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DeepLearn 2023 Summer: early registration January 21
by David Silva - IRDTA 31 Dec '22

31 Dec '22

************************************************************************ 10th INTERNATIONAL GRAN CANARIA SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING DeepLearn 2023 Summer Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain July 17-21, 2023 https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023su/ ************************************************************************ Co-organized by: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA Brussels/London ************************************************************************ Early registration: January 21, 2023 ************************************************************************ FRAMEWORK: DeepLearn 2023 Summer is part of a multi-event called Deep&Big 2023 consisting also of BigDat 2023 Summer. DeepLearn 2023 Summer participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures in the program of BigDat 2023 Summer as well if they are interested. SCOPE: DeepLearn 2023 Summer will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth and Bari. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, etc. etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 16 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and employment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2023 Summer is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2023 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be: Institución Ferial de Canarias Avenida de la Feria, 1 35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://www.infecar.es/ STRUCTURE: 2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. Also, if interested, participants will be able to attend courses developed in BigDat 2023 Summer, which will be held in parallel and at the same venue. Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (to be completed) Aidong Zhang (University of Virginia), Concept-Based Models for Robust and Interpretable Deep Learning PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Eneko Agirre (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Natural Language Processing in the Large Language Model Era Tae-Kyun Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Deep 3D Pose Estimation Marcus Liwicki (Luleå University of Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Methods for Learning with Few Data Ivan Oseledets (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), [tba] Tensor Methods for Approximation of High-Dimensional Arrays and Their Applications in Machine Learning Carlo Sansone (University of Naples Federico II), tba Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan (Nanyang Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Randomization-Based Deep and Shallow Learning Algorithms and Architectures Savannah Thais (Columbia University), [intermediate] Applications of Graph Neural Networks: Physical and Societal Systems Z. Jane Wang (University of British Columbia), [introductory/intermediate] Adversarial Deep Learning in Digital Image Security & Forensics Li Xiong (Emory University), [introductory] Deep Learning and Privacy Enhancing Technology Lihi Zelnik-Manor (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), [introductory] Introduction to Computer Vision and the Ethical Questions It Raises OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. EMPLOYER SESSION: Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the organization and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) David Silva (London, organization chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023su/registration/ The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish as well as eventually courses in BigDat 2023 Summer. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at https://irdta.eu/deeplearn/2023su/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. Participants will be recognized 2 ECTS credits by University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david(a)irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Cabildo de Gran Canaria Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Fundación Parque Científico Tecnológico Universitat Rovira i Virgili Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London

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7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023): Second Call for Papers
by George Angelos Papadopoulos 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

