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15 May 2016 Chapter Submission - Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 11 May '16

11 May '16

Dear Colleagues, We could accommodate a few more chapters in our upcoming book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications. If you are interested, kindly directly submit your full chapter by 15 May 2016 (the latest time in earth) at the following URL: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=6423111c-4d6… The CFC (Call for Chapters) is mentioned below for your convenience. Regards, Mohamed Amine ===================== **** Apologies for cross postings **** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Submit your full chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=6423111c-4d6… Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers - Extended Deadline: May 15, 2016!
by CD-ARES 2016 11 May '16

11 May '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 extended to May 15, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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Call for Workshop Papers: ARES 2016
by office＠ares-conference.eu 10 May '16

10 May '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 10 workshops which range from “start-ups” to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2016 and their submission deadlines: *9th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2016) / 12.05.2016 *5th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *5th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2016)/ Submission Deadline passed *3rd International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2016) / 15.05.2016 *2nd International Workshop on Agile Secure Software Development (ASSD 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *Special Session on Privacy Aware Machine Learning for Health Data Science (PAML 2016) *new* / 15.05.2016 *Workshop on Challenges in Information Security and Privacy Management (ISPM 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed *1st International Workshop on Targeted Attacks and Mitigation Strategies (WTAMS 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed *1st International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops for the projects CyberROAD, AU2EU, MUSA, CLARUS and INTER-TRUST in conjunction with ARES 2015 in Toulouse, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the second time in conjunction with ARES 2016. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 8 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *Workshop on Future Access Control, Identity Management and Privacy Preserving Solutions in Internet Services (FASES 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *Workshop on Secure and Efficient Outsourcing of Storage and Computation of Data in the Cloud (SECODIC 2016) / workshop only *1st International Workshop on “Social collaboration in trusted, user-driven software development (SOCOTUD 2016) / 20.05.2016 *Workshop on Multi User Interaction in Social Media: Secure information flow for disaster emergencies (MUININ 2016) / 30.05.2016 *Workshop on Strengthening Cooperation of European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime (SENCEC 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Measuring the Economic Impact of Cyber Crime and Devising Solutions (E-CRIME 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Risk Assessment for Socio-Technical Systems (RESIST 2016) / workshop only ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Bernhard Schölkopf, Max-Planck-Campus Tübingen, Germany Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers should represent original, previously unpublished work: *workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016

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Trust 2016 -- Deadline extension
by Somayeh Salimi 09 May '16

09 May '16

[Apologies for multiple postings] **************************** TRUST 2016 -- Deadline extended **************************** Dear colleagues August 29-30, 2016, the 9th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing will be held in Vienna, Austria. TRUST 2016 is an international conference that explores new ideas and experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. We are now calling for papers. Interested authors are invited to submit papers describing novel and previously unpublished results in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. ******************************************************** Extended paper submission deadline: May 16, 2016 Acceptance notification: June 17, 2016. ******************************************************** http://trust2016.sba-research.org/ ******************************************************** Paper topics include, but are not limited to: - Architectures for trustworthy infrastructures - Emerging applications and technologies, including recent industrial research and development on trusted/trustworthy computing - Hardware security, including secure storage, cryptographic coprocessors, smartcards, and physically unclonable functions (PUFs) - Trustworthy applications, including webbased systems - Trusted mobile computing platforms - Trustworthy embedded, CyberPhysical, and Internet of Things systems - Security analysis and formal techniques for trusted/trustworthy computing - Verification of trusted/trustworthy computing (architectures, platforms, software, protocols) - Usability of trusted/trustworthy computing solutions and humancomputer interactions - Cloud security and trustworthy services - Trust management - Software engineering techniques for trustworthiness - Operating system security, including virtualization and monitoring - Cryptography for trusted computing and related applications - Intrusion detection and resilience leveraging trusted computing - Security policies and management of trusted/trustworthy systems - Experimental, userbased or testbed studies ******************************************************** We invite submissions of (i) full papers (up to 18 pages in LNCS format) and (ii) short papers (up to 9 pages in LNCS format). Full papers are expected to report substantial and well substantiated original results. Short papers can present work that is not fully fleshed out but brings forth novel and stimulating ideas. Please submit short papers as such and please be aware that no full paper will be converted to a short paper as part of the review process. Kindly forward this email to other interested parties. Somayeh Salimi, Moritz Wiese, (Publicity and Publication chairs)

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Call for Workshop Papers: ARES 2016
by office＠ares-conference.eu 02 May '16

02 May '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 10 workshops which range from “start-ups” to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2016 and their submission deadlines: *9th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2016) / 09.05.2016 *5th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2016) / 02.05.2016 *5th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2016)/ Submission Deadline passed *3rd International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2016) / 15.05.2016 *2nd International Workshop on Agile Secure Software Development (ASSD 2016) / Submission Deadline passed *Special Session on Privacy Aware Machine Learning for Health Data Science (PAML 2016) *new* / 15.05.2016 *Workshop on Challenges in Information Security and Privacy Management (ISPM 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed *1st International Workshop on Targeted Attacks and Mitigation Strategies (WTAMS 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed *1st International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops for the projects CyberROAD, AU2EU, MUSA, CLARUS and INTER-TRUST in conjunction with ARES 2015 in Toulouse, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the second time in conjunction with ARES 2016. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 8 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2016) / 02.05.2016 *Workshop on Future Access Control, Identity Management and Privacy Preserving Solutions in Internet Services (FASES 2016) / 09.05.2016 *Workshop on Secure and Efficient Outsourcing of Storage and Computation of Data in the Cloud (SECODIC 2016) / workshop only *1st International Workshop on “Social collaboration in trusted, user-driven software development (SOCOTUD 2016) / 20.05.2016 *Workshop on Multi User Interaction in Social Media: Secure information flow for disaster emergencies (MUININ 2016) / 09.05.2016 *Workshop on Strengthening Cooperation of European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime (SENCEC 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Measuring the Economic Impact of Cyber Crime and Devising Solutions (E-CRIME 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Risk Assessment for Socio-Technical Systems (RESIST 2016) / workshop only ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Bernhard Schölkopf, Max-Planck-Campus Tübingen, Germany Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers should represent original, previously unpublished work: *workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016

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Chapter Submission by 15 May 2016 - Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

Dear Colleagues, We could accommodate a few more chapters in our upcoming book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications. If you are interested, kindly directly submit your full chapter by 15 May 2016 (the latest time in earth) at the following URL: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=6423111c-4d6… The CFC (Call for Chapters) is mentioned below for your convenience. Best Regards, Mohamed Amine ===================== [Apologies for multiple copies of the CFC] "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Submit your full chapter: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-chapter/?projectid=6423111c-4d6… Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers - Extended Deadline: May 15, 2016!
by CD-ARES 2016 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: extended to May 15, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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[2 DAYS TO GO][8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ============================================================================ 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016 September 26-27, 2016 Ottawa, Canada http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS * The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. * All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. * Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more. * Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Scope Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia, government laboratories, as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Held annually since 2009, the eighth edition of the event, AdHocNets 2016, will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2016. The conference will consist of keynote talks, technical sessions, and associated workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops will focus on development and application issues in this hot field. The workshops will be dedicated to specific and more focused themes, especially to the recent developments and emerging applications in ad hoc networking. Topics The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad hoc network, such as, but not limited to, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks, Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, Smart Grid Networks, Nanonetworks, or Home Networks. Possible topics of interest include: * Network architectural and protocol design * Spectrum related issues in ad hoc networks * Metrics for ad hoc networks * Cognitive ad hoc networks * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * Service discovery * Ranging and node localization * Time synchronization * Data fusion * Network scalability and capacity * Reliability and fault tolerance * Security and privacy * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Applications of ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols * Wireless Software-Defined Networking * Network Function Virtualization for ad hoc networks Publications Accepted papers will be published in the AdHocNets 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) series. Extended versions of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to be submitted for publication (fast review track) in the ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. Paper Submission and Deadlines Please visit the conference website ( http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ) for detailed instructions on the paper submission process. * Submission Deadline: April 28, 2016 * Notification Date: May 31, 2016 * Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2016 Conference Organizing Committee General Chair: * Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada TPC Co-Chairs: * Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada * Stephan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany * Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs: * Mike Tanguay, National Defence, Canada * Mouna Rekik, INRIA, France * Changle Li, Xidian University, China * Xiaohong Jiang, Future University of Hakodate, Japan Publication Chair: * Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs: * John Matyjas, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA * Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA Web Co-Chairs: * Tianhao Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA * Qianshu Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Chair: * Jiali Shang, Canada Remote Sensing Application Development, Canada Conference Manager: * Jana Vlnkova, EAI Steering Committee: * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy * Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China * Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA ABOUT EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. 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Call for Workshop Papers: ARES 2016
by office＠ares-conference.eu 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** Workshops @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. The workshops are central events for ARES as they provide an essential platform for researchers of various domains to present and discuss their current work and discuss work in progress. This year we can offer the conference attendees 10 workshops which range from “start-ups” to well-established ones. Workshops @ ARES 2016 and their submission deadlines: *9th International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2016) / 09.05.2016 *5th International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA 2016) / 02.05.2016 *5th International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2016)/ Submission Deadline passed *3rd International Workshop on Security in Air Traffic Management and other Critical Infrastructures (SecATM 2016) / 25.04.2016 *3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW 2016) / 25.04.2016 *2nd International Workshop on Agile Secure Software Development (ASSD 2016) / 01.05.2016 *Special Session on Privacy Aware Machine Learning for Health Data Science (PAML 2016) *new* / 30.04.2016 *Workshop on Challenges in Information Security and Privacy Management (ISPM 2016) *new* / 30.04.2016 *1st International Workshop on Targeted Attacks and Mitigation Strategies (WTAMS 2016) *new* / Submission Deadline passed *1st International Workshop on Malware Analysis (WMA 2016) *new* / 25.04.2016 These workshops are organized each on specific topics and thus offer researchers the opportunity to learn from a rich multi-disciplinary experience. *********** EU Projects Symposium @ ARES CONFERENCE ************ Based on the success of the workshops for the projects CyberROAD, AU2EU, MUSA, CLARUS and INTER-TRUST in conjunction with ARES 2015 in Toulouse, the ARES EU Projects Symposium will be held for the second time in conjunction with ARES 2016. The goal is to disseminate the results of EU research projects, meet potential project partners and exchange ideas within the scientific community. This year, 8 workshops will be held within the ARES EU Project Symposium (/ submission deadline): *Workshop on Security, Privacy, and Identity Management in the Cloud (SECPID 2016) / 02.05.2016 *Workshop on Future Access Control, Identity Management and Privacy Preserving Solutions in Internet Services (FASES 2016) / 30.04.2016 *Workshop on Secure and Efficient Outsourcing of Storage and Computation of Data in the Cloud (SECODIC 2016) / workshop only *1st International Workshop on “Social collaboration in trusted, user-driven software development (SOCOTUD 2016) / 29.04.2016 *Workshop on Multi User Interaction in Social Media: Secure information flow for disaster emergencies (MUININ 2016) / 09.05.2016 *Workshop on Strengthening Cooperation of European Network Centres of Excellence in Cybercrime (SENCEC 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Measuring the Economic Impact of Cyber Crime and Devising Solutions (E-CRIME 2016) / workshop only *Workshop on Risk Assessment for Socio-Technical Systems (RESIST 2016) / workshop only ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Bernhard Schölkopf, Max-Planck-Campus Tübingen, Germany Negar Kiyavash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: see each workshop Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the workshops submission papers should represent original, previously unpublished work: *workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016

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[Deadline approaching][8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies o this CFP ] ============================================================================ 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016 September 26-27, 2016 Ottawa, Canada http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS * The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. * All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. * Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more. * Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Scope Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia, government laboratories, as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Held annually since 2009, the eighth edition of the event, AdHocNets 2016, will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2016. The conference will consist of keynote talks, technical sessions, and associated workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops will focus on development and application issues in this hot field. The workshops will be dedicated to specific and more focused themes, especially to the recent developments and emerging applications in ad hoc networking. Topics The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad hoc network, such as, but not limited to, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks, Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, Smart Grid Networks, Nanonetworks, or Home Networks. Possible topics of interest include: * Network architectural and protocol design * Spectrum related issues in ad hoc networks * Metrics for ad hoc networks * Cognitive ad hoc networks * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * Service discovery * Ranging and node localization * Time synchronization * Data fusion * Network scalability and capacity * Reliability and fault tolerance * Security and privacy * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Applications of ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols * Wireless Software-Defined Networking * Network Function Virtualization for ad hoc networks Publications Accepted papers will be published in the AdHocNets 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) series. Extended versions of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to be submitted for publication (fast review track) in the ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. Paper Submission and Deadlines Please visit the conference website ( http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ) for detailed instructions on the paper submission process. * Submission Deadline: April 28, 2016 * Notification Date: May 31, 2016 * Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2016 Conference Organizing Committee General Chair: * Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada TPC Co-Chairs: * Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada * Stephan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany * Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs: * Mike Tanguay, National Defence, Canada * Mouna Rekik, INRIA, France * Changle Li, Xidian University, China * Xiaohong Jiang, Future University of Hakodate, Japan Publication Chair: * Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs: * John Matyjas, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA * Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA Web Co-Chairs: * Tianhao Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA * Qianshu Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Chair: * Jiali Shang, Canada Remote Sensing Application Development, Canada Conference Manager: * Jana Vlnkova, EAI Steering Committee: * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy * Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China * Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA ABOUT EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. 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FedCSIS 2016 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'16 - 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'16 - 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'16 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DSTUI'16 - 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision --- LTA'16 - 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'16 - 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'16 - 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BCPC'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'16 - 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- CPORA'16 - 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- IWCPS'16 - 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'16 - 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'16 - 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- IEES'16 - 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future --- DS-RAIT'16 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology * iNetSApp'16 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'16 - 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'16 - 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'16 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'16 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'16 - 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- APICSS'16 - 1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems --- ASEG'16 - 1st Workshop on Advanced Systems for e-Governance and e- Democratization --- ISM'16 - 11th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'16 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'16 - 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- MIQH'16 - 1st Workshop on M-Health Innovations for Quality in Healthcare --- UHH'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'16 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'16 - 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'16 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- BTMSPA'16 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches --- MDASD'16 - 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'16 - 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-36 - The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop --- WASE'16 - 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Keynote title : How enterprise architecture management improves IS capabilities - Results from a multiple case study - Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Keynote title : Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data - Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keynote title : Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US, Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by CD-ARES 2016 08 Apr '16

08 Apr '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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[8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies o this CFP ] ============================================================================ 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016 September 26-27, 2016 Ottawa, Canada http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS * The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. * All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. * Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more. * Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Scope Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia, government laboratories, as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Held annually since 2009, the eighth edition of the event, AdHocNets 2016, will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2016. The conference will consist of keynote talks, technical sessions, and associated workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops will focus on development and application issues in this hot field. The workshops will be dedicated to specific and more focused themes, especially to the recent developments and emerging applications in ad hoc networking. Topics The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad hoc network, such as, but not limited to, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks, Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, Smart Grid Networks, Nanonetworks, or Home Networks. Possible topics of interest include: * Network architectural and protocol design * Spectrum related issues in ad hoc networks * Metrics for ad hoc networks * Cognitive ad hoc networks * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * Service discovery * Ranging and node localization * Time synchronization * Data fusion * Network scalability and capacity * Reliability and fault tolerance * Security and privacy * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Applications of ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols * Wireless Software-Defined Networking * Network Function Virtualization for ad hoc networks Publications Accepted papers will be published in the AdHocNets 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) series. Extended versions of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to be submitted for publication (fast review track) in the ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. Paper Submission and Deadlines Please visit the conference website ( http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ) for detailed instructions on the paper submission process. * Submission Deadline: April 28, 2016 * Notification Date: May 31, 2016 * Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2016 Conference Organizing Committee General Chair: * Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada TPC Co-Chairs: * Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada * Stephan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany * Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs: * Mike Tanguay, National Defence, Canada * Mouna Rekik, INRIA, France * Changle Li, Xidian University, China * Xiaohong Jiang, Future University of Hakodate, Japan Publication Chair: * Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs: * John Matyjas, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA * Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA Web Co-Chairs: * Tianhao Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA * Qianshu Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Chair: * Jiali Shang, Canada Remote Sensing Application Development, Canada Conference Manager: * Jana Vlnkova , EAI Steering Committee: * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy * Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China * Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA ABOUT EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. 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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by CD-ARES 2016 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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[Last day to Proposal Submission Deadline 30 March 2016] Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 30 Mar '16

30 Mar '16

/ Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email / ****Last day to Proposal Submission Deadline , 30 March 2016 *** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 30, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by April10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 30, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) April 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Homepage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com Homepage: http://lrs-annaba.net/ahmim/ __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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Call for Papers: ARES 2016 - Extended Deadline: March 29, 2016!
by office＠ares-conference.eu 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 extended to March 29, 2016 (23:59 UTC-11) Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, Secure Cyber Space, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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Call for Papers: ARES 2016 - Extended Deadline: March 29, 2016!
by office＠ares-conference.eu 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 extended to March 29, 2016 (23:59 UTC-11) Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Karl M. Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Sriram Raghavan, Secure Cyber Space, Australia Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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TPC Member Invitation of CCIS2016
by Ding Daisy 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Prof.xxxx, Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) would like to invite you to attend the 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS2016) as the Program Committee Member. The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS) provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas and research results, discuss challenging issues, and share development experiences in the field of cloud computing and intelligence system. Past CCIS conferences were held in Beijing (2011), Hangzhou (2012), and Shenzhen & Hong Kong (2014). CCIS2016, initiated by CAAI together with IEEE Beijing Section and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), will be held in Beijing during August 17-19, 2016. This year, the conference aims to address challenges for cloud computing and intelligent technology in big data era. You are the expert in the area of artificial intelligence, so we sincerely invite you to be the Program Committee Member of CCIS2016. Your joining will add luster to this conference. Hoping to hear favorably from you at your convenience. If you have any questions, please contact me freely. Conference website: http://ccis2016.caai.cn Yours sincerely, General Co-Chair: Deyi Li Tsinghua University, China Program Committee Co-Chair: Huadong Ma Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

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CFP: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2016)
by Ding Daisy 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *The 4th IEEE International Conference on* *Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS 2016)* *August 17-19, 2016, Beijing, China* *Call For Papers* http://ccis2016.caai.cn/ *Introduction:* Research and applications on cloud computing and intelligent systems have been extensively developed in the past years. We have witnessed numerous successes in various critical sectors of our society. As always, the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing and Intelligence Systems (CCIS) series provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, present their latest research work, discuss challenging issues, and share experiences primarily in the fields of cloud computing and intelligence systems. The past CCIS conferences were held in Beijing (2011), Hangzhou (2012), and Shenzhen & Hong Kong (2014), respectively. CCIS 2016, the 4th edition of this series, will be held at Beijing, August 17-19, 2016. The theme of CCIS 2016 is *embracing challenges of cloud computing and intelligent technology at the age of big data*. The conference features a comprehensive technical program, including multiple interesting and inspiring keynote speeches, frontline panel discussions, and technical paper sessions. The conference proceeding will be included in IEEE Xplore Digital Library (EI indexed). Authors of selected high quality papers will be invited to submit extensions to several Special Issues (tentative), including: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.699) Journal of Network and Computer Applications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.229) Nurocomputing (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.083) China Communications (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 0.344) *Keynote Speakers:* Prof. Schahram Dustdar (TU Wien, Austria, IEEE Fellow) Prof. Xiang-Yang Li (The University of Science and Technology of China, China, IEEE Fellow) Prof. Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Prof. Moncef Gabbouj (Tampere University of Technology, Finland, IEEE Fellow) *Topics:* We solicit submissions from any topic related to *cloud computing* and* intelligent systems*, including, but not limited to the following three topical areas. *Cloud Computing Track* Cloud infrastructure Cloud management and operations Cloud service Cloud security Multi-Cloud Collaboration Cloud Storage *Intelligent Technology Track* Machine learning Pattern recognition and image processing Knowledge representation and reasoning Natural language processing Multi-agent systems Intelligent control *System and Application Track* Robotic system Internet of Things system Mobile cloud system Mobile sensing system Applications in smart city *Co-sponsored by:* IEEE Beijing Section Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence *Patrons:* Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China *Important Dates:* Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2016 Acceptance notification: May 25, 2016 Camera-ready submission: July 1, 2016 Conference date: August 17-19, 2016 *Submission instruction:* Before submission, authors should register with the conference first. Please visit the *Registration* page of the conference website ( http://ccis2016.caai.cn/) and then fill out the form. Authors will receive a confirmation email upon a successful registration. Afterwards, authors can sign in the system and submit papers. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Papers should be submitted electronically as Microsoft WORD files and through the online system. Standard templates for Microsoft Word formats can be found in the following link: http://ccis2016.caai.cn/dct/page/70002. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum five (5) printed pages (10-point font) including references, without incurring additional page charges. One additional page is allowed with over-length charge after acceptance of the submission. *Contacts:* Information and queries should be sent to email: ccis2016(a)163.com.

