From ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be Thu May 1 00:32:50 2014 From: ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be (Ansar YASAR) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 00:32:50 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] cfp: First International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS14) - DEADLINE Extensio Message-ID: <6b351a56433431dc48edbf3e9e525602@mail.gmail.com> First International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS14) In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks EUSPN 2014 http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:IFSMS14 22-25 September, 2014, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Description The 1st International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS?14) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of smart mobility solutions. We are living in a world where cars will soon all be very well-equipped with sensors such as GPS sensors, laser radars, infrared parking sensors, rear dead angle cameras, etc. Besides that, the infrastructure itself is likely to soon exploit technologies currently widely used, like smartphones, navigators and digital radio broadcast. Finally, there have been huge advances on traffic simulation, optimization, intensive computational techniques, distributed computing, data networks, wireless connectivity, and many others. If we combine all of this, there is the richest variety ever of information sources available for smart mobility solutions. The technology is out there, and now it is needed to take firm steps towards wisely combining the sources of information into smart applications that make roads safer and ensure a smooth mobility of individuals. IFSMS 2014 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2014). Scope The aim of the proposed workshop is to enhance profitable discussions on what techniques, software, methodologies, transportation and traffic models, and in general, data fusion techniques are being explored for its use for traffic simulation and mobility management and other intelligent transportation system applications for smart mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Agent-based modeling and simulation Data fusion and Smart Transportation Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport) Implementation Issues such as Algorithmic Issues, Real-World Computational Demands, Real-Time Constraints in the context of Fusion systems for Transportation Infrastructures Environmental Aware Smart Data Fusion applications Advanced Architectures for Traffic Simulation using Data Mining as Real-World input Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment Important Dates Submission deadline: May 30, 2014 (Extended) Notification: June 24, 2014 Final date for camera-ready copy: July 17, 2014 Workshop: September 22-25, 2014 Submission All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2014 website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifsms14 The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.elsevier.comand on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect, and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus and Engineering Village (Ei). This includes EI Compendex. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP. Workshop Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque YASAR (Hasselt University, Belgium) - ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be St?phane GALLAND (IRTES-SET, France) - stephane.galland at utbm.fr Program Committee Emmanuel ADAM (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) Tom BELLEMANS (Hasselt University, Belgium) Cindy CAPPELLE (IRTES-SET, France) Paul DAVIDSSON (Malmo University, Sweden) Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France) Franck GECHTER (IRTES-SET, France) Tom HOLVOET (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Davy JANSSENS (Hasselt University, Belgium) Sathish KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA) Marco LUETZENBERGER (DAI-Labor, Germany) Ren? MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) Davy PREUVENEERS (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional, Argentina) Michael SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland) Ren? SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland) Harry TIMMERMANS (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Rashid a. WARAICH (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Accepted Papers The list of the accepted papers will be available after July 17, 2014. Registration Please visit the EUSPN14 Registration Page for more information. Venue, Accomodation & Visa Requirements Please visit the EUSPN14 Venue & Accomodation Page for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.boubeta at uca.es Thu May 1 00:36:58 2014 From: juan.boubeta at uca.es (Juan Boubeta Puig) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 00:36:58 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET Message-ID: [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es Paper Submission Due: May 30th, 2014 GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 - Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending). As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research, United States - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Andreas Metzger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Achille Peternier, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz-Cort?s, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- [image: UCA] Juan Boubeta Puig Grupo UCASE de Ingenier?a del Software / UCASE Software Engineering Research Group *Departamento de Ingenier?a Inform?tica / Department of Computer Science and Engineering Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a / School of Engineering* Universidad de C?diz / University of C?diz C/ Chile n? 1 11002 - C?diz (Spain) Tel (+34) 956 015692 juan.boubeta at uca.es https://ucase.uca.es/juan-boubeta-puig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The current lack of universally accepted standards supporting cloud interoperability is severely affecting the portability of cloud-based applications across different platforms. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss problems, solutions and perspectives of the ongoing research activities aimed at enabling an efficient and adaptive management of service-based applications across multiple clouds. The workshop is promoted by the ongoing European research project EC-FP7-ICT-610531 SeaClouds (http://www.seaclouds-project.eu/), whose ultimate objective is to enable a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and migration of application modules over multiple heterogeneous clouds. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest for the workshop is: - Design of portable multi-cloud applications - Analysis of multi-cloud application specifications - Discovery of cloud services - Adaptive deployment of multi-cloud applications - Efficient monitoring of multi-cloud applications - Adaptive reconfiguration of multi-cloud applications - Controlled migration of application modules across multiple clouds - Emerging standards supporting multi-cloud application management - Case studies and best practices in multi-cloud applications --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, position papers and papers describing work in progress. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, whereas position papers and papers describing work in progress must not exceed 8 pages. All contributions should be written in English in the LNCS format. Contributions can be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaclouds2014).For formatting instructions and templates please see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science series. Moreover, subject to the number and quality of contributions, a journal special issue with a selection of the best papers will be organised. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Submission deadline: May 30th, 2014 - Notification deadline: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready due: July 15th, 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee - Marcos Almeida, Softeam, France - Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Martin Chapman, Oracle, Ireland - Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain - Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland - Francesco D?Andria, ATOS, Spain - Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Fehling, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Norway - Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft, U.K. - Simon Moser, IBM, Germany - Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - PengWei Wang, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity chair - Michela Fazzolari, University of Pisa, Italy Webmaster - Adrian Nieto, University of Malaga, Spain From michael at binaervarianz.de Thu May 1 02:35:32 2014 From: michael at binaervarianz.de (Michael Pradel) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 17:35:32 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] Research Assistants/PhD Students in the Software Lab (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Message-ID: <536196D4.2080106@binaervarianz.de> We are looking for motivated students interested in joining the Software Lab (TU Darmstadt, Germany) as research assistants and Ph.D. students. The Software Lab (SOLA) conducts research at the intersection of software engineering and programming languages, with a focus on tools and techniques for constructing reliable, efficient, and secure software. General areas of research include: * Dynamic program analysis * Static program analysis * Test case generation More concretely, projects to be worked on may include but are not limited to: * Automated analysis of JavaScript-based web applications for security vulnerabilities * Automated analyses that detect malicious behavior in browser extensions * Systematic studies of known security problems in web applications We focus on approaches that apply to real systems. In the past, the group leader, Dr. Michael Pradel, has developed analyses that find bugs in widely used Java, C, and JavaScript applications, such as the Java standard library, Eclipse, and GCC. The Software Lab will open in autumn 2014 as part of EC SPRIDE and will be lead by Dr. Michael Pradel, who joins TU Darmstadt from University of California, Berkeley. Working in a newly created lab will give applicants the unique chance to work in and shape a young and dynamic research group. The lab is embedded into an excellent environment for research on program analysis and security. With over 200 scientists in the area of IT security, Darmstadt is one of the largest and fastest growing IT security locations in Europe. == Requirements == Please consider applying if you: * Have obtained or will soon obtain a master/diploma degree in computer science (or a related subject) * Are creative and able to come up with fresh ideas to address technical challenges * Like to write code and will not be afraid of a large software project * Like to read and write technical texts in English * Enjoy working with undergraduate students * Are persistent and willing to work several years of your life on a project that many people will never understand * Like to present your work to academic audiences (for example, at international conferences) and to non-academic audiences (to increase the number of people that understand your work) == Additional Information == The goal of applicants should be to pursue academic research at the highest level and to obtain a Ph.D. degree within three to five years. The working language of the lab will be English. Knowing German is not required (but helpful to enjoy life outside of the lab). Ph.D. students at TU Darmstadt have the opportunity to take courses but are not required to do so. Ideally, research assistants will start in October 2014; sooner or later starting dates are possible. The positions come with a competitive salary (according to TV-TU Darmstadt, EG 13). It is generally possible to work part time. TU Darmstadt has a large interest in increasing the number of female researchers, and hence particularly encourages female candidates to apply. Applicants with a degree of disability of 50% or more will be preferred in case they are otherwise equally qualified to the other candidates. == Contact == Please send your application (including CV, copies of transcripts and certificates) to Dr. Michael Pradel (email: michael at binaervarianz.de). -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to: - Automata Theory - Automated Deduction - Computational aspects of Game Theory - Concurrency and Distributed computation - Decision Procedures - Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification - Finite Model Theory - First-order and Higher-order Logics - Formal Languages - Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems - Games and Automata for Verification - Game Semantics - Logical aspects of Computational Complexity - Logics of Programs - Modal and Temporal Logics - Model Checking - Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems - Program Analysis and Software Verification - Run-time Verification and Testing - Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems - Synthesis *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Phokion G. Kolaitis - http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kolaitis/ - Alessio R. Lomuscio - http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~alessio/ - Joel Ouaknine - http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/joel.ouaknine/home.html *IMPORTANT DATES - May 10th Abstract submission - May 25th Paper submission - June 25th Notification - July 25th Camera-ready submission *PUBLICATIONS The conference proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), and one special issue of Information and Computation (GandALF 2013). *SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2014). *PC CHAIRS - Adriano Peron, University Federico II of Napoli, Italy - Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk Thu May 1 11:44:51 2014 From: Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk (Sergio de Cesare) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:44:51 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Workshop on Enterprise Modeling at ER2014 Message-ID: <3C92ED1F-AE0E-4613-9129-16D26CB4DB4C@brunel.ac.uk> *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 1st International Workshop Enterprise Modeling (ENMO 2014) URL: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cbstssc2/events/enmo2014 co-located with the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2014) Atlanta, GA, USA, October 27-30, 2014 *** Purpose and scope *** The objective of the Workshop on Enterprise Modeling (ENMO) is to provide an international forum for exchanging ideas on the latest developments in the area of enterprise modeling by both academics and practitioners. Enterprise modeling can be broadly defined as the use of conceptual specifications as part of business applications. The workshop looks for papers that present state-of-the-art research or practices in the area of enterprise modeling. Example of topics that would be a good fit for the ENMO workshop include: novel applications resulting from the formalization of enterprise ontologies, behavioral studies related to enterprise modeling notations from a user perspective, the specification of reference models for specific business applications such as internal control or supply chain, a discussion of how ERP vendors employ enterprise modeling techniques in the era of the semantic web and cloud computing, a discussion of how enterprise ontologies are being used in practice. One of the workshop?s goals is to create an environment that allows cross-fertilization between research and practice and across the different enterprise modeling sub-disciplines. *** Topics *** Enterprise modeling covers a wide range of topics with new issues continuously emerging. Therefore, the topics listed below are examples and many other topics will be considered. Also, we are open to any research methodology. - Alignment Between Business Strategy and Enterprise Models - Enterprise Modeling Patterns - Enterprise Modeling Paradigms and Languages - Enterprise Ontologies - Extraction of Business Knowledge from Legacy Systems - Formal Specification of Enterprise Models - Methods, Techniques and Tools for Enterprise Modeling - Ontology-Driven Development of Enterprise Systems - Traceability of Enterprise Models to Enterprise Software Systems *** Important Dates and Submission *** Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enmo2014 For any questions regarding submission please contact either Sergio de Cesare (sergio.decesare at brunel.ac.uk) or Guido Geerts (geerts at udel.edu). Submissions can be in the form of full research papers or experience reports (up to 10 pages) or short position papers (up to 6 pages). Accepted research papers will be published in the ER 2014 workshop proceedings with Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For formatting your paper please have a look at the LNCS instructions for authors available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0. Please note that experience reports and position papers will be published on the workshop Web site only. Deadlines are as follows: Paper submission deadline: 20 May 2014 Notification to authors: 23 June 2014 Camera-ready copies: 7 July 2014 Workshop date: 27 or 28 October 2014 *** Organizers *** Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, U.K. Guido Geerts, University of Delaware, U.S.A. *** Program Committee *** Palash Bera (Saint Louis University, USA) Frederik Gailly (Ghent University, Belgium) Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil) Pavel Hruby (CSC, Denmark) Mark Lycett (Brunel University, UK) William E. McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA) Daniel E. O'Leary (University of Southern California, USA) Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions, UK) Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Geerts Poels. (Ghent University, Belgium) Hans Weigand (Tilburg University, Netherlands) From lorebaro at ucm.es Thu May 1 12:48:05 2014 From: lorebaro at ucm.es (LORENA ISABEL BARONA LOPEZ) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 12:48:05 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: IET Special Issue: Software Defined Networking Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** IET Networks OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING NOW AVAILABLE Special Issue: Software Defined Networking The numbers of devices connected as well as the amount of traffic in the network have increased exponentially in the last years. Moreover, the emergence and maturity of new services and use cases such as mobility, server virtualization, cloud computing and Internet of Things have been driven, and somehow restricted, by the limitations of actual network architectures. Software Defined Networking is a new way of thinking the networks. SDN separates the control and data planes in network devices and logically centralizes the control of the network. This paradigm makes easy the development of new services and applications. Moreover, SDN also has impulsed new concepts in networks such as Network Operating Systems (NOS), High Level Network Operating Languages and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). SDN has the potential to revolutionize the way networks are built. The aim of this special issue is to publish research papers reflecting the most recent research and application results in Software Defined Network and Network Functions Virtualization. The following topical areas will be covered in this special issue, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundation of separation of control and data plane architecture - Northbound and Southbound Programming of Software Defined Networks - Standardization of SDN interfaces - Advances for enabling SDN and NFV - Orchestration of Virtual Network Resources - Testing and Security analysis for SDN - Experiences deploying new SDN Applications and Services - SDN-enabled multi-platform convergence - SDN-NFV analysis and market expectations - Co-existence and Integration of SDN with traditional architectures - Performance Analysis on single and multi-controller architectures All submissions are subject to the journal?s peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal?s Author Guide at http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue. 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URL: From lorebaro at ucm.es Thu May 1 12:50:54 2014 From: lorebaro at ucm.es (LORENA ISABEL BARONA LOPEZ) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 12:50:54 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: IET Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN) Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** IET Wireless Sensor Systems OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING NOW AVAILABLE Special Issue: Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN) Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel paradigm that is changing the way we think of networks and communications. The basic idea of SDN is the separation between data and control plane in network devices and the centralized control of the network. This new global view of network resources has led to tremendous advances in new intelligent network services, usually not fulfilled by traditional architectures. In addition, SDN reduces the complexity of network configuration and management. For this reason, SDN-based applications are expected to experience an exponential growth in the next few years including an extension of this concept for example to infrastructure-less wireless networks (Software Defined Sensor Networks SDSN). However, this paradigm shift creates new challenges for both the industry and research communities. Efficient resource management, security, quality of service or the integration with other platforms such as cloud, big data or internet of things are still open questions in this new model. To explore these research issues, this special issue will present state-of-the-art of issues, current efforts, and solutions for SDN and SDSN. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and selected based on their quality and their relevance to this special issue. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - SDN-SDSN applications for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks - Advances in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN-SDSN networks - Software Defined Networks programming and simulation - Tools for management and troubleshooting of Software Defined based networks - Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices - Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional sensor network architectures - Scalable management of network, computing and storage capacity - Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN-SDSN technology - Performance analysis on single and multi-controller architectures - Orchestration of virtual network resources All submissions are subject to the journal?s peer-review procedures. The authors should follow the journal?s Author Guide at http://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/author-guide when preparing papers for submission to the Special Issue. The Authors should indicate ?Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Sensor Networks (SDSN)? on their manuscripts. Any enquiries can be made to the IET or the Guest Editors. All papers must be submitted through the journal?s Manuscript Central system: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iet-wss Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------- Submission deadline: 31 August 2014 Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2014 Publication: March 2015 Editor-in-Chief: ------------------------------------------------- Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Guest Editors: ------------------------------------------------- Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain E-mail: javiergv at fdi.ucm.es Ana Lucila Sandoval Orozco, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain E-mail: asandoval at fdi.ucm.es Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK E-mail: Jose-Maria.Alcaraz-Calero at uws.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From angevald at ucm.es Thu May 1 15:46:25 2014 From: angevald at ucm.es (ANGEL LEONARDO VALDIVIESO CARAGUAY) Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:46:25 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services August 20, 2014 Niagara Falls, Canada http://gass.ucm.es/sdn-ngas-2014/ Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that is reinventing the way of thinking the networks. The decoupling of control and data planes in network devices and the centralized control of the networks remove the rigidity of today?s networks. This new concept enables the integration between different heterogeneous architectures and facilitates the creation of Network Applications and Services more adapted to the needs of customers. Moreover, this New Generation of Application and Services opens the door of innovative business opportunities. However, the potential techno-economic sustainability of SDN requires the consensus between research community, vendors, regulators and customers. This Workshop represents a unique opportunity to expose the latest advances in this technology as well as share experiences and build collaborations. Topics for this Workshop: - Advancement in the development of Applications and Services for SDN networks - Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN networks. ? SDN programming and simulation. ? Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of SDN based networks. ? Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices. ? Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN technology. ? Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional network architectures. ? Performance analysis on single and multi-controller architectures. ? Orchestration of virtual network resources. ? Other related topics. Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Paper acceptance notification: June 5, 2014 Camera ready papers due: June 19, 2014 Workshop: August 20, 2014 Publication: ------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com < http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com ), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com ) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ( http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Extended and revised version of the best papers presented in the Workshop will be invited to these two journal special issues: IET Networks (Special Issue on Software Defined Networking) and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Sensor Networks). Committees: ------------------------------------------------- Chairs: - Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China Technical Program Committee: - Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Tarun Banka, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA - Sergio Beker, Huawei Technologies, Munich, Germany. - Anura P. Jayasumana, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA - Eric Keller, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA - JongWon Kim, GIST, Gwangju, Korea - Junda Liu, UC Berkeley, ICSI, Google Inc., USA - Diego Lopez, Telef?nica I+D, Spain - Cristian Lumezanu, NEC-Labs, Princeton, NJ, USA - Yan Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China - Antonio Manzalini, Telecom Italia, Italy - David Meyer, Brocade Systems, USA - Yasuo Okabe, Kyoto University, Japan - Eddie Ruan, Cisco Systems, CA, USA - Albert Vico Oton, The i2CAT Foundation, Spain - Mehmet Can Vuran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA - Chunming Wu, Zhejiang University, China - Guang Yao, Tsinghua University, China - Petros Zerfos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Zahoor.Khan at dal.ca Fri May 2 12:50:25 2014 From: Zahoor.Khan at dal.ca (Zahoor Khan) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 07:50:25 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFPs: The 3rd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-14) Message-ID: <146ef01cf65f4$54ef2ca0$fecd85e0$@dal.ca> CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd International Workshop on Body Area Sensor Networks (BASNet-14) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of Body Area Networks (BANs). BASNet-2014 will be held in Halifax, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2014) . Workshop Website: www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-14/ SCOPE The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on sensors communication in Body Area Networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Wearable and implantable sensors * Bio-sensors communication * Sensors communication in Body Area Networks * Body Area Networks in Hospital environment * Body Area Networks for Medical Applications * Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks * MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks * Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks * Body Area Networks and cloud computing * RFID tags for Body Area Networks * Security protocols for Body Area Networks * E-Health wireless applications * Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring IMPORTANT DATES * Submission due: 1 June, 2014 (Extended deadline). * Notification of acceptance: 24 June, 2014. * Camera-ready due: 17 July, 2014. * Workshop: 22-25 September, 2014. SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ICTH-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ICTH-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2014. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org . If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All BASNet-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ICTH'14. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bill Robertson, Dalhousie University (Canada) * William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada) * Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada) * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) * Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium) * Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan) * Farrukh A. Khan, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Muhammad Moid Sandhu, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) * Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Ayesha Hussain Khan, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) * Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada) * Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan) * Hai Wang, Saint Mary's University (Canada) * Kashif Saleem, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Faisal Shaikh, MUET (Pakistan) * Amjad Gawanmeh, Concordia University (Canada) * Turki Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University (Saudi Arabia) WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University (Canada) * Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) --------------------------------------------------------- Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc, MCSE Postdoctoral Fellow, Internetworking Program Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3J 1Y9 Phone: +1-(902)-494-3571 www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca --------------------------------------------------------- Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3 Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mavega at unex.es Fri May 2 13:18:29 2014 From: mavega at unex.es (Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 13:18:29 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - IEEE Cluster Workshop: PBio 2014 (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in Journal CCPE (IF: 0.845, Q2) Message-ID: <53637F05.9010806@unex.es> Call for Papers --- IEEE Cluster Workshop: 2nd International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in the Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) (Impact Factor: 0.845, Quartile Q2) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2014 We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for DNA computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio2014/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-25-72-63 Fax: +34-927-25-71-87 ------------------------------------------------- From abb at cs.stir.ac.uk Fri May 2 13:28:33 2014 From: abb at cs.stir.ac.uk (Andrea Bracciali) Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 13:28:33 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] LAST Call for Papers: LDAB@CIBB2014 In-Reply-To: <48B749DA-591E-4902-915D-CF21975246BB@cs.stir.ac.uk> References: <00C15F42-5F36-41D9-890E-A0306A4FB349@cs.stir.ac.uk> <48B749DA-591E-4902-915D-CF21975246BB@cs.stir.ac.uk> Message-ID: [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] Few days left! Feel free to contact the Special Session organisers if you have any question. ==================================================== Second Call for Papers Large-scale and HPC data analysis in bioinformatics: Intelligent methods for computational, systems and synthetic biology. 26-28 June 2014 University of Cambridge, UK http://www.cussb.unisr.it/cibb2014/ss.html#LSAHDAIB Special Session of CIBB 2014: Eleventh International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics http://www.cussb.unisr.it/cibb2014/index.html *** Submission deadline: 5th May 2014 *** ==================================================== AIMS and SCOPE Biomedical research is currently facing the Big Data wave created by the huge amount of experiments performed every day in omics sciences. This new situation demands appropriate IT-infrastructures and scalable software to analyse data within an acceptable timespan. Massive parallel clusters, distributed technologies, on-Chip solutions such as GPGPU and Xeon Phi must be exploited with adequate algorithmic solutions to reach their full potential. The aim of this special session is to bring together researchers interested in cutting-edge methods to address the challenges posed by the huge amount of data produced in omics science. The idea is to present the latest advancements concerning High Performance Computing solutions required to treat multi-omics data and the related Big Data paradigms that are needed to manage the large-scale challenges of current computational biology. Examples of relevant areas of interest within this context include - but are not limited to - - Next-Generation Sequencing data analysis and interpretation, - Genomics patterns identification and mining, - Transcriptomics and Proteomics data integration, - Systems Biology models simulation and optimization, - Structural Biology and Molecular Dynamics, - Synthetic Biology circuits design and simulation. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES http://www.cussb.unisr.it/cibb2014/calls.html#submissions Papers should be submitted in PDF format on the Easy Chair conference system. Paper length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages. Papers are required to be structured according to the following five sections: ? 1. Scientific background ? 2. Material and methods ? 3. Results ? 4. Conclusion ? 5. References (no more than 10) (Please refer to the latex template on the web page for more accurate instructions). Please note that only PDF versions of papers can be accepted, as the proceedings of CIBB will be produced starting from them. A correct submission requires selecting this special session in the submission system. PUBLICATION Each paper will be peer-reviewed and the resulting scores used to determine invitations for oral or poster presentations. Following the conference, an extended version of the presented contributions (12 page format) will be considered for publication in the Springer?s Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) series. Moreover, a selection of the best papers will be considered for pu blication in a special issue of BMC Bioinformatics dedicated to CIBB2014. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 5th May 2014 Acceptance notification: 10th May 2014 Camera ready due: 30th May 2014 Conference: 26th - 28th June 2014 ORGANISERS Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK Ivan Merelli, CNR-ITB, Italy CONTACTS Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK Computing Science and Mathematics School of Natural Sciences Stirling University abb at cs.stir.ac.uk +44 (0)1786 467446 Ivan Merelli, CNR-ITB, Italy Institute for Biomedical Technologies Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it +39 02 26422600 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Charlotte.Hug at univ-paris1.fr Fri May 2 14:58:01 2014 From: Charlotte.Hug at univ-paris1.fr (Charlotte Hug) Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 14:58:01 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline extension : CFP First workshop Quality of Models and Models of Quality (ER 2014) - 16 May Message-ID: <53639659.60805@univ-paris1.fr> ===================================================== Call for Papers First workshop Quality of Models and Models of Quality QMMQ In conjunction with the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2014) To be held in Atlanta, GA U.S.A. from 27-30 October 2014 *Extended deadline 16 May 2014* http://qmmq2014.cnam.fr/ ===================================================== *Scope* Quality assurance has been and still is a very challenging issue within the Information Systems (IS) and Conceptual Modeling (CM) disciplines. This ongoing research encompasses theoretical aspects including quality definition and quality models, and practical/empirical aspects such as the development of methods, approaches and tools for quality measurement and improvement. Research can be general and conceptual in nature or focused on specific application domains, such as web application quality, data warehouse quality, requirements model quality, model transformations quality, etc. Although research contributions are highly diverse and relevant, they are not adopted by practitioners as useful solutions to reach better developed solutions. Nowadays, with the development of web technologies and the growth of collected and exploited data volumes (or to exploit), IS and CM communities are faced to new challenges. They have to envision new perspectives to the problem of evaluating quality in IS. The QMMQ workshop intends to provide a space for fruitful exchanges involving both researchers and practitioners having a variety of interests such as: data quality, information quality, system quality as well as models, methods, processes and tools for managing quality. The aim of the workshop is twofold: firstly, to provide an opportunity for researchers and industry developers working on various aspects of information systems quality to exchange research ideas and results and discuss them; secondly, to promote research on information systems and conceptual model quality to the broader conceptual modeling research community attending ER 2014. Data and information in general need to be of high quality to be valuable. However, this quality, to be ensured, requires reliable IS that can only be designed with a precise ontological commitment. Moreover, research on quality needs more contributions based on experimentation to provide empirical evidences of successful IS design. Empirical Software Engineering techniques and protocols should be followed in the CM modeling to provide reliable and useful results to assess IS quality. *Topics of interest* - Quality constructs, models and ontologies - Quality measures and instruments - Experiments for validating quality models, measures and instruments - Methodological issues of research on IS quality - Method and tool support for improving and monitoring quality - Quality of requirements engineering artifacts and processes - Quality of models and meta-models - Quality of ontologies and reference models - Data quality - Big data quality - Quality modeling languages - Ontological analysis of conceptual modeling grammars - Cost/benefit analysis of quality assurance processes - Quality assurance practices : case studies and experiences - Experiments and case studies on quality evaluation. *Important dates* Paper submission 02 May 2014 *Extended paper submission 16 May 2014* Author notification 02 June 2014 Camera-ready paper submission 02 July 2014 Workshop dates 27 October - 30 October 2014 *Submission* https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qmmq2014 Authors guidelines : http://qmmq2014.cnam.fr/?content=guidelines *Co-organizers* Samira SI-SAID -- CHERFI (CNAM, France) Oscar PASTOR (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Charlotte HUG (University Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, France), Publicity chair *Program Committee (to be completed)* Jacky AKOKA (CNAM, France) Said ASSAR (Telecom Ecole de Management, France) Laure BERTI-EQUILLE (Institut de Recherche pour le D?veloppement, France) Lotfi BOUZGUENDA (ISMIS, Tunisia) Cristina CACHERO (Universidad de Alicante, Spain) Isabelle COMYN-WATTIAU (CNAM-ESSEC, France) Rebecca DENECK?RE (University Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, France) Sophie DUPUY-CHESSA (Grenoble University, France) Virginie GOASDOUE-THION (University of Rennes I, France) Cesar GONZALEZ-PEREZ (Spanish National Research Council, Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spain) Roberto E. LOPEZ-HERREJON (Johannes Kepler Universit?t, Austria) Wolfgang MAASS (Saarland University, Germany) Raimundas MATULEVICIUS (University of Tartu, Estonia) Jeffrey PARSONS (University of Newfoundland, Canada) Ver?nika PERALTA (University of Tours, France) Erik A. PROPER (CRP Henri Tudor, Luxembourg) Jolita RALYTE (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Sudha RAM (University of Arizona, USA) Farida SEMMAK (UPEC - Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil, France) Guttorm SINDRE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Pnina SOFFER (IS Department, University of Haifa, Israel) -- Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ete trouve. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From et52 at leicester.ac.uk Sat May 3 11:21:34 2014 From: et52 at leicester.ac.uk (Emilio Tuosto) Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 10:21:34 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] TGC 2014: deadlines extended Message-ID: <5364B51E.3030909@le.ac.uk> TGC 2014 Call for Papers 9th Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/tgc2014/ 5-6 September, 2014 Rome, Italy (co-located with Concur 2014) ******************************************************************************************* Due to several requests, the deadlines have been extended by one week. ******************************************************************************************* Highlights: - Deadlines extended: abstract submission: May 9 2014 paper submission: May 16 2014 - Keynote speakers: V?ronique Cortier (CNRS, France) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, France) The Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing is an international annual venue dedicated to secure and reliable computation in the so-called global computing, i.e., those computational abstractions emerging in large-scale infrastructures such as service-oriented architectures, autonomic systems, and cloud computing. The TGC series focuses on providing frameworks, tools, algorithms, and protocols for rigorously designing, verifying, and implementing open-ended, large-scaled applications. The related models of computation incorporate code and data mobility over distributed networks that connect heterogeneous devices and have dynamically changing topologies. We solicit papers in all areas of global computing, including (but not limited to): - languages, semantic models, and abstractions - security, trust, and reliability - privacy and information flow policies - algorithms and protocols - resource management - model checking, theorem proving, and static analysis - tool support Important dates - Deadline for abstract submission: May 9 2014 - Deadline for paper submission: May 16 2014 - Notification to authors: June 27 2014 Programme committee - Stephanie Delaune (CNRS and LSV, France) - Anupam Datta (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) - Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Universit? di Torino, Italy) - Fabio Gadducci (Universit? di Pisa, Italy) - Dan Ghica (University of Birmingham, UK) - Andrew D. Gordon (Microsoft Research and University of Edinburgh, UK) - Joshua Guttman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA) - Christos Kaklamanis (University of Patras and CTI, Greece) - Daniel Hirschkoff (ENS Lyon, France) - Boris K?pf (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) - Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) - Michele Loreti (Universit? degli Studi di Firenze, Italy) - Matteo Maffei (co-chair, CISPA, Saarland University, Germany) - Hernan Melgratti (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Ant?nio Ravara (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) - Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) - Andrey Rybalchenko (TU M?nchen, Germany) - Emilio Tuosto (co-chair) (co-chair, University of Leicester, UK) - Bj?rn Victor (Uppsala University, Sweden) - Roberto Zunino (Universit? degli Studi di Trento, Italy) Submission instructions Contributions must be in PostScript or PDF format and consist of no more than 15 pages in the Springer's LNCS style. Clearly marked appendices may include additional details and proofs omitted due to space limitations. Submitted papers must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere, with the exception of CONCUR. Concurrent submissions to CONCUR 2014 and TGC 2014 are allowed, and in fact encouraged, for those papers that may potentially enhance both conferences. Authors of such double submissions should flag them to the program chairs at the time of submission (by choosing the 'Regular Paper submitted to CONCUR' paper category). Reviews may be shared between CONCUR and TGC. CONCUR's timeline is ahead of TGC's; submissions accepted by CONCUR will be considered automatically withdrawn from TGC. We plan to publish post-proceedings shortly after the conference, to give the authors the opportunity to take into account discussions and suggestions at the conference. 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It aims at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large, well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular focus will be put on methodology. VENUE: SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. SCOPE: The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing. The list below is indicative and not exhaustive: phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology syntax, semantics discourse, dialogue, pragmatics statistical models for natural language processing supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods applied to natural language, including speech statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods similarity alignment language resources part-of-speech tagging parsing semantic role labelling natural language generation anaphora and coreference resolution speech recognition speaker identification/verification speech transcription speech synthesis machine translation translation technology text summarisation information retrieval text categorisation information extraction term extraction spelling correction text and web mining opinion mining and sentiment analysis spoken dialogue systems author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering STRUCTURE: SLSP 2014 will consist of: invited talks peer-reviewed contributions INVITED SPEAKERS: Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and Statistical Error Mining Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside? Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK) Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US) Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK) Herv? Bourlard (Martigny, CH) Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK) Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE) David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US) Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US) Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE) Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE) Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX) James Glass (Cambridge, US) Ralph Grishman (New York, US) Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US) Xiaodong He (Redmond, US) Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US) Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP) Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR) Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR) Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG) Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair) Manuel Montes-y-G?mez (Puebla, MX) Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP) Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US) Vincent Ng (Dallas, US) Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE) Elmar N?th (Erlangen, DE) Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT) Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US) Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US) Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA) Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK) James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US) Ga?l Richard (Paris, FR) German Rigau (San Sebasti?n, ES) Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES) Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP) Bj?rn W. Schuller (London, UK) Satoshi Sekine (New York, US) Richard Sproat (New York, US) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK) Jian Su (Singapore, SG) Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL) Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN) Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL) Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK) Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE) Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI) Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US) ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair) Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble) Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) SUBMISSIONS: Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices, references, etc.) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). Submissions have to be uploaded to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014 PUBLICATIONS: A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference. A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation. REGISTRATION: The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14, 2014. The registration form can be found at: http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php DEADLINES: Paper submission: May 14, 2014 (23:59h, CET) ? EXTENDED ? Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014 Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014 Early registration: July 2, 2014 Late registration: September 30, 2014 Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015 QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SLSP 2014 Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble Universitat Rovira i Virgili From stephane.galland at utbm.fr Sat May 3 15:17:50 2014 From: stephane.galland at utbm.fr (stephane.galland at utbm.fr) Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 15:17:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] Extended Deadline for IFSMS14 Message-ID: <20140503131750.92E731FC61F@smtp4.utbm.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: ? Access Controls ? Antenna Systems and Design ? Anti-cyberterrorism ? Assurance of Service ? Biometrics Technologies ? Channel Modeling and Propagation ? Cloud Computing ? Coding for Wireless Systems ? Computational Intelligence ? Computer Crime Prevention and Detection ? Computer Forensics ? Computer Security ? Confidentiality Protection ? Critical Computing and Storage ? Critical Infrastructure Management ? Cryptography and Data Protection ? Data Compression ? Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks ? Data Mining ? Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks ? Digital Communications ? Distributed and Parallel Applications ? E-Government ? E-Learning ? E-Technology ? Embedded Systems and Software ? Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications ? Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems ? Green Computing ? Grid Computing ? Information Technology Human Resources ? Information Technology Infrastructure ? Information Technology Strategies ? Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ? Mobile Social Networks ? Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management ? Multimedia Computing ? Multiuser and Multiple Access Schemes ? National Policies and Standards ? Network Security ? Optical Wireless Communications ? Peer-to-Peer Social Networks ? Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance ? Resource Allocation over Wireless Networks ? Security; Authentication and Cryptography for Wireless Networks ? Signal Processing Techniques and Tools ? Software and Cognitive Radio ? System Development and Implementation ? Technology Developments ? Technology Futures ? Wireless Communications ? Wireless System Architectures and Applications ? Wireless Traffic and Routing Ad-hoc Networks All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. Event email ad: digitalsec2014 at sdiwc.net Paper Submission: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/openconf/openconf.php Registration: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/registration/ -------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance : June 04, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission : June 14, 2014 Registration Date : June 14, 2014 however, it is recommended to do it few days before Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014 Contact email: digitalsec2014 at sdiwc.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: ? Mobile Social Networks ? Antenna Systems and Design ? Anti-cyberterrorism ? Assurance of Service ? Biometrics Technologies ? Channel Modeling and Propagation ? Cloud Computing ? Coding for Wireless Systems ? Computational Intelligence ? Access Controls ? Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management ? Wireless Traffic and Routing ? Confidentiality Protection ? Critical Computing and Storage ? Critical Infrastructure Management ? Digital Communications ? Data Compression ? Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks ? Data Mining ? Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks ? Ad-hoc Networks ? Distributed and Parallel Applications ? E-Government ? E-Learning ? E-Technology ? Embedded Systems and Software ? Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications ? Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems ? Green Computing Grid Computing ? Information Technology Human Resources ? Information Technology Infrastructure ? Information Technology Strategies ? Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ? Resource Allocation over Wireless Networks ? Multimedia Computing ? Multiuser and Multiple Access Schemes ? National Policies and Standards ? Network Security ? Optical Wireless Communications ? Peer-to-Peer Social Networks ? Security; Authentication and Cryptography for Wireless Networks ? Signal Processing Techniques and Tools ? Software and Cognitive Radio ? System Development and Implementation ? Technology Developments ? Technology Futures ? Wireless Communications ? Wireless System Architectures and Applications All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. Paper Submission: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/paper-submission/ Registration: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/registration/ -------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance : June 04, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission : June 14, 2014 Registration Date : June 14, 2014 however, it is recommended to do it few days before Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014 For more information please send email: din at sdiwc.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liyuanfang at gmail.com Sun May 4 12:22:59 2014 From: liyuanfang at gmail.com (Yuan-Fang Li) Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 20:22:59 +1000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline extension: The 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2014) Message-ID: *** Apologies for cross-posting *** *Due to numerous requests, the deadline of PRDC 2014 has been extended to May 16th 2014.* *Call for Papers: The 20th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2014)* *Singapore Nov 18-21, 2014 * PRDC 2014 (http://prdc.dependability.org/PRDC2014/index.html) is the twentieth in this series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers the many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing systems has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems. Topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Software aging and rejuvenation - Safety-critical systems and software - Architecture and system design for dependability - Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols - Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications - Cloud and Internet Information security - Dependability issues in computer networks and communications - Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems - Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction processing systems - Dependability issues in autonomic computing - Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems Paper Submissions Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers and Practical Experience Reports. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 10 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 20 pages double-spaced. Practical Experience Reports (max 6 pages using IEEE format guidelines or 12 pages double-spaced) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. The title page should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying whether the submission is a Regular Paper or a Practical Experience Report. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address of the corresponding author should be specified. All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission web site . Papers will be reviewed internationally and selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. 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URL: From joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu Sun May 4 18:32:26 2014 From: joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu (Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro) Date: Sun, 04 May 2014 18:32:26 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Approaching (May 30), 9th DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT workshop, co-located with ESORICS 2014, LNCS proceedings, Wroclaw, Poland In-Reply-To: <53665489.4000803@telecom-sudparis.eu> References: <53665489.4000803@telecom-sudparis.eu> Message-ID: <53666B9A.6060908@telecom-sudparis.eu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================================================== Call for Papers DPM 2014, 9th International Workshop on DATA PRIVACY MANAGEMENT, http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2014/ Wroclaw, Poland, September 10-11, 2014 (co-located with ESORICS'2014) Springer LNCS Proceedings ======================================================================== ======================================================================== Important Dates * Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 * Acceptance Notification: July 11, 2014 * Camera Ready Version: August 14, 2014 ======================================================================== Scope: Organizations are increasingly concerned about the privacy of information that they manage (several people have filed lawsuits against organizations violating the privacy of customer's data). Thus, the management of privacy-sensitive information is very critical and important for every organization. This poses several challenging problems, such as how to translate the high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies, administration of privacy-sensitive data, privacy data integration and engineering, privacy access control mechanisms, information-oriented security, and query execution on privacy-sensitive data for partial answers. Topics: The aim of this workshop is to discuss and exchange the ideas related to privacy data management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. The main topics, but not limited to, include: * Privacy Information Management * Privacy Policy-based Infrastructures and Architectures * Privacy-oriented Access Control Languages and Models * Privacy in Trust Management * Privacy in Digital Currencies * Privacy Data Integration * Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance * Privacy Services * Cryptography and Cryptanalysis * Privacy Policy Analysis * Query Execution over Privacy Sensitive Data * Privacy Preserving Data Mining * Hippocratic and Water-marking Databases * Privacy for Integrity-based Computing * Privacy Monitoring and Auditing * Privacy in Social Networks * Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications * Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security * Privacy in computer networks * Privacy and RFIDs * Privacy and Big Data * Privacy in sensor networks ======================================================================== Submission guidelines: Papers should be at most 15 pages (using 11-point font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be written in English. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair web site (at easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2014) and following the requirements stated there. The submitted paper (in PDF format) should follow the template indicated by Springer (see http://springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). It must start with a title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of the authors, and a list of keywords. All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers should be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. The proceedings will be published in a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer-Verlag). Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. It is expected that extended and revised version of the best papers from the workshop will be considered for international journal special ======================================================================== General Chairs: * Jordi Castella-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Program Committee Chairs: * Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis) * Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Program Committee: * Rainer Bohme (University of Munster, Germany) * Ana Cavalli (Telecom SudParis, France) * Frederic Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) * Nora Cuppens (Telecom Bretagne, France) * Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) * Christian Duncan (Quinnipiac University, USA) * Nicola Dragoni (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) * David Evans (University of Derby, UK) * Sara Foresti (University of Milan, Italy) * Sebastien Gambs (University of Rennes 1, France) * Flavio D. Garcia (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) * Paolo Gasti (New York Institute of Technology, USA) * Stefanos Gritzalis (University of the Aegean, Greece) * Marit Hansen (Unabhangiges Landeszentrum fur Datenschutz, Germany) * Artur Hecker (Telecom ParisTech, France) * Sokratis Katsikas (University of Piraeus, Greece) * Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton University, Canada) * Pascal Lafourcade (Joseph Fourier University, France) * Maryline Laurent (Telecom SudParis, France) * Georgios Lioudakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) * Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan, Italy) * Javier Lopez (University of Malaga, Spain) * Sotirios Maniatis (Hellenic Authority for Communications Privacy, Greece) * Refik Molva (EURECOM, France) * Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalonia) * Melek Onen (EURECOM, France) * Cristina Perez-Sola (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Catalonia) * Silvio Ranise (FBK, Security and Trust Unit, Trento) * Yves Roudier (EURECOM, France) * Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham, UK) * Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) * David Sanchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) * Claudio Soriente (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Alessandro Sorniotti (IBM Research, Switzerland) * Vicenc Torra (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Catalonia) * Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) * Jens Weber (University of Victoria, Canada) * Lena Wiese (University of Gottingen, Germany) * Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) ======================================= FURTHER INFORMATION ======================================= Additional information about paper submission and conference topics and events can be found at the DPM'2014 web site: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2014/ From Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be Sun May 4 21:27:27 2014 From: Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be (Dirk Craeynest) Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 21:27:27 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] 19th Int.Conf. Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2014 Message-ID: <201405041927.s44JRRBx019862@feles.cs.kuleuven.be.> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation *** PROGRAM SUMMARY *** 19th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2014 23-27 June 2014, Paris, France http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2014 Organized by Ada-France on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Online registration open! *** *** All info available on conference web site *** *** Early registration discount until May 31 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The 19th International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2014 takes place in Paris, France, from June 23 to 27, 2014. It is an exciting event with an outstanding technical program, keynote talks, and exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, and a rich program of workshops and tutorials on Monday and Friday. The conference is hosted by ECE, a French engineering school located near the Tour Eiffel, right in the heart of Paris, with convenient connections to all places of interest, and lots of facilities around. An event not to be missed! The Ada-Europe series of conferences has become established as a successful international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in all aspects of reliable software technologies. These events highlight the increased relevance of Ada in safety- and security-critical systems, and provide a unique opportunity for interaction and collaboration between academics and industrial practitioners. Extensive information is available on the conference web site, such as the list of accepted papers and industrial presentations, and detailed descriptions of all workshops, tutorials and keynote presentations. Also check the conference web site for registration, accommodation and travel information. Quick overview - Mon 23 & Fri 27: tutorials - Tue 24 - Thu 26: core program Proceedings - published by Springer - volume 8454 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) - will be available at conference Program co-chairs - Laurent George, LIGM/UPEMLV - ECE Paris, France lgeorge at ieee.org - Tullio Vardanega, University of Padova, Italy tullio.vardanega at unipd.it Invited speakers - Robert Lain?, "Lessons Learned and Easily Forgotten", drawing from his many years of experience in space projects leadership at the European Space Agency and EADS Astrium - Alun Foster, "From ARTEMIS to ECSEL: Growing a Large Eco-System for High-Dependability Systems", about the results achieved in ARTEMIS and the objectives of the new ECSEL program, as Acting Executive Director and Programme Manager of the ARTEMIS JU - Mohamed Shawky, "Future Challenges in Design Tools and Frameworks for Embedded Systems; Application to Intelligent Transportation Systems", presenting his futuristic work at the Universit? de Technologie Compi?gne Workshops (full day) - Workshop on "Challenges and new Approaches for Dependable and Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering" (De-CPS 2014), organized by CEA and Thales - Workshop on "Mixed Criticality Systems" (WMCIS 2014): Challenges of Mixed Criticality Approaches and Benefits for the Industry, organized by ECE Workshop (half day) - "Ada 2012: le point sur le langage" (Ada 2012: Assessing the Language), a special session in French for software managers who want to learn about the current state of Ada, organized by Ada-France Tutorials (full day) - "Robotics Programming", Lars Asplund, Asplund Data, Sweden - "Introduction to Verification with SPARK 2014", Rod Chapman, Altran UK, Yannick Moy, AdaCore, France Tutorials (half day) - "Proving Safety of Parallel/Multi-Threaded Programs", Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA - "Multicore Programming using Divide-and-Conquer and Work Stealing", Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA - "Debugging Real-time Systems", Ian Broster and Andrew Coombes, Rapita Systems, UK - "Developing Mixed-Criticality Systems with GNAT/ORK and Xtratum", Alfons Crespo, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Alejandro Alonso, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Jon P?rez, Ikerlan, Spain - "High-Integrity Object-Oriented Programming with Ada 2012", Ben Brosgol, AdaCore, USA - "Ada 2012 (Sub)type and Subprogram Contracts in Practice", Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Research & Innovation, Denmark - "Technical Basis of Model Driven Engineering", William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA - "An Overview of Software Testing with an Emphasis on Statistical Testing", William Bail, The MITRE Corporation, USA Papers and Presentations - 12 refereed technical papers in sessions on Formal Methods, Uses of Ada, Real-Time Scheduling, Applications - 6 industrial presentations in sessions on Ada in Aerospace, Ada in Railways - 3 presentations in special "Experience Report" session - submissions by authors from 22 countries, and accepted contributions from Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, UK, and USA GNAT Retrospective - 20th anniversary of GNAT as a supported open-source Ada compiler - started new era for distribution and promotion of Ada language - retrospective will look back at these important 20 years Vendor exhibition - 5 exhibitors already committed: AdaCore, Altran, Ellidiss Software, Rapita Systems, and Squoring Technologies; others expected to confirm soon - vendor presentation sessions in core program Social events - each day: coffee breaks in the exhibition space and sit-down lunches offer ample time for interaction and networking - Tuesday evening: Welcome Party - Wednesday evening: Cruise and Conference Banquet, the traditional Ada-Europe banquet will be on board an all-glass luxury boat, cruising along the Seine right in the heart of Paris! Registration - early registration discount up to Saturday May 31, 2014 - additional discount for academia, Ada-Europe, ACM SIGAda, SIGBED and SIGPLAN members - a limited number of student discounts is available - registration includes copy of printed proceedings at event - includes coffee breaks and lunches - three day conference registration includes all social events - payment possible by credit card, check, or bank transfer - see registration page for info on novel student waiver program! Please make sure you book accommodation as soon as possible. Paris will be very busy in that week. For more info and latest updates see the conference web site at . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Europe'2014 Publicity Chair Dirk.Craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** 19th Intl.Conf.on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe'2014 *** June 23-27, 2014 **** Paris, France **** http://www.ada-europe.org Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm From tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com Mon May 5 09:07:31 2014 From: tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com (Dr. Tayseer ALkhdour) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:07:31 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: The International Workshop on the Future of the Internet (FOI 14) : Deadline extended In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Papers ============== The International Workshop on the Future of the Internet (FOI 14) In conjunction with The 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 17-20, 2014 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada https://sites.google.com/site/workshoponfutureofinternet Important Dates ------------------------ Paper Submission Due: May 10, 2014 (Extended) Acceptance Notification: May 24, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: June 19, 2014 The Internet is widely used everywhere. A lot of new users joined the internet world everyday. Meanwhile many new applications are developed. Therefore, research in the architecture and applications of internet continue to grow. The goal of the international workshop on the Future of the Internet (FOI 2014) is to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and industry who are involved in the field of internet to discuss recent advances and innovative ideas in this field. FoI workshop solicits papers on either completed or ongoing research in the following and related topics of interests include (but not limited to): o Internet architecture o TCP/IP protocols. o DNS protocols. o Routing protocols. o Internet of things. o Data management. o Future of Internet applications. o Security of Internet o Pervasive computing o Software architecture o Mobile and context-aware computing All FOI-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. 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URL: From tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com Mon May 5 09:12:46 2014 From: tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com (Dr. Tayseer ALkhdour) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:12:46 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFPs: The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (Deadline Extended) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare September 22-25, 2014 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Homepage: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICTH2014 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/icth2014 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICTH2014-6623360 Important Dates ------------------ - Paper Submission Due: May 16, 2014 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014 - Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 The 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH) is a premier venue for bringing together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and healthcare who are engaged in different facets of ICT and healthcare. The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. ICTH-2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/). Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal. Keynote Speakers Confirmed: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#keynoteSpeakers We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems Clinical Data and Knowledge Management Cloud Computing for Healthcare Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare Data Visualization Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Drug Information Systems Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare Digital Hospitals E-health & m-health Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Health grids Health Portals Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare RFID Solutions for Healthcare Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments Telemedicine and Health Telematics Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare Usability & Socio-technical studies User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Chairs Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Chair Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada International Journal Chair Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada Publicity Chairs Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#programCommittees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The integration of sensor networks and cloud computing play a vital role in the advancement of modern sensor technology with the strength of cloud computing. The aim of sensor cloud (SC) is to make the sensed and processed data accessible from distributed networks. With sensor clouds, large-scale data can be collected, processed, and shared among multiple networks. Sensor cloud raises many research and practical challenges such as event processing and management, real time data processing, large scale computing infrastructure and frameworks, and harvesting collective intelligence. All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.comand on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The goal of SC 2013 workshop is to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and industry who are involved in the fields of both wireless sensor networks and cloud computing areas to discuss recent advances and innovative ideas in these fields. SC workshop solicits papers on either completed or ongoing research in the following and related topics of interests include (but not limited to): ? Mobility in Sensor Clouds ? Monitoring techniques/mechanism for Sensor-Cloud infrastructure ? Performance management of sensor in cloud (Algorithms and protocols) ? Platform to manage sensory data in clouds (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Mapreduce, Hive and HDFS). ? Provisioning of virtual sensor in cloud ? Reliability issues, Service Level Agreement (SLA) and QoS guarantees for sensing technologies for clouds ? Security in Sensor Clouds ? Sensor Cloud enabled applications (e.g., Health-care, Traffic management, Weather monitoring and Surveillance) ? Sensor Cloud Intelligence ? Sensor Cloud management (Aggregation, Enablement, Interoperability and Resource management) ? Sensor Cloud vision: Case-studies, Challenges, Lesson-learnt and Opportunities ? Smart tags, location aware remote sensing and RFID as Services (Raas) in clouds ? Standardization mechanism/functions for Sensor Cloud For further details, please see website at: https://sites.google.com/site/scloudeuspn/. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fazzolar at di.unipi.it Mon May 5 09:44:47 2014 From: fazzolar at di.unipi.it (fazzolar at di.unipi.it) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 09:44:47 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CFP] SeaClouds - First workshop on seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications Message-ID: <2de23066d7faabb5b438589ad5a6eb0b.squirrel@oldwww.di.unipi.it> ========================================================================= SeaClouds - First workshop on seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014 Manchester, UK http://seaclouds.lcc.uma.es Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 ========================================================================= Deploying and managing in an efficient and adaptive way complex service-based applications across multiple heterogeneous clouds is one of the problems that have emerged with the cloud revolution. The current lack of universally accepted standards supporting cloud interoperability is severely affecting the portability of cloud-based applications across different platforms. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss problems, solutions and perspectives of the ongoing research activities aimed at enabling an efficient and adaptive management of service-based applications across multiple clouds. The workshop is promoted by the ongoing European research project EC-FP7-ICT-610531 SeaClouds (http://www.seaclouds-project.eu/), whose ultimate objective is to enable a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and migration of application modules over multiple heterogeneous clouds. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest for the workshop is: - Design of portable multi-cloud applications - Analysis of multi-cloud application specifications - Discovery of cloud services - Adaptive deployment of multi-cloud applications - Efficient monitoring of multi-cloud applications - Adaptive reconfiguration of multi-cloud applications - Controlled migration of application modules across multiple clouds - Emerging standards supporting multi-cloud application management - Case studies and best practices in multi-cloud applications --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, position papers and papers describing work in progress. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, whereas position papers and papers describing work in progress must not exceed 8 pages. All contributions should be written in English in the LNCS format. Contributions can be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaclouds2014).For formatting instructions and templates please see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science series. Moreover, subject to the number and quality of contributions, a journal special issue with a selection of the best papers will be organised. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Submission deadline: May 30th, 2014 - Notification deadline: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready due: July 15th, 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee - Marcos Almeida, Softeam, France - Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Martin Chapman, Oracle, Ireland - Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain - Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland - Francesco D?Andria, ATOS, Spain - Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Fehling, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Norway - Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft, U.K. - Simon Moser, IBM, Germany - Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - PengWei Wang, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity chair - Michela Fazzolari, University of Pisa, Italy Webmaster - Adrian Nieto, University of Malaga, Spain From birger at ifi.uio.no Mon May 5 10:27:15 2014 From: birger at ifi.uio.no (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Birger_M=F8ller-Pedersen?=) Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 10:27:15 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP COOMPL 2014 at ECOOP 2014 - extended deadline Message-ID: <53674B63.1080805@ifi.uio.no> Extended Deadline May 12 COOMPL 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS COOMPL at ECOOP 2014: 3rd Workshop on Combined Object-Oriented Modeling and Programming Languages July 29, 2014 Uppsala, Sweden http://coompl.org/2014/ecoop/ Background ---------- Modeling and programming are considered to be different, supported by different languages and tools, and developed/researched by different communities. Developers that want to exploit modeling most often end up with inconsistent modeling and programming artifacts, the main reason being that in general code generation is not 100%. Modeling tools are not as comprehensive as programming language tools. In addition, in the end code is what counts, so when things become critical, models become obsolete, while programs survive and are maintained. However, it does not have to be so! An obvious solution to the issues above is to use languages that are combined modeling and programming languages. The very first object-oriented programming language, SIMULA, was in fact such a combined language. The notion of modeling, and with that modeling languages, have developed since then, as have programming language, so the workshop will try to answer what combined modeling and programming languages will look like today. This third edition of COOMPL takes place in conjunction with the ECOOP 2014 conference, and will build on the previous workshops at SPLASH 2011 and ECOOP 2013. Main Theme and Issues --------------------- The aim of this workshop is to investigate requirements for such combined modeling and programming languages as they would be today. This includes conceptual means as well as language constructs for modeling and programming, identification of modeling constructs that are currently not supported by programming languages, proposals for programming language support for such constructs, new abstraction mechanisms to raise the level of abstraction, graphical versus textual syntax, tools supporting modeling and programming, and implementation techniques. Topics of interest ------------------ Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - differences and similarities between modeling and programming; - modeling constructs not supported by programming languages and vice versa; - support for functional and constraint programming in modeling and programming languages; - support for concurrent/distributed modeling and programming; - associations and state-machines in programming languages; - the role of constructs for describing snapshots/scenarios/examples in relation to a combined programming and modeling language; - graphical versus textual syntax; - tools for modeling and programming; - implementation techniques; - techniques for embedding domain specific languages in a combined language; - conceptual means for modeling and programming; - new mechanisms to raise the level of abstraction; - experience reports regarding pros/cons in using separate modeling and programming languages, modeling in a programming language, executable modeling languages, etc.; - methods for teaching modeling and abstraction to programmers. The COOMPL workshop will be a mixture of presentations of invited and reviewed papers. Important Dates --------------- Initial submission: May 12, 2014 Author notification: May 26, 2014 Final version: June 23, 2014 Workshop: July 29, 2014 Submission Information ---------------------- Papers should be submitted by May 1, 2014. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coompl2014. Submitted papers must conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings style - except that the copyright box on the first page must be removed (2-column, see templates at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The maximum length of a submission is 6 pages. The accepted papers will be digitally published in the ACM Digital Library. An author of the paper will be expected to attend the workshop (registration as Workshop participant via ECOOP). Program Chairs -------------- Ole Lehrmann Madsen (Aarhus University) Birger M?ller-Pedersen (University of Oslo) Ragnhild Kobro Runde (University of Oslo) Program Committee ----------------- Joachim Fischer (Humboldt University) Bjorn Freeman-Benson (New Relic) Boris Magnusson (Lund University) Oscar Nierstrasz (University of Bern) Bran Selic (Malina Software Corp) Dave Thomas (Bedarra Research Labs) From bamasaba at gmail.com Mon May 5 13:34:51 2014 From: bamasaba at gmail.com (Saba Bama) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 17:04:51 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: INTECH 2014 Message-ID: Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology University of Bedfordshire Luton (near London), UK Augsut 13-15, 2014 (Technically co-sponsored by UK & RI IEEE) (Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore) www.socio.org.uk/intech The First international conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2014 offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2014) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as - Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues of journals. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) IMPORTANT DATES submission of papers: June 5, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 1, 2014 Camera Ready: August 1, 2014 Registration: August 1, 2014 Conference: August 13-15, 2014 contact: intech at dirf.org OR intech at socio.org.uk --------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kechar.bouabdellah at univ-oran.dz Mon May 5 13:49:54 2014 From: kechar.bouabdellah at univ-oran.dz (kechar.bouabdellah at univ-oran.dz) Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 13:49:54 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - Workshop COMMCA 2014 - Niagara Falls - Canada (Deadline: May 20th, 2014 - Final) Message-ID: <20140505134954.11025zn7th7e41kw@mail.univ-oran.dz> Please accept our apologies if you have received duplications of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are extending the deadline of COMMCA 2014: New Paper Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2014 (Final) Please send this new CFP to your contacts and potential authors. Thanks for your help Organizers. International Workshop on Communicating Objects and Machine to Machine for Mission-Critical Applications http://www.commca.org August 17-20, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada in conjunction with the The 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC 2014) http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/ Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2014 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES -------------------- Machine To Machine (M2M) is the association of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), with objects, making them "smart" and communicating through different access network technologies in order to give them the means to interact without any human intervention with the information system of an organization or an enterprise. The available today network technologies differ from short rang communication such as Zigbee, ultralow-power Bluetooth, UWB, and low-power Wifi to wide area networks such as 3G, Femtocell, and LTE. M2M communication technology is certainly in its early stage even if we consider recent research advances in a large spectrum of applications in many different areas such as E-health, smart grid, automotive, telemetric, smart homes, environmental monitoring, industrial automation. In addition, it also opens a wide research area for mission-critical applications, which have direct impact on the society and authorities such as border surveillance, security monitoring, military operations, fire emergency response, environment-oriented pollutions and land security, emergency event and crisis intervention, and natural disaster. These mission-critical applications impose their specific and challenging requirements in terms of power, bandwidth, latency, reliability, accuracy, security, and mobility. Such challenges can cause problems on almost all layers of M2M networks. This workshop aims to gather researchers, engineers and practitioners, both from academia and industry, as well as end users, to present and debate recent M2M communication systems, technologies, and applications applied to mission-critical scenarios. The central theme of COMMCA 2014 will be the exploitation of available wireless and mobile technologies which are capable of being used in object to object, machine to machine communications for mission-critical applications. Topics of interest include but not limited to the following: ? Novel M2M architectures, protocols and applications for mission-critical applications ? M2M Medium Access Control Protocols for mission-critical applications ? M2M mobility management for mission-critical applications ? M2M wireless sensor networks for mission critical applications ? Advanced information/data management for mission-critical applications ? Mobile communication and networks for mission-critical applications ? Inter-networking protocols and mechanisms for mission-critical applications ? Security, Trust and privacy for mission-critical applications ? Multi-hop wireless Networks for mission-critical applications ? Cross-layer optimisation in M2M networks for mission-critical applications ? Reinforcement learning approach for mission-critical applications ? Technologies for WSNs in mission-critical applications ? Coverage and connectivity issues in mission-critical applications ? Localisation issues in mission-critical applications ? Field trials, testbeds, and standard activities in M2M networks for mission-critical applications The topics suggested by the workshop can be discussed in terms of concepts, survey, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and practical case studies. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------------- You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Publication: All COMMCA 2014 accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index: http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/ The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work. SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------- ? Submission Deadline: May 20th, 2014 ? Authors notification: May 30th, 2014 ? Camera Ready papers due: June 15th, 2014 ? Workshop: August 17th-20th, 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIRS --------------- ? Dr. Bouabdellah Kechar LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria Kechar.Bouabdellah at univ-oran.dz ? Pr. Hafid Haffaf LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria Haffaf.Hafid at univ-oran.dz ? Pr. Congduc Pham LIUPPA Laboratory, University of PAU, France Congduc.Pham at univ-pau.fr PUBLICITY AND WEB CHAIRS ------------------------ ? Dr. Ahc?ne Bounceur LABSTICC, University of BREST, France Ahcene.Bounceur at univ-brest.fr ? Dr. Zahia Bidai LRIIR Laboratory, Oran University, Algeria Bidai.Zahia at univ-oran.dz INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------- ? Abdelhamid Mellouk, Paris-Est University, France ? Najib Badache, USTHB-Cerist, Algeria ? Bernard Pottier, University of Brest, France ? Ahc?ne Bounceur, University of Brest, France ? Bernard Tourancheau, University of Lyon 1, France ? Boucif Amar Bensaber, University of Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?re, Canada ? Abderrezak Rachedi, Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e (UPEM), France. ? Malika Bourenane, University of Oran, Algeria ? Mohamed Aissani, Military Polytechnic school, Algeria ? Pham Congduc, University of Pau, France ? Doan Hoang, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ? Nacera Ghoualmi, University of Annaba, Algeria ? Hafid Haffaf, University of Oran, Algeria ? Jos? Machado Da Silva, University of Porto, Portugal ? German Fabregat, University of Valencia, Spain ? Mejdi Kaddour, University of Oran, Algeria ? Bouabdellah Kechar, University of Oran, Algeria ? Belkacem Kouninef, INTTIC Oran, Algeria ? Maimour Moufida, University of Nancy, France ? Serge Stinckwitch, IRD/UMI UMMISCO, Vietnam ? Yacine Hadjadj Aoul, University of Rennes, France ? Abdallah M'hamed, TELECOM & Management SUDPARIS, France ? Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France ? Samia Bouzefrane, CNAM, France CONTACT ------- Dr. Bouabdellah Kechar Industrial Computing and Networks Laboratory (LRIIR) Faculty of Exact and Applied Sciences, Computer Science Department, Oran University PO Box 1524 El M?Naouar, Oran, Algeria Kechar.Bouabdellah at univ-oran.dz ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kechar Bouabdellah Associate Professor Industrial Computing and Networks Laboratory (RIIR) Oran University, Faculty of Exact and Applied Sciences Computer science Department PO Box 1524 El M'naouar - Oran - Algeria Tel.(Mobile): 0552959146 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MESSAGE DE L'UNIVERSITE D'ORAN. From philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch Mon May 5 15:40:29 2014 From: philipp.haller at a3.epfl.ch (Philipp Haller) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 15:40:29 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CFP: Scala Workshop 2014: Extension + Student Travel Grants Message-ID: We're very happy to announce that thanks to our generous sponsors, a small number of accepted student/open-source talks will be awarded travel grants. Visit the workshop website for more information! There are 9 days left to submit a paper (please register your abstract a week in advance). Regards, Philipp Co-chair, Scala Workshop 2014 ======================================================================== "Scala 2014" the Fifth Annual Scala Workshop co-located with ECOOP 2014 Uppsala, Sweden July 28-29, 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS http://lamp.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2014 ======================================================================== Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share new ideas and results of interest to the Scala community. We seek papers on topics related to Scala, including (but not limited to): - Language design and implementation ? language extensions, optimization, and performance evaluation. - Library design and implementation patterns for extending Scala ? embedded domain-specific languages, combining language features, generic and meta-programming. - Formal techniques for Scala-like programs ? formalizations of the language, type system, and semantics, formalizing proposed language extensions and variants, dependent object types, type and effect systems. - Concurrent and distributed programming ? libraries, frameworks, language extensions, programming paradigms: (Actors, STM, ...), performance evaluation, experimental results. - Safety and reliability ? pluggable type systems, contracts, static analysis and verification, runtime monitoring. - Tools ? development environments, debuggers, refactoring tools, testing frameworks. - Case studies, experience reports, and pearls. Submitted papers should describe new ideas, experimental results, or projects related to Scala. In order to encourage lively discussion, submitted papers may describe work in progress. All papers will be judged on a combination of correctness, significance, novelty, clarity, and interest to the community. In general, papers should explain their original contributions, identifying what has been accomplished, explaining why it is significant, and relating it to previous work (also for other languages where appropriate). Papers in the last category of the list above need not necessarily report original research results; they may instead, for example, report practical experience that will be useful to others, new Scala idioms, or programming pearls. In all cases, such a paper must make a contribution which is of interest to the Scala community, or from which other members of the Scala community can benefit. Publications at the Scala Workshop represent works-in-progress and are not intended to preclude later publication at any of the main conferences. Though, follow-up submissions do need to conform to the publication policies of the targeted conference, which typically equates to significant extension or refinement of the workshop publication. KEYWORDS: Library Design and Implementation, Language Design and Implementation, Applications, Formal Techniques, Parallelism and Concurrency, Distributed Programming, Tools, Experience Reports, Empirical Studies Academic Student Talks ====================== In addition to regular papers and tool demos, we also solicit short student talks by bachelor/master/PhD students. A student talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Student talks are about 5-10 minutes long, presenting ongoing or completed research related to Scala. Open Source Talks ================= We will also accept a limited number of short talks about open-source projects using Scala presented by contributors. An open-source talk is not accompanied by a paper (it is sufficient to submit a short abstract of the talk in plain text). Open-source talks are about ~10 minutes long, presenting or announcing an open-source project that would be of interest to the Scala community. Proceedings =========== It is planned to publish accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library, unless the authors choose not to. In case of publication in the ACM Digital Library, authors must transfer copyright to ACM upon acceptance (for government work, to the extent transferable), but retain various rights (see ACM Copyright Policy. Authors are encouraged to publish auxiliary material with their paper (source code, test data, etc.); they retain copyright of auxiliary material. Submission Details ================== * Abstract Submission : May 7, 2014 * Paper/Talk Submission: May 14, 2014 * Author Notification : June 16, 2014 * Final Papers Due : June 23, 2014 All deadlines are at 23:59 American Samoa time (UTC-11). Submitted papers should be in portable document format (PDF), formatted using the standard ACM SIGPLAN two-column conference style (10pt format). Regular research papers must not exceed 10 pages, tool demonstration papers and short papers must not exceed 4 pages. "Tool Demos" and "Short Papers" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Note: "Short Papers" differ from "Tool Demos" in that "Short Papers" are approached as short research papers. "Short Papers" are expected to carry some new insights or contribution, and to compare with related work, as with any normal research paper. They're simply shorter versions of full research papers. "Tool Demos" on the other hand are about showcasing a well-developed, well-documented tool, live, before the workshop. "Tool Demo"s' corresponding papers are meant to contain an overview of the tool and methodology for the tool's use. Tool demo papers are less concerned about proving new research insights, or thoroughly comparing with related work. The Scala Workshop PC will approach Tool Demos in the same way as the PEPM Workshop PC, detailed in PEPM's Tool Paper Evaluation Criteria (see http://www.program-transformation.org/PEPM14/ToolPaperAdvice). Student talks and open-source talks are not accompanied by papers. Therefore, it is sufficient to only submit a plain-text abstract. Both "Student Talks" and "Open Source Talks" should be marked as such with those words in the title at time of submission. Submission is via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala2014 Program Committee ================= * Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University * Michael Armbrust, Databricks * Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo * Marius Eriksen, Twitter * Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University * Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego * Erik Meijer, Applied Duality/TU Delft * Bruno Oliveira, University of Hong Kong * Klaus Ostermann, University of Marburg * Aleksandar Prokopec, EPFL * Ilya Sergey, IMDEA Software Institute * Philippe Suter, IBM Research * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University * Tom Van Cutsem, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Belgium * Peter Van Roy, Catholic University of Louvain * Damien Zufferey, MIT Organizers ========== * Heather Miller, EPFL (Co-chair) * Philipp Haller, Typesafe (Co-chair) * Martin Odersky, EPFL * Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego Links ===== * The Scala Workshop 2014 web site: http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~hmiller/scala2014 * The ECOOP 2014 web site: http://ecoop14.it.uu.se/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cubo at lcc.uma.es Mon May 5 16:44:18 2014 From: cubo at lcc.uma.es (Javier Cubo) Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:44:18 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET Message-ID: <5367A3C2.7030303@lcc.uma.es> [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es Paper Submission Due: May 30th, 2014 GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 - Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending). As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research, United States - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Andreas Metzger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Achille Peternier, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz-Cort?s, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- ---------------- Dr. Javier Cubo Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computaci?n Grupo de Ingenier?a del Software Universidad de M?laga, Spain Tel: +34 951 952 949 cubo at lcc.uma.es http://www.lcc.uma.es/~cubo From bram.adams at polymtl.ca Mon May 5 17:38:09 2014 From: bram.adams at polymtl.ca (Bram Adams) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:38:09 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE Software - 1st Special Issue on Release Engineering Message-ID: [Apologies for duplicate reception of this CFP] IEEE SOFTWARE - 1ST SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELEASE ENGINEERING Submission Deadline: 1 August 2014 Publication: March/April 2015 More Information: http://releng.polymtl.ca/RELENG2014/html/SI.html Software used to be released in shrink-wrapped form, but the advent of agile methodologies and the web has overhauled the landscape. For example, a project like Mozilla Firefox releases every 6 weeks, generating updates for dozens of existing versions on 5 desktop, 2 mobile and 3 mobile desktop platforms, each of which for more than 80 locales. In other words, deployment of modern applications requires coordinating the release of applications on multiple mobile platforms, web platforms with centralized backend services, and native desktop clients. Furthermore, concepts like continuous delivery of software are no longer curiosities, but essential to retain a competitive edge. Release engineering deals with all activities in between regular development and actual usage of a software product by the end user, i.e., integration, build, test execution, packaging and delivery of software. Although research on this topic goes back for decades, the increasing heterogeneity and variability of software products along with the recent trend to reduce the release cycle to days or even hours starts to question some of the common beliefs and practices of the field. The IEEE Software Special Issue on Release Engineering solicits experience reports and papers on tools, methods, practices and techniques to streamline release engineering. We especially welcome submissions targeting recent challenges like continuous delivery and heterogeneous platform support, but the Special Issue is open to any of the following topics: * best practices for code movement (branching/integration) * continuous integration and testing * build and configuration of software * build system maintenance * testing and reporting infrastructures * package and dependency management * legal signoff and bill-of-materials * delivery and deployment of software * code signing and certificate management * continuous delivery, deployment, installation and software update * cloud provisioning and management * cloud service release management * interaction with app stores * mobile app release management * principles and automated techniques for release planning * release engineering for product line systems * devops and interaction with developers, end users, etc. * devops practices and tools * large-scale build and test farms * multi-platform build and test * feedback on continuous delivery and deployment The goals for this Special Issue are three-fold: * making researchers aware of the challenges and research opportunities, and practitioners aware of research in release engineering * sharing experiences with practical approaches, tools, methods and techniques for release engineering * building connections between different communities involved in release engineering. In an effort to engage with practitioners, one of the co-organizers of the Special Issue is a release engineer at Mozilla and one half of the reviewers will consist of release engineers, so we guarantee that each paper or abstract submission receives at least one review from a practitioner. Full submissions for the Special Issue must not exceed 5,400 words including figures and tables, which count for 200 words each. Submissions in excess of these limits may be rejected without refereeing. The articles we deem within the theme and scope will be peer-reviewed and are subject to editing for magazine style, clarity, organization, and space. We reserve the right to edit the title of all submissions. Be sure to include the name of the theme or Special Issue you are submitting for. We also solicit short ?practice? papers from practitioners that contain experience reports. These papers do not need to make a research contribution, but should instead present the experiences of a practitioner or practitioners by describing things such as current release processes used, challenges faced, solutions attempted, and/or results obtained. Practice papers should not exceed 3,500 words. Articles should have a practical orientation and be written in a style accessible to practitioners. Overly complex, purely research-oriented or theoretical treatments are not appropriate. Articles should be novel. IEEE Software does not republish material published previously in other venues, including other periodicals and formal conference/workshop proceedings, whether previous publication was in print or in electronic form. For more information about the focus, please contact the Guest Editors: * Bram Adams (http://mcis.polymtl.ca/bram.html), Polytechnique Montr?al, Canada * Stephany Bellomo (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/people/profile.cfm?id=bellomo_15351), SEI, USA * Christian Bird (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cbird/), Microsoft Research, USA * Foutse Khomh (http://www.khomh.net/), Polytechnique Montr?al, Canada * Kim Moir (http://relengofthenerds.blogspot.com/), Mozilla, Canada For general author guidelines: http://www.computer.org/software/author.htm For submission details: software at computer.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mflatt at cs.utah.edu Mon May 5 19:29:59 2014 From: mflatt at cs.utah.edu (Matthew Flatt) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:29:59 -0600 Subject: [ecoop-info] GPCE 2014: Call for Papers Message-ID: <20140505173000.60A096500D1@mail-svr1.cs.utah.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE 2014) September 15-16, 2014 V?ster?s, Sweden (collocated with ASE 2014 and SLE 2014) http://www.gpce.org http://www.facebook.com/GPCEConference http://twitter.com/GPCECONF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of papers: May 30, 2014 * Paper notification: July 7, 2014 SCOPE Generative and component approaches and domain-specific abstractions are revolutionizing software development just as automation and componentization revolutionized manufacturing. Raising the level of abstraction in software specification has been a fundamental goal of the computing community for several decades. Key technologies for automating program development and lifting the abstraction level closer to the problem domain are *Generative Programming* for program synthesis, *Domain-Specific Languages* (DSLs) for compact problem-oriented programming notations, and corresponding *Implementation Technologies* aiming at modularity, correctness, reuse, and evolution. As the field matures *Applications* and *Empirical Results* are of increasing importance. The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques that use program generation, domain-specific languages, and component deployment to increase programmer productivity, improve software quality, and shorten the time-to-market of software products. In addition to exploring cutting-edge techniques of generative software, our goal is to foster further cross-fertilization between the software engineering and the programming languages research communities. SUBMISSIONS We seek research papers of up to 10 pages in SIGPLAN proceedings style (sigplanconf.cls, see http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm) reporting original and unpublished results of theoretical, empirical, conceptual, or experimental research that contribute to scientific knowledge in the areas listed below (the PC chair can advise on appropriateness). 4-page short papers and tool demonstrations are also accepted (see website). TOPICS GPCE seeks contributions on all topics related to generative software and its properties. As technology is maturing, this year, we are particularly looking for empirical evaluations in this context. Key topics include (but are certainly not limited too): * Generative software Domain-specific languages Product lines Metaprogramming Program synthesis Implementation techniques and tool support * Properties of generative software Correctness of generators and generated code Reuse and evolution Modularity, separation of concerns, understandability, and maintainability Performance engineering, nonfunctional properties Application areas and engineering practice * Empirical evaluations of all topics above A more detailed list of topics can be found on the website. Examples of key challenges in the field are * Synthesizing code from declarative specifications * Supporting extensible languages and language embedding * Ensuring correctness and other nonfunctional properties of generated code; proving generators correct * Improving error reporting with domain-specific error messages * Reasoning about generators; handling variability-induced complexity in product lines * Providing efficient interpreters and execution languages * Human factors in developing and maintaining generators Note on empirical evaluations: GPCE is committed to the empirical evaluation of generative software. Publishing empirical papers at programming-language venues can be challenging. We understand the frustration of authors when, for example, reviews simply recommend repeating entire experiments with human subjects with slight deviations in execution. To alleviate such problems, we have recruited forto program committee experts who routinely work with empirical methods, and we will actively seek external reviews where appropriate. During submissions, authors can optionally indicate that a paper contains substantial empirical work, and we will endeavor have to the paper reviewed by experts familiar with the empirical research methods that are used in the paper. The program-committee discussions will reflect on both technical contributions and research methods. Policy: Incremental improvements over previously published work should have been evaluated through systematic, comparative, empirical, or experimental evaluation. Submissions must adhere to SIGPLAN's republication policy (http://www.sigplan.org/republicationpolicy.htm). Please contact the program chair if you have any questions about how this policy applies to your paper (chairs at gpce.org). ORGANIZATION Chairs (chairs at gpce.org) General Chair: Ulrik Pagh Schultz (University of Southern Denmark, DK) Program Chair: Matthew Flatt (University of Utah, US) Publicity Chair: Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Local Organizer: Ivica Crnkovic (M?lardalen University, SE) Program Committee Kenichi Asai (Ochanomizu University, JP) Emilie Balland (INRIA, FR) Edwin Brady (University of St Andrews, UK) Dave Clarke (Uppsala University, SE and KU Leuven, BE) Ewen Denney (SGT / NASA, US) Sebastian Erdweg (Technical University of Darmstadt, DE) Martin Erwig (Oregon State University, US) Alessandro Garcia (Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio de Janeiro, BR) Anir?ddh? Gokh?l? (Vanderbilt University, US) Jeff Gray (University of Alabama, US) Stefan Hanenberg (Universit?t Duisburg-Essen, DE) Jaakko J?rvi (Texas A&M University, US) Jean-Marc J?z?quel (IRISA-University of Rennes, FR) Emerson Murphy-Hill (North Carolina State University, US) Nathaniel Nystrom (University of Lugano, CH) Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira (Hong Kong University, HK) Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University, US) M?rcio Ribeiro (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, BR) Tiark Rompf (Oracle Labs and EPFL, CH) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US) Norbert Siegmund (Universit?t Passau, DE) Christian Skalka (University of Vermont, US) Scott Smith (Johns Hopkins University, US) ?ric Tanter (Universidad de Chile, CL) Emina Torlak (University of California Berkeley, US) Laurence Tratt (King's College, UK) From xristinastrathgakh at gmail.com Tue May 6 09:57:51 2014 From: xristinastrathgakh at gmail.com (Xristina Str) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 10:57:51 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP - IEEE International Workshop on Capability-oriented Business Informatics Message-ID: > > Workshop Call >> > > The business environments of today are changing rapidly, entailing complex >> and dynamic organisational constellations. Enterprises operating in these >> conditions need to have the capability to deliver their services in a >> variety of business contexts with sustainable quality and moreover to >> leverage them to competitive advantage. >> Capability is gaining presence in the context of business-IT alignment, >> in the specification and design of services using business planning as the >> baseline, in Enterprise Architecture, and in Service Oriented Architecture. >> However, the knowledge, role and the usage of enterprise capabilities in >> the named disciplines in terms of people competencies and the capacity of >> the resources, are unclear and open to different interpretations. How to >> utilize ?capability? knowledge in enterprise modelling and architectures as >> a foundation for sustainable Information System planning and management in >> the presence of varying social and business contexts is likely to yield >> substantial results in both research and practice in years to come. >> We encourage the original research contributions exploring the challenges >> and solutions related to the meaning and usage of capability in Business >> Informatics, as well as industrial case studies illustrating the use of >> this notion. The topics are among but not limited to: >> >> ? The role of capability-based modeling for improving Enterprise Modeling >> ? Capability driven-based methods for Business Process Engineering >> ? Capabilities for service innovation >> ? Capability-driven service composition >> ? Capability-driven cloud management >> ? Technology support for capability-based tools in Business IT >> ? The effects of capability on organizational transformation >> ? Management issues related to capability >> ? Transferring capability knowledge from other domains to IS engineering >> ? Case studies in capability use >> >> Organization >> > > CoBI 2014 is the one-day workshop organized in conjunction with the 16th >> IEEE Conference on Business Informatics in Geneva, Switzerland. >> >> >> Organization Chairs >> > > Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK) >> Oscar Pastor (Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain) >> Jelena Zdravkovic (Stockholm University, Sweden) >> >> Paper Submissions >> > > All submissions must be unpublished and not be under review elsewhere. >> Submissions must conform to Springer's LNBIP format ( >> http://www.springer.com/series/7911). The page limit is 12 pages. Papers >> have to be submitted in PDF format using the EasyChair submission page ( >> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cobi2014). >> Accepted papers will be published in the CoBI Workshop Proceedings, CEUR >> Workshop Proceedings Series. At least one author of an accepted paper >> should register for the conference and present the paper. >> Authors of the best 3 papers will be invited to submit an extended >> version for consideration by the Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ). >> > > Key Dates: >> > > Submission deadline: 10th May 2014 >> Notification to authors: 1st June 2014 >> CRC copy submission: 20th June 2014 >> The Workshop: 14th July 2014 >> > > PC Committee >> > > Yamine Ait Ameur, France >> Reem Bahgat, Egypt >> Marko Bajec, Slovenia >> Carlos Cetina, Spain >> Ying Chen, USA >> Eng Chew, Australia >> Sergio Espana, Spain >> Hugo Estrada, Mexico >> Brian Fitzgerald, Ireland >> Ulrich Frank, Germany >> Xavier Franch, Spain >> Paolo Giorgini, Italy >> Giancarlo Guizzardi, Italy >> Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Netherlands >> Janis Grabis, Latvia >> Remigijus Gustas, Sweden >> Tharaka Ilayperuma, Sri Lanka >> Takayuki Ito, Japan >> Zhi Jin, China >> Dimitris Karagiannis, Austria Ron Kennet, Israel >> Marite Kirikova, Latvia >> Christian Kop, Austria >> Lin Liu, China >> Kale Lyytinen, USA >> Raimundas Matulevicius, Estonia >> Leszek Maciaszek, Poland >> Manuel Noguera, Spain >> Gustaf-Juel Skielse, Sweden >> Erik Perjons, Sweden >> Anne Persson, Sweden >> Michael Petit, Belgium >> Ivan Porres, Finland >> Hendrik Proper, Luxembourg >> Kurt Sandkuhl, Germany >> Matti Rossi, Finland >> Francisco Valverde, Spain >> Eric Yu, Canada >> Liping Zhao, UK >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott_fowler at ymail.com Tue May 6 16:58:42 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 15:58:42 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: QShine (Extended Deadlin) In-Reply-To: <1398498158.79906.YahooMailBasic@web133102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1399388322.52184.YahooMailBasic@web133104.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** =============================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness 18-19 August 18--19, 2014 The Greek Island of Rhodes, Greece http://qshine.org/2014/show/home =============================================================================================== Computer networking has been embracing increased heterogeneity since its inception, in terms of the range of the applications it has to support, the various communication technologies it can run on, and the hierarchical, hybrid and heterogeneous techniques it has to rely on to meet the challenges from both the diverse application requirements and communication technologies. The only conference focusing on heterogeneous networking, QShine has been established as the primary venue for researchers and practitioners to disseminate, exchange and discuss all recent advances related to heterogeneous networking, particularly for quality, experience, reliability, security and robustness. As a conference series held in three major continents so far, QShine-2014 comes to the Greek Island of Rhodes, with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Greece Section. Original submissions, not under any concurrent reviews, are solicited in all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service-provider and overlay networks, ranging from in/on-body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide-area, to intra/inter-planetary scales. HIGHLIGHTS The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. Qshine 2014 will be collocated with the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks,? AdHocNets. The conference proceedings will be archived by IEEE Xplore. Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following: * Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms. * Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms. * Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience. * Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility. * Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability. * Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability. * Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency. * Social and Economic Perspectives: incentive, pricing, billing, governance. * New Applications and Communication Technologies: cloud, smart grid, SDN. IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Due 15 May 2014 (Extended Deadlin) * Acceptance Notification 16 June 2014 * Camera-ready Due 14 July 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General co-chairs Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Thanos Stouraitis, University of Patras, Greece TPC co-chairs Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Edith Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Co-chairs Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes 1 / IRISA Lab Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe Labs Publicity chair Scott Fowler, Link?ping University, Sweden Industry chair Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia, Canada Publication chair Xiaofei Wang, Seoul National University, South Korea Web chair Wei Cai, The University of British Columbia, Canada PAPER SUBMISSION Conference language is in English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers in PDF file format. Papers should be prepared in the 2-column IEEE conference paper format in 10-point Times New Roman fonts, and should not be more than 7 pages long all inclusive. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. For additional information see the registration information page. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the Qshine Conference Proceedings, archived by IEEE Xplore and submitted for inclusion in the databases of leading indexing services. We reserve the right to exclude papers accepted but not presented from the conference proceedings submitted for archiving and indexing. Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) and Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA) journals (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. About EAI - The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. Find out more at http://www.eai.eu From scott_fowler at ymail.com Tue May 6 17:19:09 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 16:19:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE HealthCom 2014 (Extended Deadlin) In-Reply-To: <1391949915.54341.YahooMailBasic@web133104.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1399389549.7709.YahooMailBasic@web133101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE HealthCom 2014 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to ? Electronic health records, ePrescribing, Consumer health informatics, Health knowledge management and Healthcare Information Systems ? Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine ? Biomedical and biosensors engineering ? Body sensor/actuators networks and wearable sensor systems ? eHealth information and network Infrastructure ? eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions) ? eHealth for aging (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence) ? Emerging eHealth applications (Health grid and health cloud) ? Context-awareness on eHealth ? Serious Games on eHealth ? Sustainable eHealth service and applications ? Health monitoring, traffic characterization, & management ? ICT-enabled personal health system ? Image and video processing on eHealth ? Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare (including DTNs, WMNs, WSNs) ? New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery ? Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth ? E-Health services in smart environments (smart homes, smart medical institutions, smart cities) ? Practical Applications of e-Health ? Security and privacy on eHealth ? Storage and Display Devices for eHealth ? Quality of Experience (QoE) with e-health applications, services and network technologies CONFERENCE VENUE Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention (http://www.praiamarnatal.com.br), Ponta Negra, Natal-RN, Brazil IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper Submission: May 15, 2014 ? Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2014 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: August 31, 2014 IMPORTANT IEEE POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented. Note: To be published in the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE /Xplore?/, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Papers will be published in the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE /Xplore?/. From A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk Tue May 6 22:28:06 2014 From: A.Beckmann at swansea.ac.uk (Arnold Beckmann) Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 21:28:06 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] LCC 2014/ImmermanFest: Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <20140506202806.91B3F59F137@cs-svr1.swan.ac.uk> [Please broadcast/post/forward. Apologies for duplicates] July 12-13, 2014 (part of FLoC'14 and Vienna Summer of Logic) LCC 2014/ImmermanFest WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT, CALL FOR PAPERS, and CALL FOR STUDENT/POSTDOC FUNDING APPLICATIONS: [!!! E X T E N D E D D E A D L I N E S !!!] Abstract submission deadline: May 16th, 2014 Authors notification: May 26th, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------- Student support application deadline: May 16th, 2014 Support decisions notification: May 26th, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------- The Fifteenth International Workshop on Logic and Computational Complexity and Workshop in Honor of Neil Immerman's 60th Birthday (LCC 2014/ImmermanFest, http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/) will be held in Vienna, Austria, on July 12-13, 2014, as an affiliated meeting of the Vienna Summer of Logic. The LCC 2014/ImmermanFest program will consist of a first day (July 12th) of talks which include both invited lectures and contributed talks selected by the program committee (based on submitted abstracts), and a second day (July 13th) devoted entirely to invited talks in celebration of Neil Immerman's 60th birthday. LCC meetings are aimed at the foundational interconnections between logic and computational complexity, as present in, for example: finite model theory and descriptive complexity; implicit computational complexity (descriptive and type-theoretic methods); deductive formalisms as they relate to complexity (e.g. ramification, weak comprehension, bounded arithmetic, linear logic and resource logics); logic and complexity-theoretic aspects of databases; complexity-mindful program verification and synthesis; computational complexity at higher type; and proof complexity. Neil Immerman has made numerous fundamental and inspiring contributions to the connections between logic and complexity. In particular, he has been one of the leading figures in the development of descriptive complexity, which has elucidated intimate and beautiful connections between complexity theory and finite model theory. This year, day two of LCC 2014 will honor Neil's 60th birthday with a series of invited lectures by some of the leading researchers working in areas that have been influenced by Neil's work. The invited speakers on day one of LCC 2014 are: * Sam Buss (University of California, San Diego) * Georg Moser (University of Innsbruck) The invited speakers for ImmermanFest (day two) are: * Eric Allender (Rutgers) * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) * Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) * Benjamin Rossman (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) * Mooly Sagiv (Tel Aviv University) * Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) There will be no published proceedings for LCC 2014, and we welcome submissions of abstracts based on work submitted or published elsewhere, provided that all pertinent information is disclosed at submission time. Submissions must be in English and in the form of an abstract of about 3-4 pages. All submissions should be submitted through Easychair at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcc2014 by the deadline. For additional information see http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc/ or email lcc2014 at easychair.org STUDENT/POSTDOC FUNDING We have secured funding from various sources for student/postdoc participation at the LCC2014 / ImmermanFest Meeting. NSF Grants: A large number of student/postdoc grants funded by the National Science Foundation are available. These grants are intended for US-based PhD students and postdocs working in an area related to the LCC2014 / ImmermanFest Meeting. They can cover registration-only, registration and accommodation, or registration, accommodation and travel (up to a maximal amount of $2,000). For information on eligibility and selection criteria, and the procedure for applying for this funding, visit http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/funding.html DLMPS Grants: A small number of student/postdoc grants, funded by the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, are also available. These grants are intended for PhD students and postdocs working in an area related to the LCC2014 / ImmermanFest Meeting. They will cover the registration fee for this workshop. For information on the procedure for applying for this funding, visit http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/lcc2014/funding.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University, co-chair) * Ulrich Berger (Swansea University) * Olaf Beyersdorff (University of Leeds) * Yijia Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) * Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge) * Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh, co-chair) * Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen) * Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich) * Leszek Kolodziejczyk (University of Warsaw) * Stephan Kreutzer (Technical University Berlin) * Mooly Sagiv (Tel Aviv University) * Shlomo Zilberstein (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) STEERING COMMITTEE: Michael Benedikt (Oxford), Ulrich Berger (Swansea, co-chair), Robert Constable (Cornell) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, co-chair), Arnaud Durand, Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon), Joerg Flum, Martin Hofmann (U Munich), Neil Jones (Copenhagen), Daniel Leivant (Indiana U), Jean-Yves Marion (LORIA Nancy), Simone Martini, Yannis Moschovakis (UCLA), Isabel Oitavem, Luke Ong (Oxford), James Royer (Syracuse), Helmut Schwichtenberg (U Munich) From David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Tue May 6 23:43:45 2014 From: David.Pearce at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (David Pearce) Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 09:43:45 +1200 Subject: [ecoop-info] FTfJP'14: Call for Papers [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Message-ID: <53695791.5020707@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> *** NOTE DEADLINES EXTENDED *** Abstract submissions: May 12th, 2014 Paper submissions: May 19th, 2014 =================================================================== 16th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP'14) Co-located with ECOOP 2014 July 29th, 2014, Uppsala, Sweden http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/FTfJP2014/ ================================================================== Formal techniques can help analyze programs, precisely describe program behavior, and verify program properties. Newer languages such as Java, C#, and Scala provide good platforms to bridge the gap between formal techniques and practical program development, because of their reasonably clear semantics and standardized libraries. Moreover, these languages are interesting targets for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm for program deployment introduced with Java, with its improved portability and mobility, opens up new possibilities for abuse and causes concern about security. Work on formal techniques and tools for programs and work on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. This workshop aims to bring together people working in both these fields, on topics such as: * Language Semantics * Specification techniques and languages * Verification of program properties * Verification logics * Dynamic program analysis * Static program analysis * Type systems * Challenge problems and solutions * Security =================================================================== Submissions =================================================================== Contributions (of up to 6 pages in the ACM 2-column style) are sought on open questions, new developments, or interesting new applications of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar languages. Contributions should not merely present completely finished work, but also raise challenging open problems or propose speculative new approaches. We particularly welcome contributions that simply suggest good topics for discussion at the workshop, or raise issues that you feel deserve the attention of the research community. Contributions will be formally reviewed, for originality, relevance, and the potential to generate interesting discussions. The workshop will be organized into four or more sessions, each focused on a specific topic, and initiated by a presentation of few related position papers by the respective participants, or the introduction of the specific topic by a single speaker, and followed by discussions. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, depending on the nature of the contributions, we may be organizing a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some of the previous FTfJP workshops. Contributions must be in English, in PDF format, and are limited to 6 pages in ACM 2-column style. Papers must be submitted electronically via Easy Chair. A plain-text ASCII abstract must be submitted one week before the paper submission deadline. Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2014 Any PC member, other than the chair, may be an author or co-author on any paper submitted for consideration but will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of the paper. =================================================================== Important Dates =================================================================== Abstract submission: May 12th, 2014 Paper submission: May 19th, 2014 Notification: June 9th, 2014 Camera ready: June 23nd, 2014 Workshop: July 28th, 2014 All deadlines are at 23:59 American Samoa time (that is, UTC-11). =================================================================== Program Committee =================================================================== David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (Chair) Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium Alex Summers, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada Dave Clarke, KU Leuven, Belgium Elena Zucca, University of Genoa, Italy Max Schaefer, Semmle, UK Nick Cameron, Mozilla Research, New Zealand Tijs Van Der Storm, CWI, The Netherlands =================================================================== Steering Committee =================================================================== Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, Great Britain Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA K. Rustan M. Leino, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Peter M?ller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Universit?t Kaiserlautern, Germany Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands _______________________________________________ From ian.garcia at nsn.com Wed May 7 00:07:07 2014 From: ian.garcia at nsn.com (Garcia, Ian (NSN - US/Arlington Heights)) Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 22:07:07 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP -- The 7th International WDN Workshop on Cooperative and Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (WDN-CN 2014) Message-ID: <24D3B7B8F068184EB0F679450EA157892559AC46@DEMUMBX001.nsn-intra.net> (our apologies if you receive this multiple times) CALL for PAPERS and PARTICIPATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th International WDN Workshop on Cooperative and Heterogeneous Cellular Networks (WDN-CN 2014) Sept 2, 2014, Washington DC To be held in conjunction with PIMRC 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE The enormous increase in the mobile connected equipment and mobile subscribers number, in addition to the emergence of data-centric standards such as 3GPP's LTE-A raises an urgent call to find sustainable solution that permits to fulfil data rate, spectrum, and coverage requirements. However, resources are scarce and the frequency spectrum availability is limited. To address these issues, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission/reception and heterogeneous networks (HetNet) play a key role for future cellular networks. In the HetNet, low power base stations of smaller coverage are deployed inside the conventional macrocells for traffic offloading. Furthermore, base stations clustering and coordination has been studied as a mean for improving the network energy efficiency, users' quality of experience, and for delivering cloud services by pooling computational and communication resources. Regarding CoMP, HetNet, beside researches activities in academia, there are considerable industry-wide standardization efforts in 3GPP RAN working groups and IEEE. While industry efforts have also targeted efficient operation of CoMP and HetNet, fundamental research on the cost-performance tradeoffs of each of these deployments are certainly desirable for both academia and industry. This workshop is co-located with the IEEE Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference 2014 (http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/). The main objective of the workshop is to offer an opportunity for academic and industrial researches for spreading and sharing the latest results and understanding for making communication networks more energy efficient and more area spectrally efficient. TOPIC AREAS * Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNet) * Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) * Cloud services integration in HetNet * Energy efficiency vs. QoS tradeoffs in HetNet * Small cell clustering for services delivery * Resource allocation techniques for HetNet * Cell range expansion (CRE) and traffic off-loading * Enhanced inter-cell interference coordination techniques (eICIC) * Self-organizing networks (SON) and reinforcement learning * Phantom cell, soft cell, and multi-flow carrier aggregation * 3GPP, WiFi, and WiGig interworking * Open and closed access operation modes * Game theoretic techniques for future HetNet * Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) techniques * Distributed antenna systems (DAS) * Limited feedback techniques for CoMP * Cell planing and antenna design for CoMP * Large scale CoMP for HetNet and dense small cells networks * Massive MIMO, active antenna systems and dynamic cell structuring * Enhanced channel models for CoMP * Backhaul (wired, wireless, millimeter wave, etc.) and networking * Cellular topology considering Remote Radio Head (RRH) * Cloud-based support for HetNet * Splitting of user- and control-planes for HetNet * Mobility management and handoffs for HetNet * Energy efficient algorithms and green wireless for HetNet * Network load balancing and smart information storage for C-RAN * Cognitive, cooperative, and reconfigurable networks * Analysis of future trends for HetNet * Low electromagnetic exposure in cellular networks * Regulation and standardization for cooperative HetNet * Storage and computation capability of small cells ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Co-Chairs Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-LETI, France (emilio.calvanese-strinati at cea.fr) Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulou, Finland (bennis at ee.oulu.fi) Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (sakaguchi at comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) pages. All figures, tables, references, etc. are included in the page limit. Papers need to be uploaded through EDAS. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore if presented at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission: 20th May 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10th June 2014 Final camera ready copy: 27th June 2014 Workshop: 2nd September 2014 For more information about WDN-CN 2014 Please visit http://www.icwdn.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However, resources are scarce and the frequency spectrum availability is limited. To address these issues, coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission/reception and heterogeneous networks (HetNet) play a key role for future cellular networks. In the HetNet, low power base stations of smaller coverage are deployed inside the conventional macrocells for traffic offloading. Furthermore, base stations clustering and coordination has been studied as a mean for improving the network energy efficiency, users' quality of experience, and for delivering cloud services by pooling computational and communication resources. Regarding CoMP, HetNet, beside researches activities in academia, there are considerable industry-wide standardization efforts in 3GPP RAN working groups and IEEE. While industry efforts have also targeted efficient operation of CoMP and HetNet, fundamental research on the cost-performance tradeoffs of each of these deployments are certainly desirable for both academia and industry. This workshop is co-located with the IEEE Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference 2014 (http://www.ieee-pimrc.org/). The main objective of the workshop is to offer an opportunity for academic and industrial researches for spreading and sharing the latest results and understanding for making communication networks more energy efficient and more area spectrally efficient. TOPIC AREAS * Heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNet) * Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) * Cloud services integration in HetNet * Energy efficiency vs. QoS tradeoffs in HetNet * Small cell clustering for services delivery * Resource allocation techniques for HetNet * Cell range expansion (CRE) and traffic off-loading * Enhanced inter-cell interference coordination techniques (eICIC) * Self-organizing networks (SON) and reinforcement learning * Phantom cell, soft cell, and multi-flow carrier aggregation * 3GPP, WiFi, and WiGig interworking * Open and closed access operation modes * Game theoretic techniques for future HetNet * Coordinated multi-point transmission (CoMP) techniques * Distributed antenna systems (DAS) * Limited feedback techniques for CoMP * Cell planing and antenna design for CoMP * Large scale CoMP for HetNet and dense small cells networks * Massive MIMO, active antenna systems and dynamic cell structuring * Enhanced channel models for CoMP * Backhaul (wired, wireless, millimeter wave, etc.) and networking * Cellular topology considering Remote Radio Head (RRH) * Cloud-based support for HetNet * Splitting of user- and control-planes for HetNet * Mobility management and handoffs for HetNet * Energy efficient algorithms and green wireless for HetNet * Network load balancing and smart information storage for C-RAN * Cognitive, cooperative, and reconfigurable networks * Analysis of future trends for HetNet * Low electromagnetic exposure in cellular networks * Regulation and standardization for cooperative HetNet * Storage and computation capability of small cells ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Co-Chairs Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA-LETI, France (emilio.calvanese-strinati at cea.fr) Mehdi Bennis, University of Oulou, Finland (bennis at ee.oulu.fi) Kei Sakaguchi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (sakaguchi at comm.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The manuscript must follow IEEE two-column format with single-spaced, ten-point font in the text. The maximum manuscript length is five (5) pages. All figures, tables, references, etc. are included in the page limit. Papers need to be uploaded through EDAS. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore if presented at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission: 20th May 2014 Notification of acceptance: 10th June 2014 Final camera ready copy: 27th June 2014 Workshop: 2nd September 2014 For more information about WDN-CN 2014 Please visit http://www.icwdn.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From icess2014 at gmail.com Wed May 7 02:03:38 2014 From: icess2014 at gmail.com (Haibo Zhang) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 12:03:38 +1200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ICESS-2014, Special Issues announcement & submission deadline approaching (May 12) Message-ID: The deadline for paper submission has been extended to 12 May, 2014. Distinguished papers, after further extension, will be invited for possible publication in the following special issues of prestigious international journals: 1. IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on "Green Pervasive and Ubiquitous Systems" 2. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue on "Big Data Analytics and Management in Internet of Things" 3. ACM/Springer's Mobile Networks and Applications, Special Issue on "Recent Advances on Next Generation Mobile Networks and Services" 4. Wiley's International Journal of Communication Systems, Special Issue on "Key Technologies for 5G, the Next Generation of Mobile Networks and Services" =============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ICESS 2014 The 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems August 20-22, 2014 in Paris, France http://www.computational-science.org/ICESS2014/ =============================================================== *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: 12 May, 2014 (new deadline) Notification of acceptance: 23 June, 2014 Camera-Ready due: 15 July, 2014 *SCOPE* Embedded software and systems are closely related to our daily life, which reside from smart appliances to unmanned trains. As the fastest growing industry, embedded systems will have great societal and environmental impacts. Therefore, the design and implementation of safe and efficient embedded software and systems have utmost importance. IEEE ICESS is an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in embedded software and systems from both the research community as well as the industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Systems, Models and Algorithms Embedded Real-Time Systems Embedded Hardware and Architectures Embedded Software/Agent Power Aware Computing Distributed Embedded Computing Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing Fault Tolerant & Trusted Embedded Systems System on Chip (SoC) and Multicore Systems Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems Mobile Computing Reconfigurable Computing Cyber-Physical Systems 2. Design Methodology and Tools Hardware/Software Co-Design Formal Methods for Embedded Systems Embedded Component Technology Middleware for Embedded Systems Hardware/Software Co-Verification Compilation and Debug Techniques IDE and Software Tools Performance Evaluation Techniques/Tools 3. Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary Topics Intelligent Embedded Systems Image and Graph Processing Network Protocol and Security Emergency and Disaster Management Wireless Sensor Networks Robotics and Control Systems QoS Support for Embedded Systems Embedded Database & Multimedia Systems Consumer Electronics Automotive, Medical and Avionics Systems *PAST HISTORY* The ICESS-2014 conference is the next event in a series of highly successful international conferences on embedded software and systems (ESS), held as ICESS 2013 (Sydney, Australia, December 2013), ICESS 2012 (Liverpool, England, UK, June 2012), ICESS 2011 (Changsha, China, November 2011), ICESS 2010 (Bradford, UK, July 2010), ICESS 2009 (Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, May 2009), etc. *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column, template available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting). Manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers, including tables and figures. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icess2014 *PUBLICATIONS* The accepted papers from this conference will be published by IEEE Computer Society in IEEE proceedings (indexed by EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* General Chairs Julien Bourgeois, UFC/FEMTO-ST Institute, France Fr?d?ric Magoul?s, Ecole Centrale Paris, France Program Chair Haibo Zhang, University of Otago, New Zealand Track Chairs (1) Systems, Models and Algorithms (SMA) Shangping Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Albert M. K. Cheng, University of Houston, USA (2) Design Methodology and Tools (DMT) Rajiv Gupta, Univeristy of California Riverside, USA (3) Embedded Applications and Interdisciplinary (EAI) Meikang Qiu, San Jose State University, USA Steering Co-Chairs Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICSEA 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICSEA 2014, The Ninth International Conference on Software Engineering Advances October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICSEA14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICSEA14.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICSEA14.html Contributions: - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas - presentations - demos - doctoral forum submissions Proposals for: - symposia - workshops Submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICSEA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Advances in fundamentals for software development Fundamentals in software development; Software architecture, patterns, frameworks; Software analysis and model checking; Software architectural scalability; Requirements engineering and design; Software design (methodologies, patterns, experiences, views, design by contract, design by responsibilities, etc.); Software modeling (OO, non-OO, MDA, SOA, patterns, UML, etc.); Software process and workflow; Software validation and verification; Software testing and testing tools; Software implementation; Software project management (risk analysis, dependencies, etc.); Component-based software development; Service-oriented software development; Software security-based development; Aspect-oriented software development Advanced mechanisms for software development Software composition; Process composition and refactoring; Co-design and codeplay; Software dependencies; Plug&play software; Adaptive software; Context-sensitive software; Policy-driven software design; Software rejuvenation; Feature interaction detection and resolution; Embedded software; Parallel and distributed software Advanced design tools for developing software Formal specifications in software; Programming mechanisms (real-time, multi-threads, etc.); Programming techniques (feature-oriented, aspects-oriented, generative programming, agents-oriented, contextual-oriented, incremental, stratified, etc.); Requirement specification languages; Programming languages; Automation of software design and implementation; Software design with highly distributed resources (GRID); Web service based software; Scenario-based model synthesis; Merging partial behavioral models; Partial goal/requirement satisfaction Advanced facilities for accessing software Information modeling; GUI related software; Computer-aided software design; Hierarchical APIs; APIs roles in software development; Ontology support for Web Services; Rapid prototyping tools; Embedded software quality; Thread modeling; Flexible Objects; Use cases; Visual Modeling Software performance Software performance modeling; Software performance engineering (UML diagrams, Process algebra, Petri nets, etc.); Software performance requirements; Performance forecast for specific applications; Performance testing; Web-service based software performance; Performance of rule-based software; Methods for performance improvements; Software performance experience reports; Program failures experiences; Error ranking via correlation; Empirical evaluation of defects Software security, privacy, safeness Security requirements, design, and engineering; Software safety and security; Security, privacy and safeness in software; Software vulnerabilities; Assessing risks in software; Software for online banking and transactions; Software trace analysis; Software uncertainties; Dynamic detection of likely invariants; Human trust in interactive software; Memory safety; Safety software reuse; High confidence software; Trusted computing; Next generation secure computing Advances in software testing Formal approaches for test specifications; Advanced testing methodologies; Static and dynamic analysis; Strategies for testing nondeterministic systems; Testing software releases; Generating tests suites; Evolutionary testing of embedded systems; Algorithmic testing; Exhaustive testing; Black-box testing; Testing at the design level; Testing reactive software; Empirical evaluation Specialized software advanced applications Database related software; Software for disaster recovery applications; Software for mobile vehicles; Biomedical-related software; Biometrics related software; Mission critical software; Real-time software; E-health related software; Military software; Crisis-situation software; Software for Bluetooth and mobile phones; Multimedia software applications Web Accessibility Design approaches, techniques, and tools to support Web accessibility; Best practices for evaluation, testing reviews and repair techniques; Accessibility across the entire system lifecycle; Accessibility within e-organizations: good practices and experiences; Industry and research collaboration, learning from practice, and technology transfer; Mobile Internet-Web Accessibility; Developing user interfaces for different devices; Dealing with different interaction modalities; Web authoring guidelines and tools; Accessibility and other core areas related to the Web user experience; (UX): Usability, Findability, Valuability, Credibility, etc.; Innovations in assistive technologies for the Web; Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation; Adaptive Web accessibility; Accessibility and information architecture; Universally accessible graphical design approaches; User Profiling; Cognitive and behavioral psychology of end user experiences and scenarios Open source software Open source software (OSS) methodologies; OSS development and debugging; Security in OSS; Performance of OSS; OSS roles and responsibilities; OSS incremental development; Division of labor and coordination mechanisms; Distribution of decision-making; Operational boundaries; Experience reports and lessons learned; Versioning management; Towards generalizing the OSS methodologies and practices; Open source licensing; Industrial movement towards open source Agile software techniques Agile software methodologies and practices (extreme programming, scrum, feature-driven, etc.); Agile modeling (serial in the large, iterative in the small); Agile model driven design; Agile methodologies for embedded software; Software metrics for agile projects; Lifecycle for agile software development; Agile user experience design; Agility via program automation; Testing into an agile environment; Agile project planning; Agile unified process Software deployment and maintenance Software in small and large organizations; Deploying and maintaining open source software; Software maintenance; Software assurance; Patching; Run-time vulnerability checking; Software rejuvenation; Software updates; Partial or temporary feature deprecation; Multi-point software deployment and configuration; On-line software updates Software engineering techniques, metrics, and formalisms Software reuse; Software quality metrics (complexity, empiric metrics, etc.); Software re-engineering (reverse engineering); Software composition; Software integration; Consistency checking; Real-time software development; Temporal specification; Model checking; Theorem provers; Modular reasoning; Petri Nets; Formalisms for behavior specification; Advanced techniques for autonomic components and systems Business technology Enterprise Content Managements (ECMs); Business Intelligence (BI); Enterprise Portals; Business Process Management (BPM); Corporate Performance Management (CPM); Enterprise Data Warehouse; Web Publishing; Cloud Computing; Virtualisation; Data Mining; Workflows; Business Rules Management (BRM); Data Capturing Software economics, adoption, and education Patenting software; Software licensing; Software economics; Software engineering education; Academic and industrial views on software adoption and education; Good-to-great in software adoption and improvement; Software knowledge management Improving productivity in research on software engineering Developing frameworks to support research; Methods and tools to improving the research environment; Supporting domain specific research needs; Teaching research skills in Computer Science; Experience reports on well developed research processes; Experience reports on empirical approaches to software engineering research; Approaches to supporting higher degree students in their research; Approaches to enlarge the research / teaching nexus to improve academics productivity; Approaches to integration between university research and industry research; Tools to support the research process; Software process improvement framework (CMMI, etc.); Quality improvement framework; Process simulation and measurement; Test improvement framework Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICSEA14.html ================================================ From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Wed May 7 05:14:24 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 12:14:24 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] APLAS 2014: Last CFP Message-ID: =============================================================== APLAS 2014 12th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/ 17-19 November 2014, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts due May 26 (full paper by June 2) =============================================================== ================ INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Zhenjiang Hu (NII, Japan) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Julien Verlaguet (Facebook, USA) ========== BACKGROUND ========== APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community. APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul ('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05), Taipei ('04) and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops. Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS. ====== TOPICS ====== The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such as * semantics, logics, foundational theory; * design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi; * domain-specific languages; * compilers, interpreters, abstract machines; * program derivation, synthesis and transformation; * program analysis, verification, model-checking; * logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming; * software security; * concurrency and parallelism; * tools and environments for programming and implementation. Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with the program chair prior to submission. ========== SUBMISSION ========== We solicit submissions in two categories: *Regular research papers* describing original scientific research results, including tool development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. *System and Tool presentations* describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2014 Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ===== DATES ===== Abstracts due: May 26, 2014 (Monday) Submission due: June 2, 2014 (Monday) Notification: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday) Final paper due: September 1, 2014 (Monday) Conference: November 17-19, 2014 (Monday-Wednesday) ========== ORGANIZERS ========== General chair: Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore) Program chair: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Program committee: Xiaojuan Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) James Chapman (Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia) Cristian Gherghina (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Eric Goubault (CEA LIST and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Fei He (Tsinghua University, China) Gerwin Klein (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Raghavan Komondoor (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Paddy Krishnan (Oracle, Australia) Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, USA) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Julian Rathke (University of Southampton, UK) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Munehiro Takimoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) ======= CONTACT ======= aplas2014 at easychair.org From pc-chairs at di2014.org Wed May 7 10:49:33 2014 From: pc-chairs at di2014.org (=?utf-8?q?Frederic_Benhamou_=26_Milad_Doueihi_-__=23di2014_Co-Chairs?=) Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 10:49:33 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [DI2014] Paper submission deadline extension for #DI2014 Conference, Nantes, France Message-ID: <20140507085005.0C6DB1012ACE@smtp.univ-nantes.fr> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From didier at lrde.epita.fr Wed May 7 16:58:24 2014 From: didier at lrde.epita.fr (Didier Verna) Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 16:58:24 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfP] International Lisp Conference 2014, Aug. 14-17, Montreal Message-ID: ILC 2014 - International Lisp Conference "Lisp on the Move" August 14-17 2014, Universit? de Montr?al, Montr?al, Canada Sponsored by the Association of Lisp Users In cooperation with: ACM SIGPLAN http://www.international-lisp-conference.org Scope: Lisp is one of the greatest ideas from computer science and a major influence for almost all programming languages and for all sufficiently complex software applications. The International Lisp Conference is a forum for the discussion of Lisp and, in particular, the design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. We invite high quality submissions in all areas involving Lisp dialects and any other languages in the Lisp family, including, but not limited to, ACL2, AutoLisp, Clojure, Common Lisp, ECMAScript, Dylan, Emacs Lisp, ISLISP, Racket, Scheme, SKILL, HOP etc. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. This year's focus will be directed towards integrated solutions, including mobile computing. We especially invite submissions in the following areas: * Pervasive computing Interoperability Portability Implementation * challenges/tradeoffs for embedded/mobile platforms Language * support for mobile toolkits and frameworks Language support for * distribution Language support for reliability, availability, and * serviceability Mobile IDEs Mobile applications Contributions are also welcome in other areas, including but not limited to: * Language design and implementation Language integration, * inter-operation and deployment Applications (especially * commercial) Reflection, meta-object protocols, meta-programming * Domain-specific languages Programming paradigms and environments * Efficient parallel and concurrent computation Language support for * managing both manual and automatic GC Theorem proving Scientific * computing Data mining Semantic web Technical Programme: Original submissions in all areas related to the conference themes are invited for the following categories: Papers: Technical papers of up to 10 pages that describe original results. Demonstrations: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for demonstrations of tools, libraries and applications. Workshops: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for groups of people who intend to work on a focused topic for half a day. Tutorials: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for in-depth presentations about topics of special interest for 1 to 2 hours. Panel discussions: Abstracts of up to 2 pages for discussions about current themes. Panel discussion proposals must mention panel member who are willing to partake in a discussion. The conference will also provide slots for lightning talks, to be registered on-site every day. For inquiries about any other kind of participation (commercial exhibits, advertising, prizes, book signing etc.), please see the contacts below. Important Dates: - May 18, 2014: Submission deadline - June 09, 2014: Notification of acceptance - June 29, 2014: Final Papers due - August 14, 2014: Conference All submissions should be formatted following the ACM SIGS guidelines and include ACM classification categories and terms. For more information on the submission guidelines and the ACM keywords, see: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates and http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998. Submissions should be uploaded to Easy Chair, at the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilc14 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Marc Feeley (Universit? de Montr?al, Montr?al, Canada) Programme Chair: Didier Verna (EPITA Research lab, Paris, France) Local chair: Marc Feeley (Universit? de Montr?al, Montr?al, Canada) Programme Committee: Charlotte Herzeel, IMEC, ExaScience Life Lab, Belgium Damir Cavar, Eastern Michigan University, USA Dave Herman, Mozilla Research, USA Greg Pfeil, Clozure Associates, USA Ir?ne Anne Durand, LaBRI University of Bordeaux, France Jim Newton, Cadence Design Systems, France Kuroda Hisao, Mathematical Systems Inc., Japan Matthew Might, University of Utah, USA Nicolas Neuss, Friedrich Alexander Universitat, Germany Ralf M?ller, TUHH, Germany Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Northeastern University, USA William Byrd, University of Utah, USA Contacts: * General Questions: ilc14-organizing-committee at alu.org * Programme Committee: ilc14 at easychair.org For more information, see http://www.international-lisp-conference.org -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, A?kido: http://www.didierverna.info From wadt2014 at gmail.com Wed May 7 17:15:36 2014 From: wadt2014 at gmail.com (2014 wadt) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 16:15:36 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] WADT 2014 - 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: ====================================================================== FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS WADT 2014 22nd International Workshop on Algebraic Development Techniques http://wadt2014.cs.ovgu.de September 4-7, 2014, Sinaia, Romania ====================================================================== AIMS AND SCOPE The algebraic approach to system specification encompasses many aspects of the formal design of software systems. Originally born as formal method for reasoning about abstract data types, it now covers new specification frameworks and programming paradigms (such as object-oriented, aspect-oriented, agent-oriented, logic and higher-order functional programming) as well as a wide range of application areas (including information systems, concurrent, distributed and mobile systems). The workshop will provide an opportunity to present recent and ongoing work, to meet colleagues, and to discuss new ideas and future trends. TOPICS OF INTEREST Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are: - Foundations of algebraic specification - Other approaches to formal specification, including process calculi and models of concurrent, distributed and mobile computing - Specification languages, methods, and environments - Semantics of conceptual modelling methods and techniques - Model-driven development - Graph transformations, term rewriting and proof systems - Integration of formal specification techniques - Formal testing and quality assurance, validation, and verification WORKSHOP FORMAT AND LOCATION The workshop will take place over four days, Thursday to Sunday, at Hotel International Sinaia. Presentations will be selected on the basis of submitted abstracts. INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2014 Early registration: July 5, 2014 Final abstract due: July 25, 2014 Workshop in Sinaia: September 4-7, 2014 SUBMISSIONS The scientific program of the workshop will include presentations of recent results and ongoing research. The presentations will be selected on the basis of the submitted abstracts according to originality, significance, and general interest. The abstracts have to be submitted electronically according to the instructions published on the workshop homepage. PROCEEDINGS After the workshop, selected authors will be invited to submit full papers for the refereed proceedings, which will be published as a volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer). SPONSORSHIP The workshop takes place under the auspices of IFIP WG 1.3. 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URL: From cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com Wed May 7 22:04:41 2014 From: cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com (Cristina Pascual) Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 22:04:41 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Extension: SIMUL 2014 || October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France Message-ID: <201405072004.s47K4f12015836@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SIMUL 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to May 30, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== SIMUL 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SIMUL 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SIMUL14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPSIMUL14.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitSIMUL14.html Contributions: - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas - presentations - demos - doctoral forum submissions Proposals for: - symposia - workshops Submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html SIMUL 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Simulation models Monte Carlo simulation; Statistical analysis of simulation output; Analytical simulation modeling; Discrete event simulation models; Credible simulation models; Multi-objective simulation models; Multisimulation with multiresolution, multistage multimodels; Verification and validation of simulation models; Simulation metamodels; Executable simulation models; Emulation models; Regression models and experimental designs; Kriging metamodeling; Kriging metamodeling in discrete-event simulation; Kriging modeling for global approximation Simulation methodologies Sensitivity analysis; Rare-event simulation methodology; Agent-based modeling and simulation; Regenerative steady-state simulation; Simulation-based ordinal optimization; Ontology-based simulation methodology; Simulation component reuse methodology; Two-level simulation methodology; Emulation methodologies; System adaptation simulation; Simulation methodologies for autonomic and autonomous systems; Virtual reality simulation methodologies; Virtualization simulation; Construction simulation methodologies Sensitivity analysis Systematic simulation using sensitive analysis; Probabilistic sensitivity analysis; Sensitivity analysis of simulation technologies (Monte Carlo, Streamline, Spatial models, etc.); Domain-oriented sensitivity analysis (optimization, estimation matching, climate); Sensitivity analysis of products features, formalisms, design optimization (systems, code); Assessing the competency of business services (public, health, transportation, etc.); Sensitivity analysis and performance extrapolation; Adjoint transient sensitivity analysis; Causality and sensitivity analysis; Assessing the accuracy of sensitivity analysis Simulation mechanisms Composing simulation models; Reusable simulation model; Uncertainty simulation; Continuous-variable simulation optimization; Approximate zero-variance simulation; Probabilistic processes for simulation; Progressive model fitting; Steady-state simulations with initial transients; Merging simulation and optimization; Simulation optimization, stochastic programming and robust optimization; Overlapping variance estimators; Kriging interpolation in simulation; Kriging versus regression analysis; Interpolation; Random simulation; Prediction and simulation; Interpolation /Kriging, Cokriging, Conditional Simulation, and Inverse Distance Weighting/ Model based system prediction Model based prediction of system quality characteristics and their trade-offs; Prediction models; Methods and tools for system quality prediction; Reliability prediction; Security prediction; Risk prediction; Performance prediction; Uncertainty handling in prediction models; Prediction of change impacts on system quality and risk; Quality and trustworthiness of prediction models; Predictability of system quality characteristics; Predictability of dynamic and adaptive systems; Data acquisition methods in system quality prediction; Traceability and maintainability of prediction models; Inference types in prediction models; Experience reports on and application areas for system quality prediction; Empirical studies on system quality prediction Distributed simulation Large-scale simulation experiments; Industrial scale simulation; Time aspects in distributed simulation; Resource constraints in distributed simulation; Distributed disaster decision simulation; Simulation for rapid assessment of distributed impacts; Parallel and distributed simulation; Model-driven distributed simulation engineering Human-in simulation User-in-the-middle simulations; User-feedback in simulations; User-adaptive simulations; Bioterrorism preparedness simulation; Probabilistic risk assessment; Measurement of situation awareness Simulations in advanced environments Simulation in Virtualized systems; Simulation in Cloud environments; Simulations in GRID environments; Simulation in Cognitive systems; Simulation in P2P systems; Simulation in Data Centers; Simulation in Power Distribution Centers; Simulation in micro- and nano-systems; Simulation in Geospatial systems; Geostatistics simulation; Spatial simulation; Simulation in Self-Adaptable systems; Simulation in Ubiquitous systems; Simulation in Underwater Vehicular and Communications systems; Simulations in Mobile and Vehicular systems; Simulation in eHealth systems;Computational fluid dynamics simulations for urban and environmental applications Practical applications on process simulations Uncertainty in industrial practice; Simulation for business planning; Application to finance; Logistics simulation; Supply chain simulation; Software reliability simulation; Simulation in vehicular systems /avionics, satellites, terrestrial/; Simulation models for manufacturing; Climate and weather-related simulations; Biological system simulation; Chemical system simulation; Commercial simulation environments; Healthcare simulation; Hospital planning; Simulation-based scheduling; Simulation in warehouse operations; Manufacturing simulation interoperability; Telecommunications simulations /reliability, queuing, fault spreading, virus contamination/; Cyber-attack modeling and simulation; Sensor fusion simulation Case studies on social simulation Group-work interaction simulation; Behavior analysis in simulations; Social need simulations; Simulating urban open spaces; Social decision simulation; Real-time decision making simulation; e-Polling simulation; Validation of simulated real-world; Simulation to predict market behavior; Predictions via similarity-based data-mining; Simulation of groups in e-Government systems; Simulation of urban mobility Online social simulation Online social models, social networking; Simulation of conflicts, cooperation, persuasions; Simulation of dynamics, group decisions, emerging behavior and situations; Simulation of interactive games, predictions and distributed tasks; Simulation of 3D online communities, massive online multiplayers, virtual social communities; Life problems simulation (sociology, political science, economics, anthropology, geography, archeology and linguistics); Group innovation and consumption simulation; Applications, techniques, tools, computational frameworks, experiments and lessons Building simulation Simulation of building physics; Human simulation of the indoor environment; Civil-oriented and enterprise-oriented simulations; Simulation of building services (lightning, heating, cooling, ventilation, insulation, etc.); Simulation of energy capture and conversion; Simulation of solar buildings, geothermal energy buildings; Simulation for earthquakes, flooding, fire propagation, etc.; Simulation of design practice; Tools and applications to simulate building-related properties and situations Transport simulation Transport system models; Airport simulation; Public transport simulation; Merchandise port simulation; Rural transport simulation during harvest time; Shipping transport simulation; Content and volume-based transport simulation; Simulation of traffic control and synchronization; Prediction accuracy of transport simulations; Simulation of transport projects Warfare simulation Warfare simulation environments and models; Tactical and strategic warfare simulation; Attack warfare simulation; Urban warfare simulation; Warfare simulation in unknown environment; Underwater, terrestrial, and spatial simulations; Hierarchical control simulation; Warfare gaming Simulation tools and platforms Discrete-event simulation software; Commercial off-the-shelf simulation package interoperability; Ontology-based tools for simulation integration; Simulation frameworks for energy-efficient systems; Public system applications; Simulators for business planning; Simulation tools for systems biology; Simulation tools for constructions /bridges, railways, industrial buildings, subways/ Experience report on ready-to-use tools ShowFlow and XJ technologies; Rockwell Automation and Frontline Systems; SIMULE-Planner, AutoMOD; PMC-Kanban Simulator, Program Portfolio Simulator and Asprova Scheduler; 3D simulator tool-kits; Wolverine Software-SLX; OPNET; OMNET++; NIIST; NS-2; NS-3; ATDI ICS; Qualnet; Dymola; Matlab/Simulink; Open source tools Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComSIMUL14.html ================================================ From elisa at icmc.usp.br Thu May 8 06:32:28 2014 From: elisa at icmc.usp.br (Elisa Yumi Nakagawa) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 01:32:28 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP WDES 2014: VIII Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems, and Systems-of-Systems Message-ID: ============================================= CALL FOR PAPERS WDES 2014 8th Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems, and Systems-of-Systems http://wdes2014.icmc.usp.br/Index_en at CBSoft 2014 http://www.ic.ufal.br/evento/cbsoft2014/en/ Macei?, Brazil IMPORTANT DATES ==== Submission deadline: June 17, 2014 Notification: July 22, 2014 Camera-ready copy: August 5, 2014 Workshop date: September 28, 2014 SCOPE ==== Distributed Software Development (DSD) is an approach of development that aims at using distributed resources to reduce cost and reach new IT markets. The distribution of development teams, along with the inherent difficulties of coordination and communication, often lead to low-productive development processes. In this scenario, inherent problems and challenges of Software Engineering are then amplified and become more critical. To cope with such difficulties, several technological, organizational, and social solutions have been proposed. In parallel, a new type of software systems has emerged: the Systems-of-Systems (SoS). SoS are large, complex systems whose functionalities are resulted from the integration of different other smaller, independent systems. Characteristics such as operational and managerial independence, geographic distribution of their constituent systems, evolutionary development, and emergent behavior suggest that DSD theories and practices can be applied to the development of SoS. In another perspective, Software Ecosystem (ECOS) is a set of actors that interact in a distributed market of software and services, whose relationships are often supported by technological platform or shared market. These relationships are done by exchanging information, resources, and artifacts. ECOS has become an important research topic in Software Engineering, since it addresses social and technical issues along with technical aspects of the software development process. The Workshop on Distributed Software Development (WDDS), in its eighth edition, aims at putting together competencies and technologies of these three related areas: DSD, ECO, and SoS. The extension of its scope resulted in the Workshop on Distributed Software Development, Software Ecosystems, and Systems-of-Systems (WDES). This workshop consists of a forum for presentation and discussion of results and experiences of researchers and practitioners of DSD, ECOS, and SoS. As the main goal, it intends to generate knowledge that makes it possible to conduct successful projects in these three areas. TOPICS ==== The topics of WDES involve research works directly related to DSD, ECOS, and SoS and their intersections, not being restricted to the following topics: * Strategies, applications, relationships, and impacts among the three topics * Technical, economical, and social issues associated to Software Engineering * IT, software, and systems architectures (e.g., service-oriented) * Reuse-based development * Cloud Computing * Social, technical, and social-technical networks * Education and learning * Supporting tools * Project management * Communication, coordination, and collaboration issues * Diversity management (cultural, technical, social, and organizational) * Communities and distributed team management * Knowledge management and decision-making process * Development processes (e.g., agile methods and hybrid processes) * Development, evolution, and life-cycle and security issues of software and systems (e.g., requirement management, modeling, configuration management, verification, validation, and testing) * Metrics and indicators of software and systems development * Quality of data, software, and systems * Software acquisition * Everything as a Service (XaaS) (e.g., software/infrastructure/platform as a Service) * Business models and distributed development * IT governance * Self-adaptive, self-recovery, and context-aware systems * Challenge and perspectives of research * Case studies, experiments, and industrial experience reports * Systematic reviews and systematic mappings SUBMISSION ==== Four types of submissions are invited: * Technical paper (up to eight pages): It must present sound technical contributions for the research area; * Experience Report (up to eight pages): It must present concrete data, lessons learned, or relevant facts for the research area; * Short paper (up to four pages): It must present an interesting research that is not fully validated; and * Position paper (up to four pages): It must present new ideas, positions, or perspectives of research on the research area. Papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and must not be simultaneously under review or submitted elsewhere. All papers will be judged on the basis of their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution. All submissions must follow the SBC Proceedings Style. Templates can be downloaded at SBC website. Submissions must be either in English or Portuguese through online upload to the workshop submission website at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wdes2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ==== Cl?udia Werner, COPPE/UFRJ (werner at cos dot ufrj dot br) Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, ICMC/USP (elisa at icmc dot usp dot br) Sabrina Marczak, PUCRS (sabrina dot marczak at pucrs dot br) STEERING COMMITEE ==== Carina Frota Alves, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Cl?udia Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE/UFRJ) Eduardo Santana de Almeida, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) Elisa Hatsue Moriya Huzita, State University of Maring? (UEM) Elisa Yumi Nakagawa, University of S?o Paulo (ICMC/USP) Flavio Oquendo, Universit? de Bretagne-Sud, France (UBS) Jos? Carlos Maldonado, University of S?o Paulo (ICMC/USP) Renata Pontin de Mattos Fortes, University of S?o Paulo (ICMC/USP) Sabrina Marczak, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) ==== ================================================= =========================== Prof. Dr. Elisa Yumi Nakagawa Dept. of Computer Systems USP - University of S?o Paulo, Brazil www.icmc.usp.br/~elisa/ =========================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sadaf at comsats.edu.pk Thu May 8 08:33:11 2014 From: sadaf at comsats.edu.pk (Dr. Sadaf Tanvir) Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 11:33:11 +0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for papers: ITDS-2014 Message-ID: <20140508113311.20275jirsd2e5fs7@webmail.comsats.edu.pk> (Please accept our apologies for multiple postings) ITDS 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2014), Halifax, Canada, September 22-25, 2014. http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/itds-14/ SCOPE ====== This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on all branches of artificial intelligence and sensor networks technologies in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the techniques, challenges and opportunities to explore new research directions. The main topics to be addressed include (but not limited to): -Artificial Intelligence based Intrusion Detection Systems -Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Issues of Social Networking - Distributed Sensor Networks and Systems -Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing -Machine Learning and Data Mining Techniques -Multi-agent Systems and Sensor Networks -Networking and Cloud Computing -Security, Privacy and Trust in Distributed Systems -Simulation Tools and Methods -Techniques for Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network -Web 2.0 and Web-based Communities Publications ========= Only original papers will be considered that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. All submissions will be handled electronically. The length of the paper is limited to 6 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Important Dates ============ Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 Author Notification: June 30, 2014 Manuscript Due: July 15, 2014 Workshop Dates: September 22-25, 2014 Paper Submission ============== Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline. The submission processes will be managed by ?easychair.org. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Program Committee Chairs ==================== Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Safdar Hussain Bouk, Kyungpook National University, Korea Steering Committee Chair =================== Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Publicity Chairs ============ Sadaf Tanvir, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Technical Program Committee Members ============================== Umar Qasim, University of Alberta, Canada Turki Ali Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Sajjad Ali Mushtaq, wingenius, Toronto, Canada TBC Thanks and Best regards, Sadaf Tanvir, Ph D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road Chak Shahzad, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan Ph: +92 51 9049 5362 email: sadaf at comsats.edu.pk https://sites.google.com/site/sadaftanvir/ ww3.comsats.edu.pk/faculty/FacultyDetails.aspx?Uid=1145 From johan.ostlund at it.uu.se Thu May 8 09:38:14 2014 From: johan.ostlund at it.uu.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Johan_=D6stlund?=) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:38:14 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] IWACO 2014 -- DEADLINE EXTENSION Message-ID: <3401719B-7E53-4020-B1D0-3A3BE0B3FE94@it.uu.se> *** NOTE DEADLINES EXTENDED *** Abstract submission: May 17 Paper submission: May 19 ************************************************************************** 6TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ALIASING, CAPABILITIES AND OWNERSHIP (IWACO) Co-located with ECOOP 2014 July 28th, 2014, Uppsala, Sweden http://www.ownership-types.org/iwaco14/ ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Reasoning about shared state in imperative programs is challenging. The existence of aliases, in particular, compromises modular reasoning, making imperative programs hard to understand, maintain, and analyze. These difficulties become even aggravated in a concurrent context. On the other hand, aliasing is a very powerful feature and allows for efficient implementations of data structures, for example. To address those challenges, techniques have been introduced for describing and reasoning about stateful programs and for restricting, analyzing, and preventing aliases. Approaches are based on ownership, capabilities, separation logic, linear logic, uniqueness, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, linear references, effects systems, and access control mechanisms. The workshop will generally address the question how to reason about stateful (sequential or concurrent) programs. In particular, we will consider the following issues (among others): Models, type and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; optimization techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting ownership, aliasing, capabilities, uniqueness, and related topics; empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these issues in mind; programming logics that deal with aliasing and/or shared state, or use ownership, capabilities or resourcing; applications of any of these techniques to a concurrent setting. We encourage not only submissions presenting original research results, but also papers that attempt to establish links between different approaches and/or papers that include survey material. Original research results should be clearly described. Paper selection will be based on the quality of the submitted material. Please direct any questions regarding the workshop's scope to the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: May 17 Paper submission: May 19 Notification: June 21 Final version: July 5, 2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo Colin Gordon, University of Washington Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Greg Morrisett, Harvard University Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University Francois Pottier, INRIA Alex Summers, ETH Z?rich Aaron Turon, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Jan Vitek, Purdue University Janina Voigt, Cambridge University ORGANIZERS: Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University Johan ?stlund, Uppsala University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Burak.Turhan at oulu.fi Thu May 8 10:03:03 2014 From: Burak.Turhan at oulu.fi (Burak Turhan) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 08:03:03 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Extension: PROMISE 2014 - The 10th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering Message-ID: <50FE3A1C-3780-467E-BCC9-EC38D2C5A8D4@oulu.fi> ****************** CALL FOR PAPERS PROMISE 2014 - The 10th International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering http://promisedata.org/2014/ September 17, 2014, Turin, Italy ****************** Important dates: Abstract submissions: May 16th Paper submission deadline: May 23, 2014 Notification date: June 23, 2014 Camera-ready copy: July 5, 2014 PROMISE conference is an annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, expertise and experiences in construction and/or application of prediction models in software engineering. Such models could be targeted at: planning, design, implementation, testing, maintenance, quality assurance, evaluation, process improvement, management, decision making, and risk assessment in software and systems development. PROMISE is distinguished from similar forums with its public data repository and focus on methodological details, providing a unique interdisciplinary venue for software engineering and machine learning communities, and seeking for verifiable and repeatable prediction models that are useful in practice. Special Theme The special theme of PROMISE?14 is "Software analytics in 2020". In particular, we would like to see predicting models aimed at covering aspects of software engineering that were not fully covered, or were partially covered only, in the past. Examples include aspects related to licensing, security, energy consumption, etc. Note that while we encourage papers fitting the special theme, PROMISE 2014 welcomes any paper relevant to the conference topics. Topics of Interest (Application oriented): Predicting for cost, effort, quality, defects, business value; quantification and prediction of other intermediate or final properties of interest in software development regarding people, process or product aspects; using predictive models in policy and decision making; using predictive models in different settings, e.g. lean/agile, waterfall, distributed, community-based software development. (Theory oriented): Interdisciplinary and novel approaches to predictive modeling that contribute to the theoretical body of knowledge in software engineering; verifying/refuting/challenging previous theory and results; the effectiveness of human experts vs. automated models in predictions. (Data and model oriented): Data quality, sharing, and privacy; ethical issues related to data collection; metrics; contributions to the repository; model construction, evaluation, sharing and reusability; tools and frameworks to support researchers and practitioners to collect data and construct models to share/repeat experiments and results. Kinds of Papers We invite all kinds of empirical studies on the topics of interest (e.g. case studies, meta-analysis, replications, experiments, simulations, surveys etc.), as well as industrial experience reports detailing the application of prediction technologies and their effectiveness in industrial settings. Both positive and negative results are welcome, though negative results should still be based on rigorous research and provide details on lessons learned. Following the tradition, PROMISE'14 will give the highest priority to empirical studies based on publicly available datasets. It is therefore encouraged, but not mandatory, that conference attendees contribute the data used in their analysis to the on-line PROMISE data repository. We solicit both full and short papers. Short papers are intended to disseminate new ideas, on-going work and preliminary results for early feedback, and do not necessarily require complete results as in full papers. The deadline for short papers is the same as full papers. Submissions PROMISE 2014 submissions must meet the following criteria: - be original work, not published or under review elsewhere. - conform to the ACM SIG proceedings templates from http://goo.gl/wE1k - not exceed 10 (4) pages for full (short) papers including references. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair (please choose either ?full? or ?short? papers): http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=promise2014 Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library. ORGANIZATION: Steering Committee: Ayse Bener, Ryerson University, Canada Leandro Minku, University of Birmingham, UK Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany General Chair: Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany PC Chair: Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Publicity Chairs: Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Ayse Bener, Ryerson University Publication Chair: Leandro Minku, University of Birmingham, UK Local Organization Chair: Massimiliano Di Penta, University of Sannio, Italy Webmaster: Burak Turhan, University of Oulu, Finland From jesus.carretero at uc3m.es Thu May 8 10:20:43 2014 From: jesus.carretero at uc3m.es (=?utf-8?Q?Jesus_Carretero?=) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 10:20:43 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_TECHNIQUES_AND_APPLICATIONS_FOR_SUS?= =?utf-8?q?TAINABLE_ULTRASCALE_COMPUTING_SYSTEMS__=28TASUS_2014=29?= Message-ID: TASUS 2014: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE ULTRASCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMSTo be held at EUROPAR 2014 , Porto, Portugal , August 25-26, 2014 Background The ever-increasing data and processing requirements of applications from various domains are constantly pushing for dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities. Today, we have reached a point where computer systems? growth cannot be addressed anymore in an incremental way, due to the huge challenges lying ahead, in particular scalability, energy barrier, data management, programmability, and reliability.Ultrascale computing systems (UCS) are envisioned as a large-scale complex system joining parallel and distributed computing systems, maybe located at multiple sites, that cooperate to provide solutions to the users. As a growth of two or three orders of magnitude of today?s computing systems is expected, including systems with unprecedented amounts of heterogeneous hardware, lines of source code, numbers of users, and volumes of data, sustainability is critical to ensure the feasibility of those systems. Due to those needs, currently there is an emerging cross-domain interaction between high-performance in clouds or the adoption of distributed programming paradigms, such as Map-Reduce, in scientific applications, the cooperation between HPC and distributed system communities still poses many challenges towards building the ultrascale systems of the future. Especially in unifying the services to deploy sustainable applications portable to HPC systems, multi-clouds, data centers, and big data.TASUS workshop focuses on the software side, aiming at bringing together researchers from academia and industry interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of services and system software mechanisms to improve sustainability in ultrascale computing systems with a holistic approach. Topics We are looking for original high quality research and position papers on applications, services, and system software for sustainable ultrascale systems. Topics of interest include: Existing and emerging designs to achieve sustainable ultrascale systems. High-level parallel programming tools and programmability techniques to improve applications sustainability on ultrascale platforms. (model driven, refactoring, dynamic code generation, unified services, middlewares, ?). Synergies among emerging programming models and run-times from HPC, distributed systems, and big data communities to provide sustainable execution models (increased productivity, transparency, elasticity, ?). New energy efficiency techniques for monitoring, analyzing, and modeling ultrascale systems, including energy efficiency metrics for multiple resources (computing, storage, networking) and sites. Eco-design of ultrascale components and applications, with special emphasis on energy-aware software components that help users to shape energy issues for their applications. Sustainable resilience and fault-tolerant mechanisms that can cooperate throughout the whole software stack to handle errors. Fault tolerance techniques in partitioned global address space (e.g. PGAS, MPI, hybrid) and federated cooperative environments. Data management optimization techniques through cross layer adaptation of the I/O stack to provide global system information to improve data locality. Enhanced data management lifecycle on scalable architectures combining HPC and distributed computing (clouds and data centers). Experiences with applications, high-level algorithms, and services amenable to ultrascale systems. Important dates ? Workshop papers due: May 30, 2014 ? Workshop author notification: July 4, 2014? Workshop early registration: July 25, 2014? Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2014 Committees Workshop Organizers:Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Dr. Laurent Lefevre. INRIA, ENS of Lyon. FranceProf. Gudula R?nger. Technical University of Chemnitz. Germany.Prof. Domenico Talia. Universit? della Callabria. Italy.Program Committee:Francisco Almeida. Universidad de la Laguna. Tenerife. Spain.Angelos Bilas. ICS. FORTH. Greece.Harold Castro. Universidad de los Andes. Colombia.Alok Choudhary. Northwestern University. USA.Raimondas Ciegis. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Lithuania.Michele Colajanni. Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia. ItalyToni Cortes. BSC. Spain.Georges DaCosta. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Jack Dongarra. University of Tennessee. USA.Skevos Evripidou. University of Cyprus. Cyprus.Thomas Fahringer. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Sonja Filiposka. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Jose D. Garcia. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Florin Isaila. Argonne National Labs. USA.Emmanuel Jeannot. INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France.Helen Karatza. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.Alexey Lastovetsky. University College Dublin. Ireland.Dimitar Lukarski. Uppsala University. Sweden.Pierre Manneback. University of Mons. Belgium.Svetozar Margenov. Bulgarian Academic of Sciences. Bulgaria.Attila Marosi. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Hungary.Mar?a Jos? Mart?n Santamar?a. University of Coru?a. Spain.Anastas Mishev. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Ricardo Morla. Universidade de Porto. Portugal.Maya Neytcheva. Uppsala University. Sweden.Ariel Oleksiak. Poznan Supercomputing Center. Poland.Dana Petcu. West University of Timisoara. Romania.Jean Marc Pierson. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Radu Prodan. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Gudula Ruenger. Technische Universit?t Chemnitz .Germany.Enrique S. Quintana-Orti. Universitat Jaume I. Spain.Thomas Rauber. University of Bayreuth. Germany.Karolj Skala. Ru?er Bo?kovi? Institute. Croatia.Victor J. Sosa. CINVESTAV. Mexico.Leonel Sousa. INESC. Portugal.Roman Trobec. Jozef Stefan Institute. Slovenia.Trinh Anh Tuan. Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Hungary.Eero Vainikko. University of Tartu. Estonia.Pascal Voubry. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.Roman Wyrzykowski. Czestochowa University of Technology. Poland.Laurence T. Yang. St.Francis University. Canada.Julius Zilinskas. Vilnius University. Lithuania.Albert Zomaya. University of Sydney. Australia. Paper submission guidelines Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Download LNCS Latex style HERE. Paper submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX). Use the PAPER SUBMISSION ONLINE SYSTEM to submit a paper.Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered.Workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2014 volume after the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. Journal special issue Extended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in TASUS 2014, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of the journalSimulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT ) that is indexed in JCR. Co-Organized by ContactMail to: tasus at arcos.inf.uc3m.es ? This email has been sent to ecoop-info at ecoop.org , click here to unsubscribe . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cedric.gueguen at irisa.fr Thu May 8 12:46:59 2014 From: cedric.gueguen at irisa.fr (Cedric Gueguen) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 12:46:59 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Paper: IEEE workshop of e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services e-HPWAS'14 In-Reply-To: <284384301.5611122.1399545914183.JavaMail.zimbra@irisa.fr> Message-ID: <340007993.5611224.1399546019388.JavaMail.zimbra@irisa.fr> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] --------------------- Important dates --------------------- - Paper submission: June 7, 2014 - Acceptance notification: July 15, 2014 - Camera ready paper: August 25, 2014 - e-HPWAS 2014 : October 8, 2014 Call for paper ( pdf ) Providing adapted e-health services, applications and platforms responds to a growing need of medical institutions like hospitals or even homes. Patients with long-term conditions, elderly and dependent persons need to receive e-health services and assistance in a simple, continuous and non intrusive way. When the e-health ecosystem meets the needs of targeted people and gains their acceptance, provided services will help to tackle the problems that face the nowadays world?s population such as dependency, aging and healthcare for all. According to the United Nations projections, in 2050, the old-age dependency ratio of the population aged over 65 years will approximate 51,70% of the rest of the population. This situation points out the issue of developing autonomic healthcare systems and platforms that helps people to manage their own health with new services and better adapt institutionally based services. The international IEEE workshop of e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services e-HPWAS'14 (in conjunction with the 10h IEEE WiMob conference) targets providing optimal, secured and context aware e-health services with the best quality of services (QoS) and user?s experience (QoE). Applications and services are considered in wireless environments and architecture with a strong heterogeneity of the used access technologies, sensors, terminals, users?needs and services (data, content, live streams or complex network services). Emerging e-Health services and applications can involve the use of ?heavy? content such as multimedia content and streams (e.g. 3D-TV, media conferencing, remote live diagnostics) using conventional e-health equipments and devices but also using modern devices like smart TV sets, home-boxes, smartphones and tablets. The considered issues of e-HPWAS are related to e-Health care and safety services provided for patients, elderly and dependent persons. These services are generally built using different communication technologies, for different profiles of people and in different contexts and places (e.g. in health institutions, at home, in the city). Ideally, provided services should be accessible anytime, anywhere and using any kind of device or platform. Different norms can be used within the e-health ecosystem hence the network interoperability has to be considered carefully in the design of context aware applications and services. Heterogeneity is present at different levels and still an open issue in e-health systems. In addition to the heterogeneity of patients' profiles and service characteristics, the health environment involves a wide range of required sensors and actuators (e.g. blood pressure and temperature, insulin delivery, appliance control, presence sensors) that can be sometimes very close to the user such in Body Area Networks. Sensors use usually different wireless access methods, need to work together and communicate with the rest of the infrastructure (if it exists): gateways, servers, local smart objects or with the intelligence existed in the medical institution, home or in the cloud. Faced to the strong heterogeneity of the environment where e-health services are provided, mechanisms of making autonomic decisions (e.g. diagnostics, continuous monitoring, alerts, assistance) have to be identified and studied in different levels. For a given service or application, the automatic identification of required sensors and actuators should be ensured and tailored to the context of the person (e.g. health status, mobility, dependency degree) and the characteristics/constraints of the used communication technology and the platform. Other opened issues concern the deployment and placement of sensors in the communication architecture. Services deployment should be optimized to guarantee the best network coverage, coordination between sensors and middleware or gateways, possible attachment to the network infrastructure and delay tolerant networking aspects. The cohabitation of different access methods and communication technologies of sensors and the other devices involves sensor/device discovery, network attachment and exploitation of the function that a sensor could provide. The heterogeneity of the communication technologies used within the same e-health system may affect negatively the performance of the architecture and result on a non optimized network traffic even only in the discovery phase of existing sensors and services. Dealing with the existing heterogeneity should lead to optimal approaches that identify available sensors and devices, available functions provided by the hardware, available services and their possible composition to match a given context, normalized interfaces required to interact with the different actors in the e-health context aware ecosystem. eHPWAS encourages the submission of original works describing research results, practical or industrial e-health solutions. Papers describing advanced prototypes, platforms, techniques and general survey for discussing future perspectives and directions are also encouraged. Topics include but are not limited to: E-Health services in smart environments (smart homes, smart medical institutions, smart cities) User acceptance of advanced and complex e-health services Sensor networks for e-Health services Quality of Experience (QoE) with e-health applications, services and network technologies E-Health services composition and adaptation Wireless sensors, mobiles and cognitive radio networks Network interoperability in the e-health ecosystems Delay tolerant networking (DTN) with e-health services development Existing and ongoing Web norms and technologies for e-Health Context Models for people monitoring and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) Heterogeneity of e-Health environments and platforms (used sensors and actuators, heterogeneous access technologies, medical places) Techniques and models for performance evaluation, simulation, and optimization Wireless networking security and privacy (e.g. access networks, exchanged and shared medical data) All accepted papers will be published in the WiMob 2014 conference proceedings published by IEEE, and will be accessible via IEEE Xplore Digital Library and indexed by DBLP. The workshops will be held on 8 October 2014, Larnaca, Cyprus . All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award . The workshop organizers will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted papers. The e-HPWAS organizers plan to have selected papers appear in a special journal issue . A selection of accepted papers will be considered and authors will be invited to produce an extended version to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications (IJEHMC) . PAPER SUBMISSION DUE: June 7, 2014 For any enquiries, please contact: Tayeb.Lemlouma[at]irisa.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com Thu May 8 19:58:31 2014 From: cris.pascual.gonzalez at gmail.com (Cristina Pascual) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 19:58:31 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Extension: VALID 2014 || October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France Message-ID: <201405081758.s48HwUss009515@smtp.upv.es> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to VALID 2014. The submission deadline has been extended to May 30, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== VALID 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS VALID 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/VALID14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPVALID14.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitVALID14.html Contributions: - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters - ideas - presentations - demos - doctoral forum submissions Proposals for: - symposia - workshops Submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html VALID 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Robust design methodologies Designing methodologies for robust systems; Secure software techniques; Industrial real-time software; Defect avoidance; Cost models for robust systems; Design for testability; Design for reliability and variability; Design for adaptation and resilience; Design for fault-tolerance and fast recovery; Design for manufacturability, yield and reliability; Design for testability in the context of model-driven engineering Vulnerability discovery and resolution Vulnerability assessment; On-line error detection; Vulnerabilities in hardware security; Self-calibration; Alternative inspections; Non-intrusive vulnerability discovery methods; Embedded malware detection Defects and Debugging Debugging techniques; Component debug; System debug; Software debug; Hardware debug; System debug; Power-ground defects; Full-open defects in interconnecting lines; Physical defects in memories and microprocessors; Zero-defect principles Diagnosis Diagnosis techniques; Advances in silicon debug and diagnosis; Error diagnosis; History-based diagnosis; Multiple-defect diagnosis; Optical diagnostics; Testability and diagnosability; Diagnosis and testing in mo bile environments System and feature testing Test strategy for systems-in-package; Testing embedded systems; Testing high-speed systems; Testing delay and performance; Testing communication traffic and QoS/SLA metrics; Testing robustness; Software testing; Hardware testing; Supply-chain testing; Memory testing; Microprocessor testing; Mixed-signal production test; Testing multi-voltage domains; Interconnection and compatibility testing; SAT procedures for application to testing and formal verification Testing techniques and mechanisms Fundamentals for digital and analog testing; Emerging testing methodologies; Engineering test coverage; Designing testing suites; Statistical testing; Functional testing; Parametric testing; Defect- and data-driven testing; Automated testing; Embedded testing; Autonomous self-testing; Low cost testing; Optimized testing; Testing systems and devices; Test standards Testing of wireless communications systems Testing of mobile wireless communication systems; Testing of wireless sensor networks; Testing of radio-frequency identification systems; Testing of ad-hoc networks; Testing methods for emerging standards; Hardware-based prototyping of wireless communication systems; Physical layer performance verification; On-chip testing of wireless communication systems; Modeling and simulation of wireless channels; Noise characterization and validation; Case studies and industrial applications of test instruments; Software verification and validation High-speed interface verification and fault-analysis; Software testing theory and practice; Model-based testing; Verification metrics; Service/application specific testing; Model checking; OO software testing; Testing embedded software; Quality assurance; Empirical studies for verification and validation; Software inspection techniques; Software testing tools; New approaches for software reliability verification and validation Quality-assessment of software architectures and legacy systems Quality-Assessment of Software Architectures and Legacy systems; Quality-assessment of software architectures; Validation and verification of software architecture; Automatic analysis of legacy code; Strategies for isolating legacy code and improving the design quality; Metrics for evaluating architectural quality characteristics; Tools for quality assessments of software architectures; Techniques and tools for testing legacy systems Testing and validation of run-time evolving systems Automated testing for run-time evolving systems; Testing and validation of evolving systems; Testing and validation of self-controlled systems; Testing compile-time versus run-time dependency for evolving systems; On-line validation and testing of evolving at run-time systems; Modeling for testability of evolving at run-time systems; Near real-time and real-time monitoring of run-time evolving systems; Verification and validation of reflective models for testing; Verification and validation of fault tolerance in run-time evolving systems Feature-oriented testing Testing user interfaces and user-driven features; Privacy testing; Ontology accuracy testing; Testing semantic matching; Testing certification processes; Testing authentication mechanisms; Testing biometrics methodologies and mechanisms; Testing cross-nation systems; Testing system interoperability; Testing system safety; Testing system robustness; Testing temporal constraints; Testing transaction-based properties; Directed energy test capabilities /microwave, laser, etc./; Testing delay and latency metrics Domain-oriented testing Testing autonomic and autonomous systems; Testing intrusion prevention systems; Firewall testing; Information assurance testing; Testing social network systems; Testing recommender systems; Testing biometric systems; Testing diagnostic systems; Testing on-line systems; Testing financial systems; Testing life threatening systems; Testing emergency systems; Testing sensor-based systems; Testing testing systems Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComVALID14.html ================================================ From gerosa at ime.usp.br Fri May 9 04:35:58 2014 From: gerosa at ime.usp.br (=?UTF-8?Q?Marco_Aur=C3=A9lio_Gerosa?=) Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 19:35:58 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] 2nd CFP: Journal Special Issue on Software Engineering from a Social Network Perspective Message-ID: ====================================== *SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS* Special Issue on *Software Engineering from a Social Network Perspective* SpringerOpen Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA) Deadline: July 1 ========================================= *Guest editors:* Marco Aurelio Gerosa (University of S?o Paulo) ? David Redmiles (University of California, Irvine) ? Pernille Bj?rn (IT University in Copenhagen) ? Anita Sarma (University of Nebraska) ? *MOTIVATION * In today?s Internet age, the concept of social networks is emerging as both a useful means for understanding software engineering activities and a key principle for designing software tools. Social networks model how people communicate, coordinate, cooperate, and develop professional relationships, which are critical activities for a software development project. Bringing social networks to the foreground of software development practice brings a focus to its stakeholders, including developers, their managers, their support staff, QA analysts, requirement engineers, and even end users. Social networks include investigation of both the social organization of the work as well as the technical information infrastructures. The concept also helps explore the notion of network-centric organizations that are required to deal with socio-technical dependencies ? including handling the relations and connections between complex software code, systems and subsystems, requirement and specification documents, etc. The structure of the social organization often dictates the technical structure of the product, as stated in Conway?s Law, and is a topic of ongoing research. Researchers are investigating the interplay of complex interdependencies among technical artifacts and the people who create and maintain these artifacts. Others have examined the relationships between the stakeholders based on qualitative studies and have been developing software tools to support awareness and trust in global software development. As a last example, researchers have been studying the effects of companies moving from hierarchical to network-centric ways of organizing the work and looking to leverage expertise within companies. However, the roles and practices involved with social networks within software development as well as the technical challenges of social network technologies within software development are yet to be further explored. Thus, we seek submissions that employ the concept of social networks either in studying software development from an empirical approach or use the concept as a central basis for developing software tool support, or do both! We seek submissions that investigate how social network technologies are currently being enacted by software development practitioners, and how the technology-in-use practices emerges. Current research on social network in software engineering is spread across a diverse set of research subareas, and we want to bring in this diverse set of approaches into this special issue. We encourage authors to specifically discuss the definition and background of their particular use of social networks in their work, as well as how the concept was beneficial for exploring software development practices and/or how designing collaborative technologies for software development. *SCOPE & TOPICS OF INTEREST* Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Data mining for social networks in software repositories - Understanding software evolution from a social network perspective - Social network analysis for enhancing specific aspects of software engineering, such as bug prediction, expert recommendation, etc. - Tools for supporting researchers and practitioners in analyzing social networks in software projects and ecosystems - Socio-technical networks in software development - Enactment of social networks in software development - Communication practices in social networks in software development - Coordination practices and organization structure as they relate to social network - Information and knowledge sharing in social networks - Interactions between awareness, visualization, and social networks - The role of trust in software development as enacted in social networks - Social networks analysis in open source software projects and ecosystems - Large scale analysis of social networks in software ecosystems - Patterns and anti-patterns in social networks in software development - New requirements for supporting social network infrastructure, such as middleware, frameworks, and cloud computing environments - Technologies-in-use practices of social network within software development organizations *SUBMISSION* JISA is an international Open Access journal published by Springer. Several bases index the journal, such as SCOPUS, INSPEC, Academic OneFile, DBLP, DOAJ, EI-Compendex, OCLC, SCImago, and Summon by Serial Solutions. So far, JISA papers have had a relative high impact ( http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=1869-0238&tip=iss). JISA adopts the Open Access policy, allowing free access to the papers. Although the journal charges a fee to have a paper published in the open access model, we have *fee waivers* to assure that all quality articles will be published, regardless of the funding capacity of the authors. Please, enter in touch if you are interested in a fee waiver. Manuscripts are submitted online as described in http://www.jisajournal.com/manuscript. There is no minimum or maximum length imposed on papers, but a typical length is around 15 pages in the Springer template format. Reviewers will weigh the contribution of a paper relative to its length. Thus, papers should report research thoroughly but succinctly. There will be two independent cycles of submissions. The journal will publish the papers as soon as they are ready, thus the authors can choose in which one they want to participate. *- Deadline for submissions:* July 1 or October 1, 2014. *- Author?s notifications:* September 19 or December 8, 2014. *Questions?* If you have any questions about the suitability of your manuscript or any other query related to this call do not hesitate to contact the theme editors. *EDITORIAL COMMITTEE* (under formation) Akinori Ihara (NAIST, Japan) Alexander Boden (University of Siegen, Germany) Andrew Begel (Microsoft Research, USA) Christian Bird (Microsoft Research, USA) Claudia Werner (UFRJ, Brazil) Cleidson de Souza (ITV & UFPA, Brazil) Kari Kuutti (University of Oulu, Finland) Kate Ehrlich (IBM, USA) Kim Herzig (Microsoft Research, UK) Marcelo Cataldo (ConnReperio, LLC, USA) Myriam Lewkowicz (University of Technology of Troyes, France) Patrick Wagstrom (IBM Watson Group, USA) Sabrina Marczak (PUCRS, Brasil) Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University, USA) Yvonne Dittrich (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Due to the fact that many of these technologies operate on a global scale their use not only touches the countries where they originate (in many cases, the US), but individuals and groups around the globe. The recent revelations regarding the surveillance practices of the National Security Agency (NSA), USA, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), UK, (and undoubtedly others that we will hear about since writing this Call for Papers) have put state surveillance firmly back on the table. Here, too, the operations by agencies in one country affect individuals and groups around the globe. Indeed, the NSA is primarily tasked with intercepting and processing the communication of non-US citizens, within the US and abroad. Privacy and identity management issues have hence become global issues requiring the attention of multiple disciplines, both technical (computer science, cryptography) and non-technical (law, ethics, social sciences, philosophy) and the need to look beyond national borders. Regulators are trying to readjust the legal frameworks in which the information society operates, both in Europe (think of the data protection reform that should in 2014 culminate in the General Data Protection Regulation), the US (the Federal Trade Commission initiatives with respect to big data, Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights), and elsewhere. Leading Internet engineers have also agreed to upgrade standards to improve Internet privacy and security. Questions facing the research community include: How can individuals' privacy rights be achieved effectively in a globalising information society in which both states and private enterprises exhibit great data hunger? What technologies, frameworks and tools do we need to gain, regain and maintain informational self-determination and lifelong privacy? Do we have to advance the concepts of privacy and identity management in this evolving world? These questions and many others will be addressed by the IFIP Summer School 2014 on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation. The Summer School organisation will be a joint effort of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing, Working Groups 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6, Special Interest Group 9.2.2) and several European and national projects. The IFIP Summer School 2014 will bring together junior and senior researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss important questions concerning privacy and identity management and related issues in a global environment. We are especially inviting contributions from students who are at the stage of preparing either a master's or a PhD thesis. The school is interactive in character, and is composed of keynote lectures and workshops with master/PhD student presentations. The principle is to encourage young academic and industry entrants to the privacy and identity management world to share their own ideas, build up a collegial relationship with others, gain experience in making presentations, and potentially publish a paper through the resulting book proceedings. Students that actively participate, in particular those who present a paper, can receive a course certificate which awards 3 ECTS at the PhD level. The certificate can certify the topic of the contributed paper so as to demonstrate its relation (or non-relation) to the student's master's or PhD thesis. BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL The Summer School takes a holistic approach to society and technology and supports interdisciplinary exchange through keynote lectures, tutorials, workshops, and research paper presentations. In particular, participants' contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, social or societal, ethical, anthropological, philosophical, or psychological perspectives are welcome. The interdisciplinary character of the work is fundamental to the school. The research paper presentations and the workshops have a particular focus on involving students, and on encouraging the publication of high-quality, thorough research papers by students/young researchers. To this end, the school has a two-phase review process for submitted papers. In the first phase submitted papers (short versions) are reviewed and selected for presentation at the school. After the school, these papers can be revised (so that they can profit from their discussion at the school) and are then reviewed again for selection into the school's proceedings which will be published by Springer. Of course, submissions by senior researchers and European, national, or regional/community research projects are also very welcome. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are honored to have the following individuals presenting keynotes. * Caspar Bowden, Independent Privacy Advocate * Kim Cameron, Microsoft * Daniele Catteddu, Cloud Security Alliance * Zoi Kolitsi, eHGI * George Metakides, University of Patras * Joachim Meyer, Tel Aviv University * Gregory Neven, IBM Research - Zurich * Christine O'Keefe, CSIRO * Bart Preneel, KU Leuven * Nadya Purtova, Tilburg University * Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt * Aimee van Wynsberghe, University of Twente CONTRIBUTIONS The school seeks contributions in the form of research papers, tutorials, and workshop proposals from all disciplines (e.g., computer science, economics, ethics, law, psychology, sociology and other social sciences). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * data breaches and cybercrime, * data retention and law enforcement, * impact of legislative or regulatory initiatives on privacy, * impact of technology on social exclusion/digital divide/social and cultural aspects, * privacy and identity management (services, technologies, infrastructures, usability aspects, legal and socio-economic aspects), * privacy by design and privacy by default, * privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), * privacy issues and PETs relating to eIDs, social networks, crowdsourcing, big data analysis biometrics, and cloud computing, social computing, * privacy standardisation, * profiling and tracking technologies, * semantic web security and privacy, * social accountability and ethics, * surveillance and privacy and identity management, * surveillance and sensor networks, * transparency-enhancing technologies (TETs), * trust management and reputation systems. _Research papers_ are expected to contribute towards application scenarios, use cases, and good practices; research with an empirical focus; and interdisciplinary work. They will be selected by the Summer School Programme Committee based on the review of an extended abstract (2,000-3,000 words). Submissions should contain a concise problem statement, an outline, and clear messages (they should not be about work "to be done"). Accepted short versions of papers will be made available to all participants in the Summer School Pre-Proceedings. After the Summer School, authors will have the opportunity to submit their final full papers (in Springer LNCS format) of 8-16 pages in length (and will address those questions and aspects raised during the Summer School) for publication in the Summer School Proceedings published by the official IFIP publisher (Springer). The papers to be included in the Final Proceedings will again be reviewed and selected by the Summer School Programme Committee. Students are expected to try to publish their work through this volume. _Tutorials_ are expected to last one or two hours. Proposals should contain a short summary and state the level and background required for attendees to follow the tutorial. _Workshops_ are expected to last one or two hours and must produce short papers summarising the outcome for inclusion in the proceedings. Proposals should contain a short statement summarising the topic(s) to be discussed and the expected contributions of the audience. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD At the IFIP Summer School, a Best Student Paper Award will be selected and handed out. Papers written solely or primarily by students and presented by a student at the Summer School are eligible for the award. If the paper is co-authored by senior researchers, the authors have to state that the main work and contributions can be clearly attributed to the student authors. The award will be selected based on the quality of the paper and of the oral presentation. SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be made in PDF format using the Easychair [7] system. IMPORTANT DATES AND OTHER INFORMATION Extended abstracts or short papers (> 2,000 words in Springer LNCS format, PDF) 25 May 2014 Notification of acceptance: 6 June 2014 Short paper (up to 8 pages) for pre-proceedings: 1 August 2014 Final paper: 28 November 2014 Notification of acceptance of the final paper: 30 January 2015 General Chair: Marit Hansen PC Co-Chairs: Jan Camenisch, Simone Fischer-H?bner, Ronald Leenes Organising Committee Chair: Yannis Stamatiou Summer School Website: http://ifip2014.cti.gr [8]/ -- ------------------------- on _Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation_ Links: ------ [1] http://ifip2014.cti.gr/ [2] https://abc4trust.eu/ [3] http://www.a4cloud.eu/ [4] http://www.futureid.eu/ [5] http://prismsproject.eu/ [6] http://au2eu.eu/ [7] https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifipsummerschool2014 [8] http://ifip2014.cti.gr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Due to the fact that many of these technologies operate on a global scale their use not only touches the countries where they originate (in many cases, the US), but individuals and groups around the globe. The recent revelations regarding the surveillance practices of the National Security Agency (NSA), USA, and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), UK, (and undoubtedly others that we will hear about since writing this Call for Papers) have put state surveillance firmly back on the table. Here, too, the operations by agencies in one country affect individuals and groups around the globe. Indeed, the NSA is primarily tasked with intercepting and processing the communication of non-US citizens, within the US and abroad. Privacy and identity management issues have hence become global issues requiring the attention of multiple disciplines, both technical (computer science, cryptography) and non-technical (law, ethics, social sciences, philosophy) and the need to look beyond national borders. Regulators are trying to readjust the legal frameworks in which the information society operates, both in Europe (think of the data protection reform that should in 2014 culminate in the General Data Protection Regulation), the US (the Federal Trade Commission initiatives with respect to big data, Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights), and elsewhere. Leading Internet engineers have also agreed to upgrade standards to improve Internet privacy and security. Questions facing the research community include: How can individuals' privacy rights be achieved effectively in a globalising information society in which both states and private enterprises exhibit great data hunger? What technologies, frameworks and tools do we need to gain, regain and maintain informational self-determination and lifelong privacy? Do we have to advance the concepts of privacy and identity management in this evolving world? These questions and many others will be addressed by the IFIP Summer School 2014 on Privacy and Identity Management for the Future Internet in the Age of Globalisation. The Summer School organisation will be a joint effort of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing, Working Groups 9.2, 9.5, 9.6/11.7, 11.4, 11.6, Special Interest Group 9.2.2) and several European and national projects. The IFIP Summer School 2014 will bring together junior and senior researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to discuss important questions concerning privacy and identity management and related issues in a global environment. We are especially inviting contributions from students who are at the stage of preparing either a master's or a PhD thesis. The school is interactive in character, and is composed of keynote lectures and workshops with master/PhD student presentations. The principle is to encourage young academic and industry entrants to the privacy and identity management world to share their own ideas, build up a collegial relationship with others, gain experience in making presentations, and potentially publish a paper through the resulting book proceedings. Students that actively participate, in particular those who present a paper, can receive a course certificate which awards 3 ECTS at the PhD level. The certificate can certify the topic of the contributed paper so as to demonstrate its relation (or non-relation) to the student's master's or PhD thesis. BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE SUMMER SCHOOL The Summer School takes a holistic approach to society and technology and supports interdisciplinary exchange through keynote lectures, tutorials, workshops, and research paper presentations. In particular, participants' contributions that combine technical, legal, regulatory, socio-economic, social or societal, ethical, anthropological, philosophical, or psychological perspectives are welcome. The interdisciplinary character of the work is fundamental to the school. The research paper presentations and the workshops have a particular focus on involving students, and on encouraging the publication of high-quality, thorough research papers by students/young researchers. To this end, the school has a two-phase review process for submitted papers. In the first phase submitted papers (short versions) are reviewed and selected for presentation at the school. After the school, these papers can be revised (so that they can profit from their discussion at the school) and are then reviewed again for selection into the school's proceedings which will be published by Springer. Of course, submissions by senior researchers and European, national, or regional/community research projects are also very welcome. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS We are honored to have the following individuals presenting keynotes. * Caspar Bowden, Independent Privacy Advocate * Kim Cameron, Microsoft * Daniele Catteddu, Cloud Security Alliance * Zoi Kolitsi, eHGI * George Metakides, University of Patras * Joachim Meyer, Tel Aviv University * Gregory Neven, IBM Research - Zurich * Christine O'Keefe, CSIRO * Bart Preneel, KU Leuven * Nadya Purtova, Tilburg University * Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University Frankfurt * Aimee van Wynsberghe, University of Twente CONTRIBUTIONS The school seeks contributions in the form of research papers, tutorials, and workshop proposals from all disciplines (e.g., computer science, economics, ethics, law, psychology, sociology and other social sciences). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * data breaches and cybercrime, * data retention and law enforcement, * impact of legislative or regulatory initiatives on privacy, * impact of technology on social exclusion/digital divide/social and cultural aspects, * privacy and identity management (services, technologies, infrastructures, usability aspects, legal and socio-economic aspects), * privacy by design and privacy by default, * privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), * privacy issues and PETs relating to eIDs, social networks, crowdsourcing, big data analysis biometrics, and cloud computing, social computing, * privacy standardisation, * profiling and tracking technologies, * semantic web security and privacy, * social accountability and ethics, * surveillance and privacy and identity management, * surveillance and sensor networks, * transparency-enhancing technologies (TETs), * trust management and reputation systems. _Research papers_ are expected to contribute towards application scenarios, use cases, and good practices; research with an empirical focus; and interdisciplinary work. They will be selected by the Summer School Programme Committee based on the review of an extended abstract (2,000-3,000 words). Submissions should contain a concise problem statement, an outline, and clear messages (they should not be about work "to be done"). Accepted short versions of papers will be made available to all participants in the Summer School Pre-Proceedings. After the Summer School, authors will have the opportunity to submit their final full papers (in Springer LNCS format) of 8-16 pages in length (and will address those questions and aspects raised during the Summer School) for publication in the Summer School Proceedings published by the official IFIP publisher (Springer). The papers to be included in the Final Proceedings will again be reviewed and selected by the Summer School Programme Committee. Students are expected to try to publish their work through this volume. _Tutorials_ are expected to last one or two hours. Proposals should contain a short summary and state the level and background required for attendees to follow the tutorial. _Workshops_ are expected to last one or two hours and must produce short papers summarising the outcome for inclusion in the proceedings. Proposals should contain a short statement summarising the topic(s) to be discussed and the expected contributions of the audience. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD At the IFIP Summer School, a Best Student Paper Award will be selected and handed out. Papers written solely or primarily by students and presented by a student at the Summer School are eligible for the award. If the paper is co-authored by senior researchers, the authors have to state that the main work and contributions can be clearly attributed to the student authors. The award will be selected based on the quality of the paper and of the oral presentation. SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be made in PDF format using the Easychair [7] system. 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Name: IFIP_2014_School_CFP.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 328201 bytes Desc: not available URL: From joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu Fri May 9 11:26:44 2014 From: joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu (Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro) Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 11:26:44 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Extended, May 18 (2014), PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES (PSD) 2014, LNCS proceedings, Eivissa, Balearic Islands, September 2014 In-Reply-To: <536C9F3F.4040707@telecom-sudparis.eu> References: <536C9F3F.4040707@telecom-sudparis.eu> Message-ID: <536C9F54.50808@telecom-sudparis.eu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2014 (PSD 2014) ================================================ FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ***DEADLINE EXTENSION MAY 18, 2014*** Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Sep. 17-19, 2014 http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014 1. AIMS AND GOALS ----------------- Privacy in statistical databases is about finding tradeoffs to the tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents providing the statistical data. In the case of statistical databases, the motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival: statistical agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel the privacy of their responses is guaranteed. Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or gathering the data, who would not like to share the data they have collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay private). "Privacy in Statistical Databases 2014" (PSD 2014) is a conference sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy (http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) with proceedings published by Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Its purpose is to attract world-wide, high-level research in statistical database privacy. PSD 2014 is a successor to PSD 2012 (Palermo, Sep. 26-28, 2012, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2012), PSD 2010 (Corfu, Sep. 22-24, 2010, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2010), PSD 2008 (Istanbul, Sep. 24-26, 2008, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008), PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec. 13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004 (Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), all with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 7556, LNCS 6344, LNCS 5262, LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those six PSD conferences follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in 1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with proceedings published in Springer LNCS 2316. Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2014 originates in Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome. 2. ORGANIZATION --------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Abowd (Cornell University, USA) Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA) Aleksandra Bujnowska (EUROSTAT, European Union) Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia) Lawrence Cox (NISS, USA) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Joerg Drechsler (IAB, Germany) Khaled El Emam (University of Ottawa, Canada) Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK) Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy) Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany) Julia Hoeninger (Statistik Berlin, Germany) Lloren? Huguet (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic Islands) Anco Hundepool (The Netherlands) Alan Karr (NISS, USA) Julia Lane (American Institutes for Research, USA) Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA) Josep M. Mateo-Sanz (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA) Krish Muralidhar (University of Kentucky, USA) Anna Oganian (National Center for Health Statistics, USA) Christine O'Keefe (CSIRO, Australia) Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel) Gerd Ronning (University of Tuebingen, Germany) Juan Jose Salazar (University of La Laguna, Spain) Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy) David Sanchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands) Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester, UK) Michelle Simard (Statistics Canada) Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State University, USA) Jordi Soria-Comas (TSS, Catalonia) Tamir Tassa (The Open University, Israel) Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia) Vassilios Verykios (Hellenic Open University, Greece) William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA) Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands) Laura Zayatz (Census Bureau, USA) PROGRAM AND GENERAL CHAIR Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France) Sara Hajian (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Jesus Manjon (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Tamar Molina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia) Marilina Tur (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic Islands) 3. TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - New SDC methods for tabular data - New SDC methods for microdata (including non-conventional microdata types such as trajectories, graphics, etc.) - Best SDC practices for tabular data - Best SDC practices for microdata - Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC - Differential privacy - SDC transparency issues - Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software - Estimating disclosure risk in SDC - Record linkage methods - Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad - Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic) - Private information retrieval - Privacy in web-based e-commerce - Privacy in healthcare - Privacy in official and corporate statistics - Other data anonymization issues 4. SUBMISSIONS -------------- Full papers containing either original technical contributions or high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are sought. A submission should be clearly marked either as an original paper or a survey. Submissions should contain a cover letter indicating: 1) whether the submission is a survey or an original contribution; 2) the title of the submission; 3) keywords classifying the paper topic; 4) the names and affiliations of authors; 5) the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the contact author. Easychair submission link of PSD 2014: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psd2014 Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the LaTeX2e style or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same page above. We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their submissions. LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS. Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most 12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. 5. PROCEEDINGS -------------- Among PSD 2014 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This follows the tradition of PSD 2012 (LNCS 7556), PSD 2010 (LNCS 6344), PSD 2008 (LNCS 5262), PSD 2006 (LNCS 4302), PSD 2004 (LNCS 3050) and the AMRADS Workshop on SDC (LNCS 2316). The remaining accepted papers will be published in a CD with an ISBN. It is possible to submit a paper directly for the CD, which benefits from a later submission deadline (see CD-only dates below). The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be *available at the conference*. 5. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------ Submission deadline extended to: **MAY 18, 2014** Acceptance notification: June 20, 2014 Proceedings version due: July 3, 2014 Conference: Sep. 17-19, 2014 CD-only submission deadline: July 5, 2014 CD-only acceptance notification: July 24, 2014 CD-only proceedings version due: Aug. 3, 2014 6. VENUE AND TRAVEL ------------------- The conference will take place in downtown Eivissa-city, in the Balearic island of Eivissa. The venue will be the building owned by the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Eivissa-city. Address: Antic edifici de la Comandancia Militar Carrer del Calvari, 1 E-07800 Eivissa http://www.uib.cat/lauib/localitzacio/Seu-dEivissa-i-Formentera/ http://www.uib.cat/lauib/Estructura/Seus-universitaries/saee/instal/ Further venue, travel and accommodation information will be posted in due course at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014 A number of travel grants are made available by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition countries. Information on grants is posted in the conference web site. 7. REGISTRATION --------------- Registration information will be posted no later than June 2014 at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014 From alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk Fri May 9 23:58:56 2014 From: alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk (Alexander Romanovsky) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 21:58:56 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: SERENE 2014 - Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies.] ******************************************************************* Call for Papers SERENE 2014 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems October 15-16, 2014, Budapest, Hungary http://serene.disim.univaq.it/ ***** Important dates ***** - Submission due: June 2, 2014 - Notification: July 8, 2014 - Camera ready papers: July 22, 2014 - Autumn school: October 13-14, 2014 - Workshop: October 15-16, 2014 ***** Workshop topics ***** Unprecedented level of complexity of modern software and software-based systems makes it difficult to ensure their resilience - an ability of the system to persistently deliver its services in a dependable way even when facing changes, unforeseen failures and intrusions. Yet we are observing the increasingly pervasive use of software in evolvable and critical systems like transportation, health care, manufacturing, and IT infrastructures. This trend urges the research community to develop powerful methods for assuring resilience of software-intensive systems. These challenges has also appeared in the scope of the current Horizon 2020 calls that aim at developing tools and methods for incorporating resilience into evolving software systems; and also in calls related to specific application areas like advanced cloud infrastructures and services, smart objects, and robotics. The SERENE 2014 workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas on advances in all areas relevant to software engineering for resilient systems, including, but not limited to: Design of resilient systems: - Requirements engineering & re-engineering for resilience; - Frameworks, patterns and software architectures for resilience; - Engineering of self-healing autonomic systems; - Design of trustworthy and intrusion-safe systems; - Resilience at run-time (mechanisms, reasoning and adaptation). Verification, validation and evaluation of resilience: - Modelling and model based analysis of resilience properties; - Formal and semi-formal techniques for verification and validation; - Experimental evaluations of resilient systems; - Quantitative approaches to ensuring resilience; - Resilience prediction. Case studies & applications: - Empirical studies in the domain of resilient systems; - Cloud computing and resilient service provisioning; - Resilient cyber-physical systems and infrastructures; - Global aspects of resilience engineering: education, training and cooperation. ***** Contributions ***** We welcome relevant contributions in the following forms: - Technical papers describing original theoretical or practical work; - Experience/Industry papers describing practitioner experience or field study, addressing an application domain and the lessons learned; - PhD Forum papers describing objectives, methodology, and results at an early stage in research; - Project papers describing goals and results of ongoing projects; - Tool papers presenting new tools or new versions of existing tools that support the development of resilient systems. ***** Submission ***** Papers can be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serene2014 Each paper must be submitted in PDF and - be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 - be no longer than 15 pages for technical and experience/industry papers, and 8 pages for all others. Submitted papers must describe novel work and not be published elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed and assessed for relevance to the workshop topics, technical soundness, innovation, scientific and presentation quality. Accepted papers must be presented by (one of) the author(s). The Proceedings of SERENE 2014 will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pending approval). ***** Committees ***** Steering Committee: - Didier Buchs, U. of Geneva, Switzerland - Henry Muccini, U. of L'Aquila, Italy - Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers U. of Technology and U. of Gothenburg, Sweden - Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle U., UK - Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi U., Finland General Chair: - Andras Pataricza, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Program Chairs: - Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Program Committee: - Paris Avgeriou, U. Groningen, The Netherlands - Didier Buchs, U. Geneva, Switzerland - Andrea Ceccarelli, U. Firenze, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, U. Antwerp, The Netherlands - Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France - Felicita Di Giandomenico, CNR-ISTI, Italy - Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, U. Geneva, Switzerland - Holger Giese, U. Potsdam, Germany - Nicolas Guelfi, U. Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kaustubh Joshi, AT&T, USA - Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France - Vyacheslav Kharchenko, National Aerospace U., Ukraine - Zsolt Kocsis, IBM, Hungary - Nuno Laranjeiro, U. Coimbra, Portugal - Paolo Masci, Queen Mary U., UK - Henry Muccini, U. L'Aquila, Italy - Sadaf Mustafiz, McGill U., Canada - Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers U. of Technology and U. Gothenburg, Sweden - Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle U., UK - Juan Carlos Ruiz, Technical U. of Valencia, Spain - Stefano Russo, U. Naples Federico II, Italy - Peter Schneider-Kamp, U. Southern Denmark, Denmark - Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi U., Finland - Katinka Wolter, Freie U. Berlin, Germany - Apostolos Zarras, U. Ioannina, Greece Publicity Chair: - Zoltan Micskei, BUTE, Hungary Web: - Zoltan Ujhelyi, BUTE, Hungary Finance & Admin: - Judit Spanics, BUTE, Hungary - Nikol Biro, BUTE, Hungary From alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk Fri May 9 23:53:50 2014 From: alexander.romanovsky at newcastle.ac.uk (Alexander Romanovsky) Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 21:53:50 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: SERENE 2014 - Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems Message-ID: [We apologize for multiple copies.] ******************************************************************* Call for Papers SERENE 2014 6th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems October 15-16, 2014, Budapest, Hungary http://serene.disim.univaq.it/ ***** Important dates ***** - Submission due: June 2, 2014 - Notification: July 8, 2014 - Camera ready papers: July 22, 2014 - Autumn school: October 13-14, 2014 - Workshop: October 15-16, 2014 ***** Workshop topics ***** Unprecedented level of complexity of modern software and software-based systems makes it difficult to ensure their resilience - an ability of the system to persistently deliver its services in a dependable way even when facing changes, unforeseen failures and intrusions. Yet we are observing the increasingly pervasive use of software in evolvable and critical systems like transportation, health care, manufacturing, and IT infrastructures. This trend urges the research community to develop powerful methods for assuring resilience of software-intensive systems. These challenges has also appeared in the scope of the current Horizon 2020 calls that aim at developing tools and methods for incorporating resilience into evolving software systems; and also in calls related to specific application areas like advanced cloud infrastructures and services, smart objects, and robotics. The SERENE 2014 workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas on advances in all areas relevant to software engineering for resilient systems, including, but not limited to: Design of resilient systems: - Requirements engineering & re-engineering for resilience; - Frameworks, patterns and software architectures for resilience; - Engineering of self-healing autonomic systems; - Design of trustworthy and intrusion-safe systems; - Resilience at run-time (mechanisms, reasoning and adaptation). Verification, validation and evaluation of resilience: - Modelling and model based analysis of resilience properties; - Formal and semi-formal techniques for verification and validation; - Experimental evaluations of resilient systems; - Quantitative approaches to ensuring resilience; - Resilience prediction. Case studies & applications: - Empirical studies in the domain of resilient systems; - Cloud computing and resilient service provisioning; - Resilient cyber-physical systems and infrastructures; - Global aspects of resilience engineering: education, training and cooperation. ***** Contributions ***** We welcome relevant contributions in the following forms: - Technical papers describing original theoretical or practical work; - Experience/Industry papers describing practitioner experience or field study, addressing an application domain and the lessons learned; - PhD Forum papers describing objectives, methodology, and results at an early stage in research; - Project papers describing goals and results of ongoing projects; - Tool papers presenting new tools or new versions of existing tools that support the development of resilient systems. ***** Submission ***** Papers can be submitted via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=serene2014 Each paper must be submitted in PDF and - be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 - be no longer than 15 pages for technical and experience/industry papers, and 8 pages for all others. Submitted papers must describe novel work and not be published elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed and assessed for relevance to the workshop topics, technical soundness, innovation, scientific and presentation quality. Accepted papers must be presented by (one of) the author(s). The Proceedings of SERENE 2014 will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pending approval). ***** Committees ***** Steering Committee: - Didier Buchs, U. of Geneva, Switzerland - Henry Muccini, U. of L'Aquila, Italy - Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers U. of Technology and U. of Gothenburg, Sweden - Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle U., UK - Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi U., Finland General Chair: - Andras Pataricza, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Program Chairs: - Istvan Majzik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Marco Vieira, University of Coimbra, Portugal Program Committee: - Paris Avgeriou, U. Groningen, The Netherlands - Didier Buchs, U. Geneva, Switzerland - Andrea Ceccarelli, U. Firenze, Italy - Vincenzo De Florio, U. Antwerp, The Netherlands - Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France - Felicita Di Giandomenico, CNR-ISTI, Italy - Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, U. Geneva, Switzerland - Holger Giese, U. Potsdam, Germany - Nicolas Guelfi, U. Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Kaustubh Joshi, AT&T, USA - Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, France - Vyacheslav Kharchenko, National Aerospace U., Ukraine - Zsolt Kocsis, IBM, Hungary - Nuno Laranjeiro, U. Coimbra, Portugal - Paolo Masci, Queen Mary U., UK - Henry Muccini, U. L'Aquila, Italy - Sadaf Mustafiz, McGill U., Canada - Patrizio Pelliccione, Chalmers U. of Technology and U. Gothenburg, Sweden - Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle U., UK - Juan Carlos Ruiz, Technical U. of Valencia, Spain - Stefano Russo, U. Naples Federico II, Italy - Peter Schneider-Kamp, U. Southern Denmark, Denmark - Elena Troubitsyna, Abo Akademi U., Finland - Katinka Wolter, Freie U. Berlin, Germany - Apostolos Zarras, U. Ioannina, Greece Publicity Chair: - Zoltan Micskei, BUTE, Hungary Web: - Zoltan Ujhelyi, BUTE, Hungary Finance & Admin: - Judit Spanics, BUTE, Hungary - Nikol Biro, BUTE, Hungary From yuzhiy at gmail.com Sat May 10 02:56:26 2014 From: yuzhiy at gmail.com (Zhiyong Yu) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 08:56:26 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP, UIC 2014, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing Message-ID: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC 2014) - Building Smart Worlds in Real and Cyber Spaces- http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2014/ December 9-12, 2014, Ayodya Resort, Bali, Indonesia Co-located with ATC-2014 and ScalCom-2014 Ubiquitous sensors, devices, networks and information are paving the way towards a smart world in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide reliable and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous intelligence will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed and the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By enhancing everyday objects with intelligence, many tasks and processes could be simplified, the physical spaces where people interact like the workplaces and homes, could become more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous computing, or pervasive computing, uses these many "smart things or u-things" to create smart environments, services and applications. A smart thing can be endowed with different levels of intelligence, and may be context-aware, active, interactive, reactive, proactive, assistive, adaptive, automated, sentient, perceptual, cognitive, autonomic and/or thinking. Research on ubiquitous intelligence is an emerging research field covering many disciplines. A series of grand challenges exist to move from the current level of computing services to the smart world of adaptive and intelligent services. Started in 2005, the series of UIC conferences has been held in Taipei, Nagasaki, Three Gorges (China), Hong Kong, Oslo, Brisbane, Xi'an, Banff, Fukuoka, and Vietri sul Mare, Italy. UIC 2014 will include a highly selective program of technical papers, accompanied by workshops, panel discussions and keynote speeches. Established as a premier venue in the area of ubiquitous intelligence and computing, UIC 2014 will offer a forum for researchers to exchange ideas and experiences in developing intelligent/smart objects, environments and systems. ------------- Topics ------------- The UIC 2014 topics include but are not limited to the following: 1. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Objects * Electronic Labels, Cards, E-Tags and RFID * Embedded Chips, Sensors & Actuators * MEMS, NEMS, Micro & Biometric Devices * Smart Appliances and Wearable Devices * Material, Textile, Cloth, Furniture, etc. * Embedded Software and Agents * Interaction to Smart Objects/Devices * Smart Object OS and Programming 2. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Systems * Sensor, Ad Hoc & P2P Networks, SDN * Knowledge Representation and Ontology * Wearable, Personal and Body Area Systems * Programming models and methodologies * Intelligent Services and Architectures * Agents, Swarm and Context-aware Systems * Nature-inspired Intelligent Systems * Big Data Mining, Analytics & Applications 3. Ubiquitous Intelligent/Smart Environnements * Urban Computing and Smart City * Smart Home, Office, Laboratory, and Shop * Intelligent Traffic & Transportation * Intelligent Energy Consumption * Intelligent Environmental Protection * Smart Healthcare and Education * Pervasive Games and Entertainment * Smart Public Safety and Security 4. Personal/Social/Physical Aspects * Location-Based Social Networks * Social Networking and Computing * Human Mobility Modeling and Mining * Real/Cyber World Modeling and Semantics * User/Object Identity and Activity Recognition * Smart Recommendation Systems * Security, Privacy, Safety and Legal Issues * Emotional, Ethical and Psychological Factors ---------------- Important Dates ---------------- Paper Submission Deadline: Jul. 31, 2014 Authors Notification: Sep. 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: Oct. 20, 2014 ---------- Workshops ---------- The UIC 2014 Organizing Committee invites proposals for workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. Accepted workshop papers will be included in the proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Workshop proposals guidelines, submission deadline among other information can be downloaded from: http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2014/workshop.php ----------------- Paper Submission ----------------- Main conference papers need to be prepared according to the IEEE CPS format, 8 pages, and submitted in PDF format via the UIC 2014 submission web site: http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2014/sub/ ------------------ Paper Publication ------------------ Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers, after further extensions and revisions, will be published in special issues of prestigious journals (IJCS, IF=0.226; JIT, IF=0.448, JSA, IF=0.667). ------------- Organization ------------- Honorary Chairs Dadang Hermawan, STIKOM Bali, Indonesia Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China General Chairs Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical Univ., China Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Kenji Mase, Nagoya University, Japan Executive Chairs Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Japan Abdul Hanan Abdullah, UTM, Malaysia Program Chairs Yu Zheng, Microsoft Research, China Takahiro Hara, Osaka University, Japan Gregor Schiele, DERI, Ireland Program Vice Chairs Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Daniele Quercia, University of Cambridge, UK Chiu C. Tan, Temple University, USA Workshop Chairs Mike Chieh-Jan Liang, Microsoft Research, China Yuqing Sun, Shandong University, China Demo Chairs Sozo Inoue, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Publicity Chairs Zhiyong Yu, Fuzhou University, China Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Intl. Islamic Univ. Malaysia Konstantinos Pelechrinis, University of Pittsburgh, USA Armin Lawi, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia Panel Chairs Robert C. Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Sung-Bae Cho, Yonsei University, Korea Award Chairs Frode Eika Sandnes, Oslo University College, Norway Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan International Liaison Chairs Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei Univ. of Tech., Taiwan Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University, Japan Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven Univ. of Tech., Netherlands Industrial Liaison Chairs Gang Pan, Zhejiang University, China Web Chair Sazzad Hussain, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Local Arrangement Chairs I Made Sarjana, STIKOM Bali, Indonesia Ni Ketut Dewi Ari Jayanti, STIKOM Bali, Indonesia Advisory Committee Stephen S. Yau (Chair), Arizona State University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Second Univ. of Naples, Italy Ahhwee Tan, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore Chung-Ming Huang, National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Sci. & Tech., China Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Hong Kong Max Muehlhaeuser, Darmstadt Univ. of Tech., Germany Mohan Kumar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Yuanchun Shi, Tsinghua University, China Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Steering Committee Jianhua Ma (Chair), Hosei University, Japan Laurence Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier Univ, Canada Sumi Helal, University of Florida, USA Daqing Zhang, Institut Telecom SudParis, France Jadwiga Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Germany Program Committee http://cse.stfx.ca/~uic2014/pro-committees.php Best regards, Zhiyong Yu (UIC 2014 Publicity Co-chair) College of Mathematics and Computer Science, Fuzhou University No. 2 Xueyuan Road, University Town, Fuzhou 350108, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott_fowler at ymail.com Sun May 11 15:33:51 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 14:33:51 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE HealthCom 2014 (Due May 12) In-Reply-To: <1399389549.7709.YahooMailBasic@web133101.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1399815231.32245.YahooMailBasic@web133106.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE HealthCom 2014 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit their original contributions covering completed or ongoing work related to the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to ? Electronic health records, ePrescribing, Consumer health informatics, Health knowledge management and Healthcare Information Systems ? Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine ? Biomedical and biosensors engineering ? Body sensor/actuators networks and wearable sensor systems ? eHealth information and network Infrastructure ? eHealth for public health (including disease prevention, emergency preparedness, epidemiologic interventions) ? eHealth for aging (to support quality of life for older adults, aging in place and independence) ? Emerging eHealth applications (Health grid and health cloud) ? Context-awareness on eHealth ? Serious Games on eHealth ? Sustainable eHealth service and applications ? Health monitoring, traffic characterization, & management ? ICT-enabled personal health system ? Image and video processing on eHealth ? Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for Healthcare (including DTNs, WMNs, WSNs) ? New IT-enhanced Models for Healthcare delivery ? Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth ? E-Health services in smart environments (smart homes, smart medical institutions, smart cities) ? Practical Applications of e-Health ? Security and privacy on eHealth ? Storage and Display Devices for eHealth ? Quality of Experience (QoE) with e-health applications, services and network technologies CONFERENCE VENUE Praiamar Natal Hotel & Convention (http://www.praiamarnatal.com.br), Ponta Negra, Natal-RN, Brazil IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper Submission: May 12, 2014 ? Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2014 ? Submission of camera-ready papers: August 31, 2014 IMPORTANT IEEE POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT The IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference (including its removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented. Note: To be published in the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE /Xplore?/, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference unless the TPC Chair grants permission for a substitute presenter arranged in advance of the event and who is qualified both to present and answer questions. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 3 papers. Papers will be published in the IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE /Xplore?/. From scott_fowler at ymail.com Sun May 11 16:28:52 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:28:52 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE SpaIoT 2014 Message-ID: <1399818532.81220.YahooMailNeo@web133102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Apologies if you received multiple copies of this IEEE SpaIoT 2014 CFPs (Paper Submission Deadline: June 10, 2014) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Internet of Things (SpaIoT 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaIoT2014/ In Conjunction with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/ Introduction With the extensive research and development of computer, communication and control technologies, it is possible to connect all things to the Internet such that the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) can be formed. These things may be equipped with devices such as sensors, actuators, and RFID tags, in order to allow people and things to be connected anytime and anywhere, with anything and anyone. IoT will enable collaborations and communications among people and things, and among things themselves, which expand the current Internet and will radically change our personal, corporate, and community environments. When more and more things connect to the Internet, security and privacy issues become more s erious, especially in the case that these things are equipped with actuators and can support control. For the better protection of secure communication and user privacy, including location, identity and behavior habits, it is necessary to develop anonymous communication theories, methods and key technologies of anonymous communication systems in all varieties of application environments. Anonymous communication is used to hide communication participants or communication relations so as to achieve effective protection for network nodes and user identities. Anonymous communication can address potential network security issues, and becomes one of the hot topics in the field of network and information security. ? Scope and Interests SpaIoT 2014 aims at providing a forum for discussing the latest academic and industrial research results in all aspects of security and privacy in IoT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) Security, privacy architectures for IoT (2) Security, privacy platforms for IoT (3) Security, privacy applications for IoT (4) Architecture for anonymous communication system (5) Resilience to external and internal attacks in IoT (6) Anonymity measures and evaluation (7) Anonymous communication in IoT (8) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (9) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (10) Anonymous browsing system ? Submission and Publication Information All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the symposium website. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with the over length charge). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and award one "Best Paper Award" for this symposium. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. ? Important Dates (1)? Submission Deadline:???????????? 10 June, 2014 (2)? Authors Notification:??????????? 10 July, 2014 (3)? Final Manuscript Due:??????????? 30 July, 2014 (4)? Registration Due:??????????????? 30 July, 2014 (5)? Conference Dates:??????????????? 24-26 September, 2014? Steering Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain General Co-Chairs Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of Valencia, Spain Program Co-Chairs Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT),Japan Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Afrand Agah, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Sachin Kumar Agrawal, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland Rui L. Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal Reaz Ahmed, University of Waterloo, Canada Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA Mehran Asadi, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, USA Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna , Spain Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT / TELECOM Bretagne Yao Guo, Peking University, China Ying Guo, Central South University, China Bidyut Gupta, Southern Illinois University, USA Hsiang-Cheh Huang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Youssef Iraqi, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, The United Arab Emirat Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, French Mirka Miller, The University of Newcastle, Australia Juan Pedro Munoz-Gea, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Renita Murimi, Oklahoma Baptist University, USA Hebert Perez-Roses, Open University Barcelona, Spain Pedro Peris-Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Altair Olivo Santin, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Gang Tan, Lehigh University, USA Qiang Tang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Bin Wang, Central South University, China Lanier A. Watkins, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Congxu Zhu, Central South University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Central South University, China Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA?? Webmaster Yuxin Ye, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE SpaIoT 2014 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the symposium organizers: SpaIoT2014 AT gmail DOT com Copyright @ Trusted Computing Institute, CSU http://trust.csu.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From scott_fowler at ymail.com Sun May 11 16:44:44 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 15:44:44 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE UbiSafe 2014 Message-ID: <1399819484.43125.YahooMailNeo@web133105.