*** Second Call for Papers *** 7th International Conference on Internet Science (INSCI 2023) September 13-15, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/ Submissions due: May 1, 2023 (AoE) “Internet for Survival”: How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. INSCI is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scholars and practitioners at the intersection of technological, social and economic sciences seeking to learn how the Internet can be used to make our world a better place. Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call “Internet”, for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. INSCI welcomes works done in interdisciplinary teams that may include computer scientists, sociologists, policy makers, economists, designers and artists, or complex system scholars, among others, preferably uniting expertise from social, economic and technical sciences. This kind of work is expected to close the gap between societal / economic impact and requirements and technological developments, seen as both drivers and consequences of each other. Thus, INSCI 2023 welcomes submissions to a wide range of topics including but not limited to the following list. TOPICS Green, Sustainability, and Innovation * The challenges of Responsible Research and Innovation on Internet solution * The technological, social and economic benefits of Transnational and Inter-Cultural Projects * Internet solutions supporting Environmental policies related to Climate Change * Green Computing in a holistic perspective: trade-offs of computing power, social benefits, economic and environmental impacts (e.g. blockchains) * Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Novel Platforms for alternative distributed economic models * Distributed environmental awareness: creating a collective consciousness of environmental issues and possible solutions at individual and collective level. Collective intelligence, sensing and action * Energy optimisation from from networked production to shared consumption, relying on top-down and bottom-up approaches * Networks for circular economy models: conceiving and putting in place platforms and solutions effectively supporting circular and social economy models, collaborative making, art and creativity. Enabling Technologies, Applications and Infrastructures * Social implications of Reinforcement Algorithms, Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems * Feasibility and social /economic aspects of Algorithms for mediation content * Data Sovereignty and inclusion aspects of Cloud, Grid and Cluster Computing * Recommender, Adaptive and Context Aware Systems: design, social and inclusion aspects, feasibility and adoption * Networking and Wireless Systems as enablers: inclusion, health, privacy and pervasiveness aspects * People-driven Internet Technologies and Applications, including Collaborative Platforms & Social Search, Open Data and New Interfaces Societal Structures * How will Internet of Things change Society and interaction models * Digital Competences and Participation * Virtual Communities and Behavioural Patterns: how are they affected by the technological platforms being used * Knowledge, Education, Technology Enhanced Learning, and Societal Web Impact on Internet Evolution * Offline and Online Human Behaviour with Emphasis on Social Media and Online/ER/ VR Interactions Digital Politics and Governance * Internet and Political Participation * Online Political Freedoms in Policing and in Effect: Regional and Local Perspectives, technological impacts and requirements * Citizen Involvement into Decision-Making: Platforms, Actors, and Experiences * Political Discussions Online: Issues and Groups Behind Them, technical and collaborative solutions to moderate them * E-governance Practices of Today’s Authorities across the world * Internet regulation: Security vs. Openness Free Communication Patterns and Democracy * Freedom of Speech Online: a Contested Area of Policing * Algorithms as New Total Communicative Power * Extremist and Radical Talk Online and Policies or socio-Technical solutions to counteract it * Universal Internet Freedoms vs. Dark Web * Participatory Democracy and Budgeting: citizens’ involvement in democratic processes, for more equal and inclusive resource allocation * Cognitive, Psychological Aspects and Incentive Mechanisms for online Engagement, Collaboration and Participation (smart citizenship, e-literacy, participation skills, decision support and recommendations for informed citizens and collective actions) * E-Democracy and E-Participation: risks and opportunities, lessons learnt from currently deployed solutions (e.g. e-voting, Decidim) * Reliable online information: collaborative models and processes to produce/qualify online information (e.g. post-truth Practices Online, filter bubble and fact checking), for health (e.g. vaccination), democracy (international decision-making, political campaigns, opinion and sentiment modelling, governmental censure and influence), economy (product labelling, ethical marketing), safety of online ecosystems (children protection, fake news, digital rebels) * Crowdsourcing: implications, enablers Sustainable Network Economy * Legal, economic, technological and innovation hurdles related to Intellectual Property and the Digital Commons * New Collaborative Markets Analytics * Economic Power of Online Platforms: Expropriation of Digital Labour, Open Data solutions and their applicability * Digital Corporations: World Leaders and Regional Alternatives * Analogous Elites, Technological Precariat * Digital Professions and Reshaping of Online Labour Markets * New decentralised economic models: enabling and sustaining a distributed ecosystem of platforms and solutions intrinsically respectful of privacy, self-disclosure and digital sovereignty * The consumer perspective: unlawful profiling, discrimination and lock-in, automated contracts and warranties Global Access Opportunities * Internet Resilience: Defining/Comparing non-disconnection Technologies, Monitoring Approaches and Internet Governance Models ensuring resiliency and citizens’ empowerment and sovereignty * Global and Local Faces of Today’s Digital Divide * Comparing existing and future Open Distance Education and Life-long Learning Environments on online/Virtual Reality Platforms, Practices Around the World * Global Media Online: Translation and Language Divide * Empowerment of Disabled with New Body Extensions * Post-human and Tech-human Individuals and Societies Data Sharing and Protection * Data Openness vs. User Protection: tech and social aspects of open data policies * Limits of Privacy and Anonymization, their dependance on technological solutions and intended applications * Clouds, Big Data and Data Protection Regulation vs. knowledge sharing and open innovation * Global Tech Powers and Alternative Solutions based on decentralisation * Open Science and Access to Scientific Production: technological enablers, platform governance, economic and innovation aspects IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of Papers: May 1, 2023 (AoE) * Notification of Decision: July 1, 2023 * Camera-Ready Submission: July 15, 2023 * Author Registration Deadline: July 15. 2023 PAPER REQUIREMENTS All submitted papers must: * Describe original results that have not been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere * Be written in English and be submitted in PDF format * Contain author names, affiliations, and email addresses * Be formatted according to the Springer’s LNCS format Proceedings template: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html • Contain three to seven keywords characterizing the paper, to be indicated at the end of the abstract * Be submitted via the conference system in EasyChair, using the submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=insci2023 Full paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). We encourage a length of 12 pages for full papers. The Program Committee reserves the right to accept a submission as a short paper. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding the submission page limits or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. SELECTION All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the international Program Committee, with a mix of social, economic and technological expertise. The review process will be single-blind. Selection will be based on: * Degree of interdisciplinarity (between social, economic and/or technical sciences) * Novelty and technical merit * Relevance of the generated insights for the future Internet development CAMERA-READY Camera-ready submissions should be corrected by following the remarks of the reviewers and submitted using the same submission link in zip format including: * The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in pdf format * The camera-ready version of the authors’ work in editable sources format * The Consent to Publish signed in ink and scanned to image file PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be presented at INSCI2023 and published in the conference proceedings volume, which will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors of selected best papers from the conference will be contacted in order to consider submission of an expanded version of their papers for publication in a special issue to be organised with an accredited journal (under negotiation). ORGANISATION General Chair * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs * Vasileios Mezaris, Information Technologies Institute, Greece * Fabrizio Sestini, European Commission DG CONNECT, Belgium Steering & Program Committees https://cyprusconferences.org/insci2023/committees/

