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CfP - Special Issue on JSA "Reliable Software Technologies for Dependable Distributed Systems"
by MARIA SOLEDAD GARCIA VALLS 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r p a p e r s Special Issue on "Reliable Software Technologies for Dependable Distributed Systems" JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE (JSA), Elsevier. (Indexed by JCR) Submission deadline: April 20th, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS: The number of distributed applications as well as the number of users accessing remote infrastructures and applications has increased exponentially in the last decade. New computing infrastructures are now capable of hosting complex applications, being still the main bottleneck on the software side. The software platforms are constantly challenged by the progress pace of hardware, e.g.,multi-core, GPU accelerated processing, or high speed intra- and inter-node communication networks. The software level highly impacts systems’ dependability. This special issue calls for contributions on design and implementation of dependable systems. Software intensive dependable systems design and implementation models that efficiently manage the platform resources. Contributions on the selection and evaluation of distributed interaction models for middleware, software technology choices, model-based design including accurate though flexible temporal behavior modeling, resource efficiency, performance, scalability, and coordination are requested. Contributions may focus at the different levels of the software stack of a reliable system: operating systems, middleware, programming models, security, and related mechanisms to enhance the flexibility and reliability. Topics include (but are not limited to) the challenging issues in the design of reliable and resource efficient software infrastructures for dependable distributed systems, possibly at large scale: * Distribution models (publish-subscribe, remote invocations, events,etc.) * Model driven design * Resource management, quality of service, and real-time * Operating systems and virtualization technology * Software enabling tools for cyber-physical systems * Distributed embedded systems * Performance and quality models in distributed dependable settings * Exploiting computation power of hardware (multi-core, GPUs, etc.) * Experiences in actual application scenarios * Security in large scale deployments * Quality-aware on-line stream processing SUBMISSION FORMAT: Contributions should be novel, original work, not previously published. Papers should not be under review at any scientific event (conference, workshop, journal, etc.). Papers that have been previously published in conferences or journals are encouraged to be submitted if they contain, at least, 35% new material and results. This should be clearly indicated in the cover letter. Submissions will be between 8 and 10 pages in double column format at the initial submission stage. Up to 12 pages after considering reviewers comments and for the camera ready version. IMPORTANT DATES: The timeline for the review process is as follows: - Submission: April 20th, 2016 - Tentative publication: December 16 / April 17 GUEST EDITORS: António Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany -- MARISOL GARCIA VALLS Universidad Carlos III de Madrid http://www.it.uc3m.es/mvalls

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CFP: Final submission deadline of IEEE Workshop PCO 2016 in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2016 Chicago and Special Issue of AJOR
by Didier El Baz 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers: IEEE Workshop PCO 2016 Sixth IEEE Workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization http://pco2016.sciencesconf.org/ to be held in conjunction with Symposium IEEE IPDPS, Chicago USA, May 23, 2016 Final Submission Deadline: January 25, 2016. A Special Issue of American Journal of Operations Research will be dedicated to selected papers of PCO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope of the Workshop: The workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed computing for difficult combinatorial optimization problems, like 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems and global optimization problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for the solution of these difficult problems like cooperative methods for integer programming problems and polynomial optimization methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. In particular, we solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and relatives (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Finally, the use of new approaches in parallel computing like GPU, MIC, peer to peer computing and cloud computing will be considered. Application to planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology will be considered. Topics: * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming. * Global optimization, polynomial optimization. * Exact methods, heuristics. * Graph partitioning, preconditioning, Combinatorial Scientific Computing, * Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization. * Parallel metaheuristics. * Distributed optimization algorithms. * Hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems. * Peer-to-peer computing and optimization problems. * GPU, MIC, Cloud computing. * Applications: planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2016 Notification of acceptance: mid February 2016 Camera ready papers due: February 28, 2016 Workshop: May 23, 2016 Submission details: Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PCO 2016 submission system: http://edas.info/N21516 Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 25, 2016. Authors shoud preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced, double column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style) including figures, tablesand references. Style templates are available at the IPDPS 2016 web page: http://www.ipdps.org/ A Special Issue of American Journal of Operations Research will be dedicated to selected papers of PCO dealing with parallel Computing and Combinatorial Optimization: http://edm.scirp.org/template/showTemplateInfo?showId=85776&personName=Mhan… Chairs: Dr Didier El Baz, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse France Dr. Bora Ucar CNRS and ENS Lyon, France Program Committee: E. Alba, University of Malaga, Spain J. Baker, Kent State University, USA V. Boyer, University od Nuevo Leon, Mexico P. Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China U. Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan F. Galea, CEA, France A. Gomez-Iglesias, National Fusion Laboratory, Spain M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA M. Hifi, Université de Picardie, France G. Jourjon, NICTA Sidney, Australia K. Kaya, BMI, USA M. Lalami, LAAS-CNRS, France B. Le Cun, University of Paris 10, France C. Leon, University of La Laguna, Spain K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA A. Pothen, Purdue University, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France E. Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA E. Talbi, University of Lille, France B. Ucar, ENS Lyon, France L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Contacts: pco2016-chairs(a)edas.info Dr. Didier El Baz LAAS-CNRS Toulouse, France elbaz(a)laas.fr http://homepages.laas.fr/elbaz/ Dr. Bora Ucar CNRS and ENS Lyon, France bora.ucar(a)ens-lyon.fr

