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[P2P] CFP: IEEE DSS2023 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 30 Jul '23

30 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2023), 13-15 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raised and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics I. Data Science - Foundational Theories of Data Science - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology - Data Analytics - Complex Network Analysis and Mining - Security, Privacy and Trust in Data II. Data Processing Technology - Data Representation and Processing - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Graph Neural Networks - Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Statistical, Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling and Theories - Information visualization - Data Visualization III. Data Systems - Storage and File Systems - High Performance Access Toolkits - Compiler and Runtime Support - Real-time Data Intensive Systems - Multi/Many-Core Platforms - Big Data and Cloud Computing IV. Data Applications - Business and Finance Applications - Industrial Data Applications - Bioinformatics Applications - Healthcare and Medical Services - Applications in Soil and Water - HPC Systems for Data Applications - Future Data 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/2023/dss/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney, Australia Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE HPCC2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 30 Jul '23

30 Jul '23

Call for papers: 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/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), HPCC conference comes to its 25th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: High Performance Computing and Applications - High Performance Computing Theory - High Performance Computing Architectures - System Software and Middleware - System Software Support for Scientific Workflows - Storage and I/O Systems - Resource Management - Instruction-Level and Thread-Level Parallelism - Performance Modeling and Evaluation - Massively Multicore Systems - Future Novel Computing Platforms - Database Applications and Data Mining - High Performance Computing for Bioinformatics - High Performance Computing for Big Data - High Performance Computing for AI - High Performance Computing for Block Chains - Green High Performance Computing Track 2: Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - Parallel and Distributed System Architectures - Parallel and Distributed Algorithms - Data Center Architectures - Resource Virtualization - Web Services and Internet Computing - Cloud, Edge, and Cluster Computing - Sustainable and Energy Efficient Computing - Federated Learning - Embedded Systems - Distributed Systems and Applications - Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing & Intelligence - Distributed Graphics and VR/AR/MR Systems - Distributed AI and Soft/Natural Computing - Power-Efficient and Green Computing Systems - Parallel and Distributed Computing for Big Data - Parallel and Distributed Computing for AI Track 3: Communications and Networking - Network and Interconnect Architectures - Computer Networks - Internet Architectures and Protocols - Telecommunications - Trust, Security, and Privacy - Energy-Aware Computing and Networking - 5G Network - Software Defined Networking - Network Functions Virtualization - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Social Networking and Computing - Performance Evaluation and Measurement 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/2023/hpcc/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 invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE DIKW 2023 (Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Call for papers: 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dikw/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom, in short (DIKW), have been used widely as marking terms in various domains for expressing and exchanging semantic or conceptual subjective or objective understandings. However, there are still no unified understandings over the meaning of the DIKW concepts. Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom as a whole concept of DIKW is also missing unified understandings of the relationships among them. Therefore, there have been proposals and models of DIKW as “layered hierarchy”, “architecture”, “framework”, “network”, “thinking mode”, “pattern”, “style”, “theory”, “methodology”, “model”, “graph”, etc. 2023 International Conference on Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW 2023) aims to bring together scientists, researchers, and industrial engineers to exchange experimental and theoretical Data/Information/Knowledge/Wisdom modeling and processing results, novel designs, explainable AI, AI governance, work-in-progress and case studies on theories, design mechanisms and extensions on DIKW transformations and interactions in all areas, in all phases, empirical or theoretical solutions. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Theories, Algorithms and Platforms for Data Analytics and Information Retrieving - Data Provenance, Cleaning, Curation and Governance Services - Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Sharing, Integration and Migration - Real-time Data Modeling and Information Provision Services and Applications - Data-driven Intelligent Decision-making and Innovative Applications - Goal or Purpose Models, Techniques and Tools for Smart Computing - Data Models, Information Semantics, Query languages - Data Stream Systems and Sensor Networks - Data Visualization and Interactive Data Exploration - Hybrid AI Privacy, Security, Trust, and Responsibility Provision - Data-Knowledge Mixed Processing Systems and Service Architecture - Domain Knowledge Modeling and Ontology-Building - Data, Information and Knowledge Transformation Load balance - DIKW content Storage and Retrieval and Interface Technology - Software Tools for Data-Information-Knowledge Quality Modeling and Testing - Computational Intelligence for Data, Information and Knowledge Hybrid Systems - Multimedia and Cross-modals "Databases" Processing - Development and Management of Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases - Knowledge Extraction, Discovery, Analysis and Representation - Application of Knowledge Representation Techniques to Semantic Modeling - Optimization Techniques of DIKW applications - Theories of DIKW Models and Performance Evaluation Approach 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/2023/dikw/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Carl Chang, Iowa State University, USA Program Chairs Muhammad Usman Khan, Federation University, Australia Xiaolong Xu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE DependSys 2023 (Dependability and Security), Dec. 2023
by Arne Wilston 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud and Big Data Systems and Applications, 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dependsys/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction IEEE DependSys 2023 conference is the next event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems oftentend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. Scope and Topics Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2 : Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security - Blockchain-based systems Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, transportation applications - Energy, smart city, smart grid - IoT, CPS and industrial application Track 4 : Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith - Levels and assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling - Dependability evaluation - Software reliability and verification - Hardware reliability and verification - Evaluations and tools 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/2023/dependsys/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy Program Chairs Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Kai Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE SmartCity 2023 (Smart City), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 21st IEEE International Conference on Smart City (SmartCity 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/smartcity/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/smartcity/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction Smart cities (also smarter cities) use digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Developing a smart city to better support growing urban population is a global and complex challenge and involves interdisciplinary fields. Key ‘smart’ sectors include transportation, smart building, energy, health care, and water systems. IEEE SmartCity is aiming to be a premier international conference in smart city. This conference is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of smart city. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Smart Buildings - Smart Transportation - Smart Environment and Economy - Energy-Efficient Smart Grid Systems - Smart Grid System Management - Citizen Engagement and Smart Governance - Smart Home and Community - E-health Systems - Environment and Urban Monitoring - Green Network and Energy Efficiency - Smart Electronic Systems for Security - Big Data for Urban Informatics - QoS and QoE of Smart City Systems, Applications and Services - Smart Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems - Smart University and Smart Education - Application Scenarios and Real-world Deployments for Smart Cities - Smart City Governance - Internet of Things for Smart Cities - Cloud Computing and Network Infrastructure for Smart Cities - Social Computing and Networks for Smart Cities - Embedded Computing and Networks for Smart Cities 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/2023/smartcity/submission.htm . Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xiaokang Zhou, Shiga University, Japan

