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CFP: IEEE TCSS SI on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Special Issue on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" *Important Dates* Paper submission due: July 6th, 2015 *[Extended]* First round decisions: August 1st, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: September1st, 2015 Final decisions: October 1st, 2015 Publication date: Oct/Nov 2015 Issue. DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) integrates the computational physical elements (seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components) capable of interacting with, reflecting and influencing each other as well as the complicated system and information exhibited by human’s social behaviour. Rapid advances in mobile cloud computing, man-machine, machine-machine communications, smart phone networks will cause a new paradigm shift in CPSS design, applications, and operations by bringing improvements not only to the quality of service (QoS) but also to quality of experiment (QoE) and quality of protection (QoP) in terms of the cost efficiency, reliability, security, and energy efficiency from the human perspective of view. The integration of cyber-physical systems and social networks also provides a novel platform to addresses challenges in cyber-physical-social interactions and human-centric technologies development by using powerful tools such as social computing, social cooperation, and social sensing, etc. Application examples of employing mobile computing in CPSS include traffic accidents detection in smart transportation, energy management in smart grid, health monitoring and evaluation. The introduction of social elements into CPS poses new system design challenges and open research issues. Therefore, safety and reliability requirements of physical components are qualitatively different from general-purpose distributed computing infrastructures and lack of consistent and unified system modelling and design principles. Resources in data centers and cloud infrastructures have to be efficiently managed and scheduled to optimize reliability and scalability of CPSS under various constraints of QoE and QoP. Besides, CPSS are expected to deal with data directly coming from trans-domain applications, which could be in various forms such as GPS coordinates, flood level, temperature, rainfall rate, vehicle speed, electricity consumption, etc. How to coordinate various applications of heterogeneous systems and facilitate a deeper integration, interaction and personalization of the physical, cyber, and social domains is another important challenge. This “Cyber-Physical-Social Systems” special issue aims to cover the most recent research and development on the enabling technologies for CPSS, and to stimulate more discussions in this field. Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to: l New architecture, protocols, and services for CPSS l Green and energy efficiency design principles and technologies for CPSS l Information fusion and data mining for CPSS l Fault tolerance and reliability for CPSS l High performance computing and many-task computing for CPSS l Security, privacy and trust for CPSS l Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration for CPSS l Applications, simulations, and field test for CPSS l Enabling information, communication and control technologies for CPSS l Exploring social cloud networks and social cloud computing for CPSS l CPSS for novel applications such as smart city, smart grid, smart transportation, etc. l Content and service distribution for CPSS l M2M and D2D communication technologies for CPSS l Big data analytics for CPSS l Quality of experience and quality of protection issues for CPSS l Mobile cloud sensing for CPSS *Submission & Major Guidelines* This special issue invites original research papers that make significant contributions to the state-of-the-art in “Cyber-Physical-Social Systems”. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference publications. However, the papers that have been previously published with reputed conferences could be considered for publication in the special issue if they contain significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand "new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TCSS submission web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcss, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. *Selection and Evaluation Criteria* - Significance to the readership of the journal - Relevance to the special issue - Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results - Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text - Quality of references and related work - Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion *Co-Editor-in-Chief * George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, USA Eunice E. Santos, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA *Guest Editors* Mianxiong Dong, mx.dong(a)csse.muroran-it.ac.jp, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, rajiv.ranjan(a)csiro.au, CSIRO, Australia Albert Y. Zomaya, albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au, The University of Sydney, Australia Man Lin, mlin(a)stfx.ca, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction Computer networks, communication systems, and other IT infrastructures have caused severe environmental problems by consuming significant amounts of power, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and lead to pollution during the production and disposal. To reduce such environmental problems and create a sustainable environment, new energy models, algorithms, methodologies, platforms, tools and systems are pressing. Thus, green computing and communications solutions should be designed with more renewable energy, higher energy efficiency, lower greenhouse gas emission, and less harmful materials. Scope and Topics A. Green Computing and Communication Technologies • Green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies • Energy- and power-constrained devices and gateways • Ultra-low power systems architectures • Low-power, distributed data processing on sensors • Energy-efficient M2M wired and wireless communications and networking • Optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications (including core network optimization) • Green big data architecture • Green cloud computing • Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols • Energy efficiency in networking, wireless networks and vehicular networks • Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing • Measurement and modeling of energy consumption • Standardization and benchmark B. Smart Energy and Smart Grid. • Smart metering infrastructure and technologies • Large-scale monitoring, control and demand response • Advanced data fusion, mining and modeling in smart grid • Management and control of distributed energy generation, storage and consumption • Advanced smart grid applications: grid-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-grid, Micro-grid • Renewable energy generation and new energy sources • Standardization and benchmark C. Green Society Applications • Smart sensing systems • Smart city • Green vehicle, green home, green buildings and green anything • Green industrial automation and control • Intelligent Transport Systems and control 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 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/submission.htm. 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; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Victor C. M. Leung, UBC, Canada Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Xiaohu Ge, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Co-Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia Program Chairs Benjamin Belzer, Washington State University, USA Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Program Vice Chairs Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China Workshops Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St Francis Xavier University, Canada Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Kirk W. Cameron, Virginia Technology, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia David Wallom, Oxford e-Science Center, UK Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Honggang Zhang, Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) & Supelec/IETR, France

