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REPPAR'16 - Call for Papers and Tutorials / Demos / Contributed Talks
by Sascha Hunold 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

============================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS AND DEMOS/TUTORIALS/TALKS 3rd International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (REPPAR) http://reppar.org August 22 or 23, 2016 in conjunction with Euro-Par 2016 (August 22-26), Grenoble, France ============================================================================ 1 Scope ======= The workshop is focused on the design, implementation, execution, and analysis of experiments in parallel and distributed computing (including HPC, Clouds, Networking, Big Data) to improve the reproducibility of results. 2 Topics addressed in the workshop include: =========================================== - Experimental design of parallel computing experiments - Experiences and best practices for conducting experiments (including papers that address the reproduction of other articles) - Supporting reproducibility in experimental testbeds for parallel computing - Tools for reproducible research (e.g., control of experiments, versioning, archiving) - Analysis of experimental data (e.g., visualization, statistical analysis, provenance) - Automated uncertainty quantification for experimental workflows (or data-focused workflows) - Systems to incorporate (potentially very large) data into automated testing frameworks - Sustainable models for public data sharing 3 Paper Types ============= - full workshop paper: a regular article with up to 10 pages Please note that only full workshop papers (10 pages), which have been positively reviewed by at least three referees before being presented at the workshop, may be included in the workshop proceedings. 4 Demos and Tutorials ===================== We welcome demos and tutorials addressing (potential) solutions to the reproducibiblity/replicability problem. Please contact us directly if you want to give a tutorial (demo). 5 Contributed Talks =================== The workshop will provide several slots (20 min talk + 5 min questions) for contributed talks. We therefore invite scientists to submit abstracts (max. 1 page) of contributed talks that are related to the workshop topics. The abstracts accepted for contributed talks will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Please submit the abstract through EasyChair. 6 Important Dates ================= - Workshop papers due: 6 May 2016 - Workshop author notification: 17 June 2016 - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings) due: 29 July 2016 - Workshop camera-ready papers due: 3 October 2016 - Demos/Tutorials proposals due: 10 June 2016 - Abstract of contributed talks due: 10 June 2016 7 Proceedings ============= Accepted articles will be published in the Euro-Par workshop proceedings after the conference. 8 Submission ============ Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference system. [https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2016ws] To submit your paper, log in to the EasyChair website of the Euro-Par workshops (Euro-Par 2016 WS) and select the track "Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (REPPAR)". Papers should not exceed 10 pages and must comply with the Springer LNCS format. Papers that do not comply with this format will be rejected. 9 Organizers ============ - Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, LIG Grenoble, France - Lucas Nussbaum, CNRS, LORIA, France - Mark Stillwell, Imperial College London, UK 10 Program Committee ==================== - James McClure, Virginia Tech, USA - Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Lab, USA - Robert Ricci, University of Utah, USA - Luka Stanisic, Inria Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest, France

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ASBD 2016: Call for papers
by 姚治成 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

