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AlCoB 2015: extended submission deadline 9 March
by GRLMC 28 Feb '15

28 Feb '15

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 9 ***** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **************************************************************************** ****** 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AlCoB 2015 Mexico City, Mexico August 4-6, 2015 Organized by: Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3) School of Sciences Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS) Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering National Autonomous University of Mexico Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/ **************************************************************************** ****** AIMS: AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species. Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career. VENUE: AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. SCOPE: Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to: Exact sequence analysis Approximate sequence analysis Pairwise sequence alignment Multiple sequence alignment Sequence assembly Genome rearrangement Regulatory motif finding Phylogeny reconstruction Phylogeny comparison Structure prediction Compressive genomics Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ... Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics ... Microbiome analysis Systems biology STRUCTURE: AlCoB 2015 will consist of: invited lectures peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Julio Collado-Vides (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cuernavaca), >From Curation of Information to Knowledge Encoding Gaston Gonnet (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Human-Dog-Mouse, Probably and Provable Non-trivial Evolution Close to the Root of the Mammalian Clade Peter D. Karp (SRI International, Menlo Park), Algorithms for Metabolic Route Search and Determination of Reaction Atom Mappings PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA) Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia) Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA) Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada) Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China) Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA) Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA) Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, USA) Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan) Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA) Martien Groenen (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK) Javier Herrero (University College London, UK) Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan) Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA) Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA) Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK) Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany) B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA) Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) Zemin Ning (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK) Christine Orengo (University College London, UK) Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain) Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece) Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico) Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain) Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA) Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany) Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France) Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain) Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA) Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK) Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA) Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA) Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA) Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology (Thomson Reuters 2013 impact factor: 1.670) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: March 9, 2015 (23:59 CET) EXTENDED Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015 Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015 Early registration: April 19, 2015 Late registration: July 21, 2015 Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: AlCoB 2015 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: National Autonomous University of Mexico Rovira i Virgili University --- Este mensaje no contiene virus ni malware porque la protección de avast! Antivirus está activa. http://www.avast.com

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ASAP 2015: Paper Submission Deadline Extended
by Vaughn Betz 28 Feb '15

28 Feb '15

*CALL FOR PAPERS* *The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Application-Specific Architectures, Systems, and Processors (ASAP) * July 27-29, 2015, Toronto, Canada www.eecg.toronto.edu/asap2015 *Important Dates:* Abstract Submission: March 9, 2015 (extended) Paper Due: March 16, 2015 (extended) Notification: May 15, 2015 Conference: July 27-29, 2015 *Conference Overview:* The 26th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors 2015 (ASAP 2015) takes place July 27-29, 2015 at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. The conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. The 2015 conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic, cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing, reconfigurable computing, application-specific instruction-set processors, and hardware accelerators. We especially encourage submissions in the following areas: - Big data analytics: extracting and correlating information from large-scale semi-structured and unstructured data using application-specific systems. - Scientific computing: architectures and algorithms that address applications requiring significant computing power and customization (bioinformatics, climate modeling, astrophysics, seismology, etc.). - Industrial computing: systems and architectures for providing high- throughput or low latency in various industrial computing applications. - System security: cryptographic hardware architectures, security processors, countermeasures against side-channel attacks, and secure cloud computing. - Heterogeneous systems: applications and platforms that exploit heterogeneous computing resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, or CGRAs. - Design space exploration: methods for customizing and tuning application- specific architectures to improve efficiency and productivity. - Platform-specific architectures: novel architectures for exploiting specific compute domains, such as smartphones, tablets, and data centers, particularly in the context of energy efficiency. *Guidelines for Submissions:* ASAP 2015 will accept 8-page full papers for oral presentations, 4-page short papers for short oral or poster presentations, with a single-blind review process. Submissions to ASAP 2015 must use the double-column IEEE conference proceedings format. The only accepted file format is PDF. An online submission page will be made available on the ASAP 2015 website and will include detailed guidelines and links to formatting templates. *Organizing Committee:* General Chair: Jason Anderson, University of Toronto Program Co-Chairs: Deshanandh Singh, Altera Corp. Hayden So, University of Hong Kong Finance Chair: Warren Gross, McGill University Publicity Chair: Vaughn Betz, University of Toronto Web Chair: Hiren Patel, University of Waterloo Publications Chair: Yuko Hara-Azumi, Tokyo Inst. of Tech. Industry Chair: Soojung Ryu, Samsung Electronics Qiang Wang, Huawei USA *Advisory Committee:* Steve Langridge, Huawei Canada Blair Adamache, IBM Canada Sean Wagner, IBM Canada Samuel Bayliss, Xilinx, Inc. Kenneth C. Smith, University of Toronto Laura Fujino, University of Toronto

