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[P2P] FedCSIS 2015 - CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 30 May '15

30 May '15

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Lodz, Poland, 13 - 16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2015) The FedCSIS 2015 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS: - EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. - CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions. POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION: Position papers will be published as a SEPARATE ELECTRONIC VOLUME, WITH an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. These papers will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. However, they will be indexed in the BazEcon database, and submitted for indexing to: SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of the conference scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program. IMPORTANT DATES - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015; midnight HST (strict deadline) - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE GreenCom 2015 (Green Computing and Communications), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Arne Wilston 29 May '15

29 May '15

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction Computer networks, communication systems, and other IT infrastructures have caused severe environmental problems by consuming significant amounts of power, increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and lead to pollution during the production and disposal. To reduce such environmental problems and create a sustainable environment, new energy models, algorithms, methodologies, platforms, tools and systems are pressing. Thus, green computing and communications solutions should be designed with more renewable energy, higher energy efficiency, lower greenhouse gas emission, and less harmful materials. Scope and Topics A. Green Computing and Communication Technologies • Green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies • Energy- and power-constrained devices and gateways • Ultra-low power systems architectures • Low-power, distributed data processing on sensors • Energy-efficient M2M wired and wireless communications and networking • Optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications (including core network optimization) • Green big data architecture • Green cloud computing • Energy efficient networking, communication and protocols • Energy efficiency in networking, wireless networks and vehicular networks • Energy efficiency in data centers and large-scale data processing • Measurement and modeling of energy consumption • Standardization and benchmark B. Smart Energy and Smart Grid. • Smart metering infrastructure and technologies • Large-scale monitoring, control and demand response • Advanced data fusion, mining and modeling in smart grid • Management and control of distributed energy generation, storage and consumption • Advanced smart grid applications: grid-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-grid, Micro-grid • Renewable energy generation and new energy sources • Standardization and benchmark C. Green Society Applications • Smart sensing systems • Smart city • Green vehicle, green home, green buildings and green anything • Green industrial automation and control • Intelligent Transport Systems and control Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/greencom2015/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Victor C. M. Leung, UBC, Canada Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Xiaohu Ge, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China General Co-Chairs Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Liming Zhu, NICTA, Australia Program Chairs Benjamin Belzer, Washington State University, USA Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Program Vice Chairs Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Lizhen Cui, Shandong University, China Workshops Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Fei Teng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Jesson Butt, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St Francis Xavier University, Canada Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Kirk W. Cameron, Virginia Technology, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia David Wallom, Oxford e-Science Center, UK Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Honggang Zhang, Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) & Supelec/IETR, France

