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SmartWorld 2021 Call for Papers
by CFP Announce 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

*2021 Smart World Congress * October 18-21, 2021, Atlanta, USA The 7th IEEE Smart World Congress (SmartWorld 2021) aims at promoting original and unpublished research works covering science, technologies, applications and related categories on smart world. It provides a high-profile, leading-edge forum for researchers and engineers to exchange on advances and innovations on smart world. In particular, the following topics are considered. The congress invites high-quality papers in the broad areas related to ubiquitous intelligence and computing, advanced and trusted computing, scalable computing and communications, cloud and big data, and Internet of people towards the Smart World. Proposals for tutorials, special sessions, workshops, forums, demos, exhibitions are also extremely welcome. SmartWorld 2021 Topics Include but Are Not Limited to: – Smart Industry and Manufacture – Smart Home and Furniture – Smart Agriculture and Aquaculture – Smart Appliances and Goods – Smart Materials and Fabric – Smart Wearables and Implants – Smart Environment and Ecosystems – Smart Medicine and Healthcare – Smart Earth/Space System – Smart Elderly/Kiddy Care – Smart Grid and Energy – Smart Foods and Living – Smart Logistics and Retail – Smart Learning and Education – Smart Building and Structure – Smart Disaster Monitoring/Management – Smart Roads and Transportation – Smart Internet of Things – Smart Vehicles and Control – Smart Sensing, System and Service – Smart Machines and Robots – Smart Computing and Communication – Smart Cybersecurity and Privacy – Smart Big Data and Knowledge Co-located Five Conferences IEEE Int'l Conf. on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Advanced and Trusted Computing (ATC 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Scalable Computing & Communications (SocialCom 2021) IEEE Int'l Conf. on Internet of People (IoP 2021) IEEE Int’l Conf. on Smart City Innovations (SCI 2021) Selected High Quality Papers Will be Recommended to IEEE Internet of Things Digital Communications and Networks Information Fusion IEEE Access Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks Important Dates Workshop Proposal: March 30, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021 Author Notification: June 30, 2021

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[CFP] Elsevier High-Confidence Computing Journal
by CFP Announce 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

*Elsevier High-Confidence Computing Journal Call for Papers* Driven by the recent developments of digital transformations and high-fault-tolerant systems, High-Confidence Computing (HCC) was coined as a new computing paradigm that integrates the key properties of trusted computing, precise computing, and intelligent computing to support the next-generation information systems such as smart-city, smart-society, and autonomous driving. HCC relies on interdisciplinary methodologies to realize secure and trusted software/hardware, precise and process-traceable algorithms, and self-evolving designs that can adapt to new environments and support new applications. Information systems possessing HCC properties can provide collaborative services that are otherwise impossible as security, traceability, accountability, reliability, robustness, extensibility, adaptivity, and self-evolution are all desired and equally-important properties of modern complex systems. The Elsevier HCC Journal is dedicated to publishing rigorously peer-reviewed, high-quality original articles covering fundamental research outcomes that integrate the three domains of trusted computing, precise computing, and intelligent computing, as well as complex system designs that jointly consider the properties of secure and trusted hardware/software, precise and process-traceable algorithms, and self-evolving systems that can adapt to new environments and support new applications. The journal intends to provide a unique interdisciplinary platform for researchers and practitioners who are interested in the basic research of high-confidence computing and the complex system developments considering high-confidence properties to demonstrate their novel and creative designs. Other than the original research papers on all aspects of high-confidence computing from theory and applications, the journal also publishes review articles with inspiring open research discussions that can motivate new ideas of realizing high-confidence computing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: · Expandable and accountable computing architectures · SDN-enabled and Blockchain-enhanced computing architectures · NFV for dynamic function expansion and adaptation · Access control to secure open computing environments · TEE-enabled trusted data collection and hardware control · Cryptographic high-confidence primitives and applications · High-confidence system security and privacy · Active defense technologies · Malicious, damaged and white-noise data cleaning and extraction · Spatial-temporal big data fusion for intelligent decision making · Migration learning and digital-twin technologies · Cascading failure detection and recovery · Cascading vulnerability detection and positioning · Modelling, analysis, and measurement of high-confidence · Testbed and empirical studies Submission Guidelines: Authors should prepare their manuscripts according to the Elsevier guidelines. All the papers will be peer-reviewed following a regular reviewing process. Please submit your manuscript at the online submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/hccom/default.aspx. Please ensure you read the Guide for Authors before writing your manuscript. The Guide for Authors and the link to submit your manuscript is available on the Journal’s homepage https://www.journals.elsevier.com/high-confidence-computing/.