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CFP: The 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2016)
by Ding Daisy 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

************************************************************************************* We apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this SpaCCS 2016 CFP & CFW. We appreciate your help if you forward this SpaCCS 2016 CFP & CFW to your email lists. ************************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part I: Call for Papers, SpaCCS 2016, Zhangjiajie, China, November 16-18, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2016) Organizers: Central South University, China Guangzhou University, China Jishou University, China Technical Co-Sponsorship: Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, November 16-18, 2016 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Proceedings & Special Issues The conference proceedings (including main conference papers and workshop papers) will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (EI indexed). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in several SCI & EI indexed special issues (to be announced soon). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction The SpaCCS 2016 conference is the 9th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. Following the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS conferences, formerly SpaIoT and SQC symposiums, held in Helsinki, Finland (2015), Beijing, China (2014), Melbourne, Australia (2013), Liverpool, UK (2012), and Changsha, China (2011), the 9th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2016) will be held in Zhangjiajie, China, November 16-18, 2016. Zhangjiajie is an emerging tourist destination famous for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was established by the State Council in 1982 as the first National Forest Park of China. Zhangjiajie was listed into the World Natural Heritage Catalogue by the UNESCO in 1992. Zhangjiajie was awarded the title of "World Geological Park" in 2004. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS 2016 will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. Scope and Interests Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission and Publication Information All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spaccs2016) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format(or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. SpaCCS 2016 reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from the digital library and indexing services), if the paper is not presented at the conference. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). One outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Important Dates (1) Workshop Proposal Deadline: April 1, 2016 (2) Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2016 (3) Author Notification: August 15,2016 (4) Camera-ready Papers Due: September 15, 2016 (5) Conference Dates: November 16-18, 2016 General Chairs Jianbin Li, Central South University, China Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Program Chairs Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Program Vice Chairs (1) Security Track Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Qin Liu, Hunan University, China (2) Privacy Track Rinku Dewri, University of Denver, USA Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China (3) Anonymity Track Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portugal Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Temple University, USA Steering Committee Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Steering Committee Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Raymond Choo, University of South Australia, Australia Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portugal Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Wei Jie, University of West London, UK Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA Jianbin Li, Central South University, China Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Geyong Min, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Workshop Chairs Raymond Choo, University of South Australia, Australia Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Publication Chair Shuhong Chen, Hunan Institute of Engineering, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Local Chairs Fang Qi, Central South University, China Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Qingping Zhou, Jishou University, China Webmaster Binji Mo, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning SpaCCS 2016 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (SpaCCS2016 AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.csu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ Copyright AT Trusted Computing Institute, Central South University (CSU) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Part II: Call for Workshop Proposals, SpaCCS 2016, Zhangjiajie, China, November 16-18, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The SpaCCS 2016 workshops provide vibrant opportunities for researchers and industry practitioners to share their research experience, original research results and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues. The organizers and chairs of the workshop shall have responsibility of the call for papers, forming program committee, review and selection of papers as well as planning the workshop program. The registration fee for workshops will be determined by the conference (not the workshop itself). The fees will be paid to the conference, and the conference will provide workshop facilities including the working notes printing, the meeting room, coffee break, lunch, dinner, proceedings, etc. The proceedings of the SpaCCS 2016 workshops will be published by Springer LNCS series (Indexed by EI). Prospective workshop organizers should send a proposal containing the following information to SpaCCS 2016 Workshop Chairs: - Title of the workshop (Full name and Abbreviation) - Objectives, scope, and contribution to the main conference (up to 1 page) - Short bio of the key organizers and their experience on conference/workshop organization - Procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (for example, how to advertise and special issues of journals), and the expected number of participants - A tentative list of program committee members - The workshop website URL address Approved workshops should strictly follow the important dates, particularly the paper status notification and camera-ready dates. The submission deadline could be later than that of the main conference. But a workshop should have sufficient time, say 5-7 weeks, for generating peer reviews. Generally, each paper should receive 3 peer reviews. We look forward to your stimulating proposals and contributions to SpaCCS 2016 workshops. A workshop proposal should be submitted to workshop chairs via email by April 1, 2016: {Raymond DOT Choo AT unisa DOT edu DOT au; mx DOT dong AT ieee DOT org; jinli71 AT gmail DOT com} Please email inquiries concerning SpaCCS 2016 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the conference organizers (SpaCCS2016 AT gmail DOT com). Prof. Guojun Wang's Homepage: http://trust.csu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ Copyright AT Trusted Computing Institute, Central South University (CSU), China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for Papers: ARES 2016 - Extended Deadline: March 29, 2016!
by office＠ares-conference.eu 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 extended to March 29, 2016 (23:59 UTC-11) Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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TRUST 2016 CFP
by Somayen Salimi 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

**************************** TRUST 2016 Call for papers **************************** Dear colleagues August 29-30, 2016, the 9th International Conference on Trust & Trustworthy Computing will be held in Vienna, Austria. TRUST 2016 is an international conference that explores new ideas and experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. We are now calling for papers. Interested authors are invited to submit papers describing novel and previously unpublished results in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. ******************************************************** http://trust2016.sba-esearch.org/ ******************************************************** Paper topics include, but are not limited to: - Architectures for trustworthy infrastructures - Emerging applications and technologies, including recent industrial research and development on trusted/trustworthy computing - Hardware security, including secure storage, cryptographic coprocessors, smartcards, and physically unclonable functions (PUFs) - Trustworthy applications, including webbased systems - Trusted mobile computing platforms - Trustworthy embedded, CyberPhysical, and Internet of Things systems - Security analysis and formal techniques for trusted/trustworthy computing - Verification of trusted/trustworthy computing (architectures, platforms, software, protocols) - Usability of trusted/trustworthy computing solutions and humancomputer interactions - Cloud security and trustworthy services - Trust management - Software engineering techniques for trustworthiness - Operating system security, including virtualization and monitoring - Cryptography for trusted computing and related applications - Intrusion detection and resilience leveraging trusted computing - Security policies and management of trusted/trustworthy systems - Experimental, userbased or testbed studies ******************************************************** More details: http://trust2016.sba-research.org/?page_id=2 ******************************************************** The paper submission deadline is May 9, 2016 and acceptance notification is by June 17, 2016. ******************************************************** We invite submissions of (i) full papers (up to 18 pages in LNCS format) and (ii) short papers (up to 9 pages in LNCS format). Full papers are expected to report substantial and well substantiated original results. Short papers can present work that is not fully fleshed out but brings forth novel and stimulating ideas. Please submit short papers as such and please be aware that no full paper will be converted to a short paper as part of the review process. Kindly forward this email to other interested parties. Somayeh Salimi, Moritz Wiese (Publicity and Publication chairs)

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by CD-ARES 2016 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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CFC (Only 3 days for Proposal Submission Deadline) Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 02 Mar '16

02 Mar '16

**********Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email************ ********** (March 5 Proposal Submission Deadline)********** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline - Extended URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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Extended Deadline: ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - Call for Workshops
by ARES 2016 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES EU SYMPOSIUM ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2016. The ARES EU Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2016 and will offer you the following opportunities: • Disseminate the results of your EU research projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST) • Meet potential project partners • Exchange ideas within the scientific community • Explore Salzburg ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Proposal Submission Deadline: March 17,2016 Workshop Proposal Notification: 2 weeks after submission of proposal Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 Tentative Schedule: 09:00 – 10:30 Symposium sessions 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium sessions 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Consortium meetings / ARES sessions / free time for sightseeing 16:00 – 18:00 Networking / poster session 18:00 Networking Event (meet ARES participants) ************ SUBMISSION ************ Proposals should include following items: • Organisational Information o Name and affiliation of organisers o Name of the project and link to website o Programme: Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST o List of project partners that you intend to invite o Open / Closed session: Can researchers related to the topics that are not in the consortium (1) attend and/or (2) submit to the session? • Content o Project abstract o Short description of the planned symposium session If the papers should be published by CPS (IEEE Xplore Digital Library) please address also following items: • Programme committee • Planned review process. The acceptance rate should be less than 40%. Please send your proposal to Shadya Ayoub (sayoub(a)sba-research.org mailto:sayoub@sba-research.org) by March 17, 2016. ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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[8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

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8 days to Proposal Submission Deadline -- Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

**********Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email************ ********** 8 days to Proposal Deadline********** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline - Extended URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by office＠ares-conference.eu 23 Feb '16

23 Feb '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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[8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016] Call For Papers
by Mouna Rekik 20 Feb '16

20 Feb '16

============================================================================ 8th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks - AdHocNets 2016 September 26-27, 2016 Ottawa, Canada http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ============================================================================ HIGHLIGHTS * The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. * All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries. * Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more. * Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CALL FOR PAPERS Scope Ad hoc networks, which cover a variety of network paradigms for specific purposes, such as mobile ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, vehicular networks, underwater networks, airborne networks, underground networks, personal area networks, and home networks, promise a broad range of applications in civilian, commercial, and military areas. The aim of the annual International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (AdHocNets) is to provide a forum that brings together researchers from academia, government laboratories, as well as practitioners from industry to meet and exchange ideas and recent research work on all aspects of ad hoc networks. Held annually since 2009, the eighth edition of the event, AdHocNets 2016, will be held in Ottawa, Canada, in September 2016. The conference will consist of keynote talks, technical sessions, and associated workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the workshops will focus on development and application issues in this hot field. The workshops will be dedicated to specific and more focused themes, especially to the recent developments and emerging applications in ad hoc networking. Topics The conference solicits original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Papers should address technical challenges in any type of ad hoc network, such as, but not limited to, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Vehicular Networks, Personal Area Networks, Body Area Networks, Smart Grid Networks, Nanonetworks, or Home Networks. Possible topics of interest include: * Network architectural and protocol design * Spectrum related issues in ad hoc networks * Metrics for ad hoc networks * Cognitive ad hoc networks * Cross-layer design * MAC, routing, and transport protocols * Resource allocation and management * Network control and management * Power control and management * Topology control and management * Quality of service provisioning * Service discovery * Ranging and node localization * Time synchronization * Data fusion * Network scalability and capacity * Reliability and fault tolerance * Security and privacy * Middleware for ad hoc networks * Applications of ad hoc networks * Performance modeling and analysis * Tools to design, implement, and evaluate ad hoc network protocols * Wireless Software-Defined Networking * Network Function Virtualization for ad hoc networks Publications Accepted papers will be published in the AdHocNets 2016 Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Tele-communications Engineering (LNICST) series. Extended versions of selected best papers from the conference will be invited to be submitted for publication (fast review track) in the ICST Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. The proceedings will be available both as paper-based copies and via Springerlink, Springer's digital library. In addition, the content of the proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. Paper Submission and Deadlines Please visit the conference website ( http://adhocnets.org/2016/show/home ) for detailed instructions on the paper submission process. * Submission Deadline: April 28, 2016 * Notification Date: May 31, 2016 * Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2016 Conference Organizing Committee General Chair: * Yifeng Zhou, Communications Research Centre, Canada TPC Co-Chairs: * Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada * Stephan Fischer, University of Lubeck, Germany * Zhangdui Zhong, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China Publicity & Social Media Co-Chairs: * Mike Tanguay, National Defence, Canada * Mouna Rekik, INRIA, France * Changle Li, Xidian University, China * Xiaohong Jiang, Future University of Hakodate, Japan Publication Chair: * Marc St-Hilaire, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs: * John Matyjas, U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA * Kamesh Namuduri, University of North Texas, USA Web Co-Chairs: * Tianhao Zhou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA * Qianshu Wang, University of Waterloo, Canada Local Chair: * Jiali Shang, Canada Remote Sensing Application Development, Canada Conference Manager: * Jana Vlnkova , EAI Steering Committee: * Imrich Chlamtac, Create-Net, Italy * Jun Zheng, Southeast University, China * Shiwen Mao, Auburn University, USA ABOUT EAI The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. 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15 days to Proposal Deadline Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
by Mohamed Amine Ferrag 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

**********Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email************ **********15 days to Proposal Deadline********** "Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications" Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim To be published by: IGI Global, USA March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline - Extended URL1 : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020 URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/ Editorial Advisory Board Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in Madinah, KSA Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Wah Cantt, Pakistan Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA Introduction Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning, audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers. In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there. Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs (Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs (Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy (e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack, Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity, non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place. Objective This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential reference source, building on the available literature in the field of smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in developing nations across the globe. Target Audience Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, technology developers, and government officials will find this book useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research efforts in this field. Recommended Topics This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are also welcome : - Game theoretical models of smart grid security - SCADA and legacy system security - Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing - Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures - Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) - Machine learning for security - Computer security visualization techniques - Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques - Online money laundering and underground economy - Hardware vulnerabilities - Binary analysis and reverse engineering - Security risk assessment, measurement and management - Network exfiltration - Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks (WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.) - Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.) - Hardware security - Quantum cryptography - Privacy-preserving systems - New attacks against computers and networks - Denial-of-Service Attacks - Insider attack detection - Formal models, analysis, and standards - Deception systems and honeypots - Vulnerability analysis - Secure software development - Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks - Protocol security - Network & active defenses - Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation - PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security - Tamper-resistant device technologies - Smartphone and other embedded systems security - Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis - Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control - False data injection, detection and mitigation - Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis - Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment plants, sewage systems, transit systems) - Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management - Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management etc - Electro-mobility - Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations - Distributed systems security - Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection, analysis and response - DoS/DDoS resiliency - Cloud security - Embedded systems security - Security design and verification tools Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March 5, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 10, 2016 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are welcome, even encouraged. Propose a Chapter : http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020 Publisher This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2016. Important Dates March 5, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended) March 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission Editors Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.) Department of Computer Science Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53 E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life University of Larbi Tebessi, Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65 E-mail: a.ahmim(a)gmail.com __________________________________________________ Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Guelma University BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria Tel. : +213 796 961 453 E-mails: maferrag(a)outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag(a)gmail.com maferrag(a)lrs-annaba.net HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/ ____________________________________________________

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ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - Call for Workshops
by SBA Research 11 Feb '16