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Extended Deadlines: VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
by Carlos Ferreira 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2016) University of Porto, Porto, Portugal June 27 - 30, 2016 http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: (EXTENDED DEADLINES!) Deadline for submission: *** February 5th, 2016 *** Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2016 Camera ready version: May 2nd, 2016 The International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR) is the premier venue for presenting and discussing the latest research and practice in high end computer modeling and complex systems. VECPAR encourages submission of research contributions from academia, research laboratories and industry to address pressing issues in computational science resulting from applications of interest to society and hardware innovations. VECPAR'16, the 12th edition of the VECPAR series of conferences is organized by the University of Porto, Portugal, and will be held at the Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences. An award is planned for best student papers. Contributions are solicited in all areas of computational science and engineering (CS&E), including (but not limited to) the following topics: * Large scale Simulations in CS&E * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Parallel Algorithms * Numerical Algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Symbolic algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Support Tools and Environments * Scheduling and Load Balancing * Performance Analysis, Evaluation and Tuning You should make your submissions through EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecpar2016 Submitted papers must be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Please note that papers (for conference presentation) must not exceed 8 pages in length, using the LNCS format. Accepted papers will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR'16. Printed versions of the invited talks and a set of selected papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be limited to 14 pages and will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. More information about this process will be sent to interested authors after the conference. Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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Call for Papers (Deadline March 07): SHPCS 2016 - 11th International Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems
by Luca Spalazzi 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

