C a l l    f o r   p a p e r s

Special Issue on

“Reliable Software Technologies for Dependable Distributed Systems”
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE (JSA), Elsevier.

(Indexed by JCR)

Submission deadline:  April 20th, 2016
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SCOPE AND TOPICS:

The number of distributed applications as well as the number of users accessing
remote infrastructures and applications has increased exponentially in the last
decade.  New computing infrastructures are now capable of hosting complex
applications, being still the main bottleneck on the software side.  The software
platforms are constantly challenged by the progress pace of hardware, e.g.,
multi-core, GPU accelerated processing, or high speed intra- and inter-node
communication networks. The software level highly impacts systems’ dependability.

This special issue calls for contributions on design and implementation of
dependable systems. Software intensive dependable systems design and implementation
models that efficiently manage the platform resources. Contributions on the
selection and evaluation of distributed interaction models for middleware, software
technology choices, model-based design including accurate though flexible temporal
behavior modeling, resource efficiency, performance, scalability, and coordination
are requested. Contributions may focus at the different levels of the software
stack of a reliable system: operating systems, middleware, programming models,
security, and related mechanisms to enhance the flexibility and reliability.

Topics include (but are not limited to) the challenging issues in the design of
reliable and resource efficient software infrastructures for dependable distributed
systems, possibly at large scale:

* Distribution models in middleware (publish-subscribe, remote invocations, events,etc.)
* Model driven design
* Resource management, quality of service,  and real-time
* Operating systems and virtualization technology
* Software enabling tools for cyber-physical systems
* Distributed embedded systems
* Performance and quality models in distributed dependable settings
* Exploiting computation power of hardware (multi-core, GPUs, etc.)
* Experiences in actual application scenarios
* Security in large scale deployments
* Quality-aware on-line stream processing

SUBMISSION FORMAT:

Contributions should be novel, original work, not previously published. Papers should
not be under review at any scientific event (either conference or workshop).

Papers that have been previously published in conferences or journals are encouraged
to be submitted if they contain, at least, 35% new material and results. This should
be clearly indicated in the cover letter.

Submissions will be between 8 and 10 pages in double column format at the initial
submission stage.  Up to 12 pages after considering reviewers comments and for the
camera ready version.

IMPORTANT DATES:

The timeline for the review process is as follows:

– Submission: April 20th, 2016

– Tentative publication: December 16 to April 17

GUEST EDITORS:

António Casimiro, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Marisol Garcia-Valls, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Hans P. Reiser, University of Passau, Germany

* Deadline is extended to December 8th AOE, 2015*

International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN)

15-17 February 2016, Graz, Austria

Call for Posters and Demos

The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
(EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference
focusing on premier research results at the intersection of embedded
systems and wireless networking.

Along with full research papers, EWSN solicits submissions of poster
and demo abstracts whose contribution will be publicly presented
during the conference. The poster session at EWSN will provide a forum
for researchers to present their work in progress and to receive
feedback from experts attending the conference. In parallel to the
poster session, the demo session will offer a unique opportunity to
showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference
attendees.

The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same
as for full research papers. Please refer to
www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 more details.

Submission:

Demo and poster abstracts must not exceed 2 pages. Titles should start
with “Poster: …” or “Demo: …” depending on the case. Pages must
have 8.5″ x 11″ (letter) two-column format, using 10-point type on
11-point leading, with a maximum text block of 7″ wide x 9″ deep with
an intercolumn spacing of .25″. The page limits include figures,
tables, and references. Submissions may not be anonymous.

A LaTex template is available at www.iti.tugraz.at/EWSN2016 under
Calls -> Posters & Demos. At the same page, you find a link where
to perform the actual submission. As we particularly welcome
contributions from students, the submission system offers an option
to explicitly signal whether the main author is a student.

Both poster and demo abstracts may optionally complement the
submission with a video of at most 2 minutes that
further illustrates the work at hand. If the abstract is accepted, the
video will be made available directly from the conference website.

Poster and demo abstracts will be reviewed by at least three members
of the poster/demo committee to ensure quality and matching to the
goals of the poster/demo session as well as to the conference’s
topics. Accepted poster and demo abstracts will be included in
the conference proceedings that appear in the ACM Digital Library.

