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CFP CLOSER 2018 - 8th Int.l Conf. on Cloud Computing and Services Science (Funchal, Madeira/Portugal)
by closer＠insticc.info 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

SUBMISSION DEADLINE 8th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science Submission Deadline: October 30, 2017 http://closer.scitevents.org/ March 19 - 21, 2018 Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. CLOSER is organized in 9 major tracks: - Services Science - Data as a Service - Cloud Operations - Edge Cloud and Fog Computing - Service Modelling and Analytics - Mobile Cloud Computing - Cloud Computing Fundamentals - Cloud Computing Platforms and Applications - Cloud Computing Enabling Technology In Cooperation with EuroCloud. With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers: Mike Papazoglou, Tilburg University, Netherlands Tobias Hoellwarth, EuroCloud Europe, Austria Péter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Lee Gillam, University of Surrey , United Kingdom A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer. All papers presented at the congress venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/) Should you have any question please don’t hesitate contacting me. Kind regards, CLOSER Secretariat Address: Av. D. Manuel I, 27A, 2º esq. 2910-595 Setubal, Portugal Tel: +351 265 520 184 Fax: +351 265 520 186 Web: http://closer.scitevents.org/ e-mail: closer.secretariat(a)insticc.org

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ACM HPDC 2018 Call For Papers
by Song, Shuaiwen 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****   The 27th International ACM Symposium on  High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing  (HPDC-2018)  Phoenix, AZ, United States - June 11-15, 2018   http://www.hpdc.org/2018/   Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH   The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. The 27th HPDC will take place in Tempe, AZ on June 11-15, 2018.      **** IMPORTANT DATES ****   Abstract due: January 17, 2018  Papers due: January 24, 2018  Author Notifications: March 29, 2018  Camera ready: April 12, 2018  Conference dates: June 11 - 15, 2018    **** SCOPE AND TOPICS ****   Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) topics including but not limited to: clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and extreme-scale computing systems. Submissions that focus on the operating systems, runtime environments, architectures, and networks of high end computing systems are particularly encouraged. Experience reports of operational deployments that provide significantly novel insights for future research on HPDC applications and systems will also receive special consideration. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact. In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Operating systems, networks, and architectures · High performance runtime environments · Massively multicore systems, including heterogeneous systems · Datacenter technology, resource virtualization · Programming languages, APIs, and system interoperation approaches · File and storage systems, I/O, and data management · Big data stacks and big data ecosystems · Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques · Performance modeling, analysis, and engineering · Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability · Operational guarantees, and risk assessment and management · Traditional and emerging applications and services that depend upon high- end computing      **** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ****   Note: The review process is not double-blinded; the authors can reveal their identities in the paper (It's also OK to conceal them if they so wish).   Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. General Chair: Ming Zhao Arizona State University, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs: Abhishek Chandra University of Minnesota, USA Lavanya Ramakrishnan Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Program Committee: Adriana Iamnitchi University of South Florida, USA Ali Butt Virginia Tech, USA Ana Lucia Varbanescu University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Andre Luckow BMW IT Research Center, USA Andrew A. Chien University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA Arthur Maccabe Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Aydin Buluc Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Bogdan Nicolae IBM Research, Ireland Christine Morin INRIA, France David Abramson The University of Queensland, Australia David Eyers University of Otago, New Zealand David Irwin University of Massachusets at Amherst, USA Dean Hildebrand Google, USA Dick Epema Delft Unviersity of Technology, The Netherlands Dilma Da Silva Texas A&M University, USA Douglas Thain Notre Dame, USA Evgenia Smirni College of William and Mary, USA Franck Cappello Argonne National Laboratory, USA Gabriel Antoniu INRIA, Rennes, France Hang Liu University of Massachusets at Lowell, USA Henri Bal Vrije University, The Netherlands Ian Foster University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA Jay Lofstead Sandia National Laboratories, USA John (Jack) Lange University of Pittsburgh, USA Jon Weissman University of Minnesota, USA Judy Qiu Indiana University, USA Kartik Gopalan Binghamton University, USA Kate Keahey Argonne National Laboratory, USA Kenjiro Taura University of Tokyo, Japan Liana Fong IBM, USA Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA Matei Ripeanu University of British Columbia, Canada Michela Becchi North Carolina State University, USA Michela Taufer University of Delaware, USA Narayanan Sundaram Intel, USA Patrick Bridges University of New Mexico, USA Peter Dinda Northwestern University, USA Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria Renato Figueiredo University of Florida, USA Samer Al-Kiswany University of Waterloo, Canada Sangmi Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Shantenu Jha Rutgers University, USA Shuaiwen Leon Song Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and William & Mary Sriram Govindan Microsoft Research, USA Sudharshan Vazhkudai Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Xiaosong Ma Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Yue Cheng George Mason University, USA Zizhong Chen University of California, Riverside, USA --------------------- Shuaiwen Leon Song Senior Staff Scientist HPC Group, Advanced Computing, Mathematics, and Data Division, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL); Adjunct Scholar, CS department, College of William and Mary https://sites.google.com/site/shuaiwenleonsongresearch/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You’re only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you are nothing. -- Robin Williams ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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CFP: 2nd Annual BSC/UPC HPC Hackathon - Last mile (awards updated!)
by Antonio J. Peña 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