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CFP: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) brings promising opportunities and challenges. It attracts great attentions, and has important economic and social values. IoT will play a key role in the next generation of information, network, and communication developing. Future IoT may bring us an era of “harmony of man with nature”, which means harmony fusion of Physical-space, Cyber-space, and Social-space. We will witness emancipation not only from onerous labor works brought by machine-human interface, but also from the spatial-temporal constrains in Physical-space, and will achieve substantial benefits from IT development. Scope and Topics A. IoT Architectures • Things-centric, service-centric and data-centric architecture • CPS and SCADA platforms • Future Internet and network design for IoT • Cloud-based IoT • System security and management • Data centre design for IoT B. IoT enabling technologies • Sensing technologies • Radio frequency identification • Low power and energy harvesting • Sensor networks • Machine-type communication • resource-constrained networks • real-time systems • IoT data analytics • Embedded software. C. IoT services, applications and standards • Streaming data management and mining platforms • Service middleware • Open service platform • Semantic service management • Security and privacy-preserving protocols, • Design examples of smart services and applications • IoT application support 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 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm. 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; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA General Co-Chairs Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Vincenzo Piuri, University degli Studi di Milano, Italy Son Vuong, UBC, Canada Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, France Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, Taiwan Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain

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CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 23 Jun '15

23 Jun '15

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction As an emerging cross-disciplinary research area, the Cyber Physical System (CPS) is attracting attention worldwide. A Cyber-Physical System is a system featuring a combination of computational and physical elements, all of which are capable of interacting, reflecting and influencing each other. Furthermore, social systems are evolving with cyber systems and physical systems along with the popularity of online social networking. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing and networking, future social networks turn into cyber-physical interactions, which are attached with associated social attributes. The emergence of the cyber-physical-social computing will significantly change the way we see the world. In the mean time, the convergence of the physical, cyber, and social spaces will exhibit a variety of complicated characteristics, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. *Scope and Topics* *A. Networks and Networked Systems* where intelligent entities exchange information to achieve improved overall performance for both cyber and physical components. Particular areas of interests include: • sensor, vehicular, robot, camera, aerial and social smartphone networks • wireless networking technologies and autonomous ad hoc networks • internet of things and machine-to-machine communications • networked infrastructure management with applications such as smart power grids and transportation systems • network enabled computation, coordination, and actuation • scalability of complex networks *B. Modelling and Control* where mathematical and computational methods are developed and applied to facilitate innovative design, in-depth analysis, and novel insights of the fundamental principles. Particular areas of interests include: • control theory with a clear cyber-physical tone such as networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning • autonomy with applications in mobile sensor networks, internet connected cars, etc. • modelling of tightly integrated physical processes, software, computation platforms, and networks *C. Data Management *where novel methods are developed to reliably gather, store, transfer, and analyse large amount of data and dataflow. Particular areas of interests include: • data management and processing (e.g. big data, cloud computing) • location and tracking based services • smart cameras and computer vision based context management • web of things. *D. Software and Hardware* where novel designs and implementations of test-beds, platforms, and software will significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of next generation CPS. Particular areas of interests include: • embedded systems applications (pervasive computing, real-time control technologies) • resource-constrained systems (low power, energizing, device miniaturization) • standards and middleware. *E. Other Emerging Areas *where new challenges, new ideas, and new principles are shaping. For example, • incentive, security, trust, and privacy issues in CPS • smart living technologies such as smart city, smart home and office, wearable devices, learning devices, etc. • social M2M networks, social impact of CPS, creative aspects. 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 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm. 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; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada General Co-Chairs Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Steering Committee Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China (Chair) Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Wei Li, Beihang University, China Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

