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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC)
by Pennycook, John 31 May '18

31 May '18

We are pleased to announce the first International Workshop on Performance, Portability and Productivity in HPC (P3HPC); an opportunity for researchers to share ideas, practical experiences, and methodologies for tackling the compelling problems that lie at the intersection of performance, portability and productivity. We are particularly interested in research that addresses the complexities of real-life applications and/or realistic workloads, the composability challenges arising from the use of bespoke solutions, and the desire to "future-proof" applications in the long term. Authors are invited to submit novel research from all areas concerned with performance, portability and productivity. The workshop is anticipated to attract a diverse and cross-disciplinary audience from industry and academia, bringing together: compiler, language and runtime experts; performance engineers; and domain scientists. Input from such a variety of experiences is critical to developing effective and productive solutions to performance portability, and tracking the highlights and lowlights of community experiences is key to identifying common themes and best practices. Topics of Interest =============== Topics of interest include: - Extensions to standard languages, libraries and runtimes such as C/C++, Fortran, OpenMP, OpenACC, OpenCL - Algorithmic and application development techniques - Software tools, libraries, domain specific languages and other abstractions - Case studies documenting efforts to run across multiple diverse platforms using state-of-the-art tools and techniques - Achieving performance portability for legacy codes - Preparing applications for unexpected changes in architecture - Definitions of and metrics for measuring performance portability - Productivity concerns related to performance portability Important Dates ============== - June 4: Submissions Open - August 27: Submission Deadline - September 17: Author Notification - October 8: Camera Ready Submissions - November 11-16: Supercomputing 2018 Submission Guidelines ================== Authors are invited to submit original papers of no more than 10 pages, including tables, figures and your appendices, but not including references nor the reproducibility appendix. All submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE Conference Proceedings format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Papers should be submitted electronically via Linklings: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopP3HPCSub… Full papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore digital archive in collaboration with IEEE TCHPC. Reproducibility Initiative ==================== The P3HPC workshop will follow a reproducibility initiative similar to SC technical papers: authors are encouraged to submit an appendix of no more than two pages detailing available artifacts and any steps taken to increase the trustworthiness of their results (see https://sc18.supercomputing.org/sc-reproducibility-initiative/) The nature of performance portability involves demonstrated performance across multiple architectures, hence authors should describe artifact components across all architectures employed, such as compiler, runtime and application configurations. Authors should clearly document and explain the reasoning behind such configuration differences, to assist future researchers seeking to reproduce their experiments on future architectures. More Information =============== For more information, please visit the P3HPC website at: https://p3hpc2018.lbl.gov.

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[GECCO 2018] Final Call For Entries for for 15th Annual (2018) "Humies" Awards
by Andrew M Sutton 30 May '18