/I couldn't stop looking into those enigmatic eyes. We were sitting next to the bar, facing the dancing floor. The party kept ongoing heavily as this was the last segment of the Mediterranean bachelor cruise, from Nice to Barcelona, and the dream-trip for those youngsters was going to end in about 18 hours. I had "e-met" this person the night before when I was hacking the cruiser's database to get the list of all the passengers and their profiles. I was bored. The system was poorly designed and an old exploit granted me access to what I needed. Once inside the system, I noticed that I was not the only person who had the same thought. The message "I was waiting for you." prompted into my terminal. "Who are you?" I asked, as I was curious to know who was the other hacker in this cruise. "My name is 'Z'." the other intruder answer. After a couple of exchanges we set an appointment to meet personally at the cruiser top level club. I had chosen a place full of people for safety reasons. I kept wondering who was this person the entire day. Finally the night arrived and I was sitting in front of 'Z'. "I have a project for you" Z said. "I am not interested" I replied immediately. Z took a small peace of paper out of his pocket and handed it to me: "Maybe this will interest you". There was a six digit number written in it. "What kind of project?" I asked. "First I need you to pass a test" Z answered. I didn't like where things were going, but my curiosity wouldn't let me back-off : "What test?" Z stared at the dance floor, those eyes again, the floor was full of young people chatting and dancing: "I need you to write an algorithm the takes the profile of everyone in this crowd and finds a good match for them. If every one has a match before we arrive to Barcelona, then I will answer any question you have". I felt like the paper in my hand was bursting into flames, it was starting to burn my fingers. The six digits were dancing in my mind. I finished my drink and I answered: "Game On!" / Are you addicted to coding and solving complex problems? Come to the *2nd Annual BSC/UPC HPC Hackathon* and test your problem solving skills. In this competition you will be asked to think elegant and efficient solutions for challenging problems. Time will be your most important enemy, as you struggle to solve as many problems as possible in a limited time. To participate, you will need good coding skills, primarily in C and shell, but knowledge in other programming languages such as C++ and python is recommended. You should also be familiar with version control systems, such as git and mercurial, and have a good knowledge on Unix systems. You will be asked to solve problems in three different topics: GPU Computing, Parallel Programming and Software Security. You will be given access to high-end machines with last generation technology and high speed network. We will also provide you with food and beverages so that you can focus on coding. The hackathon will take place on *Friday November 3rd to Saturday November 4th, at the UPC Campus Nord - Agora Room <http://hackathon.bsc.es/logistic>, from 18h to 12h (18 hours) <http://hackathon.bsc.es/schedule>*. A jury will evaluate the participants and the winners will take home nice prizes. Among the prizes, there is a last generation high-end gaming GPU offered by nVidia and a laptop donated by Intel! The top participant of the Hackathon will get: * 6-months part-time contract to work at BSC (optional). * GPU Branch: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 GPU (sponsored by NVIDIA). * CPU Branches: Laptop (sponsored by Intel). Organizing Committee : * Leonardo Bautista-Gomez (BSC) * Marc Casas (BSC) * Antonio J. Peña (BSC/UPC) Sponsors : * BSC/UPC NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence * NVIDIA * Intel * HiPEAC For more information please visit : hackathon.bsc.es -- Antonio J. Peña, PhD Sr Researcher & Activity Lead, Computer Sciences Dept | Teaching and Research Staff Manager, BSC/UPC NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence | Computer Architecture Department Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) | Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Juan de la Cierva Fellow, Prospective Marie Curie Fellow http://www.bsc.es/pena-antonio http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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COSH 2018: Call for Papers - 3rd Workshop on Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications
by Josef Weidendorfer 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

