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CFP: 9th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG) || Collocated with Middleware'2014
by Miguel Matos 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS =============== +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | 9th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG) | | Workshop at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2014 Conference | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Dec 8 - 12, 2014 Bordeaux, France http://www.dedisys.org/mw4ng14/ This workshop has its own ISBN and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates =============== Paper submission: September 6, 2014 Author notification: September 30, 2014 Camera-ready copies: October 11, 2014 Call details ============ While dependability and security become cornerstones of the information society, they are impaired by change, imprecision, and emerging behavior due to scale, dynamism, and heterogeneity. To address these challenges for next generation Internet computing, key extra-functional properties should not be an "add on" or an "end to end task" anymore, but rather built in by means of Middleware. Service oriented computing, cloud computing, socio-technical systems, and Web 2.0-style applications are important steps for next generation Internet computing, but still fall short when non functional (a.k.a. extra-functional) quality properties (e.g., dependability, security, performance, and scalability) need to be addressed. The emerging Internet communication architecture (e.g., from projects on the Internet of Things, the Future Internet, etc.) also requires middleware support for delivering computing applications and services. We can see many Internet Computing systems following proprietary end-to-end solutions and being weaved with application-specific approaches. This clearly hinders re-use, which can only be successfully leveraged by Middleware-based solutions. This in turn requires new flexibility for Middleware (adaptivity, elasticity, resilience) and new ways of collaboration between Middleware and applications/services. Therefore, extra-functional quality properties need to be addressed not only by interfacing and communication standards, but also in terms of actual mechanisms, protocols, and algorithms. Some of the challenges are the administrative heterogeneity, the loose coupling between coarse-grained operations and long-running interactions, high dynamicity, and the required flexibility during run-time. Recently, massive-scale (e.g., big data, millions of participating parties in different roles) and mobility were added to the crucial challenges for Internet computing middleware. The proposed workshop consequently welcomes contributions on how specifically middleware can address the above challenges of next generation Internet computing. Topics of interest ================== The workshop also welcomes work-in-progress, problem statements, and visionary papers! The topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: * Architectures and platforms for Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing * Middleware support for dependability, security, performance, and scale * Middleware support for adaptivity, resilience, and elasticity for novel Internet computing systems * Evaluation of and experience reports about middleware for novel Internet Computing systems Workshop co-chairs =============== Miguel Matos (main contact), mw4ng(a)dedisys.org Karl M. Göschka Patrick C. K. Hung Program committee ================= Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa (Portugal) Paul Brebner, Performance Assurance Pty (Australia) Christoph Bussler, Xtime (USA) Lasaro Camargos, University of Uberlandia (Brazil) Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA (France) Chirine Ghedira, Univ. of Lyon 3 (France) Yanbo Han, ICT Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Mehdi Jazayeri, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Wouter Joosen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Ihor Kuz, NICTA (Australia) Mark Little, JBoss (USA) João Leitão, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) Heiko Ludwig, IBM Research (USA) Raimundo Macedo, Federal University of Bahia (Brasil) Kostas Magoutis, Foundation for Research and Technology (Greece) Sam Michiels, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) Helen Paik, School of Computer Science and Engineering (Australia) Animesh Pathak, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (France) Cesare Pautasso, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Etienne Riviere, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy) Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France) Valerio Schiavoni, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Juan Manuel Tirado, INRIA Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique (France) Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Marko Vukolic, Eurecom (France) Hiroshi Wada, Unitrends (Australia) Michael Zapf, TH Georg Simon Ohm (Germany) Liming Zhu, NICTA (Australia) -- High-Assurance Software Lab INESC TEC & Universidade do Minho http://haslab.uminho.pt/mmatos

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2nd Deadline Extension for WPBA 2014 - Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Big Data Applications
by Claudio R. Geyer 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