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[P2P] Deadline extended: LSDVE'15 Large Scale Distributed Vitual Environments@EUROPAR
by LAURA RICCI 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hi! We write to notify you that we have extended the LSDVE'15 deadline till June 2nd, 2015. Note that we are inviting both mature papers (12 pages) and work-in-progress or position papers (6 pages)! See below for a full call of papers. [Apologies for multiple copies of this message.] Call for Papers -- LSDVE'15 3rd Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments, LSDVE 2015 August 25th, 2015, Vienna (Austria), jointly with Euro-Par 2015 (http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci/LSDVE15/LSDVE15.html) Proceedings will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science Dates - Papers due: June 2, 2015 (extended) - Author notification: June 30, 2015 (extended) - Workshop: August 24, 2015 - Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2015 Organizers - Laura Ricci, Department of Computer Scinece, University of Pisa - Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands - Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria Program Committee (to be completed) Michele Amoretti, University of Parma, Italy Emanuele Carlini, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy Massimo Coppola, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy Patrizio Dazzi, ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy Juan J. Durillo, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria Kalman Graffi, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Holland Pedro Garcia Lopez, University Rovira i Virgili, Spain Pietro Michiardi, EURECOm, France Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Andreas Petlund, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Radu Prodan, Institute of Computer Science, Innsbruck, Austria Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy Alexey Vinel, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Objectives of the Workshop: The recent advances in networking have determined an increasing use of information technology to support distributed cooperative applications. Several novel applications have emerged in this area, such as Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments (LSDVEs). These include distributed social networks, distributed social games, collaborative recommender systems, collaborative learning systems, large scale crowd based applications, supported collaborative work (CSCW). The realization of these applications requires to afford several challenges, like the definition of user interfaces, coordination protocols, and proper middle-ware and architectures supporting distributed cooperation. Collaborative applications may greatly benefit from the support of different kinds of platforms, both cloud and peer to peer and also platforms recently proposed for Internet of things (IoT), like fog computing. Integration of different platforms, for instance mobile and cloud environments is currently a challange. This workshop aims to provide a venue for researchers to present and discuss important aspects of large scale collaborative applications and of the platforms supporting them. The track's aim is to investigate open challenges for such applications, related to both the applications design and to the definition of proper architectures. Some important challenges are, for instance, collaborative protocols design, latency reduction/hiding techniques for guaranteeing real time constraints, large-scale processing of user information, privacy and security issues, state consistency/persistence. The workshop will both present assessment of current state and introduce further directions. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - LSDVE for Social Networks - LSDVE for Social Games - LSDVE Recommender Systems - LSDVE for Collaborative Learning - Social Internet of Things - Large Scale Crowd Based Applications - Distributed Computer Supported Collaborative Work - Computational Paradigms for LSDVE - Distributed Algorithms for LSDVE - Distributed Paltforms for Collaborative Applications: cloud, peer to peer, mobile, fog - Massive-scale Data Processing for LSDVE - Security and Privacy for LSDVE Paper submission The papers will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 3 reviewers of the Program Committee. Acceptance as regular/short papers will depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to the Workshop theme. Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops. Submissions and reviewing will be through EasyChair. Contact information - Laura Ricci: laura.ricci(a)unipi.it -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Dott. Laura Ricci Phone: +39 050 2212768 Dipartimento di Informatica Fax: +39 050 2212726 Universita' di Pisa Email: ricci(a)di.unipi.it Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3 I-56127 Pisa, Italy http://www.di.unipi.it/~ricci @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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[P2P] CFP - Special Issue on High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems
by Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience 23 May '15

23 May '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Special Issue: High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems In the last decades, the complexity of the current and upcoming scientific/engineering problems has increased considerably. Computations involved in numerical and physical simulations, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, bio-informatics, image processing, information retrieval, or big data analysis are just a few examples of such problems. At the same time, improvements in high performance computing (HPC) systems are mainly associated with an increased complexity of computer architectures, resulting in increasing challenges in code optimization. This results in an increasing gap between the general scientific / engineering user community (in need of easy access to efficient high performance computations) and the HPC programmers community (who design codes for narrow sub-classes of problems). As a result, development of user-friendly codes for non-HPC-trained user community becomes a big challenge. As a matter of fact, effective use of HPC centers requires specialized / individual training for each user group. The aim of this special issue report on efforts to reduce this gap by means of bringing new ways to face the growing complexity of problems that are to be solved. Specifically, we would like to address challenges involved in implementing large and complex problems on current and upcoming platforms, composed of a high number of computational cores. Thus, the issues to be addressed should deal with communication, programming, heterogeneous architectures, load balancing, benchmarking, etc. However, the overall goal should be development of solutions that are going to be usable by non-HPC-trained domain specialists. TOPICS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which present original and unpublished research in all areas related with complex problems solving via parallel and distributed processing, i.e., works focused on emerging solutions to face with big computing challenges on HPC systems are specially welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Benchmarking, performance and scalability of algorithms, data structures, tools, etc - Code adapting to take advantages of latest computational features. - New strategies to improve performance. - Adaptive self-tuning computing systems. - New transparent, portable, and hardware diagnostic programming paradigms. - Advances in current or upcoming HPC tools. - Communication, synchronization, load balancing. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: September 19, 2015 - Author notification: January 31, 2016 - Revised papers: February 15, 2016 - Author notification: March 1, 2016 - Camera Ready papers due: March 15, 2016 - Publication: March 31, 2016 SUBMISSION DETAILS Original and unpublished works on any of the topics aforementioned or related are welcome. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-reviewing process and papers will be reviewed by at least three S.C. referees. All submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS - Dr. Pedro Valero Lara, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain. - Prof. Dr. Fernando L. Pelayo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain. - Prof. Dr. Johan Jansson, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. SCALABLE COMPUTING PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE The journal focus on algorithm development, implementation and execution on parallel and distributed architectures, as well on application of parallel and distributed computing to the solution of real-life problems. SCPE provides immediate open access to its content. The journal is submitted for indexation in Scopus SciVerse, The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, dblp - Computer Science Bibliography, CiteFactor, Index Copernicus, Open Access Library, J-Gate, ZDB, AcademicKeys, BibNet Project at University of Utah, ZENODO, Journal Click. In 2013, the SCPE's SNIP (Scopus Source Normalized Impact per Paper) was 0.619 and SCPE's SJR (Scimago Journal Ranking) was 0.151 (previous year values where: SNIP 0.376 and SJR 0.105). SCPE's SJIF factor was 2.785 in 2012.

