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CFP: VISTech2: Second Workshop on Visualization, Infrastructure & Systems Technology
by Kelly Gaither 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

VISTech2: Second Workshop on Visualization, Infrastructure & Systems Technology November 17, 2014 8:30 am – 5 pm New Orleans Convention Center New Orleans, LA https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/sc14/workshops/vistech Important Dates: Paper submission Deadline: October 7, 2014 Paper Notification Date: October 18, 2014 Final Manuscripts: October 22, 2014 Human perception is centered on the ability to process information contained in visible light, and our visual interface is a tremendously powerful data processor. Every day we are inundated with staggering amounts of digital data. In research for some computational sciences, visualization techniques are the only viable means of extracting information and developing a deep and clear understanding from data at scale. Thus, integrating our visual capacity with technological capabilities has tremendous potential for providing a transformational ability to understanding this data. In this workshop, we will explore the intersection between human perception and large-scale visual analysis through the study of visualization interfaces and interactive displays. This rich intersection includes virtual reality systems, visualization through augmented reality, large-scale visualization systems, novel visualization interfaces, high-resolution interfaces, mobile displays, and visualization display middleware. The VISTech (Visualization Infrastructure & Systems Technology) workshop will provide a forum in which experts in the large-scale visualization technology field and users can come together to discuss state-of-the art technologies for visualization infrastructures and systems. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: ● High-resolution displays and interfaces ● Interaction technologies ● Mobile displays ● Virtual reality systems ● Augmented reality ● Ubiquitous displays ● Visualization display middleware ● Large scale visualization systems Papers submitted to this workshop should be in the IEEE format and no longer than 4 pages plus 1 additional page for images. We encourage authors to submit YouTube video up to 3 minutes long and animations of their work.The papers should be original and not previously published. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop topics. Papers presented at the workshop will be archived. This workshop is held in conjunction with SC14: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Submission URL: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vistech14 Paper Format Requirements: 4 pages (maximum) plus one additional page for images in the IEEE format. http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Contact e-mail:v<mailto:[email protected]>istech14(a)easychair.org<mailto:[email protected]> Workshop Organizers: Kelly Gaither, TACC, The University of Texas at Austin Jason Leigh, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, The University of Illinois at Chicago Falko Kuester, CalIT2, University of California, San Diego Eric A. Wernert, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University Aditi Majumder, University of California, Irvine

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HCCIEA 2015: 1st Call for Paper || July 8-th - July 10-th, 2015, Regional University of Blumenau (FURB), Blumenau, Brazil
by Lorenzo Mossucca 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

------INVITATION------- CALL FOR PAPER: The 4th International workshop on Hybrid Cloud computing Infrastructure for E-Science application (HCCIEA 2015) To be held in conjunction with The 9th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2015) CONFERENCE DATE: July 8-th - July 10-th, 2015, VENUE: Regional University of Blumenau (FURB), Blumenau, Brazil. See workshop details: https://sites.google.com/site/hcciea2015/ Main Conference: http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2015/ Workshop Scope and Description Cloud Computing has becoming a scalable services consumption and delivery platform in the field of Services Computing. Cloud is a platform or infrastructure that allows execution of code in a managed and elastic way. We want to put the emphasis of scientific and technologies progress on cloud solutions and infrastructures. In particular concerning research activities on scalability, adaptability using effective scheduling for the virtualization. HCCIEA workshop aims to promote research and development activities focused on E-science applications using distributed computing infrastructure, such as Grid, Cloud Computing, and Hybrid System. With the rapid emergence of software systems and their applicability, the great deal of data are growing exponentially due to requirements more and more complex. Existing computing infrastructure, software system designs, and use cases must take into account the enormity in volume of requests, size of data and computing load. A complementary goal is to identify the open issues and the challenges to fix them, especially on security, flexibility, reliability and privacy aspects. HCCIEA 2015 will be co-located with "The 9th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2015)". The workshop has the following topics (but are not limited to): . Hybrid/Cloud infrastructure for E-science application . Virtual grid in Cloud . Cloud Reliability . Cloud Serviceability and Architecture . Architectural Models for scaling of applications . Elastic Computing . Secure Cloud Computing . Cloud Management . Novel cloud programming models . Federation Infrastructure . Iaas-PaaS for Scientific applications . Distributed architecture . Private and Public Cloud . Big Data . Distributed Database . Cloud Computing . Cloud Applications . HPC in the Cloud . Database in the Cloud . Jobs and resources scheduling Important Dates Submission Deadline: December 15, 2014 Authors Notification: February 15, 2015 Author Registration: March 28, 2015 Final Manuscript: March 28, 2015 Conference Dates: July 8-10, 2015 Contact: For any questions: workshop_cisis at ismb.it