[Apologies for multiple copies.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS SHPCS 2016 : 11th International Workshop on Security and High Performance Computing Systems ( http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2016/workshop09-sh… ) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As part of The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/ July 18 - 22, 2016 Innsbruck, Austria SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 07, 2016 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Providing high performance computing and security is a challenging task. Internet, operating systems and distributed environments currently suffer from poor security support and cannot resist common attacks. Adding security measures typically degrade performance. This workshop addresses relationships between security, high performance and distributed computing systems in four directions. First, it considers how to add security properties (authentication, confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, access control) to high performance computing systems and how they can be formally verified both at design-time (formal verification) and at run-time (run-time verification). In this case, safety properties can also be addressed, such as availability and fault tolerance for high performance computing systems. Second, it addresses vulnerabilities and security threats (and remediation) targeting HPC, grid, cloud and mobile environments. Third, it covers how to use HPC systems to solve security problems. For instance, a grid computation can break an encryption code, a cluster can support high performance intrusion detection or a distributed formal verification system. More generally, this topic addresses every efficient use of a high performance computing systems to improve security. Fourth, it investigates the tradeoffs between maintaining high performance and achieving security in computing systems and solutions to balance the two objectives. In all these directions, various formal analyses, as well as performance analyses or monitoring techniques can be conducted to show the efficiency of a security infrastructure. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of security related to HPC, distributed, network and mobile environments, as well as case studies and implementation experiences. Papers should have practical relevance to the construction, evaluation, application, or operation of secure systems. The SHPCS Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - Access Control - Accounting and Audit - Anonymity - Applied Cryptography - Authentication - Commercial and Industry Security - Cryptographic Protocols - Data and Application Security - Data/System Integrity - Database Security - Digital Rights Management - Formal Verification of Secure Systems - Identity Management - Inference/Controlled Disclosure - Information Warfare - Intellectual Property Protection - Intrusion and Attack Detection - Intrusion and Attack Response - Key Management - Mobile Security - Privacy-Enhancing Technology - Secure Networking - Secure System Design - Security Monitoring & Management - Security for Mobile Code - Security for Specific Domains (e.g., E-Government, E-Business, P2P) - Security in IT Outsourcing - Security in Wireless Networks - Security in Untrusted & Adversarial Environments and Systems - Security in Operating Systems - Security Location Services - Security of Grid and Cluster Architectures - Security Visualization - Smartcards - Trust Management Policies - Trust Models - Web Security - Web Services Security SHPCS welcomes submission of papers describing: - Experimental work to measure existing systems and applications - Industrial experience relevant to the Workshop-s themes - Theoretical work on specific new models - Software and hardware platforms from the angle of security and performance - Short papers describing ongoing work. Submitted papers should highlight their application or relevance for HPCS computing. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Security and HPC in each local/distributed application fields (Grid, Cloud, mobile). Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters/posters-inst… for the submission details) will also be accepted for submission. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript using the Workshop EasyChair submission link at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/-conf=shpcs2016. Only PDF files will be accepted, submitted via the link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Proceedings: Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2016 web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is to be published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services accordingly (e.g., SCOPUS, EI indexing -). SPECIAL ISSUE: Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for a special issue in a distinguished ISI Journal. More details will be announced later. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Extended Paper Submissions: ---------------------------- March 07, 2016 Acceptance Notification: ---------------------------------- April 07, 2016 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------- May 1, 2016 Conference Dates: ---------------------------------------- July 18-22, 2016 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Alessio Merlo DIBRIS - University of Genova Viale F. Causa, 13, 16145, Genova, Italy Phone: +39 010 353 2344 Fax: +39 010 353 2948 Email: alessio.merlo(a)unige.it Mauro Migliardi DEI - University of Padua Via Gradenigo, 6/B, I-35131, Padova, Italy Phone: +39 328 1003221 Email: mauro.migliardi(a)unipd.it Luca Spalazzi DII - Università Politecnica delle Marche Via Brecce Bianche, 12, I-60131, Ancona, Italy Phone: +39 071 2204829 Email: l.spalazzi(a)unipvm.it International Program Committee: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2016. - Sherenaz Al Haj Baddar - University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan - Ezio Bartocci - TU Wien, Vienna, Austria - Matthias Buchler - Technische Universitat, Munchen, Germany - Roberto Carbone - FBK, IRST, Trento, Italy - Valentina Casola - University of Naples, Federico II, Italy - Aniello Castiglione - University of Salerno, Italy - Luca Compagna - SAP Research Center Sophia Antipolis, France - Gabriele Costa - University of Genoa, Italy - Jorge Cuellar - Siemens, Germany - Paolo Gasti - New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA - Johann Großschädl - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Dieter Hutter - DFKI GmbH, Germany - Martin G. Jaatun - SINTEF ICT, Norway - Rafal Kozik - Institute of Telecommunications, UTP Bydgoszcz, Poland - Jean-Francois Lalande - LIFO, Universite d'Orleans, France - Gabriele Oligeri - University of Roma Tre, Italy - Jose A. Onieva - Universidad de Málaga, Spain - Davide Schipani - Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland - Toshihiro Yamauchi - Okayama University, Okayama, Japan For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference-s web site at URL: http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/ or contact one of the Conference's organizers.

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CFP: 6th International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms
by Etienne Riviere 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

