication of our book "Measuring Inconsistency in Information" last year, we are now ready to start another book project. We plan to edit a book "Incompleteness in Information" and are looking for prospective chapter authors and reviewers. The dual concepts of incompleteness and inconsistency were introduced in the early 1970s by John Grant. While there was little research on inconsistency in information for several decades, incompleteness became important within a few years on account of the null value problem in relational databases for which John showed that Codd's 3-valued logic approach , later adopted for SQL, did not always give the correct answer. So research on incompleteness has been going on for nearly 50 years. We would like to put together a book that covers the past, present, and future of incompleteness. So we are interested in survey chapters of past work on incompleteness, research chapters of up-to-date issues in this area and would like a chapter that concentrates on research issues for the future. We are interpreting incompleteness in a fairly broad sense for databases and AI including games, for instance. However, we are excluding incompleteness in the sense of statistical, probabilistic, and fuzzy data. If you (or someone you know) may be interested in this project in any way such as writing a chapter, or reviewing, or if you have any suggestions or advice please write to either grant(a)cs.umd.edu (John Grant) or mvmartinez(a)dc.uba.ar (Maria Vanina Martinez). Tentative Schedule: Chapters Due: Oct 31, 2019 Acceptance and Reviews: Jan 31, 2020 Final Version: March 31, 2020 Publication: May 2020

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Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation at NUMTA 2019 - Crotone, Calabria, Italy
by William Spataro 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

*** sorry for cross postings *** NUMTA Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (NUMTA2019-HPCMS) TH Le Castella Village Le Castella - Isola Capo Rizzuto Crotone, Italy DEADLINE for One-page Abstract submission: March 18, 2019 CFP Model development for the simulation of the evolution of artificial and natural systems is essential for the advancement of Science. The increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. An important mission of the HPCMS Special Session within the NUMTA 2019 3rd International Conference and Summer School is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. The session intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, hydrology, medicine, ecology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, earth science and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation Submission One-page abstract should be submitted before March 18, 2019 EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=numta2019 (please follow the EasyChair hints for the HPCMS session to correctly prepare and submit your abstract). The authors are also invited to contact the organizers of the special session (William Spataro spataro(a)unical.it) before submitting their abstract (please include "HPCMS – NUMTA abstract submission" in the email subject header). In case of acceptance, the authors can submit their full papers (end of May) as reported on the NUMTA main web page (http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php) More information about the HPCMS Workshop and the general NUMTA 2019 conference can be found at: http://si.dimes.unical.it/~yaro/numta2019/index.php Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria (Italy) Donato D’Ambrosio - University of Calabria (Italy) Rocco Rongo - University of Calabria (Italy) Andrea Giordano - ICAR-CNR (Italy) Scientific Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D'Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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CFP for Special Session on Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT2019)
by Uday Kurkure 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

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 HPCo Running diverse workloadso Running heterogeneous Operating Systemso Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtimeo 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 - *Carlo Reano,* Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla,* University of Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim,* Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - 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 - *Na Zhang, *VMware Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs19 or contact one of the Conference's organizers.

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Special Issue "Parallel String Matching Algorithms and Applications"
by Panagiotis Michailidis 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Special Issue "Parallel String Matching Algorithms and Applications" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/parallel_string_matc… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, We are glad to announce the upcoming Special Issue dedicated to parallel string-matching algorithms and applications. With the recent advances in big text data processing and applications, this Special Issue aims to provide a comprehensive view of the efficient design and implementation of string-matching algorithms for parallel and distributed computing environments (such as multicores, manycores, clusters, CPU/GPUs, grids, p2p, and clouds). We invite researchers and professionals to submit theoretical or practical contributions that aim to present ideas, techniques, and results of parallel computing in all aspects of string matching and related applications (exact/approximate string matching, single/multiple string matching, 2D string matching, and compressed string processing). Manuscripts that focus on research of sequential string-matching algorithms are welcome. Both original research and comprehensive review/survey papers are also welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: - String matching algorithms (exact/approximate, single/mutiple, two-dimensional, text compression, etc.); - Parallel string-matching algorithms using OpenMP and/or MPI; - Parallel string-matching algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators; - Parallel string-matching applications exploiting FPGA; - Distributed string matching algorithms; - Performance study and analysis of large-scale string-matching applications; - Libraries for string matching on parallel platforms; - Applications of string matching in natural language processing, computational linguistics, information retrieval, text/opinion mining, text plagiarism, sentiment analysis, bioinformatics, computational biology, intrusion detection, security, etc. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering <https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/> and logging in to this website <https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/>. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form <https://www.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=algorithms>. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions> page. *Algorithms* <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/> is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions> page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) <https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc/> for publication in this open access <https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess/> journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service <https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english> prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editors Prof. Dr. Panagiotis D. Michailidis Prof. Dr. Konstantinos G. Margaritis University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece

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CFP - Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MaL2CSec) - Deadline March 31, 2019
by Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MaL2CSec: Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden, June 20, 2019 https://mal2csec.ucm.es ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference website https://mal2csec.ucm.es Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mal2csec Abstract registration deadline March 31, 2019 Submission deadline March 31, 2019 Topics: This workshop aims at providing a forum for people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical advances, industrial case studies, that combines machine learning techniques such as reinforcement learning, adversarial machine learning, and deep learning with significant problems in cybersecurity. Research papers can be focused on offensive and defensive applications of machine learning to security. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Adversarial training and defensive distillation - Attacks against machine learning - Black-box attacks against machine learning - Challenges of machine learning for cyber security - Ethics of machine learning for cyber security applications - Generative adversarial models - Graph representation learning - Machine learning forensics - Machine learning threat intelligence - Malware detection - Neural graph learning - One-shot learning; continuous learning - Scalable machine learning for cyber security - Steganography and steganalysis based on machine learning techniques - Strength and shortcomings of machine learning for cyber-security This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive. Papers that are considered out of scope may be rejected without full review. We encourage submissions that are "far-reaching" and "risky." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE = UTC-12h) ( https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe) Research Papers Pre-registration of abstract March 31, 2019 Submission deadline March 31, 2019 Notification April 27, 2019 Camera ready deadline May 12, 2019 Workshop June 20, 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for Paper Submissions ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All submissions must be original work. Plagiarism (whether of others or self) will be grounds for rejection. The submitter must clearly document any overlap with previously published or simultaneously submitted papers from any of the authors. Failure to point out and explain overlap will be grounds for rejection. Simultaneous submission of the same paper to another venue with proceedings or a journal is not allowed and will be grounds for automatic rejection. Submitting multiple distinct papers is of course allowed. MaL2CSec 2019 includes an author response period, which gives authors the chance to comment on reviews their papers received. Papers may not be withdrawn between the start of the author response period and acceptance notification. Contact the program committee chairs if there are questions about this policy. Anonymous Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review: no author names or affiliations may appear on the title page, and papers should avoid revealing their identity in the text. When referring to your previous work, do so in the third person, as though it were written by someone else. Only blind the reference itself in the (unusual) case that a third-person reference is infeasible. Contact the program chairs if you have any questions. Papers that are not properly anonymized may be rejected without review. Page Limit and Formatting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must not exceed 10 pages total (including the references and appendices). Papers must be typeset in LaTeX in A4 format (not "US Letter") using the IEEE conference proceeding template with the appropriate options [LaTeX template, Template instructions, IEEE Template Repository]. Failure to adhere to the page limit and formatting requirements can be grounds for rejection. Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). Authors should pay special attention to unusual fonts, images, and figures that might create problems for reviewers. Your document should render correctly in Adobe Reader XI and when printed in black and white. Conference Submission Server ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers must be submitted using Easychair platform ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mal2csec) and submissions may be updated at any time until the deadline for submissions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luis Javier García Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Julio César Hernández Castro, University of Kent, United Kingdom Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Program Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Claudia Jacy Barenco Abbas, University of Brasilia, Brazil Michael Brengel, Center for Information Security (CISPA), Germany Manuela Cabral, Policia Judiciaria - Ministerio da Justiça, Portugal Michele Carminati, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Andrés Caro, Uniersidad de Extremadura, Spain Steven de Muler, Belgian Federal Police, Belgium Robson de Oliveira Albuquerque, University of Brasilia, Brazil Rafael Timoteo de Sousa Junior, University of Brasilia, Brazil Jesús E. Díaz Verdejo, Universidad de Granada, Spain Francesca Ferrero, Research Centre on Security and Crime (RISSC), Italy Rachel Finn, Trilateral Research, UK Luis Javier García, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Alejandro González, Spanish National Police, Spain Julio Hernandez-Castro, University of Kent, UK Eli Hoyberghs, Belgian Federal Police, Belgium Darren Hurley-Smith, University of Kent, UK Sonia Jimenez, Spanish National Police, Spain Holger Nitsch, College of the Bavarian Police - Germany Mario Polino, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Sarina Ronert, College of the Bavarian Police, Germany Christian Rossow, Center for Information Security (CISPA), Germany Ana Lucila Sandoval, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Berta Santos, Policia Judiciaria - Ministerio da Justiça, Portugal Tom Sloan, University of Kent, UK Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Workshop on Machine Learning for Cybersecurity (MaL2CSec) will be co-located with the 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P 2019) and it will be held in Stockholm, Sweden on June 20, 2019. Please consult the Euro S&P website for more details. Our schedule will be made available closer to the date of the event. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact our organizing committee: Luis Javier García Villalba (javiergv(a)fdi.ucm.es) Julio Hernández-Castro (J.C.Hernandez-Castro(a)kent.ac.uk) or Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco (asandoval(a)fdi.ucm.es)