11 Feb '16

ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES EU SYMPOSIUM ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2016. The ARES EU Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2016 and will offer you the following opportunities: • Disseminate the results of your EU research projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST) • Meet potential project partners • Exchange ideas within the scientific community • Explore Salzburg ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Proposal Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016 Workshop Proposal Notification: 2 weeks after submission of proposal Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 Tentative Schedule: 09:00 – 10:30 Symposium sessions 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium sessions 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Consortium meetings / ARES sessions / free time for sightseeing 16:00 – 18:00 Networking / poster session 18:00 Networking Event (meet ARES participants) ************ SUBMISSION ************ Proposals should include following items: • Organisational Information o Name and affiliation of organisers o Name of the project and link to website o Programme: Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST o List of project partners that you intend to invite o Open / Closed session: Can researchers related to the topics that are not in the consortium (1) attend and/or (2) submit to the session? • Content o Project abstract o Short description of the planned symposium session If the papers should be published by CPS (IEEE Xplore Digital Library) please address also following items: • Programme committee • Planned review process. The acceptance rate should be less than 40%. Please send your proposal to Shadya Ayoub (sayoub(a)sba-research.org mailto:sayoub@sba-research.org) by February 29, 2016. ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by office＠ares-conference.eu 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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CD-ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by CD-ARES 2016 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://cd-ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** CD-ARES 2016 ************ Today’s highly interconnected and interdependent information systems are used in many different ways in order to perform and improve business operations. Thus, a multidisciplinary view on information systems is of great importance to meet future research challenges. This IFIP supported conference therefore is focused on multidisciplinary aspects across the breadth of Business and Enterprise Information Systems. The aim of this conference is to foster a forum for researchers and practitioners for discussing and resenting recent research ideas and results across the multiple research domains. The conference will be held in conjunction with the ARES conference. Therefore authors of papers with security and dependability focus are also encouraged to contribute to this workshop. As a multidisciplinary platform this conference will also provide the possibility of discussing addional interactions between elements that extend beyond technology such as organisational issues to include environmental factors (e.g. location based aspects, national and international payment mechanisms, …) CD-ARES will be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) and is supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chairpersons Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair A Min Tjoa, TU Vienna, Austria, IFIP WG 8.9. Chair, Honorary Secretary IFIP Program Committee Chairpersons Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Andreas Holzinger, Graz University of Technology, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: April 30, 2016 Author Notification: June 20, 2016 Camera-ready: July 04, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://cd-ares-conference.eu.dd21728.kasserver.com/?page_id=43. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Sibel Adali, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) Andrea Bondavalli, University of Florence (Italy) Andrea Calì, University of London, Birkbeck College (UK) Francisco Chiclana, De Montfort University (UK) Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez, University of Salamanca (Spain) Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Rovira i Virgili University (Spain) Eduardo Fernandez , Florida Atlantic University (USA) Mariagrazia Fugini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) Abdelkader Hameurlain, Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (France) Carlos A. Iglesias, Technical University of Madrid (Spain) Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland) Dominique Laurent, Cergy-Pontoise University (France) Gianluca Lax, University of Reggio Calabria (Italy) Apostolos Malatras, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (Belgium) Marek Ogiela, AGH University of Science and Technology (Poland) Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta (Canada) Christophe Rosenberg, University of Caen (France) Gustavo Rossi, National University of La Plata (Argentina) Alex Thomo, University of Vicotria (Canada) Vicenç Torra, University of Skovde (Sweden) Rakesh Verma, University of Houston (USA) Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Context-Oriented Information Integration Cloud computing, ICT-services, scalability, reliability, flexibility Linked data, meta-data and semantic technologies Data process-based integration Cross-organizational modeling Data/Information Management as a Service Semantic web services Service modelling, composition and optimization Application of social network analysis techniques Social Media and Information Sharing Socially intelligent Computing Use of Crowdsourcing and Collective Intelligence Citizen science Organizational and governance aspects Economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects Security and Privacy Privacy and Trust for Internet Services Risk management and Business continuity Ambient Intelligence Visual Analytics and Big Data Visualization Information Fusion Context and Location-aware Computing Mobile data integration RFID/NFC integration Inter-organizational collaboration Best practices and case studies Sharing / Integrating in the different application domains, such as: Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom Location Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment Future Internet

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ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - Call for Workshops
by SBA Research 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

ARES EU PROJECTS SYMPOSUM 2016 - CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES EU SYMPOSIUM ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. Based on the success of the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015 we cordially invite EU project partners to organize a workshop at the ARES EU Projects Symposium 2016. The ARES EU Symposium will be held in conjunction with ARES 2016 and will offer you the following opportunities: • Disseminate the results of your EU research projects (Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST) • Meet potential project partners • Exchange ideas within the scientific community • Explore Salzburg ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Proposal Submission Deadline: February 29, 2016 Workshop Proposal Notification: 2 weeks after submission of proposal Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 – September 2, 2016 Tentative Schedule: 09:00 – 10:30 Symposium sessions 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break 11:00 – 12:30 Symposium sessions 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 14:00 – 16:00 Consortium meetings / ARES sessions / free time for sightseeing 16:00 – 18:00 Networking / poster session 18:00 Networking Event (meet ARES participants) ************ SUBMISSION ************ Proposals should include following items: • Organisational Information o Name and affiliation of organisers o Name of the project and link to website o Programme: Horizon 2020, FP7, ERA-NET, ITEA, COST o List of project partners that you intend to invite o Open / Closed session: Can researchers related to the topics that are not in the consortium (1) attend and/or (2) submit to the session? • Content o Project abstract o Short description of the planned symposium session If the papers should be published by CPS (IEEE Xplore Digital Library) please address also following items: • Programme committee • Planned review process. The acceptance rate should be less than 40%. Please send your proposal to Shadya Ayoub (sayoub(a)sba-research.org mailto:sayoub@sba-research.org) by February 29, 2016. ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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ARES 2016 - Call for Papers
by office＠ares-conference.eu 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

ARES 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016) August 31 – September 2, 2016, Salzburg, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2015 conference was 29% (full papers only). The ARES conferences have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Program Committee Chairs Stephen B. Wicker, Cornell University, USA Dominik Engel, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 13, 2016 Author Notification: May 30, 2016 Proceedings Version: June 20, 2016 Conference: August 31 - September 2, 2016 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2016 ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada Philipp Amann, Europol, EC3, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Francesco Buccafurri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Jordi Castellà-Roca,Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, Plymouth University, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, NL Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Zekeriya Erkin, TU Delft, Netherlands Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg José Maria de Fuentes, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany, Germany Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, TU Graz, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Shujun Li University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita‘ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Jeffrey McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, US Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Alabama in Huntsville, US Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Vienna University, Austria Stefanie Roos, TU Dresden, Germany Domenico Rosaci, University „Mediterranea“ of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Mark Strembeck, WU Vienna, Austria Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Simon Tjoa, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria Umberto Villano, Universita‘ del Sannio, Italy Artemios Voyiatzis, SBA Research, Austria Xiao Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, US Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, Göttingen University, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR DISSEMINATION EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

Call for Dissemination Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 _www.fedcsis.org_ <file:///C:/Users/Kasia/www.fedcsis.org> The 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing a “Dissemination Event.” A number of grant mechanisms (in particular, EU / NATO-funded research / coordination actions) involve dissemination of results in the form of workshops, symposia, etc. Since the FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of events related to various areas of ICT, it is a natural place for organization of grant-related events. Proposals for new Dissemination Events are going to be accepted until December 15, 2015. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to four days. Publications Dissemination Events are offered an opportunity to publish an individual volume in the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems (ACSIS) series (_http://annals-csis.org/_) Publication will have ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and will be submitted to citation indexing engines (including SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar). Dissemination Event Proposals Dissemination event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event (name of the grant/action/activity it is associated with). 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites. 4. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 5. Information about requested services related to promotion / marketing of the event / grant. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by December 15, 2015, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 04 Oct '15

04 Oct '15

CALL FOR EVENTS Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org The 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, project dissemination meeting, special session, etc.). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until October 30, 2015. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2015 - held in Lodz, Poland - attracted 379 papers, of which 86 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 23%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2015 full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers are being published in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by November 30, 2015). PUBLICATIONS As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers (and, an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. EVENT PROPOSALS Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by October 30, 2015, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/2016/cfe

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications)
by Arne Wilston 02 Oct '15

02 Oct '15

Final Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 8 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "GreenCom 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to GreenCom 2015. GreenCom 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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 Chairs William Liu, AUT, New Zealand Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things)
by Jesson Butt 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/demo.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission site: Please email your posters/demos to *confs.aus(a)gmail.com <confs.aus(a)gmail.com>* with the email subject as "iThings 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to iThings 2015. iThings 2015 (Internet of Things) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems)
by Andrew Clashe 29 Sep '15

29 Sep '15

Final Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "DSDIS 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to the conference. DSDIS 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications)
by Arne Wilston 20 Sep '15

20 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 8 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "GreenCom 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to GreenCom 2015. GreenCom 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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 Chairs William Liu, AUT, New Zealand Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems)
by Andrew Clashe 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "DSDIS 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to the conference. DSDIS 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things)
by Jesson Butt 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/demo.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission site: Please email your posters/demos to *confs.aus(a)gmail.com <confs.aus(a)gmail.com>* with the email subject as "iThings 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to iThings 2015. iThings 2015 (Internet of Things) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems)
by Andrew Clashe 10 Sep '15

10 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "DSDIS 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to the conference. DSDIS 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications)
by Arne Wilston 07 Sep '15

07 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: 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/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 5 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 8 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "GreenCom 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to GreenCom 2015. GreenCom 2015 is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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 Chairs William Liu, AUT, New Zealand Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things), Due 31 August 2015
by Jesson Butt 05 Sep '15

05 Sep '15

Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/demo.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission site: Please email your posters/demos to *confs.aus(a)gmail.com <confs.aus(a)gmail.com>* with the email subject as "iThings 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to iThings 2015. iThings 2015 (Internet of Things) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Internet of Things as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: 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. Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '15

Final 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: August 31, 2015 (firm) 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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Final CFP: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things), Due 31 August 2015
by Jesson Butt 26 Aug '15

26 Aug '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: August 31, 2015 (firm) 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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Final CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Final 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: August 30, 2015 (firm) 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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Final CFP: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 22 Aug '15

22 Aug '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: August 25, 2015 (firm) 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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CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 16 Aug '15

16 Aug '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: August 31, 2015 (firm) 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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Call for nomination - IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Mid-Career Researcher)
by Andrew Clashe 15 Aug '15

15 Aug '15

*IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Mid-Career Researcher)* *About the Award: * The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Mid-Career Researcher) recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing and who will be within 5 to 10 years of having received their PhD degree as of September 1, 2015. *Nominations:* A candidate may be nominated by any member of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted to the Award Selection Committee Chair by email. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following: 1. Name/email of nominator (self-nominations are not permitted). 2. Name/email of candidate being nominated. 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email addresses of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee. 5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. *Important Dates:* - Nomination Deadline: September 5, 2015 (new) - Results Notification: September 30, 2015 *Award Selection Committee:* The award selection committee will consist of: - Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA (Chair) - sahni(a)cise.ufl.edu - Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California - Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. *Award & Presentation Note:* Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The up to three awardees will also receive $700, $500, and $300, respectively. The awards will be presented at a major conference of IEEE TCSC.

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CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '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: August 30, 2015 (firm) 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: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things), Dec 2015
by Jesson Butt 12 Aug '15

12 Aug '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: August 31, 2015 (firm) 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 DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '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: August 25, 2015 (firm) 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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CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 26 Jul '15

26 Jul '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: August 31, 2015 (firm) 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
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '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: August 31, 2015 (extended, firm) 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 DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '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: August 25, 2015 (firm) 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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IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (MCR)
by Jinjun Chen 11 Jul '15

11 Jul '15

*IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Mid-Career Researcher)* *About the Award: * The IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Mid-Career Researcher) recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing and who will be within 5 to 10 years of having received their PhD degree as of September 1, 2015. *Nominations:* A candidate may be nominated by any member of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nominations must be submitted to the Award Selection Committee Chair by email. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following: 1. Name/email of nominator (self-nominations are not permitted). 2. Name/email of candidate being nominated. 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email addresses of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee. 5. Up to three support letters from persons other than the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. *Important Dates:* - Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2015 - Results Notification: September 30, 2015 *Award Selection Committee:* The award selection committee will consist of: - Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA (Chair) - sahni(a)cise.ufl.edu - Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California - Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon - Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology - Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. *Award & Presentation Note:* Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The up to three awardees will also receive $700, $500, and $300, respectively. The awards will be presented at a major conference of IEEE TCSC. -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Director - Lab for Cloud Computing and Data Intensive Systems Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9514 1831 Fax: +61 2 9514 4492 Office: CB 11.06.213 (Room 06.213, Level 6, Building 11, City Campus) Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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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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CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 29 May '15

29 May '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 23 May '15

23 May '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 TCSS SI on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 23 May '15

23 May '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" 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 *Schedule* Paper submission due: June 15th, 2015 First round decisions: August 1st, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: September1st, 2015 Final decisions: October 1st, 2015 Publication date: Oct/Nov 2015 Issue. *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 CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 15 May '15

15 May '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 (extended, firm) 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: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 08 May '15

08 May '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 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 - Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015)
by Egner, A.I. 03 May '15

03 May '15

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015) Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, August 24th - 28th, 2015 http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/au2eu/ ************************************************************************ Cloud services and cloud-based applications have become increasingly popular in the recent years. Security and privacy of the cloud-based applications have always been major roadblock for wide use of cloud services that involve sensitive data. Therefore this research field attracts a lot of attention from the academia and industry. The aim of the workshop is to provide the environment to exchange ideas and to foster discussions on a broad list of aspects related to privacy and security of cloud-based applications, and to find answers to questions like: How do we design authentication and authorization frameworks for cross-cloud environments, supporting different identity/attribute providers and organizational policies while guaranteeing privacy, security and trust? How can we extend current solutions with higher assurance of claims, trust indicators, policy enforcement mechanisms and processing under encryption techniques to address specific security and confidentiality requirements of large distributed infrastructures? What is the best way to validate practical aspects of the cloud-based applications, such as scalability, efficiency, maturity and usability? Next to regular sessions with research papers, the workshop will include an invited talk as well as a round table on "Evolution of privacy-preserving authentication and authorization tools: from concepts to deployment", presenting the results of the FP7 AU2EU project (http://www.au2eu.eu/) CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: - Privacy-preserving Authentication - Attribute-based Authorization - Integrated Authentication and Authorization - Assurance of Claims - Crypto-based Policy Enforcement - Attribute-based Encryption - Secure Data Management - Key Management - Trust Management - Operations under Encryption - Homomorphic Encryption - Searchable Encryption - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining - Security as a Service - Big Data Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS The proceedings of ARES 2014, published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), are available here in the IEEE XPlore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: 8 pages (a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated), two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Details about submission can be found here: http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/conference/submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline May 8, 2015 Author Notification June 1, 2015 Proceedings Version June 8, 2015 Conference August 24-28, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS - Milan Petkovic (General Chair), Philips Research / Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands - Jan Camenisch (Program Co-Chair), IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland - John Zic (Program Co-Chair), CSIRO - Sydney, Australia - Alexandru Egner (Organization Co-Chair), Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Giuseppe Ateniese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - George Danezis, University College London, UK - Refik Molva, EURECOM, France - Gerrit Bleumer, Scheidt & Bachmann, Germany - Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia - Jeroen Doumen, Irdeto, Netherlands - Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA - Pietro Colombo, University of Insubria, Italy - Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Tanya Ignatenko, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands - Mizuho Iwaihara, Waseda University, Japan - Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany - Bart Preneel, KU Leuven, Belgium - Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Darmstadt University, Germany - Andreas Schaad, Huawei Research - Yuan Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA - Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy For any questions, please contact the organization co-chair: a.i.egner(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.i.egner@tue.nl>

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

27 Apr '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" 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 *Schedule* Paper submission due: June 15th, 2015 First round decisions: August 1st, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: September1st, 2015 Final decisions: October 1st, 2015 Publication date: Oct/Nov 2015 Issue. *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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CNSM 2015 - Less than one month to paper submission deadline (May 17th)
by Tortonesi Mauro 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

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) 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: 2015-05-17 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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CfP - Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015)
by Egner, A.I. 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

*** Apologies for multiple copies *** CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015) Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, August 24th - 28th, 2015 http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/au2eu/ ************************************************************************ Cloud services and cloud-based applications have become increasingly popular in the recent years. Security and privacy of the cloud-based applications have always been major roadblock for wide use of cloud services that involve sensitive data. Therefore this research field attracts a lot of attention from the academia and industry. The aim of the workshop is to provide the environment to exchange ideas and to foster discussions on a broad list of aspects related to privacy and security of cloud-based applications, and to find answers to questions like: How do we design authentication and authorization frameworks for cross-cloud environments, supporting different identity/attribute providers and organizational policies while guaranteeing privacy, security and trust? How can we extend current solutions with higher assurance of claims, trust indicators, policy enforcement mechanisms and processing under encryption techniques to address specific security and confidentiality requirements of large distributed infrastructures? What is the best way to validate practical aspects of the cloud-based applications, such as scalability, efficiency, maturity and usability? Next to regular sessions with research papers, the workshop will include an invited talk as well as a round table on "Evolution of privacy-preserving authentication and authorization tools: from concepts to deployment", presenting the results of the FP7 AU2EU project (http://www.au2eu.eu/) CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: - Privacy-preserving Authentication - Attribute-based Authorization - Integrated Authentication and Authorization - Assurance of Claims - Crypto-based Policy Enforcement - Attribute-based Encryption - Secure Data Management - Key Management - Trust Management - Operations under Encryption - Homomorphic Encryption - Searchable Encryption - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining - Security as a Service - Big Data Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS The proceedings of ARES 2014, published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), are available here in the IEEE XPlore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: 8 pages (a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated), two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Details about submission can be found here: http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/conference/submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline May 8, 2015 Author Notification June 1, 2015 Proceedings Version June 8, 2015 Conference August 24-28, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS - Milan Petkovic (General Chair), Philips Research / Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands - Jan Camenisch (Program Co-Chair), IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland - John Zic (Program Co-Chair), CSIRO - Sydney, Australia - Alexandru Egner (Organization Co-Chair), Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Giuseppe Ateniese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - George Danezis, University College London, UK - Refik Molva, EURECOM, France - Gerrit Bleumer, Scheidt & Bachmann, Germany - Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia - Jeroen Doumen, Irdeto, Netherlands - Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA - Pietro Colombo, University of Insubria, Italy - Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Tanya Ignatenko, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands - Mizuho Iwaihara, Waseda University, Japan - Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany - Bart Preneel, KU Leuven, Belgium - Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Darmstadt University, Germany - Andreas Schaad, Huawei Research - Yuan Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA - Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy For any questions, please contact the organization co-chair: a.i.egner(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.i.egner@tue.nl>

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '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 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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Call for Papers - Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015)
by Egner, A.I. 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

