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[P2P] CFP: IEEE TCSS SI on "Cyber-Physical-Social Systems"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 01 Apr '15

01 Apr '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] FedCSIS 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

CALL FOR 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) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, European Alliance for Innovation, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into six conference areas. * AAIA'15 - 10th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'15 -1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'15 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- ASIR'15 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- CEIM'15 - 2nd Workshop on Complex Events and Information Modelling --- LQMR'15 - 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning --- WCO'15 - 8th Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- BCPC'15 - 1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'15 - 8th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- IWCPS'15 - 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'15 - 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WAPL'15 - 5th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology --- WmL'15 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Learning * iNetSApp'15 - 3rd International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'15 - 2nd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'15 - 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'15 - 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'15 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'15 - 13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- ISM'15 - 10th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'15 - 4th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'15 - 21st Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'15 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'15 - 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'15 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - John F. Sowa, VivoMind Research, LLC: The Cognitive Cycle - Wojtek Kozaczynski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US: What has gone wrong in the cloud? Monitoring cloud infrastructure and things that run in it - Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology: Managed organisational self-creation through Business Informatics - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma: Extending the Internet to Space PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - 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 TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 24 Feb '15

24 Feb '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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[P2P] CFP: Submission Deadline extension to Feb. 15th, Special Issue of IEEE TC on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 04 Feb '15

04 Feb '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. ] Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 --> Feb. 15th. 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE *************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS *************************** Lizhe Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu Gilles BETIS, Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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[P2P] CFP: Submission Deadline extension to Feb. 15th, Special Issue of IEEE TC on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 31 Jan '15

31 Jan '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. ] Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 --> Feb. 15th. 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE *************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES *************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS *************************** Lizhe Wang, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com Shiyan Hu, Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu Gilles BETIS, Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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[P2P] SoFAST-WS 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 24 Jan '15

24 Jan '15

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services (SoFAST-WS'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/sofast-ws E-mail: sofast-ws2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SoFAST-WS 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). The topics discussed during the SoFAST-WS symposium include different aspects of network systems, applications and service computing. The primary objective of the symposium is to bring together researchers and practitioners analyzing, developing and administering network systems, with particular emphasis on Internet systems. Authors are invited to submit their papers in English, presenting the results of original research or innovative practical applications in the field. TOPICS ======================================= Topics include (but are not limited to): - Architecture, scalability and security of Open API solutions, - Technical and social aspects of Open API and open data, - Service delivery platforms - architecture and applications, - Telecommunication operators API exposition in Telco 2.0 model, - The applications of intelligent techniques in network systems, - Mobile applications, - Network-based computing systems, - Network and mobile GIS platforms and applications, - Computer forensic, - Network security, - Anomaly and intrusion detection, - Traffic classification algorithms and techniques, - Network traffic engineering, - High-speed network traffic processing, - Heterogeneous cellular networks, - Wireless communications, - Security issues in Cloud Computing, - Network aspects of Cloud Computing, - Control of networks, - Standards for Web services, - Semantic Web services, - Context-aware Web services, - Composition approaches for Web services, - Security of Web services, - Software agents for Web services composition, - Supporting SWS Deployment, - Architectures for SWS Deployment, - Applications of SWS to E-business and E-government, - Supporting Enterprise Application Integration with SWS, - SWS Conversational Protocols and Choreography, - Ontologies and Languages for Service Description, - Ontologies and Languages for Process Modeling, - Foundations of Reasoning about Services and/or Processes, - Composition of Semantic Web Services, - Innovative network applications, systems and services. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference may be published as Special Issue(s) of journal(s). The publication in the following journals is already arranged: - Informatica - Teleinformatics Review The best papers may be published in the special issues arranged by other conferences of iNetSApp group (subject to topic compliance and the approval of the chairs of the remaining conferences). Possible journals already arranged in cooperation with other conferences are: - Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (ISI indexed) - EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems - Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology - Studia Informatica Universalis IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - 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 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Furtak, Janusz, Military University of Technology, Poland - Grzenda, Maciej, Orange Labs Poland and Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Legierski, Jarosław, Orange Labs Poland, Poland - Luckner, Marcin, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Szmit, Maciej, Orange Labs Poland, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Benslimane, Sidi Mohammed, University of Sidi Bel-Abb?s, Algeria - Chojnacki, Andrzej, Military University of Technology, Poland - Cocucci, Osvaldo, Orange Labs Products & Services, France - Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - García-Domínguez, Antonio, University of Cádiz, Spain - Gibert, Philippe, Orange Labs Products and Services, France - Kaczmarski, Krzysztof, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Katakis, Ioannis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece - Kiedrowicz, Maciej, Military University of Technology, Poland - Korbel, Piotr, Lodz University of Technology, Poland - Kowalczyk, Emil, Orange Labs, Poland - Kowalski, Andrzej, Orange Labs, Poland - López Nores, Martín, University of Vigo, Spain - Maamar, Zakaria, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates - Macukow, Bohdan, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Misztal, Michal, Military University of Technology, Poland - Nowicki, Tadeusz, Military University of Technology, Poland - Richomme, Morgan, Orange Labs, France - Wrona, Konrad, NATO Consultation, Netherlands - Zieliński, Zbigniew, Military University of Technology - Żorski, Witold, Military University of Technology, Poland 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 TC SI on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 22 Jan '15