CloudDP 2016: 6th International Workshop on Cloud Data and Platforms London, UK, April 18th 2016 Co-located with EuroSys 2016 http://clouddp2016.inesctec.pt/ Call for Papers Processing of very large data sets requires a unique combination of data management and distributed systems engineering knowledge. The data management challenges include, among others, the development of new approaches and algorithms that can reduce the complexity of the data processing and allow incremental, continuous, and as accurate as possible result production. Simultaneously, the sheer volume and velocity of the data require support of systems which can automatically and adaptively scale up and out in order to accommodate big data processing algorithms. The focus of this workshop is on new cloud-based data management and processing systems which span tens of thousands of machines in order to support processing of contemporary, very large data sets. Such systems require novel architectures, programming models and designs that go beyond approaches used in fixed-sized compute clusters. The focus of such systems is to support the work of users who interactively explore and analyze large and quickly changing data sets. The right platforms and techniques can simplify and accelerate the design, implementation, and execution of new “big data” applications. In the past, data processing in the cloud has been dominated by batch processing paradigms such as MapReduce, but increasingly users seek to consume their results in near real-time. In order to efficiently support these new types of applications, it is necessary to overcome challenges when supporting adaptive, near real-time processing of data in cloud environments. Ultimately, adaptive low-latency data processing across large number of machines brings a new set of problems related to systems, distributed systems and geo-distribution, networking, fault-tolerance, and data management research. Instead of providing a forum for merely extending existing cloud data systems and platforms, we hope to encourage the discussion of radical new alternatives. In particular, we want to foster the development of new infrastructures and platforms that rethink how data can be processed in cloud-based systems. We plan to attract research that has the potential to underpin the next generation of scalable and efficient data management applications on top of high-level, flexible platforms. The topics of the workshop relate to various aspects of cloud-based data management platforms, and the resulting challenges for the supporting cloud infrastructures. Specifically, we invite submissions focusing on, not exclusively: * adaptive data management * case studies * cloud networking * cloud storage * cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust * dependability and fault tolerance * elasticity and adaptive scheduling * energy management * large-scale and distributed deployments * mobile and edge cloud computing * multi-tenancy and virtualization * new processing paradigms * new programming models * predictability in cloud environments * resource allocation and provisioning * vertical and horizontal scalability Submissions The workshop format will change this year in order to facilitate submissions and to maximize the feedback that authors will receive about the work. Submissions are expected to be 1 page long, clearly and concisely conveying the challenges being addressed and hinting at key aspects of the proposed approach or solution. Reviews will also be short, in the order of 1 paragraph per review. However, every submission will be reviewed by every member of the workshop’s program committee. The workshop will not publish proceedings, therefore making it easy to submit improved versions of the same ideas in other forums. Paper submission can be done on the workshop website. Important Dates Paper Submission deadline: February 26, 2016 (23:59, anywhere on earth) Notification of acceptance: March 11th, 2015 Workshop Venue The CloudDP 2015 workshop is co-located with the EuroSys 2016 conference. Please refer to the EuroSys 2016 local information pages for details about the venue and accommodation. Workshop Organizers: * Rui Oliveira, INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal * Guillaume Pierre, IRISA & Université de Rennes 1, France Technical Program Committee: * Rui Oliveira, INESC TEC & University of Minho, Portugal (co-chair) * Guillaume Pierre, IRISA & Université de Rennes 1, France (co-chair) * Ed Bugnion, EPFL, Switzerland * Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK * Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA * Zbigniew Jerzak, SAP AG, Germany * Bettina Kemme, McGill University, Canada * Dejan Milojicic, HP labs, USA * Etienne Rivière, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland * Luis Veiga, Técnico Lisboa - ULisboa / INESC-ID Lisboa, Portugal * Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, UFCG, Brazil * John Wilkes, Google, USA

