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Call for Participation: PUMPS+AI Summer School
by Antonio J. Peña 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

http://pumps.bsc.es On its 11th edition, the Programming and tUning Massively Parallel Systems + Artificial Intelligence summer school (PUMPS+AI) offers researchers and graduate students a unique opportunity to improve their skills with cutting-edge techniques and hands-on experience in developing and tuning applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators, with a special focus on AI. - PUMPS 2020 Distinguished Lecturer: Wen-mei Hwu (UIUC and NVIDIA) The summer school is oriented towards advanced programming and optimizations, and thus previous experience in basic GPU programming will be considered in the selection process. We will also consider the current parallel applications and numerical methods you are familiar with, and the specific optimizations you would like to discuss. Some of the topics that will be covered during the course are: * DEEP Learning * High-level programming models * CUDA Algorithmic Optimization Strategies * Dealing with Sparse and Dynamic data * Efficiency in Large Data Traversal * Reducing Output Interference * Controlling Load Imbalance and Divergence * Acceleration of Collective Operations * Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ * Debugging and Profiling CUDA Code * Multi-GPU Execution * Architecture Trends and Implications * Introduction to OmpSs and to the Paraver analysis tools * OmpSs: Leveraging GPU Programming * Hands-on Labs Participants will have access to GPU servers and will learn to program and optimize applications and AI techniques in languages such as CUDA and OmpSs. Teaching Assistants will be available to help with your hands-on lab assignments. At poster and hackathon sessions you may show your current work and applications you are optimizing. NVIDIA will award the best poster presentation. - Important Dates: Applications due: April 30, 2020 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2020 Summer school: July 5-10, 2020 Due to space limitations, early application is strongly recommended. You may also be suggested to attend an online prerequisite training on basic CUDA programming before joining PUMPS. - Location: Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Computer Architecture Dept. at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - Complete information, program and registration: http://pumps.bsc.es PUMPS is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence), the University of Illinois, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, and the PRACE Advanced Training Centre. Looking forward to see you at the PUMPS Summer School, - PUMPS Co-Directors: Mateo Valero (BSC-UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (Univ. of Illinois) - Local Organization Chair: Antonio J. Peña (BSC) - Contact: pumps(a)bsc.es http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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(2nd call) CFP: DFM'20 — 9th International Workshop on Data-Flow Models for Extreme-Scale Computing
by Stéphane Zuckerman 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

