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CFP : Autonomic Clouds 2013, Dresden, Germany
by Ashiq Anjum 22 Aug '13

22 Aug '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: 31 August 2013 * Notification of Acceptance: 10 September 2013 * Final Manuscript Due: 27 September 2013 * Author Registration Due: 27 September 2013 * Conference Dates: 9 - 12 December 2013

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Extended CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Chang Liu 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

As requested by some authors still, the final deadline for submission is extended to 30 August 2013. But this is firm, no more extension. CFP: 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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CFP: IEEE CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology), Sydney, Austalia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Chang Liu 17 Aug '13

17 Aug '13

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

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

13 Aug '13

CFP: 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 18, 2013 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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CFP: IEEE ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 12 Aug '13

12 Aug '13

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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CFP: IEEE CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), Sydney, Australia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 09 Aug '13

09 Aug '13

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 18, 2013 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: CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology), Sydney, Austalia, 3-5 Dec. 2013
by Sean Zhang 02 Aug '13

02 Aug '13

As requested by many authors, 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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CFP: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia.
by Sean Zhang 31 Jul '13

31 Jul '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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CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering)
by Chang Liu 30 Jul '13

30 Jul '13

CFP: The 2013 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 18, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 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: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering)
by Sean Zhang 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Extended CFP: As requested by many authors, submission deadline has been extended to 18 August 2013 (firm). 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 18, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 15, 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: MR.BDI2013 - The 2013 International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Sean Zhang 25 Jul '13

25 Jul '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)

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Extended CFP: CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology)
by Sean Zhang 21 Jul '13

21 Jul '13

As requested by many authors, 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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Extended CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering)
by Sean Zhang 18 Jul '13

18 Jul '13

Extended CFP: As requested by many authors, submission deadline has been extended to 18 August 2013 (firm). 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 18, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: September 15, 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: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems)
by Sean Zhang 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems) Joint Call for Papers: CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/ CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ 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: July 15, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CSE2013, CIT2013 and ICESS2013: 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, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICESS2013 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on 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 -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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Fwd: Final Extension: PriSecCSN '13 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
by Chang Liu 25 Jun '13

25 Jun '13

Extended CFP: PriSecCSN'13 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 30 September 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany Due to some colleagues' requests, we extend the deadline to July 7. Please notice this will be the final deadline due to the tight review time. We apologize for any cross-postings. ==================================================================================================== Call for papers: The 2nd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2013), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. The website is: https://sites.google.com/site/prisec2013/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: Extended to July 7, 2013 (firm) Notification of Acceptance: Extended to July 25, 2013 (firm) Camera Ready Copies: August 12, 2013 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priseccsn2013 Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2013 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 CGC2013 in: Concurrency and Computing: Practice and Experience Journal of Network and Computer Applications Personal and Ubiquitious Computing Journal of Systems and Software Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Ahmed M. Azab, North Carolina State University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Rui Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Geeth R De mel, IBM, USA Yves-Alexandre De Montjoye, MIT, USA Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Muthucumaru Maheswaran, McGill University, Canada David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Neeli R. Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow, Scotland Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ketil Stolen, University of Oslo, Norway Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia
by Jinjun Chen 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

Call for papers: 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: July 15, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm 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 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 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 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. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data visualization · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud · 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 and Value of Big Data (4V) · 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 BDSE2012 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). 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. 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 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 XavierUniversity, Canada (Chair)

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CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems)
by Sean Zhang 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems) Joint Call for Papers: CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/ CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ 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: July 15, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CSE2013, CIT2013 and ICESS2013: 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, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICESS2013 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on 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 -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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CFP: PriSecCSN '13 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
by Chang Liu 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

We apologize for any cross-postings. Call for papers: The 2nd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2013), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. The website is: https://sites.google.com/site/prisec2013/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: August 12, 2013 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priseccsn2013 Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2013 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 CGC2013 in: Concurrency and Computing: Practice and Experience Journal of Network and Computer Applications Personal and Ubiquitious Computing Journal of Systems and Software Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Ahmed M. Azab, North Carolina State University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Rui Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Geeth R De mel, IBM, USA Yves-Alexandre De Montjoye, MIT, USA Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Muthucumaru Maheswaran, McGill University, Canada David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Neeli R. Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow, Scotland Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ketil Stolen, University of Oslo, Norway Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications) Joint Call for Papers: CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/ SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: July 10, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: August 12, 2013 Registration Due: August 12, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2013. 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 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Program Chairs Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Thomas Setzer, FZI, Germany Tutorial Chair Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013. 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 Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK 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 Program Chairs Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Tutorial Chair Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

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CFP: BDSE2013 (Big Data Science and Engineering)
by Jinjun Chen 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Call for papers: The 2013 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: July 15, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdds2013/submission.htm 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 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 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. Following its success in 2012 as BigDataMR2012 workshop, this conference aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as data intensive computing, computational science, cloud computing, distributed computing and database area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about big data and distributed systems. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. 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. 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. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Big Data theory, applications and challenges · Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce · Big Data mining and analytics · Big Data visualization · Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud · 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 and Value of Big Data (4V) · 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 BDSE2012 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). 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. 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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CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013
by Sean Zhang 04 Jun '13

04 Jun '13

CFP: CSE2013 (Computational Science and Engineering), CIT2013 (Computer and Information Technology) and ICESS2013 (Embedded Software and Systems) Joint Call for Papers: CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cse2013/ CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 3-5 Dec. 2013, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cit2013/ 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: July 15, 2013 Authors Notification: September 15, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: September 30, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CSE2013, CIT2013 and ICESS2013: 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, and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CSE2013 - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CIT2013 - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICESS2013 - The 10th IEEE International Conference on 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 -- ************************************************* PhD Student Xuyun(Sean) Zhang Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: xyzhanggz(a)gmail.com, or Xuyun.Zhang(a)student.uts.edu.au URL: https://sites.google.com/site/seanzhangcs/ *************************************************

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CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 01 Jun '13

01 Jun '13

CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications) Joint Call for Papers: CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/ SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: July 10, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: August 12, 2013 Registration Due: August 12, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2013. 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 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Program Chairs Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Thomas Setzer, FZI, Germany Tutorial Chair Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013. 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 Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK 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 Program Chairs Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Tutorial Chair Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

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CFP: PriSecCSN '13 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
by Chang Liu 29 May '13

29 May '13

We apologize for any cross-postings. Call for papers: The 2nd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2013), 30 September, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. The website is: https://sites.google.com/site/prisec2013/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2013 Notification of Acceptance: July 15, 2013 Camera Ready Copies: August 12, 2013 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=priseccsn2013 Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2013 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 CGC2013 in: Concurrency and Computing: Practice and Experience Journal of Network and Computer Applications Personal and Ubiquitious Computing Journal of Systems and Software Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Kui Ren, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie Åhlfeldt, University of Skövde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Ahmed M. Azab, North Carolina State University, USA Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Shiping Chen, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia Rui Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Frederic Cuppens, Telecom Bretagne, France Geeth R De mel, IBM, USA Yves-Alexandre De Montjoye, MIT, USA Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Carmen Fernandez-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Giovanni Livraga, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Muthucumaru Maheswaran, McGill University, Canada David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Neeli R. Prasad, Aalborg University, Denmark Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Jean-Jacques Quisquater, UCL, Belgium Silvio Ranise, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Karen Renaud, University of Glasgow, Scotland Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Ketil Stolen, University of Oslo, Norway Sotirios Terzis, University of Strathclyde, UK Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Ke Wang, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Jie Zhang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 14 May '13

14 May '13

CFP: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications) Joint Call for Papers: CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/CGC2013/ SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, Sept 30th to Oct 2nd 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany. Website: http://socialcloud.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/confs/SCA2013/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013 (extended, firm) Authors Notification: July 10, 2013 Final Manuscript Due: August 12, 2013 Registration Due: August 12, 2013 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2013 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2013 (Social Computing and its Applications): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2013. 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 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Christof Weinhardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Program Chairs Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Thomas Setzer, FZI, Germany Tutorial Chair Simone Ludwig, North Dakota State University, USA Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2013 - 2013 The 3rd International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2013 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2013. 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 Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK 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 Program Chairs Barbara Carminati, University of Insubria, Italy Georg Groh, Technical University Munich, Germany Panayiotis Zaphiris, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Tutorial Chair Jasminko Novak, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund / European Institute for Participatory Media, Germany Workshop Chairs Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Publication Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Martin Chorley, Cardiff University, UK Local Organization Simon Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (chair) Margeret Hall, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Wibke Michalk, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

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ARES-IND 2013 - Invitation to submit a paper / latest reseach and project results to ARES-IND 2013
by ARES-IND 2013 30 Apr '13

30 Apr '13

Call for Papers INDUSTRIAL TRACK at the Eighth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES-IND 2013) http://bit.ly/11aqtIG/ to be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES 2013 – http://www.ares-conference.eu/ September 2-6, 2013 We would like to invite you to submit a paper / your latest research and project results to the Industrial Track at ARES 2013 - held from 2nd - 6th September 2013 in Regensburg, Germany. The Industrial Track at the 8th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES-IND 2013) provides a mutual platform for knowledge exchange between practitioners and researchers. For the industry track, we invite submissions of state-of-the-art practice and experience reports from implemented projects and industrial experiences. We also encourage you to submit applied methods, models and tools which have proven successful in supporting information security practitioners leading to practical demonstrations in the course of the industrial track. Industrial Track Co-Chairs • Reto Haeni, Regional Technology Officer EMEA, Microsoft • Kari Jussila, BIT Research Centre, Finland • Juhani Anttila, International Academy for Quality (IAQ), Finland ARES-IND Keynote Speaker • Frank Dawson, Nokia ARES-IND Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 7th, 2013 Author Notification: May 17th, 2013 Author Registration: May 20th, 2013 Camera Ready Deadline: June 14th, 2013 Conference: September 2nd – 6th, 2013 Submission All accepted papers will be published as ISBN proceedings published by IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors are invited to submit full papers (up to 8 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at http://www.ares-conference.eu We are highly interested in submissions in the following subjects (but not limited to): • Economics of security • Information risk management • Usable security • Mobile security • Identity Management • Malware protection • Network security • Telecommunication security • Information Security Management • Privacy Management We are looking forward to your submission! See you in Regensburg! Your ARES-IND Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien 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/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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CD-ARES 2013 (IFIP supported) - Invitation to submit a paper
by CD-ARES 2013 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Call for Papers International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES 2013) http://www.cd-ares-conference.eu/ to be held in conjunction with the 8th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ARES 2013 – http://www.ares-conference.eu/ September 2-6, 2013 We would like to invit you to submit a paper to CD-ARES 2013 - held from 2nd - 6th September 2013 in Regensburg, Germany. CD-ARES is a joint effort of • IFIP WG 8.4 (E-Business: Multi-disciplinary research and practice) • IFIP WG 8.9 (Enterprise Information Systems) • IFIP TC 5 (Information Technology Applications) 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). Special consideration on aspects of Availability, Reliability and Security in Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems are very much welcome. Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2013 Author Notification: May 1st, 2013 Author Registration: May 18th, 2013 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2013 Conference: September 2nd - 6th, 2013 Venue: University of Regensburg, Germany Submission: To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at http://www.cd-ares-conference.eu/ General Chairpersons • Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy • Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria (IFIP WG 8.4 Chair) Program Committee Chairpersons • Lida Xu, Old Dominion University, US (IFIP WG 9.4 Chair) • Christian Kittl, Evolaris next level, Austria (IFIP WG 8.4) Topics 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: o Health, Finance, Retail, Telecom o Location Based Applications o Mobile Computing o Mobile Ad Hoc Collaboration Working Environment o Future Internet We are looking forward to your submission! See you in Regensburg! Your CD-ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: office(a)ares-conference.eu http://www.cd-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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ARES 2013 - submission deadline extended to March 12th, 2013!
by office＠ares-conference.eu 01 Mar '13

01 Mar '13

Call for Papers The Eighth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2013) September 2-6, 2013 http://www.ares-conference.eu/ We would like to invit you to submit a paper to ARES 2013 - held from 2nd - 6th September 2013 in Regensburg, Germany. The 8th 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 is ranked as B-conference in CORE (http://core.edu.au/cms/images/downloads/conference/08sort%20acronymERA2010_…) and is currently ranked 17th on the Google Scholar list of all Computer Security & Cryptography publications based on the h5-index ranking (http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_compute…) Submission Deadline: March 12th, 2013 Author Notification: May 1st, 2013 Author Registration: May 18th, 2013 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2013 Conference: September 2nd - 6th, 2013 Venue: University of Regensburg, Germany Submission: To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at www.ares-conference.eu http://www.ares-conference.eu. Program Committee Co-Chairs • Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Gemany • Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States Keynote Speakers • Elena Ferrari, Director DiSTA STRICT SociaLab, University of Insubria, Italy • Carl Gunter, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Tutorials * Gary McGraw: Tutorial on Software Security * Haya Shulman - Tutorial on DNS Security * Ludwig Fuchs - Tutorial on Secure Enterprise Complete Conference Committee available at http://bit.ly/YlsaBw/. 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 Looking forward to your submission! See you in Regensburg! Regards, Your ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien 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/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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Invitation to submit a paper to ARES 2013 - Regensburg, Germany (2-6 Sept. 2013)
by office＠ares-conference.eu 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Call for Papers The Eighth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2013) September 2-6, 2013 http://www.ares-conference.eu/ We would like to invit you to submit a paper to ARES 2013 - held from 2nd - 6th September 2013 in Regensburg, Germany. The 8th 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 is ranked as B-conference in CORE (http://core.edu.au/cms/images/downloads/conference/08sort%20acronymERA2010_…) and is currently ranked 17th on the Google Scholar list of all Computer Security & Cryptography publications based on the h5-index ranking (http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues&hl=en&vq=eng_compute…) Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2013 Author Notification: May 1st, 2013 Author Registration: May 18th, 2013 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2013 Conference: September 2nd - 6th, 2013 Venue: University of Regensburg, Germany Submission: To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site at http://www.ares-conference.eu. Program Committee Co-Chairs • Günther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Gemany • Ravi Sandhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States Keynote Speakers • Elena Ferrari, Director DiSTA STRICT SociaLab, University of Insubria, Italy • Carl Gunter, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Complete Conference Committee available at http://bit.ly/YlsaBw/ 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 Looking forward to your submission! See you in Regensburg! Regards, Your ARES Conference Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien 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/) Find us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AresConference/)

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Invitation to submit a paper to TRUST 2013
by Conference 19 Dec '12

19 Dec '12

Dear all, We would like to invite you to submit a paper to the 6th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing which will take place at the Imperial College London in London (United Kingdom) 17th-19th of June 2013. TRUST 2013 is an international conference on the technical and socio-economic aspects of trustworthy infrastructures. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to explore new ideas and discuss experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. http://trust2013.sba-research.org/ Important dates: ● Submission due: 15 February 2013 23:59 UTC ● Notification: 22 March 2013 ● Camera ready: 10 April 2013 ● Conference: 17-19 June 2013 The conference solicits original papers on any aspect (technical, social or socio-economic) of the design, application and usage of trusted and trustworthy computing. Papers can address design, application and usage of trusted and trustworthy computing in a broad range of concepts including, but not limited to, trustworthy infrastructures, cloud computing, services, hardware, software and protocols. Two types of submissions are solicited: ● Full papers (up to 18 pages in LNCS format) that report on in-depth, mature research results and ● Short papers (up to 9 pages in LNCS format) that describe brief results or exciting work-in-progress Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Technical Strand: ● Architecture and implementation technologies for trusted platforms and trustworthy infrastructures ● Trust, Security and Privacy in embedded systems ● Trust, Security and Privacy in social networks ● Trusted mobile platforms and mobile phone security ● Implementations of trusted computing (hardware and software) ● Applications of trusted computing ● Trustworthy infrastructures and services for cloud computing (including resilience) ● Attestation and integrity verification ● Cryptographic aspects of trusted and trustworthy computing ● Design, implementation and analysis of security hardware ● Security hardware with cryptographic and security functions, physically unclonable functions (PUFs) ● Intrusion resilience in trusted computing ● Virtualization for trusted platforms ● Secure storage ● Security policy and management of trusted computing ● Access control for trusted platforms ● Privacy aspects of trusted computing ● Verification of trusted computing architectures ● Usability and end-user interactions with trusted platforms ● Limitations of trusted computing Social and Socio-economic Strand: ・ The role of trust in human-computer interactions ・ Usability and user perceptions of trustworthy systems and risks ・ Patterns of trust practices in human-computer interactions ・ Effects of trustworthy systems upon user, corporate, and governmental behavior ・ The impact of trustworthy systems in enhancing trust in cloud-like infrastructures ・ The adequacy of guarantees provided by trustworthy systems for systems critically dependent upon trust, such as elections and government oversight ・ The impact of trustworthy systems upon digital forensics, police investigations and court proceedings ・ Game theoretical approaches to modeling or designing trustworthy systems ・ Approaches to model and simulate scenarios of how trustworthy systems would be used in corporate environments and in personal space ・ Economic drivers for trustworthy systems in corporate environment ・ Experimental economics studies of trustworthiness ・ The interplay between privacy, privacy enhancing technologies and trustworthy systems ・ Evaluation of research methods used in the research of trustworthy and trusted computing ・ Critiques of trustworthy systems ・ Metrics of trust ・ Privacy Aspects of Trust Computing ・ Engineering Processes for Trustworthy Computing Submissions: Submissions must be in <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> LNCS format subject to the page limits mentioned above. No changes to margins, spacing, or font sizes (or anything else) are allowed from those specified. We reserve the right to request the source files for a submission to verify compliance with this requirement. Only PDF files will be accepted. Papers must be written in English. All submissions must be anonymized. An author's name should occur only in references to that author's related work, which should be referenced in the third person and not overtly distinguishable from the referenced work of others. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference or workshop. Simultaneous submission of the same work is not allowed. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. To submit a paper please visit our Submission Site http://trust2013.sba-research.org/?page_id=17 General Chair: Michael Huth, Imperial College London, UK Program Chairs: Socio-economic Strand: ・ Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Royal Holloway University of London, UK) ・ Ivan Flechais (University of Oxford, UK) Technical Strand: ・ Srdjan Capkun (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) ・ N. Asokan (University of Helsinki) ########################## We are looking forward to your contribution! With kind regards, Your TRUST 2013 Conference Team

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Invitation to submit a paper to AsiaARES 2013
by Conference 02 Nov '12

02 Nov '12

Dear all, I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the the 2013 Asian Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AsiaARES 2013) which will take place in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) 25th-29th March 2013 ( <http://www.AsiaAres.org> http://www.AsiaAres.org) AsiaARES will be held as a Special Track Conference within ICT-EurAsia 2013 ( <http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/> http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/) which is supported by ASEA-Uninet (ASEAN-European University Network), EPU (Eurasian Pacific University Network), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). AsiaARES is a new conference that builds on the success of seven subsequent annual ARES conferences and specifically aims at a better access of most current IT-security research results to and from the Asian region. The ultimate goal is to establish a community and a meeting point for security researchers and to make travel shorter and the venues easily accessible for researchers from Asia. To allow a large number of researchers to participate we will also provide interactive sessions for research in progress papers and poster sessions. Moreover, we will offer virtual presentations for which you submit a video presentation in addition to your paper and the paper will be discussed using online collaboration tools. AsiaARES emphasizes 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. The conference 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 AsiaARES will be published, after further revision, in special issues of international journals. Yogyakarta is renowned for its cultural heritage. The Borobudur temple, dating from the 8th and 9th centuries is a UNESCO World Heritage and one of the most attractive cultural sites in Asia. ********* Submission: The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of Springer. Please find all submission details on the conference website: <http://www.AsiaAres.org> http://www.AsiaAres.org ******** Important Dates: Submission Deadline: November 27th, 2012 Author Notification: December 15th, 2012 Author Registration: January 6th, 2013 Camera Ready Deadline: January 6th, 2013 Conference: March 25th - 29th 2013 ******* Conference Committee: Program Committee Chairperson: Ilsun You, Korean Bible University, South Korea Program Committee: . Dong Seong Kim (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) . Kyung-Hyune Rhee (Pukyong National University, Republic of Korea) . Kangbin Yim (Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea) . Qin Xin (University of the Faroe Islands, Denmark) . Pandu Rangan Chandrasekaran (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India) . Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan) . Atsuko Miyaji (JAIST, Japan) . Willy Susilo (University of Wollongong, Australia) . Xiaofeng Chen (Xidian University, China) . Shuichiroh Yamamoto (Nagoya University, Japan) . Fangguo Zhang (Sun Yan-Sen Univerisity, China) . Xinyi Huang (Fujian normal university, China) . Qianhong Wu (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) . Zhang Jie (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) . Rana Baruna (Indian Statistical Institute, India) ******* Topics and areas 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 Modeling Trusted Computing Tools for Dependable System Design and Evaluation Trust Models and Trust Management VOIP, Wireless Security ******* We are looking forward to your contribution! With kind regards AsiaARES Conference Team

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Invitation to submit a paper to ICT-EurAsia 2013
by Conference 30 Oct '12

30 Oct '12

Dear all, I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Information Communication Technology-Eurasia Conference (ICT-EurAsia 2013) which will take place in Yogyakarta (Indonesia) 25th-29th March 2013. http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ict-eurasia/ The conference is supported by ASEA-Uninet (ASEAN-European University Network), EPU (Eurasian Pacific University Network), IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). ICT-Eurasia 2013 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 2013 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 the conference will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science of Springer. ICT-Eurasia 2013 will be held at the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from 25th to 29th March 2013. Gadjah Mada University is the oldest and one of the most prominent universities in Indonesia. Yogyakarta is renowned for its cultural heritage. The Borobudur temple, dating from the 8th and 9th centuries is a UNESCO World Heritage and one of the most attractive cultural sites in Asia. Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Agent Based Computing * Ambient Computing * Artificial Intelligence * Automated Software Engineering * Bioinformatics * Business Informatics * Cloud & Grid Computing * Cognitive Science * Collaboration Technologies and Systems * Data Warehousing and Data Mining * Database Management * Databases * E-Government * E-Health * E-Learning * E-Science * E-Transactions Systems * Embedded Systems * Engineering Computing * Environmental Computing * Gender * Geo Information * GIS * Green Computing * Human Computer Interaction * Image Processing * Information Management * Information Systems and Applications * Information Technology for People with Special Needs * Internet Applications * Internet of Things * Mobile Security * Mobile Computing * Modeling and Simulation * Multimedia * Natural Language Processing * Networks and Communication * Neural Networks * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing * Real time Analysis * Robotics * Security * Semantic Web * Sensor Technology * Service Oriented Architecture * Smart Systems & Devices * Smart Grid * Social Computing and Social Media * Software Engineering * Virtual and Augmented Reality * Wireless Networks Important Dates ################ Submission of Abstracts : November 15th 2012 Deadline of Conference Papers : November 20th 2012 Author Notification : December 15th 2012 Camera Ready Copies : January 6th 2013 Author Registration : January 6th 2013 Conference : March 25th-29th 2013 Conference Committees ##################### Honorary Committee: ------------------- Abudul Jalil Nordin, Chairman of ASEA-UNINET; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia Atta Ur Rahman, President of the Academy of Science, Pakistan Maria Raffai, Honorary Secretary IFIP Roland Wagner, President of DEXA (Database and Expert Systems Association) Brigitte Winklehner, President EurAsia Pacific UNINET (EPU) General Chairpersons: Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Erich Neuhold, Chairman of IFIP Technical Committee on Information Technology Application Program Committee Chairpersons: ------------------------------- Ladjel Bellatreche, Laboratorie d'Informatique Scientifique et Industrielle, France Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Tran Khanh Dang, National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Mukesh Mohania, IBM Research India Zhiyong Peng, Wuhan University, China A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Chairperson: --------------------- Andreas Holzinger, University of Graz, Austria Panel Chairpersons: ------------------- Inggriani Liem, ITB-Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria Lida Xu, Old Dominion University, USA Organizing Committee Members: ----------------------------- Saiful Akbar, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung Ahmad Ashari, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta M. Isa Irawan, Institute of Technology Sepuluh November, Surabaya Khabib Mustofa, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta Harno Dwi Pranowo, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta Mardhani Riasetiawan, Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta Steering Committee Members: --------------------------- Masatoshi Arikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Wichian Chutimaskul, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Hoang Huu Hanh, University of Hue, Vietnam Jazi Eko Istiyanto, UGM Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Josef Küng, University of Linz, Austria Inggriani Liem, Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia Made Sudiana Mahendra, Udayana University, Indonesia Pavol Navrat, Slovak University of Technology Bratislava, Slowakia Gümther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Maria Raffai, University of Györ, Hungary Sri Wahyuni, UGM Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Organizational Coordination Chairperson: ---------------------------------------- Muhammad Asfandeyar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria With kind regards, ICT-EurAsia 2013 A Min Tjoa ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Prof. Dr. A Min Tjoa Program Chaiperson ICT-EurAsia 2013 Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems Vienna University of Technology

