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[Deadline extended: March 8, 2019] CFP : (SLICE 2019) IEEE International Workshop on Smart Living with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing. Rome, Italy. June 10-13, 2019
by vikas chouhan 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

[ Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation ] The Second International Workshop on Smart Living with IoT, Cloud, and Edge Computing (SLICE 2019) Rome, Italy. June 10-13, 2019 Website: http://www.peddoju.com/slice2019/ ****Call for Papers* We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to SLICE 2019 via the official submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slice2019. 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. Smart health, smart cities, smart industries, smart agriculture, smart environment, smart transportation, smart homes, smart education, smart business, smart energy, smart grids, and so on are the components that aid the mankind for smart living. However, they require, typically, design and development of innovative technologies, standards, and protocols apart from their architectures and frameworks. IoT has emerged as an extension to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with the low-cost and Internet-enabled solution for connecting and accessible anything from anywhere. In addition, such smartness derived due to the artificial intelligence yields in the production of tremendous amounts of data. The data increases as a baby-boomer requiring efficient tools to analyze and extract suitable inferences for services in order to extend smart living. Cloud, Edge and Big Data acquired enormous attention in light of massive data storage and analytics. With the large cohorts of gazette shrewdness and hi-tech population, the infrastructure, service delivery becomes expensive and difficult to manage for cities and governments. Automating systems through utilization of IoT, Cloud, Edge, Big Data, and M2M tools and technologies demonstrate great opportunity to reduce operating costs significantly, utilize those savings more effectively, and provide better services to communities for the smarter living. This workshop provides a platform to the researchers to publish their innovative ideas, extensive analysis of their comparative studies, critical review of existing research and position papers in the above areas to meet the smart living requirements. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: *Platform architectures *Data analytics *Privacy-preserving data mining *Big data integrity and confidentiality *Data and knowledge as a service *Security and privacy applications *Real-time and stream processing techniques and algorithms *Real-life case studies *Proactive/predictive and advanced machine learning models *Simplified and distributed data processing techniques *Ubiquitous machine learning *Fog computing *Smart living data warehouse *Soft computing techniques *Optimization *Resource utilization and Resource Management *Security and Trust *Mobile Computing *Application Development *Wireless Sensor Networks *Mobile Data Services *High Performance Computing **** Important Dates:* *Submission Date: February 20, 2019* * March 8, 2019 (Extended)* Notification to Authors: April 5th, 2019 Camera Ready Submission: April 20th, 2019 ****Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Papers must be 6 pages maximum in IEEE format, 10pt font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format, single space, A4 format. All papers should be in PDF format and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables, and references). The Papers selected for presentation will appear in The Fourth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2019) Proceedings, which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. 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=slice2019 ****Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the SLICE 2019 Workshop will be invited to submit an extended version of the paper to the following journals. ‌ - CLUSTER COMPUTING <http://www.springer.com/computer/communication+networks/journal/10586>journal Special Issue. - *Major sources of indexing:* Science Citations Index Extended, JCR, Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, INSPEC, etc. - *2018 Impact Factor:* 1.601 - *Publisher:* Springer - <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21613915>Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/21613915> journal Special Issue. <http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2018.html#SDS-2018> - *Major sources of indexing:* Science Citations Index Extended, JCR, Scopus, DBLP, ACM, INSPEC, etc. - *2018 Impact Factor:* 1.606 - *Publisher:* Wiley - CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION - PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCE <http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2018.html#SDS-2018>journal Special Issue. - *Major sources of indexing:* Science Citations Index Extended, JCR, Scopus, DBLP, ACM, INSPEC, etc. - *2018 Impact Factor:* 1.114 - *Publisher:* Wiley - MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS <https://www.hindawi.com/journals/misy/si/340517/cfp/>journal Special Issue. - *Major sources of indexing:* Science Citations Index Extended, JCR, Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Digital Library, INSPEC, etc. - *2018 Impact Factor:* 0.958 - *Publisher:* Hindawi - International Journal of Spatio-Temporal Data Science <http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijstds> - *Publisher:* Inderscience Click Here for More Details on Journals Special Issues <http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2018/journalSpecialIssues.php> General Chairs, Sateesh K. Peddoju, IIT Roorkee, India Yaser Jararweh, JUST, Jordan