9th IEEE International Workshop on Data Flow Models and Extreme-Scale Computing (DFM 2020) Hosted as part of COMPSAC 2020, July 13—17, 2020, Madrid, Spain This workshop is organized as part of the activities of the IEEE Computer Society Dataflow STC. The ninth installment of the international workshop on Data Flow Models (DFM) for extreme-scale computing is held this year in conjunction with the COMPSAC conference. The purpose of DFM continues to being to bring together those researchers interested in novel computational models based on dataflow principles of execution. The switch to multi-core systems, at both the high-performance and embedded levels, has raised concurrency to the level of a major issue, with the trend of increasing the core count on a chip continuing, as well as energy and resiliency issues coming to the fore of major issues to tackle. Computer systems, both for high-performance and embedded computing, have now fully embraced parallelism at the hardware and software levels. From the HPC systems viewpoint, new challenges have arisen, which are common issues in the embedded world: power and energy efficiency are now major issues to be overcome when considering building efficient supercomputers. Conversely, harnessing true parallel systems is now necessary to efficiently exploit embedded systems equipped with multiple cores. Moreover, fault-tolerance and resiliency must also be taken into consideration, at both the hardware and software level. Finally, many such systems (both embedded and HPC) are networked together, forming extremely large distributed and parallel systems. Dataflow-inspired models of computation, once discarded by the sequential programming crowd, are again considered serious contenders to help increase programmability, performance, and scalability in highly parallel and extreme scale systems. By their very nature, dataflow and event-driven inspired models tend to naturally solve (if only partially) some of the newer problems related to power and energy efficiency, or provide fertile ground to help with implementing efficient fault-tolerance and resiliency mechanisms, as many of the required properties are enmeshed in the models themselves. Yet, to achieve high scalability and performance, modern computing systems, both HPC and embedded, rely on heterogeneous means to carry out computations: GPUs, FPGAs, etc. Meanwhile, legacy programming and execution models, such as MPI and OpenMP, add asynchronous and data-driven constructs to their models, all the while trying to take into account the very complex hardware targeted by parallel applications. Consequently, programming and execution models, trying to combine both legacy control flow-based and data flow-based aspects of computing, have also become increasingly complex to handle. Developing new models and their implementation, from the application programmer level, to the system level, down to the hardware level is key to provide better data- and event-driven systems which can efficiently exploit the wealth of diversity that composes current high-performance systems, for extreme scale parallel computing. To this end, the whole stack, from the application programming interface down to the hardware must be investigated for programmability, performance, scalability, energy and power efficiency, as well as resiliency and fault-tolerance. All these aspects may have a different impact on high-performance computing and embedded systems. Researchers and practitioners all over the world, from both academia and industry, working in the areas of language, system software, and hardware design, parallel computing, execution models, and resiliency modeling are invited to discuss state of the art solutions, novel issues, recent developments, applications, methodologies, techniques, experience reports, and tools for the development and use of data flow models of computation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: DFM 2020 solicits novel papers that include but are not limited to: • Programming languages and compilers for existing and new languages — in particular single-assigned and functional languages • System software: Operating systems, runtime systems • Hardware design: ASICs and reconfigurable computing (FPGAs) • Resiliency and fault-tolerance for parallel and distributed systems • New data flow inspired execution models — in particular strict and non-strict models • Hybrid system design for control-flow and data-flow based systems • Position papers on the future of data flow in the era of parallel and distributed many-core systems, and beyond, including heterogeneous systems SUBMISSION INFORMATION DFM 2020 will accept both full (6 pages) and short papers (4 pages). Full page papers may go up to 8 pages for a fee. Papers should be prepared using the IEEE Proceedings format; Short Papers could be submitted in the form of extended abstracts. All accepted papers will appear in the Computer Society Digital Library. Submission site https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?welcome=1;conf=compsac2020. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 9th, 2020, AOE Authors notification: May 1st, 2020 Camera ready due: June 15th, 2020 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Arthur Stoutchinin ST Microelectronics Guang R. Gao U. of Delaware Jean-Luc Gaudiot U. of California, Irvine Roberto Giorgi U. of Sienna Robert Clay Sandia National Lab Wolfgang Karl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Erik Altman IBM Albert Cohen Google Theo Ungerer U. of Augsburg -- Maître de Conférences / IUT GEII (site de Neuville) Laboratoire ETIS — Université Paris-Seine UMR 8051, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, ENSEA, CNRS F-95000, Cergy, France

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[CFP] 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Self-Protecting Systems (SPS20)
by Fabiana Rossi 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