| | | Sixth Workshop on Architectures and Systems for Big Data ( ASBD 2016 ) Held in conjunction with The 43st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA 2016) June 18, 2016 Seoul, Korea Submissions deadline: April 10, 2016 Author notification: April 30, 2016 | ISCA-2016 | | | Call for papers The term "Big Data" refers to the continuing massive expansion in the data volume and diversity as well as the speed and complexity of data processing. The use of big data underpins critical activities in all sectors of our society. Achieving the full transformative potential of big data in this increasingly digital world requires both new data analysis algorithms and a new class of systems to handle the dramatic data growth, the demand to integrate structured and unstructured data analytics, and the increasing computing needs of massive-scale analytics. We are pleased to request papers for presentation at the upcoming Fifth Workshop on Architectures and Systems for Big Data (ASBD 2016) held in conjunction with ISCA-43. The workshop will provide a forum to exchange research ideas related to all critical aspects of emerging analytics systems for big data, including architectural support, benchmarks and metrics, data management software, operating systems, and emerging challenges and opportunities. We hope to attract a group of interdisciplinary researchers from academia, industry and government research labs. To encourage discussion between participants, the workshop will include significant time for interactions between the presenters and the audience. We also plan to have a keynote speaker and/or panel session. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Processor, memory and system architectures for data analytics Benchmarks, metrics and workload characterization for big data Accelerators for analytics and data-intensive computing Implications of data analytics to mobile and embedded systems Energy efficiency and energy-efficient designs for analytics Availability, fault tolerance and data recovery in big data environments Scalable system and network designs for high concurrency/bandwidth streaming Data management and analytics for vast amounts of unstructured data Evaluation tools, methodologies and workload synthesis OS, distributed systems and system management support for large-scale analytics Debugging and performance analysis tools for analytics and big data Programming systems and language support for deep analytics MapReduce and other processing paradigms for analytics We encourage researchers from all institutions to submit their work for review. Preliminary results of interesting ideas and work-in-progress are welcome. Submissions that are likely to generate vigorous discussion will be favored! Submission format: All papers should be submitted in PDF format, using 10 point or larger font for text (8 points or larger for figures and tables), total length not to exceed 6 pages. Paper Submission : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=asbd2016 Committees | | Workshop Co-Organizers: Lixin Zhang, ICT/CAS China Yungang Bao, ICT/CAS China Program Co-Chairs: John Kim, KAIST South Korea Xiufeng Sui, ICT/CAS China Program Committee: TBD | Steering Committee: Jian Li, Huawei Jichuan Chang, Google Evan Speight, IBM Research | | Important Dates Submissions deadline: April 10, 2016 Author notification: April 30, 2016 Prior Workshops: ASBD 2015 ASBD 2014 ASBD 2013 ASBD 2012 ASBD 2011 | | |

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MSPS 2016 CfP: Extended deadline
by Maria Engracia Gomez Requena 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Parallel Systems (MSPS 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2016/workshop18-ms… As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info July 18 – July 22, 2016 The University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria Extended Submission Deadline: March 22, 2016 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Large parallel systems have become mainstream of both commercial and scientific computing. Shared-memory systems with hundreds of processors are commercially available, while a new generation of massively parallel systems have pushed the limits of scalability to unprecedented levels. Designing and understanding these systems requires new simulation and modeling approaches that can be effective at those scales. New software- and hardware-based simulation techniques have been developed to cope with those challenges. The goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel systems. We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas: MSPS Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas: • Parallel Simulators • Hardware accelerators for simulating parallel systems • Bootstraping: Using a current generation system to design the next generation • Modeling and simulation at the data centers level • Use of reconfigurable logic for simulation of parallel systems • Machine learning for developing models of parallel systems • New and novel approaches to modeling and simulation of large and complex systems • Evaluation Methods and Studies PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers on the above and other topics related to modeling and simulation of high performance parallel computing systems. 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 authors 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 at additional fee. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2015.cisedu.info/home/cts-2015-posters for the posters submission details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple authors, an indication of which author(s) is responsible for correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript using the Workshop Easy Chair link at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msps2015 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. If the submission is for a poster paper or short paper, indicate that as well on the manuscript and in the form's Comments field. Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, contributions, 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 special session. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2015 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., EI indexing). If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the Workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submissions March 22, 2016 Notification of Acceptance April 23, 2016 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due May 15, 2016 Conference Date July 18 - 22, 2016 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Maria Engracia Gomez Requena Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores Universitat Politècnica de València Camino de Vera, Valencia 46022 Spain Phone: +34 96 387 70 07, Ext 75750 Fax: +34 96 387 75 79 Email: megomez(a)disca.upv.es Julio Sahuquillo Borrás Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores (DISCA) Universitat Politècnica de València Camino de Vera, Valencia 46022 Spain Phone: +34 96 387 75 77, ext. 77577 Fax: +34 96 387 75 79 Email: jsahuqui(a)disca.upv.es International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2016. • Jesús Escudero, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain • Pier Francesco Flogia, Università di Pisa, Italy • Pedro Javier Garcia, Universidad de Castilla la Mancha, Spain • Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy • Shih-Hao Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan • Javier Navaridas, University of Manchester, U.K. • Salvador Petit, Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, Spain • Tor Skeie, Simua Labs, Norway • Alejandro Valero, Univesitat Politècnica de Catalunya • Rafael Ubal, Northeastern University • Sonia López Alarcón, Rochester Institute Of Technology, New York, USA • Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany • Wilfried Gansterer, Universität Wien, Austria ------------------------------------------------ We love you. 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CFP:The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2016)
by Yang Wang 28 Feb '16

