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[CFP] PICom 2018 - Call for Workshops and Special Session Proposals -- Deadline Extended (Final and Firm Deadline)
by Yaoqing Liu 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Proposals. =====================CALL FOR PAPERS============================= IEEE PICom 2018 The 16th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2018) http://cyber-science.org/2018/picom/ Athens, Greece, 12-15 August 2018 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) ================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES (New) =============== Regular Paper Submission Due: May 10, 2018 (firm deadline) Wksp/SS/Poster Paper Due: May 25, 2018 Authors Notification: June 10, 2018 INTRODUCTION ============= Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, and social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing domains. PICom-2018 is the conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, previously held as PCC (Las Vegas, USA, 2003 and 2004), PSC (Las Vegas, USA, 2005), PCAC (Vienna, Austria, 2006, and Niagara Falls, Canada, 2007), IPC-2007 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-2008 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), and since 2009 as the name PICom. IEEE PICom 2018 will be held on 12-15 August 2018 in Athens, Greece, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2018, IEEE DASC 2018 and DataCom 2018. It aims to bring together computer scientists and engineers, to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, work-in-progress, novel designs, and test-environments or test-beds in the important areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ Topics of interests include, but are not restricted to:† - Deep Learning and Deep Computation - Big Data and Smart Data - Brain-inspired Computing - Crowd Souring and Intelligence - Social Intelligence and Computing - Agent-based Computing - Ubiquitous Intelligence - Cyber-Physical Computing - The Internet of Things - Cloud of Things and Cloud of Sensors - Embedded HW, SW & Systems - Pervasive Devices and RFIDs - Wearable Devices and Applications - Sensor Technology and Networks - Pervasive Networks/Communications - Edge and Fog Computing - Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) - Device Virtualization - Privacy, Security and Trust - Context-Aware Computing - Mobile Data Mining - Ubiquitous Data Mining - Activity Recognition - Cloud Computing - Services for Pervasive Computing - Smart Cities and Smart Homes - Intelligent Social Networking - Pervasive Technologies for ITS - HCI for Pervasive Computing - Mobile Data Modeling - Middleware for Pervasive Computing - Intelligent/Smart IoT - Programming Abstractions for IoT - Semantic Analysis PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been published or under review in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS Proceedings format and submitted via EDAS systems (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24494) Research papers should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. A regular (full) paper is between 6-8 pages. A WiP, workshop, or special session paper should be between 4-6 pages and a poster paper should be between 2-4 pages. Some papers originally submitted as full can be accepted as short papers or posters during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. SPECIAL ISSUES ========================== Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for fast-track publication in regular or special issues of prestigious journals. The following journals are already confirmed: 1 - Information Fusion - Elsevier - Impact Factor: 5.667 (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/) 2 - World Wide Web journal - Springer (www.Springer.com/11280 ) - Special Issue on Smart Computing and Cyber Technology for Cyberization 3 - MDPI Sensors (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/Pervasive_Intelligence_C…) - Special Issue on "Pervasive Intelligence and Computing" ORGANISING COMMITTEE ========================== General Chairs -Flavia C. Delicato, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -Nikolaos Doulamis, Nat Tech Univ. of Athens, Greece General Executive Chairs -Klimis Ntalianis, Athens U of Applied Sciences, Greece -Liqiang Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Program Chairs -Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy -Pietro Manzoni, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain -Qiang Yang, Zhejiang University, China -Vana Kalogeraki, Athens U of Economics and Business Workshop and Special Session Chairs -Tie Qiu, Dalian University of Technology, China -Andreas Panayides, University of Cyprus Publicity Chairs -Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA, France -Kazuaki Tanaka, Kyushu Inst. of Technology, Japan -Igor dos Santos, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -Wei Li, University of Sydney, Australia -Yaoqing Liu, Clarkson University, USA Local Arrangement Chair -Nikolaos Mastorakis, Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece Advisory Committee Chairs -Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA -Constantinos S. Pattichis, University of Cyprus Steering Committee -Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan -Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada -Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland U of Tech., New Zealand

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EuroMPI 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline Extension to May 15)
by Halim Amer 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

