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MMAP 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mmap E-mail: mmap2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to MMAP 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). MMAP 2015 is organized by Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania "Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre. It is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The MMAP 2015 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts developments to advanced technologies and innovative and theoretical applications. MMAP invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. TOPICS ======================================= Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas: - Audio, Image and Video Processing - Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging - Big Data Science and Multimedia Systems - Cloud Computing and Multimedia Applications - Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications - Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval - Multimedia in Internet and Web Based Systems E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications - Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications - Multimedia in Medical Applications - Entertainment and Games - Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking - Distributed Multimedia Systems - Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia Mobile Network Architecture - Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications - Future Trends in Computing System Technologies and Applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. 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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s): - currently, a special issue of the Computer Science and Information Systems journal (ISI Indexed) is being prepared on the basis of selected papers from the MMAP 2014; it will be published in 2015 - special issue, based on the selected MMAP 2014 submissions is also planned for the Journal of Computer Science & Applications - similarly, in 2015, special issues of these two journals are going to be considered - furthermore, we are in active negotiations for additional Special Issue(s) based on the papers accepted for the MMAP 2015 -- special issues proposals should be submitted to MMAP'15 organizers IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Brezovan, Marius, University of Craiova - Burdescu, Dumitru Dan, University of Craiova, Romania STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Amy Neustein, Boston University, USA, Editor of Speech Technology - Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia and University of Canberra, Australia - Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania - Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA - Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany - Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA - Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Badica, Amelia, University of Craiova, Romania - Böszörmenyi, Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria - Burlea Schiopoiu, Adriana, University of Craiova - Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain - Cano, Alberto, University of Cordoba, Spain - Cardoso, Jaime S., Universidade do Porto, Portugal - Cretu, Vladimir, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania - Debono, Carl James, University of Malta, Malta - Fabijańska, Anna, Lodz University of Technology, Poland - Institute of Applied Computer Science, Poland - Fomichov, Vladimir, National Research University Higher -School of Economics, Moscow, Russia., Russia - Giurca, Adrian, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany - Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States - Groza, Voicu, University of Ottawa, Canada - Grundspenkis, Janis, Riga Technical University, Latvia - Kabranov, Ognian, Cisco Systems, United States - Kannan, Rajkumar, Bishop Heber College Autonomous, India - Korzhik, Valery, State University of Telecommunications, Russia - Kotenko, Igor, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia - Kriksciuniene, Dalia, Vilnius University, Lithuania - Lamas, David, Tallin University, Estonia - Lau, Rynson, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China - Lloret, Jaime, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain - Logofatu, Bogdan, University of Bucharest, Romania - Luna, Jose, University of Cordoba, Spain - Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy - Mannens, Erik, Ghent University - Mihaescu, Cristian, University of Craiova - Mocanu, Mihai, University of Craiova, Romania - Morales-Luna, Guillermo, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - Ogiela, Marek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Ohzeki, Kazuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan - Õunapuu, Enn, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Paltoglou, Georgios, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - Popescu, Dan, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia, Australia - Querini, Marco, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering - RUTKAUSKIENE, Danguole, Kaunas University of Technology - Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt - Sari, Riri Fitri, University of Indonesia, Indonesia - Smedberg, Asa, Stockholm University, Sweden - Stanescu, Liana, University of Craiova - Tejera, Mario Hernández, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Trausan-Matu, Stefan, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania - Trzcielinski, Stefan, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Tsihrintzis, George, University of Piraeus, Greece - Vega-Rodríguez, Miguel A., University of Extremadura, Spain - Velastin, Sergio, Kingston University, United Kingdom - Virvou, Maria, University of Piraeus, Greece - Watanabe, Toyohide, University of Nagoya - Wotawa, Franz, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria - Zurada, Jacek, University of Louisville, United States 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: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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DS-RAIT 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology (DS-RAIT'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/ds-rait E-mail: ds-rait2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to DS-RAIT - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). The aim of this meeting is to provide a platform for exchange of ideas between early-stage researchers, in Computer Science, PhD students in particular. Furthermore, the symposium will provide all participants an opportunity to get feedback on their studies from experienced members of the IT research community invited to chair all DS-RAIT thematic sessions. Therefore, submission of research proposals with limited preliminary results is strongly encouraged. Besides receiving specific advice for their contributions all participants will be invited to attend plenary lectures on conducting high-quality research studies, excellence in scientific writing and issues related to intellectual property in IT research. Authors of the two most outstanding submissions will have a possibility to present their papers in a form of short plenary lecture. TOPICS ======================================= DS-RAIT 2015 invites the submission of papers on all aspects of Information Technology including, but not limited to: - Automatic Control and Robotics - Bioinformatics - Cloud, GPU and Parallel Computing - Cognitive Science - Computer Networks - Computational Intelligence - Cryptography - Data Mining and Data Visualization - Database Management Systems - Expert Systems - Image Processing and Computer Animation - Information Theory - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing - Numerical Analysis - Operating Systems - Pattern Recognition - Scientific Computing - Software Engineering PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. 