CALL FOR PAPERS ************************************************************************ Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud-based Applications (in conjunction with ARES EU Projects Symposium 2015) Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, August 24th - 28th, 2015 http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/ares-eu-symposium/au2eu/ ************************************************************************ Cloud services and cloud-based applications have become increasingly popular in the recent years. Security and privacy of the cloud-based applications have always been major roadblock for wide use of cloud services that involve sensitive data. Therefore this research field attracts a lot of attention from the academia and industry. The aim of the workshop is to provide the environment to exchange ideas and to foster discussions on a broad list of aspects related to privacy and security of cloud-based applications, and to find answers to questions like: How do we design authentication and authorization frameworks for cross-cloud environments, supporting different identity/attribute providers and organizational policies while guaranteeing privacy, security and trust? How can we extend current solutions with higher assurance of claims, trust indicators, policy enforcement mechanisms and processing under encryption techniques to address specific security and confidentiality requirements of large distributed infrastructures? What is the best way to validate practical aspects of the cloud-based applications, such as scalability, efficiency, maturity and usability? Next to regular sessions with research papers, the workshop will include an invited talk as well as a round table on "Evolution of privacy-preserving authentication and authorization tools: from concepts to deployment", presenting the results of the FP7 AU2EU project (http://www.au2eu.eu/) CONFERENCE TOPICS The conference topics include, but are not limited to: - Privacy-preserving Authentication - Attribute-based Authorization - Integrated Authentication and Authorization - Assurance of Claims - Crypto-based Policy Enforcement - Attribute-based Encryption - Secure Data Management - Key Management - Trust Management - Operations under Encryption - Homomorphic Encryption - Searchable Encryption - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining - Security as a Service - Big Data Security PAPER SUBMISSIONS The proceedings of ARES 2014, published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS), are available here in the IEEE XPlore Digital Library. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: 8 pages (a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated), two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Contact author must provide the following information at the ARES conference system: paper title, authors' names, affiliations, postal address, phone, fax, and e-mail address of the author(s), about 200-250 word abstract, and about five keywords. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Details about submission can be found here: http://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/conference/submission/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline May 8, 2015 Author Notification June 1, 2015 Proceedings Version June 8, 2015 Conference August 24-28, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS - Milan Petkovic (General Chair), Philips Research / Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands - Jan Camenisch (Program Co-Chair), IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland - John Zic (Program Co-Chair), CSIRO - Sydney, Australia - Alexandru Egner (Organization Co-Chair), Eindhoven University of Technology - Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Giuseppe Ateniese, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - George Danezis, University College London, UK - Refik Molva, EURECOM, France - Gerrit Bleumer, Scheidt & Bachmann, Germany - Ljiljana Brankovic, University of Newcastle, Australia - Jeroen Doumen, Irdeto, Netherlands - Csilla Farkas, University of South Carolina, USA - Pietro Colombo, University of Insubria, Italy - Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University, Sweden - Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany - Tanya Ignatenko, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands - Mizuho Iwaihara, Waseda University, Japan - Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA - Nguyen Manh Tho, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany - Bart Preneel, KU Leuven, Belgium - Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany - Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Darmstadt University, Germany - Andreas Schaad, Huawei Research - Yuan Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA - Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, University of Milan, Italy For any questions, please contact the organization co-chair: a.i.egner(a)tue.nl<mailto:a.i.egner@tue.nl>

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CFP: IEEE TCSS SI on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '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" 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 *Schedule* Paper submission due: June 15th, 2015 First round decisions: August 1st, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: September1st, 2015 Final decisions: October 1st, 2015 Publication date: Oct/Nov 2015 Issue. *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: CNSM 2015 - 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management
by Tortonesi Mauro 23 Mar '15

23 Mar '15

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), 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. 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: 2015-05-17 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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ARES 2015 - extended Deadline March 9, 2015
by Yvonne Poul 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

ARES 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************** The Tenth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015) August 24th 28th, 2015, Toulouse, France http://www.ares-conference.eu Sumission Deadline: extended to March 9, 2015 **************************************************************************** ************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2014 conference was 16%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France Program Committee Chair Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Peter Eckersley, EFF, US Rainer Böhme, University of Innsbruck, Austria Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (tutorials will be announced soon) ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 (extended to March 9, 2015) Author Notification: May 11, 2015 Proceedings Version: June 8, 2015 Conference: August 24-28, 2015 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Philipp Amann, European Cybercrime Centre, Netherlands Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Vincenzo De Florio, PATS / Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS / iMinds, Belgium Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, US Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, Netherlands Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University, US Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany Marcin Gorawski, Wroclaw University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology, Poland Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Kiel Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Katos, University of Thrace, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, Graz University of Technology, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Corrado Leita, Symantec Research Labs, France Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Domenico Rosaci, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Armed Forced, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gianluca Stringhini, Univerity College London, UK Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita del Sannio, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lenx Wei, Peking University, China Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Erich Wenger, IAIK TU Graz, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, University of Göttingen, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security Best regards, Edgar Weippl. PS: Conferences organized by SBA Research: ACM SACMAT 2015 June 1-3, 2015, Vienna, Austria, <http://www.sacmat.org/> http://www.sacmat.org/ ESORICS 2015 September 21-25, 2015 (Submission Deadline: April 4, 2015) Vienna, Austria, <http://esorics2015.sba-research.org/> http://esorics2015.sba-research.org/ CCS 2016 October 24-28, 2016, Vienna, Austria Edgar R. Weippl <mailto:eweippl@sba-research.org> eweippl(a)sba-research.org Research Director T: +43 1 5053688 <http://www.sba-research.org/> http://www.sba-research.org/ F: +43 1 5047881 <http://www.ares-conference.eu/> http://www.ares-conference.eu Follow us on Twitter ( <http://twitter.com/#%21/ARES_Conference/> http://twitter.com/#!/ARES_Conference/) Find us on Facebook ( <https://www.facebook.com/AresConference> https://www.facebook.com/AresConference)

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ARES 2015 - Deadline extension
by Yvonne Poul 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

ARES 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************** The Tenth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015) August 24th 28th, 2015, Toulouse, France http://www.ares-conference.eu Sumission Deadline: extended to March 9, 2015 **************************************************************************** ************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2014 conference was 16%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France Program Committee Chair Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Peter Eckersley, EFF, US Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (tutorials will be announced soon) ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 (extended to March 9, 2015) Author Notification: May 11, 2015 Proceedings Version: June 8, 2015 Conference: August 24-28, 2015 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Philipp Amann, European Cybercrime Centre, Netherlands Amin Anjomshoaa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Vincenzo De Florio, PATS / Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS / iMinds, Belgium Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, US Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, Netherlands Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University, US Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany Marcin Gorawski, Wroclaw University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology, Poland Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Kiel Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Katos, University of Thrace, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, Graz University of Technology, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Corrado Leita, Symantec Research Labs, France Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Domenico Rosaci, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Armed Forced, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gianluca Stringhini, Univerity College London, UK Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita del Sannio, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lenx Wei, Peking University, China Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Erich Wenger, IAIK TU Graz, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, University of Göttingen, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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ARES 2015 - Call for Papers - Submission Deadline March 2, 2015
by Yvonne Poul 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

ARES 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS **************************************************************************** ************** The Tenth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015) August 24th 28th, 2015, Toulouse, France http://www.ares-conference.eu Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 **************************************************************************** ************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2014 conference was 16%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France Program Committee Chair Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 Author Notification: May 11, 2015 Proceedings Version: June 8, 2015 Conference: August 24-28, 2015 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. ************ KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ************ Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Germany Pierangela Samarati, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy (more keynote speakers and tutorials will be announced soon) ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Philipp Amann, University College Dublin, Europol, Ireland Amin Anjomshoaa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Vincenzo De Florio, PATS / Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS / iMinds, Belgium Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, US Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, Netherlands Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University, US Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Karl Goeschka, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany Marcin Gorawski, Wroclaw University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology, Poland Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Kiel Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Katos, University of Thrace, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thomas Korak, Graz University of Technology, Austria Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Corrado Leita, Symantec Research Labs, France Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Konstantinos Markantonakis, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, UK Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Wojciech Mazurczyk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Alexios Mylonas, Staffordshire University, UK Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Domenico Rosaci, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Armed Forced, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gianluca Stringhini, Univerity College London, UK Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita del Sannio, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lenx Wei, Peking University, China Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Erich Wenger, IAIK TU Graz, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, University of Göttingen, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '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 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: Submission Deadline extension to Feb. 15th, Special Issue of IEEE TC on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. ] Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 --> Feb. 15th. 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE *************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS *************************** Lizhe Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu Gilles BETIS, Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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CFP: Submission Deadline extension to Feb. 15th, Special Issue of IEEE TC on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. ] Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 --> Feb. 15th. 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE *************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS *************************** Lizhe Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu Gilles BETIS, Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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CFP: IEEE TC SI on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Lizhe Wang, * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com *Shiyan Hu, * Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu *Gilles BETIS, * Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu *Rajiv Ranjan, * CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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ARES 2015 - CfP
by office＠ares-conference.eu 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

ARES 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The Tenth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2015) August 24th – 28th, 2015, Toulouse, France http://www.ares-conference.eu/ ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 10th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2014 conference was 16%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair Abdelmalek Benzekri, Université Paul Sabatier, France Program Committee Chair Stefan Katzenbeisser, TU Darmstadt, Germany ************ IMPORTANT DATES ************ Submission Deadline: March 2, 2015 Author Notification: May 11, 2015 Proceedings Version: June 8, 2015 Conference: August 24-28, 2015 ************ SUBMISSION ************ The proceedings of ARES (including workshops) have been published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of IEEE. Authors of selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference (including workshops) will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of international journals. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts and number each page. For the main conference as well as the workshops submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work: full paper (10 pages) short paper (6 pages) workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) extended abstracts (2 pages, only possible in the ARES Industrial track) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. ARES, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions – please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. ************ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ************ Jon A. Solworth, University of Illinois at Chicago, US Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Philipp Amann, University College Dublin, Europol, Ireland Amin Anjomshoaa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark Ravishankar Borgaonkar, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Luanne Burns Goldrich, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, US Mario Cagalj, University of Split, Croatia Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil Jordi Castellà-Roca, Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona, Spain Lorenzo Cavallaro, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Soon Ae Chun, City University of New York, US Nathan Clarke, University of Plymouth, UK Marijke Coetzee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Vincenzo De Florio, PATS / Universiteit Antwerpen and PATS / iMinds, Belgium Steven Demurjian, University of Connecticut, US Mark Dillon, International Criminal Court, Netherlands Adam Doupé, Arizona State University, US Pavlos Efraimidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Manuel Egele, Carnegie Mellon University, US Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Aristide Fattori, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Hannes Federrath, University of Hamburg, Germany Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg Simone Fischer-Huebner, Karlstad University, Sweden Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy Steven Furnell, Plymouth University, UK Nico Golde, Qualcomm Research Germany Marcin Gorawski, Wroclaw University of Technology and Silesian University of Technology, Poland Bogdan Groza, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Marit Hansen, Independent Centre for Privacy Protection, Kiel Dominik Herrmann, University Hamburg, Germany Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jan Jürjens, TU Dortmund and Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of Piraeus, Greece Vasilis Katos, University of Thrace, Greece Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, US Thorsten Kramp, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland Ralf Kuesters, University of Trier, Germany Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Corrado Leita, Symantec Research Labs, France Shujun Li, University of Surrey, UK Giovanni Livraga, Universita’ degli Studi di Milano, Italy Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain Keith Martin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Ioannis Mavridis, University of Macedonia, Greece Todd McDonald, University of South Alabama, US Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Mattia Monga, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Thomas Moyer, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Thomas Nowey, Krones AG, Germany Christoforos Ntantogian, University of Piraeus, Greece Rolf Oppliger, eSecurity Technologies, Switzerland Jaehong Park, University of Texas at San Antonio Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Andreas Peter, University of Twente, Netherlands Todd R. Andel, University of South Alabama, US Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, University of Vienna, Austria Domenico Rosaci, University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria, Italy Volker Roth, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand Luis Enrique Sánchez Crespo, University of Armed Forced, University of Castilla-la Mancha, Spain Mark Scanlon, University College Dublin, Ireland Sebastian Schinzel, Münster University of Applied Sciences, Germany Jörn-Marc Schmidt, secunet, Germany Max Schuchard, University of Minnesota, US Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, Austria Mark Strembeck, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Gianluca Stringhini, Univerity College London, UK Thorsten Strufe, TU Dresden, Germany Jakub Szefer, Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science, US Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Tsuyoshi Takagi, Kyushu University, Japan Oliver Theel, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Umberto Villano, Universita’ del Sannio, Italy Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Lenx Wei, Peking University, China Jinpeng Wei, Florida International University, US Erich Wenger, IAIK TU Graz, Austria Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Fabian Yamaguchi, University of Göttingen, Germany Alec Yasinsac, University of South Alabama, US Nicola Zannone, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands ************ TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: office(a)ares-conference.eu mailto:office@ares-conference.eu http://www.ares-conference.eu/ Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/ARES_Conference/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

[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 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 TC SI on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Lizhe Wang, * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com *Shiyan Hu, * Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu *Gilles BETIS, * Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu *Rajiv Ranjan, * CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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FedCSIS 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

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

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: October 30, 2014 (Extended) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccm-cs. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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UCC 2014 Call for Participation
by Ashiq Anjum 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

UCC 2014 Call for Participation -------------------- The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) will be held in London, UK on 8-11th December 2014 and all professionals working in the Cloud Computing field are urged to attend. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. This will be the 7th successful running of the conference in a series that included events in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012) and Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013. The conference will include keynote speeches from industry and academic leaders, numerous workshops to help attendees learn from experiences of others and tutorial presentations arranged into concurrent streams. In addition there is a doctoral symposium, a cloud challenge competition and an industry specific stream of presentations. The acceptance rate for papers submitted to the conference is only 19% ensuring a high quality programme. The conference will held at an attractive London location just 15 minutes from Heathrow and convenient for tube and train connections. The Hilton London Paddington hotel is a high class venue offering excellent facilities as well as easy access to the sights and attractions of London. Keynote and plenary sessions ---------------------------- - Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) - A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google - Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft - Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware - Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London - Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Professor Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Dr. Kenji Takeda, Microsoft - Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? ----------------- - Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) - Joe Baguley; VMWare - John Wilken; Google - Prof. Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) - Prof. Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tutorials --------- - Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda, Microsoft - Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna - The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein - Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, - Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, - Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli - Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda - Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana - Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop - CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops ------------------ - International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 - 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 - Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 - Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 - ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 - Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 - Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 - Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 - Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 - Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 - Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 - Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 - Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 - Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 - Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop - Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA - Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop - Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 Cloud Challenge ---------------- Cloud Challenge is a competition where participants develop solutions for real-world problems by utilizing virtualization technologies and Cloud computing. UCC 2014 will have selected the following application after an intense review of the submitted proposals. - An Experimental Tool for Elasticity Management Through Prediction Mechanisms Bruno A. Rosa, Vinícius A. Frederico, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Marcelo B. Pereira and Kayo S. Hisatomi. - Optimizing Scientific Workflows in the Cloud: A Montage Example Qingye Jiang, Alberto Gutierrez, Young Choon Lee, Manuel Arenaz, Luke M. Leslie and Albert Y. Zomaya. - Low Cost Energy Forecasting for SmartGrids using StreamMine3G and Amazon EC2 André Martin, Andrey Brito and Christof Fetzer. - Energy Cloud: real-time cloud-native Energy Management System to monitor and analyse energy consumption in multiple industrial sites Hugo Sequeira, Paulo Carreira, Thomas Goldschmidt and Philipp Vorst. Doctoral Symposium ------------------ The goal of the Doctoral Symposium is to provide a supportive and shepherding environment in which PhD students can present their research proposal and attend UCC. Students will be able to discuss their research objectives, methods and approach and results at various stages of their research. The aim is to solicit feedback on their research from well-established researchers and attendees. We have selected the following papers for the UCC 2014 Doctoral Symposium. Re-engineering the Database Layer of Legacy Applications for Scalable Cloud Deployment D1. Martyn Ellison, Radu Calinescu and Richard Paige. Truesource: A True Performance For Hierarchical Cloud Monitoring D2. Adam Currie, Aaron McConnell, Gerard Parr, Sally McClean and Kashaf Khan. Sustainable Communications Infrastructures in the Cloud – Supporting the Information Economy D3. Conor McBay, Gerard Parr and Sally McClean. Secret sharing scheme for data confidentiality preserving in a public-private hybrid cloud storage approach D4. Butoi Alexandru and Nicolae Tomai. Scalable Analytic Models for Performance Efficiency in the Cloud D5. Awada Uchechukwu, Keqiu Li and Keqin Li. Virtualization Security using Mandatory Access Control and Virtual Machine Introspection D6. Thu Yein Win, Huaglory Tianfield and Quentin Mair. Energy-aware Virtual Machine Consolidation for Cloud Data Centers D7. Dabiah Alboaneen, Bernardi Pranggono and Huaglory Tianfield. SLA Assured Brokering (SAB) and CSP Certification in Cloud Computing D8. Shyam S. Wagle. CloudAdvisor – A Framework Towards Assessing Trustworthiness and Transparency of Cloud Providers D9. Mohammed Almanea. UCC2014 Industry Session Overview --------------------------------- The aim of this day is to share a range of stimulating perspectives on what we understand by the digital economy. Already we have seen a disruptive change in the way that infrastructure hosts, service providers and users are finding new ways to do business. Whilst the flexibility and scalability has radically changed how business organisations can emerge and grow, there are many further questions to be identified and addressed about governance, regulation and even reporting. Notable speakers are participating from VMWare, Microsoft Research and Google. Venue ------ The Hilton London Paddington hotel is conveniently located 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport and connected by footbridge to Paddington Station. With four London Underground lines—Circle, Hammersmith & City, District, and Bakerloo—linked to the station, this is one of London’s best connected hotels. Over 150 years of history have made this hotel a legend. It’s located in the heart of the city and is within walking distance of London’s premier attractions. This grand Victorian hotel offers a full range of modern facilities. Catch up with work in the business center or keep in touch with colleagues in the Executive Lounge. Enjoy the diverse menu and continental influences of the celebrated Brasserie Restaurant. The chic Steam Bar provides the perfect place for dinner or a late night drink, with sleek decor, a contemporary feel, and a relaxed atmosphere. UCC 2014 Registration --------------------- To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Early Bird Registration Deadline: 29 October 2014 If you have any questions about the conference registration then please contact Jo Atkinson +44 (0)1332 597842 or email conference(a)derby.ac.uk

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

[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 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 * CSIRO Computational Informatics Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)csiro.au

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Final Call for Demo and Poster - SustainCom2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communication), Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communication (SustainCom2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "SustainCom 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Sustainable Computing and Communication community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SustainCom2014. SustainCom2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communication) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communication as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: *Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications* · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms *Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies* · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings *Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications* · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jesson Butt, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Final Call for Demo and Poster - BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/demo.htm <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/demo.htm> Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data and Cloud Computing community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud2014. BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: October 30, 2014 (Extended) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccm-cs. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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FedCSIS 2015 - Call for Events
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

CALL FOR EVENTS Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Lodz, Poland, 13-16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org The 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, research dissemination meeting, special session). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until October 31, 2014. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. Lodz, the third-largest Polish city, located in the central Poland south-west of Warsaw. The former textile industry empire, today is an academic city, desirable location for creative industries, home of modern arts and grand events. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2014 - held in Warsaw, Poland - attracted 430 papers, of which 150 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 35%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2014 full and short papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by October 31, 2014). PUBLICATIONS As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings (or as position papers, published in a separate volume), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and, an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. EVENT PROPOSALS Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by October 31, 2014, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/2015/cfe

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Call for Demo and Poster - BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 20 Sep '14

20 Sep '14

Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/demo.htm <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/demo.htm> Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data and Cloud Computing community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud2014. BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

