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BCCA 2024: Sixth International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications, Dubai, UAE
by Müge Erel-Özçevik 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

*THE 6TH **International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications* *(*BCCA 2024*)* https://bcca-conference.org/ <https://bcca-conference.org/2024/index.php> 26–29 November 2024 – Dubai, UAE Blockchain is a revolutionary technology in decentralized systems that enables secure decentralized transaction processing while ensuring data privacy and authenticity. It is now playing a significant role in several areas such the Internet of Things, supply-chain management, manufacturing, cyber-physical systems, healthcare systems, and much more. Unlike centralized transaction processing solutions, blockchain uses a distributed ledger mechanism to record data transactions on multiple devices, this will prevent data breach, identity theft, and a plethora of cyber-related attacks, in essence, leading to a sustainability in data privacy and security. This conference aims at to attract work of both researchers and practitioners in the area of cyber-security to share and exchange their experiences and research studies in both academia and industry in the field of blockchain. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: · *Track 01: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning* · *Track 02: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems* · *Track 03: Big Data* · *Track 04: Security and Privacy on the Blockchain* · *Track 05: Metaverse and Digital Twin* · *Track 06: IoT Network Security* · *Track 07: Blockchain Research & Applications for Innovative Networks and Services* *Submission Guidelines* There are three categories of submission in the Main track: - *Long papers:* 7-8 pages. - *Short papers:* 5-6 pages. - *Poster papers (Undergrad):* 1-2 pages. *Submission Link: *https://edas.info/N31868 *Important dates* - Paper submission deadline: March 15th,2024, - Notification of paper acceptance: May 15th, 2024 - Submission of camera-ready papers due: July 1st, 2024 *Tutorials/Demos Important dates:* - Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Workshop dates:* - Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 *Organizing Committee* *Honorary Chair* - Marwan Al Zarouni, CEO of Dubai Blockchain Center (DBCC), Dubai *General Co-Chair* - Omar Alfandi, Zayed University, UAE *Program Co-Chairs* - Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada - Ouns Bouachir, ZU, UAE - Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), France

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CFP - 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024) - deadline: January 19th
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

********************************************************************** Call for Papers 3rd IEEE/IFIP workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024) In conjunction with IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, Seoul, South Korea ********************************************************************** https://sites.google.com/view/tnt2024 ********************************************************************** Advancements in the field of digital twin technologies have revolutionized various industries, and now, it's time for networks to reap the benefits! We are thrilled to announce the third edition of the workshop on Technologies for Network Twins (TNT 2024), a pioneering event dedicated to exploring the vast potential of digital twin applications in the realm of interconnected systems. The workshop on Technologies for Network Twins aims to bring together researchers, experts, and practitioners from academia and industry to share their latest insights and discoveries in the field of network digital twins. This workshop will serve as a vibrant platform for fostering collaboration, exchanging ideas, and developing innovative solutions to address the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapidly evolving world of interconnected systems. TOPICS OF INTEREST We invite researchers and professionals to submit original research contributions, case studies, and innovative ideas related to but not limited to the following topics: * Network Digital Twin Fundamentals: Modeling, simulation, and visualization techniques. * Data Acquisition and Integration for Network Digital Twins. * Cyber-Physical Systems and Network Digital Twins. * Applications of Network Digital Twins in Smart Cities. * Network Digital Twins in Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT. * Network Digital Twins for Telecommunication Systems. * Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Network Digital Twins. * Generative Techniques for Synthetic Data Generation and Network Component Emulation. * Security and Privacy in Network Digital Twin Systems. * Scalability and Performance Challenges in Network Digital Twins. * Collaborative and Federated Network Digital Twins. * Real-time Monitoring and Control using Network Digital Twins. * Case Studies and Success Stories of Network Digital Twin Implementations. WHY PARTICIPATE? * Expand Your Network: Connect with researchers, experts, and industry leaders from around the globe, forging valuable partnerships and collaborations. * Cutting-Edge Insights: Gain access to the latest advancements in network digital twin technologies and related fields. * Showcase Your Research: Present your work to a highly knowledgeable and engaged audience, facilitating constructive feedback and validation. * Publication Opportunities: Selected papers will be recommended for publication in reputable journals or conference proceedings. * Influence the Future: Shape the direction of network digital twin technologies and contribute to the betterment of interconnected systems worldwide. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit high-quality, original contributions for presentation at the TNT 2024 workshop. Technical papers can be of two types: * Full papers, up to 6 pages, excluding references and all other material. * Short papers, up to 4 pages, excluding references and all other material. Long papers are the more traditional form to present technical work. Long papers should emphasize not only novelty and vision, but execution and thoroughness of the contribution (design, evaluation). Short papers are the preferred vehicle for visionary, concept-type papers, or proof of concept papers whose description fits within a smaller number of pages. Papers submitted should describe original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers not meeting the length and formatting requirements or violating IEEE's guidelines on plagiarized content will be rejected without review. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template that can be downloaded from https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all manuscripts must be electronically submitted through JEMS at: https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_tnt2024 All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and indexed in IEEE Xplore digital library. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop paper submission deadline: 19 January 2024 * Workshop paper acceptance notification: 1 March 2024 * Camera-ready paper submission deadline: 15 March 2024 * Workshop date: 6 or 10 May 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General co-chairs: * Laurent Ciavaglia, Nokia, France * Thierry Coupaye, Orange, France * Christopher Janz, Huawei, Canada TPC co-chairs: * Roberto Minerva, Telecom Sud Paris, France * Alberto Mozo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Paul Harvey, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Publicity chair: Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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NOMS 2024 - Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers
by Tortonesi Mauro 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