=========================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd Workshop on Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications (COSH 2018) Manchester, UK, January 23, 2018 together with HiPEAC 2018 http://wwwi10.lrr.in.tum.de/~trinitic/COSH2018 =========================================================== BACKGROUND The task of a high performance computing system is to carry out its calculations (mainly scientific applications) with maximum performance and energy efficiency. Up until now, this goal could only be achieved by exclusively assigning an appropriate number of cores/nodes to parallel applications. As a consequence, applications had to be highly optimised in order to achieve even only a fraction of a supercomputer's peak performance which required huge efforts on the programmer side. This problem is expected to become more serious on future exascale systems with millions of compute cores. Many of today's highly scalable applications will not be able to utilise an exascale system's extreme parallelism due to node specific limitations like e.g. I/O bandwidth. Therefore, to be able to efficiently use future supercomputers, it will be necessary to simultaneously run more than one application on a node. To be able to efficiently perform co-scheduling, applications must not slow down each other, i.e. candidates for co-scheduling could e.g. be a memory-bound and a compute bound application. Within this context, it might also be necessary to dynamically migrate applications between nodes if e.g. a new application is scheduled to the system. In order to be able to monitor performance and energy efficiency during operation, additional sensors are required. These need to be correlated to running applications to deliver values for key performance indicators. Thus, submitted papers should cover one or more items from the following research areas: * novel scheduling strategies using co-scheduling * co-scheduling towards energy efficiency * case studies involving co-scheduling * application characterisation for co-scheduling * using performance sensors to guide co-scheduling * resource re-assignment / task migration enabling co-scheduling * throughput studies for supercomputers using co-scheduling IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: November 27, 2017 Notification: December 12, 2017 Camera ready: December 20, 2017 COSH Workshop: January 23, 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Workshop papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced, double-column pages in ACM style (including figures and references). On acceptance, one author of each paper must present the paper in the workshop. Submit your paper here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cosh2018 The COSH2018 proceedings will be published online in TUM Library. All questions about submissions should be emailed to Carsten Trinitis. ORGANIZATION Programme Committee TBD (updated on web page) Organising Committee Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, Germany Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, Germany VENUE The conference will be held in Manchester, United Kingdom, EU, at the Manchester Central Convention Centre. COSH 2018 will be co-located with HiPEAC 2018. =========================================================== -- Josef Weidendorfer, Informatik, Technische Universität München TUM I-10 - FMI 01.04.035 - Tel. 089 / 289-18454