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CFP: IEEE Micro Special Issue on Heterogeneous Computing
by Lieven.Eeckhout＠elis.UGent.be 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

IEEE Micro Special Issue on Heterogeneous Computing Call for Papers Guest Co-Editors: Dean Tullsen (UCSD) Ravishankar Iyer (Intel) Submissions due: Jan 16, 2015 Publication date: July-August 2015 Heterogeneity is widely accepted as a fruitful avenue to improve performance and power/energy/thermal-efficiency in the face of continued technology miniaturization (Moore?s Law) and slowed supply voltage reduction (end of Dennard scaling). Heterogeneity comes in many flavors ranging from Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) with specialized hardware accelerators, to hybrid CPU/GPU architectures, to single-ISA heterogeneous multi-cores with different core types, to multi-ISA heterogeneous multi-cores in which different core types implement different Instruction-Set Architectures (ISA). Architects have explored and built heterogeneous architectures across a broad spectrum of computing devices including embedded systems, mobile devices, datacenters, and High-Performance Computing (HPC) supercomputers. While the performance and power/energy opportunities have been outlined, important challenges are yet to be studied regarding architecture, accelerators, hardware/software interface, run-time support, compilation, programming models, and performance evaluation. The goal of this Special Issue is to present the latest state-of-the-art results in the broad area of heterogeneous computing systems. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Heterogeneous architectures, including: o System-on-Chip (SoC) with accelerators o CPU/GPU systems o Single-ISA heterogeneous multi-cores o Multi-ISA heterogeneous multi-cores - Roadmaps and commercial trends in heterogeneous architectures - Trade-offs in performance, power, energy, thermal, reliability, code portability and programmability due to heterogeneity - Case studies of heterogeneous architectures in embedded system design, mobile computing, HPC, data centers, etc. - Accelerator architectures and interfaces - Platform support for heterogeneous and accelerator architectures - Hardware/software interactions on heterogeneous architectures, including OS scheduling and compilation - Programming models and runtime support for heterogeneous architectures - Workloads particularly suited for heterogeneity - Performance evaluation of heterogeneous architectures - Experiences with real heterogeneous platforms Submission procedure: Log onto IEEE CS Manuscript Central ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/micro-cs) and submit your manuscript. Please direct questions to the IEEE Micro magazine assistant (microma(a)computer.org) regarding the submission site. For the manuscript submission, acceptable file formats include Microsoft Word and PDF. Manuscripts should not exceed 5,000 words including references, with each averagesize figure counting as 150 words toward this limit. Please include all figures and tables, as well as a cover page with author contact information (name, postal address, phone, fax, and email address) and a 200word abstract. Submitted manuscripts must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere, and all manuscripts must be cleared for publication. All previously published papers must have at least 30% new content compared to any conference (or other) publication. Accepted articles will be edited for structure, style, clarity, and readability. For more information, please visit the IEEE Micro Author Center (http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/acmicro) Important dates: Initial submissions due: Jan 16, 2015 Author notification: March 2, 2015 Revised papers due: March 20, 2015 Final version due: April 23, 2015 Publication timeframe: July-August 2015 Questions? Contact the Guest Co-Editors Dean Tullsen (tullsen(a)ucsd.edu) and Ravi Iyer (ravishankar.iyer(a)intel.com) or the Editor-in-Chief Lieven Eeckhout (lieven.eeckhout(a)ugent.be)