=============================================================== EUROMPI 2018: CALL FOR PAPERS (*EXTENDED DEADLINE TO MAY 15TH*) =============================================================== The 25th European MPI Users Group Meeting September 23-26, 2018 https://eurompi2018.bsc.es Twitter: @EuroMPIconf OVERVIEW -------- EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). EuroMPI/USA 2018 will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also extensions or alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems, benchmarks, tools, parallel I/O, fault tolerance, and parallel applications using MPI and other interfaces. Through the presentation of contributed papers, poster presentations and invited talks, attendees will have the opportunity to share ideas and experiences to contribute to the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms. TOPICS ------ We invite paper submissions on all topics related to MPI. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues - MPI implementation issues and improvements towards exascale computing, such as manycores, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures. - Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high-performance architectures. - New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations. * Programming Models - Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI. - Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces. - MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications. - Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. - New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces - MPI parallel programming in clouds. * Applications and Performance - Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI-based applications. - Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. - Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. - Applications using message passing, in particular in computational science and scientific computing. - Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm. - MPI applications performance on clouds. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Full paper submission due *(extended): May 15, 2018* - Authors notification: June 26, 2018 - Camera-ready papers due: TBD - Conference dates: September 23 - 26, 2018 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- To be considered, your paper must be formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template and up to 10 pages in length (shorter papers are welcome). The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Margins and font sizes should not be modified. Authors should submit their work through the Euro MPI 2018 Submission Site. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE -------------------- Select papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions to be considered for inclusion in an invitation-only special issue of the Elsevier Parallel Computing journal. The extended version of the paper must have at least 30% additional content compared to the version published at EuroMPI/USA 2018. ORGANIZATION ------------ *General Chair* Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Program Co-Chairs* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Posters Chair* Sadaf R Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) *Workshops / Tutorials Chair* Rosa M Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Proceedings Chair* Pedro Valero-Lara, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Finance and Registrations Chair* Lia Merteki, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Web Co-Chairs* Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Kyunghun Kim, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) *Publicity Co-Chairs* Abdelhalim Amer (Halim), Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) Rafael Mayo, Universitat Jaume I (UJI) *Local Arrangements Co-Chairs* Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Nuria Sirvent, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) -- Halim www.mcs.anl.gov/~aamer

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CFP: Deadline 4 May 2018: HeteroPar'2018: 16th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms
by Ravi Manumachu 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ============================================================ ================== CALL FOR PAPERS 16th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms HeteroPar'2018 August 28, 2018, Turin, Italy in conjunction with EuroPar 2018 http://hcl.ucd.ie/heteropar2018 ============================================================ ================== * Submission of manuscripts: May 4, 2018 * Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2018 * Preliminary camera-ready version: July 21, 2018 * Date of workshop: August 27 or 28, 2018 * LNCS camera-ready papers: October 3, 2018 * Journal Special Issue first version: October 20, 2018 ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ Heterogeneity is emerging as one of the most profound and challenging characteristics of today's parallel environments. From the macro level, where networks of distributed computers composed of diverse node architectures are interconnected with potentially heterogeneous networks, to the micro level, where deeper memory hierarchies and various accelerator architectures are increasingly common, the impact of heterogeneity on all computing tasks is increasing rapidly. Traditional parallel algorithms, programming environments and tools, designed for legacy homogeneous multiprocessors, will at best achieve a small fraction of the efficiency and the potential performance that we should expect from parallel computing in tomorrow's highly diversified and mixed environments. New ideas, innovative algorithms, and specialized programming environments and tools are needed to efficiently use these new and multifarious parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for researchers working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficiently solving problems on heterogeneous platforms. Topics --------- The topics to be covered include but are not limited to: * Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models * Languages, libraries, and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models * Performance models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous platforms * Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and/or hierarchical multi-core systems, including manycores and hardware accelerators (FPGAs, GPUs, Xeon Phi, etc.) * Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on heterogeneous platforms (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, computational biology, data mining, multimedia, etc.) * Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems * Applications on heterogeneous platforms * Algorithms, models and tools for energy optimization on heterogeneous platforms * Bi-objective optimization of applications on heterogeneous platforms for performance and energy * Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous platforms * Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous platforms * Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous platforms * Algorithms, models and tools for grid, desktop grid, cloud, and green computing Submission Guidelines ------------------------------- Authors are encouraged to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms. Manuscripts should be limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS stylesheet and submitted through the EasyChair Conference System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws For further questions, please contact the program chair(s). Publication --------------- Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Journal Special Issue ----------------------------- Authors of selected papers accepted for presentation at HeteroPar'2018 will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work to a special issue of a top journal. Steering Committee --------------------------- Domingo Giménez, University of Murcia, Spain Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russia Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID/IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Denis Trystram, University Grenoble-Alpes, France Program Chair ------------------- Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland (ravi.manumachu(a)ucd.ie) Program Committee --------------------------- Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Antonio Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Cristina Boeres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria, France Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA George Bosilca, ICL, University of Tennessee, USA Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Henk Sips, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Ivan Milentijević, University of Nis, Serbia Jorge Barbosa, Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Louis-Claude Canon, Université de Franche-Comté, France Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand Olivier Beaumont, INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium Rafael Mayo, Universidad Jaume I, Spain Ramin Yahyapour, University of Dortmund, Germany Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Shuichi Ichikawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan Thomas Rauber, University Bayreuth, Germany Tom Scogland, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Vladimir Rychkov, University College Dublin, Ireland