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CALL FOR PAPERS Supercomputing Asia 2018 (SCA18).
by Rio Yokota 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Supercomputing Asia 2018 (SCA18). Sentosa, Singapore, March 26-29, 2018 https://sc-asia.org ===================================== Papers Submission: December 09, 2017 ===================================== • Important Dates 2017/12/02: Abstract submissions due 2017/12/09: Paper submissions due 2018/02/05: Notification of Acceptance 2018/02/12: Camera-ready papers due • Scope As the share of Supercomputers in Asia continues to increase, the relevance of Supercomputing in Asia has achieved a critical mass to merit the inauguration of a Supercomputing conference for Asia. Supercomputing Asia (SCA) 2018 will encompass an umbrella of notable supercomputing events with the key objective of promoting a vibrant and relevant HPC ecosystem in Asian countries, and will be held from 26 to 29 March 2018 at Resorts World Convention Centre, Singapore. The technical program of SCA18 has its roots in Supercomputing Frontiers (SCF), which is Singapore’s annual international HPC conference inaugurated in 2015 by A*CRC, and now hosted by NSCC Singapore. SCF17 was attended by over 450 delegates from over 12 different countries. Riding on the success from the previous year, Supercomputing Frontiers will be rebranded as Supercomputing Frontiers Asia (SCFA), which serves as the technical program for SCA18. The technical program for SCA18 consists of four tracks; “Application, Algorithms & Libraries”, “Programming & System Software”, “Data, Storage & Visualization”, and “Architecture, Network/Communications & Management”. • Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Application, Algorithms & Libraries Bioinformatics and computational biology Climate, weather, and earth sciences Materials science and chemistry Scalable numerical methods Fault-tolerant algorithms Energy-efficient algorithms Domain-specific, languages, libraries or frameworks Sustainable software development - Programming & System Software Compiler analysis and optimization Runtime systems Parallel programming languages Tools for parallel program development Resource and job management HPC system software/operating systems Energy-efficient middleware - Data, Storage & Visualization Scalable structured storage Next-generation storage systems Data intensive computing Visualization tools for Big Data Middleware for Big Data management Reliability and fault tolerance in storage Big data application studies - Architecture, Network/Communications & Management Novel memory architectures Embedded and reconfigurable architectures Scalable system architectures Energy-efficient architectures Interconnect technologies Fault tolerant networks Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools • Paper Submission Submission can be made through Springer’s online submission system (https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/SCA2018) All submissions must follow Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors) without changing default margins, fonts, etc. The total page limit is 18 pages excluding references. Supplementary materials that facilitate verification of the results, e.g., source code, proof details, etc., may be appended without a page limit or uploaded as separate files, but reviewers are neither required to read them nor will they be printed in the proceedings. Hence submissions must be complete, intelligible and self-contained within the 18 pages bound. Papers should have page numbers to facilitate their review. In LaTeX, this can be achieved for instance using \pagestyle{plain}. Each submission must be a single PDF file. 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. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper must attend SCA18 to present the paper. • Proceedings The conference proceedings will be published in Springer Nature’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via Springer Nature’s Online Conference Service (OCS) system. The link to the submission site is: https://ocs.springer.com/ocs/home/SCA2018 Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. • Steering Committee Michael Barber (Australia) He Bingsheng (Singapore) Brendan Dalton (Australia) Tom De Fanti (US) Qian Depei (China) Thom Dunning (US) Fu Haohuan (China) Terence Hung (Singapore) David Kahaner (US) Dieter Kranzlmueller (Germany) Jysoo Lee (Saudi Arabia) Yannick Legre (Netherlands) FangPang Lin (Taiwan) Simon Lin (Taiwan) Joe Mambretti (US) Satoshi Matsuoka (Japan) Marek Michalewicz (Poland) Simon See (Singapore) Satoshi Sekiguchi (Japan) Shinji Shimojo (Japan) Putchong Uthayopas (Thailand) Tan Tin Wee (Singapore) Deng Yuefan (US) Lu Yutong (China) • Program Committee - Application, Algorithms & Libraries Emmanuel Agullo (INRIA) Ariful Azad (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Costas Bekas (IBM) Aparna Chandramowlishwaran (University of California Irvine) Kate Clark (NVIDIA) Hal Finkel (Argonne National Laboratory) Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories) Johannes Langguth (Simula) Piotr R Luszczek (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Maciej Malawski (AGH University of Science and Technology) John Owens (UC Davis) Vivek Pallipuram (University of the Pacific) Antonio Pena (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Min Si (Argonne National Laboratory) Hari Sundar (University of Utah) Nathan Tallent (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) - Programming & System Software Olivier Aumage (INRIA) Sunita Chandrasekaran (University of Delaware) Florina M. Ciorba (University of Basel) Bilel Hadri (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) Zbigniew Kalbarczyk (University of Illinois) Hatem Ltaief (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) Arthur Maccabe (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Naoya Maruyama (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Ronald Minnich (Google Inc.) Raymond Namyst (University of Bordeaux) CJ Newburn (NVIDIA) Christian Perez (INRIA) Miquel Pericas (Chalmers University of Technology) Mohamed Wahib (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) - Data, Storage & Visualization Janine Bennett (Sandia National Laboratories) Mahdi Bohlouli (University of Koblenz) Steffen Frey (University of Stuttgart) Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology) Hideyuki Kawashima (University of Tsukuba) Quincey Koziol (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Suzanne McIntosh (New York University) Bogdan Nicolae (Huawei Technologies) David Pugmire (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu) Bronis R. de Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Daniela Ushizima (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Jon Woodring (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Amelie Chi Zhou (INRIA) - Architecture, Network/Communications & Management David Abramson (The University of Queensland) Eishi Arima (The University of Tokyo) Ali R. Butt (Virginia Tech) Nikhil Jain (University of Illinois) John Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Ryota Shioya (Nagoya University) Jeremiah J. Wilke (Sandia National Laboratories) Weikuan Yu (Florida State University) • Contact Email Contact: papers(a)sc-asia.org • SCFA18 Technical Paper Co-Chairs Rio Yokota (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Weigang Wu (Sun Yat-sen University)