********** Call for Papers ************ 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Self-Protecting Systems (SPS20) <https://sites.google.com/view/sps20> Effectively protecting computer systems from cyber-attacks is a challenging task due to their large scale and the heterogeneity of the underlying hardware and software components. Furthermore, when trying to defend from an attack, the time factor is critical and any non-guided human resolution attempt could introduce a significant stress and delay to the execution of the proper response. This situation provides the attackers more time to accomplish their objectives. Several organizations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), have released guidelines and best practices to manage cyber-security related risk (e.g., the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.1). However, despite a growing interest in the area in the last 5 years, automation of cyber-security operations is still at its early stages. Automatically defending a computer system encompasses a large number of activities, that range from data capture, management and analysis, to automated decision making and automated system operations. In this workshop, we solicit high quality contributions that fit with the overarching idea of creating a fully automated protection system. The aim of the workshop is to share new findings, exchange ideas and discuss research challenges on the following topics (not an exhaustive list): - Distributed System Monitoring - Secure Monitoring - Feature Selection - Automatic Data Correlation (Batch/Streaming) - Intrusion Detection - Anomaly Detection - Threats Detection - Cyber-Deception: approaches, analysis, honeypots, metrics, moving target defense - Software engineering for self-protecting systems: System architectures, services, components and platforms, Goal specification and policies - Risk Management - Intrusion Response - Attack Modeling - Defense Modeling - Implementation of prototypes that integrate cutting edge technologies, e.g., Software Defined Networks, Container-Based systems, applications based on micro-services - Non-Stationary Systems Modeling - Behavioural Modeling - Cooperative/Competitive Multi-agents modeling Furthermore, we solicit submissions that examine the self-protection problem from an holistic perspective, that is, that will consider the overall picture and propose novel software architectures, frameworks and technologies to ease the realization of self-protecting systems. ****************Organizing Committee ****************** In alphabetical order: * Emiliano Casalicchio Sapienza University of Rome and Blekinge Institute of Technology Department of Computer Science Via Salaria, 113 - 00198 Rome, Italy * Stefano Iannucci Mississippi State University Computer Science and Engineering 4665 George Perry Street, Mississippi State, MS, 39762 * Byron J. Williams University of Florida Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering 432 Newell Dr E301 CSE BLDG, Gainesville, FL 32611 ***************** Publicity Chair ****************** * Fabiana Rossi University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Rome, Italy *************** *Invited Speakers* **************** TBA *********** *Workshop Deadlines* ***************** * Workshop paper submission deadline: April 30, 2020 (strict) * Workshop paper acceptance notification: June 10, 2020 * Camera-ready papers due: July 8, 2020 ************ *Submission and Review Process* ************* Submissions will be accepted on Easychair. You can find the latest information and the submission URL at: https://sites.google.com/view/sps20 All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the TPC. Manuscripts will be judged on merits including originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance. Papers will be strongly encouraged to report experiences, measurements, and user studies, and to provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation. ************** *Publications* ***************** Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore (final agreement with IEEE pending but expected). Papers must thus be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. We are in contact with some high-quality journal for the organization of a special issue about Self-protecting systems. The authors of the best workshop papers will be invited for submitting an extended version of their work. **************** *Venue* ****************** SPS20 is Part of the FAS* Workshops series held in conjunction with 1st IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems. The conference will be held in Washington, DC, on August 17 - 21. ************** *Technical Program Committee ****************** TBA