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DeepLearn 2018: early registration May 3
by IRDTA 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

*************************************************************** 2nd INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2018 Genova, Italy July 23-27, 2018 Organized by: University of Genova IRDTA – Brussels/London http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/ *************************************************************** --- Early registration deadline: May 3, 2018 --- *************************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2018 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants about the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. This is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting machine learning research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 2 keynote lectures, 24 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2018 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: DeepLearn 2018 will take place in Genova, the capital city of Liguria, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and with one of the most important ports of the Mediterranean. The venue will be: Porto Antico di Genova – Centro Congressi Magazzini del Cotone – Module 10 16128 Genova, Italy KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Tülay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion through Matrix and Tensor Decompositions: Linear, Multilinear, and Nonlinear Models and their Applications Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications to the Natural Sciences Thomas Breuel (NVIDIA Corporation), [intermediate] Design and Implementation of Deep Learning Applications Joachim M. Buhmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [introductory/advanced] Model Selection by Algorithm Validation Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Florida), [introductory/intermediate] Feature Extraction, End-end Deep Learning and Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal Extraction, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware Michael Gschwind (IBM Global Chief Data Office), [introductory/intermediate] Deploying Deep Learning at Enterprise Scale Xiaodong He (JD AI Research), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing and Language-Vision Multimodal Intelligence Namkug Kim (Asan Medical Center), [intermediate] Deep Learning for Computer Aided Detection/Diagnosis in Radiology and Pathology Sun-Yuan Kung (Princeton University), [introductory] Systematic (Analytical and Empirical) Optimization/Generalization of Deep Learning Networks Li Erran Li (Uber ATG), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning: Foundations, Recent Advances and Frontiers Dimitris N. Metaxas (Rutgers University), [advanced] Adversarial, Discriminative, Recurrent, and Scalable Deep Learning Methods for Human Motion Analytics, Medical Image Analysis, Scene Understanding and Image Generation Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks Jose C. Principe (University of Florida), [introductory/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video Douglas A. Reynolds (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) & Najim Dehak (Johns Hopkins University), [introductory/intermediate] Beyond Words: Machine and Deep Learning for Speaker, Language, and Emotion Recognition from Speech Björn Schuller (Imperial College London), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning for Signal Analysis Michèle Sebag (French National Center for Scientific Research, Gif-sur-Yvette), [intermediate] Representation Learning, Domain Adaptation and Generative Models with Deep Learning Ponnuthurai N Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Learning Algorithms for Classification, Forecasting and Visual Tracking Johan Suykens (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning and Kernel Machines Kenji Suzuki (Tokyo Institute of Technology), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning in Medical Image Processing, Analysis and Diagnosis Gökhan Tür (Uber AI Labs), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Learning in Conversational AI René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning Eric P. Xing (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate/advanced] A Statistical Machine Learning Perspective of Deep Learning: Algorithm, Theory, Scalable Computing Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects Yudong Zhang (University of Leicester), [introductory/intermediate] Convolutional Neural Network and Its Variants OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing title, authors, and summary of the research to david(a)irdta.eu by July 15, 2018. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. At least one of the people participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 15, 2018. EMPLOYERS SESSION: Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. At least one of the people in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 15, 2018. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Alberto Cabri (Genova) Francesco Masulli (Genova, co-chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada) Stefano Rovetta (Genova) David Silva (London, co-chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/DeepLearn2018/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity of the venue is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. ACCOMMODATION: Suggestions for accommodation can be found at http://www.deeplearn-hotels.promoest.com/hp.aspx?s=0 CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david(a)irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Università degli studi di Genova Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) – Brussels/London