Hello Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP: WPBA 2014 - INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR BIGDATA APPLICATIONS - 2nd deadline extension: September 01, 2014 - in conjunction with SBAC-PAD 2014, Paris, France - October 22-24, 2014 - best papers: invited to a special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. []s Cláudio Geyer INF-UFRGS === cfp WPBA 2014 === ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR BIGDATA APPLICATIONS - WPBA 2014 - In conjunction with SBAC-PAD 2014, Paris, France - October 22-24, 2014 - The 2-3 best papers published at the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. - Website: http://wpba2014.dc.ufscar.br/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Full Paper submission: September 01, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2014 Submission of camera-ready papers: October 4, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Nowadays, the abundance of data is changing from the way companies make business to the way governments take many decisions, from the way science is made in several knowledge areas to the way many individuals take daily decisions such as where to go or how to buy. During the last decade, tools and techniques emerged to support massive offline analysis of web scale datasets on many thousands of computers working as a single facility. However, the total amount of digital data being produced, stored, and transmitted around the world is growing exponentially. The wide diversity of data sources and formats (data variety) cannot be handled by traditional systems and techniques, raising new data management challenges. In many areas, applications need to collect data and produce answers with high frequency or low latency, e.g. to raise some alarm or take a decision within a few milliseconds. Furthermore, in scalable environments with hundreds or thousands of components, surviving to frequent failures is mandatory. Analytic processing and knowledge discovery in such scenarios demand scalable and efficient algorithms, able to handle the complexity and variety of data even under specific constraints (e.g., energy consumption, available memory, computational power, and networking capacity). Furthermore, sensor networks and the Internet-of-Things open new perspectives in terms of the amount and complexity of data to be managed. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to novel techniques, algorithms, and tools for collecting, storage, processing, mining and analysis of low latency big data in reliable and scalable computing environments: * Scalability and elasticity in big data environments * Fault-tolerance in big data environments * Security and privacy in big data environments * Reliability in big data environments * Data streams processing techniques and systems * Complex event processing * Big data applications * Energy efficiency and big data * Scientific workflows for big data * Programming models, including MapReduce, extensions, and new models * Algorithms for big data analytics and data mining * Management of big data on the cloud * Big data tools, services, and infrastructures on clouds * HPC clouds for big data * Performance analysis of big data environments and applications * Big data benchmarks * Challenges in big data storage and processing * Scheduling and resource management in big data environments * Large data stream processing systems and infrastructures * Data-intensive computing on hybrid infrastructures (e.g., clusters, clouds, grids, P2P) * Implementation and optimizations for heterogeneous architectures * Implementation and optimizations for specialized architectures * Performance evaluation and optimization All papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library. ** The best papers published and presented at the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in a special issue of the journal Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience. ** ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission Submissions must be in English, 6 pages maximum, following the IEEE formatting guidelines. The 6-page limit includes references. Formatting Instructions: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions for WPBA 2014 must be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpba2014. Special issue: - A briefing of the WPBA 2014 special issue will be availabe at: http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2014.html - Detailed call for papers for the WPBA2014 Special Issue is available at: http://wpba2014.dc.ufscar.br/CCPE-Special-Issue-WPBA.pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee * Claudio Geyer (UFRGS, Brazil) * Hermes Senger (UFSCAR, Brazil) Program committee: * Didier Donsez, LIG France * Fabricio A.B. da Silva, FIOCRUZ Brazil * Marco Netto, IBM Research Brazil * Marta Mattoso, UFRJ Brazil * Mauricio Marin, Yahoo! Chile * Nelson Ebecken, UFRJ Brazil * Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London UK * Gianpaolo Cugola, Politecnico di Milano * Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research * Henrique Andrade, Unscrambl USA * Bugra Gedik, Bilkent University Turkey * Xinyu Que, IBM Research T.J. Watson * Renato Figueiredo, U. Florida USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The workshop will be held in conjunction with 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2014), Paris, France. http://sbac.lip6.fr/2014/index.php Enviada do meu iPad

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CFP: Extended deadline (Firm) - 3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Clouds, Collabcloud 2014
by Balaji Palanisamy 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

