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TopHPC2019 CFP - HPC & Big Data & IoT & Quantum Computing
by leili mirtaheri 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

Call for Paper TopHPC2019 23-25 April 2019 Tehran-Iran Dear Colleagues, I hope that everything is fine with you. We would like to inform you that TopHPC2019 Congress is planned to be held in Tehran during 23-25 April 2019. TopHPC is the European and Asian joint event focused exclusively on High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data. The scope of the conference will cover, but will not be limited to, the following topics: Exascale Computing Big Data Analytics Big Data and HPC Convergence Quantum Computing Grids and Clouds for HPC Algorithms for Extreme Scale in Practice Performance Modeling and Prediction Smart Cities, Infrastructure Optimization, Urban Data Analytics Internet of Things State of The Art in Life Science and Computational Systems Biology Publication All accepted TopHPC2019 research papers will be published in the Springerís CCIS: Communications in Computer and Information Science. The CCIS series has ISSN Number - 1865-0929. The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. Please see more instructions for authors on the TopHPC 2019 web page: http://tophpc.com/tech_program.html#tech_program Best Paper Award: 500 Euros sponsored by Springe The authors, who can not attend in the Congress, can present their papers via teleconference. Important Dates: TECHNICAL PAPERS Technical Papers submissions deadline: January 1, 2018 Technical Papers notifications sent: February 15, 2019 TUTORIALS Tutorial submissions deadline: January 1, 2019 Tutorial conditional notification: February 15, 2019 EXHIBITION Submissions deadline: April 1, 2019 Key activities of the conference include: -Interesting talks by experts -Presentation of research results by Academics. -Tutorials by invited experts on scientific, methodological, or soft skills topics. -Exhibition -Industrial Sessions -Idea Festival -Discussion Panel -Discussion of the scientific and technical challenges in the Electrical and Computer Engineering specialization areas. -Sharing of experiences among students from different geographical regions. -Forum on practical aspects (e.g. Publications, job markets, careers, etc.). -Creation of collaboration networks. Please see the following link for the previous edition: http://www.tophpc.com/2017/ For the current edition, TopHPC2019, Please see: http://www.tophpc.com For watching the videos: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCNod5l2mOMMBknuCxRXFDNA Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to info(a)tophpc.com www.tophpc.com

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Call For Participation: Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2018)
by Hari Subramoni 31 Oct '18

31 Oct '18

======================================================================== Call For Participation Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2018) November 12, 2018, Dallas, Texas to be held in conjunction with SuperComputing 2018, November 11 - 16, 2018 Dallas, Texas http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ ======================================================================== ESPM2 2018 will be held as a full day workshop in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC 2018), Dallas, Texas, USA, Monday, November 12th, 2018. The full program of ESPM2'18 is available below. Program ------- 8:50 - 9:00 Opening Remarks 9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Talk Title : Exascale Challenges in Across-Node Parallelism for Languages and Runtimes Speaker : Laxmikant Kale Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 12:30 Research Paper Session - 1 Session Chair: Hari Subramoni The Ohio State University *****************[Best Paper]***************** Distributed Memory Futures for Compile-Time, Deterministic-by-Default Concurrency in Distributed C++ Applications; Jeremiah Wilke, David Hollman, Cannada Lewis, Aram Markosyan, Nicolas Morales; Sandia National Laboratories ********************************************** Design of Data Management for Multi-SPMD Workflow Programming Model; Thomas Dufaud, Miwako Tsuji, Mitsuhisa Sato; University of Versailles, Riken Center for Computational Science Integration of CUDA Processing within the C++ library for parallelism and concurrency (HPX); Patrick Diehl, Hartmut Kaiser, Thomas Heller, Madhavan Seshadri; Louisiana State University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Automatic Generation of High-Order Finite-Difference Code with Temporal Blocking for Extreme-Scale Many-Core Systems; Hideyuki Tanaka, Youhei Ishihara, Ryo Sakamoto, Takashi Nakamura, Yasuyuki Kimura, Keigo Nitadori, Miyuki Tsubouchi, Jun Makino; ExaScaler Inc, Kyoto University, PEZY Computing, Riken R-CCS Center for Computational Science, Kobe University 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 3:00 Research Paper Session - 2 Session Chair: Hari Subramoni The Ohio State University Asynchronous Execution of Python Code on Task Based Runtime Systems; Mohammad Tohid, Bibek Wagle, Shahrzad Shirzad, Patrick Diehl, Adrian Serio, Alireza Kheirkhahan, Parsa Amini, Katy Williams, Kevin Huck, Steven Brandt, Hartmut Kaiser; Louisiana State University, University of Arizona, University of Oregon A Unified Runtime for PGAS and Event-Driven Programming; Sri Raj Paul, Kun Chen, Akihiro Hayashi, Max Grossman, Vivek Sarkar; Rice University, Georgia Institute of Technology 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:00 Short Research Paper Session - 3 Session Chair: Hari Subramoni The Ohio State University Portable and Reusable Deep Learning Infrastructure with Containers to Accelerate Cancer Studies; George Zaki; Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research Analysis of Explicit vs. Implicit Tasking in OpenMP using Kripke; Charles C. Jin, Muthu Baskaran; Reservoir Labs Inc 4:00 - 5:30 Panel: Heterogeneous Systems and the Road to Exascale for HPC and AI Moderator : Daniel Holmes, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, UK Panel Members (More details coming soon!) -------------- Richard Graham Senior Solutions Architect, Mellanox Technologies 5:30 - 5:35 Closing Remarks The full program is available from the following websites. ESPM2'18 Workshop Website ------------------------- http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2_prog/ SC'18 Main Page --------------- https://sc18.supercomputing.org/session/?sess=sess173 Further information about travel, stay and registration are available at the following website http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ Thanks, The ESPM2'18 Organizing Committee.