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CFP: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE'2018), 29-31 October 2018
by Kuan-Ching Li 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Apologies if multiple copies of cfp are received ----------------------------------------------------- The 21st IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE'2018) 29-31 October 2018 Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Web: http://cse2018.hpc.pub.ro =========================== ** Paper submission: July 1, 2018 ** =========================== The Computational Science and Engineering area has earned prominence through advances in electronic and integrated technologies beginning in the 1940s. Current times are very exciting and the years to come will witness a proliferation in the use of various advanced computing systems. It is increasingly becoming an emerging and promising discipline in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, ranging from engineering, science, finance, economics, arts and humanitarian fields, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing schedules. This year we emphasize in particular the relation between Big Data platforms, datacenters, modeling and simulation and resilient communications in the presence of disaster-based disruptions of all types of existing and future communication network architectures. As such, we welcome the participation of the cHiPSet and RECODIS COST Actions and from H2020 Data4Water project. Modeling and Simulation (MS) offer suitable abstractions to manage the complexity of analyzing different systems in various scientific and engineering domains. For example, the simulation of large systems in the case of faults can offer a better understanding of systems modeling with high-performance capabilities. CSE 2018 will be held in Bucharest, Romania on 29 – 31 October 2018. It is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of advanced computing for problems in science and engineering applications and inter-disciplinary. Please note that distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The organizers are planning Special Issues in Sensors (IF: 2.677), Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 3.997), Information Sciences (IF: 4.832), and others. These Special Issues will be announced soon! ORGANIZERS ========== General Chairs Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Jacek Rak, Gdansk University Of Technology, Poland Program Chairs Catalin Negru, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland David Hutchison, Lancaster University, United Kingdom IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Paper submission: July 1, 2018* * Authors notification: August 19, 2018 * Camera ready due: September 2, 2018 * Author registration by: TBA * Early registration by: TBA * Conference: October 29 - 31, 2018 CONFERENCE TOPICS ================= The aim of CSE2018 is to cover areas in Control System and Computer Science, concentrating on the specific topics listed below: Scientific and Engineering Computing ------------------------------------ Algorithms for solving discrete and continuous problems Computational optimisation Evolutionary computing and genetic algorithms Fuzzy systems Soft computing High performance computing and techniques to gain efficiency Kernel methods Analysis and visualization of data Model fitting and data analysis Modeling and simulation Numerical simulations Big Data Applications and Analytics Novel Models for Big Data ------------------------- Data and Information Quality for Big Data High-Performance Computing and Algorithms Databases and Data Mining Applications Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data Feature Selection and Feature Extraction Knowledge Discovery Mobility and Big Data Sequential Data Mining Stream Data Mining Social Network Mining Temporal and Spatial Data Mining Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency Text, Graph, Video, Multimedia Data Mining Big Data Open Platforms Modeling and Simulation IoT models and applications Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication Big data and digital transformation Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Digital Society Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing -------------------------------------- Autonomic Computing in P2P, Grid, Cloud systems Cloud Computing and Applications Data Intensive and Computing Intensive Applications Economics of P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing Grid and P2P Infrastructures for Data Storage and Data Mining High performance and Scalable Computing Large-scale Collaborative Problem Solving Environments Programming models, tools, and environments Middleware for Grid, Cloud and P2P Systems and Applications Methodology and Practice of Semantic Grid and Web Overlay Networks for P2P Systems Reputation Aggregation for P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing Systems Scalability, Dependability and Reliability Scheduling, Resource Discovery and Allocation Social Networking and Implications Theoretical model for P2P, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing Systems Trust Integration and Security Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing Applications Virtual Organizations and Enterprise Computing Web and Grid Service-based Applications Intelligent and Bio-inspired Computing -------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Artificial Immune Systems Business Intelligence and Multimedia Technology Computational Systems Biology and Medical Information Computational Neuroscience Complex Systems and Fuzzy Systems Evolutionary Computation Intelligent Computing in Biomedical Signal/Image Analysis/Computational Biology Natural Language Processing Computational Social Systems ---------------------------- Fundamental