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Special Issue “Data Spaces and Data Governance” - Data Science and Engineering (Deadline 1 Dec 2024)
by Sangyoung Yoon 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

SPECIAL ISSUE "DATA SPACES AND DATA GOVERNANCE" - JOURNAL DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (SJR: Q1) https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://secureurl.ankabut.ac.ae/*fmlurlsvc/?fewR… ***ABOUT*** Since the introduction of its core concepts more than a decade ago, research on big data and data science has advanced rapidly. Novel paradigms such as software-defined *, cyber-physical systems, computing continuum, and distributed analytics have been proposed and supported by technical advancements such as improved storage and faster processing. With the recent IT-related developments (including machine learning and artificial intelligence), all these approaches and technologies have significantly boosted the importance of (big) data governance and data science. Today, policymakers, administrations, and governments globally recognize the importance of data in today’s digital society, and several initiatives are underway. For instance, the European Union is creating a trustworthy ecosystem where the power hidden in data can be fully unleashed, creating new business opportunities without sacrificing security and privacy (e.g., Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act, Data Act, Data Governance Act). Similarly, the United States is improving its digital services to citizens while increasing ecosystem trustworthiness, security, and privacy (e.g., Digital Government Strategy, National Cybersecurity Strategy). Japan is working towards a society blending the physical and cyber spaces to create new value and improve society (Integrated Innovation Strategy). The African Union is leapfrogging towards an innovative and inclusive society growth based on a Digital Single Market (e.g., The Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa). This data revolution provides plenty of opportunities but introduces new gaps and challenges. Data sharing and value extraction happen at an unprecedented scale, with novel requirements on authorization and authentication, data governance, privacy, trust management, latency, to name but a few. This SI aims to cover the most recent advances in the area of big data and data science towards the creation of virtual (data) spaces, where data can be pooled and shared to maximize utility and trustworthiness while guaranteeing regulatory and legal compliance. These virtual spaces are emerging as a main solution for new-generation data-based applications, but several challenges (target of this SI) remain open from both research and application standpoints. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Frameworks, architectures, and platforms for data governance - Data modeling and trusted data sharing - Digital/data sovereignty - Big data and AI for social good and beyond - Data governance in high-performance computing - Ethical data management and analysis - Novel applications and case studies of data management and governance ***IMPORTANT DATES*** Submissions due: December 1st, 2024 Publication (tentative): Mid 2025 ***GUEST EDITORS*** Nicola Bena (Universita' degli Studi di Milano) Claudia Diamantini (Universita' Politecnica delle Marche) Salvatore Distefano (Universita' degli Studi di Messina) Luigi Romano (Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope") Angeliki Tzouganatou (OpenAIRE)