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Call For Paper || The 2nd AI-Science || Phoenix, AZ, United States, June 24, 2019
by Liu, Zhengchun 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

IMPORTANT DATES ================== Submissions Due: Apr 2, 2019 Review Decisions: Apr 23, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 7, 2019 SCOPE ================== The 2nd Autonomous Infrastructure for Science workshop (AI-Science) will be held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona, June 24, 2019. Large-scale scientific computing systems have become so complex, autonomous management is required to deploy, operate, and tune. Yet the current state-of-the-art for managing high performance and distributed computing infrastructures does not leverage the recent advances in machine learning to more accurately predict, diagnose, and improve systems in response to user computation and system health. This workshop is focused on the emerging science of autonomic management and optimization of large, distributed scientific computing systems. Complex scientific workflows consist of thousands of interconnected systems that are geographically distributed. With resources from telescopes and light sources to fast networks and smart IoT sensor systems, it is clear that a single, centralized, operational team and software stack cannot coordinate and manage all of the resources. Instead, resources must begin to respond autonomically, managing and tuning their behavior in response to scientific workflows. The objective of this workshop is to discuss new approaches and methods to make the science ecosystem smart by incorporating the functions of sensing, intelligence, and control. We intend to bring together researchers working on smart and autonomous computing and communication systems, researchers working on middleware and tools to enable distributed science, developers that build distributed science workflows and science users. By bringing together these stakeholders, we hope to foster active discussions, understand the gaps between existing components in distributed science ecosystems and make progress towards bridging the gaps to realize a smart cyberinfrastructure for science. Important Dates SUBMISSIONS ================== All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Authors are invited to submit either a full (8-page) paper or a short/work-in-progress (4-page) paper. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiscience19 Formatting Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, and references), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library. TOPICS ================== * Autonomous cyberinfrastructure * Smart HPC, storage and networks * Intelligent distributed workflow applications * Real-time, streaming-based data processing and analysis * Light-weight machine learning * Networked autonomous systems and consensus * Smart instruments, edge-systems, and IoTs * Data monitoring, instrumentation and management for smart systems * Peer-to-peer communication for networked autonomous systems * Data analytics for edge systems and IoTs ORGANIZERS ================== Program Committee * Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA * Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis, USA * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China * Eun-Sung Jung, Hongik University, South Korea * Raj Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Jinoh Kim, Texas A&M University, USA * Mariam Kiran, Energy Sciences Network, USA * Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA * Wei-keng Liao, Northwestern University, USA * Nagi Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Eric Rutten, INRIA, France * Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * John Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Ramin Yahyapour, University of Göttingen, Germany * Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Malardalen University, Sweden * Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Ming Zhao, Arizona State University, USA * Erik Elmroth, Umeå University, Sweden Organizing committee * Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Raj Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Eric Rutten, INRIA, France Publicity Chair * Zhengchun, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA CONTACT ==================== All questions about submissions should be emailed to ai-science(a)mcs.anl.gov. More information is available at https://ai-science.github.io/.

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Call For Papers: Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019)
by Hari Subramoni 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

