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ISC2022: Call for papers - final extension: abstracts due on Dec 3rd (papers due on December 10th)
by Ana Lucia Varbanescu 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.) Dear colleague, Don't miss the opportunity to join us at *ISC High Performance 2022* in early June, in Hamburg, Germany! Please consider submitting your research paper to one of our five tracks! These tracks provide excellent opportunities for scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, trends, and results that will shape the future of High Performance Computing (HPC), Networking, Storage, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. To better align with the timelines of other events, we have a final (short) extension of the deadlines: *Abstract deadline: December 3, 2021, 11:59 pm, AoE* *Full submission deadline: December 10, 2021, 11:59 pm, AoE* Papers accepted to ISC 2022 will result in: *+ A complimentary conference pass for one presenter + + The chance to win the Hans-Meuer best-paper award (€ 3,000) +* See below for all the details about ISC 2022. Even more details and the big, red, "Submit" button are to be found here: https://www.isc-hpc.com/research-papers-2022.html Looking forward to your submission! Regards, Ana-Lucia Varbanescu and Abhinav Bhatele ===== ISC 2022 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ===== https://www.isc-hpc.com/research-papers-2022.html The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, trends, and results that will shape the future of High Performance Computing (HPC), Networking, Storage, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. Submitted research papers will be reviewed by the ISC 2022 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as Chair, and Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA as Deputy Chair. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission Deadline: December 3, 2021 23:59 AoE Full Submission Deadline: December 10, 2021 23:59 AoE Author Rebuttals: January 21 – 26, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: ~February 11, 2022 Camera-Ready Submission: March 25, 2022 23:59 AoE Research Paper Sessions: Monday May 30 – Wednesday June 1, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAIRS Research Papers Chair: Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Research Papers Deputy Chair: Abhinav Bhatele, University of Maryland, USA Proceedings Chair: Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA Proceedings Deputy Chair: Marc Baboulin, Université Paris-Saclay, France ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AREAS OF INTEREST The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into five tracks this year, as follows: *Architectures, Networks, and Storage* (Chair: Jay Lofstead, Sandia Labs, USA) - Next-generation processors, accelerators, and chips for HPC - Heterogeneous system design - Network technology and architecture - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies and systems - File systems and storage architecture - Databases and data-intensive applications - In situ data analysis - Big data and data science at scale - Exascale computing *HPC Algorithms and Applications* (Chair: Didem Unat, Koc University, Turkey) - Novel algorithms for HPC - Algorithmic-based fault tolerance - Communication-reducing and synchronization-reducing algorithms - Time-space trade-offs in algorithms and applications - High-performance applications - Energy-efficient algorithms and apps - Convergence of simulations and big data - Scalability on future architectures - Workflow management - Coupled simulations - Implementations on GPUs and accelerators *Programming Environments and Systems Software* (Chair: Michele Weiland, EPCC, UK) - Parallel programming models, languages, and compilers - Tools and libraries for performance and productivity at scale - Scalable application frameworks - Runtime systems for HPC - Resilience / System robustness - Operating systems and workload management - Tools for system monitoring and administration - Power, energy management, and scheduling *Machine Learning, AI, and Emerging Technologies* (Chair: Ted Willke, Intel, USA) - AI/Machine learning and HPC - HPC system design for AI and machine learning - I/O, domain-specific languages, and tools for scalable machine learning - Applied machine learning studies - Uncertainty quantification - Quantum computing architecture, algorithms, and software - Other cutting edge or emerging HPC technologies *Performance Modeling, Evaluation, and Analysis* (Chair: Nathan Tallent, PNNL, USA) - Performance models and prediction - Performance engineering and optimizations - Performance measurement tools and techniques - Power and energy consumption, measurement, and modeling Note: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high-performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the five above for your submission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION and REVIEW PROCESS *Submission (abstracts: December 3, full papers: December 10, 2021)* Submission Guidelines: Submissions will take place in two stages: (1) submission of the paper’s title, authors, and abstract for planning purposes; (2) submission of the paper itself. Paper submissions must be formatted using LNCS style (see Springer’s website): - Single-column format - Maximum 18 pages (including figures and references) - Use Springer’s LaTeX document class or Word template (see Springer’s Proceedings Guidelines) - Papers must be suitable for double-blind review (see ISC High Performance Double-Blind Review Guidelines) - The PC reserves the right to reject incorrectly formatted papers - Papers submitted for the Research Papers track should not have been previously published or under review for a different venue. *Review Process* - Each paper is expected to receive a minimum of 4 reviews - Double-blind peer-review will be used - Papers will be evaluated based on novelty, fundamental insights, clarity of presentation, and potential for long-term impact *Rebuttal phase (January 19 – 26, 2022)* - Initial reviewer comments will be made available to authors - Authors can respond to clarify misunderstandings and answer questions - Rebuttals will be submitted in written format and will have a tight deadline - Authors will receive additional instructions via email *Final decision (February 9, 2022)* - All reviews and rebuttals will be considered by the paper’s track committee - Live reviewer discussions will occur during the research paper committee meeting - A consensus-driven approach will be used to select the strongest papers - Notification of the papers’ outcomes will be sent to authors after the PC meeting ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TERMS and CONDITIONS - ISC 2022 is planned as an in-person conference from May 29 to June 2, 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. By submitting a research paper the submitter agrees that one of the authors of the paper will present the work at ISC 2022 in Hamburg, Germany. In case circumstances that the submitter/speaker cannot control prevent them from attending the event, the submitter/speaker should contact ISC organizers and the Research paper chair as soon as possible to discuss different options. - The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, May 30 through Wednesday, June 1, 2022. - All research paper sessions will be streamed and recorded. Presentations will be available within the event platform for registered attendees only. - Paper presenters need to be registered ISC 2022 participants. For accepted papers, one author is eligible for a complimentary conference participation pass. - Travel, accommodation, registration fees for other authors, and other such expenses will not be covered by the ISC organizers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUBLICATIONS and SLIDES All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. There are no fees related to the publication of accepted papers by Springer. The papers will also be available to download from Springer’s website for a limited time after ISC 2022. Authors may also opt to publish open access versions of their papers through Springer if desired—please refer to Springer’s website for further information and pricing. Paper submissions are required to be no more than 18 pages in LNCS style. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted two extra pages to incorporate reviewer comments. Volumes published as part of the LNCS series are made available to the following indexing services: - Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science - EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases) - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar - IO-Port - MathSciNet - Scopus - Zentralblatt MATH --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JSSPP 2022 - 25th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (in conjunction with 36th IEEE IPDPS, Lyon, France)
by Dalibor Klusáček 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

