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IEEE HiPC 2020 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2020 https://hipc.org/ *********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 is the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The conference focus is not only HPC but also includes Data Science. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be held virtually on December 16, 17, and 18. Each day of the three day event will open with a keynote talk, followed by two one-hour live remote sessions to present the technical program of thirty-three peer reviewed papers. All papers accepted for the conference will be published as part of the proceedings that will be available before, during, and after the week of the scheduled conference. The online publication will include both papers and presentations (slides) for each paper. Access to the online publication is part of the free registration to attend the virtual live sessions. See here (https://hipc.org/register2020/) to register. Below is the planned program schedule for the conference. Return regularly for updates and details on how to attend. All times below are India Standard Time (IST). Wednesday, December 16th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Kathy Yelick University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing and Data Challenges in Climate Change Best Papers Session (10:10 AM IST – start time) SimGQ: Simultaneously Evaluating Iterative Graph Queries Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang and Rajiv Gupta WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs Daniel Jünger, Robin Kobus, André Müller, Kai Xu, Weiguo Liu, Christian Hundt and Bertil Schmidt Session 1: Applications (11:20 AM IST – start time) Towards High Performance, Portability, and Productivity: Lightweight Augmented Neural Networks for Performance Prediction Ajitesh Srivastava, Naifeng Zhang, Rajgopal Kannan and Viktor K. Prasanna. Performance Optimization and Scalability Analysis of the MGB Hydrological Model Henrique R. A. Freitas, Celso Luiz Mendes and Aleksandar Ilic Exploring Task Parallelism for the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Michael Lingg, H. Metin Aktulga, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Stephen Hughey and Doga Dikbayir SparsePipe: Parallel Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds Keke Zhai, Pan He, Tania Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan and Sanjay Ranka HyPR: Hybrid Page Ranking on Evolving Graphs Hemant Kumar Giri, Mridul Haque and Dip Sankar Banerjee Distributing Sparse Matrix/Graph Applications in Heterogeneous Clusters -- an Experimental Study Charilaos Tzovas, Maria Predari and Henning Meyerhenke ************************************************************************************************ Thursday, December 17th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Animashree Anandkumar California Institute of Technology and Machine Learning Research, NVIDIA Role of HPC in next-generation AI Session 2: Scalable Data Science (10:10 AM IST – start time) Processor Pipelining Method for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Embedded Devices Akshay Parashar, Arun Abraham, Deepak Chaudhary and Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran Avoiding Communication in Logistic Regression Aditya Devarakonda and James Demmel A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad and Thierry Winter Blink: Towards Efficient RDMA-based Communication Coroutines for Parallel Python Applications Aamir Shafi, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar K. Panda Content-defined Container Delivery Yuta Nakamura, Tanu Malik and Raza Ahmad Model Checking as a Service using Dynamic Resource Scaling Surya Teja, Yuvraj Singh, Adhish Singla, Suresh Purini and Venkatesh Choppella Session 3: Algorithms (11:20 AM IST – start time) Parallel Hierarchical Clustering using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Lawton Manning, Grey Ballard, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Haesun Park Pipelined Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Distributed Memory Systems Manasi Tiwari and Sathish Vadhiyar Fair Allocation of Asymmetric Operations in Storage Systems Thomas Keller and Peter Varman A GPU Algorithm for Earliest Arrival Time Problem in Public Transport Networks Chirayu Anant Haryan, G. Ramakrishna, Rupesh Nasre and Allam Dinesh Reddy 2D Static Resource Allocation Strategies for Load Balancing in Compressed Linear Algebra under Communication Constraints Olivier Beaumont, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Mathieu Verite Algorithms for Preemptive Co-scheduling of Kernels on GPUs Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Cristiana Bentes ************************************************************************************ Friday, December 18th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Fabrizio Petrini Parallel Computing Lab Intel Corporation Breaking the Scalability Wall Session 4: Runtime Systems (10:10 AM IST – start time) Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror and Ali R. Butt AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal and Jing Li Extending SLURM for Dynamic Resource-Aware Adaptive Batch Scheduling Mohak Chadha, Jophin John and Michael Gerndt On the Marriage of Asynchronous Many Task Runtimes and Big Data: A Glance Joshua Suetterlein, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez and Gunag Gao Exposing data locality in HPC-based systems by using the HDFS backend Jose Rivadeneira, Felix Garcia-Carballeira, Jesus Carretero and Javier Garcia-Blas PufferFish: NUMA-Aware Work-stealing Library using Elastic Tasks Vivek Kumar Design and Study of Elastic Recovery in HPC Applications Kai Keller, Konstantinos Parasyris and Leonardo Bautista Session 5: System Software and Architecture (11:30 AM IST – start time) Accelerating Force-directed Graph Layout with Processing-in-Memory Architecture Ruihao Li, Shuang Song, Qinzhe Wu and Lizy K. John Nonblocking Persistent Software Transactional Memory Alan Beadle, Wentao Cai, Haosen Wen and Michael Scott GPU-FPtuner: Mixed-precision Auto-tuning for Floating-point Applications on GPU Ruidong Gu and Michela Becchi Batched Small Tensor-Matrix Multiplications On GPUs Keke Zhai, Tania Banerjee, Adeesha Wijayasiri and Sanjay Ranka Temporal Based Intelligent LRU Cache Construction Pavan Nittur, Anuradha Kanukotla and Narendra Mutyala Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau and Antonio González

