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CRE2018 at SC18 CFP
by Keyrouz, Walid (Fed) 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

Call for Participation: Computational Reproducibility at Exascale SC18 Workshop (CRE2018) Where: In cooperation with SC18, Dallas, TX When: Sunday afternoon, November 11, 2018 Web: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre Submit: http://bit.ly/2KLz4zM or https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopCRE2018&… Deadline: Friday, August 27, 2018 Notifications: Monday, September 17, 2018 Full Papers: Monday, October 01, 2018 Organized by: Walid Keyrouz (NIST), Miriam Leeser (NEU), and Michael Mascagni (FSU & NIST) Overview ======== Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. As computing has grown into a powerful tool for scientific inquiry, computational reproducibility has been one of the core assumptions underlying scientific computing. With "traditional" single-core CPUs, documenting a numerical result was relatively straightforward. However, hardware developments over the past several decades have made it almost impossible to ensure computational reproducibility or to even fully document a computation without incurring a severe loss of performance. This loss of reproducibility started when systems combined parallelism (e.g., clusters) with non-determinism (e.g., single-core CPUs with out-of-order execution). It has accelerated with recent architectural trends towards platforms with increasingly large numbers of processing elements, namely multicore CPUs and compute accelerators (GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs). Programmers targeting these platforms rely on tools and libraries to produce codes or execute them efficiently. As a result, codes can run efficiently, but have execution details that can be impossible to predict and are often very difficult to understand after execution. Furthermore, parallel implementations often result in code with varying execution orders between runs, leading to non-reproducible computations. The underlying reasons are that (1) the hardware and system software allocate parallel work in ways that are not always specifiable at compile time and (2) the execution often proceeds in an opportunistic manner with the execution order changing between runs. As such, floating-point computations, which are not commutative and associative, can have different execution orders and execute on different processing elements between runs, leading to runs with varying results as a matter of fact. The predictability of systems is further complicated by two issues that are becoming more critical as systems grow in scale: (1) interconnect systems with latencies that are often outside the control of programmers and (2) reliability as the mean time between failure (MTBF) is now measured in hours on large systems. This situation seriously affects the ability to rely on scientific computations as a metrological substitute for experimentation! Previous Offerings ================== This workshop combines the Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale workshops (conducted in 2015 and 2016 at SC) and the panel on Reproducibility held at SC’16 (originally a BOF at SC’15) to address several different issues in reproducibility that arise when computing at Exascale. The first combined workshop, Computational Reproducibility at Exascale 2017 (CRE2017), took place at SC17 and was a success; its web page is http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre/cre-2017.html. Previous editions of the workshop were NRE2015 and NRE2016; their web pages are http://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/is/numreprod2015.cfm and http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~cre/nre-2016.html. Workshop Scope ============== The workshop is meant to address issues of numerical reproducibility as well as approaches and best practices to sharing and running code and the reproducible dissemination of computational results. The workshop is meant to address the scope of the problems of computational reproducibility in HPC in general, and those anticipated as we scale up to Exascale machines in the next decade. The participants of this workshop will include government, academic, and industry stakeholders; the goals of this workshop are to understand the current state of the problems that arise, what work is being done to deal with these issues, and what the community thinks the possible approaches to these problems are. The workshop is meant to address the scope of the problems of numerical reproducibility in HPC in general and those anticipated as we scale to Exascale machines in the next decade. We initially seek contributions of extended abstracts (two pages) in the areas of computational reproducibility in HPC from academic, government, and industry stakeholders. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Case studies of reproducibility or the lack of it - Reproducibility issues in current HPC - System-level solutions - Algorithmic solutions - Software solutions - Uncertainty quantification in computational reproducibility - Fundamental numerical analysis of reproducibility - Future prospects Workshop Format =============== The workshop will have: (1) two plenary talks (25 min + 5 min Q&A each), (2) four contributed talks (15 min + 5 min Q&A each), and (3) a 40-min panel discussion to summarize the problem, current research, and prospects on long-term solutions. The table below gives the workshop’s schedule: Start Speaker Title ---------------------------------------------- 2:00 pm Victoria Stodden (UIUC) Plenary I 2:30 pm Talk 1 TBD 2:50 pm Talk 2 TBD 3:10 pm Talk 3 TBD 3:30 pm Break Food and coffee provided by SC 4:00 pm Bert Debusschere (Sandia) Plenary II 4:30 pm Talk 4 TBD 4:50 pm Panel Panel Discussion on Computational Reproducibility ---------------------------------------------- Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed. The referees will select the papers that will be presented in the workshop. In addition, a group of papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) devoted to Computational Reproducibility. Please note that papers submitted to the IJHPCA for the CRE2018 special issue must fall within the IJHPCA’s editorial scope. This primarily means that all papers for the special issue have relevance to high-performance computing. Submissions =========== Submissions of two-page extended abstracts are sought. The format for the abstracts should follow the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. Templates are available at IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. The full papers must be in the format of the International Journal of High-Performance Computing and Applications (IJHPCA) and should be 12 pages or less. The abstracts are to be submitted as a PDF document using the Supercomputing submission site at http://bit.ly/2KLz4zM or https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopCRE2018&…. Important Dates =============== Mon., Aug. 27, 2018: submission due for 2-page abstracts via http://bit.ly/2KLz4zM Mon., Sep. 17, 2018: notification of authors about their submissions based on rejection, acceptance as a paper, acceptance as a paper and presentation Mon., Oct. 01, 2018: submission deadline for full papers for refereeing via the IJHPCA site, the papers must be in the IJHPCA format Organizers and Co-Editors of the IJHPCA Special Issue ===================================================== - Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Michael Mascagni, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) & Florida State University, USA Steering Committee ================== - Dong H. Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA - David H. Bailey, UC Davis, USA - Xuebin Chi, Supercomputing Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - David R. C. Hill, Université Clermont Auvergne, France - Torsten Hoefler, ETH-Zürich, Switzerland - Chris Hoxie, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA - Lisa Kempler, MathWorks, USA - Walid Keyrouz (co-organizer), NIST, USA - Miriam Leeser (co-organizer), Northeastern University, USA - Xiaoye (Sherry) Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA - Thomas Ludwig, DKRZ, Germany - Michael Mascagni (co-organizer), FSU/NIST, USA - Habib Najm, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Junji Nagano, Insitute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan - Nathalie Revol, INRIA/ENS-Lyon, France - Siegfried M. Rump, University of Hamburg, Germany - Michela Taufer, University of Tennesse, Knoville, USA Contact ======= E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace '.at.' by '@') -Walid ------ Walid Keyrouz, PhD Research Scientist NIST | ITL | SSD | ISG +1 (301) 975-4031