Presentation at the conference:

In addition to space given to every accepted abstract during the
poster/demo session, one author of the abstract will be given a slot
in a further “1-minute madness” session within the main program. In
this session, authors will have the opportunity to describe their work
to the entire conference audience with a single slide and a 1-minute
speech. Attendees will be given an online link where to cast a vote
for what they think was the best 1-minute poster or demo teaser. Best
poster and demo awards will be decided based on the outcome of the
vote.

Important dates:

Submission: *December 8th AOE, 2015 (extended)*
Notification: December 18th, 2015

Poster and Demo Chairs:

Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Luca Mottola (Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and SICS Swedish ICT)

Program Committee:

Yiran Shen (National University of Singapore/MIT Alliance)
Rajib Rana (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Chun Liu (Henan University, China)
Junfeng Wu (KTH, Sweden)
Marco Zimmerling (TU Dresden, Germany)
Frederik Hermans (University of Uppsala, Sweden)
Alessandro Sivieri (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Zhichao Cao (Tsinghua University, China)
Oana Iova (University of Trento, Italy)
Christoph Sommer (University of Paderborn, Germany)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Advances in Soft Computing and its Application (IJASCA)

Special Issue on

Big Data Pattern Computing and Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms 

http://www.home.ijasca.com/special-issue/

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Machine learning (ML) algorithms are computationally expensive, especially on the typical central processing unit (CPU) environment. The growing births of new intelligent system architectures are often due to the multi strategy learning and adaptation of advanced soft computing techniques in various fields such as pattern recognition, and data mining, particularly to address the issues of Big Data.  Big data computing needs advanced technologies or methods to solve the issues of computational time to extract valuable information, in a realistic and practical time frame, without compromising the models quality.  Therefore, high performance hardware with the potential to yield remarkable performance gains, as compared to the CPU, is plausible to accomplish faster solutions to address Big Data.

This special issue aims to bring together research work in the area of Big Data Computing for machine learning algorithms in solving complex problems of N-dimensional.

Topics:

The paper may focus on high performance computing for machine learning algorithms and theory in big data problems. The scopes of the topics include but are not limited to:

SCOPE 1: Machine Learning Algorithms for Big Data

• Data and Information Fusion
• Meta-Heuristics Algorithms
• Natural Language Processing
• Signal Processing
• Scalable and Incremental Algorithms
• Simulation and Modeling
• Data-Intensive Computing
• Dimensional Reduction Techniques
• Multi-dimensional Big Data

SCOPE 2: Fundamental of Big Data Computing

• Novel Computational Methodologies
• Algorithms for Enhancing Data Quality
• Models and Frameworks for Big Data
• Graph Algorithms for Big Data
• Computational Science

SCOPE 3: Big Data Search and Mining Methods

• Multimedia and Big Data
• Data Mining
• Social Network Analysis
• Cleaning Big Data, Acquisition and Integration
• Visualization of Big Data Technology
• Graph Mining & Recommender Systems
• Security and Privacy in Big Data

Manuscript preparation:

Concerning the manuscript preparation, please refer to the author guide, available at http://www.home.ijasca.com/author-guide/

Submission:

The manuscript must be submitted to the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijasca-specialissue2

The submission must include the title, abstract of your paper, and the corresponding author’s name and affiliation. All papers will be rigorously reviewed based on the quality: originality, high scientific quality, well organized and clearly written, sufficient support for assertions and conclusion.

Important Dates:

1^st Call Submission deadline: January 31, 2016 

1st Round Notification:  April 30, 2016

Final Acceptance: July 20, 2016

IJASCA is indexed By:

• Scopus ( http://www.scopus.com/ )
• EBSCO ( http://www.ebscohost.com/ )
• DOAJ ( http://doaj.org/ )
• Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/ )

Please, accept our apologies in case you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers

Please, forward this Call for Papers among your colleagues and students

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* ALCHEMY Workshop 2016
* Architecture, Languages, Compilation and Hardware support for Emerging ManYcore systems
*
* Held in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2016)
* San Diego, CA, USA, 6-8 June 2016
*
* http://sites.google.com/site/alchemyworkshop
* Important dates are synchronized with the ICCS meeting
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The International Conference on Computational Science is an annual
conference that brings together researchers and scientists from mathematics
and computer science as basic computing disciplines, researchers from various
application areas who are pioneering computational methods in sciences such
as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering, as well as in arts and
humanitarian fields, to discuss problems and solutions in the area, to identify new
issues, and to shape future directions for research.

