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[P2P] CFP: IEEE SustainCom 2014 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (SustainCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== 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 and Communications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 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 ¡¤ Virtualiztion 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. 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. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/susc2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Ishfaq Ahmad, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs Chadi Aoun, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Program Vice-Chairs Dongrui Fan, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China Hussein Dia, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Xin Zhu, University of Aizu, Japan Workshop Chairs Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Steering Committee Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Fernando Las Heras, EPI, Spain Bor Yann Liaw, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, Universit¨¦ Paul Sabatier, France Sandeep Gupta, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Mohammad S. Obaidat, Monmouth University, USA M (Palani) Palaniswami, University of Melbourne, Australia Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Conference Secretary and Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

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[P2P] Final Call for Workshops - IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 25 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 30 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Social Computing and Networking to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 25 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 30 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn

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[P2P] CFP: Special Issue on CLOUD for Health
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Volume 15, Issue 4: Special Issue on CLOUD for Health In the last 20 years, computational methods and data analysis have become very important part in health systems; especially, in research areas such as biomodelling, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, medical image analysis, biotechnology, or automatic diagnosis. The development of those areas leads to an unprecedented demand for large-scale data management and analysis (Tbytes or Pbytes) and scalability in computing power. This new situation requires appropriate IT-infrastructures, where new biomedical challenges can be solved within an acceptable timespan. Cloud computing has the potential to help solving those problems by offering a utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage capabilities and abstraction layers that allow overcoming many of the constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in an easy way, by increasing the availability of new methods for the research community, and by supporting large-scale multi-centric collaborations. The aim of this special issue is to promote synergies between cloud computing and health communities by exploring applications developed in clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio*, and new trends and needs shared between both communities. Thus, this special issue will feature articles that discuss applications of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including solutions to the problems in the area, and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems. The goals are to exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, and to gather an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks). TOPICS Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: - Cloud-based bioinformatics and biomedicine applications - Cloud-based applications in public health systems - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes - Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution - Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Integration and analysis of biomedical data - Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis workflows - Biosignals processing using clouds - Privacy and security issues for cloud-based health applications - Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures - Virtual HPC infrastructures for Health - Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications - Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds - Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: August 31th, 2014 - Author notification: October 1th 2014 - Camera Ready papers due: November 15th, 2014 - Publication: December, 2014 SUBMISSION DETAILS The special issue seeks original, unpublished work on potential means to foster better security, transparency and scalability in cloud-based services. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-review process and papers will be send to at least two independent academic referees. Papers that do not merit publication (for any reason) can be rejected by the Special Issue Editors without further review. Submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS - Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Prof. Sandra Gesing. University of Notre Dame, USA

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[P2P] Final Call for Workshops - IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Andrew Clashe 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

Final Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 23 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 27 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 23 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 27 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine SI on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management"
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 17 Jun '14