theories in SN/MSN Solutions to key problems in SN/MSN Typical SN/MSN applications Socially-inspired design of communications networks Various topics related to SN/MSN development platform Privacy, security, ethics, culture, and anonymity issues Social sensing, Crowdsourced sensing and mobile participatory sensing u-Things, u-Science and u-Engineering Intelligent transportation systems, and safety-critical systems Capacity offloading through D2D Local Area Networks Economic, social, psychological inspired incentive mechanisms Business models of SN/MSN Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications -------------------------------------------- Space-Time, MIMO and Adaptive Antennas Mobile data communication Security issues involved in mobile computing OFDM, CDMA and Spread Spectrum Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design, and Performance Evaluation Information Theory Multimedia Signal Processing Cross Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks Cognitive Radio, Ultra-wideband Multihop and Cooperative Communications Modulation, Coding, Diversity Signal Processing in Body Area Networks Wireless Emergency and Security Systems Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing --------------------------------- Embedded System Software and Optimization Embedded System Architectures Hardware/Software Co-design and Design Automation Real-Time Systems and Operating Systems Application-Specific Processors and Devices Power-Aware Computing Sensor Networks System/Network-on-Chip Reconfigurable Computing Systems and Applications Pervasive Computing and Communications Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing Internet Computing and Applications Multimedia and Data Management Human-Computer Interaction Agents and Distributed Computing Security and Fault Tolerance Applications Advanced Networking and Applications Communication Protocol and Architecture --------------------------------------- High-speed Communication and Network Wireless Communication and Network Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Network Low-power Network and System Wearable Network and System Embedded System and Networking Internet Technology and IP-based Applications Network Control and Management Network Performance, Analysis and Evaluation Quality of Services (QoS) Ubiquitous/Pervasive Networks and Computing Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World Smart Object, Space/Environment and System Innovative Networking and Applications Social, Ethical & Other Issues of Networked World Network and Application Hardware Security, Privacy and Trust --------------------------- Information and System Security Computer Security Reliable Computing Trusted Computing Network Security and Privacy E-Security Service and Internet Computing Mathematical foundation of Services Computing --------------------------------------------- Services Science Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web Services Wireless Grid and Communication Services Delivery Platform Grid Applications and System Solutions Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing Distributed and Parallel Computing Parallel/Distributed Architectures ---------------------------------- Real-Time Parallel and Distributed Systems Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware Parallel and Distributed Applications and Web Services Parallel I/O Systems and Storage Systems Tools and Environments for Parallel & Distributed Software Development Analysis and Design of Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Distributed Data and Knowledge-Based Systems Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR System Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing Security in Parallel and Distributed Systems Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing -------------------------------------------- Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment Reliable Computing Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing Software Engineering for Dependable Systems CSE Education ------------- Computer Aided Education Multimedia and Education Computer Science and Education Technology Computer and Education Training Computer and Education Management E-learning Knowledge Discovering REGISTRATION ============ All accepted papers MUST be registered by one of the authors. More details on http://cse2018.hpc.pub.ro/registration/. PROCEEDINGS =========== Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services and will be indexed in IEEE Digital Xplore Digital Library. CSE2018 Proceedings will be submitted to Web of Science indexing. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference. Otherwise, their papers will be removed from the digital library after the conference. SUBMISSION ========== Authors are invited to submit papers written in English. All submissions will be reviewed based on originality, significance, quality and clarity. The Program Committee will select the contributions after rigorous peer-review. Please send your paper(s) with no1 more than 8 pages, A-4 sheets, Times New Roman font, using the IEEE format. For submissions, only PDF format is accepted. Details about the author(s) must be provided: first name, last name, affiliation, position, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address. For papers with multiple authors, the contact person must be indicated. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . CSE2018 uses Easychair for papers submission. In the submission phase, please select the main topics related to your paper, specify the full name for all authors and include the keywords. The CSE2018 submission system is available at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cse-2018. INFORMATION =========== For more information, please contact Dr. Florin Pop, email: florin.pop(a)cs.pub.ro

