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ARMS-CC 2016 (PODC 2016)
by Florin Pop 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

****************************************************************************** * ARMS-CC 2016 Workshop * * Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, * Held in conjunction with PODC 2016 (http://www.podc.org) * Chicago, Illinois, July 29, 2016 * * Webpage: http://arms-cc.hpc.pub.ro * ****************************************************************************** Call for Papers --------------- We have a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the ARMS-CC 2016, Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing, held in conjunction with PODC 2016, Chicago, Illinois, July 29th, 2016. Welcome ------- Following the success of last years editions of ARMS-CC held in Donostia-San Sebastián (2015) and Paris (2014), the third edition of ARMS-CC workshop aims at providing a venue for researchers, engineers, and practitioners involved in the development of new resource management methods, scheduling algorithms, and middleware tools for Cloud Computing. The goal is to provide an interactive and friendly yet professional forum for original research contributions describing novel ideas, groundbreaking results or quantified system experiences, in the context of PODC Symposium. The work presented in ARMS-CC workshop can report and summarise on previous work, present early new results or put forward new and outrageous ideas. We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing (ARMS-CC 2016). The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to: Foundational Models for Resource Management in Cloud Distributed Scheduling Algorithms Load-Balancing and Co-Allocation Dynamic, Adaptive and Machine Learning based Distributed Algorithms Self-* and Autonomic Cloud Systems Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition Fault Tolerance, Reliability, Availability of Cloud Systems Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control Cloud Quality Management and Service Level Agreement (SLA) High Performance Cloud Computing Many-Task Computing Mobile Cloud Computing Green Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Platforms for Big Data Resource Management in Big Data Platforms Scheduling Algorithms for Big Data Processing Resource Management for different Applications: Smart-Cities, e-Health, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Simulation and Performance Evaluation ARMS-CC workshop would be of interest to the PODC community because it highlights the consideration of self-* improvements, which is explicitly focused on resource utilization and combines local and global enforcement solutions, supports the estimation of resources needed, scalability, mobility, reliability, and fault tolerance. General Chairs -------------- Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, Email: florin.pop {at} cs.pub.ro Radu Prodan, Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Email: radu {at} dps.uibk.ac.at Program Committee ----------------- Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA Alexandru Costan, INRIA / INSA Rennes, France Ana Oprescu, VU University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bogdan Ghit, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Reseach, Dublin, Ireland Bogdan Simion, University of Toronto, Canada Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucarest, Romania Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Florina Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland Gabor Kecskemeti, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA / INSA Rennes, France Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) / Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), USA Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Juan J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia , Canada Stefania Costache, IBM Research, USA Thilo Kielmann, VU University (Vrije Universiteit) Amsterdam, The Netherlands Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucarest, Romania Xiaomin Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China Important Dates --------------- The schedule of ARMS-CC is as follow: Abstract registration: 08-May-2016. Submission deadline: 15-May-2016. Author notification: 12-June-2016. Camera-ready due: 01-July-2016. Workshop: 29-July-2016, Chicago, Illinois. Paper Submission and Publication -------------------------------- The full paper in PDF format will be submitted via EasyChair system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=armscc2016. Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines available on the PODC conference web page. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chairs to receive instructions. ARMS-CC Workshop at PODC-16 will have a separate proceedings, which will be published in ACM Digital library. Submissions should not exceed 6 pages in length (in ACM format). Formatting a full paper, the author is requested to strictly conform to the template provided by ACM. The detailed author’s instruction and the related template files to be used with the most popular Document Composition tools (LaTeX, Microsoft Word), are available at the following URL: http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html. The final paper MUST be formatted according to the above instructions. The program committee, potentially assisted by outside referees in limited cases, will do reviewing of full papers. We will assign in the first step three reviewers for a submission and, if we not have a clear decision we will designate an advocate. The evaluation will be based on originality, scientific significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication. A special issue for extended papers and submission rules will be announced before the workshop. Rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will attend the workshop to present it. This is the strong condition for a submission to be considered for publication in the special issue. Registration ------------ The registration for ARMS-CC will follow PODC registration rules. Best regards, Florin Pop and Radu Prodan

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Call for Papers for the International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation (TAPEMS 2016)
by Juan A. Rico 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