17 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on "Cloud-based Smart Evacuation Systems for Emergency Management" IMPORTANT DATES ***************************** Submissions Due: August 20, 2014 DETAILS ABOUT THE ISSUE ***************************** Natural and man-made emergencies, such as tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, and epidemics pose a significant threat to human societies. The lessons learned from the growing number of recent emergencies, such as Japan's earthquake (2011), Katrina hurricane (2005), Colorado flood (2013), Queensland flooding in Australia (2010), Haiti earthquake (2010), has put impetus on the development of emergency evacuation planning systems. Well-coordinated emergency management activities that involves guiding of citizens out of danger areas, placement of medical team to the most appropriate locations, and real-time planning of evacuation routes before and after a disaster play a significant role in saving lives, protecting critical infrastructures, and minimizing causalities. For example, due to lack of proper evacuation planning system, 25 people lost their lives in the first 30 minutes while attempting to flee their Oakland Hills neighborhood in California during a wildfire in 1991. The management of evacuation activities such as guiding people out of dangerous areas and coordinating rescue teams is dependent on the availability of historical data as well as on the effective real-time integration and utilisation of data streaming from multiple sources including on-site sensors, social media feeds and messaging on mobile devices (i.e. text messaging, location, etc.). However, there is a pitfall; the growing ubiquity of on-site sensors, social media and mobile devices means there are more sources of outbound traffic, which ultimately results in the creation of a tsunami of data, beginning shortly after the onset of emergency events. This data tsunami phenomenon is being described as a new grand challenge in computing: The 'Big Data' problem. Over 20 million tweets posted during Hurricane Sandy (2012) lead to an instance of the Big Data problem. During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, text messaging via mobile phones and Twitter made headlines as being crucial for disaster response, but only some 100,000 messages were actually processed by government agencies due to lack of automated and scalable data processing infrastructure. Design and development of evacuation systems for emergency management requires a complete ICT (Information and Communication Technology) paradigm shift in a way that systems do not get overwhelmed by incoming data volume, data rate, data sources, and data types. New cloud-based techniques are needed that can extract meaningful information from large-scaled data in real-time, while avoiding unnecessary data transmission or storage. Future initiative should focus on developing cloud-based techniques to improve the performance of multiple data stream processing system while balancing computational complexity and Quality of Service (e.g., decision making delay, alert generation delay, etc.). *We solicit papers and columns from both industrial and academic research communities.* SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ***************************** Submissions will be subject to the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines' peer-review process. Articles should be at most 6,000 words, with a maximum of 15 references, and should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing, big data and related application areas. ¬ The writing style should be down to earth, practical, and original. Authors should not assume that the audience will have specialized experience in a particular sub field. All accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-cc. If any questions please contact the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS ***************************** Dr. Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Dr. Samee Khan, NDSU, USA samee.khan(a)ndsu.edu Prof. Joanna Kolodziej, CUT, Poland joanna.kolodziej68(a)gmail.com Prof. Albert Zomaya, Sydney University, Australia zomaya(a)it.usyd.edu.au

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[P2P] CFP: PriSec 2014 (Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia.
by DEEPAK PUTHAL 15 Jun '14

