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IEEE Cluster 2016: Call for Workshops
by Balaji, Pavan 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

======================================================================= CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ======================================================================= IEEE Cluster Conference 2016 ======================================================================= Taipei, Taiwan September 12-16, 2016 ======================================================================= SCOPE The Cluster 2016 workshop program will provide an opportunity for authors to present preliminary work related to the topics covered by Cluster 2016 and, thus, will give attendees access to the latest work in progress in the field. Cluster 2016 invites proposals for workshops on a broad range of topics on the design of clusters and related technologies and on effectively managing or using cluster resources and services. All workshops will be held on September 16, 2016. TOPIC CATEGORIES Topic Categories of interest include but are not limited to the following: * Cluster node and system hardware; * Cluster/distributed operating and runtime systems; * Parallel programming models, language, runtimes and environments; * Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization; * Fault-tolerance, resilience, reliability and high availability; * Data management and distributed and parallel file systems; * Visualization and data analytics; * Cluster management tools including resource management; * Power management, energy and cooling; * High performance networks and communication systems; * Clouds and distributed systems; * Security. SUBMISSION GUIDLINES Proposals are limited to a 3 page description that should include the following: * A title, an abstract (400 words maximum),and a syllabus; * Discussion of the topic’s relevance and workshop goals; * A description of the target audience; * An indication of half-day or full-day duration; * If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop, including attendance numbers. In addition to the 3 page description, please include the following: * A brief biographical sketch of each workshop organizer (2 pages per organizer). Workshop proposal will be evaluated as they are received. Decisions will be made based on the proposal content and its relationship to any workshop proposals that have been accepted or received at the time the proposal is received. Since this policy may result in a the workshop program being completed early, Cluster 2016 reserves the right to close workshop submissions prior to the date listed below. A single pdf file with all the material described above should be submitted to the Cluster 2016 conference on-line submission system under the workshop track. Please submit via the submission system: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ieeecluster/ * Workshops that accept ten or more papers will be provided space for a full day program; * Workshops that accept seven to nine papers will be provided space for four and a half hours (not including breaks); * Workshops that accept five or six papers will be provided space for three hours (not including breaks); * Workshops that accept three or four papers will be provided space for a half hour per paper; * Workshops with fewer accepted papers will be canceled. * Expected number of attendees (for planning purposes). Cluster 2016 will consider increasing the time allocated to a workshop if space is available. Cluster 2016 will provide free conference registration for one keynote speaker to workshops that accept ten or more papers. The free registration cannot be used by a workshop organizer, even if the organizer presents a keynote. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop Proposals Submission Deadline May 9, 2016 Workshop Proposals Acceptance Notification June 9, 2016 CHAIR Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich ======================================================================= Visit the Cluster web site for updates: http://www.ieeecluster2016.org =======================================================================

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CMSN Call for Papers - Montreal, Canada
by Carol Fung 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