Call for Papers for the International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation (TAPEMS 2016) http://tapems.unex.es/tapems2016 <http://tapems.unex.es/tapems2016> Organization: The workshop will be organized by the University of Extremadura, the University Carlos III and the University College Dublin, and will be held by the ICA3PP 2016 conference. The workshop is organized in cooperation with NESUS (Networks for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing) eCost Action. Venue & Dates: Granada, Spain, December 14-26, 2016 Introduction and scope: Performance and an aspect of it, energy efficiency, has become a key issue in both high performance and embedded computing. The objective of the 1st TAPEMS International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss current advances and trends in theoretical approaches to the performance evaluation, modeling and analysis of parallel applications and algorithms on multicore clusters and heterogeneous platforms, including simulation. Three main areas are considered: 1. Performance modeling and evaluation. We pursue contributions on methodologies, metrics, formalisms and tools for the performance prediction and analysis of any subsystem of current machines, such as processor, communications, memory and I/O. 2. Modeling energy efficiency of communication runtimes. Power is considered the major impediment in designing the next-generation exascale systems, particularly affected by the cost of the communications. Current communication performance models as LogGP predict communication completion times. We look for links between communication performance modeling in terms of both time and consumed energy. 3. Heterogeneous computing systems. Submissions in this area are encouraged to model workload and communication in order to optimize energy and performance in heterogeneous computing. The list of topics for this workshop include (but not limited to): - Performance modeling, prediction and optimization of parallel algorithms and applications. - Performance modeling and evaluation of communications in parallel applications. - Theoretical strategies, methodologies and application of the theoretical aspects to the improvement of the performance. - Performance analysis of parallel architectures and applications. - Performance modeling and simulation of parallel algorithms and applications on heterogeneous systems. - Performance modeling, prediction and optimization of communications, algorithms and applications on heterogeneous systems. - Theoretical and practical approaches for load balancing on heterogeneous platforms. - Performance evaluation and modeling of big data techniques. - Theoretical and practical approaches to reduce the energy consumption in parallel systems. - Modeling, prediction and measurement of energy consumption on parallel platforms. - Modeling and analysis of energy consumption in relation to performance. - Benchmarking and simulation of energy consumption in parallel applications on parallel and heterogeneous architectures. - Application of the models to applications in different scientific fields. Submission and publication information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the ICA3PP 2016 conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ica3pp2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ica3pp2016>) with PDF format. Note that you have to select the track: “TAPEMS 2016: International Workshop in Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation” at the beginning of the submission procedure. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least two reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the workshop to present the work. All accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), by Springer (EI Indexed).

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IEEE DASC 2016 CFP: Paper Submission Deadline Extended to March 31, 2016
by Conference Contact 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2016) http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc2016/ Auckland, New Zealand, 8-12 August 2016 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) INTRODUCTION ============= As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capabilities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, natural disasters, etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyse, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirements of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences and the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. DASC 2016 will be held on 8-12 August 2016 in Auckland, New Zealand, co-located with CyberSciTech 2016, IEEE DataCom 2016 and IEEE PICom 2016. It aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust and/or autonomic computing systems. SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to: - Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications - Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment - Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems - Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms - Dependable Sensors, Devices, Embedded Systems - Dependable Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems - Self-improvement in Dependable Systems - Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems - Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing - Software Engineering for Dependable Systems - vSafety-critical Systems in Transportation and Power System - Security Models and Quantifications - Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, and PaaS - Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security - DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection - Context-aware Access Control - Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software - Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War - Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems - Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing - QoS in Communications and Services - Information and System Security - Reliable Computing and Trusted Computing - Wireless Emergency and Security Systems - Information Technology in Biomedicine - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks - Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design, and Performance Evaluation - Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems - Software Engineering for Emerging Networks, Systems, and Mobile Systems - Service Oriented Architectures IMPORTANT DATES =============== Workshop Proposal Due: 29 February 2016 Paper Submission Due: 31 March 2016 Author Notification: 30 April 2016 Demo/Poster Papers Submission Due: 5 May 2016 Author Notification: 20 May 2016 Camera-ready Paper Due: 31 May 2016 Registration Due: 31 May 2016 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been published or under review in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format and submitted via DASC 2016 website: http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc2016/sub/. Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be within the scope of DASC. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Poster/demo papers need to be submitted to the Poster/Demo Chair. Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions. Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (EI indexed). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for fast-track publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). COMMITTEES ========== General Chairs Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Justin Shi, Temple University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales, Australia Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Temple University, USA Nurul I Sarkar, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Executive Chairs Kevin Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Steering Committee Jianhua Ma(Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang(Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Yuanshun Dai, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China Workshop Chairs Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Yong Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Yizhi Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Demo/Poster Chair Sheng Wen, Deakin University, Australia Jianwen Xiang, Wuhan University of Technology, China Publicity Chairs Ilsun You, Soonchunhyang University, Korea Yingjie Xia, Zhejiang University, China Yu Wang, Deakin University, Australia Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan CONTACT ======= For any question please don't hesitate to contact us at dasc_2016(a)googlegroups.com