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CFP for Special Issue on CTUW
by xiao wei 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers for Special Issue on CTUW Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom Special Issue of International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI) http://iic.shu.edu.cn/Confs/CFP_si_ctuw.html Guest Editors: Xiangfeng Luo, Qing Li, Qun Jin, and FeiFei Xu Aims:Recent years, many new theories and technologies for Web Wisdom have made the Web much wiser. Among these technologies, Cognitive-based text understanding (CTU) is one of the newest directions of Web Wisdom and should be paid more attention to. The machine understanding of Web resources is the basis of Web Wisdom. Cognitive Informatics (CI) is an emerging discipline that studies the natural intelligence, internal information processing mechanisms of the brain and the processes involved in perception and cognition as well. CTU simulates the cognitive process of human brain understanding text, so it takes advantage of cognitive theories to make the machine understanding of Web resources effectively and promotes Web Wisdom to a great extent. In this special issue, we call for original papers related to cognitive-based text understanding and web wisdom. Topics: Areas of interests include, but not limited to: * Text Mining and Semantic Organization； * Cognitive-based Text Understanding； * Cognitive-based Text Complexity and Readability Measurement; * Cognitive-based Textual Knowledge Trust Measurement; * Theories and Practices of Wisdom Web; * Cognitive Models and Computational Models for Web Wisdom; * Intelligent Web Searching and Services; * Web Knowledge Services and Fusion; * Data Link and Semantic Link for Web Wisdom; * Web Mining and Information Retrieval for Web Wisdom; * Web Knowledge Organization and Fusion for Web Wisdom; * Web-based Cooperation Model for Web Wisdom. Submission : Each paper for submission should be formatted in double spacing, single column of no more than 20 pages in length. A separate cover letter should be submitted that includes the paper title, the list of all authors and their affiliations, and information of the contact author. Each paper will be reviewed rigorously, and possibly in two rounds, i.e., minor/major revisions will undergo another round of review. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in PDF format via email to Prof. Xiangfeng Luo at luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn. Schedule: Deadline for paper submission: December 31, 2012 Completion of first review: January 31, 2013 Minor/Major revision due (first round): February 28, 2013 Completion of second round of reviews: March 31, 2013 Minor revision due (second round): April 30, 2013 Final decision notification: May 20, 2013 Publication materials due: May 31, 2013 Publication date: 2013 Guest Editors: Xiangfeng Luo School of Computing Engineering and Science Shanghai University Shanghai Email: luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn Qing Li Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong Kong Hong Email: itqli(a)cityu.edu.hk Qun Jin Department of Human Informatics and Cognitive Sciences Waseda University, Japan Email: jin(a)waseda.jp Feifei Xu Department of Computer Science Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai Email:xufeifei1983@hotmail.com

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Call for Participation: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Call for participation 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, Hunan, China. CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012/ The conference tentative program can be found at http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/program.html. Highlights of the conferences and their program: - Coverage of current domain popular topics - 7 keynote speeches from domain leading scholars Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic on "Mobile Cloud and Crowd Computing and Sensing" Prof. Hai Jin on "Performance Consideration of Virtualized System" Prof. Jian Pei on "Towards Connecting Big Data with Many People" Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman on "Mobility Management for Satellite and Terrestrial Networks: Architecture, Performance and Energy Considerations" Prof. Feiyue Wang on "From Social Computing to Social Manufacturing: A New Frontier in Cyber-Physical-Social Space" Prof. Prof. Irwin King on "Social Computing in the e-Era" Prof. Frank Liu on "Online Intelligent Argumentation Systems: Issues, Challenges, Design, and Applications" - Several Industry speakers are being finalised soon. - 20+ presentation sessions with more than 150 attendants expected - One panel on Cloud, Social and Big Data - A season fascinating visit with broad networking with many domain scholars Please visit individual conference websites listed above regarding registration, accommodation and visa issues. Look forward to seeing you then. Jinjun -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Director - Lab of Cloud Computing and Distributed 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 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10, City Campus) Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ ************************************************

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Final Call for posters and demos - CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Final Call for Posters and Demos International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012/ 1-3 November 2012, Xiangtan, China Poster and demo CFP website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2012/poster.htm. Important Dates: Final deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display during conference: 17 August 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 20 August 2012 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 25 August 2012 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display during conference: 30 September 2012 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "CGC2012 poster submission" or "SCA2012 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 Cloud and Green Computing community, or Social Computing/Media/Network. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with other conference papers. 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. *CGC2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to CGC2012. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners andenvironment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · 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 computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Green IT · Green IS · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. * SCA2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SCA2012. 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. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for posters and demos - CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Call for Posters and Demos International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012/ 1-3 November 2012, Xiangtan, China Poster and demo CFP website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2012/poster.htm. Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display during conference: 6 August 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 10 August 2012 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 25 August 2012 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display during conference: 30 September 2012 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "CGC2012 poster submission" or "SCA2012 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 Cloud and Green Computing community, or Social Computing/Media/Network. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with other conference papers. 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. *CGC2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to CGC2012. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners andenvironment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · 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 computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Green IT · Green IS · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. * SCA2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SCA2012. 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. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Call for posters and demos - CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

Call for Posters and Demos International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2012) - http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012/ 1-3 November 2012, Xiangtan, China Poster and demo CFP website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2012/poster.htm. Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display during conference: 6 August 2012 Notification of Acceptance: 10 August 2012 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 25 August 2012 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display during conference: 30 September 2012 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "CGC2012 poster submission" or "SCA2012 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 Cloud and Green Computing community, or Social Computing/Media/Network. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with other conference papers. 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. *CGC2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to CGC2012. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners andenvironment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · 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 computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Green IT · Green IS · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. *SCA2012 posters and demos:* Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to SCA2012. 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. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: · Fundamentals of social computing · Modelling of social behaviour · Social network analysis and mining · Computational models of social simulation · Web 2.0 and semantic web · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models · Modelling of social conventions and social contexts · Social cognition and social intelligence · Social media analytics and intelligence · Group formation and evolution · Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts · Social system design and architectures · Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology · Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling · Handheld/mobile social computing · Service science and service oriented interaction design · Cultural patterns and representation · Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets · Connected e-health in social networks · Social policy and government management · Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum · Business social software systems · Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments · Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction · Social computing applications and case studies Chairs: Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Final CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 09 Jul '12

09 Jul '12

Final CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications) Joint Call for Papers: CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, 1~3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website:(http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012) Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 13, 2012 (firm) Authors Notification: August 10, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: August 25, 2012 Registration Due: August 30, 2012 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, or Computing (Springer). SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications): Selected papers will be published in international SCI-indexed high quality journals: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software. ------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary General Chairs Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea General Chairs Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong, Hong Kong Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Vice Chairs V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Program Chairs Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan Tiejian Luo, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

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Final CFP: PriSecCSN'12 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

We apologize for any cross-postings. The Final Submission Deadline for PriSecCSN'12 is Approaching! -- 10 July, 2012. Call for papers: The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2012/. Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: Extended to July 10, 2012 (firm) Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2012. Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee: Rose-Mharie ?hlfeldt, University of Sk?vde, Sweden Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Basel Alomair, University of Washington, USA Alessandro Armando, Universita` di Genova, Italy Reza Azarderakhsh, University of Waterloo, Canada Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Rino Falcone, National Research Council, Italy Debasis Giri, Haldia Institute of Technology, India Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Kartik Gopalan, SUNY – Binghamton, USA Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University – Texarkana, USA Shuguo Han, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Meiko Jensen, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Changhoon Lee, Hanshin University, Korea Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Charles Morisset, IIT - CNR, Italy David Naccache, ENS, France Stefano Paraboschi, Universita` degli Studi di Bergamo,Italy Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Radha Poovendran, University of Washington, USA Rami Puzis, Ben Gurion University, Israel Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jean-Marc Seigneur, University of Geneva, Switzerland Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Research, USA Yevgeniy Vahlis, AT&T, USA Guilin Wang, University of Wollongong, Australia KE WANG, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia John Zic, CSIRO, Australia Any inquiries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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Final CFP - BigDataMR2012 (International Symposium on Big Data and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Sean Zhang 06 Jul '12

06 Jul '12

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

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Final Extension: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Chang Liu 02 Jul '12

02 Jul '12

Some colleagures requested one or two weeks extension. Considering the tight review time, we can only extend the submission deadline to 13 July 2012 (firm). Please submit on time then. Joint Call for papers (final extension): CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website: http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/ SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications, 1~3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. Website:(http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/sca2012) Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 13, 2012 (firm) Authors Notification: August 10, 2012 Final Manuscript Due: August 25, 2012 Registration Due: August 30, 2012 Proceedings Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (EI index). Special issues: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing): Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, or Computing (Springer). SCA2012 (Social Computing and its Applications): Selected papers will be published in international SCI-indexed high quality journals: World Wide Web Journal; The Computer Journal; or Journal of Systems and Software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CGC2012 - 2012 International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Volumn, Velocity and Variety of Big Data on Cloud · Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud · Storage and computation management of Big Data on Cloud · Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud · Big Data mining and analytics · Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud · Visualisation of Big Data on Cloud · MapReduce for Big Data processing · Distributed file storage of Big Data on Cloud · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Deyi Li, Chinese Academy of Engineering, China General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Peter Brezany, University of Vienna , Austria Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Vice-Chairs Ivona Brandic,Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Yang Yu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCA2012 - 2012 International Conference on Social Computing and Its Applications --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics (not limited to): * Fundamentals of social computing * Modelling of social behaviour * Social network analysis and mining * Computational models of social simulation * Web 2.0 and semantic web * Innovative HCI and touch-screen models * Modelling of social conventions and social contexts * Social cognition and social intelligence * Social media analytics and intelligence * Group formation and evolution * Security, privacy, trust, risk and cryptography in social contexts * Social system design and architectures * Information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence and agent-based technology * Group interaction, collaboration, representation and profiling * Handheld/mobile social computing * Service science and service oriented interaction design * Cultural patterns and representation * Emotional intelligence, opinion representation, influence process * Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets * Connected e-health in social networks * Social policy and government management * Social blog, micro-blog, public blog, internet forum * Business social software systems * Impact on peoples activities in complex and dynamic environments * Collaborative filtering, mining and prediction * Social computing applications and case studies Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2012. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Honorary General Chairs Jiawei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea General Chairs Irwin King, the Chinese University of HongKong, Hong Kong Wolfgan Nejdl, L3S, Germany Feiyue Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China General Vice Chairs V.S. Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Jinho Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea Program Chairs Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University, China Guandong Xu, Victoria University, Australia Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Tim Butcher, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Akiyo Nadamoto, Konan University, Japan Tiejian Luo, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Xiaoqing (Frank) Liu, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

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

26 Jun '12

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

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

25 Jun '12

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

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

24 Jun '12

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

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

17 Jun '12

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

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

12 Jun '12

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

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

10 Jun '12

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

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

03 Jun '12

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

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CFP - BigDataMR2012 (International Workshop on Big Data and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Sean Zhang 31 May '12

31 May '12

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

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2nd CFP: PriSec2012 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 28 May '12

28 May '12

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

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CD-ARES: IFIP CROSS-DOMAIN CONFERENCE on Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems, August 20th to 24th in Prague
by Yvonne Poul 21 May '12

21 May '12

Last chance to submit a paper to CD-ARES! It is a pleasure to announce you the CD-ARES IFIP CROSS-DOMAIN CONFERENCE which will be held in Prague from, Czech Republic. CD-ARES will focus on all aspects of Information Systems Applications. CD-ARES is a joint effort of - IFIP WG 8.4 (E-Business: Multi-disciplinary research and practice) - IFIP WG 8.4 (Enterprise Information Systems) - IFIP TC 5 (Information Technology Applications) Special consideration on aspects of Availability, Reliability and Security in Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems are very much welcome. The deadline for submissions: May 21st, 2012 ############################################################################ #### CALL FOR PAPERS International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES) supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9) and TC 5 To be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu) August 20th - 24th, 2012 University of Economics, Prague Prague, Czech Republic 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, ...) Topics of this conference 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 Important dates of the CD-ARES Conference =========================================== - Submission Deadline of conference papers : May 21st, 2012 - Author Notification : June 4th, 2012 - Camera Ready Copies : June 11th, 2012 - Conference : August 20th - 24th, 2012 Submission Guidelines ======================== All accepted papers will be published in a volume of "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Authors are invited to electronically submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. The submitted manuscript must be submitted in pdf in LNCS format ( <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) The length of submitted manuscripts should not exceed 15 pages. Papers should be submitted under: <https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/cd-ares2012/> https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/cd-ares2012/ Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. As the CD-ARES conference is supported by IFIP, authors must sign the IFIP Springer Copyright Form. General Chairpersons ======================== Josef Basl, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Erich J. Neuhold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria IFIP TC5 Chair Program Committee Chairpersons ================================= Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair Program Committee ====================== Amin Anjomshoaa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Wichian Chutimaskul (King Mongkut University KMUTT, Thailand) Andrzej Gospodarowicz (Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland) Abdelkader Hameurlain (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France) Hoang Huu Hanh (Hue University, Vietnam) Ismael Khalil (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Josef Küng (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Austria) Vladimir Marik (Czech University of Technology Prague, Czech Republic) Günter Müller (University of Freiburg, Germany) Nguyen Thanh Binh (International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, Laxenburg) Günther Pernul (University of Regensburg, Germany) Josef Schiefer (UC4 Software, Washington, USA) Stefanie Teufel (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Janusz Wielki (University of Business, Wroclaw, Poland) A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sven Wohlgemuth (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Republic of Korea) Hyun Sook Cho (ETRI, Republic of Korea) Aniello Castiglione (University of Salerno, Italy) Kangbin Yim (Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea) Francesca Bosco (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Italy) Pascal Bouvry (Luxembourg University, Luxembourg) Jörg Cassens (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Antonio Colella (Italian Army, Italy) Christian Czosseck (NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia) Stefania Ducci (Research Institute for European and American Studies, Greece) Joseph Fitsanakis (Security and Intelligence Studies Program, King College, USA) Alessandro Gigante (European Space Agency, ESRIN Health, Safety, and Security Officer, Italy) Tomasz Hachaj (Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland) Leonardo Impagliazzo (Vice President, Engineering Signalling Busines Unit, AnsaldoSTS, Italy) Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan) Fang-Yie Leu (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Masahiro Mambo (Kanazawa University, Japan) Walter Matta (Research & Development, Vitrociset, Italy) Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Marek R. Ogiela (AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland) Rainer Poisel (St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Masakazu Soshi (Hiroshima City University, Japan) Chul Sur (National University, Republic of Korea) Cristina Alcaraz Tello (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Simon Tjoa (St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Miroslaw Trzupek (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Toshihiro Yamauchi (Okayama University, Japan)

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CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing), Nov. 1-3, 2012, Xiangtan China.
by Jinjun Chen 20 May '12

20 May '12

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

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CD-ARES: IFIP CROSS-DOMAIN CONFERENCE on Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems, August 20th to 24th in Prague
by Yvonne Poul 14 May '12

14 May '12

It is a pleasure to announce you the CD-ARES IFIP CROSS-DOMAIN CONFERENCE which will be held in Prague from, Czech Republic. CD-ARES will focus on all aspects of Information Systems Applications. CD-ARES is a joint effort of - IFIP WG 8.4 (E-Business: Multi-disciplinary research and practice) - IFIP WG 8.4 (Enterprise Information Systems) - IFIP TC 5 (Information Technology Applications) Special consideration on aspects of Availability, Reliability and Security in Business, Enterprise and Health Information Systems are very much welcome. The deadline for submissions: May 21st, 2012 ############################################################################ #### CALL FOR PAPERS International Cross Domain Conference and Workshop (CD-ARES) supported by IFIP TC 8 (WG 8.4, WG 8.9) and TC 5 To be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu) August 20th - 24th, 2012 University of Economics, Prague Prague, Czech Republic 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, ...) Topics of this conference 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 Important dates of the CD-ARES Conference =========================================== - Submission Deadline of conference papers : May 21st, 2012 - Author Notification : June 4th, 2012 - Camera Ready Copies : June 11th, 2012 - Conference : August 20th - 24th, 2012 Submission Guidelines ======================== All accepted papers will be published in a volume of "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) by Springer Verlag. Authors are invited to electronically submit original research contributions or experience reports in English. The submitted manuscript should closely reflect the final paper as it will appear in the Proceedings. The submitted manuscript must be submitted in pdf in LNCS format ( <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html> http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) The length of submitted manuscripts should not exceed 15 pages. Papers should be submitted under: <https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/cd-ares2012/> https://confdriver.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/cd-ares2012/ Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. As the CD-ARES conference is supported by IFIP, authors must sign the IFIP Springer Copyright Form. General Chairpersons ======================== Josef Basl, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Erich J. Neuhold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria IFIP TC5 Chair Program Committee Chairpersons ================================= Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia Edgar Weippl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria IFIP WG 8.4 Chair Program Committee ====================== Amin Anjomshoaa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Wichian Chutimaskul (King Mongkut University KMUTT, Thailand) Andrzej Gospodarowicz (Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland) Abdelkader Hameurlain (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse, France) Hoang Huu Hanh (Hue University, Vietnam) Ismael Khalil (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Josef Küng (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Austria) Vladimir Marik (Czech University of Technology Prague, Czech Republic) Günter Müller (University of Freiburg, Germany) Nguyen Thanh Binh (International Institute for Advanced Systems Analysis, Laxenburg) Günther Pernul (University of Regensburg, Germany) Josef Schiefer (UC4 Software, Washington, USA) Stefanie Teufel (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Janusz Wielki (University of Business, Wroclaw, Poland) A Min Tjoa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Sven Wohlgemuth (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Ilsun You (Korean Bible University, Republic of Korea) Hyun Sook Cho (ETRI, Republic of Korea) Aniello Castiglione (University of Salerno, Italy) Kangbin Yim (Soonchunhyang University, Republic of Korea) Francesca Bosco (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, Italy) Pascal Bouvry (Luxembourg University, Luxembourg) Jörg Cassens (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Antonio Colella (Italian Army, Italy) Christian Czosseck (NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia) Stefania Ducci (Research Institute for European and American Studies, Greece) Joseph Fitsanakis (Security and Intelligence Studies Program, King College, USA) Alessandro Gigante (European Space Agency, ESRIN Health, Safety, and Security Officer, Italy) Tomasz Hachaj (Pedagogical University in Krakow, Poland) Leonardo Impagliazzo (Vice President, Engineering Signalling Busines Unit, AnsaldoSTS, Italy) Shinsaku Kiyomoto (KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Japan) Fang-Yie Leu (Tunghai University, Taiwan) Masahiro Mambo (Kanazawa University, Japan) Walter Matta (Research & Development, Vitrociset, Italy) Nikos Nikolaidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Marek R. Ogiela (AGH University of Sci. and Tech., Poland) Rainer Poisel (St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Masakazu Soshi (Hiroshima City University, Japan) Chul Sur (National University, Republic of Korea) Cristina Alcaraz Tello (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) Simon Tjoa (St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria) Miroslaw Trzupek (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland) Toshihiro Yamauchi (Okayama University, Japan)

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CFP: PriSec2012 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 06 May '12

06 May '12

Call for papers: The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2012/. Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2012. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies Submission Requirements General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Any enqueries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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CFP - Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks, 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Chang Liu 06 May '12

06 May '12

Call for papers: The 2012 International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Social Networks (PriSecCSN 2012), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China. The website is: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2012/. Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 Submission site and requirements: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2012. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the symposium website. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Future Generation Computer Systems and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. Introduction: Social network analysis and cloud computing are two of the most exciting new trends in the recent developments of information technology. As the new generation computing paradigm, cloud enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. With the popularity of social software as well as the fast development of cloud and other high-performance computing infrastructures, the outcome of social network analysis is becoming more and more attractive. However, information privacy and security issues are major challenges in both these areas. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, social computing, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud environments and social networks. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Security and privacy in Big Data management Application of modern cryptography in cloud and social networks Emerging threats in cloud-based services Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues Secure virtualisation mechanisms Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure Vulnerabilities in MapReduce Security modelling and threats in cloud computing Security/privacy in hybrid cloud Auditing in cloud computing Access control in cloud computing Secure Job deployment and scheduling Secure resource allocation and indexing User authentication in cloud services Practical privacy and integrity mechanisms for data outsourcing Foundations of cloud-centric threat models Information hiding Trust and policy management in cloud Secure identity management mechanisms Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS Business and security risk models Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds Security for emerging cloud programming models Remote data integrity protection Securing distributed data storage in the cloud Data-centric security and data classification Security and privacy in mobile cloud Intrusion detection/prevention Malware propagation in social networks Information leakage via social networks Social currency mechanisms - potential and risks Privacy management in social networks - access controls, permissions Identity theft in social networks Collaborative detection of distributed network attacks Peer-to-peer based security mechanisms Trust and reputation in social networks Socially inspired network security architectures Socially aware network security protocols Security configuration based on social contexts groups (social-firewall, authentication protocols, etc.) Configuring security protocol parameters based on social information Privacy-preserving methods for data access and data mining Domain Security Privacy Requirements Engineering Private Information Retrieval Privacy and Security in Personal Health Records Online Social Footprints Secure Multi-party Computation Privacy Mechanisms in Services Pseudonymity and Anonymity Modelling Software Security Engineering Integrity Verification Trust Development in Collaboration Teams Usable Privacy Design Privacy Aware Access Control Model Multi-Faceted Privacy Preservation Access Control and RBAC Policies Submission Requirements General Chairs: Philip S. Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bhavani Thuraisingham, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Any enqueries, please direct to Chang Liu at changliu.it(a)gmail.com.