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ISC High Performance 2023 CALL FOR BoFS
by Marta 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

ISC High Performance 2023 CALL FOR BoFS Deadline for submission is January 25th, 2023 ============================================================================================ The ISC High Performance 2023 Conference call for BoFs is now open! (https://www.isc-hpc.com/submissions-bof-sessions-2023.html) Like-minded ISC attendees come together in our informal Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) sessions during ISC High Performance (May 21 - 25, 2023 in Hamburg) to discuss current HPC topics, network, and share their thoughts and ideas. Each BoF will be a 60 minutes session focusing on a different topic and is led by one or more experts in the relevant subject. BoFs are different in nature from panels, technical paper sessions, tutorials, vendor talks, and other, more lecture-oriented parts of the ISC program. They provide a venue for a dynamic conversation with peers, experts, leaders, and anybody from the HPC community interested in a common subject. Proposals should demonstrate a clear concept for the interactive nature of their BoF. Submitted BoF proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2023 BoFs Committee, which is headed by Marta Garcia Gasulla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain as Chair. More information: https://www.isc-hpc.com/submissions-bof-sessions-2023.html IMPORTANT DATES - Submission Deadline: January 25, 2023, 11:59pm AoE - Notification of Acceptance: February 28, 2023 - BoF Sessions: May 22 – May 24, 2023 CHAIR BoFs Chair: Marta Garcia Gasulla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain BoFs Deputy Chair: Brian Wylie, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH AREAS OF INTEREST BoF sessions are intended to cover all areas of interest as listed in the call for paper: https://www.isc-hpc.com/submissions-research-papers-2023.html - Architectures, Networks, & Storage - HPC Algorithms & Applications. - Programming Environments & Systems Software - Machine Learning, AI, & Quantum Computing - Performance Modeling, Evaluation, & Analysis SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS see: https://www.isc-hpc.com/submissions-bof-sessions-2023.html TERMS & CONDITIONS ISC 2023 is planned as an in-person conference from May 21 to May 25, 2023, in Hamburg, Germany. By submitting a BoF proposal, the submitter agrees to host the BoF session at ISC 2023 on-site in Hamburg. BoF presenters need to be registered ISC 2023 participants. They will require at least an Exhibition Pass. The ISC organizers will provide meeting room facilities and basic technical equipment for the BoF sessions. Travel, accommodation, registration fees and other such costs will not be covered by the ISC organizers.