======================================================================== Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019) to be held in conjunction with ISC 2019, June 16 - 20, 2019 Frankfurt, Germany http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ ======================================================================== Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Clouds are marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink2 and Stormlake), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures. ExaComm 2019 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2019), Frankfurt, Germany. Topics ------ ExaComm 2019 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Scalable communication protocols * High-performance networks * Runtime/middleware designs * Impact of high-performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning * Impact of high-performance networks on Big Data * Novel hardware/software co-design * High-performance communication solutions for accelerator-based computing * Power-aware techniques and designs * Performance evaluations * Quality of Service (QoS) * Resource virtualization and SR-IOV Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM AoE Friday, March 29, 2019 Author notification : Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Workshop : Thursday, June 20, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ExaComm'19: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exacomm2019 We request the authors to use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. Submissions are accepted under the following two categories: Full Paper : 12 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper : 8 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant in the workshop and present the paper at the workshop. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate post-conference joint workshop proceeding volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate, post-conference joint ISC workshop proceedings volume, published online with Springer Publishing. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The process for preparing the conference-ready and camera-ready versions of accepted papers are described below. A) Deadlines ------------ There are two deadlines you have to consider: Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 The conference-ready paper version will be hosted during the conference and the link will be shared with workshop attendees. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The camera-ready version will be prepared for publication with Springer. B) Formatting Guidelines for camera-ready submission ---------------------------------------------------- Papers need to be formatted according to Springer's single column LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for LaTeX and Word templates). For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer (see D) C) Preparation of the conference-ready proceedings -------------------------------------------------- The papers must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscworkshops2019) by the deadline. When registering your paper, select your workshop and enter the proper title. You have to fill all author information properly as this field will be used to automatically create the proceedings. You may fill a dummy into the keywords. For the conference-ready version, only the PDF is needed. The proceeding chairs will then download the PDFs for the conference-ready publication. D) Preparation of the camera-ready proceedings ---------------------------------------------- After the conference, the proceedings chairs will modify the proceeding settings on EasyChair and contact you directly using the email function from EasyChair to instruct the final steps. For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer; an adjusted copyright form will be provided to you after the conference. - In particular, it allows authors self-archiving of the paper Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. ExaComm'19 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories * Hans Eberle, NVIDIA * Brice Goglin, INRIA, France * Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies * R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India * Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China * Takeshi Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan * Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University * Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany * John M. Shalf, NERSC/LBL * Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Xin Yuan Florida State University * Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Further Information ------------------- See the ExaComm'19 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ Thanks, The ExaComm'19 Organizing Committee.

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Fwd: Extension for late-breaking (short) papers SNACS workshop (co-located with IPDPS)
by Taylor Groves 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

********************************************************************** The 1st IEEE Workshop on Scalable Networks for Advanced Computing Systems (SNACS 2018) https://sites.google.com/site/snacsworkshop/home held in conjunction with the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2019) May 20-24, 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** We have extended the deadline to March 1st for short (late-breaking) papers. These papers are not to exceed 6 pages including references. Scope: The Workshop on Scalable Networks for Advanced Computing Systems is a venue for discussions in the networks community that encompasses the full networks stack, ranging from high-level tools and interfaces, down to low-level hardware. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to present research on the next-generation of large scale interconnects for scientific applications. In particular, our aim is to provide a venue for discussion of the full network stack from user level interfaces (i.e. MPI, PGAS) to the hardware level (i.e. network offload, hardware support for active messages, routing protocols). Workshop topics include: networks for exascale systems, networks for multi-facility workflows, new communication models and architectures for large scale systems, and network interface and hardware co-design.Topics: ======= Topics of interest (but are not limited to): * Networks for exascale systems * Network software implementation and user interfaces * Networks for multi-facility workflows * New communication models and architectures for large scale systems * Network interface and hardware co-design ======= Paper submission and publication: Late-breaking (short) paper submissions are limited to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references) Research paper submissions are limited to 10 (including figures, tables and references) Both formats require 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter) in the IEEE conference style. Templates can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers should be submitted electronically at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snacs2019 Papers will be published in the IPDPS Workshop proceedings ======= Important dates: Paper Submissions close: February 15th Paper Notification: March 8th Final camera ready version: TBA ==================================== General Chairs: Matthew G. F. Dosanjh, Sandia National Laboratories Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Taylor Groves, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories ==================================== Steering Committee: Dorian Arnold, Emory University Trilce Estrada, University of New Mexico Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München ==================================== Program Committee: Abhinav Bhatele - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories George Bosilca - University of Tennessee James Dinan - Intel Manjunath Gorentla Venkata - Mellanox Technologies Chin Guok - ESNet Nathan Hjelm - Los Alamos National Laboratories Dan Holmes - The University of Edinburgh Oscar H. Mondragon - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente Hari Subramoni - Ohio State University Artur Ziviani - National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) ======== Contact: For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact: mdosanj(a)sandia.gov