30 May '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] *NOTE* Deadline for entries in one week (June 6, 2018) Call For Entries for 15th Annual (2018) "Humies" Awards for Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation www.human-competitive.org To be Held at Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) July 15-19, 2018 (Sunday - Thursday) in Kyoto, Japan http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, learning classifier systems, grammatical evolution, gene expression programming, differential evolution, etc.) and that have been published in the open literature between the deadline for the previous competition and the deadline for the current competition. The competition will be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference operated by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). Entries chosen to be finalists will be made at the conference. The winners of the awards will be announced during the conference. IMPORTANT DATES: * Wednesday June 6, 2018 -- Deadline for entries (consisting of one TEXT file, PDF files for one or more papers, and possible "in press" documentation (explained below). Please send entries to koza at human-competitive dot org * Wednesday June 20, 2018 -- Finalists will be notified by e-mail * Wednesday July 4, 2018 -- Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, PDF) for posting on the competition's web site. Send presentations to koza at human-competitive dot org * July 15-19, 2018 (Sunday-Thursday) -- GECCO conference * Tuesday July 17, 2018 -- Presentations before judging committee at public session of the GECCO conference. Finalists should make a point of double-checking the time and date in the conference's final schedule. * Thursday July 19, 2018 -- Announcement of awards at plenary session of the GECCO conference JUDGING COMMITTEE * Erik Goodman * Una-May O'Reilly * Wolfgang Banzhaf * Darrell Whitley * Lee Spector PUBLICITY CHAIR: William Langdon CALL FOR ENTRIES Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being increasingly applied to difficult real-world problems -- often yielding results that are not merely academically interesting, but competitive with the work done by creative and inventive humans. Starting at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2004, cash prizes have been awarded for human-competitive results that had been produced by some form of genetic and evolutionary computation in the previous year. This prize competition is based on published results. The publication may be a paper published anywhere in the open literature (e.g., the GECCO conference, any another conference or workshop, journal, technical report, thesis, book, chapter in edited book). The competition is open to any paper (1) published in the open literature between June 7, 2017 (the deadline for the previous year's competition) and June 6, 2018 (the deadline for this competition), or (2) that is "in press" by the deadline for this competition. "In Press" means the paper must have been unconditionally accepted for publication and be identical to that which will be published imminently without the possibility of any further changes or revision by the authors or editors. For example, a paper accepted for the current year's GECCO conference would not have been published by the deadline for the competition. However, because the paper has already been unconditionally accepted for publication (and the final camera-ready version submitted to the conference prior to the deadline for this competition), a GECCO paper is "in press." If an entry is "in press," the entry must include a copy of the documentation establishing that the paper meets this requirement. The paper must meet the usual standards of a scientific publication in that it must clearly describe a problem, the methods used to address the problem, the results obtained, and sufficient information about how the work was done in order to enable the work to be independently replicated. An automatically created result is considered "human-competitive" if it satisfies at least one of the eight criteria below. (A) The result was patented as an invention in the past, is an improvement over a patented invention, or would qualify today as a patentable new invention. (B) The result is equal to or better than a result that was accepted as a new scientific result at the time when it was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. (C) The result is equal to or better than a result that was placed into a database or archive of results maintained by an internationally recognized panel of scientific experts. (D) The result is publishable in its own right as a new scientific result independent of the fact that the result was mechanically created. (E) The result is equal to or better than the most recent human-created solution to a long-standing problem for which there has been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions. (F) The result is equal to or better than a result that was considered an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered. (G) The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its field. (H) The result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving human contestants (in the form of either live human players or human-written computer programs). Contestants should note that a pervasive thread in most of the above eight criteria is the notion that the result satisfy an "arms length" standard -- not a yardstick based on the opinion of the author, the author's own institution (educational or corporate), or the author's own close associates. "Arms length" may be established in numerous ways. For example, if the result is a solution to "a long-standing problem for which there has been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions," it is clear that the scientific community (not the author, the author's own institution, or the author's close associates) have vetted the significance of the problem. Similarly, a problem's significance may be established if the result replicates or improves upon a scientific result published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, replicates or improves upon a previously patented invention, constitutes a patentable new invention, or replicates or improves a result that was considered an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered. Similarly, a problem's significance may be established if the result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving live human players or human-written computer programs. In each of the foregoing examples, the standard for human-competitiveness is being established external to the author, the author's own institution, or the author's close associates. It is also conceivable to rely only on criterion G ("The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its field"); however, if only criterion G is claimed, there must be a clear and convincing argument that the problem's "difficulty" is indeed "indisputable." The competition will be held as part of the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference. Entries chosen to be finalists are to be made at the conference. The awards and prizes will be announced at the conference. Cash prizes of $5,000 (gold), $3,000 (silver), and bronze (either one prize of $2,000 or two prizes of $1,000) will be awarded for the best entries that satisfy one or more of the criteria for human-competitiveness. The awards will be divided equally among co-authors unless the authors specify a different division at the time of submission. Prizes are paid by check in U.S. dollars after the GECCO conference. The judges may, based on submissions, reallocate the prize amounts and prize categories within the total amount available for prizes. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTERING THE "HUMIES" If you plan to make an entry into this competition, please check the web site for updated information and for possible last-minute changes immediately prior to submitting your entry. Similarly, if you are selected as a finalist, please re-check the web site prior to the conference for possible last-minute changes in instructions or schedule. All entries are to be sent electronically to koza at human-competitive dot org. All entries will be promptly acknowledged, so please make an inquiry if you do not receive a reasonably prompt acknowledgment shortly after your submission. An entry must consist of one TEXT file and one or more PDF files. In addition, if the paper is "in press" asof the deadline date for submissions, an additional document must be submitted. If authors are making multiple entries to the competition, please submit separate e-mails, each containing the required TEXT file and PDF file(s) supporting the entry. The TEXT file must contain the following 11 items. Please be very careful to include ALL required information. Contestants are alerted to the fact that items 6 and 9 areespecially important and will be the main basis by which entries will be judged. The papers and presentations from earlier competitions (starting in 2004) are posted at the competition web site at www.human-competitive.org. These previous entries may be informative and helpful in crafting your entry. 1. the complete title of one (or more) paper(s) published in the open literature describing the work that the author claims describes a human-competitive result; 2. the name, complete physical mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number of EACH author of EACH paper(s); 3. the name of the corresponding author (i.e., the author to whom notices will be sent concerning the competition); 4. the abstract of the paper(s); 5. a list containing one or more of the eight letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or H) that correspond to the criteria (see above) that the author claims that the work satisfies; 6. a statement stating why the result satisfies the criteria that the contestant claims (see examples of statements of human-competitiveness as a guide to aid in constructing this part of the submission); 7. a full citation of the paper (that is, author names; publication date; name of journal, conference, technical report, thesis, book, or book chapter; name of editors, if applicable, of the journal or edited book; publisher name; publisher city; page numbers, if applicable); 8. a statement either that "any prize money, if any, is to be divided equally among the co-authors" OR a specific percentage breakdown as to how the prize money, if any, is to be divided among the co-authors; 9. a statement stating why the authors expect that their entry would be the "best," and 10. An indication of the general type of genetic or evolutionary computation used, such as GA (genetic algorithms), GP (genetic programming), ES (evolution strategies), EP (evolutionary programming), LCS (learning classifier systems), GE (grammatical evolution), GEP (gene expression programming), DE (differential evolution), etc. 11. The date of publication of each paper. If the date of publication is not on or before the deadline for submission, but instead, the paper has been unconditionally accepted for publication and is "in press" by the deadline for this competition, the entry must include a copy of the documentation establishing that the paper meets the "in press" requirement. The PDF file(s) are to contain the paper(s). The strongly preferred method is that you send a separate PDF file for each of your paper(s) relating to your entry. Both the text file and the PDF file(s) for each entry will be permanently posted on a web page shortly after the deadline date for entries (for use by the judges, conference attendees, and anyone else who is interested) and will remain posted on the web as a permanent record of the competition. If your paper is only available on the publisher's web site and your publisher specifically requires that your published paper may appear only on your own personal page, the second choice is that you send link(s) to a separate web page on your web site containing link(s) to the PDF file(s) of the paper(s) that constitute your entry. This separate web page is to contain nothing else, so the interested parties may quickly locate your paper(s). If you use this second-choice option, you must ALSO supply a link to a permanent web site maintained by your publisher where your specific paper may be viewed or purchased (that is, not a link merely to the publisher's general home page, but a link to the specific web page containing your paper on the publisher's site). Keep in mind that the objective is to guarantee a permanent record of the entries and to make it easy for anyone to locate your material. Generally, only one paper should be submitted. More than one paper should be submitted only if no single paper fully describes the specific result or method. Note that this competition involves specific results published in the past year, and it NOT an evaluation of the author's entire body of work over period of years. Note that this is a competition involving a result that satisfies the criteria for being "human-competitive" as defined herein. The judging committee will review all entries and identify a short list of finalists for presentation at the GECCO conference. Finalists will be notified by an e-mail to the corresponding author. Please acknowledge receipt of this message, so the judges know that you received your notice. Finalists must then make a short oral presentation to the judging committee at a public session of the GECCO conference. The presentations will be held on one of the early days of the conference, and the winners will be announced a day or two later at the conference. Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., a PowerPoint, PDF) by e-mail to koza at human-competitive dot org. All submissions will be promptly acknowledged, so please make an inquiry if you do not receive a reasonably prompt acknowledgment. These presentations will be posted on the web page for the competition. oral presentation (usually about 10 minutes) by the finalists to the judging committee. The presentations will be open to all conference attendees at a special session of the conference. The oral presentation should primarily focus on 1. why the result qualifies as being human-competitive and 2. why the judges should consider the entry as "best" in comparison to other entries that may also be "human-competitive." In this short oral presentation to the judges, a description of the work itself is decidedly secondary. By the time of your presentation, the judges will be familiar with the papers. Thus, the focus of the presentation is on reasons why the work being presented should win a prize -- not an explanation or presentation of the work itself. In the unlikely event that a presenter is scheduled to make a presentation elsewhere at the GECCO conference at the same time, please notify the judging committee, so they can rearrange time slots. After the oral presentations, the award committee will meet and consider the presentations. The presenting author for each entry must register for the GECCO conference. A judge will recuse himself or herself if he or she is closely associated with a finalist (e.g., a current academic advisor, current collaborator, co-author with the finalist of related work). Additional information is at www.human-competitive.org