================================================================================== 25th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2022) ================================================================================== In Conjunction with 36th IEEE IPDPS 2022, Lyon, France, 3 June 2022 Webpage: http://jsspp.org Submission Deadline: February 13th, 2022 Notification Due: March 15th, 2022 Workshop date: June 3rd, 2022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The JSSPP workshop addresses all scheduling aspects of parallel computing, including cloud, grid, HPC & HTC, as well as "mixed/hybrid" or otherwise specific systems. For the last 30 years, such parallel systems have grown in capacity and complexity, creating the need for new scheduling systems to govern them. JSSPP focuses both on such problems for traditional parallel cluster/HPC/HTC systems as well as more recent cloud-based systems. Nowadays, parallel computing supports extremely heterogeneous workloads in very dynamic and connected environments. Many workloads are interactive and make use of variable resources over time. Complex parallel infrastructures can now be built on the fly, sourcing compute capacity from different providers simultaneously, while each offers different prices and quality of services. Capacity planning has become more proactive, where resources are acquired continuously, with the goal of staying ahead of demand. The interaction model between job and resource manager is shifting to one of negotiation, where they agree on resources, price, and quality of service. Also, "hybrid" systems are often used, where the (virtualized) infrastructure is hosting a mix of competing workloads/applications, each having its own resource manager that must be somehow co-scheduled. These are just a few examples of the open issues facing our field. From its very beginning, JSSPP has strived to balance practice and theory in its program. This combination provides a rich environment for technical debate about scheduling approaches including both academic researchers as well as participants from industry. Building on this tradition, JSSPP welcomes both regular papers as well as descriptions of Open Scheduling Problems (OSP) in large scale scheduling (see below). Lack of real-world data often substantially hampers the ability of the research community to engage with scheduling problems in a way that has real world impact. Our goal in the OSP venue is to build a bridge between the production and research worlds, in order to facilitate direct collaborations and impact. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Regular Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSSPP solicits papers that address any of the challenges in parallel scheduling, including but not limited to: * Design and evaluation of new scheduling approaches. * Performance evaluation of scheduling approaches, including methodology, benchmarks, and metrics. * Workloads, including characterization, classification, and modeling. * Consideration of additional constraints in scheduling systems, like job priorities, price, accounting, load estimation, and quality of service guarantees. * Impact of scheduling strategies on system utilization, application performance, user friendliness, cost efficiency, and energy efficiency. * Scaling and composition of very large scheduling systems. * Cloud provider issues: capacity planning, service level assurance, reliability. * Interaction between schedulers on different levels, like processor level as well as whole single- or even multi-owner systems * Interaction between applications/workloads, e.g., efficient batch job and container/VM co-scheduling within a single system, etc. * Experience reports from production systems or large scale compute campaigns. For further information concerning paper formatting instructions please visit the Submission section (https://jsspp.org/index.php?page=submission) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Open Scheduling Problems (OSP) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSSPP welcomes descriptions of open problems in large-scale scheduling. We believe that clearly described real-world scheduling problems will help both the production and the scientific community to bridge the gap that often prevents adoption of newly proposed scheduling techniques in practice. Effective scheduling approaches are predicated on three things: * A concise understanding of scheduling goals, and how they relate to one another. * Details of the workload (job arrival times, sizes, shareability, deadlines, etc.) * Details of the system being managed (size, break/fix lifecycle, allocation constraints) Submissions must include concise description of the key metrics of the system and how they are calculated, as well as anonymized data publication of the system workload and production schedule. Detailed descriptions of operational considerations (maintenance, failure patterns, fault domains) are also important. Ideally, anonymized operational logs would also be published, though we understand this might be more difficult. We envision that these papers will provide sufficiently detailed information to be able to develop new scheduling approaches, which can be robustly compared with the schedules used in production facilities, and other approaches to solve the same problems. Paper formatting requirements for OSP-related submissions are the same as for regular papers and are available in the Submission section (https://jsspp.org/index.php?page=submission) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue and virtual venue ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JSSPP 2022 is being planned for June 3 in Lyon, France. However, remote paper presentation and attendance will be likely allowed to accommodate various constraints and restrictions caused by the pandemic. A fully virtual workshop is being planned at the same time, in case it is not possible to celebrate JSSPP presentially at all. In virtual format, we will use videoconferencing and upload workshop-ready versions of papers at the workshop website beforehand. After the workshop the recording of the talks and the slides of all presentations will be shared on the JSSPP website and JSSPP youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC93tGBsMmjjEitQSQyL7eTw/playlists) The virtual format was very successful in JSSPP 2020 and JSSPP 2021, with great participant attendance and engagement with the presenters. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Committees ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop organizers: * Dalibor Klusáček, CESNET a.l.e. * Julita Corbalán, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Gonzalo Rodrigo Álvarez, Apple Program committee (Not closed): * Amaya Booker, Facebook * Stratos Dimopoulos, University of California, Santa Barbara * Hyeonsang Eom, Seoul National University * Dror Feitelson, Hebrew University * Jiří Filipovič, Masaryk University * Liana Fong, IBM T. J. Watson Research * Bogdan Ghit, Databricks * Eitan Frachtenberg, Reed College * Alfredo Goldman, University of Sao Paulo * Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and TU Delft, the Netherlands * Douglas Jacobsen, NERSC * Cristian Klein, Umeå Univeristy / Elastisys * Bill Nitzberg, Altair * P-O Östberg, Department of Computing Science, Umeå University * Larry Rudolph, Two Sigma * Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University * Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa * Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Goettingen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Papers should be no longer than 20 single-spaced pages, 10pt font, including figures and references. All submissions must follow the LNCS format, see the instructions at Springer's web site: http://www.springer.com/lncs All papers in scope will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee (see the list of organizers/PC members here: http://jsspp.org/index.php?page=committees) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proceedings ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interim proceedings containing a collection of the papers presented will be distributed at the workshop in electronic form. It is planned to also publish a post-workshop proceedings in the Springer "Lecture Notes on Computer Science" series, as was done in previous years (pending approval from Springer).