[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 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 * CSIRO Computational Informatics Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)csiro.au

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Final CFP: WMCB 2014 (Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Mingzhong Wang 10 Sep '14

10 Sep '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### * Due to numerous requests, the deadline has been extended as follows: * Submission deadline: 12 September, 2014 * * Notification: 1 October * ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 12 September Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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Final CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 03 Sep '14

03 Sep '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 5 September 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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Final CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to September 5, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BDCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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CFP: WMCB 2014 (Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Mingzhong Wang 01 Sep '14

01 Sep '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 8 September Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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Call for Demo and Poster - BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/demo.htm <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/demo.htm> Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data and Cloud Computing community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud2014. BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Green Cloud · Cloud use case studies · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud · Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Distributed file systems for Big Data · Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale workflow management in Big Data · Data management and distributed data systems · Big data applications Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 5 September 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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Final CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to August 30, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¡¤ Architectural cloud models ¡¤ Programming cloud models ¡¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¡¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¡¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¡¤ Access control to cloud computing ¡¤ Resource virtualisation ¡¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¡¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¡¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¡¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¡¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¡¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¡¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¡¤ Green Cloud ¡¤ Cloud use case studies ¡¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¡¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¡¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¡¤ Big Data visualization ¡¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¡¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¡¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¡¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¡¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¡¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¡¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¡¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¡¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¡¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¡¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¡¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¡¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¡¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 23 Aug '14

23 Aug '14

Final Call for papers: Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Final CFP: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 22 Aug '14

22 Aug '14

Final call for papers: Due to requests from some other authors, the submission deadline is extended to August 25, 2014, which is firm then. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 19 Aug '14

19 Aug '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 18 Aug '14

18 Aug '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to August 30, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¡¤ Architectural cloud models ¡¤ Programming cloud models ¡¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¡¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¡¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¡¤ Access control to cloud computing ¡¤ Resource virtualisation ¡¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¡¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¡¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¡¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¡¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¡¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¡¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¡¤ Green Cloud ¡¤ Cloud use case studies ¡¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¡¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¡¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¡¤ Big Data visualization ¡¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¡¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¡¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¡¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¡¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¡¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¡¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¡¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¡¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¡¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¡¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¡¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¡¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¡¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 16 Aug '14

16 Aug '14

Extended Call for papers: Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to August 30, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¡¤ Architectural cloud models ¡¤ Programming cloud models ¡¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¡¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¡¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¡¤ Access control to cloud computing ¡¤ Resource virtualisation ¡¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¡¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¡¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¡¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¡¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¡¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¡¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¡¤ Green Cloud ¡¤ Cloud use case studies ¡¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¡¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¡¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¡¤ Big Data visualization ¡¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¡¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¡¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¡¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¡¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¡¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¡¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¡¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¡¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¡¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¡¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¡¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¡¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¡¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 14 Aug '14

14 Aug '14

Extended call for papers: Due to requests from some other authors, the submission deadline is extended to August 25, 2014, which is firm then. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 5 September 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 13 Aug '14

13 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: October 30, 2014 (Extended) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccm-cs. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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CFP: 6th WMCB 2014, Sydney, Australia, December 2014 - Deadline extended to 8 September
by Mingzhong Wang 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### * Due to numerous requests, the deadline has been extended as follows: * Submission deadline: 8 September, 2014 * * Notification: 1 October * ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 8 September Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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CFP: The 3rd SML2OD2014 (Semantic Machine Learning and Linked Open Data for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics), Dec 2014
by Andrew Clashe 09 Aug '14

09 Aug '14

Call for papers: The 3rd International Workshop on Semantic Machine Learning and Linked Open Data for Agricultural and Environmental Informatics (SML2OD2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 5, 2014 (firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 10, 2014 Submission site: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/submission/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in the main conference special issues - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Overview Historical and spatial big data from the environmental and agricultural domains already exist in the modern technology-driven world. Government agencies, utilities and research bodies already have large amounts of data, but their value is not being fully realised because they are not integrated and consequently big knowledge is difficult to access. Semantic web, semantic machine learning and linked open data technology may help to build an “outer knowledge layer” so that this information could be accessed by domain people and the broader community. It can also be used to answer complex dynamic queries at run time from the system point of view. The main goal of this workshop is to identify the key challenges which are faced by the agriculture, viticulture and aquaculture communities, discuss potential solutions and identify the opportunities emerging from cross-domain interactions among agriculture experts, hydrologists, dairy experts, aquaculture experts and ICT experts. Therefore, we expect to gain from the domain experts an explanation of how they can apply semantic web standards, machine learning techniques, and linked data standards into their scientific research. There will be an open call for research papers presenting various aspects of real world applications of the linked open data concept, machine learning and semantic web technologies applied to the agricultural domains. Selected research papers, demos and late breaking results will be accepted for the workshop. There will be a keynote speaker who will explain the current trends of research in these domains. Our key areas of interest for the purpose of knowledge management are agriculture, aquaculture, environment and dairy production. This also extends to strategies for soil moisture and environmental sensor data integration, dynamic big data annotation, environmental ontology and plant disease knowledge bank. Motivation - To bring scientists, industry and domain experts to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate the evolution of environmental linked data. - To examine big data integration and big knowledge management in the context of the environment. - To explore new research and development horizons for semantic machine learning applications Topics More specifically, the topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Performance evaluation of sensor data using linked data principles; * Environmental data integration; * Smart farm and its application in linked data; * Environmental ontology; * Semantic web and big data management; * Agricultural multilingual taxonomies and glossaries; * Semantic based decision support system; * Environmental big data and knowledge management; * Applications for research that build on top of linked data; * Environmental analytics; * Agricultural informatics; * Semantic machine learning applications; * Semantic based precision agriculture. * Linked data analysis; Submission Guidelines All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: - Full research papers (up to six pages): Original research papers are invited, presenting various aspects of real world applications of the linked open data concept, machine learning and semantic web technologies applied to agricultural and environmental informatics. Each accepted paper will receive a short (15 minute) presentation slot followed by a five minute open discussion. - Late Breaking News papers (up to two pages): Short communication research papers are invited on any ongoing research work, unpublished results, theory, concept and potential future applications. All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the IEEE 2-column style. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://wp.csiro.au/sml2od2014/submission/. Workshop Chairs Dr. Ahsan Morshed, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Yanfeng Shu, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Ritaban Dutta, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Dr. Daniel Smith, Computational Informatics, CSIRO, Australia Advisory Committee Prof Craig Lindley, CSIRO, Australia Johannes Keizer, FAO of United Nations, Rome, Italy Prof Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Trento, Italy Prof Antony G Cohn, Leeds University, UK

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 07 Aug '14

07 Aug '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 06 Aug '14

06 Aug '14

Extended call for papers: Due to requests from some other authors, the submission deadline is extended to August 25, 2014, which is firm then. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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CFP: 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data, 3 -5 Dec., Sydney Australia
by Mingzhong Wang 04 Aug '14

04 Aug '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 11 August Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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Extended CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to September 5, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BDCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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Extended CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 01 Aug '14

01 Aug '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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Re: [ogsa-wg] CfP - 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization -"Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds and Services” - London, U.K. – April 13-17, 2015, http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft/
by Alex Galis 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

CALL FOR PAPERS 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization “Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds and Services” London, U.K. – April 13-17, 2015 http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft/ SCOPE The IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2015) will be held April 13-17, 2015 in London, U.K. at the Cruciform Building of University College London (UCL). NetSoft 2015 will be the first of a series of annual events established as part of the IEEE Software-Defined Networks initiative of the IEEE Future Directions Committee to build an IEEE-wide community in this area across multiple IEEE societies and councils (http://sdn.ieee.org/about.html) Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), and Software-Defined Clouds could be seen as different expressions of an overall transformation trend, which is deeply impacting and Telecom and IT industries. This trend is also transforming several other Industries, in using ”softwarization" to optimize costs and processes and in bringing new values in infrastructures. In particular, SDN, NFV and network programmability are creating the conditions to reinvent network and cloud architectures, accelerate service deployment and facilitate infrastructure management. Accordingly, the theme of NetSoft 2015 is “Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds and Services”. NetSoft is intended to serve as the flagship IEEE forum for technical exchange on software-defined infrastructures and services. TOPICS OF INTEREST Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into the area of software-defined and virtualized infrastructures. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • SDI Architectures, Application Programming Interfaces Protocols & Programming languages • SDN Switch/Router Architectures/Designs • Control Architectures/Network Programmability • Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools • Placement/Factoring of Control Logic • Efficient Network Virtualization in SDN • Network Function Virtualization (NFV) • SDN Resource, Network and Service Management and Efficient Operations • Traffic Engineering and QoS in SDN • Mobility/Security/Safety Support and Management in SDN • 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 • SDN Support for Big Data Applications • SDN Applications to Enterprise, Home, Cellular • Software-Defined Optical Transport and Backbone Networks • SDN and Virtualization for RAN and 5G • Performance Evaluation, Testbeds, and Experiences Benchmarking • Deployments and Interoperation with Legacy Systems PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in English) in PDF format. Only original papers not published or submitted for publication elsewhere can be submitted. Papers can be of two types: full (up to 9 pages) or short (up to 5 pages) papers. Papers should be in IEEE 2-column US-Letter style using IEEE Conference templates (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) and submitted in PDF format via EDAS at: http://edas.info/N18361. Papers exceeding these limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be rejected without further review. All submitted papers will be subject to a peer-review process. The accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, provided that the authors do present their paper at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 15th December 2014 Camera Ready Papers: 13th March 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 15th February 2015 GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France George Pavlou, University College London, U.K. TPC CO-CHAIRS Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Alex Galis, University College London, U.K. IEEE Software-Defined Networks Group Chair: Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy For more information, please visit: http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft/ ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: *July 30, 2014* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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Extended CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 28 Jul '14

28 Jul '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to August 30, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¡¤ Architectural cloud models ¡¤ Programming cloud models ¡¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¡¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¡¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¡¤ Access control to cloud computing ¡¤ Resource virtualisation ¡¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¡¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¡¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¡¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¡¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¡¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¡¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¡¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¡¤ Green Cloud ¡¤ Cloud use case studies ¡¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¡¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¡¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¡¤ Big Data visualization ¡¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¡¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¡¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¡¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¡¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¡¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¡¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¡¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¡¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¡¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¡¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¡¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¡¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¡¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Extended CFP: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 27 Jul '14

27 Jul '14

Extended call for papers: Due to requests from some other authors, the submission deadline is extended to August 25, 2014, which is firm then. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Financial Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: August 20, 2014 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-cc. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Call for papers: Due to requests from many authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 25 August 2014. But this is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Call for papers: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 17 Jul '14

17 Jul '14

Call for papers: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Financial Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 13 Jul '14

13 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: *July 30, 2014* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers – Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BDCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: August 20, 2014 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-cc. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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CFP: Special Issue on Enabling Technologies for Collaboration
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Special Issue on Enabling Technologies for Collaboration Collaboration is an important aspect in almost all fields of human life, and today the need for supporting collaboration is increased by the fact that we are always connected by means of different kinds of devices. In particular in the enterprise world, this need has emerged and satisfying it can lead to relevant benefits for companies. In the last years, enabling technologies have evolved to meet new and challenging requirements. The aim of this special issue is to provide a landscape of the state of the art, emerging trends, new technologies and best practices in the field of technologies that enable collaboration. The idea is to cover a broad range of fields that are related to collaboration, including both theoretical and applied perspectives. The special issue will feature articles that concern technologies that enable collaboration considering a wide range of aspects, as specified in the following list of topics. TOPICS Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Adaptive workflows, supply chains, and virtual enterprises - Agent architectures and infrastructures for dynamic collaboration - Agent-to-Human service interactions - Collaboration case studies, tools and applications - Collaboration engineering in cyber-physical systems - Collaborative management of autonomic properties - Collaborative management of NF requirements (quality, security, robustness, availability) - Collaborative management of virtualized cloud resources - Collaborative planning and decision making - Collaborative solutions for the diagnosis and repair of software systems - Collaborative technologies for ensuring autonomic properties - Collaborative technologies for QoS management of SOA and cloud architectures - Collaborative virtual business ecosystems - Cooperative learning and cooperative data mining algorithms - Data Mining techniques for collaborative working - Formal approaches to collaboration - Knowledge management for collaboration - Methodologies and environments for collaborative data mining - Methodologies, languages and tools to support agent collaboration - Modeling and specification of collaborative cloud services - Organizational and enterprise systems that leverage Web 2.0 - Semantic approaches for collaboration - Semantic interoperability for SOA/BPM/SNs - Semantic web for collaboration - Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) for collaboration IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: September 15th, 2014 - Author notification: October 30th 2014 - Revised papers (for major revisions): November 30th 2014 - Author notification (for major revisions): January 15th, 2015 - Camera Ready papers due: February 15th, 2015 - Publication: June, 2015 SUBMISSION DETAILS The special issue seeks original, unpublished work on technologies enabling collaboration. The authors of the best papers form WETICE 2014 will be invited to submit an extended version to this special issue. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-review process and papers will be sent to at least two independent referees. Papers that do not merit publication (for any reason) can be rejected by the Special Issue Editors without further review. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS - Prof. Marco Aiello. University of Groningen, NL - Prof. Federico Bergenti. Università di Parma, Italy - Prof. Giacomo Cabri. Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy - Prof. Sumitra Reddy. West Virginia University, USA - Prof. Ramana Reddy. West Virginia University, USA

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Call for papers: The 7th IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), Dec. 2014, Sydney Australia
by Arne Wilston 05 Jul '14

05 Jul '14

Call for papers: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Financial Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 04 Jul '14

04 Jul '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: *July 30, 2014* Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 29 Jun '14

29 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: *June 25, 2014* Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: Special Issue on CLOUD for Health
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Volume 15, Issue 4: Special Issue on CLOUD for Health In the last 20 years, computational methods and data analysis have become very important part in health systems; especially, in research areas such as biomodelling, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, medical image analysis, biotechnology, or automatic diagnosis. The development of those areas leads to an unprecedented demand for large-scale data management and analysis (Tbytes or Pbytes) and scalability in computing power. This new situation requires appropriate IT-infrastructures, where new biomedical challenges can be solved within an acceptable timespan. Cloud computing has the potential to help solving those problems by offering a utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage capabilities and abstraction layers that allow overcoming many of the constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in an easy way, by increasing the availability of new methods for the research community, and by supporting large-scale multi-centric collaborations. The aim of this special issue is to promote synergies between cloud computing and health communities by exploring applications developed in clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio*, and new trends and needs shared between both communities. Thus, this special issue will feature articles that discuss applications of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including solutions to the problems in the area, and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems. The goals are to exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, and to gather an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks). TOPICS Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Cloud-based bioinformatics and biomedicine applications - Cloud-based applications in public health systems - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes - Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution - Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Integration and analysis of biomedical data - Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis workflows - Biosignals processing using clouds - Privacy and security issues for cloud-based health applications - Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures - Virtual HPC infrastructures for Health - Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications - Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds - Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: August 31th, 2014 - Author notification: October 1th 2014 - Camera Ready papers due: November 15th, 2014 - Publication: December, 2014 SUBMISSION DETAILS The special issue seeks original, unpublished work on potential means to foster better security, transparency and scalability in cloud-based services. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-review process and papers will be send to at least two independent academic referees. Papers that do not merit publication (for any reason) can be rejected by the Special Issue Editors without further review. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS - Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Prof. Sandra Gesing. University of Notre Dame, USA

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Final Call for Workshops - IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Final Call for Workshops: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 25 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 30 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Social Computing and Networking to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 25 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 30 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn

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Final Call for Workshops - IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Andrew Clashe 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Final Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 23 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 27 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 23 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 27 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it

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CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: August 20, 2014 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-cc. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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Call for Workshops - IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Social Computing and Networking to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn

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CFP: 6th Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014)
by wangmz 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 11 August Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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Call for Workshops - IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Andrew Clashe 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers – Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 04 Jun '14

04 Jun '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for Workshops - IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Mianxiong Dong, University of Aizu, Japan, mx.dong(a)nict.go.jp Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, zhengw(a)xmu.edu.cn Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia, jesson.butt(a)gmail.com Introduction: SustainCom 2014 workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Sustainable Computing and Smart Cities to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Mianxiong Dong, University of Aizu, Japan, mx.dong(a)nict.go.jp Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, zhengw(a)xmu.edu.cn Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia, jesson.butt(a)gmail.com

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CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 03 Jun '14

03 Jun '14

Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ¡¤ Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ¡¤ Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ¡¤ Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ¡¤ Power-aware Networking ¡¤ Real-time systems ¡¤ Power-efficient Computing Architectures ¡¤ Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ¡¤ Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ¡¤ Configurable and Renewable Energy ¡¤ Low Power Electronics ¡¤ Energy Efficient Network Hardware ¡¤ Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ¡¤ Low power Communication Technologies ¡¤ Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ¡¤ Power Leakage and Dissipation ¡¤ Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ¡¤ Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ¡¤ Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ¡¤ Security and Privacy ¡¤ Wearable Computing ¡¤ Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ¡¤ Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ¡¤ Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ¡¤ QoS and Green Computing ¡¤ Integration of Smart Appliances ¡¤ Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ¡¤ Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ¡¤ Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ¡¤ Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ¡¤ Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ¡¤ Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ¡¤ Energy Management Systems (EMS) ¡¤ Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ¡¤ Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ¡¤ Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ¡¤ Greener Systems Planning and Design ¡¤ Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ¡¤ Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ¡¤ Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ¡¤ Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ¡¤ Reliability of Power-aware Computers ¡¤ Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ¡¤ Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ¡¤ Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ¡¤ Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ¡¤ Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ¡¤ Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ¡¤ Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ¡¤ Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ¡¤ Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ¡¤ Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ¡¤ Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ¡¤ Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ¡¤ Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ¡¤ Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ¡¤ Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ¡¤ e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ¡¤ Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ¡¤ Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ¡¤ User-Centred Services and Systems ¡¤ Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ¡¤ Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ¡¤ Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ¡¤ Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ¡¤ IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ¡¤ Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 31 May '14

31 May '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 30 May '14

30 May '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers – Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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Final CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2014
by Chang Liu 26 May '14

26 May '14

Final Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 31, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to 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 Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended 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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP - IEEE SocialCom2014 (Social Computing and Networking), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 24 May '14