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The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)
by Luiz Fernando Bittencourt 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Due to multiple requests, we are pleased to announce that the deadline for submission of the papers, has been extended to 20 September 2024 ( firm! ). Papers already submitted are in the review process and will receive the decision notification on the original schedule. ====================================================== The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024) 16 - 19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.ucc-conference.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a… ====================================================== We are pleased to inform you that the “17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024)” will be held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates between 16 and and 19 December, 2024. The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC) is a premier annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries and high-quality contributions in the broad area of Cloud, Edge and Computing Continuum utility computing and applications. The conference features keynotes, posters, workshops and a student symposium. UCC 2024 will be held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2024). Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud-Edge Continuum for utility computing and related computing paradigms such as Serverless, Distributed Computing and Function as a Service. The theme of this year is Self-adaptive and Autonomic Cloud, Edge, and Utility Computing in the Era of Large Language Models (LLM). The theme will explore new synergies between self-* and autonomous management of cloud, edge and their computing utilities and LLM approaches and solutions. We invite novel contributions with excellent balance between sound and rigorous foundational research and experimental results that relate to this year's theme and to the general UCC topics, as below. UCC 2024 topics of interest include but not limited to: 1. Resource Management for Cloud-Edge Continuum: - Principles and Theoretical Foundations of Utility Computing - Architectural Models and Patterns to achieve Utility; Virtualization, Containerization, Composition and Orchestration - Formal and Qualitative Aspects - Middleware and Stacks - Networking and Network Management - Saas, Paas, Iaas and XaaS 2. Resource Management and Scalability: - Brokering, Scheduling, Capacity planning and Elasticity - Security, Trust, Privacy, Policies and Blockchains 3. Autonomic, Adaptive, Self-*, SLAs, Management and Monitoring; Designs and Deployment Models: - Private, Public, Hybrid, Federated, Aggregated, Inter-Cloud; High Performance Computing (HPC) - Performance Analysis and Modelling - Foundational self-* solutions, possibly leveraging LLM techniques (see this year theme) 4. Artificial Intelligence for Cloud-Edge Continuum and Utility Computing: - Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) - Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Scheduling - Provisioning and Deployment - Lightweight machine learning for edge learning - Artificial Intelligence Solutions for Orchestration - GPU as a Service (GPUaaS), Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AIaaS); Support for Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) or ETL Pipelines - Machine Learning Cloud Frameworks; Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure - Distributed, Federated, Collaborative Learning, and Large Language Models (LLM). 5. Applications, Systems and new Computing Paradigms for Cloud-Edge Continuum: - Native Application Design, Programming Models and Engineering - Serverless and Function-Based Applications (FaaS) - Microservices Architectures, Quantum Computing - Interfacing to Internet of Things, (IoT) Applications - Utility-Driven Models and Mechanisms in All Domains (e.g., Smart Cities, Mobility, Healthcare, Industry 4.0) - Micro Data Centers - Interfacing to Mobile Devices: Management, Hierarchy Models and Business Models - Energy-Efficiency and Sustainability; Development; Operations (DevOps) - Economic and Business Models - Business and Legal Implications Beyond Technology - Digital Twins solutions. >> PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.ucc-conference.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!a… Submitted manuscripts must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Manuscripts are submitted in PDF format and may not exceed ten (10) IEEE-formatted *double-column* pages, including figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts undergo a double-blind peer-review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library >> IMPORTANT DATES Timezone: Anywhere in the world! Extended Paper Submissions Due: 20 September 2024 Acceptance Notification: 7 October 2024 Camera Ready Papers Due: 20 October 2024 >> AWARDS AND SPECIAL ISSUES A selection commission chaired by the UCC 2024 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals. >> UCC 2024 Program Co-Chairs: Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK, r.bahsoon(a)bham.ac.uk Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE, ernesto.damiani(a)ku.ac.ae

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Invitation to Participate in IEEE eScience 2024 Conference
by ABE Hirotake / 阿部洋丈 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the IEEE eScience 2024 Conference, taking place from September 16-20, 2024, in Osaka, Japan. This event is an exceptional opportunity for researchers, developers, and practitioners to engage with the latest advancements in eScience. Conference Details: Event: IEEE eScience 2024 Dates: September 16-20, 2024 Location: Osaka, Japan Homepage: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.escience-conference.org/2024/__;!!G_… Keynote Highlights: - AI Research in eScience and eScience Infrastructure for AI: Proceed with Deliberation Speaker: Dr. Beth Plale, Indiana University Bloomington - NASA Earth System Digital Twins: Technology and Prototypes Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA Earth Science Technology Office - Artificial Intelligence and the Scientific Lifecycle Speaker: Dr. Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California - JHPC Quantum Project for Quantum-HPC Hybrid Computing Platform Speaker: Dr. Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba Registration Deadline: Please register by September 6, 2024, to secure your participation. For more information on the conference program and registration details, please visit the official conference website. Homepage: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.escience-conference.org/2024/__;!!G_… We look forward to welcoming you to Osaka for IEEE eScience 2024 and to the engaging discussions and collaborations that will unfold. Best regards, Hirotake Abe Publicity Chair of eScience 2024 -- ABE Hirotake / 阿部洋丈 Department of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba habe(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp

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[Extended Deadline] IEEE-CS TCHPC/TCPP HPC student cohort (HPCSC)
by Sayan Ghosh 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