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[GECCO CFP] (Deadline Nov 7) Call for Proposals for Tutorials, Workshops and Competitions - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2019
by Andrew M Sutton 30 Oct '18

30 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] ======================================================================= 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2019) 13-17 July, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic http://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/ ======================================================================= Important Dates ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Call for Tutorials, Workshops and Competitions * Proposals: November 7, 2018 * Acceptance Decision: December 5, 2018 * Conference: July 13-17, 2019 Call for Tutorials ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Tutorials Chair of GECCO 2019 invites domain experts to submit proposals for presenting a tutorial at GECCO 2019. Tutorials at GECCO will be presented by domain experts to cover current topics relevant to evolutionary computation researchers and practitioners. Each tutorial will be 110 minutes long. We encourage the inclusion of interactive activities and demos. Tutorials will be free to all GECCO attendees. It is expected that all the instructors involved in a tutorial will attend the conference. One instructor/presenter of each accepted tutorial will get a discounted registration. (The discount can be divided among tutorial instructors if there are more than one. Each presenter is eligible for only a single tutorial discount, i.e., it is not possible to aggregate discounts from more tutorials). Accepted tutorials' slide sets will be published as part of a companion volume to the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital library. ### Submission Process ### Each tutorial proposal should include: 1. A half-page extended abstract (in plain text) that includes: the title of the tutorial, the name and affiliation of the instructor(s), and a description of the tutorial scope, content and expected level of knowledge of the intended audience. 2. Short bio of the instructor(s) (about half page in plain text). 3. [Highly encouraged] A description of any interactive activity or demo planned within the tutorial presentation. ### Reviewing ### Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the GECCO 2019 organizing committee, based on the GECCO attendees' likely interest in them, the breadth and depth of the topic(s), and the expertise and credentials of the instructor(s). ### Information and Submissions ### Tutorials proposals should be submitted to: Sébastien Verel Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Calais, France Email: verel(a)univ-littoral.fr Webpage: https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Call+for+Tutorials Call for Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Workshops Chairs of GECCO 2019 invite domain experts to submit proposals for organizing a workshop at GECCO 2019. Workshops at GECCO provide the possibility to commonly develop visions and exchange ideas in an informal setting, especially if focused on an emerging research field or interdisciplinary research area. In contrast to regular sessions, workshops can (and should) host interactive sessions (posters, discussions, demonstrations, etc.). Attendance at the workshops will be free to all GECCO attendees. Workshop organizers are responsible for coordination and publicity. They collect and review papers, and provide a list of accepted papers and their authors, if applicable. Alternatively, a list of (invited) speakers and titles of talks to be given can be provided. If required, the GECCO organizers may provide additional support to the workshop organizers, such as publicity. Note that organizers, participants and presenters must register for the conference. Accepted workshop papers will be published as part of a companion volume to the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital library. ### Submission Process ### Each workshop proposal should include: 1. A half-page extended abstract (in plain text) that includes: the workshop title, the name and affiliation of the organizer(s), and a description of scope and content. Please refrain from using special characters in the title. 2. Short bio of the organizer(s) (about half-page in plain text). 3. [Highly encouraged] A description of any interactive activity or demo planned within the workshop. 4. A draft schedule of the workshop, including the estimated duration (1 to max 4 sessions) and type of sessions. 5. If this workshop (or a similar event coordinated by the same organizers or a subset of them) has taken place in previous years, either at GECCO or at other events, then include URLs to the event pages. ### Reviewing of Proposals ### Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshops Chairs and other members of the GECCO 2019 organizing committee. Final decisions will be made based on GECCO attendees' likely interest, the breadth and depth of the topic(s), and the expertise and credentials of the instructor(s). ### Information and Proposal Submissions ### Workshops proposals should be submitted by email to: Carlos Cotta Malaga University, Spain Email: ccottap(a)lcc.uma.es Richard Allmendinger The University of Manchester, UK Email: richard.allmendinger(a)manchester.ac.uk Webpage: https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Call+for+Workshops Call for Competitions --------------------- The Competitions Chair of GECCO 2019 invites domain experts to submit proposals for organizing a competition at GECCO 2019.Competitions demonstrate how Evolutionary Computation and related techniques can be utilized in challenging practical, real-world and gaming settings. They also enable fair comparisons between algorithms and (for recurrent competitions) provide the possibility to follow the development of approaches over time. ### Submission process ### Each competition proposal should include: 1. A half-page abstract (plain text) that includes: competition title, the name and affiliation of the organizer(s), a description of the competition. If the competition has been held before, then also provide the web address of last edition and what you will change in case you plan any changes. 2. In addition, you can voluntarily provide your thoughts on the following items: * sourcing of prizes * judging process * think about newcomers: can you provide tutorials (incl. videos) to make the entrance easier? * think about the eventual sharing of submitted algorithms and their descriptions There is the option of publishing descriptions of algorithms (2 pages per algorithm) as part of a companion volume to the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital library. The competition organizers decide whether they want to offer this to the competition participants. The deadline for these algorithm descriptions will be in April 2019, and they will be reviewed by the respective competition organizers. ### Information and Submissions ### Competition proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the GECCO 2019 Competitions Chair: Markus Wagner University of Adelaide, Australia Email: markus.wagner (at) adelaide.edu.au Webpage: https://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/Call+for+Competitions ### Review Process ### Competition proposals will be reviewed by the Competitions Chair and other members of the GECCO 2019 organizing committee. Final decisions will be made based on GECCO attendees' and competitors' likely interest, the breadth and depth of the topic(s), and the expertise and credentials of the organizer(s). The outcome of the review process is scheduled to be announced on December 5, 2018. -- Andrew M. Sutton, University of Minnesota Duluth Nadarajen Veerapen, University of Lille, France Publicity Chairs Manuel Lopez-Ibanez, University of Manchester, UK Editor-in-Chief Anne Auger, INRIA Saclay, France General Chair -- GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ACM SIGEVO). --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JPDC Special Issue CFP: Security & Privacy in Social Big Data-Deadline Dec. 31, 2018
by Qin Liu 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