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IEEE CAMAD 2016: International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks
by Burak Kantarci 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 21st International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD 2016) October 23-25, 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada http://www.ieee-camad.org ----- Important Dates: Paper Submission: May 15, 2016 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2016 Camera-Ready Version: August 1, 2016 Scope The International Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), provides a forum for discussion of recent developments on analytical and simulation tools and techniques for the performance evaluation of communications systems. It was launched in 1986, being held every 2 years until 2006, often in cooperation with flagship IEEE Communication Society conferences (Int. Conference on Communications - ICC, Global Telecommunication Conference - GLOBECOM). Since 2007, the workshop has been held once every year motivated by the ever increasing interest in this hot research and development field, and since 2009 CAMAD is an attractive IEEE Communications Society portfolio event. IEEE CAMAD 2016 will be held as a stand-alone event on 23-25 October 2016, at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. IEEE CAMAD will focus on Communications for Smart Cities this year. IEEE CAMAD will be hosting several special sessions, and will bring together scientists, engineers, manufacturers and service providers to exchange and share their experiences and new ideas focusing on research and innovation results under wireless communications in smart cities. In addition to contributed papers, the conference will also include keynote speeches, panel and demo sessions. IEEE CAMAD is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics including, but not limited to, the following: Autonomic Communication Systems and Self-Organized Networks Big data in the network Body Area Networks and Applications Cloud Computing, Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networks Cognitive Radio and Network Design Communications for Smart Home and Community Cross-Layer & Cross-System Protocol Design Design of Content Aware Networks and Future Media Internet Design of Satellite Networks Design, Modeling and Analysis of Wireless, Mobile, Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Design, Modeling and Analysis of Network Services and Systems Design, modeling and analysis of Ubiquitous sensing in Internet of Things Future Service Oriented Internet Design Green Wireless Communication Design Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Integrated Communication Systems Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Internet of Things and Machine-to-Machine Communications Modeling and Simulation Techniques for Mobile Social Networks Next Generation Mobile Networks Network Monitoring and Measurements Network Optimization and Resource Provisioning Next Generation Internet Optical Communications & Fiber Optics Network Management, Middleware Technologies and Overlays Quality of Experience: Framework, Evaluation and Challenges Seamless Integration of Wireless, Cellular and Broadcasting Networks with Internet Fast Simulation Techniques for Communication Networks Simulation Techniques for Large-Scale Networks Smart Grids: Communication, Modeling and Design Test Beds and Real Life Experimentation Traffic Engineering, Modeling and Analysis Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements ----- Submission Guidelines: Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality original technical papers reporting original research of theoretical or applied nature for presentation at the conference and publication in the CAMAD 2016 Proceedings and IEEE Xplore. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The manuscripts must be prepared in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (following the standard IEEE 2-column format) without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over length page charge of USD100 for each page if accepted). Please note that for every accepted contribution, at least one person must register for the conference and present. Accepted papers not presented in the conference will be excluded from the proceedings. All papers for CAMAD 2016 should be submitted via EDAS using https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=22298 ----- Organizing Committee: General Chairs Jelena Misic, Ryerson University, ON, Canada Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, NY, USA Technical Program Chairs Dongmei Zhao, McMaster University, ON, Canada Petros Spachos, University of Guelph, ON, Canada Marco Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University / CNRS, France Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Netflix, USA For all the members of the CAMAD 2016 Organizing Committee, please visit http://www.ieee-camad.org