We welcome applications to the HPC Student Cohort (HPCSC) sponsored by TCHPC and TCPP. HPCSC will provide 12-16 travel awards to attend SC 2024 and IPDPS 2025. By funding multiple conferences, HPCSC aims to provide students with the opportunity for an extended engagement with the HPC community and enable frequent and continued interactions among members of the cohort as well as with leading members of the HPC community, leading to more effective networking. HPCSC will be composed of students from diverse backgrounds, including undergraduates, masters, early-stage, and late-stage doctoral students. Cohort members should commit to attending both conferences and are expected to attend events organized by the HPCSC committee at the conferences, such as mentoring in research practices, career panels, and Q&A sessions between cohort members. Further, members of the cohort will be assigned to groups with the goal of maximizing diversity in each group. Before each conference, each group will work together to: - Submit a pre-conference self-reflection document on what they expect to gain from the conference, including networking within the cohort. - Submit a post-conference report on their shared experience at the conference, including what they learned at the conference and from the members of the cohort and plans for continued interactions with members of the cohort. Application Process (Link to the Google form: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://forms.gle/uY8ekAzCQ7apgj8p6__;!!G_uCfscf… ): - A two-page document listing future career goals, how you think being in the cohort can help you, and how you can help other members of the cohort - CV - Letter from advisor. The letter from the advisor should clearly state that the student will attend both conferences as well as any additional funding sources that the student might get/apply to besides HPCSC. - Any available funding sources. Application deadline: September 9, 2024 (AOE) Award notification: September 27, 2024 (AOE) Award Amount: $2500 for both conferences combined. For questions/queries, send an email to hpcstudentcohort(a)gmail.com For details, check: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://tc.computer.org/tchpc/home-page/page-of-…

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CFP - 4th International Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum (DML-ICC)
by Luiz Fernando Bittencourt 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 4th International Workshop on Distributed Machine Learning for the Intelligent Computing Continuum (DML-ICC) In conjunction with the 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2024) 16-19 December 2024 Sharjah, UAE https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.lrc.ic.unicamp.br/dml-icc/__;!!G_uCfs… ### Background ### As the cloud extends to the fog and to the edge, computing services can be scattered over a set of computing resources that encompass users' devices, the cloud, and intermediate computing infrastructure deployed in between. Moreover, increasing networking capacity promises lower delays in data transfers, enabling a continuum of computing capacity that can be used to process large amounts of data with reduced response times. Such large amounts of data are frequently processed through machine learning approaches, seeking to extract knowledge from raw data generated and consumed by a widely heterogeneous set of applications. Distributed machine learning has been evolving as a tool to run learning tasks also at the edge, often immediately after the data is produced, instead of transferring data to the centralized cloud for later aggregation and processing. Following the successful DML-ICC 2022, 2022 and 2023, this fourth edition of DML-ICC keeps the aim to be a forum for discussion among researchers with a distributed machine learning background and researchers from parallel/distributed systems and computer networks. By bringing together these research topics, we look forward in building an Intelligent Computing Continuum, where distributed machine learning models can seamlessly run on any device from the edge to the cloud, creating a distributed computing system that is able to fulfill highly heterogeneous applications requirements and build knowledge from data generated by these applications. ### Topics ### DML-ICC 2024 workshop aims to attract researchers from the machine learning community, especially the ones involved with distributed machine learning techniques, and researchers from the parallel/distributed computing communities. Together, these researchers will be able to build resource management mechanisms that are able to fulfill machine learning jobs requirements, but also use machine learning techniques to improve resource management in large distributed systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Autonomic Computing in the Continuum - Business and Cost Models for the Computing Continuum - Complex Event Processing and Stream Processing - Computing and Networking Slicing for the Continuum - Distributed Machine Learning for Resource Management and Scheduling - Distributed Machine Learning in the Computing Continuum - Distributed Machine Learning applications - Distributed Machine Learning performance evaluation - Federated Learning - Intelligent Computing Continuum architectures and models - Management of Distributed Learning tasks - Mobility support in the Computing Continuum - Network management in the Computing Continuum - Privacy using Distributed Learning - Programming models for the Computing Continuum - Resource management and Scheduling in the computing continuum - Smart Environments (Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Industry, etc.) - Theoretical Modeling for the Computing Continuum ### Submissions ### Paper submission is double-blind, through Easychair: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmlicc20… The DML-ICC workshop invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages in IEEE double-column format, including figures, tables, and references. Up to 2 additional pages might be purchased upon the approval of the proceedings chair. All manuscripts will undergo a double-blind review process and will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. The submitted document should not include author information and should not include acknowledgements, citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship apparent. Submissions containing author identifying information may be subject to rejection without review. Submission requires the willingness of at least one of the authors to register as author, non-student rate and present the paper in person. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference for the paper to be published in the proceedings. The conference proceedings will be published by the IEEE and made available online via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and ACM Digital Library. Please check the DML-ICC webpage for more details on paper format: https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.lrc.ic.unicamp.br/dml-icc/__;!!G_uCfs… ### Important Dates ### Paper submission due: 31 August, 2024 Notification to authors: 10 October, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: 20 October, 2024 Workshop date: 16-19 December 2024 ### DML-ICC Honorary Chairs ### - Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Filip De Turck, Ghent University, Belgium ### DML-ICC Co-Chairs ### - Luiz F. Bittencourt, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil - Valeria Cardellini, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy - Yassine Himeur, University of Dubai, UAE ### Program Committee (TBC) ### - Atakan Aral, University of Vienna, Austria - José Javier Berrocal-Olmeda, University of Extremadura, Spain - Robert Birke, University of Torino, Italy - Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia - Marilia Curado, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Ivana Dusparic, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - Omar Elharrouss, UAE University, UAE - Fodil Fadli, Qatar University, Qatar - Stefano Iannucci, University of Rome III, Italy - Carlos Kamienski, Federal University of ABC, Brazil - Wei Li, University of Sydney, Australia - Zoltán Mann, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Wathiq Mansoor, University of Dubai, UAE - Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas, Brazil - Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland - Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden - Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece - Karima Velasquez, University of Coimbra, Portugal