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Doctoral Symposium - CISTI 2021, Chaves, Portugal
by Maria Lemos 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- Doctoral Symposium CISTI 2021 - 16th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Chaves, Portugal, 23 - 26 June 2021 http://www.cisti.eu/ <http://www.cisti.eu/> ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------- The purpose of CISTI'2021’s Doctoral Symposium is to provide graduate students a setting where they can, informally, expose and discuss their work, collecting valuable expert opinions and sharing new ideas, methods and applications. The Doctoral Symposium is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present and discuss their work in a Workshop format. Each presentation will be evaluated by a panel composed by at least three Information Systems and Technologies experts. Contributions Submission The Doctoral Symposium is opened to PhD students whose research area includes the themes proposed for this Conference. Submissions must include an extended abstract (maximum 4 pages), following the Conference style guide. All selected contributions will be published with the Conference Proceedings in electronic format with ISBN. These contributions will be available in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will be sent for indexing in ISI, Scopus, EI-Compendex, INSPEC and Google Scholar. Submissions must include the field, the PhD institution and the number of months devoted to the development of the work. Additionally, they should include in a clear and succinct manner: • The problem approached and its significance or relevance • The research objectives and related investigation topics • A brief display of what is already known • A proposed solution methodology for the problem • Expected results Important Dates Paper submission: February 14, 2021 Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2021 Submission of accepted papers: April 11, 2021 Payment of registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: April 11, 2021 Organizing Committee Álvaro Rocha, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa Francisco García-Peñalvo, Universidad de Salamanca Scientific Committee Francisco García-Peñalvo, Universidad de Salamanca (Chair) A. Augusto Sousa, FEUP, Universidade do Porto Adérito Fernandes-Marcos, Universidade Aberta Adolfo Lozano Tello, Universidad de Extremadura Alicia García Holgado, Universidad de Salamanca Álvaro Rocha, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa Ana Amélia Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra António Palma do Reis, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa Arnaldo Martins, Universidade de Aveiro Borja Bordel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Bráulio Alturas, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Carina Soledad González, Universidad de La Laguna Carlos Costa, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa Carlos Ferrás Sexto, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca Daniel Amo, La Salle, Universidad Ramon Llull David Fonseca, La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull Eduardo Sánchez Vila, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Fernando Moreira, Universidade Portucalense Fernando Ramos, Universidade de Aveiro Francisco Restivo, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Gonçalo Paiva Dias, Universidade de Aveiro João Costa, Universidade de Coimbra João Manuel R.S. Tavares, FEUP, Universidade do Porto João Pascoal Faria, FEUP, Universidade do Porto José Machado, Universidade do Minho Luis Camarinha-Matos, FCT, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Luís Paulo Reis, FEUP, Universidade do Porto Marcelo Marciszack, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional Marco Painho, NOVA IMS María J Lado, Universidade de Vigo María Pilar Mareca Lopez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Mário Piattini, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Martin Llamas Nistal, Universidad de Vigo Miguel de Castro Neto, NOVA IMS Miguel Ramón González-Castro, ENCE Nelson Rocha, Universidade de Aveiro Óscar Mealha, Universidade de Aveiro Paulo Pinto, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Ramiro Gonçalves, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Tomas San Feliu, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Vitor Santos, NOVA IMS Website of CISTI'2020: http://www.cisti.eu/ <http://www.cisti.eu/> CISTI 2021 Team http://www.cisti.eu/ <http://www.cisti.eu/> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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[papers due in a month] CFP - 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021)
by angalletta＠ieee.org 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