24 May '14

Call for papers: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing and networking is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised by providing digital platforms for social interaction. Such applications have been profoundly change social behaviours and digital life styles of humankind whilst pushing the boundaries of Internet technologies. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as trust, privacy, HCI design, and the modelling as well as understanding of social behaviours via computational means provide significant challenges. SocialCom (Social Computing and Networking) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing & Networking and its broadly related areas.?SocialCom2014 is evolved as next premier event from previous highly successful series of SCA2013 (Karlsruhe Germany), SCA2012 (Xiangtan China), SCA2011 (Sydney, Australia), SocialNet-2010 (Social Computing and Networking, Hangzhou, China), SocialNet-2009 (Social Computing and Networking, Chengdu China), SIN-2009 (Social Intelligence and Networking, Vancouver Canada). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¡¤ Fundamentals of social computing ¡¤ Modelling of social behaviour ¡¤ Social network analysis and mining ¡¤ Big social media data ¡¤ Social media infrastructure and cloud computing ¡¤ Computational models of social simulation ¡¤ Web 2.0 and semantic web ¡¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models ¡¤ Modelling of social conventions and social contexts ¡¤ Social cognition and social intelligence ¡¤ Social media analytics and intelligence ¡¤ Group formation and evolution ¡¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts ¡¤ Social system design and architectures ¡¤ Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology ¡¤ Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling ¡¤ Handheld/mobile social computing ¡¤ Service science and service oriented interaction design ¡¤ Cultural patterns and representation ¡¤ Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process ¡¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets ¡¤ Connected e-health in social networks ¡¤ Social policy and government management ¡¤ Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum ¡¤ Business social software systems ¡¤ Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments ¡¤ Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction ¡¤ Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshops Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Financial Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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CFP: IEEE SuSC 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 May '14

22 May '14

Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SuSC 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SuSC (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ?? Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ?? Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ?? Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ?? Power-aware Networking ?? Real-time systems ?? Power-efficient Computing Architectures ?? Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ?? Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ?? Configurable and Renewable Energy ?? Low Power Electronics ?? Energy Efficient Network Hardware ?? Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ?? Low power Communication Technologies ?? Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ?? Power Leakage and Dissipation ?? Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ?? Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ?? Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ?? Security and Privacy ?? Wearable Computing ?? Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ?? Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ?? Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ?? QoS and Green Computing ?? Integration of Smart Appliances ?? Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ?? Virtualiztion Impact for Green Computing ?? Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ?? Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ?? Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ?? Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ?? Energy Management Systems (EMS) ?? Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ?? Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ?? Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ?? Greener Systems Planning and Design ?? Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ?? Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ?? Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ?? Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ?? Reliability of Power-aware Computers ?? Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ?? Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ?? Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ?? Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ?? Smart control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ?? Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ?? Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and Information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ?? Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ?? Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ?? Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ?? Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ?? Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ?? Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ?? Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ?? Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ?? Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ?? e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ?? Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ?? Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ?? User-Centred Services and Systems ?? Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ?? Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ?? Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ?? Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ?? IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ?? Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit?? Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 22 May '14

22 May '14

Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big data applications 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/bdcloud2014/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 Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for Workshops - IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 21 May '14

21 May '14

Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it

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Call for Workshops - IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 21 May '14

21 May '14

Call for Workshops: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn Introduction: Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Social Computing and Networking to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 15 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 20 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn

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Call for papers: IEEE SCA2014 (Social Computing and its Applications), Sydney Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2014
by Arne Wilston 18 May '14

18 May '14

Call for papers: SCA2014 - The 4th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.3-5, 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Social computing is concerned with the intersection of social behaviour and computing systems, creating or recreating social conventions and social contexts through the use of software and technology. Various social computing applications such as blogs, email, instant messaging, social networking (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.), wikis, and social bookmarking have been widely popularised where people interact socially via computing space. Such applications have been profoundly impacting social behaviour and life style of human beings while pushing the boundary of computing technology simultaneously. While people can enjoy or even indulge in the benefits such as freedom and convenience brought about by social computing, various critical issues such as privacy protection, touch-screen based HCI design, and modelling of social behaviour in computing space still remain challenging. SCA (Social Computing and its Applications) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Social Computing and broadly related areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papersmay be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2014/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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ee-Peng Lim, Singapore Management University, Singapore Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Program Vice-Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Li Li, Southwest University, China Workshop Chairs Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China Steering Committee V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academia of Science, China Wesley Chu, University of California, USA Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Adrian David Cheok, National University of Singapore, Singapore Craig Standing, Edith Cowan University, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Call for Workshops - IEEE SuSC 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Smart Cities), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 18 May '14

18 May '14

Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Smart Cities (SuSC 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 15 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 20 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Mianxiong Dong, University of Aizu, Japan, mx.dong(a)nict.go.jp Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, zhengw(a)xmu.edu.cn Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia, jesson.butt(a)gmail.com Introduction: SuSC 2014 workshops will be held together with SuSC 2014 during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Sustainable Computing and Smart Cities to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 15 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 20 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Mianxiong Dong, University of Aizu, Japan, mx.dong(a)nict.go.jp Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, zhengw(a)xmu.edu.cn Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia, jesson.butt(a)gmail.com

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CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2014
by Chang Liu 18 May '14

18 May '14

Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 31, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to 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 Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended 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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 10 May '14

10 May '14

Call for papers: The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 10 May '14

10 May '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers – Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Hadi Mashinchi, Simavita, Australia Chao Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Hidemoto Nakada, AIST, Japan Boyu Zhang, University of Delaware, USA

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CFP - IEEE TCC Special Issue on "Big Data Computing on Clouds"
by Jinjun Chen 06 May '14

06 May '14

Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Special Issue on "Big Data Computing on Clouds". Website: http://www.swinflow.org/si/tccbd.htm. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size or complexity is beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Besides, Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. Therefore, there is a strong demand to investigate various challenges about how to support Big Data processing by facilitating Cloud Computing potential. This special issue will focus on this challenging topic. *Topics* Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to: · Cloud Architecture for Big Data · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management in Cloud for Big Data · Large-scale data intensive workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Virtualisation and visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · Fault tolerance and reliability for Big Data processing on Cloud · MapReduce with Cloud for Big Data processing · Big data application workflow management on Cloud · Distributed file storage system with Cloud for Big Data · Inter-cloud technology for Big Data · Security, privacy and trust in Big Data processing on Cloud · Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues in Cloud for Big Data processing · Cloud infrastructure for social networking with Big Data · User friendly Cloud access for Big Data processing · Innovative Cloud data centre networking for Big Data · Wireless and mobility support in Cloud data centre for Big Data · Cloud and Big Data for Smart and Sustainable Cities *Schedule* Submission due date: November 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2015 Submission of final manuscript: May 15, 2015 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2015 (Tentative) *Submission & Major Guidelines* The special issue invites original research papers that make significant contributions to the state-of-the-art in “Big Data Computing on Clouds”. The papers must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference publications. However, the papers that have been previously published with reputed conferences such as *IEEE BDSE 2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/>*) 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 TCC submission web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. For additional information, please contact Jinjun.Chen(a)gmail.com. *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 *Guest Editors* Jinjun Chen (Contact Person), Jinjun.Chen(a)gmail.com, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, ivan(a)site.uottawa.ca, University of Ottawa, Canada Irena Bojanova, ibojanova(a)umuc.edu, University of Maryland University College, USA

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CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 05 May '14

05 May '14

[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers – Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/>). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC <http://www.ieeetcsc.org/> Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/> (Australia) and 2012 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bigdatamr2012> (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip> or WORD <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip>can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/> and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014

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FedCSIS 2014 - CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonIEEE) The FedCSIS 2014 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Time allowed, position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Alternatively, they will be placed in the category of POSTER PAPERS available for viewing and discussions. Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS: - EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. - CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions. POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION: Position papers will be published as a SEPARATE ELECTRONIC VOLUME, WITH an ISBN and ISSN numbers. These papers will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. However, they will be indexed in the BazEcon database, and submitted for indexing to: SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The preferred submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check and carefully follow the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program. IMPORTANT DATES - Position paper submission: May 23, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 31, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CFP: PriSec 2014 (The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Call for papers: The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> 2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Rose-Mharie Ahlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Basel Alomair, University of Washington, USA Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Reza Azarderakhsh, University of Waterloo, Canada Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University - Texarkana, USA Shuguo Han, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Charles Morisset, IIT - CNR, Italy David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita degli Studi di Bergamo,Italy Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Research, USA Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia John Zic, CSIRO, Australia

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CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014
by Chang Liu 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to 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 Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended 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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014
by Chang Liu 09 Apr '14

09 Apr '14

Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to 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 Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended 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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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SOAD-MT 2014 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools (SOAD-MT'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/soad-mt E-mail: soad-mt2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SOAD-MT 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The discipline of Software Engineering has already established itself as a prime contributor towards sustenance and accelerated growth of infrastructural development process. It is further recognized that traditional software engineering approaches require extensions in the context of revolving computing paradigms like service oriented computing, cloud computing, grid computing etc. Service-oriented computing is considered today a key technology for the development of robust and high quality intelligent distributed applications. Moreover, service-oriented applications play an important role in enterprise computing including mobile enterprise systems and more recently in the field of cloud computing. While there is an agreement about the main principles for designing and developing such applications, methodologies and tools that support the development of service-oriented applications are still a subject of intensive research. The goal of this workshop is to address these gaps by strengthening the cross-fertilization of advances from software engineering methodologies and service oriented computing for effectively managing the ever-increasing complexity of applications development. TOPICS ======================================= Submissions are expected from, but not limited to the following topics: - Architectural styles, Reference models and standards for Service Oriented systems - Case Studies and best practices of Service Oriented development - Cloud Services and service applications in the cloud - Cost modeling of Service Oriented System - Design methodologies for Service Oriented system development - Distributed and collaborative software service development - Engineering Service Oriented applications in social network contexts - Engineering Service Oriented database applications - Management and governance of service engineering projects - Mobile Service Engineering and Applications - Model-driven SOA and service systems development - Models, languages and methods for service-oriented analysis and design - Quality Evaluation for Service Oriented Systems development - Requirements Engineering for Service Oriented System - Service Oriented business process modeling - Service Oriented System development lifecycle methodologies and processes - Security in Service Oriented System - Service Information Technology and Decision Making - Tool support for software service engineering - Validation, verification and testing of Service Oriented Applications - Web-services PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Debnath, Narayan, Winona State University - Sarkar, Anirban, National Institute of Technology-Durgapur PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Al-Mubaid, Hisham, University of Houston-Clear lake, USA - Aljahdali, Sultan, Taif University, Saudi Arabia - Ayaida, Marwane, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France - Burgin, Mark, University of california-Los Angeles, USA - Fouchal, Hacene, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France - Haraty, Ramzi, Lebanese Amarican University, Lebanon - Hodon, Michal, University of Zilina, Slovakia - Iyengar, Sudharsan, Winona State University, USA - Lee, Haesun K., University of Texas- Permian Basin, USA - Lee, Ilhyun, University of Texas-Permina Basin, USA - Mokdad, Lynda, Université Paris-Est, France - Montejano, German, National University of San Luis, Argentina - Nikolaidou, Mara, University of Athens, Greece - Riesco, Daniel, National University of San Luis, Argentina - Synnergren, Jane, University of Skovde, Sweden - Uzal, Roberto, National University of San Luis, Argentina - Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China

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SCoDiS-LaSCoG 2014 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14) and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/scodis-lascog E-mail: scodis-lascog2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 pair of events shares a joint Program Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems. TOPICS ======================================= Covered topics include (but are not limited to): - Large-scale algorithms and applications - Symbolic and numeric computations - High performance computations for large scale simulations - Large-scale distributed computations - Agent-based computing - Data models for large-scale applications - Security issues for large-scale computations - Science portals - Data visualization - Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction - Programming models - Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids - Collaborative science applications - Business applications - Data-intensive applications - Operations on large-scale distributed databases - On-demand computing - Computation as a service - Federation of compute capacity - Virtualization supporting computations - Self-adaptive computational / storage systems - Volunteer computing - Large scale computation with GPU - Cloud computing architectures and models - Load Balancing in large-scale distributed systems - Intelligent resource allocation - Cloud Security, Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance - Mobile Cloud - High Performance Cloud Computing - Green Cloud Computing - Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing - Performance, Capacity Management and Monitoring of Cloud Configuration - Cloud Interoperability and Portability - Cloud Application Scalability and Availability - Big Data Cloud Service PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Gusev, Marjan, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Ristov, Sasko, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Anderson, David, University of California, Berkeley, United States - Bass, Len, NICTA, Australia - Brodnik, Andrej, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia - Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain - D'Ambra, Pasqua, ICAR-CNR, Italy - Feldmann, Anja - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdańsk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Gepner, Paweł, Intel Corporation, United Kingdom - Gordon, Minor, Squarable, Inc., United States - Gorgan, Dorian, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Goscinski, Andrzej, Deakin University, Australia - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States - Holmes, Violeta, The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom - Hsu, Ching-Hsien (Robert), Chung Hua University, Taiwan - Kalinov, Alexey, Cadence Design Systems, Russia - Karaivanova, Aneta, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria - Kitowski, Jacek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Poland - Knepper, Richard, Indiana University, United States - Kranzlmüller, Dieter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany - Kwiatkowski, Jan, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland - Lang, Tran Van, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam - Lastovetsky, Alexey, University College Dublin, Ireland - Lee, Dongwoo, Gulf University for Science and Technology & OikoLab, Kuwait - Legalov, Alexander, Siberian Federal University, Russia - Luo, Mon-Yen, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan - Margaritis, Konstantinos G., University of Macedonia, Greece - Milentijevic, Ivan, University of Nis, Serbia - Morrison, John, University College Cork, Ireland - Nosovic, Novica, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Olejnik, Richard, CNRS - University of Lille I, France - Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Rak, Massimiliano, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy - Schikuta, Erich, University of Vienna, Austria - Schreiner, Wolfgang, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - Shen, Hong, University of Adelaide, Australia - Song, Ha Yoon, Hongik University, South Korea - Stankovski, Vlado, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Talia, Domenico, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy - Telegin, Pavel, JSCC RAS, Russia - Trystram, Denis, Grenoble Technical University, France - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Tvrdik, Pavel, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Vazhenin, Alexander, University of Aizu, Japan - Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China - Wyrzykowski, Roman, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland - Xu, Baomin, Beijing JiaoTong University, China - Xu, Baomin - Zavoral, Filip, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

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FedCSIS 2014 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonIEEE) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2014 - an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multiconference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to three days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Proceedings of the FedCSIS 2012 conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. (Proceedings of the 2013 edition have been submitted for WoS indexing and await decision). DATA MINING COMPETITION AAIA’14 Data Mining Competition at the Knowledge Pit -- more info at: https://fedcsis.org/2014/dm_competition FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. AAIA'14 - 9th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ---- AIMA'14 - 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications ---- ASIR'14 - 4th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval ---- CEIM'14 - 1st Complex Events and Information Modelling ---- TAIE'14 - 1st Workshop on Trends and Applications in Intelligent Environments ---- WCO'14 - 7th Workshop on Computational Optimization CSS - Computer Science & Systems ---- CANA'14 - 7th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms ---- MMAP'14 - 7th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing ---- SCoDiS-LaSCoG'14 - 3nd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'14 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'14 - 3rd Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop iNetSApp - Innovative Network Systems and Applications ---- EAIS'14 - 1st Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security ---- SoFAST-WS'14 - 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services ---- SDN'14 - 1st Workshop on Software Defined Networking ---- TAMOCO'14 - 3rd Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce ---- WSN'14 - 3rd International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society ---- ABICT'14 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT ---- AITM'14 - 12th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management ---- ISM'14 - 9th Conference on Information Systems Management ---- IT4L'14 - 3rd Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics ---- KAM'14 - 20th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management ---- SS4SI'14 - 1st International Symposium on Service Systems for Social Innovation JAWS - 4th Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy ---- ABC:MI-Agent Day'14 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation and 8th AgentDay ---- MAS&M'14 - 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation ---- SEN-MAS'14 - 3rd International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications ---- ATSE'14 - 5th International Workshop Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation ---- MDASD'14 - 3rd Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development ---- PBDA'14 - 2nd Workshop on Performance of Business Database Applications ---- SOAD-MT'14 - 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen: EmPowering the Power Grid through ICT - Irvin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, title to be announced - Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St Gallen, Switzerland and Kassel University, Germany: Designing Innovative Service Systems - Michael Luck, King's College London: Toward Electronic Order PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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Call for Workshops - IEEE BDSE 2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 24-26 Sept 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
by Chang Liu 26 Mar '14

26 Mar '14

Call for Workshops: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: April 30, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan(a)qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc(a)nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong(a)umac.mo Introduction: BDSE2014 workshops will be held together with BDSE2014 during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: April 30, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as BDSE2014 main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for BDSE2014 at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the BDSE2014 workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of BDSE2014, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan(a)qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc(a)nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong(a)umac.mo

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ARES 2014 - deadline extended
by ARES 2014 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Dear colleagues, ARES 2014 - DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 19th, 2014 ARES Conference 08th - 12th September 2014 University of Fribourg, Switzerland www.ares-conference.eu ARES will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2013 conference was 24%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ***ARES Important Dates*** Submission Deadline: extended to March 19th, 2014 Author Notification: May 19th, 2014 Author Registration: June 10th, 2014 Proceedings Version: June 20th, 2014 Conference: September 8th - 12th, 2014 - Fribourg, Switzerland ***Conference Officers*** General Chair Stephanie Teufel, Dean of the faculty of economics & social sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Program Committee Co-Chairs Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology and SBA Research, Austria Collin Mulliner, Northeastern University, USA ***Keynote Speakers, Tutoials*** Keynote Speaker: Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Volkmar Lotz, SAP AG, Germany ***Submission*** To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at www.ares-conference.eu. ***Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:*** Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security Best regards, ARES / CD-ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Phone:+43 1 505 36 88 – 1706 Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: office(a)ares-conference.eu http://www.ares-conference.eu/ Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#%21/ARES_Conference/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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ARES 2014 - Call for Papers
by Yvonne Poul, ARES 2014 17 Feb '14