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CFP: IEEE DS-RT 2016 (September 21-23, London, UK)
by DSRT Symposium 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers - DS-RT 2016 20th IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://ds-rt.com/2016 September 21 - 23, 2016, London, UK *IEEE/ACM Pending Upon Approval ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2016 *** The Symposium *** For its twentieth anniversary, the 2016 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2016) promises to be a grand affair and will take place in London, UK. DS-RT 2016 serves as a platform for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2016 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real-time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments, pervasive and ubiquitous application scenarios, motor-, controller-, sensor- and actuator systems. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2016 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. *** Call for Papers *** DS-RT provides an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, research students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real-time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is very encouraged. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: - Paradigms, Methodology and Software Architectures for Large Scale Distributed and Real-Time Simulations (e.g. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Multi-Agent Based Distributed Simulation, HLA/RTI, Web, Grid and cloud-based Simulation, hardware-software co-design for extreme-scale simulations) - Paradigms, Modelling, Architecture and Environments for Large Scale Real-time Systems and Concurrent Systems with hard and soft Real-Time Constraints - Advanced modelling techniques (reuse of models, new modelling languages, agent-based M&S, and spatial M&S) - Non-functional Properties of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (e.g. Dependability, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Security, Trustworthiness, QoS) - Theoretical Foundations of Large-Scale Real-Time and Simulation Models (e.g. Event Systems, Causality, Space-Time Models, Notions of Time, Discrete and Continuous Systems, Simulator Coordination) - Simulation Studies at Large and Very Large Scale (e.g. Industrial, Commercial, Ecological and Environmental, Societal, Power and Energy, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Systems) - Performance and Validation of Large-Scale and Distributed Simulations (e.g., benchmarking and analytical results, empirical studies DIS, HLA/RTI studies) - Algorithms and methods for parallel or distributed simulation (synchronization, scheduling, memory management, and load balancing) - Languages and Tools, Development Environments, Data Interfaces, Network Protocols and Model Repositories that address Very Large Simulations - Data Management and Distribution Issues, Interest Management, Semantic Modelling, Multi-resolution Modelling, Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms - Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Applications that involve Simulations and/or adhere to Real-Time Constraints - Simulation-based Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Systems (e.g. Interactive Virtual Reality, Human Communication through Immersive Environments) - Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Reality, Shared Interaction Spaces, Telepresence Systems and Shared Workspaces, 3D Video and Acoustic Reconstruction, Shared Object Manipulation - Serious Gaming and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) applications, architectures and scalability issues - Visual Interactive Simulation Environments (e.g., Generic Animation, Visual Interactive Modelling, Interactive Computer Based Training and Learning, Scientific Visualization, High-End Computer Graphics) - Design Issues, Interaction Designs, Human Commuter Interaction Issues raised by Large Scale DS-RT Systems - Media Convergence (e.g. New Technologies, Media Theory, Real-Time considerations of Multi-Modality, etc.) - Innovative Styles of Interactions with Large Scale DS-RT Systems (e.g. Implicit, Situative and Attentive Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Embedded Interaction, etc.) - Technologies for Living Labs (e.g. Mirror World Simulation, Interoperability, Large Scale Multi-Sensor Networks, Global Wireless Communication, Multi-Stakeholder Understanding and Innovation) - Environmental and Emerging Simulation Challenges (e.g. Growth of Human Population, Climate Change, CO2, Health Care, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Water and Energy Supply, Human Mobility, Air Traffic, World Stock Markets, Food Supply Chains, Megacities, Smart Cities, Disaster Planning, etc.) - Advanced Simulation Studies and Technologies (e.g. Discrete event, continuous Simulation, etc.) - Cognitive Modelling and Simulation, Artificial Intelligence in Simulation, and Neural Network Models and Simulation - Service-oriented Computing and Simulation, Web-based Modelling and Simulation, and Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems - Advances in Simulation Methodology and Practices - Smart Network Design and Traffic Modelling Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Simulation. *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: 2nd May 2016 Notification of Acceptance: 9th June 2016 Camera Ready version due: 9th July 2016 Author registration deadline: 9th July 2016 Symposium presentation: 21 - 23 September 2016 *** Submission *** Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE-CS press. General information regarding submission can be found at http://ds-rt.com/2016 Questions from authors may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General Chair: Simon J. Taylor, Brunel University, UK Program Co-Chairs: Gary Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Georgios Theodoropoulos, Durham University, UK Publicity Chair: Mirela Notare, Faculdade de Tecnologia em Transporte Aéreo, Brazil Alfredo Garro, University of Calabria, Italy Special Session Co-Chair Robson De Grande, DIVA Strategic Research Network, Canada Anthony Ventresque, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland Poster Chair Gabriele D Angelo, Univ. of Bologna, Italy