3rd International Workshop on Collaborative Cloud (CollabCloud 2014) Co-located with 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Collaboratecom 2014 October 22, 2014, Miami, Florida, USA http://www.sis.pitt.edu/bpalan/collabcloud2014/collabcloud2014.html Many emerging services, such as tele-work, e-government, business solutions, are using Clouds for their advantage in various forms. Some businesses are providing services by outsourcing parts of their business processes, which are now hosted as Cloud-based software services. Others are adopting the Cloud based IT infrastructure to host the services. It is mostly the small and medium enterprises (SME) to benefit the economic incentives when using Cloud computing paradigm for their businesses. However, there are challenges associated with every new technology. Interoperability, communication, and security are the three major critical issues that need to be addressed when collaborative services are deployed in Clouds. Same is the case for the Cloud-based IT platforms that would manage large number of shared and disparate services. Various quality requirements, such as availability, security, economic cost, energy efficiency, and so forth determine the feasibility of collaborating across Cloud services and platforms. CollabCloud brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on the challenges and problems faced in high collaboration applications in the Cloud. This event will define protocols and standards that needs to be set in place for improving collaborative technologies in clouds making clouds a new and acceptable paradigm for collaborative applications. Important Dates: Paper Submission deadline: 8 September, 2014 (Extended deadline - Firm) Notification to authors: 17 September, 2014 Camera-ready submission deadline: 30 September, 2014 Workshop date: 22 October, 2014 Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Enabling application services across Clouds * Novel cloud usage models * High consistency models for collaborative cloud storage * Innovative collaborative cloud service models * Support for scalable and secure collaboration across Clouds * Architectural Models for multi-Cloud deployment * Security, privacy, and trust for collaborative cloud computing * Multi-Cloud/hybrid-Cloud support for mobile applications * Applications making use of collaboration in Clouds, including games and social networks * Cloud-enabled Social Computing * Social and Social/Mobile Cloud models and challenges * Collaborative Big Data systems * Scientific, Business, and social computing in single and multi-Cloud environment * Challenges for collaboration in Clouds Journal Special Issue Top quality papers, after presentation at the conference, will be invited to submit their extended version to a special issue of EAI Transactions on Collaborative Computing, Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Calton Pu and Prof. James Joshi Paper Submission (Short and Full papers) Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The original typescript, of not more than 6 pages, should be submitted electronically in A4 size format in two-column IEEE proceeding format. All short papers must not be more than 3 pages long, with the formatting same as described above. All papers are refereed through a single blind process and should be submitted online. https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=collabcloud2014 All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed. All accepted papers will made available in IEEE Xplore and external indexing services (DBLP database, ZB1Math/CompuServe, IO-Port, EI, Scopus, INSPEC, ISI proceeding - pending approval). Selected top quality papers will be published in "EAI Transactions on Collaborative Computing". General Chairs Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia. Program Chairs Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Technical Program Committee Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA Keke Chen, Wright State University, USA Janaka Balasooriya, Arizona State University. USA Yandong Wang, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Pengcheng Xiong, NEC Laboratories America, USA Deepal Jayasinghe, Microsoft, USA Madhu Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Calicult, India Devesh Tiwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA Vishal Gupta, VMWare, USA Attila Yuvaz Robert Bosch Research and Technology Center, USA Pengcheng Xiong, NEC Laboratories America, USA Yang Song, IBM Research, Almaden, USA Pramod Mandagere, IBM Research, Almaden, USA Saurabh Gupta, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA Yuzhe Tang, Syracuse University Qingyang Wang, Louisiana State University

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[CFP] IA^3 2014 - DEADLINES EXTENDED - SEPTEMBER 5
by Tumeo, Antonino 26 Aug '14