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CFP Deadline Extension: September 6, 2024 - International Workshop on Smart Moving (SMVG 2024) within ACM/IEEE SEC 2024- Rome, December 2024
by Manuela MONTANGERO 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

===================================================================== CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE - International Workshop on Smart Moving (SMVG 2024) ===================================================================== International Workshop on Smart Moving (SMVG 2024) Within ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing December 4-7, 2024 Rome, Italy https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://acm-ieee-sec.org/2024/interact_moving.ph… IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Workshop Dates: December 7, 2024 Submissions deadline: September 6 , 2024 Notification of acceptance: October 25, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: November 1, 2024 Summit at: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://smvg24.hotcrp.com__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cT4Kh… SCOPE and MOTIVATION ====================== The rapid advancement of technology has revolutionized the way people and goods move, ushering in an era of smart mobility. From self-driving cars to drone deliveries, smart transportation solutions are reshaping urban landscapes and enhancing societal well-being. However, this transformation also presents numerous challenges, spanning domains such as data analytics, infrastructure design, policy formulation, and societal impacts. Think of self-driving cars, drone deliveries, safe pedestrian pathways, and optimized ambulance routes regardless of traffic. These are just a few examples of smart mobility innovations. But there are myriad challenges spanning various domains. For instance, improving services based on citizen feedback requires social sensing and data analysis. Fighting pollution needs vast sensor networks for environmental monitoring. Designing innovative city services involves addressing privacy, security, and business model considerations. Enhancing societal well-being involves healthcare monitoring, energy management, and urban planning. Predicting citizen movements and needs calls for data analysis and new communication methods. And deploying self-driving cars demands advancements in image analysis, AI, and ethical policy formulation. Smart mobility is a broad concept, and this workshop aims to bring together practitioners from academia and industry with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to deepen our understanding of this field. We invite contributions ranging from novel proposals and best practices to pitfalls and case studies, all examined through interdisciplinary lenses. MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST ====================== This workshop is seeking recent advances, novel proposals, best-practices, pitfalls, and case studies concerning smart movement of people and goods. - Topics of interests - Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Autonomous Vehicles - Assistive technologies - Data-driven Mobility Services - Data Management - Ethical Issues - Healthcare Delivery - Human-Machine Interfaces - Intelligent Transportation Systems - IoT and sensors - Mobility as a Service - Pedestrian Safety and Infrastructure - Policy and Governance in Smart Mobility - Privacy and Security - Resilient Transportation Infrastructure - Rural and Remote Mobility Solutions - Smart City Logistics - Social Impacts of Smart Mobility - Sustainable Mobility Solutions - Urban Traffic Optimization Prof. Manuela Montangero Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia manuela.montangero(a)unimore.it

