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PDSW Works in Progress Call for Submissions
by Lofstead, Gerald F II 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

PDSW 2019: The 4th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop, Held in Conjunction with SC19 is seeking submissions for Works in Progress (WIP) talks. This long-running data management oriented workshop at SC is seeking abstract submissions for short (5-minute) talks. These talks have replaced research posters and serve a similar function. These talks showcase on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions. WIP content is typically material that may not be mature or complete enough for a full paper submission and will not be included in the proceedings. The goal is to ignite discussion in the community. A one-page abstract is required. Please use the IEEE conference paper template. Feel free to condense the author list contents to offer more space. Deadlines: Submissions due: Nov. 3, 2019, 11:59 PM AoE Notification: Nov. 10, 2019 Submissions by email: Please email Jay Lofstead all submissions at gflofst(a)sandia.gov. Put "PDSW 2019 WIP" as the first part of the message subject. To verify your submission a reply will be made indicating official submission. If you do not receive such an email within 2 hours of the above deadline, please forward the original submission again. If you have any questions, please email Jay Lofstead (gflofst(a)sandia.gov)

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Middleware 2019 Travel Grants and Doctoroal Symposium Deadline Extended
by Vinay Setty 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- MIDDLEWARE 2019 9-13 December 2019 UC DAVIS, CA http://2019.middleware-conference.org Last Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Participation NEWS: -> DEADLINE extended to October 4 -> Generous amount of student travel grants are available, with priority given to participants to the Middleware Doctoral Symposium! http://2019.middleware-conference.org/grant.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The annual ACM/IFIP Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. Middleware 2019 will be held at UC Davis, California from 9 to 13 December 2019. The conference will include a doctoral symposium, to which all PhD students working on the topics of the Middleware conference are invited to apply. The doctoral symposium will be held prior to the main conference. The Middleware doctoral symposium is a welcoming and supportive environment allowing all PhD students to receive feedback, discuss their work, and prepare to get the most out of their participation to the main conference. All participating students will be offered the opportunity to engage with their peers, as well as with senior academic and industrial members of the Middleware community. This will include the feedback of panel members on the day of the symposium and individual meetings with a personal mentor during the conference. The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. Applicants will be divided into two groups: - Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. - Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the symposium’s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper. Position papers should fit within the topics of the Middleware 2019 main conference Call for Papers. Position papers are limited to 2 pages (for students in the planner category) or 4 pages (for students in the Finishers category). Submissions must use the same format as for research papers (ACM SIGPLAN 9pt or 10pt). The suggested content is detailed on the Middleware 2019 website: http://2019.middleware-conference.org/doctoral.html Contributions to the Middleware 2019 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings. Accepted position paper will lead to a presentation during the doctoral symposium, which may require the preparation of a poster for the symposium and for the main conference. Doctoral students that submit their work to this symposium are strongly encouraged to apply for student travel grants to attend Middleware 2019. Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority for the travel grants. Paper submission site: https://middleware19ds.hotcrp.com/ Important dates - Position papers submission (extended): October 4, 2019 - Notification: October 14, 2019 - Camera Ready: October 18, 2019 Doctoral Symposium chairs - Faisal Nawab, University of California Santa Cruz, USA - Etienne Riviere, UCLouvain, Belgium Contact the chairs at middleware19dw(a)uclouvain.be

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[IPDPS] IPDPS 2020 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: REMINDER ABSTRACTS DUE October 7th, 2019.
