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