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IEEE ISORC 2020 Call for Posters and Demos
by Tommaso Cucinotta 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

*IEEE ISORC 2020 - Call for Posters and Demos <https://isorc.github.io/2020/>*/The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing/ Nashville, Tennessee, USA, May 19-21, 2020 *https://isorc.github.io/2020/* IEEE ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology. ISORC has a special session dedicated to posters and demos, where the objective is to allow participants to show prototypes, tools, simulators, and systems, which demonstrate the applicability of real-time computing to different applications. This session will enable presenters to demonstrate their work and contact directly with potential users of their technology, fostering new collaborations and promoting the adoption of new frameworks. We specially encourage the submission of results from finished or ongoing projects, demos of their use-cases and products. *Topics* * Software architectures for real-time distributing computing: programming paradigms, ORC paradigms, object/component models, languages, synchronous languages. * Distributed computing and communication infrastructures: real-time communications, networked platforms, protocols, Internet QoS, peer-to-peer computing, sensor networks, VANETS and V2V and V2I communications, time-predictable systems and hardware, trusted and dependable systems, complex systems of systems, model maintenance. * Algorithms for real-time analytics: real-time stream processing solutions including clustering, classification, mining and inferencing, machine and deep learning, statistical modeling, stream correlation and sampling. * System software: real-time kernels, operating systems, virtualization/container mechanisms and distribution middleware for ORC, supporting QoS management and performance, decentralized processing and scalability, extensibility, synchronization, resource allocation, scheduling, energy efficiency, timing analysis, fault tolerance and resilience, security. * Applications: medical devices, intelligent transportation systems, industrial automation systems and Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and Smart Grids, embedded and cyber-physical systems (automotive, avionics, autonomous vehicles, consumer electronics, building systems, sensors, etc), multimedia processing, RT Web-based Applications, QoS-Aware and real-time Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing, real-time packet processing for future networking infrastructures and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), time-sensitive social dispersed computing. * System evaluation: monitoring mechanisms & infrastructures, performance & timing evaluation, dependability, end-to-end QoS, system/infrastructure overheads, fault detection and recovery time, large-scale evaluations and field studies. * Submission guidelines* Authors should submit a 2-pages extended abstract describing the poster and an optional demonstration, in the IEEE Conference Proceedings format. The IEEE conference paper templates can be found here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… <ISORC has become established as the leading event devoted to state-of-the-art research in the field of object/component/service-oriented real-time distributed computing (ORC) technology.> The program committee will review the abstracts and decide on the adequacy of the demo/poster to the conference audience. Reviews are single-blinded. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference proceedings, and highly-rated posters invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA) <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture>. The session will consist of two parts: (i) a short presentation session where each participant can present slides on their demo/poster, followed by (ii) a demonstration and poster session where participants can display their work and discuss it with the attendees. Extended abstracts are to be submitted through HoTCRP at https://isorc20-ip.mpi-sws.org. All accepted poster/demo papers should be accompanied by a regular non-student registration. One of the authors of the poster/demo must attend and present their work at the conference. *Important dates* Submission deadline: March 24, 2020 Acceptance notification: April 1, 2020 Camera-ready papers: April 6, 2020 Conference: May 19 - 21, 2020 *Program committee chairs* Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA, muelle(a)ncsu.edu Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India, simmhan(a)iisc.ac.in Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy, tommaso.cucinotta(a)santannapisa.it -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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Nominations due April 10 for 2020 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award
by Devine, Karen D 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

*** 2020 IEEE TCPP Outstanding Service and Contributions Award *** This award recognizes an individual (or a group of individuals) in the broader community who have made major professional service contributions to the parallel, distributed and high-performance computing community. Contributions can be (but are not limited to) significant volunteer role in professional meetings (TCPP-sponsored as well as others), serving on editorial boards, organizing major events, developing community resources, and leading international outreach. These are only some example activities; this list is not exhaustive. Contributions are not limited to the 2019 calendar year. Nomination rules: 1. A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. 2. Self-nominations are not eligible. 3. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination data: The nomination should include 1. Name/email of person making the nomination; self-nominations are not eligible 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award and a brief summary of the service contributions 4. CV of the nominee 5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator; these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination Nomination deadline is April 10, 2020. Please email your nominations to Karen Devine at kddevin(a)sandia.gov. Selection committee: Sanjukta Bhowmick (U. North Texas), Azzedine Boukerche (U. Ottawa), Franck Cappello (Argonne National Laboratory), Karen Devine (Sandia National Laboratories, chair), Xiaoye Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Yves Robert (ENS Lyon) Sartaj Sahni (U. Florida) Past recipients include: Srinivas Aluru, David Bader, Susamma Barua, Azzedine Boukerche, Franck Cappello, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Allan Gottlieb, Manish Parashar, William S. Pitts, Sushil Prasad, Viktor Prasanna, Sanjay Ranka, Yves Robert, Arnold Rosenberg, Sartaj Sahni, Sally J. Westrom, and Albert Zomaya.