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International Workshop on ML for Edge-Cloud Systems (ML4ECS) 2025 : Call for Papers
by Nikos Bellas 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

=============================================================================== International Workshop on ML for Edge-Cloud Systems (ML4ECS) 2025 : Call for Papers held in conjunction with HiPEAC 2025, Barcelona, Spain, Jan. 22nd, 2025 https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://ml4ecs.e-ce.uth.gr/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPZ… =============================================================================== ******************************************************************************* Paper Submissions October 30 (23.59 AoE) atEasychair <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/account2/signin?l=59319907… > ******************************************************************************* =============================================================================== Autonomic end-to-end system management across the cloud-edge continuum is becoming increasingly critical as computational demands, scale, dynamics, and system heterogeneity grow rapidly. /Machine Learning for Edge-Cloud Systems (ML4ECS)/ is a full-day workshop that focuses on academic and industrial innovation and research on developing and deploying AI/ML models to enable optimized system management and application execution on the continuum. The workshop aims to bring together a community of researchers and practitioners who study problems at the intersection of ML, Edge-Cloud continuum, distributed and dependable system operation, and flexible, adaptive, and resilient application deployment. It seeks to reach a broader community invested in this fast-evolving field, aiming to increase awareness of ongoing initiatives, encourage collaboration, and promote the open exchange of ideas. -------- The workshop invites *the research community to submit expressions of interest to provide a talk based on an extended abstract format* focusing on topics such as (but not limited to): * ML models to improve overall system performance metrics (such as latency, throughput, energy dissipation, use of green energy, security, etc.) across the Edge-Cloud continuum. * ML models for efficient and transparent pooling of edge resources, seamless integration with cloud and edge infrastructures, resource configuration optimization, multi-level orchestration, workload migration, security, and anomaly detection. * Privacy-preserving decentralized learning mechanisms and adaptive networking services. * Learning mechanisms for sustainable computing with lower carbon intensity in Edge-Cloud operations. * ML-based Open-source tools and frameworks for large-scale experimentation in edge systems. * Multi-cluster, multi-domain environments and applications. * Network communication and optimization across resource-restricted edge environments. * AI/ML-enabled tools and mechanisms in resource-constrained environments. * AI/ML-based Joint orchestration of cross-layer data (network, compute, data resources). Papers will be evaluated by the workshop’s technical program committee based on the quality of the submission, its relevance to the workshop’s topics, and its potential to ignite discussions about future directions, and solutions related to the mentioned topics. We welcome research papers, case studies, and position papers, as well as demos. Moreover, we will organize panel discussions at the end of each technical session to allow for more comprehensive exploration of complex topics and drive active participation from the audience through Q&As. The workshop will present a Best Talk award, sponsored by the HE CODECO <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://he-codeco.eu/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPZScSuYs… > project. There will be no formal proceedings of the workshop. The authors are free to include the content of the extended abstract in a paper submitted to a journal or conference with proceedings. The presentations will be made publicly available via this website and/or HiPEAC. =========================================================