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CPS&IoT'2019 - the 2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things: Call for Participation
by Jozwiak, L. 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues, You are encouraged to participate in a very special event: the 2019 Summer School on Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things - CPS&IoT’2019 that will be held in Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2019. The CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School is prepared in collaboration with Euromicro, IEEE and MANT, and is possible thanks to involvement of many outstanding researchers and developers from numerous European projects and countries. A distinguishing feature of the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School is that its lectures, demonstrations, and practical hands-on sessions: - are based on results from numerous currently running or recently finished European R&D projects in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as: MegaM@RT, FitOptiVis, oCPS, MNEMOSENE, AQUAS, ENABLE-S3, Almarvi, ASAM, ASSUME, BrainWave, rCPS2/3, ARM, SAFEPOWER and several others, and - will be given by top specialists in particular CPS and IoT fields form European industry and academia, and will deliver very fresh advanced knowledge. The School gives a unique opportunity: - to interact with outstanding specialists in the CPS and IoT area, and - to get acquainted with huge opportunities and impact of CPS and IoT, serious issues and challenges of their development, as well as, newest concepts, advanced knowledge and modern design tools created in numerous ongoing and recently finished European R&D projects in CPS and IoT. The CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School aims at serving the following main purposes: - advanced training of industrial and academic researchers, developers, engineers, decision-makers and managers; academic teachers, Ph.D. and M.Sc. students; entrepreneurs, investors, research funding agents, and policy makers; and other participants who want to learn about CPS and IoT engineering; - dissemination and exchange of advanced knowledge and project results from numerous European R&D projects in CPS and IoT; - facilitation of international contacts and collaboration among the Summer School participants. More information on the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School can be found in the Call for Participation attached to this e-mail and on the CPS&IoT’2019 web-page: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/cps-iot. Only a limited number of participants will be admitted. Register as soon as possible. Reduced participation fee of only 400 EUR for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and 500 EUR for general public is till 10.04.2019. To register please fill and send us the On-line Registration Form included on the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School web-page: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en/cps-iot. Upon registration you will receive the Fee Payment Instruction. In case of any problem or question related to the registration or fee payment please do not hesitate to contact Radovan Stojanović (stox(a)ac.me<mailto:stox@ac.me>). In case of questions related to the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School program please contact Lech Jóźwiak (L.Jozwiak(a)tue.nl<mailto:L.Jozwiak@tue.nl>). The CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School is collocated with ECYPS 2019 – 7th EUROMICRO/IEEE Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems and MECO 2019 – 8th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing, Budva, Montenegro, June 10-14, 2019: http://embeddedcomputing.me/en. The Summer School participants are entitled to free participation in ECYPS 2019 and MECO 2019 sessions, and are encouraged to submit their papers to ECYPS 2019 and MECO 2019. Please distribute this Call for Participation in the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School within your project consortia and among your colleagues. Best regards, Lech Jóźwiak Program Chairman of the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands and Radovan Stojanović Organizing Chairman of the CPS&IoT’2019 Summer School University of Montenegro, Montenegro

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[simu-conf] CfP - SummerSim 2019 - Berlin
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

# CALL FOR PAPERS 2019 Summer Simulation Conference July 22 - 24, 2019 | Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany Deadline: March 4, 2019. Author notification: May 6, 2018 ## Aims and Scope: The 2019 Summer Simulation Conference (SummerSimí19) is one of the premier international conferences of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS). The conference focuses on modeling and simulation, tools, theory, methodologies and applications and provides a forum for the latest R&D results in academia and industry. It is a combination of the 51st Summer Computer Simulation (SCSC) and the 22nd International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS). This yearís theme is ìModeling and Simulation for Smart and Connected Worldî. We encourage you to take this opportunity to contribute with papers, tutorials and workshops. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference, present their work to their peers, transfer copyright, and pay a conference registration fee at the time their camera-ready paper is submitted. Conference proceedings will be submitted to the ACM Digital Library, for archiving and indexed in DBLP and SCOPUS. (Some exceptions apply). More information: http://scs.org/summersim/ [apologies for duplicated postings – problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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[simu-conf] Canada Research Chair, PhD and Postdoctoral positions at Carleton University
by vsim-conf＠sce.carleton.ca 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