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 23 May '15

23 May '15

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction The Internet of Things (IoT) brings promising opportunities and challenges. It attracts great attentions, and has important economic and social values. IoT will play a key role in the next generation of information, network, and communication developing. Future IoT may bring us an era of “harmony of man with nature”, which means harmony fusion of Physical-space, Cyber-space, and Social-space. We will witness emancipation not only from onerous labor works brought by machine-human interface, but also from the spatial-temporal constrains in Physical-space, and will achieve substantial benefits from IT development. Scope and Topics A. IoT Architectures • Things-centric, service-centric and data-centric architecture • CPS and SCADA platforms • Future Internet and network design for IoT • Cloud-based IoT • System security and management • Data centre design for IoT B. IoT enabling technologies • Sensing technologies • Radio frequency identification • Low power and energy harvesting • Sensor networks • Machine-type communication • resource-constrained networks • real-time systems • IoT data analytics • Embedded software. C. IoT services, applications and standards • Streaming data management and mining platforms • Service middleware • Open service platform • Semantic service management • Security and privacy-preserving protocols, • Design examples of smart services and applications • IoT application support Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA General Co-Chairs Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Sanjay K. Jha, The University of New South Wales, Australia Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Jian Tang, Syracuse University, USA Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China, Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Vincenzo Piuri, University degli Studi di Milano, Italy Son Vuong, UBC, Canada Pierre Paradinas, CNAM, France Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yen-Kuang Chen, Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center, Taiwan Mischa Dohler, CTTC, Barcelona, Spain

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE TCSS SI on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 23 May '15

23 May '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Special Issue on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Cyber-physical-social systems (CPSS) integrates the computational physical elements (seamless integration of computational algorithms and physical components) capable of interacting with, reflecting and influencing each other as well as the complicated system and information exhibited by human's social behaviour. Rapid advances in mobile cloud computing, man-machine, machine-machine communications, smart phone networks will cause a new paradigm shift in CPSS design, applications, and operations by bringing improvements not only to the quality of service (QoS) but also to quality of experiment (QoE) and quality of protection (QoP) in terms of the cost efficiency, reliability, security, and energy efficiency from the human perspective of view. The integration of cyber-physical systems and social networks also provides a novel platform to addresses challenges in cyber-physical-social interactions and human-centric technologies development by using powerful tools such as social computing, social cooperation, and social sensing, etc. Application examples of employing mobile computing in CPSS include traffic accidents detection in smart transportation, energy management in smart grid, health monitoring and evaluation. The introduction of social elements into CPS poses new system design challenges and open research issues. Therefore, safety and reliability requirements of physical components are qualitatively different from general-purpose distributed computing infrastructures and lack of consistent and unified system modelling and design principles. Resources in data centers and cloud infrastructures have to be efficiently managed and scheduled to optimize reliability and scalability of CPSS under various constraints of QoE and QoP. Besides, CPSS are expected to deal with data directly coming from trans-domain applications, which could be in various forms such as GPS coordinates, flood level, temperature, rainfall rate, vehicle speed, electricity consumption, etc. How to coordinate various applications of heterogeneous systems and facilitate a deeper integration, interaction and personalization of the physical, cyber, and social domains is another important challenge. This "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems" special issue aims to cover the most recent research and development on the enabling technologies for CPSS, and to stimulate more discussions in this field. Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to: l New architecture, protocols, and services for CPSS l Green and energy efficiency design principles and technologies for CPSS l Information fusion and data mining for CPSS l Fault tolerance and reliability for CPSS l High performance computing and many-task computing for CPSS l Security, privacy and trust for CPSS l Resource and service management, scheduling, and migration for CPSS l Applications, simulations, and field test for CPSS l Enabling information, communication and control technologies for CPSS l Exploring social cloud networks and social cloud computing for CPSS l CPSS for novel applications such as smart city, smart grid, smart transportation, etc. l Content and service distribution for CPSS l M2M and D2D communication technologies for CPSS l Big data analytics for CPSS l Quality of experience and quality of protection issues for CPSS l Mobile cloud sensing for CPSS *Schedule* Paper submission due: June 15th, 2015 First round decisions: August 1st, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: September1st, 2015 Final decisions: October 1st, 2015 Publication date: Oct/Nov 2015 Issue. *Submission & Major Guidelines* This special issue invites original research papers that make significant contributions to the state-of-the-art in "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems". Submitted articles must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference publications. However, the papers that have been previously published with reputed conferences could be considered for publication in the special issue if they contain significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand "new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TCSS submission web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcss, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. *Selection and Evaluation Criteria* - Significance to the readership of the journal - Relevance to the special issue - Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results - Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text - Quality of references and related work - Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion *Co-Editor-in-Chief * George Cybenko, Dartmouth College, USA Eunice E. Santos, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA *Guest Editors* Mianxiong Dong, mx.dong(a)csse.muroran-it.ac.jp, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, rajiv.ranjan(a)csiro.au, CSIRO, Australia Albert Y. Zomaya, albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au, The University of Sydney, Australia Man Lin, mlin(a)stfx.ca, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 15 May '15