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Final Call for Papers: ICDCN (International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking) 2019
by Neeraj Mittal 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

[Apologies if you received multiple copies of this announcement] ====================================================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================================================== ICDCN 2019: 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking January 4-7, 2019 - Bangalore, India http://www.icdcn.org Sponsored by IISc Bangalore, ACM in cooperation with ACM SigMobile, and ACM SigOps (approval pending) IMPORTANT Abstract Submission Deadline: July 22, 2018 AOE (extended) Paper Submission Deadline: August 1, 2018 AOE (extended) Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics that tentatively include, but are not limited to: Distributed Computing Track * Concurrent data structures * Distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity * Distributed operating systems * Distributed database systems * Embedded distributed systems, sensors and mobile * Distributed robots * Formal methods for distributed systems * Experimental evaluation of distributed systems * Fault-tolerance, reliability, and availability * Multiprocessor & multi-core architectures & algorithms * Self-organization, self-stabilization, & autonomic computing * High performance computing, grid computing * Multi-tier cloud computing and Big Data processing * Security, cryptography, & game theory in distributed systems * Internet-scale distributed systems Networking Track * 5G, ultra-dense networks, and next-gen networks and services * Ad-hoc, sensor, PAN, and mesh networks * Backscatter and ultra-low power networks * Cognitive networking * Data center and cloud networking * Energy-efficient networking & integration with smart grids * Internetworking protocols & Internet applications * IoT connectivity and Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) * Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) * Mobile offloading * Mobile pervasive computing and networking * Network function virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN) * Network security & privacy * Next generation & converged network architectures * Overlay & peer-to-peer networks and services * Pricing and network economics ICDCN 2019 is soliciting submissions as either regular or short papers. Regular Papers should not exceed 10 pages double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Additional details may be included in a clearly-marked appendix (containing all technical ideas and proofs necessary for an expert to fully verify the claims of the paper) that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Short Papers should not exceed 5 pages double column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Papers must be submitted electronically in printable PDF form via the EasyChair submission management system. Some papers not accepted as regular papers may be accepted as short papers with 5 pages in the proceedings, while full papers will be allowed 10 pages. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. BEST PAPER AWARD: The ICDCN TPC plans to award a Best Paper Award, independently for each of the two tracks. This award will be based on the paper's technical merit, the opinions of the reviewers and the presentation quality at the conference. SPECIAL ISSUE: The authors of selected best papers in the Distributed Computing track will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for publication in Elsevier's Theoretical Computer Science (TCS - A) journal. The authors of selected best papers in the Networking track will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for publication in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal. For inquiries, contact Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs, R. C. Hansdah (hansdah(a)iisc.ac.in) or Dilip Krishnaswamy (dilip1(a)gmail.com) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: July 22, 2018 (extended) Paper submission: August 1, 2018 (extended) Notifications: September 20, 2018 Camera-Ready: October 26, 2018 Conference Dates: January 4-7, 2019 Conference Web: http://www.icdcn.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEES General Co-Chairs * R.C. Hansdah, IISc Bangalore * Dilip Krishnaswamy, Reliance Jio Infocomm, India * Nitin Vaidya, University of Illinois, USA Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs * Networking Track: Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy * Distributed Computing Track: Sriram V. Pemmaraju, University of Iowa, USA Workshop Co-Chairs * Sathya Peri, IIT Hyderabad, India * Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland - Baltimore County, USA Tutorial Co-Chairs * Arpita Patra, IISc Bangalore, India * Mainak Chatterjee, University of Central Florida, USA PhD Forum Co-Chairs * Bivas Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, India * Yogesh Simmhan, SERC IISc Bangalore Demo Chair * Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia * Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Lab, Bangalore, India Poster Chair * J. Lakshmi, IISc Bangalore Publicity Co-Chairs * Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy * Neeraj Mittal, University of Texas, Dallas, USA * S. D. Madhu Kumar, NIT Calicut, India * Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs * R. C. Hansdah, IISc Bangalore, India * Dilip Krishnaswamy, Reliance Jio Infocomm, India Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA * Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA ======================================================================================

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CFP *DEADLINE EXTENDED*: 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018), December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland
by Christopher Hauser 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018), December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland *** DEADLINE EXTENSION: 15 August, 2018 For the main conference (August 15 **extended**) and for workshops (from July 15th till September 1st, depending on the workshop) *** Do not miss the opportunity for discussing a full week of cloud and big data advances in central Europe at the end of the year on the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)! The confernence would take place December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland (http://ucc-conference.org/) IMPORTANT DATES * 15 August, 2018 (*extended*) is a deadline for: - Main conference paper submissions - Tutorial proposals - Cloud Challenge proposals - Doctoral Research Papers * Poster submissions due: 01 September, 2018 * Workshop submissions due: from July 15 till September 1, 2018 (depending on the workshop) * Notification of acceptance for main papers: 15 September, 2018 * Camera ready papers due: 08 October, 2018 * Early and author registration deadline: 08 October, 2018 * Conference: 17-20 December 2018 CONTEXT AND SCOPE UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 will have a co-located 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org/) an embedded Cloud Challenge and a subsequent Serverless Symposium. WORKSHOPS Please find a full list of workshops at http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html TOPICS OF INTEREST UCC Conference topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * HPC and the Cloud * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Networking for clouds and data centres * Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers CALL FOR PAPERS [http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html] Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility as well as Big Data computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, IEEE conference style, including figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. We invite you to visit the Call for Papers page for more information: http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html

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[Deadline Extended]: 9th International Women in HPC workshop
by Mubarak, Misbah 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

================================================================= 9th International Women in HPC workshop Sunday November 11th 2018 Dallas, TX, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/ ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 9th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC18 in Dallas brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. Call for virtual posters/lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 15th 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Appentra S.L., Spain - Poster and Lightning Talk Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK - Posters & Lightning Talk Vice Chair: Jessica Popp, Independent Contractor, USA - Mentoring Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring co-chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career posters) - Mariam Umar, Virginia Institute of Technology, USA - Dana Akhmetova, KTH, Sweden - Ritu Aurora, Univ. of Texas, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Karen D Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

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IEEE Big Data 2018 CFP deadline: Aug 19 , 2018
by CFP Conference 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