Dear users of Hpc-Announce mailing list, FYI [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ========================================================================= 5TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FOG AND EDGE COMPUTING (ICFEC 2021) 10-13 May 2021, Melbourne, Australia In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 URL: https://icfec2021.eeecs.qub.ac.uk ========================================================================= We are delighted to invite you for the 5th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will be held as part of and in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM. INTRODUCTION Billions of devices and sensors ranging from user gadgets to more complex systems with sensing and actuating capabilities, such as power grids or vehicles, from the physical world are getting connected to the Internet. However, the need to operate the scale of heterogeneous devices and sensors while being performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the data generated by the devices and sensors are transferred to and processed centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds. This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the ingress bandwidth demand. A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage resources located at the edge of the network and along the continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may be geographically or in the network topology be closer to devices and sensors, such as home router, gateways or more substantial micro data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected services from the cloud to accelerate an application or host edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is harnessed is referred to as 'Fog/Edge computing'. The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility of service deployments, make use of opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the network latency and bandwidth diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise when using edge resources, which requires the re-examination of operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware techniques for fabric management. Extensions to current programming and storage models are required and new abstractions that will allow developers to design novel applications that can benefit from massively distributed and data-driven systems need to be developed. Addressing security, privacy and trust of the edge resources is of paramount importance while managing the resources and context for mobile, transient and hardware constrained resources. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and machine/deep learning need to be supported over such platforms. CALL FOR PAPERS The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions covering both theory and practice over system software and domain-specific applications related to next-generation distributed systems that use the edge. Some representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge computing * Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models for Fog/Edge computing * Storage and data management platforms for Fog/Edge computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Distributed and federated machine learning on Fog/Edge * Performance monitoring and metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Legal issues and business aspects of Fog/Edge computing * Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in Fog/Edge computing * Modeling and simulation of Fog/Edge environments * Novel, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications of Fog/Edge computing SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. The manuscripts should be structured as technical papers, written in English. Authors should submit papers electronically in PDF format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including all figures, tables and references. Papers should follow the IEEE format template for conference proceedings available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date may not be reviewed. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers may be submitted online at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec2021 IMPORTANT DATES * Papers due: 03 January 2021 23:59 AoE * Author notifications of Acceptance: 08 February 2021 * Camera Ready Paper: 03 March 2021 PUBLICATION Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. ORGANIZATION General Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Program Chairs * Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, b.varghese(a)qub.ac.uk * Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA, mlena(a)udel.edu Steering Committee * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France * Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA * Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy

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QEST 2021: Early Call for Papers
by Marco Paolieri 28 Nov '20