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): First Call for Submissions
by George Angelos Papadopoulos 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

*** First Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities * Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing * Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management * Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, * Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT * Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps * Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. * Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics * Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions * Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Semantic services and service mining * Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms * Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Storage, computation and network Clouds * Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing * Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds * Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) * Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) * Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) * Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: * Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) * PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) * Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. A journal special issue is planned, and authors of selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their articles. ORGANISATION General Chair * George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs * Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) * Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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CFP Extended deadline: 13th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2023) in conjunction with symposium IEEE IPDPS St-Petersburg, Florida USA
by Didier Elbaz 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP. *************************************************************************** Submission deadline: January 20, 2023. The 13th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2023) https://pdco2023.sciencesconf.org/ held in conjunction with the 37th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2023) May 15 - May 19, 2023 St Petersburg, Florida, USA http://www.ipdps.org <http://www.ipdps.org/> *************************************************************************** Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization, scheduling problems and planning problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence study, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, robotics, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Nature inspired parallel / distributed computing; * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be confirmed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, e-Bus Competence Center, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2023 submission system: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=PDCOWorkshopFul… Abstract and paper can be uploaded until Friday December 23, 2022. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available on IPDPS website <http://www.ipdps.org/>. Special Issue: ============ Selected papers from PDCO 2023 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of an international high-quality journal. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. Important Dates: ================ - Submission deadline: January 20, 2023; - Author notification: February 24, 2023; - Camera-Ready papers due: March 7, 2023; - Workshop: May 19, 2023. Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at pdco2023(a)sciencesconf.org <mailto:[email protected]>

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BigDat 2023 Summer: early registration January 14
by David Silva - IRDTA 24 Dec '22

24 Dec '22

*********************************************** 7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA BigDat 2023 Summer Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain July 17-21, 2023 https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su *********************************************** Co-organized by: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA Brussels/London *********************************************** Early registration: January 14, 2023 *********************************************** FRAMEWORK: BigDat 2023 Summer is part of a multi-event called Deep&Big 2023 consisting also of DeepLearn 2023 Summer. BigDat 2023 Summer participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures in the program of DeepLearn 2023 Summer as well if they are interested. SCOPE: BigDat 2023 Summer will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timisoara, Cambridge and Ancona. Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, health, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, analytics, security and privacy, as well as applications to biology and medicine, business, finance, transportation, online social networks, etc. Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 16 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and employment profiles. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2023 Summer is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: BigDat 2023 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be: Institución Ferial de Canarias Avenida de la Feria, 1 35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria https://www.infecar.es/ STRUCTURE: 2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. Also, if interested, participants will be able to attend courses developed in DeepLearn 2023 Summer, which will be held in parallel and at the same venue. Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Valerie Daggett (University of Washington), tba Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), tba PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed) Paolo Addesso (University of Salerno), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion for Remotely Sensed Data Marcelo Bertalmío (Spanish National Research Council), [introductory] The Standard Model of Vision and Its Limitations: Implications for Imaging, Vision Science and Artificial Neural Networks Gianluca Bontempi (Free University of Brussels), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning for Big Data Analytics: from Prediction to Causal Inference Altan Çakir (Istanbul Technical University), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to Distributed Deep Learning with Apache Spark Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), tba Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Differential Privacy Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing and Geometric Learning Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Data Analytics for Massive Networks Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-Based Health Analytics Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning Ana Trisovic (Harvard University), [introductory/advanced] Reproducible Research, Best Practices and Big Data Management Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [tba] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. EMPLOYER SESSION: Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the organization and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david(a)irdta.eu by July 9, 2023. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) David Silva (London, organization chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su/registration/ The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish as well as eventually courses in DeepLearn 2023 Summer. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. Participants will be recognized 2 ECTS credits by University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david(a)irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Cabildo de Gran Canaria Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Fundación Parque Científico Tecnológico Rovira i Virgili University Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London