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High Performance Machine Learning Workshop - HPML 2018: call for Papers - June 25th
by Bruno Raffin 30 May '18

30 May '18

CALL FOR PAPERS Reminder High Performance Machine Learning Workshop - HPML 2018 https://hpml2018.github.io/ To be held in conjunction with the 30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2018) September 24th, 2018 - Lyon, France This workshop is intended to bring together the Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High Performance Computing (HPC) communities. In recent years, much progress has been made in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in general. This progress required heavy use of high performance computers and accelerators. Moreover, ML and AI have become a “killer application” for HPC and, consequently, driven much research in this area. These facts point to an important cross-fertilization that this workshop intends to nourish We invite authors to submit original work to HPML. Proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore. Furthermore, a number of selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier - JPDC). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning (including deep learning) models - Large scale machine learning applications - Statistical models - Large scale data analytics - Machine learning applied to HPC - Accelerated Machine Learning - HPC applied to Machine Learning - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis of ML models - Hardware acceleration for ML and AI - Parallel ML and AI models - HPC infrastructure and resource management for ML Submissions must be in English, limited to 8 pages in the IEEE conference format – see: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be made electronically through the Easychair website - https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpml2018 Important dates: - Abstract deadline: June 18th, 2018 - Submission deadline: June 25th, 2018 - Workshop paper reviews due: July 9th, 2018 - Acceptance notifications: July 13th, 2018 - Camera-ready papers: July 18th, 2018 - Workshop: September 24th, 2018 Organizing Committee: - Eduardo Rocha Rodrigues, IBM Research - Jairo Panetta, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - Bruno Raffin, INRIA Program Committee: - Aline Paes, UFF - Edmilson Morais, IBM - Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA - Fabio Cozman, USP - Gina Maira Barbosa de Oliveira, UFU - Guillaume Aupy, INRIA - Mauricio Araya, Shell - Olivier Beaumont, INRIA - Olivier Coulaud, INRIA - Pedro Mario Cruz, Nvidia -- -- <https://www.postbox-inc.com/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=siglink&utm_campai…> Bruno Raffin INRIA Research Director DataMove Project-team Leader Univ. Grenoble Alpes Phone: +33 4 57 42 15 49 Web: http://www-id.imag.fr/~raffin/ <http://www-id.imag.fr/%7Eraffin/> Office: 433 Surface Mail: Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire 38401 Saint-Martin-d’Hères France

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Call for Papers: Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) 2018
by Hongfeng Yu 29 May '18

