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Heteropar 2014 CFP
by George Bosilca 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] ============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms HeteroPar'2014 August 25 or 26, 2014, Aachen, Germany in conjunction with EuroPar 2014 http://heteropar2014.bordeaux.inria.fr ============================================================================== * Submission of manuscripts: Friday, May 30, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: Friday, July 4, 2014 * Deadline for final version: Friday, October 3, 2014 * Date of workshop: Mon.-Tue., August 25 or 26, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Heterogeneity is emerging as one of the most profound and challenging characteristics of today's parallel environments. From the macro level, where networks of distributed computers composed by diverse node architectures are interconnected with potentially heterogeneous networks, to the micro level, where deeper memory hierarchies and various accelerator architectures are increasingly common, the impact of heterogeneity on all computing tasks is increasing rapidly. Traditional parallel algorithms, programming environments and tools, designed for legacy homogeneous multiprocessors, will at best achieve a small fraction of the efficiency and the potential performance that we should expect from parallel computing in tomorrow's highly diversified and mixed environments. New ideas, innovative algorithms, and specialized programming environments and tools are needed to efficiently use these new and multifarious parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficiently solving problems on heterogeneous networks. The topics to be covered include but are not limited to: * Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models * Languages, libraries, and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models * Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms * Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical multi-core systems * Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, multimedia, etc.) * Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems * Applications on heterogeneous platforms * Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms * Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms * Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms * Algorithms, models and tools for grid, desktop grid, cloud, and green computing Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms, namely addressing the topics referred above. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special issue in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (a journal from John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.): * The editors of the special issue is Emmanuel Jeannot * Authors may submit extended versions of the workshop paper, with at least 30% new content. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Chairs * Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steering Committee * Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain * Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russia * Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland * Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France * Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID/IST, TU Lisbon, Portugal * Denis Trystram, LIG, Grenoble, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jorge Barbosa, Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France Paolo Bientinesi, RWTH Aachen, Germany Cristina Boeres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, USA Louis-Claude Canon, Université de Franche-Comté, France Alexandre Denis, Inria, France Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Rafael Mayo Gual, Universidad Jaume I, Spain Toshihiro Hanawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Shuichi Ichikawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Loris Marchal, CNRS, France Ivan Milentijevič, Elektronski fakultet Niš, Serbia Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Wahid Nasri, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Tunisia Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain Enrique S. Quintana-Ortí, Universidad Jaume I, Spain Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Vladimir Rychkov, University College Dublin, Ireland Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Pedro Tomás, INESC-ID, Portugal Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA

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CFP: the second international FedICI'2014 workshop "Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures" of Euro-par 2014
by Gabor Kecskemeti 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

The second international FedICI'2014 workshop on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures, August 25-29, 2014, Porto, Portugal organized in conjunction with Euro-par 2014 Workshop theme ============== Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud system, which are also called as a cloud federations. The management of such federations raise several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This workshop will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and management of interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. The aim of the workshop is to help the community with defining the current state, determining further goals and presenting architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. Selection will prioritize papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and relevance to the topics of interest. Scope ============== Papers may be submitted on any topic relevant to the theme of the workshop, including but not limited to: Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures including mixed grid and cloud systems Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in federated systems (considering multi-objective solutions, scalability, energy efficiency etc.) Accounting, identity management and security solutions that support federation-level models Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison of federated cloud systems Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Submission guidelines ===================== Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures. Manuscripts should be limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format and submitted through the EasyChair submission system (during submission please don't forget to select the track of the workshop). Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Important dates =============== Deadline for paper submission: 30th May 2014 Acceptance notification: 4th July 2014 Workshop early registration: 25th July 2014 Workshop: 25th-26th August 2014 (the workshop's actual date will be decided based on the number of submissions) Camera ready paper due: 3rd October 2014 Organization ============ Chairs Workshop Chair: Gabor Kecskemeti, MTA SZTAKI and University of Miskolc, Hungary Co chairs: Attila Kertesz, MTA SZTAKI and University of Szeged, Hungary Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Radu Prodan, Distributed and Parallel Systems group, Institut für Informatik, University of Innsbruck, Austria Program Committee Jameela Al-Jaroodi, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Eduardo Huedo Cuesta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Gabor Kecskemeti, University of Innsbruck, Austria Attila Kertesz, MTA SZTAKI and University of Szeged, Hungary Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Nader Mohamed, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates Zsolt Nemeth, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Cener, Poland Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS, Myriads, IRISA, France Simon Ostermann, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, USA Matthias Schmidt, 1&1 Internet AG, Germany Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Gergely Sipos, European Grid Infrastructure, Netherlands Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