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CFP-The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (China, 1-3 November)
by 文一凭 29 Apr '12

29 Apr '12

*The 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2012)* *1-3 November 2012, Xiangtan, China* http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/wmsc2012 *in conjunction with the* International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2012<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/> ) Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2011<http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/wmsc2011/>aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. *Topics* 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Service based workflow modelling · Service Delivery and Composition · Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration · Quality of Services for workflow execution · Workflow verification and validation · Services Repository and Registry · Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution · Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution · Cloud workflow architecture · Cloud resource management · Scientific computing in the cloud · 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 *Submission Requirements* Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMSC2012 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmsc2012. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format<http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to CGC2012 <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/> and attend the conference to present the paper. *Publication of Papers* All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2012 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Future Generation Computer Systems; and International Journal of High Performance Computer Applications. *Important Dates* Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25 , 2012 Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2012 Camera Ready Copies: August 10, 2012 *Program Committee Co-Chairs:* Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Austria Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Austria *Organization Co-Chairs:* Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yiping Wen, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China *Program Committee: * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China Joerg Haehner, University of Hannover, Germany Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China Dan C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, China Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, China Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China

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CFP - BigDataMR2012 (International Workshop on Big Data and MapReduce), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan, China
by Sean Zhang 27 Apr '12

27 Apr '12

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

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CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing), 1-3 Nov. 2012, Xiangtan China.
by Jinjun Chen 23 Apr '12

23 Apr '12

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

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Last Call: ARES 2012 - Submission Deadline extended to March 28th
by Yvonne Poul 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.) Last Call: Submission Deadline extended to March 28th, 2012 for the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2012) <http://www.ares-conference.eu/> http://www.ares-conference.eu University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference The 7th 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: Special issue of the Elsevier journal Information Security Technical Report (ISTR): After the conference authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended editions of their papers to a special issue of the Elsevier journal Information Security Technical Report (ISTR) published in 2013. The selection process will be based on both the reviewers' evaluations of the papers and the quality of the authors' presentations at the conference. <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-security-technical-report/> http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-security-technical-report/ Journal: Elsevier's Computers & Security (tentative) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cose> http://ees.elsevier.com/cose Submission Authors are invited to submit research and application papers in CPS Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 pt fonts, and number each page). Please consult the CPS Author Guidelines at the following web page: <http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting> http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting For submitting a paper please follow our submission guidelines here: <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=8&Itemid=77> http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=8&Itemid=77 Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st. 2012 extended to March 28th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference Officers Program Committee Co-Chairs · Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs · Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee Please find the Program Committee for the ARES 2012 here: <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=4&Itemid=79> http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=article &id=4&Itemid=79 Keynote Speakers · Annie I. Antón Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University · Chenxi Wang Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research We are looking forward to your submissions! Best wishes Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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CFP: Grid 2012: The 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
by Xuanhua Shi 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

=========================================================================== Grid 2012: The 13th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing http://grid2012.meepo.org September 20-23, 2012 Beijing, China =========================================================================== Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing and exploring new concepts. Grid 2012 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry and government describing original research work in grid computing. Previous events in this series have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a wide international participation. =========================================================================== Grid 2012 topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Architecture Middleware and toolkits Resource management, scheduling, and runtime environments Performance modeling and evaluation Programming models, tools and environments Metadata, ontologies, and provenance Cloud computing Virtualization and grid computing Scientific workflow Storage systems and data management Data-intensive computing and processing QoS and SLA Negotiation Applications and experiences in science, engineering, business and society =========================================================================== Proceedings: The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society. =========================================================================== Important Dates Papers Submission Due: 15 March 2012 Extended to 15 April 2012. Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: 15 June 2012 =========================================================================== Paper Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit original papers (not published or currently under review for any other conference or journal). Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grid12 -- Dr. Xuanhua Shi, Associate Professor School of Computer Science and Technology Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan, 430074, China Tel: +86-27-87543529 ext 8016 Fax: +86-27-87557354 Email: xhshi(a)hust.edu.cn; http://grid.hust.edu.cn/xhshi

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CFP: CGC2012 (Cloud and Green Computing), Nov. 1-3, 2012, Xiangtan China.
by Jinjun Chen 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

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

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ARES 2012 - Submission Deadline extended to 28th of March
by Yvonne Poul 19 Mar '12

19 Mar '12

(Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.) Submission Deadline extended to March 28th, 2012 for the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2012) <http://www.ares-conference.eu/> http://www.ares-conference.eu University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference The 7th 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. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st. 2012 extended to March 28th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference Officers Program Committee Co-Chairs · Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs · Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee Please find the Program Committee for the ARES 2012 here: http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=4&Itemid=79> &view=article&id=4&Itemid=79 Keynote Speakers · Annie I. Antón Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University · Chenxi Wang Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research We are looking forward to your submissions! Best wishes Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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ARES 2012 - Submission Deadline extended to 12th of March
by Yvonne Poul 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Submission Deadline extended to March 12th, 2012 for the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2012) <http://www.ares-conference.eu/> http://www.ares-conference.eu University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference The 7th 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. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st. 2012 extended to March 12th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th 24th, 2012 Conference Officers Program Committee Co-Chairs · Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs · Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia · A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee Please find the Program Committee for the ARES 2012 here: http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=4&Itemid=79> &view=article&id=4&Itemid=79 Keynote Speakers · Annie I. Antón Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University · Chenxi Wang Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research We are looking forward to your submissions! Best wishes Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop SecOnT 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Security Ontologies and Taxonomies (SecOnT 2012) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=50&Itemid=82> &view=article&id=50&Itemid=82 University of Economics, Prague August 20th-24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Overview The First International Workshop on Security Ontologies and Taxonomies (co-located with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of security ontologies and taxonomies. SecOnT aims at establishing a highly specialized annual meeting to conduct in-depth research discussions and to identify collaboration opportunities among the participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Security ontology/taxonomy design * Collaborative security ontology/taxonomy editing * Security ontology/taxonomy standardization * Security knowledge sharing * Economic, ethical, legal, multi linguistic, organizational, and social aspects * Semantic interoperability * Standards, terminologies, guidelines and certification * Real world applications and case studies Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Workshop Chair * Stefan Fenz, Vienna University of Technology, AT Program Committee * Paul Cichonski, NIST, USA * Sławomir Górniak, ENISA, GR * Simon Parkin, Newcastle University / HP Enterprise Security Services (HPESS), UK * Chuning Rong, University of Stavanger, NO * Aad van Moorsel, Newcastle University, UK We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop WSDF 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The Fifth International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 2012) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=49&Itemid=95> &view=article&id=49&Itemid=95 University of Economics, Prague August 20th-24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Overview Digital forensics is a rapidly evolving field primarily focused on the extraction, preservation and analysis of digital evidence obtained from electronic devices in a manner that is legally acceptable. Research into new methodologies tools and techniques within this domain is necessitated by an ever-increasing dependency on tightly interconnected, complex and pervasive computer systems and networks. The ubiquitous nature of our digital lifestyle presents many avenues for the potential misuse of electronic devices in crimes that directly involve, or are facilitated by, these technologies. The aim of digital forensics is to produce outputs that can help investigators ascertain the overall state of a system. This includes any events that have occurred within the system and entities that have interacted with that system. Due care has to be taken in the identification, collection, archiving, maintenance, handling and analysis of digital evidence in order to prevent damage to data integrity. Such issues combined with the constant evolution of technology provide a large scope of digital forensic research. WSDF aims to bring together experts from academia, industry, government and law enforcement who are interested in advancing the state of the art in digital forensics by exchanging their knowledge, results, ideas and experiences. The aim of the workshop is to provide a relaxed atmosphere that promotes discussion and free exchange of ideas while providing a sound academic backing. The focus of this workshop is not only restricted to digital forensics in the investigation of crime. It also addresses security applications such as automated log analysis, forensic aspects of fraud prevention and investigation, policy and governance. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Digital Evidence * Network Forensics * Anti Forensics * Physical Memory Acquisition and Analysis * Digital Forensic Information Visualisation * Fraud Investigations Involving Technology * Portable Devices * Cyber Terrorism * Log Analysis * Risk and Incident Management * Investigative Case Studies * Data Hiding Techniques and Steganography * Novel Data Recovery Techniques * Digital Evidence Extraction Techniques * Digital Evidence Search Techniques * Standards, Guidelines, Certification and Training * Digital Forensics Tools * Digital Forensic Implications for Cloud Environments * Critical Infrastructure Incident Investigation Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Workshop Chairs . Jill Slay (Chair), University of South Australia . Martin Mulazzani (Co-Chair), Vienna University of Technology, Austria . Sebastian Schrittwieser (Co-Chair), SBA Research, Austria We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop FARES 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The Seventh International Workshop on Frontiers in Availability, Reliability and Security (FARES 2012) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=56&Itemid=96> &view=article&id=56&Itemid=96 University of Economics, Prague August 20th-24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Overview FARES establishes an in-depth academic platform to exchange novel theories, designs, applications and on-going research results among researchers and practitioners in different Computing Dependability aspects which emphasize the Practical Issues in Availability, Reliability and Security. Papers of excellence in the following topics armed for this Symposium. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applied Tools and Applications * Authorization and Authentication * Availability and Reliability * Database and Datawarehouse Security * Dependability Modelling and Prediction * Dependability Requirement Engineering * Digital Forensics * Grid Security * Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection * Network/Software/Database Security * Reliability Models and Failure Prevention * Risk planning, analysis & awareness * Secure Enterprise Information System * Security and privacy issues * Security Models / Methods * Standards, Guidelines and Certification * Survivability of Computing Systems * Trust Models and Trust Management * Usability and Security Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Workshop Chair . A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria . Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop IWSMA 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (IWSMA) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=48&Itemid=94> &view=article&id=48&Itemid=94 University of Economics, Prague August 20th-24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Overview Since the advent of Smartphones, mobile applications have been one of the most thriving areas in the last few years. Thus, securing mobile applications as well as protecting private user data has to be considered as key research topics in the realm of security research. The International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications (co-located with the ARES-conference) focuses on bringing together researchers from all over the world to share their experience and present recent research. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Mobile security/privacy policies * Mobile protocols and protocol security * Securing private data on Smartphones * Integrating mobile devices into the Cloud * Mobile operating systems * Secure mobile software architecture * Secure mobile application design * Recent security issues on mobile systems * Physical protection of mobile devices * Security and privacy issues related to user behavior * Novel security concepts for mobile devices and applications * Ubiquitous digital interconnection Workshop Chair . Peter Kieseberg, SBA Research, Austria Program Committee * Andreas Hula, Dublin City University (Ireland) * Johannes Heurix, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Lorenz Zechner, SBA Research, Austria We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop MoCrySEn 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The First International Workshop on Modern Cryptography and Security Engineering (MoCrySEn 2012) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=65&Itemid=120> &view=article&id=65&Itemid=120 University of Economics, Prague August 20th-24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Overview The First International Workshop on Modern Cryptography and Security Engineering (co-located with the International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security) aims to bring together researchers working in theoretical aspects of modern cryptography (including but not restricted to design and analysis of symmetric-key primitives and cryptosystems, block and stream ciphers, hash functions and MAC algorithms, efficient implementations and analysis of code-based cryptosystems, threshold schemes) with professionals working on applied aspects of security engineering, particularly people involved in standardization and in industrial deployment of cryptography (encryption schemes for databases and related security, cryptography in wireless applications, hardware for cryptanalysis, FPGA and smart cards security). The main goal of the workshop is to strengthen the dialogue between these two groups, which is currently perceived to be weak. Ultimately, we aim to make a start on bridging the gap between what academic cryptographers believe should be the goals of cryptographic design and what is actually implemented in the real world. MoCrySEn intends to provide a better understanding of real-world cryptographic issues to the theoretical community, helping to inform their research and set new research challenges for the theoretical community and enable practitioners to develop a clearer view of the current state-of-the-art in cryptographic research and what it offers to practitioners. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: . Symmetric cryptography . Code-based cryptosystems . Secret-sharing cryptography . Algorithmic cryptanalysis . Database encryption . Hardware security . Data privacy in practice . Interactions between cryptographic theory and implementation issues Workshop Chair . Dimitris E. Simos, INRIA, France We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Workshop WSDF 2012 - CfP (to be held in conjunction with ARES 2012)
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The Fifth International Workshop on Digital Forensics (WSDF 12) http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content <http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl e&id=49&Itemid=95> &view=article&id=49&Itemid=95 University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th - 24th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2012 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) Workshop: Digital forensics is a rapidly evolving field primarily focused on the extraction, preservation and analysis of digital evidence obtained from electronic devices in a manner that is legally acceptable. Research into new methodologies tools and techniques within this domain is necessitated by an ever-increasing dependency on tightly interconnected, complex and pervasive computer systems and networks. The ubiquitous nature of our digital lifestyle presents many avenues for the potential misuse of electronic devices in crimes that directly involve, or are facilitated by, these technologies. The aim of digital forensics is to produce outputs that can help investigators ascertain the overall state of a system. This includes any events that have occurred within the system and entities that have interacted with that system. Due care has to be taken in the identification, collection, archiving, maintenance, handling and analysis of digital evidence in order to prevent damage to data integrity. Such issues combined with the constant evolution of technology provide a large scope of digital forensic research. WSDF aims to bring together experts from academia, industry, government and law enforcement who are interested in advancing the state of the art in digital forensics by exchanging their knowledge, results, ideas and experiences. The aim of the workshop is to provide a relaxed atmosphere that promotes discussion and free exchange of ideas while providing a sound academic backing. The focus of this workshop is not only restricted to digital forensics in the investigation of crime. It also addresses security applications such as automated log analysis, forensic aspects of fraud prevention and investigation, policy and governance. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 30th, 2012 Author Notification: May 01st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 01st, 2012 Conference / Workshop: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to: Digital Evidence Network Forensics Anti Forensics Physical Memory Acquisition and Analysis Digital Forensic Information Visualisation Fraud Investigations Involving Technology Portable Devices Cyber Terrorism Log Analysis Risk and Incident Management Investigative Case Studies Data Hiding Techniques and Steganography Novel Data Recovery Techniques Digital Evidence Extraction Techniques Digital Evidence Search Techniques Standards, Guidelines, Certification and Training Digital Forensics Tools Digital Forensic Implications for Cloud Environments Critical Infrastructure Incident Investigation Workshop Chairs: Jill Slay (Chair) University of South Australia Martin Mulazzani (Co-Chair) Vienna University of Technology, Austria Sebastian Schrittwieser (Co-Chair) SBA Research, Austria We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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ARES 2012 - We are looking forward to YOUR submissions!
by Yvonne Poul 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Call for Papers The 7th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2012) http://www.ares-conference.eu University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic August 20th - 24th, 2012 Conference The 7th 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. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2012 Author Notification: May 1st, 2012 Author Registration: May 18th, 2012 Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2012 Conference: August 20th - 24th, 2012 Conference Officers Program Committee Co-Chairs * Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA * A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Workshop Co-Chairs * Gerald Quirchmayr, University of South Australia, Australia * A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria 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 We are looking forward to your submission! If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: office(a)ares-conference.eu Best regards Yvonne Poul ARES Organizing Team SBA Research Office: Sommerpalais Harrach / Favoritenstr. 16 / 1040 Wien Mobil: +43 699 100 41 066 E: <mailto:office@ares-conference.eu> office(a)ares-conference.eu <http://www.ares-conference.eu> http://www.ares-conference.eu

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Final Call for Participation: CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2011 (Social Computing and Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 03 Dec '11

03 Dec '11

Final Call for Participation 12-14 Dec. 2011, Sydney, Australia. CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ The final conference program has been released at http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/Program.pdf. Highlights of the conferences and their program: - Coverage of current domain hot topics - 7 keynote speeches - 30 presentation sessions with more than 200 attendants expected - Poster display through the whole conference period with more than 15 posters. - A rehearsal of Xmas atmosphere yet with broad networking with many domain scholars - Enjoying the biggest city in Australia such as Darling harbour and China Town within walk distance - Panel summit on "Cloud Computing vs Social Media" Topic 1: Cloud Standards and Interopeatibility Topic 2: Security and Privacy in Cloud Topic 3: Cloud meets Social Media - Social Cloud - Industry tutorial 1: Amazon AWS Title: Amazon Web Services 101 - Background & Introduction Presenter: Nick Walton – Regional Sales Manager, Amazon AWS Australia - Industry tutorial 2 - IBM Title: IBM's Academic Initiative in the Cloud Presenter: John Schilt - Academic Initiative Manager, IBM Australia/New Zealand Please visit individual conference websites listed above regarding registration, accommodation and visa issues. Look forward to seeing you in Sydney then. Jinjun -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Director - Lab of Cloud Computing and Distributed 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 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10, City Campus) Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Call for Participation: CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2011 (Social Computing and Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 10 Nov '11

10 Nov '11

Call for participation 12-14 Dec. 2011, Sydney, Australia. CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ *The conference program has been released at ** http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/Program.pdf*<http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/Program.pdf> *.* Highlights of the conferences and their program: - Coverage of current domain hot topics - 7 keynote speeches from domain leading scholars - 30 presentation sessions with more than 200 attendants expected - Poster display through the whole conference period with 15 posters already. - A rehearsal Xmas atmosphere yet with broad networking with many domain scholars - Enjoying the biggest city in Australia such as Darling harbour and China Town within walk distance Please visit individual conference websites listed above regarding registration, accommodation and visa issues. Look forward to seeing you then. Jinjun -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Director - Program (Lab) of Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems, iNEXT - UTS Research Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications, 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 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10, City Campus) Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Final CFP: The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011, 12-14 December, Sydney, Australia)
by 文一凭 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011) 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/wmsc2011 in conjunction with the International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011) Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Service based workflow modelling - Service Delivery and Composition - Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration - Quality of Services for workflow execution - Workflow verification and validation - Services Repository and Registry - Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution - Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution - Cloud workflow architecture - Cloud resource management - Scientific computing in the cloud - 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to conf.ljx(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2011 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CGC2011 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2011 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer) and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: September 15, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2011 Camera Ready Copies: October 10, 2011 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Organization Co-Chairs: Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yiping Wen, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China Dan C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China Kwanghoon Pio Kim, Kyonggi University, South Korea Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea

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Final CFP: CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline: September 5, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

Submission deadline extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) to allow for most requests of extension. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Director - Program (Lab) of Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems, iNEXT - UTS Research Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications, 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 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10), City Campus Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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CFP: The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011, 12-14 December, Sydney, Australia)
by 文一凭 01 Sep '11

01 Sep '11

The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011) 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/wmsc2011 in conjunction with the International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011) Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Service based workflow modelling - Service Delivery and Composition - Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration - Quality of Services for workflow execution - Workflow verification and validation - Services Repository and Registry - Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution - Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution - Cloud workflow architecture - Cloud resource management - Scientific computing in the cloud - 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to conf.ljx(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2011 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CGC2011 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2011 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer) and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: September 15, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2011 Camera Ready Copies: October 10, 2011 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Organization Co-Chairs: Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yiping Wen, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China Dan C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China Kwanghoon Pio Kim, Kyonggi University, South Korea Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea

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Final CFP: EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 27 Aug '11

27 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), 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. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Final CFP: PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 26 Aug '11

26 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Final CFP: DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 24 Aug '11

24 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services 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. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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Final CFP: SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline: August 26, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 22 Aug '11

22 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm) due to many requests for about this date. Final Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 26, 2011 (firm). Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 20 Aug '11

20 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 19 Aug '11

19 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), 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. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to September 5, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 17 Aug '11

17 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) to allow for most requests of extension. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to September 5, 2011 (firm) Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm)
by Jinjun Chen 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 26, 2011 (firm) due to many requests for this date. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 26, 2011 (firm). Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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[Deadline Extension]CTUW CFP - The 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom
by Xiao Wei 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Call for Papers (Download the PDF format CFP <http://iic.shu.edu.cn/huiyi/CTUW3rdCFP.pdf> ) The 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia http://iic.shu.edu.cn/huiyi/CTUW3rdCFP.html in conjunction with the International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2011) http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Recent years, many new theories and technologies for Web Wisdom have made the Web much wiser. Among these technologies, Cognitive-based text understanding (CTU) is one of the newest directions of Web Wisdom and should be paid more attention to. The machine understanding of Web resources is the basis of Web Wisdom. Cognitive Informatics (CI) is an emerging discipline that studies the natural intelligence, internal information processing mechanisms of the brain and the processes involved in perception and cognition as well. CTU simulates the cognitive process of human brain understanding text, so it takes advantage of cognitive theories to make the machine understanding of Web resources effectively and promotes Web Wisdom to a great extent. Topics: The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of Web Wisdom (especially the aspect of Cognitive-based text understanding). The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Theories and Practices of World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) * Cognitive Models and Computational Models for W4 * Intelligent Web Searching and Services * Web Mining and Information Retrieval * Web Knowledge Organization and Fusion * Data Link and Semantic Link * Web Knowledge Flow * Web-based Cooperation Model * Text Understanding and Representation * Text Complexity Measurement * Text Readability Measurement * Text Trust Measurement * Interactive Computing Submission Requirements: Please email your manuscripts in PDF to <mailto:xwei@shu.edu.cn> xwei(a)shu.edu.cn with the email subject as CTUW paper submission. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 SCA2011 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of SCA2011 in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review and Computers in Human Behavior. Important Dates: Full paper submission due: August 15, 2011 [Extended ] September 1, 2011 Notification of acceptance: September 20, 2011 Camera-ready paper due: October 3, 2011 Conference presentation: December 12-14, 2011 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Wei, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China Program Committee: Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK Chantal Soule-Dupuy, Université de Toulouse, France Didier Schwab, University of Grenoble, France Farhad Arbab, Leiden University, Netherlands Feiyue Ye, Shanghai University, China Florence Sèdes, Université de Toulouse, France Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany Michael Zock, LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Roche Christophe, Université de Savoie, France Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Styliani K. Loizou, University of Leeds, UK Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Xiao Wei, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China Xiaobo Yin, Anhui University of Science and Technology, China Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany For enquiries, please contact mailto:xwei@sit.edu.cn

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CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline: August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 11 Aug '11

11 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), 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. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing) - Deadline: August 30, 2011
by Chang Liu 10 Aug '11

10 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services 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. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline: August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline: August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 07 Aug '11

07 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011 Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Extended CFP - PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing)
by Chang Liu 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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CFP: The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011, 12-14 December, Sydney, Australia)
by 文一凭 02 Aug '11

02 Aug '11

The 3rd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2011) 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/wmsc2011 in conjunction with the International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC2011) Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2010 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - Service based workflow modelling - Service Delivery and Composition - Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration - Quality of Services for workflow execution - Workflow verification and validation - Services Repository and Registry - Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution - Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution - Cloud workflow architecture - Cloud resource management - Scientific computing in the cloud - 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to conf.ljx(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2011 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CGC2011 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of CGC2011 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer) and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: August 30, 2011 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2011 Camera Ready Copies: October 10, 2011 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Organization Co-Chairs: Xitong Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Yiping Wen, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Xtime, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China Dan C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China Kwanghoon Pio Kim, Kyonggi University, South Korea Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea

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Extended CFP - DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing)
by Chang Liu 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services 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. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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Extended CFP - EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing)
by Chang Liu 01 Aug '11

01 Aug '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), 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. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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The 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom
by Xiao Wei 31 Jul '11

31 Jul '11

The 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive-based Text Understanding and Web Wisdom 12-14 December 2011, Sydney, Australia http://iic.shu.edu.cn/huiyi/CTUW3rdCFP.html in conjunction with the International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA2011) http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Recent years, many new theories and technologies for Web Wisdom have made the Web much wiser. Among these technologies, Cognitive-based text understanding (CTU) is one of the newest directions of Web Wisdom and should be paid more attention to. The machine understanding of Web resources is the basis of Web Wisdom. Cognitive Informatics (CI) is an emerging discipline that studies the natural intelligence, internal information processing mechanisms of the brain and the processes involved in perception and cognition as well. CTU simulates the cognitive process of human brain understanding text, so it takes advantage of cognitive theories to make the machine understanding of Web resources effectively and promotes Web Wisdom to a great extent. Topics: The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of Web Wisdom (especially the aspect of Cognitive-based text understanding). The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Theories and Practices of World Wide Wisdom Web (W4) * Cognitive Models and Computational Models for W4 * Intelligent Web Searching and Services * Web Mining and Information Retrieval * Web Knowledge Organization and Fusion * Data Link and Semantic Link * Web Knowledge Flow * Web-based Cooperation Model * Text Understanding and Representation * Text Complexity Measurement * Text Readability Measurement * Text Trust Measurement * Interactive Computing Submission Requirements: Please email your manuscripts in PDF to <mailto:xwei@shu.edu.cn> xwei(a)shu.edu.cn with the email subject as CTUW paper submission. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 SCA2011 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of SCA2011 in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review and Computers in Human Behavior. Important Dates: Full paper submission due: August 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2011 Camera-ready paper due: October 3, 2011 Conference presentation: December 12-14, 2011 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xiao Wei, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China Program Committee: Bernadette Sharp, Staffordshire University, UK Chantal Soule-Dupuy, Université de Toulouse, France Didier Schwab, University of Grenoble, France Farhad Arbab, Leiden University, Netherlands Feiyue Ye, Shanghai University, China Florence Sèdes, Université de Toulouse, France Jan van Leeuwen, Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Lizhe Wang, Indiana University, USA Marc Spaniol, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany Michael Zock, LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France Oliver Kutz, University of Bremen, Germany Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Roche Christophe, Université de Savoie, France Ronald R. Yager, Iona College, USA Stephane Bressan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Styliani K. Loizou, University of Leeds, UK Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China Xiao Wei, Shanghai Institute of Technology, China Xiaobo Yin, Anhui University of Science and Technology, China Yiwei Cao, RWTH Aachen University, Germany For enquiries, please contact xwei(a)shu.edu.cn <mailto:xwei@sit.edu.cn>

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CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 30 Jul '11

30 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Call for papers: ITAAC 2011, Melbourne, Australia
by Ashiq Anjum 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2011) http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/itaac2011 in conjunction with: 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) December 5-8, Melbourne, Australia 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 2011) 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. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Theory and foundations of Intelligent 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. Journal Special Issue Revised and extended versions of the accepted papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications. 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 (available at 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=itaac2011 Workshop Chairs 1. Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby UK 2. Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby UK 3. Lee Gillam, University of Surrey UK Programme Commitee Julian Bunn, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA Steve Brewer, European Grid Initiative, Amsterdam Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Rajkumar Buyya, Melbourne University, Australia Richard McClatchey, UWE Bristol, UK Adil Taweel, Kings College London David Manset, MaatG, France Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Asif Jan, University of Geneva, Switzerland Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK Babak Akhgar, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Femida Gwadry-Sridhar, Lawson, Canada Maozhen Li, Brunel University, London Raihan Rasool, NUST Islamabad Pakistan Junaid Zubairi, SUNY at Fredonia, Fredonia, USA Erwin Laure, KTH, Sweden Muhammad Atif, Australian National University, Australia Important Dates Papers Due: 25 July 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2011 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 September 2011

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Extended CFP - EmbeddedCom2011 (Embedded Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: EmbeddedCom2011 - 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sec2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Systems Architecture, and others. =========== Introduction The EmbeddedCom (Symposium on Embedded Computing) is aiming to be a premier international conference in embedded computing. This symposium is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of embedded computing include all aspects of embedded computing systems with emphasis on algorithms, systems, models, compilers, architectures, tools, design methodologies, test and applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Embedded System Architecture #Embedded Software Development and Optimization #Cyber-Physical Systems #Security and Fault Tolerance #Embedded Hardware Support #Hardware/Software Co-design #Real-time Systems #Power and Energy-aware Computing #Sensor Networks #Pervasive Computing & Communications #Middleware and Peer-to-Peer Computing #Internet Computing and Applications #Multimedia and Data Management #Human-computer Interaction #Mobile Computing #Agents and Distributed Computing #Application-specific Processors and Devices #Industrial Practices and Benchmark Suites #Supporting Technologies: SoC, FPGA, etc. #Embedded & Ubiquitous Applications Development #Emerging New Topics: New challenges for next generation embedded computing systems, arising from new technologies (e.g., nanotechnology), new applications (e.g., ubiquitous computing, embedded internet tools), new principle (e.g., embedded engineering), 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. 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 EmbeddedCom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~Embedded2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Systems Architecture, and other journals. General Chairs Jarmo Takala, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Rabi N. Mahapatra, Texas A&M University, USA Program Chairs Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Workshop Chairs Yu-Chu Tian, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Publicity Chairs Angelo Ambrose, University of New South Wales, Australia Man Lin, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Extended CFP - PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 17 Jul '11

17 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 PICom2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Extended CFP - DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 16 Jul '11

16 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 30, 2011. Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 30, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences; or Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services 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. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) - Deadline extended to August 15, 2011
by Jinjun Chen 13 Jul '11

13 Jul '11

Submission deadline extended to August 15, 2011. Call for papers: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: extended to August 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 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; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Keynote speakers: 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be confirmed shortly. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Call for papers - CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 02 Jul '11

02 Jul '11

Call for papers: CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing) and SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications), Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. ----------------- CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Refer to CGC2011 website (http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/) for more information about CGC2011 conference organising, scope topics and paper submission. ----------------- SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011 Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. Refer to SCA2011 website (http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/) for more information about SCA2011 conference organising, scope topics and paper submission. ----------------- Keynote speakers for CGC2011 and SCA2011 1. Prof. Ivan Stojmenovic from University of Ottawa Canada to talk about "Green Computing in Mobile Cloud". 2. Prof. Geoffrey Fox from Indiana University USA. His talk is to be decided later. 3. Prof. Craig Standing from Edith Cowan University Australia to talk about "Social Computing, ICT developments and Innovation: Implications for Practice and Research". 4. More keynote speakers to be announced later. ----------

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Call for papers: ITAAC 2011, Melbourne, Australia
by Ashiq Anjum 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2011) http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/itaac2011 in conjunction with: 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) December 5-8, Melbourne, Australia 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 2011) 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. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): • Theory and foundations of Intelligent 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. Journal Special Issue Revised and extended versions of the accepted papers will be considered for a Special Issue of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications. Workshop Chairs 1. Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby UK 2. Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby UK 3. Lee Gillam, University of Surrey UK 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 (available at 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: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2011 Important Dates Papers Due: 25 July 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2011 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 September 2011

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Call for papers - DASC2011 (Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 20 Jun '11

20 Jun '11

Call for papers: DASC2011 - 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dasc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/ Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Computer and System Sciences and others. =========== Introduction As computer systems become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability, Security and Autonomy play critical role at supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. These systems consist of heterogeneous software/hardware/network components of changing capacities, availability, and in varied contexts. They provide computing services to large pools of users and applications, and thus are exposed to a number of dangers such as accidental/deliberate faults, virus infections, malicious attacks, illegal intrusions, and natural disasters etc. As a result, too often computer systems fail, become compromised, or perform poorly and therefore untrustworthy. Thus, it remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security for a trusted computing environment. Trusted computing targets computing and communication systems as well as services that are autonomous, dependable, secure, privacy protect-able, predictable, traceable, controllable, assessable and sustainable. The scale and complexity of information systems evolve towards overwhelming the capability of system administrators, programmers, and designers. This calls for the autonomic computing paradigm, which meets the requirement of self-management by providing self-optimization, self-healing, self-configuration, and self-protection. As a promising means to implement dependable and secure systems in a self-managing manner, autonomic computing technology needs to be further explored. On the other hand, any autonomic system must be trustworthy to avoid the risk of losing control and retain confidence that the system will not fail. Trusted and autonomic computing and communications need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, ranging from computer science and engineering, to the natural sciences to the social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a wide variety of fields, as well as new software, system architectures, and communication systems that support the effective and coherent integration of the constituent technologies. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: #Autonomic Computing Theory, Models, Architectures and Communications #Dependable Automatic Control Techniques and Systems #Cloud Computing with Autonomic and Trusted Environment #Dependability Models and Evaluation Algorithms #Dependable Sensors, Devices, Electronic-Mechanical Systems, Optic-Electronic Systems, Embedded Systems, etc. #Self-improvement in Dependable Systems #Self-healing, Self-protection and Fault-tolerant Systems #Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing #Software Engineering for Dependable Systems #Safety-critical Systems in Transportation, Power System, etc. #Security Models and Quantifications #Trusted P2P, Web Service, SoA, SaaS, EaaS, PaaS, etc. #Self-protection and Intrusion-detection in Security #DRM, Watermarking Technology, IP Protection #Context-aware Access Control #Virus Detections and Anti-virus Techniques/Software #Cyber Attack, Crime and Cyber War #Human Interaction with Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems #Security, Dependability and Autonomic Issues in Ubiquitous Computing #QoS in Communications and Services 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. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~DASC2011/sub/. 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 will 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 Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and other quality journals. General Chairs Jennifer Seberry, University of Wollongong, Australia Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Workshop Chairs Xiao Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jemal Abbawajy, Deakin University, Australia Publicity Chairs Jiankun Hu, UNSW@ADFA, Australia Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan

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Call for papers and workshops - PICom2011 (Pervasive Intelligence and Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 10 Jun '11

10 Jun '11

Call for papers: PICom2011 - 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/picom2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~PICom2011/sub/ Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. =========== Introduction Over the last fifty years, computational intelligence has evolved from logic-based artificial intelligence, nature-inspired soft computing, social-oriented agent technology to cyber-physical integrated ubiquitous intelligence towards Pervasive Intelligence (PI). The International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing is intended to cover all kinds of these intelligent paradigms as well as their applications in various pervasive computing. PICom2011 is the next event, in a series of highly successful International Conferences on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom), previously held as PCC-03 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2003), PCC-04 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2004), PSC-05 (Las Vegas, USA, June 2005), PCAC-06 (Vienna, Austria, April 2006), PCAC-07 (Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007), IPC-07 (Jeju, Korea, December 2007), IPC-08 (Sydney, Australia, December 2008), PICom-09 (Chengdu, China, December 2009). PICom2011 is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental and theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of Pervasive Intelligence and Computing. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: # Artificial Intelligence & Knowledge Computing # Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems # Nature-inspired Intelligence & Soft Computing # Social Intelligence & Agent-based Computing # Ubiquitous Intelligence & Cyber-Physical Computing # The Internet of Things # Embedded Hardware, Software & Systems # Pervasive Computers and Devices, Wearable Computers, RFIDs, Sensor technology # Pervasive Networks & Communications # Pervasive Services & Systems, EaaS, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS # Multimedia Technologies & Applications # Intelligent HCI Design # Pervasive Electronic Market Management # Pervasive Mobile Commerce # Handheld Computing Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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 DASC2011 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~dasc11/sub/. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing; or International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing. General Chairs Max Ott, NICTA, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Shonali Krishnaswamy, Monash University, Australia Workshop Chairs Mohamed Gaber, University of Portsmouth, UK Alan Colman, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chairs Seng Loke, La Trobe University, Australia Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan Steering Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Call for papers and workshops - SCA2011 (Social Computing and its Applications)
by Jinjun Chen 08 Jun '11

08 Jun '11

Call for papers: SCA2011 - International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications, Dec.12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/sca2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce; Social Science Computer Review; or Computers in Human Behavior. =========== 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the SCA2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sca2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). 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 Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Social Science Computer Review, and Computers in Human Behavior. General Chairs Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hongkong, China Igor Hawryszkiewycz, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln, UK Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Program Vice-Chairs Rajiv Khosla, Latrobe University, Australia Tim Butcher, RMIT, Australia Man-Kwan Shan, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Nathalie Colineau, CSIRO-ICT Centre, Australia Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, 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 and Finance Chairs Chang Liu, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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Call for papers and workshops - CGC2011 (Cloud and Green Computing)
by Jinjun Chen 27 May '11

27 May '11

Call for papers and workshops: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011 Workshop Proposal: Ongoing as received (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press (pending). Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Computing (Springer); or Journal of Computer and System Sciences. =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). 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, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) School of Systems, Management and Leadership 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 10.04.356(Room 04.356, Level 4, Building 10), City Campus Email: Jinjun.Chen(a)uts.edu.au URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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!!ARES 2011: Workshop CNCCS - SAONS --> Submission Deadline extended to May 13th!!
by Y. P. 04 May '11

04 May '11

Submission Deadline extended to May 13th!!1st International CNCCS Workshop on Security Aspects for Online Social Networks (CNCCS - SAONS)To be held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2011)Online social networks are one of the most used Internet services and they consume most of the time users spend connected to the Internet. These sites allow sharing knowledge, help in finding and integrating communities and provide tools to develop activities together. However, they are prone to misuse such as identity theft, malware, spam and data leaking. The Spanish National Advisory Council on Cyber-Security (CNCCS) is the main sponsor of this workshop, which aims to bring together security research and industry with innovative and practical ideas in order to secure online social networks.Suggested topics, but not limited, are:Data security in Online Social Networks Data privacy in Online Social Networks Fraud and Scam in Online Social Networks Identity in Online Social Networks Spam filtering in Online Social Networks Malware in Online Social Networks Harassing in Online Social Networks Anonymity on Online Social Networks Propagation Models for Online Social Networks SponsorThe Spanish National Advisory Council on Cyber-Security (CNCSS) is a private initiative born in May 2009, which concerns about Spanish security industry.Important DatesSubmission Deadline: April 18th 2011May 13th 2011 (extended)Author Notificacion: May 18th 2011Camera-ready Versión submission: June 1stAuthor Registration: June 1stConference Dates: August 22nd-26thWorkshop: TBDSubmission GuidelinesThe submission guidelines valid for the CNCCS-SAONS workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at:http://www.ares-conference.eu/submission-guidelinesOrganizing CommitteePablo García Bringas, University of Deusto, SpainPierangela Samarati, University of Milan, ItalyStefano Paraboschi, University of Bergamo, Italy

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!!ARES 2011: Workshop RISI --> Submission Deadline extended to May 6th!!
by Y. P. 04 May '11

04 May '11

Submission Deadline extended to May 6th!!Workshop on "Resilience and IT-Risk in Social Infrastructures (RISI 2011)Held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES) 2011 August 22nd – 26th, 2011 Vienna University of Technology Vienna, AustriaAccepted papers will be published in the ARES proceedings. Submission deadline: May 06, 2011. The submission server is ready to welcome your submissions >> http://stdev.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/ares2011/<<Accepted papers will be published in the ARES proceedings. Selected best papers will be recommended for publication in the special issue “Security and Privacy in Business Networking” of the international journal “Electronic Markets” published by Springer.DescriptionPopulations of cities will continue to increase: the share of the world’s population living in cities is predicted to rise from 50% in 2011 to 70% in 2050. Threats to cities and their social infrastructures, e.g. from natural disasters, crime, and terrorism, endanger human life directly and indirectly. Resilience is gaining importance as a core concept to cope with such threats. In general, resilience means strengthening social infrastructures to prevent or mitigate such threats and to consistently deliver the intended services in a trustworthy and “normal” way even in changing situations. Information and communication infrastructure (IT) is one primary part of the social infrastructure and therefore one of the central objects of resilience research. The provision and processing of real-time information for communication, coordination, and cooperation is a vital role and IT still has to provide its services, e.g., to rescue organizations and for catastrophe management, when a threat becomes reality. Since resilience research is still in its infancy, the main objective of the RISI 2011 workshop is to identify research problems and to discuss future research initiatives regarding IT support for "Resilience in Social Infrastructures". We encourage academic researchers and industry experts to present and discuss novel ideas as well as ongoing work. Contributions addressing promising approaches, methods and tools supporting resistance against attacks and threats (i.e., prevent and protect) as well as to adapt social infrastructures to deal with threats and attacks (i.e., respond and recover) are invited.TopicsIdentification of vulnerabilities in service-oriented computing Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Modeling of resilience properties Data provenance Privacy-enhancing technologies Usage control mechanisms Resilience in cryptographic and communications protocols Digital forensics Measurements for Resilience Risk assessment and evaluation of IT risks Business Continuity Plan and Business Continuity Management Economics of controls Important Dates2011-05-06: Submission Deadline (extended!) 2011-05-13: Author Notification 2011-06-01: Author Registration Proceedings Version 2011-08-22 - 2011-08-26: Conference/WorkshopSubmission GuidelinesThe submission guidelines valid for the workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at >> http://www.ares-conference.eu/submission-guidelines <<Accepted papers will be published in the ARES proceedings. Selected best papers will be recommended for publication in the special issue “Security and Privacy in Business Networking” of the international journal “Electronic Markets” published by Springer.Workshop Co-ChairsStefan Sackmann (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) stefan[dot]sackmann[at]wiwi[dot]uni-halle[dot]de Sven Wohlgemuth (National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan) wohlgemuth[at]nii[dot]ac[dot]jp

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!!ARES 2011: Workshop OSA --> Submission Deadline extended to May 6th!!
by Y. P. 04 May '11

04 May '11

Submission Deadline extended to May 6thThe Third International Workshop on Organizational Security Aspects (OSA 2011)To be held in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2011 – http://www.ares-conference.eu).August 22nd – 26th, 2011 Vienna University of Technology Vienna, AustriaIn today's global economy, where conditions change often and rapidly, the efficiency and effectiveness of the execution of business processes has become a central issue. As these processes depend on the assigned resources, a considerable optimization focus lies on the minimization of the resources' costs and simultaneously on the maximization of their returns. Another critical factor, which substantially influences the ability to compete, is the continuous operation of a company's business processes. The reasons why the execution of business processes may be interrupted are manifold and are addressed by several fields of research. Exercising for instance strong computer security is a company’s crucial task in order to strengthen the resilience of IT systems against arising threats. However, the most sophisticated technical security techniques will fail, if there is no adequate organizational structure covering the appropriate planning, design and implementation of these techniques. Furthermore, processes within the companies have to be set up, lived and monitored to continuously improve the company’s ability to survive while simultaneously maximizing its returns.The main objectives of this workshop are to bring together users and researchers (from industry and academy) to present their recent work, discuss and identify problems, synergize different views on methods and techniques, and brainstorm future research directions on various aspects of organizational security issues. Topics of interest comprise but are not limited to:Auditing Business Continuity Cost/Benefit Analysis Disaster Recovery Identity Management Information Assurance Information Security Management Insider ThreatsIT Governance IT Service Continuity Risk Management Security Awareness Security Culture Security Requirements Engineering Standards, Guidelines, Best Practices and CertificationImportant datesSubmission Deadline April 24th, 2011 May 6th, 2011 (extended)Author Notification May 13th, 2011Author Registration June 01st, 2011Proceedings Version June 01st, 2011Conference/Workshop August 22nd - 26th, 2011Submission GuidelinesThe submission guidelines valid for the OSA workshop are the same as for the ARES conference. They can be found at: http://www.ares-conference.eu/submission-guidelinesWorkshop Co-ChairsGerald QuirchmayrUniversity of Vienna and University of South Australia Gerald[dot]Quirchmayr[at]univie[dot]ac[dot]atStefan JakoubiSecure Business Austria, Austria sjakoubi[at]sba-research[dot]orgSimon TjoaSt. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria simon[dot]tjoa[at]fhstp[dot]ac[dot]at

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UCC 2011 (Utility and Cloud Computing): Call For Papers
by Rajkumar Buyya 04 May '11

04 May '11

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th IEEE International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) December 5-8, Melbourne, Australia http://www.cloudbus.org/ucc2011/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society, USA Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), USA Hosted/Supported by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory The University of Melbourne, Australia * Indiana University, USA * Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey * University of Southern California, USA * Colorado State University, USA * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** Introduction: ------------- Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditized and delivered in a manner similar to traditional utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services based on their requirements without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered. Several computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing vision and these include Grid computing, and more recently Cloud computing. Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these "clouds" are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centres, they are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads. To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances and industrial innovations in "Utility Computing" area, we have initiated this new conference series "International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference series has emerged out of previous successful Cloud computing events (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai, China; Cloud 2010 held in Melbourne, Australia; and UCC 2010 held in Chennai, India). UCC 2011, as 4th event in the series, focuses on principles, paradigms, and applications of "Utility computing" and its practical realisation in industry especially in the form of Cloud Computing. Conference Scope: ----------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Principles of Utility Computing - Architectural Models for Utility Computing - *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service - Novel architectural models for cloud computing - Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks - Novel cloud programming models - Innovative cloud pricing models - Innovative cloud service models - Support for scalable and elastic cloud services - New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing - Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks - Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud - Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers - Cloud-related virtualization issues - Deployment, maintenance, and management of cloud resources and services - (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling - (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning - Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud - Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including Grids, and Clouds - Performance monitoring for cloud applications - Cloud use case studies - Scientific computing in the cloud - Business computing in the cloud - Social computing in the cloud Best Paper Award: ----------------- A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and external reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organised for selected best papers. Journal Special Issue: ----------------------- Highly rated Top 6 papers from the UCC 2011 conference will be selected for publication in a special issue of the "Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by Elsevier Press. 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 8 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style (available at 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 8 pages. Oversized papers will be automatically rejected by the PC chairs. 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. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore. All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system. CHAIRS & COMMITTEES: ------------------- General Co-Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne & Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA Vice Chairs: Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA David Bernstein, VP and Special CTO, Huawei Technologies, USA Program Committee Chairs: Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA Steering Committee Members: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair) Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Bharadwaj Veeravalli, The National University of Singapore, Singapore Cho Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA Geng Lin, Cisco Systems Inc., USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jane Siegel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Kai Hwang, University of Southern California, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK Steve Versteeg, Computer Associates, Australia Walfredo Cirne, Google, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, Distributed European Initiative for Supercomputing Applications, Germany Workshop Chairs: Mukaddim Pathan, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Organizing Chair: Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia Publicity Chairs: A.B.M. Russel, VeRSI, Australia Program Committee Members: -------------------------- Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA Marco Netto IBM, Brazil Dennis Gannon Microsoft Research, USA Andrzej Goscinski Deakin University, Australia Marcos Dias De Assuncao INRIA, France Viktor Prasanna University of Southern California, USA Sangmi Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Marlon Pierce Indiana University, USA Judy Qiu Indiana University, USA Madhusudan Govindaraju State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Robert van Engelen Florida State University, USA Peter Linington University of Kent, UK Steven Newhouse European Grid Initiative, UK Alex Sim Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA David Walker University of Cardiff, USA Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK Paul Watson Newcastle University, UK Craig Lee Open Grid Forum, USA Keith Jackson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Ewa Deelman ISI/USC, USA Milind Bhandarkar LinkedIn, USA Arun Agarwal University of Hyderabad, India Bastian Koller High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany Benny Rochwerger IBM Research, Israel David Bernstein Huawei, USA Domenico Talia Universit?† della Calabria, Italy Dongwan Shin New Mexico Tech, USA Erik Elmroth Umea University, Sweden Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ignacio Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Kris Bubendorfer Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kyong-Hoon Kim Gyeongsang National University, Korea Li Xiaorong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Marty Humphrey University of Virginia, USA Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy Pawel Garbacki Google, USA Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund,Germany Rob Gillen Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Rodrigo Calheiros University of Melbourne, Australia Saurabh Garg University of Melbourne, Australia Siegfried Benkner Vienna University, Austria Simon Caton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Srikumar Venugopal University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Timothy Wood University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA Thenalapadi Mohan Infosys Technologies, India Varia Jinesh Amazon, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA (Europe) and Open Grid Forum (USA) Wolfgang Theilmann SAP, Germany Yeo-Chee Shin Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yu Chen State University of New York - Binghamton, USA Ruppa Thulasiram University of Manitoba, Canada Siani Pearson Hewlett-Packard, USA Cho-Li Wang Hong-Kong University, Hong-Kong Viraj Bhat Yahoo Inc. IMPORTANT DATES: ---------------- Papers Due: 25 July 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2011 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 September 2011 PLATINUM MEDIA SPONSOR: ----------------------- HPC Wire (http://www.hpcwire.com/) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for papers and workshops - CGC2011: International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia
by Jinjun Chen 03 May '11