[Apologies for cross and multiple postings] ******************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS CNSM 2016 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management IFIP / IEEE / In-cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM 31 October - 4 November 2016, Montreal, Canada http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2016/ ******************************************************************** The 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2016 is a selective single-track conference, covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops and poster sessions. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2016 will be published open access on the conference Web site (with IFIP copyright). Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2016 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Network Management - Software-defined networks - Virtual networks - Overlay networks - Wireless networks and cellular networks - Wireless sensor networks - Internet of Things networks - Information-centric networks - Enterprise networks and campus networks - Data center networks - Optical networks - IP networks - Home networks - Access networks - SCADA networks and distributed control systems - Smart Cities and Smart Grids Management Paradigms - Centralized management - Distributed management - Hierarchical management - Federated management - Autonomic and cognitive management - Policy-based management - Pro-active management - Energy-aware management - Quality of experience-centric management Service Management - Cloud computing services - Content delivery services - Multimedia services - Internet connectivity and Internet access - Internet of Things services - Security services - Context-aware services - Information technology services Business Management - Economic aspects - Multi-stakeholder aspects - Service level agreements - Lifecycle aspects - Process and workflow aspects - Legal perspective - Regulatory perspective - Privacy aspects Functional Areas - Deployment management - Fault management - Configuration management - Accounting management - Performance management - Security management Management Technologies - Network function virtualization - Software-defined networking - Orchestration - Cloud computing and cloud storage - Communication protocols - Middleware - Data models, information models semantic models - Operations support systems and business support systems - Information visualization Methods - Mathematical optimization - Control theory - Probability theory, stochastic processes, and queuing theory - Machine learning - Evolutionary algorithms - Economic theory and game theory - Mathematical logic and automated reasoning - Data mining and (big) data analysis - Monitoring and measurements - Computer simulation experiments - Prototype implementation and testbed experimentation - Field trials -------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original contributions that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE 2-column conference style and are limited to 8 pages excluding references (full papers) or 4 pages excluding references (short papers). They have to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS. Papers exceeding page limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All other papers will sustain a thorough single-blind review process, followed by a rebuttal phase. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission : May 15, 2016 Rebuttal Phase : July 11-17, 2016 Acceptance Notification: Aug. 1, 2016 Camera Ready due : Sept. 11, 2016 Conference : Oct. 31 Nov. 4, 2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair Noura Limam (University of Waterloo, Canada) Mohamed Cheriet (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada) Technical Program Co-Chairs Mohamed Faten Zhani (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada) Olivier Festor (INRIA Nancy - Grand Est, France) Steering Committee Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) Marcus Brunner (Swisscom, Switzerland) Prosper Chemouil (Orange Labs, France) James Hong (POSTECH, Korea) Deep Medhi (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA) Aiko Pras (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Doug Zuckerman (Applied Communication Sciences, USA)

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Call For Papers: [Deadline Extension] Second International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale (ExaComm'16)
by Hari Subramoni 16 Apr '16

16 Apr '16

======================================================================== Call For Papers Second International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2016) June 23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany to be held in conjunction with ISC 2016, June 19 - 23, 2016 Frankfurt, Germany http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon/ExaComm16/exacomm16.html ======================================================================== Extreme Scale computing is marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units to storage devices to the network interconnects. Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink and Storm Lake), RDMA enabled networks and the like are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from both academy and industry who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures, to share their experiences and to learn the opportunities and challenges in designing next-generation HPC systems and applications. ExaComm 2016 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2016), Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, June 23, 2016. Topics ------ ExaComm 2016 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Scalable communication protocols * High performance networks * Runtime/middleware designs * Impact of high performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning * Impact of high performance networks on Big Data * Novel hardware/software co-design * High performance communication solutions for accelerator based computing * Power-aware techniques and designs * Performance evaluations * Quality of Service (QoS) * Resource virtualization and SR-IOV Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Keynote Speakers ---------------- Bronis R de Supinski, CTO, Livermore Computing (LC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Title: Optimizing Network Usage on Sequoia and Sierra Abstract: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has a long history of leadership in large-scale computing. Our current platform, Sequoia, is a 96 rack BlueGene/Q system that is currently number three on the Top 500 list. Our next platform, Sierra, will be a heterogeneous system delivered by a partnership between IBM, NVIDIA and Mellanox. In this talk, we will explore optimizations of applications that run on these platforms, with a focus on their networks and the software that enables their efficient use. Panel ----- Coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ExaComm'16: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exacomm2016 We request the authors to use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. Submissions are accepted under the following two categories: Full Paper : 18 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper : 10 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'16 will be published in a separate post-conference joint workshop proceeding volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions / clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'16 will be published in a separate, joint ISC workshop proceedings volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, April 25, 2016 Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, May 2, 2016 Author notification : May 26, 2016 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, June 13, 2016 Workshop : Thursday, June 23, 2016 ExaComm'16 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Khaled Hamidouche, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Hans Eberle, NVIDIA Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech Brice Goglin, INRIA, France Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Yutong Lu, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan Province, China Tadahiro (Takeshi) Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory John M. Shalf, NERSC / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Sayantan Sur, Intel Xin Yuan, Florida State University Further Information ------------------- See the ExaComm'16 website at http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~subramon/ExaComm16/exacomm16.html Thanks, The ExaComm'16 Organizing Committee.