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Final Deadline - The 2nd International Conference on Science and Engineering in Biology, Medical and Public Health (BioMedPub 2014) - Bali, Indonesia : Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine Journal
by Rudy Lolo 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

The 2nd Annual International Conference on Science and Engineering in Biology, Medical and Public Health (BioMedPub 2014) Dynasty Resort Kuta Bali, Indonesia 31 May - 01 June 2014 http://biomedpub.org/ Dear Colleagues, We would like to update you with the progress of The 2nd Annual International Conference on Science and Engineering in Biology, Medical and Public Health (BioMedPub 2014)as well as the invitation to submit your research papers: 1. The keynote speaker for BioMedPub 2014 is Prof. Ying-Hen Hsieh from Department of Public Health and Graduate Institute of Biostatistics, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan with the title of talk "Modeling Temporal Changes in HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Cuba, 1986-2008" 2. The 2nd Annual International Conference on Science and Engineering in Biology, Medical and Public Health (BioMedPub) will be held at the Dynasty Kuta Bali, Indonesia, during 31 May - 01 June 2014. 3. The 2013 International Conference on Science and Engineering in Biology, Medical and Public Health (BioMedPub 2014) publication already published in Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine ISSN: 2164-6627 (print); EISSN: 2164-6635 (online) in http://www.aspbs.com/asem.html#v6n1 4. Please visit http://biomedpub.org/?page_id=97 for BioMedPub 2013 photos collection 4. The Important Dates as follow: Paper Submission Deadline: 10 May 2014 Notification of Paper Acceptance: 14 May 2014 Camera Ready Paper Submission: 17 May 2014 Authors Registration Deadline: 17 May 2014 Conference Date: 31 May - 01 June 2014 5. All of Submitted Full Paper BioMedPub 2014 will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers. The BioMedPub 2014 publication will be in Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine Journal (ISSN: 2164-6627 (print); EISSN: 2164-6635 (online)) http://www.aspbs.com/asem.html 6. Please http://biomedpub.org/?page_id=12 for Template full paper Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine Journal. 7. The BioMedPub 2014 will cover diverse topics such as biomedical engineering, healthcare technologies, and medical and clinical applications to bring together scholars, leading researchers and experts from diverse backgrounds and applications areas. Special emphasis is placed on promoting interaction between the theoretical, experimental, and applied communities, so that a high level exchange in new and emerging areas within biomedical engineering, healthcare technologies, and medical and clinical applications are achieved. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to: Track 1. Biomedical Signal Processing Track 2. Biomedical Imaging & Image Processing Track 3. Bioinstrumentation: Sensors, Micro, Nano and Wearable Track 3. Bioinformatics, Computational Biology; Systems Biology, Modeling Methodologies Track 4. Cardiovascular & Respiratory Systems Engineering Track 5. Neural Engineering, Neuromuscular Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering Track 6. Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics, Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials Track 7. Bio-Robotics, Surgical Planning and Biomechanics Track 8. Therapeutic & Diagnostic Systems, Devices and Technologies, Clinical Engineering Track 9. Healthcare Information Systems, Telemedicine Track 10. Neural Engineering, Neuromuscular Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering Track 11. Biomedical Engineering Education and Society Chemistry and Advances We would like your kindness to forward this Call for Paper to your colleagues/students. Please email us for any questions to biomedpubconf2014(a)gmail.com Looking forward to meet you in BioMedPub 2014, Bali, Indonesia. Sincerely yours, BioMedPub 2014 Publicity Chair

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CFP -- Special issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) on Disruptive Technologies for Energy Efficient Computing
by Chris Gniady 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