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CfP: UCC 2019 and BDCAT 2019 Conferences
by Valeria Cardellini 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Call for papers and workshops for UCC 2019 and BDCAT 2019 Conferences * 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2019) * 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2019) December 2-5, 2019 - Auckland, New Zealand Website: http://ucc-conference.org/ https://www.bdcat-conference.org/ Important Dates * Workshop proposals due: 01 May, 2019 * Paper submissions due: 29 August, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: 01 October, 2019 * Camera ready papers due: 15 October, 2019 * Early and author registration deadline: 15 October, 2019 * Conference: 2-5 December 2019 Context and Scope UCC2019 (http://ucc-conference.org/) is the premier IEEE/ACM conference for areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC2019 is co-located with BDCAT2019 (https://www.bdcat-conference.org/) - an annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of big data computing and applications. Cloud computing has firmly established itself as an indispensable utility for the digital age. Cloud services consumers expect and rely on sufficient computing power, the availability of data and media, and that these will be accessible across a range of devices. The expectation now is that Cloud services providers are capable of maintaining streamed services that are always available. Also, social and technological challenges are met with the development and adoption of new technologies that provide a safer, more secure, and richer digital experience for users and customers. UCC2019 (http://ucc-conference.org/) and BDCAT2019 (https://www.bdcat-conference.org/) will be hosted at Auckland University of Technology (https://www.aut.ac.nz/) in the heart of New Zealand's city of sails. Topics of Interest UCC Conference (https://www.ucc-conference.org/call-for-papers) topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Formal aspects of cloud technology * 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 * Performance analysis and modelling of cloud systems and applications * Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity * Security, trust and privacy in Clouds * Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers BDCAT (https://www.bdcat-conference.org/call-for-papers) topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Big Data Science * Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms * Big Data Applications * Big Data Trends and Challenges * Visualization of Big Data Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility (https://www.ucc-conference.org/call-for-papers) as well as Big Data (https://www.bdcat-conference.org/call-for-papers) computing. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to ACM proceedings templates (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) for templates and complete formatting instructions. Manuscripts are submitted via the Easychair Conference Management System: * UCC: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2019 * BDCAT: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=BDCAT2019 All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The conference proceedings will be published by the ACM and made available online via the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Digital Library. We invite you to visit the UCC (https://www.ucc-conference.org/call-for-papers) and BDCAT (https://www.bdcat-conference.org/call-for-papers) Call for Papers page for more information. Call for Workshop Proposals Submission Workshop proposals and any inquiries should be sent by e-mail to the workshops chairs: * Omer Rana: ranaof(a)cardiff.ac.uk (mailto:[email protected]) * Alan Litchfield: alan.litchfield(a)aut.ac.nz (mailto:[email protected]) Proposals for workshops should be submitted in PDF format, must not exceed 2 pages in length and contain the following information. 1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop. 2. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. 3. A list of related workshops or similar events held in the last 3 years, or to be held in 2019. 4. The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the proposed technical program committee. This committee should consist of at least 10 people knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed and preferably not more than two members of the same institution. Ideally, there should also be two organizers from distinct institutions. 5. A description of the qualifications of the organizers (who would be the Workshop Chairs) with respect to organizing this workshop. This can include papers published in the proposed topic area, previous workshop organization, and other relevant information. We invite you to visit the Call for Workshops page (https://www.ucc-conference.org/workshops) for more information about workshop chair responsibilities and additional details concerning the workshop proposals submission process. 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies December 2-5, 2019 – Auckland, New Zealand http://ucc-conference.org

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SIGSIM PADS PhD Colloquium Deadline: Mar 15th
by Mubarak, Misbah 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

****** Call for Participation: ACM SIGSIM PhD Colloquium ******** ****** Deadline: March 15th ************* The PhD Colloquium of ACM SIGSIM PADS is a central event for our conference. It will take place in the afternoon of June 4th. Details of the event can be found at: http://www.acm-sigsim-pads.org/PhDColloquiumAwardCall.htm The deadline to submit an abstract is March 15th. The abstract is submitted by email at giabba(a)furman.edu based on the instructions in the URL above. We welcome abstracts about already published work, but the abstract needs to indicate it. In short, the colloquium will include multiple opportunities to support the research and career needs of doctoral students. Events will include: - traditional poster presentations as well as oral presentations. As the colloquium takes place in the middle of the conference, and is not in competition with other events at this time, doctoral students will be easily able to network with experienced researchers in the field. - a panel on careers for doctoral students. Panelists will discuss several options and share their experiences in roles including faculty at research universities and liberal arts colleges, or scientists in national laboratories. - round tables with journal editors, so students can discuss the process, or identify possible venues for their work. Students attending the PhD Colloquium will receive a complementary one-year membership to ACM SIGSIM. Students needing a travel grant to cover the registration fee, travel, and/or lodging are encouraged to apply to the student travel grant.

