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IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 24 Jul '16

24 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== 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 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. DSS (Data Science and 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 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 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, 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 Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada 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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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 22 Jul '16

22 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities 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/2016/smartcity/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia 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 Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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CFP : The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT), Shanghai, China
by Ashiq Anjum 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Call for Papers The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) Date: December 6-9, 2016 Location: Shanghai, China Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ Important Dates: - Paper Submission Due: 30 July, 2016 - Author Notification: 21 August, 2016 - Final Manuscript Due: 21 September, 2016 The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT) is an annual international conference. The first two events were held in London (BDC 2014) and Cyprus (BDC 2015) respectively. In 2016, the conference has been expanded to explicitly include applications and renamed as BDCAT 2016. The conference aims to provide a platform for researchers to present their new discoveries, developments, results, as well as the latest trends in big data computing, technologies and applications. BDCAT 2016 will be held in conjunction with the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Innovative Data Science Models and Approaches Data Science Practice and Experience Algorithms for Big Data Novel Big Data Search Techniques Innovative data and Knowledge Engineering approaches Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Experience reports in Solving Large Scale Data Science Problems II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable computing models, theories, and algorithms In-Memory Systems and platforms for Big Data Analytics Programming Systems for Big Data Cyber-Infrastructures for Big Data Performance evaluation reports for Big Data Systems Fault tolerance and reliability of Big Data Systems I/O and Data management Approaches for Big Data Energy-efficient Algorithms Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Task Computing Many-core computing and accelerators III. Big Data Security and Policy Big Data Archival and Preservation Big Data Management Policies Data Privacy Data Security Big Data Provenance Ethical and Anonymization Issues for Big Data Big Data Compliance and Governance Models IV. Big Data Applications Experience Papers with Big Data Application Deployments Big Data Applications for Internet of things Scientific application cases studies on Cloud infrastructures Big Data Applications at Scale Data streaming applications Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data in Social Networks Healthcare Applications such as Genome processing and analytics Enterprise Applications V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytical Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Honorary Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Beng Chin OOI, National University of Singapore, Singapore Programme Committee Chairs Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Zhao Xinghui, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA Programme Committee Vice Chairs Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Zhangbing Zhou, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China Local Organizing Chair Cheng Wong, Tongji University, China Programme Committee Members Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ilkay Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA Ee-Chien Chang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Jong Hoon Ahnn, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Guangjie Han, Hohai University, China Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Robert Hsu Chung Hua University, Taiwan Dongfang Zhao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Rui Zhang, University of Melbourne, Australia Yin Zhang, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Thomas Bohnert, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Lei Shu, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), USA Robert Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Kesheng Wu, Berkeley Lab, USA Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK Marco Netto, IBM Research Zhangbing Zhou, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Xiao Chen, Jiangsu University, China Justin Wozniak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Andre Luckow, BMW Dan Chen, Wuhan University, China Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Been-Chian Chen,National University of Tainan,Taiwan Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab and The University of Chicago, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Paul Townend, University of Leeds, UK Guanjun Liu, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Yan Tang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research, Ireland Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University, UK Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Jie Cui, Anhui University, China Weidong Shi, University of Houston, USA Jose Brito, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ali R Butt, Virginia Tech,USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Bo Li, Beihang University, China Mohsin Farid, University of Derby, UK Samer Al-Kiswany, The University of British Columbia, Canada Jie Cui, Anhui University, Hefei, China Sajjad A Madani,COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan David Chiu, University of Puget Sound, USA Manzur Murshed, Federation University, Australia Silvio Pardi,Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Benjamin Rubinstein, University of Melbourne, Australia Kune Raghavendra, ADRIN,DOS, India Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Said Jai Andaloussi, Casablanca Hassan II University, Morocco Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, UAE Hemant Sharma, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, University of Central Greece, Greece Khalid Elgazzar, Carnegie Mellon University, USA George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Joarder Kamal, Monash University, Australia Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, USA Ljiljana Trajkovic, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Renyu Yang Beihang University, China Xiangjun Shen, Jiangsu University, China Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the following templates (latex, pdf, doc). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2016 paper submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdsea2016) Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. Selected papers from BDCAT 2016 will be invited to extend and submit to the Special Issue on Big Data Computing in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transaction on Big Data and other leading journals.