28 Feb '16

The 6th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2016) ============================================================= ----------------- Important Dates ----------------- Workshops proposals deadline: April 5th, 2016 Paper submission for main conference deadline: May 1st, 2016 Paper submission for workshops deadline: May 20th, 2016 Paper decision to authors: June 15th, 2016 Camera ready & Author Registration deadline: July 10th, 2016 Early Registration deadline: July 25th Conference dates: October 8-10, 2016 --------------------------------- Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------- Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. The length of papers should not exceed 8 pages in the IEEE CS Conference format, including tables, figures, and references. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must register for the conference and present the work. All accepted and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by IEEE CPS (EI indexed). Submit your paper(s) at the submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdcloud2016 Some of the best works from all accepted and presented BDCloud 2016 papers (after their expansion and second round of independent reviews) will be invited into special issues of carefully chosen IEEE and ACM journals. We contacted the editorial board of three journals and received encouraging response about the possibility of offering a special issue of this journal based on the works presented during the BDCloud 2016 conference. ============================================================== --------------------------------- Introduction --------------------------------- Big data is a term applied to many data sets with sizes going beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, process and analyze the data within a tolerable time period. Such datasets are usually characterized by having high VARIETY due to the data coming from various sources or having highly unstructured character (examples include data from social media, sensor networks, scientific applications, video and image formats, websites and documents, Internet search indexes, medical records, business transactions, web logs, etc.); and large VOLUMES that are needed to be processed with high data VELOCITY (I/O-intensive systems). Moreover, big data need to be high VALUE and VERACITY for decision makers to effectively take action and trust the results and rationale. Cloud computing is an increasingly popular approach for delivering information infrastructures and resources as computing services. A broad range of customers (both enterprises and individuals) can usually provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models, which let them save significant capital investments in their own computing infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally will be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing can provide significant storage, computation, and distribution capabilities in support of solving multiple Big Data challenges. The BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) conference was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners, and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as support synergy of both fields. ------------------- Topics ------------------- Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Fundamentals of cloud computing • Architectural cloud models • Programming cloud models • Provisioning/pricing cloud models • Data storage and computation in cloud computing • Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing • Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data • Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing • Access control to cloud computing • Resource virtualization • Monitoring and auditing in the cloud • Scalable and elastic cloud services • Social computing in the cloud • Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies for the cloud • Mobile commerce, handheld commerce, and e-markets in the cloud • Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing • Migration of business applications to the cloud • Energy efficient cloud architecture • Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing • Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in the cloud • Green Cloud • Cloud use case studies • Big Data theory, applications and challenges • Big Data mining and analytics in the cloud • Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and cloud computing • Big Data visualization • Large data streams and incremental datasets in the cloud • Distributed and federated datasets • NoSQL data stores and DB scalability • Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust • Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization • Distributed file systems for Big Data • Big Data processing, resource scheduling, and SLA in the cloud • Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization • Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems • Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data • Storage and computation management of Big Data • Large-scale workflow management in Big Data • Data management and distributed data systems • Big Data applications --------------------- Organizing Committee --------------------- == General Chairs== Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia == Program Chairs == Rafal Angryk, Georgia State University, USA Xiaojun Cao, Georgia State University, USA Guanchun Luo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China == Proceedings Chair == M. Shahriar Hossain, University of Texas at El Paso, USA == Workshop Chair == Juan Banda, Stanford University, USA == Publicity Chair == Yang Wang, La Salle University, USA == Local/Organizing Chair == Tammie Dudley, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA == Finance/Registration Chair == Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA == Web Chairs == Bing Li, Georgia State University, USA Ning Yu, Georgia State University, USA == Program Committee == See BDCloud-2016 web site: http://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~bdcloud/ -------------------- Contact Information -------------------- If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission, please email to bdcloud2016(a)gmail.com.