15 May '15

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. =========== Introduction As an emerging cross-disciplinary research area, the Cyber Physical System (CPS) is attracting attention worldwide. A Cyber-Physical System is a system featuring a combination of computational and physical elements, all of which are capable of interacting, reflecting and influencing each other. Furthermore, social systems are evolving with cyber systems and physical systems along with the popularity of online social networking. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing and networking, future social networks turn into cyber-physical interactions, which are attached with associated social attributes. The emergence of the cyber-physical-social computing will significantly change the way we see the world. In the mean time, the convergence of the physical, cyber, and social spaces will exhibit a variety of complicated characteristics, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. *Scope and Topics* *A. Networks and Networked Systems* where intelligent entities exchange information to achieve improved overall performance for both cyber and physical components. Particular areas of interests include: • sensor, vehicular, robot, camera, aerial and social smartphone networks • wireless networking technologies and autonomous ad hoc networks • internet of things and machine-to-machine communications • networked infrastructure management with applications such as smart power grids and transportation systems • network enabled computation, coordination, and actuation • scalability of complex networks *B. Modelling and Control* where mathematical and computational methods are developed and applied to facilitate innovative design, in-depth analysis, and novel insights of the fundamental principles. Particular areas of interests include: • control theory with a clear cyber-physical tone such as networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning • autonomy with applications in mobile sensor networks, internet connected cars, etc. • modelling of tightly integrated physical processes, software, computation platforms, and networks *C. Data Management *where novel methods are developed to reliably gather, store, transfer, and analyse large amount of data and dataflow. Particular areas of interests include: • data management and processing (e.g. big data, cloud computing) • location and tracking based services • smart cameras and computer vision based context management • web of things. *D. Software and Hardware* where novel designs and implementations of test-beds, platforms, and software will significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of next generation CPS. Particular areas of interests include: • embedded systems applications (pervasive computing, real-time control technologies) • resource-constrained systems (low power, energizing, device miniaturization) • standards and middleware. *E. Other Emerging Areas *where new challenges, new ideas, and new principles are shaping. For example, • incentive, security, trust, and privacy issues in CPS • smart living technologies such as smart city, smart home and office, wearable devices, learning devices, etc. • social M2M networks, social impact of CPS, creative aspects. Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Big Data. General Chairs Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada General Co-Chairs Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Steering Committee Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China (Chair) Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Wei Li, Beihang University, China Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 08 May '15