26 Aug '14

[Please accept our apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP] ————————————————————— DEADLINES EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 5! ————————————————————— IA^3 2014 - SC14 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://cass-mt.pnnl.gov/irregularworkshop.aspx New Orleans, LA November 16, 2014 Held in conjunction with SC14 (http://sc14.supercomputing.org) Held in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC (http://www.sighpc.org) ————— THEME ————— Irregular applications span a broad range of applications with unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically use pointer-based data structures such as graphs and trees, often present fine-grained synchronization and communication, and generally operate on very large data sets. They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to tolerate access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the scientific challenges of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures * Network and memory architectures * Heterogeneous, custom and emerging architectures (GPUs, FPGAs, multi- and many-cores) * Modeling, simulation and evaluation of architectures * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Parallelization techniques and data structures * Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets * Languages and programming models * Library and runtime support * Compiler and analysis techniques * Graph databases Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. ——————— SUBMISSIONS ——————— Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32014 All submissions should be in double-column, single-spaced letter format, using 9-point size fonts, with at least one-inch margins on each side. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, so authors can use the ACM official templates, available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates, to simplify the editing process. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight pages in length for regular papers and four pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. For any questions, please contact the organizers. —————————— IMPORTANT DATES —————————— Abstract submission: 5 September 2014 EXTENDED!!! Full or position paper submission: 5 September 2014 EXTENDED!!! Notification of acceptance: 3 October 2014 Camera-ready papers: 10 October 2014 Workshop: 16 November 2014 ——————— ORGANIZERS ——————— Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla(a)nvidia.com ———————————— PROGRAM COMMITTEE ———————————— Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA Jay Brockman, University of Notre Dame, USA David Brooks, Harvard University, USA Bryan Catanzaro, Baidu, USA Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University, SWE Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Martha Kim, Columbia University, USA John Leidel, Texas Tech University, USA Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Alessandro Morari, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Timothy Mattson, Intel, USA Richard Murphy, Micron Technology, Inc., USA Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, USA Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, USA Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, ITA Fabrizio Petrini, IBM TJ Watson, USA Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, USA Vivek Sarkar, Rice University, USA Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Simone Secchi, ARM, UK Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CYP Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, SPA -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov

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Deadline Extension (1-Sep-2014) for the 13th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2015)
by Javid Taheri 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 13th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2015) http://auspdc.scem.uws.edu.au held in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 27-30 January 2015. Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 13th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): * Cloud computing * Big Data * Grid computing * Cluster computing * Multicore systems * Peer-to-peer computing * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modelling * Interconnection networks * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science PAPER SUBMISSION ************************ Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 pages. All submissions must conform to the CRPIT formatting style. Formatting instructions can be found at http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The proceedings of the symposium will be published through the Australian Computer Society Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series, under the title ACSW Frontiers 2015. The proceedings are included in the ACM digital library. ACCEPTED PAPERS ************************ * Regular Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the oral presentation during the conference. * Poster Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the poster presentation during the conference. * Short Paper: will be published in the conference proceedings and have the oral presentation during the conference (recommended for Doctoral theses). SPECIAL ISSUE ************************ Selected best papers will be published in the high quality international journals. BEST PAPER AWARDS ************************ * Best Paper Award: Presented to the outstanding paper. * CORE Best Student Paper Award: Presented by CORE to the outstanding student paper. PROGRAM CHAIRS *************************** Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Saurabh Kumar GARG, University of Tasmania, Australia PUBLICITY CHAIR *************************** Javid Taheri, The University of Sydney, Australia IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Manuscript submission deadline: 1 September, 2014 Acceptance notification: 7 October, 2014 Camera-ready paper deadline: 28 October, 2014 Conference: 27-30 January, 2015

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th Annual IEEE CPMT Soft Error Workshop @ Cisco Systems
by Guan, Qiang 25 Aug '14