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[Call for Papers] EWSN 2022, Oct. 3-5 - Linz, Austria
by Stephen Xia 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 19th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2022) -- Linz, Austria -- October 3-5, 2022 https://ewsn2022.jku.at/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference focusing on the latest research results on embedded systems and wireless networking, key enablers for visionary scenarios such as the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. Building on the past 18 years of success, the 19th edition will be held in Linz, Austria. The conference continues its aim for broad, world-wide impact. Proceedings will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library, SCOPUS, and other prominent digital libraries. *** Topics of Interest *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Communication and networking for wireless, embedded and cognitive systems - Operating systems, middleware, and services - Processing, storage, and management of data - Communication and programming paradigms, languages and tools - Dependability (real-time, reliability, availability, safety) in wireless systems - Neuromorphic communication networks and computing architectures - Wireless system time and location management - AI operated wireless sensing, actuation and control systems - Modeling, simulation, and measurement tools for wireless AI systems and applications - Machine learning and data mining for wireless sensor systems - Services and wireless networking for Cyber-Physical Systems and IoT - Next generation wireless networks, 6G - Privacy and security in applications and systems - Human-centric interaction with wireless and embedded AI systems - Experiences, challenges, comparisons of embedded AI platforms - Applications of wireless embedded AI in health, automation, manufacturing, transportation - Embedded algorithms and systems for computational perception, vision, speech, haptics - Empirical studies, measurement, validation, deployment, experiences - Sustainability and Green Tech (low-power, harvesting, energy management) - Applications and problems from developing countries and emerging markets *** Featured Topic: Unconventional Communication *** Embedded wireless systems undergo continuous evolution, which requires a scientific discourse of relevant trends, such as the emerging topic of embedded systems for 6G. "Unconventional Communication" triggers questions for new PHY layers from visual light communication to molecular or microfluidic sensor communication systems for the Internet of Nano- or BioNanoThings. In addition, it challenges higher layers of communications, including embedded systems that incorporate embedded AI for autonomy, safety, resilience, fault- and exception-managing, and being self-reflective, i.e., networked things that act and react in real-time. Moreover, "unconventional" means also to discuss inspiring methods from information theory and complex systems and the far-reaching question of how embedded wireless systems affect compliance with the UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The impact on climate change, cheap technology for developing societies, beneficial to health and overall development can be supported by responsible and inclusive embedded wireless systems to embrace all people irrespective of race, gender, disability, medical or other need. It is about giving equal access and opportunities and getting rid of discrimination and removal of barriers with different disabilities. *** Submission Instructions *** Submissions to EWSN'22 must be original (i.e., not previously published) and not currently under review by any other conference or journal. EWSN 2022 will adopt a double-blind review process. Authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions to ensure that their identities are not disclosed to reviewers and reviewers are discouraged from actively working to uncover author identities. To promote early dissemination, submission to arXiv (or similar) is allowed, provided cross-citations are not made. Paper Submission is managed through, https://ewsn2022.hotcrp.com/. *** Important Dates *** Paper submission: May 15, 2022 Notification of acceptance: July 15, 2022 Camera-ready: August 1, 2022 Early Bird Registration: August 8, 2022 *** Organizing Committee *** Alois Ferscha, JKU/AT (General Co-Chair) Mun Choon Chan, NUS/SG (General Co-Chair) Salil Kanhere, UNSW/AU (TPC Co-Chair) R.R. Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft/NL (TPC Co-Chair) Hans-Peter Bernhard, SAL/AT (Organizing Co-Chair) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our sincere apologies if you receive multiple copies of the call -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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DSN 2022 - Call for Workshops
by macinque＠unina.it 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

(Apologies for multiple receptions of this call) -------------------------------------------------------------- DSN-2022 -- Call for Workshops 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 27 June - 30 June 2022 Baltimore, Maryland, USA https://dsn2022.github.io/cfworkshops.html -------------------------------------------------------------- The workshops at the DSN 2022 provide a forum for groups of researchers to discuss topics in dependability-related research and practice. DSN workshops can be quite diverse. They serve as incubators for scientific communities that form and share a particular research agenda. They also provide opportunities for researchers to exchange and discuss scientific ideas at an early stage, before they have matured to warrant conference or journal publication. # Topics of Interest DSN is interested in workshop topics that represent either complementary areas to the main conference or a large, active subarea. Topics from recent DSN workshops include (alphabetical order): - Adaptive and Mobile Unbiquitous System Dependability - Analysis of Reliability and Security Data - Blockchains - Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers, Virtual Machines and Containers - Cyber-physical Systems Dependability - Dependability Assessment of Complex Systems - Dependable and Secure Nano Computing - Dependability and Security of System Operation - Dependability Issues in AI Systems - Dependability Issues in Software Defined Networks - Distributed ledgers - Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scale Systems - Infrastructures for Machine Learning and Data Engineering - Resilient Computing - Safety and Security of Intelligent Vehicles - Sensor Networks Dependability - Trustworthiness of Smart Grids # Important Dates - Workshop proposal submission deadline: 12.Dec.2021 - Notifications to workshop proposers: 08.Jan.2022 - Workshop day of DSN 2022: 27.June.2022 # Format of Proposals A workshop proposal consists of a descriptive proposal that is not more than 4 pages in length and contains the following information: - Title and description of the workshop including motivations, goals, and relevance to the dependability community. - Names and contact information of the organizers, including a brief statement on their background and past workshop experience. - A description of the workshop planning processes, including the invitation and selection of participants, the refereeing of papers, a tentative program committee if available, and any other pre-workshop activities. - A summary of the planned workshop activities including length of time (full day or half day), space required (i.e., room capacity), and the expected workshop outputs. A desired schedule, i.e., approximate number of papers, invited talks, panels, and/or discussion sessions. - Whether the workshop is new or an ongoing workshop. Information on past editions of the workshop (if applicable) including: -- History and frequency of the workshop -- Previous conference co-locations -- URLs, if available -- Approximate attendance (for each past edition) -- How papers were published (website, IEEE, ACM, etc.). - Communities from which participation is expected. # Acceptance and Publication Acceptance will be based on an evaluation of the workshop’s potential for generating useful results, the timeliness of and expected interest in the topic, and the proposers’ ability to lead a successful workshop. Accepted workshops will have a two-page proceedings-format summary (generated by the workshop organizers) published in the Main Proceedings of the conference. Written contributions to the workshop itself (summaries, short papers, etc.) will be included in the supplement to the DSN Proceedings (DSN-W volume) and made available on IEEE Xplore. The workshop web pages will be linked through the main DSN website (www.dsn.org) and the call for papers will be advertised through the DSN mailing lists. Organizers are expected to perform any additional advertising in related communities outside the main DSN community, to create and maintain the workshop website, arrange for the collection and refereeing of submissions, and to coordinate the collection and delivery of camera ready material and IEEE copyright transfers. Please submit all workshop proposals by Dec.12, 2022, preferably as a PDF file, via e-mail to workshops(a)dsn.org. Workshop proposers will be notified of the outcome of their submission by Dec.12, 2021. The timelines for submissions to the accepted workshops will be communicated directly to the proposers. # Workshop Chairs - Ibéria Medeiros, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - HariGovind (Hari) Ramasamy, Amazon, USA # Contacts For further information please send an email to workshops(a)dsn.org