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Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) 2016
by hzy＠cs.otago.ac.nz 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) December 6-9, 2016 - Tongji University - Shanghai, China - Call for Papers Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2016/ Context and Scope: Cloud Computing delivers computational resources ondemand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2016, to be held in Shanghai, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. This will be the 9th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), and Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015). UCC 2016 will have a co-located 3rd International Conference on Big Data Science, Engineering and Applications (BDSEA 2016). CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications • Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications • Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business, as well as large- scale foundations for Big Data and analytics • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contexts Important Dates: Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2016 Tutorial proposals due: 03 July, 2016 Paper submissions due: 03 July, 2016 Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2016 Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2016 Early registration deadline: 21 September, 2016 Paper Submission: Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and 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. Borderline papers may be accepted as short papers but all submissions must be full papers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received in EasyChair by July 03, 2016. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors. Further details on the publication and registration regulations are published on the UCC website and need to be followed. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her published paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Templates: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2016 Awards and Special Issues: One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to reputable journals for special issues. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers锟斤拷 scores and appropriateness to the journal锟斤拷s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the conference webpage. Program Committee Chairs: • Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Technical Programme Committee: • Jörg Domaschka, Institute of Information Resource Management, Ulm University • Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences • Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon • Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research • Andrew Edmonds, ZHAW • Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck • Sebastian Götz, Technische Universät Dresden • Philipp Leitner, University Of Zurich • Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen • Kashif Munir, UOHB • Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University • Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus • Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna • Thomas Beach, Cardiff University • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza • Marc Lacoste, Orange Labs • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology • Siani Pearson, HP Labs • Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories • Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney • Fabio L锟斤拷pez-Pires, Itaipu Technological Park • Flavio Frattini, University of Naples Federico II • Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University • Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton • Paul Krause, University of Surrey • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation • Andrey Brito, UFCG • Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute • Jianxin Li, Beihang University • Shrideep Pallickara, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University • Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba • Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University • Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Samee Khan, North Dakota State University • Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington • Daniel Waddington, Samsung Electronics • Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University • Ryan Ko, University of Waikato • Tim Cockerill, Texas Advanced Computing Center • Alex Sim Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory • Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan • Peter Membrey, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University • Nasro Allah, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China • Adel Toosi, The University of Melbourne • Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University • Ivona Brandic, TU Wien • David Walker, Cardiff University • Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, EPCC, University of Edinburgh • Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas • Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University • Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University • Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit • Massimo Villari, University of Messina • Lee Gillam, University of Surrey • Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Durham University • Raquel Lopes, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande • Rodrigo Calheiros, The University of Melbourne • Jean-Pierre Corriveau, School of Computer Science, Carleton University • Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University • tbc.

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ASAP 2016: Final CFP - paper deadline 18th March
by Thomas, David B 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

ASAP 2016 www.asap2016.org<http://www.asap2016.org> The 27th Annual IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors Jul 6th-8th 2016, London, England Important Dates: Title and abstract submission: March 4th, 2016 (updated) Full paper submission: March 18th, 2016 (updated) Notification of acceptance: April 22th, 2016 Conference: July 6th-8th, 2016 The ASAP 2016 conference will cover the theory and practice of application-specific systems, architectures and processors. The 2016 conference will build upon traditional strengths in areas such as computer arithmetic, cryptography, compression, signal and image processing, network processing, reconfigurable computing, and all types of hardware accelerators. Organizing Committee for ASAP 2016 General Chair: David Thomas, Imperial College London Program Chair: Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick Publicity Chair: Tobias Becker, Maxeler Technologies Papers on the traditional topics of FCCM as described below are solicited. Novel research in the general area of reconfigurable computing is also encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. 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 scientific applications requiring significant computing power and design 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.