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DISC 2016 -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Swan Dubois 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] [Do not hesitate to forward to your colleagues, students...] ====================================================== DISC 2016 -- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 30th International Symposium on Distributed Computing September 26-29, 2016, Paris, France www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2016 ====================================================== DISC is the International Symposium on Distributed Computing, organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). --------------- Important Dates --------------- Abstract Registration : May 3, 2016 (AoE) Paper Submission : May 10, 2016 (AoE) Notification : July 7, 2016 Camera-Ready Submission : July 20, 2016 Conference : September 26--29, 2016 ----- Scope ----- Original contributions to theory, design, implementation, modeling, analysis, or application of distributed systems and networks are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Distributed algorithms; correctness and complexity - Concurrency, synchronization, and transactional memory - Distributed operating systems, middleware, database systems - Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomous systems - Wireless, mobile, sensor and ad-hoc networks - Fault tolerance, reliability, availability - Game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing - Specification, verification, and testing: tools, methodologies - Networks: protocols, architectures, services, applications - Multiprocessor and multicore architectures and algorithms - System on chip and network on chip architectures - Security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols - Distributed computing issues in the Internet and the Web - Cloud and peer-to-peer computing - Software-defined networking and network functions virtualization - Mobile agents and autonomous robots ---------- Submission ---------- Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines on the conference web page. Submissions must be in English, in .pdf format, and begin with a cover page (not a cover letter) including: (1) title, (2) authors' names and affiliations, (3) contact author's email address, (4) a short abstract of the paper, (5) indication of whether this is a regular paper or a brief announcement, and (6) indication of whether the paper is eligible for the best student paper award. A submission for a ***regular presentation*** must report on original research that has not previously appeared, and has not been concurrently submitted to a journal or conference with published proceedings. Any overlap with a published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. A regular submission must not exceed 10 single-column pages using at least 11 point font on letter paper (excluding cover page and references). Authors are expected to include all the ideas necessary for an expert to verify the central claims in the paper. If necessary, the details may appear in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. A ***brief announcement*** submission must not exceed 2 pages in the same format. The material in brief announcements can be published in other conferences. Submissions not conforming to these rules and papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration. If requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation can be considered for the brief announcements track. Such a request will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation. ----------- Publication ----------- The proceedings will be published as a volume in the ARCoSS Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be submitted in the LNCS format. Accepted papers must be presented by one of the paper's authors, at the conference site, and according to the final schedule. Any paper accepted into the technical program but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on Springer. ------ Awards ------ Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be eligible for the best student paper award at least one of the paper authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper. ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Silvia Bonomi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Carole Delporte-Gallet, Paris-Diderot University, France Swan Dubois, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France Michael Elkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Godard Emmanuel, Aix-Marseille University, France Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH ICS & Crete University, Greece Pascal Felber, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland Paola Flocchini, Ottawa University, Canada Cyril Gavoille (chair), Bordeaux University, France Chryssis Georgiou, Cyprus University, Cyprus Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore, Singapore Vincent Gramoli, Sydney University, Australia Rachid Guerraoui, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Magnús M. Halldórsson, Reykjavik University, Island David Ilcinkas, CNRS & Bordeaux University, France Matthew P. Johnson, CUNY Graduate Center, USA Christoph Lenzen, MPI for Informatics, Germany Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan Mikhail Nesterenko, Kent State University, USA Paolo Penna, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland Luís Rodrigues, Lisbona University, Portugal Elad M. Schiller, Chalmers University, Sweden Johannes Schneider, ABB Corp. Research, Switzerland Christian Sommer, Apple Inc., USA Jennifer L. Welch Texas A&M University, USA Philipp Woelfel, Calgary University, Canada -------------------- Organizing Committee -------------------- Lélia Blin (logistic chair), Evry University, France Swan Dubois (publicity chair), UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France David Ilcinkas (proceedings chair), CNRS & Bordeaux University, France Colette Johnen (workshop chair), Bordeaux University, France Petr Kouznetsov (sponsoring chair) Telecom ParisTech, France Maria Potop-Butucaru (general chair), UPMC Sorbonne Universités, France Stéphane Rovedakis (web chair), Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France ------------------ Steering Committee ------------------ Roberto Baldoni, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel Shlomi Dolev (chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Cyril Gavoille, Bordeaux University, France Fabian Kuhn, Freiburg University, Germany Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel Achour Mostefaoui, Nantes University, France ------------------- Contact Information ------------------- If you have any question about the CFP and paper submission, please email to gavoille(a)labri.fr. ------------------- Swan DUBOIS UPMC Sorbonne Universités DISC 2016 Publicity Chair