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CFP: Special Issue on Scalable Computing Systems for Big Data Applications (JPDC, IF: 1.011)
by Marc-Eduard Frincu 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

We invite researchers and practitioners focusing on scalable systems and Big Data applications to submit their results in this special issue on 'Scalable Computing Systems for Big Data Applications' published in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier). The submission site and details can be found here: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput… ============== Guest Editors: ============== Prof. Dr. Xian-He Sun Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Dr. Marc Eduard Frincu Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA Dr. Charalampos Chelmis Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, USA ===================== Background and Scope: ===================== The continuous growth of our society has led to complex systems, and also to the need to optimize certain aspects of our day to day activities. Time sensitive applications such as real time power management for smart grids, traffic control or network monitoring require on demand large scale information processing and real time responses. The data these applications gathered on a regular basis from monitoring sensors exceeds the normal storage and capacity power of normal machines or even clusters. In addition, the complexities arising from handling large networked data include but are not limited to data heterogeneity (i.e. variability), data quality (missing/approximate), data temporality (i.e. high-velocity), or data volume. Utilizing new hardware technologies for near real-time Big Data management and processing is of urgent importance as hardware characteristics in state of art scalable computing platforms such as clouds, is undergoing rapid changes, imposing new challenges for the efficient utilization of hardware resources. Recent trends include massive multi-core processing systems, and specialized, high performance co-processors such as GPUs and FPGAs for accelerating large-scale computations. On the storage front, FLASH-based solid state devices (SSDs) and IO accelerators are becoming ubiquitous. In spite of these trends bringing the computational capabilities of supercomputers to cheaper commodity machines, naive usage of these technologies for fast Big Data processing might lead to unbalanced systems or underutilized resources. In this special issue, we invite articles on innovative research to address challenges of fast Big Data processing on emerging compute platforms such as heterogeneous clouds or hybrid architectures, with emphasis on addressing real-time requirements imposed by critical decision making applications in science and engineering. =================== Topics of Interest: =================== Topics of interests for the special issue include but are not limited to: Novel programming models and platforms for large scale I/O intensive applications Scalable software platforms for fast Big Data analytics on heterogeneous clouds and hybrid architectures Acceleration of domain specific Big Data applications on heterogeneous hardware ====================== Special Issue details: ====================== Title: Special Issue on Scalable Computing Systems for Big Data Applications Guest editors: Xian-He Sun, Marc Eduard Frincu, Charalampos Chelmis Submission deadline: June 15, 2015 Acceptance notification: March 2016 Publication: June 2016 Open call: Yes

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GPU Hackathon Call for Teams Deadline March 6th
by Foertter, Fernanda S. 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

**Call for teams closes March 6th** Building on the success of last year's OLCF Hackathon, we are pleased to announce three GPU Hackathons for 2015. The first will be hosted April 20-24 by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications on the UIUC Campus. The second will be hosted by the Swiss National Supersomputing Centre in Lugano, Switzerland from July 6-10. The final one will be hosted by the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility on October 19-23. There will be intensive mentoring during these hands-on workshops. The goal is for teams to leave either with applications running on GPUs or with a clear roadmap of how to get there. Mentors will come from national laboratories, universities, and vendors. Many of them develop OpenACC capable compilers and help define the OpenACC standard in addition to having extensive OpenACC programming experience. More information on these events, including registration pages for the first two is now available at http://bit.ly/2015GPUHack. If you have any questions, they may be directed to Fernanda Foertter (foertterfs(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>). Happy Computing! Fernanda -------------------------------------------------------- Fernanda Foertter National Center for Computational Sciences HPC User Assistance and Outreach Group Oak Ridge National Laboratory O: 865-576-9391 F: 865-241-2850 foertterfs(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Happy Computing! Fernanda -------------------------------------------------------- Fernanda Foertter National Center for Computational Sciences HPC User Assistance and Outreach Group Oak Ridge National Laboratory O: 865-576-9391 F: 865-241-2850 foertterfs(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>