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CFP: E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR)
by Wozniak, Justin M. 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Deadline approaching: September 6 ============================= 4th Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR 2024) in conjunction with SBAC-PAD 2024 Hilo, Hawaii, November 13-15 https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://error-workshop.org__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!buTH… <https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://error-workshop.org/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!buT… > ============================= Escience researchers often invest significant time and effort in projects that can have unexpected outcomes. When results are obtained that do not fit the established molds expected by publishing venues, these results can be lost. The ERROR Workshop invites research results from computing and computational projects that encounter unexpected or negative results that would be difficult to report on elsewhere. Novel technologies and methods (eg. AI / ML) are rapidly changing approaches and scale applied in escience domains. Researchers must deal with this novelty in multiple dimensions, many of which are beyond their control. Consequently, it is likely that some of the obtained results will not be of the expected form: they are negative (deviating from initial hypothesis), abnormal (anomalous to results from similar studies), or otherwise not useful in the established sense. Under normal circumstances, such negative results and why they were obtained are seldom discussed, analyzed and published. Useful lessons are thus lost to the scientific community. Yet ignoring such results and the process by which they were obtained poses a risk of repetition. The fact that other researchers likely face the same situations, and the same pitfalls further increases the cost of research, a cost that would have been avoided if the negative results were brought forward and discussed in-depth within and across communities. A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop: - Unforeseen technology / problem / technique misfits - Institutional policies (on rejected research) - Failures and obstacles faced during a successful research work - Controversial results because of undiscovered technological/technical glitch - Unconventional results which contradict theoretical expectations - Discovery of better approaches after significant efforts spent on research - Inadequate or misconfigured infrastructure - Abnormal and anomalous results - Ongoing research with setbacks and lessons learned - A hypothesis with one or more limiting assumptions - Discovery of unexpected behavior in hardware, networks or platforms - Data size that is too big or too small for the applied technique - Implementation of simulation tools based on incorrect physical observations - Defect in software design, architecture and/or user interface - Software and platform incompatibilities - Zero defect software policy and its implications Paper Submission Guidelines -------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 6-page manuscripts describing original and unpublished work surrounding the aforementioned topics. The format of the paper should be of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from https://urldefense.us/v3/__http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publi… Proceedings Publication ---------------------------- Accepted papers from the workshop will be published as part of eScience 2024 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Important dates ------------------- Paper submission deadline: September 6, 2024 AOE Paper acceptance notification: October 15, 2024 Camera ready version: October 30, 2024 Workshop Committees ==================== Co-organizers -------------- Ketan Maheshwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Justin M. Wozniak, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee ------------------ Tainã Coleman, University of Southern California, USA Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany Loïc Pottier, University of Southern California, USA Tanu Malik, DePaul University, USA Raül Sirvent, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Kathryn Knight, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ankit R. Patel, University of Minho, Portugal Sean R. Wilkinson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -- Justin M Wozniak

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2024 SST User Group Extended Call for Abstracts
by John Leidel 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

The Sandia Structural Simulation Toolkit (SST) has become a widely adopted tool for parallel discrete event simulation of complex systems. While it has been traditionally utilized for computer systems research, SST has expanded into the simulation of physical systems. This workshop is dedicated to supporting the users, developers and thought leaders in/around the SST community. The 2024 SST User Group Meeting solicits 1-page abstracts for invited talks. The SST User Group Meeting will bring together users and developers of the Structural Simulation Toolkit to facilitate collaboration and support community use and development of SST. The meeting will consist of several different program elements: talks, panels and collaborative discussions. Your participation is vital to the success of the meeting. To help facilitate collaborations, you are invited to submit an abstract for consideration to present your work/ideas at the meeting through a series of full and short talks. Topics may include, but are not limited to: - SST components/subcomponents - Large-scale SST execution - SST benchmarking - Co-integration with external simulator(s) - Studies and research leveraging SST simulations - Future needs for SST core framework or element models - Analysis tools for analyzing simulation data - Characterization of simulation properties Authors may select their preference for short or full talk, but the program committee will make the final decision on talk length. Please indicate with your submission whether you seek a short talk or a full talk. Additional information and instructions for abstract submission can be found at the 2024 SST User Group Meeting website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://mod-sim.org/2024-sst-user-group-meeting/… Extended Deadlines: - Call for Abstracts: August 31, 2024 (midnight AOE) - Notifications: Sept 15, 2024 - Registration: October 01, 2024 - Workshop: October 23-24, 2024