25 Aug '14

6th Annual IEEE CPMT Santa Clara Valley Soft Error Rate (SER) Workshop October 16 2014 (Thursday) Building 15, Campus of Cisco Systems, Inc. Sunken Treasures Conference Room 3750 Cisco Way, San Jose (Map<http://goo.gl/maps/mVZ3n>) Sponsored by <attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAHiHZ6S8z5SLojjzmhs4JBBwDL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAABVC0AADL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAVukwjAAAJ&attcnt=1&attid0=EABXZTcJn7%2frRKywFrz82tyY&attcid0=image001.jpg%4001CFBE0E.358A9D50> <attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAHiHZ6S8z5SLojjzmhs4JBBwDL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAABVC0AADL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAVukwjAAAJ&attcnt=1&attid0=EACXhJL7VaIbQZicEhDWHUdj&attcid0=image003.png%4001CFBE0E.358A9D50> Also sponsored by <attachment.ashx?id=RgAAAAAHiHZ6S8z5SLojjzmhs4JBBwDL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAABVC0AADL2DKSZD%2bjQodU7vZtCj9%2bAAAVukwjAAAJ&attcnt=1&attid0=EACtzc6O9d6vR42UhI7UZGmO&attcid0=image007.jpg%4001CFBE0E.358A9D50> About the SER Workshop (Event Website<https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescvserworkshop/>) For the past 5 years, the annual IEEE Santa Clara valley (SCV) Soft Error Rate (SER) workshop has provided a forum for the exchange of innovative ideas and results on soft error related subjects. With our unique offering of simultaneous in-room and remote participation, we have provided opportunities for publication and interactive discussion on a variety of critical subjects on SER for an ever-increasing international audience. As always, there are many reasons to attend this year’s event: • Keynote and tutorial talks from leading industry experts • New development and results in the area of soft error detection and mitigation • Alpha emission measurements techniques • Equipment demonstrations • Meeting and interacting with other technologists and researchers • Flexible access – attend in room or remote via WebEx • Free of cost Submit Abstracts Deadline for abstract is September 19. Abstracts can be submitted on this page<https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescvserworkshop/submit-abstract>. Previously unpublished work and results are highly encouraged. Published work will also be accepted at the organization committee’s discretion. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Advanced silicon nodes and device SER performance assessment • Impact of SER on high reliability applications including automotive, medical, aeronautical, and networking • Success stories of alpha emission or soft error control • Wafer and assembly process control and monitor • Techniques and approaches for alpha emissivity measurement Each talk is limited to 15 minutes, with additional 5 minutes for questions. The final presentation will be required 1 week before the event and will be made available for download after the event. For complete details of the event, visiting the event website<https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescvserworkshop/Call-for-Abstract>. Register to Attend Registration for the event is FREE. Both on-site and remote attendance (via WebEx) will be available. For on-site attendees a light lunch will also be provided. Open the attachment to add the event to Outlook calendars. Registration website will be set up shortly. Please check the event website<https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescvserworkshop/> for further updates. Past Presentations Presentations from past events can be replayed via WebEx or downloaded free of charge on the event website here<https://sites.google.com/site/ieeescvserworkshop/Presentations>.

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Call for Participation: IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster) 2014 -- Sept 22-26 in Madrid Spain
by Ioan Raicu 24 Aug '14