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CFP: CogArch 2022: 6th Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (Co-located with HPCA)
by David Trilla Rodriguez1 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

CogArch 2022: 6th Workshop on Cognitive Architectures (Co-located with HPCA) Website: www.cogarchworkshop.org ABOUT Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques have become the de facto solution to drive human progress and more specifically, automation. In the last years, the world’s economy has been gravitating towards the AI/ML domain (from industrial and scientific perspectives) and the expectation of growth is not withering away. Additionally, these trends have been further exacerbated by the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, which paralyzed the world’s economy and made evident the need for even more automation to provide safer and more reliable services and also to aid in the agile discovery of life-saving drugs and vaccines — all this with appropriate security and data privacy elements in place. To support those kinds of applications, "cognitive" (AI/ML) architectures are designed and deployed to materialize advances in the aforementioned fields. However, although the newest cognitive designs are improving by the day, the number of challenges ahead for these systems is still overwhelming. With existing solutions reaching functional maturity, design considerations are now pivoting to new aspects like energy scaling, reliable operation, safe guarantees or even security and data-privacy properties. Specifically, when it comes to security and data privacy in the AI/ML context, Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has emerged as a highly promising approach. HE is arguably the holy grail of data-secure computing as it provides security and privacy guarantees by allowing computation on encrypted private data without the need for decryption. This is particularly enticing for applications in the medical sciences, natural language processing, autonomous and connected vehicles, as well as traditional domains such as banking systems, where HE could drastically reduce the frequency of data breaches, thus guaranteeing privacy of highly sensitive user data. In this context, this edition of the CogArch workshop aims at bringing together the necessary know-how to design cognitive architectures from a holistic point of view, tackling all their design considerations from the algorithms to platforms in all the different fields that cognitive architectures will soon occupy, from autonomous cars to critical tasks in avionics, finance, space travel or even personalized medicine. This year's edition, in addition, solicits contributions on the security and data-privacy preserving aspects of AI/ML and related application domains. The CogArch workshop already had five successful editions, bringing together experts and knowledge on the most novel design ideas for cognitive systems. This workshop capitalizes on the synergy between industrial and academic efforts in order to provide a better understanding of cognitive systems and key concepts of their design. CALL FOR PAPERS Hardware and software design considerations are gravitating towards AI applications, as those have been proven extremely useful in a wide variety of fields, from edge computing in autonomous cars, to cloud-based computing for personalized medicine. The recent years have brought about a boom in start-ups and novel platforms that constantly offer improvements in performance and accuracy for the aforementioned applications. As this kind of cognitive architectures evolve, system designers must incorporate many different considerations, with security and data privacy being the key ones today. The emergence of different security and data privacy approaches for AI/ML applications, including but not limited to the use of Homomorphic Encryption (HE) techniques, is also leading to a very diverse set of (hardware and software) design decisions and solutions. The CogArch workshop solicits formative ideas and new product offerings in this general space that covers all the design aspects of cognitive systems, with particular focus this year on the security and data privacy considerations of AI/ML. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Hardware support for state-of-the-art (post-quantum) encryption techniques - Hardware-software co-design and acceleration of homomorphic encryption techniques - Demonstration of side-channel or adversarial attacks on AI systems and/or potential solutions, including hardware support for mitigation of these attacks - Prototype demonstrations of state-of-the-art secure AI systems - System-level techniques to accelerate end-to-end execution (inference and/or training) of secure AI computation - Secure algorithms in support of cognitive reasoning: recognition, intelligent search, diagnosis, inference and informed decision-making. - Swarm intelligence and distributed architectural support; brain-inspired and neural computing architectures. - Prototype demonstrations of state-of-the-art cognitive computing systems. - Accelerators and micro-architectural support for artificial intelligence. - Cloud-backed autonomics and mobile cognition: architectural and OS support thereof. - Resilient design of distributed (swarm) mobile AI architectures. - Reliability and safety considerations, and security against adversarial attacks in mobile AI architectures. - Techniques for improving energy efficiency, battery life extension and endurance in mobile AI architectures. - Case studies and real-life demonstrations/prototypes in specific application domains: e.g. smart homes, connected cars and UAV-driven commercial services, architectures in support of AI for healthcare applications, such as medical imaging, drug discovery and smart diagnostics, as well as applications of interest to defense and homeland security. The workshop shall consist of regular presentations and/or prototype demonstrations by authors of selected submissions. In addition, it will include invited keynotes by eminent researchers from industry and academia as well as interactive panel discussions to kindle further interest in these research topics. Submissions will be reviewed by a workshop Program Committee, in addition to the organizers. Submitted manuscripts must be in English of up to 2 pages (with same formatting guidelines as the main conference) indicating the type of submission: regular presentation or prototype demonstration. Submissions should be submitted to the following link by December 24th, 2021 ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cogarch22) If you have questions regarding submission, please contact us: info(a)cogarchworkshop.org CALL FOR PROTOTYPE DEMONSTRATIONS CogArch will feature a session where researchers can showcase innovative prototype demonstrations or proof-of-concept designs in the cognitive architecture space. Examples of such demonstrations may include (but are not limited to): - Custom ASIC or FPGA-based demonstrations of machine learning, cognitive or neuromorphic architectures. - Innovative implementations of state-of-the-art cognitive algorithms/applications, and the underlying software-hardware co-design techniques. - Demonstration of end-to-end cognitive systems comprising of edge devices backed by a cloud computing infrastructure. - Novel designs showcasing the adoption of emerging technologies for the design of cognitive systems. - Tools or frameworks to aid analysis, simulation and design of cognitive systems. Submissions for the demonstration session may be made in the form of a 2-page manuscript highlighting key features and innovations of the prototype demonstration. Proposals accepted for demonstration during the workshop can be accompanied by a poster/short presentation. Authors should explicitly indicate that the submission is for prototype demonstration at submission time. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: December 24th, 2021 Notification of acceptance: January 21st, 2022 Workshop date: February 12th or 13th, 2022 (TBD) ORGANIZERS Roberto Gioiosa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory David Trilla, IBM Research Subhankar Pal, IBM Research Saransh Gupta, IBM Research Augusto Vega, IBM Research Karthik Swaminathan, IBM Research Alper Buyuktosunoglu, IBM Research Pradip Bose, IBM Research Nir Drucker, IBM Research CONTACT info(a)cogarchworkshop.org