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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. 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). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Gołuńska, Dominika, Cracow University of Technology, Poland - Kowalski, Piotr Andrzej, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Lukasik, Szymon, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Arabas, Jaroslaw, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Atanassov, Krassimir T., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Balazs, Krisztian, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Castrillon-Santana, Modesto, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Charytanowicz, Malgorzata, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland - Corpetti, Thomas, University of Rennes, France - Courty, Nicolas, University of Bretagne Sud, France - Fournier-Viger, Philippe, University of Moncton, Canada - Gil, David, University of Alicante, Spain - Hu, Bao-Gang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Koczy, Laszlo, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Kokosinski, Zbigniew, Cracow University of Technology, Poland - Kulczycki, Piotr, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Lilik, Ferenc, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Lovassy, Rita, Obuda University, Hungary - Mesiar, Radko, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia - Noguera i Clofent, Carles, Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Petrik, Milan, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Samotyj, Volodymyr, Lviv Polytechnic National University - Tormasi, Alex, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Yang, Yujiu, Tsinghua University, China - Zadrozny, Slawomir, Systems Research Institute, Poland - Zajac, Mieczyslaw, Cracow University of Technology, Poland 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: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CANA 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 8th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/cana E-mail: cana2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to CANA - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). Numerical algorithms are widely used by scientists engaged in various areas. There is a special need of highly efficient and easy-to-use scalable tools for solving large scale problems. The workshop is devoted to numerical algorithms with the particular attention to the latest scientific trends in this area and to problems related to implementation of libraries of efficient numerical algorithms. The goal of the workshop is meeting of researchers from various institutes and exchanging of their experience, and integrations of scientific centers. TOPICS ======================================= - Parallel numerical algorithms - Novel data formats for dense and sparse matrices - Libraries for numerical computations - Numerical algorithms testing and benchmarking - Analysis of rounding errors of numerical algorithms - Languages, tools and environments for programming numerical algorithms - Numerical algorithms on GPUs - Paradigms of programming numerical algorithms - Contemporary computer architectures - Heterogeneous numerical algorithms - Applications of numerical algorithms in science and technology PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. 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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. 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). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Bylina, Jaroslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Bylina, Beata, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Stpiczyński, Przemysław, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Amodio, Pierluigi, Università di Bari, Italy - Anastassi, Zacharias, Qatar University, Qatar - Banaś, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Barán, Benjamín, Universidad Nacional del Este - Brugnano, Luigi, Universita' di Firenze, Italy - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Filote, Constantin - Fourneau, Jean-Michel - Gansterer, Wilfried, University of Vienna, Austria - Georgiev, Krassimir, IICT - BAS, Bulgaria - Gimenez, Domingo, University of Murcia, Spain - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Kucaba-Pietal, Anna, Politechnika Rzeszowska, Poland - Lirkov, Ivan, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Maksimov, Vyacheslav, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia - Marowka, Ami, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Satco, Bianca-Renata, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania - Sedukhin, Stanislav, The University of Aizu, Japan - Shishkina, Olga, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany - Srinivasan, Natesan, Indian Institute of Technology, India - Szadkowski, Zbigniew, University of Lodz, Poland - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Tůma, Miroslav, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Ustimenko, Vasyl, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Wójcik, Grzegorz M., Institute of Computer Science, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland 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: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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ABC:MI 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation (ABC:MI) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/abcmi E-mail: abcmi2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ABC:MI - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). The field of agent technology is rapidly maturing. One of key factors that influence this process is the gathered body of knowledge that allows in-depth reflection on the very nature of designing and implementing agent systems. As a result, there is now significant knowledge on how to design and implement them. There is also a deeper understanding of the most important issues to be addressed in the process. Therefore, on the top-most level a progress in development of methodologies for design of agent-based systems can be seen. Furthermore, these methodologies are usually supported by tools that allow not only top level conceptualization but guide the process towards implementation (e.g. by generating at least some code). Next, it can seen that new languages for agent based systems are created, e.g. AML or API Calculus. Separately, tools/platforms/environments that can be used for design and implementation of agent systems have been through a number of releases, eliminating problems and adding new, important features. Resulting products are becoming truly robust and flexible. Furthermore, open source products (e.g. JADE) are surrounded by user communities, which often generate powerful add-on components, further increasing value of existing solutions. TOPICS ======================================= The Workshop primarily focuses on all aspects of the process that leads from the model of the problem domain to the actual agent-based solution. These aspects will cover both principled approaches and established practices of software engineering aimed at producing high quality software. In this context, research into the application of agent-based solutions to key challenges faced by software engineering (e.g. reduction of costs and delivery times, coping with a larger diversity of problems) will be of primary importance. ABC:MI Workshop welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of software agent engineering. Topics include but are not limited to: - Methodologies for design of agent systems - Multi-agent systems product lines - Modeling agent systems - Agent architectures - Agent-based simulations - Simulating and verifying agent systems - Agent benchmarking and performance measurement - Agent communication, coordination and cooperation - Agent languages - Agent learning and planning - Agent mobility - Agent modeling, calculi, and logic - Agent security - Agents and Service Oriented Computing - Agents in the Semantic Web - Applications and Experiences PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. 