************************************************************************** CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM PAPERS 2024 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2024) 6-10 May 2022 --- Seoul, South Korea https://noms2024.ieee-noms.org/call-doctoral-symposium-papers ************************************************************************** OVERVIEW The Doctoral Symposium is a concentrated half-day event that will be held during IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2024, which will be held 6-10 May 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. In it, Ph.D. students present their ongoing research interests/plans/results to a panel of researchers in the field and receive specific constructive feedback, including opportunities to meet with mentors one-on-one. We encourage students to submit research description papers that clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize their Ph.D. research. Accepted papers (four pages maximum) will be published in the conference proceedings and be included in the online IEEE/IFIP NOMS conference proceedings and archived in the IEEExplore digital library once presented by the Ph.D. students during the conference. ELIGIBILITY AND TOPICS Ideal candidates will be in the early or mid stages of their PhD and should have a solid idea of their direction and topic, but should also have room for improvement. The Doctoral Symposium welcomes applicants from a broad range of disciplines including Management of 6G Networks and Network 2030, Management of Smart Vertical Systems in the Industry 4.0 Era, Artificial Intelligence techniques for Network and Service Management, Management of Softwarized Networks, Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Service Function Chaining, VR, Cyber Security & Cyber Resiliency, Service and application management, and related fields. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES To apply to the Doctoral Symposium, please submit the following two documents through JEMS3 at https://jems3.sbc.org.br/noms_doctoral_symposium2024: * Research description paper of 4 pages in length including references, using the IEEE 2-column format. The manuscript must clearly motivate, discuss, and summarize the proposed Ph.D. research, describe how the adopted approach fits into and advances research in related fields, and report on your progress. You may additionally focus on a more specific area of the research if desired. In the concluding section, you should identify 2 questions/areas for improvement that you would like to discuss during the session. * A one-page Curriculum Vitae. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper Submission Deadline: Jan. 12, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: Feb. 16, 2024 * Final Camera Ready: Mar. 1, 2024 DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS * Maria Torres Vega, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium * Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy -- Mauro Tortonesi, Ph.D. Associate Professor Distributed Systems Research Group Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Ferrara https://ds.unife.it/people/mauro.tortonesi

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Call for Papers DOD 2024
by SBA Research Events 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

