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FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization --- VICML'18 - 5th Workshop Visual Information Coding Meets Machine Learning: Large-Scale Challenges * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Włodzisław Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) • Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 • Authors notification: June 24, 2018 • Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 • Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Włodzisław Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) • Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 • Authors notification: June 24, 2018 • Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 • Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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CfP 13th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '18)
by VHPC 18 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

*====================================================================CALL FOR PAPERS 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '18)held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance,June 24-28, 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.(Springer LNCS Proceedings) ====================================================================Date: June 28, 2018Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org <http://vhpc.org>Paper Submission Deadline: April 23, 2018, Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submissionAbstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355>Special Track: GPU - Accelerator Virtualization Call for PapersVirtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource managementin modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need tomanage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic andheterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPCenvironments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible managementof vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which isunprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machinevirtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers withheterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate afully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamicways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with itscapability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistencewithin the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of theunderlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. PublicationAccepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume.Topics of InterestThe VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related tovirtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPCand the cloud.Major Topics- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids- OS-level virtualization and containers (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.)- Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines- Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments- Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels- Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers- Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)- VM & Container trust and security- Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation- GPU virtualization operationalization- Approaches to GPGPU virtualization including API remoting and hypervisor abstraction- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors- Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.)- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors- Software defined networks and network virtualization- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.)- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Checkpointing facilitation utilizing containers and VMs - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and NUMA in hypervisors- Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Virtualization in data intensive computing (big data) - HPC convergence- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.)- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads- Latency-and jitter sensitive workloads in virtualized/containerized environments- I/O virtualization (including applications, SR-IOV, i.a.) - Hybrid local facility + cloud compute and based storage systems, cloudbursting- FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization- Configuration management tools for containers (including in OpenStack, Ansible, i.a.)- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensionsSpecial Track: GPU - Accelerator VirtualizationGPU virtualization technologies, performance and benchmarking, integration withworkflow scheduling systems, integration to cluster managers.GPUs are taking on many HPC workload areas, especially in deep learning withinmachine learning. In addition, a lot of workload is being pushed to elastic environments utilizing various virtualization technologies on different levels like hypervisors (e.g. VMWare, Xen, KVM), kernel (Docker, Kubernetes) or on the resource managerlevel (YARN, Mesos). In this track we invite submissions addressing these problems. Suggested Themes and Topics:Technology - What technologies and best practices exist for GPU - hardware accelerator virtualization and usage of hardware accelerators in virtual environments on the hypervisor, kernel or resource manager levelDevelopers - Real-life experience when addressing HPC/ML/DL problems with GPUs or hardware accelerators in virtual environmentsPerformance - Performance comparisons between different technologies / solutionsThe Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims tobring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchangeof knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novelsolutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, eachfollowed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes.Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.Important DatesFebruary 23, 2018 (AoE) - Abstract SubmissionApril 23, 2018 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS)May 30, 2018 - Acceptance notification June 28, 2018 - Workshop DayJuly 12, 2018 - Camera-ready version dueChairMichael Alexander (chair), Institute of Science and Technology, AustriaAnastassios Nanos (co-chair), OnApp, UKRomeo Kienzler (co-chair), IBM, SwitzerlandProgram committeeStergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, SpainStephen Crago, USC ISI, USATommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, ItalyChristoffer Dall, Columbia University, USAFrançois Diakhaté, CEA, FrancePatrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USAUday Kurkure, VMware, USAJohn Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USAGiuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, ItalyQing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USANikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, FranceKevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USAAmer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, SpainBorja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USAKurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, JapanChao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratory, USANa Zhang, VMware, USAPaper Submission-PublicationPapers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least twomembers of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissionsshould include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of thecorresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tablesand figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submissionof a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paperbe accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend theconference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in aSpringer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initialsubmissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requestedto provide source files.Format Guidelines:ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip <ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip>Abstract, Paper Submission Link:https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355>Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes.They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General InformationThe workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the InternationalSupercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2018, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.*

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