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(IEEE LANMAN 2020 Conference dates changed) CFP:IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
by jzhao＠fudan.edu.cn 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, You are welcome to submit your latest research to the IEEE LANMAN 2020 conference, to be held in Orlando, FL, USA. Please note that there are changes in IEEE LANMAN 2020 conference dates and submission deadlines. NEW abstract deadline: March 20, 2020 (previously February 28, 2020) NEW conference dates: July 13-15, 2020 (previously July 7-9, 2020) ---------------------------------- IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (IEEE LANMAN 2020) July 13-15, 2020 // Orlando, FL, USA http://www.ieee-lanman.org ---------------------------------- Important dates: Abstract Registration: March 20, 2020 Paper Submission: March 27, 2020 Acceptance Notification: May 15, 2020 Camera-ready Submission: May 29, 2020 Papers must be submitted through EDAS https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=26903 IEEE LANMAN 2020 solicits paper submissions of Regular Papers (up to 6 pages) and Short Papers (up to 2 pages) ---------------------------------- General Chairs • Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore) • Tilman Wolf (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA) TPC Chairs • Koushik Kar (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) • Stratis Ioannidis (Northeastern University, USA) Publicity Chairs • Danai Chasaki (Villanova University, USA) • Jin Zhao (Fudan University, China) Local Arrangements Chair • Murat Yuksel (University of Central Florida, USA) Web Chair • Mauro Sardara (Cisco Systems, Inc.) ---------------------------------- Call for Papers IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking. Papers are solicited in all areas of networking, but in keeping with the heritage of this event, this symposium’s central theme is “Ultra-broadband wireless networks: 5G and beyond”. Ultra-broadband wireless networks, that can utilize emerging communication technologies such as mmWave and THz communications, offer a tremendous opportunity for unprecedented data rates and low latency at the physical layer over short distances and network layer goodputs that are orders of magnitude greater than current wireless networks. At the same time, they raise numerous challenges – such as positioning, localization, intermittency – that impact networking, communication, and hardware design, often requiring cross-layer approaches to solve them. The intimate single-track format of the symposium encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The event is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on network access protocols, network management and control, services and applications, performance related to IoT for smart cities. Speculative and potentially transformative ideas are particularly encouraged, as are studies reporting measurements from real-life networks and testbeds. Papers are solicited on any topic in networking, including, but not limited to, the following: • Cross-layer design for mmWave and THz communication • Networking challenges with directional and LoS technologies • Networking protocols and architectures for the IoTs • Machine-to-machine communications • Cloud, edge and fog computing integration • Co-existence and heterogeneity support at the edge (HetNets) • Energy efficiency for local and metropolitan area networking • Information security for local and metropolitan area networking • Intelligent routing and forwarding • Named data networking • Network and transport mechanisms for latency reduction • Network virtualization in local and metropolitan area • Packet scheduling • Performance for local and metropolitan area networking • Resilience and reliability for local and metropolitan area networking • Software-defined networking in local and metropolitan area IEEE LANMAN 2020 solicits paper submissions of Regular Papers (up to 6 pages) and Short Papers (up to 2 pages). Short papers will be presented in a poster session. Also, some of the regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the symposium website http://www.ieee-lanman.org. The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the workshop. A Best Paper Award will be given to the paper(s) with the highest technical merit. Kind Regards, Jin Zhao Publicity Chair of IEEE LANMAN 2020 Associate Professor School of Computer Science Fudan University Shanghai, China http://homepage.fudan.edu.cn/jzhao

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Special Issue on Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers
by Rajkumar Buyya 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Special Issue on Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) Call for Papers Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Integrate and process data from underlying IoT platforms and services ▪Smartly select data streams for processing ▪Address the 4 “V” of the Big Data problem: volume, variety, velocity and veracity▪Improve the energy efficient management of resources and tasks processing ▪Address the QoS and time-critical aspects of smart applications ▪Facilitate intelligent integration of information arising from various sources ▪Address the requirements of very dynamic Big Data pipelines(e.g. moving smartphones, sensors, cars, robots with dynamically changing requirements for processing) ▪Provide orchestration methods and scheduling policies that address dependability, reliability, availability and other high-level application requirements ▪Adequately address the inherent variability of resources from the Edge to the Data Centers ▪Provide new architectures which use the powerful computing resources of Data Centers, while at the same time providing optimal QoS to applications ▪Address the decentralisation aspects through the use of Blockchain-based Smart Contracts and Oracles ▪Implement distributed Artificial Intelligence methods from the Edge to the Data Center/Cloud For details, please see: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/1097024X/SI_CFP_big_data_p… Revised/New Important Dates ------------ April 28, 2020-Paper submission due Jul 15, 2020 : -Revision submission due Oct 15, 2020 -Special Issue ============

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Call for PhD Workshop Papers - ICDCS 2020 @ Singapore (Deadline: March 1, 2020)
by ZHENG Baihua 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