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CfP- Fourth ACM International Workshop on Many-core Embedded Systems (MES)
by Masoumeh Ebrahimi 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

(Please accept our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement) Call for Paper Fourth ACM International Workshop on Many-core Embedded Systems (MES) in conjunction with the 43rd International symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-2016) June 19, 2016, Seoul, Korea http://mes.utu.fi/index.html Special Issue: Elsevier's Microprocessors and Microsystems Journal (MICPRO) General Scope Many-core embedded systems (MES) are moving towards the integration of hundreds of cores on a single chip and hold the promise of increasing performance through parallelism. As the number of cores integrated into a chip increases, the on-chip communication becomes a power and performance bottleneck in future MESs. On-chip network has been proposed as the most viable solution to meet the performance and design productivity requirements of the complex on-chip communication infrastructure. NoCs provide an infrastructure for better modularity, scalability, fault-tolerance, and higher bandwidth compared to traditional infrastructures. On the other hand, developing applications using the full power of MES requires software developers to transition from writing serial programs to writing parallel programs. On top of that, contemporary Operating Systems (OS) have been designed to run on a small number of reliable cores and are not able to scale up to hundreds of cores. Therefore, designing scalable and fault-tolerant OSs will be a tremendous challenge in future MESs. As neuromorphic and mixed-signal architectures are emerging as an alternative solution beyond the conventional digital von Neumann machines for complex applications, we would like to highlight such emerging architectures in this workshop. In addition, we would like to emphasize on energy efficient (real-time) data processing in the realm of Big data and IoT applications through MESs. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the researchers from academia and the experts from industry to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions in the design, modeling, prototyping, programming, and implementation of MES. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Networks/Systems-on-Chip * Neuromorphic Architectures * Applications mapping * (Embedded) OS * Real-time and mixed-criticality * 3D Stacked Architectures * Reliability issues * Physical design * Synthesis, verification, debug & test * Performance and power issues * Reconfigurability aspects * FPGA implementation * Parallel programming models and scalable software * Compiler technologies * Many-core as accelerators * Heterogeneity challenges * Big data and IoT applications * Data-centers and supercomputers * Dynamic power management and energy harvesting Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, including tables and figures, and must be formatted in accordance to the ACM two column style. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking whereby, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Proceeding and Special Issue: The accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library (confirmed). Selected papers will be considered for the special issue of Elsevier's Microprocessors and Microsystems (confirmed). Instruction for Paper Submissions: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on topics related to many-core embedded systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column ACM formatted pages, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Papers must be formatted in accordance to the ACM two column style. ACM Word or LaTeX style templates are available here<http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. In addition, Authors should apply ACM Computing Classification<http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998> categories and terms. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop EasyChair link at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mes2016 Important Dates: Submission deadline: March 15th Notification of acceptance: April 25th Camera ready: May 15th Invitation for special issue: May 1st (tentative) Organizers: Masoud Daneshtalab (KTH, Sweden) Maurizio Palesi (Kore University, Italy) Program Chairs: Masoumeh Ebrahimi (KTH, Sweden & UTU, Finland) Diana Goehringer (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)