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GPGPU 2022 - Call for Papers
by Yifan Sun 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

Our apologies for multiple receptions of this call. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [CFP] The 14th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPU (GPGPU 2022) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for papers for GPGPU 2022: The 14th Workshop on General Purpose Processing using GPU held in conjunction with PPOPP 2022, February 12 or 13, 2022, Seoul, South Korea https://sarchlab.github.io/gpgpu2022/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission: Dec 23, 2021 Paper notification: Jan 21, 2022 Final paper: Feb 3, 2022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: Massively parallel (GPUs and other data-parallel accelerators) devices are delivering more and more computing powers required by modern society. With the growing popularity of massively parallel devices, users demand better performance, programmability, reliability, and security. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss massively parallel applications, environments, platforms, and architectures, as well as infrastructures that facilitate related research. This year, we are no longer limited to GPU applications and architectures. We welcome research related to any highly parallel computing accelerators and devices. Authors are invited to submit original research papers in the general area of massively parallel computing and architectures. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Security for GPU architecture and other accelerators - AR/VR support using GPUs or other accelerators - Heterogeneous systems - Cloud-based GPU computing - Serverless/disaggregated GPU computing - GPU/accelerator virtualization/containerization - GPU applications - GPU performance evaluation/benchmarking - GPU programming languages - Operating system support for GPU execution - GPU compilation techniques - GPU reliability - GPU hardware architecture for graphics and general-purpose applications - Power-constrained GPU techniques - Multi-GPU systems - Network system design for intra- and inter-accelerator communication - Domain-specific accelerators - Research & design tools for GPU development -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Full paper submissions must be in PDF format for US letter-size paper. They must not exceed 6 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (review mode, with page numbers and both 9 or 10pt can be used). GPGPU also accepts extended abstracts (2 pages including references). Authors can select if they want to reveal their identity in the submission. Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX at: https://drupal.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm. At least one author must present at the workshop conference. Travel func may be applied through SIGPLAN Professional Activities Committee (PAC). Details are available here https://www.sigplan.org/PAC/. Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gpgpu2022. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZERS: Co-chairs: - Yifan Sun (William & Mary) - Daniel Wong (University of California, Riverside) - Hoda NaghibiJouybari (Binghampton University) Web & Publication Chair - Hongyuan Liu (William & Mary) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee: - Tor M. Aamodt (University of British Columbia) - José L. Abellán (Universidad Católica de Murcia) - Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (University of California, Riverside) - Zhongliang Chen (AMD) - Shi Dong (Cerebras) - Xiang Gong (Qualcomm) - Hyeran Jeon (University of California, Merced) - Adwait Jog (William & Mary) - David Kaeli (Northeastern University) - Onur Kariyan (AMD) - Gunjae Koo (Korea University) - Jiajia Li (William & Mary) - Ashutosh Pattnaik (ARM) - Seunghee Shin (Binghamton University) - Jieming Yin (Lehigh University) - Jishen Zhao (University of California, San Diego) - Huiyang Zhou (North Carolina State University)

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PASC22: Special Call for Minisymposia for Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences (Deadline 15 Dec for Expressions of Interest)
by Tim Robinson 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