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CFP [Deadline Extended]: International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2015
by Seo, Sangmin 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ICPP 2015 International Conference on Parallel Processing Sept. 2015 Beijing, China http://icpp2015.tsinghua.edu.cn/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2015) will be held in Beijing, China, during September 1-4, 2015. Scope: Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. ICPP 2015 will be organized around the following tracks: Algorithms Applications Architectures Compilers Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics Networking Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Evaluation Programming Models and Systems Software Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to March 24, 2015, 11:59 PM, Anywhere on Earth, Hard Deadline Author Notification: May 9, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2015 Paper Submission: Paper submissions should be formatted according to the CPS standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is strictly limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results. See the link for electronic paper submission instructions. Proceedings: Proceedings of the conference and workshops will be available on CD or USB at the conference and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL for EI indexing. No-show Policy: Accepted paper which is not presented in the conference will be excluded from the final proceedings submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL. Student Travel Grant Awards: There will be travel grant awards from NSF to support US based students to attend ICPP 2015. Each awardee will be given $1,000. Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA) Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University, China) Program Co-Chairs: Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, China) Steering Committee Chair: David Du (University of Minnesota, USA) Sponsor: Sponsored by The International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC) in cooperation with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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IEEE TrustCom-15
by Call for Paper 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15) http://comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/ 20-22 August 2015, Helsinki, Finland Latest news: 6 Keynotes, 7 workshops and 1 tutorial announced Important Dates Workshop Proposal: February 1, 2015 Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+3 hours) March 31, 2015 Authors Notification: May 31, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2015 With the rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for trust, security and privacy are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. As a result, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving trust, security and privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention. The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15) will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 20-22 August 2015. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on trusted computing and communications, with regard to trust, security, privacy, reliability, dependability, survivability, availability, and fault tolerance aspects of computer systems and networks, and providing a forum to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in this highly challenging research field. Topics of interest include, but not limited to Trust Track - Trust semantics, metrics and models - Trusted computing platform - Trusted network computing - Trusted operating systems - Trusted software and applications - Trust in social networks - Trust in e-commerce and e-government - Trust in mobile and wireless communications - Risk and reputation management - Survivable computer systems/networks - Trust of 5G - Miscellaneous trust issues Security Track - Network security - Computer security - Database security - Web applications security - Security policy, model and architecture - Security in social networks - Security in parallel and distributed systems - Security in mobile and wireless communications - Security in grid/cloud/pervasive computing - Authentication, authorization and accounting - Security of 5G - Miscellaneous security issues Privacy Track - Privacy in Web-based applications and services - Privacy in database systems - Privacy in parallel and distributed systems - Privacy in grid/cloud/pervasive computing - Privacy in mobile and wireless communications - Privacy in e-commerce and e-government - Privacy in network deployment and management - Privacy and trust - Privacy and security - Privacy and anonymity - Privacy preservation in 5G - Miscellaneous privacy issues Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/paper_submission.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals. Keynotes (in alphabetical order) Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Mr. Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, Finland Mr. Lauri Oksanen, VP Research and Technology, Nokia Networks Prof. Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Prof. Witold Pedrycz, IEEE fellow, EiC of Information Sciences Canada Research Chair Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE fellow, IEEE Vice President on Technical Activities, EiC of IEEE Systems Journal Workshops and Symposia - TrustSoft 2015 ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/trustsoft2015/) The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Trustworthy Software Systems - TSCloud 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/tscloud2015/) The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing - SpaIoT 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/spaiot2015/) The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Internet of Things - UbiSafe 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/ubisafe2015/) The 7th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing - TrustWSN 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/trustwsn2015/ ) The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Trust and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks - EFINS 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/efins2015/) The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Emerging Future Internet and Network Security - IW5GS 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/iw5gs2015/) The 1st IEEE International Workshop on 5G Security Tutorial: Privacy Engineering Tutorial ( https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/tutorials/pets.html) Organisation Committee General Chairs Valtteri Niemi, University of Turku, Finland Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Program Chair Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Program Vice-Chairs Trust Track Chair Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Security Track Chair Xiangjian (Sean) He, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Privacy Track Chair Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy Steering Committee Steering Co-Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Publicity Chairs Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy Tanveer A Zia, Charles Sturt University, Australia Workshop Chairs Matti Hämäläinen, Digile, Finland Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Web Chair Jesús Llorente Santos, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Please see http://comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/

