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please transfer CCGrid 2015: 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
by 李肯立 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

-----原始邮件----- 发件人: "Junchao Zhang" <jczhang(a)mcs.anl.gov> 发送时间: 2014-08-12 11:24:16 (星期二) 收件人: "Kenli Li" <lkl(a)hnu.edu.cn> 抄送: 主题: CFP: CCGrid 2015: 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing Kenli, 你能否把下面的CFP发到 hpc-announce(a)mcs.anl.gov ? CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================== CCGrid 2015 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing May 4-7, 2015 Shenzhen, China http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/ ======================================================================== Rapid advances in architectures, networks, and systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 15th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts and platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge, featuring live demonstrations. In 2015, CCGrid will return to China and be held in Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta, China's fifth largest city. The main conference will be held on May 5-7, 2015, with affiliated workshops taking place on May 4, 2015. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) =========================== Papers Due: October 27, 2014 Author Notifications: January 15, 2015 Camera Ready Papers Due: March 20, 2015 TOPICS OF INTEREST =========================== CCGrid 2015 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Applications: Applications of new computing concepts and platforms to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business, and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments, systems, or applications; Application-level security - Architecture: Design and use of emergent system architectures including but not limited to accelerators; Multicores; Security and reliability; High availability solutions - Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure: Self-managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and systems (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Development, evaluation, and optimization of large-scale cloud, grid, and HPC architectures; Datacenter-level security - Cloud Computing: Software tools and techniques for clouds - Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Evaluation: Prediction of speed, time, energy, etc.; Modeling and analysis; Monitoring and evaluation tools; Benchmarks and testbeds - Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, systems software and environments for cluster, cloud, and grid computing; Fault-tolerant systems, programs and algorithms; MapReduce model and implementation; programming and runtime optimizations for VM environments - Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on cluster, cloud, and grid computing platforms; SLA definition and enforcement - Storage and I/O: System design and optimization for data storage and processing in cluster and cloud environments PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES =========================== Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. The paper submission online system is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE =========================== A special issue of Future Generation Computing Systems (FGCS, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems) will invite extended versions of the top 10-15 CCGrid 2015 papers. Authors of these papers will be notified of this opportunity by the CCGrid Program Co-chairs, who will be the editors of this special issue. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, POSTERS, DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM, AND SCALE CHALLENGE =========================== Workshops affiliated with CCGrid 2015 will be held on May 4, 2015. Poster presentations will be done during the main conference dates on May 5, 2015. The Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE Challenge will held during the main conference, May 5-7, 2015. For more information on the workshops, posters, and doctoral symposium, see the following links: - Workshops: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-workshops.html - Posters: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-posters.html - Doctoral Symposium: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-doctoral.html - SCALE Challenge: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-scale.html Organization =========================== Honorary General Chair Jianping Fan, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Chairs Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Cheng-zhong Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China & Wayne State University, USA Program Committee Chairs Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA Program Committee Tracks and Vice-Chairs APPLICATIONS Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois, USA ARCHITECTURE Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan AUTONOMIC COMPUTING, DATACENTERS, and ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTUCTURE Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA CLOUD COMPUTING Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA PERFORMANCE MODELING, ANALYSIS, and EVALUATION Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA PROGRAMMING MODELS and RUNTIME SYSTEMS Qing Yi, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA Xipeng Shen, College of William & Mary, USA SCHEDULING and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Peter Troger, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany STORAGE and I/O Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Poster Chair Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston, USA Proceedings Chair Yanjie Wei, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshop Co-chairs Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Kun Yang, Essex University, UK Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China SCALE Challenge Co-chairs Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India James Lin, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China Publicity Co-chairs Junchao Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Sponsor/Exhibitors Co-chairs Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Local Arrangements Co-chairs Shengzheng Feng, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Web Co-chairs Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Dong Lin, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Finance and Registration Co-chairs Zhangqiong Huo, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mary Dzielski, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Technical Program Committee =========================== APPLICATIONS Metin Aktulga, Michigan State University, USA Bill Barth, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Costas Bekas, IBM Research-Zurich, Switzerland Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston, USA Yifeng Chen, Peking University, China Alfredo Cuzzocrea, ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA Frank Loeffler, Louisiana State University, USA Hai Ah Nam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA Matthew Turk, University of Illinois, USA Rio Yokota, KAUST, Saudia Arabia ARCHITECTURE Michela Becchi, University of Missouri, USA Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Masaaki Kondo, The University of Tokyo, Japan Akira Naruse, NVIDIA, Japan Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Cadambi Srihari, NEC Labs America Inc., USA Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Keith Underwood, Intel, USA Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab / Georgia Tech, USA Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA AUTONOMIC COMPUTING, DATACENTERS, and ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTUCTURE Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Amy Apon, Clemson University, USA Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, USA Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Ann Chervenak, University of Southern California, USA Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, UK Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Liana Fong, IBM, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK Salima Hassas, LIRIS, France Dieter Kranzlmuller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, Universite Paul Sabatier, France Andres Quiroz, Xerox, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Shu Tao, IBM, USA Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA Tim Wood, George Washington University, USA Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA CLOUD COMPUTING Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France Susanne Balle, HP, USA Jim Basney, NCSA, USA Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Lab, USA Vincent Breton, CNRS-IN2P3, France Young-Ri Choi, UNIST, Korea Minh Dinh, The University of Queensland, Australia Gilles Fedak, INRIA & University of Lyon, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA Abhishek Gupta, University of Illinois, USA Soonwook Hwang, KISTI, Korea Alexandru Iosup, University of Delft, Netherlands Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University, USA Jens Jensen, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK Chao Jin, The University of Queensland, Australia Michael Kozuch, Intel, USA James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS, France Christian Perez, INRIA, France Paul Rad, Rackspace, USA Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Paul Ruth, RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill, USA Haiying Shen, Clemson University, USA Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Cho-li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Von Welch, Indiana University, USA Chuliang Weng, Huawei Shannon Lab, China Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Lamia Youseff, Google, USA Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China PERFORMANCE MODELING, ANALYSIS, and EVALUATION Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA Yungang Bao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan Chris Carothers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA I-Hsin Chung, IBM Research, USA Karen Karavanic, Portland State University, USA Karl Fuerlinger, LMU Munich, Germany Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Simon Hammond, Sandia National Lab, USA Mike Heroux, Sandia National Lab, USA Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Lab, USA Edgar Leon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Ram Rajamony, IBM Research, USA Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Jose Sancho, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Ana Varbanescu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Michele Weiland, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, UK Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Nick Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA PROGRAMMING MODELS and RUNTIME SYSTEMS Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Wesley Bland, Angonne National Laboratory, USA John Cavazos, University of Delaware, USA Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Albert Cohen, INRIA, France Huimin Cui, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Damian Dechev, University of Central Florida, USA Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA Grigori Fursin, INRIA, France Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA Martin Hirzel, IBM, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Paul H J Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA Palden Lama, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Andrew Lenharth, University of Texas at Austin, USA Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Chunhua Liao, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA Jiayuan Meng, Angonne National Lab, USA Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University at Belfast, Ireland Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Kenjiro Taura, Tokyo University, Japan Didem Unat, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom Richard Vuduc, Georgia Tech, USA Chenggang Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Peng Wu, Huawei America R&D Laboratory, USA Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Zheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA SCHEDULING and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Henri Bal, Vrije University, Netherlands Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon et IUF, France Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA Erik Elmroth, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Frank Feinbube, University of Potsdam, Germany Hakan Grahn, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Gideon Juve, University of Southern California, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Lars Lundberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Nandini Mukhopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India Jorg Nolte, TU Cottbus, Germany George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Alexander Papaspyrou, Adesso Mobile Solutions GmbH, Germany Andreas Polze, University of Potsdam, Germany Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germay Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany Denis Trystram, university of Grenoble-Alpes, France Kurt Vanmechelen, University of Antwerp, Belgium Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden Ramin Yahyapour, University of Gottingen, Germany Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS Gabriel Antoniou, INRIA, France Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany Richard-Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jianxi Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Yafei Dai, Peking University, China Francisco Javier Garcia Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Quincey Koziol, HDF Group, USA Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), Germany Robert Latham, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Lab, USA Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz, USA Bo Mao, Xiamen University, China Dirk Meister, Pure Storage, USA Christine Morin, INRIA, France Sai Narasimhamurthy, Xyratex, UK Juan Piernas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Qingsong Wei, Data Storage Institute, Singapore Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA

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CFP: 6th WMCB 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014 - Deadline extended to 8 September
by Mingzhong Wang 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### * Due to numerous requests, the deadline has been extended as follows: * Submission deadline: 8 September, 2014 * * Notification: 1 October * ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 8 September Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ 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. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) 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 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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CFP: BigComp2015 conference, Submission Due Oct. 1, 2014
by Sanghwan Lee 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The second International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, Jeju Island, Korea, February 9-11, 2015 Home page: http://conf2015.bigcomputing.org GENERAL INFORMATION: In recent years, big data and smart computing have drawn much attention and interest in many disciplines including computer science, information technology, and social sciences. The 2015 International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp 2015) provides an international forum for exchanging ideas and information on current issues, challenges, research results, system developments, and practical experiences in these emerging fields. BigComp 2015 invites authors to submit original research papers and new work-in-progress reports in any aspect of big data and smart computing. RELATED TOPICS: The topics of interest for BigComp 2015 include (but are not limited to): * Techniques and models for big data * Algorithms and systems for big data * Machine learning and AI for big data * Databases and data mining for big data * Graph mining and opinion mining * Web search and information retrieval * Bioinformatics data management * Infrastructure and platform for smart computing * Models and tools for smart computing * Mobile smartphone applications * Big data and smart computing applications and experiments (health care, medicine, finance, business, law, education, transportation, telecommunication, science, engineering, ecosystem, city etc.) * Big data analytics and social media * Parallel and distributed computing for big data * Hardware/software infrastructure for big data * Security and privacy for big data * Image/multimedia data management * Cloud and grid computing * Mobile communication and networks * Smart devices and hardware * Smart location-based services * Mobile software and data science SUBMISSIONS: Papers should be submitted as PDF files through EasyChair, http://www.easychair.org, which must be formatted according to IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings. The paper submission site is at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigcomp2015. Papers can be submitted as either regular or short papers. Regular papers are limited to 8 pages and short papers limited to 4 pages. Details about the submission process including formatting instructions are at the conference website, http://conf2015.bigcomputing.org. ** JOURNAL PUBLICATION: ** Selected papers will be invited for publication in a related international journal (SCI(E)- indexed) after further revision and extension. AWARDS: Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference to the authors of selected outstanding papers. ============================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES * Full paper submission due: October 1, 2014 (17:00pm PDT) * Acceptance notification: November 29, 2014 * Camera-ready copies due: December 23, 2014 ============================================================================== General Co-Chairs * Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Chong-kwon Kim, Seoul National University, Korea Program Committee Co-Chairs * Paolo Atzeni, Universita Roma Tre, Italy * Wook-Shin Han, POSTECH, Korea * Shinji Shimojo, Osaka University, Japan * Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Organizing Chair * Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea International Liaison Co-Chairs * Jee-In Kim, Konkuk University, Korea * Seong-Ho Jeong, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea Steering Committee * Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan, USA * Kyu-Young Whang, KAIST, Korea * Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Tok Wang Ling, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Il-Yeol Song, Drexel University, USA * Jungyun Seo, Sogang University, Korea * Chong-kwon Kim, Seoul National University, Korea Publication Chair * Soo-Mi Choi, Sejong University, Korea Publicity Co-Chairs * Ho-Jin Choi, KAIST, Korea * Sanghwan Lee, Kookmin University, Korea Tutorials Chair * Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Workshop Chair * Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea Finance Chair * Jung-Hyun Han, Korea University, Korea Patron Chair * Jong-Won Choe, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea Registration Chair * Taekyoung (Ted) Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea Local Arrangement Co-Chairs * Junghoon Lee, Jeju National University, Korea * Wang-Cheol Song, Jeju National University, Korea Web Chair * Chulyun Kim, Gachon, University, Korea For any inquiries on BigComp 2015, please contact Organizing Chair: Prof. Jinho Kim (Kangwon National University, jhkim(a)kangwon.ac.kr) Homepage: http://conf2015.bigcomputing.org

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014, formerly BIONETICS)
by Jun Suzuki 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