******************************************************************************************************************** [Apologies for multiple postings] https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu… ******************************************************************************************************************** Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Security & Privacy in Social Big Data ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE of the SI The rapid development of social networks dramatically changes the way people think, work, and interact. As more and more individual users proactively generate, share, and exchange digital contents through social media, social networks have become a key source of big data. However, with such vast interconnectivity, convergence of relationships, and shared user information comes increased security and privacy concerns in social big data. On one hand, users carelessly posting their personal information on social media which can easily have their privacy breached. On the other hand, malicious attackers may manipulate such information to make a profit. There are two important security and privacy issues in social networks. The first is how to effectively utilize social data while protecting user privacy. The second is how to guarantee the authenticity of social data for an in-depth data analysis. Traditional security mechanisms and models tailored to small-scale or isomorphic data are inadequate to securing social big data which exhibit enormous volume and diverse formats. Therefore, how to develop scalable cryptographic algorithms/protocols and lightweight data mining/organization/optimization models to solve the security and privacy challenges becomes crucial for the successful application of social big data. About the Topics of Interest Any topic related to security and privacy aspects, e.g., access control, authorization, authorization, and anonymization, for big data and social networks, will be considered. All aspects of design, theory and realization are of interest. The scope and interests for the special issue include but are not limited to the following list: (i) Fundamentals and Technologies in Social Networks and Big Data Social network models and platforms Social network architectures and data models Searching and discovery Architectures for big data Machine learning and deep learning Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms Content analysis and data mining Novel and incentive applications of social big data in various fields Big data transformation, and presentation Big data acquisition, integration, cleaning, and best practices Large-scale data collection and filtering problem Sparse data modeling, compressing, and sensing (ii) Security and Privacy in Social Networks Accountability and audit in social networks Authentication and authorization in cloud services; Secure access to social networks; Big data privacy model in social networks New trust mechanism in social networks Privacy and security preserving protocol for social networks Applications of cryptography in social networks Secure data management in social networks; Privacy modeling in social networks Privacy-preserving social data publishing Private information retrieval in social networks Measurement studies of security & privacy issues in social networks Combating cyber-crime: anti-phishing, anti-spam, anti-fraud techniques (iii) Security and Privacy in Big Data Access control models and anonymization algorithms in big data Cryptography in big data and cloud computing Data protection and integrity in big data Secure searching in big data Secure outsourcing computing in big data System designs for secure data storage in big data Security model and architecture for big data; Software and system security for big data; Scalability and auditing for big data; Security and privacy in big data sharing and visualization; Security and privacy in big data mining and analytics; Data-centric security and data classification; Privacy in big data applications and services; Privacy in big data integration and transformation; Privacy in big data storage management; Threat detection using big data analytics; Big data privacy policies and standards (iv) System, Information and Network Security High performance security systems Secure system implementation Database and system security Secure operating systems Cryptographic primitives and security protocols Disaster recovery Provable security Key distribution and management Intrusion detection and prevention Privacy, anonymity and traceability Identity management Access controls and security mechanisms Web & applications security Secure routing and network management Security in content delivery networks Security in high speed network Security in optical systems and networks Network monitoring Network security policies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates Submission deadline: December 31, 2018 First-roundpass notification (for a rejected paper): January 31, 2019 Acceptance/rejection notification: September 1, 2019 Publication materials due: December 31, 201 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Format and Guideline All submitted papers must be clearly written in excellent English and contain only original work, which has not been published by or is currently under review for any other journal or conference. Papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 10pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as “Guide to Authors” at: https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-compu… All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select as “VSI: SP in Social Big Data” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://evise.com/evise/jrnl/jpd All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guest Editors Dr. Qin Liu– Corresponding Guest Editor College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China Email: [email protected]; gracelq628(a)126.com Dr. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, USA Email: mbhuiyan3(a)fordham.edu; zakirulalam(a)gmail.com Dr. Jiankun Hu School of Engineering and IT, University of New South Wales, Australia Email: J.Hu(a)adfa.edu.au Dr. Jie Wu Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, USA Email: jiewu(a)temple.edu -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: http://res.hnu.edu.cn/hbs/lq/