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Call for Papers: 2nd Workshop on Parallel Programming for Analytics Applications at PPoPP 2015
by Jose Moreira 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

2nd Workshop on Parallel Programming for Analytics Applications at the 20th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming https://sites.google.com/site/2015ppaa/ February 7-11, 2015 San Francisco, California Important Dates November 24th, 2014: Paper submission deadline. January 10th, 2015: Decision on refereed papers. January 24th, 2015: Camera ready copies due. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library after the workshop. February 7th or 8th, 2015: Workshop! Motivation and Scope Analytics applications are scaling rapidly in terms of the size and variety of data analyzed, the complexity of models explored and tested, and the number of analytics professionals or data scientists supported concurrently. Consumer behavior modeling, IT infrastructure security and resiliency, and fraud detection and prevention are examples of application areas where the scaling is stressing the computational capabilities of current systems. At the same time hardware systems are embracing new technologies like on-chip and off-chip accelerators, vector extensions to the instruction sets, and solid state disks. New programming methodologies and run-times to support them are emerging to facilitate the development of the new analytics applications, and to leverage the emerging systems. This workshop provides a forum for the applications community, run-time and development-environment community,and systems community to exchange the outlook for progress in each of these areas, and exchange ideas on how to cross leverage the progress. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: o System and hardware support for big data analytics - Exploitation of GPUs, FPGAs and on-chip vector processing units for analytics applications - Efficient exploitation of the memory hierarchy, particularly solid state disks - Parallel I/O to support distributed file systems - System management issues for attaining the desired levels of reliability and performance for the above o Parallel run-times and middleware for analytics - Columnar databases, large data warehouses, data cubes and OLAP engines - In memory analysis for real-time queries on large data - No-SQL databases - Graph databases - Concurrency in large tabular data analytics - Distributed file systems o Parallel programming models and languages, and application development frameworks for analytics - Application Frameworks for large graph applications - Computational models and programming languages for large graph applications - Domain specific languages for analytics o Parallel algorithms for large graphs and other big data analytics applications - Algorithms to exploit the hardware, run-times, middleware and programming models listed above - Performance attainable on the hardware, run-times, middleware and programming models listed above o Parallelism in Social Media and other big dataapplications - Applications in consumer modeling and customer behavior - Financial fraud detection and intrusion detection in IT infrastructure - Applications in healthcare and other industries - Analytics applications and solutions in homeland security Submission Guidelines Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages using a 10 point font (single spaced). Authors are encouraged to use the ACM double column format found at "http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/". Papers should be submitted in PDF format and should be legible when printed on a black-and-white printer. To submit, send email to: manoj1(a)us.ibm.com and joefon(a)us.ibm.com with the paper included as an attachment. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library after the workshop. General Co-Chairs Joefon Jann, IBM Research (joefon(a)us.ibm.com) Jose Moreira, IBM Research (jmoreira(a)us.ibm.com) Program Committee Manoj Kumar - Program Chair, IBM Research (manoj1(a)us.ibm.com) Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padua, Italy Daniel Delling, Microsoft Research Vijay Gadeapply, MIT Lincoln Labs Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Labs Ching-Yung Lin, IBM Research Silvius Rus, Cloudera Vivek Sarkar, Rice University Fernando Silva, University of Porto, Portugal José E. Moreira Research Staff Member Future POWER Systems Concept Team IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights NY 10598-0218 phone: 1-914-945-1709, fax: 1-914-945-4425 e-mail: jmoreira(a)us.ibm.com URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/moreira

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CfP: MOMAC 2015 || March 24, 2015 - Porto, Portugal
by Vincent Nelis 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

[Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] *** Please forward to interested colleagues. *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Second International Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC) Porto, Portugal, March 24, 2015 http://www12.cs.fau.de/momac/ in conjunction with International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2014 Notification of acceptance: January 16, 2015 Final version: February 16, 2015 Dear colleagues, please consider the opportunity to contribute to the Second Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC) to be held in Porto, Portugal in conjunction with ARCS 2015. *** ABOUT MOMAC *** Semiconductor industry is hitting the utilization wall, resulting in parallel and heterogeneous many-core architectures. Applications have to exploit the available parallelism and heterogeneity to meet their functional and non-functional requirements and to gain performance improvements. A main challenge originates from many-cores promoting highly dynamic usage scenarios as already observable in today's "smart devices", where multiple and varying numbers of applications are running at different points in time. As a consequence, providing mapping of applications to processor cores which is optimal and predictable with respect to performance, timing, energy consumption, safety, security, etc. may not be guaranteed by static design-time optimization alone. At the same time, pure run-time optimization may result in unpredictable and non-optimal system states. This workshop investigates this field of tension of run-time, design-time, and hybrid design methodologies for the mapping of applications on many-core systems, particularly addressing the aspect of multiple conflicting objectives that drive the design. This field of research includes numerous intermeshed aspects: - Languages, Models, and Compilers: How to specify, analyze, parallelize, and compile programs which support dynamic usage scenarios in many-cores? - Formal methods, Test, and Verification: How to analyze and verify predictable execution of applications despite unforeseeable run-time events? - Optimization Techniques: Which design-time and run-time techniques as well as combinations of them provide optimized and predictable application mapping for many-cores? - Architecture: Which architectural concepts are required to support predictability, run-time management and (self-)optimization? *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Multiple Objectives & Predictability * Performance * Hard & Soft Real-time * Energy Efficiency * Fault Tolerance & Reliability * Safety * Security * Scalability * Flexibility Specification * Programming * Modelling * Parallelization * Resource awareness Design-time Optimization * Multi-Objective Optimization * Design Space Exploration * Verification * Profiling * Performance Analysis Run-time Optimization * Resource Management * Temperature and Power Management * Decentralized vs Centralized Management * Reconfigurable Computing * Operating System * Online Verification * Auto-tuning * Machine Learning Architecture * Architectural Predictability * Reconfiguration * Power Management * Benchmarking * Monitoring *** SUBMISSION *** Paper can be submitted as regular papers or as position papers. Formats requirements: - up to 8 pages (regular paper) IEEE style - 4 pages (position paper) IEEE style: Preliminary and exploratory work are welcome in this category, including wild & crazy ideas. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend "Position Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Papers are required to be in English using the IEEE style in A4 paper size. Full Paper submission until December 01, 2014 via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=momac2015 All papers undergo a blind review process. Authors will be notified until January 16, 2015. Final version is due to February 16, 2015. All accepted papers will be published in the ARCS Workshop Proceedings and are expected to be published online under IEEE Xplore. *** LOCATION *** MOMAC will be held conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2015), March 24-27, 2015 in Porto, Portugal. *** ORGANIZERS *** Stefan Wildermann (FAU, Germany,stefan.wildermann(a)fau.de) Michael Glaï¿½ (FAU, Germany,michael.glass(a)fau.de) *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Lars Bauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Omar Hammami (ENSTA, France) Markus Happe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Christian Haubelt (University of Rostock, Germany) Akash Kumar (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Martin Lukasiewycz (TUM CREATE, Singapore) Sanaz Mostaghim (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany) Mathias Pacher (University of Hannover, Germany) Gianluca Palermo (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy) Marco Domenico Santambrogio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Muhammad Shafique (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Lucian Vintan (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania) Sebastian Voss (fortiss GmbH, Germany) On the behalf of the organization committee (Michael Glass and Stefan Wildermann), Best regards, Vincent -- Vincent NELIS CISTER Research Unit ISEP - IPP | Rua Dr. Antï¿½nio Bernardino de Almeida 431 4200-072 Porto | Portugal T +351 22 83 40 529 |Homepage <http://www.cister.isep.ipp.pt/people/vincent+nelis/>