The Department of Systems and Computer Engineering and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada) invite applications from qualified candidates for a Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 2 appointment in the field of Systems Engineering of Autonomous Vehicles (Aerial, Ground, and Submarine) at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor beginning on July 1, 2018. More details here: https://carleton.ca/provost/2018/canada-research-chair-tier-ii-mechanical-a… The successful candidate will have research strength in Systems Engineering, with application to the development and utilization of autonomous vehicles (aerial, ground or submarine). The selected candidate’s appointment will be conditional upon the candidate applying to and succeeding in being awarded a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair. The department of Systems and Computer Engineering is also offering numerous funded Postdoctoral and PhD positions in numerous areas, ranging from Software Engineering, Cyber-Physical Systems, Networking and Communication, Autonomous computing and AI. Numerous scholarships are available (in particular for Domestic students at the level of Masters or PhD). More information about the departments. Systems and Computer engineering: https://carleton.ca/sce/ Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering: https://carleton.ca/mae/ [apologies for duplicated postings – problems/issues: contact vsim-conf-owner(a)sce.carleton.ca]

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CFP SpaCCS 2019: 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (Jul. 14--17, 2019, Atlanta, USA)
by Jun Feng 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Dear Colleagues: [Apologies for multiple receptions of this CfP] Call For Papers of SpaCCS 2019 ============================================================================= 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage July 14-July 17, 2019 Georgia State University Atlanta, USA http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/ All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be recommended to special issues of SCI and EI journals. 1. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 2. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 3. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET 4. IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 5. Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things 6. Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 7. Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 8. Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 * More special issues will be added later. ============================================================================= The 2019 International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) is the 12th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation -Security Model and Architecture - Software and System Security - Secure computation - Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Artificial Intelligence - Secure Network Computing - Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication - Network Security - Malware and Botnets - Intrusion Detection - Security in Web Services - Security in Mobile Social Networks - Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications - Fraud and Cyber- Crime 1.3 Storage - Access Control - Accounting and Audit - Applied Cryptography - Database Security - Authentication - Computer forensics - Data Protection and Data Integrity - Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics - Information Hiding - Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation - Measuring and Quantifying Privacy - Privacy Modelling and Analysis - Software and System Privacy - Privacy-preserving Computing - Differential Privacy - Blockchain-based Computation - Privacy-enhanced Network Computing - Obfuscation-based Privacy - Cryptographic Tools - Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems - Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication - Privacy in Web Services - Privacy Metrics and Policies - Crowdsourcing for Privacy - Location and Mobility Privacy - Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications - Blockchain-based Communication - Quantum Communications - Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices - Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems - Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage - Data Protection Technologies - Privacy in Big Data and its Applications - Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy - Privacy and Human Rights - Blockchain-based Storage - Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields - Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation - Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing - Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity - Anonymity in Big Data Analytics - Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships - Anonymous Video Analytics Technology - Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations - Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication - Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems - Anonymous Communication Protocols - Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks - Anonymous Proxy Software - Anonymous Communication and Internet - Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks - Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage - Anonymous Information Storage and Management - Private and Anonymous Data Storage - Forensics - Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database - Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management - Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios - Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA Program Chairs - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA - Jun Feng, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Workshop Chair - Wm. Bradley Glisson, Sam Houston State University, USA Publicity Chairs - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Reza M. Parizi, Kennesaw State University, USA - Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Loughborough University London, UK Local Chair - Yubao Wu, Georgia State University, USA Web Chairs - Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) - Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (Chair) - Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia - Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan - Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore - Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portuga - Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Wei Jie, University of West London, UK - Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand - Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA - Jianbin Li, Central South University, China - Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan - Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain - Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan - Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA - Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Wanlei Zhou, University of Technology Sydney, Australia ================== Important Dates ================== Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: January 15, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Authors Notification Date: April 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 15, 2019 Conference Date: July 14 - July 17, 2019 ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/N25666) with PDF format. 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. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge) in Springer LNCS format ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. 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. Please email inquiries concerning SpaCCS 2019 to: Dr. Jun Feng St. Francis Xavier University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com, 512675288(a)qq.com WeChat: junfeng10001000

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HPCC/SmartCity/DSS-CFP: Deadline Extended to March 23, 2019
by Qin Liu 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

[BASED ON MANY REQUESTS, THE DEADLINE IS EXTENDED TO Mar. 23, 2019] [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFPs] [We appreciate your help to forward this CFPs to your friends & email lists] *********************************************************************************************************** *******************IEEE (HPCC-2019, SmartCity-2019, DSS-2019 International Conferences ********************* To be held in Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, 10-12 August 2019. The 21th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/hpcc2019/ The 17th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/smartcity2019/ The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS-2019) http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/dss2019/ Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) IMPORTANT DATES ============================================================ Paper Submission Deadline: 23 March 2019 Authors Notification: 22 April 2019 Camera-Ready Paper Due: 25 May 2019 Early Registration Due: 25 May 2019 Conference Date: 10-12 August 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ============================================================ All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) 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… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). The authors of selected papers will be invited to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals. -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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