============================================================================== SPECIAL CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIA Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing PASC22 Congress Center Basel Basel - Switzerland 27-29 Jun 2022 https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org Deadline for Submitting an Expression of Interest: Dec 15, 2021 ============================================================================== PASC22 is pleased to announce a special call for minisymposia targeting scientific computing applications and methods in the social sciences and humanities. Co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, PASC22 will be held at the Congress Center Basel, Switzerland, from June 27 to 29, 2022. The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational science with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing. For this special call, we welcome minisymposium proposals in all areas related to the social sciences and humanities (including but not limited to behavioural, economic, legal, political and business sciences, philosophy, languages and the arts). Proposals that address aspects emphasizing the challenge of PASC22 - "Computing and Data... for all Humankind" - and the affiliated topics "Computing for Planet Earth", "Data Science and Inequality", and "Epidemiology and Public Health" are particularly welcome. A minisymposium is a two-hour session of four 30-minute slots on a topic of current importance in computational science that showcases research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science and software engineering, and is an ideal platform for promoting interdisciplinary communication. The minisymposium submission for PASC22 is a two-stage process. The first stage is an expression of interest, which includes a description of the proposed minisymposium (abstract) and suggestions for possible speakers who are experts in their field(s). The expressions of interest will be reviewed by the Minisymposia and Posters Program Committee (https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org/about/minisymposia-and-posters-program-c…) A selection of submissions will be invited to submit a full proposal. The review process will consider the relevance and timeliness of the proposal topic as well as overall program balance. The second stage, the full proposal, should include an extended abstract along with the names of possible speakers and presentation titles for four 30-minute presentation slots (typically, these slots are 25-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions). The minisymposium organizer is permitted to give one of the four presentations her/himself. If desired, the fourth 30-minute slot could be a panel discussion or open discussion forum. The organizer of a minisymposium takes an "active chair" role in their session – that is, s/he should present a brief overview of the themes of the minisymposium and the state of the art, introduce the speakers and their topics, and facilitate a lively and interactive discussion amongst the speakers and audience throughout the session. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS In order to be allowed to submit a full proposal, minisymposium organizers must first submit an expression of interest: * Title * Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains. * Organizer details: Names and contact details of organizers (up to three). * Abstract: Description of the minisymposium (up to 500 words), including suggestions for topics and speakers. * Diversity and Inclusivity: A statement on how you have addressed issues of diversity and inclusivity in proposing speakers. Following the evaluation of the expressions of interest, organizers may be invited to submit a full proposal: * Title * Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains. * Organizer details: Full names and contact details of organizers (up to three). * Presenter details: Full names and contact details of four proposed speakers (three if the minisymposium proposal includes a discussion panel) and proposed titles for their presentations. * Extended abstract: A description of the minisymposium that outlines the scope, describes the problems being addressed and their importance, and discusses current directions of research and methods being developed to solve these problems (up to 800 words). * Abstract for publication: A short abstract for publication in the conference program (no more than 200 words). * Diversity and Inclusivity: A statement on how you have addressed issues of diversity and inclusivity in proposing speakers. If the proposal is accepted then presentation titles and abstracts (200 words) will be requested from each speaker. The expressions of interest and full proposals will be reviewed based on the following criteria: * The work should be of significant current interest to the given scientific domain, and ideally, have potential application to other scientific domains. * Research should be based on state-of-the-art numerical methods. * The proposal should include speakers from multiple institutions and/or countries, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic. * The proposal should consider diversity - including women and other underrepresented groups. * Preference may be given to proposals that address the challenge of PASC22: Computing and Data... for all Humankind. Proposals must be submitted through the PASC22 online submission portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org) SUBMISSION DEADLINES * 15 Dec 2021: Deadline for expressions of interest (no extensions) * 15 Jan 2022: Deadline for full proposals (no extensions) * 15 Feb 2022: Acceptance notifications * 17 Mar 2022: Deadline for abstracts from presenting speakers Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12'). CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS Designated presenters may be changed closer to the event according to circumstances. Please note that PASC22 is unable to reimburse the expenses or waive the registration fees of organizers and speakers. Organizers and speakers must register for the conference and are subject to the corresponding registration fees. In-person participation is preferred and encouraged whenever possible. We request that at least one organizer of a minisymposium be present in-person and serve as moderator for the session. Further details on the conference format can be found at https://pasc22.pasc-conference.org/about/conference-format/. MINISYMPOSIA AND POSTERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairs * Petros Koumoutsakos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland / Harvard University, US) * Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne National Laboratory, US) Scientific Committee * Takayuki Aoki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) * Marc Baaden (CNRS, France) * Ramesh Balakrishnan (Argonne National Laboratory, US) * Allison Baker (National Center for Atmospheric Research, US) * Eleni Chatzi (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Luigi del Debbio (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Nicola Ferrier (Argonne National Laboratory, US) * Mike Heroux (Sandia National Laboratories, US) * Marina Krstic Marinkovic (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Felix Kubler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) * Margarete Jadamec (The State University of New York at Buffalo, US) * (Xiaoye) Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US) * Erik Lindahl (Stockholm University, Sweden) * Nuria Lopez (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), ES) * Mathieu Luisier (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Rajat Mittal (John Hopkins University, US) * Robert Pincus (Columbia University, US) * Matej Praprotnik (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia) * Patrick Sanan (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Ivo Sbalzarini (TU Dresden, Germany) * Antonino Tumeo (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US) * Wim van Rees (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US) * Julija Zavadlav (TU Munich, Germany) Questions regarding the submission and reviewing process can be addressed to info(a)pasc-conference.org.

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CFP: iWAPT 2022 (IPDPS 2022 Workshop, Deadline: Jun. 31)
by Satoshi Ohshima 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

============================================================== :: iWAPT 2021 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 17th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2022/ June 3, 2022 at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Lyon, France The iWAPT 2022 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2022. http://www.ipdps.org/ =============================================================== # Important dates Paper submission due: January 31, 2022 (AOE) Author Notification: Feburuary 28, 2022 Camera ready papers: March 14, 2022 Conference sessions: June 3, 2022 Submission site: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ # About iWAPT iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following areas (the list is not exhaustive): * Applying machine learning to autotuning * Machine-adaptive algorithms * Automatic program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Adaptive numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures challenges * Compilation strategies (e.g. iterative and empirical compilers) * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper Submission guidelines Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Files should be submitted by following the instructions at the IPDPS 2022 Submission Site (powered by Linklings). https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/ Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPSW proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper. # Program Committee PC Chair: Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan PC Vice-Chair: Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, Japan PC members: * Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria * Ray-Bing Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan * Jerry Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan * I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA * Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan * Michael Gerndt, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany * Toshiaki Hishinuma, Research Institute for Computational Science Co. Ltd., Japan * Shih-Hao Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA * Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan * Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, Japan * Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan * Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA * Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, Japan * Louis-Noel Pouchet, Colorado State University, USA * Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan * Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA * Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * Fei Xu, East China Normal University, China * Yusaku Yamamoto, University of Electro-Communications, Japan # Organizing Committee * General Chair: Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * General Vice-Chair: Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * PC Chair: Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan * Finance Chair: Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * SC liaison: Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan * Web Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * Publicity Chair: Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, Japan # Contact iwapt2022(a)iwapt.org =============================================================== -- Satoshi OHSHIMA e-mail: ohshima(a)cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp Associate Professor High Performance Computing Division Information Technology Center Nagoya University Tokai National Higher Education and Research System