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CFP: InterIoT&BigData'2016 Extended Deadline
by Chen Liu 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

-------------------- Call for Papers Deadline Extended to April 25, 2016 -------------------- InterIoT&BigData'2016 The 2016 International Workshop on Hardware/Software Interface for Internet of Things and Big Data in conjunction with International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'2016) Philadelphia, PA, USA August 16-19, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/interiotbigdata/home Important dates *Submission due date: April 25, 2016 (Extended Deadline, Firm!)* Notification date: May 15, 2016 Camera Ready due date: June 03, 2016 Workshop date: August 16, 2016 Data are being generated at exponential rate all over the world, and organizations are storing exponentially larger amounts of data. One of the main challenges in IoT and Big Data management is the growing diversity and heterogeneity of the hardware and software interfaces needed for interacting with the plethora of connected sensors and devices over the Internet. InterIoT&BigData'2016 seeks original unpublished papers focusing on emerging applications, management, architecture of IoT and BigData. In addition, this workshop also welcomes work-in-progress, case studies, visionary idea, new application challenges, and industrial practice studies. InterIoT&BigData'2016 will be held in Conjunction with International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP'2016), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 16-19, 2016. Topics of Interest The topics of interest for InterIoT&BigData'2016 include, but not limited to: - IoT Sensing technologies, Low power and energy harvesting - IoT data analytics - IoT Enabling Technologies, Application and Services - IoT Automotive, Security, Privacy, and Applications - Massive IoT Data: Impact on Security, Privacy and Urban Dynamics in Smart Cities - Data centre design for IoT - Big Data and Analytics - Cloud Computing - Emerging Networking, Tracking and Sensing Technologies - Semantic techniques for IoT interfaces - Software analysis and Matchmaking techniques for IoT interfaces - Hardware acceleration method for IoT/Big Data/Deep Learning using CPU, GPU, FGPA, etc -Software/Hardware Codesign for IoT and Big Data Submission guidelines Original papers from the aforementioned and related topics will be considered. Please submit regular full papers (limit to 8 pages) including all figures, tables, and references. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format together with a short abstract (approximately 150 words). All papers will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. They will be judged with respect to their quality, originality, and relevance. Please prepare your paper according to the standard IEEEE conference template and submit your paper through submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=interiotbigdata2016 Publication Proceedings of the conference and workshops will be available on CD or USB at the conference and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL. Best and selected papers presented in the workshop will be invited to appear published in Special Issues of International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) and International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), published by Inderscience. Workshop organizers General Chairs Chen Liu, Clarkson University, USA Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Univ. of California - Irvine, USA Program Chairs Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Bo Mao, Xiamen University, China Beniamino DiMartino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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Call for Workshops - CloudCom 2016 (8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Luxembourg, December 12-15, 2016
by Hyacinthe Cartiaux 15 Apr '16