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CFP Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2016)
by Jerome Vienne 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2016) As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/ July 18 – July 22, 2016 The University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, Austria Submission Deadline: March 07, 2016 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES: Benchmarks are used to quantify the ability of computers to solve problems effectively. Widely used benchmarks enable comparison between different computers, yet there are also cases where performance on many benchmarks is needed to assess performance of a particular application without running that particular application. Community agreement on a good choice of candidate benchmarks to fully evaluate parallel and distributed systems is lacking. Many algorithms have been proposed and appear in the state of the art of many application domains such as image processing, cryptography, pattern recognition, signal processing, document analysis, etc… In order to quantify the performance and the benefits of a new algorithms, it is necessary to benchmark them and compare them to older algorithms. The computer architecture on which the benchmark is run is also important since it may favor some kinds of algorithms over other algorithms. In most cases, the benchmark problem size is really important. One wants to understand what computational resources will effectively solve the problem quickly and correctly for different problem sizes. This special session focuses on research works aimed at benchmarking parallel and distributed systems for solving real world problems. Furthermore, benchmarking related contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, studies on the distribution of computation tasks and applications in different fields in computer science or from other domains are sought. The HPBench topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization - Benchmarking on the Cloud, Clusters, Supercomputers - Benchmarking Performance of I/O - Benchmarking Web Services - Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking - Data Distribution for Benchmarking - Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) - Scalability of Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Benchmarking Scientific and Business Parallel Applications - Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation - Applications (not limited to): image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, solution of differential equations, etc. PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. 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 to the Special Session paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2016. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2016 conference to present the paper at the Special Session. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2016 Conference 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 projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly. -- Jerome Vienne, Ph.D Research Associate Texas Advanced Computing Center The University of Texas at Austin (512) 475-9322 viennej(a)tacc.utexas.edu

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Call For Papers CCIS 2016
by Qing Yang 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Call For Papers The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2016) August 17-19, 2016, Beijing, China http://ccis2016.caai.cn/ Research and applications on cloud computing and intelligent systems have been extensively developed in the past years. We have witnessed numerous successes in various critical sectors of our society. As always, the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS) series provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, present their latest research work, discuss challenging issues, and share experiences primarily in the fields of cloud computing and intelligence systems. The past CCIS conferences were held in Beijing (2011), Hangzhou (2012), and Shenzhen & Hong Kong (2014), respectively. CCIS 2016, the 4th edition of this series, will be held at Beijing, August 17-19, 2016. The theme of CCIS 2016 is embracing challenges of cloud computing and intelligent technology at the age of big data. The conference features a comprehensive technical program, including multiple interesting and inspiring keynote speeches, frontline panel discussions, and technical paper sessions. The conference proceeding will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit extensions to several Special Issues (tentative), including: -IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.699) -Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.229) -Nurocomputing (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.083) -China Communications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.344) Keynote Speakers: -Prof. Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, Austria, IEEE Fellow) -Prof. Xiang-Yang Li (The University of Science and Technology of China, China, IEEE Fellow) -Prof. Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) -Prof. Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology, Finland, IEEE Fellow) Topics: We solicit submissions from any topic related to cloud computing and intelligent systems, including, but not limited to the following three topical areas. Cloud Computing Track Cloud infrastructure Cloud management and operations Cloud service Cloud security Multi-Cloud Collaboration Cloud Storage Intelligent Technology Track Machine learning Pattern recognition and image processing Knowledge representation and reasoning Natural language processing Multi-agent systems Intelligent control System and Application Track Robotic system Internet of Things system Mobile cloud system Mobile sensing system Applications in smart city Co-sponsored by: IEEE Beijing Section Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence Patrons: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2016 Acceptance notification: May 25, 2016 Camera-ready submission: July 1, 2016 Conference date: August 17-19, 2016 Submission instruction: Before submission, authors should register with the conference first. Please visit the Registration page of the conference website (http://ccis2016.caai.cn/) and then fill out the form. Authors will receive a confirmation email upon a successful registration. Afterwards, authors can sign in the system and submit papers. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Papers should be submitted electronically as Microsoft WORD files and through the online system. Standard templates for Microsoft Word formats can be found in the following link: http://ccis2016.caai.cn/dct/page/70002. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including references, without incurring additional page charges. One additional page is allowed with over-length charge after acceptance of the submission.

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Call for Participation: IC2E 2016 and IoTDI 2016
by Kun Bai 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

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