CFP: 8th International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (BICT 2014, formerly BIONETICS) http://www.bionetics.org/ Paper submission deadline extended: September 1, 2014 December 1 (Mon) - December 3, 2014 (Wed) Boston, MA, USA In-corporation with ACM BICT 2014 aims to provide a world-leading and multidisciplinary venue for researchers and practitioners in diverse disciplines that seek the understanding of key principles, processes and mechanisms in biological systems and leverage those understandings to develop novel information and communications technologies (ICT). BICT 2014 targets two thrusts: THRUST 1: Indirect/Weak Bioinspiration (ICT designed after biological principles, processes and mechanisms). Examples include evolutionary computation, artificial gene regulatory networks, neural computation, swarm intelligence, cellular automata, artificial immune systems, artificial life, artificial chemistry, reaction-diffusion computing, simulated annealing, self-organization and network science. THRUST 2: Direct/Strong Bioinspiration (ICT utilizing biological materials and systems). Examples include cellular computing, molecular computing/communication, membrane computing, DNA computing and memory, bacterial computing, Physarum computing and quantum computing. Expected, but not exclusive, topics are: * Signal/information processing and communication for bio-inspired ICT * Algorithms and their applications for bio-inspired ICT * Formal models and methods for bio-inspired ICT * Bio-inspired software and hardware systems * Modeling, simulations and empirical experiments of bio-inspired ICT * Self-* and stability properties in bio-inspired ICT * Security, robustness and resilience in bio-inspired ICT * Design, configuration and management issues in bio-inspired ICT * Software engineering and performance engineering in bio-inspired ICT * Tools, testbeds and deployment aspects in bio-inspired ICT * Applications, experiences and standardization of bio-inspired ICT * Socially-aware, game theoretic and other metaphor-assisted interdisciplinary research Application domains include, but not limited to, autonomic computing, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering, computer networks, computer vision, data mining, e-health, green computing and networking, grid/cloud computing, intelligent agents, mechanical engineering, molecular communication, nano-scale computing and networking, optimization, pervasive computing, robotics, security, social networks, software engineering and systems engineering. IMPORTANT DATES: Regular paper submission due: September 1 Short and poster/demo paper submission due: September 22 Notification for regular papers: September 22 Notification for short and poster/demo papers: October 6 Camera ready due: October 13 SPECIAL TRACKS: In addition to the regular track that covers general/mainstream topics, BICT 2014 features the following special tracks that focus on specific, emerging or underrepresented topics. * Artificial, Biological and Bio-Inspired Intelligence (ABBII) * Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering (AISE) * Body Area Soft Computing (BASC) * Biologically-Inspired Process Calculi (BIPC) * Bio-Inspired Machine Vision (BIMV) * Bio-inspired/Biomimetic Microsystems & Microdevices (BMM) * Bio-inspired Wireless Network Security (BWNS) * Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) * Engineering Applications from Molecular and Gene Regulatory Networks (EMNET) * Molecular Communication and Networking (MCN) * Morphogenetic Collective Systems (MCS) * Modularization for Practical Software Engineering (MPSE) * Resilient Networks (RN) * Swarm and Modular Robotics (SAMR) * Smart Body Area Networks (SBAN) * Security and Privacy in Bio-inspired Networks (SPBN) PAPER SUBMISSION: Authors are invited to submit regular papers (up to 8 pages each), short papers (up to 4 pages each) or poster/demo papers (up to 2 pages each) in ACM's paper template. Up to two extra pages are allowed for each paper with extra page charges. See http://bionetics.org/2014/show/initial-submission for more details. PUBLICATION: All accepted paper will be published through ACM Digital Library and submitted for indexing by SI, EI Compendex, Scopus, ACM Library, Google Scholar and many more. Selected papers will be considered for publication in leading journals including: * ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications * Elsevier Information Sciences * Elsevier Nano Communication Networks Journal * Int'l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering * Cloud-integrated Cyber-Physical Systems (Springer book) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK * Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, ICS, Iasi, Romania * Andrew Eckford, York University, Canada * Valeriy Perminov, BioTeckFarm, Ltd., Russia * Hiroki Sayama, SUNY Binghamton, USA * Theresa Schubert, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany * Jon Timmis, University of York, UK * Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA * Justin Werfel, Harvard University, USA GENERAL CHAIR: Jun Suzuki, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA PC CHAIR: Tadashi Nakano, Osaka University, Japan PC VICE CHAIRS: Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK Gabriel Ciobanu, Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science, Romania Douglas Dow, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA Hiroaki Fukuda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan Tyler Garaas, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA Preetam Ghosh, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Isao Hayashi, Kansai University, Japan Yu-Hsiang Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Saori Iwanaga, Japan Coast Guard Academy, Japan Masao Kubo, National Defense Academy, Japan Paul Leger, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile Shih-Hsi "Alex" Liu, California State University, Fresno, USA Michael L. Mayo, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA Parisa Memarmoshrefi, University of Goettingen, Germany Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Alan Millard, University of York, UK Michael Moore, USA Marc Pomplun, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Florian Raudies, Boston University, USA Hiroshi Sato, National Defense Academy, Japan Hiroki Sayama, SUNY Binghamton, USA Tomohiro Shirakawa, National Defense Academy of Japan, Japan Jon Timmis, University of York, UK Athanasios Vasilakos, University of Western Macedonia, Greece Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Jun Zhou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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Call for papers: Workshop on Optimizing Stencil Computations 2014