15 Apr '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS **IEEE CloudCom 2016** _8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science_ December 12-15th, 2016, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg http://2016.cloudcom.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline for workshop proposals : 11:59 PM, May 15th, 2016 AoE * Notification for workshop organizers : May 22, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE CloudCom 2016 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference in Luxembourg from December 12th to December 15th, 2016. We encourage members of the community to consider submitting proposals for workshops on any topic related to the broad set of research and application areas covered by IEEE CloudCom. Workshops can be used to publish early results and/or to conduct teaching and provide hands-on experience for topics of interest to the CloudCom community. Topics of interest of IEEE CloudCom 2016 include (but are not limited to): * Architecture and Virtualization * Cloud Services and Applications * IoT and Mobile on Cloud * Big Data * High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud * Security and Privacy * Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge Computing More details can be found at the following URL: http://2016.cloudcom.org/conf/tracks.html Accepted workshop papers will be published in a supplement of the Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2016, and submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditioned by the presentation at the workshop by the author). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION All proposals should be no longer than two pages, in PDF format, and must provide the following information: * Workshop title, along with a brief 200-word abstract describing the event. - the abstract will be published on the conference web site. * Names, affiliations and contact information of the main organizers, together with, where relevant, tentative composition of the committees (as complete as possible). * Motivation, rationale and coverage of the workshop. - For regular workshops, a draft Call For Papers (CFP), as complete as possible. - For teaching workshops, a draft of the syllabus. * The workshop deadlines, both internal and external. * Workshop format _i.e._ expected number of participants, submitted and presented papers, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc. * If applicable, provide a description of past versions of the activity, including dates, organizers, submission and acceptance counts, attendance. For new workshops, it would help to list potential attendees. Proposals (or questions) should be emailed to the Workshops & Tutorials Chairs: * Valentin Plugaru <valentin.plugaru(a)uni.lu>, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Henry Chan <cshchan(a)comp.polyu.edu.hk>, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2016 - Papers due May 6
by Christian Engelmann 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids in conjunction with the 22nd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Grenoble, France, August 22-26, 2016 Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 12 pages, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. 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 and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2016 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2016> - Resilience 2016 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2016ws> - Euro-Par 2016 website: <http://europar2016.inria.fr> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Vizualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 6, 2016 - Workshop author notification: June 17, 2016 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 31, 2016 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2016 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at - Urbana-Champaign, USA - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Larry Kaplan, Cray Inc., USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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Hot Interconnects 2016 Call for Tutorials
by Edgar Leon 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

============================================================== CALL FOR TUTORIALS ============================================================== 24th International Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects HotI 2016 ============================================================== Huawei North America Headquarters Santa Clara, California August 24-26, 2016 Tutorials August 26 SCOPE: Attendees will come from mixed backgrounds and interests in interconnection networks. We encourage tutorials of broad applicability rather than those focusing solely on research in a limited domain or by a particular group. Areas of interest for tutorials include but are not limited to: * High performance computing networking * Ethernet networking * Software defined networking * Data center/cloud and Big Data networking * Optical interconnects * Emerging interconnect architectures * High-speed packet processing engines and network processors * System-on-Chip interconnects IMPORTANT DATES: Proposals due: May 6, 2016 Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2016 Materials due: August 10, 2016 Tutorials date: August 26, 2016 EQUIPMENT: Hot Interconnects will provide Internet access and rooms with standard presentation equipment. Hands-on tutorials must be prepared to rely on laptops brought by the participants. REVIEW PROCESS: Tutorial submissions will be considered based on appropriateness and utility for Hot Interconnects tutorial audience, timeliness and general interest, clarity, completeness, cohesiveness of the proposal, and presentation history and teaching/speaking experience of the presenters. PUBLICATION: All materials must be submitted to the tutorials chair by August 10 and will be released to the tutorial attendees. Submitters must explicitly agree to release the materials for this purpose. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Tutorials may be proposed for one half-day (three hours, 2 presenters max) duration. Tutorials on new and emerging technologies are encouraged. Tutorial proposals must be submitted electronically to 'tutorials(a)hoti.org'. Although not required, you are encouraged to submit samples of your visual aids. You may supply a URL at which the samples may be found. The submission should include a single PDF file with the following sections, each beginning on a separate page: 1. Title page including the following components: a. Title b. Name, organization, and email address of each author c. 200-word (maximum) abstract d. (Optional) A URL with samples of your visual aids 2. Description of the tutorial content (1 page maximum) containing a. Goals of the tutorials (takeaways for the audience) b. Why is it relevant for HOTI 2016 attendees? c. Target audience d. Content level: beginner, intermediate, or advanced e. Previous presentations of this tutorial including any differences in the proposed tutorial 3. Detailed outline of the tutorial (2 pages maximum) 4. Resume or curriculum vitae for each presenter (2 presenters maximum, 1 page maximum each) 5. A statement agreeing to release the notes to HOTI 2016 tutorial attendees SUBMISSION EMAIL ADDRESS: tutorials(a)hoti.org WEBSITE: http://hoti.org/tutorials/ EMAIL: tutorials(a)hoti.org CHAIR: Edgar A. Leon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- Edgar A. Leon, Ph.D. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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CFP Special Sessions: DS-RT 2016 - London, UK September 21-23, 2016
by DSRT Symposium 14 Apr '16