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ISPASS Call for Participation and deadline extended for student travel grant
by Angelina Lee 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

The IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS) provides a forum for sharing advanced academic and industrial research work focused on performance analysis in the design of computer systems and software. ISPASS 2020 will be held April 5 through 7, 2020 in Boston, MA. The SECRISC-V 2020 and FastPath 2020 workshops, as well as tutorials on evaluating deep neural network accelerators (Timeloop/Accelergy) and deep learning benchmarks will be held in conjunction with the conference. The preliminary conference program has been posted, and registration and hotel reservations are now open. A detailed program is available on the conference website at https://www.ispass.org/ispass2020/ The early registration and discount hotel reservation deadlines are both March 10. See the conference website for more information. Through the generous support of the sponsoring IEEE Technical Committees and our industry sponsors, the conference is pleased to offer travel grants to enable students to attend. Travel grant applications are due Feb. 20, 2020. See the conference website for details. We invite all to attend the conference and hope to see you in Boston Michael Ferdman ISPASS 2020 Program Chair Dave Kaeli Kelly Shaw ISPASS 2020 Co-General Chairs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE to Student Travel Grant ISPASS 2020 is now offering travel support to encourage student participation at the conference. Applications and the grant amount will be decided on a case-by-case basis (i.e., funding is NOT guaranteed). All undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning and sharing the research in system software performance analysis are welcome to apply. Students do not need to be authors/presenters on an accepted paper at ISPASS to qualify for the student travel grant award. You are highly encouraged to apply if you fall into any of the following categories; applications in these categories will be prioritized: - Junior and senior undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing research in the area of performance analysis of computer systems and software. If you have previous research experience (e.g., via REU programs, independent studies, or supervised projects) in the relevant area, please mention in the application package (see detailed application instructions below). Make sure to include how attending ISPASS will enrich your technical knowledge and benefit you professionally. - Students from small institutions and universities that do not have a strong tradition in the ISPASS research domain. - US citizens/permanent residents. - Attendees who belong to underrepresented groups (including women). - Students presenting their research at ISPASS. - Students who do not have access to financial support from other sources. The deadline for submitting travel funding applications is *now extended until March 02 (11:59:59pm AOE)*. Please send them by email to the Student Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari (d.tiwari(a)northeastern.edu) Use the subject line "ISPASS 2019 Student Travel Grant Application" and submit the full application as a single PDF file. The travel grant application must include (in the following order): - The name of the student, the student's institution; US citizenship or residency information; membership in an underrepresented group if applicable. - An estimate of conference-related expenses. - Information about other sources of funding, if available. - A cover letter stating the reason for attending ISPASS and a description of research interests. - A resume (including IEEE and/or ACM student membership numbers if available). - A one-page statement from the student's advisor confirming the student's eligibility and recommending the student to attend ISPASS. This statement is a must requirement for graduate student applicants. Undergraduate students are highly encouraged to include a support letter from their undergraduate research/curriculum adviser. Please make your adviser aware that a support letter including other helpful information, besides confirming the student's eligibility and recommendation for participation, is welcome. Such information may include the availability of partial financial support from other funding sources, historical underrepresentation of the Institute at ISPASS, if the student belongs to an underrepresented group, and other potential broader impact of the student's participation at ISPASS. Students with disabilities or those attending with a child under one year of age may request additional funds to support a travel companion in their application. Important notes: Student travel support applications with an incorrect subject line, past the deadline, missing details, missing adviser's support statement are automatically considered ineligible for the award. Please note that the one-page support letter from the student's advisor needs to included in the application form by the application deadline - no further extensions will be provided. By applying to this award, you implicitly accept the following responsibilities and expectations, in the case you are awarded the student travel grant. - Awardees must save original receipts and mail them in or present them at the conference to verify their expenditures. - Each awardee is required to prepare and email a small essay (approx. two pages) to the Student Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari (d.tiwari(a)northeastern.edu) by April 15th describing his/her experience at ISPASS and learnings. The essay can include both text and graphic illustrations. These essays, with light editorial input as needed, will be published as a highlight blog-post on the conference website. - Expenses will be reimbursed after the conference. - Awardees from U.S. schools must fly with U.S-based carriers for airfare reimbursement. - If selected, you will be notified via email by March 8, 2020. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Student Travel Grant Chair: Devesh Tiwari (d.tiwari(a)northeastern.edu)

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CfP: EGPGV 2020 (Extended Regular Deadline)
by Steffen Frey 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