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CFP: International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems (CN4IoT 2015) October 26–27, 2015 Roma, Italy
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 16 Jun '15

16 Jun '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* CFP: International Conference on Cloud, Networking for IoT systems (CN4IoT 2015) October 26–27, 2015 Roma, Italy Website: http://cloudniot.org/2015/show/home Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 June 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 25 July 2015 Camera Ready Copies: 25 August 2015 Publications: Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library, which is one of the largest digital libraries online and covers a variety of scientific disciplines. The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Conference and Topics: We solicit technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Submissions should clearly identify how they relate to Cloud Computing, Networking, and IoT (CN4IoT). Contributions describing an overall working system and reporting real world deployment experiences are particularly of interest. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Deployment and autonomic management of densely interconnected and decentralised cloud infrastructures, including the extension of the fog computing paradigm to the edge of the network. - Autonomic Management of Cloud networking in the context of software-defined data centres. - Re-allocation of resources and services (independently of their location) across distributed computing and geographically separated data storage infrastructures - Distributed cloud wireless networking - Software Defined Infrastructure Architectures, Application Programming Interfaces Protocols & Programming languages - Efficient Network and Cloud Function Virtualization (NFV) - Service & Information Orchestration/Chaining and Life Cycle Management - Energy Efficient and Green Software-defined Infrastructures - Software-based Integration of Computing, Storage & Networks - Software-Defined Datacenters and Inter-datacenter Networks - Object identity management, discovery services in IoT, - Virtualisation of objects, devices and IoT infrastructures - Ad-hoc Cloud services, Big Data Analytics - Interconnected smart objects and service infrastructures - Infrastructures, platforms, and software for CN4IoT scenarios - Software engineering methodology for the design of CN4IoTsystems - Dynamic orchestration of cloud resources for IoT systems and applications - Service discovery in CN4IoT- device Discovery, Data Discovery, service Discovery. - Traffic Engineering and Quality of Service (QoS) in CN4IoT - SLA Management for CN4IoT - Monitoring of CN4IoT Systems - Mobility support in CN4IoT - Security and privacy preservation in CN4IoT Systems - Building Trust-based communication and computing systems for IoT applications - HPC-Cloud Platforms for IoT Big Data Analytics - CloudNIoT services (Sensing as a Service, Data Analytics as a Service, etc) - Utility Models for CN4IoT metering - IoT Microservices, Networking and CloudLet computing - Communication challenges in CloudLet computing - Software-defined networking support for IoT device fleets (M2M applications) - Industrial IoT interacting with Clouds and Virtual Networks - Personal IoT and Physical Analytics in IoT Focusing on Applications Use Case with Small Data - Hybrid Sensor/Cloud networking - SDN Switch/Router Architectures/Designs for CN4IoT - Control Architectures/Network Programmability in CN4IoT - Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools CN4IoT - Energy-aware and sustainable computing solutions for CN4IoT applications - Economics assessments aimed at Clouds, Data, IoT, Networking and Social in Hybrid Scenarios. - Applications for Smart Cities, BigData Applications, ICT devices used in Factory of the Future, HPC, eHealth, Industrial Processes, Energy Efficiency Systems, Social Platforms, etc. Best Paper Award: The program committee will select one of the accepted papers as the “CN4IoT 2015 Best Paper Award”. The winner(s) will be announced during the conference. General Chair: Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Technical Program Committee Chair: Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria Alex Galis UCL, United Kingdom Fahim Kawsar, Bell Labs, Belgium Publication Chair: Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy Publicity Chair: Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Conference Manager: Kristina Lukacova, European Alliance for Innovation, Slovakia Steering Committee Chair: Imrich Chlamtac, CREATE-NET, Italy Steering Commitee Members: Antonio Celesti, University of Messina, Italy Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, NY, USA Georgiana Copil, TU Vienna, Austria Schahram Dustdar, TU Vienna, Austria Alex Galis UCL, United Kingdom Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University, NY, USA Fahim Kawsar, Bell Labs, Belgium Prem Prakash Jayaraman, CSIRO, Digital Productivity Flagship, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Digital Productivity Flagship, Australia Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Joe Weinman, Chief IEEE Intercloud Testbed, Telx, NY, USA