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Extended CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 20 Jul '16

20 Jul '16

Call for papers: As requested, we have extended the submission deadline to 22 August 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT), but this is firm then. The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 22, 2016 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences =========== 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 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. DSS (Data Science and 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 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 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, 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 Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada 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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CFP: IEEE SmartCity2016 (Smart City), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Key 'smart' sectors include transport, energy, health care, water and waste. A smart city should be able to respond faster to city and global challenges than one with a simple 'transactional' relationship with its citizens. IEEE SmartCity 2016 is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city include all aspects of smart city with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: • Smart Transportation • Smart Home and Community • E-health Systems • Environment and Urban Monitoring • Green Network and Energy Efficiency • Smart Electronic Systems for Security • Big Data for Urban Informatics • QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services • Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems • Smart University and Smart Education • Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities • Smart City Governance • Internet of Things for Smart Cities • Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities • Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities • Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities 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/2016/smartcity/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Xiangyang Li, University of Science and Technology China, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia 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 Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Gilles Betis, EIT ICT Labs, France Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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Security Rockstars – Start-up Competition - apply now until July 15, 2016
by office＠ares-conference.eu 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Security Rockstars - Start-up Competition in Information Security https://www.securityrockstars.com ********* APPLY NOW until July 15, 2016 ********* Apply now for “Security Rockstars” - the European Information Security Start-up Competition organized by SBA Research and supported by partners from the public and private sector. The competition's goal is to find and support innovative ideas and solutions in the area of Information Security. Submission deadline for proposals is 15 July 2016. The final pitch takes place in the context of the CCS Conference on 24 October 2016 in Vienna (https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2016/) ******** PRICES: ******** First place: 20.000 EUR Second place: 10.000 EUR Thirs place: 5.000 EUR TOP 25 A detailed business plan will be drawn up under the guidance of experts and with the help of the "Innovation Box" by WhatAVenture. 25+ experts - university professors, serial entrepreneurs, CISOs of Fortune 500 companies and venture capitalists - will screen these concepts and give feedback. Additionally, the best 25 will receive an invitation to attend the final event of the competition taking place during ACM CCS 2016, one of the most acknowledged international academic conferences for information security. TOP 10 The Top 10 participants will be invited to join a 5-day start-up boot camp in Vienna as well as receive the opportunity to present their idea at a vendor booth at the Security Rockstars finals. TOP 5 The Top 5 participants will present in front of an expert jury as well as 250+ senior security professionals from Top 500 companies and leading universities during the Security Rockstars finals on the 24th of October in the Hofburg in Vienna. ******** IMPORTANT DATES: ******** 15 July 2016 - Submission deadline for the abstract 1 August 2016 - Nomination Top 25 1 September 2016 - Submission deadline for the business plan 24 September 2016 - Nomination Top 5 20 October 2016 - Sponsor workshops and “Meet the Founders” evening event 21 October 2016 - Sponsor workshops and pitch training 22 October 2016 - Presentation training 23 October 2016 - Final workshop and day of preparation with the experts from WhatAVenture 24 October 2016 - ACM CCS 2016 in Vienna with the final pitches as well as award ceremony ******** SUBMISSION ******** Stage 1 – Abstract To make entering the competition easy for early-stage start-ups as well, only a short abstract or pitch deck is necessary during the first stage, summarizing the problem and its technical solution (max. one page) as well as presenting the team and the business model (max. one page). For more information please visit: https://www.securityrockstars.com Follow Security Rockstars on Facebook and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/SecRockStars https://twitter.com/SecRockStars/ SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 1040 Vienna /Austria https://www.sba-research.org/

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