ICDCS PhD Workshop is a unique opportunity for graduate students to present and discuss their research work in the context of a premier international conference. The workshop provides a forum that facilitates interactions among PhD students and stimulates feedback from more experienced researchers. ICDCS 2020 welcomes submissions from PhD students at any stage of their PhD work. If you are in the early stages of your studies, the submission should clearly describe the problem focused on, explain why it is important, detail why the existing solutions are not sufficient, and give an outline of the new solutions that are pursued. If you are in the middle or close to completion, the submission should be more concrete in describing your contribution, but still in the context of the doctoral work. Important Dates Submission Deadline March 1, 2020 (5 p.m. PST) Notification of Acceptance: April 1, 2020 Camera-ready Copy Due: April 17, 2020 Submission Guidelines PhD workshop submissions must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, using easychair https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icdcs2020phdsymposiu. Submissions can but do not have to be single-author. However, PhD student must be the primary and first author. Papers must be submitted in Camera Ready format and be limited to 6 pages, inclusive of ALL material. Review Process The review and decision of acceptance will balance many factors; these include the quality of your proposal and where you are within your doctoral education program. They also include external factors, such as ensuring that, as a group, the accepted candidates exhibit a diversity of backgrounds and topics. Candidates who have a clearly developed idea, who are formally considered by their institution to be working on their dissertation, and who still have time to be influenced by participation in the PhD Workshop will receive the strongest consideration. Further Information We plan to publish the workshop proceedings with all accepted papers in ICDCS Proceedings, which will be indexed by IEEE. The student author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper at the conference. PhD Workshop Chair Anna Squicciarini, Pennsylvania State University PhD Workshop Committee Members Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky Chenxi Qiu, Rowan University Edoardo Serra,Boise State University Ting Wang, Penn State University Fengjun Li, University of Kansas Maria Gorlatova, Duke University Sarah Rajtmajer, Penn State University Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria Via Mazzini Dan Lin, University of Missouri

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Call for Demo and Posters - ICDCS 2020 @ Singapore (Deadline: March 12, 2020)
by ZHENG Baihua 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Call For Demo and Posters The 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020) solicits demonstrations of distributed computing systems and applications, as well as posters, presenting the research and development results in distributed computing systems and applications. Early implementations, prototypes, work-in-progress systems/applications as well as commercial products that are related to distributed computing technologies, cloud computing technologies, edge computing technologies, etc. are welcome. Especially, we encourage software demos that the audience can interact with. The selection criteria for ICDCS demonstrations include novelty, technical merits and the ability of the demonstrations to interact with the audience. The demonstration proposal may outline the features of the demonstration that the audience can interact with and the novelty behind the underlying system. Demo Submission A demo submission requires a software demo proposal that should follow IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. The demo paper should be up to 4 pages, including all figures/tables and references. Demo proposals should be submitted electronically to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2020. In the submission form, select the Demo & Poster Track. All accepted demonstration papers (up to 4 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published on IEEE Xplore (IEEE Digital Library). Each accepted demo must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. Best Demo Awards There will be two Best Demo Awards at the conference, one based on track chair and program committee evaluation and another based on audience poll during the poster and demo sessions. Poster Submission A poster submission should follow IEEE 8.5″ x 11″ Two-Column Format. A poster submission should be up to 2 pages, including all figures/tables and references, and should be submitted electronically to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcs2020. In the submission form, select the Demo & Poster Track. All accepted poster papers (2 pages) will be included in the conference proceedings and will be published on IEEE Xplore (IEEE Digital Library). Each accepted poster must have at least one author registered and be presented during the conference. Best Poster Awards There will be two Best Poster Awards at the conference, one based on track chair and program committee evaluation and another based on audience poll during the poster and demo sessions. Demo and Poster Chairs Anne-Cécile Orgerie, IRISA, France Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Important Dates * Demo/poster submission deadline: March 12, 2020 (23:59, UTC-7, PDT) * Notification: March 28, 2020 * Camera-ready due: April 17, 2020