by Rajesh Sankaran 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

Apologies for cross-postings. ----------------------------------- IPDPS 2020 Call for Papers: Submission site (powered by Linklings) now open and available at ipdps.org. Authors must register their paper's submit an abstract by October 7, 2019, and then submit full versions of registered papers by October 14, 2019. IEEE IPDPS 2020 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium May 18-22, 2020 Hilton New Orleans Riverside New Orleans, Louisiana USA www.ipdps.org ----------------------------- ----------------------------- IPDPS 2020 CALL FOR PAPERS - ABSTRACTS DUE October 7th, 2019 ----------------------------- ----------------------------- SCOPE Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including translational research such as the development and operation of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies and interdisciplinary work covering multiple IPDPS focus areas is especially welcome. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following topic areas: -- Parallel and distributed computing theory and algorithms (Algorithms) -- Experiments and practice in parallel and distributed computing (Experiments) -- Programming models, compilers and runtimes for parallel applications and systems (Programming Models and Compilers) -- System software and middleware for parallel and distributed systems (System Software) -- Architecture -- Multidisciplinary WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT Abstracts must be submitted by October 7, 2019, submitted abstracts may not exceed 500 words. Manuscripts must be submitted by October 14, 2019, submitted manuscripts 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 submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. See more details, including a description of the review process, at http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2020/2020-call-for-papers.html 2020 IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due October 7, 2019 Submissions due October 14, 2019 Program committee meeting December 7, 2019 Preliminary decisions December 9, 2019 Final submissions due January 6, 2020 Final notification January 20, 2020 Camera ready due February 15, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IPDPS 2020 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Anu Bourgeois (Georgia State University, USA) Ramachandran Vaidyanathan (Louisiana State University, USA) IPDPS 2020 PROGRAM CHAIR Yuanyuan Yang (NSF and Stony Brook University, USA) PROGRAM AREA CHAIRS AND VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Xiaotie Deng (Peking University, China) and Songtao Guo (Chongqing University, China) Architecture: Ahmed Louri (George Washington University, USA) and Avinash Karanth (Ohio University, USA) Experiments: Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA) and Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA) System Software: Alan Sussman (NSF and University of Maryland, College Park, USA) and Zhiling Lan (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA) Programming Models and Compilers: Rudolf Eigenmann (University of Delaware, USA) Zhiyuan Li (Purdue University, USA) Multidisciplinary: Manish Parashar (NSF and Rutgers University, USA) Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) IPDPS 2020 VENUE New Orleans is one of the most eccentric and lively cities in the world. Whatever your interests are, New Orleans has you covered. From its diverse culture, distinctive cuisine, rich history, colorful celebrations, live music, vibrant nightlife, and world-class restaurants, there is something for everyone. It is home to a number of engaging museums, including the World War II Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Historic Voodoo Museum, Mardi Gras World, and the Pharmacy Museum. A visit would not be complete without a swamp tour, Mississippi river cruise and a stop at Cafe du Monde for beignets. Join IPDPS in 2020 to find out what makes New Orleans so unique and special. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/IPDPS ...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IPDPS ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing In cooperation with IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing ACM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ISC 2020 Call for Papers
by Carsten Trinitis 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

+++ Apologies for cross-postings +++ ISC 2020 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: Submission ends October 21, 2019 The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing (HPC), Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning. Submitted research paper proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2020 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, with Brad Chamberlain, CRAY, USA, as Deputy Chair as well as Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf as Proceedings Chair and with Hatem Ltaief , KAUST, as Proceedings Deputy Chair., as Proceedings Deputy Chair. The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the *Hans Meuer Award* and the *GCS Award*. Each accepted paper will be considered for the awards. The Hans Meuer Award winner will receive a *cash prize of 5,000 Euros*. *Free conference day pass for presenter* OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION All accepted research papers will be published in the Springers Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS] series in Gold Open Access. Gold OA makes the final version of a research paper freely and permanently accessible for everyone, immediately after publication. Paper submissions are required to be within 18 pages in LNCS style. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. Volumes published as part of the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services: Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH.] AREAS OF INTEREST The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into eight tracks this year. Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure - Future design concepts of HPC systems - Multi-core & many-core systems - Heterogeneous systems - Other paradigms (including data flow computing, FPGAs, etc.) - Network technology - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies - Trends in the HPC chip market - Exascale computing Data Storage & Visualization - From big data to smart data - Memory systems for HPC & big data - File systems & tape libraries - Data-intensive applications - Databases - Visual analytics - In-situ analytics HPC Applications - Highly scalable applications - Convergence of simulations & big data - Scalability on future architectures - Workflow management - Coupled simulations - Industrial simulations - Implementations on GPUs & other accelerators HPC Algorithms - Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous - Algorithmic-based fault tolerance - Communication-reducing & synchronization-reducing algorithms - Time-space trade-offs in algorithms - Energy-efficient algorithms Programming Models & Systems Software - Parallel programming paradigms - Tools and libraries for performance & productivity - Job management - Monitoring & administration tools - Productivity improvement - Power & energy management & scheduling - Resilience Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Neural networks & HPC - Machine learning & HPC - AI & machine learning-oriented hardware? - Devising benchmarks for machine learning - Use cases Performance Modeling & Measurement - Performance models - Performance prediction & engineering - Performance measurement - Power consumption - Energy measurement & modelling Emerging Technologies - Quantum computing architecture - Software for quantum computing - Quantum algorithms - Quantum annealing NOTE: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the eight above for your submission. Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/ research-papers-2020.html for full submission guidelines. Furthermore all terms & conditions stated on the website apply to submissions. AWARDS The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award. IMPORTANT DATES Full Submission Deadline: October 21, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE Author Rebuttals: January 13 - January 18, 2020 Notification of Acceptance: February 5, 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: May 10, 2020 Research Paper Sessions: June 22 - June 24, 2020 TRACK CHAIRS Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure | Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, United States of America Data, Storage & Visualization | Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America HPC Applications | Dirk Pleiter, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany HPC Algorithms | Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France Programming Models & Systems Software | Huimin Cui, Institute of Computing Technology CAS, China Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling & Measurement | Felix Wolf, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Emerging Technologies | Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America OTHER SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES Calls are also open for: - Research Posters - PhD Forum - Project Posters - Tutorials - Workshops - Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/overview.html for details. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: Saday Sadayappan, ISC 2020 Research Papers Chair, and Brad Chamberlain, ISC 2020 Research Papers Deputy Chair research-papers-2020(a)isc-events.com

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CFP: IEEE ACCESS -- Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence in Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Stephane Zuckerman 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

Artificial Intelligence in Parallel and Distributed Computing Submission Deadline: 15 January 2020 IEEE Access invites manuscript submissions in the area of Artificial Intelligence in Parallel and Distributed Computing. Traditional computation is driven by parallel accelerators or distributed computation nodes in order to improve computing performance, save energy, and decrease delays in accessing memory. Recently, artificial intelligent algorithms, frameworks, and computing models are growing to help with high computational performance. To coordinate communication among professional researchers, engineers and students, and to attract and filter high quality academic contributions recommended from the International Symposium on Advanced Parallel Processing Technology (APPT 2019, http://tc.ccf.org.cn/tcarch/appt2019/) we have organized this Special Section in IEEE Access on “Artificial Intelligence in Parallel and Distributed Computing” (AIPDC). High quality contributions within the field but not presented at the conference are highly encouraged and also considered in this Special Section. To tackle issues and challenges from the new era of artificial intelligence on computer systems, this Special Section will present innovative solutions and recent advances in the fields of intelligent algorithms, parallel computing methodologies, distributed computing models, new computer architectures, cloud computing, data centers, and so on. We are hoping the articles in this Special Section will guide future applications and research on computer architectures and computer systems. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Parallel Architectures and Hardware Systems Parallel Software Distributed and Cloud Computing Parallel Algorithms and Applications GPU neuromorphic computing, intelligent control and computing on FPGAs We also highly recommend the submission of multimedia with each article as it significantly increases the visibility, downloads, and citations of articles. Associate Editor: Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Guest Editors: Junjie Wu, National University of Defense Technology, China Tao Li, Nankai University, China Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Stéphane Zuckerman, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France Relevant IEEE Access Special Sections: Artificial Intelligence in CyberSecurity Innovation and Application of Intelligent Processing of Data, Information and Knowledge as Resources in Edge Computing Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Cyber-Physical Systems IEEE Access Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Derek Abbott, University of Adelaide Article submission: Contact Associate Editor and submit manuscript to: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ieee-access For inquiries regarding this Special Section, please contact: swpei(a)usst.edu.cn or songwenpei(a)gmail.com. -- Maître de conférences / IUT GEII (site de Neuville) Laboratoire ETIS Université Paris-Seine, Université Cergy-Pontoise, ENSEA, CNRS F-95000, Cergy, France

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14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020): Third Call for Papers
by George Angelos Papadopoulos 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