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PASC18 Conference: Call for Papers, Minisymposia and Posters
by Robinson Tim 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

PASC18 Call for Submissions   The PASC18 Organizing Team is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for minisymposium, paper and poster contributions. We look forward to receiving your submissions through the online submission portal (https://pasc18.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/) Please note that the November 26th deadline for minisymposia proposals is rapidly approaching! CONFERENCE PASC18 is the fifth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing. The theme of PASC18 is Fast and Big Data, Fast and Big Computation, emphasizing our vision of the close coupling of data and computation. Exposing and expressing massive and irregular parallelism in computational problems are key challenges for exploiting the massive and heterogeneous parallelism available in current, and expected in future, HPC systems, as well as to find new ways of generating scientific insight from data and models. Through its rich and interactive program, PASC18 aims to highlight the computational approaches that computational scientists, computer scientists, and practitioners employ today and will employ over the next decades to address these challenges. CONTRIBUTIONS PASC18 welcomes submissions for minisymposium, paper, and poster contributions that demonstrate innovative research in scientific computing related to the following scientific domains: - Chemistry and Materials - Life Sciences - Physics - Climate and Weather - Solid Earth Dynamics - Engineering - Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Emerging Applications Domains (e.g. Social Sciences, Finance,…) Upcoming Submission Deadlines - Minisymposia: November 26, 2017 - Papers: January 19, 2018 - Posters: February 4, 2018 MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium at PASC18 is a two-hour session of four presentations on a topic of current importance in computational science that showcases research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. Proposals should describe research that is of significant current interest to a given PASC scientific domain, and ideally, have potential application to additional domains. Proposals should include speakers from multiple institutions and/or countries, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives to the topic. PASC18 encourages gender balance and diversity. PAPERS The goal of the PASC papers program is to advance the quality of interdisciplinary exchange between the various specific fields of computational science and engineering. We welcome high-quality contributions of original research related to scientific computing in any of the eight PASC scientific domains. Papers will be evaluated by domain experts primarily on their significance, technical soundness, originality, and quality of communication. Papers accepted for PASC18 will be presented as talks, and published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital Library. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a plenary presentation. In selecting papers for plenary presentation, the Scientific Reviewing Committee will place particular weight on impact, interdisciplinarity and interest to a broad audience. Following the conference, authors will have the opportunity to further develop their PASC papers for publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific journal. Authors thus stand to benefit from the rapid and broad dissemination of results afforded by the conference venue and associated published proceedings, as well as the impact associated with publication in a high-quality scientific journal. POSTERS Poster presentations provide an ideal opportunity for the exchange of ideas and expertise within and between the various computational science domains represented at the conference. Poster submissions should describe topical research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering. Poster presenters will be given the possibility to "pitch" their posters to the conference audience in a rapid-fire flash session, and posters with the most stimulating content will be recognized in an award ceremony on the final day of the conference. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: https://pasc18.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/ PAPERS, MINISYMPOSIA, AND POSTERS PROGRAM CHAIRS -Sabine Roller (University of Siegen, Germany) -Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)

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[CFP] CSCWD 2018: IEEE 22nd Intl. Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design
by Feng Shan 15 Oct '17