29 May '18

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers LDAV 2018 - Large Data Analysis and Visualization The 8th IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization Held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018 October 21, 2018, Berlin, Germany http://www.ldav.org/ *** Abstracts due June 17 *** *** Full Papers due July 1 *** Contact: papers(a)ldav.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Data scales are increasing throughout scientific, business, and research contexts. Large-scale scientific simulations, observation technologies, sensor networks, and experiments are generating enormous datasets, with some projects approaching the multiple exabyte range in the near term. Gaining insight from massive data is critical for disciplines such as climate science, nuclear physics, security, materials design, transportation, urban planning, and so on. Business-critical decisions are made based on massive data in domains like social media, machine learning, software telemetry, and business intelligence. The tools and approaches needed to search, analyze, and visualize data at extreme scales can be fully realized only from end-to-end solutions, and with collective, interdisciplinary efforts. The 8th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2018, is specifically targeting methodological innovation, algorithmic foundations, and possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain experts, data analysts, visualization researchers, and users to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems. SCOPE: We are looking for both original research contributions and position papers on a broad-range of topics related to collection, analysis, manipulation, and visualization of large-scale data. We are particularly interested in innovative approaches that combine information visualization, visual analytics, and scientific visualization. We are interested in methods for data at scale, including: * Distributed, parallel, and multi-threaded computation * Streaming methods * Innovative software solutions * Advanced hardware and GPU-based approaches * Hierarchical data storage, retrieval, processing, and rendering * Sampling, approximate query processing, and progressive computation * Collection, management, and curation of massive datasets * Scalable visualization and exploration methods * Ensemble data visualization and analysis * In-situ data analysis We are also interested in understanding state of the art techniques, including: * Best practices for large data visualization * End-to-end system solutions in a large data context * Industry solutions for big data analysis and visualization We are interested in research on the context of visualization, including: * Collaboration or/and co-design of large data analysis with domain experts * Topics in cognitive issues specific to manipulating and understanding large data * Application case studies * New challenges in visualizing experimental, observational, or simulation data Full Papers Full papers should have a maximum length of 9 pages with up to two (2) additional pages allowed for only references (maximum total of 11 pages). Full papers may make contributions in techniques, systems, applications, evaluations, or theory. The contributions of full papers are reviewed based on their novelty, contribution, replicability, and evaluation. Short Papers Short papers should have a length of 4-5 pages in total. Short papers are a venue to report smaller contributions than full papers. Position papers and showcases of interesting application of visualization are good topics for short papers. Technique, system, application, evaluation, or theory papers that have a smaller contribution than a full paper can also be submitted as a short paper. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: LDAV is accepting both full papers and short papers. The manuscripts should be formatted according to guidelines from IEEE VGTC (http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vis/Tasks/camera.html) Submission of an abstract is required prior to submission of a paper or short paper. Submission site note: Go to the submission site (https://new.precisionconference.com/vgtc) log in, go to 'Submissions', and select Society 'VGTC', Conference 'LDAV 2018', and Track 'LDAV 2018 Papers'. PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings of the symposium will be published together with the VIS proceedings and via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. BEST PAPER: The LDAV Program Committee will present a Best Paper award to the authors whose submission is deemed the strongest according to the reviewing criteria. This award will be announced in conjunction with VIS 2018. IMPORTANT DATES: Please note: all deadlines are firm and no extensions will be granted. Abstract Deadline (firm): June 17, 2018 Paper Submission (firm): July 1, 2018, 11:59 PM (AOE) Author Notification: August 12, 2018 Camera-Ready Deadline (firm): August 17, 2018

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Call for Papers (due June 15) and Workshops announced: 25th IEEE Intl Conf on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018)
by Anand Panangadan 29 May '18

29 May '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2018) December 17-20, 2018 Bengaluru, India http://www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 marks the Silver Anniversary of HiPC as we broaden the technical program to specifically include topics related to data science. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. In the last couple years, HiPC has added workshops to its technical program and along with a Student Research Symposium and academic Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, and the conference makes room for a broad list of topics to be addressed in these tracks: Algorithms Architectures Applications DATA SCIENCE: Big Data Algorithms and Analytics Big Data Systems and Software One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PROGRAM CHAIRS - Olivier Beaumont, Inria, France (High Performance Computing) - Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Data Science) PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS - Algorithms: Ananth Kalyanaraman Washington State University - Applications: Yogish Sabharwal, IBM Research – India - Architecture: Abdou Guermouche, University of Bordeaux - System Software: Judith Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Big Data Algorithms and Analytics: Jun (Luke) Huan, University of Kansas - Big Data Systems and Software: Lisa Singh, Georgetown University IMPORTANT DATES FOR HiPC 2018 •June 8..................Abstracts Due •June 15................Paper Submission Deadline •August 8-15........Rebuttals •September 7.......Author Notification •October 3...........Camera Ready Submission Full information on what/where to submit is available at http://hipc.org/call-for-papers/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17. • Fourth Workshop on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Meets Blockchain (AIMB) • First Workshop on the Convergence of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence • Women in Data Science and High Performance Computing • Parallel Fast Fourier Transforms The papers accepted for presentation in HiPC 2018 workshops will be included in the "workshops volume" of the proceedings of the conference, which will be distributed online in two volumes with a separate ISBN for the workshops (HiPCW 2018). Post conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. See details at http://hipc.org/workshops for workshop paper submission deadlines and formatting requirements. Workshops Co-Chairs • Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA (Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2017 ORGANIZATION GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Chiranjib Sur, Shell India Yinglong Xia, Huawei Research, USA VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, Fullerton, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Jigar Halani, Nvidia, India Vivek Yadav, FullStackNet, India WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Anthony Simonet, Rutgers University, USA TUTORIAL CHAIR Saumil Merchant, Shell, India STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT-Hyderabad, India Madhura Purnaprajna, Amrita University, India Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA INDUSTRY, RESEARCH & USER SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS R. Badrinath, Ericcson, India Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Thondiyil Venugopalan, India ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2018 SPONSORSHIP ------------------------------------------------ •IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) •HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with •ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) •ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) •FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems •Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) •National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/hipcconf Google+ https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/53197/profile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: The Third International Workshop on GPU Computing and AI (GCA'18) (Abstract due: August 10)
by 伊藤　靖朗 28 May '18

