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[P2P] CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 30 Jun '18

30 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 26 Jun '18

26 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jesús Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

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[P2P] CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> (or up to 18 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least two reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 16 Jun '18

16 Jun '18

Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications 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/2018/ispa/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 will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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