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Special Issue on New Generation Cloud Computing in SPE
by Blesson Varghese 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

Special Issue on 'New Generation Cloud Computing' in the Software: Practice and Experience journal https://www.blessonv.com/newgencloudcomp2019 PDF is available here: https://wol-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/assets/1097024X/SPE-SI-N… New trends seen in cloud computing in the last couple of years include: computing at the edge of the network outside centralized data centers, using heterogeneous processors, such as hardware accelerators in the cloud for making applications execute faster, using lightweight deployment strategies, such as containers and unikernels, in transient environments, ecosystems built on containers that enable more abstraction, and novel applications finding new generation clouds to satisfy their requirements. Definitions, architectures and approaches that are relevant to the current generation of clouds will evolve significantly to accommodate the emerging paradigms that rely on the cloud. Future clouds will therefore need to address new challenges related to scalability, management, reliability, sustainability, heterogeneity and security. Addressing these challenges naturally paves way for new cloud trends, directions and research. TOPICS OF INTEREST This special issue welcomes research in all avenues of the next generation cloud computing, but are not limited to: + Infrastructure – hardware, middleware and software + Architectures – emerging distributed and decentralized clouds using fog/edge, serverless computing, blockchain technologies and container technologies + System – programming models, algorithms, virtualization technologies, hardware accelerators, and runtime systems + Management – scheduling, resource scaling, deployment, monitoring, benchmarking, and metering + Application – novel applications in machine and deep learning, mobile apps, IoT, smart cities, health care Prospective authors are encouraged to express their interest to the corresponding guest editor. GUEST EDITORS + Blesson Varghese (Corresponding Guest Editor), Queen’s University Belfast, UK; b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk + Marco Netto, IBM, Brazil + Ignacio M. Llorente, Harvard University, USA, and Complutense University of Madrid, Spain + Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Please submit to Manuscript central by selecting the 'SPE-SI-NewGenCloudComp' special issue. Submissions should be prepared for publication according to the journal submission guidelines. We recommend using the Latex template provided by Wiley. The submitted papers must have at least 50% different material beyond any other previously published work. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: May 15, 2019 Notification: August 15, 2019 Revision due: October 15, 2019 Notification of final acceptance: November 15, 2019 Notification of final revised paper: December 15, 2019 Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to receiving your submissions. On behalf of the Guest Editors Blesson

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CFP: IEEE DS-RT 2019 (October 7-9, 2019 - Cosenza, Italy)
by Robson De Grande 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers - DS-RT 2019 23rd IEEE/ACM* International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications http://ds-rt.com/ October 7-9, 2019 - Cosenza, Italy *IEEE/ACM Pending Upon Approval ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT: Submission deadline: May 15th, 2019 *** The Symposium *** The 2019 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2019) promises to be a grand affair and will take place in Cosenza, Italy. DS-RT 2019 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 2019 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 2019 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.) - Verification and Validation of Simulation Models - Simulation in healthcare, Medical Simulations *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: May 15th, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2019 Camera Ready version due: September 7th, 2019 Symposium presentation: October 7-9, 2019 *** 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/. 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 Floriano De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Program Co-Chairs Carlos T. Calafate, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Miroslav Voznak, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic 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 Chairs Dongkyun Kim, Kyungpook National University, Korea Mirela Sechi Notare, FAERO, Brazil Finance Chair Mauro Tropea, University of Calabria, Italy

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[GECCO 2019] [GECCO CFP] Call For Entries for 16th Annual (2019) "Humies" Awards
by Andrew M Sutton 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] Call For Entries for 16th Annual (2019) "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 13th-17th, 2019 (Saturday - Wednesday) in Prague, Czech Republic http://gecco-2019.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 5, 2019 - 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 goodman at msu dot edu * Wednesday June 19, 2019 - Finalists will be notified by e-mail * Wednesday July 3, 2019 - Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, PDF) for posting on the competition's web site. Send presentations to goodman at msu dot edu * July 13-17, 2019 (Saturday-Wednesday) - GECCO conference * TENTATIVE Monday July 15, 2019 - 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. * TENTATIVE Wednesday 17, 2019 - 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 6, 2018 (the deadline for the previous year's competition) and June 5, 2019 (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 goodman at msu dot edu. 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" as of 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 are especially 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. Required items: 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 goodman at msu dot edu. 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) will be made by the finalists to the judging committee, but 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 should be 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 (email goodman at msu dot edu), 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 or author of recent related work). Additional information is at www.human-competitive.org