*** Due to multiple requests, the deadline has been extended to March 8, 2020 (AOE) *** -------------------- EGPGV 2020 - Call for Papers (Regular Deadline) Regular Abstract Deadline: March 2, 2020 Regular Paper Deadline: March 8, 2020 https://conferences.eg.org/egpgv20 -------------------- The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV) aims to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge on exploiting and defining new trends in parallel graphics and visualization. This area is of growing importance due to the rapidly increasing availability of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and cluster systems. Computationally demanding and data-intensive applications in graphics and visualization are strongly affected by this trend and require novel, efficient parallel solutions. EGPGV 2020 will be collocated with Eurographics and EuroVis 2020, held May 25-29, 2020, in Norrköping, Sweden. The proceedings of EGPGV will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and in the Eurographics Digital Library. Best papers from the EGPGV symposium will be invited to submit an extended journal version to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. EGPGV seeks papers on graphics and visualization that involve any type of parallel computing, and/or focus on very large data sets. Papers on techniques, data structures, algorithms, systems, and applications are welcomed. Parallel computing is broadly defined, including high-performance computing and cloud environments, (multi-)GPU computing and heterogeneous, hybrid architectures, and shared and/or distributed memory architectures. Further, papers focused on processing very large data sets (either for visualization or graphics) are welcomed, even if they do not have a particular focus on parallelism. Typical symposium topics include: - Computationally and data intensive rendering - Scientific visualization (e.g., volume rendering, flow, and tensor visualization) - Information visualization and visual analytics - In situ analytics and in situ visualization - Out-of-core processing of large data sets for visualization or graphics - Simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision detection, acoustics) - Mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods - Visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and exploitation, segmentation) - Scheduling, memory management, and data coherence - Parallelization approaches and algorithms, such as MapReduce - Database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, and query-based visualization - Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization - Large and high resolution displays, virtual environments - Scientific, engineering, and industrial applications - Data analytics on large scientific data sets - Machine learning as applied to parallel graphics, visualization, and/or large data analytics In general, appropriate topics for the symposium fall into one of four categories: (1) parallel graphics, (2) rendering of very large data sets, (3) parallel visualization and analytics, and (4) processing of large data sets for visualization or analytics. EGPGV again calls for Full Papers (8 to 10 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) in Eurographics format. New Deadlines: Mar 02, 2020 Abstract submission deadline Mar 08, 2020 Paper submission deadline Apr 14, 2020 Notification Apr 21, 2020 Camera-ready version All deadlines are at 23:59 AOE For additional information, please visit https://conferences.eg.org/egpgv20, and feel free to contact us via papers(a)egpgv.org. EGPGV Leadership: Symposium Chair: Steffen Frey, University of Stuttgart, Germany Program Co-Chair: Jian Huang, University of Tennessee, United States Program Co-Chair: Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University, Germany Student Program Chair: Mohammad Raji, University of Tennessee, United States

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Call for Participation: HMEM 2020
by Antonio J. Peña 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

1st Workshop on Heterogeneous Memory Systems (HMEM 2020) 29 June 2020 - Barcelona, Spain Collocated with ICS2020 https://epeec-project.eu/events-and-trainings/1st-workshop-heterogeneous-me… **Call for Participation** This workshop will serve as a forum to present and discuss ongoing research around heterogeneous memory systems. Topics include, but are not limited to: architectural considerations, middleware, programming models, runtime systems, tools, operating system developments, use cases, early experiences, etc. This is a traditional-style workshop without formal papers or proceedings. Prospective authors must submit an abstract through EasyChair. Authors are also welcome to upload an extended abstract (PDF) for publication in the workshop website in case of acceptance. Submission deadline: May 29, 2020 AOE. General Chairs Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Harald Servat, Intel Steering Committee Marie-Christine Sawley, Intel Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Eduard Ayguadé, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) -- Antonio J. Peña (PhD), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow Sr. Researcher, Computer Sciences Department | Teaching and Research Staff Team Lead, Accelerators and Communications for HPC | Computer Architecture Department Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) | Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) http://www.bsc.es/pena-antonio http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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Call For Entries 2020 Humies Awards in Cancun, Mexico
by w langdon 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Call For Entries 17th Annual (2020) "Humies" Awards For Human-Competitive Results Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation www.human-competitive.org To be Held at: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) July 8-12, 2020 (Wednesday - Sunday) in Cancun, Mexico https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, learning classifier systems, grammatical evolution, gene expression programming, differential evolution, etc.) and that have been published in the open literature between the deadline for the previous competition and the deadline for the current competition. The competition will be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference operated by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). Entries chosen to be finalists will be made at the conference. The winners of the awards will be announced during the conference. This information is also available at the GECCO-2020 website, under the "Calls" dropdown at top right of the main page, which takes you to https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org/index.html/Humies. Important Dates: * Friday May 29, 2020 - Deadline for entries (consisting of one TEXT