by Shoaib Kamil 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Call for Papers: Workshop on Optimizing Stencil Computations (part of SPLASH 2014) http://2014.splashcon.org/track/wosc-2014 Stencil computations describe an important computational pattern that appears in a large variety of applications, including image processing, physical simulation, and linear algebra solvers. Because of their importance and wide usage, much effort is devoted to optimizing these kinds of computations on hardware that ranges from the largest supercomputers to handheld devices such as smartphones. Though conceptually simple, these computations have been traditionally difficult for general compilers to optimize, due to their difficult-to-analyze dependence structure and because the computations span many domains, each with different requirements for optimization and different tradeoffs. Thus, much of the real-world code used for stencil computations is hand-optimized for a particular application on a particular piece of hardware. In recent years, a number of efforts have tried to automatically optimize stencil computations using general compilers, code generators, domain-specific languages, run-time systems, just-in-time compilation, and other strategies. This workshop aims to bring together these efforts along with users of stencils that require optimization to further the state of the art and promote a variety of research strategies for this important domain. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - memory and computational characterization of stencil applications - benchmarking - domain-specific optimizations, languages, and compilers for stencils - polyhedral stencil optimization - optimization of stencils for accelerators and other hardware - parallel & distributed stencil optimization - general compiler support for optimizing stencils - code generation & auto-tuning for stencils - static analysis, synthesis & verification of stencil computations - high-level libraries & frameworks - frameworks, languages, & optimizations for composing stencils - multigrid & AMR-specific stencil optimizations Submissions should be a maximum of 7 pages (not including references) in the ACM SIGPLAN format. Proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. *Important Dates* Submission Deadline: 7 September 2014 Notification: 21 September 2014 Workshop: 20 October 2014 Final Submission for Accepted Papers: 30 October 2014 *Submission Instructions* See http://2014.splashcon.org/track/wosc-2014 *Organizing Committee* Shoaib Kamil, MIT CSAIL Saman Amarasinghe, MIT CSAIL P. Saday Sadayappan, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University *Program Committee* Matthias Christen, Universita della Svizzera Italiana Jonathan Ragan-Kelly, Stanford Brian Van Straalen, ANAG/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Samuel Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shoaib Kamil Research Scientist Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology skamil(a)mit.edu http://people.csail.mit.edu/skamil

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CFP: The 2nd RSDA workshop co-located with ISSRE 2014, Naples, ITALY (deadline extended to Aug 24)
by Antonio Pecchia 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] --- The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on ï¿½-- - Reliability and Security Data Analysis (RSDA 2014) - *** The RSDA 2014 submission deadline has been extended to August 24, 2014! *** RSDA 2014 is co-located with the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) being held in November 3-6, 2014, Naples, ITALY. RSDA 2014 follows its past successful edition held at DSN 2013. RSDA Committees ensure a balanced mix between academic and industrial participation, and cutting-edge research areas and application domains. KEYNOTE We are pleased to announce that the RSDA 2014 keynote talk will be given by Brendan Murphy of Microsoft Research, UK. For more information, visit the RSDA keynote page (http://www.mobilab.unina.it/RSDA2014/keynote.html) WEBPAGE http://www.mobilab.unina.it/RSDA2014 CONTACTS For any information please contact antonio.pecchia(a)unina.it and olivier_thonnard(a)symantec.com *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** The inherent potential of reliability and security data is well recognized by academia and industry for assessing dependability properties of computer systems and operational networks, and improving the engineering process. Analysis of textual logs and numeric data produced under real workload conditions by applications, systems, and networks, intrusion detection systems, and issue trackers plays a key role for engineers and practitioners. Nevertheless, in spite of decades of research and methodological advances, data analysis in this specific area keeps posing challenging research questions due to the heterogeneity, volume and velocity of the collected data, the lack of systematic end-to-end analysis procedures, the increasing diversity of analysis objectives and emerging application domains in critical areas. GOALS The workshop aims to concentrate ideas and contributions from academic and industrial organizations addressing reliability and security aspects of computer systems and networks through data analysis. The past RSDA edition has established a forum to stimulate scientific research and discuss analysis techniques, procedures and tools that are currently adopted to manage, analyze or evaluate reliability and security data sets. The expected output of the workshop is to keep fostering synergies between researchers and industrial bodies of different research communities concerned by RSDA and establishing the agenda of future research activities in the area. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop addresses the following topics: - System logs and security-related data collection, processing and management; - Reliability and security evaluation and modeling; - Security monitoring and control; - Improving reliability and security through data analysis; - Benchmarking techniques to assess reliability and security; - Novel tools for reliability and security data analysis; - Big data analytics for reliability and security assessment; - Advances and challenges in reliability and security data analysis; - Analytical and simulation studies; - Issue and defect analysis; - System diagnosis and root cause analysis; - Experience reports and data analysis in real-world systems. Relevant application areas include, but are not limited to: - Distributed systems, smart grids and critical infrastructures; - Cloud computing infrastructures; - Operational networks and network applications; - Real-time and embedded systems; - Database and transactional systems - Operating systems; - Email and Web-based information systems; - Secure and intrusion tolerant systems. PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in length and conform to the IEEE conference proceedings style, must be made electronically and imply the willingness of at least one of the authors to attend the workshop, if accepted. Accepted submissions will be included in the ISSRE 2014 IEEE Supplemental Proceedings and on IEEE Xplore as workshop papers. Submission link and instructions are available at the webpage http://www.mobilab.unina.it/RSDA2014/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 24 August, 2014 Notification: 9 September, 2014 Camera Ready: 15 September, 2014 COMMITTEES WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Antonio Pecchia, Federico II University of Naples (antonio.pecchia(a)unina.it) Olivier Thonnard, Symantec Research Labs (olivier_thonnard(a)symantec.com) HONORARY CHAIR Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcello Cinque, Critiware Domenico Cotroneo, Federico II University of Naples Polo Chau, Georgia Tech Bojan Cukic, West Virginia University Michel Cukier, University of Maryland Salvatore D'Antonio, Parthenope University of Naples Catello Di Martino, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aurelien Francillon, Eurecom Flavio Frattini, Federico II University of Naples Dong-Seong Kim, University of Canterbury Felix Leder, Blue Coat Ilir Gashi, City University London Federico Maggi, Politecnico di Milano Karthik Pattabiraman, University of British Columbia Leonardo Querzoni, Sapienza University of Rome William Robertson, Northeastern University Christian Rossow, Saarland University Stefano Russo, Federico II University of Naples Santonu Sarkar, Infosys Yun Shen, Symantec Research Labs Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra Tillmann Werner, CrowdStrike Keun Soo Yim, Google Leyla Yumer, Symantec Research Labs WEBPAGE http://www.mobilab.unina.it/RSDA2014 ---- 5x1000 AI GIOVANI RICERCATORI DELL'UNIVERSITï¿½ DI NAPOLI Codice Fiscale: 00876220633 www.unina.it/Vademecum5permille

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CFP EduHPC workshop at SC-14, New Orleans
by Sushil K. Prasad 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

*EduHPC: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing* Sun, Nov 16, 2014 Website: *http://cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=edupdhpc* <http://cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=edupdhpc> In conjunction with SC-14: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis http://sc14.supercomputing.org CALL FOR PAPERS The EduHPC Workshop is devoted to the development and assessment of educational resources for undergraduate education in Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) and High Performance Computing (HPC). Both PDC and HPC now permeate the world of computing to a degree that makes it imperative for even entry-level computer professionals to incorporate these computing modalities into their computing toolkits, no matter what aspect of computing they work on. This workshop focuses on the state of the art in HPC and PDC education, by means of both contributed and invited papers from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutions. Topics of interest include all topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC and HPC within Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Science, and Domain Science and Engineering curricula. The emphasis of the workshop is undergraduate education, but fundamental issues related to graduate education are also welcome. The workshop is coordinated by the CDER Center for PDC Education and highlights the NSF/TCPP curriculum initiative on PDC ( http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum) This workshop invites unpublished manuscripts from academia, industry, and government laboratories on topics pertaining to the needs and approaches for augmenting undergraduate and graduate education in Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Science and computational courses for STEM and business disciplines with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) requirements. The workshop is particularly dedicated to bringing together stakeholders from industry (both hardware/software vendors and employers), government labs, funding agencies, and academia in the context of SC-14, so that each can hear the challenges faced by the others, can learn the various approaches to these challenges, and can generally have opportunities to exchange ideas and brainstorm solutions. In addition to contributed talks, this workshop will feature panels, special sessions, and invited talks on opportunities for collaboration, resource sharing, educator training, internships, and other means of increasing cross-fertilization between industry, government, and academia, without "eating the seed corn." Proposals for panels and special sessions are also welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC into undergraduate and graduate education, especially in core courses 2. Novel ways of teaching PDC and HPC topics 3. Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics into core CS/CE courses 4. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, languages, and projects for PDC and HPC 5. Employers’ experiences with and expectation of the level of PDC and HPC proficiency among new graduates. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: *Papers:* Authors are asked to submit 6-8 page papers in pdf format through the EasyChair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhpc14 choosing its “Paper” track. Submissions should be formatted as single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details. Papers will be published in the conference workshop proceedings. LaTex Package <http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/sites/default/files/ACM-latex-templa…> Word Template <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/pubform.doc> IMPORTANT DATES: Aug 20, 2014: Abstract submission deadline Aug 27, 2014: Paper submission deadline Sept 26, 2014: Author notification Oct 10, 2014: Camera-ready paper deadline *Panels:* Prospective organizers are asked to submit a proposal in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhpc14 choosing its “Panel” track. Upload a single PDF file that describes the panel, which may include such information as description of the panel topic or position statements by the panelists. You must convince us that the panel will truly be an interactive session and not a series of presentations. Explain why the panel will attract a good audience and why the audience will feel that the panel was beneficial. Suggested length