03 May '11

Call for papers and workshops: CGC2011 - International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing, Dec. 12-14, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cgc2011/ Key dates: Workshop Proposal: June 1, 2011 (to workshop chairs listed on the website) Submission Deadline: July 15, 2011 (UTC/GMT time 23:59) Authors Notification: September 15, 2011 Final Manuscript Due: October 3, 2011 Registration Due: October 3, 2011 =========== Introduction Cloud computing is positioning itself as a new emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can then provision and deploy these services in a pay-as-you-go fashion and in a convenient way while saving huge capital investment in their own IT infrastructures. It has evoked a high degree of interest internationally with many challenges such as security and privacy remaining open. Green computing, in general, aims to enable computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. With dramatically increasing demand on computing and storage systems, IT infrastructures have been scaled tremendously which results in huge amount of energy consumption, heat dissemination, greenhouse emission and even part of climate change. As such, green computing has come to the picture seeking solutions for computing and IT infrastructures to be energy efficient and environmentally friendly. While customers can enjoy green atmosphere as well as cost saving and convenience because cloud computing accommodates their IT infrastructures in the cloud, how to green the cloud becomes increasingly challenging and extremely important in terms of global energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. CGC (Cloud and Green Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Cloud computing and Green computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across both areas. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: · Fundamentals of cloud computing · Architectural cloud models · Programming cloud models · Provisioning/pricing cloud models · Data storage and computation in cloud computing · Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing · Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud computing · Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing · Access control to cloud computing · Resource virtualisation · Monitoring and auditing in cloud · Scalable and elastic cloud services · Social computing and impacts on the cloud · Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud · Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud · Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing · Migration of business applications to cloud · Cloud use case studies · Fundamentals of green computing · Energy aware software, hardware and middleware · Energy efficient IT architecture · Energy efficient resource scheduling and optimisation · Energy efficient clustering and computing · Large-scale energy aware data storage and computation · Energy aware control, monitoring and HCI design · Energy efficient networking and operation · Energy efficient design of VLSI and micro-architecture · Intelligent energy management · Green data centers · Energy aware resource usage and consumption · Smart power grid and virtual power stations · Energy policy, social behaviour and government management · Teleworking, tele-conferences and virtual meeting · Low power electronics and energy recycling · Green computing case studies · Energy efficient Internet of Things · Energy efficient cloud architecture · Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing · Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud · Case studies of green cloud computing. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the CGC2011 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgc2011. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (pending). 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, Computing (Springer), Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge and the University of Adelaide, Australia General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Vice-Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Laurence Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Behrooz A. Shirazi, Washington State University, USA Program Vice-Chairs Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Xiang Yang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Workshop Chairs Zizhong (Jeffrey) Chen, Colorado School of Mines, USA Hua Wang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, The University of New South Wales, Australia Steering Committee Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA Rajkumar Buyya The University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Award Chairs Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Panel Chairs Steve Versteeg, CA Technologies, Australia Local and Finance Chairs Chang Liu Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia -- ************************************************* Associate Professor Jinjun Chen (PhD) Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia. Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Submission deadline extended to April 14th - CFP First International Confernce in Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)
by Y. P. 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Submission Deadline extended to April 14th!! Call for PapersFirst international Conference on Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)Vienna University of Technology, August 22nd to 26th 2011 Integration and sharing of data, information and knowledge is a fundamental corner stone for every business to take right decisions for their growth. Today, information is shared across organizations and then correlated to their business matrix for business intelligence. The next wave lies on the development of next generation applications over social and enterprise data together and providing cloud based data services to end-users and enterprises. This new area opens up many challenging research and practical problems from data semantics to conflict resolution to data integration.This conference is aiming at bringing together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and exchange their thoughts, latest research results and industry experiences in this area. The conference will focus on the one hand on the novel methods and techniques of sharing / integration of information, data and knowledge and on the other hand on novel applications based on these techniques in different domainsThe following topics are of interest, but not limited to:Data Semantics Data Interoperability Data Federation Ontology alignment and integration Spatio-temporal aspects of data sharing and integration Event based information sharing and integration Data Mash-up techniques Scientific Mash-ups/Interoperation of scientific data Organizational and governance aspects of data sharing and integration Synthesizing multiple knowledge models and networks Integration of Workflow Systems Learning Aspects of Knowledge Integration Data Management as a Service over cloud Context Oriented Information Integration Multi-agent based approaches Application of social network analysis techniques Sharing/integrating in the different application domains, such as Health, Finance, Retail, TelecomLocation Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Working Environment Future internet Important Dates (tentative)Submission Deadline: April 14th , 2011 Author Notification: May 15th , 2011 Author Registration: May 25th , 2011 Camera ready version due: June 15th, 2011 Conference: August 22nd - 26th, 2011 Submission GuidelinesAuthors are invited to submit research and application papers with the following Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the style at the following page: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting (information for authors) Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work. 1. full research/industrial/application paper (8 pages) 2. discussion paper (6 pages) 3. demo paper (6 pages) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. 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.Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/.Program Committee Co-ChairsMukesh Mohania, IBM Research Lab, India A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria_______________________________________________ AISWorld mailing list AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org

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CFP First International Confernce in Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)
by Y. P. 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Call for PapersFirst international Conference on Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)Vienna University of Technology, August 22nd to 26th 2011 Integration and sharing of data, information and knowledge is a fundamental corner stone for every business to take right decisions for their growth. Today, information is shared across organizations and then correlated to their business matrix for business intelligence. The next wave lies on the development of next generation applications over social and enterprise data together and providing cloud based data services to end-users and enterprises. This new area opens up many challenging research and practical problems from data semantics to conflict resolution to data integration.This conference is aiming at bringing together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and exchange their thoughts, latest research results and industry experiences in this area. The conference will focus on the one hand on the novel methods and techniques of sharing / integration of information, data and knowledge and on the other hand on novel applications based on these techniques in different domainsThe following topics are of interest, but not limited to:Data Semantics Data Interoperability Data Federation Ontology alignment and integration Spatio-temporal aspects of data sharing and integration Event based information sharing and integration Data Mash-up techniques Scientific Mash-ups/Interoperation of scientific data Organizational and governance aspects of data sharing and integration Synthesizing multiple knowledge models and networks Integration of Workflow Systems Learning Aspects of Knowledge Integration Data Management as a Service over cloud Context Oriented Information Integration Multi-agent based approaches Application of social network analysis techniques Sharing/integrating in the different application domains, such as Health, Finance, Retail, TelecomLocation Based Applications Mobile Computing Mobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Working Environment Future internet Important Dates (tentative)Submission Deadline: April 1st , 2011 Author Notification: May 15th , 2011 Author Registration: May 25th , 2011 Camera ready version due: June 15th, 2011 Conference: August 22nd - 26th, 2011 Submission GuidelinesAuthors are invited to submit research and application papers with the following Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the style at the following page: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting (information for authors) Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work. 1. full research/industrial/application paper (8 pages) 2. discussion paper (6 pages) 3. demo paper (6 pages) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. 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.Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/.Program Committee Co-ChairsMukesh Mohania, IBM Research Lab, India A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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CFP First International Confernce in Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)
by Y. P. 22 Mar '11

22 Mar '11

Call for PapersFirst international Conference on Massive Information Sharing and Integration (MISI 2011)Vienna University of Technology, August 22nd to 26th 2011 Integration and sharing of data, information and knowledge is a fundamental corner stone for every business to take right decisions for their growth. Today, information is shared across organizations and then correlated to their business matrix for business intelligence. The next wave lies on the development of next generation applications over social and enterprise data together and providing cloud based data services to end-users and enterprises. This new area opens up many challenging research and practical problems from data semantics to conflict resolution to data integration.This conference is aiming at bringing together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss and exchange their thoughts, latest research results and industry experiences in this area. The conference will focus on the one hand on the novel methods and techniques of sharing / integration of information, data and knowledge and on the other hand on novel applications based on these techniques in different domainsThe following topics are of interest, but not limited to:Data Semantics Data Interoperability Data Federation Ontology alignment and integration Spatio-temporal aspects of data sharing and integration Event based information sharing and integration Data Mash-up techniques Scientific Mash-ups/Interoperation of scientific data Organizational and governance aspects of data sharing and integration Synthesizing multiple knowledge models and networks Integration of Workflow Systems Learning Aspects of Knowledge Integration Data Management as a Service over cloud Context Oriented Information Integration Multi-agent based approaches Application of social network analysis techniques Sharing/integrating in the different application domains, such as Health, Finance, Retail, TelecomLocation Based ApplicationsMobile ComputingMobile Ad Hoc Collaborative Working EnvironmentFuture internetImportant Dates (tentative)Submission Deadline: April 1st , 2011 Author Notification: May 15th , 2011 Author Registration: May 25th , 2011 Camera ready version due: June 15th, 2011 Conference: August 22nd - 26th, 2011 Submission GuidelinesAuthors are invited to submit research and application papers with the following Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the style at the following page: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting (information for authors) Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work. 1. full research/industrial/application paper (8 pages) 2. discussion paper (6 pages) 3. demo paper (6 pages) Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition. 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.Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/.Program Committee Co-ChairsMukesh Mohania, IBM Research Lab, India A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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Call for Papers ARES 2011
by Y. P. 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

======= Call for Papers =======The Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (AReS 2011) http://www.ares-conference.euVienna University of Technology, AustriaAugust 22nd - 26th, 2011 ======= Conference =======The 6th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (“ARES – The International Security and Dependability Conference”) will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of IT-Security and Dependability. ARES will highlight the various aspects of security – with special focus on secure internet solutions, trusted computing, digital forensics, privacy and organizational security issues. 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.======= Important Dates =======Submission Deadline: March 7th, 2011Author Notification: April 18th, 2011Author Registration: June 1st, 2011Proceedings Version: June 1st, 2011Conference: August 22nd - 26th, 2011======= Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ======= Authorization and AuthenticationAvailability and ReliabilityBusiness Continuity & ResilienceCost/Benefit AnalysisCryptographyDependability Aspects for Special Applications (e.g. ERP-Systems, Logistics)Dependability Aspects of Electronic Government (e-Government)Dependability AdministrationDependability in Open Source SoftwareDesigning Security RequirementsDigital ForensicsE-Commerce DependabilityFailure PreventionIdentity ManagementIPR of Security TechnologyIncident Response and PreventionInformation Flow ControlInformation HidingInternet DependabilityInteroperability AspectsIntrusion Detection and Fraud DetectionLegal IssuesMobile SecurityNetwork and Organizational Vulnerability AnalysisNetwork SecurityPrivacy-Enhancing TechnologiesProcess based Security Models and MethodsRFID Security and PrivacyRisk planning, Analysis & AwarenessSafety Critical SystemsSecure Enterprise ArchitecturesSecurity Issues for Ubiquitous SystemsSecurity and Privacy in E-HealthSecurity and Trust Management in P2P and Grid applicationsSecurity and Privacy for Sensor Networks, Wireless/Mobile Devices and ApplicationsSecurity and UsabilitySecurity as Quality of ServiceSecurity in Distributed Systems / Distributed DatabasesSecurity in Electronic PaymentsSecurity in Electronic VotingSoftware Engineering of Dependable SystemsSoftware SecurityStandards, Guidelines and CertificationSurvivability of Computing SystemsTemporal Aspects of DependabilityThreats and Attack ModellingTrusted ComputingTools for Dependable System Design and EvaluationTrust Models and Trust ManagementVOIP, Wireless Security ======= Submission Guidelines =======Authors are invited to submit research and application papers with the following Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. You can confirm the style at the following page: http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting (information for authors)Submission papers are classified into 3 categorizes representing original, previously unpublished work. 1. full paper (8 pages) 2. short paper (6 pages) 3. workshop paper (6 pages)Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, presentation and clarity of exposition.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. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper in the conference. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Services (CPS) - http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/.

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International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing - Call for Papers
by Jinjun Chen 17 Sep '10

17 Sep '10

First International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2010) Dec. 14-16, 2010, Chennai, India http://www.manjrasoft.com/ucc2010/ Held In Cooperation with: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Hosted/Supported by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Anna University Chennai, India * Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia * Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***************** CALL FOR PAPERS ***************** Introduction: ------------- Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditized and delivered in a manner similar to traditional utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services based on their requirements without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered. Several computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing vision and these include Grid computing, and more recently Cloud computing. Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these "clouds" are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centres, they are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads. To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances and industrial innovations in "Utility Computing" area, we have initiated this new conference series "International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference series has emerged out of the past two successful Cloud computing symposiums (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai, China; and Cloud 2010 held in Melbourne, Australia) and focuses on both principles of "Utility computing" and its practical realisation in industry in different forms including Cloud Computing. Conference Scope: ----------------- Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Principles of Utility Computing - Architectural Models for Utility Computing - *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service - Novel architectural models for cloud computing - Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks - Novel cloud programming models - Innovative cloud pricing models - Innovative cloud service models - Support for scalable and elastic cloud services - New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing - Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks - Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud - Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers - Cloud-related virtualization issues - Deployment, maintenance, and management of cloud resources and services - (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling - (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning - Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud - Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including Grids, and Clouds - Performance monitoring for cloud applications - Cloud use case studies - Scientific computing in the cloud - Business computing in the cloud - Social computing in the cloud Best Paper Award: ----------------- A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating from the Program Committee and external reviewers. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organised for selected best papers. PAPER SUBMISSION: ---------------- Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 ("eight") letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore. All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system: http://www.easychair.org/ CHAIRS & COMMITTEES ------------------- General Co-Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne & Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia Thamarai Selvi, Anna University Chennai, India Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA Program Committee Chair: Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Program Committee Vice-Chair Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Publicity Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University Cyber Chair Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: -------------------------- Adam Wierman California Institute of Technology, USA Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia Arun Agarwal University of Hyderabad, India Bastian Koller High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany Benny Rochwerger IBM Research, Israel Bruno Schulze Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, Brasil David Bernstein Huawei, USA Deepak Vij Huawei, USA Domenico Talia Università della Calabria, Italy Dongwan Shin New Mexico Tech, USA Eric Elmroth Umea University, Sweden Ewa Deelman ISI/USC, USA Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ignacio Llorente Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jemal Abawajy Deakin University, Australia Kris Bubendorfer Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Kyong Hoon Kim Gyeongsang National University. Korea Li Xiaorong Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Lizhe Wang Indiana University, USA Luis Miguel Vaquero Telefónica, Spain Luis Rodero-Merino INRIA, France Mark Baker University of Reading, UK Marty Humphrey University of Virginia, USA Masoud Sadjadi Florida International University, USA Massimo Villari University of Messina, Italy Omer Rana Cardiff University, UK Pawel Garbacki Google, USA Pethuru Raj Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) Ltd, India Radu Prodan University of Innsbruck, Austria Ramin Yahyapour University of Dortmund, Gemany Rob Gillen Oak Ridge National Lab, USA Rodrigo Calheiros University of Melbourne, Australia Sathish Vadhiyar Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India Saurabh Garg University of Melbourne, Australia Shrideep Pallickara Colorado State University, USA Siegfried Benkner Vienna University, Austria Simon Caton Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Srikumar Venugopal University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Timothy Wood University of Massachussetts-Amherst, USA TS Mohan Infosys Technologies, India Varia, Jinesh Amazon, USA Wei Tan Argonne National Laboratory , USA William Claycomb Sandia National Lab, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch DEISA (Europe) and Open Grid Forum (USA) Wolfgang Theilmann SAP, Germany Yeo Chee Shin Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yu Chen State University of New York - Binghamton, USA IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Papers Due: Sept. 30, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: Oct 20, 2010 Camera Ready Papers Due: Nov. 5, 2010 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Final CFP - WMSC2010 - Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing
by Jinjun Chen 14 Sep '10

14 Sep '10

The 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2010) 11-13 December 2010, Hongkong, China, http://www.swinflow.org/confs/wmsc/wmsc2010 in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2010) Deadline for Paper Submission: Sept. 20, 2010 Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2009 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Service based workflow modelling · Service Delivery and Composition · Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration · Quality of Services for workflow execution · Workflow verification and validation · Services Repository and Registry · Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution · Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution · Cloud workflow architecture · Cloud resource management · Scientific computing in the cloud · 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to conf.ljx(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2010 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CSE2010 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: Sept. 20, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2010 Camera Ready Copies: October 30, 2010 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen, SwinburneUniversity of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Committee Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany 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 Hannover, Germany Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia 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 C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, University of Chicago, USA Paul de Vrieze, Bournemouth University, UK Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Maggie Minhong Wang, Hong Kong University, China Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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CFP - WMSC2010 - Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing
by Jinjun Chen 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

The 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2010) 11-13 December 2010, Hongkong, China, http://www.swinflow.org/confs/wmsc/wmsc2010 in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2010) Deadline for Paper Submission: extended to September 20, 2010 Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2009 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Service based workflow modelling · Service Delivery and Composition · Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration · Quality of Services for workflow execution · Workflow verification and validation · Services Repository and Registry · Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution · Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution · Cloud workflow architecture · Cloud resource management · Scientific computing in the cloud · 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2010 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CSE2010 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and other quality international journals. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: extended to September 20, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2010 Camera Ready Copies: October 4, 2010 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Jinjun Chen,Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Committee Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany 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 Hannover, Germany Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia 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 C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, University of Chicago, USA Paul de Vrieze, Bournemouth University, UK Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Maggie Minhong Wang, Hong Kong University, China Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ ************************************************

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Call book chapters - Cloud computing: methodology, systems, and applications
by Jinjun Chen 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

*Cloud computing: methodology, systems, and applications* Editor: Lizhe Wang <http://sites.google.com/site/lizhewang/>, Rajiv Ranjan<http://sites.google.com/site/rranjans/>, Jinjun Chen <http://www.swinflow.org/>, *Boualem Benatallah* CRC, Taylor & Francis group <http://www.crcpress.com/> http://sites.google.com/site/cloudcomputingsystem/conference/cloudbook *Introduction* A computing Cloud is a set of network enabled services, providing scalable, QoS guaranteed, normally personalized, inexpensive computing infrastructures on demand, which could be accessed in a simple and pervasive way. Conceptually, users acquire computing platforms or IT infrastructures from computing Clouds and then run their applications inside. Therefore, computing Clouds render users with services to access hardware, software and data resources, thereafter an integrated computing platform as a service, in a transparent way. Users thus can on-demand subscribe to their favorite computing infrastructures with requirements of hardware configuration, software installation and data access demands. The Cloud computing distinguishes itself from other computing paradigms, like Grid computing, Global computing, Internet Computing in the following aspects: user-centric interfaces, on-demand service, QoS guaranteed offer, autonomous system organization, scalability and flexible services. This book is expected to serve as an important reference and a milestone for research on Cloud computing since 2007, when the term of “Cloud computing” was coined. We solicit survey & review papers, original research, technical implementation, and case studies in various fileds of Cloud computing. *About CRC* The history of the CRC, Taylor & Francis group <http://www.crcpress.com/> has paralleled the history of science. For 95 years the CRC publisher has recorded the accomplishments of pioneering thinkers and researchers across all of science and technology, while also providing the resources and tools needed by those seeking to continue that progress. Recognized as a pioneer in the scientific publishing industry, CRC Press maintains a reputation that is as extraordinary in its depth as it is global in its depth. The CRC Press reaches around the globe with authoritative coverage of traditional and emerging fields, publishing the pioneering achievements of science and technology to provide professionals and students with the resources they need to make further advances. *Topic of Interests* *Part 1: Fundamentals of Cloud computing * 1. Overview of Cloud computing methodology 2. Cloud computing : present, past, and the future 3. A taxonomy and survey study of Cloud computing systems and technologies 4. Cloud computing and Grid computing: a comparative study *Part 2: Enabling technology of Cloud computing * 5. Virtual infrastructure management for Cloud computing 6. Resource management for Cloud computing 7. Security, privacy and trust management issues for Cloud computing 8. Programming model for Cloud computing 9. Software as a Service 10. Interoperability in Cloud computing 11. Decentralized algorithms for service discovery and monitoring 12. Overlay networking in Clouds 13. SOA and QoS management for Cloud computing 14. Web portals for monitoring, and deploying Cloud applications 15. Stochastic fault-tolerance and reliability models for Cloud computing *Part 3: Cloud computing functionality and provisioning * 16. Energy-efficiency models for provisioning and migration of applications 17. Application performance models and auto-scaling approaches 18. Workflow service in Cloud computing 19. Workload models and dynamic learning technique for new behavior adaptation 20. Application performance models and auto-scaling approaches 21. Business model and market oriented Cloud computing *Part 4: Data Centric Computing Architectures and Service in Clouds * 22. Multi-tenancy 23. Data Privacy 24. Storage Architectures 25. Distributed and Parallel Query Processing 26. Data Availability and Reliability 27. Transactional Models 28. Data Integration between clouds 29. Data intensive computing in Clouds *Part 5: Case studies, applications and future discussion * 30. High performance computing applications in Clouds 31. Enterprise computing applications in Clouds 32. Bioinformatics application in Clouds 33. Water Threat Management at FutureGrid 34. The future of Cloud computing *Important Dates* • Book chapter proposal due: Sept. 15, 2010 • Notification of book chapter proposal: Sept. 30, 2010 • Book chapter due: Oct. 30, 2009 • Book chapter review return to authors: Nov 20, 2009 • Final version submission: Dec. 10, 2009 • Book publication: May 2010 *Book chapter submission* A book chapter proposal includes book chapter title, author names, contact information, abstract, and key words. A full version chapter includes book chapter title, abstract, key words, author names and contact information. A book chapter should not exceed *30*pages. Please strictly follow the book chapter organization guideline<http://www.crcpress.com/resources/downloads/AUTHORS_Pub_With_Us_Camera_Read…>. Here is the book chapter template in tex<http://sites.google.com/site/cloudcomputingsystem/conference/cloudbook/temp…> . Please submit your manuscript and proposal to: *http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudbook10* *Contact* Please address your queries to Dr. Lizhe Wang<http://sites.google.com/site/lizhewang/> (Lizhe.Wang at gmail.com) Dr. Rajiv Ranjan <http://sites.google.com/site/rranjans/> (rranjans at gmail.com) or Dr. Jinjun Chen (jinjun.chen at gmail.com) -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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AusPDC2011 - Call for papers: Deadline extended to 30 August 2010.
by Jinjun Chen 17 Aug '10