24 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2014) http://www.cluster2014.org <http://www.cluster2014.org/> September 22 - 26, 2014 Madrid, Spain ********************************************************************** The full program is online: http://www.cluster2014.org <http://www.cluster2014.org/> Clusters are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructure, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the common effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring -- at hardware, system, middleware, and application level. The Cluster conference has precisely this goal: to be a major venue for such collective effort. This year's conference acknowledges the recent birth of the Big Data phenomenon, strongly reflected in our keynotes and panels: - Robert L. Grossman (University of Chicago and Open Data Group) discusses the goal of bringing efficient cluster support to data-intensive computing. - Frï¿½dï¿½ric Desprez (Inria) highlights the challenges posed by accurate, large-scale experimentation, the instruments needed for performing such experiments, and the lessons learned from the Grid'5000 experience in this respect. - Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center) discusses open issues related to data analysis and management for the open science community. - A first panel addresses the question: will Big Data transform cluster architectures? A second panel discusses the issue of performance evolution: are clusters too powerful for our users? We are happy to announce a rich, high-quality conference program with 29 research papers accepted out of 122 valid submissions that went through a selective reviewing process (over 450 reviews), resulting in 23.8% acceptance rate. In addition, 16 reviewed posters will be dedicated to promising emergent research directions. The conference also includes two industry sessions with talks from major players with high impact in the area of cluster computing (Bull, Mellanox, Nvidia, ParTec), two workshops, two panels and six tutorials. A novelty this year is the creation of the Student Mentoring Program. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and cloud computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week. The Organizing Committee is happy to welcome you to Madrid and hopes you find Cluster 2014 an exciting and intellectually stimulating event! **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Early Registration: August 11, 2014 Tutorials: September 22, 2014 Main Conference: September 23-25, 2014 Workshops: September 26, 2014 Registration Website: http://www.cluster2014.org/index.php/registration-accommodation What's Included Full congress registration fees include: full conference, tutorials, workshops, poster, business lunches stated in program, reception and gala dinner. There is a separate workshops/tutorials only registration. Note the special ï¿½ Bring a student with you! ï¿½ package: IEEE Member + Student IEEE Member. Visa Support Letters Attendees needing visa letters may request a letter when validating their registration. -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer Cluster, Springer JoCCASA Chair: IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu(a)cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ ================================================================= =================================================================

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CFP: ACM MTAGS 2014 @ SC14 -- deadline extension to September 8th & keynote speakers announced
by Ioan Raicu 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2014 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 16th, 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC NEWS ======================================================================================= - Deadline extension to September 8th, 2014 - Confirmed keynote speakers: - Dr. Owen O'Malley, Co-founder Hortonworks Inc. - Mike Wilde, Fellow at University of Chicago and Software Architect at Argonne National Laboratory - Call for Papers: Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing -- papers due February 2015 ======================================================================================= The 7th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts of large-scale many-task computing (MTC) applications on large scale clusters, Grids, Supercomputers, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of the workshop encompasses loosely coupled applications, which are generally composed of many tasks (both independent and dependent tasks) to achieve some larger application goal. This workshop will cover challenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in running applications on large-scale systems, such as local resource manager scalability and granularity, efficient utilization of raw hardware, parallel file system contention and scalability, data management, I/O management, reliability at scale, and application scalability. We welcome paper submissions on all theoretical, simulations, and systems topics related to MTC, but we give special consideration to papers addressing petascale to exascale challenges. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2014 Conference in New Orleans on November 17th, 2014. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/. For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS13, MTAGS12, MTAGS11, MTAGS10, MTAGS09, and MTAGS08. We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) which appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.h…. We, the workshop organizers, also published a highly relevant paper that defines Many-Task Computing which was published in MTAGS08, titled “Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers”; we encourage potential authors to read this paper, and to clearly articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are related to Many-Task Computing. Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers should be 6 pages, including all figures and references. We aim to cover topics related to Many-Task Computing on each of the three major distributed systems paradigms, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and Supercomputing. Topics of interest include: * Compute Resource Management * Scheduling * Job execution frameworks * Local resource manager extensions * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems * Dynamic resource provisioning * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure * Storage architectures and implementations * Distributed file systems * Parallel file systems * Distributed meta-data management * Content distribution systems for large data * Data caching frameworks and techniques * Data management within and across data centers * Data-aware scheduling * Data-intensive computing applications * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management * Programming models and tools * Map-reduce and its generalizations * Many-task computing middleware and applications * Parallel programming frameworks * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks * Service-oriented science applications * Large-Scale Workflow Systems * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis * Scalability of workflow systems * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware * Programming Paradigms and Models * Large-Scale Many-Task Applications * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications * Data-intensive applications * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences * Performance Evaluation * Performance evaluation * Real systems * Simulations * Reliability of large systems Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 6 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 6 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2014/ before the deadline of September 8th, 2014 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (in cooperation with SIGHPC). Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by September 22nd, 2014. Accepted workshop papers will be eligible for additional post-conference publication as journal articles in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud (papers will be due in February 2015, http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/index.html) Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Papers Due: September 8th, 2014 * Notification of Acceptance: September 29th, 2014 * Camera Ready Papers Due: October 6th, 2014 * Workshop Date: November 16th, 2014 Committee Members --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory * Justin Wozniak, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory * Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Steering Committee * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Technical Committee * Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Tim Armstrong, University of Chicago, USA * Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA * Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA * Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia * Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA * Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA * Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA * Jik-Soo Kim, Kristi, Korea * Scott A. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA * Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA * David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA * Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA * Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada * Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA * Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Matthew Woitaszek, Walmart Labs, USA * Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA * Zhao Zhang, University of California at Berkeley, USA * Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer Cluster, Springer JoCCASA Chair: IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu(a)cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ ================================================================= =================================================================