17 Feb '14

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the 9th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2014). ARES Conference 08th - 12th September 2014 University of Fribourg, Switzerland www.ares-conference.eu ARES will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ARES aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of security as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ARES will emphasize the interplay between foundations and practical issues of security in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ARES is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Secure and Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. Selected papers that are accepted by and presented at the ARES Conference will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2013 conference was 24%. The ARES conferences have been published by IEEE CPS. ***ARES Important Dates*** Submission Deadline: March 7th, 2014 Author Notification: May 19th, 2014 Author Registration: June 10th, 2014 Proceedings Version: June 20th, 2014 Conference: September 8th - 12th, 2014 - Fribourg, Switzerland ***Conference Officers*** General Chair Prof. Dr. Stephanie Teufel, Dean of the faculty of economics & social sciences, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Program Committee Co-Chairs Dr. Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology and SBA Research, Austria Dr.-Ing. Collin Mulliner, Northeastern University, USA ***Keynote Speakers, Tutoials*** Keynote Speaker: Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Further keynote speakers and tutorials will be announced soon! ***Submission*** To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at www.ares-conference.eu. ***Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:*** Authorization and Authentication Availability and Reliability Business Continuity & Resilience Cost/Benefit Analysis Cryptography Dependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics) Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government) Dependability Administration Dependability in Open Source Software Designing Security Requirements Digital Forensics E-Commerce Dependability Failure Prevention Identity Management IPR of Security Technology Incident Response and Prevention Information Flow Control Information Hiding Internet Dependability Interoperability Aspects Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Legal Issues Mobile Security Network and Organizational Vulnerability Analysis Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Process based Security Models and Methods RFID Security and Privacy Risk planning, Analysis & Awareness Safety Critical Systems Secure Enterprise Architectures Security Issues for Ubiquitous Systems Security and Privacy in E-Health Security and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applications Security and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and Applications Security and Usability Security as Quality of Service Security in Distributed Systems / Distributed Databases Security in Electronic Payments Security in Electronic Voting Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Security Standards, Guidelines and Certification Survivability of Computing Systems Temporal Aspects of Dependability Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security Best regards ARES / CD-ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Phone:+43 1 505 36 88 – 1706 Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: office(a)ares-conference.eu http://www.ares-conference.eu/ Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/ARES_Conference/ http://twitter.com/#%21/ARES_Conference/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014
by Chang Liu 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering(BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, *Tsinghua University*, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to 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 Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended 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 Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Special Issue Call for Papers: "MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure", in in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence.
by Sean Zhang 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Call for papers: Special Issue on "MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure", in International Journal of Big Data Intelligence. Description This special issue solicits papers from an open call and extended papers partly selected from the following conference(s): CloudCom-Asia 2013: International Conference on Cloud Computing and Big Data http://www.cloudbd2013.com MR.BDI 2013: International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Subject Coverage Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: *The 5Vs of the data landscape: volume, variety, velocity, veracity, value *Big data science and foundations, analytics, visualisation and semantics *Software and tools for big data management *Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data *Big data economy, QoS and business models *Intelligence and scientific discovery *Software, hardware and algorithm co-design, high-performance computing *Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis *Algorithmic, experimental, prototyping and implementation *Data-driven innovation, computational modelling and data integration *Data intensive computing theorems and technologies *Modelling, simulation and performance evaluation *Hardware and infrastructure, green data centres/environmental-friendly perspectives *Computing, scheduling and resource management for sustainability *Complex applications in areas where massive data is generated Notes for Prospective Authors Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re- written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper). All papers are refereed through a peer review process. Please read our information on preparing and submitting articles. NOTES: 1. All papers must be submitted online http://www.inderscience.com/ospeers/authorregister.php. Information about preparing articles: http://www.inderscience.com/info/inauthors/author_mp.php 2. Please add a short comment indicating the name of guest editor(s) and/or the name of conference where your paper was selected. You can include this information in a cover letter or in the comment area in step 1 of the submission process. Deadlines for Submission Submission of Manuscripts: 15 March 2014 Notification to Authors: 15 April 2014 Final Versions Due: 15 May 2014 Guest Editor(s) details Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com Xianghan Zheng, Fuzhou University, China *Email: xianghan.zheng(a)fzu.edu.cn Best Regards, Xuyun Zhang Xianghan Zheng

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CFP - 3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14) and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14)
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 25 Jan '14

25 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14) and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/scodis-lascog E-mail: scodis-lascog2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). FedCSIS is a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 pair of events shares a joint Program Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems. TOPICS ======================================= Covered topics include (but are not limited to): - Large-scale algorithms and applications - Symbolic and numeric computations - High performance computations for large scale simulations - Large-scale distributed computations - Agent-based computing - Data models for large-scale applications - Security issues for large-scale computations - Science portals - Data visualization - Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction - Programming models - Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids - Collaborative science applications - Business applications - Data-intensive applications - Operations on large-scale distributed databases - On-demand computing - Computation as a service - Federation of compute capacity - Virtualization supporting computations - Self-adaptive computational / storage systems - Volunteer computing - Large scale computation with GPU - Cloud computing architectures and models - Load Balancing in large-scale distributed systems - Intelligent resource allocation - Cloud Security, Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance - Mobile Cloud - High Performance Cloud Computing - Green Cloud Computing - Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing - Performance, Capacity Management and Monitoring of Cloud Configuration - Cloud Interoperability and Portability - Cloud Application Scalability and Availability - Big Data Cloud Service PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience journal - other journal(s) to be announced later. IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Gusev, Marjan, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Ristov, Sasko, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Anderson, David, University of California, Berkeley, United States - Bass, Len, NICTA, Australia - Brodnik, Andrej, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia - Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain - D'Ambra, Pasqua, ICAR-CNR, Italy - Feldmann, Anja - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdansk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Gepner, Pawel, Intel Corporation, United Kingdom - Gordon, Minor, Squarable, Inc., United States - Gorgan, Dorian, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Goscinski, Andrzej, Deakin University, Australia - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States - Holmes, Violeta, The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom - Hsu, Ching-Hsien (Robert), Chung Hua University, Taiwan - Kalinov, Alexey, Cadence Design Systems, Russia - Karaivanova, Aneta, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria - Kitowski, Jacek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Poland - Knepper, Richard, Indiana University, United States - Kranzlmüller, Dieter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany - Kwiatkowski, Jan, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland - Lang, Tran Van, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam - Lastovetsky, Alexey, University College Dublin, Ireland - Lee, Dongwoo, Gulf University for Science and Technology & OikoLab, Kuwait - Legalov, Alexander, Siberian Federal University, Russia - Luo, Mon-Yen, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan - Margaritis, Konstantinos G., University of Macedonia, Greece - Milentijevic, Ivan, University of Nis, Serbia - Morrison, John, University College Cork, Ireland - Nosovic, Novica, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina - Olejnik, Richard, CNRS - University of Lille I, France - Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Rak, Massimiliano, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy - Schikuta, Erich, University of Vienna, Austria - Schreiner, Wolfgang, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria - Shen, Hong, University of Adelaide, Australia - Song, Ha Yoon, Hongik University, South Korea - Stankovski, Vlado, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Talia, Domenico, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy - Telegin, Pavel, JSCC RAS, Russia - Trystram, Denis, Grenoble Technical University, France - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Tvrdik, Pavel, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Vazhenin, Alexander, University of Aizu, Japan - Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China - Wyrzykowski, Roman, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland - Xu, Baomin - Zavoral, Filip, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

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CFP - 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 24 Jan '14

24 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonIEEE) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2014 - a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multiconference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to three days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. AAIA'14 - 9th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ---- AIMA'14 - 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications ---- ASIR'14 - 4th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval ---- CEIM'14 - 1st Complex Events and Information Modelling ---- TAIE'14 - 1st Workshop on Trends and Applications in Intelligent Environments ---- WCO'14 - 7th Workshop on Computational Optimization CSS - Computer Science & Systems ---- CANA'14 - 7th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms ---- MMAP'14 - 7th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing ---- SCoDiS-LaSCoG'14 - 3nd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'14 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'14 - 3rd Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop iNetSApp - Innovative Network Systems and Applications ---- EAIS'14 - 1st Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security ---- SoFAST-WS'14 - 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services ---- SDN'14 - 1st Workshop on Software Defined Networking ---- TAMOCO'14 - 3rd Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce ---- WSN'14 - 3rd International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society ---- ABICT'14 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT ---- AITM'14 - 12th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management ---- ISM'14 - 9th Conference on Information Systems Management ---- IT4L'14 - 3rd Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics ---- KAM'14 - 20th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management ---- SS4SI'14 - 1st International Symposium on Service Systems for Social Innovation JAWS - 4th Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy ---- ABC:MI-Agent Day'14 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation and 8th AgentDay ---- MAS&M'14 - 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation ---- SEN-MAS'14 - 3rd International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications ---- ATSE'14 - 5th International Workshop Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation ---- MDASD'14 - 3rd Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development ---- PBDA'14 - 2nd Workshop on Performance of Business Database Applications ---- SOAD-MT'14 - 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be extended) - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen: EmPowering the Power Grid through ICT - Irvin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, title to be announced - Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St Gallen, Switzerland and Kassel University, Germany: Designing Innovative Service Systems - Michael Luck, King's College London: Toward Electronic Order PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CFP - 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools (SOAD-MT'14), Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools (SOAD-MT'14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/soad-mt E-mail: soad-mt2014(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SOAD-MT 2014 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). The discipline of Software Engineering has already established itself as a prime contributor towards sustenance and accelerated growth of infrastructural development process. It is further recognized that traditional software engineering approaches require extensions in the context of revolving computing paradigms like service oriented computing, cloud computing, grid computing etc. Service-oriented computing is considered today a key technology for the development of robust and high quality intelligent distributed applications. Moreover, service-oriented applications play an important role in enterprise computing including mobile enterprise systems and more recently in the field of cloud computing. While there is an agreement about the main principles for designing and developing such applications, methodologies and tools that support the development of service-oriented applications are still a subject of intensive research. The goal of this workshop is to address these gaps by strengthening the cross-fertilization of advances from software engineering methodologies and service oriented computing for effectively managing the ever-increasing complexity of applications development. TOPICS ======================================= Submissions are expected from, but not limited to the following topics: - Architectural styles, Reference models and standards for Service Oriented systems - Case Studies and best practices of Service Oriented development - Cloud Services and service applications in the cloud - Cost modeling of Service Oriented System - Design methodologies for Service Oriented system development - Distributed and collaborative software service development - Engineering Service Oriented applications in social network contexts - Engineering Service Oriented database applications - Management and governance of service engineering projects - Mobile Service Engineering and Applications - Model-driven SOA and service systems development - Models, languages and methods for service-oriented analysis and design - Quality Evaluation for Service Oriented Systems development - Requirements Engineering for Service Oriented System - Service Oriented business process modeling - Service Oriented System development lifecycle methodologies and processes - Security in Service Oriented System - Service Information Technology and Decision Making - Tool support for software service engineering - Validation, verification and testing of Service Oriented Applications - Web-services PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Debnath, Narayan, Winona State University - Sarkar, Anirban, National Institute of Technology-Durgapur PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Al-Mubaid, Hisham, University of Houston-Clear lake, USA - Aljahdali, Sultan, Taif University, Saudi Arabia - Ayaida, Marwane, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France - Burgin, Mark, University of california-Los Angeles, USA - Fouchal, Hacene, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France - Haraty, Ramzi, Lebanese Amarican University, Lebanon - Hodon, Michal, University of Žilina, Slovakia - Iyengar, Sudharsan, Winona State University, USA - Lee, Haesun K., University of Texas- Permian Basin, USA - Lee, Ilhyun, University of Texas-Permina Basin, USA - Mokdad, Lynda, Université Paris-Est, France - Montejano, German, National University of San Luis, Argentina - Nikolaidou, Mara, University of Athens, Greece - Riesco, Daniel, National University of San Luis, Argentina - Synnergren, Jane, University of Skovde, Sweden - Uzal, Roberto, National University of San Luis, Argentina

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ICT-EurAsia in Bali, Indonesia - 14-17 April 2014
by ICT-EurAsia 2014 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS Information & Communication Technology-Eurasia Conference (ICT-EURASIA 2014) Bali (Indonesia) 14th-17th April, 2014 Supported by ASEA-Uninet (ASEAN-European University Network), EPU (Eurasian Pacific University Network), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/ ================================================================ I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Information & Communication Technology-Eurasia Conference (ICT-EURASIA 2014) which will take place in Bali (Indonesia) 14th-17th April, 2014. ICT-Eurasia 2014 provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research findings and innovations. The conference is especially focused on the very vivid and agile development of ICT-research in the last decade. ICT-Eurasia 2014 is aiming at facilitating the exchange of ideas and advances in all aspects of ICT and at fostering scientific cooperation in the Eurasian region. ICT-experts from all over the world who are interested to disseminate their work in the Eurasian supercontinent are very welcome and are invited to submit their contributions. The proceedings of ICT-EurAsia 2014 will be published in the renowned Lecture Notes in Computer Science of Springer. Selected extended versions of accepted papers of this conference will be published in special issues of peer reviewed international journals such as the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering of Inderscience. ICT-Eurasia 2014 will be held in Bali, Indonesia from 14th to 17th April 2014. Bali is frequently referred to as <The Paradise Island> because of its reputation in the world as a tropical paradise of untold beautiful nature, idyllic mood and never ending fascination. It is the perfect place to enjoy high-qulaified presentations. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: extended to December 30th, 2013 Author Notification: January 31st, 2014 Camera Ready Deadline: February 10th, 2014 Conference: April 14th - 17th, 2014 Conference Officers: General Chairpersons: * Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapor * Erich Neuhold, Chairman of IFIP Technical Committee on Information Technology Application Program Committee Chairpersons: * Ladjel Bellatreche, Laboratorie d'Informatique Scientifique et Industrielle, France * Lihua Chen, Peking University, China * Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy * Tran Khanh Dang, National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam * Isao Echizen, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research India * A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Khabib Mustofa, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia Topics and areas of interest are organized in the following tracks: SYSTEM ENGINEERING TRACK: * Service Oriented Architecture * Semantic Web * Software Engineering * Modeling and Simulation * Automated Software Engineering * Bioinformatics * Cloud & Grid Computing * Engineering Computing * Information Systems and Applications DATA AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TRACK: * Semantic Web * E-Government * E-Health * E-Learning * E-Science * E-Transactions Systems * Data Warehousing and Data Mining * Database Management * Databases * Information Management SMART KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TRACK (AI, Smart Cities, etc) * Business Informatics * Smart Grid * Smart Systems & Devices * Agent Based Computing * Neural Networks * Ambient Computing * Sensor Technology * Artificial Intelligence * Natural Language Processing * Cognitive Science * Real time Analysis * Image Processing * Virtual and Augmented Reality INTERNET AND MOBILE COMPUTING TRACK (AsiaARES http://www.asiaares.org) * Wireless Networks * Social Computing and Social Media * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Internet of Things * Internet Applications * Mobile Computing * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND SECURITY TRACK: * Authorization and Authentication * Business Continuity & Resilience * Cryptography * Digital Forensics * Identity Management * Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection * Mobile & Network Security * Privacy-Enhancing Technologies * Security and Usability * Software Security * Authorization and Authentication * Trusted Computing, Trust Models and Trust Management APPLICATIONS TRACK: * Collaboration Technologies and Systems * Embedded Systems * Environmental Computing * Gender Issues * Geo Information * GIS * Green Computing * Human Computer Interaction * Information Technology for People with Special Needs * Multimedia * Networks and Communication * Robotics * Open Data, Open Government, Open Systems and Open Models Best Regards A Min Tjoa ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa ICT-EurAsia 2014 Co-Chair Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9/188 A1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA email: amin(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at

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Invitation to submit a special session proposal for ICT-EurAsia 2014 in Bali
by ICT-EurAsia 2014 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to submit a special session proposal for the Information & Communication Technology-EurAsia Conference (ICT-EURASIA 2014, http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/) which will take place in Bali (Indonesia) 14th-17th April, 2014. The ICT-EurAsia 2014 will be held with the support of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) which is the leading multinational umbrella organization in Information & Communications Technologies and two major university networks in the EURASIAN geographical region: * ASEA-UNINET (ASEAN-European Academic University Network). * EPU (EURASIA-PACIFIC UNINET) You may find further details about this Special Sessions call under the following URL: http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/special_session_call/ Proposals should be sent to the Special Session co-chair (Amin Anjomshoaa, mailto:anjomshoaa@ifs.tuwien.ac.at) until 2nd of December 2013. Best Regards A Min Tjoa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa ICT-EurAsia 2014 Co-Chair Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9/188 A1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA Tel: +43 1 58801 18801 Fax: +43 1 58801 18899 email: amin(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at

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Invitation to submit a paper to ICT-EurAsia 2014 in BALI
by ICT-EurAsia 2014 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Information & Communication Technology-Eurasia Conference (ICT-EURASIA 2014) which will take place in Bali (Indonesia) 14th-17th April, 2014. ############################################# CALL FOR PAPERS Information & Communication Technology-Eurasia Conference (ICT-EURASIA 2014) Supported by ASEA-Uninet (ASEAN-European University Network), EPU (Eurasian Pacific University Network), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Bali, Indonesia April 14th-17th, 2014 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/ ICT-Eurasia 2014 provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest research findings and innovations. The conference is especially focused on the very vivid and agile development of ICT-research in the last decade. ICT-Eurasia 2014 is aiming at facilitating the exchange of ideas and advances in all aspects of ICT and at fostering scientific cooperation in the Eurasian region. ICT-experts from all over the world who are interested to disseminate their work in the Eurasian supercontinent are very welcome and are invited to submit their contributions. As in the previous year it is intended to publish the proceedings of ICT-EurAsia 2014 in the renowned Lecture Notes in Computer Science of Springer. Selected extended versions of accepted papers of this conference will be published in special issues of peer reviewed international journals such as the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering of Inderscience. ICT-Eurasia 2014 will be held in Bali, Indonesia from 14th to 17th April 2014. Bali is frequently referred to as "The Paradise Island" because of its reputation in the world as a tropical paradise of untold beautiful nature, idyllic mood and never ending fascination. Topics and areas of interest are organized in the following tracks: SYSTEM ENGINEERING TRACK: * Service Oriented Architecture * Semantic Web * Software Engineering * Modeling and Simulation * Automated Software Engineering * Bioinformatics * Cloud & Grid Computing * Engineering Computing * Information Systems and Applications DATA AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TRACK: * Semantic Web * E-Government * E-Health * E-Learning * E-Science * E-Transactions Systems * Data Warehousing and Data Mining * Database Management * Databases * Information Management SMART KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT TRACK (AI, Smart Cities, etc) * Business Informatics * Smart Grid * Smart Systems & Devices * Agent Based Computing * Neural Networks * Ambient Computing * Sensor Technology * Artificial Intelligence * Natural Language Processing * Cognitive Science * Real time Analysis * Image Processing * Virtual and Augmented Reality INTERNET AND MOBILE COMPUTING TRACK: * Wireless Networks * Social Computing and Social Media * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Internet of Things * Internet Applications * Mobile Computing * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing AVAILABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND SECURITY TRACK: (see also: AsiaARES 2014 www.asiaares.org) * Authorization and Authentication * Business Continuity & Resilience * Cryptography * Digital Forensics * Identity Management * Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection * Mobile & Network Security * Privacy-Enhancing Technologies * Security and Usability * Software Security * Authorization and Authentication * Trusted Computing, Trust Models and Trust Management APPLICATIONS TRACK: * Collaboration Technologies and Systems * Embedded Systems * Environmental Computing * Gender Issues * Geo Information * GIS * Green Computing * Human Computer Interaction * Information Technology for People with Special Needs * Multimedia * Networks and Communication * Robotics * Open Data, Open Government, Open Systems and Open Models Best Regards A Min Tjoa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa ICT-EurAsia 2014 Co-Chair Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology Favoritenstrasse 9/188 A1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA email: amin(a)ifs.tuwien.ac.at