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CFP: IEEE TCC SI on Green end Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing
by Carlo Mastroianni 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Special Issue on Green and Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tccsi_geecc.p df Guest Editors Carlo Mastroianni, ICAR-CNR, National Research Council of Italy, mastroianni(a)icar.cnr.it Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA, samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University and Microsoft, USA, ricardob(a)cs.rutgers.edu Editor in Chief Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia, rbuyya(a)unimelb.edu.au Synopsis This special issue will provide the scientific and industrial communities a dedicated forum to present new research, development, and deployment efforts in the field of green and energy- efficient Cloud Computing. For example, while significant advancements have been made to increase the physical efficiency of power supplies and cooling components that improve the PUE index, such improvements are often circumscribed to the huge data centers run by large cloud companies. Even stronger effort is needed to improve the data center computational efficiency, as servers are today highly underutilized, with typical operating range between 10% and 30%. In this respect, advancements are needed both to improve the energy-efficiency of servers and to dynamically consolidate the workload on fewer, and better utilized, servers. Another avenue for optimization has been opened by the increasing adoption of network virtualization and Software Defined Networks (SDNs). The goal is not only to increase the utilization of network components, but also to help migrate portions of workloads across remote data centers to exploit the variability of electricity prices or the availability of renewable energy. In-Cloud Resiliency is another interesting topic, originating from the high and increasing costs required to match reliability and fault-tolerance requirements. In-Cloud Resiliency refers to the possibility of using cloud resources and technology as a means to achieve resiliency goals while reducing the need for failover capacity and redundant infrastructures. This special issue will be an excellent venue to help the community analyze the current state, determine future goals, and define architectures and technologies that will foster the adoption of greener and more efficient cloud resources. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: o Physical efficiency of data centers and cloud infrastructures o Energy- and cost-efficient cloud architectures o Computational efficiency of data centers and cloud infrastructures o Workload characterization and optimization o Use of virtualization to improve the utilization of cloud resources o Dynamic workload consolidation o Efficient balancing of applications and virtual machines o Energy-efficient resource scheduling and optimization o Energy-efficient computation o Energy-aware data storage o Energy-aware resource control and monitoring o Use of DCIM tools to automate data center management o Energy-aware use of DCIM tools o Adoption of green energy to empower data centers and Cloud infrastructures o Energy and cost-efficient network virtualization o Energy and cost-efficient usage of Software Defined Networks o Efficient management of geographically distributed data centers o Energy and cost-efficient reliability and resiliency in cloud computing and data centers o Energy-aware data scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud computing and data centers Important Dates Paper submission: November 30, 2014 First Round Decisions: January 31, 2015 Major Revisions Due (if needed): March 15, 2015 Final Decisions: May 01, 2015 Special Issue Date: As determined by the production queue. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit unpublished and original work to the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), Special Issue on Green and Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing. If the paper is extended from an initial work, the submission must contain at least 50% new material that can be qualified as "brand" new ideas and results. The paper must be in the IEEE TCC format, namely 14 double-column pages or 30 single-column pages (Note: All regular paper page limits include references and author biographies). Please note that the double-column format will translate more readily into the final publication format. A double-column page is defined as a 7.875"×10.75" page with 10-point type, 12-point vertical spacing, and 0.5 inch margins. A single-column page is defined as an 8.5"×11" page with 12-point type and 24-point vertical spacing, containing approximately 250 words. All of the margins should be one inch (top, bottom, right and left). These length limits are taking into account reasonably-sized figures and references. Papers must be submitted using the submission system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs, by selecting the special issue option "SI-GreenCloud."

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CFP: The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering（CSE2014）
by Ligang He 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