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Metrics2024: Measuring Success of Research, Education, and CyberInfrastructure Programs and Projects: Delhi NCR, India, December 16-17, 2024
by Majumdar, Amitava 25 Aug '24

25 Aug '24

Call for Abstracts for Presentations, Papers, Panels, BoFs, and Exhibits Metrics2024: Measuring Success of Research, Education, and CyberInfrastructure Programs and Projects Delhi NCR, India, December 16-17, 2024 Conference website: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/metrics2024__;!!G_… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/metrics2024__;!!M…> Submission link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics…> Abstract registration deadline: October 15, 2024 Submission deadline: October 15, 2024 Metrics for objectively assessing the progress, success, and impact of research, education, and CyberInfrastructure (CI) programs and projects are important for not only obtaining the required resources for their management, long-term sustainability, and community engagement but also for identifying issues and prioritizing the areas of improvement. The main goal of the Metrics2024 conference is to bring together colleagues from a diverse range of disciplines and organizations to network, collaborate, and work towards developing and sharing "responsible metrics" for short-term and long-term evaluation of programs and projects in the scope of the conference. Towards this end, extended abstracts for presentations, proposals for panels/BoFs/exhibits, and full-papers for publication in a special issue of Springer Nature Computer Science journal are invited. Metrics for evaluating the programs and projects related to the following areas are in the scope of this conference: 1. CyberInfrastructure (CI) * Hardware, Software, and Data infrastructure * Design, development and deployment of infrastructure (for High Performance Computing, Data-Intensive Computing, Cloud Computing, Quantum Computing, Data Storage and Archival, IoT, edge computing, AI, and Cybersecurity) * Network infrastructure * AI for CI * Data Centers * Designing, building, operating, and managing data centers * Infrastructure-as-a-service * Sustainability (e.g., power efficiency, responsible decommissioning, reducing and tracking carbon emission, and green technologies) * Processes and Governance Frameworks * Data privacy, cybersecurity, and risk management * Data governance * Operations and maintenance (including, processes and practices such as, DevSecOps and ITIL) * People * Customer Service/Support * Building virtual organizations and collaborations 2. Education, Training, and Outreach programs * Curriculum development and instructional design * Teaching and learning tools, technologies, techniques, and platforms * Instructor and student training * Mentoring, practical training, and research experience programs for student engagement * Public engagement * Professional development programs * AI initiatives in higher education * Broadening participation * Career growth/progress * Leadership development * Organizational behavior * Team Science and Science of Team Science 3. Research and Research Administration programs * Benchmarking research competitiveness * Research enterprise tools, activities, inputs, outputs, and processes * Economic development - Innovation and technology commercialization * Responsible use of AI in research * Customer service Topics of interest for papers and abstracts include, but are not limited to: 1. Case-studies on measuring success of projects/programs including lessons learnt, design of the evaluation method, and data analysis 2. Evolution of the metrics as a project/program progresses through different project years and release cycles 3. Currently known best practices for tracking metrics 4. Tools for tracking the product use metrics and experiences related to their adoption 5. Challenges and opportunities in developing self-reporting software or data product/infrastructure 6. Problems and solutions related to gathering certain types of metrics 7. Benchmarking and performance evaluation techniques for products or programs 8. Methods and experiences related to measuring accuracy, precision, explainability, and fairness of results 9. Manual and automated methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative metrics 10. Methods and experiences related to measuring productivity of people 11. Methods for measuring the societal impact of projects and programs 12. Literature review and survey of the methods for evaluating success of projects and programs from the areas that are in the scope of the conference 13. New methods for analyzing success including the role and use of social-media and AI 14. Taxonomy of projects/programs and associated metrics The conference agenda will include talks, panel/s, BoF sessions, and demonstrations/exhibits. Call for Abstracts for Presentations: We invite extended abstracts and slides for presentations on the topics related to the conference. The abstracts should be prepared following the Springer guidelines and could be 5-10 pages in length including references. The extended abstracts that qualify for short papers (6-10 pages in length) will be published in the proceedings (special issue of the journal). All other abstracts and slides will be made publicly accessible through