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Call for Participation: 9th Women-in-HPC workshop at Supercomputing (SC)
by Mubarak, Misbah 29 Oct '18

29 Oct '18

************************************************ Call for Participation 9th International Women in HPC Workshop: Held in conjunction with SC 18, Dallas, TX Sunday, Nov. 11 9:00-5:30pm <https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/> ************************************************ Progam: Session I: Keynote 9:00-9:05 Misbah Mubarak- Argonne National Laboratory Welcome 9:05-10:00 Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Keynote Speaker: "A Black Woman¹s Sojourn in High Performance Computing: Recovering Lost History" Session II: Thriving at Work (Hot Topics Discussion) 10:00 - 10:10 Linda Akli - Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) "Being a diversity ally‹what it means and how you can help" 10:10 - 10:20 Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) "Telecommuting boss - being a successful remote employee" 10:20 - 10:30 Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center "Leadership strategies in HPC" 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:10 Lorna Rivera - Georgia Institute of Tech. "Effectively responding to discrimination" 11:10 - 11:20 Lucy Nowell - DoE Office of Science "Effective workplace communication" 11:20 - 11:30 Carissa Holohan - Argonne National Laboratory "Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center" Session II: Thriving at Work.. continued (Panel Discussion) 11:30 - 12:30 Christine Cuicchi - Department of Defense (Panel chair and panelist) Panel Discussion: "Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity" Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois (panelist) Lucy Nowell - Dept. of Energy Office of Science (panelist) Yvonne Yang - Intel Corporation (panelist) Session III: Early career lightning talks 2:00 - 3:00 Weronika Filinger and Gokcen Kestor (Chairs) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session IV: Developing workplace resilience & managing stress 3:30 - 4:30 Toni Collis - Appentra Hands on discussion session working through the 'resilience toolkit' 4:30 - 5:20 Toni Collis - Apentra (Panel chair) Panel Discussion: "How to build resilience" Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center (panelist) Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (panelist) Kaoutar El maghraoui - IBM Research (panelist) Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh - Univ. of Sheffield (panelist) 5:20 - 5:30 Misbah Mubarak (Argonne) & Toni Collis (Appentra) Workshop Outcomes and closeup Best Regards, Women-in-HPC Workshop Organizing Committee