08 May '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Special Issue on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_mtpsb… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submission Deadline: June 1 2015 Reviews Completed: September 1 2015 Major Revisions Due (if Needed): October 1 2015 Reviews of Revisions Completed (if Needed): November 1 2015 Minor Revisions Due (if Needed): December 1 2015 Notification of Final Acceptance: February 1 2016 Publication Materials for Final Manuscripts Due: March 1 2016 Publication date: Second Issue 2016 (June Issue) DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm that has gained a significant interest from both academia and industry. IoT is a part of Future Internet and comprises many billions of Internet connected Objects (ICOs) or 'things' where things can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate as well as have intelligence, multi-modal interfaces, physical/ virtual identities and attributes. ICOs can include sensors, RFIDs, social media, actuators (such as machines/equipments fitted with sensors and deployed for mining, oil exploration, and manufacturing operations) as well as lab instruments (e.g., high energy physics synchrotron), and smart consumer appliances (smart TV, smart phone, etc.). This IoT vision has recently given rise to the notion of IoT big data applications that are capable of producing billions of data stream and tens of years of historical data to provide the knowledge required to support timely decision making. Some of the emerging IoT big data applications, e.g. smart energy grids, syndromic bio-surveillance, environmental monitoring, emergency situation awareness, digital agriculture, and smart manufacturing, need to process and manage massive, streaming, and multi-dimensional (from multiple sources) data from geographically distributed data sources. Despite recent technological advances of the data-intensive computing paradigms (e.g. the MapReduce paradigm, workflow technologies, stream processing engines, distributed machine learning frameworks) and datacentre clouds, large-scale reliable system-level software for IoT big data applications are yet to become commonplace. As new diverse IoT applications begin to emerge, there is a need for optimized techniques to distribute processing of the streaming data produced by such applications across multiple datacentres that combine multiple, independent, and geographically distributed software and hardware resources. However, the capability of existing data-intensive computing paradigms is limited in many important aspects such as: (i) they can only process data on compute and storage resources within a centralised local area network, e.g., a single cluster within a datacentre. This leads to unsatisfied Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of timeliness of decision making, resource availability, data availability, etc. as application demands increase; (ii) they do not provide mechanisms to seamlessly integrate data spread across multiple distributed heterogeneous data sources (ICOs); (iii) lack support for rapid formulation of intuitive queries over streaming data based on general purpose concepts, vocabularies and data discovery; and (iv) they do not provide any decision making support for selecting optimal data mining and machine algorithms, data application programming frameworks, and NoSQL database systems based on nature of the big data (volume, variety, and velocity). Furthermore, adoption of existing datacentre cloud platform for hosting IoT applications is yet to be realised due to lack of techniques and software frameworks that can guarantee QoS under uncertain big data application behaviours (data arrival rate, number of data sources, decision making urgency, etc.), unpredictable datacentre resource conditions (failures, availability, malfunction, etc.) and capacity demands (bandwidth, memory, storage, and CPU cycles). It is clear that existing data intensive computing paradigms and related datacentre cloud resource provisioning techniques fall short of the IoT big data challenge or do not exist. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Programming abstractions for extedmding existing data intensive computing paradigms to multiple datacentres - Technical foundations for selection of data mining and machine learning algorithms Streaming data query and indexing systems based on semantic web concepts - IoT big data application specific ontology models for capturing heterogeneous data from multiple sources - Decentralised data flow optimisation and management techniques across multiple datacentres - Techniques for petabyte efficient no-SQL query-based IoT big data processing - QoS optimized parallel data analytic techniques beyond traditional relational database systems - Knowledge driven, predictive datacentre resource allocation and provisioning for streaming data - Innovative IoT big data application use cases - Techniques for providing a secure end-to-end connection between users and data sources SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at the IEEE Computer Society web site, www.computer.org. TETC is the newest Transactions of the IEEE Computer Society with Open Access only. Please submit your paper to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tetc-cs. Please address all other correspondence regarding this special Section to Lead Guest Editor *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan* GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan - Corresponding Guest Editor * Senior Research Scientist & Julius Fellow, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au *Prof. Lizhe Wang * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth Chinese Academy of Sciences Email:Lizhe.wang@gmail.com *Dr. Jie Tao * Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Email: jie.tao(a)kit.edu *Prof. Albert Zomaya * Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Email: albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au *Dr. Prem Prakash Jayaraman * Postdoctoral Research Scientist CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia Email: prem.jararaman(a)csiro.au *Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos * Professor, Computer Science & Info Tech RMIT University, Australia Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)rmit.edu.au

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