*Call for Papers* *2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018)* http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2018/index.html December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA In recent years, “Big Data” has become a new ubiquitous term. Big Data is transforming science, engineering, medicine, healthcare, finance, business, and ultimately our society itself. The IEEE Big Data conference series started in 2013 has established itself as the top tier research conference in Big Data. · The first conference IEEE Big Data 2013 had more than 400 registered participants from 40 countries ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2013/) and the regular paper acceptance rate is 17.0%. · The IEEE Big Data 2017 ( http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2017/ , regular paper acceptance rate: 17.8%) was held in Boston, MA, Dec 11-14, 2017 with close to 1000 registered participants from 50 countries. The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018) will continue the success of the previous IEEE Big Data conferences. It will provide a leading forum for disseminating the latest results in Big Data Research, Development, and Applications. We solicit high-quality original research papers (and significant work-in-progress papers) in any aspect of Big Data with emphasis on 5Vs (Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity), including the Big Data challenges in scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia (audio, video, image, etc.) big data systems and applications. Wee expect to have a very high quality and exciting technical program at Seattle this year. So far we have 5 leading researchers confirmed as keynote speakers, 9 tutorials and 40 workshops covering all the important and emerging topics of big data research and application, *Example topics of interest includes but is not limited to the following*: 1. Big Data Science and Foundations a. Novel Theoretical Models for Big Data b. New Computational Models for Big Data c. Data and Information Quality for Big Data d. New Data Standards 2. Big Data Infrastructure a. Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing for Big Data b. High Performance/Parallel Computing Platforms for Big Data c. Autonomic Computing and Cyber-infrastructure, System Architectures, Design and Deployment d. Energy-efficient Computing for Big Data e. Programming Models and Environments for Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing to Support Big Data f. Software Techniques and Architectures in Cloud/Grid/Stream Computing g. Big Data Open Platforms h. New Programming Models for Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce, STORM i. Software Systems to Support Big Data Computing 3. Big Data Management a. Search and Mining of variety of data including scientific and engineering, social, sensor/IoT/IoE, and multimedia data b. Algorithms and Systems for Big DataSearch c. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search d. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency e. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices f. Visualization Analytics for Big Data g. Computational Modeling and Data Integration h. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems i. Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining- Big Velocity Data j. Link and Graph Mining k. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing l. Mobility and Big Data m. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 4. Big Data Search and Mining a. Social Web Search and Mining b. Web Search c. Algorithms and Systems for Big Data Search d. Distributed, and Peer-to-peer Search e. Big Data Search Architectures, Scalability and Efficiency f. Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices g. Visualization Analytics for Big Data h. Computational Modeling and Data Integration i. Large-scale Recommendation Systems and Social Media Systems j. Cloud/Grid/StreamData Mining- Big Velocity Data k. Link and Graph Mining l. Semantic-based Data Mining and Data Pre-processing m. Mobility and Big Data n. Multimedia and Multi-structured Data- Big Variety Data 5. Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust a. Intrusion Detection for Gigabit Networks b. Anomaly and APT Detection in Very Large Scale Systems c. High Performance Cryptography d. Visualizing Large Scale Security Data e. Threat Detection using Big Data Analytics f. Privacy Threats of Big Data g. Privacy Preserving Big Data Collection/Analytics h. HCI Challenges for Big Data Security & Privacy i. User Studies for any of the above j. Sociological Aspects of Big Data Privacy k. Trust management in IoT and other Big Data Systems 6. Big Data Applications a. Complex Big Data Applications in Science, Engineering, Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Law, Education, Transportation, Retailing, Telecommunication b. Big Data Analytics in Small Business Enterprises (SMEs), c. Big Data Analytics in Government, Public Sector and Society in General d. Real-life Case Studies of Value Creation through Big Data Analytics e. Big Data as a Service f. Big Data Industry Standards g. Experiences with Big Data Project Deployments *INDUSTRIAL Track* The Industrial Track solicits papers describing implementations of Big Data solutions relevant to industrial settings. The focus of industry track is on papers that address the practical, applied, or pragmatic or new research challenge issues related to the use of Big Data in industry. We accept full papers (up to 10 pages) and extended abstracts (2-4 pages). *Student Travel Award* IEEE Big Data 2018 will offer*student travel *to student authors (including post-docs) *Paper Submission:* Please submit a full-length paper (up to *10 page IEEE 2-column format*) through the online submission system. https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=BigD Papers should be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). *Formatting Instructions* 8.5" x 11" (DOC <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.doc>, PDF <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf>) *LaTex Formatting Macros <ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/IEEE_CS_Latex8.5x11x2.…>* *Important Dates:* Electronic submission of full papers: August 19, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance: Oct 16, 2018 Camera-ready of accepted papers: Nov 10, 2018 Conference: Dec 10-13, 2018 Conference co-chairs: *Dr. Donald Kossmann* Microsoft Research, USA *Prof. Bing Liu* University of Illinois at Chicago, USA PC Co-chairs *Dr. Naoki Abe* IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA *Prof. Huan Liu* Arizona State University, USA *Prof. Calton Pu* Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Industry and government program committee chairs *Dr. Nesreen Ahmed* Intel Labs, USA *Dr. Mu Qiao* IBM Almaden Research Center, USA *Dr. Yang Song* Google AI, USA ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIGDATA list, click the following link: http://lists.drexel.edu/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM2OTM2IGhwYy1hbm5vdW5jZUBNQ1MuQ…

