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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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