15 Oct '17

************************************************************ ******************** The 2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supp orted Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2018) May 9-11, 2018, Nanjing, China Website: http://2018.cscwd.org/ ************************************************************ ******************** ------------- Publication ------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by program committee m embers and selected based on their originality, significance , relevance, and clarity of presentation. Accepted papers wi ll be published in the IEEE categorized conference proceedin gs and will be submitted for indexing to EI (Compendex), DBL P and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers wi ll be invited to submit revised and expanded version of thei r papers to be considered for publication in special issues of well-known international journals. -------------------- Important Dates: -------------------- - Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: February 28, 2018 - Camera Ready Due: March 31, 2018 - Registration Due: March 31, 2018 ------------------------- Scope and Topics ------------------------- Design of complex artifacts and systems requires the coopera tion of multidisciplinary design teams. The 2018 IEEE 22nd I nternational Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Wo rk in Design (CSCWD 2018) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners involved in different but related domains to confront research results and discuss key problems. The s cope of CSCWD 2018 includes the research and development of collaboration technologies and their applications to the des ign of processes, products, systems, and services in indus tries and societies. Collaboration technologies include theories, methods, mechanisms, protocols, software tools, platforms, and services that support communication, coordination and collaboration among people, software and hardware systems. Related fields of research include human-computer interacti on, business process management, collaborative virtual environments, enterprise modeling, security and privacy, as well as social aspects and human factors related to collaboration and design. The major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: - Collaboration theory and methodology - Design of collaboration methods, processes, mechanisms, and protocols - Collaboration across disciplines (design science, service science and data science) - Innovative collaborative approaches (crowdsourcing, social media) - Collaborative computing (clouds, services, sensor networks, blockchains) - Security and privacy in collaborative systems - Collaboration technology applications ----------------------- Paper Submission ----------------------- Papers reporting original research results and experience ar e solicited. Each paper, written in English, is limited to 6 pages (IEEE proceedings format), including references and i llustrations. Electronic submissions in PDF format are stron gly recommended. 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 prese nt the paper. Submission Web Site: https://easychair.org/ conferences/?conf=cscwd2018. ----------------------------------------- General Conference Chair ----------------------------------------- - Junzhou Luo (China) ----------------------------------------- Conference Co-Chairs ----------------------------------------- - José A. Pino (Chile) - Yun Yang (Australia) - Anne James (UK) - Jano de Souza (Brazil) - Amy Trappey (Taiwan) ----------------------------------------- Program Committee Chairs ----------------------------------------- - Weiming Shen (Canada) - Jean-Paul Barthès (France) - Junzhou Luo (China) - Jianming Yong (Australia) FOR MORE INFORMATION about the conference, organizing commit tee, submission instructions, and venue please visit the conference website: http://2018.cscwd.org/