17 Aug '10

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2011) Perth, Australia, 17-20 January, 2011 http://www.swinflow.org/confs/auspdc2011/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Submission deadline: 30 August 2010 Type of submission: full research paper, full industry experience/demo paper, or extended abstract. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=auspdc2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2011) will be held in January, in Perth, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011. Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following this successful event, it comes to the 9th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Zhiyi Huang, Otago University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Kevin Lee, Murdoch University, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia Weifei Liang, Australian National University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Justin Rough, Deakin University, Australia Hong Shen, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Gaurav Singh, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Srikumar Venugopal, The University of New South Wales, Australia Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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CFP - WMSC2010 - Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing
by Jinjun Chen 13 Aug '10

13 Aug '10

The 2nd International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2010) 11-13 December 2010, Hongkong, China, http://www.swinflow.org/confs/wmsc/wmsc2010 in conjunction with the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE2010) Deadline for Paper Submission: August 31, 2010 Supported by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Workflow Management in Scalable Computing Environments As emerging paradigms, service and cloud computing enable resource to be employed in utility-based fashion. Workflow automating business and scientific processing in step by step can be executed in service and cloud computing environments in the benefit of deploying resources for execution in that fashion. This workshop following its successful edition of WMSC2009 aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as service computing, cloud computing and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. Topics 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 service and cloud computing environments. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: · Service based workflow modelling · Service Delivery and Composition · Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration · Quality of Services for workflow execution · Workflow verification and validation · Services Repository and Registry · Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution · Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution · Cloud workflow architecture · Cloud resource management · Scientific computing in the cloud · 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 Submission Requirements Please email your manuscripts in PDF to jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com with the email subject as “WMSC2010 paper submission”. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. 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 CSE2010 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publication of Papers All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and other quality international journals. Important Dates Deadline for Paper Submission: August 31, 2010 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2010 Camera Ready Copies: October 4, 2010 Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Program Committee (to be extended) Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Atta Badii, University of Reading, UK Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA Christoph Bussler, Merced Systems, Inc., USA Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Peter Dadam, University Ulm, Germany 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 Hannover, Germany Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand Robert C. H. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia 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 C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia Cesare Pautasso, The University of Lugano, Switzerland Sabri Pllana, University of Vienna, Austria Radu Prodan , University of Innsbruck, Austria David De Roure, University of Southampton, UK Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia Wei Tan, University of Chicago, USA Paul de Vrieze, Bournemouth University, UK Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Maggie Minhong Wang, Hong Kong University, China Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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Call for Papers - AusPDC2010
by Jinjun Chen 13 Jul '10

13 Jul '10

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2011) Perth, Australia, 17-20 January, 2011 http://www.swinflow.org/confs/auspdc2011/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 16 August 2010 Type of submission: full research paper, full industry experience/demo paper, or extended abstract. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=auspdc2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2011) will be held in January, in Perth, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011. Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following this successful event, it comes to the 9th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Zhiyi Huang, Otago University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Kevin Lee, Murdoch University, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia Weifei Liang, Australian National University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Justin Rough, Deakin University, Australia Hong Shen, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Gaurav Singh, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Srikumar Venugopal, The University of New South Wales, Australia Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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AusPDC2011 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2011) Perth, Australia, 17-20 January, 2011 http://www.swinflow.org/confs/auspdc2011/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 16 August 2010 Type of submission: full research paper, full industry experience/demo paper, or extended abstract. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=auspdc2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2011) will be held in January, in Perth, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011. Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following this successful event, it comes to the 9th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia Peter Bertok, RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Phoebe Chen, La Trobe University, Australia Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Michael Hobbs, Deakin University, Australia Jiankun Hu, RMIT University, Australia Zhiyi Huang, Otago University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Australia Weifei Liang, Australian National University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Justin Rough, Deakin University, Australia Hong Shen, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Gaurav Singh, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Srikumar Venugopal, The University of New South Wales, Australia Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan, University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ *************************************************

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AusPDC2011 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 11 May '10

11 May '10

------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2011) Perth, Australia, 17-20 January, 2011 http://www.swinflow.org/confs/auspdc2011/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 16 August 2010 Type of submission: full research paper, full industry experience/demo paper, or extended abstract. Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences?conf=auspdc2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 9th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2011) will be held in January, in Perth, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 17-20 January 2011. Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following this successful event, it comes to the 9th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee (To be extendd): Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Lin Padgham, RMIT, Australia Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN506e, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ The best university in Melbourne for Teaching Quality The Good Universities Guide 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 *************************************************

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Fwd: Last Call Working Draft Announcement
by David Snelling 31 Mar '10

31 Mar '10

Folks, You all may recall the history of OGSI and WSRF/WSN. Well here is the final chapter in the saga. Anyone interested in this work (which started life in GGF days) should take this opportunity to read and comment. W3C is a completely open organization, so forward this notice to anyone you know who might be interested. Begin forwarded message: > Resent-From: public-ws-resource-access(a)w3.org > From: Bob Freund <bob.freund(a)hitachisoftware.com> > Date: 31 March 2010 18:45:41 BST > To: chairs(a)w3.org > Cc: Yves Lafon <ylafon(a)w3.org>, public-ws-resource-access(a)w3.org, > Chris Kaler <ckaler(a)microsoft.com>, mmcintosh(a)acm.org, Alain Regnier > <alain(a)ussj.ricoh.com>, Toby Nixon <toby.nixon(a)microsoft.com>, Devon.Kemp(a)cda.canon.com > , Marc Goodner <mgoodner(a)microsoft.com>, Anthony Nadalin <tonynad(a)microsoft.com > >, Michael.Jones(a)microsoft.com, Lawrence Lamers > <ljlamers(a)vmware.com>, Josh Cohen <joshco(a)microsoft.com>, Mikkel > Hippe Brun <mhb(a)itst.dk>, Xiao Chuan <cxiao(a)fudan.edu.cn>, Mike > Edwards <mike_edwards(a)uk.ibm.com>, Paul Fremantle <paul(a)wso2.com>, > Jonathan Marsh <jonathan(a)wso2.com>, Michael McIntosh <mikemci(a)us.ibm.com > > > Subject: Last Call Working Draft Announcement > > (1) This is a Last Call Working Draft transition announcement for > the following six Recommendation Track specifications: > > (2) Document Titles and URIs > > Web Services Enumeration > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-enumeration-20100330/ > > Web Services Event Descriptions > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-event-descriptions-20100330/ > > Web Services Eventing > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-eventing-20100330/ > > Web Services Fragment > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-fragment-20100330/ > > Web Services Metadata Exchange > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-metadata-exchange-20100330/ > > Web Services Transfer > http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-ws-transfer-20100330/ > > > (3) Instructions for providing feedback > > If you wish to make comments regarding these specifications please > send them to public-ws-resource-access-comments(a)w3.org which is an > email list publicly archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access-comments/ > > (4) Review end date > > The last Call period for these documents ends on May 11, 2010 > > (5) A reference to the group's decision to make this transition > > The Web Services Resource Access Working Group made the decision for > this transition at its teleconference on March 16, 2010 see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/10/03/2010-03-16.html#item04 > > (6) Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements. > Include a link to requirements > > The Web Services Resource Access Working Group believes that these > specifications satisfy the requirements of the working group's > charter at http://www.w3.org/2008/11/ws-ra-charter.html > > (7) The names of groups with dependencies, explicitly inviting > review from them. > > The following groups are known or suspected to have dependancies on > one or more of these specifications: > > DMTF Web Services for Management Management http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wsman/ > OASIS Web Services Discovery and Web Services Devices Profile http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-dd > OASIS Identity Metasystem Interoperability http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=imi > OASIS Web Services Federation http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsfed > > The Web Services Resource Access Working Group requests review from > each of these working groups. The chairs and secretaries of the > working group listed have been copied on the distribution list of > this transition announcement as well as other individuals known to > have expressed prior interest. > > > (8) Report of any Formal Objections > > The Working Group received one Formal Objection during the > preparation of these specifications > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ws-resource-access/2009Jun/0014.… > > The technical content of this Formal Objection was subsequently > raised as a new issue http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7015 > and re-examined. > It was decided by the working group on 2009-10-27 on a 5:3 vote to > close this issue with no action see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/10/2009-10-27.html#item08 > > Another related issue was raised as http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7911 > and was closed without action by a consensus decision on 2009-12-01 > see http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ra/9/12/2009-12-01.html#item04 > > (9) Patent Disclosure Page Link can be found at http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/43088/status > > This Transition Announcement has been prepared according to the > guidelines concerning such announcements at http://www.w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt/xslt?xmlfile=http://www.w3.org/2005/0… > > Regards > Bob Freund, > chair W3C Web Services Resource Access Working Group > email: Bob.Freund(a)hitachisoftware.com > > Take care: Dr. David Snelling < David . 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HPCC 2010 CFP
by Jinjun Chen 18 Mar '10

18 Mar '10

12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (IEEE HPCC-10) September 1-3, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.anss.org.au/hpcc2010 Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (SAGE, indexed by SCI and EI) and International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience). [Call For Papers] ----------------- With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. The HPCC-2010 conference is the 12th edition of the highly successful International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC). It provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC-10 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing. HPCC-10 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), previously held as HPCC-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), HPCC-08 (DaLian, China, September 2008), HPCC-07 (Houston, USA, September 2007), HPCC-06 (Munich, Germany, September 2006), HPCC-05 (Naples, Italy, September 2005), HPCN-04 (Tokyo, Japan, December 2004), PACT-SHPSEC03 (New Orleans, USA, September 2003), PACT-SHPSEC02 (Charlottesville, USA, September 2002), HPCA-01 (Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2001), HPNCA-00(Delft, The Netherlands, May 2000), HPNCA-99 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1999). HPCC 2010 will be held in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2002, Melbourne has been consistently ranked in the top three 'World's Most Livable Cities' by The Economist. [Topics] -------- * Languages and compilers for high performance computing * Parallel and distributed system architectures * Parallel and distributed software technologies * Parallel and distributed algorithms * Embedded systems * Peer-to-peer computing * Grid and cluster computing * Web services and internet computing * Performance evaluation and measurement * Tools and environments for software development * Distributed systems and applications * High-performance scientific and engineering computing * Database applications and data mining * Biological/molecular computing * Collaborative and cooperative environments * Mobile computing and wireless communications * Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence * Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance * Trust, security and privacy [Important Dates] ----------------- Workshop proposal due: March 31, 2010 Paper submission due: April 15, 2010 Author notification: May 31, 2010 Camera-ready due: June 21, 2010 Conference date: September 1-3, 2010 [Submission Guidelines] ----------------------- Submissions must include an abstract, five to ten keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 15 pages, including tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. 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. Prepare your paper with free styles not more than 15 pages in PDF file. Submit your paper(s) at the HPCC-10 submission site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc10/sub/ Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press (indexed by EI). Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers will 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 the following international journals: International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (SAGE, indexed by SCI and EI), International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (Inderscience). More journals will be announced soon. [Committees] ------------ General Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Erwin Laure, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Darren J. Kerbyson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Program Chairs Yang Xiang, Central Queensland University, Australia Fatos Xhafa, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Panel Chair Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Workshop Chairs Salvatore Venticinque, Second University of Naples, Italy Liang Zhou, ENSTA-ParisTech, France Yong Meng Teo , National University of Singapore, Singapore Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy -- ************************************************* Dr. Jinjun Chen Senior Lecturer CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ The best university in Melbourne for Teaching Quality The Good Universities Guide 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 ************************************************

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(Extended) Call for Chapters - Computational & Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications
by Nikolaos Preve 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Chapters --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, We would like to introduce you to a forthcoming edited book which focuses on the "Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications" and to invite you to submit a chapter proposal or a paper before December 30. Please feel free to forward this message to your colleagues if any of them would be interested in this edited book. Let us know if you have any questions regarding this matter. Thanks for your consideration. Nikolaos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: -Extended- December 30, 2009 Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications A book edited by Nikolaos Preve (PhD) National Technical University of Athens, Greece To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=748 Introduction Grid computing is the next generation information technology infrastructure that promises to transform the way organizations and individuals compute, communicate and collaborate. Grid computing is an evolution of distributed computing and it refers to a large-scale high-performance computing which combines distributed heterogeneous computing resources and the result is a unique large virtual supercomputer with a vast amount of shared processing power and data storage. Considering the enormous amount of these underutilized computing resources, the necessity of a grid infrastructure is compulsory. A computational grid provides access to users who want to utilize the shared processing resources in order to efficiently apply high throughput applications on distributed machines. The second most common shared resource used in a grid is data storage and it is known as data grid. This type of grid provides distributed storage capacity such as attached memory to the processor, hard disk drives or other types of permanent storage. Grid computing can assist grid users in order to utilize to the maximum computing resources by applying tasks and solving a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or the need to process large amounts of data. Objective of the Book This book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and will cover the latest empirical research findings in the area of grid computing. The goal of this book is to represent theoretical frameworks, methodologies, implementations, and cutting edge research findings with a critical perspective bridging the gap between academia and the latest achievements of the computer industry. It will be written for professionals, as well as students, who are involved or interested in the study, use, design, and development of grid computing and want to improve and empower their understanding of it. Also, this book aims to help researchers and developers understand the basics of the field, to highlight the various developments over the years in the field by giving an in depth analysis of grid networks. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals, engineers, researchers and students who are interested and working in the field of grid computing. Moreover, the book will provide insights and can serve as both literature at an undergraduate level and as an overview of the area. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1.Theories, definitions, methodologies, models, applications, simulations, and architectures relevant to grid computing 2.Implementations of computational grids, data grids, sensor and mobile grids 3.Grid data storage, grid databases, data management, and data mining 4.Indexing and query optimization over grid databases 5.Grid middleware 6.Web services 7.Security, cryptography, and cryptanalysis 8.Artificial intelligence 9.Algorithms 10.Scheduling, resource management, and optimization 11.Workflow and fault tolerance 12.Programming in grid computing 13.Cloud computing and grids 14.Grid computing in scientific problems (i.e. astrophysics, chemistry, economy and finance, electromagnetics, geophysics, meteorology, numerical analysis, statistics) Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 30, 2009, a 1-2 page chapter clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. We also highly encourage early full chapter submissions. Please include the title of the book in the subject line of your e-mail. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2010 about the status of their proposals and will be sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 31, 2010 or earlier. All submitted chapters must not have been published elsewhere and will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least two referees. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. 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 2010. Important Dates December 30, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline January 15, 2010: Notification of Acceptance March 31, 2010: Full Chapter Submission June 15, 2010: Review Results Returned August 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission September 15, 2010: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Nikolaos Preve (PhD) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Zographou, Greece Tel.: +30 211 770 8053 - GSM: +30 697 750 4197 E-mail: nikpreb(a)mail.ntua.gr with cc to: Editorial Board E-mail: editorialt(a)gmail.com

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(EXTENDED) Call for Chapters - Computational & Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications
by Nikolaos Preve 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Chapters --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, We would like to introduce you to a forthcoming edited book which focuses on the "Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications" and to invite you to submit a chapter proposal or a paper before December 30. Please feel free to forward this message to your colleagues if any of them would be interested in this edited book. Let us know if you have any questions regarding this matter. Thanks for your consideration. Nikolaos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR CHAPTERS Proposal Submission Deadline: -Extended- December 30, 2009 Computational and Data Grids: Principles, Designs, and Applications A book edited by Nikolaos Preve (PhD) National Technical University of Athens, Greece To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=748 Introduction Grid computing is the next generation information technology infrastructure that promises to transform the way organizations and individuals compute, communicate and collaborate. Grid computing is an evolution of distributed computing and it refers to a large-scale high-performance computing which combines distributed heterogeneous computing resources and the result is a unique large virtual supercomputer with a vast amount of shared processing power and data storage. Considering the enormous amount of these underutilized computing resources, the necessity of a grid infrastructure is compulsory. A computational grid provides access to users who want to utilize the shared processing resources in order to efficiently apply high throughput applications on distributed machines. The second most common shared resource used in a grid is data storage and it is known as data grid. This type of grid provides distributed storage capacity such as attached memory to the processor, hard disk drives or other types of permanent storage. Grid computing can assist grid users in order to utilize to the maximum computing resources by applying tasks and solving a scientific or technical problem that requires a great number of computer processing cycles or the need to process large amounts of data. Objective of the Book This book aims to provide relevant theoretical frameworks and will cover the latest empirical research findings in the area of grid computing. The goal of this book is to represent theoretical frameworks, methodologies, implementations, and cutting edge research findings with a critical perspective bridging the gap between academia and the latest achievements of the computer industry. It will be written for professionals, as well as students, who are involved or interested in the study, use, design, and development of grid computing and want to improve and empower their understanding of it. Also, this book aims to help researchers and developers understand the basics of the field, to highlight the various developments over the years in the field by giving an in depth analysis of grid networks. Target Audience The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals, engineers, researchers and students who are interested and working in the field of grid computing. Moreover, the book will provide insights and can serve as both literature at an undergraduate level and as an overview of the area. Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following: 1.Theories, definitions, methodologies, models, applications, simulations, and architectures relevant to grid computing 2.Implementations of computational grids, data grids, sensor and mobile grids 3.Grid data storage, grid databases, data management, and data mining 4.Indexing and query optimization over grid databases 5.Grid middleware 6.Web services 7.Security, cryptography, and cryptanalysis 8.Artificial intelligence 9.Algorithms 10.Scheduling, resource management, and optimization 11.Workflow and fault tolerance 12.Programming in grid computing 13.Cloud computing and grids 14.Grid computing in scientific problems (i.e. astrophysics, chemistry, economy and finance, electromagnetics, geophysics, meteorology, numerical analysis, statistics) Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before December 30, 2009, a 1-2 page chapter clearly explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter. We also highly encourage early full chapter submissions. Please include the title of the book in the subject line of your e-mail. Authors will be notified by January 15, 2010 about the status of their proposals and will be sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by March 31, 2010 or earlier. All submitted chapters must not have been published elsewhere and will undergo a double-blind peer review by at least two referees. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. 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 2010. Important Dates December 30, 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline January 15, 2010: Notification of Acceptance March 31, 2010: Full Chapter Submission June 15, 2010: Review Results Returned August 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission September 15, 2010: Final Deadline Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to: Nikolaos Preve (PhD) School of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens, 15773 Zographou, Greece Tel.: +30 211 770 8053 - GSM: +30 697 750 4197 E-mail: nikpreb(a)mail.ntua.gr with cc to: Editorial Board E-mail: editorialt(a)gmail.com

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SERVICE DISCOVERY IN GRID
by Adebola Musa 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Good day to you, I am Adebola Musa, from Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. I am working in "service discovery in grid". Can u respond pls if you are working in this area or similar area, so we can discuss on the state of art with respect to this issue. I can also be reached through bola_musa(a)yahoo.com , adebola.musa(a)covenantuniversity.com Thank you & God bless. Rgds Adebola Musa (Tel: +234 803 571 8078)

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AusPDC2010 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2010) Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rajivr/auspdc2010/<http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7Erajivr/auspdc2010/> in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010 Submission deadline: 31 August 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2010) will be held in January, in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010. Scope of the Symposium AusGrid event has been broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence it will be called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) from 2010. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: David Abramson, Monash University Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide Neil Gemmell, University of Otago, NZ Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Jane Hunter, University of Queensland Martin Johnson, Massey University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Laurent Lefevre, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University Piyush Maheshwari, Perot Systems Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/ <http://www.swinflow.org/%7Ejchen/>

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AusPDC2010 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 18 Jul '09

18 Jul '09

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2010) Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rajivr/auspdc2010/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2010) will be held in January, in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010. Scope of the Symposium AusGrid event has been broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence it will be called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) from 2010. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: David Abramson, Monash University Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide Neil Gemmell, University of Otago, NZ Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Jane Hunter, University of Queensland Martin Johnson, Massey University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Laurent Lefevre, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University Piyush Maheshwari, Perot Systems Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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AusPDC2010 - Call for papers
by Jinjun Chen 12 Jun '09

12 Jun '09

------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2010) Brisbane, Australia, January 18-22, 2010 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~rajivr/auspdc2010/ in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview/Scope: The 8th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed (AusPDC 2010) will be held in January, in Brisbane, Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week, 18-22 January 2010. Scope of the Symposium AusGrid event has been broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence it will be called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC) from 2010. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include but not limited to: * Multicore * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Cluster computing * Grid computing * Green computing * Cloud computing * Peer-to-peer computing * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Runtime systems * Operating systems * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * Applications and e-Science The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Best Paper Award: A best paper award sponsored by Manjrasoft Pty. Ltd, Australia will be presented to a paper receiving the highest quality rating. In addition, a special issue in a high quality international journal will be organized for selected best papers. Program Committee Chairs: - Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology - Rajiv Ranjan, University of Melbourne Program Committee: David Abramson, Monash University Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK David Bannon, Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Paul Coddington, University of Adelaide Neil Gemmell, University of Otago, NZ Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Kenneth Hawick, Massey University, NZ John Hine, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Jane Hunter, University of Queensland Martin Johnson, Massey University, NZ Nick Jones, University of Auckland, NZ Laurent Lefevre, University of Lyon, France Andrew Lewis, Griffith University Piyush Maheshwari, Perot Systems Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Srikumar Venugopal, University of New South Wales Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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FW: Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0 document
by Vivian Lee 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Hi All, This is the final call for the attached "Interoperability experiences with the OGSA BP WSRF 1.0 document, please send me any comments before this Friday. Many Thanks, Vivian ______________________________________________________________________ Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited Hayes Park Central, Hayes End Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 8FE Registered No. 4153469 This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of addressee(s) and may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Unauthorised use or copying for disclosure is strictly prohibited. The fact that this e-mail has been scanned by Trendmicro Interscan and McAfee Groupshield does not guarantee that it has not been intercepted or amended nor that it is virus-free.

