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CFP 1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications - held in conjuction with CCGrid'14 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
by Marc-Eduard Frincu 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'14) held in conjunction with CCGrid'14 in Chicago IL, USA, May 26-29, 2014 URL: http://losangeles.usc.edu/scrambl/ Deadline extended to February 10, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: The continuous growth of our society has lead to complex systems of behavior and also to the need to optimize certain aspects of our day to day activities. Time sensitive applications such as real time power management for smart grids, traffic control or network monitoring require on demand large scale information processing and real time responses. The data these applications gather on a regular basis from monitoring sensors exceeds the normal storage and capacity power of normal machines or even clusters. In addition, the complexities arising from handling large relational datasets include but are not limited to data heterogeneity (i.e. variability), data quality (missing/approximate), data temporality (i.e. high-velocity), data volume or data streaming. Traditional computing platforms and even storage/processing models cannot simultaneously address these efficiently. Advances in the state of art in scalable computing platforms such as clouds, offer an ideal environment for showcasing and advancing methods for modeling, management, mining and > analysis of real-time big data. At the same time novel models that take into account all these complexities need to be designed on top of these scalable systems. This workshop aims at providing a venue for designers, practitioners, researchers, developers, and industrial/governmental partners to come together, present and discuss leading research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from real-time big data applications. SCRAMBL'14 is co-located with the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014) and will take place on May 26, 2014 in Chicago IL, USA. We intend to have one invited speaker to set the broader picture and share their experience in scalable computing for real-time big data applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST: Topics of interests include but are not limited to novel techniques for addressing modeling, storage, processing, mining and analysis real-time big data in secure scalable computing environments: * Scalable Models -Data representation and data structures -Dynamic/temporal data -Heterogeneous data -Relational -Linked Data -Semantic integration -Complex event processing -Messaging and data flow -Wokflows/processes * Scalable Algorithms & Architectures -Data extraction, cleaning, processing -Machine learning -Reasoning -Scalable architectures: Grids, Clouds, HPC, Clusters -Programming paradigms (e.g. MapReduce) * Security & Privacy Aspects * Real-time Big Data Applications and Usecases ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION (alphabetically) the list will be updated as new members join: Co-chairs: * Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA * Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA * Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland Steering Committee: * Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India * Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee: * Albert Bifet, University of Waikato, New Zeeland * Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA * Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA * Danny Lange, Microsoft Research, USA * Adrien L?bre, Ecole des Mines, France * Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland * Anand Panangadan, University of Southern California, USA * Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India * Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Liang Zhang, LinkedIn, USA * Tao Zhu, Twitter, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 02/10/2014 (EXTENDED) Acceptance/rejection notification: 02/28/2014 Camera-ready version due: 03/14/2014 (hard deadline) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: SCRAMBL'14 is a half day workshop conducted in a highly interactive manner. We envisage two presentations sessions followed by a general discussion. In addition to regular research papers, we accept real-world use cases and position papers to stimulate discussions including practitioners. Further, we will accept outrageous ideas statements, which may highlight controversial topics or visionary ideas, to further foster discussions. Particularly, we welcome submissions in the form of: * Outrageous ideas (up to 2 pages) * Position papers (short papers up to 6 pages) * Real-world use cases papers (up to 10 pages) * Research papers (up to 10 pages) Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to the 2-column IEEE format (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip) via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scrambl2014 . The review process will not be blind, therefore it is not necessary for submissions to be anonymized. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages. Submitted papers must represent original and unpublished work, that is not currently under review. All manuscripts will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

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CFP - 7th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO'14), Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 7th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/wco E-mail: wco2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WCO 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Informatics Europe, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. Many real world problems arising in engineering, economics, medicine and other domains can be formulated as optimization tasks. These problems are frequently characterized by non-convex, non-differentiable, discontinuous, noisy or dynamic objective functions and constraints which ask for adequate computational methods. The aim of this workshop is to stimulate the communication between researchers working on different fields of optimization and practitioners who need reliable and efficient computational optimization methods. We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and practical aspects of optimization methods. TOPICS ======================================= The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - unconstrained and constrained optimization - combinatorial optimization - global optimization - multiobjective optimization - optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments - large scale optimization - parallel and distributed approaches in optimization - random search algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other derivative free optimization methods - nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial systems etc) - hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing techniques and other global and local optimization methods - optimization methods for learning processes and data mining - computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics, finance, physics, medicine, biology, engineering etc PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as a volume in the Studies in Computational Intelligence series. IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Fidanova, Stefka, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Mucherino, Antonio, IRISA, France - Zaharie, Daniela, West University of Timisoara, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Bartl, David, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic - Breaban, Mihaela - Cremonesi, Paolo - Gualandi, Stefano - Hoai Ann, Le Thi - Hosobe, Hiroshi, Hosei University, Japan - Iiduka, Hideaki, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan - Lavor, Carlile, IMECC-UNICAMP, Brazil - Marinov, Pencho, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria - Michini, Carla - Miettinen, Kaisa, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland - Nannicini , Giacomo - Pop, Petrica - Roeva, Olympia, Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgaria - Siarry, Patrick, Universite Paris XII Val de Marne, France - Slezak, Dominik, University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc. temp - Stefanov, Stefan, South-West University ""Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria - Stuetzle, Thomas, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium - Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Tvrdik, Josef, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic - Vrahatis, Michael, University of Patras, Greece - Wolfler Calvo , Roberto - Zilinskas, Antanas, Vilnius University