28 May '18

==================================================== GCA'18: http://is-candar.org/GCA18/ The Third International Workshop on GPU Computing and AI (GCA) http://is-candar.org/GCA18/ to be held in conjunction with The Sixth International Symposium on Computing and Networking (CANDAR'18), Hida Takayama, Japan, November 27-30, 2018 http://is-candar.org/ ==================================================== [Introduction] Built for massive parallelism, General Purpose computing on Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) has superseded high-performance CPU in several important tasks, including computer graphics, physics calculations, encryption/decryption and scientific computations. Also, GPGPUs have been considered as a natural alternative to fulfill the computing needs for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications. Recent developments have shown intensive research activity in these fields. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss and evaluate emerging techniques, platforms and applications, capable of harvesting the power of current GPGPUs as well as to share new ideas from the research area of Artificial Intelligence. The GCA workshop seeks for high-quality papers on various topics, including but not limited to: * GPU computing - GPU applications - Computer graphics on GPUs - GPU compilation - GPU programming environments - GPU power efficiency - GPU architectures - GPU theoretical computing models - GPU benchmarking/measurements - GPU embedded systems - Multi-GPU systems - GPU cluster - Heterogeneous GPU platforms - CPU-GPU cooperation - CUDA/OpenCL/OpenACC - Deep learning on GPUs * Artificial intelligence - Artificial neural networks - Big data analytics - Data mining - Deep learning - Experts systems - Fuzzy logic - Machine learning - Natural language processing - Computer vision - Reinforcement learning [Paper format] * Regular paper: 5-7 pages * Poster paper: 3-4 pages [Publication] The conference and workshop proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Service and submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL digital libraries. Also, they are submitted for indexing through INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. [Special Issue] A Special Issue, on selected papers from CANDAR'18 main conference and Workshops, is planned. Please see Special Issue for the details. http://is-candar.org/special_issue [Important dates] * Abstract submission: August 10, 2018 * Paper submission: August 15, 2018 * Notification of paper acceptance: October 1, 2018 * Submission of camera-ready papers: October 18, 2018 [Organizers] * Workshop co-chairs - Jacir L. Bordim (University of Brasilia) - Yasuaki Ito (Hiroshima University) [Program Committee] * Masaki Aono (Toyohashi University of Technology) * Toshio Endo (Tokyo Institute of Technology) * Ken-ichi Fukui (Osaka University) * Jing Gong (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) * Kohei Hatano (Kyushu University) * Hideitsu Hino (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics) * Tsutomu Inamoto (Ehime University) * Fumihiko Ino (Osaka University) * Takashi Ishida (Tokyo Institute of Technology) * Keisuke Iwai (National Defense Academy) * Yoshinobu Kawahara (Osaka University) * Atsushi Koike (National Institute of Technology, Ichinoseki College) * Marcus Vinicius Lamar (Universidade de Brasília) * Marcelo Mandelli (Universidade de Brasília) * Daichi Mukunoki (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science) * Akira Naruse (NVIDIA) * Anto Satriyo Nugroho (BPPT) * Satoshi Ohshima (Kyushu University) * Max Plauth (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) * Janche Sang (Cleveland State University) * Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Tokyo) * Bertil Schmidt (University of Mainz) * Yuichiro Shibata (Nagasaki University) * Takashi Shimokawabe (The University of Tokyo) * Koichi Shirahata (FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD.) * Tomah Sogabe (The University of Electro-Communications) * Daisuke Takahashi (University of Tsukuba) * Tomoaki Tsumura (Nagoya Institute of Technology) * Cristina Vasconcelos (UFF) * Cheng Wang (University of Houston) * Keiji Yamanaka (Universidade Federal de Uberlândia) * Keiji Yanai (The University of Electro-Communications) * TBA ---- Yasuaki Ito Hiroshima University

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Call For Presentations: Sixth International MVAPICH User Group Meeting
by Hari Subramoni 28 May '18