Call for Papers
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Massively parallel processors have entered high performance computing
architectures, as well as embedded systems. In this
context, developers of parallel applications, including heavy
simulations and scientific calculations will undoubtedly have to cope
with many-core processors at the early design steps.

In the past sessions of the Alchemy workshop, held together with
the ICCS meeting, we have presented significant contributions on the
design of many-core processors, both in the hardware and the software
programming environment sides, as well as some industrial-grade
application case studies. In this 2016 session, we seek academic
and industrial works that contribute to the design and the
programmability of many-core processors.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Programming models and languages for many-cores
* Compilers for programming languages
* Runtime generation for parallel programming on manycores
* Architecture support for massive parallelism management
* Enhanced communications for CMP/manycores
* Shared memory, data consistency models and protocols
* New operating systems, or dedicated OS
* Security, crypto systems for manycores
* User feedback on existing manycore architectures
(experiments with Adapteva Epiphany, Intel Phi, Kalray MPPA, ST
STHorm, Tilera Gx, TSAR..etc)
* Many-core integration within HPC systems (micro-servers)

Important Dates
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When – Jun 6, 2016 – Jun 8, 2016
Where – San Diego, CA, USA
Submission Deadline – Dec 18, 2015
Notification Due – Jan 27, 2016
Final Version Due – Mar 4, 2016

Submission
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This year, there will be two formats for the presentation at the
workshop. The usual full-length paper is 10 pages according to the ICCS
format, and the short-paper format well fitted for works in progress,
with a maximum of 2 pages. The accepted papers for full-length paper
will be published alongside with the ICCS proceedings in Procedia
Computer Science, whereas the short-papers will be presentation and
poster only at the conference (with proceedings and presentations
available from the workshop website).

The manuscripts of up to 10 pages, written in English and formatted according to
the EasyChair templates, should be submitted electronically.
Templates are available for download in the Easychair right-hand-side menu
in a “New submission” mode.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs20160

Program Chair
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Aleksandar DRAGOJEVIC, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Eric PETIT, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Antoniu POP, University of Manchester, UK

Program Committee
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(to be extended)
Camille COTI, Université de Paris-Nord, France
Loïc CUDENNEC, CEA, LIST, France
Aleksandar DRAGOJEVIC, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Vianney LAPOTRE, Université de Bretagne-Sud, France
Stéphane LOUISE, CEA, LIST, France
Eric PETIT, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
Erwan PIRIOU, CEA, LIST, France
Antoniu POP, University of Manchester, UK
Thomas ROPARS, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Martha Johanna SEPULVEDA, INRIA, École Centrale de Lyon, France

Workshop Organization
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Loïc CUDENNEC, CEA, LIST, France
Stéphane LOUISE, CEA, LIST, France

—
Loïc CUDENNEC
http://www.cudennec.fr/
CEA, LIST, Nano-INNOV / Saclay
PC 172, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX
+33 1 69 08 00 58

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 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 (CF'16)
                May 16 - 18, 2016, Como, Italy

                         CALL FOR PAPERS

                   www.computingfrontiers.org
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SCOPE
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Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of
researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the
field of computing.

The field of computing requires new breakthroughs to adapt to the
ever-changing requirements of society, especially with respect to
science.  Technology is on the verge of revolutions in memory devices
and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning,
data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and
energy efficiency, and many more areas.  New application domains that
affect everyday life are constantly emerging. Boundaries between the
state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing
frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering,
and information technology.

Early research, using far-reaching projections of the future state of
technologies, provides the bases that will allow revolutionary
materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Revolutionary
breakthroughs are enabled through collaborative efforts among
researchers of different expertise and backgrounds.

Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss
such work, and it focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies
and radically new solutions relevant to the development of a spectrum
of computer systems, from embedded devices to supercomputers and data
centers.


KEY DATES
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Submissions deadline:   January 15, 2016
Notification:           March 11, 2016
Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 25, 2016


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of
computing topics, from more traditional research in architecture and
systems to new technologies and devices. We seek contributions on
novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms,
application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating
environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory
technologies, and smarter life applications. We are also interested in
emerging fields that may not fit within traditional categories.

* Algorithms and Models of Computing
  Approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic
  computing

* Biological Computing Models
  Brain computing, neural computing, computational neuroscience,
  biologically-inspired architectures

* Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law
  Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel
  materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon

* Uses of Technology Scaling
  3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs, accelerators,
  PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices

* Embedded and Cyber-Physical systems
  Design space exploration, ultra-low power designs, energy
  scavenging, reactive and realtime systems, reconfigurable and
  self-aware systems, sensor networks, internet of things, wearables

* Big Data Analytics
  High performance data analytics, machine and deep learning, data
  search and representation, architecture and system design

* Large-scale system design
  Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, runtimes, networking
  technologies and protocols, Cloud and Grid systems, datacenters,
  exa-scale computing, power- and energy management

* Compiler technologies
  Novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies,
  applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, domain specific
  languages, advanced analysis, high-level synthesis

* Security
  Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against
  malicious code, real-time implementation of security algorithms and
  protocols, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, advanced persistent
  threats, cyber and physical attacks and countermeasures

* Computers and Society
  Education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities,
  emerging markets

* Interdisciplinary Applications
  Applications that bridge multiple disciplines in interesting ways

Computing Frontiers 2016 also encourages Position Papers, Trend
Papers, and poster submissions on “frontier† topics.


SUBMISSION
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Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf16

Authors are invited to submit full papers, position papers, trend
papers, and poster abstracts to the main conference. Papers must be
submitted through the conference paper submission site. Authors will
declare in advance to which category they are submitting through the
submission site.

Full papers are allowed up to eight (8) double-column pages in
standard ACM conference format. Authors, however, will be able to buy
up to two (2) extra pages at 100 Euro per page. Position and trend
papers should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) pages
in the same format. Poster abstracts should be at least two (2) pages
and not exceed four (4) pages in the same format. These limits include
figures, tables, and references.  Our review process is double-blind.
Thus, please remove all identifying information from the paper
submission (and cite your own work in the third person).  Authors
of interesting work not mature enough for an oral presentation may be
offered the option of presenting their work as posters.

Position papers, trend papers, and posters will be published in the
proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library (note that authors of these
works retain their copyright rights to publish more complete versions
later).

The best papers from the Computer Frontiers Conference and Workshops
will be invited in special issues of IJPP or PARCO.

As per ACM guidelines, at least one author of an accepted paper
is required to register for the conference.

For information on workshop submissions, please see the individual
workshop websites.


ORGANIZATION
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Computing Frontiers 2016 Chairs

General Chairs:   Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT
                  John Feo, PNNL/NIAC, US
Program Chairs:   Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US
                  Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US
Finance Chair:    Peter Zinterhof, University of Salzburg, AT
Local Arrangements Chair:
                  Vittorio Zaccaria, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Workshop Chairs:  Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT
                  Francesco Regazzoni, ALARI, CH
Publications Chair:
                  Carlo Galuzzi, Maastricht University, NL
Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, KORE University, IT
                  Jianbo Dong, Institute of Computing Technology,
                    Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Web Chair:        Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL


Computing Frontiers Steering Committee

Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT
Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT
Hubertus Franke, IBM, US
Diana Franklin, University of California at Santa Barbara, US
Georgi Gaydadijev, Maxeler, GB
Alexander Heinecke, Intel Parallel Computing Lab, US
Paul Kelly, Imperial College, GB
Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Krishna Palem, Rice University, US / Nanyang Technological University, SG
Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT
Valentina Salapura, IBM, US
Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY
Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, DE
Eli Upfal, Brown University, US
Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, DE