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CFP - 7th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'14), Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 7th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/cana E-mail: cana2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to CANA 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Informatics Europe, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. Numerical algorithms are widely used by scientists engaged in various areas. There is a special need of highly efficient and easy-to-use scalable tools for solving large scale problems. The workshop is devoted to numerical algorithms with the particular attention to the latest scientific trends in this area and to problems related to implementation of libraries of efficient numerical algorithms. The goal of the workshop is meeting of researchers from various institutes and exchanging of their experience, and integrations of scientific centers. TOPICS ======================================= - Parallel numerical algorithms - Novel data formats for dense and sparse matrices - Libraries for numerical computations - Numerical algorithms testing and benchmarking - Analysis of rounding errors of numerical algorithms - Languages, tools and environments for programming numerical algorithms - Numerical algorithms on GPUs - Paradigms of programming numerical algorithms - Contemporary computer architectures - Heterogeneous numerical algorithms - Applications of numerical algorithms in science and technology PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Bylina, Beata, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Bylina, Jaroslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Stpiczynski, Przemyslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Anastassi, Zacharias, Qatar University, Qatar - Banas, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Brugnano, Luigi, Universita' di Firenze, Italy - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Fourneau, Jean-Michel - Gansterer, Wilfried, University of Vienna, Austria - Georgiev, Krassimir, IICT - BAS, Bulgaria - Gimenez, Domingo, University of Murcia, Spain - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Kucaba-Pietal, Anna - Maksimov, Vyacheslav, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia - Marowka, Ami, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Pekergin, Nihal - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Pultarova, Ivana, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Satco, Bianca-Renata, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania - Sedukhin, Stanislav, The University of Aizu, Japan - Sergeichuk, Vladimir, Institute of Mathematics of NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine - Srinivasan, Natesan, Indian Institute of Technology, India - Szajowski, Krzysztof, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Poland - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Ustimenko, Vasyl, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland

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CCGrid-Health'14 - Submission deadline extended
by Sandra Gesing 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