28 May '18

======================================================================== Call For Presentations Sixth International MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG 2018) August 6-8, 2018, Columbus, Ohio, USA http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/ ======================================================================== The MVAPICH team is excited to host the 6th annual MVAPICH User Group (MUG) meeting. It will take place from August 6-8, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. MUG aims to bring together MVAPICH2 users, researchers, developers, and system administrators to share their experience and knowledge and learn from each other. The event includes Keynote Talks, Invited Tutorials, Invited Talks, Contributed Presentations, Open MIC session, hands-on sessions with MVAPICH developers, etc. This year, we will be holding special tutorials and demo/hands-on session during the first day of the event (August 6th). Other talks and sessions will be held during August 7-8. We already have the following confirmed Keynote Speakers and Invited speakers for the event. Other Invited Speakers are being finalized: Keynote Speakers ---------------- * Amitava Majumdar San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) * Martin Schulz Technical University of Munich, Germany Invited Speakers (Confirmed so far) ----------------------------------- * Damian Alvarez Juelich Supercomputing Center, Germany * Xavier Besseron University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Gene Cooperman North Eastern University * Davide Del Vento National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) * Alessandro Fanfarillo National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) * Toshihiro Hanawa University of Tokyo, Japan * Shantenu Jha Brookhaven National Lab & Rutgers University * Adam Moody Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Paul Navratil Texas Advanced Computing Center * Karl Schulz University of Texas, Austin * Gilad Shainer Mellanox * Sameer Shende Paratools and University of Oregon * Sayantan Sur Intel * Sebastien Varrette University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Jidong Zhai Tsinghua University, China Tutorials (Confirmed so far) ---------------------------- * A tutorial from Intel focusing on the technologies, schemes, and techniques in designing efficient runtime support using the upcoming network architecture from Intel. * A tutorial from Mellanox focusing on the upcoming technologies, schemes, ands techniques being made available in next-generation Mellanox adapters ands switches for exascale systems. * Building Efficient HPC Cloud with MVAPICH2 over KVM, Docker, Singularity, OpenStack, and SLURM. This tutorial will present efficient approaches to build HPC clouds with MVAPICH2 over SR-IOV enabled HPC clusters. A demo will be provided to guide the usage of MVAPICH2-Virt library to get near bare-metal performance for HPC applications on clouds * How to Boost the Performance and Scalability of Your MPI and PGAS Applications with MVAPICH2 Libraries? This tutorial will focus on internal designs of the MVAPICH2 libraries, associated runtime parameters, the impact of tuning these parameters at the applications level and a set of `best practices' examples to maximize performance and scalability of MPI and PGAS applications. Topics ------ We invite MVAPICH users to submit short, contributed presentations to be included in MUG. Topics for presentations include, but are not limited to: * Case studies and best practices of novel applications from different application domains, such as astronomy, bioinformatics, biology, earth and atmospheric sciences, fluid dynamics, materials science and engineering, medicine, physics, machine learning and deep learning * Performance and scalability studies of applications on large-scale systems * Special tuning and optimization strategies to exploit maximum performance and scalability * Tools and code instrumentation for measuring and monitoring performance and/or resilience * Tools for parallel program development (e.g., debuggers and integrated development environments * Unique usage scenarios such as GPGPUs, Xeons, Xeon Phis, FPGAs, PGAS, Energy-Awareness, Virtualization, etc. Submission Information ---------------------- The submission should include * Title of the presentation * Details of the speaker(s) * Short bio of the speaker(s), and * A draft version of the presentation - Around 10-15 slides in PDF or PowerPoint format Send your submission as a single file to mug(a)cse.ohio-state.edu. Important Dates --------------- Presentation Submission Deadline : July 1, 2018 Notification of Acceptance : July 7, 2018 Early Registration Deadline : July 15, 2018 Student Travel Support (Pending) -------------------------------- A set of travel awards, for students from US academic institutions interested in attending and presenting at MUG '18, will be provided through a grant from NSF (pending). Interested students are requested to submit the following materials (items 1, 2 and 3 included in a single .pdf file) to mug(a)cse.ohio-state.edu. Applications will be considered until July 15th, 2018. However, decisions will be made in batches as the applications arrive. Students are encouraged to apply early. 1. A short (1-2 page) document describing the following: a. Contact details - University, Department, Institutional E-mail address, and Phone Number b. Brief overview of current research c. Experience with HPC systems (hardware, software, and applications), high-performance virtualization, MPI/PGAS, and Deep Learning middleware d. What you would like to learn from attending MUG '18? e. Interest in presenting a poster about your work with a title and a short abstract. 2. A copy of your CV 3. Requested travel cost (including hotel and registration) with justification 4. An e-mail approval from the student's adviser supporting the travel and indicating that the travel cost will not be reimbursed from any other sources. Event Sponsors -------------- This event is sponsored by Mellanox Technologies, ParaTools, Ohio Supercomputer Center, X-ScaleSolutions, and The Ohio State University. If you are interested in sponsoring the event, please send a note to mug(a)cse.ohio-state.edu. Further Information ------------------- Please visit http://mug.mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu for more information on MUG'18 (program, registration, travel & stay). Thanks, The MVAPICH Team

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One more week is left to register to SYSTOR 2018, June, 4-6th, Haifa
by Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava) 28 May '18

28 May '18

[Apologies if you receive this reminder multiple times] The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to the 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2018. SYSTOR is a single-track conference that serves as an acclaimed international platform dedicated to the broad area of systems and storage. The SYSTOR'18 technical program features original peer-reviewed research papers, three keynotes delivered by distinguished speakers, highlight papers recently published in top-tier conferences (FAST, INFOCOM, EuroSys, VLDB, APSLOS, and USENIX Security Symposium), and a poster session. Don't miss the chance to attend our unique meetup "Creating a work Culture that Fosters Creativity, Collaboration and Critical Thinking" on June 6th, 2018. Registration: http://www.systor.org/2018/registration.html See you all on June 4th, 2018! Keynotes: - Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research, UK), How would you store a zettabyte of cold data? - Margo Seltzer (Harvard University), Automatically scalable computation - Radia Perlman (Dell EMC), How to build an insecure system out of perfectly good cryptography The full program is available at http://www.systor.org/2018/program.html. Program Chairs: . Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel) . Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Committee: . Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA) . Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany) . Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Greece) . Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia) . Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel) . Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) . Toni Cortes (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) . Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) . Fred Douglis () . Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel) . Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK) . Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA) . Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) . Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea) . Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA) . Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA) . Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) . Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea) . Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA) . Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA) . Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA) . Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA) . Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA) . Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) . Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA) . Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA) . Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA) . Aviad Zuck (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) General Chair: . David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Posters Chair: . Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel) Publication Chair: . Ittay Eyal (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: . Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: . Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: . Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: . Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) . Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) . Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) . Dan Tsafrir (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) . Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)