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IEEE PRDC'15 Industry Track Call
by Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

The 21st IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015) Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015 Call for Industry Contributions http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2015/cfit.html The Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry to present and debate R&D challenges, practical solutions, demonstration, case studies, and discuss reliability issues. IEEE PRDC 2015 is the twenty-first event in the series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing theoretical basics, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing and control systems has become increasingly critical. This Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from industry of countries around the Pacific Rim, but also other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing and control systems. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): 1. Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation 2. Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools 3. Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems 4. Software aging and rejuvenation 5. Safety-critical systems and software 6. Architecture and system design for dependability 7. Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols 8. Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications 9. Cloud and Internet Information security 10. Dependability issues in computer networks and communications 11. Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems 12. Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing Systems 13. Dependability issues in autonomic computing 14. Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems 15. Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems 16. Dependability issues in socio-technical systems Submission Information: Industry track submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages using standard two-column IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Industry Track manuscripts should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying that the submission is an Industry Track Paper. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission web site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prdc2015 Submissions will be reviewed by the Industry Track program committee and evaluated for their relevance to PRDC, the probably interest to the community, and their potential for stimulating further research. Submission of a contribution to the track indicates agreement to have one author present the work, if accepted, at the conference. Important Dates: - Paper Submission Deadline: July 22, 2015 (11:59 PM Beijing Time) - Author Notification: August 15, 2015 - Camera-ready Papers Due: September 15, 2015 - Conference Dates: November 18-20, 2015 Further information is available on: http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2015 Committee: Industrial Track Chair - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland, email: pmu(a)zurich.ibm.com General Co-Chairs - Guojun Wang, Central South University, China; Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs - Dong Xiang, Tsinghua University, China; Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan

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CFP: ACM e-Energy Workshop on Energy-efficient Data Centres - deadline March, the 15th
by Fabien Hermenier 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Due to a number of requests, the deadline of E2DC 2015 has been postponed for few days. New deadline: March, the 15th ----------------------------------------------------------- 4th international workshop on Energy-efficient Data Centres Co-located with ACM e-Energy 2015 14 july, 2015 - Bangalore, India http://www.dc4cities.eu/e2dc_15.html One challenge of society is to reach the United Nation’s max 2°C-climate change goal, which means to reduce at least 80% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. With an increasing share of global industry’s carbon footprint data centres have a high responsibility towards this goal. Innovations like new efficient and energy proportional server generations, energy-aware workload management, or highly responsive data center designs have contributed to slowing down the formerly sharp increase of data centres’ energy demand. However, the ongoing global digitization is counteracting this development. E2DC offers the opportunity for researchers of all data centre domains to commonly advance the potential of yet unknown innovations in order to continue the race for sustainability in and by data centers. The first E2DC workshop was focused on optimizing energy consumption within a data center, the second brought the energy system as new stakeholder into play by suggesting demand response schemes with data centers, and the third opened up further to integrate smart data centers into smart cities. In 2015 E2DC will include an additional perspective: What are the specific energy challenges for data centers in emerging markets? Are there technical and business solutions aimed at the specific characteristics of emerging markets? Topics will not be confined to technical solutions, but extend to economic issues of the proposed solutions, addressing researchers from both industry and academia. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Novel green ICT business models and data centres - Emerging Markets and data centre energy procurement o Demand response strategies integrating data centres o Optimizing the use of renewable energy sources in data centres - Smart cities and data centre integration - Energy awareness by applications and service architectures o Communication and network solutions o Infrastructure and architectures management o Cloud and high performance computing o Big data and large scale simulations o Data storages and reservoirs o Software defined data centre, storage, network, ... - Metrics and KPIs for green data centres - Standardization and eco-efficient data centres IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: March 15, 2015 Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2015 Submission of camera-ready papers: May 15, 2015 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=e2dc2015 The workshop invites original papers of 6 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere.Manuscripts will be published in the ACM proceedings and must adhere to ACM format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register and present the paper at E2DC. The organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if it is not presented. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Sonja Klingert University of Mannheim, Germany Gunnar Schomaker Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Germany Fabien Hermenier University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France For more information please contact klingert(a)informatik.uni-mannheim.de