************************************* * CCGrid-Health 2014 - Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Health * In conjunction with CCGrid 2014 - 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and * Grid Computing, * May 26-29, 2014, Chicago, IL, USA * http://lsgc.org/ccgrid-health * ********************************** Key Dates: * Papers Due: Feb 9, 2014 * Author Notifications: Feb 28, 2014 * Camera Ready Papers Due: Mar 14, 2014 * Workshop Venue: May 26, 2014 Medical research is currently facing the Big Data wave. High resolution digital images, genomics data, and the vast amount of medical data resources on-line (medical reports, clinical tests, biology samples, large amounts of structured and unstructured text data...) lead to an unprecedented demand for large-scale data management and analysis. This workshop aims at bringing together developers of medical applications and researchers in the field of distributed IT systems. On the one hand, it addresses researchers who are already employing distributed infrastructure techniques in medical applications, in particular scientists developing data- and compute-intensive medical applications that include multi-data studies, large-scale parameter scans or complex analysis pipelines. On the other hand, it addresses computer scientists working in the field of distributed systems interested in bringing new developments into medical applications. The goals are to exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, and to gather an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks). The workshop further intends to identify common requirements to lead future developments in collaboration between Health and Computing Sciences, and to collaboratively explore new ideas and approaches to successfully apply distributed IT-systems in translational research, clinical intervention, and decision-making. Workshop Chairs =============== - Dagmar Krefting, U. Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany - Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France - Sandra Gesing, U. Notre Dame, IN, USA - Aaron Golden, A. Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA Topics of Interest ================== Contributions are expected but not restricted to the following topics: - Detailed application use-cases highlighting achievements and roadblocks - Exploitation of distributed IT resources for HealthCare and research applications, for example medical imaging, disease modeling, bioinformatics, Public health informatics, drug discovery, clinical trials - Service and/or algorithm design and implementation applicable to medical applications - Error handling and fault tolerance - Distributed and heterogeneous medical data management - Big Medical Data applications and solutions - Data privacy, security and access control - Development environments for distributed applications - Scientific gateways and user environments targeting distributed medical applications - Dedicated distributed infrastructures and HPC systems - Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis pipelines - Success stories and show stoppers All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers from the international program committee. Selected papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the CCGrid conference proceedings. Please follow the submission guidelines on the workshop's website: http://lsgc.org/ccgrid-health/ Keynote Speaker =================== Robert Grossman, Professor in Biological Sciences, University of Chicago http://rgrossman.com/about/ Programme Committee =================== - Daniele D’Agostino, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Genova, Italy - Christian Barillot, CNRS / IRISA, France - Ignacio Blanquer, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - Steve Brewer, University of Southampton, UK - Yann Cointepas, CEA, France - Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA - Alban Gaignard, CNRS, France - Sandra Gesing, U. Notre Dame, IN, USA - Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France - Aaron Golden, A. Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA - Ron Kikinis, Harvard Medical School, USA - Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany - Jens Krüger, University of Tübingen, Germany - Shantenu Jha, Rutgers School of Engineering, USA - Yannick Legré, CNRS, France - Ivan Merelli, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Milano, Italy - Luciano Milanesi, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, Segrate, Italy - Johan Montagnat, CNRS/I3S, France - Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn, TU-Dresden, Germany - Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA - Silvia Olabarriaga, AMC / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM), Murcia, Spain - Jonathan Silverstein, CCRI, NorthShore University HealthSystem, USA - Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia - Tony Solomonides, CCRI, NorthShore University HealthSystem, USA - James Taylor, Emory University, USA Workshop Venue ============== CCGrid-Health 2014 is held in conjunction with the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing May 26-29, 2014 Chicago, IL, USA Hyatt Regency Chicago 151 East Wacker Drive

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CFP - 3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14) and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14)
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14) and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/scodis-lascog E-mail: scodis-lascog2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Informatics Europe, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 pair of events shares a joint Program Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems. TOPICS ======================================= Covered topics include (but are not limited to): - Large-scale algorithms and applications - Symbolic and numeric computations - High performance computations for large scale simulations - Large-scale distributed computations - Agent-based computing - Data models for large-scale applications - Security issues for large-scale computations - Science portals - Data visualization - Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction - Programming models - Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids - Collaborative science applications - Business applications - Data-intensive applications - Operations on large-scale distributed databases - On-demand computing - Computation as a service - Federation of compute capacity - Virtualization supporting computations - Self-adaptive computational / storage systems - Volunteer computing - Large scale computation with GPU - Cloud computing architectures and models - Load Balancing in large-scale distributed systems - Intelligent resource allocation - Cloud Security, Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance - Mobile Cloud - High Performance Cloud Computing - Green Cloud Computing - Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing - Performance, Capacity Management and Monitoring of Cloud Configuration - Cloud Interoperability and Portability - Cloud Application Scalability and Availability - Big Data Cloud Service PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience journal - other journal(s) to be announced later. IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Gusev, Marjan, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Ristov, Sasko, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Anderson, David, University of California, Berkeley, United States - Bass, Len, NICTA, Australia - Brodnik, Andrej, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia - Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain - D'Ambra, Pasqua, ICAR-CNR, Italy - Feldmann, Anja - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdansk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Gepner, Pawel, Intel Corporation, United Kingdom - Gordon, Minor, Squarable, Inc., United States - Gorgan, Dorian, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Goscinski, Andrzej, Deakin University, Australia - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States - Holmes, Violeta, The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom - Hsu, Ching-Hsien (Robert), Chung Hua University, Taiwan - Kalinov, Alexey, Cadence Design Systems, Russia - Karaivanova, Aneta, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria - Kitowski, Jacek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Poland - Knepper, Richard, Indiana University, United States - Kranzlmüller, Dieter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany - Kwiatkowski, Jan, Wroc?aw University of Technology, Poland - Lang, Tran Van, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam - Lastovetsky, Alexey, University College Dublin, Ireland - Lee, Dongwoo, Gulf University for Science and Technology & OikoLab, Kuwait - Legalov, Alexander, Siberian Federal University, Russia - Luo, Mon-Yen, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan - Margaritis, Konstantinos G., University of Macedonia, Greece - Milentijevic, Ivan, University of Nis, Serbia - Morrison, John, University College Cork, Ireland - Nosovic, Novica, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Olejnik, Richard, CNRS - University of Lille I, France - Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Rak, Massimiliano, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy - Schikuta, Erich, University of Vienna, Austria - Schreiner, Wolfgang, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - Shen, Hong, University of Adelaide, Australia - Song, Ha Yoon, Hongik University, South Korea - Stankovski, Vlado, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Talia, Domenico, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy - Telegin, Pavel, JSCC RAS, Russia - Trystram, Denis, Grenoble Technical University, France - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Tvrdik, Pavel, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Vazhenin, Alexander, University of Aizu, Japan - Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China - Wyrzykowski, Roman, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland - Xu, Baomin - Zavoral, Filip, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