file, PDF files for one or more papers, and possible "in press" documentation (explained below). Please send entries to goodman at msu dot edu * Friday June 12, 2020 - Finalists will be notified by e-mail * Friday June 26, 2020 - Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., PowerPoint, PDF) for posting on the competition's web site. Send presentations to goodman at msu dot edu * July 8-12, 2020 (Wednesday - Sunday) - GECCO conference * TENTATIVE: Friday, July 10, 2020 - Presentations before judging committee at public session of the GECCO conference. Finalists should make a point of double-checking the time and date in the conference's final schedule. * TENTATIVE: Sunday, July 12, 2020 - Announcement of awards at plenary session of the GECCO conference Judging Committee: * Erik Goodman * Una-May O'Reilly * Wolfgang Banzhaf * Darrell Whitley * Lee Spector * PUBLICITY CHAIR: William Langdon Call For Entries Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being increasingly applied to difficult real-world problems - often yielding results that are not merely academically interesting, but competitive with the work done by creative and inventive humans. Starting at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2004, cash prizes have been awarded for human-competitive results that had been produced by some form of genetic and evolutionary computation in the previous year. This prize competition is based on published results. The publication may be a paper published anywhere in the open literature (e.g., the GECCO conference, any another conference or workshop, journal, technical report, thesis, book, chapter in edited book). The competition is open to any paper (1) published in the open literature between June 5, 2019 (the deadline for the previous year's competition) and May 29, 2020 (the deadline for this competition), or (2) that is "in press" by the deadline for this competition. "In Press" means the paper must have been unconditionally accepted for publication and be identical to that which will be published imminently without the possibility of any further changes or revision by the authors or editors. For example, a paper accepted for the current year's GECCO conference would not have been published by the deadline for the competition. However, because the paper has already been unconditionally accepted for publication (and the final camera-ready version submitted to the conference prior to the deadline for this competition), a GECCO paper is "in press." If an entry is "in press," the entry must include a copy of the documentation establishing that the paper meets this requirement. The paper must meet the usual standards of a scientific publication in that it must clearly describe a problem, the methods used to address the problem, the results obtained, and sufficient information about how the work was done in order to enable the work to be independently replicated. An automatically created result is considered "human-competitive" if it satisfies at least one of the eight criteria below. (A) The result was patented as an invention in the past, is an improvement over a patented invention, or would qualify today as a patentable new invention. (B) The result is equal to or better than a result that was accepted as a new scientific result at the time when it was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. (C) The result is equal to or better than a result that was placed into a database or archive of results maintained by an internationally recognized panel of scientific experts. (D) The result is publishable in its own right as a new scientific result independent of the fact that the result was mechanically created. (E) The result is equal to or better than the most recent human-created solution to a long-standing problem for which there has been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions. (F) The result is equal to or better than a result that was considered an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered. (G) The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its field. (H) The result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving human contestants (in the form of either live human players or human-written computer programs). Contestants should note that a pervasive thread in most of the above eight criteria is the notion that the result satisfy an "arms length" standard - not a yardstick based on the opinion of the author, the author's own institution (educational or corporate), or the author's own close associates. "Arms length" may be established in numerous ways. For example, if the result is a solution to "a long-standing problem for which there has been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions," it is clear that the scientific community (not the author, the author's own institution, or the author's close associates) have vetted the significance of the problem. Similarly, a problem's significance may be established if the result replicates or improves upon a scientific result published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, replicates or improves upon a previously patented invention, constitutes a patentable new invention, or replicates or improves a result that was considered an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered. Similarly, a problem's significance may be established if the result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving live human players or human-written computer programs. In each of the foregoing examples, the standard for human-competitiveness is being established external to the author, the author's own institution, or the author's close associates. It is also conceivable to rely only on criterion G ("The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its field"); however, if only criterion G is claimed, there must be a clear and convincing argument that the problem's "difficulty" is indeed "indisputable." The competition will be held as part of the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference. Entries chosen to be finalists are to be made at the conference. The awards and prizes will be announced at the conference. Cash prizes of $5,000 (gold), $3,000 (silver), and bronze (either one prize of $2,000 or two prizes of $1,000) will be awarded for the best entries that satisfy one or more of the criteria for human-competitiveness. The awards will be divided equally among co-authors unless the authors specify a different division at the time of submission. Prizes are paid by the ACM either by check in U.S. dollars or by bank transfer, after the GECCO conference. The judges may, based on submissions, reallocate the