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CFP - PSTI 2016: Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Software, Tools and Tool Infrastructures
by Josef Weidendorfer 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Software Tools and Tool Infrastructures (PSTI 2016) Philadelphia, PA, USA Held in Conjunction with ICPP 2016, The 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 16-19, 2016 http://www.psti-workshop.org =============================================================================== BACKGROUND The advent of multicore and manycore systems requires that programmers understand how to design, write and debug parallel programs effectively. The increased complexity of multi-threaded parallel programming on multicore platforms requires more insight into program behavior, and necessitates the use of tools that can support programmers in migrating existing software to multicore platforms, and in writing new multi-threaded parallel software. Programmers need increasingly sophisticated methods for instrumentation, measurement, analysis and modeling of applications. Developers need both sophisticated tools to support parallel software development, and an extensible tool infrastructure that promotes integration of existing and new tools, and simplifies information exchange and access. KEY DATES Submission Deadline: April 8, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: May 9, 2016 Final Papers Due: June 3, 2016 Workshop Date: Aug 16, 2016 TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to * Static and dynamic analysis tools * Instrumentation, measurement, analysis, and modeling of applications * Analysis and visualization tools for assisting programmers with parallel software design * Active testing tools * Applications profiling and performance analysis * Data visualization and analysis infrastructures PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions should be formatted according to the CPS standard double-column format with a font size of 10 pt or larger and are strictly limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results. At least one author of every accepted paper is required to attend the conference in order for the paper to be included in the final proceedings. Proceedings of the workshop will be published in electronic format and will be available at the conference. For paper submissions please use https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psti2016 For more details please see the PSTI website at http://www.psti-workshop.org/2016 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Josef Weidendorfer, TU Munich, Germany Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University, USA Karl Fuerlinger, LMU Munich, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE Xavi Aguilar, KTH Stockholm, Sweden Daniel Becker, Siemens AG, Germany Karl Fuerlinger, University of Munich, Germany Sascha Hunold, TU Wien, Austria Ali Jannesari, TU Darmstadt, Germany Karen Karavanic, Portland State University, USA Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden, Germany Alice Koniges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Jialin Liu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Brian Wylie, FZ Juelich, Germany =============================================================================== -- Dr. Josef Weidendorfer, Informatik, Technische Universität München TUM I-10 - FMI 01.04.035 - Tel. 089 / 289-18454

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FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION AsHES 2016 Workshop Co-located with IPDPS
by Antonio J. Peña 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

=========================================================== AsHES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS =========================================================== The Sixth International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2016 May 23rd, 2016 To be held in conjunction with 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium <http://www.ipdps.org> Chicago Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois, USA Important Dates (AoE) ======================================== Paper Submission: Jan. 20, 2016 (FINAL EXTENSION) Paper Notification: Feb. 18, 2016 Camera-Ready: Feb. 25, 2016 Workshop Scope and Goals ======================================== Current and emerging systems are deployed with heterogeneous architectures and accelerators of more than one type (e.g. GPGPU, Intel® Xeon Phi(tm), FPGA) along with hybrid processors of both lightweight and heavyweight cores (e.g APU, big.LITTLE). Such architectures also comprise hybrid memory systems equipped with stacked/hierarchical memory and non-volatile memory in addition to regular DRAM. Programming such a system can be a real challenge along with locality, scheduling, load balancing, concurrency and so on. This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators and heterogeneous designs on the hardware systems, porting applications, performing compiler optimizations, and developing programming environments for current and emerging systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance and productivity of applications on these systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are involved in application studies for accelerators and other heterogeneous systems, to learn the opportunities and challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): * Strategies for programming heterogeneous systems using high-level models such as OpenMP, OpenACC, low-level models such as OpenCL, CUDA; * Methods and tools to tackle challenges in scientific computing at extreme scale; * Strategies for application behavior characterization and performance optimization for accelerators; * Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPGPU, Intel® Xeon Phi™, and future heterogeneous platforms; * Models of application performance on heterogeneous and accelerated HPC systems; * Compiler Optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems including parallelization, loop transformation, locality optimizations, Vectorization; * Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous and accelerated architecture design; * Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerators; * Tools and techniques to address both performance and correctness to assist application development for accelerators and heterogeneous processors; * System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators; Papers Submission Guidelines ======================================== Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for latex or word for details. Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ashes2016 Journal Special Issue ======================================== The best papers of AsHES 2016 will be included in a *Special Issue on Topics on Heterogeneous Computing* of the Elsevier International Journal on Parallel Computing (PARCO) <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/>, edited by Sunita Chandrasekaran and Antonio J. Peña. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the AsHES workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. Steering Committee ======================================== Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware, USA Xinmin Tian, Intel, USA Michael Wong, IBM, Canada General Chair ======================================== James Dinan, Intel Corporation Program Chair and Co-Chairs ======================================== Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Committee ======================================== Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee, USA Gabriele Jost, Intel Corporation, USA Jeff Hammond, Intel Labs, USA Seeyong Lee, Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA John Lidel, Texas Tech University, USA James Beyer, NVIDIA Corporation, USA Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Mahantesh M Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Stephen Olivier, Sandia Nationl Lab, USA Guido Juckeland, TU Dresden, Germany Matthias Muller, TU Aachen, Germany Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Hennry Jin, NASA, USA Dong Li, University of Calfornia, Merced, USA Khaled Hamidouche, The Ohio State University, USA Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University, USA Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Hao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, NVIDIA Corporation, USA Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Nacho Navarro, UPC- Univesity Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain Kelly Shaw, University of Richmond, USA Yongpeng Zhang, Stone Ridge Technology, USA Fangfang Xia, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Questions? ======================================== Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes(a)mcs.anl.gov -- Antonio J. Peña, PhD Senior Researcher Barcelona Supercomputing Center http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/staff-directory/pena-antonio WARNING / LEGAL TEXT: This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential, proprietary, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing, copying, or in any way using this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and destroy and delete any copies you may have received. http://www.bsc.es/disclaimer