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 07 Jun '15

07 Jun '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Special Issue on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_mtpsb… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submission Deadline: June 1 2015 June 30 2015 *[Extended]* Reviews Completed: September 1 2015 Major Revisions Due (if Needed): October 1 2015 Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): November 1 2015 Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): December 1 2015 Notification of Final Acceptance: February 1 2016 Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: March 1 2016 Publication date: Second Issue 2016 (June Issue) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that has gained a significant interest from both academia and industry. IoT is a part of Future Internet and comprises many billions of Internet connected Objects (ICOs) or ‘things’ where things can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate as well as have intelligence, multi-modal interfaces, physical/ virtual identities and attributes. ICOs can include sensors, RFIDs, social media, actuators (such as machines/equipments fitted with sensors and deployed for mining, oil exploration, and manufacturing operations) as well as lab instruments (e.g., high energy physics synchrotron), and smart consumer appliances (smart TV, smart phone, etc.). This IoT vision has recently given rise to the notion of IoT big data applications that are capable of producing billions of data stream and tens of years of historical data to provide the knowledge required to support timely decision making. Some of the emerging IoT big data applications, e.g. smart energy grids, syndromic bio-surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency situation awareness, digital agriculture, and smart manufacturing, need to process and manage massive, streaming, and multi-dimensional (from multiple sources) data from geographically distributed data sources. Despite recent technological advances of the data-intensive computing paradigms (e.g. the MapReduce paradigm, workflow technologies, stream processing engines, distributed machine learning frameworks) and datacentre clouds, large-scale reliable system-level software for IoT big data applications are yet to become commonplace. As new diverse IoT applications begin to emerge, there is a need for optimized techniques to distribute processing of the streaming data produced by such applications across multiple datacentres that combine multiple, independent, and geographically distributed software and hardware resources. However, the capability of existing data-intensive computing paradigms is limited in many important aspects such as: (i) they can only process data on compute and storage resources within a centralised local area network, e.g., a single cluster within a datacentre. This leads to unsatisfied Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of timeliness of decision making, resource availability, data availability, etc. as application demands increase; (ii) they do not provide mechanisms to seamlessly integrate data spread across multiple distributed heterogeneous data sources (ICOs); (iii) lack support for rapid formulation of intuitive queries over streaming data based on general purpose concepts, vocabularies and data discovery; and (iv) they do not provide any decision making support for selecting optimal data mining and machine algorithms, data application programming frameworks, and NoSQL database systems based on nature of the big data (volume, variety, and velocity). Furthermore, adoption of existing datacentre cloud platform for hosting IoT applications is yet to be realised due to lack of techniques and software frameworks that can guarantee QoS under uncertain big data application behaviours (data arrival rate, number of data sources, decision making urgency, etc.), unpredictable datacentre resource conditions (failures, availability, malfunction, etc.) and capacity demands (bandwidth, memory, storage, and CPU cycles). It is clear that existing data intensive computing paradigms and related datacentre cloud resource provisioning techniques fall short of the IoT big data challenge or do not exist. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Programming abstractions for extedmding existing data intensive computing paradigms to multiple datacentres - Technical foundations for selection of data mining and machine learning algorithms Streaming data query and indexing systems based on semantic web concepts - IoT big data application specific ontology models for capturing heterogeneous data from multiple sources - Decentralised data flow optimisation and management techniques across multiple datacentres - Techniques for petabyte efficient no-SQL query-based IoT big data processing - QoS optimized parallel data analytic techniques beyond traditional relational database systems - Knowledge driven, predictive datacentre resource allocation and provisioning for streaming data - Innovative IoT big data application use cases - Techniques for providing a secure end-to-end connection between users and data sources SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. TETC is the newest Transactions of the IEEE Computer Society with Open Access only. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs. Please address all other correspondence regarding this special Section to Lead Guest Editor *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan* GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan – Corresponding Guest Editor * Senior Research Scientist & Julius Fellow, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au *Prof. Lizhe Wang * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences Email:Lizhe.wang@gmail.com *Dr. Jie Tao * Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Email: jie.tao(a)kit.edu *Prof. Albert Zomaya * Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Email: albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au *Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman * Postdoctoral Research Scientist CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: prem.jararaman(a)csiro.au *Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos * Professor, Computer Science & Info Tech RMIT University, Australia Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)rmit.edu.au

