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Extended CFP - BigDataMR2012 (International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Sean Zhang 26 Jun '12

26 Jun '12

To allow for most deadline extension requests, we have extended the submission deadline to 10 July 2012. But this will be firm. Call for papers: 2012 International symposium on Big Data and MapReduce (BigDataMR2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012/. Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: Extended to July 10, 2012 (firm) Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatamr2012. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications and Computing (Springer). Introduction: Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs;and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas! such as cloud computing, distributed computing and database area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about big data and MapReduce in cloud environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and MapReduce. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving on cloud · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing · MapReduce on hybrid cloud · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Security, privacy, reliability, trust and privacy in MapReduce · Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Resource scheduling and SLA for MapReduce · Big Data processing tools based on MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud General Chairs: Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Program Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Any enqueries, please direct to Xuyun Zhang at xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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Extended CFP: PriSecCSN'12 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 25 Jun '12

25 Jun '12

Submission Deadline Extended to 10 July, 2012. We apologize for any cross-postings. Call for papers: The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2012/. Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: Extended to July 10, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2012. Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie ?hlfeldt, University of Sk?vde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Basel Alomair, University of Washington, USA Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Reza Azarderakhsh, University of Waterloo, Canada Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University – Texarkana, USA Shuguo Han, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Charles Morisset, IIT - CNR, Italy David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo,Italy Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Research, USA Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia KE WANG, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia John Zic, CSIRO, Australia Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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Extended CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 24 Jun '12

24 Jun '12

Joint Extended Call for papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, 1~3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website:(http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012) Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Authors Notification: July 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2012 Registration Due: August 18, 2012 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications): Selected papers will be published in international SCI-indexed high quality journals: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary General Chairs Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea General Chairs Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong, Hong Kong Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Vice Chairs V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Program Chairs Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan Tiejian Luo, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

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Extended CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 17 Jun '12

17 Jun '12

Joint Extended Call for papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, 1~3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website:(http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012) Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Authors Notification: July 30, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: August 10, 2012 Registration Due: August 18, 2012 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications): Selected papers will be published in international SCI-indexed high quality journals: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary General Chairs Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea General Chairs Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong, Hong Kong Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Vice Chairs V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Program Chairs Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan Tiejian Luo, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

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CFP - BigDataMR2012 (International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Sean Zhang 12 Jun '12

12 Jun '12

Call for papers: 2012 International symposium on Big Data and MapReduce (BigDataMR2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012/. Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigdatamr2012. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs;and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas! such as cloud computing, distributed computing and database area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about big data and MapReduce in cloud environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and MapReduce. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving on cloud · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing · MapReduce on hybrid cloud · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Security, privacy, reliability, trust and privacy in MapReduce · Volume, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Resource scheduling and SLA for MapReduce · Big Data processing tools based on MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud General Chairs: Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Program Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Any enqueries, please direct to Xuyun Zhang at xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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CFP: PriSecCSN'12 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 10 Jun '12

10 Jun '12

We apologize for any cross-postings. Call for papers: The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2012/. Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2012. Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie ?hlfeldt, University of Sk?vde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Basel Alomair, University of Washington, USA Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Reza Azarderakhsh, University of Waterloo, Canada Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University – Texarkana, USA Shuguo Han, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Charles Morisset, IIT - CNR, Italy David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo,Italy Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Research, USA Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia KE WANG, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia John Zic, CSIRO, Australia Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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Extended CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing), Nov. 2012, Xiangtan China.
by Jinjun Chen 03 Jun '12

03 Jun '12

Extended Call for papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ Key dates: Submission Deadline extended to: June 30, 2012 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; or International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Wangchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Panel Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong Universtiy, China Local Organising Committee Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Wangchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Xinjun Mao, National University of Defense Technology, China Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Finance Chairs Buqing Cao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Puyang Yu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Conference Secretary and Web Chair Yiping Wen, Central South University, China Guosheng Kang, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China

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