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Extended Deadline: SDM 2016 Workshop on Mining Networks and Graphs (MNG 2016)
by Maleq Khan 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

** Submission deadline extended to Jan 29. CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== MNG 2016 Third Workshop on Mining Networks and Graphs: A Big Data Analytic Challenge http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/maleq/MNG2016/ in conjunction with SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2016) May 5 - 7, 2016, Miami, FL, USA ===================================================================== Description: ---------- Networks are emerging as a common language to model a wide variety of systems in life sciences, engineering, and social sciences. Real-world applications give rise to networks that are unstructured and often comprised of several components. Furthermore, they can support multiple dynamical processes that shape the network over time. The workshop will focus on processing and mining large-scale networks and is targeted for researchers and practitioners interested in data mining, machine learning, massive data analytics, network science, social networks and high performance computing in its broadest sense. Both theoreticians as well as practitioners, including system builders and individuals applying network analytic methods in application domains will be benefited from this workshop. Papers are invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following: * Network Analytics o Sequential, parallel distributed methods for computing structural properties of networks o Big data and networks o Parallel and distributed simulations of contagion processes over networks o Provable algorithms, rigorous heuristics for structural and dynamic analysis of networks o Empirical analysis of methods o Linear algebra and numerical analysis for mining networks o Fusion of heterogeneous data sources into a graph o Scalable heterogeneous graph stream mining * Network Contagion, Control and Optimization o diffusion of information, innovations, ideas, beliefs over networks o emergence of norms o interventions to prevent contagion o influence maximization o Inference of network structure, contagions and pathways * Game Theory in Social Networks and Social Contagion o influence maximization o influence blocking maximization game o other game-theoretic approaches * Network Modeling o exponential random graph models o stochastic actor models o network evolution models, etc. * Practical Applications of Networks o Real-world applications of networks in health, marketing, online media o Case studies in social behavioral and economic sciences o Description of large-scale systems to address network science problems o Social network analysis o Biological network analysis o Computer network analysis for cybersecurity The full-day workshop will feature: invited talks, contributed talks, and a short session and/or a panel discussion on open problems and directions for future research. Papers that describe original and ongoing research as well as those that describe systems and tools are solicited. *Important Dates: ---------------------- * * Paper submissions due: January 29, 2016 * Author notification: February 8, 2016 * Camera-ready versions: February 13, 2016 For more information and submission instructions, please visit http://staff.vbi.vt.edu/maleq/MNG2016.