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IEEE APSCC 09 Call for Workshop Proposals
by Chai Teck Yoong 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

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Fwd: Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0 document
by David Snelling 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

______________________________________________________________________________ Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited Hayes Park Central, Hayes End Road, Hayes, Middlesex, UB4 8FE Registered No. 4153469 This e-mail and any attachments are for the sole use of addressee(s) and may contain information which is privileged and confidential. Unauthorised use or copying for disclosure is strictly prohibited. The fact that this e-mail has been scanned by Trendmicro Interscan and McAfee Groupshield does not guarantee that it has not been intercepted or amended nor that it is virus-free.

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Call for papers - NPC2009
by Jinjun Chen 08 Feb '09

08 Feb '09

Call for Papers - The 6th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2009) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/npc09. Submission deadline: April 15, 2009 Details can be referred to the conference website - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/npc09. Best Wishes, Jinjun -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0 document
by Hiro Kishimoto 07 Feb '09

07 Feb '09

Hi all, Our experience document, Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF BP 1.0, completes public comments period with minor comment. > Modified on 02/04/2009 by Greg Newby > Status: - New: "Author Action Needed" Old: "Editor Review: Initial" > Assigned To: - New: "Hiro Kishimoto" Old: "Joel Replogle" > > Comment was added: > There was a fairly minor comment that you will probably want to > address. Then, please upload the new/final document, and email or > set the tracker back to me. We'll be able to go ahead with > publication. Vivian: Please review the comment and tell us your response proposal. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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JSDL Generation Tool Available
by Mark Morgan 05 Feb '09

05 Feb '09

I have just completed a project which Andrew and I thought might be of interest to some of you. We are now supporting an application we call JSDLTool which aids users in creating new JSDL documents for certain types of applications and which can be used to create a series of JSDL files for an application in a parameter sweep scenario. Those keeping up with the mailing list regarding the OGF work on parameter sweeps will notice that our method of dealing with Parameter Sweeps is quite different and this stems largely from the fact that we've been doing parameter sweeps in Genesis II since nearly the beginning of the project's lifetime. As the standards work with parameter sweeps moves forward this tool may be retrofitted to support the new standard as well. In the meantime, this tool produces a batch of jsdl files, one each for each instantiation of the application inside of the parameter space. Any one interested in the application can find information about it as well as links for source code, documentation, and the application itself at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~vcgr/wiki/index.php/JSDLTool -Mark

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[Fwd: IETF O&M Area MIB2RMDL proposal]
by Hiro Kishimoto 04 Feb '09

04 Feb '09

FYI Very interesting work on standardizing a methodology to convert SNMP MIBs to SOA/WS resource model artifacts (tagged as "MIB to Resource Model Description Language" (MIB2RMDL), using "Language" very loosely in this context). -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Final CFP: SOCASE @ AAMAS 2009
by Jinjun Chen 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS'08 and AAMAS'07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ●Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems ●Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development ●Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration ●Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes ●Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering ●Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography ●Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery ●Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements ●Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems ●Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned ●Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution ●Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springer's LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMAS'08 and AAMAS'07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMAS'06, AAMAS'05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMAS'04 and AAMAS'03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: •Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems •Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development •Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration •Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes •Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering •Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography •Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery •Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements •Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems •Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned •Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution •Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springer's LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh International Workshop on SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING: AGENTS, SEMANTICS, AND ENGINEERING (SOCASE) http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/ to be held at the Eighth International Joint Conference on AUTONOMOUSAGENTS AND MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (AAMAS-2009) Budapest, Hungary, May 10 - 15, 2009 (http://www.conferences.hu/AAMAS2009/) IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline 25 January 2009 Acceptance notification 25 February 2009 Camera-ready deadline 05 March 2009 Workshop held 10 or 11 May 2009 DESCRIPTION The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the recent significant developments at the intersections of Multi-agent Systems, Semantic Technology, and Service-oriented Computing, and to promote cross-fertilization of techniques. In particular, the workshop aims at identifying techniques from Multi-agent System and Semantic Technology research that will have the greatest impact on automating service-oriented application construction and management, focusing on critical challenges such as service quality assurance, reliability, and adaptability. The Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering (SOCASE) workshop continues the theme of the previous SOCASE workshops successfully held at AAMASג€™08 and AAMASג€™07, the SOCABE workshops held at AAMASג€™06, AAMASג€™05 and the WSABE workshops held at AAMASג€™04 and AAMASג€™03, with an expanded theme reflecting the wide spectrum of issues of the cross section between agent-based and service-oriented paradigms. TOPICS We invite papers on all aspects relating to the overlap of Agent Technology, Semantic Web services, and Service-oriented Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ג— Agent-oriented architectures, frameworks, and infrastructures for distributed service-oriented software and Semantic Web systems ג— Agent-oriented modeling and design methods and tools for service-oriented software and Semantic Web development ג— Web services and Semantic Web technologies and standards for multi-agent system design, development and integration ג— Agent-enabled adaptation, evolution, and optimization of services and processes ג— Agent-based service description, advertisement, matchmaking, discovery, and brokering ג— Agent-based service composition, orchestration, and choreography ג— Agent-based monitoring and exception-handling for service execution and delivery ג— Agent-based negotiation and management of Quality of Service and Service Level Agreements ג— Deployment and distribution of agent-based service systems and service-oriented agent systems ג— Agent-based service business models, application scenarios and demos (e.g. in e-Business, e-Science, Enterprise, Telecom, etc.), and lessons learned ג— Ontology matching for service discovery, negotiation, orchestration, composition, and execution ג— Ontology generation, hearing and reasoning, and ontology-oriented dynamic mediation among agents SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION Submission is to be done electronically. The detailed instructions will be provided at the SOCASE'09 web page http://www.swin.edu.au/hosting/socase2009/. Contact Zakaria Maamar (Zakaria.Maamar(a)zu.ac.ae) for help if required. The papers should be formatted according to LNCS specification and submitted as PDF files. Instructions and templates can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Two types of submissions are available: regular submissions of length 3000-4000 words (approx. 8-12 printed pages) and position papers of length 1200-2000 words (approx. 4-6 printed pages). Position papers (and some regular papers) may be presented as part of themed discussion panels; preference may be given to position papers that take strong or challenging positions on important emergent topics. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by three reviewers per paper. Selection criteria will include: relevance, significance, impact, originality, technical soundness, quality of presentation. Some preference may also be given to papers which address emergent trends or important common themes, or which enhance balance of workshop topics. Since this is associated with the AAMAS conference, accepted papers must be of real relevance to the multi-agent research community. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Similarly to the previous years the SOCASE 2009 proceedings will be published with Springerג€™s LNCS, subject to an appropriate number and quality of submissions. A selection of best papers will also be invited to submit extended and enhanced versions of the papers to a special issue of a major international journal. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University, Australia Michael Huhns, University of South Carolina, USA Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Quoc Bao Vo, Swinburne University, Australia Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Swinburne University (point of contact: mohanbaruwal(a)gmail.com)

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Re: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February
by Andrew Grimshaw 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

All, I can't type, it should be an "_" not a"-", i.e., www.ogf.org/OGSA_Primer" A _____ From: Steven Newhouse [mailto:Steven.Newhouse@cern.ch] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 3:10 PM To: Andrew Grimshaw Subject: RE: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February Does that page work for you? I get a 404. Steven Dr Steven Newhouse EGEE Technical Director http://cern.ch/Steven.Newhouse From: ogsa-wg-bounces(a)ogf.org [mailto:ogsa-wg-bounces@ogf.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Grimshaw Sent: 21 January 2009 17:02 To: ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org; OGSA-BES(a)ogf.org Subject: [ogsa-wg] IEEE OGSA computer article in February All, The long awaited IEEE Computer article is coming out in the next few days. The article points to a web page at OGF, www.ogf.org/OGSA-Primer that has more in depth information as well as pointers to specs, other documents, and if you want, pointers to your project pages if you have implemented one of JSDL, OGSA-BES, RNS, HPC-BP, WS-Naming, OGSA-ByteIO, WS-DAI, OGSA -WR-BP You might recall that there was a table (that we sent around many, many times), that included a list of groups that had implemented one or more of the above specifications and profiles. If you have done an implementation and would like a link to your project to be included, please send me the project name and URL and I will include it. A Crown Fujitsu USMT Genesis II Gfarm gLite[1] Globus GridSAM Microsoft CCS NAREGI OGSA-DAI Platform UNICORE 6 _____ _____ _____ _____ [1] The gLite entries refer to prototype implementations that are not a part of the current distribution.

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IEEE OGSA computer article in February
by Andrew Grimshaw 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

All, The long awaited IEEE Computer article is coming out in the next few days. The article points to a web page at OGF, www.ogf.org/OGSA-Primer that has more in depth information as well as pointers to specs, other documents, and if you want, pointers to your project pages if you have implemented one of JSDL, OGSA-BES, RNS, HPC-BP, WS-Naming, OGSA-ByteIO, WS-DAI, OGSA -WR-BP You might recall that there was a table (that we sent around many, many times), that included a list of groups that had implemented one or more of the above specifications and profiles. If you have done an implementation and would like a link to your project to be included, please send me the project name and URL and I will include it. A Crown Fujitsu USMT Genesis II Gfarm gLite[1] Globus GridSAM Microsoft CCS NAREGI OGSA-DAI Platform UNICORE 6 _____ _____ [1] The gLite entries refer to prototype implementations that are not a part of the current distribution.

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Call for Papers - ICWM2009
by Jinjun Chen 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

Call for Papers: ICWM2009 - 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm, 4-8 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland. As requested, submission deadline is extended to: January 25 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Other selected papers will be invited to a book to be published by Nova Science Publishers in its book series on Process and Workflow Management and Applications. Details can be referred to the workshop website http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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Call for Papers - ICWM2009
by Jinjun Chen 17 Dec '08

17 Dec '08

Call for Papers: ICWM2009 - 4th International Workshop on Workflow Management http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm, 4-8 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland. Submission deadline: January 15 2009. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. Selected papers will be invited to special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Other selected papers will be invited to a book to be published by Nova Science Publishers in its book series on Process and Workflow Management and Applications. Details can be referred to the workshop website http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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FW: HPDC 2009 - Please help us distribute the CFP
by Andrew Grimshaw 01 Dec '08

01 Dec '08

All, Might be a good place to publish your results with interop, etc. A

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It's time to say good bye
by Michel Drescher 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Folks, as some of you may know already I am moving on in my career, and will leave Fujitsu in mid-December. As my new duties will most likely have me not do any Grid/Cloud Computing business anymore it is also time to step down from OGF activities. It has been a pleasure working with you, and I definitely enjoyed the time I spent on mailing lists, in meeting rooms, and conference venues all around the world. And yes, I think we achieved some good results, too. ;-) I will hang around for some more, and keep my account on Gridforge, but don't expect active contributions anymore as I will also cease subscriptions to mailing lists. You may drop me the occasional E-Mail (via Gridforge!) - and bet on the odds of a reply. :-) Cheers, Michel P.S.: Sorry for cross-posting. P.P.S.: *sniff* -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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Take a look at my Facebook Profile
by Guruprasad Nagaraja 22 Nov '08

22 Nov '08

I set up a Facebook Profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile. Thanks, Guruprasad To join Facebook, please use the link below: http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=694235682&k=56156ZPYVW3M5GC1UB63TW&r

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OGSA WSRF BP experience document enters public comment review
by Hiro Kishimoto 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

Hi all, OGSA WSRF BP experience document now enters public comment review. http://www.ogf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Documents/2008-10/OGSA-WSRF-BP-Inter… http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=281 Please solicit your constituents to provide public comments, even simple affirmative comments ("I have read this, and it reflects our interests"). Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Mail System Error - Returned Mail
by humphrey＠cs.virginia.edu 20 Nov '08

20 Nov '08

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Call for Papers ICWM2009
by Jinjun Chen 09 Nov '08

09 Nov '08

Call for papers: ICWM2009 (4th International Workshop on Workflow Management) - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. Submission deadline: January 5, 2008. Publication: Workshop papers will be published by IEEE CS. Selected papers will be published by Special Issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience and Journal of Computer and System Sciences. Details can be referred to the conference website http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ICWM2009/ICWM2009.htm. -- Dr. Jinjun Chen Lecturer in Information Technology CS3 - Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology, 1, Alfred Street, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9214 8739 Fax: +61 3 9819 0823 Office: EN508a, Engineering Building, Hawthorn Campus Email: jinjun.chen(a)gmail.com URL: http://www.swinflow.org/~jchen/

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Final call for Interop Experiences doc with OGSA WSRF BP 1.0
by Hiro Kishimoto 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi all, This is the final call for Interoperability Experiences with the OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 for initial submission to the OGF Editor. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15275 Please comment on the list by Oct. 17. This version (draft 09) includes some minor modifications from the Vivian's draft 08. Edit-logged version is also available on GridForge. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Revised ISV Remote Computing Primer - Final Call
by Steven Newhouse 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

The public comment period for this document is over. Three comments were received: 1. Inaccurate information relating to gLite standards support. --> This has been corrected. 2. Support for REST in job submission. --> This document is a primer based upon existing specifications. None of the specifications considered have a REST like interface. This is therefore out of scope of this document. 3. Improving the DRMAA section (3.2) --> Correction in 3.2 to the shared file system statement. In section 3.2.2 for the need for the DRMAA library being needed across the cluster is clarified. The role of DRMAA within higher level APIs such as SAGA is described. An updated version of this document in available - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.ogsa-wg/d… Any objections to the handling of these changes must be reported to this list by Wednesday 24th September 2008 - at which point this revised version will be submitted to the editor for publications. Thanks, Steven & Andrew

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Apologies
by Andrew Grimshaw 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

All, I sincerely apologize for missing the information services session yesterday. I completely forgot about it until I got Hiro's voice mail. A

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SLA examples
by Omer F. Rana 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Dear Colleagues, I was wondering if you have examples of: 1. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that you have come across in any format. 2. If you have SLAs that have arisen from your own research/development projects that you are willing to share. 3. If you have SLAs that are encoded in WS-Agreement or some other commonly used specification. I would like to create a repository of these, and will be making this generally accessible. Would be grateful for pointers/examples.A personal email to o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk would be great. regards Omer -- http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/index.html / work-fax:+44(0)29-2087-4598 work:+44(0)29-2087-5542 / other:+44(0)7956-299981 / distributed collaborative computing / room n2.14 / school of computer science / cardiff university queen's buildings / newport road / cardiff cf24 3aa / wales / uk

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OGF24 ISV remote computing usage primer session
by Hiro Kishimoto 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Hi all, The following is the dial-in information for OGF24 ISV primer session which will be led by Steven Newhouse. Sept. 16 (Tue) 8:00pm CDT Sept. 16 (Tue) 9:00pm EDT Sept. 17 (Wed) 9:00am SGT Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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OGF24 Information Services session
by Hiro Kishimoto 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hi all, The following is the dial-in information for OGF24 Information Services session which will be led by Andrew Grimshaw. Sept. 14 (Sun) 8:00pm CDT Sept. 14 (Sun) 9:00pm EDT Sept. 15 (Mon) 9:00am SGT Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Invitation to OGSA Info Services session
by Donal K. Fellows 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

The OGSA working group would like to invite all members of the OGSA Resource Selection Services and GLUE working groups to attend the session at OGF24 on Information Services. Right now, it is scheduled for the first session on Monday morning, but that might change (there's a clash with the RSS session, which we're going to try to get Joel to sort out) so check for yourselves when things are closer to the time. Donal.

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FYI: 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing
by Hiro Kishimoto 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi all, Interesting blog article on cloud computing. http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/03/13/15-ways-to-tell-its-not-cloud-c… -- Hiro Kishimoto 15 Ways to Tell Its Not Cloud Computing If you peel back the label and its says “Grid” or “OGSA” underneath… its not a cloud. If you need to send a 40 page requirements document to the vendor then… it is not cloud. If you can’t buy it on your personal credit card… it is not a cloud If they are trying to sell you hardware… its not a cloud. If there is no API… its not a cloud. If you need to rearchitect your systems for it… Its not a cloud. If it takes more than ten minutes to provision… its not a cloud. If you can’t deprovision in less than ten minutes… its not a cloud. If you know where the machines are… its not a cloud. If there is a consultant in the room… its not a cloud. If you need to specify the number of machines you want upfront… its not a cloud. If it only runs one operating system… its not a cloud. If you can’t connect to it from your own machine… its not a cloud. If you need to install software to use it… its not a cloud. If you own all the hardware… its not a cloud.

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Public Comments Sought: ISV Remote Computing Usage Primer
by Steven Newhouse 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

All, The Independent Software Vendor Remote Computing Usage Primer (http://www.ogf.org/Public_Comment_Docs/Documents/2008-07/ISV-V93.pdf) is currently in public comment. Abstract below: This document provides information to the Independent Software Vendor (ISV) community as to how specifications from the Open Grid Forum and other standard setting organizations (SSO) can be used to support Remote Computing scenarios. It does not define any standards or technical recommendations. Please read and make public comments by the 1st September 2008 through http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/comment.php?id=271 Many thanks, Steven & Andrew

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Minutes August 28, 2008
by David Snelling 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Folks, Here they are, sorry about the abnormal format. Roll call : Andrew, Sergio, Michel, Donnal, Hiro, Steven, Dave Agenda Bashing: OK Singapore: - Sergio, Michel, Steven, Hiro, Donnal. - OGSA Sessions: Mon 09:00, Wed 9:15. - Andrew will join by phone. New Action: Hiro: Talk to Joel about fixing clash with RSS, Check for clashes with GLUE-WG. Minutes for Aug 7: Approved. Action Review: - Sergio: Action is done, see below. - Dave: Overview of CMDBf activity, done see below. - Andrew: Simple port type addition of push with slides, pending. Sergio: CEMon From his mail: 1. CEMon website: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/ 2. the WSDL documentation is here: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/wsdl/ 3. the service is mainly targeted at push/pull mode delivery of events; 4. the GetTopicEvent includes options such as "dialect", which enables to specify which format you want the info 5. there is a visibility concept, to define who can access what (user, group, other like in linux: group can be a VO) 6. the service interface can be easily extended to include the query expression and the query format Andrew asked about access to multiple sources of information. The default is only one resource per CEMon. Publication is through LDAP, via BDII using Open LDAP, as a registry. At the moment there is no security framework, so only public information is available. The web site has a good set of slides. CMDBf Discussion: Dave presented the draft spec of CMDBf to the OGSA group o The presented draft is available from the website www.cmdbf.org o Eclipse project “Cosmos” implements variety of management functions (http://www.eclipse.org/cosmos/) § Aim to provide a client compliant to the CMDBf and MDR port types o CMDBf do not provide an Information Model, OGSA needs one Hiro: This is a kind of directory or information source. What is the difference in target of OGSA-IS and CMDBf? Dave: Most differences are about the use cases. CMDBf mainly discusses non-volatile or dynamic information as OGSA-IS does, although the CMDBf specs do not preclude this. OGSA IS talks more about jobs submitted, jobs status and resource availability. Andrew: The IS discussion is around for a while. CMDBf looks very powerful but also intimidating. Are we over-engineering this problem? Maybe we adopt the WS-DAI family of specs (because they are fairly simple)? Would we then profile on the available information models available? Dave: Almost the same question arose at the starting of the CMDBf Working Group. The group resolved that WS-DAI would be too much to swallow for the group to handle (Dave did not agree with that). The management scope dramatically narrows down the focus of IM/IS applicability General thought: The port type for an IS is not the problem – it is the information model that typically is the problem AOB: Invitations to Info session: BES/HPCBP implementers, GLUE developers, Info Service developers, RSS people, and possibly JSDL people. New Action: Donnal: Send invitations to GLUE-WG, RSS-WG after the scheduling problems have been fixed. New Action: Steven: Provide slides for the ISV Primer session. Next Call: No call for Info before OGF24. Take care: Dr. David Snelling < David . Snelling . UK . Fujitsu . com > Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe Limited Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44-208-606-4649 (Office) +44-7768-807526 (Mobile)

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[Invitation] Information Services @ Thu Aug 28 9am – 10am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: Information Services Time: Thu Aug 28 9am – 10am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When:10-11am EDT, 9-10am CDT, 7-8am PDT, 11pm-midnight JST, 3-4pm UK Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes approval: Aug. 7 call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15314 Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) Simple strawman portType Andrew provides a strawman port type definition https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15316 4) Generic query interface Sergio provides a reference to a work performed by colleagues in Padova about generic query interface 5) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=OTB2YnJ2cDZyNDFidmFnYm… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Minutes 7 August 2008
by Michel Drescher 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Folks, please find on Gridforge (http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15314?nav=1 ) and attached the minutes for yesterday's teleconference. Cheers, Michel -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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Info Service design team - reference about CEMon
by Sergio Andreozzi 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

Hi Hiro, I'm sending you the info about the following action: > Sergio: Could you provide a reference to a work performed by > colleagues in Padova about generic query interface? The service I refer to is CEMon (Luigi Zangrando in copy is the designer). Here is a summary of the info: 1. CEMon website: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/ 2. the WSDL documentation is here: http://grid.pd.infn.it/cemon/wsdl/ 3. the service is mainly targeted at push/pull mode delivery of events; 4. the GetTopicEvent includes options such as "dialect", which enables to specify which format you want the info 5. there is a visibility concept, to define who can access what (user, group, other like in linux: group can be a VO) 6. the service interface can be easily extended to include the query expression and the query format Cheers, Sergio -- Sergio Andreozzi INFN-CNAF, Tel: +39 051 609 2860 Viale Berti Pichat, 6/2 Fax: +39 051 609 2746 40127 Bologna (Italy) Web: http://www.cnaf.infn.it/~andreozzi

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[Invitation] Information Services @ Thu Aug 7 9am – 10am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 07 Aug '08

07 Aug '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: Information Services Time: Thu Aug 7 9am – 10am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When:10-11am EDT, 9-10am CDT, 7-8am PDT, 11pm-midnight JST, 3-4pm UK Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes approval: July 17 call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15299 Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) Simple strawman portType Andrew provides a strawman port type definition 4) Generic query interface Sergio provides a reference to a work performed by colleagues in Padova about generic query interface 5) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=aW1sZmJyNm1hb2NsNzVocD… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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ISV Remote Computing Usage Primer
by Steven Newhouse 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

An updated version of the document http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.ogsa-wg/d… following the comment during final group review, has been uploaded to GridForge and submitted to the editor. Steven

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ISVs Remote Computing Usage Primer - FINAL CALL
by Steven Newhouse 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Over the last few months the 'ISV Remote Computing Usage Primer' has matured. The current draft can be found here - http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/docman/do/downloadDocument/projects.ogsa-wg/d… We believe this version is ready for submission to the OGF Editor for public comment. We are therefore making a FINAL CALL for working group comments before submission. This will expire at midnight (Pacific) July 30th 2008. Please make your comments to the list before this date. Thanks, Steven & Andrew

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Fwd: [tc-announce] Public Review of WS-Trust v1.4, WS-SecureConversation v1.4, and WS-SecurityPolicy v1.3
by Tom Scavo 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