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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be invited to: - the Special Issue of Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience - Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the papers that are going to be selected is expected) - Multiagent and Grid Systems - Computer Science Journal (7 points in current ranking of MNiSW - this is something cryptic to the outsiders, but will be clear for scientists from Poland) IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdańsk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway - Ambroszkiewicz, Stanislaw, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Balke, Tina, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - Barseghyan, Artak, Yerevan, Armenia - Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain - Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany - Budimac, Zoran, Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia - Byrski, Aleksander, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Cervenka, Radovan, Whitestein Technologies AG, Slovakia - Cetnarowicz, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Florea, Adina, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania - Gams, Matjaz, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia - Gomez Sanz, Jorge, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Goncalves, Ricardo, Uninova, Portugal - Hinchey, Mike, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland - Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Jamroga, Wojtek, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland - Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Khorasani, Elham, University of Illinois at Springfield, United States - Koukam, Abder, IRTES-SeT Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard, France - Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland - Kusek, Mario, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia - Leszczyna, Rafal, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland - Letia, Ioan Alfred, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Morge, Maxime, Université Lille 1, France - Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Neruda, Roman, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Ngoc-Thanh, Nguyen - Niazi, Muaz, Bahria University, Pakistan - Novak, Peter, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Nowostawski, Mariusz, University of Otago, Information Science Department, New Zealand - Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal - Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna, Italy - Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Paik, Incheon, University of Aizu, Japan - Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Italy - Pokahr, Alexander, University of Hamburg, Germany - Rimassa, Giovanni, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland - Rykowski, Jarogniew, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Sakellariou, Ilias, Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of - Macedonia, Greece - Santoro, Corrado, University of Catania, Italy - Schaefer, Robert, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Senatore, Sabrina, University of Salerno, Italy - Slavkovik, Marija, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Stanek, Stanislaw, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław, Poland - Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States - Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Trcek, Denis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Troquard, Nicolas, ISTC-CNR, Italy - Tucci, Salvatore, University of Rome at Torvergata, Italy - Venticinque, Salvatore, Second University of Naples, Italy - Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece - Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States - Yazdani, Samaneh, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Iran 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: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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FedCSIS 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Lodz, Poland, 13 - 16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2015onIEEE) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). Please forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multiconference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to three days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into six conference areas. AAIA'15 - 10th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ---- AIMaVIG'15 -1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics ---- AIMA'15 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications ---- ASIR'15 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval ---- CEIM'15 - 2nd Workshop on Complex Events and Information Modelling ---- LQMR'15 - 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning ---- WCO'15 - 8th Workshop on Computational Optimization CSS - Computer Science & Systems ---- BCPC'15 - 1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations ---- CANA'15 - 8th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms ---- IWCPS'15 - 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems ---- MMAP'15 - 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing ---- WAPL'15 - 5th Workshop on Advances on Programming Languages ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'15 - 4th Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop ---- WmL'15 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Learning iNetSApp'15 - 3rd International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications ---- EAIS'15 - 2nd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security ---- SoFAST-WS'15 - 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services ---- WSN'15 - 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society ---- ABICT'15 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT ---- AITM'15 - 13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management ---- ISM'15 - 10th Conference on Information Systems Management ---- IT4L'15 - 4th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics ---- KAM'15 - 21st Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy ---- ABC:MI'15 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation ---- MAS&S'15 - 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations ---- SEN-MAS'15 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKERS List of keynote speakers will be announced shortly. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. 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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. 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). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 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: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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Final Call for Participation: UCC 2014 London UK