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[Final CFP] : (DSEA 2018) The Second International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications, Valencia, Spain. October 15-18, 2018.
by vikas chouhan 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Second International Workshop on Data Science Engineering and its Applications (DSEA 2018) Valencia, Spain. October 15-18, 2018 http://emergingtechnet.org/DSEA2018/ *Call for Papers* We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to DSEA 2018 via the official submission system at https://easychair.org/conferen ces/?conf=dsea2018. This can include, technical and experimental, theoretical, conceptual, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. Today, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Data science inspires novel techniques and theories drawn from mathematics, statistics, information theory, computer science, and social science. It involves many domains, such as signal processing, probability models, machine learning, data mining, database, data engineering, pattern recognition, visualization, predictive analytic, data warehousing, data compression, computer programming, etc. High Performance Computing typically deals with smaller, highly structured data sets and huge amounts of computation. Data Science has emerged to tackle the problem of creating processes and approaches to extracting knowledge or insights from gigantic, unstructured data sets. The Second International Workshop for Data Science Engineering and Applications (DSEA 2018) aims to provide a forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts for discussion and exchange of ideas on the latest theoretical developments in Data Science and Computing as well as on the best practices for a wide range of applications. The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to: *Architecture, management and process for Data Science *Big Data Mining and Knowledge Management *Evaluation and Measurement in Data Science *Privacy and protection standards and policies for Data Science *Data Quality *Data science for the internet of things (IoT) *Management Issues of Social Network Big Data *Big Data Computing for Data science *Social Network and Big Data Analytics *Open Source tools for Data Science and Big Data *Data Mining for Data science *High performance computing for data analytic *Mathematical Issues in Data Science and Applications *Cloud Computing for Big Data and Social Networks *Data Science and Big Data for the Internet of Things *Data Science and Big Data Management for Large-scale databases *Data Science and Big Data for Decision Making *Visualization tools for Data Science and Big Data *Data-driven Scientific Research *Data warehouses and cloud computing support for Data Science *Case studies *Important Dates:* *Submission Deadline: Jul 31, 2018 (EXTENDED)* Notification Due: Aug 25, 2018 Final Version Due: Sep 5, 2018 *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 6 pages, strictly following the IEEE Proceedings Templates. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and prospective authors are expected to present their papers at the conference. The papers that are accepted and presented at the conference will appear in conference proceedings. Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. *Submission System* Papers should be submitted electronically by the deadline to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsea2018. *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. - Information Processing & Management (IP&M) - The Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS) - International Journal of Spatio-Temporal Data Science *Organizers* General Co-chairs *Sateesh Kumar Peddoju, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India *Thar Baker, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK Technical Program Co-chairs *Sugam Sharma, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA *Samia Gamoura, Université de Lyon, France *Parijat Shukla, Xilinx, Inc., India Publication Chairs *Efren Mezura-Montes, University of Veracruz, Mexico *Vaskar Raychoudhury, Miami University, USA Publicity Chairs *Kavitha Kadarla, IIT Roorkee, India *Sandra Sendra, Universidad de Granada, Spain *Vikas Chouhan, IIT Roorkee, India For any question about DSEA, please contact : drpskfec(a)iitr.ac.in & sugam.k.sharma(a)gmail.com *Regards,* Vikas Chouhan

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CFP 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018) - Deadline Extension
by Valeria Cardellini 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

(Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) Do not miss the opportunity for discussing a full week of cloud and big data advances in central Europe at the end of the year on the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)! The conference will take place December 17-20, 2018 in Zurich, Switzerland (http://ucc-conference.org/) ** Deadline Extension: August 15, 2018 ** IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission due: August 15, 2018 (extended) * Notification of acceptance for main papers: 15 September, 2018 * Camera ready papers due: 08 October, 2018 * Early and author registration deadline: 08 October, 2018 * Conference: 17-20 December 2018 CONTEXT AND SCOPE UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2018, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. UCC 2018 will have a co-located 5th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018, http://bdcat-conference.org/) an embedded Cloud Challenge and a subsequent European Symposium on Serverless Computing and Applications (ESSCA 2018, http://essca2018.servicelaboratory.ch) TOPICS OF INTEREST UCC conference topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring * Cloud-native application design and engineering * Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Economic and business models of Clouds and services * HPC and the Cloud * Innovative cloud applications and experiences * Integration of Cloud systems with edge and IoT devices * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Networking for clouds and data centres * Performance analysis and modeling of cloud systems and applications * Policy languages and programming models * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Utility-driven platforms for Clouds * Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers CALL FOR PAPERS [http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html] Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility as well as Big Data computing, including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, IEEE conference style, including figures, tables, and references. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the UCC 2018 paper submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2018 Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the UCC website. We invite you to visit the Call for Papers page for more information: http://ucc-conference.org/pages/ucc-2018-call-for-papers.html WORKSHOPS [http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html] Nine workshops are confirmed to take place in conjunction with the main conference: * 7th International Workshop on Clouds and (eScience) Applications Management - CloudAM 2018 * 5th International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications - SCCTSA 2018 * 4th International Workshop on Serverless Computing - WoSC 2018 * 3rd International Workshop on Trust in Cloud Computing - IWTCC 2018 * 1st Industry/University Joint International Workshop on Data-center Automation and Software Provisioning - DCASP 2018 * 1st Workshop on Quality Assurance in the Context of Cloud Computing - QA3C 2018 * 1st Workshop on Managed Fog-to-Cloud - mF2C 2018 * 1st Workshop on Cloud-Native Applications Design and Experience - CNAX 2018 * 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Sustainable Environments - BDASE 2018 All the additional information on the workshops is available on the conference website: http://ucc-conference.org/workshops.html

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Deadline Extension: IPCCC 2018 - Full Paper Due on August 10 and Abstract Due on August 3
by Feng Wang 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

Deadline Extension: 37th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2018) November 17th - November 19th, 2018, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://ipccc.org/ -------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------- Paper Abstract Due: August 3, 2018 Full Paper Due: August 10, 2018 Poster Paper Due: August 24, 2018 Acceptance Notification: September 21, 2018 Camera Ready Due: October 5, 2018 -------------------------------------------------- The International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference is a premier IEEE conference presenting research in the performance of computer and communication systems. For over three-and-a-half decades, IPCCC has been a research forum for academic, industrial, and government researchers. We encourage submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in both theoretical and experimental research areas. TOPICS FOR IPCCC 2018 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -------------------------------------------------- Big Data Processing and Analytics Cloud Computing Edge Computing Crowdsourcing Systems Cyber Physical Systems Data Centers Embedded Systems Internet of Things Network Protocols Multimedia Networking Network Data Mining Security and Privacy Ubiquitous Computing Software Defined Networking Cache, Memory, and Disk Storage Systems Fundamental Theory and Algorithms Internet of Things Internet Services and Network Management Many-core and Heterogeneous Computing Mobile Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networks Network Information Assurance and Security Online Social Network Analysis Parallel and Distributed Systems Performance Evaluation and Modeling Smart Grid and Intelligent Mission Critical Operations Smart Health Systems, Wearable, and Implantable Systems Smartphone and Mobile Applications Wireless Communication and Networks Workload Characterization & its Impacts on Architecture Design Networks on Chip -------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------------------- Paper submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a font size of 10 pt or larger with a maximum of 8 pages for full papers and 2 pages for poster papers. Please refer to the IEEE formatting instruction for details: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions should represent original research results and may not be under review or accepted for publication in another venue. All papers should be submitted through the EDAS system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24827 For any questions regarding paper submissions, please contact the program co-chairs Yingshu Li ( yili(a)gsu.edu ) or Fan Li (fli(a)bit.edu.cn) Please refer to the conference website http://ipccc.org for more details. --------------------------------------------------