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IoTBDS 2023, 21-23 April 2023 (submission due on 19 Jan 2023)
by Victor Chang 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Dear colleagues, I hope you and your family are doing well. We have the 8th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security 2023 (IoTBDS 2023), in Prague, Czech Republic, between 21-23 April, 2023. Submission deadline has been extended to 19 Jan, 2023 due to impacts of COVID-19. We also allow a hybrid mode, meaning some participants can present online. We work with high quality journals, well-known keynote speakers and researchers/scientists/practitioners/decision-makers from all over the world. Please check our websites https://iotbds.scitevents.org/ and COMPLXIS 2023 https://complexis.scitevents.org/ with the same submission deadlines and also FEMIB 2023 https://femib.scitevents.org/ and social network website https://www.facebook.com/ES2014ECs2015/. Our conference has an index from WOS, Scopus, EI, etc. We have support from Journal of Grid Computing (JoGC, WOS SCI Q1), Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM, WOS Q2, EI, ABS/AJG 2), Decision Support Analytics (Scopus) and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (JETM, with FEMIB, WOS Q1, ABS/AJG 2). We'll seek support from more competitive journals. We look forward to meeting you and seeing your presentations. Many thanks in advance. Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thanks and regards, Victor https://iotbds.scitevents.org/ UPCOMING SUBMISSION DEADLINES (for both regular papers and position papers) Position/Regular Paper Submission: January 19, 2023 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: March 1, 2023 Abstracts Track Submission: March 1, 2023 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: March 1, 2023 Authors Notification: March 14, 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: March 22, 2023 Tutorials Tutorial Proposal: March 14, 2023 Demos Demo Proposal: March 14, 2023 Panels Panel Proposal: March 14, 2023 Abstracts Track Abstract Submission: March 1, 2023 Authors Notification: March 14, 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: March 22, 2023 SCOPE The internet of things (IoT) is a platform that allows a network of devices (sensors, smart meters, etc.) to communicate, analyze data and process information collaboratively in the service of individuals or organizations. The IoT network can generate large amounts of data in a variety of formats and using different protocols which can be stored and processed in the cloud. The conference looks to address the issues surrounding IoT devices, their interconnectedness and services they may offer, including efficient, effective and secure analysis of the data IoT produces using machine learning and other advanced techniques, models and tools, and issues of security, privacy and trust that will emerge as IoT technologies mature and become part of our everyday lives. Big Data (BD) has core values of volume, velocity, variety and veracity. After collecting much data from IoT, BD can be jointly used with machine learning, AI, statistical and other advanced techniques, models and methods, which can create values for people and organizations adopting it, since forecasting, deep analysis and analytics can help identify weaknesses and make improvements based on different analysis. Maintaining a high level of security and privacy for data in IoT are crucial and we welcome recommendations, solutions, demonstrations and best practices for all forms of security and privacy for IoT and BD. CONFERENCE AREAS Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. BIG DATA RESEARCH 2. EMERGING SERVICES AND ANALYTICS 3. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FUNDAMENTALS 4. INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) APPLICATIONS 5. BIG DATA FOR MULTI-DISCIPLINE SERVICES 6. SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST 7. IOT TECHNOLOGIES AREA 1: BIG DATA RESEARCH Modeling, Experiments, Sharing Technologies & Platforms Analytics, Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering Software-Defined Networking, Virtual Data Centers and emerging Data Centers Networking and Social Networks Data Management for Large Data Social Science and Implications for Big Data AREA 2: EMERGING SERVICES AND ANALYTICS Health Informatics as a Service (HIaaS) for Any Type of Health Informatics, Computation and Services Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) including Software Frameworks, Empirical Approaches and Data Processing Techniques Big Data Algorithm, Methodology, Business Models and Challenges Security as a Service including Any Algorithms, Methodology and Software Proof-of-Concepts Financial Applications for Risk, Pricing, Disaster Analysis and Predictive Modeling Tele-education, Tele-working, Tele-medicine and Tele-consulting applications Analytics as a Service (AaaS) for Any Types of Analytics eGovernment, eCommerce, eScience and Creative Technologies for IoT and Big Data IoT Services and Applications New Service Models and Emerging Services AREA 3: INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) FUNDAMENTALS Software Architecture and Middleware Recommender Systems, Smart Devices and Location-Awareness Performance Evaluation and Modeling Networking and Communication Protocols Machine to Machine Communications Energy Efficiency Software Engineering for IoT and IoE Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches Data Analytics AREA 4: INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) APPLICATIONS Technological Focus for Smart Environments Smart City Examples and Case Studies Architecture for Secure and Interactive IoT Social Implications and Ethics for IoT Intelligence Systems for IoT and Services Computing Sensor Networks, Remote Diagnosis and Development Transportation Management Traffic Theory, Modeling and Simulation Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems for Vehicles, Green Systems and Smart City AREA 5: BIG DATA FOR MULTI-DISCIPLINE SERVICES Smart City and Transportation Techniques and methods for post-COVID-19 learning, training and teleworking Business, Finance and Management Case Studies of Real Adoption and Inter-disciplinary Research Healthcare Services, Health Informatics, Biomedical Research and Biological Research of the Pandemic Social Networks Analysis, Faked News, Blockchain and eGovernment Healthcare Services, Health Informatics and Biological Research of the Pandemic AREA 6: SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST Algorithms, Software Engineering and Development Encryption (All Aspects) Firewall, Access Control, Identity Management Intrusion and Detection Techniques Case Studies Data, System, User and Location Privacy Data Security, Data Recovery, Disaster Recovery Adoption Challenges and Recommendation Security, Privacy and Trust Testing (Software Engineering; Penetration; Product Development) Experiments on Using Security Solutions and Proof-of-Concepts Emerging Issues and Recommendations for Organizational Security Analysis and Vulnerabilty Prevention Software Engineering for Security Modeling, Business Process Modeling and Analytics AREA 7: IOT TECHNOLOGIES Artificial Intelligence Communication Data Processing Internet of Things Sensors Communication Protocols Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Transport Safety and Mobility IoT in Autonomous and e-vehicles Drones and integration with 5G/6G CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Péter Kacsuk (honorary), MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Victor Chang, Aston Business School, Aston University, United Kingdom PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Gary B. Wills, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Levente Buttyán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary PUBLICITY CHAIRS Bernhard Heiden, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Please visit https://iotbds.scitevents.org/ , https://complexis.scitevents.org/ and https://femib.scitevents.org/ . We have support from Journal of Grid Computing (JoGC, WOS SCI Q1), Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM, WOS Q2, EI, ABS/AJG 2), Decision Support Analytics (Scopus) and Journal of Engineering and Technology Management (JETM, with FEMIB, WOS Q1, ABS/AJG 2).