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Call for Workshops and Demos: IFIP Networking 2021
by Xueqin Liang 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

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ICICS 2021 Call for Workshop Papers, 24-26 May 2021 - Valencia -Spain (Virtual)
by Yufei Sun 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

*The 12th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems Workshops (ICICS 2021)* *24-26 May 2021 - Valencia - Spain * https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/workshops.html *(Technically Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section)* *ICICS 2021 Workshops CFP:* The International Conference on Information and Communication Systems (ICICS 2021) includes a number of workshops and symposiums on different domains that will be jointly held during the conference time. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in one of the following join events: *·* The International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Cybersecurity (AISC 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/aisc2021.html> · The International workshop on Technologies, security and privacy of connected autonomous vehicles (TSPCAV 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/tspcav2021.html> · International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence of Things: Architectures and Applications (AIoTCon) (AIoTCon 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/AIoTCon.html> · The First International Symposium on Innovation in AgriFoodTech (InnAFT 2021) (InnAFT 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/InnAFT.html> · The International Workshop on Future Data Science Systems (FDSS) (FDSS 2021) <https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/fdss.html> *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must be a 6-pages max (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. *Important Dates* *Paper Submission Deadline: 30 March 2021 * *Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2021* *Camera Ready Submission: 30 April 2021* *Journal Special Issues* Selected papers from the presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a number of journals. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the Journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at a later stage. Please send any inquiry to ICICS Team at: icics(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Shared Task (Multi-Topic Labelling Task) Participation at ICICS (IEEE Sponsored): Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task
by Gizem Varkonyi 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

[Apologies for multiple postings] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task Website: https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/mowjaz/ To be organized at ICICS 2021 (https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/) 24 - 26 May Virtual Conference ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Task Description: -------------------------- Mowjaz (mowjaz.com) is an Arabic topical content aggregation mobile application for news, sport, entertainment and other topics from top publishers that users can follow. Mowjaz search engine and recommendation system is built on top of NLP/NLU machine learning APIs that distinguish it from any other Arabic content applications available, mainly focusing on the users having the best experience and receiving content that is of their interest. Mowjaz is a subsidiary of Mawdoo3.com, the world's biggest Arabic website in terms of number of visitors. One of Mowjaz's top AI powered models is Topic Multi-Labelling, which is the focus of this shared task. This model is basically used to classify articles based on their topics. Additionally, the model predicts multiple topics in one article and is categorized to all possible topics that are present within its content. Mowjaz's topics are classified into ten categories and an article can be classified under as many topics as it covers. This model helps users get and display the most relevant news to their interests. The enhanced user experience that Mowjaz offers makes one news article be classified and shown under all the different topics that it holds. Participating systems are expected to select one or more of the ten topics for each given article. They are evaluated based on their effectiveness and efficiency. Full task description can be found at: https://www.just.edu.jo/icics/icics2021/mowjaz/ -------------------------- Dataset and Evaluation: -------------------------- The dataset consists of 9,590 articles split into training, development and testing sets. The evaluation of the participating systems is done is two separate tracks as follows: - The first track is the effectiveness track, where the participating systems are ranked based on their accuracy. Specifically, the F1 score is used for this track. This track is mandatory for all participating systems. - The second track, which is optional, is the efficiency track. Participating teams are asked to run their systems in a docker container with memory constraints to measure their average testing times. A simple tutorial of this process is provided in the GitHub repository of this task. The score of each system is a weighted average of its F1 score and average testing time (normalized) and the systems are ranked based on these scores. Submissions for this track will be open in the last week of the competition and results will be announced once after the end of the competition. The second track is optional and it promotes the open-source mentality. Thus, teams participating in it are asked to share any resources they use such as external datasets (labeled or unlabeled), pre-trained models, knowledge bases, etc. ------------ Timeline ------------ 18-Feb-2021 Release of task website, dataset & Codalab competition 18-Mar-2021 Start of the evaluation phase for the effectiveness track 12-Apr-2021 Start of the evaluation phase for the efficiency track 19-Apr-2021 Deadline for submitting runs 20-Apr-2021 Results declared 23-Apr-2021 Single-Paragraph descriptions of participating systems due 03-May-2021 Working notes papers due 10-May-2021 Reviews on working notes papers due 17-May-2021 Final version of working notes papers due 24-May-2021 ICICS2021 ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Department of Computer Science (CS) and Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Haitham Selawi, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Mohamed Zaghlol, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Hussein Al-Natsheh, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Samer Suileman, Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Ali Fadel, Department of Computer Science (CS), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Riham Badawi, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Ahmed Morsy, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Ibraheem Tuffaha, Mawdoo3 Ltd, Jordan Mohannad Aljarrah, Center of Excellence for Innovative Projects (CEIP), Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: mowjaz-task(a)googlegroups.com For any question about this call, please send an email to Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub : maalshbool(a)just.edu.jo Regards, Organizers of the Mowjaz Multi-Topic Labelling Task

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