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CFP: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 05 Jun '15

05 Jun '15

Call for papers: The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data intensive systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSDIS (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Intensive Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Stream data processing and integration • Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Data provenance and graph analytics • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Big Data, data science and cloud computing • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Intensive Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Meta-data management • Remote data access • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Performance optimization techniques • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Stream data computing • Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems • Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems • Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/submission.htm. 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; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Chairs Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia General Co-Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Program Vice Chairs Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Jing He, Victoria University, Australia Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang Deakin University, Australia Raymond Choo, The University of South Australia, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CNSM 2015 - Further deadline extension to June 14th (FIRM)!
by Tortonesi Mauro 02 Jun '15

02 Jun '15

Dear colleagues, we are writing to inform you that, after having received many extension requests, we just postponed the paper submission deadline for CNSM 2015 to June 14th. Please, note that this is a firm deadline that we won't be able to extend any further. You can find the updated Call for Papers below. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions and to seeing you in Barcelona for CNSM 2015. Best regards, Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy CNSM 2015 Technical Program Co-Chairs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS - CNSM 2015 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management November 9-13, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain <http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2015/> The 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), technically co-sponsored by IFIP WG6.6, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computer Society, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, is inviting authors to submit original contributions in the network and service management research area. CNSM 2015 is a selective single track conference covering all aspects of the management of networks and services, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. The core track is accompanied by a series of workshops, tutorials, and poster sessions. Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2015 will be published open access on the conference Web site (with IFIP copyright) and included in the IFIP Digital Library and in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2015 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal. The timeline / deadlines for CNSM are as follows: Paper submission: 2015-06-14 (FIRM!!!) Rebuttal period: 2015-07-11 - 2015-07-17 Acceptance notification: 2015-07-31 Camera-ready paper: 2015-09-20 Conference: 2015-11-09 - 2015-11-13 We welcome your contributions and look forward to your participation at CNSM 2015. For further details, see <http://www.cnsm-conf.org/2015/>. Information about past editions of CNSM can be found at <http://www.cnsm-conf.org/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Co-Chairs - Joan Serrat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Technical Program Co-Chairs - Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy - Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany Steering Committee - Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada - Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland - Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France - James Hong, POSTECH, Korea - Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA - Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Doug Zuckerman, Applied Communication Sciences, USA -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Engineering Department University of Ferrara

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