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TPNC 2018: call for participation
by IRDTA 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

TPNC 2018: call for participation*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* *************************************************************************** 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF NATURAL COMPUTING TPNC 2018 Dublin, Ireland December 12-14, 2018 Co-organized by: Natural Computing Research & Applications Group School of Business University College Dublin Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice Brussels / London http://tpnc2018.irdta.eu/ *************************************************************************** PROGRAM Wednesday, December 12 08:30 - 09:00 Registration 09:00 - 09:10 Opening 09:10 - 10:00 Hani Hagras. Explainable AI and Fuzzy Logic Systems - Invited lecture 10:00 - 10:15 Break 10:15 - 11:30 Roberto Barbuti, Anna Bernasconi, Roberta Gori and Paolo Milazzo. Computing Preimages and Ancestors in Reaction Systems Mengzhe Chen and Nikolay M. Sirakov. Poisson Equation Solution and its Gradient Vector Field to Geometric Features Detection Ziya Firat, Eliseo Ferrante, Nicolas Cambier and Elio Tuci. Self-organised Aggregation in Swarms of Robots with Informed Robots 11:30 - 11:45 Break 11:45 - 13:00 Fred Gruau and Luidnel Maignan. Cellular Computation, with Spatial Types on Planar Graph Yuichi Kato, Tetsuro Saeki and Jiwei Fei. Application of STRIM to Datasets Generated by Partial Correspondence Hypothesis Yuichi Komano and Takaaki Mizuki. Multi-party Computation Based on Physical Coins 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch 14:15 - 15:30 Shigeru Ninagawa. Patterns and their Interaction in Excitable Media on Face-centered Cubic Lattice Yuya Sugie, Yuki Yoshida, Normann Mertig, Takashi Takemoto, Hiroshi Teramoto, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Ichigaku Takigawa, Shin-Ichi Minato, Masanao Yamaoka and Tamiki Komatsuzaki. Graph Minors from Simulated Annealing for Annealing Machines with Sparse Connectivity Miin-Shen Yang, Shou-Jen Chang-Chien and Yessica Nataliani. Gaussian-kernel c-means Clustering Algorithms 15:30 - 15:45 Break 15:45 - 17:00 Michael Hellwig and Hans-Georg Beyer. A Linear Constrained Optimization Benchmark for Probabilistic Search Algorithms: The Rotated Klee-Minty Problem Karlo Knezevic, Stjepan Picek, Luca Mariot, Domagoj Jakobovic and Alberto Leporati. The Design of (Almost) Disjunct Matrices by Evolutionary Algorithms Nam Le, Anthony Brabazon and Michael O'Neill. How the "Baldwin Effect" Can Guide Evolution in Dynamic Environments --- Thursday, December 13 09:00 - 09:50 Juergen Branke. Design of Complex Systems via Simulation-based Optimisation - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Katherine Malan. Landscape-aware Constraint Handling Applied to Differential Evolution Abtin Nourmohammadzadeh and Sven Hartmann. Fuel Efficient Truck Platooning with Time Restrictions and Multiple Speeds Solved by a Particle Swarm Optimisation Thambo Nyathi and Nelishia Pillay. Automated