prize amounts and prize categories within the total amount available for prizes. DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTERING THE "HUMIES" If you plan to make an entry into this competition, please check the web site for updated information and for possible last-minute changes immediately prior to submitting your entry. Similarly, if you are selected as a finalist, please re-check the web site prior to the conference for possible last-minute changes in instructions or schedule. All entries are to be sent electronically to goodman at msu dot edu. All entries will be promptly acknowledged, so please make an inquiry if you do not receive a reasonably prompt acknowledgment shortly after your submission. An entry must consist of one TEXT file and one or more PDF files. In addition, if the paper is "in press" as of the deadline date for submissions, an additional document must be submitted. If authors are making multiple entries to the competition, they should submit separate e-mails, each containing the required TEXT file and PDF file(s) supporting the entry. The TEXT file must contain the following 11 items. Please be very careful to include ALL required information. Contestants are alerted to the fact that items 6 and 9 are especially important and will be the main basis by which entries will be judged. The papers and presentations from earlier competitions (starting in 2004) are posted at the competition web site at www.human-competitive.org. These previous entries may be informative and helpful in crafting your entry. 1. the complete title of one (or more) paper(s) published in the open literature describing the work that the author claims describes a human-competitive result; 2. the name, complete physical mailing address, e-mail address, and phone number of EACH author of EACH paper(s); 3. the name of the corresponding author (i.e., the author to whom notices will be sent concerning the competition); 4. the abstract of the paper(s); 5. a list containing one or more of the eight letters (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, or H) that correspond to the criteria (see above) that the author claims that the work satisfies; 6. a statement stating why the result satisfies the criteria that the contestant claims (see examples of statements of human-competitiveness as a guide to aid in constructing this part of the submission); 7. a full citation of the paper (that is, author names; publication date; name of journal, conference, technical report, thesis, book, or book chapter; name of editors, if applicable, of the journal or edited book; publisher name; publisher city; page numbers, if applicable); 8. a statement either that "any prize money, if any, is to be divided equally among the co-authors" OR a specific percentage breakdown as to how the prize money, if any, is to be divided among the co-authors; 9. a statement stating why the authors expect that their entry would be the "best," and 10. An indication of the general type of genetic or evolutionary computation used, such as GA (genetic algorithms), GP (genetic programming), ES (evolution strategies), EP (evolutionary programming), LCS (learning classifier systems), GE (grammatical evolution), GEP (gene expression programming), DE (differential evolution), etc. 11. The date of publication of each paper. If the date of publication is not on or before the deadline for submission, but instead, the paper has been unconditionally accepted for publication and is "in press" by the deadline for this competition, the entry must include a copy of the documentation establishing that the paper meets the "in press" requirement. The PDF file(s) are to contain the paper(s). The strongly preferred method is that you send a separate PDF file for each of your paper(s) relating to your entry. Both the text file and the PDF file(s) for each entry will be permanently posted on a web page shortly after the deadline date for entries (for use by the judges, conference attendees, and anyone else who is interested) and will remain posted on the web as a permanent record of the competition. If your paper is only available on the publisher's web site and your publisher specifically requires that your published paper may appear only on your own personal page, the second choice is that you send link(s) to a separate web page on your web site containing link(s) to the PDF file(s) of the paper(s) that constitute your entry. This separate web page is to contain nothing else, so the interested parties may quickly locate your paper(s). If you use this second-choice option, you must ALSO supply a link to a permanent web site maintained by your publisher where your specific paper may be viewed or purchased (that is, not a link merely to the publisher's general home page, but a link to the specific web page containing your paper on the publisher's site). Keep in mind that the objective is to guarantee a permanent record of the entries and to make it easy for anyone to locate your material. Generally, only one paper should be submitted. More than one paper should be submitted only if no single paper fully describes the specific result or method. Note that this competition involves specific results published in the past year, and it NOT an evaluation of the author's entire body of work over period of years. Note that this is a competition involving a result that satisfies the criteria for being "human-competitive" as defined herein. The judging committee will review all entries and identify a short list of finalists for presentation at the GECCO conference. Finalists will be notified by an e-mail to the corresponding author. Please acknowledge receipt of this message, so the judges know that you received your notice. Finalists must then make a short oral presentation to the judging committee at a public session of the GECCO conference. The presentations will be held on one of the early days of the conference, and the winners will be announced a day or two later at the conference. Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., a PowerPoint, PDF) by e-mail to goodman at msu dot edu. All submissions will be promptly acknowledged, so please make an inquiry if you do not receive a reasonably prompt acknowledgment. These presentations will be posted on the web page for the competition. The oral presentations (usually about 10 minutes) will be made by the finalists to the judging committee. The presentations will be open to all conference attendees at a special session of the conference. The oral presentation should primarily focus on 1. why the result qualifies as being human-competitive and 2. why the judges should consider the entry as "best" in comparison to other entries that may also be "human-competitive." In this short oral presentation to the judges, a description of the work itself is decidedly secondary. By the time of your presentation, the judges will be familiar with the papers. Thus, the focus of the presentation is on reasons why the work being presented should win a prize - not an explanation or presentation of the work itself. In the unlikely event that a presenter is scheduled to make a presentation elsewhere at the GECCO conference at the same time, the judging committee should be notified so they can rearrange time slots. After the oral presentations, the award committee will meet and consider the presentations. The presenting author for each entry must register for the GECCO conference. A judge will recuse himself or herself if he or she is closely associated with a finalist (e.g., a current academic advisor, current collaborator, co-author with the finalist of related work). Additional information is at www.human-competitive.org For more information, contact Erik Goodman goodman at msu dot edu Bill Prof. W. B. Langdon Department of Computer Science University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/ GP EM http://www.springer.com/10710 EuroGP 2020 http://www.evostar.org/2020/cfp_eurogp.php GECCO Humies http://www.human-competitive.org/ barracuda_0.7.107h http://seqbarracuda.sourceforge.net/ choose your background http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/colour_telephone/bgcolor.html A Field Guide to Genetic Programming http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/ GP Bibliography http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/

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CfPapers: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020 September 7-10, 2020, Munich, Germany Call for Papers The European Dependable Computing Conference is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The European Dependable Computing Conference is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. The conference will cover a broad range of topics related to dependability and security, which includes, but is not limited to: * Hardware and software architectures of dependable systems; * Model-driven and formal engineering approaches; * Fault-tolerant networks & ultra-reliable low-latency communication; * Dependability modelling and tools; * Verification and validation methods; * Development of safety and security-critical systems; * Dependability and security of o critical infrastructures, e.g. smart energy grids, intelligent transportation systems, smart cities; o cyber-physical systems and (industrial) IoT; o cloud, fog, and edge computing systems; o data analytics applications & systems based on machine learning and artificial intelligence; o databases and distributed ledgers (incl. block chains); o artificial intelligence-based systems and components * Data protection and data privacy The conference is inviting submissions to its different tracks in the following categories: -Regular papers (up to 8 pages) solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems, covering any fault model, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions. -Practical experience reports (up to 6 pages) dedicated to dependability in practice: industrial applications, experience in introducing dependability in industry, use of new or mature dependability approaches to new challenging problems or domains, etc. -Short papers (3-4 pages) describing preliminary research work (position papers) or a prototype/tool description, outlining the design or implementation of a software tool, or the prototyping of an operational system. The papers submitted to the conference should present an original contribution and formatted according to IEEE style: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair submission web page, and should clearly indicate in which category the paper is being submitted. Detailed indications about the paper format are provided in the paper submission page: http://edcc.dependability.org/papersubmission.html Best Paper Award Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness and impact. Three distinguished papers will be selected among accepted papers and presented in a dedicated session of the conference program. Full research papers and practical experience reports are eligible for the distinction. Important Dates: Abstract Submission: March 17, 2020 Full Paper Submission: March 24, 2020 Author Notification: May 25, 2020 Camera-ready Paper: June 22, 2020 General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Students Forum chair: Marcello Cinque, Frederico II University of Naples For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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CFP: ScienceCloud 2020 (in conjunction with HPDC 2020) [Deadline: 6th Apr 2020]
by Bogdan Nicolae 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

====================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================================================== *** ScienceCloud 2020 ***: 11th Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing Workshop Date: June 23, 2020 Held in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2020, Stockholm, Sweden (Conference dates: June 23-26, 2020) ====================================================== Web: https://sites.google.com/view/sciencecloud2020/ ====================================================== The 11th workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts in running scientific computing workloads in such a complex ecosystem that results from the convergence of cloud, big data and machine learning. The focus is on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet new convergence challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers and dedicated data centers. The workshop aims to address questions such as: What architectural changes to the current cloud frameworks (hardware, operating systems, networking and/or programming models) are needed to support the triple convergence? Dynamic information derived from remote instruments, coupled simulations, and sensor ensembles that stream data for real-time analysis and machine learning are important emerging trends. How can cloud technologies enable and adapt to these patterns? How are scientists using clouds? Are there scientific workloads that are suitable candidates to take advantage of emerging cloud computing resources with high efficiency? What factors are limiting the use of clouds or would make them more usable and efficient"? This workshop encourages interaction and cross-pollination between those developing applications, algorithms, software, hardware and networking, emphasizing scientific computing for cloud platforms. The workshop will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and discuss promising technologies and techniques. The ScienceCloud workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at ACM HPDC 2020 in Stockholm, Sweden, solicits high-quality 8-page and 4-page publications describing original research in the following areas. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - Scientific application cases studies on cloud infrastructures - Performance evaluation of cloud environments and technologies - Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud systems - Data-intensive workloads and tools in clouds - Use of programming models (e.g. Spark, Map-Reduce) and their implementations in cloud settings - Scalable and elastic architectures for cloud storage and I/O - Workflow and resource management in the cloud - Use of cloud technologies (e.g., NoSQL databases) for scientific applications - Data streaming and dynamic applications in the cloud - Heterogeneous resources (network, storage, compute) and edge/fog infrastructure - Application of cloud concepts in HPC environments or vice versa - Virtualized high performance I/O network interconnects - Virtualization, containers, and dynamic provisioning - Analysis of management complexity, cost, variability, and reproducibility of cloud and IoT environments - Stream processing for scientific applications in the cloud - Edge, Fog and hybrid Cloud - Edge / Fog computing - High-performance AI and deep learning frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow) and their implementation in cloud settings - Scalability and cost-effective elasticity of AI and deep learning (e.g. data-parallel training) for cloud infrastructures SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: April 6, 2020 Author notifications: April 27, 2020 Camera ready papers: May 4, 2020 Workshop date: June 23, 2020 Authors are invited to submit papers describing unpublished, original research. All submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Master Template with sigconf format (please be sure to use the current version). All necessary documentation can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The maximum lengths are 8 and 4 pages (including all text, figures, and references). All papers must be in English. We use single-blind reviewing process, so please keep the authors names, publications, etc., in the text. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM Digital Library. Papers conforming to these guidelines should be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sciencecloud2020 WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Alexandru Costan, IRISA / INSA Rennes, France (alexandru.costan(a)irisa.fr) Bogdan Nicolae, Argonne National Laboratory, USA (bogdan.nicolae(a)acm.org) Kento Sato, RIKEN Center, Japan (kento.sato(a)riken.jp)

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ICPP workshop CFP: the 16th SRMPDS, Edmonton, Canada
by Liu, Zhengchun 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

CALL FOR PAPERS || The 16th SRMPDS || Edmonton, AB, Canada, Aug. 17, 2020 SCOPE ================== The 16th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS'20) will be held in conjunction with the ICPP'20 - 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing in Edmonton, Canada, August 17, 2020. Resource management and scheduling is a crucial task on large-scale computing systems. It plays an essential role in the optimization of resources usage. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of resource scheduling and resource management to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed systems including Grids and Clouds. SUBMISSIONS ================== Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the ACM format located at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Papers should be submitted via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srmpds2020 All accepted papers will be available in ICPP'20 workshop proceedings, and will be submitted to the ACM Digital Library for publishing and CSDL for EI indexing. After the workshop, the extended version of top few papers will be invited to publish on the Journal of Cluster Computing (2016 Impact Factor: 1.85, Quartile: Q2). IMPORTANT DATES ================== * Submissions Due: Apr. 1, 2020 * Review Decisions: May 21, 2020 * Final Manuscript Due: Jun. 7, 2020 * Workshop Date: Aug. 17, 2020 TOPICS ================== Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: * Resource allocation and management * Advance resource reservation and scheduling * Load sharing and Load balancing techniques * Network resource allocation * Fault-tolerant resource management approaches * Data access and management * Scheduling data intensive jobs * Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes * Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling * Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues * Performance implications of scheduling strategies * Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes * Virtualization of resources ORGANIZERS ==================== Program committees * Ramin Yahyapour (University of Göttingen, Germany) * Achim Streit (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) * Xiao Qin (Auburn University, USA) * Massimiliano Caramia (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) * Shubbhi Taneja (Auburn University, USA) * Maciej Drozdowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) * Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) * Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany) * Chanik Park (POSTECH, South Korea) * Eun-Sung Jung, (Hongik University, South Korea) * Aleardo Manacero (Sao Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil) * Shikharesh Majumdar (Carleton University, Canada) * Jonas Markussen, (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway) * Abdelhafid Mazouz, (Atos, France) * Beau Johnston, (Australian National University, Australia) * Yongwei Wu, (Tsinghua University, China) * Rajdeep Bhowmik, (Cisco Systems, Inc.) * Gokarna Sharma, (Kent State University, USA) * Johnnie Baker, (Kent State University, USA) * Nandini Mukherjee, (Jadavpur University, India) Organizing committees * Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA) * Zhengchun Liu (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) CONTACT ==================== For further details and updates, please consult the workshop web site at URL: https://srmpds.github.io/ or contact to srmpds(a)anl.gov.