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Euro-Par 2014 Call for papers *** DEADLINES EXTENDED ***
by Ines Dutra 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

(Apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP. Please do forward it to interested colleagues.) ******************************************************************************* *** EURO-PAR 2014: 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS ( new DEADLINES) *** ******************************************************************************* 20th International (European) Conference on Parallel Processing Euro-Par 2014 Porto, Portugal August 25-29, 2014 http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt *** SUBMISSION DEADLINES (EXTENDED DEADLINES) *** Abstracts: February 6, 2014, 23:59 AOE Full papers: February 13, 2014, 23:59 AOE *** SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE *** Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. It covers a wide spectrum of topics from algorithms and theory to software technology and hardware-related issues, with application areas ranging from scientific to mobile and cloud computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum for the introduction, presentation and discussion of the latest scientific and technical advances, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. The following topics will be covered by regular Euro-Par 2014 sessions: 1. Support Tools and Environments 2. Performance Prediction and Evaluation 3. Scheduling and Load Balancing 4. High-Performance Architectures and Compilers 5. Parallel and Distributed Data Management 6. Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing 7. Green High Performance Computing 8. Distributed Systems and Algorithms 9. Parallel and Distributed Programming 10. Parallel Numerical Algorithms 11. Multicore and Manycore Programming 12. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation 13. High-Performance Networks and Communication 14. High-Performance and Scientific Applications 15. GPU and Accelerator Computing Full details on the topics, including topic descriptions and chairs, are available on the Euro-Par 2014 Web site. To access them please follow the links above. The conference will feature contributed and invited talks. Co-located workshops are also planned. *** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *** Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. Paper submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX). The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Download LNCS Latex style here ( ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip). Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered. Authors must submit their papers to the specific topic they judge most appropriate. Details on the topics, including descriptions and chairs, are available on the conference Web site. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Abstracts due: February 6, 2014 (NEW) Full papers due: February 13, 2014 (NEW) Workshop proposal due: February 27, 2014 Author notification: May 8, 2014 Camera-ready full papers due: June 2, 2014 Conference: August 25-29, 2014 *** LOCATION *** The Euro-Par 2014 conference will take place in Porto, Portugal, from August 25-29, 2014. The conference is jointly organized by the CRACS/INESC-TEC (Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems) and by the Computer Science Departement of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. *** CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS *** Fernando Silva, University of Porto Inês Dutra, University of Porto Vítor Santos Costa, University of Porto

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Call For Lectures :: ESSA 2014
by Augusto J Vega 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

==================================================================== ESSA 2014 Fourth Annual Offering Workshop on Energy-Secure System Architectures CALL FOR LECTURES ==================================================================== Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ==================================================================== June 15th, 2014 - Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) In conjunction with ISCA 2014 http://researcher.ibm.com/project/2259 Organizers: Augusto Vega (IBM Research) Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM Research) Pradip Bose (IBM Research) The "power wall" has forced chip and system architects to design with smaller margins between nominal and worst-case operating points. Dynamic power and thermal management control loops have already become an integral part of chip and system design. New research papers in wearout and general reliability management have recently been published. These new generation management protocols have, however, opened up other sources of concern: e.g. control loop stability and robustness of the management protocols. The potential security holes exposed by the integrated control loops and system safety issues triggered by potential violations of power or thermal limits are other areas of concern. We seek to motivate the research community into adopting a holistic approach to mitigating the power wall and the concomitant reliability-security wall. We have coined the term "Energy-Secure System Architectures" to cover the range of research being pursued within industry and academia in order to ensure robust and secure functionality, while meeting the energy-related constraints of the emerging "green computing" era. This workshop offering, composed of lectures provided by experts in the areas of power/thermal management, reliability and security, is targeted to provide a comprehensive view of the hardware and software aspects of Energy-Secure System Architectures. This is the fourth year of the offering of this workshop. ==================================================================== TOPICS ==================================================================== This full-day workshop is organized across the following sub-topics: -- Power and thermal management solutions for modern multi-core platforms. -- Robustness of system power/thermal managers: verification and design for verification. -- Reliability and security holes exposed by power/thermal management protocols. -- Guarded, two-level management protocols for safety and low verification complexity. -- Architectural implications of and system software support for energy-secure systems. -- Security and reliability issues in emerging low power memory technology. ==================================================================== CALL FOR LECTURES (deadline: April 11, 2014) ==================================================================== We invite interested participants to send in a lecture proposal (30 mins minimum to 75 mins maximum). The submission should include a title and abstract, along with a bio-sketch of the speaker and the proposed talk duration. Submitted lecture proposals will be reviewed by a Workshop Program Committee (TBA) chaired by the co-organizers. The deadline for submission is: April 11, 2014. Please send it to the co-organizers: Alper Buyuktosunoglu, Pradip Bose and Augusto Vega at: alperb(a)us.ibm.com, pbose(a)us.ibm.com and ajvega(a)us.ibm.com. Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2014. There will be a post- workshop digest consisting of the lecture abstracts and corresponding slide sets; and depending on interest, a post-workshop special journal or magazine issue will be organized, in which written versions of selected articles would be published.