*********Special issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) on Disruptive Technologies for Energyï¿½ Efficient Computing******* ***Scope: The energy consumption of computing systems and infrastructures is a major obstacle towards realizing new computing paradigms. Despite significant advancements in the powerï¿½efficiency of processors and an increasing awareness of energy among the computing systems research community, it is becoming clear that the energy obstacle can only be overcome with disruptive and unconventional technologies that span the entire hardware and software stack. Foundational work that pushes the limits of energy consumption to the absolute minimum, while sustaining functionality, performance and the familiar user interfaces is essential in this direction. From devices, to new computing algorithms and paradigms, to software, to applications, research should envision a zeroï¿½power computing ecosystem replacing the current powerï¿½aware computing ecosystem. This vision will raise unprecedented challenges in all functional and nonï¿½functional aspects of computing, including performance, resilience, accuracy, programmability and usability. In this special issue, we seek original work that addresses how disruptive technologies can improve the energyï¿½efficiency of the current computing ecosystem. These technologies may include but are not limited to processor, memory, storage and networking technologies; cooling technologies; and energy harvesting, storage and recycling technologies. Papers should clearly articulate the disruptive aspects of the technology presented and demonstrate pathways to integrate the technology in the hardware & software stack via experimental prototypes or simulation. We solicit papers that span all major computing markets where energyï¿½-efficiency is of essence, including sensors, mobile computing, HPC systems and datacentres. Specific topics include, but not limited to, the following topics in Energy Efficiency: * Hardware architecture *Ultra lowï¿½voltage processors *Accelerators *Reconfigurable processors *Heterogeneous multi-core processors *Systemï¿½onï¿½chip *Nonï¿½volatile memory technologies *Phase Change Memory *Novel router architectures *Novel mobile architectures and devices * System software *Software integration of disruptive technologies *Operating systems *Virtualization *Energy abstractions in languages and programming models *Novel routing protocols *Novel mobile systems * Data center Architecture *System support for energyï¿½harvesting technologies *Cooling technologies *Alternative energy *Alternative infrastructure designs Submission Details: General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/ (please note the "Guide for Authors" link). Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's editorial system at the journal website (http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/, under the "submit paper" link). Please make sure to select the "SI: Disruptive Tech" option for the type of the paper during the submission process. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to comprise major valueï¿½-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper their relevant, previously published articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM. Important Dates: * Manuscript due date: May 31, 2014 * First decision notification: September 15, 2014 * Tentative publication schedule: First quarter of 2015 Special Issue Editors: Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech, USA, butta(a)cs.vt.edu Chris Gniady, University of Arizona, USA, gniady(a)cs.arizona.edu Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK, d.nikolopoulos(a)qub.ac.uk

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IEEE HPCC 2014 - Deadline Extended - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Khaddaj, Souheil A 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

=============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS HPCC 2014 The 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications August 20-22, 2014, Paris, France http://www.computational-science.org/HPCC2014 ============================================================== *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: 12 May, 2014 (new deadline) Notification of acceptance: 23 June, 2014 Camera-Ready due: 15 July, 201 *SCOPE* With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever-increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. The HPCC-2014 conference is the 16th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Communications. It will provide a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. HPCC-2014 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Grid and cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy *PAST HISTORY* The HPCC-2014 conference is the next event in a series of highly successful international conferences on high performance computing and communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-13 (Zhangjiajie, China, November 2013), HPCC-12 (Liverpool, UK, June 2012), HPCC-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), HPCC-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), HPCC-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), HPCC-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008), HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00 (Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999). *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column, template available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) Manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair: *PUBLICATIONS* The accepted papers from this conference will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases (EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* General Chairs Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Frederic Magoules, Ecole Centrale Paris, France Program Chair Souheil Khaddaj, Kingston University, UK Steering Chairs Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email Security System.

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IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 - 8-10 October 2014, Luxembourg - Deadline May 15th, 2014 (extended)
by Dzmitry Kliazovich 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