The 17th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering（CSE2014） http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/CSE2014 Dec. 19th - 21st, 2014, Chengdu, Sichuan, China -------------- CALL FOR PAPER -------------- CSE2014 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of advanced computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary. CSE2014 will be held on Dec. 19th-21st, 2014 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Topics of interest in this year focus on 12 popular areas in particular, but are not limited to: ●Track 1. Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing ●Track 2. Scientific and Engineering Computing ●Track 3. Database and Data Mining ●Track 4. Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing ●Track 5. Computational Social Systems ●Track 6. Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications ●Track 7. CSE Education ●Track 8. Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing ●Track 9. Advanced Networking and Applications ●Track 10. Security, Privacy and Trust ●Track 11. Service and Internet Computing ●Track 12. Distributed and Parallel Computing ●Track 13. Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing ---------------------- JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES ---------------------- Distinguished papers accepted and presented in CSE2014, after further extensions, will be published in special issues of the several SCI/SCIE/EI Indexed Journals. ● International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing ● Journal of Internet Technology ● International Journal of Communication Systems ● International Journal on Computer Science and Engineering ● International Journal of Emerging Sciences ● More to be confirmed --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Submission Deadline: Sep. 30th, 2014 Author Notification: Oct. 30th, 2014 Camera Ready: Nov. 15th, 2014 Registration Deadline: Nov. 15th, 2014 --------- WORKSHOPS --------- The CSE2014 Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Submit workshop proposals to workshops chairs via emails (E-mail: cse2014conference(a)gmail.com) ---------------- PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE format, and submitted in PDF format via the CSE2014 submission site: http://umc.uestc.edu.cn/conference/CSE2014/CSE_papersubmission.php ------------------ PAPER PUBLICATION ------------------ Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Distinguished papers accepted and presented in CSE2014, after further extensions, will be published in special issues of several SCI/EI Indexed journals.

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Delivery and Adoption of Big Data Services, a special issue of Open Journal of Big Data
by Chang V. 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

Dear colleagues, Open Journal of Big Data (OJBD) has a special issue: Delivery and Adoption of Big Data Services in Contemporary Organizations (DoBD-2015). We welcome papers demonstrating successful Big Data adoption, including review/evaluation, XXX as a Service, business model, architecture/framework, use cases, deliveries in healthcare/finance/education, case studies, security etc. Please refer to the information below for more details. We also organize top-tier international workshops that blend with high-quality journal submission and review processes. Thanks and regards, Victor Journal: http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojbd Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ojbd17 Delivery and Adoption of Big Data Services in Contemporary Organizations (DoBD-2015) ABOUT: This special issue aims at bringing together research in the areas of distributed computing, systems and software engineering, high performance computing, and service science. This collection of publications is useful for academics, researchers, and practitioners seeking the latest practices and knowledge in these fields. Big Data has transformed the way many organizations work and offers added value for operation management and service computing. There are reported benefits such as agility, resource consolidation, business opportunities, and green IT. There are cases where organizations can improve on their efficiency, technical performance, and usability in using or adopting Big Data services due to the fusion of mature technologies such as virtualization, web services, information retrieval, large scale data processing, visualization, storage and backup, high performance calculations, and APIs on mobile devices and Big Data. Thus, this makes an interesting observation to understand what types of services are offered and what their contributions can provide. We are seeking papers to demonstrate proofs-of-concept, design and implementations, successful case studies, and use cases of using or adopting Big Data. SCOPE: The special issue expects original, high-quality papers, including but NOT limited to the following fields: * Use Cases * Evaluation and review * Infrastructure as a Service * Platform as a Service * Application as a Service * How businesses and organizations use Big Data * Technical implementations in healthcare, finance, or education * Big Data services for healthcare, finance, or education * Big Data adoption: case studies, frameworks, or models * Simulations and experiments with reproducible steps * Graphical Processing Unit techniques * Big Data Storage * New demonstrations in public clouds, private clouds, and hybrid clouds * New business models and economics (quantitative or computational only) * Architectures and frameworks (preferably quantitative or computational) * Security * Future research directions and emerging service technology innovation * Reviews or challenges from social science, law, businesses, and non-ICT domains IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: March 1, 2015 Author Notification: May 15, 2015 PREPARATION: For detailed information on the manuscript submission and preparation, please visit Author Guidelines<http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojbd/author-guidelines>.