****Call for Papers**** International Workshop on Dynamics of Disasters: Hybrid Threats (DOD 2024) to be held in conjunction with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024 - http://www.ares-conference.eu) July 30 - August 1, 2024, Vienna, Austria Workshop Description: Recent years have painfully revealed that disaster preparedness as well as disaster management are not always up to par to the challenges posed by various disasters, for both natural as well as man-made disasters. Disasters occur when hazards and their corresponding risks can no longer be properly contained, leading to serious detrimental consequences in terms of loss of life, financial repercussions or devastation to infrastructure and the environment. Globally, disasters have increased and are also affecting or threatening regions where in the past certain hazards were not so prominent. The COVID-19 pandemic surely has been - unfortunately - a hard test by reality for many aspects of disaster preparedness as well as operational disaster management policies, which still impacts our lives today and so will for some time in the future. To elaborate further using the example of the COVID-19 pandemic in hindsight from the perspective of today, the global spread and the resulting different implications during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance to consider the dynamic evolvement of a disaster, which is exactly what the DoD-series has been focused on in the past and also will be focused on in its edition in 2024. DOD 2024 will broaden its scope and put forward the specialized theme of hybrid threats, thereby paying particular attention to emerging threats due to the ever growing integration and coupling between the cyber- and the physical domain. These emerging threats reach farther than cyber-physical systems, which have been the prime examples for novel attacks and consequences, which can both arise from the cyber as well as the physical domain. The impact of hybrid threats on our modern societies is profound and only increases the challenges for disaster management organizations and first responders. We call for (extended) abstracts and/or papers dealing with all aspects related to the dynamics of disasters, and - in particular - encourage submissions dealing with hybrid threats. We would also like to highlight that we encourage submissions addressing challenges relating to the interdisciplinary character of disaster response and disaster management. We plan to organize a call for extended versions of papers presented at DOD2024 to be included in dedicated post-proceedings of DOD 2024 published by Springer, similar to previous editions of the DOD-series: * for DOD 2015 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319437071) * for DOD 2017 (https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319974415) * for DOD 2019 (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030649722) * for DOD 2021: Operations Research Forum (https://link.springer.com/collections/chfiighaab) virtual issue. We are very much looking forward to hosting DOD 2024, which will be co-located with the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024, ARES Conference » Vienna, Austria (ares-conference.eu<https://www.ares-conference.eu/>)) and welcoming you to Vienna! ****Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:**** * All aspects relating to the dynamics of disasters: o optimization, o computing, o mathematical and statistical modeling, o data analytics, o emergency and disaster management o Hybrid threats as new and emerging hazards to society ****Important Dates**** Submission Deadline March 31, 2024 Author Notification May 29, 2024 Post-Proceedings Coming soon! Conference July 30 - August 1, 2024 ****Program Chair/ Workshop Chair**** General Chair: Dimitris Simos, SBA Research, dsimos(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dsimos@sba-research.org> PC co-Chair: Bernhard Garn, SBA Research, bgarn(a)sba-research.org<mailto:bgarn@sba-research.org> PC co-Chair: Stefan Pickl, Universität der Bundeswehr München, stefan.pickl(a)unibw.de<mailto:stefan.pickl@unibw.de> Steering Committee Chair of DOD: Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, pardalos(a)ufl.edu<mailto:pardalos@ufl.edu> ****Venue**** University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria ****Submission Link**** https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dod2024 ****Submission Guidelines**** The submissions should be prepared according to the guidelines given here for Springer LNCS: Conference Proceedings guidelines | Springer | Springer - International Publisher. ****Contact**** All questions about submissions should be emailed to dod2024(a)sba-research.org<mailto:dod2024@sba-research.org>

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Call for Papers ARES 2024
by SBA Research Events 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