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1st CFP SYNASC 2016 Distributed Computing track
by Marc Frincu 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

============================= Call for Papers ============================ ======> SYNASC - distributed computing track 2016 (1st CFP) <====== ============================================================================= 18th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing SYNASC 2016 - Distributed computing track http://synasc.ro/2016/tracks/distributed-computing-2/ During the past 17 years SYNASC (http://synasc.ro/2016/) has built a strong nucleus of researchers which gather every year to discuss their ongoing research. The multidisciplinary nature of the conference brings together people from various computer science areas, including symbolic computing, numerical analysis, multi-agent systems, nature inspired processing and distributed/parallel computing. All these are hot topics in computer science and provide the attendees with the chance of uncovering interdisciplinary research ideas and concrete use cases for their work. Among them, distributed computing, with an increasing interest in elastic distributed application deployed on platforms such as clouds and HPC, is in the unique position of being at the center of the scene. It allows researchers from various fields to extend their experiments and test their ideas on large scale infrastructures. In this frame the Distributed Computing track is a great opportunity for young and senior scientists working on topics related to clouds, grids, P2P, fog, Internet of things or distributed systems in general to present their work, discover new challenges, and find real use cases and applications for their research. With the global focus leaning towards (inter-) cloud and utility computing researchers start to feel the benefit of these systems too. However we feel there is much to be done before existing applications from other fields can be fully ported on these new platforms. SYNASC and the Distributed Computing track are therefore a great opportunity for addressing the interdisciplinary applicability of distributed scalable systems. Following recent scientific trends the distributed track will focus this year on Big Data topics related to distributed computing. We are particularly interested in solutions to solving Big Data problems on clouds and in the fog. Fog computing is an emerging topic dealing with computation on the edge rather than on the cloud. Papers outlying the benefits of running on fog vs. clouds are welcomed. For the past 6 years the Distributed Computing track has been an important part of the conference attracting numerous researchers with interesting papers. The acceptance rate of the past venues allows for increased competitiveness in submitting applied and fundamental research to the venue. As such this conference is ideal to young researchers to publish initial works and get valuable feedback from the community. ------------------- Topics of interest: ------------------- We invite both researchers and practitioners to submit their work and join us in addressing these challenges. Work-in-progress and mature research papers in the following non-exhaustive areas are welcomed: - Models for parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, trace management, simulators; - Parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, grids, HPC, GPUs, P2P systems, fog, and autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving; - Architectures and platforms for parallel and distributed computing, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, big data analysis architectures, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, Internet of Things, brokering platforms, mobile computing solutions; - Applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for clouds/grids/fog, Big Data platforms, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments; - Any other topic deemed relevant to the field. --------------------------- Important conference dates: --------------------------- 10 April 2016 : Abstract submission 10 May 2016 : Paper submission 15 July 2016 : Notification of acceptance 15 August 2016 : Registration 01 September 2016 : Revised papers according to the reviews 25-27 September 2016 : Symposium 30 November 2016 : Final papers for post-proceedings ----------------- Paper submission: ----------------- Paper should be submitted using the electronic EasyChair system ( http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2016) Submitted work will benefit from a blind review of at least 3 experts in the area and will be judged based on their relevance to the track, novelty, clarity of text and future impact. Prospective authors must demonstrate their intention of submitting their work by first submitting a 1/2 page abstract clearly indicating the main purpose and contributions of their paper. There are four categories of submissions: - Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages in the two-columns paper style). - System descriptions and experimental papers describing implementation results of experimental data, with a link to the reported results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). - Short papers, describing work in progress and/or preliminary results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). - Posters, describing ongoing work and research challenges of PhD students (up to 2 pages in the two-columns paper style). ------ Venue: ------ The city of Timisoara, Romania, hosts several prestigious academic institutions (the West University, the Politehnica University, the University of Medicine, and others). The city and the surrounding region have an unique history in Romania, being over the centuries an object of dispute for several states (Roman, Hungarian, Ottoman, Austrian), which left their still visible marks, and, above all, a very multicultural society which constitutes a beautiful example of harmony in Romania and in the Balkans (30 Km from Serbia). Timisoara is connected by direct flights with Bucharest, Munich, Rome, London, Madrid and other cities in Europe. ---------------------- Chairs and committees: ---------------------- Program chair: James Davenport, University of Bath, UK Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Track chairs: Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania PC members (members will be added as they join): Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA Michael Krieger, RISC Software GmbH, Austria Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tomas Pitner, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Florin Pop, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1 and INRIA, France Wolfgang Schreiner, RISC, Austria Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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[Deadline Approaching] Advanced Cloud and Big Data, 4th Intl. Conf. on (CBD 2016)
by Feng Shan 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