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CFP: ISC20 SuperCompCloud2: 2nd Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies – June 25, Frankfurt, Germany
by David Hancock 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SuperCompCloud2 2nd Workshop on Interoperability of Supercomputing and Cloud Technologies held as part of ISC20, Frankfurt, Germany Thursday – June 25, 2020 Submission deadline: March 20, 2020 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=supercompcloud2 Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/supercompcloud ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- *Overview* --- This workshop aims at bringing together a group of experts and practitioners from academia, national laboratories, and industry to discuss technologies, use cases and best practices in order to set a vision and direction for leveraging high performance, extreme-scale computing and on-demand cloud ecosystems. Topics of interest include tools and technologies enabling scientists for adopting scientific applications to cloud interfaces, interoperability of HPC and cloud resource management and scheduling systems, cloud and HPC storage convergence to allow a high degree of flexibility for users and community platform developers, continuous integration/deployment approaches, reproducibility of scientific workflows in distributed environment, and best practices for enabling X-as-a-Service model at scale while maintaining a range of security constraints. This workshop will cover topics related to interoperability of supercomputing and cloud computing, networking and storage technologies that are being leveraged by use cases and research infrastructure providers with a goal to improve productivity and reproducibility of extreme-scale scientific workflows. --- *Topics* --- * Virtualization for HPC e.g. virtual machines, containers, etc. * Storage systems for HPC and cloud technologies * On-demand and interactivity with performance, scaling and cost efficiencies * Resource management and scheduling systems for HPC and cloud technologies * Software defined infrastructure for high-end computing, storage and networking * Application environment, integration and deployment technologies * Secure, high-speed networking for integrated HPC and cloud ecosystems * Extreme data and compute workflows and use cases * Research infrastructure deployment use cases * Resiliency and reproducibility of complex and distributed workflows * Isolation and security within shared HPC environments * X-as-a-Service technologies with performance and scalability * Workflow orchestration using public cloud and HPC data centre resources * Authentication, authorization and accounting interoperability for HPC and cloud ecosystems * Workforce development for integrated HPC and cloud environments --- *Submission Guidelines* --- Submissions accepted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=supercompcloud2 All submissions must be in English and should follow the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and references. Papers should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. The Workshop will accept up to 5 pages extended abstract by the extended abstract submission deadline (see Important Dates below). Authors of selected abstracts, after a peer-reviewed process, will be invited to submit a full paper before the workshop (12 pages maximum in LNCS format, including figures and references) and to present their work on June 25, 2020. A camera-ready deadline will allow to slightly adjust their contributions based on the feedback given during the workshop. Full papers will be published in the ISC 2020 workshop proceedings with Springer. The proceedings will appear as post-conference workshop proceedings. Please refer to ISC Workshop site https://www.isc-hpc.com/workshops-2020.html for further details. --- *Important Dates* --- * Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: March 20, 2020 * Author Notification: April 14, 2020 * Full Paper Conference-ready Deadline: June 18, 2020 * Workshop Date: June 25, 2020 * Full Paper Camera-ready Deadline: July 22, 2020 --- *Keynote Speakers* --- * Klaas Wierenga, Chief Information & Technology Officer, GÉANT * Jean-Marc Denis, European Processor Initiative --- *More Information* --- For more information, including interest in future participation or leadership, please contact the workshop organizers Sadaf Alam (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) and David Y. Hancock (Indiana University) at supercompcloud(a)googlegroups.com.