28 Nov '20

QEST 2021 Early CfP International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems https://www.qest.org/qest2021/ Co-located at QONFEST with CONCUR, FORMATS, FMICS ************************************** Important Dates Abstract Submission: April 8th, 2021 Paper Submission: April 15th, 2021 Notification: June 7th, 2021 Conference: August 23rd-27th, 2021 ************************************** ================ Scope and Topics ================ The International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) is the leading forum on quantitative evaluation and verification of computer systems and networks. QEST 2021 is the 18th conference in the series. Scientific areas of interest include: - quantitative specification methods. - stochastic and non-deterministic models and metrics for performance, reliability, safety, correctness, and security. - new algorithms for the analysis or simulation of stochastic, probabilistic and non-deterministic models. - (as a recent emphasis) application of data-driven, machine learning techniques for the quantitative evaluation and verification of systems, in particular for safety-critical applications (learning for safety, as well as safe learning). - case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modelling and evaluation in the design of systems. Systems of interest include computer hardware and software architectures, communication systems, cyber-physical systems, infrastructural systems, security systems and biological systems. - papers that describe novel tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas are also welcome. QEST will set up a repeatability evaluation process (details below). QEST is open to both theoretical, experimental and applicative research. The conference welcomes a diversity of modelling formalisms, programming languages and methodologies that incorporate quantitative aspects such as probabilities, temporal properties, rewards and forms of non-determinism. Papers may advance empirical, simulation and analytic methods, and industrially-relevant case studies. In QEST21, we plan to organize a special session under the topic "modelling and analysis in biology", comprising topics such as epidemiological systems, systems biology, biological networks, and computational biology. Contributions in this area are particularly welcome. =========== Submissions =========== QEST 2021 considers three types of papers (authors will be able to specify the type of the contribution at the submission): - THEORETICAL/METHODOLOGICAL: to advance the understanding on a topic or issue, or to describe the development and proposal of new analysis processes and techniques. - APPLICATION: to describe a novel application and compare it with previous results. - TOOL: to develop new tools and the formalisms they support, with a focus on the software architecture and practical implementation and use. Tools will be made available to the reviewers. Paper submission can be REGULAR and SHORT: regular papers must not exceed 16 pages, excluding references, plus 4 pages for the appendix containing supporting material. Short papers should preferably be limited to 8 pages, also excluding references. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair [2]. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines [0] and use Springer's LaTeX templates [1] for the preparation of their papers. =========== Publication =========== All accepted papers will be presented and discussed at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST 2021 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. ======================== Repeatability Evaluation ======================== Authors of tool papers (both regular and short) are encouraged to make their tools (source code) and input data available to reviewers; reproducibility of results will be taken into account during the evaluation process, and the conference will include the possibility of a demo session for interaction with the authors. Authors should present use cases, distinctive features, and computational/memory requirements through motivating examples. We expect authors of tool papers (regular and short) to provide instructions detailing the steps which need to be taken to reproduce the results presented in the tool papers to ensure reproducibility. RE is optional (but recommended) also for other submissions (theoretical/methodological or application submissions). Successfully evaluated papers will receive a specific tag in the proceedings. ============= Special Issue ============= A selection of the best full papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue in the ACM Transactions on Modelling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) [3]. (Further details will be provided on the website.) [0] ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guide… [1] ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip [2] https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=qest2021 [3] https://dl.acm.org/journal/tomacs ==================== Organising committee ==================== General Chair (QONFEST): Benoit Barbot (Université Paris-Est Créteil, FR) Program Chairs: Alessandro Abate (Oxford University, UK) Andrea Marin (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, IT) Repeatability Evaluation Chair: David Safranek (Masaryk University, CZ) Publicity Chair: Marco Paolieri (University of Southern California, USA)

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CFP: IEEE COMPSAC 2021 - ITiP Symposium (deadline: Jan 15, 2021), All-Virtual event
by Marco Guazzone 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