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Final Call for Demo and Poster - BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2013 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2013 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2013 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2013 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDSE2013 demo-poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data Science and Engineering community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDSE2013. BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. · Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for Demo and Poster - BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

As enquired by some authors, the Call for Poster and Demo for BDSE2013 is now ready. Call for Poster and Demo: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 September 2013 Notification of Acceptance: 2 October 2013 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2013 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2013 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "BDSE2013 demo-poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data Science and Engineering community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDSE2013. BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing · Big Data visualization · Large data stream processing on cloud · Large incremental datasets on cloud · Distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Security, trust and risk in Big Data · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · Extension of the MapReduce programming model · Distributed file systems for Big Data · MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA · MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools · Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce · Storage and computation management of Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Algorithms and theory for distributed systems · Data management and distributed data systems · Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems · Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems · Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones · Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. · Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Final Call for Papers : Autonomic Clouds 2013, Dresden, Germany- Deadline September 10, 2013
by Ashiq Anjum 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013) http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/itaac2013 In association with The 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013), December 9-12, 2013, Dresden, Germany Call for Papers Autonomic computing refers to principles and techniques for designing, building, deploying and managing computing systems with minimal human involvement. An autonomic system should be capable of adapting its behaviour to suit its context of use through methods of self-management, self-tuning, self-configuration, self-diagnosis, and self-healing. Autonomic approaches are particularly suitable for use in Cloud Computing systems, where rapid scalability is required across a pool of resources to support various unpredictable demands, and where the system should automatically adapt to avoid failures in the underlying hardware impacting on the user experience. Autonomic Clouds emerge as a result of applying autonomic computing techniques to Cloud Computing, resulting into robust, fault tolerant and easy to manage and operate cloud architectures and deployments. The application of intelligent approaches to Autonomic Clouds is gaining prominence in research and industry. Such intelligent approaches include evolutionary techniques, multi-objective and combinational optimization heuristics, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm intelligence, and multi-agents systems. Application of these intelligent approaches to Clouds can improve how computing systems and applications are built, used, managed and optimized, maximizing the benefits for users, applications and systems by reducing the operational, maintenance and usage costs of clouds. The interplay of intelligent approaches and Clouds offers numerous challenges. The international workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across Cloud Computing, Intelligent Systems, and Autonomic Computing to discuss issues at the intersection of these disciplines. Key questions to be addressed include: How do emerging cloud architectures satisfy or contradict the vision of autonomic computing? How does the vision of autonomic computing satisfy the vision of self managing and self healing clouds? How do contemporary and emerging intelligent techniques support and enable both of these? Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original work on the theory and practice of intelligent and autonomic clouds. Key topics Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theory and foundations of Intelligent Clouds * Quality of Service and Intelligent Clouds * (auto)scaling of Clouds * Self-organizing, self-healing and self-managing Cloud systems * Intelligent deployment, configuration and maintenance approaches for Clouds * Agent based techniques for Clouds * Adaptive and Evolutionary Approaches for Clouds * Intelligent Cloud Workflows, Planning and Scheduling * Intelligent Cloud Resource Management and Discovery in Clouds * Autonomic Clouds of Sensors * Intelligent Management and Monitoring for Clouds * Intelligent approaches to Cloud Service Level Agreement satisfaction * Applications, Toolkits and frameworks for Intelligent and Autonomic Clouds * Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis due to Clouds Submissions that offer position statements, theoretical and industrial perspectives, lessons learned, comparisons, evaluations and technical contributions to intelligent autonomic clouds are also welcome. Paper submission guidelines All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format. The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>, using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 6 pages. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore. All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=itaac2013 High quality articles will be invited to become part of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications (JoCCASA) Workshop Chairs * Professor Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK Email: n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:n.antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk> * Dr Ashiq Anjum , University of Derby, UK Email: a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk> * Dr Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Email: l.gillam(a)surrey.ac.uk<mailto:l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk>. Programme Committee * Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands * Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA * Richard McClatchey, UWE Bristol, UK * Morris Riedel, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK * Jianxin Li, Beihang University, China * Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland * Adel Taweel, Kings College London, UK * Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain * Daniel S. Katz, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, USA * Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania * Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK * Muhammad Atif, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia * Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK * Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan * Saad Liaquat Kiani, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK * Silvio Pardi, University of Naples, Naples, Italy * Zaheer Khan, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK * Liangmin Wang, Jiangsu University, China * Taimoor Khan, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Important Dates * Manuscript Submission Due: 10 September 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: 20 September 2013 * Final Manuscript Due: 27 September 2013 * Author Registration Due: 27 September 2013 * Conference Dates: 9 - 12 December 2013

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Final CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.
by Sean Zhang 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Final CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 05, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): ¡¤ Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications ¡¤ Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ¡¤ Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools ¡¤ Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ¡¤ Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools ¡¤ Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems ¡¤ Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems ¡¤ Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm ¡¤ Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools ¡¤ Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm ¡¤ Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users ¡¤ Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure ¡¤ Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ¡¤ Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems ¡¤ MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems ¡¤ Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce ¡¤ Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce ¡¤ Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce ¡¤ Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce ¡¤ Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications ¡¤ Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com ) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com ) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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Call for Papers - IEEE TETC Special Issue on Big Data
by Jinjun Chen 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Call for Papers: IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on *Big Data**.* CFP Website: http://www.swinflow.org/si/BigDataCFP.htm. Big Data consists of datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand computer data and computation management tools. Difficulties include, but are not limited to, capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing. Working with data sets of increasing scale allows analysts to "spot business trends, prevent diseases, and combat crime." Big data size is beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time, hence demanding new innovative solutions. It has attracted a high degree of interdisciplinary interest internationally. This special issue is focusing on this new strategic research area to address challenges about big data. Original andunpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics that include, but are not limited to: · Big Data theoretical models, standards and theories · Innovative computer software and hardware architecture for Big Data processing · Big Data mining, advanced analytics and visualization · Large big data stream processing · Large-scale incremental, distributed and federated datasets · NoSQL data stores and DB scalability · Big Data sharing and privacy preserving · Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization · MapReduce and new programming models for Big Data processing · Cloud Computing, cluster and high performance computing and storage infrastructure for Big Data · Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization · Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems and tools · Security, privacy, reliability and trust in Big Data · Volume, Velocity, Variety and Value of Big Data · Multiple source data processing and integration for Big Data · Resource scheduling and Service Level Agreement for Big Data processing · Distributed file systems, storage and computation management for Big Data · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing · Big data applications such as Medicine, Healthcare, Finance, Business, Retailing, Transportation and Science. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Extended versions from conference papers such as The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (*BDSE2013* - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/) must have at least 30% new content. 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. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. 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 note the following important dates. · Submission Deadline: October 15, 2013 · Reviews Completed: January 15, 2014 · Major Revisions Due (if Needed): February 15, 2014 · Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): March 15, 2014 · Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): April 15, 2014 · Notification of Final Acceptance: May 15, 2014 · Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: May 30, 2014 · Publication date: September 2014 Guest Editors: Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Final CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

Final Call for papers: As requested by some authors still, the final deadline for submission is extended to 30 August 2013 (firm). The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2013), 3-5 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Conference: 3-5 December 2013 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (special issue on Big Data). ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technolog! ies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data, Distributed Systems and broadly related areas. BDSE 2013 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Big Data theory, applications and challenges - Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce - Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing - Big Data mining and analytics - Big Data visualization - Large data stream processing on cloud - Large incremental datasets on cloud - Distributed and federated datasets - NoSQL data stores and DB scalability - Big Data sharing and privacy preserving - Security, trust and risk in Big Data - Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization - Extension of the MapReduce programming model - Distributed file systems for Big Data - MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA - MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments - Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization - Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools - Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data - Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce - Storage and computation management of Big Data - Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing - Algorithms and theory for distributed systems - Data management and distributed data systems - Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems - Distributed ad hoc, ubiquitous and pervasive systems - Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones - Distributed system architectures and software such as runtime systems, multicore programming languages, performance modelling and evaluation, programming environments and tools, and etc. - Distributed computing applications such as management of big data, scientific applications, social media applications, web applications and mobile computing Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Vice Chairs Jiannong Cao, Poly. University Hong Kong, China Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Rajiv Rajan, CSIRO, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

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Extended CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013,
by Sean Zhang 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

As requested by authors, the submission deadline has been extended to 05 September 2013 (final extension - firm). Extended CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 05, 2013 (Final extension - firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com ) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com ) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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Final CFP: IEEE CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology), Sydney, Austalia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Chang Liu 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Final Call for papers: As requested, submission deadline has been extended to 30 August 2013 (firm). CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): *Track 1. Information Technology* - Image, Video, Audio, Documents - Databases, Indexing - Coding, Compression - Cryptography, Watermarking, Networks and Security - E-Government, E-Commerce, E-learning - Software Engineering - Semantic Web, Knowledge Management - Metamodeling, Domain-Specific Modeling, Aspect-Oriented Modeling - Model Transformation, Model Composition *Track 2. Computer Science* - Numerical Algorithms and Analysis - Computational Simulation and Analysis - Data Visualization and Virtual Reality - Scientific and Engineering Computing - Parallel and Distributed Computing - Grid Computing and Cluster Computing - Embedded and Network Computing - Algorithms and Data Structures - Programming Language Theory - Concurrent, Parallel and Distributed Systems - Computational Science - Health Informatics *Track 3. Signal Processing* - Signal Processing Theory and Methods - Signal Processing for Communications and Networking - Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems - Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing - Signal Processing Education - Audio Signal Processing - Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing - Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Multimedia Signal Processing *Track 4. CPS and Internet of things* - Access Network Technologies - Network, Communication Systems and System Architectures - Risk, Security and privacy - Location, Searching and Discovery - Real-time Communication and Collaboration for Smart things - Sensor Networking Technologies (e.g., RFID, WSN) - Web of Things - CPS(Cyber, Physical and Social) Technologies - Modeling and Simulation tools and Technologies - Case Studies in Areas of Smart Grid, Healthcare, Agriculture, Logistics, Environmental monitoring and Transport, etc - Emerging IoT Business Models and Process Changes - Social Networking and Computing - Education *Track 5. Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust* - Information and System Security - Reliable Computing - Trusted Computing - Network Security and Privacy *Track 6. Applications, Business and Social Issues* - Business Ontologies and Models - Digital Goods and Services - Electronic Service Delivery - E-Marketing - Languages for Describing Goods and Services - Online Auctions and Technologies - Virtual Organizations and Teleworking *Track 7. Database and Data Mining* - Feature Selection and Feature Extraction - Temporal and Spatial Data Mining - Sequential Data Mining - Stream Data Mining - Social Network Mining - Web Mining - Text, Graph, Video, Multimedia Data Mining - High Performance Data Mining Algorithms - Knowledge Discovery - Databases and Data Mining Applications *Track 8. Microwave and radar * - Cognitive Radar - Compressive Sensing - Knowledge Based or Aided Method - High Resolution Method - Target Detection and Recognition *Track 9. System Software and Software Engineering* - Software Architectures and Design for Emerging Systems - Software Engineering for Emerging Networks and Systems - System Software for Embedded and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Engineering for Mobile Systems - Service Oriented Architectures - Rapid Application Development for Mobile, Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems - Software Processes for Emerging Computer Systems - Project Management for Emerging Computer Systems *Track 10. Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence* - Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Applications of Pattern Recognition - Computer Vision - Image Recognition, Analysis, Understanding, and Processing - Multimedia and Document Analysis, Processing and Retrieval - Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction - Pattern Recognition Theory and Methods - Evolutionary Computation - Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence *Track 11. Information Technology in Biomedicine* - Wireless E-healthcare - Cyber-physical System in Healthcare Domain - E-health Security - Smartphone Applications for E-healthcare - Wireless Body Area Networks - Telemedicine - Medical Data Collections - Other Related Topics *Track 12. Wireless Communications* - Information Theory - Multimedia Signal Processing - Cross Layer Optimization in Wireless Networks - Cognitive Radio, Ultra-wideband - Multihop and Cooperative Communications - Modulation, Coding, Diversity - OFDM, CDMA, Spread Spectrum - MIMO Systems and Smart Antennas - Signal Processing in Body Area Networks - Wireless Emergency and Security Systems *Track 13. Mobile Multimedia Communications* - Resource Allocation and Joint Source-channel Coding for Wireless Multimedia - Wireless Multimedia Relays Networks and Cooperative Communications - Rate Control and Coding Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Video Communications - Multimedia over Cognitive Radio Networks - Multimedia over Wireless Ad-hoc and P2P Networks - QoS Signaling and Protocols for Mobile Wireless Multimedia - Mobility and Multimedia Data Traffic Modeling - Mobile Multimedia Test-beds And Related Research Infrastructures - Multimedia Digital Signal Processing for Mobile Healthcare - Multimedia Security Issues over Mobile and Wireless Networks - Multimedia in Mobile Computing: Issues, System Design, and Performance Evaluation SubmissionGuidelines Submissions mustinclude 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 CIT2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/submission.htm. 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. General Chair Mohammed Bennamoun, The University of Western Australia, Australia Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Michael Blumenstein, Griffith University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Program Vice Chairs Bahman Javadi, The University of Western Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Chadi Aoun, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Daming Wei (Chair), Professor Emeritus, University of Aizu, Japan Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Goutam Chakrabarty, Iwate Prefectura lUniversity, Japan Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China Xiangjian He, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chunming Qiao, The State University of New York, USA Chang-Sung Jeong, Korea University, Korea Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Xingang Liu, ESTC, China Geyong Min, University of Bradford, UK George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Bofeng Zhang, Shanghai University, China Workshop Chairs Shuangxi Huang, Tsinghua University, China Jyh-haw Yeh, Boise State University, USA Ji Zhang, The University of Southern Queensland, Australia

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Final CFP: IEEE ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Final Call for papers: ICESS2013 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. ---------- Introduction Embedded software and systems are closely related to our daily life, which reside from smart appliances to unmanned trains. As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems will have great societal and environmental impacts. Therefore, the design and implementation of safe and efficient embedded software and systems have utmost importance. ICESS2013 will be held on December 3-5, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. The goal of IEEE ICESS2013 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange novel ideas, results, experiences and work-in-progress on all aspects of embedded software and systems. Topics (not limited to): *Track 1. Systems, Models and Algorithms Track* - Embedded Real-Time Systems - Embedded Hardware and Architectures - Embedded Software/Agent - Power Aware Computing - Distributed Embedded Computing - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Fault Tolerant & Trusted Embedded Systems - System on Chip (SoC) and Multicore Systems - Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems - Mobile Computing - Reconfigurable Computing - Cyber-Physical Systems *Track 2. Design Methodology and Tools Track* - Hardware/Software Co-Design - Formal Methods for Embedded Systems - Embedded Component Technology - Middleware for Embedded Systems - Hardware/Software Co-Verification - Compilation and Debug Techniques - IDE and Software Tools - Performance Evaluation Techniques/Tools *Track 3. Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics Track* - Intelligent Embedded Systems - Image and Graph Processing - Network Protocol and Security - Emergency and Disaster Management - Wireless Sensor Networks - Robotics and Control Systems - QoS Support for Embedded Systems - Embedded Database & Multimedia Systems - Consumer Electronics - Automotive, Medical and Avionics Systems 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 ICESS2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/icess2013/submission.htm. 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. General Chairs Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Zhaohui Wu (Chair), Zhejiang University, China Yann-Hang Lee, Arizona State University, USA Xiangke Liao, National University of Defence Technology, China Edwin Sha, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Zili Shao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Program Chairs Xiaorong Li, A*STAR, Singapore Chin-Feng Lai, National llan University, Taiwan Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Jian Wu, Zhejiang University, China Supeng Leng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Workshop Chairs Khaled M. Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Lie-Huang Zhu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China

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Final CFP: IEEE CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 25 Aug '13

25 Aug '13

Final CFP: CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 25, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/submission.htm Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguised papers will be recommeded to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Intelligent andBio-inspired Computing · Distributed and Parallel Computing · Database and Data Mining · Cluster, Grid, P2P and Cloud Computing · Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications · CSE Education · Scientific and Engineering Computing · Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing · Advanced Networking and Applications · Security, Privacy and Trust · Service and Internet Computing - Dependable, Reliable and Autonomic Computing · CSE applications to the following areas, but not limited to: computational fluid dynamics and mechanics; material sciences; computational chemistry; space, weather, climate systems and global changes; computational environment and energy systems; computational ocean and earth sciences; combustion system simulation; computational physics; bioinformatics and computational biology; medical applications; transportation systems simulations; combinatorial and global optimization problems; structural engineering; computational electro-magnetic; computer graphics and multimedia; semiconductor technology and electronic circuits and system design; dynamic systems; computational finance; data mining; signal and image processing, 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 CSE2013 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/submission.htm. 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. General Chairs Ai-bing Yu,The University of New South Wales, Australia Sotirios G. Ziavras, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St Francis Xavier University, Canada Hai-xiang Lin, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Rodrigo F. de Mello, ICMC, University of São Paulo, Brazil Keqiu Li, Dalian University of Technology, China Program Chairs Parimala Thulasiraman, University of Manitoba, Canada Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Luc Giraud, INRIA, France Workshop Chairs Ruppa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Yanzhen Qu, Colorado Technical University, USA Myungho Lee, Myong Ji University, Korea Kaijun Ren, National University of Defence Technology, China

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CFP: Deadline Approach: MR.BDI2013 - International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Sean Zhang 23 Aug '13

23 Aug '13

CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: August 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: September 22, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2013 Registration Due: October 15, 2013 Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: Distinguished papers will be recommended to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. Topics (not limited to): · Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications · Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Developping, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Performace Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools · Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems · Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems · Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm · Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools · Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm · Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users · Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure · Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure · Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems · MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems · Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce · Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce · Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce · Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce · Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications · Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2013. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2013/. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2013 and attend the conference to present the paper. General Chairs Albert Y. Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com ) Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia (suraj.pandey(a)au.ibm.com ) Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia (surya.nepal(a)csiro.au)

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