for this proposal is 1-2 pages. Use font and style as for papers noted earlier. IMPORTANT DATES: Sept 15, 2014: Proposal for panels submission deadline Oct 1, 2014: Notifications for panels ORGANIZATION: Workshop Chair: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University Program Committee (Tentative): Allen, Gabrielle, Louisiana State University Banicescu, Ioana, Mississippi State University Brown, Richard, St. Olaf College Buck, Scott, Intel Crowder, Grace, National Security Agency Dehne, Frank, Carleton University Dongarra, Jack, University of Tennessee Garland, Michael, NVIDIA Gordon, Steven, Ohio Supercomputer Center Gupta, Anshul, IBM Research Kaeli, David, Northeastern University Kant, Krishna, Intel Corporation Kothapalli, Kishore, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad Lathrop, Scott, Shodor Lumsdaine, Andrew, Indiana University Pacheco, Peter, University of San Francisco Padua, David, University of Illinois Parashar, Manish, Rutgers University Patt, Yale, The University of Texas at Austin Phillips, Cynthia, Sandia National Laboratories Prasad, Sushil, Georgia State University Robert, Yves, ENS Lyon Rosenberg, Arnold, Northeastern University Sahni, Sartaj, University of Florida Sussman, Alan, University of Maryland Vivien, Frédéric, INRIA Weems, Charles, University of Massachusetts Wrinn, Michael, Intel Wu, Jie, Temple University Yang, Yuanyuan, Stony Brook University

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Springer Book on Robots and Sensor Clouds - Call for Chapters
by Anis Koubaa (COINS) 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

Call for Chapters http://www.coins-lab.org/events/springer/rsc_book_cfc.html Book Title: Robots and Sensor Clouds Special edition in the ³Studies in Systems, Decision and Control² Springer Book Series http://www.springer.com/series/13304 Publisher: Springer Editors Anis Koubaa (Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia)/(CISTER Research Unit, Portugal) Elhadi Shakshuki (Acadia University, Canada) Call for Chapters Abstract Submission Deadline: August 10, 2014 Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: August 30, 2014 Full Chapters Due: October 15, 2014 Chapter Acceptance Notification: January 01, 2015 Estimated Publication Date: March 2015 Context and Objectives In the evolving world of wireless technology and computing, there are many levels of technologies being introduced to the web. With the recent development and progress of cloud computing field, it is possible for users and machines to utilize and to share several services. The current power of robots, communication, storage, fast progress of wireless techniques, enhanced and different types of sensors, robots and sensor networks are able to take advantage of these services and provide influential solutions. In the age of cloud computing, cloud robotics and sensor clouds are two promising paradigms. Recently, they are increasingly evolving and are likely to be the most effective way to create and monitor robotic and sensor networks applications, in particular for service robots and monitoring applications. Indeed, on the one hand, cloud robotics allow the robots to go beyond their limited processing capabilities and benefit from Internet computing resources. On the other hand, robots can be accessed from anywhere and at anytime through Web interfaces. In the same way, sensor clouds allow to access, use, monitor and interact with sensor nodes seamlessly through the Internet. Although there are several solutions already in place, many challenges remain to be investigated and tackled Target Audience The book is expected to serve broad audience including researchers, academics, advanced students, and industrials in the field of robotics and sensor networks. Recommended topics There are two major topics of interest for this book: (1) sensor clouds, (2) cloud robotics. Comprehensive tutorials and surveys are also expected. Details about recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Cloud Robotics > * Virtualization of robots > * Big Data for Robotics > * Computational models for cloud robotics > * Middleware for robots and sensor networks > * Cloud technologies for robotic services > * Service oriented architecture for robots > * Web robots > * Security in cloud robotics > * Collaborative/competitive robots > * Design metrics for robots in cloud > * Distributed databases for robots > * Emergency robots > * Intelligent query and data dissemination > * Remote access through internet > * Robotics for educators and students > * Robots for environmental monitoring > * Web services for robots > * Remote robotic labs and testbeds * Sensor Clouds > * Big (Sensor) Data > * Sensor Web technologies > * Sensor Cloud architectures > * Service-oriented architecture for sensor networks > * Web services for sensing applications > * Intelligent data fusion and aggregation > * Remote sensor networks testbeds > * Security in sensor clouds > * Sensor clouds applications > * Storage management technologies in sensor networks > * Protocols and algorithms for sensor clouds Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before August 10, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. Submission of abstracts must be done through EasyChair system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsc2014 Authors of accepted proposals will be notified on or before August 30, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are to be submitted by October 15, 2014 through EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsc2014 The Chapter should not exceed 20 pages with respect to Springer format. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a single-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Publisher This book will be published by March of 2015 by Springer as an edition of the book the series ³Studies in Systems, Decision and Control². http://www.springer.com/series/13304 For additional information and guidelines regarding the publisher, please visit www.springer.com <http://www.springer.com/> Important Dates Abstract Submission Deadline: August 10, 2014 Abstract Acceptance Notification Deadline: August 30, 2014 Full Chapters Due: October 15, 2014 Chapter Acceptance Notification: January 01, 2015 Estimated Publication Date: March 2015 For any inquiry, please contact Anis Koubaa akoubaa(a)coins-lab.org Elhadi Shakshuki elhadi.shakshuki(a)acadiau.ca

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Deadline extension for HUST-14, an SC14 workshop on HPC user support tools
by Kenneth Hoste 08 Aug '14

08 Aug '14