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LATA 2015: 2nd call for papers
by GRLMC - URV 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* **************************************************************************************** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS LATA 2015 Nice, France March 2-6, 2015 Organized by: CNRS, I3S, UMR 7271 Nice Sophia Antipolis University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/ **************************************************************************************** AIMS: LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002, LATA 2015 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas. VENUE: LATA 2015 will take place in Nice, the second largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. The venue will be the University Castle at Parc Valrose. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: algebraic language theory algorithms for semi-structured data mining algorithms on automata and words automata and logic automata for system analysis and programme verification automata networks automata, concurrency and Petri nets automatic structures cellular automata codes combinatorics on words computational complexity data and image compression descriptional complexity digital libraries and document engineering foundations of finite state technology foundations of XML fuzzy and rough languages grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.) grammatical inference and algorithmic learning graphs and graph transformation language varieties and semigroups language-based cryptography parallel and regulated rewriting parsing patterns power series string and combinatorial issues in bioinformatics string processing algorithms symbolic dynamics term rewriting transducers trees, tree languages and tree automata unconventional models of computation weighted automata STRUCTURE: LATA 2015 will consist of: invited talks invited tutorials peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Paola Inverardi (L’Aquila), Synthesis of Protocol Adapters Johann A. Makowsky (Technion, Haifa), Hankel Matrices for Graph Parameters and Graph Grammars Giancarlo Mauri (Milano Bicocca), tba Andreas Podelski (Freiburg), Automated Program Verification Antonio Restivo (Palermo), The Shuffle Product: New Research Directions PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Andrew Adamatzky (West of England, Bristol, UK) Andris Ambainis (Latvia, Riga, LV) Franz Baader (Dresden Tech, DE) Rajesh Bhatt (Massachusetts, Amherst, US) José-Manuel Colom (Zaragoza, ES) Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, FR) Erzsébet Csuhaj-Varjú (Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, HU) Aldo de Luca (Naples Federico II, IT) Susanna Donatelli (Turin, IT) Paola Flocchini (Ottawa, CA) Enrico Formenti (Nice, FR) Tero Harju (Turku, FI) Monika Heiner (Brandenburg Tech, Cottbus, DE) Yiguang Hong (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP) Sanjay Jain (National Singapore, SG) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle, UK) Antonín Kučera (Masaryk, Brno, CZ) Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, FR) Salvador Lucas (Valencia Tech, ES) Veli Mäkinen (Helsinki, FI) Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES, chair) Filippo Mignosi (L’Aquila, IT) Victor Mitrana (Madrid Tech, ES) Ilan Newman (Haifa, IL) Joachim Niehren (INRIA, Lille, FR) Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE) Arlindo Oliveira (Lisbon, PT) Joël Ouaknine (Oxford, UK) Wojciech Penczek (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Dominique Perrin (ESIEE, Paris, FR) Alberto Policriti (Udine, IT) Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (Connecticut, Storrs, US) Jörg Rothe (Düsseldorf, DE) Frank Ruskey (Victoria, CA) Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE) Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku, Sendai, JP) Bernhard Steffen (Dortmund, DE) Frank Stephan (National Singapore, SG) Paul Tarau (North Texas, Denton, US) Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL) Jacobo Torán (Ulm, DE) Frits Vaandrager (Nijmegen, NL) Jaco van de Pol (Twente, Enschede, NL) Pierre Wolper (Liège, BE) Zhilin Wu (Chinese Academy, Beijing, CN) Slawomir Zadrozny (Polish Academy, Warsaw, PL) Hans Zantema (Eindhoven Tech, NL) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sébastien Autran (Nice) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Enrico Formenti (Nice, co-chair) Sandrine Julia (Nice) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Christophe Papazian (Nice) Julien Provillard (Nice) Pierre-Alain Scribot (Nice) Bianca Truthe (Giessen) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Elsevier, 2013 JCR impact factor: 1.0) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from July 21, 2014 to March 2, 2015. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (23:59 CET) Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2014 Early registration: November 25, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 26, 2014 Late registration: February 16, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: June 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: LATA 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Nice Sophia Antipolis University Rovira i Virgili University