ARES 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************************** The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2024) July 30- August 02, 2024 Vienna, Austria http://www.ares-conference.eu ****************************************************************************************** *********** ARES CONFERENCE ************ The 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security ("ARES - The International Dependability Conference") will bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of dependability. ARES... ...highlights the various aspects of dependability - with special focus on the crucial linkage between availability, reliability and security. ...aims at a full and detailed discussion of the research issues of dependability as an integrative concept that covers amongst others availability, safety, confidentiality, integrity, maintainability and security in the different fields of applications. ...emphasizes the interplay between foundations and practical issues of dependability in emerging areas such as e-government, m-government, location-based applications, ubiquitous computing, autonomous computing, chances of grid computing etc. ...is devoted to the critical examination and research challenges of the various aspects of Dependable Computing and the definition of a future road map. The acceptance rate of the ARES 2023 conference was 20,8% (full papers only). ARES 2023 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). ARES is ranked as B-conference in CORE. ************ CONFERENCE OFFICERS ************ General Chair 2024 Edgar Weippl, SBA Research & University of Vienna, Austria Program Committee Chairs 2024 Haya Schulmann, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt and ATHENE, Germany Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Workshop Chair 2024 tbc Andreas Unterweger, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Austria EU Symposium Workshop Chair, 2024 Florian Skopik, AIT, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria Organisation and Local Chair 2024 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria Proceedings Chair 2024 Bettina Jaber, SBA Research, Austria Website Chair 2024 Daniela Freitag David, SBA Research, Austria ************ IMPORTANT DATES *********** Submission Deadline: February 28, 2024 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Author Notification: May 03, 2024 Camera Ready Upload to TAPS (ACM submission system): June 11, 2024 (AoE) Camera-ready Deadline (100% completed in TAPS): June 18, 2024 (AoE) Conference: July 30 - August 2, 2024 ************ SUBMISSION ************ ARES 2023 was published by the International Conference Proceedings Series published by ACM (ACM ICPS). The same is planned this year (to be confirmed). The ARES submission system (EasyChair) is available here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ares2024. Authors are invited to submit research and application papers according the following guidelines: For the main conference as well as the workshops, submission papers are classified into 4 categories representing original, previously unpublished work: - full paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references) - short paper (6 pages, plus up to 1 page of references) - systematization of Knowledge (SoK) paper (10 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references) - workshop paper (8 pages, a maximum of 10 pages is tolerated) Formating Instructions / template: - Please read the instructions here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/submission/ - References need to start with a new page! Double blind review: ARES requires anonymized submissions - please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Submission of a paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and present the paper at the conference. Publishing preprints to Arxiv or other, open repositories is allowed prior to the notification of ARES and does not violate the requirement for novelty. Reviewers will be asked to not search for and ignore preprints that can deanonymize blinded submission. Important Note: To avoid accepting papers for ARES 2024 which are not presenting original work, your paper will be plagiarism checked by Docoloc or iThenticate Plagarism Check. Self-plagiarism also counts as plagiarism! In case you include previous work in your paper make sure to add the sources accordingly. In case you have questions regarding self-plagiarism please send us an email (ares(a)sba-research.org<mailto:ares@sba-research.org>). If you don't want your paper to be checked automatically please contact us. ************ Program Committee The program committee of ARES 2024 can be found here: https://www.ares-conference.eu/conference/committee/ ************ *********** TOPCIS of interest include, but are not limited to: ************ Authorization, Authentication, and Access Control Automated Vulnerability Repair Availability, Confidentiality, Integrity Botnets and Botnet Monitoring Cloud Security Compliance, Certification and Legal aspects related to Security and Privacy Dependability, and Resilience Digital Forensics Human Factors in Security and Privacy Identity Management Incident Response and Prevention Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection Machine Learning for Security and Privacy Security and Privacy for Machine Learning Mobile Security Network Security Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Process based Security Models and Methods Risk analysis Side Channel Attacks Software Security Static and Dynamic Code Analysis for Security and Privacy Security and Privacy for IoT, Cyber-Physical Systems, and Critical Infrastructures Security and Privacy Awareness Security Requirements and Secure Design of Applications Usable Security and Privacy Threats and Attack Modelling Trusted Computing Trust Models and Trust Management Web Application Security and Privacy

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FLLM2023 Final Call: Foundation and Large Language Models, Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) https://fllm-conference.org/FLLM2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023. (Co-located with SNAMS <https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php>and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE) *FLLM Call for Papers:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - *Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability - Federated Learning for FLLM - Data Augmentation - Natural Language Processing Applications - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - *Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submission Guidelines:* Papers submitted to FLLM must be the original work of the authors. They may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to FLLM. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately. All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in FLLM will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication with SNAMS proceedings. *Important Dates* - *Paper Submission Deadline: 25-October-2023 (Firm and Final)* - Notification of acceptance: 8-November -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 15-November-2023 Please send any questions about FLLM to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Poster - IEEE HPCC 2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

Call for Poster: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters with display at conference: 23 October 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 25 October 2023 Final versions of proceeding published posters: 30 October 2023 Submissions: Please email your posters to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2023 poster submission". --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research posters to HPCC 2023. HPCC 2023 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 high performance computing and communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia

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Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM2023) https://fllm-conference.org/FLLM2023/index.php Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 22-23, 2023. (Co-located with SNAMS <https://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/index.php>and Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE) *FLLM Call for Papers:* With the emergence of foundation models (FMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) that are trained on large amounts of data at scale and adaptable to a wide range of downstream applications, Artificial intelligence is experiencing a paradigm revolution. BERT, T5, ChatGPT, GPT-4, Falcon 180B, Codex, DALL-E, Whisper, and CLIP are now the foundation for new applications ranging from computer vision to protein sequence study and from speech recognition to coding. Earlier models had a reputation of starting from scratch with each new challenge. The capacity to experiment with, examine, and comprehend the capabilities and potentials of next-generation FMs is critical to undertaking this research and guiding its path. Nevertheless, these models are currently inaccessible as the resources required to train these models are highly concentrated in industry, and even the assets (data, code) required to replicate their training are frequently not released due to their demand in the real-time industry. At the moment, mostly large tech companies such as OpenAI, Google, Facebook, and Baidu can afford to construct FMs and LLMS. Despite the expected widely publicized use of FMs and LLMS, we still lack a comprehensive knowledge of how they operate, why they underperform, and what they are even capable of because of their emerging global qualities. To deal with these problems, we believe that much critical research on FMs and LLMS would necessitate extensive multidisciplinary collaboration, given their essentially social and technical structure. The International Symposium on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to FLLMs, with special interest in but not limited to: - *Architectures and Systems* - Transformers and Attention - Bidirectional Encoding - Autoregressive Models - Massive GPU Systems - Prompt Engineering - Fine-tuning - *Challenges* - Hallucination - Cost of Creation and Training - Energy and Sustainability Issues - integration - Safety and Trustworthiness - Interpretability - Fairness - Social Impact - *Future Directions* - Generative AI - Explainability - Federated Learning for FLLM - Data Augmentation - Natural Language Processing Applications - Generation - Summarization - Rewrite - Search - Question Answering - Language Comprehension and Complex Reasoning - Clustering and Classification - *Applications* - Natural Language Processing - Communication Systems - Security and Privacy - Image Processing and Computer Vision - Life Sciences - Financial Systems *Submission Guidelines:* Papers submitted to FLLM must be the original work of the authors. They may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to FLLM. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately. All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in FLLM will be submitted to IEEEXplore for publication with SNAMS proceedings. *Important Dates* - *Paper Submission Deadline: 21-October-2023 * - Notification of acceptance: 8-November -2023 - Camera-ready Submission: 15-November-2023 Please send any questions about FLLM to Yaser Jararweh: yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo

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Call for Poster - IEEE HPCC2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 10 Oct '23

10 Oct '23

Call for Poster: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/poster.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters with display at conference: 21 October 2023 Notification of Acceptance: 25 October 2023 Final versions of proceeding published posters: 30 October 2023 Submissions: Please email your posters to confs.aus(a)gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2023 poster submission". --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research posters to HPCC 2023. HPCC 2023 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 high performance computing and communications as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia

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The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023), Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023.
by Gizem Varkonyi 05 Oct '23

05 Oct '23

*The 7th International Workshop on Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP 2023) * http://emergingtechnet.org/SNAMS2023/Workshops/ANLP2023/ Abu Dhabi, UAE. November 21-24, 2023. *(Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE UAE Section)* *ANLP 2023 Workshops CFP* The workshop aims at demonstrating recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (ANLP) by bringing together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners to discuss their findings in NLP. This area of research has been constantly gaining momentum and attention over the past few years as textual material become available in abundance (social networks and web content) and advanced computational power become accessible. This resulted in an interesting array of practical applications. This is evident in the number of conferences, conference tracks, workshops, special issues of journals dedicated to or issues related to ANLP. Another indication of this growing interest is the surge of papers, books, and other forms of publications related to NLP. Noticeably, deep learning is dominating NLP as it did to other areas of artificial intelligence. Deep learning is the modern application of earlier neural network technology but with multiple layers that made possible with modern computing technology. The application of deep learning technology to NLP is progressing at a fast pace, and it is anticipated that we will see many exciting new discoveries here in the next few years. Therefore, the objective of this workshop is to present current and future advances in NLP. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. Authors are encouraged to submit their original work, which is not submitted elsewhere, to this workshop. The topics of the workshop include but not limited to: * Morphological analysis. * Stemming, Tokenization, segmentation, chunking, parsing, POS. * Information retrieval and extraction. * Named Entity Recognition and Keyword extraction. * Word embedding models. * Text summarization and compression. * Event extraction and semantic role labeling. * Sentiment analysis and classification. * Dialectal modeling. * Machine translation. * Deep learning applications. * Speech recognition, synthesis, and speaker identification. * NLP (annotated) resources such as dictionaries, thesauri, lexicons, ontologies, datasets, etc. * Applications and technologies of NLP. *All accepted papers will be published in the SNAMS conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE for publication. * *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format (IEEE Templates <https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…>). All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper must not exceed the stated length (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the SNAMS Proceedings, and be submitted to IEEE for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers must not exceed 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers *Important Dates* *Submission Date: 13 October 2023 (Firm and Final) * Notification to Authors: 25 October 2023 Camera Ready and Registration: 5 November 2023 Please send any inquiry to the SNAMS at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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