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29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023): Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications
by George Angelos Papadopoulos 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

*** Second Call for PhD Symposium Applications *** 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2023) August 28 - September 1, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus http://2023.euro-par.org SCOPE The Euro-Par PhD Symposium is a welcoming and supportive forum for PhD students to present their work, meet and interact with peers, and to receive constructive feedback about their work from experts in the Euro-Par community. The program will feature technical presentations by PhD students, and discussions in panel and open formats. Contributions accepted to the PhD Symposium will appear in the Euro-Par companion proceedings. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We invite submissions from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Applicants must be officially enrolled in a PhD Program at the time of submission, and each submission MUST be backed by an endorsement from the official PhD adviser(s). Required submission files are as follows: 1. Proposal (in Springer LNCS format, no longer than 6 pages with references) including: * Title of work, author and affiliation * Abstract of the work * Brief description of work being/planned to be done, including the problem being addressed, the research methodology, and preliminary results (if any) 2. Adviser Statement of Support on institutional letterhead (no longer than 2 pages), including: * Declaration that the applicant is their PhD student, and the length of time of this relationship * Confirmation of support for applicant’s participation * The applicant's expected academic contributions * The level of work that has been achieved by the student (in the course of or before the PhD work) * How the student will prepare for the event * How the student plans to attend the event (i.e. in person or online) * How travel and accommodation costs are to be met, if planning to attend in person * The expected impact of attending the event on the student's work REGISTRATION STUDENTSHIPS We are happy to announce that we can cover the registration fees of 15 student attendees; 15 awards will be funded by the Euro-Par Foundation. To qualify, you should be a PhD student studying Informatics and Computing Science at the time of the event. On top of the above specific criteria for each studentship, the following criteria will be used: * Explicit recommendation by the advisor(s) is paramount, as awards will be given based on the strength of the advisor(s) letter * Priority will be given to in-person attendees Successful applicants may be asked to undertake some tasks to assist the running of Euro-Par 2023. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submission consists of: * Proposal: A manuscript that address item 1 of the call -- see above. * Adviser letter: A statement of support from the applicant's adviser(s) as described in the call. Both elements are to be submitted together as a single PDF to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2023 REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS The symposium committee members will review the submitted applications based on originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference. Submitted documents that do not meet the above requirements might be rejected without a review. All submitted proposals will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate (proposals which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review). IMPORTANT DATES * Submission: May 20, 2023 (AoE) * Notification: July 1, 2023 * Camera-Ready: July 15, 2023 PHD SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS * Herodotos Herodotou, University of Cyprus. Cyprus * Demetris Thrihinas, University of Cyprus. Cyprus