[sorry for cross-posting] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae(a)oasis-open.org> Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:46 AM Subject: [tc-announce] Public Review of WS-Trust v1.4, WS-SecureConversation v1.4, and WS-SecurityPolicy v1.3 To: members(a)lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce(a)lists.oasis-open.org Cc: ws-sx(a)lists.oasis-open.org To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists: The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC has recently approved the following specifications as Committee Drafts and approved the package for public review: WS-Trust Version 1.4 WS-SecureConversation Version 1.4 WS-SecurityPolicy Version 1.3 The public review starts today, 24 July 2008, and ends 23 September 2008. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization and to other appropriate mail lists. More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-sx. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ws-sx. Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at: http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx-comment/. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. The specification documents and related files are available here: WS-Trust Version 1.4 Editable Source (Authoritative): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/cd/ws-trust-1.4-spec-cd-01.d… PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/cd/ws-trust-1.4-spec-cd-01.p… HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/cd/ws-trust-1.4-spec-cd-01.h… Schema: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/cd/ws-trust.xsd WS-SecureConversation Version 1.4 Editable Source (Authoritative): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-securecon… tion-1.4-cd-01.doc PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-securecon… tion-1.4-cd-01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/v1.4/cd/ws-securecon… tion-1.4-cd-01.html Schema: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-secureconversation/200512/ws-secureconv… ion-1.3.xsd WS-SecurityPolicy Version 1.3 Editable Source (Authoritative): http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/v1.3/cd/ws-securitypolic… -spec-cd-01.doc PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/v1.3/cd/ws-securitypolic… -spec-cd-01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/v1.3/cd/ws-securitypolic… -spec-cd-01.html Schema: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/v1.3/cd/ws-securitypolic… OASIS and the Web Services Secure Exchange (WS-SX) TC welcome your comments. --------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae(a)oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tc-announce-unsubscribe(a)lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: tc-announce-help(a)lists.oasis-open.org

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[Fwd: [members] Public Review of WS-Trust v1.4, WS-SecureConversation v1.4, and WS-SecurityPolicy v1.3]
by Hiro Kishimoto 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

FYI -- Hiro Kishimoto

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OGF24 session plan
by Hiro Kishimoto 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi all, At this Monday call, we discussed what topics we will discuss at the OGF24 and created the following session plan. Session 1: ISV remote computing usage primer ISV primer is expected to be under public comment review at OGF24. We will present, discuss and encourage ISVes to adopt OGF specifications in their product. We will also discuss how to use GLUE by ISV. Session owner: Steven Newhouse Session 2: OGSA Information Services Based on the series of discussion on OGSA information services, Andrew and his student are now writing up basic information services interface. We will review their draft and discuss how to combine it with GLUE and usability in the real world situation. Session owner: Andrew Grimshaw Please let us know what you think. We value your input. Thanks, -- Hiro Kishimoto

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ISV HTC Primer - Review Needed
by Steven Newhouse 21 Jul '08

21 Jul '08

All, Attached is an updated version of the ISV HTC primer following on from today's call. We believe we have reached consensus on this informational document providing advice on some specific scenarios relating to running applications and have identified some open issues for further discussion. Please review and provide feedback. We would like to reach group consensus on this document within the next few weeks. Regards, Steven

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[Invitation] ISV HPC primer @ Mon Jul 21 6pm – 7pm ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 20 Jul '08

20 Jul '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: ISV HPC primer Time: Mon Jul 21 6pm – 7pm (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 7-8pm EDT, 6-7pm CDT, 4-5pm PDT, 8-9am JST, midnight-1am UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes for approval July 7th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15283 Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) OGF24 sessions Review topics and participants for OGF24 Session request deadline is July 25 4) ISV HPC usage primer (Steven Newhouse) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15209 5) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=aDZza251bzhqZjEwc3Zzcj… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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[Invitation] info services @ Thu Jul 17 9am – 10am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: info services Time: Thu Jul 17 9am - 10am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When:10-11am EDT, 9-10am CDT, 7-8am PDT, 11pm-midnight JST, 3-4pm UK Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes approval: July 3rd call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15280 Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) GLUE usecase Review GLUE use cases and other scenarios to drive what are the key problems we should be tackling. GLUE use cases to drive discussion ‐ http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14621 GIN INFO document: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14497 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NTVwbGo5YjVtcmxmYzF0Z3… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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ISV HTC Primer
by Steven Newhouse 07 Jul '08

07 Jul '08

Revised version for today's call. Steven

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Fwd: [tc-announce] Public Review of WS-SecurityPolicy v1.2 Errata - 15 day review
by Tom Scavo 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mary McRae <mary.mcrae(a)oasis-open.org> Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 10:38 PM Subject: [tc-announce] Public Review of WS-SecurityPolicy v1.2 Errata - 15 day review To: members(a)lists.oasis-open.org, tc-announce(a)lists.oasis-open.org Cc: ws-sx(a)lists.oasis-open.org To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists: The OASIS Web Services Secure Exchange TC has recently approved the following errata as a Committee Draft and approved the package for public review: WS-SecurityPolicy 1.2 The public review starts today, 6 July 2008, and ends 21 July 2008. This is an open invitation to comment. We strongly encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. More non-normative information about the specification and the technical committee may be found at the public home page of the TC at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=ws-sx. Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=ws-sx. Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are publicly archived and can be viewed at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/ws-sx-comment/. All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. The specification document and related files are available here: Existing Standard: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… spec-os.html Standalone Errata: Editable Source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… errata-cd-01.doc PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… errata-cd-01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… errata-cd-01.html Merged Errata: Editable Source: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… spec-errata-cd-01.doc PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… spec-errata-cd-01.pdf HTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… spec-errata-cd-01.html The schema files are available at: Existing Standard: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy…. xsd Errata: http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-securitypolicy/200702/ws-securitypolicy… errata-cd-01.xsd OASIS and the WS-SX TC welcome your comments. --------------------------------------------------- Mary P McRae Manager of TC Administration, OASIS email: mary.mcrae(a)oasis-open.org web: www.oasis-open.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tc-announce-unsubscribe(a)lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: tc-announce-help(a)lists.oasis-open.org

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OGSAInfo03July08
by Steven Newhouse 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Notes from today's telecom. Steven

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[Invitation] ISV HPC primer @ Mon Jul 7 6pm – 7pm ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: ISV HPC primer Time: Mon Jul 7 6pm – 7pm (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 7-8pm EDT, 6-7pm CDT, 4-5pm PDT, 8-9am JST, midnight-1am UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes for approval May 29th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15263 June 30th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15270 OGF23 workshop: Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) ISV HPC usage primer (Steven Newhouse) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15209 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=dWdlZmdzaTRndWJvcDNuYW… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Glue Use Case Document
by Hiro Kishimoto 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14621

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glue use case document url
by Donal K. Fellows 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

http://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14621?nav=1

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GIN-INFO Experience Document
by Hiro Kishimoto 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi all, The following is the URL for GIN-INFO Experience Document. https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc14497 -- Hiro Kishimoto

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[Invitation] info service @ Thu Jul 3 9am – 10am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: info service Time: Thu Jul 3 9am – 10am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: invite GIN-CG When:10-11am EDT, 9-10am CDT, 7-8am PDT, 11pm-midnight JST, 3-4pm UK Dial-in numbers: US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes approval: OGF23 session minutes: http://www.ogf.org/OGF23/materials/1287/OGF23OGSA-WGsessionminutes.doc Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) Information Services Given that major OGSA info/data modeling architecture work has been done, WG thought it is a time to revive Information Services work and get GIN/GLUE involvement at OGF23 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MGx1N3RrdTdhNmo0ZWZmcm… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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[Invitation] WSRF BP interop @ Thu Jul 3 8am – 9am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: WSRF BP interop Time: Thu Jul 3 8am – 9am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 9-10am EDT, 8-9am CDT, 6-7am PDT, 10-11pm JST, 2-3pm UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review (see the bottom of this agenda) Minutes approval May 15th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15216 May 29th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15264 June 20th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15266 Action Item review http://forge.ogf.org/short/ogsa-wg/ailist 3) Experimental document review(Vivian Li) 4) Review of updated WSRF BP recommendation document http://www.ogf.org/pipermail/ogsa-wg/2008-June/003296.html 5) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=ZzJvOGZsbnV2MnBpdGZvdW… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Meeting minutes from today's call
by Hiro Kishimoto 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hi all, Meeting minutes from Today's ISV HTC usage primer call. Thanks, ---- Hiro Kishimoto OGSA Teleconference - 30 June 2008 - ISV HTC Usage Primer ========================================================= * Participants Steven Newhouse Narfi Stefansson Andrew Grimshaw Andreas Savva Hiro Kishimoto * Summary of New Actions ACTION: Andrew will ask Joel on spec adaption table on OGF web site. * Document review (version 0.6) Steven goes over revised documents and takes notes during discussions. Steven will revise and send it out to WG. Narfi proposes to have a link to live spec adaption table on OGF web site. ACTION: Andrew will ask Joel on spec adaption table on OGF web site. * Next call July 7 (Monday) 6-7pm

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ISV Primer Document
by Steven Newhouse 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

All, New version of the document for today's call with the major restructuring discussed at OGF 23. Steven

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OGSA WSRF Basic Profile 1.0 draft 49 (document revision 46)
by Michel Drescher 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Folks, after revising the previous draft at FLE, we came up with a solution to the WS-BaseNotification issue, that we believe would cause even less disruption and re-implementation of existing code. Please find the new draft revision attached. Summary: After careful re-examination of the WS-BaseNotification specification family, Vivian found that the text defining the Simple dialect does not contain any clear normative text mandating the exact serialisation of topic QName when using this dialect (i.e. no "MUST" etc. in the text). However, the specification indicates in the XML Schema that the authors of the specification may have had an element-based rendering in mind. The specification contains an XML *type* definition for the Simple dialect. it does not, however, contain the XML *element* definition to use for the Simple dialect. Therefore we argue that it indeed is possible to re-use the WS- BaseNotification dialect URI and XML type definition, and to introduce an OGSA BP specific XML element of the BaseNotification data type. This way, implementers will have to tool up only one new XML element, and some application logic to extract the topic QName (should be quite trivial regardless the tooling framework). The attached draft reflects this argument. Cheers, Michel -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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Guidelines for Information Modeling for OGSA Entities
by Hiro Kishimoto 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hi all, "Guidelines for Information Modeling for OGSA Entities" is now published as GFD.118. http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final Fred: Thank you very much for your excellent work. -- Hiro Kishimoto

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[Invitation] ISV HTC primer @ Mon Jun 30 6pm – 7pm ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: ISV HTC primer Time: Mon Jun 30 6pm – 7pm (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 7-8pm EDT, 6-7pm CDT, 4-5pm PDT, 8-9am JST, midnight-1am UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes for approval May 29th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15263 OGF23 workshop: Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) ISV HPC usage primer (Steven Newhouse) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15209 Draft for OGF23 workshop. 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=OWJlc3BxdmQ0bTQ1MHMyaW… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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[Cancelled Event] ISV HTC primer @ Mon Jun 23 6pm – 7pm ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hiro Kishimoto cancelled the following event: Title: ISV HTC primer Time: Mon Jun 23 6pm – 7pm (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 7-8pm EDT, 6-7pm CDT, 4-5pm PDT, 8-9am JST, midnight-1am UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes for approval May 15th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15260 OGF23 workshop: Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) ISV HPC usage primer (Steven Newhouse) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15209 Draft for OGF23 workshop. 4) AoB You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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[Invitation] ISV HPC primer @ Mon Jun 23 6pm – 7pm ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: ISV HPC primer Time: Mon Jun 23 6pm – 7pm (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 7-8pm EDT, 6-7pm CDT, 4-5pm PDT, 8-9am JST, midnight-1am UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review Minutes for approval May 15th call: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15260 OGF23 workshop: Action Item review https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/tracker/do/listArtifacts/projects.ogsa-wg/tr… 3) ISV HPC usage primer (Steven Newhouse) https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/doc15209 Draft for OGF23 workshop. 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=ZDZvNjV2M20ydmZwYXE0cj… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Updated WSRF Basic Profile 1.0, draft 45
by Michel Drescher 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Guys, following-up to today's call, I had another go at the profile document. I found several more occurrences of "ResourcePropertyNames" etc, and I removed them. Please find attached the new draft 45, available for comments. Cheers, Michel -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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Teleconference minutes - 29 May 2008
by Andreas Savva 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Minutes attached. I'll upload later. -- Andreas Savva OGSA Teleconference - 29 May 2008 - ISV HTC Usage Primer ======================================================== * Participants Donal Fellows Steven Newhouse Ellen Stokes Narfi Stefansson Andrew Grimshaw Andreas Savva * Summary of New Actions ACTION: Andreas to provide JSDL SPMD and Parameter Sweep text ACTION: Andrew will provide overview of OGSA BSP 2.0 ACTION: Andreas will check whether NAREGI supports for BES * May 15 minutes approved with no changes * Document review (version 0.3) Document updated by Steven during the call. ACTION: Andreas to provide JSDL SPMD and Parameter Sweep text - Section 4: Implementation architecture - Client: Added that security mechanisms may be required - Byte-IO is only needed if delivering interim results - Table: Removed WS-DAI, WSRF BP as they are not used ACTION: Andrew will provide overview of OGSA BSP 2.0 ACTION: Andreas will check whether NAREGI supports for BES The document will be reviewed at the OGF23 session - Steven will add line numbers - Donal will send Steven the OGF template * OGF23 sessions - Andrew will lead SDK/API - Steven will lead the middle section OGSA Teleconference - 28 May 2008 - WSRF BP Interop =================================================== * Participants Joe Bester Donal Fellows Tom Howe Vivian Lee Andreas Savva Apologies: Michel Drescher, Mark Morgan, Hiro Kishimoto * Summary of New Action ACTION: Vivian will ask each project to check the table and update their information ACTION: Tom will update the Globus entries ACTION: Andreas will ask Mark about getting the Genesis II endpoint back up ACTION: Vivian will check with Michel that the example is complete and correct * Postponed minutes approval * Interop document review - Fix header information. Andreas will send Vivian an example. - Delete 'Obsoletes' section as it is not applicable - Table 1 needs update by each project ACTION: Vivian will ask each project to check the table and update their information - Interop tables need update with final results from each project. ACTION: Tom will update the Globus entries ACTION: Andreas will ask Mark about getting the Genesis II endpoint back up - Formatting: Make identified issues into sections - English: Change 'discovered' to 'identified' - WS-Notification example seems incomplete. ACTION: Vivian will check with Michel that the example is complete and correct - Contributors section needs update. Add at least Tom Howe, Dave Snelling. Vivian will prepare an update version before the OGF23 OGSA session next week.

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[Invitation] WSRF BP interop @ Thu Jun 19 8am – 9am ()
by Hiro Kishimoto 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org, you are invited to Title: WSRF BP interop Time: Thu Jun 19 8am – 9am (Timezone: Central Time) Calendar: Description: When: 9-10am EDT, 8-9am CDT, 6-7am PDT, 10-11pm JST, 2-3pm UK The dial-in number; US: +1 718 3541071 (New York) or +1 408 9616509 (San Jose) UK: +44 (0)207 3655269 (London) Japan: +81 (0)3 3570 8225 (Tokyo) Germany: +49 (0)69 50070802 (Frankfurt) Switzerland: +41 (0)1 8009574 (Zurich) PIN: 4371991 See more information: - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1477 Screen share service: URL: http://ogsa.glance.net/ Usage: https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1584 Note: ** OGF IPR POLICY APPLIES ** http://www.ogf.org/About/abt_policies.php 1) Early discussion Note taker assignment - https://forge.gridforum.org/sf/go/wiki1848 Roll call Agenda bashing 2) Minutes approval and AI review (see the bottom of this agenda) Minutes approval May 29th call: Action Item review http://forge.ogf.org/short/ogsa-wg/ailist 3) Experimental document status (Vivian Li) 4) AoB You can view this event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=azA4N2psNWo4OHRkc3JyOT… You are receiving this courtesy email at the account ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org because you are an attendee of this event. To stop receiving future notifications for this event, decline this event. Alternatively you can sign up for a Google account at http://www.google.com/calendar/ and control your notification settings for your entire calendar.

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Two security profiles are published as GFD
by Hiro Kishimoto 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hi Duane and OGSA-WG, Two security profiles are published as GFD. GFD.132: Secure Communication Profile 1.0 GFD.131: Secure Addressing Profile 1.0 http://www.ogf.org/gf/docs/?final Thank you very much for your excellent work. -- Hiro Kishimoto

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Re: [ogsa-wg] [DRMAA-WG] Grid Command Line interfaces
by Daniel Templeton 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

DRMAA is narrowly focused on offering an API, but as was already pointed out, as soon as you have a Perl binding (which we do), the API itself also becomes a set of commands. Daniel Andre Merzky wrote: > Well, DRMAA is an API specification as well, so does not > really define command line tools in the spec. There are a > number of tools available, but I am not qualified to say if > the DRMAA group intended to have a complete API mapping, or > plan to standardize these tools, etc. > > Cc to the DRMAA group, maybe they have input on the topic... > > Quoting [Omer F. Rana] (Jun 04 2008): > >> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:35:13 +0100 >> From: "Omer F. Rana" <o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk> >> To: Andre Merzky <andre(a)merzky.net> >> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Grid Command Line interfaces >> >> Hi Andre, >> >> Thanks. It might be useful to understand the relationship between these >> and commands provided >> in DRMAA perhaps? Just a thought. >> >> best wishes >> Omer >> >> Andre Merzky wrote: >> >>> Hi Omer >>> >>> Quoting [Omer F. Rana] (Jun 04 2008): >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Doesn't DRMAA already do this? >>>> >>>> Andre: I thought the aim of SAGA was to provide a programmatic >>>> API rather than a command line tools interface? >>>> >>>> >>> Of course, you are perfectly right. However, several people >>> (including our won group) use SAGA for the purpose to write >>> such command line tools (which are then middleware >>> independent), and thus we considered mappings from the SAGA >>> API to command line tools since quite a while... >>> >>> Best, Andre. >>> >>> >>> >>>> regards >>>> Omer >>>> >>>> Steven Newhouse wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> It may make sense to define common tools for job: >>>>> >>>>> Submit >>>>> Status >>>>> Terminate >>>>> >>>>> I'm not sure what broader interest we would have to do generic SAGA >>>>> commands. >>>>> >>>>> Steven >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>> From: Andre Merzky [mailto:andre@merzky.net] >>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:48 PM >>>>>> To: Steven Newhouse >>>>>> Cc: Andre Merzky; ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org; ogsa-hpcp-wg(a)ogf.org >>>>>> Subject: Re: [ogsa-wg] Grid Command Line interfaces >>>>>> >>>>>> Quoting [Steven Newhouse] (Jun 04 2008): >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> is a SAGA command line binding something you would >>>>>>>> conider worth pursuing? We actually started to do >>>>>>>> something like that, in a pet project... >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Do you mean the ability to implement any defined command >>>>>>> line interface using the SAGA APIs? (i.e. internal to the >>>>>>> command) Or To define a set of command line tools to cover >>>>>>> elements of the SAGA API? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> The latter. For example, for the SAGA call >>>>>> >>>>>> class saga::filesystem::file >>>>>> { >>>>>> void copy (saga::url src, saga::url tgt, it flags); >>>>>> } >>>>>> >>>>>> define the command line tool >>>>>> >>>>>> saga_file_copy [flags] <src> <tgt> >>>>>> >>>>>> flags: >>>>>> session related flags >>>>>> -s|--session <s> run command in session s >>>>>> -c|--context <c> use context c >>>>>> >>>>>> operational flags >>>>>> -a|--async=<Sync|Async|Task> >>>>>> use async mode Sync, Async or Task >>>>>> default is Sync >>>>>> call specific flags >>>>>> -r|--recursive copy recursively >>>>>> -o|--overwrite overwrite target if exists >>>>>> ... >>>>>> >>>>>> So, the command line tools would basically reflect what we >>>>>> define in the SAGA API spec, with a set of flags which are >>>>>> consistent for all command line tools such defined. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> A session could look like: >>>>>> >>>>>> # saga_create_context --name=my_context --type=UserPass --user=anon >>>>>> <prompts for password> >>>>>> >>>>>> # saga_create_session --name my_session --add_context=my_context >>>>>> >>>>>> # /bin/date | saga_file_cat --session=my_session --write >>>>>> gsiftp://localhost/tmp/in.dat >>>>>> >>>>>> # saga_file_copy --session=my_session gsiftp://localhost/tmp/in.dat >>>>>> gsiftp://remotehost/tmp/out.dat >>>>>> >>>>>> # saga_file_cat --session=my_session gsiftp://remotehost/tmp/out.dat >>>>>> Wed Jun 4 14:43:27 CEST 2008 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> or, with some default assumptions of course (default session >>>>>> and context): >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> # /bin/date | saga_file_cat --write gsiftp://localhost/tmp/in.dat >>>>>> # saga_file_copy gsiftp://localhost/tmp/in.dat >>>>>> gsiftp://remotehost/tmp/out.dat >>>>>> # saga_file_cat gsiftp://remotehost/tmp/out.dat >>>>>> Wed Jun 4 14:43:27 CEST 2008 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Best, Andre. >>>>>> >>>>>> PS.: As for option (a) of yours: yes, that would be trivial to >>>>>> implement in SAGA :-) Well, at least it would be easy (one >>>>>> needs to add some magick for state management, to keep track >>>>>> of async ops and security credentials between separate calls >>>>>> to different tools. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> Steven >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Nothing is ever easy. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> ogsa-wg mailing list >>>>> ogsa-wg(a)ogf.org >>>>> http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogsa-wg >>>>>

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Updated WSRF BP document
by Michel Drescher 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Folks, in some spare time I dared updating the WSRF BP Word document as taken from Gridforge. Please find the new version attached (draft 47, document revision 44) - I feel uneasy trying to put it on Gridforge... Please comment. Cheers, Michel -- Michel Drescher Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, Ltd. Hayes Park Central Hayes End Road Hayes, Middlesex UB4 8FE Reg. No. 4153469 +44 20 8606 4834 Michel.Drescher(a)uk.fujitsu.com

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Grid Command Line interfaces
by Steven Newhouse 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

At the discussion in the workshop today we discussed defining a command line interface to interact with the HPCBP/BES service. Oxana pointes us to these tools generated by Nordu Grid. > I meant the NorduGrid's ARC CLI and API. The "classic" pre-BES CLI and > API are documented here: > > http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/ui.pdf > http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/arclib.pdf > > and the new BES-compatible prototypes here: > > http://www.nordugrid.org/documents/arc1-clients.pdf > > Hope it helps, > Oxana

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Re: [ogsa-wg] Grid Command Line interfaces
by Hugo Mills 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:48:25PM +0100, Omer F. Rana wrote: > Andre: I thought the aim of SAGA was to provide a programmatic > API rather than a command line tools interface? If you're a shell programmer (as I tend to be these days), the command-line tools *are* the API binding for the language... Hugo. -- Hugo Mills <hugo(a)soton.ac.uk | hugo(a)omii.ac.uk> OMII-UK, Southampton, SO18 1NP, UK

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