Design of Genetic Programming Classification Algorithms for Financial Forecasting Using Evolutionary Algorithms 11:20 - 11:35 Break and Group photo 11:35 - 12:50 Geoff Pond and Greg McQuat. Optimizing Fleet Staging of Air Ambulances in the Province of Ontario Takfarinas Saber, David Fagan, David Lynch, Stepan Kucera, Holger Claussen and Michael O'Neill. A Hierarchical Approach to Grammar-guided Genetic Programming: The Case of Scheduling in Heterogeneous Networks Maxim Sakharov and Anatoly Karpenko. Multi-memetic Mind Evolutionary Computation Algorithm Based on the Landscape Analysis 12:50 - 14:05 Lunch 14:05 - 15:20 Alexandru Amarioarei, Gefry Barad, Eugen Czeizler, Ana-Maria Dobre, Corina Itcus, Victor Mitrana, Andrei Paun, Mihaela Paun, Frankie Spencer, Romica Trandafir and Iris Tusa. DNA-guided Assembly of Nanocellulose Meshes Alejandro Díaz-Caro and Marcos Villagra. Classically Time-controlled Quantum Automata Tadao Maekawa, Manabu Honda, Osamu Ueno and Tsutomu Oohashi. Mortal Organisms Rescue Immortal Organisms from Evolutionary Inertness: Perspective of the Programmed Self-decomposition Model 15:20 - 15:35 Break 15:35 - 16:50 S. Sahand Mohammadi Ziabari and Jan Treur. Integrative Biological, Cognitive and Affective Modeling of a Drug-therapy for a Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Roland Ritt and Paul O'Leary. Symbolic Analysis of Machine Behaviour and the Emergence of the Machine Language Knud Thomsen. It Is Time to Dissolve Old Dichotomies in order to Grasp the Whole Picture of Cognition 17:00 - 19:00 Touristic visit --- Friday, December 14 09:00 - 09:50 Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis. The Cellular Automata Computing Paradigm Enriched: From Simple Models to Real World Applications - Invited lecture 09:50 - 10:05 Break 10:05 - 11:20 Caroline Tichelaar and Jan Treur. Network-oriented Modeling of the Interaction of Adaptive Joint Decision Making, Bonding and Mirroring Jan Treur. Network Reification as a Unified Approach to Represent Network Adaptation Principles within a Network Jan Treur. Relating an Adaptive Network’s Structure to its Emerging Behaviour for Hebbian Learning 11:20 - 11:35 Break 11:35 - 12:50 Toshinori Deguchi and Naohiro Ishii. On Capacity with Incremental Learning by Simplified Chaotic Neural Network Ata Kabán and Yamanporn Thummanusarn. Tighter Guarantees for the Compressive Multi-layer Perceptron Ryotaro Kamimura. Information-theoretic Self-compression of Multi-layered Neural Networks 12:50 - 14:05 Lunch 14:05 - 15:20 Tibor Kmet and Maria Kmetova. Radial Basis Function Networks Simulation of Age-structure Population Esma Mansouri-Benssassi and Juan Ye. Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition: Generalisation Investigation Tamás Nyíri, Attila Ulbert and Attila Kiss. Novel Ensembling Methods for Dermatological Image Classification 15:20 - 15:35 Break 15:35 - 16:25 Feras Odeh and Adel Taweel. SemVec: Semantic Features Word Vectors Based Deep Learning for Improved Text Classification Jiri Síma. Three Analog Neurons Are Turing Universal 16:25 - 16:35 Closing