a GitHub repository set up for the conference and linked to this website. PDF copies of the rough draft of the slides (up to 25 slides maximum) are required as a part of the submissions. The PDFs of the abstract and the slides can be merged into a single PDF file, and can be submitted through EasyChair for peer-review by going to the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics…> Please include the key-word "Extended Abstract" before the actual title of the submission. For example: "Extended Abstract: A new approach for comparative analysis of research projects". Deadline for extended abstracts and slides submission: October 15, 2024 Deadline for notification: November 7, 2024 Submission of the final slides and abstract: November 20, 2024 Presentations: December 16 - December 17, 2024 Call for Panels We invite proposals for panels on the topics related to the conference. The panels will be one-hour long and will involve discussions and exchange of thoughts among peers on a specific topic related to the conference. The panel proposals should include: a title, the names and contact information of the moderator and 3-4 panelists, a description of the structure of the panel and how it will be run, and short biographies of the moderator and the panelists. There are no formatting guidelines for the proposals and the proposals will not be published in the proceedings. Panel proposals should be 2–4 pages in length. The PDFs of the proposals for panels should be submitted through EasyChair for peer-review by going to the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics…> Please include the keyword "Panel" before the actual title of the submission. For example: "Panel: Approaches for comparative analysis of research projects". Deadline for panel proposals: October 15, 2024 Deadline for notification: November 7, 2024 Submission of the final slides and abstract: November 20, 2024 Panel: December 16 or December 17, 2024 Call for BoFs BoFs are informal and interactive sessions that bring together like-minded conference participants to discuss topics and ideas related to the conference. Each BoF session will be one hour long and will be led by one or more experts on the proposed topic. Proposals for BoF should include the title of the BoF, the name and contact information of the session organizer/s, short biography of the organizers, and a short description of how the session will be run. The proposals for BoFs would be 2-4 pages long. The PDFs of the proposals for BoFs should be submitted through EasyChair for peer-review by going to the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics…> Please include the keyword "BoF" before the actual title of the submission. For example: "BoF: Future approaches for comparative analysis of research projects". Deadline for BoF proposals: October 15, 2024 Deadline for notification: November 7, 2024 Submission of the final slides and abstract: November 20, 2024 BoF date: December 16 or December 17, 2024 Call for Papers The Metrics2024 proceedings will be published by Springer Nature Computer Science in a special journal issue named as "Measuring Success of Research, Education, and CyberInfrastructure Projects". We invite authors to submit their original and unpublished work that is in the scope of the conference, and not under review for another publication. Full papers (12 -25 pages in length including references) should be formatted as per the Springer-specified guidelines (details below) for review. Please note that the length of a page as per Springer format is different from the length of a page in a double-column IEEE/ACM format. Deadline for submission: November 30, 2024 Deadline for first notification: January 31, 2025 Deadline for submission of the final version of the paper: March 15, 2025 Timeline for publication: April 15, 2025 Templates and instructions for authors for preparing the papers are available at the following link: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.springer.com/journal/42979/submissio… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.springer.com/journal/42979/submissi…> Following is the link to the submission system: https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://www.editorialmanager.com/sncs/default2.a… <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.editorialmanager.com/sncs/default2.…> When using the Springer Nature Computer Science submission system, there would be a point during the submission process when one is asked: “Does this manuscript belong to a special issue?” and at that point one needs to click "yes" and then scroll down to the near bottom of the list to select the special issue titled "Metrics for Measuring Success of Research, Education, and CyberInfrastructure Projects." PLEASE NOTE: The submission system for the journal paper review is different from the submission system for the abstracts/proposals for presentations, panels, and BoFs. Please send an email to Amit Majumdar (majumdar(a)sdsc.edu) and Ritu Arora (ritu(a)venratech.com) that includes the paper number that you receive after submission to the SNCS system for follow-ups with the editorial team. Contact For any questions, please feel free to email Ritu Arora (ritu(a)venratech.com) and Amit Majumdar (majumdar(a)sdsc.edu)

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