################################################################################ IT in Practice (ITiP) Symposium COMPSAC 2021 (part of IEEE COMPSAC 2021) All-Virtual, July 12-16, 2021 ################################################################################ URL: https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2021/itip/ IMPORTANT DATES * Main conference papers due: 15 January 2021 * Paper notification: 15 April 2021 * Camera-ready and registration due: 15 May 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS IT in Practice (ITiP) Symposium COMPSAC 2021, cosponsored by IT Professional, covers practice-entered research and design, development and operation of computing and IT applications in a range of areas. Aligned with conference theme “Intelligent and Resilient Computing for a Collaborative World,” the symposium focuses on diverse elements necessary to successfully architect, design, engineer, configure and field IT applications as well as application-oriented research outcomes. It also covers new risks and concerns of IT and its applications. The symposium serves the interests and needs of IT practitioners and researchers, application developers and IT managers from business, industry and government. It presents an interactive forum for sharing and gaining valuable insights and experiences and facilitates active engagement among IT professionals and researchers around the globe. ================== Topics ================== We solicit submissions on a range of topics related to the symposium theme, including but not limited to: * AI and machine learning — applications, risks, concerns * Automation — advances, applications, impact * Autonomous systems and vehicles * Augmented data analytics, location analytics * Blockchain and crypto currency * Cloud computing, fog computing, edge computing * Cognitive computing and its applications * Crowd sourcing and collaborative computing * Cyber-physical systems * Cyberrisks and cybersecurity * Data and social media mining * Data management and governance * Digital twins * Design, deployment and management of large scale systems * Emerging trends in IT * Enterprise IT/IS management * Ethics and privacy * FinTech * Geographical information system (GIS) * Green computing and sustainability * Human factors in IT * Industry 4.0 * Information assurance and security * IT application architecture, data architecture * Internet of Things * IT audit and controls * IT in arts, music, entertainment and culture * IT in business, healthcare, finance and government * IT in education and training * IT services and service providers * IT standards and regulations * IT strategy, AI strategy, and data Strategy * Smart systems – smart cities, smart grid, smart buildings, smart logistics * Social computing * Social impact of IT * Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality We also welcome case studies, experience reports, position papers and visionary perspectives. We solicit both regular and short papers. Furthermore, to facilitate presentation of their already published work to a wider audience in person and to gain feedback on their work, authors can submit their published work in an IEEE journal in the last three years or accepted but not yet published papers for presentation under the J1C2 (Journal First and Conference Second) scheme. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers. Simultaneous submission to other publication venues is not permitted. In accordance with IEEE policy, submitted manuscripts will be checked for plagiarism; instances of alleged misconduct will be handled according to the IEEE Publication Services and Product Board Operations Manual. SYMPOSIUM COMMITTEE Symposium Co-Chairs - San Murugesan, BRITE Professional Services, Australia. Email: san(a)computer.org - Charalampos (Babis) Patrikakis, University of West Attica, Greece. Email: bpatr(a)uniwa.gr PC Co-Chairs - G.R. Gangadharan, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, India. Email: geeyaar(a)gmail.com - Piyush Saxena, Direct Supply, USA. Email: piyush.saxena.phd(a)gmail.com General Chair - Irena Bojanova, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA. Email: irena.bojanova(a)computer.org -- Marco Guazzone, PhD Computer Science Institute, DiSIT University of Piemonte Orientale address: Viale T. Michel 11, 15121 Alessandria, Italy phone: +39-0131-360484 web: http://people.unipmn.it/sguazt

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(deadline extended) PMAM 2021 CFP
by Zhiyi Huang 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

The 2021 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores will be co-located with the PPoPP 2021 conference in February 27 -- 3 March, 2021 virtual/online Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores and manycores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology. However, most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore, to fully utilize multicore and manycore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and enable development of error-free codes are urgently needed. This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore and manycore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, tools and applications specifically designed for parallel multicore and manycore hardware environments. Selected best papers of PMAM will be considered for publication in a special issue of highly ranked journal. The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following topics: programming models and systems for multicore, manycore, and clusters of multicore/manycore parallel machine learning and AI algorithms parallel resource management on large-scale datacenters multicore and manycore software engineering parallel and distributed algorithms on GPU, FPGA, and multicore clusters parallel libraries and frameworks performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness massively parallel processing on multicore/manycore systems and clusters automated parallelization and compilation techniques debugging and performance autotuning tools and techniques for multicore/manycore applications parallel algorithms, applications and benchmarks on multicore/manycore systems runtime power/energy management on multicore/manycore systems and clusters fault tolerance and resilience Proceedings All accepted papers will be published in the PMAM 2021 proceedings by the ACM Digital Library, and will be included in the Elsevier databases Scopus and Compendex (EI indexed). Selected best papers of PMAM will be considered for publication in a special issue of CC-PE. Important Dates Paper submission deadline : November 30, 2020 Notification of acceptance : January 17, 2021 Camera-ready papers due : February 1, 2021 Workshop day: February 27, 2021 Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.easych… Papers must not exceed 10 pages in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number and the 9pt template). Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to: pmam2021 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz For more details, please refer to: https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cs.ot… For enquiries, please contact: pmam2021(a)cs.otago.ac.nz -- Zhiyi Huang Associate Professor Dept of Computer Science University of Otago Dunedin, New Zealand