*** Third Call for Papers *** 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020) Royal Apollonia Beach Hotel 5*, Limassol, Cyprus May 20-22, 2020, Limassol, Cyprus http://rcis-conf.com/ Abstract submission deadline: January 20, 2020 Paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) (Proceedings to be published by Springer; Special Issue in DKE) SCOPE AND TOPICS RCIS aims to bring together scientists, researchers, engineers and practitioners from a wide range of information science fields and to provide opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination. RCIS 2020 will continue paying attention to traditional topics at the conference; in addition, we solicit submissions aligned the special theme of Information Science in the Days of Artificial Intelligence. We understand AI in a broad sense, including machine learning, self-adaptation, logic-based reasoning, automation, agents and multiagent systems, natural language processing, etc. RCIS welcomes submissions from the whole spectrum of the information science field. The list of themes and topics includes, but is not limited to: Information Systems and their Engineering * Requirements Engineering * Software Testing * Information Security and Risk * Method Engineering User-Oriented Approaches * Social Computing and Social Network Analysis * User-Centred Design * Collaborative Computing * Human Factors in Information Systems Data and Information Management * Databases and Information * Information Search and Discovery * Conceptual Modelling and Ontologies Business Process Management * Business Process Engineering and Reengineering * Process Mining * Enterprise Engineering Domain-specific IS Engineering * E-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce, … * Industry 4.0 * Web-Based Applications and Services * Smart Cities Data Science * Big Data & Business Analytics * Decision Information Systems * Knowledge Management * Knowledge Discovery from Data Information Infrastructures * Cyber-Physical Systems * Web Information Systems * Grid Computing and Cloud Computing * Internet of Things * Pervasive and Mobile Computing Reflective Research and Practice * Research Methodologies in Information Science * Impact of Information on the Enterprise and the Individual * Lifecycle Models * Design Science and Rationale Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium, Posters & Demos will complement the main conference. RCIS STEERING COMMITTEE Saïd Assar; Marco Bajec; Pericles Loucopoulos; Haralambos Moratidis; Selmin Nurcan; Oscar Pastor; Jolita Ralyté; Colette Rolland. SUBMISSION PROCESS Papers shall be formatted according to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP conference proceedings template (for LaTeX and Word): https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Papers that have already been accepted or are currently under review for other conferences or journals will not be considered for publication at RCIS 2020. Papers should be in English and must be associated to one of the following categories: Technical solution papers (max 16 pages Springer) present solutions that are novel or significantly improve existing approaches. A technical solution paper must include a preliminary validation of the proposed solution, and results must be stated clearly enough so that it is possible to validate them in follow-up research. Evaluation papers (max 16 pages Springer) evaluate existing problem situations or validate proposed solutions through scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, simulations, mathematical proofs, etc. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Industrial practice and experience papers (max 16 pages Springer) thoroughly present problems or challenges encountered in practice, elaborate on success or failure with existing approaches, or report on industrial practice (e.g., methods and tools). A paper in this category shall provide a clear context, detail the problem or the industrial practice, and explain the lessons learned. Work in progress papers (max 8 pages Springer) present relevant preliminary results across the spectrum of information science. These papers can either present a novel technical solution, or report on a preliminary evaluation of a technique. Please note that the maximum length of the paper includes references, appendices, etc. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcis2020 . By submitting a paper, the authors agree that at least one of them will register to the conference and present the paper. The appearance of a paper in the Springer proceedings is dependent on the registration of one author within the early registration deadline on March 31, 2020. SPECIAL ISSUE A selection of the best accepted papers of RCIS’20, chosen by a dedicated committee, will be invited to submit an extended version of the RCIS paper to the Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE) journal published by Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/data-and-knowledge-engineering) The selection of the papers to invite will be based on the review scores and arguments, and the potential for extension. IMPORTANT DATES * Regular paper submission deadline: January 27, 2020 (AoE) * Notification to authors and registration opening: March 15, 2020 * Author registration deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 * Camera-ready copy deadline for all paper types: March 31, 2020 * Conference: May 20-22, 2020 CONFERENCE COMMITTEES General Chairs * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus * Pericles Loucopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Organising Chair * Petros Stratis, Easy Conferences LTD., Cyprus Program Chairs * Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden * Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands Doctoral Consortium Chairs * Raian Ali, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom * Sergio Espana, Utrecht University, Netherlands Tutorial Chairs * Estefania Serral Asensio, KU Leuven, Belgium * Ignacio Panach, University of Valencia, Spain Posters & Demos Chairs * Elena Kornyshova, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France * Marcela Ruiz, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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3rd Call for contributions for ACM/SPEC ICPE 2020
by ICPE ICPE 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to consider submitting contributions to the 11th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Edmonton, Alberta, Canada April 20-24, 2020 https://icpe2020.spec.org Important dates: Research Papers and Artifacts Abstract submission: Oct 4, 2019 Paper submission: Oct 11, 2019 Industrial/Experience Papers Abstract submission: Oct 4, 2019 Paper submission: Oct 11, 2019 Workshop Proposals: Proposal submission: Oct 11, 2019 Poster and Demo Papers, Tutorials, Work-in-Progress: Proposal submission: Jan 20, 2020 Details: https://icpe2020.spec.org/call-for-contributions/ https://icpe2020.spec.org/workshops/ The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, innovations, trends, and experiences in the field of performance engineering. Today’s systems are complex, rely increasingly on dynamic architectures, and raise continuously important challenges related to end-to-end performance management. This applies equally to emerging domains, such as cyber-physical systems, and the Internet of Things, big data and machine learning environments, cloud/edge/fog infrastructures, and social networks, and also to traditional domains, such as web-based, data centers, mobile and wireless systems, and real-time systems. ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including but not limited to performance modeling, analysis, measurement, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, and on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, cost, sustainability, security, and privacy. This year’s main theme is “Performance Engineering under Uncertainty”. Modern systems are subject to multiple sources of uncertainty due to openness, heterogeneity, versatility, and variability. The complexity of managing performance-related concerns under uncertainty is starting to overwhelm even the capabilities of large engineering teams. We are looking for contributions that use techniques to enhance the performance modeling, estimation, and optimization of complex systems while considering their intrinsic uncertainties. At the same time, we are looking for all the contributions that improve the state-of-the-art while analyzing the performance uncertainty of software systems. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of software * Languages and ontologies * Methods and tools * Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes * Analytical, simulation, and statistical modeling methodologies * Machine learning and neural networks * Model validation and calibration techniques * Automatic model extraction * Performance modeling and analysis tools * Traceability of software and performance artifacts * Control of software performance evolution Performance and software development processes/paradigms * Software performance patterns and anti-patterns * Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats) * Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management * Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development * Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data * System sizing and capacity planning techniques * (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering * Relationship between performance and architecture * Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and serverless computing * Performance of microservice architectures and containers * DevOps and performance Performance measurement, monitoring, and analysis * Performance measurement and monitoring techniques * Analysis of measured application performance data * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization and modeling techniques * Experiment design * Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling, and tuning Benchmarking * Performance metrics and benchmark suites * Benchmarking methodologies * Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks * Benchmark workloads and scenarios * Use of benchmarks in industry and academia Run-time performance management and adaptation * Machine learning and runtime performance decisions * Context modeling and analysis * Runtime model estimation * Use of models at run-time * Online performance prediction * Autonomic resource management * Utility-based optimization * Capacity management Power and performance, energy efficiency * Power consumption models and management techniques * Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency * Performance-driven resource and power management Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains, including but not limited to: * Cyber-physical systems * Internet of Things and Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0) * Communication networks, and embedded, mobile, and wireless systems * Web-based systems, e-business, Web services * Big data systems and data analytics * Machine Learning and Deep-learning systems * Social networks * Peer-to-peer systems, including emerging areas such as Blockchain * Autonomous/adaptive systems * Transaction-oriented and database systems * Parallel and distributed systems * Multi-core, HPC, and other parallel systems * Cluster, cloud/edge/fog, and grid computing environments * Control and event-based systems * Real-time and multimedia systems Program Committee Research Papers * Aldeida Aleti, Monash University, Australia * Sven Apel, University of Saarland, Germany * Alberto Avritzer, eSulabSolutions, USA * Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta, Canada * Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA * Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy * Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Francisco Brasileiro, UFCG, Brazil * Radu Calinescu, University of York, England * Mihai Capota, Intel, USA * Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy * Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA * Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Vittoria De Nitto Persone', University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy * Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy * Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, England * Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany * Nikolas Roman Herbst, University of Würzburg, Germany * Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Pooyan Jamshidi, University of South Carolina, USA * Zhen Ming Jack Jiang, York University, Canada * Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, England * Samuel Kounev, University of Würzburg, Germany * Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany * Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada * Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada * Catalina M. Lladó, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain * Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden * Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA * José Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain * Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * John Murphy, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland * Dušan Okanovic, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada * Paolo Romano, INESC-ID/IST, Portugal * Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany * Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada * Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA * Mirco Tribastone, IMT Lucca, Italy * Animesh Trivedi, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands * Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic * Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands * André van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany * Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands * Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Information Engineering Department, Italy * Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Artifact Evaluation Committee * André Bauer, University of Würzburg, Germany * Jinfu Chen, Concordia University, Canada * Daniele Di Pompeo, Università dell' Aquila, Italy * Holger Eichelberger, University of Hildesheim, Germany * Matthew Forshaw, Newcastle University, UK * Abel Gómez Llana, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain * Elena Gómez-Martínez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain * Vojtech Horky, Charles University, Czech Republic * Emilio Incerto, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy * Shady Issa, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Colin Paterson, University of York, UK * Alessandro Pellegrini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy * Diego Perez Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Jose Ignacio Requeno, INP - Ensimag, Grenoble, France * Alexandru Uta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Industry Papers * Alexander Podelko (Oracle) * Meikel Poess (Oracle) * Christian Vögele (Novatec) * Paul Brebner (Instaclustr) * Johannes Kroß (fortiss) * Wolfgang Gottesheim (Dynatrace) * Simon Spinner (IBM) * Klaus-Dieter Lange (HPE) * Martin Klier (Performing Databases) * Thomas Falkenberg (Payback) Thank you, ICPE Publicity Chairs

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Women In Computing
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 Women In Computing Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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SDS-2020 CFP: The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems, Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020
by Stanley Ewenike 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Seventh International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2020) http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/index.php Paris, France. April 20-23, 2020 Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE France Section *SDS 2020 CFP:* Next generation cloud systems will require a paradigm shift in how they are constructed and managed. Conventional control and management platforms are facing considerable challenges regarding flexibility, dependability and security that next generation systems will require. The cloud computing paradigm has gone part of the way towards alleviating some of the problems associated with resource allocation, utilization and managements (e.g., via elasticity). However, many of the elements of a well-designed cloud environment remain “stiff” and hard to modify and adapt in an integrated fashion. This includes underlying networking topologies, many aspects of the user control over IaaS, PaaS or SaaS layers when such is needed, construction of XaaS services, provenance and meta-data collection, and so on. In many situations the problem may be because service abstraction is inadequate. Software Defined Systems (SDS) are systems that have added software components which help abstract actual IT equipment and other layers. One classical example, of course, are hypervisors. Such separation provides a great opportunity for system administrators to more easily construct and managing their systems through flexible software layers. Software Defined Systems include Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software Defined Storage, Software Defined Servers (Virtualization), Software Defined Datacenters (SDD), Software Defined Security (SDSec), and ultimately Software Defined Clouds (SDCloud) to name a few possibilities. Individual solutions and seamless integration of these abstractions remains in many respects a challenge. After the high success of the previous editions (SDS'2014, SDS'2015, SDS'2016, SDS'2017, SDS'2018, SDS' 2019), The Seventh International conference on Software Defined Systems 2020 (SDS'2020) will continue to be a forum for scientists, researchers, students, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, and developments in the area of software defined systems – both components and their integration - and by implication advancement of next generation clouds. SDS 2020 aims to investigate the opportunities and in all aspects of Software Defined Systems. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating SDS challenges. That is, the objective of SDS 2020 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Software Defined Systems. SDS is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Italy Section, IEEE SMC Italian Chapter and Italy Section VT/COM Joint Chapter. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing . * Software Defined Networking (SDN). * SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs. * Network Virtualization * SDN and OpenFlow protocol * Software Defined Radio * Cognitive Radio Networks . * Access Control models in SDN. * Software Defined Storage. * Storage Automation and Abstraction. * Policy-driven storage provisioning. * Software Defined Servers and Virtualization. * Software Defined Datacenters. * Software Defined Security o Security policies automation. * Self-management systems. * Autonomic Computing techniques. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * Software Defined Systems Scalability. * Software Defined Systems optimization. * Software tools and frameworks to support SDS . * Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities * Software Defined Systems surveys . * Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS. * Software Defined Systems support if IoT. * Security protocols in SDS. * Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing * Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). 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. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 1st December 2019 Notification to Authors: 21st February 2020 Camera Ready Submission: 10th March 2020 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on SDS 2020 to the Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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