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Call for Book Chapters "Big Data and the Internet of Things: Technology, Business, and Social Impact"
by Kuan-Ching Li 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Call for Book Chapters "Big Data and the Internet of Things: Technology, Business, and Social Impact" CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA https://sites.google.com/site/bigdatatbsi/ **Chapter proposal due: October 15, 2014** Editors Kuan-Ching Li,Providence University, Taiwan Yunchuan Sun, Beijing Normal University, China Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Antonio Jara, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada With the introduction and vast development of Internet of Things, these tiny identifying devices have transformed daily life. As consequence, the amount of Data being generated is at exponential rate all over the world. Mining and analyzing these big data can give rise to a lot of useful information and patterns, which fosters a key basis of the business intelligence and propels the society forward. As with any advancement, Big data comes with both opportunities and challenges. Big data challenges involves in three aspects: 1) technology challenges include how to model and manage the big data with features of volumes, diversity and heterogeneity, how to process, analyze, and mine the potential patterns from big data, how to share and manage the data, and how to ensure the security and the privacy for big data; 2) business challenges include how to transform business using the big data, how to find novel business models for big data, and how to evaluate the benefits and costs of big data—so called big data economy; 3) social challenges include how to analyze and evaluate the social influences from the big data, how to keep the social justice using big data, and etc. It’s the time for us to re-think about and figure out what to do with the new challenges. Through evolving algorithmic and analytic techniques, organizations can harness the big data, discover hidden patterns, and use this knowledge to act meaningfully for competitive advantages. This book intends to cover algorithmic and methods discussions, topics to build better analytics to gather data and applications in diverse fields such as Medicine, Science, Business, Finance, Social, and Engineering. This book aims at investigating the current advancing of the big data from the above three aspects of challenges, through major subtopics: Engineering - Big data modeling and management - Big data mining and analytics - Semantic techniques for big data - Relationship between ‘small data’and big data - Big data intelligence and predictive analytics - Managing large-scale big data platforms - Security and privacy issues for big data Platforms and Data - Models for big data - Tools and frameworks for big data - Heterogeneous data integration - Linked Open Data - Reference Data Sets - Open Source solutions Business - Transforming business using big data - Business models on Big Data applications - Social media analysis, including sentiment analysis - Accommodating new demands on network infrastructure - Big Data economy and social impact Applications - Human Dynamics and Social Networks - Smart Cities - Internet of Things - Smart Grid and Energy - Multimedia and entertainment Proposal submission A proposal for a book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the proposal submission due date, describing the goals and scopes of the proposed chapter. Acceptance of chapter proposals will be communicated to leading authors after a formal double-blind review process. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly via email to Editors. Important Dates Proposal Submission: October 15, 2014 Proposal Acceptance: November 15, 2014 Sample Chapter Submission: January 15, 2015 Final version of Chapters: April 1, 2015 Publication Time: Q4/ 2015 Additional Information Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically by email to big-data-iot-book(a)googlegroups.com

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