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NOMS 2022 - Call for Workshop Papers (deadline: January 23rd, 2022)
by Tortonesi Mauro 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS - NOMS 2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org ********************************************************************** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************* The 18th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2022) will be held on 25-29 April 2022 in Budapest, Hungary. Held in even-numbered years since 1988, NOMS 2022 will follow the 34 years tradition of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for technical exchange on management of information and communication technology focusing on research, development, integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. NOMS 2022 will feature the following 10 co-located workshops, which will be held immediately prior or after the main Technical Program, to further disseminate fine-tuned research, and that are organized around the main conference theme: Network and Service Management in the Era of Cloudification, Softwarization and Artificial Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to check the website of each workshop to know about the specific scope and topics, as well as for the procedures for submitting contributions through the JEMS conference management system. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st workshop on Autonomous Network Management in 5G and beyond systems (ANMS 2022) Website: https://h2020daemon.eu/workshop-ansm-2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4018 New networking systems aim to be fully Autonomous Networks (ANs) with management capabilities such as self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimizing, and self-evolving, aspects that today’s networks do not support as their management is mainly manual with some automated assistance. Artificial Intelligence (AI) (and more precisely Machine Learning (ML)) algorithms are promising to empower the new generation of intelligent decision engines that present self-dynamic capabilities to fully realize ANs. ANMS workshop focuses on novel research in AI-based and hybrid approaches (AI + non-AI) algorithms for AN management (closed-loop control) and Framework, algorithms, techniques, and tools to build and support AI-based solutions for ANs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th International Workshop on Analytics for Network and Service Management (AnNet 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/unal.edu.co/annetworkshop2022/welcome Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4019 AnNet aims to present research and experience results in data analytics and machine learning for network and service management. Approaches such as statistical analysis, data mining and machine learning are promising to harness the immense stream of operational data and to improve operations and management of IT systems and networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2022) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tnt-2022/home Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4020 Digital twins provide virtual and real-time representations of physical networks and empower network designers and operators to achieve simplified, automatic, evidence-driven, and resilient full life-cycle operation and maintenance. Digital twin networking has seen a continuous and rising interest from the research, engineering, and operational communities in recent years, with proposals on base technologies, architectures, and practical implementations. TNT will explore the duality created by i) using digital twin technologies to enable new ways of managing and operating networks and digital infrastructures and ii) the challenges emerging from the management of large-scale digital twins requiring innovative forms of networked systems management. Federation, data fusion, interoperability, and integrability of heterogeneous network twins in multi-provider, multi-operator and multi-domains/multi-applications environments will become increasingly important considerations to allow digital twin technologies to deliver their full potential and value across all industries. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd International workshop on “Fully-Flexible Internet Architectures and Protocols for the Next-Generation Tactile Internet” (FlexNGIA 2022) Website: https://www.flexngia.net/workshop-flexngia-2022 Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4021 The rise of edge, Cloud and in-network computing and the proliferation of AI solutions in networking are promoting the development of innovative applications like virtual/augmented reality, telepresence, autonomous systems, remotely controlled robotics and tactile applications, promising to revolutionize health-care, transportation, industry, agriculture, society and culture. To deploy such applications and to comply with their requirements, there is a need for new Internet architectures and protocols allowing a Tactile Internet that combines ultra low latency with extremely high availability, reliability and security. T . Such novel architectures and protocols are embodied in several initiatives like FlexNGIA (https://www.FlexNGIA.net) or projects like Teraflow (https://www.teraflow-h2020.eu) This workshop has the purpose of investigating how to rethink the current Internet and to devise new architectures and protocols by efficiently harnessing recent technological advances in virtualization, network softwarization, NFV/SDN, and Data plane programmability. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd International workshop on Graph-based network Security (GraSec 2022) Website: https://grasec.uni.lu/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4022 Graph-based modeling offers the advantage of understanding complex attacks and determining the root cause of an attack. However, existing graph mining tools for anomaly detection over streaming events are not adapted for cyber-security problems while the corresponding data continuously appears in the form of complex graphs. The main goal of GraSec is to present research and experience results in graph applications on network and cybersecurity as well as the defensive and offensive tools. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st International Workshop on Intelligence Provisioning for Network and Service Management in Softwarized Networks (IPSN 2022) Web site: https://ipsn2022.spilab.es/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4023 The main goal of IPSN Workshop is to present state-of-the-art research results and experience reports in the area of AI/ML for network management on softwarized networks, addressing topics such as artificial intelligence techniques and models for network and service management in softwarized networks; smart service orchestration, training process at the constrained edge, dynamic Service Function Chaining, Intent and policy based management, centralized vs distributed control of SDN/NFV based networks, analytics and big data approaches, knowledge creation and decision making. This workshop offers a timely venue for researchers and industry partners to present and discuss their latest results in the application of network intelligence to the management of softwarized networks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022) Web site: https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4024 The aim of the ITAVT workshop is to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and vehicle technology. Participants are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in ITAVT systems. This workshop focuses on innovative applications, tools and frameworks in all technology areas related to connected vehicles in the context of smart cities and other application domains. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Internet of Things Management (Manage-IoT 2022) Web site: https://manage-iot.future-iot.org/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4025 The Internet of Things (IoT) emerges as a major architectural paradigm for achieving machine-to-machine (M2M) communication. Managing IoT-based systems is complex and exciting. Though being an evolution from classical management, managing IoT things is still disruptive as classical assumptions about connectivity, compute resources, or usage patterns do not hold anymore. The manage-IoT workshop focuses on management methodologies for the Internet of Things, including resource, data, service, and security management. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd Workshop on Management for Industry 4.0 (MFI4.0 2022) Web site: http://management-for-industry40.icb.at/ Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4026 The Industry 4.0 revolution presents a multitude of management related challenges including the transition from ISA-95 to RAMI4.0/IIRA based automation for production automation, the integration of legacy OT with emerging IT technologies, the automation/digitalisation across value networks involving a multitude of stakeholders in complex relationships, and the formation of large to very large System of Systems (SoS). This workshop will focus on a number of core engineering and management issues for Industry 4.0, associated theory, architectures, frameworks, security and experimental experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2nd workshop on Tools and Concepts for Communication and Networked Systems (TCoNS 2022) Web site: http://comsys.ovgu.de/TCoNS.html Submit papers at: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4027 The Internet of Things (IoT) and related future networking concepts promise the ubiquitous availability of data. In the near future, service-oriented interaction will become part of IoT design principles, forming a new type of emergent behavior. New methods, models, and algorithms are necessary in order to ensure functionality, resiliency, and security. The workshop addresses current research related to the implementation and realization of future IoT applications and systems. Particular focus is put on concepts, tools, and the toolchains that are required for this endeavor. Furthermore, flexible right management, capability and performance profiles, and request evaluation for dynamically composed IoT settings will be targeted. We want to discuss how to realize abstract representations of these aspects in order to automatically react to adapted requests, changed network configurations, or system states. ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 23 January 2022 Acceptance Notification: 27 February 2022 Camera-ready Version Due: 13 March 2022 -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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ScaDL 2022 - Call for Papers
by Federica Filippini 23 Nov '21