15 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] *Call for papers:* The 3rd International Symposium on Privacy and Security in Cloud and Big Data (PriSec 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/prisec2014/ Important dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: June 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Submissions: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014 Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction: Cloud Computing and Big Data are two emerging paradigms in the recent developments of information technology. Cloud Computing enables computing resources to be provided as IT services in a pay-as-you-go fashion with high efficiency and effectiveness. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time.With Variety/Volume/Velocity/Value/Veracity/, Big Data such as medical records need to be protected in an scalable and efficient way. Information privacy and security is one of most concerned issues for Cloud Computing due to its open environment with very limited user-side control. It is also an important challenge for Big Data as estimated by IDC. In addition, Cloud Computing and Big Data are coming together in practice. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. As such, there is a strong demand to investigate information privacy and security challenges in both Cloud Computing and Big Data. This symposium aims at providing such forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as distributed computing, cloud computing, big data, database, data mining, information security and privacy protection areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about security and privacy issues in cloud and big data environments. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany) and 2012 (Xiangtan, China). Scope and Topics: The objective of this symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of security and privacy in cloud computing environments. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Track 1: Privacy and Security in Cloud · Privacy modelling in cloud computing · Privacy correlation between multiple services in cloud computing · Trust based privacy protection in cloud computing · Privacy categorisation in cloud computing · Privacy models for outsourcing · Privacy preserving data publishing on cloud · User privacy, service providers privacy and cloud platform privacy · Privacy requirements engineering on cloud · Private information retrieval on cloud · Privacy and security in personal health records on cloud · Privacy mechanisms in cloud services · Privacy aware scheduling in cloud · Security models, levels and scenarios in cloud computing · Secure identity management in clouds · Secure data management in cloud computing · Secure access to clouds · Remote data integrity protection · Securing distributed data storage in the cloud · Data-centric security and data classification · Cost and usability models related security issues in clouds · Interaction security between usability models in cloud computing · Secure Job deployment and scheduling on cloud · Secure resource allocation and indexing · User authentication and authorisation in cloud services · Auditing in cloud computing · Cloud threat models · Multi-tenancy related security/privacy issues · Security/privacy/trust issues in SaaS/PaaS/IaaS · Secure virtual machine mechanisms in cloud computing · Vulnerabilities in cloud infrastructure · Vulnerabilities in MapReduce · Fault tolerance, exception handling and reliability issues in cloud · Application programming environment Track 2: Privacy and Security in Big Data · Secure quantum communications · Privacy in Big Data applications and services · Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering · Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation · Privacy in parallel and distributed computation · Privacy in Big Data storage management · Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms · Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics · Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization · Big Data privacy policies and standards · Security model and architecture for Big Data · Data mining security for Big Data · Software and system security for Big Data · Cryptography in Big Data · Visualizing large scale security data · Threat detection using Big Data analytics · Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security · Data protection, integrity standards and policies · Security and legislative impacts for Big Data · Managing user access for Big Data · Scalability and auditing for Big Data Submission Guidelines: Submit your papers in PDF file at the PriSec2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=prisec2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded here for Word <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip> or LATEX <http://kpnm.hnust.cn/confs/cgc2012/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip>. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three PC members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014>2014 <http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014> and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs: Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University, USA Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University, Australia Program Committee Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Chang Liu, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committees: Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Yevgeniy Vahlis, University of Toronto Canada Guenther Pernul, University of Regensburg, Germany Charles Morisset, Newcastle University, UK David Naccache, ENS, France Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Bibhudatta Sahoo, NIT Rourkela, India Kartik Gopalan, SUNY - Binghamton, USA Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, MIT, USA Henrik Johnsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Biswapratap Singh Sahoo, National Central University, Taiwan Zeeshan Hameed, QMIC, Qatar Roberto Di Pietr, Bell Labs, France Rino Falcone, ISTC-CNR, Italy Stefano Guarino, Università degli Studi Roma Tr, Italy Abhinav Srivastava, AT&T Labs, USA Siani Pearson, HP Labs, UK Changhoon Lee, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea Nour Ali, University of Brighton, UK Wei Wei, Xi'an University of Technology, China Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy Ramlan Mahmood, University Putra Malaysia

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[P2P] Call for Workshops - IEEE SocialCom 2014 (Social Computing and Networking)
by Arne Wilston 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 7th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/socialcom2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Social Computing and Networking to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: - Xiaohui (Daniel) Tao, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, xtao(a)usq.edu.au - Arne Wilston, UTS, Australia, arne.wilston(a)gmail.com - Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China, luoxf(a)shu.edu.cn - Lei Li, Hefei University of Technology, China, lilei(a)hfut.edu.cn

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[P2P] CFP: 6th Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014)
by wangmz 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