The submission deadline has been extended to 17 August 2014, 23:59 AOE. No further extensions will be granted. Call for participation ====================== HUST-14: First International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools. Held in conjunction with SC14: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. New Orleans, LA, USA on 21 November 2014. Background ---------- Researchers pushing the boundaries of science and technology are an existential reason for supercomputing centres. In order to be productive, they heavily depend on HPC support teams, who often struggle to adequately support the researchers. Recent surveys have pointed out that there is an abundant lack of collaboration between HPC support teams all around the world, even though they are frequently facing very similar problems in order to provide end users with the tools and services they require. The first International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools (HUST-14) aims to bring together all parties involved, i.e., system administrators, user support team members, tool developers, policy makers and end users, to discuss these issues and bring forward solutions, either existing ones or new ones the community should come up with. The workshop provides a platform to present tools, share best practices and exchange ideas that help streamline HPC user support. This in turn can prevent HPC support teams from re-inventing (existing) solutions time and again. For more information, please see the HUST-14 website [1] Topics ------ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - defining and customising the user environment - software build and installation tools - performance analysis tools - workflow and pipeline tools - novel environments: cloud, etc. - supporting Hadoop or other Big Data tools and frameworks - establishing baseline configuration efforts for HPC - software development/system testing - documentation: creating, maintaining and updating Submission ---------- We invite authors to submit original, high-quality work with sufficient background material to be clear to the HPC community. Papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 10 pages including tables, figures and appendices, but excluding references. They should be formatted according to the standard SC14 format, i.e., the double-column IEEE format for Conference Proceedings (IEEEtran LaTeX Class (template) V1.8 packages and IEEEtran V1.12 BibTeX (bibliography)). Similar to the SC14 policy, margins and font sizes should not be modified. We kindly refer authors to the necessary templates [2]. All submissions should be made electronically through the Easychair website [3]. Submissions must be double blind, i.e., authors should remove their names, institutions or hints found in references to earlier work. When discussing past work, they need to refer to themselves in the third person, as if they were discussing another researcher's work. Furthermore, authors must identify any conflict of interest with the PC chair or PC members. Proceedings will be published in both IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital library through collaboration with ACM SIGHPC. Important dates --------------- - Call for papers: Wednesday May 14th 2014 - Submission open: Sunday June 1st 2014 - Workshop papers due: Sunday August 17th 2014 (23:59 AOE) (extended deadline, no further extensions) - Notification of acceptance: Wednesday October 1st 2014 - Camera-ready papers due: Monday October 13th 2014 - Workshop date: Friday November 21st 2014 Organisers ---------- - Christopher Bording, iVEC, Australia - Andy Georges, HPC Infrastructure Unit at Ghent University, Belgium - Kenneth Hoste, HPC Infrastructure Unit at Ghent University, Belgium ### General Chair Christopher Bording ### Program Chair Andy Georges ### Program Committee - Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), New Zealand - Christopher Bording, iVEC, Australia - Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University & HiPEAC network of excellence, Belgium - Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA - Markus Geimer, Jï¿½lich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany - Vera Hansper, Victorian Life Sciences Computing Initiative (VLSCI), Australia - Kenneth Hoste, HPC Infrastucture Unit at Ghent University, Belgium - Olli-Pekka Lehto, CSC ï¿½ IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland - John Linford, ParaTools, USA - Robert McLay, Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), USA - Dane Skow (Dane Skow Associates), USA [1] http://www.ugent.be/hpc/en/hust14.html [2] http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html [3] https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hust14

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[CFP] Big Data in Future Sensing (SCI & EI Indexed)
by Ting Zhu 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Big Data in Future Sensing Call for Papers With the exponential increasing number of data generating devices, such as computers, smart phones, tablets, and sensors, the vast amount of data to be processed, i.e., “Big Data,” has become an important concern. The utilization of big data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately the whole society. This special issue provides a leading forum for disseminating the latest research in big data research, development, and applications in future sensing. We solicit high-quality original research papers (including surveys and reviews) in sensing aspect of big data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value, and Veracity) big data science and foundations, big data infrastructure, big data management, big data searching and mining, big data privacy/security, and big data applications in sensing. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Novel theoretical and computational models for big data in future sensing - Novel data model and database technology for emerging hardware (e.g., sensor devices and smartphones) - Search and learning on big data based on sensing - Scalable and efficient architectures, protocols, and algorithms for big data in future sensing - Web applications and mobile applications on big data collected from sensor networks - Security and privacy issues on big data in future sensing - Applying sensing data in crowdsourcing and social applications - Virtualization of sensing data - Sensing of big multimedia data - Big data processing in sensor networks (e.g., storage, reliability, and on-site processing) Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijdsn/bd/ according to the following timetable: Manuscript DueFriday, 22 August 2014 First Round of Reviews Friday, 14 November 2014 Publication DateFriday, 9 January 2015 Detailed CFP link is as follows: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijdsn/si/619063/cfp/

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