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CFP: IEEE TCSS Special Issue on "Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems"
by John Korah 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple postings] ######################################################################################## CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE Transactions of Computational Social Systems Special Issue on "Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems" https://goo.gl/s8xQXm Important Dates: Submission deadline: *Dec. 05, 2017* First round of reviews: Jan. 31, 2018 Revised papers due: Feb. 20, 2018 Final notification: Mar. 20, 2018 Final manuscript due: Apr. 5, 2018 Expected publication: Jun. or Sep. 2018 ######################################################################################### *Scope of Special Issue: Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods, such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how social information can be utilized to better understand social processes, and model the evolution of social systems over time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and simulation, and new tools for analysis. This special issue provides a platform to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, including computer science, applied mathematics, social sciences, and computer engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing. The major topic areas covered by the special issue are: 1. Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems. E.g. Social network based models, Models of social interactions/influence, Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models, Models incorporating socio-cultural factors, Agent based social modeling and simulation, Modeling with uncertain/incomplete social data, real-time social modeling, social and behavioral theories 2. Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms E.g. Analysis of massive social data, Algorithms for dynamic social data, Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data, Social computing on new and emerging parallel/distributed architectures 3. Applications E.g. Emergency management (in areas such as infrastructure resilience, natural disaster management), National security, Health science, Social media analytics *Manuscript Submission: Authors must ensure that the papers submitted to this special issue is original and is not under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. Submission that are extensions of previously published work must contain significant technical novelty and significant new results. Manuscripts may be submitted via the IEEE TCSS submission portal at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcss. *IMPORTANT* In the cover letter, authors must mention the special issue so that the manuscript is routed to the special issue editors. The manuscripts should follow the IEEE formatting guidelines as provided at http://ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/create-your-ieee-article/use-authoring-too… *Special Issue Editors: Dr. Eunice E. Santos, Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Dr. John Korah, Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA For inquiries, please contact the special issue editors via email to parsocial(a)cs.iit.edu <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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DCOSS 2018: CALL FOR PAPERS
by Alam 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP).] *********************************************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE DCOSS 2018 The 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) New York, U.S.A. June 18 - 20, 2018 ************************************************************************************************************IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Registration Deadline: 23:59:59 EDT on January 17, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: 23:59:59 EDT on January 24, 2018Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2018Camera Ready Deadline: April 11, 2018 SCOPEDistributed sensor systems today are increasingly ubiquitous, producing information-rich massive data about the physical world. Due to the potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS) focuses on distributed computing issues in networked sensor systems (including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and information processing). The conference normally features three tracks on Systems and Applications, Algorithms and Protocols, and Signal and Information Processing. Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental research. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following aspects: ú Computation and programming models from sensor to cloudú Energy models, minimization, awarenessú Sensor data storage, retrieval, and processingú Distributed collaborative information processingú Machine learning techniques for sensor data analyticsú Abstractions for modular designú Communication and networking primitives and protocolsú Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfigurationú Sensor network management, diagnosis, and fault toleranceú Security and privacy issuesú Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operationú Closed-loop control for sensing and actuationú Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalabilityú Mobile and human-centered sensingú Sensing for the Internet of Thingsú Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systemsú Sensing for smart grid systems, green networks, and sustainability In addition to DCOSS?s traditional focus, DCOSS 2018 will include a ?track of the year?: Massive Sensing for the Industrial IoT. Topics of interests include but are not limited to:ú Dependable, safe, secure networked sensing and controlú Cloud-based big sensor data managementú Real-time sensor data analyticsú Data intensive applications and algorithms, e.g. VR/AR for industryú Industrial diagnosis and fault analysis based on sensing systemsú Networking and communication in the industrial environmentsú Location and time management for industrial processesú Heterogeneity and interoperability of sensor systemsú Service description and discoveryú Digital twins and simulation of physical processesú Industrial applications such as predictive maintenance, smart factories, smart products, ... PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to DCOSS topics of interest. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures. Authors may add at most two (2) pages, but only for an appendix, i.e. these two pages contain supplementary material only. The additional two pages will incur overlength charges at $100/page. Please read http://www.dcoss.org/submission.html for more details. ***********************************************************************************ORGANIZING COMMITTEE HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRSFrank Hsu (Fordham University, USA)Sethuraman Panchanathan (Arizona State University, USA) GENERAL CHAIRSHabib M. Ammari, (Fordham University, USA) David Wei, (Fordham University, USA) Gary M. Weiss (Fordham University, USA) TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRSYuan He (Tsinghua University, China)Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, USA)Kay Romer (Graz University of Technology, Austria) WORKSHOPS CHAIR Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China) Alberto Garcia-Ortiz University of Bremen, Germany) POSTER & DEMO CHAIR Ulf Kulau (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)Damian Lyons (Fordham University, USA)Lars Wolf (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany) Ph.D. FORUM CHAIRS Pierre Leone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)Utz Roedig (Lancaster University, UK)Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA) PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan (Fordham University, USA) Flavia Delicato (Federal Univesity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Jing Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China) Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria, France) ****************************************************************************************

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Call for Workshops/Tutorials at ISCA 2018
by Boris Grot 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

The 45th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) Los Angeles, USA June 2-6, 2018 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS: Please send workshop proposals to ³Lizhong Chen² <chenliz(a)oregonstate.edu> by Friday, December 8, 2017. Proposers will be notified of workshop decisions by Friday January 5, 2018. All workshop proposals should include the following information: - Title of the workshop - Organizers and their affiliations - Description of main objectives - Sample call for papers, including the workshop's main topics - Expected duration of the workshop; i.e., 1/2 day, full day, or 2 days - If the workshop has been held before, the location (i.e., which conference), date, workshop program, the number of published papers and attendees at the last occurrence. CALL FOR TUTORIALS: Please send tutorial proposals to ³Daniel Wong² <dwong(a)ece.ucr.edu> by Friday, December 8, 2017. Proposers will be notified of tutorial decisions by Friday January 5, 2018. All tutorial proposals should include the following information: - Title of the tutorial - List of organizers and presenters, including their affiliations and short bios - Abstract of the tutorial, including main objectives - A list of topics to be covered, including format (e.g., talks, demos, etc), target audience, and pre-requisite knowledge - Expected duration of the tutorial (i.e., 1/2 day, full day, or 2 days) - If the tutorial has been held before, the location (i.e., which conference), date, tutorial abstract and outline, the number of published papers and attendees at the last occurrence. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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