##### We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ###### ##### Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested. ##### ---CALL FOR PAPERS---- ************************************************************************ The 6th International Workshop on Workflow Management in Cloud and Big Data (WMCB 2014) Held in conjunction with The 4th International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014) 3 - 5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Website: http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html ************************************************************************ ------------------ Important Dates ------------------ Submissions Deadline: 11 August Notification: 1 October Camera Ready: 15 October Workshop: 3 - 5 Dec. 2014 ------------------ Overview ------------------ Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Cloud computing provides the potential storage and processing capability for big data applications. Between them, workflow technology, which composes and automates business and scientific processing tasks, becomes a bridging and enabling tool to utilize cloud infrastructure for big data management. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, service computing, data processing, and workflow area to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about workflow management in cloud computing and big data environments. The workshop solicits high quality research results in all related areas. WMCB 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Workshops, previously held as WMSC 2013 (Karlsruhe, Germany), WMSC 2012 (Xiangtan, China), WMSC 2011 (Sydney, Australia), WMSC 2010 (Hongkong, China), and WMSC 2009 (Chengdu, China). ------------------ Topics of Interest ------------------ The objective of the workshop is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of workflow management in cloud computing and big data processing. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: * Workflow verification and validation * Novel architectural models for cloud computing in support of workflow execution * Cloud workflow architecture * Cloud resource management * Scientific computing in the cloud * Workflow management for big data processing * Programming models for cloud computing * Access control and authorisation for workflow execution * Workflow scheduling in cloud computing * Utility models and service pricing * Service enabled workflow applications * Privacy, security, risk and trust issues in cloud computing * Social issues in cloud computing * Green cloud computing * Green ICT and smart metering * Cloud workflow applications * Service based workflow modelling * Service Delivery and Composition * Service Level Agreements (SLAs) Negotiation, Automation and Orchestration * Quality of Services for workflow execution * Services Repository and Registry * Service Security, Privacy and Trust for workflow modelling and execution ------------------ Submission Guidelines and Publication ------------------ Please submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the WMCB 2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wmcb2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE format (http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the workshop means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be invited to be published in special issues of * Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience * Journal of Network and Computer Applications * Journal of Computer and System Sciences * IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- General Chairs * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Jianxun Liu, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Program Chairs * Mingzhong Wang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China * Chunjie Zhou, Ludong University, China Program Committee (to be confirmed) * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Shah Asaduzzaman, Carleton University, Canada * Gregor V. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * Shawn Bowers, University of California at Davis, USA * Christoph Bussler, Analytica, Inc., USA * Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy * Jian Cao, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China * David Chiu, Washington State University, USA * Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University , China * Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg, Germany * Ken Hawick, Massey University, New Zealand * Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Michel Hurfin, INRIA, France * Marta Indulska, The University of Queensland, Australia * Haksung Kim, Dongnam Health University, South Korea * Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, China * Shiyong Lu, Wayne State University, USA * Xiangfeng Luo, Shanghai University, China * Zongwei Luo, The University of Hong Kong, China * Dan Cristian Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA * Ethan L. Miller, University of California, USA * Jose A. Montenegro, Universidad de Malaga, Spain * Helen Paik, University of New South Wales, Australia * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, Sweden * Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Michael Sheng, University of Adelaide, Australia * Wei Tan, IBM Waston Research Center, USA * Jiacun Wang, Monmouth University, USA * Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China * Jianwu Wang, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Martijn Warnier, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Lijie Wen, Tsinghua University, China * Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK * Yang Yu, Yat-sen University, China --------------------- Contact --------------------- For detailed information please visit the conference webpage * http://wmcb2014.sinaapp.com/index.html or contact the conference organizers * Mingzhong Wang (wangmz(a)bit.edu.cn) * Chunjie Zhou (lucyzcj(a)gmail.com)

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[P2P] Call for Workshops - IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing)
by Andrew Clashe 09 Jun '14

09 Jun '14

Call for Workshops: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: · Title of workshop: International workshop on ... · Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, · Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) · The workshop deadlines and website · Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: · Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. · Establishing own paper submission system. · Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. · Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe(a)gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it

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[P2P] CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia
by Nazanin Borhan 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ¤ Fundamentals of cloud computing ¤ Architectural cloud models ¤ Programming cloud models ¤ Provisioning/pricing cloud models ¤ Data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ¤ Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ¤ Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ¤ Access control to cloud computing ¤ Resource virtualisation ¤ Monitoring and auditing in cloud ¤ Scalable and elastic cloud services ¤ Social computing and impacts on the cloud ¤ Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ¤ Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ¤ Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ¤ Migration of business applications to cloud ¤ Energy efficient cloud architecture ¤ Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ¤ Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ¤ Green Cloud ¤ Cloud use case studies ¤ Big Data theory, applications and challenges ¤ Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ¤ Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ¤ Big Data visualization ¤ Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ¤ Distributed and federated datasets ¤ NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ¤ Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ¤ Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ¤ Distributed file systems for Big Data ¤ Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ¤ Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ¤ Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ¤ Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ¤ Storage and computation management of Big Data ¤ Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ¤ Data management and distributed data systems ¤ Big 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/bdcloud2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu(a)deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro(a)unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar(a)gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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