14 Apr '16

Dear Colleagues and Researchers, Apologies, if you have received multiple copies of this CFP. ********** CALL FOR PAPER ********** 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 DS-RT 2016 is running four special sessions this year: - Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS - Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems - Augmented and Virtual Reality for Real-Time Applications - Agent-based Modeling and Simulation Those special sessions cover prominent areas of the field of distributed simulations and real time applications, and many papers were accepted in previous editions of DS-RT on the same topics. See below for more detailed descriptions of those special sessions. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue on "Data-driven and Large-scale Distributed Simulation" in Journal of Simulation (published by Palgrave Macmillan, SCI indexed) ***** PAPER SUBMISSION AND REVIEW ***** Submitted manuscripts must be in standard IEEE two-column format that is used for IEEE conference proceedings and must not exceed "8 pages" (2-page extension allowed), including figures, tables and references. Standard IEEE templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats can be found at: - http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html A submission may present preliminary results, propose new research direction, provide insightful retrospective, or offer a provocative viewpoint on important topics related to the considered special session. Papers will be selected based on their likelihood of generating insightful technical discussions at the special session and influencing future research. 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 and the special session. At least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference and present its contribution. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE Press. ***** IMPORTANT DATES ***** Full paper submission deadline: May 30th, 2016 Paper acceptance notification: June 30th, 2016 ***** FOR MORE INFORMATION ***** For questions about the paper submission and review process, please contact the session organisers - find all relevant information on the corresponding web pages below. ***** DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIAL SESSIONS ***** * Special Session on Simulation of Urban Traffic Management and ITS This special session focuses on simulation tools and real-time simulation applications used in and for evaluation, management, and design of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), as well as Smart Cities. Such simulations are expected to offer prediction and on-the-flow feedback for the better decision-making, bringing up means for both the implementation of more complex traffic management systems and end-user applications. Off-line and real-time analyses of data collected from infrastructured systems (e.g. real-time traffic information), mobile, distributed technologies (e.g. communication devices), and socially-build systems (e.g. social networks applications) are of great interest for shaping and influencing how ITS solutions are designed. Thus, we are particularly interested in how these data and technologies can be incorporated in domain-related models and simulations. We aim to bring together experts from both industry and academia to discuss the challenges related to modelling and simulation for ITS. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/soiits_2016.htm * Special Session on Distributed Simulations of Distributed Systems Distributed simulation (DS) is a valuable tool for understanding and evaluating distributed systems. The current computing trend sees businesses and individuals moving toward a more centralized infrastructure, namely the cloud. On the one hand, as the computing infrastructure at data centers is highly complex and distributed, DS becomes essential for diagnosing and gaining insights of the system. On the other hand, the scale and nature of interaction between different components in the cloud present new challenges and push DS's state of the art. Another computing trend that has potential to drive DS is internet-of-things. Such complex systems consist of a large number of autonomous, heterogeneous devices communicating with one another in non-uniform manner. DS is valuable not only for discerning system properties but also for predicting the devices' emergent behavior. Finally, users in online social networks make up large distributed systems. Insights of user interaction and the network's collective behavior --- the study of which fits well into the realm of DS --- bring significant value to both the society and the business of social network providers. This special session seeks to bring together experts and practitioners in the domain of DS to discuss new opportunities and challenges for DS. We welcome research papers on both theoretical and empirical issues. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/dsimdsys_2016.htm * Special Session on Augmented and Virtual Reality for Real-Time Applications Virtual Reality (VR) allows users to be immersed in and interact with a fully virtual computer generated environment. On the other hand, Augmented Reality (AR) technologies add digital information on top of the physical reality, allowing users to gain more knowledge about their environment. VR and AR can become valuable tools for understanding, visualizing or evaluating real-time applications, such as simulations. Both technologies offer tremendous possibilities in terms of visualization, interaction and collaboration and become widely available with the development of new affordable devices and toolkits. This special sessions aims at bringing together industrial experts and researchers from academia to present their results and discuss the challenges related to the use of VR and AR technologies dedicated to real-time applications. We welcome research papers on both theoretical and empirical issues. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/avrrta_2016.htm * Special Session on Agent-based Modeling and Simulation This special session focuses on general aspects and special properties for agent-based modeling and simulations that allows them to be applied on several scientific domains, such as sociology, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, and economy. The session is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners, so they can present the current status of their work and discuss the challenges they face in developing solutions and applications for agent-based simulations. Consequently, the design of these simulations aims not only to social contexts but also to more technical domains, which involves highly complex interactive systems. Web page: http://ds-rt.com/2016/abms_2016.htm Best Regards, DS-RT 2016 Special Session Chairs