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MEMSYS 2020 Call for Papers
by MEMSYS 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

** Sep 28 - Oct 1, Washington DC ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Call for Papers 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------ Memory-device manufacturing, memory-architecture design, and the use of memory technologies by application software all profoundly impact today’s and tomorrow’s computing systems, in terms of their performance, function, reliability, predictability, power dissipation, and cost. Existing memory technologies are seen as limiting in terms of power, capacity, and bandwidth. Emerging memory technologies offer the potential to overcome both technology- and design-related limitations to answer the requirements of many different applications. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and others interested in this exciting and rapidly evolving field, to update each other on the latest state of the art, to exchange ideas, and to discuss future challenges. Please visit memsys.io (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) for more information. Areas of Interest Previously unpublished papers containing significant novel ideas and technical results are solicited. Papers that focus on system, software, and architecture level concepts specifically memory-related, i.e. topics outside of traditional conference scopes, will be preferred over others (e.g., the desired focus is away from pipeline design, processor cache design, prefetching, data prediction, etc.). Symposium topics include, but are not limited to, the following: * Memory-system design from both hardware and software perspectives * Memory failure modes and mitigation strategies * Memory and system security issues * Memory for embedded and autonomous systems (e.g., automotive) * Operating system design for hybrid/nonvolatile memories * Technologies including flash, DRAM, STT-MRAM, 3DXP, etc. * Memory-centric programming models, languages, optimization * Compute-in-memory and compute-near-memory technologies * Data-movement issues and mitigation techniques * Interconnects to support large-scale data movement * Algorithmic & software memory-management techniques * Emerging memory technologies, their controllers, and novel uses * Interference at the memory level across datacenter applications * Issues in the design and operation of large-memory machines * In-memory databases and NoSQL stores Post-CMOS scaling efforts and memory technologies to support them, including cryogenic, neural, and heterogeneous memories To reiterate, papers that focus on topics outside the scope of traditional architecture conferences will be preferred over others. Submissions and Presentations Our primary goal is to showcase interesting ideas that will spark conversation between disparate groups—to get applications people, operating systems people, system architecture people, interconnect people and circuits people to talk to each other. We accept extended abstracts, position papers, and/or full research papers, and each accepted submission is given a 20-minute presentation time slot. All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Venue The conference will be held at The Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington VA. IMPORTANT DATES Submission: 29 May, 2020 (+7 days)* Notification: 31 July, 2020 Camera-Ready: 14 August, 2020 *Automatic 1-week submission extension SUBMISSION FORMATS 1–2 page Abstracts 5–6 page Position Papers 10+ page Research Papers Conference paper format, ACM 'sigconf' proceedings template (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) , blind submission (no authors listed), up to 16 pages long Keynotes & Panelists Yitzhak Birk, Technion Chen Ding, University of Rochester Dave Dunning, Qualcomm Matthias Jung, Fraunhofer IESE John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs Petar Radojkovic, BSC Arun Rodrigues, Sandia National Labs Kevin Rudd, DoD Robert Trout, Micron Organizers Bruce Jacob, University of Maryland Kathy Smiley, Memory Systems Ameen Akel, Micron James Ang, PNNL Abdel-Hameed Badawy, NMSU Jonathan Beard, Arm Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh Zeshan Chishti, Intel Bruce Christenson, Intel David Donofrio, Tactical Computing Labs Dietmar Fey, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Maya Gokhale, LLNL Michael Healy, IBM Thuc Hoang, NNSA Mike Ignatowski, AMD Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech Edgar Leon, LLNL Scott Lloyd, LLNL Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan J. Thomas Pawlowski, Pawlowski Cons. Hemant Rotithor, Arm Robert Voigt, Northrop Grumman Gwendolyn Voskuilen, Sandia National Labs Owens Walker, US Naval Academy David Wang, Samsung Norbert Wehn, U. Kaiserslautern Noel Wheeler, DoD Kenneth Wright, AMD Donald Yeung, University of Maryland Ke Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences ============================================================ ** Facebook (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) ** Twitter (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) ** Link (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) ** Website (https://memsys.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=cccfa5f102032c4619c949763…) Copyright © 2020 Memsys, All rights reserved. Combined lists Our mailing address is: Memsys 1290 Bay Dale Dr. #297 Arnold, MD 21012 USA Want to change how you receive these emails? 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