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IC2E 2019 Call for Papers (IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering) with the keynotes: Mung Chiang and Kirk Bresniker
by Dalvan Griebler 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

================================================================================= *The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2019)* *June 24-27, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic* http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2019/index.htm *Colocated* with the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2019) *Facebook*: https://www.facebook.com/IC2E-2019-1870281599725793/ *Linkedin*: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ic2e/ *Twitter*: https://twitter.com/IC2E1 *Keynotes*: Mung Chiang and Kirk Bresniker ( http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2019/keynotes.htm) ================================================================================== *Important Dates* --------------- Abstract submission deadline: 9 Nov 2018, 23:59 GMT Full paper submission deadline: 16 Nov 2018, 23:59 GMT Author notification: February 8th 2019 *Call for Contributions* ---------------------- Cloud computing has emerged as a new paradigm for the use and delivery of information technology (IT), and is revolutionizing the support of on-demand access, economies of scale, and dynamic sourcing options. In the Cloud context, a wide range of IT resources and capabilities, including servers, networking, storage, middleware, data, security, applications, and business processes, are available as services enabled for rapid provisioning, flexible pricing, elastic scaling, and resilience. These new forms of IT services are challenging conventional wisdom and practices. To fully reap the benefits of the Cloud service model requires holistic treatment of key technical and business issues, and engineering methodology that draws upon innovations in diverse areas of computer science and business informatics. The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners involved in the development of cloud infrastructure and applications can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences as related to Cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the Cloud stack — systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E will offer an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, foster research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately help shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. The IC2E 2019 technical program will feature research paper sessions, tutorials, workshops, and doctoral symposium. We solicit high-quality contributions in the above categories. Details of submission is available on the conference Web site http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2019/contributions.htm. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Cloud Infrastructure * Processors, accelerators for Cloud processing: interactive, batch, and streaming * Cloud storage and databases * Programming models, benchmarks, and tools * Mobile cloud computing * Multimedia cloud computing * Cloud Networking, 5G * Runtimes, virtualization, containers, unikernels, event-driven serverless * Platforms and services for data and analytics * Operational analytics and DevOps solutions * Economics of cloud Cloud Services * X as a Service: Backend, Business Process, Database, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, Storage, etc. * Microservices in the cloud * Support for mobility * Accelerators at the edge and core * Edge to core/data center * AI at the core and edge * Edge and fog computing * (Near) Real-time applications and services * Blockchain in support of Cloud Services Cloud Management * Big data management, platforms, analytics * Energy management in cloud centers * Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust * SGX, Trust zone, hardware security support * Hybrid cloud integration * Metering, pricing, and software licensing * Resource management and optimization * Service lifecycle management, automation * Performance, dependability, SLAs * Workload deployment and migration * Resource management and accounting * Cloud operating models including, public, on-premises and hybrid integration Practice and Experience * Design, implementation and operation of cloud platforms * Practical design issues with infrastructure, platform and other as-a-service offerings * Experimental data on cloud operations and usage patterns * Managing big data, practical challenges and emerging techniques * Experience with management systems, tools, and integration *Organizing Committee* -------------------- General Co-chairs Song Guo, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Program Committee Co-chairs Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Short Papers Program Chair Fabio A. Oliveira, IBM Research, USA Workshops Chair Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Tutorials Chair Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Future of Computing Co-chairs Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy Tom Conte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Erik DeBenedictis, Sandia Labs, USA Hironori Kasahara, Waseda University, Japan Publicity Chairs Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan Scott Fowler, Linköping University, Sweden Dalvan Griebler, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Stanko Novaković, VMware, USA Web and Information Chair Zichuan Xu, Dalian University of Technology, China Proceedings Chairs Vincezo de Maio, Vienna University of Technology, Austria *Program Committee* -------------------- Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois, United States Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Sara Bouchenak, INSA, France Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Kirk Bresniker, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, United States Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Roy Campbell, University of Illinois, United States Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti, Hewlett Packard Labs, United States Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, United States Cesar De Rose, PUCRS, Brasil Zoran Dimitrijevic, SAP, United States Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, United States Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Izzat El Hajj, American University of Beirut, United States Luiz Gustavo Leao Fernandes, PUCRS, Brasil Christof Fetzer, Dresden University, Germany Ian Foster, University of Chicago, United States Ada Gavrilovska, Georga Tech, United States Alfredo Goldman, USP, Brazil Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, United States Abhishek Gupta, Schlumberger software technology innovation center (STIC), United States Mazdak Hashemi, Twitter, United States Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, United States Alexandru Iosup, Vrije University, Netherlands Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Vana Kalogerki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Sudarsun Kannan, Rutgers University, United States In Kee Kim, University of Georgia, United States Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University, United States Danny Lange, Unity Technologies, United States Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France Alexander Merritt, Intel, United States Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, United States Phuong Nguyen, Ebay, United States Fabio Oliveira, IBM Research, United States Omer Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom Ann Cecile Orgerie, INRIA, France George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Gabriel Parmer, George Washington University, United States Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States Prashant Shenoy, UMass Amherst, United States Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, United States Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, United States Dilma Silva, Texas A&M University, United States Mike Spreitzer, IBM Research, United States Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, United States Maarten Van Steen, University of Twente, Netherlands Abhishek Verma, Google, United States Rich Wolski, University of California-Santa Barbara, United States Gerd Zellweger, VMware, United States *Steering Committee* -------------------- Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University, USA Hui Lei (Chair), IBM, USA Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstad, Germany -- *Dr. Dalvan Griebler* Postdoc researcher in Computer Science (GMAP <https://gmap.pucrs.br/> - PPGCC <http://www.pucrs.br/politecnica/programa-de-pos-graduacao-em-ciencia-da-com…> - PUCRS <http://www.pucrs.br/>) Professor and research coordinator (LARCC <http://larcc.setrem.com.br/> - SETREM <http://www.setrem.com.br/>) Curriculum Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1989039890812573 Home Page: https://www.dalvangriebler.com Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - CEP: 90619-900 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil Building 32 - Faculdade de Informática <http://www.pucrs.br/facin/> - Cabinet 633 Phone: +55 51 33538633

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Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining"
by Massimo CAFARO 28 Oct '18