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SmartWorld 2018 CFP: 15+ keynotes && 20+ Special Issues
by Qin Liu 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

Please accept our apologies when you receive multiple copies of this Final CFP (Extended Firm Deadline: May 15, 2015). =============== The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2018) October 8-12, 2018 Guangzhou, China http://www.smart-world.org/2018/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 15+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders, which will be shared by the IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops. Detailed information will be available at the conference website later. Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues* (to be confirmed). Special issues will be shared by IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops: (1) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 7.596) http://ieee-iotj.org/ (2) Information Fusion - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.667) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/ (3) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.832) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/ (4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.997) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/ (5) Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.500) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applicati… (6) IEEE Access (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.244) http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/ (7) Ad Hoc Networks - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.047) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/ (8) Soft Computing - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.472) https://link.springer.com/journal/500 (9) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.899) https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/ (10) International Journal of Parallel Programming - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 1.156) https://link.springer.com/journal/10766 (11) Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.956) http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11390 (12) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - IOS (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.809) https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-e… (13) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems - (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.411) http://www.ieice.org/eng/ (14) IEEE Cloud Computing - (EI Indexed) https://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/ (15) Journal of Information Security and Applications - Elsevier (ESCI & EI Indexed) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-appli… (16) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet (17) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE (18) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES (19) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn * More special issues will be added later. Workshops and Special Sessions Section Workshops/Special Sessions in conjunction with IEEE Smart World Congress 2018: (1) The 6th IEEE International Workshop on Network Optimization and Performance Evaluation (NOPE 2018) http://www.smart-world.org/2018/nope/ (2) The 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Big Data Computing (WHPBDC 2018) https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~menouer/WHPBDC18.html (3) The 2018 International Workshop on Assistive Engineering and Information Technology (AEIT 2018) http://www.smart-world.org/2018/aeit/ (4) The 2018 Special Session on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (AISE 2018) http://www.smart-world.org/2018/aise/ (5) The 2018 Special Session on BlockChain and its Applications (BlockChain 2018) http://www.smart-world.org/2018/BlockChain/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ubiquitous Intelligence for Smart World The smart world is set to enhance everyday things with abilities of sensation, communication, computation and intelligence so that many tasks and processes could be simplified, more efficient and productive. It consists of numerous "smart things" that can be endowed with different levels/forms of computational intelligence and even capable of thinking. Research on smart world is an emerging research field covering many areas, essential problems and crucial issues in truly building the smart world that benefits humanity, and simultaneously safeguards the natural environment for sustainable development and evolution. The 4th IEEE Smart World Congress originated from the 2005 Workshop on Ubiquitous Smart Worlds (USW, Taipei) and the 2005 Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart World (UISW, Nagasaki). SmartWorld 2018 in Guangzhou is the continuation after the success of SmartWorld 2017 in San Francisco, SmartWorld 2016 in Toulouse, and SmartWorld 2015 in Beijing. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 aims to provide a high-profile, leading-edge platform for researchers and engineers to exchange and explore state-of-art advances and innovations in graceful integrations of Cyber, Physical and Social Worlds with Ubiquitous Intelligence. IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Topics - Smart Industry and Manufacture - Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture - Smart Materials and Fabric - Smart Environment and Ecosystems - Smart Earth/Space System - Smart Grid and Energy - Smart Logistics and Retail - Smart Building and Structure - Smart Roads and Transportation - Smart Vehicles and Networks - Smart Machines and Robots - Smart Home and Furniture - Smart Appliances and Goods - Smart Wearables and Implants - Smart Medicine and Healthcare - Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care - Smart Foods and Living - Smart Learning and Education - Smart Disaster Management - Smart Internet of Things - Smart Sensing, System and Service - Smart Computing & Communication Six Co-located Conferences - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2018) - The 15th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2018) - The 18th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (ScalCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Cloud and BigData Computing (CBDCom 2018) - The 4th IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2018) - The 2nd IEEE Int'l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2018) IEEE SmartWorld 2018 Calls for - Papers that must be submitted electronically via the 2018 congress website - Workshop and Special Session Proposals in smart world related all aspects - Tutorial Proposals in addressing the emerging smart world areas - Smart AI City Competition Proposals for AI technological applications IMPORTANT DATES Special Session Proposal Due: May 8, 2018 Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2018 (Extended Firm Deadline) Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018 Camera-ready Deadline: August 8, 2018 PAPER SUBMISSION A submission is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop or special session paper, 4 pages for a Work-in-Progress paper, and 2 pages for a poster or demo paper in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) with Portable Document Format (.pdf). A submission can have at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge if accepted. Please submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartworld2018. IMPORTANT TIP For regular paper submission that falls in any of those various topics and beyond, please choose one appropriate track among the following three tracks when submitting your paper in the EasyChair system: Track 1. Smart World Theories and Models Track 2. Smart World Technologies Track 3. Smart World Systems PAPER PUBLICATION Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to special issues. More details can be found via http://www.smart-world.org/2018/. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIRS Guojun Wang, Guangzhou Univ., China Yew Soon Ong, Nanyang Tech. Univ., Singapore PROGRAM CHAIRS Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham Univ., USA Frode Eika Sandnes, HiOA, Norway Ruixuan Li, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China WORKSHOP CHAIRS Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan Qin Liu, Hunan University, China TUTORIAL CHAIR Haibo He, University of Rhode Island, USA SUMMIT CHAIR Zhong Chen, Peking University, China COMPETITION CHAIR Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China HONORARY CHAIRS Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State Univ., USA Xin Yao, Southern Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China Cesare Alippi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy ADVISORY CHAIRS Vincenzo Piuri, Univ. of Milan, Italy Hussein Abbass, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China STEERING CHAIRS Jianhua Ma, Hosei Univ., Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada POSTER AND DEMO CHAIRS Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China Darpan Triboan, De Montfort University, UK EXHIBITION CHAIR Dongqing Xie, Guangzhou University, China INDUSTRY SESSION CHAIRS Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Zengguang Hou, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Chen Yang, China Information Security Research Institute, China JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE CHAIRS Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sancheng Peng, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIRS Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Chunsheng Zhu, University of British Columbia, Canada Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiaokang Wang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada COORDINATION CHAIRS Liming Chen, De Montfort University, UK Kevin I-Kai Wang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand REGISTRATION CHAIRS Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Pin Liu, Central South University, China WEB CHAIR Dacheng Meng, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 to Conference Organizers: SmartWorld2018Guangzhou(a)googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, General Chair of IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 -- ******************************************************************* Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, Vice Dean of School of Computer Science and Educational Software, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang(a)gzhu.edu.cn; csgjwang(a)gmail.com http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/publications.html ******************************************************************* -- 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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Final CFP: QUATIC 2018 Track: Quality Aspects in Big Data Systems
by Sabri Pllana 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