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GPCE 2018 2nd Call for Papers: Boston, MA, USA, Nov 5, 6 2018
by Eric Van Wyk 27 May '18

27 May '18

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 17th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2018) November 5-6, 2018 Boston, MA, USA (co-located with SPLASH 2018) http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 http://twitter.com/GPCECONF http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 29, 2018 * Submission of papers: July 6, 2018 * Paper notification: August 24, 2018 Submission site: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ KEYNOTE SPEAKER * Saman Amarasinghe, MIT, https://people.csail.mit.edu/saman/ Saman Amaraasinghe and his group at MIT have developed several domain-specific languages, including Halide, TACO, Simit, StreamIt, StreamJIT, PetaBricks, MILK, Cimple, and GraphIt, that target diverse areas such as image processing, stream computations, and graph analytics. In each, the innovative language abstractions are leveraged by sophisticated compilation techniques to generate exceptionally high performance. Dr. Amarasinghe has also pioneered the application of techniques from machine learning to compiler optimizations in systems such as Meta and the OpenTuner extensible autotuner. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE GPCE is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to: * program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, * domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, * feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, * applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Authors are welcome to check with the PC chair whether their planned papers are in scope. PAPER SELECTION The GPCE program committee will evaluate each submission according to the following selection criteria: * Novelty. Papers must present new ideas or evidence and place them appropriately within the context established by previous research in the field. * Significance. The results in the paper must have the potential to add to the state of the art or practice in significant ways. * Evidence. The paper must present evidence supporting its claims. Examples of evidence include formalizations and proofs, implemented systems, experimental results, statistical analyses, and case studies. * Clarity. The paper must present its contributions and results clearly. PAPER CATEGORIES GPCE solicits three kinds of submissions. * Full Papers reporting original and unpublished results of research that contribute to scientific knowledge in any GPCE topic listed above. Full paper submissions must not exceed 12 pages excluding bibliography. * Short Papers presenting unconventional ideas or visions about any GPCE topic listed above. Short papers do not always require complete results as in the case of a full paper. In this way, authors can introduce new ideas to the community and get early feedback. Please note that short papers are not intended to be position statements. Short papers are included in the proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Short paper submissions must not exceed 6 pages excluding bibliography. * Tool Demonstrations presenting tools for any GPCE topic listed above. Tools must be available for use and must not be purely commercial. Submissions must provide a tool description not exceeding 6 pages excluding bibliography and a separate demonstration outline including screenshots also not exceeding 6 pages. Tool demonstrations must have the keywords "Tool Demo" or "Tool Demonstration" in their title. If the submission is accepted, the tool description will be published in the proceedings. The demonstration outline will only be used by the program committee for evaluating the submission. PAPER SUBMISSION All submissions must use the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format "acmart", using the "sigplan" sub-format, and 10 point font. Additional details and links to templates and the LaTeX class file can be found on the conference web site: http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018. To increase fairness in reviewing, a double-blind review process has become standard across SIGPLAN conferences. GPCE will follow a very lightweight model, where author identities are revealed to reviewers after submitting their initial reviews. Hence, the purpose is not to conceal author identities at all cost, but merely to provide reviewers with an unbiased first look at a submission. Author names and institutions should be omitted from submitted papers, and references to the authors' own related work should be in the third person. No other changes are necessary, and authors will not be penalized if reviewers are able to infer their identities in implicit ways. To understand the motivation for using a double-blind review process please see "Effectiveness of anonymization in double-blind review" by C. Le Goues, Y. Brun, S. Apel, E. Berger, S. Khurshid, Y. Smaragdakis at https://doi.org/10.1145/3208157. Papers must be submitted using HotCRP: https://gpce18.hotcrp.com/ For additional information, clarification, or answers to questions please contact the program chair. ORGANIZATION General Chair: Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota, USA, evw(a)umn.edu) Program Chair: Tiark Rompf (Purdue University, USA, tiark(a)purdue.edu) Program Committee Vander Alves, University of Brasilia Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University Martin Berger, University of Sussex Aggelos Biboudis, EPFL Eugene Burmako, Twitter Charisee Chiw, University of Chicago Dana Drachsler Cohen, ETH Zürich Sebastian Erdweg, TU Delft Robert Glück, DIKU Vinod Grover, NVIDIA Shoaib Kamil, Adobe Andrei Klimov, Keldysh Institute Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University Stefan Marr, University of Kent Sarah Nadi, University of Alberta Klaus Ostermann, University of Tübingen Oleksandr Polozov, Microsoft Research Ina Schaefer, TU Braunschweig Ulrik Pagh Schultz, University of Southern Denmark Chung-chieh Shan, Indiana University Jeremy Siek, Indiana University Alexander Slesarenko, Huawei Anthony Sloane, Macquarie University Tijs van der Storm, CWI Walid Taha, Halmstad University Kanae Tsushima, NII Jeremy Yallopp, University of Cambridge