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CFP: Workshop on Exascale MPI 2018 (ExaMPI), held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 (SC18), Dallas, TX
by Dosanjh, Matthew 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

ExaMPI18 - Workshop on Exascale MPI 2018 Sunday November 11th, 2018 Dallas, TX, USA https://sites.google.com/site/exampiworkshop2018 Held in conjunction with SC18: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis =========================================================== The MPI standard and its implementations have proved surprisingly scalable. Issues that hampered scalability have been addressed in the MPI 2.1 – 2.2 definition process, and continued into MPI 3.0 and 3.1. Thus MPI has been robust, and been able to evolve, without fundamentally changing the model and specification. For this and many other reasons MPI is currently the de-facto standard for HPC systems and applications. However, there is a need for re-examination of the message-passing model for extreme-scale systems characterized by asymptotically decreasing local memory and highly localized communication networks. Likewise, there is a need for exploring new innovative and potentially disruptive concepts and algorithms partially to explore other roads than those taken by the recently released MPI 3.1 standard. The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in Message Passing programming models, in particular related to MPI. This year’s theme is on concurrency in MPI and underlying networks and we especially encourage submissions aligned with this theme. Topics of interest (but are not limited to) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Development of scalable Message Passing collective operations. * Communication topology mapping interfaces and algorithms. * Innovative algorithms for scheduling/routing to avoid network congestion. * Integrated use of structured data layout descriptors. * One-sided communication models and RDMA-based MPI. * MPI multi-threading and threading requirements from OSes. * Interoperability of Message Passing and PGAS models. * Integration of task-parallel models into Message Passing models. * Fault tolerance in MPI. * MPI I/O. Paper submission and publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two submission categories: * Regular research paper: submission of full paper. Regular paper submissions are limited to 10 single-space pages (including figures, tables and references) using a 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter). Templates can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Instructions for preparing regular papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers. * Hot topic abstract: submission of an extended abstract. These submissions target work-in-progress research on potentially controversial topics in Message-Passing. Hot topic extended abstracts are limited to 3 single-space pages: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Accepted hot topic extended abstracts will be published only on the ExaMPI15 website. Regular Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted electronically at: https://tinyurl.com/ExaMPI2018 This year, ExaMPI has streamlined the paper review and submission process. Submissions will be accepted via the regular SC submission system and reviews will be available via that system. For publication of the papers, accepted papers from the SC submission system will be invited to submit the papers that were reviewed in the conference review system to a special issue of the Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. This will allow for quick publication in the journal of accepted papers that only require minor revisions in the journal process, while some papers may be shepherded with major revisions overseen using the journal submission process. Accepted papers at ExaMPI will only be published in the journal (CCPE), not the workshop proceedings, so there is no need for a 30% difference between the submitted paper and the journal submission. Important dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submissions close: October 9th Paper Notification: October 23rd Papers submitted to Journal: November 9th Final notification from Journal: December 7th Final camera ready version: December 14th

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Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2018 - Papers due September 2
by Christian Engelmann 30 Jul '18

30 Jul '18

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. The deadline for submissions is September 2, 2018. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA18: 9th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC18: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) November 12, 2018, Dallas, TX, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2018 <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2018>> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers at a length of at least 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages and not exceeding 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at <https://submissions.supercomputing.org <https://submissions.supercomputing.org/>>. Full papers will be published with the SC18 workshop proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Reproducibility Initiative As part of a major initiative that aims to increase the level of reproducibility and replicability of results, ScalA'18 invites authors of technical papers to submit optional appendix information that can promote better reproducibility of computational results. Authors are highly encouraged to provide a 2-page Artifact Description Appendix, which will not count toward the page limit of the submission. Notes: - A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. - The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. Important Web Sites - ScalA18 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2018 <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2018>> - ScalA18 Submissions: <https://submissions.supercomputing.org <https://submissions.supercomputing.org/>> - SC18 website: <http://sc18.supercomputing.org/ <http://sc18.supercomputing.org/>> Important Dates - Full paper submission: September 2, 2018 - Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2018 - Final paper submission (firm): October 7, 2018 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 12, 2018 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Aneta Karaivanova, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Ying Liu, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. Senior R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info <http://www.christian-engelmann.info/>

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