23 Nov '21

[apologize for multiple posting] ScaDL 2022: Scalable Deep Learning over Parallel And Distributed Infrastructure - An IPDPS 2022 Workshop https://2022.scadl.org <https://2022.scadl.org/> Scope of the Workshop Recently, Deep Learning (DL) has received tremendous attention in the research community because of the impressive results obtained for a large number of machine learning problems. The success of state-of-the-art deep learning systems relies on training deep neural networks over a massive amount of training data, which typically requires a large-scale distributed computing infrastructure to run. In order to run these jobs in a scalable and efficient manner, on cloud infrastructure or dedicated HPC systems, several interesting research topics have emerged which are specific to DL. The sheer size and complexity of deep learning models when trained over a large amount of data makes them harder to converge in a reasonable amount of time. It demands advancement along multiple research directions such as, model/data parallelism, model/data compression, distributed optimization algorithms for DL convergence, synchronization strategies, efficient communication and specific hardware acceleration. SCADL seeks to advance the following research directions: - Asynchronous and Communication-Efficient SGD: Stochastic gradient descent is at the core of large-scale machine learning. Parallelizing SGD gradient computation across multiple nodes increases the data processed per iteration, but exposes the SGD to communication and synchronization delays and unpredictable node failures in the system. Thus, there is a critical need to design robust and scalable distributed SGD methods to achieve fast error-convergence in spite of such system variabilities. - High performance computing aspects: Deep learning is highly compute intensive. Algorithms for kernel computations on commonly used accelerators (e.g. GPUs), efficient techniques for communicating gradients and loading data from storage are critical for training performance. - Model and Gradient Compression Techniques: Techniques such as reducing weights and the size of weight tensors help in reducing the compute complexity. Using lower-bit representations such as quantization and sparsification allow for more optimal use of memory and communication bandwidth. - Distributed Trustworthy AI: New techniques are needed to meet the goal of global trustworthiness (e.g., fairness and adversarial robustness) efficiently in a distributed DL setting. - Emerging AI hardware Accelerators: with the proliferation of new hardware accelerators for AI such in memory computing (Analog AI) and neuromorphic computing, novel methods and algorithms need to be introduced to adapt to the underlying properties of the new hardware (example: the non-idealities of the phase-change memory (PCM) and the cycle-to-cycle statistical variations). - The intersection of Distributed DL and Neural Architecture Search (NAS): NAS is increasingly being used to automate the synthesis of neural networks. However, given the huge computational demands of NAS, distributed DL is critical to make NAS computationally tractable (e.g., differentiable distributed NAS). This intersection of distributed/parallel computing and deep learning is becoming critical and demands specific attention to address the above topics which some of the broader forums may not be able to provide. The aim of this workshop is to foster collaboration among researchers from distributed/parallel computing and deep learning communities to share the relevant topics as well as results of the current approaches lying at the intersection of these areas. Areas of Interest In this workshop, we solicit research papers focused on distributed deep learning aiming to achieve efficiency and scalability for deep learning jobs over distributed and parallel systems. Papers focusing both on algorithms as well as systems are welcome. We invite authors to submit papers on topics including but not limited to: - Deep learning on cloud platforms, HPC systems, and edge devices - Model-parallel and data-parallel techniques - Asynchronous SGD for Training DNNs - Communication-Efficient Training of DNNs - Scalable and distributed graph neural networks, Sampling techniques for graph neural networks - Federated deep learning, both horizontal and vertical, and its challenges - Model/data/gradient compression - Learning in Resource constrained environments - Coding Techniques for Straggler Mitigation - Elasticity for deep learning jobs/spot market enablement - Hyper-parameter tuning for deep learning jobs - Hardware Acceleration for Deep Learning including digital and analog accelerators - Scalability of deep learning jobs on large clusters - Deep learning on heterogeneous infrastructure - Efficient and Scalable Inference - Data storage/access in shared networks for deep learning - Communication-efficient distributed fair and adversarially robust learning - Distributed learning techniques applied to speed up neural architecture search Workshop Format Due to the continuing impact of COVID-19, ScaDL 2022 will also adopt relevant IPDPS 2022 policies on virtual participation and presentation. Consequently, the organizers are currently planning a hybrid (in-person and virtual) event. Submission Link Submissions will be managed through linklings. Submission link available at: https://2022.scadl.org/call-for-papers <https://2022.scadl.org/call-for-papers> Key Dates - Paper Submission: January 24, 2022 - Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2022 - Camera ready papers due: March 15, 2022 (hard deadline) - Workshop Date: TBA (May 30th or June 3rd, 2022) Author Instructions ScaDL 2022 accepts submissions in two categories: Regular papers: 8-10 pages Short papers/Work in progress: 4 pages The aforementioned lengths include all technical content, references and appendices. We encourage submissions that are original research work, work in progress, case studies, vision papers, and industrial experience papers. Papers should be formatted using IEEE conference style, including figures, tables, and references. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions at https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html <https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html> General Chairs Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Stacy Patterson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA Program Committee Chairs Alex Gittens, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Research AI, USA Steering Committee Parijat Dube, IBM Research AI, USA Vijay K. Garg, University of Texas at Austin Vinod Muthusamy, IBM Research AI Ashish Verma, IBM Research AI Jayaram K. R., IBM Research AI, USA Yogish Sabharwal, IBM Research AI, India

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