(we apologize if you receive multiple copies) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBD2016 Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data (CBD2016) Chengdu, Sichuan, China, August 13-14, 2016 Website: http://cbd2016.scu.edu.cn/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Cloud and Big Data(CBD 2016) will be held in Chengdu, China, as a sequence of CBD2013 in Nanjing, CBD2014 in Huangshan, CBD2015 in Yangzhou. CBD2016 provides an international forum for presenting emerging ideas and trends in advanced cloud and big data from both the research community as well as the industry. It permits researchers, developers, and providers from academia and industry to address the challenges and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications, and experience in the big data. CBD aims to improve international communication and cooperation and to promote big data processing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Fundamentals, Models and Algorithms - Cloud Data Security and Privacy - Big Data Acquisition and Integration - Cloud Resource Management and Performance - Big Data Processing (Analytics, Querying, Mining) - Cloud Data Management - Big Data Storage and Management - Storage Architecture of Cloud - Big Data Graph algorithms - Green Cloud - Personal Data Protection and Usage - Networking Technologies for Data Center - Algorithms for Enhancing Data Quality - Virtualization Technologies Design Methodologies and Tools - Cloud Computing Platforms - Big Data Platforms - Cloud Computing Specifications and Standards - Big Data Toolkits - Big Data As A Service Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics - Cloud Computing Solutions - Big Data in Enterprise Models and Practices - Mobile Cloud Computing Applications - Big Data Analytics in e-Government and Society - Big Data in Business Performance Management - Big Data Applications in Social Credit System In addition to research papers, CBD2016 also seeks exhibitions of modern products and equipment for computer science and information engineering. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard CPS templates and must be submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbd2016 ) as PDF files. The review version is limited to 8 pages (CPS proceedings format), including references and illustrations. Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. Accepted papers will be all published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for indexing to EI. The selected best papers will be published in special issues of Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Scientific Programming, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Tsinghua Science and Technology (tentative). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chairs: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France Bing Guo, Sichuan University, China Program Committee Chairs: Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Guohui Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee Chairs: Junzhou Luo (Chair), Southeast University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Keynote Speakers: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong Hui Lei, IBM USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission April 10, 2016 Notification of acceptance June 1, 2016 Deadline for final version June 20, 2016 Deadline for registration June 20, 2016

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: FCCM 2016
by Jason D. Bakos 16 Mar '16