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Call for Workshops, IEEE CEC 2021, Extended deadline -- December 3, 2020
by Marcin Paprzycki 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

Call for Workshops IEEE CEC 2021 (https://cec2021.mini.pw.edu.pl/) will host a few pre-Congress workshops, focusing on discussing contemporary topics in the Congress area. Workshops offer a technical community the opportunity to polarize ideas towards a common vision for a sub-field, or the development of a position on topic. Workshops can be organized around emerging research areas, challenging problems and industrial applications. Workshops may include tutorials, keynote / invited lectures, contributed papers and presentations, panel discussions. Other forms, structures and content are also possible. Organizers of accepted workshops are expected to prepare a workshop website and call for papers, publicize the workshop, gather submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final workshop program. A workshop proposal should include • a workshop title and a short introduction to the topic, • aims and relevance of the proposed workshop to IEEE CEC 2021, • a list of potential speakers, • the expected length of the workshop (half a day or a full day), • the workshop tentative form and structure, • names, affiliations, websites and bios of the organizers. Papers accepted at a workshop will not be published in the main proceedings. Workshop organizers may, either, seek an independent publication such as a post-even special issue in a journal, or, organize a special session within IEEE CEC 2021. In the latter case, accepted papers will appear in the main conference proceedings. Proposals and inquiries, regarding workshops, should be addressed to the Workshop Chair: Maria Ganzha (m.ganzha(a)mini.pw.edu.pl) Workshop proposals should be submitted by December 3, 2020. All workshops will be held on June 28th, 2021.

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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): Preliminary Call for Papers
by George Angelos Papadopoulos 22 Nov '20

22 Nov '20

*** Preliminary Call for Papers *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=CQlHZW5lcmFsCVNJR1NBTkQtTEBDTE…> End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: * describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development * describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts * present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development * develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: * User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices * Conversational interfaces for end-user development * End-user development for big data visualization and exploration * End-user development for collaborative robotics * End-user development for social robotics * End-user development in Industry 4.0 * End-user development and explainable AI-based systems * Cybersecurity and end-user development * End-user development in daily life * Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development * Empirical studies of end-user development * Recommender systems to support end-user development * Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches * Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies * Evaluation of end-user development technologies * Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Long papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers (both long and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Work in Progress submissions (max 4 pages) and Demonstration papers (max 4 pages) are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper should be structured according to the following: * Abstract (150 words maximum) * Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community * Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity * Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) * Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) * References Work in Progress submissions are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Workshop proposals are invited (max 4 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium abstracts (max 4 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=CQlHZW5lcmFsCVNJR1NBTkQtTEBDTE…> and should be submitted according to the submission instructions (detailed information will appear soon on the conference web site). Important Dates * Long and Short papers submission: March 8, 2021 * Notification: March 30, 2021 * Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 * Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 * Notification: March 15, 2021 * Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 * Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 7, 2021 * Notification: April 21, 2021 * Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 * Doctoral Consortium submission: April 7, 2021 * Notification: April 30, 2021 * Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 Organizers General Chairs * Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) * George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs * Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) * Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs * Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) * Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs * Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) * Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair * Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs * Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) * Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs * Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) * Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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Call for Chapters -- Sustainable Smart Cities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations -- Studies in Computational Intelligence
by Marcin Paprzycki 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