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CALL FOR PAPERS - ASPLOS 2015 ACM Student Research Competition
by Onur Mutlu 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

CALL FOR PAPERS - ASPLOS SRC 2015 ACM Student Research Competition http://asplos15.bilkent.edu.tr/ASPLOS_ACM_SrC.pdf Important Dates ============= Abstract submission: 11:59pm CST Friday November 14, 2014 Acceptance notification: 11:59pm CST Friday January 16, 2015 Poster Session for Accepts: 12:30 - 14:30, Istanbul, Monday March 16, 2015 (Tentative) Presentations for Finalists: 16:30 - 18:00, Istanbul, Monday March 16, 2015 (Tentative) ASPLOS is the premier forum for multidisciplinary systems research spanning computer architecture and hardware, programming languages and compilers, operating systems and networking, as well as applications and user interfaces. The 2015 conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, a city where two continents meet on the blue waters of the Bosphorus to offer an abundance of unique natural, historical, cultural, and culinary experiences. http://asplos15.bilkent.edu.tr Overview ======= The 20th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) invites participation in the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). Sponsored by ACM and Microsoft Research, the SRC is a forum for undergraduates and graduate students to share their research results, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. †Students accepted to participate in the SRC are entitled to a travel grant (up to $500) to help cover travel expenses. The top 3 undergraduate and graduate winners will receive all of the following prizes: 1. Monetary prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. 2. An award medal (gold, silver or bronze) and a two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM's Digital Library. 3. The names of the winners and their placement will be posted on the ACM SRC web site. 4. In addition, the first place winner in each category (undergraduate, graduate) will receive an invitation to participate in the SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the first place winners of individual conference-hosted SRCs. The top three graduate and undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200, respectively, along with Grand Finalist medals (gold, silver, bronze). Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments, along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award. The SRC consists of two rounds: a poster session and a presentation session. A panel of judges will select a number of finalists from the poster session, who will be invited to the presentation session at ASPLOS 2015 and compete for the prizes. The evaluation will be concentrated on the quality of both visual and oral presentation, the research methods, and the significance of contribution. You can find more information on the ACM Student Research Competition site (http://src.acm.org/) Eligibility ======= A participant in the SRC must meet all following conditions: * The participant must submit an up to 800-word abstract outlining the content of a poster that is going to be presented during the competition. * The abstract must include the poster title, author names, affiliations, and the name of the academic advisor. * It should describe the research problem, motivation and background, techniques and results, and the prospect for clearly and concisely conveying the work in a poster format. * It should state the novelty and contributions of the work explicitly. * The submission deadline is November 14th, 2014 at 23:59 CST. * The abstract must have not appeared before. Novelty is one of the criteria for selection. * The abstract and the poster must be authored solely by the participant. * The participant can be from anywhere in the world, but must be an ACM student member, and must maintain an undergraduate or graduate student status as of November 14, 2014. * In your submission, please indicate whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student. * You may join ACM prior to entering. Basic student membership is $19 per year or less www.acm.org/membership. For each accepted SRC poster, a one-page extended abstract in the ACM format will be included in the ASPLOS 2015 conference proceedings. The content, however, can be included in a future submission to other conferences or journals. Contact ====== For questions regarding the submission process, or for additional information, clarifications, or questions, please contact the ACM Student Research Competition Co-chairs, Eren Kursun (erenkursun(a)gmail.com) and Gurhan Kucuk (gkucuk(a)cse.yeditepe.edu.tr) Sponsors ======= The ACM Student Research Competition at ASPLOS 2015 is sponsored by the ACM and Microsoft Research.

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Final call: ACM SAC Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems
by Karl M. Goeschka 27 Sep '14