16 Mar '16

++++ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION +++ The 24th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria Alexandria, Virginia, USA May 1-3, 2016 http://www.fccm.org ** Early registration and hotel discounts end March 29th, 2016 ** The IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM) is the original and premier forum for presenting and discussing new research related to computing that exploits the unique features and capabilities of FPGAs and other reconfigurable hardware. For 24 years, FCCM has been the place to present papers on architectures, tools, and programming models for field programmable custom computing machines and applications that use such systems. This year’s site is the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area and draws participants from academia, government, and industry. The conference venue is centrally located in old town Alexandria, Virginia, a short Metro ride to the Smithsonian and other D.C attractions. FCCM 2016 will feature a rich program of workshops, technical paper presentations, panels, hardware demos, and posters. Major highlights include: -=> Sunday Panel of government experts on "The Future of Heterogeneous Computing" -=> Sunday Workshop on "Achieving an Arduino-like Fast Start for FPGAs" -=> Technical paper sessions in Application Mapping, Hardware Debug, Tools, and Overlays -=> FCCM's Top Ten predictions for 2021 -=> Best paper award announcements -=> Interactive poster sessions -=> Xilinx workshop on C/C++ SDSoC Development Environment to follow conference -=> FCCM's Famous Demo Night Each year we have an informal show-and-tell called Demo Night. This year it's Monday evening, May 2nd, 2016 at 6pm. Everyone is invited to set up a demo showing off their FCCMs, hardware, gateware, slideware, software, tools and chips. Attendees circulate, enjoy the demos, and engage with the presenters while enjoying the food and drink at this stand-up and learn event. It's always informative for demoers and attendees, great networking, and lots of fun. Demo Night is an excellent opportunity to talk with leaders in this field, including prospective customers, employees, and employers - all in an informal setting. This event is free for registered conference attendees and sponsors. If you wish to present at Demo Night, please send an email to our Demo Night Chair, Nachiket Kapre (nachiket(a)ieee.org) We will reserve a 6-foot table for you with a power outlet and wireless internet access. Please arrange for your own monitors and displays. We look forward to your participation in FCCM 2016! Best regards, FCCM 2016 Organizing Committee http://www.fccm.org -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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CFP: IEEE Cluster 2016 (major deadline extension)
by Balaji, Pavan 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

IEEE Cluster 2016 Call for Papers http://www.ieeecluster2016.org/ IEEE Cluster 2016 is the 18th edition of the IEEE Cluster conference series. Clusters are the primary architecture for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires a community effort in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at the hardware, system, middleware and application levels. Following the successes of previous IEEE Cluster conferences (http://www.clustercomp.org/) for IEEE Cluster 2016, which will be held September 12-16, 2016 in Taipei Taiwan, we again solicit high-quality original work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely related fields. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate novel research contributions while papers reporting experiences must clearly describe lessons learned and impact, along with the utility of the approach compared to previous ones. Authors must indicate the primary area of preference out of the four areas below. They may optionally rank the other areas. The paper may be accepted as a full paper, or the committee might decide to accept it as a short paper with 4 pages in the proceedings. Area 1: Application, Algorithms, and Libraries * HPC applications on clusters * Performance modeling and measurement * Novel algorithms on clusters * Hybrid programming techniques (e.g., MPI+OpenMP) * Cluster benchmarks * Application-level libraries on clusters * Effective use of clusters in novel applications * Performance evaluation tools Area 2: Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management * Energy-efficient cluster architectures * Node and system architecture * Packaging, power and cooling * GPU/ManyCore and heterogeneous clusters * Interconnect/memory architectures * Single system image clusters * Administration and maintenance tools Area 3: Programming and System Software * Cluster system software/operating systems * Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization * Energy-efficient middleware * Cluster system-level protocols and APIs * Cluster security * Resource and job management * Programming and software development environments on clusters * Fault tolerance and high-availability Area 4: Data, Storage, and Visualization * Cluster architectures for big data storage and processing * Middleware for big data management * Cluster-based cloud architectures for big data * File systems and I/O libraries * Support and integration of non-volatile memory * Visualization clusters and tiled displays * Big data visualization tools * Programming models for big data processing * Big data application studies on cluster architectures Paper Submission Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. * Submissions must be in PDF format. * Submissions are required to be within 10 pages (all inclusive). * Submissions must be single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches -- top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt). * Submissions are NOT double-blind. Author information can be included on the submission and will be visible to the reviewers. * LaTeX and Word Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html * Only web-based submissions are allowed. Submission Link: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ieeecluster/ Important dates: * No separate abstract deadline * Full Papers due: May 6, 2016 (Anywhere on Earth (AoE), http://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe) * Paper Acceptance Notification: July 1, 2016 * Camera-ready deadline: T.B.D. * Conference: September 12 thorugh 16, 2016 Organizers General Co-chairs: - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA - Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Program Chair: - Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Complete committee list is available here: http://www.ieeecluster2016.org/Commitees.html

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