Call for contributions – edited volume Sustainable Smart Cities: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations Volume Editors: Pradeep Kumar Singh Marcin Paprzycki Mohammad Essaaidi Shahram Rahimi Book Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence The prime objective of the book is to explore the current areas of research and development, and challenges to be faced in different areas, as related to making cities smart. We are particularly interested in, real-world-grounded, solutions facilitated from the technology and computing perspectives. However, we are also open to, technology oriented, considerations related to the social aspects of development of smart cities of the future. It can be easily observed that (i) Internet of things (IoT),(ii) cloud, fog/edge computing,(iii) data science-based solutions,(iv) 5G and other networking technologies,(v) distributed ledger/blockchain & security, as well as (vi) artificial intelligence & machine learning, are the key technologies for smart cities. All of them are parts of integrated approaches and they have been used to deliver smart city applications like: intelligent traffic monitoring, innovative solutions for city monitoring (including video surveillance), smart homes and office buildings, smart parking, etc. In addition, smart transportation, smart energy solutions, disaster management, and smart healthcare have been identified as some of the key requirements for future cities to be seen as smart. Numbers of unique sustainable solutions have been proposed by researchers working in the area of data science, to fulfill the dream of the smart city. However, up to now, proposed approaches are, much too often, just academic ideas, published in journals and conference proceedings. A lot more work is needed to be able to make these ideas a reality. This is also why we propose this book as a way to bring together ideas and possible ways of realizing them. Moreover, smart cities cannot be created without the involvement of all the stakeholders of the city, namely, local community, government, NGOs, academia and industry. They have to understand technology and on the basis of such understanding, jointly, formulate reasonable plans for “smartifying” their city. Note also that each city may have different hierarchy of needs that should be addressed. This is why we invite also reflection on how to involve all the city’s stakeholders to jointly work to make their city smart for the citizens. We are inviting chapters addressing topics from any of the six major areas. Contributions in the form of research articles, reviews, taxonomies, lists of solved and unsolved problems, findings of special interest in the context of smart city technologies, and social aspects of their realization. * Social aspects of making city smart * 5G and other networking technologies for smart cities * Data science and business analytics for smart cities * IoT, edge/ fog and cloud for smart cities * Distributed ledger . blockchain and security solutions for smart cities * Artificial intelligence and machine learning for smart cities Deadlines: Full Chapter Submission: 30 January, 2021 Acceptance: 30 March, 2021 Tentative Publication: June, 2021 Submissions (Easy Chair Only): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smartcities2021 Contacts: Pradeep Kumar Singh (pradeep_84cs(a)yahoo.com) Marcin Paprzycki (marcin.paprzycki(a)ibspan.waw.pl) Additional information: * There is no explicit limit on the length of the contribution. * Comprehensive state-of-the-art review is expected and required. * The similarity index must be below 20% from all sources. * There is NO PUBLICATION FEE at any stage of the process. * Appropriate Springer Template (for the Studies in Computational Intelligence series) must be used. Use of LaTeX is strongly encouraged. * Contributors are responsible for delivery of material written in high quality English, error free, formatted according to the required specification. Texts formatted using different templates, full for spelling/grammar errors, written in incomprehensible English, will be rejected without review.

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CFP - ICDCS 2021 - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
by Rhongho Jang 19 Nov '20

19 Nov '20

Call for Papers: 2021 IEEE 41th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) ICDCS 2021 Call for Research Papers July 7-10, 2021 (tentative) Washington DC, USA https://icdcs2021.us/ Scope The annual IEEE ICDCS conference is a premier international forum for researchers, developers and users to present, discuss and exchange the cutting edge ideas and latest findings on topics related to any aspect of distributed computing systems. We invite you to submit your original contributions to ICDCS 2021. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud Computing and Data Centers - Distributed Algorithms and Theory - Distributed Big Data Systems and Analytics - Distributed Fault Tolerance and Dependability - Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware - Edge Computing - Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - Mobile and Wireless Computing - Security, Privacy, and Trust in Distributed Systems - Blockchain - Machine Learning on or for Distributed Systems - Insights from Industrial Experience Paper Submission Papers must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere concurrently. All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. Each submission can have up to 11 pages (including references). Papers exceeding this page limit or with smaller fonts will be rejected without review. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. Electronic submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2021 If the submission is accepted for publication, up to 2 over length pages may be purchased for the final camera-ready version. Each accepted paper must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. No-show paper will be reported to the publisher and deleted from the conference publication. For authors with multiple papers accepted by the conference, a separate author registration is required for each paper. Important Dates Abstract Submission: January 6, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Full Paper Submission: January 13, 2021 (23:59, UTC-5, EDT) Notification of Acceptance: March 17, 2021 Camera-ready Paper Submission: April 20, 2021 Please refer to the conference web site (https://icdcs2021.us/) for more information about: Call for Research Papers Call for Demo and Posters Ph.D. Student Symposium Call for Workshop Proposals Rhongho Jang, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Wayne State University

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