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Call for Research Paper Submission and Undergrad/K-12 Research Competition at ASTRIDE2023/ICDE2023
by Shantanu Sharma 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] Call for Research *Paper Submission and Undergrad/K-12 Research Competition* at ASTRIDE2023/ICDE2023 ----------- Call for research papers ---------- 1st Private, Secure, and Trustworthy IoT Data Management Workshop (ASTRIDE 2023) Co-Located with IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2023) Anaheim, CA, USA. April 3 2023 https://astride-2023.github.io/ Important dates Paper submission deadline - January 12, 2023 (11:59PM PST) Notification deadline - February 1, 2023 Camera ready deadline - February 15, 2023 CALL FOR PAPERS The global Internet of Things (IoT) market size is projected to reach 2.5 trillion US Dollars by 2029 with billions of smart devices connected to the Internet by then. The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) revolution promises to impact almost every aspect of modern society. However, the existing behavior of IoT devices and systems contradicts the increasing expectations of privacy with more awareness and new legislation to protect individuals' privacy emerging worldwide (such as Europe’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, Brazil’s LGPD, and India’s PDPB). The need for privacy-aware Internet of Things (IoT) systems has been widely accepted. Central to IoT applications is the data management technology that can represent, store, transform, and query sensor data. Given the importance of IoT, the data management community has been focusing on the special requirements of IoT systems due to the volume and high speeds of IoT data). On the other hand, the privacy and security community has studied potential attacks and vulnerabilities in IoT applications and systems and explored their corresponding detection and defense strategies. The ASTRIDE Workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE ICDE conference, seeks contributions to solving challenges in private, secure, and trustworthy IoT data management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Secure hardware for IoT data management · Model-based security systems engineering · Understanding dependencies among security, reliability,and safety in CPS/IoT · High-assurance security architectures · Intrusion and anomaly detection · Secure and privacy-preserving sensor data outsourcing · Privacy-by-design of IoT data management systems · Differentially private computing · Privacy-preserving machine learning and federated learning and analytics · Privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, CalOPPA) and their impact on IoT systems · Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis in IoT Systems · Inference control and access control policies · Authentication · Blockchain-based systems · Identity and access management · Security, privacy, and utility metrics · Application/use-cases in healthcare, environment, transportation, energy, etc We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works. Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been previously published. All paper submissions should be a maximum length of six (6) printed pages in IEEE format without references. Two (2) additional pages will be allowed in the camera ready submission to incorporate comments from the reviewers. Accepted papers will be selected for oral presentation based on peer review. Submissions are not double-blind; the submitted paper should include author names and affiliations. For more details, see the workshop website: https://astride-2023.github.io/. -------------------------- UNDERGRAD/K-12 RESEARCH COMPETITION AT ASTRIDE2023/ICDE2023 -------------------------- Important dates Submission deadline - January 25, 2023 (11:59PM PST) Notification deadline - February 8, 2023 The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) revolution promises to impact almost every aspect of modern society. However, the existing behavior of IoT devices and systems brings in challenges of privacy with more awareness and new legislation to protect individuals' privacy emerging worldwide. The ASTRIDE 2023 Workshop, held in conjunction with ICDE 2023, seeks to help bridge the gap between two research communities ---- Security and Privacy Researchers, IoT Data management Researchers. The ASTRIDE workshop is hosting a research competition for Undergrad/K-12 students with prizes to the best contributions. The Undergrad/K-12 Research Competition is a forum for undergraduate and K-12 students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and receive feedback from senior researchers in the field. The Undergrad/K-12 Research Competition has the following goals for junior scholars: · Share their research ideas and prototypes at the ASTRIDE/ICDE forum to gain visibility to their work. · Meet and interact with attendees at both ASTRIDE and ICDE, share ideas and gain insights about what research in the data management / privacy/security / IoT communities. · Receive feedback from senior members of industry and academia about their research and presentation. · Be recognized and rewarded for outstanding undergrad/K-12 student research. Eligibility and Guidelines: · While a group of researchers (including students and faculty) can work together on a project submitted to the competition, the leading author of each research contribution must be a student (undergraduate or K-12). · The competition has two categories, one for undergraduate lead research and another for K-12 lead research. Research completed while the student was an undergraduate/K-12 may be submitted to the undergraduate/K-12 category even if the student is now a first-year graduate/undergraduate student. · Three winners will be selected in each category - undergraduate and K-12. The top three winners in each category will receive prizes of US $500, $300, and $200, respectively. Winners will be recognized during the closing session of the ASTRIDE workshop. For more details, see the workshop website: https://astride-2023.github.io/. Organization · Xi He (University of Waterloo) · Primal Pappachan (Penn State University) · Shantanu Sharma (New Jersey Institute of Technology) · Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) CHEOPS@EuroSys23 - Abstract submission due February 1, 2023