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PASM 2016 Deadline extension
by Nigel Thomas 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Submission deadline now 25th January! Eighth International Workshop on Practical Applications of Stochastic Modelling PASM'16 5th April 2016 Münster, Germany (collocated with MMB and DFT 2016) http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/nigel.thomas/PASM16.htm Important dates ------------------ Paper submission deadline: Monday 25th January 2016 Notification to authors: Thursday 18th February 2016 Camera-ready deadline: Monday 7th March 2016 Scope of Workshop ---------------------- We encourage papers which apply current well-developed formalisms (stochastic Petri nets, stochastic process algebras, layered queueing networks, etc) to real-world case-studies. These studies might be of traditional web-service, Grid or computer architectures but also we strongly encourage studies from inter-disciplinary collaborations, such as biological and physical systems. The common link is to see how researchers from diverse fields have overcome the problem of modelling large concurrent and stochastic communicating systems to obtain the particular style of stochastic metric that is important to their field. Successful contributions may have demonstrated some novel theoretic advance to model their system or will have been diligent in constructing a detailed and realistic stochastic or probabilistic model and carried the modelling through to the analysis phase. Extra credit will be given for models which are backed up by experiment or simulation. The aim is to end up with a collection of papers which could be used as outstanding examples of modelling practice in the field of stochastic modelling and exhibit all phases of the modelling lifecycle. Some suggested topics on which we would encourage submission, are listed below. This is by no means an exhaustive list and any paper in the general area of the conference scope would be warmly welcomed. # Case-study analysis using stochastic paradigms and novel analytic variations on those paradigms to enable better practical analysis, e.g.: - stochastic process algebras - stochastic Petri nets - layered queueing networks - stochastic automata networks - queueing networks - fluid stochastic Petri nets - stochastic ambient calculus # Specific interdisciplinary topics that we would be particularly interested to hear from include application of systematic probabilistic or stochastic analysis techniques to, for instance: - biological/epidemiological models - models of computer virus/worm infection - spatial modelling of chemical/nuclear reactions - decision making, planning and scheduling - geophysical models of large dynamical systems: e.g. weather/ocean systems, lava flows # Stochastic and probabilistic models from computing areas such as: - power consumption/conservation - computer security - cloud computing - distributed and fault-tolerant systems - adhoc wireless communication systems - embedded systems - safety-critical systems - cyber-physical systems - smart cities - performance analysis of massively parallel architectures # Methods for the solution of practical large-scale problems, for instance: - Parallel and distributed solution of Markov chains - Performance analysis using GPU-accelerated architectures - Fluid approximations - Mean field analysis - Stochastic simulation - Product form solution - MTBDD based methods - State space reduction

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Deadline Extension ParSocial 2016 (IPDPS Workshop) IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems
by John Korah 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple postings] **Deadline Extension: January 25, 2016** ################################################################################################ CALL FOR PAPERS The 1st IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems May 27 2016, Chicago Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois USA. Conference Website : http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial Contact Email : parsocial(a)cs.iit.edu (In conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)) IMPORTANT DATES Extended Paper submission deadline : January 25, 2016 Notification of acceptance : February 14, 2016 Camera-ready papers : February 21, 2016 Workshop : May 27, 2016 ################################################################################################ ABOUT PARSOCIAL Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods, such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how social information can be utilized to better understand social processes, and model the evolution of social systems over time. We have also seen a rapid proliferation of sensor technologies, such as smartphones and medical sensors, for collecting a wide variety of social data, much of it in real time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, such as MapReduce, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and simulation, and new tools for analysis. These two trends have dramatically broadened the scope of computational social systems research, and are enabling researchers to tackle new challenges. These challenges include modeling of real world scenarios with dynamic and real-time data, and formulating rigorous computational frameworks to embed social and behavioral theories. The 1st IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial) provides a platform to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, such as computer science, social sciences, applied mathematics and computer engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing. The papers selected for ParSocial will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. There are also plans to invite selected papers for publication in a special issue of a journal. CALL FOR PAPERS Areas of research interests and domains of applications include, but are not limited to: *Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems* Social network based models Models of social interactions (e.g. influence spread, group formation, group stability, and social resilience) Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models (e.g. modeling emergence in social systems) Models incorporating socio-cultural factors Novel agent based social modeling and simulation Modeling with uncertain, incomplete social data Models using real-time social data Representations of social and behavioral theories in computational models Simulation methodologies for social processes including numerical and statistical methods Models for network dynamism Modeling human and social elements in cyber systems (e.g. cyber-physical systems, socio-technical systems, and network centric systems) Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms *Analysis of massive social data* Algorithms for dynamic social data Algorithms for social network analysis Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data Social analysis methods on parallel and distributed frameworks Social computing for emerging architectures (e.g. cloud, multi-core/many-core, GPU, and mobile computing architectures) *Application* Emergency management (e.g. infrastructure resilience, natural disaster management) National security (e.g. political stability, counter-terrorism, and homeland security) Health science (e.g. disease spread models, health informatics, and health care analytics) Social media analytics (e.g. business analytics, political analysis, and economic analysis) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Please visit the workshop website(http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial) for details on submission. For additional information and questions, please send email to parsocial(a)cs.iit.edu and indicate “ParSocial 2016” in the subject to avoid the spam filter.

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