28 Oct '18

Special Issue "The Second International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining" A special issue of Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 21 December 2018 http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Parallel_Distributed_… Special Issue Information Dear Colleagues, This Special Issue is devoted to the increasing interest in the design and implementation of parallel and distributed data mining algorithms. The Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (WPDM 2018) is an international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners, working on different high-performance aspects of data mining algorithms, enabling novel applications. Indeed, datasets grow so rapidly that, every day, exabytes of data are being generated, and, in order to extract and infer useful knowledge, parallel processing techniques are required to cope with this huge volume of data: Traditional sequential software is not viable to cope with them. When the data are generated in different places (such as wireless sensor networks and/or Internet of things devices), they may be geographically spread out, and the data cannot be sent to a centralized site, thus, the need for distributed processing algorithms arises. Topics relevant to this Special Issue cover the scope of the WPDM 2018 Workshop (http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro/WPDM2018/) - Parallel data mining algorithms using MPI and/or OpenMP - Parallel data mining algorithms targeting GPUs and many-cores accelerators - Parallel data mining applications exploiting FPGA - Distributed data mining algorithms - Benchmarking and performance studies of high-performance data mining applications - Novel programming paradigms to support high-performance computing for data mining - Performance models for high-performance data mining applications and middleware - Programming models, tools, and environments for high-performance computing in data mining - Caching, streaming, pipelining, and other optimization techniques for data management in high-performance computing for data mining Extended versions of papers presented at WPDM 2018 are sought, but this call for papers is fully open to all those who wish to contribute by submitting a relevant research manuscript. Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Special Issue Editors Guest Editor Assoc. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Italo Epicoco Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Dr. Marco Pulimeno Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Guest Editor Prof. Giovanni Aloisio Department of Engineering for Innovation, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Foundation, Lecce, Italy - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it cafaro(a)ieee.org cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************

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ASPLOS 2019 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Kinsy, Michel 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ======================================================================== Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop and tutorial proposals are solicited for ASPLOS-201, Providence, RI. Workshops will be held on April 13, 2019 (Saturday) and April 14, 2019 (Sunday). Proposals in the interplay between programming languages, computer architecture, operating systems, and user interfaces to deal with power, performance, resilience, and programmer productivity issues in emerging areas such as datacenters and cloud computing, systems based on non-volatile memory technologies, large scale data analysis, smart infrastructure, and extreme scale computing are encouraged. Please include in your proposal Title of the workshop Organizers and their affiliations Sample call for papers Duration – Half-Day or Full Day Preferred Day – Saturday or Sunday If the workshop was previously held, the location (conference), date, and number of attendees Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to Ulya Karpuzcu (ukarpuzc(a)umn.edu ) and Paul Gratz (pgratz(a)tamu.edu) with the subject “ASPLOS2019 Workshop Proposal”. Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail. Feel free to contact Ulya and Paul if you have any questions about the suitability of a workshop for ASPLOS or for any other related matters. Conference Link: https://asplos-conference.org/ Important Dates Submission deadline: Monday, November 6, 2018 Notification:Monday, November 24th 2018 ======================================================================== [On Behalf of the Organizing Committee] -- Michel A. Kinsy, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215 Office: PHO 335 - Phone: (617) 353 - 0037

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ASPLOS 2019 Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Kinsy, Michel 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ======================================================================== Call for Tutorial Proposals Tutorial proposals are solicited for ASPLOS-2019, which will take place in Providence, RI. Tutorials will be held on April 13, 2019 (Saturday) and April 14, 2019 (Sunday). Proposals for both half- and full-day tutorials are solicited on any topic that is relevant to the ASPLOS audience. In previous years, tutorials seeking to achieve either of the following goals have been particularly successful: Describe an important piece of research infrastructure. Educate the community on an emerging topic. Submission Procedures Proposals should provide the following information: Title. Presenter(s) and contact information. Proposed duration (full day, half day). 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity. 1 paragraph biography per presenter suitable for tutorial publicity. 1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include: Tutorial scope and objectives, Topics to be covered, Target audience, If the tutorial has been held previously, the location (i.e., conference), date, and number of attendees. Proposals should be submitted in PDF format via e-mail to Ulya Karpuzcu (ukarpuzc(a)umn.edu ) and Paul Gratz (pgratz(a)tamu.edu) with the subject “ASPLOS2019 Tutorial Proposal”. Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail. Conference Link: https://asplos-conference.org/ Important Dates Submission deadline: Monday, November 6, 2018 Notification:Monday, November 24th 2018 ======================================================================== [On Behalf of the Organizing Committee] -- Michel A. Kinsy, PhD Assistant Professor Director, Adaptive and Secure Computing Systems (ASCS) Laboratory Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University 8 Saint Mary’s Street, Boston MA 02215 Office: PHO 335 - Phone: (617) 353 - 0037

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