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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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