QUATIC 2018 Track: Quality Aspects in Big Data Systems Coimbra, Portugal, September 4-7, 2018 Submission deadline: May 4, 2018 (final) <https://sites.google.com/view/quatic2018/thematic-tracks/track-quality-aspe…> "Big Data" has become a major force of research progress in HPC-based data mining and innovation across enterprises of all sizes. A lot of new platforms with increasingly more features for managing big datasets have been proposed recently. Big Data mining is also related to the management of cloud and modern HPC clusters. Quality assurance in Big Data mining in such systems is the important research and engineering challenge in today's data intensive computing. Quality in Big Data systems can be directly related to the quality of data - poor quality data is predominant in many such systems. The velocity of Big Data directly refers to data quality problems. On the other hand, Big Data processing and analytics requires high quality services and resource and data management tools. In this thematic track, we expect new concepts and research results addressing all quality issues in Big Data Systems. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Quality in Big Data Fusion and Integration Big Data Quality Management Big Data Quality Metrics Big Data management across distributed databases and datacentres Algorithms and Approaches for Detecting Outliers, Duplicate Data, and Inconsistent Data Security aspects in Big Data Processing and Analytics Algorithms and Approaches for Big Data Healing Big Data Persistence and Preservation Efficiency versus Accuracy Trade-off Data Quality in Distributed and Streaming Analytics Big Data Quality in cloud systems Big Data Quality in monitoring the e-health and human behaviour * Paper submission instructions Authors should submit through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=quatic2018) a PDF version of their paper. Full Papers must be in IEEE CPS format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and not exceed 9 pages, including figures, references, and appendices. Work In Progress (WIP) works with relevant preliminary results are limited to 4 pages. Submissions must be original and will be reviewed by the Track Program Committee. * Track Chairs: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden

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Call for conference papers | Student Travel Grant | SmartCloud 2018, September 21st-23rd, 2018 | New York, USA.
by Luna Li 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

*The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud 2018) * *September 21st-23rd, 2018* *New York, USA.* http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartcloud/2018/index.html *PDF Version Call For Papers <http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartcloud/2018/docs/cfp-smartcloud2018.pdf> * As a novel technology, cloud computing implementations have been booming in recent years, which dramatically attract attention from the industry, academia, and education. SmartCloud 2018 aims to collect recent academic achievements in novel techniques, developments, empirical studies, and new developments in cloud computing. The concentration of SmartCloud 2018 is enabling cloud computing to become an efficient approach for delivering intelligent services and forming advanced distributed systems, which are aligned with other updated technologies, such as data mining and big data. Empowering the existing infrastructure by using cloud computing techniques has been considered a dramatically significant issue for both academia and industry, which implies that intelligent cloud computing has a giant demand in multiple fields, from telehealth to e-learning, from vehicular systems to mobile applications. Therefore, our mission is to empower cloud computing the capability of "smart" by providing a forum for scientists, engineers, researchers, and students to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of smart computing and cloud computing. SmartCloud 2018 aims to collect recent academic achievements in novel techniques, developments, empirical studies, and new developments in cloud computing. Innovative technical applications in clouds are highly encouraged. The objective of SmartCloud 2018 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of smart computing and cloud computing. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel mechanisms in cloud computing - Pervasive computing applications and innovations in cloud computing - QoE / QoS for D2D communication in cloud computing - WiFi-Direct, WLAN-Direct, and cellular technology for empowering cloud computing - Nature inspired algorithms for resource management in cloud computing - Channel modulation for 5G networks in cloud computing - Cloud computing for D2D communication - Intelligent control mechanism for D2D communication in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring, incident response - Digital forensics in cloud computing - Big data security, Database security - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Cloud security and privacy issues - Sensor network security issues in mobile cloud computing - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Ambient intelligence and intelligent service systems in cloud systems - Analysis and evaluation of cloud-based Healthcare - Cloud-assisted clinical data and knowledge management - Cloud computing for Healthcare - Data mining techniques and data warehouses in cloud computing - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - Green cloud computing applications and optimizations *Special Issues* It has been confirmed that distinguished papers published at SmartCloud 2018 will have a priority for considerations in the following listed 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues after the revisions. *Student Travel Grant* IEEE SmartCloud 2018 has funded travel grant from NSF. The priority will be given students in the U.S. who have submitted a paper. For those students who did not submit a paper, we still have a good chance to support several students in the U.S. to attend this important conference. *Important Dates* *Paper Submission: May 1st, 2018* Author Notification: July 1st, 2018 Camera-Ready: August 1st, 2018 Registration Due: August 1st, 2018 Conference Date: Sep. 21st - 23rd, 2018 More information at http://www.cloud-conf.net/smartcloud/2018/index.html