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE DSS 2023 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raised and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics I. Data Science - Foundational Theories of Data Science - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology - Data Analytics - Complex Network Analysis and Mining - Security, Privacy and Trust in Data II. Data Processing Technology - Data Representation and Processing - Machine Learning and Deep Learning - Graph Neural Networks - Semi-supervised and Unsupervised Learning - Statistical, Mathematical and Probabilistic Modeling and Theories - Information visualization - Data Visualization III. Data Systems - Storage and File Systems - High Performance Access Toolkits - Compiler and Runtime Support - Real-time Data Intensive Systems - Multi/Many-Core Platforms - Big Data and Cloud Computing IV. Data Applications - Business and Finance Applications - Industrial Data Applications - Bioinformatics Applications - Healthcare and Medical Services - Applications in Soil and Water - HPC Systems for Data Applications - Future Data 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/2023/dss/submission.htm. Publications Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Jamal Deen, McMaster University, Canada Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Program Chairs Dong Yuan, The University of Sydney, Australia Deepak Puthal, Khalifa University, UAE

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE HPCC 2023 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2023
by Jesson Butt 08 Jul '23

08 Jul '23

Call for papers: The 25th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2023), 17-21 Dec. 2023, Melbourne, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2023 (11:59pm UTC/GMT) Notification: October 15, 2023 Final Manuscript Due: October 30, 2023 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2023/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), HPCC conference comes to its 25th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). 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 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/2023/hpcc/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 invited to special issues of selected journals listed on the conference website. General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Muneeb Hassan, Deakin University, Australia Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada

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