***************************************************** Call for Papers: IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking October 8-10, 2014 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16271&track=44157 ================================= IMPORTANT DATES ================================= - Paper submission: May 15th, 2014 (Extended) - Notification: August 1st, 2014 - Final Paper: August 15th, 2014 Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially when data centers are interconnected through the Internet. Although the "computing" aspects of Cloud technologies have been largely investigated, lower attention has been devoted to the "networking" aspects. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2014), part of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, precisely addresses these aspects. Conference topics include (but are not limited to): - Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization - Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks - Big Data Management - Internet Routing of Cloud data - Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging - Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements - Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management - Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures - Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking - Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking - Virtualization of Network Equipment - Unified User and Machine Mobility Management - Data Flow Management and Load Balancing - Mobile Cloud Networking - Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels - Content and Service Distribution ================================= CORPORATE PATRONS ================================= DIMENSION DATA (Platinum), TELINDUS (Gold), BULL (Silver), EBRC (Bronze), FUJITSU in collaboration with CROSSFIRE, FNR, LUXINNOVATION ================================= SPECIAL ISSUES ================================= The following journals will invite submission of "extended versions" of the best quality papers from the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 conference. For more details please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/cfp.html. - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, special issue on "Cloud Networking" - Journal of Grid Computing (Impact Factor 1.603), special issue on "Green Cloud Computing" - International Journal of Metaheuristics, Special Issue on "Metaheuristics and the Cloud" ================================= KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================= Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative ================================= SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================= Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 Conference Proceedings. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) single-spaced, double-column pages without incurring additional page charges. One (1) additional page is allowed with a charge of USD100, if accepted. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEExplore. The best accepted paper will receive Best Paper Award. ================================= TRAVEL GRANTS ================================= A number of student travel grants is reserved to be awarded to the authors of the accepted papers. For more details and application guidelines please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/travelgrants.html. ================================= VENUE ================================= The conference will be held in the Abbey of Neumunster. Located in the heart of Luxembourg city, the Abbey of Neumunster is classified as World Heritage by the UNESCO. ================================= General Chairs ================================= Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Technical Program Committee Chairs ================================= Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, U.S.A. Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China El-Ghazali Talbi, INRIA, France Organizing Chair ================================= Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Posters and Demos Chairs ================================= Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy Sebastien Varrette, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Special Sessions Chairs ================================= Bernabe Dorronsoro, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Nicos Passas, University of Athens, Greece Awards Chairs ================================= Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy Nelson Fonseca, State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Publicity Chairs ================================= Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Yongwei WU, Tsinghua University, China Financial Chair ================================= Laurent Betry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publication and Web Chair ================================= Claudio Fiandrino, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Local Arrangement Chairs ================================= Stephanie Annet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Celine Lagrost, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Bertrand Dessart, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg More info at: http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/

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CFP for 2014 Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communication
by Grace Allas 28 Apr '14

28 Apr '14

*******Apologies for Cross-postings******* Call for Papers ---------------------------------- The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communication (DINWC2014) VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic June 24-26, 2014 Event website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/ ---------------------------------- The proposed conference with the theme “ The International Conference on Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) that will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 24-26, 2014. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: • Mobile Social Networks • Antenna Systems and Design • Anti-cyberterrorism • Assurance of Service • Biometrics Technologies • Channel Modeling and Propagation • Cloud Computing • Coding for Wireless Systems • Computational Intelligence • Access Controls • Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management • Wireless Traffic and Routing • Confidentiality Protection • Critical Computing and Storage • Critical Infrastructure Management • Digital Communications • Data Compression • Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks • Data Mining • Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks • Ad-hoc Networks • Distributed and Parallel Applications • E-Government • E-Learning • E-Technology • Embedded Systems and Software • Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications • Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems • Green Computing Grid Computing • Information Technology Human Resources • Information Technology Infrastructure • Information Technology Strategies • Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity • Resource Allocation over Wireless Networks • Multimedia Computing • Multiuser and Multiple Access Schemes • National Policies and Standards • Network Security • Optical Wireless Communications • Peer-to-Peer Social Networks • Security; Authentication and Cryptography for Wireless Networks • Signal Processing Techniques and Tools • Software and Cognitive Radio • System Development and Implementation • Technology Developments • Technology Futures • Wireless Communications • Wireless System Architectures and Applications All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. Paper Submission: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/paper-submission/ Registration: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/registration/ -------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance : June 04, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission : June 14, 2014 Registration Date : June 14, 2014 however, it is recommended to do it few days before Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014 For more information please send email: din(a)sdiwc.net

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CAC2014: Deadline extension to May 3rd 11:59PM EDT
by Ivan Rodero 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to May 3rd 11:59PM EDT. CAC 2014 Call for Papers ==================== The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014) Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences Collocated with The 8th IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System Conference The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference Imperial College, London, September 8-12, 2014 http://www.autonomic-conference.org Important Dates Abstract registration: May 3, 2014 Paper submission due: May 3, 2014 Notification to authors: June 12, 2014 Final paper due: July 12, 2014 ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero =============================================================

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

Call for papers: The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Rose-Mharie Ahlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Basel Alomair, University of Washington, USA Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Reza Azarderakhsh, University of Waterloo, Canada Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University - Texarkana, USA Shuguo Han, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Charles Morisset, IIT - CNR, Italy David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo,Italy Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Research, USA Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia John Zic, CSIRO, Australia

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SSTiC 2014: May 10, 6th registration deadline
by GRLMC 26 Apr '14

26 Apr '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* --- May 10, 6th registration deadline --- ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the brightest students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP-Completeness George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems: Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and Machine Learning Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate] Robot Motion Planning Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer Science Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover System Designs Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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