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CfP - 8th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM) - co-located with PODC'16
by Paolo Romano 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

[Apologies in case of cross-posting] ********** Call for papers ************ 8th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM) July 25, 2016 Chicago, Illinois,USA co-located with the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) 2016 ====================================================== The 8th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM) is a forum to foster exchanges, discussions, and disseminations among researchers on theoretical challenges and recent achievements in the context of concurrent computing, with an emphasis on transactional memory. Transactional Memory (TM) aims at making parallel programming more programmer friendly by providing an alternative synchronization mechanism to traditional lock-based concurrency. TM research has led to hardware TM implementations on both commodity and high performance computing microprocessors, as well as to TM integration in mainstream programming languages (e.g., C, C++) and leading open source compilers (e.g., GCC). From a theoretical perspective, the TM abstraction raises several challenges in the way we view synchronization as well as in the way we implement it. A major goal of the workshop is to explore new directions and approaches for reasoning about Transactional Memory. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Models and semantics for concurrent computing * Safety and liveness properties * Tradeoffs in TM and concurrent computing * TM algorithms and architectures * Impossibility results and lower bounds * TM performance and parallelism * Speculation-friendly and transaction-friendly data structures and their algorithms * Formal methods, semantics and verification of TM and concurrent systems * TM for cluster, cloud, grid and high-performance computing * Concurrent computing, synchronization, and shared memory * Concurrent data structures and their algorithms * Multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms The Workshop website is: http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~salaa/wttm2016/html/index.html Submissions ================= We solicit submissions describing research results and/or position papers relevant to the theory of concurrent computing with an emphasis on transactional memory. Submissions should be written in English and in PDF format. Submissions should include: a title, the authors' names and their affiliations, and the contact author’s email. Each submission must not exceed four single-column pages (excluding references). Additional necessary details may be included in an appendix which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Papers are to be submitted electronically at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wttm2016 The final version of the accepted papers will appear at the workshop’s web site. The papers will be available to the participants in electronic format during the workshop. WTTM does not publish proceedings, so accepted papers may appear in other venues. Important dates ================= Submission deadline: 13 May 2016 (anywhere on earth) Author notification: 10 June 2016 Workshop: 25 July 2016 Invited Talks ================ "Fences and RMRs Required for Synchronization", Hagit Attiya, Technion “Concurrent Data Structures and Transactions for Persistent Memory”, Michael Scott, University of Rochester Program Committee ================= Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel Michael Bond, Ohio State University, USA Vincent Gramoli, NICTA and University of Sydney, Australia Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland Danny Hendler, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, USA Alex Kogan, Oracle Labs, USA Alexander Matveev, MIT, USA Sebastiano Peluso, Virginia Tech, USA Binoy Ravindran, Virginia Tech, USA (PC Chair) Michael Spear, Lehigh University, USA