by Shadi Ibrahim 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Call for papers: CHEOPS'23 Deadline for abstract submission: February 1, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE Deadline for papers: February 8, 2023, 11:59 PM AoE =============================================================== The third Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS) https://cheops-workshop.github.io/2023.html May 8, 2023 Rome, Italy Held in conjunction with EuroSys 2023 =============================================================== We are pleased to announce the third Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'23). CHEOPS'23 will be hosted in conjunction with EuroSys'23. The third workshop on "Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems" (CHEOPS) is aimed at researchers, developers of scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution of storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and network technologies continue to diverge, the bandwidth performance gap between them widens. This trend, combined with the ever growing data volumes and data-driven computing such as machine learning, results in I/O and storage limitations, impacting the scalability and efficiency of current and future computing systems. Some of these challenges are quantitative, such as scale to match exascale system requirements, or latency reduction of the software stack to efficiently integrate new generations of hardware like storage class memory (SCM). Some other issues are more subtle and arise with the increased complexity of the storage solutions, like new smarter and more potent data management tools, monitoring systems or interoperability between I/O components or data formats. The main objective of this workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art research, innovative ideas and experiences that focus on the design and implementation of storage systems in both academic and industrial worlds. Topics of Interest ------------------------ Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers and we therefore explicitly encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Operating system optimizations - Kernel and user space file/storage systems • Including virtual file systems - Cloud, parallel and distributed file/storage systems • Network challenges, such as scalability, QoS and partitionability - Approaches for low-latency and heterogeneous storage systems • Such as SCM and NVRAM combined with HDDs - Metadata management - Provenance capture and management - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence • Storage requirements of ML and AI applications • Using ML and AI within storage systems (e.g., to replace heuristics) - Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases • Approaches using query and database interfaces, including key-value stores • Optimized indexing techniques - Data organizations to support online workflows - Data privacy and data security - Domain-specific data management solutions • Application I/O characterization - Storage systems modeling and analysis tools - Data reduction techniques • Lossless and lossy compression, deduplication - UI/UX for storage systems - Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn’t? • Feedback and empirical evaluation of storage systems Paper Submissions --------------------------- All papers need to be submitted electronically through HotCRP with PDF format through the following link: https://cheops23.hotcrp.com/. The reviewing process will be double blind with at least 3 reviews for each submission. An online discussion will determine which papers to accept. Only original and novel work not currently under review in other venues will be considered for publication. Submissions can either be full papers (6 pages) or short papers (4 pages). The page count includes the title, text, figures, appendices but excludes the references. The papers must be formatted according to the submission rules of EuroSys. Accepted papers will have to comply with the EuroSys proceedings format. One author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and present the paper. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review journal. Important Dates ---------------------- Abstract Submission: February 1, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) Paper Submission: February 8, 2023 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification to Authors: March 8, 2023 Camera-Ready Deadline: March 22, 2023 Workshop Date: May 8, 2023 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Steering Committee: - Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, DDN, France - Jalil Boukhobza, National Institute of Advanced Technologies of Brittany (ENSTA Bretagne), France - Konstantinos Chasapis, DDN, France - Kira Duwe, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany - Michael Kuhn, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany General Chair: - Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, DDN, France Program Co-Chairs: - Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France - Suren Byna, The Ohio State University, USA

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