27 Sep '14

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ===================== +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 10th Track on Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems (DADS) | | of the 30th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC'15) | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ April 13 - 17, 2015 Salamanca, Spain http://www.dedisys.org/sac15/ http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/ Accepted papers will be published in the ACM conference proceedings and will be included in the ACM digital library. Important Dates: Paper submission: October 10, 2014 (extended) Author notification: November 30, 2014 Camera-ready copies: December 15, 2014 Authors are invited to submit original work not previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere. Authors submit full papers in pdf format using the link to the submission site at http://www.dedisys.org/sac15/. Authors are allowed up to 8 pages, but with more than 6 pages in the final camera ready, there will be a charge of 80USD per extra page. Call details ============ While computing is provided by the cloud and services increasingly pervade our daily lives, dependability and security are no longer restricted to mission or safety critical applications, but rather become a cornerstone of the information society. Unfortunately, large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous software systems that typically run continuously, often tend to become inert, brittle, and vulnerable after a while. The key problem is that the most innovative systems and applications are the ones that also suffer most from a significant decrease in dependability and security when compared to traditional critical systems, where dependability and security are fairly well understood as complementary concepts and a variety of proven methods and techniques is available today. In accordance with Laprie we call this effect the dependability gap, which is widened in front of us between demand and supply of dependability, and we can see this trend further fueled by the demand for resource awareness, green computing, and increasing cost pressure. Among technical factors of dependability, software development methods, tools, and techniques contribute to dependability, as defects in software products and services may lead to failure and also provide typical access for malicious attacks. In addition, there is a wide variety of fault and intrusion tolerance techniques available, including persistence provided by databases, redundancy and replication, group communication, transaction monitors, reliable middleware, cloud infrastructures, fragmentation-redundancy-scattering, and trustworthy service-oriented architectures with explicit control of quality of service properties and service level agreements. Furthermore, adaptiveness is envisaged in order to react to observed, or act upon expected changes of the system itself, the context/environment (e.g., resource variability or failure/threat scenarios) or users' needs and expectations. Provided without explicit user intervention, this is also termed autonomous behavior or self-properties, and often involves monitoring, diagnosis (analysis, interpretation), and reconfiguration (repair). In particular, adaptation is also a means to achieve dependability and security in a computing infrastructure with dynamically varying structure and properties. Topics of interest ================== * Dependable, Adaptive, and trustworthy Distributed Systems (DADS) * Architectures, architectural styles, and middleware for DADS * Protocols for DADS * Modeling, design, and engineering of DADS * Foundations and formal methods for DADS * Applications of DADS * Evaluations, testing, benchmarking, and case studies of DADS * Holistic aspects of DADS Track program co-chairs =============== Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology (Austria) (main contact: dads(a)dedisys.org) Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London (UK) Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland (New Zealand) Program committee ================= Claudio Agostino Ardagna, University of Milan (Italy) Enrique Armendariz, Universidad Publica de Navarra (Spain) Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge (UK) Stefan Beyer, ITI Valencia (Spain) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Marco Casassa-mont, HP Labs - Bristol (UK) Antonio Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) Mauro Conti, Universita di Padova (Italy) Rogerio De Lemos, University of Kent (UK) Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Pisa (Italy) Naranker Dulay, Imperial College London (UK) Frank Eliassen, University of Oslo (Norway) David Eyers, University of Otago (New Zealand) Paul Ezhilchelvan, Newcastle University (UK) Pascal Felber, Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) Lorenz Froihofer, A1 Telekom Austria (Austria) Christina Gacek, City University (UK) Ashish Gehani, SRI International (USA) Kurt Geihs, Universität Kassel (Germany) Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institut (Germany) Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University (Sweden) Matti Hiltunen, AT&T Labs (USA) Shanshan Jiang, SINTEF (Norway) Rüdiger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig (Germany) Mikel Larrea, Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea (Spain) István Majzik, Budapest UTE. (Hungary) Matteo Migliavacca, University of Kent (UK) Gero Mühl, University of Rostock (Germany) Francesc Daniel Muñoz-Escoí, UP Valencia (Spain) Marta Patino-Martinez, UP Madrid (Spain) Fernando Pedone, Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) Jose Pereira, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Guillaume Pierre, IRISA/Universite de Rennes 1 (France) Barry Porter, University of St Andrews (UK) Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA) Luís Rodrigues, INESC-ID/IST (Portugal) Luigi Romano, University of Naples (Italy) Romain Rouvoy, INRIA (France) Matthieu Roy, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse (France) Elad Schiller, Chalmers University (Seden) André Schiper, EPFL (Switzerland) Elena Troubitsyna, Åbo Akademi University (Finland) Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, Uni. degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza (Italy) Ricardo Vilaça, Universidade do Minho (Portugal) Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo (Norway) Nicola Zannone, Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) Uwe Zdun, Vienna University (Austria)

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