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2nd EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2016)
by shulei 13 Apr '16

13 Apr '16

************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* Call for Papers 2nd EAI International Conference on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (INISCOM 2016) Leicester, Great Britain, Oct 31- Nov 2, 2016 http://iniscom.org/2016/show/home ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* Scope: INISCom 2016 provides an excellent forum for researchers, engineers, and practitioners to present and discuss the latest technology, advancement, and future directions and trends in (1) industrial networks and applications, (2) intelligent systems and applications, (3) information processing and data analysis, (4) Hardware and software design and development, and (5) Security & Privacy. Highlights: - The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation (http://eai.eu/) a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. - All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. - Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Elsevier (EI), Thomson Scientific (ISI), Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, DBLP. - The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work through one of the following EAI endorsed publications: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems Keynote speakers: - Prof. Erol Gelenbe, Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks (ISN), in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College, London. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/e.gelenbe - Prof. Awais Rashid Director of Security-Lancaster, University of Lancaster. http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/awais-rashid Conference topics: Authors are invited to submit full papers describing original research or innovative practical applications in areas including, but not limited to: Industrial networks and applications: - New architectures, protocols and applications for industrial networks, including control network, communication network, sensor network, body area network, social network, opportunistic network, and cloud-based network - Analysis of industrial networks, including network lifetime, scalability and stability, transmission reliability, quality of service, etc. Intelligent systems and applications: - Computational intelligence in automation, including neural, fuzzy and evolutionary approaches, ant colonies optimization, swarm intelligence, machine learning, bioinformatics, expert systems, multi-agent systems, game and decision theories, etc. - Industrial applications of intelligent systems. Information processing and data analysis: - Audio/image/video processing - Data mining, pattern recognition, estimation and identification - Information fusion, compressive sensing, signal transforming and filtering - Fault detection and diagnosis - Optimization techniques - Big data analysis and processing Hardware and software design and development: - Analogue/Digital system design and structures - Design and analysis of embedded industrial systems, including real-time computing, operating systems, communications, etc. - Modelling and analysis tools for industrial networks and intelligent systems - Simulation and testbed of current industrial networks and intelligent systems Security & Privacy - Incident response - Encryption, Authentication, Availability Assurance - Hardware Forensics - Intrusion Detection - Network security and protocols Paper Submission: Papers should be submitted through EAI 'Confy' system, and have to comply with the SPRINGER format.For more information and to submit your paper, visit: http://iniscom.org/2016/show/initial-submission Important Dates: - Workshops proposal deadline: 14 April 2016 - Full Paper Submission deadline: 30 April 2016 - Notification and Registration opens: 31 May 2016 - Short, poster and demo paper submission deadline: 30 June 2016 - Camera-ready deadline: 17 July 2016 - Start of Conference: 31 October 2016 - End of Conference: 2 November 2016 Organising Committee General Chairs -Leandros A. Maglaras, De Montfort University, UK -Helge Janicke, De Montfort University, UK -Kevin Jones, Airbus Group Technical Program Committee Co-chairs -Dimitrios Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece -Tiago J. Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal -Jianmin Jiang, Shenzhen University, China -Athanasios Maglaras, Technological Educational Institute of Thessaly, Greece Steering Committee -Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET, Italy (Chair) -Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China -Carlo Cecati, University of L'Aquila, Italy -Song Guo, The University of Aizu, Japan

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