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CfP: 2nd ORMa Cloud Workshop at HPDC 2014
by Gaetano Anastasi 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish scientific and technical results to the 2th ORMaCloud workshop. It is co-located with the ACM HPDC 2014 and the submission deadline is March , 12th. Kind regards, Gaetano Anastasi -- Gaetano Anastasi, Ph.D. Post-Doc Researcher at CNR-ISTI Via G. Moruzzi 1 - 56124 Pisa, Italy Block 20, First Floor, Room C26

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CARLA 2014: Call for Papers
by Brice Goglin 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Call for Papers - CARLA 2014 <http://carla2014.hpclatam.org/> Latin America High Performance Computing Conference First HPCLATAM ? CLCAR Joint Conference Organized by CCTVal (USM) <http://www.cctval.cl/> & NLHPC (UCHILE) <http://www.nlhpc.cl/> 20-22 October 2014, Valparaiso, Chile IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 1 June 2014 Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2014 Camera-ready papers due: 15 September 2014 Conference dates: 20 - 22 October 2014 AIMS & SCOPE Building on the success of the previous editions of the HPCLATAM and the CLCAR Conferences, in 2014 both major HPC Latin-American workshops will joint in CARLA 2014 (Computacion de Alto Rendimiento Latinoamerica), to be held in Valparaiso Chile. This conference also includes the Third High Performance Computing School-ECAR 2014 (from 13-17 October, 2014). The main goal of the CARLA 2014 conference is to provide a regional forum fostering the growth of the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. The conference will feature invited talks from academy and industry, short- and full-paper sessions presenting both mature work and new ideas in research and industrial applications. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Parallel Algorithms and Techniques - GPU Computing Applications - Distributed, Grid, and Cloud Computing - High Performance Computing Applications, Visualizations and Software Tools - Component Technologies, Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 12 pages) or short papers (up to 04 pages) written in English according to Springer LNCS style (guidelines available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be handled electronically using Easy Chair system: http://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=carla2014 <http://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=carla2014>. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s). All accepted papers will appear in the CARLA 2014 proceedings. In addition, authors of the best papers submitted to the workshop will be invited to submit their extended versions to a special issue in an ISI journal. ********** Gonzalo Hernandez General Chair CARLA + ECAR 2014 /"Imagination is more important than knowledge" (Albert Einstein)/

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IEEE Intl. Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14)
by Peter Mueller 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

**************************************************************************** Call for Papers - Submission Due Date (Extended): February 7, 2014 The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14 in conjunction with ICDCS'14: The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure for information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient solution for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse environments such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of user- defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and challenging, especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find and identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems of data centers. Topics of Interest ================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - System performance Hardware & software architecture Resource management & middleware Evaluation / modeling methodologies Empirical studies - Communication performance Intra- / inter-DC communication Open-flow based networks DC network architecture & protocols - Storage and I/O performance Storage architecture I/O scalability and performance - DC power and thermal issues Power and thermal modeling Power-constrained performance - Security and robustness Performance of security solutions Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring Variability & reliability modeling - Virtualization and cloud computing Hypervisors & HW virtualization support Virtualized networking and storage Outsourcing issues Cloud scalability and management - Performance of DC applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Real-time analytics Important Dates =============== Paper submission (extended): February 7, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: March 21, 2014 Submission Guideline ==================== Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"×11" double-column format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2014 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14

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