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CFP: DSD 2020 Special Session on “Embedded Deep Learning and AI", Deadline: 15.April.2020
by Muhammad Shafique 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ] ********* CALL FOR PAPERS ********* *DSD 2020, SPECIAL SESSION on “Embedded Deep Learning and AI: Architectures, Design Methods, Tools, and Applications”* * * *Submission Deadline: 15.April.2020* <https://www.date-conference.com/conference/workshop-w07>*Special Session Link: *https://dsd-seaa2020.um.si/dsd/edlai.html?sec=subsection_edlai#page_header* Submission Link: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2020 ********************************** *Description* Machine learning has numerous important applications in intelligent systems within many areas, like automotive, avionics, robotics, health-care, well-being, and security. The recent progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly in Deep Learning (DL) / Machine Learning (ML), has dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in object detection, classification and recognition, natural language processing, games, medical imaging, etc. However, the complexity of DL-networks for many practical applications can be huge, and their processing may demand a high computing effort and excessive energy consumption. This can become a gigantic challenge when considering embedded inference implementation for Smart Cyber Physical Systems (like autonomous vehicles and robotics) and Internet-of-Things (like healthcare-IoT and predictive maintenance for Industry 4.0). Moreover, even training of such complex DL-networks over massive data sets is triggering new avenues in training accelerator design. In DSD 2020, we plan to organize several oral sessions on embedded deep learning/AI and related research, as well as to have invited speeches, and a poster session. * * *Topics of Interest* We welcome submissions related to advanced applications, architectures, design methods and tools, and system software for AI, ML and DL, especially related (but not limited) to the following topics: • Architectures for ML and DL, with emphasis on energy reduction, computation efficiency and/or computation flexibility, both for inference and/or for learning • Neuromorphic architectures, Spiking and brain-inspired neural networks and their implementation • Efficient mapping of ML and DL applications to target architectures, including many-core, GPGPU, SIMD, FPGA, and HW accelerators • New learning approaches for ML and DL, with emphasis on e.g. faster and more efficient learning, online learning, and quality of learning, training accelerators, etc. • High-level programming language support for ML and DL • Advanced applications exploiting ML or DL • ML and DL for design automation • Tools, frameworks, and system software for ML and DL • Using of approximate computing to decrease the energy demands of ML and DL • Security and Reliability issues for ML and DL, for both inference and training ***IMPORTANT DATES *Deadline for paper submission: 15.April.2020 Acceptance notification: 15.May.2020 Camera ready papers: 15.June.2020 Conference: August 26 – 28, 2020, Portorož, Slovenia *** * *Special Session Track Chairs* Muhammad Shafique. Vienna University of Technology, Austria, muhammad.shafique(a)tuwien.ac.at <mailto:[email protected]> Theocharis Theocharides. University of Cyprus, Cyprus, ttheocharides(a)ucy.ac.cy *Submission Guidelines** *Authors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts via EasyChair web service at web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsd2020. Should an unexpected web access problem be encountered, please contact the Program Chair by email Andrej.Zemva(a)fe.uni-lj.si. Each manuscript should include the complete paper text, all illustrations, and references. The manuscript should conform to the IEEE format: single-spaced, double column, US letter page size, 10-point size Times Roman font, up to 8 pages. In order to conduct a blind review, no indication of the authors' names should appear in the manuscript, references included. CPS, Conference Publishing Services, publishes the (ISI indexed) DSD Proceedings, available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. *Extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for a special issue of the ISI indexed “Microprocessors and Microsystems: Embedded Hardware Design” Elsevier journal.*

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AICCSA 2020 CFP: 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020
by Stanley Ewenike 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] 17th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2020) Antalya, Turkey, November 2-5, 2020 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2020/ AICCSA 2020 - Call for Papers The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA) is the premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing disciplines. AICCSA 2020, to be held in the city of Antalya, Turkey. We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA’20 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 . Paper submissions can report technical and experimental results, theoretical studies, conceptual studies, and surveys. All submissions will be double-blind and peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity of their contribution. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. *Track 1: AI, Agent Systems and Ambient Intelligence* *Track 2: Semantics and Knowledge Management* *Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust* *Track 4: Networking, IoT, and Sensors* *Track 5: Electronics and power systems* *Track 6: Databases and Information Systems* *Track 7: Multimedia, Computer Vision and Image Processing* *Track 8: Parallel and Distributed Systems* *Track 9: Data Science* *Track 10: Software Engineering* *Track 11: Natural Language Processing and Applications* * Submission Guidelines and Proceeding* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be submitted electronically as PDF files on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2020 .Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Besides, submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured will not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the Conference Proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages. Each submission must include, outside the main body of the paper, up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. *Double-Blind Peer Review Guidelines* AICCSA 2020 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Information to help prepare the Blinded Manuscript* Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. To assist with this process the key items that need to be observed are as follows: − Use the third person to refer to work the Authors have previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. − Make sure figures do not contain any affiliation related identifier − Do not eliminate essential self-references or other references but limit self-references only to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. − Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows: ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. − For blinding in the reference list: ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ − Remove references to funding sources. − Do not include acknowledgments − Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. *Special Issues* Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to the following journal. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s topic. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. *Important Dates * *Main conference papers deadline: 20th April 2020* Notification: 30th June 2020 Camera-ready: 1st August 2020 Registration: 1st September 2020 Conference dates: from 2 Nov. 2020 to 5 Nov. 2020 Please send any inquiry on AICCSA 2020 to: mail(a)aiccsa.net

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