22 Jan '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Lizhe Wang, * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com *Shiyan Hu, * Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu *Gilles BETIS, * Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu *Rajiv Ranjan, * CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE TETC SI on "Methods and Techniques for Processing Streaming Big Data in Datacentre Clouds"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 17 Dec '14

17 Dec '14

[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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[P2P] CFP: IEEE TC SI on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Transactions on Computers Special Issue on "Selected Topics in Smart City Computing" http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tcsi_stscc.p… IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Open for submissions in ScholarOne Manuscripts: Nov. 1, 2014 Closed for submissions: February 1, 2015 Results of first round of reviews: May 1, 2015 Submission of revised manuscripts: June 1, 2015 Results of second round of reviews: Aug. 1, 2015 Publication materials due: Sep. 1, 2015 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Developing smart city is the key to the next generation urbanization process for improving the efficiency, reliability, and security of a traditional city. The concept of smart city includes various aspects such as environmental sustainability, social sustainability, regional competitiveness, natural resources management, cybersecurity, and quality of life improvement. With the massive deployment of networked smart devices/sensors, unprecedentedly large amount of sensory data can be collected and processed by advanced computing paradigms which are the enabling techniques for smart city. For example, given historical environmental, population and economic information, salient modeling and analytics are needed to simulate the impact of potential city planning strategies, which will be critical for intelligent decision making. Analytics are also indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data in order to design the optimal policies for real time automatic control in the cyberphysical smart city system. Furthermore, uncertainties and security concerns in the data collected from heterogeneous resources aggravate the problem, which makes smart city planning, operation, monitoring and control highly challenging. The topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: * Advanced big data modeling and analytics for smart city planning, monitoring and control * Social media, crowdsourcing and collaborative behavior management * Outdoor/indoor geolocation and cartography continuity * Design and implementation of embedded system for smart city applications * Advanced control techniques in the smart city as a cyberphysical system * Technologies in electrical vehicle, smart building and smart home * Cybersecurity and privacy issues related to smart city * Heterogeneous sensor network and cooperative sensing for smart city * Renewable energy and smart energy management for smart city * Design and synthesis of computing schemes and architectures for smart city * Development of fault detection and diagnosis techniques for smart city * Modeling and computing techniques for environmental and social issues in smart city * Sustainable technologies for smart city SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts electronically after the "open for submissions" date, adhering to the IEEE Transactions on Computers guidelines (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/tc/author) Please submit your papers through the online system ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tc-cs) and be sure to select the special issue or special section name. Manuscripts should not be published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Please submit only full papers intended for review, not abstracts, to the ScholarOne portal. If requested, abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors directly. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** *Lizhe Wang, * Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China Lizhe.Wang(a)gmail.com *Shiyan Hu, * Michigan Technological University, USA shiyan(a)mtu.edu *Gilles BETIS, * Current EIT ICT Labs, France gilles.betis(a)eitictlabs.eu *Rajiv Ranjan, * CSIRO, Australia rranjans(a)gmail.com

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[P2P] FedCSIS 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 30 Nov '14

30 Nov '14

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR 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/FedCSIS2015onIEEE) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). Please forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multiconference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to three days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into six conference areas. AAIA'15 - 10th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ---- AIMaVIG'15 -1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics ---- AIMA'15 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications ---- ASIR'15 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval ---- CEIM'15 - 2nd Workshop on Complex Events and Information Modelling ---- LQMR'15 - 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning ---- WCO'15 - 8th Workshop on Computational Optimization CSS - Computer Science & Systems ---- BCPC'15 - 1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations ---- CANA'15 - 8th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms ---- IWCPS'15 - 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems ---- MMAP'15 - 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing ---- WAPL'15 - 5th Workshop on Advances on Programming Languages ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'15 - 4th Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop ---- WmL'15 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Learning iNetSApp'15 - 3rd International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications ---- EAIS'15 - 2nd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security ---- SoFAST-WS'15 - 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services ---- WSN'15 - 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society ---- ABICT'15 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT ---- AITM'15 - 13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management ---- ISM'15 - 10th Conference on Information Systems Management ---- IT4L'15 - 4th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics ---- KAM'15 - 21st Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy ---- ABC:MI'15 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation ---- MAS&S'15 - 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations ---- SEN-MAS'15 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKERS List of keynote speakers will be announced shortly. PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - 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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