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[Researchers] CFP (Extended Deadline): IEEE DS-RT 2018 - extended deadline to June 10th, 2018.
by Profa Dra Mirela Sechi Moretti Annoni Notare 27 May '18

27 May '18

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers - DS-RT 2018 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://ds-rt.com/ October 15-17, 2018 - Madrid, Spain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Extended Submission deadline (FIRM): June 10th, 2018 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** The Symposium *** The 2018 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2018) promises to be a grand affair and will take place in Madrid, Spain. DS-RT 2018 serves as a platform for simulationists from academia, industry and research labs for presenting recent research results in Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications. DS-RT 2018 targets the growing overlap between large distributed simulations and real-time applications, such as collaborative virtual environments, pervasive and ubiquitous application scenarios, motor-, controller-, sensor- and actuator systems. The conference features prominent invited speakers as well as papers by top researchers in the field. DS-RT 2018 will include contributed technical papers, invited papers, and panel discussions. The proceedings will be published by IEEE-CS press. *** Call for Papers *** DS-RT provides an international forum for the discussion and presentation of original ideas, recent results and achievements by researchers, research students, and systems developers on issues and challenges related to distributed simulation and real-time applications. Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results of significance. Demonstration of new tools/applications is enlivened. The scope of the symposium includes, but is not limited to: Paradigms, Methodology, Algorithms and Software Architectures for Large Scale Distributed and Real-Time Simulations (e.g. Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Multi-Agent Based Distributed Simulation, HLA/RTI, Web, Grid and cloud-based Simulation, hardware-software co-design for extreme-scale simulations) Paradigms, Modelling, Architecture and Environments for Large Scale Real-time Systems and Concurrent Systems with hard and soft Real-Time Constraints Non-functional Properties of Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Systems (e.g. Dependability, Availability, Reliability, Maintainability, Safety, Security, Trustworthiness, QoS) Theoretical Foundations of Large-Scale Real-Time and Simulation Models (e.g. Event Systems, Causality, Space-Time Models, Notions of Time, Discrete and Continuous Systems, Simulator Coordination) Advances in Modelling and Simulation Studies and Technologies (Reuse of Models, New Modelling Languages, Agent-based M&S, Spatial M&S, Cognitive Modelling, Neural Network Models, Artificial Intelligence in Simulation, Discrete Events, Continuous Simulation, Service-oriented Computing and Simulation, Web-based Modelling and Simulation, Simulation of Multimedia Applications and Systems, etc.) Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing Architectures and Applications that involve Simulations and/or adhere to Real-Time Constraints Languages and Tools, Development Environments, Data Interfaces, Network Protocols and Model Repositories that address Very Large Simulations Data Management and Distribution Issues, Interest Management, Semantic Modelling, Multi-resolution Modelling, Dead-Reckoning Mechanisms Simulation Studies at Large and Very Large Scale (e.g. Industrial, Commercial, Ecological and Environmental, Societal, Power and Energy) Environmental and Emerging Simulation Challenges (e.g. Growth of Human Population, Climate Change, CO2, Health Care, Ecosystems, Sustainable Development, Water and Energy Supply, Human Mobility, Traffic Modelling, World Stock Markets, Food Supply Chains, Megacities, Smart Cities, Smart Networks, Disaster Planning, etc.) Performance and Validation of Large-Scale and Distributed Simulations (e.g., benchmarking and analytical results, empirical studies DIS, HLA/RTI studies) Visual Interactive Simulation Environments (e.g., Generic Animation, Visual Interactive Modelling, Interactive Computer Based Training and Learning, Scientific Visualization, High-End Computer Graphics) Simulation-based Virtual Environments and Mixed Reality Systems (e.g. Interactive Virtual Reality, Human Communication through Immersive Environments) Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Reality, Shared Interaction Spaces, Telepresence Systems and Shared Workspaces, 3D Video and Acoustic Reconstruction, Shared Object Manipulation Design Issues, Interaction Designs, Human Computer Interaction Issues raised by Large Scale DS-RT Systems Serious Gaming and Massive Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) applications, architectures and scalability issues Technologies for Living Labs (e.g. Mirror World Simulation, Interoperability, Large Scale Multi-Sensor Networks, Global Wireless Communication, Multi-Stakeholder Understanding and Innovation) Innovative Styles of Interactions with Large Scale DS-RT Systems (e.g. Implicit, Situative and Attentive Interaction, Tangible Interaction, Embedded Interaction, etc.) Media Convergence (e.g. New Technologies, Media Theory, Real-Time considerations of Multi-Modality, etc.) *** Important Dates *** Extended Submission Deadline: June 10th, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: July 1st, 2018 Camera Ready version due: July 31st, 2018 Symposium presentation: October 15-17, 2018 *** Submission *** High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE-CS press. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to the Journal of Simulation. General information regarding submission can be found at http://ds-rt.com/2018/. Questions from authors may be directed to the Program Co-Chairs. IMPORTANT: CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR OF ACCEPTED PAPERS IS MANDATORY *** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*** General Chair José Luis Risco Martín, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Program Co-Chairs Eva Besada, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Posters Chair Peppino Fazio, University of Calabria, Italy Demo Chair Amilcare F. Santamaria, University of Calabria, Italy Special Sessions Chair Robson De Grande, Brock University, Canada Publicity Chair Lucas Potter, Old Dominion University, VA, USA Finance Chair Guillermo Botella, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain _______________________________________________ Researchers mailing list Researchers(a)mailman.ufsc.br http://mailman.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/researchers

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