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Deadline EXTENDED: Final Call for Papers SAMOS'19
by Pimentel, Andy 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS 19th International Conference on embedded computer Systems: Architectures, MOdeling and Simulation S A M O S X I X Pythagoreio, Samos Island, Greece July 7 - 11, 2019 www.samos-conference.com<http://www.samos-conference.com/> ************************************************************* SAMOS is a unique conference. It deals with embedded systems (sort of) but that is not what makes it different. It brings together every year researchers from both academia and industry on the quiet and inspiring coast of the Mediterranean island of Samos, which in itself is different. But more importantly, it really fosters collaboration rather than competition. Formal and intensive technical sessions are only held in the mornings. A lively panel or distinguished keynote speaker ends the formal part of the day, and leads nicely into the afternoons and evenings -- reserved for informal discussions, good food, and the inviting Aegean Sea. The conference papers will be published by Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science - LNCS (pending) and will be included in the DBLP Database. Authors are invited to submit technical papers in accordance to the author's instructions describing original work. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- - Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 March 15 (Deadline Extended) - Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2019 - Camera-ready submission deadline: May 17, 2019 TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The SAMOS conference seeks paper contributions in two main areas: 1) Applications, Systems, Architectures, and Processors: This topic area focuses on advances in systems efficiency in various domains. We seek original contributions describing new architectural and micro architectural techniques aiming to improve performance (e.g. processing throughput or real-time latency), energy and power efficiency, reliability and dependability of embedded systems. We solicit novel architectures and computing methodologies and solutions for accelerating applications in various embedded domains such as next generation life sciences and medicine, next generation automotive and avionics, next generation (machine) learning systems for surveillance and recognition, immersive virtual reality. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Novel Architectures for Accelerators in High Performance Embedded Systems; - Application-specific and Domain-specific Embedded Heterogeneous Multicore Systems; - Embedded Reconfigurable Processors; - Software tools, Compilation techniques and optimizations, and Code generation for Reconfigurable Architectures; - Architecture synthesis from Functional Languages Descriptions; - Virtualization and Energy-aware Secure, Reliable, and High Availability Multi-core Architectures; - Embedded Parallel Systems and Multiprocessor Systems-On-Chip; - Application level Resource Management of Multi-core Architectures; - Memory Systems and Management for big data; - In-/near-memory processing; - Approximate Computing; - Network-on-Chip, Software Defined Network-on-Chips. 2) Modeling, Design, and Design Space Exploration: This topic area focuses on all design processes for embedded systems ranging from system-level specification, design languages, modeling and simulation, performance, power, reliability and thermal estimation and analysis, hardware/software and system synthesis, design and design space exploration methodologies down to hardware and software synthesis and compilation strategies. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Hardware/Software and Algorithm/Architecture Co-design; - Design Space Exploration Strategies, Algorithms and CAD Tools; - Specification Languages and Models; - System-Level Design, Simulation, and Verification; - Hardware, Software and System Synthesis Techniques and CAD Tools; - MP-SoC and Platform Based Design Methodologies; - MP-SoC Programming, Compilers, Simulation and Mapping Technologies; - Profiling, Measurement and Analysis Techniques and CAD Tools; - (Design for) System Adaptivity; - Testing and Debugging. TUTORIALS & SPECIAL SESSIONS ---------------------------- SAMOS XIX plans to feature tutorials on Memory Systems and Quantum Computing, as well as various special sessions on, for example, machine learning implementations, approximate computing and negative results. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to contribute to a special issue of Springer's Journal of Signal Processing Systems. TRAVEL GRANTS ------------- The conference will award 10 travel grants to authors and participants, who are students from Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain and, in general, to people without support from their organization.

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