by Ashiq Anjum 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Dear All, The final conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/UCC-2014-Co… We have some very interesting keynote speakers, tutorials and workshops this year. The notable names and their talks include the following: 1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft 2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) 3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google 4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft 5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware 6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London 7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Diagnostics Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) Joe Baguley; VMWare John Wilken; Google Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UCC 2014 Tutorials 1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda 2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna 3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein 4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, 5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, 6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli 6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda 7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana 8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop 9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops 1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop 16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA 17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop 18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop 20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event UCC 2014 Registration To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Best regards Ashiq Anjum Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Dr. Ashiq Anjum Reader in Distributed Computing Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre School of Computing and Mathematics University of Derby Room E510 Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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Fwd: Scheduler Bypass
by Phab Lucky 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi, all. I'm new to OpenStack, so I apologize in advance if my question lacks relevance or sense. We are trying to build a cluster orchestrator for Big Data processing and one of the key requirements is the ability to place each computing task in each physical server. We have been trying to leverage this development with OpenStack, but, as far as I can see by the on-line documentation, the Nova interface does not allow users to specify the physical location (host) where VMs (servers) are created. Instead, this task is performed by the Scheduler, which has its own algorithms and policies. Even though we can try to customize the Scheduler, I was wondering if I could simply bypass it and tell Nova to create a VM on host X. I know this sounds like bad design, as we are violating the location transparency that OpenStack attempts to deliver, but this seems to me the only way to bring the computation to where the data is. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot. Phab

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UCC 2014 London UK-- Conference Programme is now available
by Ashiq Anjum 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Dear All, The conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ We have some very interesting keynote speakers this year. The notable names and their talks include the following: 1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft 2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) 3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google 4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft 5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware 6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London 7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) Joe Baguley; VMWare John Wilken; Google Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UCC 2014 Tutorials 1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda 2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna 3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein 4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, 5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, 6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli 6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda 7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana 8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop 9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops 1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop 16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA 17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop 18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop 20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event UCC 2014 Registration To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Best regards Ashiq Anjum Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Dr. Ashiq Anjum Reader in Distributed Computing Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre School of Computing and Mathematics University of Derby Room E510 Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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SCPE - Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

SCALABLE COMPUTING: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE - Volume 15, Issue 3 (2014) Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing ISSN 1895-1767 www.scpe.org SCPE is an electronic journal. It provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents Full texts available at http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/issue/view/122 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Introduction to the Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents - Costin Badica, Mirjana Ivanovic * A system supporting the evaluation of the operational effectiveness of naval tasks based on agent simulation - Davide Anghinolfi, Alberto Capogrosso, Massimo Paolucci, Perra Francesco * Formal modelling and simulation of a multi-agent nano-robotic drug delivery system - Marina Ntika, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou * ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering - Mihaela Oprea * Portability in clouds: approaches and research opportunities - Dana Petcu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos * Fariness of task scheduling in high performance computing environments - Art Sedighi, Yuefan Deng, Peng Zhang

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IEEE UCC 2014, December 8-11, 2014, London, UK
by Ashiq Anjum 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ************************************************************************************* 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) December 8-11, 2014, London, UK http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Context and Scope Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference. This will be the 7th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), and Dresden, Germany (UCC2013). UCC 2014 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at an accelerated pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research. Topics of interest include: * Big Data and Analytics * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models * Policy languages and Programming models * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Virtualisation technologies and other enablers * Economic models and scenarios of use * Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring * Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contextsImportant Dates Paper Submissions Due: 18 July, 2014 Tutorial Proposals Due: 18 July, 2014 Cloud Challenge Proposals Due: 15th August, 2014 Notification of Acceptance:29 August, 2014 Early Registration Deadline:29 September, 2014 Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2014) . Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Chairs and Committees Conference Co-Chairs Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk) Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK (o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk) Programme Committee Co-Chairs Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Organising Chair Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Workshops Chair Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany Publications Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Workshops We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops. Venue UCC 2014 will take place in the Hilton London Paddington, in the centre of the lively capital of United Kingdom.

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