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Call for Papers: GTMC2015 USA
by Janielle Tan 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

The Global Technology Management Conference (GTMC2015) July 15 - 17, 2015 » Minnesota, USA http://sdiwc.net/conferences/gtmc2015/ gtmc15(a)sdiwc.net All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: ***Information Technology Information and Data Management The Management of IT Investments Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks Enterprise Architecture Management Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications Information Ethics Information Security and Cryptography Information Content Security Computational Intelligence Information Management The Management of “Green” IT Web Services Security Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks ***Computer Science Biometrics Technologies Computer Security Distributed and Parallel Applications Cloud Computing Network Security Multimedia Computing Computer Architecture Information Retrieval Computer Forensics Data Mining Wireless Communications Access Control Digital Signal and Image Processing Computer Animation Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing ***Business, and Technology In Education Educational Technology Mobile Computing Mobile Learning E-commerce Business Models E- Learning Debugging Tools and Learning Computer-aided Systems Education In Computational Science Business Intelligence and Web Services Future Development of E-Business E-Government E-Business Applications and Software ***Manufacturing Systems Design and Manufacturing Human-Machine Interface Modeling and Design Automation Intelligent Processing of Materials Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering Design and Green Manufacturing Networks Design, Protocols and Management ***Engineering Technology Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging Globalization of Engineering Industrial Engineering Robotics and Mobile Machines Robotics and Atomization Engineering Applications of AI Techniques in Design and Manufacturing Biomedical Signal Processing Computer Architecture for Intelligent Machines All the submitted papers will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers. The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, ProQuest, and Google Scholar Databases, in addition they will be submitted for POSSIBLE inclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, and ResearchGate. In addition, BEST registered papers will be published in one of the following special issues provided that the author do major improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor: International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA) International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) International Journal of E-Learning and Educational Technologies in the Digital Media (IJEETDM) LOCATION: GTMC2015 will be organized by Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA; cooperation with The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). All the activities of the conference will take place in USA. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: 1. Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations. 2. Papers must be without page numbers 3. Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format without author(s) name(s). 4. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 5. If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can send the manuscript by email to gtmc15(a)sdiwc.net with subject: GTMC2015 Paper Submission, Please provide following information in your email: Names, complete address details of all authors, email addresses and the title of the submission. 6. Paper submission link: http://tinyurl.com/lk2ezxr All the accepted papers will be published in one of the following proceedings of the conference. In addition, all accepted papers will be published in one of the special issues listed in the conference website provided that the author do improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Date Open from now until June 15, 2015 Notification of Acceptance 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission Open from now until July 05, 2015 Last Day for Registration It is recommended before July 05, 2015 Conference Dates July 15 - 17, 2015 For more information please visit : http://tinyurl.com/kfgn3af email at: gtmc15(a)sdiwc.net Janielle Conference Manager SDIWC

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13th Charm++ Workshop Call for Papers/Talks - May 7-8 2015
by Yanhua Sun 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] Call for Papers/Talks *13th Workshop on Charm++ and its Applications* May 7-8, 2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA Authors are invited to submit abstracts describing research and development in the broad themes of parallel processing emphasized by Charm++ and AMPI, including message-driven execution, automated resource management, and compositionality. Some specific topics of interest include: - Parallel computing algorithms and applications - Tools and techniques for performance analysis and tuning - Parallel discrete event simulation techniques and applications - Parallel libraries and frameworks - Extensions and new features in Charm++ - Tools and techniques for application development and debugging - Massively parallel processing on future machines - Fault tolerance and resilience - Novel parallel programming models and abstractions - Adaptive runtime systems - Runtime management of power, energy, and heat Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts from one to three pages. The *presentations* will be posted at the workshop website, but there will be no published proceedings. Authors are encouraged to publish them in other conferences. Please send submissions to Yanhua Sun(sun51(a)illinois.edu) by the deadline below. **Important Dates Abstracts Due March 25th, 2015 Notification of Acceptance March 30th, 2015 Workshop May 7-8th, 2015 Early submission is welcome and will expedite the reviewing process. Authors of early submissions will be notified of their acceptance as soon as possible. Please forward this invitation to any colleagues who may be interested. Last year's workshop talks can be found http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/workshops/charmWorkshop2014/program.php *Contact Information* If you have any question about the submission, please email to sun51(a)illinois.edu

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