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IEEE Cluster abstract due -- May 1st
by Rong Ge 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IEEE CLUSTER 2018 September 10 - 13, 2018, Belfast, UK. The IEEE Cluster Conference serves as a major international forum for presenting and sharing recent accomplishments and technological developments in the field of cluster computing as well as the use of cluster systems for scientific and commercial applications. Cluster 2018 involves participants (researchers, developers, and users) from academia, industry, laboratories, and commerce, coming together to discuss recent advances and trends in, but not limited to: *Applications, Algorithms, and Libraries *Architecture, Networks/Communication, and Management *Programming and Systems Software *Data, Storage, and Visualization More details can be found at https://cluster2018.github.io/technical/. Paper submission: *Submissions are required to be within 10 pages (not counting references). Submission via https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ieeecluster/ Important dates: *Abstract deadline: May 1st 2018 *Full Papers due: May 8th 2018 (this is a hard deadline; no extensions are anticipated) *Paper Acceptance Notification: July 3rd 2018 *Camera-ready deadline: July 31st 2018 *Conference: September 10-13 2018 *Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) Organizers General Co-chairs: Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University Belfast, UK Bronis R. de Supinski, Queen's University Belfast, UK Program Chair: Paul H J Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Local Arrangements Chair: Katie Stewart, Queen's University Belfast, UK ------------------------------------------- Rong Ge, Ph.D. Associate Professor School of Computing Clemson University Email: rge AT clemson DOT edu Voice: (864)656-7684 Office: Rm 209 McAdams Hall

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Call for participation: Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, July 9-21, 2018, Eugene, OR
by Boyana Norris 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

Call for Participation: Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, July 9-21, 2018, Eugene, OR https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/ The Oregon Programming Languages Summer School is devoted to teaching the principles of programming languages to students and professionals. Although the topics vary from year to year, the unifying theme is the importance of fundamental theory to the design and implementation of programming languages, the development of program verification tools, and the application of advanced programming languages to practice. The summer school attracts participants from around the world, and is often able to subsidize the participation of qualified attendees with limited resources. More than a thousand participants have attended OPLSS since its inception in 2002. The summer school is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and by generous grants from numerous companies over the years. This year's program is entitled Concurrency and Parallelism, and is co-organized by Guy Blelloch. Parallelism and concurrency are central issues in programming, and enjoy richly developed theoretical foundations that are directly applicable to programming practice. The two topics are closely related, but it is helpful to distinguish their separate purposes as well as consider their close relation to each other. Parallelism is principally concerned with efficiency, making programs run faster by taking advantage of multiple processing elements. Making parallelism practical requires fundamental theories of cost semantics and parallel algorithms, and requires the development of sophisticated compilers and run-time systems. Concurrency is principally concerned with program composition, building a composite system from components that execute independently and interact with one another. There is much active research on the design and semantics of concurrent programming languages, and on the development of verification tools to ensure their correctness. This year's speakers will address many of these topics from various perspectives. The main program takes place over two weeks, with ample time for group and private study, and to take advantage of the many recreational opportunities around Eugene. For the first time this year there will be an additional week at the start for teaching the basics of programming language theory to students with little or no prior experience. For more details and to register, go to https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer18/ -- Boyana Norris https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~norris

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