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Apologies if you received multiple copies of this IEEE UbiSafe 2014 CFPs (Paper Submission Deadline: June 10, 2014) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 6th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing (UbiSafe 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/UbiSafe2014/ In Conjunction with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/ Introduction Computers are now available anytime, anywhere, by different means, and distributed unobtrusively throughout everyday environments in which physical objects/artifacts embedded with invisible computers are sensible and networked locally and globally. Such "any" computers open tremendous opportunities to provide numerous novel services/applications in both real world and cyber spaces, and exist ubiquitously in our daily life, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, medicine, etc. Although it is yet unclear what exactly the real-cyber integrated worlds would be, there is no doubt that they must be safe. The 6th IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (UbiSafe 2014) will be held in conjunction with "The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2014)". It follows the success of UbiSafe-13 in Melbourne, Australia. It aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on theories and technologies for ubiquitous artifacts to function safely for different purposes; for ubiquitous systems to work safely in various situations; and for ubiquitous environments to behave safely with all people. ? Scope and Interests IEEE UbiSafe 2014 is an international symposium for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in aspects of UbiSafe computing, but are not limited to: (1) Fundamentals UbiSafe concepts, definitions, basic elements, models, frameworks and methodologies, human-centric paradigms, multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary/trans-disciplinary approaches, semantics, ontologies, UbiSafe requirements and formal specifications and validations, information assurance, etc. (2) Technologies Security and privacy protection, reliability and fault tolerance, risk analysis, uncertainty and exception handling, socially intelligent agents, intuitive/natural user interface, interaction design, context-awareness, intelligent computing, service-oriented computing, hardware, software, middleware, etc. (3) Systems Embedded systems, wearable systems, augmented systems, context-based systems, communication systems, safety-critical systems, survivable systems, persistent systems, autonomous/autonomic systems, proactive systems, network infrastructure, sensor networks, etc. (4) Applications Smart objects, smart environments, information appliance and artifacts, everyday gadgets, robots, safety care, healthcare, medical care and services, working, learning, traveling, entertainment, case studies, etc. (5) Measures and Assessments UbiSafe attributes and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, satisfaction and worry, UbiSafe levels and relations, UbiSafe quality, assessment criteria and authority, subjective and objective assessment standards, evaluation methodologies, testing, measuring and monitoring tools, etc. (6) Human Factors and Social Issues Human and social aspects of UbiSafe, UbiSafe sources and factors, social rules, regulations and laws, human factors, human behavior analysis, modeling of human feelings, traditional and cultural issues, ethical issues, etc. Submission and Publication Information All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the symposium website. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with the over length charge). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and award one "Best Paper Award" for this symposium. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Important Dates (1)? Submission Deadline:????????????? 10 June, 2014 (2)? Authors Notification:???????????? 10 July, 2014 (3)? Final Manuscript Due:???????????? 30 July, 2014 (4)? Registration Due:???????????????? 30 July, 2014 (5)? Conference Dates:???????????????? 24-26 September, 2014 ? General Co-Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Athanasios V. Vasilakos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Program Co-Chairs Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Program Committee Members(In alphabetical order) Li Bai, Temple University, USA Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan Michel Hurfin, Irisa, INRIA, France Qasim Raza Iqbal, Jaguar Land Rover Cars Ltd, UK Xin Jin, Pennsylvania State University, USA Satoshi Kurihara, Osaka University, Japan Jiang (Leo) Li, Howard University, USA Jorge Martinez-Bauset, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Homayoun Nikookar, Delft University of Technology, Holland Thomas Noel, University of Strasbourg, France Masayuki Okamoto, TOSHIBA Rubem Pereira, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Ali Shahrabi, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK Kuei-Ping Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan Evi Syukur, Monash University, Australia Johnson Thomas, Oklahoma State University, USA Eric Totel, CentraleSupelec / IRISA / INRIA, France Honggang Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA Yufeng Wang, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA Jon (Jong-Hoon) Youn, University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA Sijing Zhang, University of Bedfordshire, UK Publicity Co-Chairs Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Central South University, China ? Steering Committee Vipin Chaudhary, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Jingde Cheng, Saitama University, Japan Yuanshun Dai, University of Tennessee, USA Thomas Grill, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Ismail Khalil, Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida, USA Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Qiangfu Zhao, The University of Aizu, Japan Webmaster Bo Wang, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE UbiSafe 2014 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the symposium organizers: UbiSafe2014 AT gmail DOT com Copyright @ Trusted Computing Institute, CSU http://trust.csu.edu.cn/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From angevald at ucm.es Sun May 11 18:07:11 2014 From: angevald at ucm.es (Leonardo Valdivieso) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 18:07:11 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services August 20, 2014 Niagara Falls, Canada http://gass.ucm.es/sdn-ngas-2014/ Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that is reinventing the way of thinking the networks. The decoupling of control and data planes in network devices and the centralized control of the networks remove the rigidity of today?s networks. This new concept enables the integration between different heterogeneous architectures and facilitates the creation of Network Applications and Services more adapted to the needs of customers. Moreover, this New Generation of Application and Services opens the door of innovative business opportunities. However, the potential techno-economic sustainability of SDN requires the consensus between research community, vendors, regulators and customers. This Workshop represents a unique opportunity to expose the latest advances in this technology as well as share experiences and build collaborations. Topics for this Workshop: - Advancement in the development of Applications and Services for SDN networks - Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN networks. ? SDN programming and simulation. ? Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of SDN based networks. ? Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices. ? Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN technology. ? Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional network architectures. ? Performance analysis on single and multi-controller architectures. ? Orchestration of virtual network resources. ? Other related topics. Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Paper acceptance notification: June 9, 2014 Camera ready papers due: June 19, 2014 Workshop: August 20, 2014 Publication: ------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com < http://www.sciencedirect.com/> ), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com < http://www.scopus.com/> ) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ( http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Extended and revised version of the best papers presented in the Workshop will be invited to these two journal special issues: IET Networks (Special Issue on Software Defined Networking) and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Sensor Networks). 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There have also been presentations on a variety of proposed benchmarks including, BigBench, HiBench, BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline. Meeting Topics: To continue making progress towards big data benchmarking standards, the workshop will explore a range of issues including: - Data features: New feature sets of data including, high-dimensional data, sparse data, event-based data, and enormous data sizes. - System characteristics: System-level issues including, large-scale and evolving system configurations, shifting loads, and heterogeneous technologies for big data and cloud platforms. - Implementation options: Different implementation options such as SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop software ecosystem, and different implementations of HDFS. - Workloads: Representative big data business problems and corresponding benchmark implementations. Specification of benchmark applications that represent the different modalities of big data, including graphs, streams, scientific data, and document collections. - Hardware options: Evaluation of new options in hardware including different types of HDD, SSD, and main memory, and large-memory systems, and new platform options that include dedicated commodity clusters and cloud platforms. - Synthetic data generation: Models and procedures for generating large-scale synthetic data with requisite properties. - Benchmark execution rules: E.g. data scale factors, benchmark versioning to account for rapidly evolving workloads and system configurations, benchmark metrics. - Metrics for efficiency: Measuring the efficiency of the solution, e.g. based on costs of acquisition, ownership, energy and/or other factors, while encouraging innovation and avoiding benchmark escalations that favor large inefficient configuration over small efficient configurations. - Evaluation frameworks: Tool chains, suites and frameworks for evaluating big data systems. - Early implementations: E.g. of, say, BigBench, HiBench, BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline, and lessons learned in benchmarking big data applications. ================================ Important Dates: - Submission Date: May 14 - Notification Date: June 8 - Camera-ready: July 20 ================================ General Chairs Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) UC San Diego Tilmann Rabl, Middleware Services Research Group (MSRG), University of Toronto Kai Sachs, SAP AG Local Arrangements Matthias Uflacker, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Publicity Chair Henning Schmitz, SAP Innovation Center Publication Chair Meikel Poess, Oracle Program Committee Milind Bhandarkar, Pivotal Anja Bog, SAP Labs Dhruba Borthakur, Facebook Joos-Hendrik B?se, Amazon Tobias B?rger, Payback Tyson Condie, UCLA Kshitij Doshi, Intel Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra Bhaskar Gowda, Intel Goetz Graefe, HP Martin Grund, Exascale Alfons Kemper, TU M?nchen Donald Kossmann, ETH Z?rich Tim Kraska, Brown University Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden Christof Leng, UC Berkeley Raghu Nambiar, Cisco Manoj Karunakaran Nambiar, Tata Consulting Services Glenn Paulley, Conestoga College Scott Pearson, CLDS Industry Fellow Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin / HU Berlin Berni Schiefer, IBM Labs Toronto Saptak Sen, Hortonworks Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau Till Westmann, Oracle Labs Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science Contact Info: For questions please contact Chaitan Baru, baru at sdsc.edu Rami Akkad Innovation Center SAP AG | Konrad-Zuse-Ring 10 | 14469 Potsdam | Germany P +49 331 97995-252 | M +49 151 67833878 | F +49 6227 78-60049 | mailto: rami.akkad at sap.com www.sap.com | www.sap-innovationcenter.com Please consider the impact on the environment before printing this e-mail. 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URL: From murano at na.infn.it Mon May 12 10:52:12 2014 From: murano at na.infn.it (aniello murano) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:52:12 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] GandALF 2014: Extended deadlines Message-ID: <53708BBC.6070509@na.infn.it> [We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this message] ***************************************************************** ------ GandALF 2014 ----- ***************************************************************** 5th International Symposium on Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification September 10 - 12, 2014, Verona, Italy http://gandalf2014.di.univr.it ************************************************ | EXTENDED DEADLINES | ************************************************ *AIM The aim of the symposium is to bring together researchers from academia and industry which are actively working in the fields of Games, Automata, Logics, and Formal Verification. The idea is to cover an ample spectrum of themes, ranging from theory to applications, and stimulate cross-fertilization. Papers focused on formal methods are especially welcome. Authors are invited to submit original research or tool papers on all relevant topics in these areas. Papers discussing new ideas that are at an early stage of development are also welcome. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to: - Automata Theory - Automated Deduction - Computational aspects of Game Theory - Concurrency and Distributed computation - Decision Procedures - Deductive, Compositional, and Abstraction Techniques for Verification - Finite Model Theory - First-order and Higher-order Logics - Formal Languages - Formal Methods for Systems Biology, Hybrid, Embedded, and Mobile Systems - Games and Automata for Verification - Game Semantics - Logical aspects of Computational Complexity - Logics of Programs - Modal and Temporal Logics - Model Checking - Models of Reactive and Real-Time Systems - Program Analysis and Software Verification - Run-time Verification and Testing - Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems - Synthesis *KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Phokion G. Kolaitis - http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~kolaitis/ - Alessio R. Lomuscio - http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~alessio/ - Joel Ouaknine - http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/joel.ouaknine/home.html *IMPORTANT DATES - May 27th Abstract submission (extended) - June 1st Paper submission (extended) - July 3rd Notification (extended) - July 25th Camera-ready submission *PUBLICATIONS The conference proceedings will be published by Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. A special issue of a major international journal to publish an extended and revised version of the best symposium papers is also under consideration. Revised versions of the selected papers from the previous editions lead to one special issue of the International Journal of Foundation of Computer Science (GandALF 2010), two special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (GandALF 2011 and 2012), and one special issue of Information and Computation (GandALF 2013). *SUBMISSIONS Submitted papers should not exceed fourteen (14) pages using EPTCS format, be unpublished and contain original research. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are encouraged to make their data available with their submission. Submissions must be in PDF or PS format and will be handled via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gandalf2014). *PC CHAIRS - Adriano Peron, University Federico II of Napoli, Italy - Carla Piazza, University of Udine, Italy From n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk Mon May 12 12:55:49 2014 From: n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk (Bencomo, Nelly) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:55:49 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [MODELS 2014]: Call for Papers Educators' Symposium Message-ID: ?-> CFP - Call for Papers Educators? Symposium at MODELS 2014 at MODELS 2014 addresses the challenges, techniques and best practices involved in teaching modeling technologies to software engineers at universities and software industries. Experience in teaching methods including presence courses, blended and distance learning and especially e-learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and game-based approaches are in demand. The New York Times confirmed the trend to e-learning approaches by naming 2012 The Year of the MOOC. Papers on all topics and ways related to the teaching of modeling including analysis, design as well as model transformation activities are of interest to the symposium. We ask for contributions related but not limited to the following issues: * How do we teach modeling (analysis and design) in due consideration of cognitive aspects? * How can we motivate computer science students to apply model-based or model-driven software development techniques in their development projects? * What are useful online tools and e-learning concepts in teaching modeling? * Are e-learning approaches suited at all due to the ordinary ?big solution space? of a modeling task? * Are there experiences with/examples of game-based learning approaches and/or Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? * What is the best way for teaching modeling: before, after or intertwined with OO programming * Should we begin to teach modeling using a modeling tool or by pencil and paper? * In the students' first software project covering the whole software life cycle: should we require a more rigid or an agile software development process? * How can we measure the quality of students' software models? All papers (short papers 4 pages, long papers 8 pages ) of the 10th Educators' Symposium @ MODELS 2014 will be published in CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2014 Edudators Symposium chairs are: Birgit Demuth, TU Dresden, Germany Dave Stikkolorum, Leiden University, Netherlands More info at http://models2014.webs.upv.es/educationsymposium.htm ________________________ See you at MODELS 2014! Alessandro Garcia, Nelly Bencomo Publicity Chairs MODELS 2014 ??????????????????????? Nelly Bencomo Lecturer in Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK email: nelly at acm.org www.nellybencomo.me From n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk Mon May 12 12:55:32 2014 From: n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk (Bencomo, Nelly) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:55:32 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [MODELS 2014]: Call for Papers Educators' Symposium Message-ID: <2A42E4DB-3FAB-4DBA-BD95-1C3DF2C75E7F@aston.ac.uk> ?-> CFP - Call for Papers Educators? Symposium at MODELS 2014 at MODELS 2014 addresses the challenges, techniques and best practices involved in teaching modeling technologies to software engineers at universities and software industries. Experience in teaching methods including presence courses, blended and distance learning and especially e-learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and game-based approaches are in demand. The New York Times confirmed the trend to e-learning approaches by naming 2012 The Year of the MOOC. Papers on all topics and ways related to the teaching of modeling including analysis, design as well as model transformation activities are of interest to the symposium. We ask for contributions related but not limited to the following issues: * How do we teach modeling (analysis and design) in due consideration of cognitive aspects? * How can we motivate computer science students to apply model-based or model-driven software development techniques in their development projects? * What are useful online tools and e-learning concepts in teaching modeling? * Are e-learning approaches suited at all due to the ordinary ?big solution space? of a modeling task? * Are there experiences with/examples of game-based learning approaches and/or Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? * What is the best way for teaching modeling: before, after or intertwined with OO programming * Should we begin to teach modeling using a modeling tool or by pencil and paper? * In the students' first software project covering the whole software life cycle: should we require a more rigid or an agile software development process? * How can we measure the quality of students' software models? All papers (short papers 4 pages, long papers 8 pages ) of the 10th Educators' Symposium @ MODELS 2014 will be published in CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2014 Edudators Symposium chairs are: Birgit Demuth, TU Dresden, Germany Dave Stikkolorum, Leiden University, Netherlands More info at http://models2014.webs.upv.es/educationsymposium.htm ________________________ See you at MODELS 2014! Alessandro Garcia, Nelly Bencomo Publicity Chairs MODELS 2014 ??????????????????????? Nelly Bencomo Lecturer in Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK email: nelly at acm.org www.nellybencomo.me From n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk Mon May 12 12:55:57 2014 From: n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk (Bencomo, Nelly) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 10:55:57 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [MODELS 2014]: Call for Papers Educators' Symposium Message-ID: <362A7C3A-7DFD-47B7-BC5C-F28210C50F07@aston.ac.uk> ?-> CFP - Call for Papers Educators? Symposium at MODELS 2014 at MODELS 2014 addresses the challenges, techniques and best practices involved in teaching modeling technologies to software engineers at universities and software industries. Experience in teaching methods including presence courses, blended and distance learning and especially e-learning, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and game-based approaches are in demand. The New York Times confirmed the trend to e-learning approaches by naming 2012 The Year of the MOOC. Papers on all topics and ways related to the teaching of modeling including analysis, design as well as model transformation activities are of interest to the symposium. We ask for contributions related but not limited to the following issues: * How do we teach modeling (analysis and design) in due consideration of cognitive aspects? * How can we motivate computer science students to apply model-based or model-driven software development techniques in their development projects? * What are useful online tools and e-learning concepts in teaching modeling? * Are e-learning approaches suited at all due to the ordinary ?big solution space? of a modeling task? * Are there experiences with/examples of game-based learning approaches and/or Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? * What is the best way for teaching modeling: before, after or intertwined with OO programming * Should we begin to teach modeling using a modeling tool or by pencil and paper? * In the students' first software project covering the whole software life cycle: should we require a more rigid or an agile software development process? * How can we measure the quality of students' software models? All papers (short papers 4 pages, long papers 8 pages ) of the 10th Educators' Symposium @ MODELS 2014 will be published in CEUR (http://ceur-ws.org/). Important Dates: Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2014 Edudators Symposium chairs are: Birgit Demuth, TU Dresden, Germany Dave Stikkolorum, Leiden University, Netherlands More info at http://models2014.webs.upv.es/educationsymposium.htm ________________________ See you at MODELS 2014! Alessandro Garcia, Nelly Bencomo Publicity Chairs MODELS 2014 ??????????????????????? Nelly Bencomo Lecturer in Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK email: nelly at acm.org www.nellybencomo.me From axel.legay at inria.fr Mon May 12 13:47:16 2014 From: axel.legay at inria.fr (Axel Legay) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 13:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] SPLat 2014: call for contributions Message-ID: <1525281789.360586.1399895236332.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> ************************************************************* * * * SPLat 2014 * * * * Software Production Line Analysis Tools * * an SPLC 2014 workshop * * * * September 16, 2014 Florence * * * * Call for Papers * * * ************************************************************* The Software Product Line Analysis Tools workshop is devoted to the use of formal techniques in Software Product Line Engineering. The main theme is the mitigation of combinatorial explosion while analyzing software models with variability. The workshop aims to bring together a number of analysis methods, e.g. based on model checking, SAT-solving, or testing technology, to sketch the palette of techniques that is recruited to handle the commonalities and differences of individual products, and to establish properties at the level of the product line. SCOPE Papers of both theoretical or applied interest are welcomed that discuss a particular approach from a general perspective, rather than demo or tool papers. The focus is on contributions that explain the conceptual working in a simple setting and sketch the potential success for wider application. Overview and positioning papers addressing the underlying concepts, the design choices made and a particular strength or a specific application range of an approach are welcomed as well. FORMAT The workshop programme will be a one-day workshop as to concentrate the exchange of arguments, beliefs and opinions and has the usual scheme of invited talks and paper presentations. SUBMISSION We solicit the submission of original and unpublished contributions not under review for publication elsewhere. Papers are to be prepared in LaTeX using the two-column ACM SIGS proceedings format with a maximum of eight pages and uploaded in pdf to the EasyChair webpage of the workshop. Contributions will be evaluated by the Program Committee and may have an appendix for reviewing purposes. Submission of a paper involves a firm commitment that at least one of the authors will attend and participate in the workshop in case the paper is accepted. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission June 13, 2014 Paper submission June 20, 2014 Notification of acceptance July 7, 2014 Camera ready versions July 20, 2014 Workshop SPLat 2014 September 16, 2014 PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings, which will be published by the ACM as a part of volume 2 of the SPLC 2014 proceedings, and as such is indexed in the main repositories. An open call for a special issue of a high-quality journal on the topic of the workshop is envisaged. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Axel Legay INRIA Rennes, France Erik de Vink Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands INVITED SPEAKERS Tiziana Margaria Universitaet Potsdam, Germany Stefania Gnesi CNR Pisa, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed) Olivier Barais IRISA Rennes, France Don Batory University of Texas at Austin David Benavides University of Seville, Spain Dave Clarke KU Leuven, Belgium Philippe Collet Universite Nice, France Maxime Cordy University of Namur, Belgium Ferruccio Damiani Universita di Torino, Italy Aleksander Dimovski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Alessandro Fantechi Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Christian Kastner Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna-Lena Lamprecht Universitaet Potsdam, Germany Jean-Vivien Millo INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France Gilles Perrouin University of Namur, Belgium Holger Schlingloff HU Berlin, Germany HOMEPAGE preliminary website at www.splat2014.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vhpc.dist at gmail.com Mon May 12 15:02:29 2014 From: vhpc.dist at gmail.com (VHPC 14) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:02:29 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?utf-8?q?=5BVHPC=E2=80=9914=5D_LAST_Call_for_Papers?= =?utf-8?q?_-_Deadline_in_4_weeks?= Message-ID: ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 26, 2014 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2014 (extended) Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory Hobbes: Using Virtualization to Enable Exascale Applications and Helge Meinhard, CERN CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance, responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service- Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. Indeed, among emerging and increasingly interesting application domains for virtualization, we can find big-data application workloads in cloud infrastructures, interactive and real-time multimedia services in the cloud, including real-time big-data streaming platforms such as used in real-time analytics supporting nowadays a plethora of application domains. Distributed cloud infrastructures promise to offer unprecedented responsiveness levels for hosted applications, but that is only possible if the underlying virtualization technologies can overcome most of the latency impairments typical of current virtualized infrastructures (e.g., far worse tail-latency). What is more, in data communications Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a key technology enabling a shift from supplying hardware-based network functions, to providing them in a software-based and elastic way. In conjunction with (public and private) cloud technologies, NFV may be used for constructing the foundation for cost-effective network functions that can easily and seamlessly adapt to demand, still keeping their major carrier-grade characteristics in terms of QoS and reliability. The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Language-process virtual machines - Performance monitoring for virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Paravirtualized I/O - Improving I/O and network virtualization including use of RDMA, Infiniband, PCIe - Improving performance in VM access to GPUs, GPU clusters, GP-GPUs - HPC storage virtualization - Virtualized systems for big-data and analytics workloads - Optimizations and enhancements to OS virtualization support - Improving OS-level virtualization and its integration within cloud management - Performance modelling for virtualized/cloud applications - Heterogeneous virtualized environments - Parallel virtualized - virtualization aware file systems - Network virtualization - Software defined networking - Network function virtualization - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloudbursting - Evolved European grid architectures including such based on network virtualization - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Checkpointing/migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Job scheduling/control/policy with VMs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Research, industrial and educational use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations - Services in cloud HPC - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Cluster provisioning in the cloud - Performance and cost modelling - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Energy-aware virtualization Important Dates Rolling Paper registration June 9, 2014 - Full paper submission (extended) July 4, 2014 - Acceptance notification October 3, 2014 - Camera-ready version due August 26, 2014 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Costas Bekas, IBM Jakob Blomer, CERN Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Piero Castoldi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Paolo Costa, MS Research Cambridge, England Jorge Ejarque Artigas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Herbert Poetzl, VServer, Austria Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Josh Simons, VMware, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Vangelis Tasoulas, Simula Research Lab, Norway Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html EasyChair Abstract Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, 25-29 August, Porto, Portugal -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rc256 at leicester.ac.uk Mon May 12 16:22:26 2014 From: rc256 at leicester.ac.uk (Ruzanna Chitchyan) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:22:26 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: Sustainability in Software Product Lines Workshop at SPLC 2014 Message-ID: <6B976C30-663C-4E24-8DB5-92DBC1E94691@le.ac.uk> Call for Papers: Workshop on SUSTAINABILITY IN SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES (SUSPL 2014) 15th September 2014, Florence, Italy at the Software Product Lines Conference Submission deadline: 20th June 2014 (or Sept. 10th 2014 for abstracts) https://sites.google.com/site/susplworkshop/ **Overview** Sustainability encompasses a wide set of aims: ranging from energy efficient software products (environmental sustainability), reduction of software development and maintenance costs (economic sustainability), to employee well-being (social sustainability). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the role that sustainability will play in software product lines development. We aim to study how sustainability manifests itself in domain engineering, via study of, for instance, sustainability patterns in domain analysis, architectural decisions motivated by specific sustainability concerns, types of variability that results from sustainability considerations, etc., as well as engineering of sustainability as a domain itself. This workshop will explore the research challenges and define a long term research agenda for Sustainability in Software Product Line Engineering. The goals of the SUSPL workshop are: + To consolidate cutting edge research and practice on how software product lines can incorporate sustainability and support sustainable software development. + Create a repository of examples of sustainability in/for/through SPL in order to serve as a common resource for research, education, and practice in SPL, software engineering, and sustainability communities. + Foster a research and practitioner community that will set out and tackle the long-term research and development agenda in this field. The expected results of the workshop are (i) initiation of the discussion/collaboration platform for those working on various aspects of sustainability in/through SPL; (ii) creation of the first State of Sustainability in Software Product Lines report which will be published on the workshop web site, and (iii) initiation of the examples repository to illustrate, motivate, and educate research and development in sustainability in SPL. **Topics** We welcome submissions on any papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of sustainability and software product lines. We also encourage submissions from industry. Some example topics of interest to the workshop include: 1. Sustainability in Software Product Lines: this set of topics looks at how sustainability can be identified, modelled, and implemented within the SPL framework. The individual topics include, but are not limited to: * social/economic/environmental sustainability patterns in domain analysis; * architectural solutions that realise sustainability concerns/patterns; * implementation of sustainability in SPL; * commonalities and variability in sustainability models across product domains; * case studies highlighting sustainability concerns in SPLs 2. Sustainability through Software Product Lines: this set of topics looks at how sustainability is promoted through SPL to the organisation using SPL as a practice, as well as to the wider environment (i.e., users) of the SPL products. Some example (not limiting) topics here are: * comparative studies of SPL and single-product development work practices with respect to sustainability (e.g., energy efficiency, environmental impact of development, etc.) ; * economic and social sustainability impact of SPL adoption; * SPL as enabler of environmental sustainability (specifically parallels in reduce, reuse, recycle philosophy of sustainability and SPL); * case studies of SPL application to improve sustainability; * sustainability impact of SPL on the product user organisation 3. Sustainability of Software Product Lines: this set of topics encompasses work on longevity, maintainability, and other quality aspects of SPLs. A number of these topics is already researched within the SPL community. In this workshop the emphasis is on what are the sustainability concerns of SPL and how are they handled all together, as part of wider sustainability goal, within the SPL. Some example topics here are: * domain model of sustainability of SPL; * conflicts and reinforcements between sustainability concerns in SPL **Workshop Format** The workshop will be organised as a full-day event, with presentations of selected papers in the morning. In the afternoon, discussion groups will be formed based on topics of the submitted papers and identified topics of interest. The discussion groups will run two sessions on example development. To conclude the workshop, the results of the discussion groups are merged to form a research agenda for the community and set out the State of Sustainability in Software Product Lines report, and the example development session results will be published in the workshop examples repository. The pre-activities of the workshop will consist of initiating a preliminary online discussion among participants to determine their interest and potential topics for discussion during the workshop. A sample case study will also be provided for those wishing to use it in demonstration of their work as well as for use during the workshop example development sessions. The workshop website will be used to disseminate the accepted papers and facilitation of the online discussion. After the workshop has completed the organisers, in collaboration with participants, will produce a workshop report highlighting the research topics that have been identified and future directions that can be taken to establish sustainability through software product line application. This report will be published on the workshop website. **Submission format** All submissions should follow the ACM 2014 style guidelines and must be in PDF format. Full paper submissions may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus any number of pages consisting of only references. Short and industry experience papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus any number of pages consisting of only references. Extended Abstracts up to two (2) pages long can also be submitted (Note: abstracts can be submitted up till 10th of September 2014, long/short paper submission cut of date does not apply to extended abstracts). All papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Please refer to Instructions for Authors for more information on formatting. **Proceedings** Proceedings of the workshop will be published in volume 2 of the SPLC conference proceedings published by ACM, as well as the website of the SUSPL workshop. **Important dates** Long and Short submission deadline: June 20, 2014 Extended Abstract submission (notification within 10 days of submission): 10 September, 2014 Notification (long/short papers): July 10, 2014 Final camera-ready copy: July 20, 2014 SUSPL Workshop: September 15, 2014 **Program committee** Vander Alves, University of Brasilia, Brazil Rami Bahsoon, University of Birmingham, UK Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK Iris Groher, JKU, Austria Jajoon Lee, Lancaster University, UK Martin Mahaux, University of Namur, Belgium Somayeh Malakuti, Technical University of Dresden, Germany John McGregor, Clemson University, USA Stefan Naumann, University of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany Joost Noppen, University of East Anglia, UK Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, USA Christa Schwanninger, Siemens, AG Germany **Workshop Organisers** Ruzanna Chitchyan (University of Leicester, United Kingdom) Joost Noppen (University of East Anglia, United Kingdom) Iris Groher (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Dr. Ruzanna Chitchyan Lecturer in Software Engineering Department of Computer Science University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH United Kingdom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk Mon May 12 17:03:32 2014 From: n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk (Bencomo, Nelly) Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:03:32 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [MODELS 2014] - CFP for Demos, Posters and Educators Symposium Message-ID: ??> More opportunities to participate in MODELS 2014 The top two posters will receive Best Poster Awards sponsored by SparxSystems with prizes of EUR 400 and EUR 200, respectively!! ??> More opportunities to participate in MODELS 2014 The top two posters will receive Best Poster Awards sponsored by SparxSystems with prizes of EUR 400 and EUR 200, respectively!! ********* 8th System Analysis and Modelling Conference (SAM'14) ********* *** Deadline approaching - May 26th for abstracts, Jun 02nd for papers *** **** Keynote speakers confirmed: Lionel Briand and Jean-Marc J?z?quel **** SAM'14, co-sponsored by ACM, IEEE and the SDL Forum Society and in agreement with ITU-T Study Group 17 (responsible for ITU System Design Languages), will be held in incredible Valencia, Spain, from the 29th to the 30th of September, 2014. http://sdl-forum.org/Events/SAM2014/ The deadline for submission of paper abstracts and full papers is rapidly approaching. This year's theme of SAM is ***Models and Reusability*** but contributions in other topics, not limited to, language development, model-driven development, and applications are also invited. Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Submissions: http://sdl-forum.org/Events/SAM2014/submission.htm The ***keynotes*** at SAM'14 will be presented by Lionel Briand and Jean-Marc J?z?quel. Lionel Briand is Professor (FNR PEARL chair) in software engineering and is Vice-Director at the Centre for ICT Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg. He is a highly regarded expert in the areas of software verification and model-driven engineering, performing research with strong and sustained industrial collaborations. He is an IEEE Fellow, and is the recipient of the IEEE CS Harlan Mills award, and the IEEE Reliability Society?s engineer-of-the-year award. http://people.svv.lu/briand/ Jean-Marc J?z?quel is Professor at the University of Rennes, Director of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Syst?mes Al?atoires (IRISA) and a distinguished contributor to research in model-driven engineering and software product lines. Jean-Marc is also a member of Inria's Triskell team, which he headed from 2001 to 2011 and where he established the Kermeta (Kernel Metamodeling) environment. Kermeta defines a core metamodeling toolkit for advanced model-driven tools and inspired significant progress in the area of software language engineering. http://people.irisa.fr/Jean-Marc.Jezequel/ Participation in SAM'14 is a unique opportunity to attend both SAM'14 and MODELS'14 and meet researchers, industrial practitioners, educators, and students with overlapping domains of interest in modeling. Not to be missed, Valencia's rich cultural heritage of music, art, gastronomy, architecture and folklore is waiting to be explored. Organizing and Program Committee: http://sdl-forum.org/Events/SAM2014/committee.htm Daniel, Gunter and Pau in their role as Program Co-Chairs look forward to welcoming you to Valencia. Best regards, Daniel Amyot, University of Ottawa, Canada Pau Fonseca i Casas, Uni. Polit?cnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University, Canada, Reinhard Gotzhein, SDL Forum Society Chairman, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany and the whole SAM'14 Team. From scott_fowler at ymail.com Tue May 13 08:43:30 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 07:43:30 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: QShine (Due May 15) In-Reply-To: <1399388322.52184.YahooMailBasic@web133104.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1399963410.83830.YahooMailBasic@web133104.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** =============================================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness 18-19 August 18--19, 2014 The Greek Island of Rhodes, Greece http://qshine.org/2014/show/home =============================================================================================== Computer networking has been embracing increased heterogeneity since its inception, in terms of the range of the applications it has to support, the various communication technologies it can run on, and the hierarchical, hybrid and heterogeneous techniques it has to rely on to meet the challenges from both the diverse application requirements and communication technologies. The only conference focusing on heterogeneous networking, QShine has been established as the primary venue for researchers and practitioners to disseminate, exchange and discuss all recent advances related to heterogeneous networking, particularly for quality, experience, reliability, security and robustness. As a conference series held in three major continents so far, QShine-2014 comes to the Greek Island of Rhodes, with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE Greece Section. Original submissions, not under any concurrent reviews, are solicited in all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service-provider and overlay networks, ranging from in/on-body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide-area, to intra/inter-planetary scales. HIGHLIGHTS The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT. Qshine 2014 will be collocated with the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks,? AdHocNets. The conference proceedings will be archived by IEEE Xplore. Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. CONFERENCE TOPICS Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following: * Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms. * Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms. * Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience. * Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility. * Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability. * Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability. * Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency. * Social and Economic Perspectives: incentive, pricing, billing, governance. * New Applications and Communication Technologies: cloud, smart grid, SDN. IMPORTANT DATES * Full Paper Due 15 May 2014 (Extended Deadlin) * Acceptance Notification 16 June 2014 * Camera-ready Due 14 July 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General co-chairs Victor Leung, The University of British Columbia, Canada Thanos Stouraitis, University of Patras, Greece TPC co-chairs Jiangchuan Liu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Edith Ngai, Uppsala University, Sweden Jianping Pan, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Co-chairs Adlen Ksentini, University of Rennes 1 / IRISA Lab Tarik Taleb, NEC Europe Labs Publicity chair Scott Fowler, Link?ping University, Sweden Industry chair Panos Nasiopoulos, The University of British Columbia, Canada Publication chair Xiaofei Wang, Seoul National University, South Korea Web chair Wei Cai, The University of British Columbia, Canada PAPER SUBMISSION Conference language is in English. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit full papers in PDF file format. Papers should be prepared in the 2-column IEEE conference paper format in 10-point Times New Roman fonts, and should not be more than 7 pages long all inclusive. All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Please visit the Submission page for detailed submission requirements and procedures. Papers will be judged on originality, correctness, clarity and relevance. Submitted papers must be original work, and may not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of the paper implies agreement of the author(s) to attend the conference and present the paper if accepted. For additional information see the registration information page. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the Qshine Conference Proceedings, archived by IEEE Xplore and submitted for inclusion in the databases of leading indexing services. We reserve the right to exclude papers accepted but not presented from the conference proceedings submitted for archiving and indexing. Selected papers, particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in the special issues of Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) and Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA) journals (SCIE-indexed) and will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. About EAI - The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. Find out more at http://www.eai.eu From julien.deantoni at polytech.unice.fr Tue May 13 11:59:26 2014 From: julien.deantoni at polytech.unice.fr (Julien DeAntoni) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 11:59:26 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP GEMOC@models2014: on The Globalization of Modeling Languages Message-ID: <5371ECFE.8000402@polytech.unice.fr> Please, forward this email as you deem it appropriate 2nd International Workshop on The Globalization of Modeling Languages http://gemoc.org/gemoc2014/ September 28, 2014, Valencia, Spain co-located with MODELS 2014 * Context and Motivation Software intensive systems are becoming more and more complex and communicative. Consequently, the development of such systems usually involves a split of the system in different concerns and skills. These concerns may be specified in dedicated and adequate languages, technologies and abstraction levels. Eventually, the development requires the integration of these many different concerns. This multiplication of languages eases the development related to one specific concern but raises language and technology integration problems at the different stages of the software life cycle. In order to reason about the global system, it becomes necessary to explicitly describe the relationships that exist between the different languages all along the development cycle. To support effective language integration, there is a pressing need to reify and classify these relationships, as well as the language interactions that the relationships enable. In this context, the workshop GEMOC 2014 aims to attract submissions that outline language integration approaches, case studies, or that identify and discuss well defined problems about the management of relationships between heterogeneous modeling languages. The goal is to facilitate good discussions among the participants that lead to an initial classification of the kinds of language relationships and their management. This 2014 edition of the GEMOC workshop will follow the successful first edition at MODELS 2013 in Miami, FL, USA. This new edition will complete the state of the art and practice started last year. It will also strengthen the community that broadens the current DSML research focus beyond the development of independent DSMLs to one that provides support for globalized DSMLs. GEMOC 2014 is supported by the GEMOC initiative that promotes research seeking to develop the necessary breakthroughs in software languages to support global software engineering, i.e., breakthroughs that lead to effective technologies supporting different forms of language integration, including language collaboration, interoperability and composability. * Topics The topics of interest for GEMOC 2014 include: - Composability, coordination and interoperability of heterogeneous modeling languages - Language integration challenges, from requirements to runtime through design, for analysis and simulation, etc. - Model and metamodel composition (towards structural only composition) - Heterogeneous modeling and simulation Submissions describing practical and industrial experience related to the use of heterogeneous modeling languages are also encouraged, particularly in the following application domains: - Cyber-Physical Systems, System of Systems - Smart City, Smart Building, Home automation - Complex Adaptive Systems - Internet of Services, Internet of Things * Types of Contributions We expect as contributions, descriptions of case studies on coordinated use of multiple modeling languages, and/or descriptions of practical experience, opinions and related approaches. Authors will be invited to submit short papers describing (i) their language integration experience, or (ii) novel approaches for integrating modeling languages. Authors will also be invited to store full versions of models used to illustrate their novel approach or experience on the Repository for Model Driven Development (ReMoDD). This allows us to share the models with participants and the wider modeling community before and after the workshop. Each contribution must be described in short paper (6 pages) or long paper (10 pages) in the LNCS format. Each paper should describe problems, case studies, and solutions related to the topics of interest. Each paper is expected to highlight the relationships between modeling languages as well as their management. Papers that describe novel or existing integration approaches should be accompanied by concrete artifacts, such as models (requirement, design, analysis, transformation, composition, etc.), stored in ReMoDD. Artifacts should illustrate any experience on the conjoint use of different modeling languages. Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently be submitted for publication elsewhere. The program chairs will apply the principles of the ACM Plagiarism Policy throughout the submission and review process. All contributions will be reviewed and selected by the program committee members. * Submission Each contribution must not exceed 6 pages (short paper) or 10 pages (long papers) in the LNCS format and must be submitted electronically in pdf format via Easychair. In addition, the concrete models referenced in a contribution should be submitted to ReMoDD. To do so, authors will have to do the following: Create a ReMoDD account if they do not have one and and join the GEMOC at MODELS2014 group. Create a Group Post (see right side of ReMoDD website) for the GEMOC at MODELS2014 group, provide a title, and attach your concrete artifacts file to this post. * Publication The accepted papers will be published by CEUR in the workshop proceedings, which is indexed by DBLP. Moreover, the models will be published on ReMoDD. Also, participants will be strongly encouraged to participate in preparing the workshop report. This report will provide a classification of the possible relationships between modeling languages and a survey of integration approaches. * Important Dates - Submission deadline: July 11th, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: August 22nd, 2014 - Workshop: September 28th, 2014 * Committees + Organizers - Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France - Julien DeAntoni, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France - Robert B. France, Colorado State University, USA + Program Committee - Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada - Tony Clark, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes 1, France (chair) - Julien DeAntoni, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France (chair) - Robert B. France, Colorado State University, USA (chair) - Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA - Jean-Marc J?z?quel, University of Rennes 1, France - Ralf Laemmel, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia - Richard Paige, University of York, United Kingdom - Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase CEO, Finland - Mark Van Den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA - Markus Voelter, Independent, Germany From dsk at uchicago.edu Tue May 13 19:59:26 2014 From: dsk at uchicago.edu (Daniel S. Katz) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 13:59:26 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) Message-ID: <0FD66A3D-E5EE-46DF-9356-F01CFA4BC7B3@ieee.org> 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/ (to be held in conjunction with SC14, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA) Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels and it is critical to address challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software as well as education around software practices. These challenges can be technological, policy based, organizational, and educational, and are of interest to developers (the software community), users (science disciplines), and researchers studying the conduct of science (science of team science, science of organizations, science of science and innovation policy, and social science communities). The WSSSPE1 workshop (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/WSSSPE1) engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best practices in areas of interest for sustainable scientific software. At WSSSPE2, we invite the community to propose and discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software development and usage in science and engineering. The workshop will include multiple mechanisms for participation, encourage team building around solutions, and identify risky solutions with potentially transformative outcomes. Participation by early career students and postdoctoral researchers is strongly encouraged. We invite short (4-page) actionable papers that will lead to improvements for sustainable software science. These papers could be a call to action, or could provide position or experience reports on sustainable software activities. The papers will be used by the organizing committee to design sessions that will be highly interactive and targeted towards facilitating action. Submitted papers should be archived by a third-party service that provides DOIs. We encourage submitters to license their papers under a Creative Commons license that encourages sharing and remixing, as we will combine ideas (with attribution) into the outcomes of the workshop. The organizers will invite one or more submitters of provocative papers to start the workshop by presenting highlights of their papers in a keynote presentation to initiate active discussion that will continue throughout the day. Areas of interest for WSSSPE2, include, but are not limited to: ? defining software sustainability in the context of science and engineering software ? how to evaluate software sustainability ? improving the development process that leads to new software ? methods to develop sustainable software from the outset ? effective approaches to reusable software created as a by-product of research ? impact of computer science research on the development of scientific software ? recommendations for the support and maintenance of existing software ? software engineering best practices ? governance, business, and sustainability models ? the role of community software repositories, their operation and sustainability ? reproducibility, transparency needs that may be unique to science ? successful open source software implementations ? incentives for using and contributing to open source software ? transitioning users into contributing developers ? building large and engaged user communities ? developing strong advocates ? measurement of usage and impact ? encouraging industry?s role in sustainability ? engagement of industry with volunteer communities ? incentives for industry ? incentives for community to contribute to industry-driven projects ? recommending policy changes ? software credit, attribution, incentive, and reward ? issues related to multiple organizations and multiple countries, such as intellectual property, licensing, etc. ? mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the role of publishers ? improving education and training ? best practices for providing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in domain communities with sufficient training in software development ? novel uses of sustainable software in education (K-20) ? case studies from students on issues around software development in the undergraduate or graduate curricula ? careers and profession ? successful examples of career paths for developers ? institutional changes to support sustainable software such as promotion and tenure metrics, job categories, etc. Submissions: Submissions of up to four pages should be formatted to be easily readable and submitted to an open access repository that provides unique identifiers (e.g., DOIs) that can be cited, for example http://arXiv.org or http://figshare.com. Once you have received an identifier for your self-published paper from a repository, submit it to WSSSPE2 by creating a new submission at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe2, and entering: ? author information for all authors ? title ? abstract (with the identifier as the first line of the abstract, for example, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.791606 or http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7414 or alternative) ? at least three keywords ? tick the abstract only box Do not submit the paper itself through EasyChair; the identifier in the abstract that points to the paper is sufficient. Deadline for Submission: 14 July 2014 (any time of day, no extensions) Travel Support Funds are available to support participation in WSSSPE2 by 1) US-based students, early-career researchers, and members of underrepresented groups; and 2) participants who would not otherwise attend the SC14 conference. Priority will be given to those who have submitted papers and can make a compelling case for how their participation will strengthen the overall workshop and/or positively impact their future research or educational activities. Submissions for travel support will be accepted from September 1st to September 15th 2014 following instructions posted on the workshop web site. Financial support to enable this has been generously provided by 1) the National Science Foundation and 2) the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Important Dates: July 14, 2014 Paper submission deadline September 1, 2014 Author notification September 15, 2014 Funding request submission deadline September 22, 2014 Funding decision notification November 16, 2014 WSSSPE2 Workshop Organizers: ? Daniel S. Katz, d.katz at ieee.org, National Science Foundation, USA ? Gabrielle Allen, gdallen at illinois.edu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA ? Neil Chue Hong, N.ChueHong at software.ac.uk, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK ? Karen Cranston, karen.cranston at nescent.org, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), USA ? Manish Parashar, parashar at rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, USA ? David Proctor, djproctor at gmail.com, National Science Foundation, USA ? Matthew Turk, matthewturk at gmail.com, Columbia University, USA ? Colin C. Venters, colin.venters at googlemail.com, University of Huddersfield, UK ? Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn at sdsc.edu, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA Program Committee: ? Aron Ahmadia, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA ? Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust, UK ? Lorena A. Barba, The George Washington University, USA ? C. Titus Brown, Michigan State University, USA ? Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain ? Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA ? Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA ? Gabriel A. Devenyi, McMaster University, Canada ? Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK ? Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland ? Anshu Dubey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA ? David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK ? Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University, USA ? Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA ? Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK ? James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ? James Howison, University of Texas at Austin, USA ? Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK ? Matthew B. Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA ? Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea ? James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China ? Frank L?ffler, Louisiana State University, USA ? Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA ? Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA ? Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA ? Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA ? Kenneth M. Merz, Jr., Michigan State University, USA ? Marek T. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, Singapore ? Peter E. Murray, LYRASIS, USA ? Kenjo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan ? Cameron Neylon, PLOS, UK ? Aleksandra Pawlik, Software Sustainability Institute, Manchester University, UK ? Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, USA ? Marian Petre, The Open University, UK ? Mark D. Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK ? Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA ? Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA ? Kaitlin Thaney, Mozilla Science Lab, USA ? Greg Watson, IBM, USA ? Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA -- Daniel S. 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URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Tue May 13 23:40:00 2014 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 23:40:00 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 1st CFP: ISWC'14 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2014) Message-ID: <92FBA554D8474A66980E814828CED579@itad.infotn.it> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ningth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2014) http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/ October 19th or 20th, 2014, ISWC Workshop Program, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2014 campaign. Besides real-world specific matching tasks, involving, e.g., large biomedical ontologies, OAEI-14 will include evaluation of interactive matchers and matchers for query answering. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2014 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014 TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 11, 2014: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 1, 2014: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 15, 2014: Camera ready copy submission. October 19th or 20th, 2014: OM-2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Ming Mao Electronic Arts, USA 4. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK 5. Juanzi Li Tsinghua University, China 6. Axel Ngonga University of Leipzig, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Program Manager Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed May 14 00:29:24 2014 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 00:29:24 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 1st CFP: ISWC'14 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2014) Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ningth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2014) http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/ October 19th or 20th, 2014, ISWC Workshop Program, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2014 campaign. Besides real-world specific matching tasks, involving, e.g., large biomedical ontologies, OAEI-14 will include evaluation of interactive matchers and matchers for query answering. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2014 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014 TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 11, 2014: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 1, 2014: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 15, 2014: Camera ready copy submission. October 19th or 20th, 2014: OM-2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Ming Mao Electronic Arts, USA 4. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK 5. Juanzi Li Tsinghua University, China 6. Axel Ngonga University of Leipzig, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Program Manager Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pavel at dit.unitn.it Wed May 14 00:54:56 2014 From: pavel at dit.unitn.it (Pavel) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 00:54:56 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] 1st CFP: ISWC'14 workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2014) Message-ID: <07090F4F191544CAA55FD270F0FB2912@itad.infotn.it> Apologies for cross-postings -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Ningth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2014) http://om2014.ontologymatching.org/ October 19th or 20th, 2014, ISWC Workshop Program, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful tactic in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes the ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data translation, query answering or navigation on the web of data. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed in the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2014 campaign. Besides real-world specific matching tasks, involving, e.g., large biomedical ontologies, OAEI-14 will include evaluation of interactive matchers and matchers for query answering. Therefore, the ontology matching evaluation initiative itself will provide a solid ground for discussion of how well the current approaches are meeting business needs. 3. To examine new uses, similarities and differences from database schema matching, which has received decades of attention but is just beginning to transition to mainstream tools. This year, in sync with the main conference, we encourage submissions specifically devoted to: (i) repeatable evaluations of the approaches proposed (not necessarily within OAEI) and (ii) application of the matching technology in real-life scenarios and assessment of its usefulness to the final users. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big and open data); Requirements to matching from specific domains (e.g., energy); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., information integration); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., search, web-services). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2014 campaign. Technical papers should be not longer than 12 pages using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages and should be handled according to the guidelines for technical papers. All contributions should be prepared in PDF format and should be submitted through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2014 TENTATIVE DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: July 11, 2014: Deadline for the submission of papers. August 1, 2014: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. August 15, 2014: Camera ready copy submission. October 19th or 20th, 2014: OM-2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Informatica Trentina, Italy 2. J?r?me Euzenat INRIA & LIG, France 3. Ming Mao Electronic Arts, USA 4. Ernesto Jim?nez-Ruiz University of Oxford, UK 5. Juanzi Li Tsinghua University, China 6. Axel Ngonga University of Leipzig, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Zohra Bellahsene, LRIMM, France Chris Bizer, University of Mannheim, Germany Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine, USA Michelle Cheatham, Write State University, USA Marco Combetto, Informatica Trentina, Italy Gianluca Correndo, University of Southampton, UK Isabel Cruz, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA J?r?me David, INRIA & LIG, France Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Avigdor Gal, Technion, Israel Fausto Giunchiglia, University of Trento, Italy Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Yannis Kalfoglou, Ricoh Europe plc, UK Anastasios Kementsietsidis, IBM, USA Patrick Lambrix, Link?pings Universitet, Sweden Vincenzo Maltese, University of Trento, Italy Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Andriy Nikolov, Open University, UK Christian Meilicke, University of Mannheim, Germany Leo Obrst, The MITRE Corporation, USA Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany Yefei Peng, Google, USA Andrea Perego, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Italy Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Umberto Straccia, ISTI-C.N.R., Italy Ondrej Svab-Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic C?ssia Trojahn, IRIT, France Giovanni Tummarello, Fondazione Bruno Kessler - IRST, Italy Lorenzino Vaccari, European Commission - Joint Research Center, Italy Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Shenghui Wang, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards, Pavel ------------------------------------------------------- Pavel Shvaiko, PhD Program Manager Informatica Trentina, Italy http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://www.taslab.eu/ http://www.infotn.it/ http://www.dit.unitn.it/~pavel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ali at cmi.ac.in Wed May 14 19:05:14 2014 From: ali at cmi.ac.in (ALI) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 22:35:14 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICLA 2015: Call for Papers Message-ID: <20140514170514.GB4194@cmi.ac.in> ?????????????6th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS ???????????????????????????????January 8--10, 2015 ????????????????????????????????IIT Bombay, India ???????????????????http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~icla15/index.html ??????????????????????????????FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ALI, the Association for Logic in India, announces the sixth edition of its biennial International Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA), to be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, ?from January 8 to 10, 2015. ICLA 2015 will be co-located with the 14th Asian Logic Conference to be held during January 5-8, 2015. ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields that formal logic plays a significant role in, along with mathematicians, philosophers and logicians studying foundations of formal logic in itself. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. Details of the last ICLA (2013) may be found at http://www.imsc.res.in/~icla/. The earlier events in this series featured many eminent logicians as invited speakers, and we are pleased to announce that this year's speakers will include: Steve Awodey, Carnegie Mellon University J. Michael Dunn, Indiana University Bloomington Submission ---------- Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. ?Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome. Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the programme committee to assess the merits of the paper. The submission may not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style (Springer's Information for LNCS Authors: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a clearly marked appendix which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. The submission must be a PDF file. Authors who use Microsoft Word to prepare their submissions should typeset them in 11-pt Times New Roman, with single-line spacing, centered, and with margins on all four sides that are at least 4cm wide. The manuscript should not exceed 12 pages. Springer's Information for LNCS Authors page (mentioned above) contains appropriate templates. The Word document must be exported to PDF before being submitted. All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted via easychair submission system. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. It is expected that the conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science; this will be confirmed soon. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. Important Dates ---------------- ************************************************************************ Deadline for Submission: ???????????????????????????????5 August 2014 Notification to Authors: ???????????????????????????????30 September 2014 Deadline for camera-ready papers: ??????????????????????17 October 2014 ************************************************************************ Important Links --------------- http://ali.cmi.ac.in http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~icla15/index.html Programme Committee ------------------- S. Arun-Kumar (IIT Delhi) Rupa Bandyopadhyay (Jadavpur University) Mohua Banerjee (IIT Kanpur), co-chair Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique) Mihir K. Chakraborty (ISI Kolkata and Jadavpur University) Ivo Duentsch (Brock University) Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) John Horty (University of Maryland) Juliette Kennedy (University of Helsinki) Krishna S. (IIT Bombay), co-chair Benedikt Loewe (University of Hamburg and ILLC Amsterdam) Paritosh Pandya (TIFR Mumbai) R. Ramanujam (IMSc Chennai) S.P. Suresh (Chennai Mathematical Institute) Zach Weber (University of Otago) Gregory Wheeler (LMU Munich) Contact ------- Any queries related to the conference may be sent to the following email address: icla15 at cse.iitb.ac.in --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From euspn2014 at gmail.com Wed May 14 22:38:56 2014 From: euspn2014 at gmail.com (EUSPN 2014) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:38:56 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: EUSPN'14 *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 30 (Final Extension) *** Message-ID: Conference: The 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) Date of Conference: 22-25 September, 2014 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/ The goal of the EUSPN'14 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results in ubiquitous and pervasive systems. EUSPN'14 will give them the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all related theoretical and practical issues. More specifically, EUSPN'14 will be focusing on the paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks theory, practices and their applications. EUSPN'14 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world. All EUSPN-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in international journals special issues ( http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#journalSpecialIssues). Keynote speakers confirmed ( http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#keynoteSpeakers). Important Dates -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: March 24, 2014 - Paper Submission Due: May 30, 2014 (Extended and Final) - Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014 - Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 Topics of Interest Include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------ - Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks - Autonomic and Pervasive Network Management - Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing - Data Science for Future Networks - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Computing - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Vehicular Networks & Telematics Applications Committees -------------- General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Nirwan Ansari, University Heights Newark, USA Program Chairs Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn , USA Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Advisory Committee Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Tracks Chairs Mohamed Younis, University of Baltimore County, USA Ali Nafarieh, Dalhousie University, Canada Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Marco Lutzenberger, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada Jie Shen, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Workshops Chair St?phane Galland, IRTES-SET, France Ansar Yasser, Hasselt University, Belgium Local Arrangements Chairs Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chairs Peng Hu, CMC Microsystems, Canada Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA Technical Program Committee Members http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#programCommittees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- Conference: The 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN) Date of Conference: 22-25 September, 2014 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Conference Website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/ The goal of the EUSPN'14 conference is to provide an international forum for scientists, engineers, and managers in academia, industry, and government to address recent research results in ubiquitous and pervasive systems. EUSPN'14 will give them the opportunity to present and discuss their ideas, theories, technologies, systems, tools, applications, work in progress and experiences on all related theoretical and practical issues. More specifically, EUSPN'14 will be focusing on the paradigm, infrastructures, models, and technologies that have significant contributions to the advancement of ubiquitous systems and pervasive networks theory, practices and their applications. EUSPN'14 will be held in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. Halifax is located on the east coast of Canada and is approximately a 6-hour flight from London, UK and a 2-hour flight from Toronto, Ontario. Halifax is a vibrant and modern city which is home to multiple academic institutions and where visitors can enjoy a variety of activities and entertainment from whale watching to Jazz festivals to world-class cuisine. Halifax is also home to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic which contains the world largest collection of Titanic artifacts. Nova Scotia is a picturesque province with many National and Provincial parks, and as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, has the highest tides in the world. All EUSPN-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in international journals special issues (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#journalSpecialIssues). Keynote speakers confirmed (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#keynoteSpeakers). Important Dates -------------------- - Workshop Proposals: March 24, 2014 - Paper Submission Due: May 30, 2014 (Extended and Final) - Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014 - Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 Topics of Interest Include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------------ - Ad hoc, Mesh and Sensor Networks - Autonomic and Pervasive Network Management - Cloud, Cluster, Grid and Social Computing - Data Science for Future Networks - Emerging Pervasive/Ubiquitous Technologies - Intelligent Computing - Internet of Things - Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Vehicular Networks & Telematics Applications Committees -------------- General Chairs Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Nirwan Ansari, University Heights Newark, USA Program Chairs Habib M. Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn , USA Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Advisory Committee Edward Blum, University of Southern California, USA Ali Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick, Canada Hossam Hassanein, Queen's University, Canada Vincenzo Loia, University of Salerno, Italy Zakaria Maamar, Zayed University, UAE Makoto Takizawa, Seikei University, Japan David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Tracks Chairs Mohamed Younis, University of Baltimore County, USA Ali Nafarieh, Dalhousie University, Canada Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Kechar Bouabdellah, Oran University, Algeria Jinhua Guo, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Shibo He, Zhejiang University, China Flavio Lombardi, Universita Roma Tre, Italy Marco Lutzenberger, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany Hamid Mcheick,University of Quebec At Chicoutimi, Canada Jie Shen, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA Workshops Chair St?hane Galland, IRTES-SET, France Ansar Yasser, Hasselt University, Belgium Local Arrangements Chairs Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Publicity Chairs Peng Hu, CMC Microsystems, Canada Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA Technical Program Committee Members http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/#programCommittees From wsnia2014cfp at gmail.com Wed May 14 22:44:13 2014 From: wsnia2014cfp at gmail.com (Peng Hu) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:44:13 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] WSNIA'14 CFP *** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 30 (Final Extension) *** Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS / DEMO POSTERS ---------------------------------- 2014 International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Applications (WSNIA-2014) To be held in conjunction with the FNC-2014 August 17-20, 2014, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Workshop URL: http://www.wsnia2014.com ----------------------------------- Over the recent decade, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have enabled numerous applications in different domains. With the advancement of embedded systems, sensing technology, and standardization efforts, the WSN-enabled solutions to different kinds of industrial applications have attracted growing attention. These applications include environmental sensing, home/building automation, industrial condition/process monitoring, etc. Moreover, there are many WSN-enabled industrial applications inspired by the new concepts, such as Industrial Internet of Things, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Smart Grid. The broad spectrum of WSN-enabled industrial applications involves many interdisciplinary research topics and research challenges which are yet to be solved. These challenges, for example, generally include timeliness, security, reliability, scalability, and quality of service. This workshop aims at bringing researchers together working in a variety of the subjects raised by the WSN-enabled industrial applications. Posters and research papers are welcome from communities at the fringe of industrial WSNs. Posters and papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed and assessed by the program committee. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Industrial WSN test-beds, applications, and data analytics in different areas - Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data, and Smart Manufacturing applications - Standards-based industrial WSNs (e.g., WirelessHART, ISA100.11a, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc.) - Fault-tolerant industrial WSNs and diagnostics - Wireless communication techniques and protocols - Energy harvesting and low-power solutions - Embedded systems software/hardware - System middleware and software services - Quality of service and performance evaluation - Real-time control and monitoring theories, cyber-physical systems - Real-time applications for enterprise asset management, inventory management, shop floor interactions, field service automation, fleet management, etc. - System integration into industrial networks in different levels (e.g., field device level, automation system level, network level, etc.) ----------------------------------- Poster Submission Guidelines: Posters showcasing the works-in-progress or applications are welcome to submit to the WSNIA-2014 workshop. All posters should keep the same format of a regular paper at least 3 pages following the Elsevier format as indicated in the submission guidelines in the Call for Papers. Please note that posters need to register as a regular paper. ----------------------------------- Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers accepted for the WSNIA-2014 workshop will be included in the FNC-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in FNC-2014 website ( http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/#paperSubmissions). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically in PDF format by the deadline at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsnia2014. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All WSNIA-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted onwww.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Indexhttp:// thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). ----------------------------------- Important Dates: - Submission due: May 30, 2014 (Final Extension) - Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2014 - Camera-ready due: June 19, 2014 - Workshop: August 17-20, 2014 ----------------------------------- Organizing Committee: Jin Jiang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Email: jjiang at uwo.ca Peng Hu, CMC Microsystems, Canada Email: hu at cmc.ca Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA Email: quanyan.zhu at nyu.edu ----------------------------------- Program Committee: Mikael Gidlund, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Yongjun Lai, Queen's University, Canada Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Zehua Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada Ataul Bari, University of Western Ontario, Canada Quan Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Darshika Perera, CMC Microsystems, Canada For any inquiries, please contact: wsnia2014 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These applications include environmental sensing, home/building automation, industrial condition/process monitoring, etc. Moreover, there are many WSN-enabled industrial applications inspired by the new concepts, such as Industrial Internet of Things, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and Smart Grid. The broad spectrum of WSN-enabled industrial applications involves many interdisciplinary research topics and research challenges which are yet to be solved. These challenges, for example, generally include timeliness, security, reliability, scalability, and quality of service. This workshop aims at bringing researchers together working in a variety of the subjects raised by the WSN-enabled industrial applications. Posters and research papers are welcome from communities at the fringe of industrial WSNs. Posters and papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed and assessed by the program committee. Topics of interest include but not limited to: - Industrial WSN test-beds, applications, and data analytics in different areas - Industrial Internet of Things, Big Data, and Smart Manufacturing applications - Standards-based industrial WSNs (e.g., WirelessHART, ISA100.11a, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc.) - Fault-tolerant industrial WSNs and diagnostics - Wireless communication techniques and protocols - Energy harvesting and low-power solutions - Embedded systems software/hardware - System middleware and software services - Quality of service and performance evaluation - Real-time control and monitoring theories, cyber-physical systems - Real-time applications for enterprise asset management, inventory management, shop floor interactions, field service automation, fleet management, etc. - System integration into industrial networks in different levels (e.g., field device level, automation system level, network level, etc.) ----------------------------------- Poster Submission Guidelines: Posters showcasing the works-in-progress or applications are welcome to submit to the WSNIA-2014 workshop. All posters should keep the same format of a regular paper at least 3 pages following the Elsevier format as indicated in the submission guidelines in the Call for Papers. Please note that posters need to register as a regular paper. ----------------------------------- Paper Submission Guidelines: All papers accepted for the WSNIA-2014 workshop will be included in the FNC-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in FNC-2014 website ( http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-14/#paperSubmissions). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically in PDF format by the deadline at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wsnia2014. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All WSNIA-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted onwww.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Indexhttp:// thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). ----------------------------------- Important Dates: - Submission due: May 30, 2014 (Final Extension) - Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2014 - Camera-ready due: June 19, 2014 - Workshop: August 17-20, 2014 ----------------------------------- Organizing Committee: Jin Jiang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Email: jjiang at uwo.ca Peng Hu, CMC Microsystems, Canada Email: hu at cmc.ca Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA Email: quanyan.zhu at nyu.edu ----------------------------------- Program Committee: Mikael Gidlund, ABB Corporate Research, Sweden Ramiro Liscano, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada Yongjun Lai, Queen's University, Canada Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada Zehua Wang, University of British Columbia, Canada Ataul Bari, University of Western Ontario, Canada Quan Wang, University of Western Ontario, Canada Darshika Perera, CMC Microsystems, Canada For any inquiries, please contact: wsnia2014 at easychair.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Thu May 15 05:46:02 2014 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 23:46:02 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: Ontology Design Patterns descriptions. Special call of the Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <5374387A.3040601@wright.edu> Special Call of the Semantic Web journal for ONTOLOGY DESIGN PATTERN DESCRIPTIONS http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-call-ontology-design-pattern-descriptions An ontology design pattern is a reusable solution to a recurring ontology modeling problem. Different kinds of ontology design patterns have been identified, and they are used for different purposes ranging from their use as building blocks and strategies for ontology creation to their utilization for heterogneity preservation in information integration. The Semantic Web journal calls for papers containing concise descriptions of an Ontology Design Pattern. Papers are typically expected to include discussions of at least the following aspects. * A general introduction concerning the rationale of making the pattern. * A graphical depiction of the pattern accompanied by an explanation, in intuitive terms, of the design choices made. * A detailed axiomatization, e.g. using OWL, for the relationships between the vocabulary terms used in the patterns. * A detailed discussion of related patterns or ontology modeling practices and their relationships with the presented pattern. * A convincing discussion of use cases. * Examples for existing datasets which can be used with the pattern. Papers will be evaluated along the following dimensions: Quality of the pattern, usefulness (or potential usefulness) of the pattern, clarity and completeness of the descriptions. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors Deadlines: Paper submission: June 15, 2014 Notification: Usually within 8 weeks of submission Members of the Guest Editorial Board will be invited as papers are submitted. In case of questions, please contact the Editors-in-chief: Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz contact at semantic-web-journal.net -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From pascal.hitzler at wright.edu Thu May 15 05:46:05 2014 From: pascal.hitzler at wright.edu (Pascal Hitzler) Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 23:46:05 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: Ontology Design Patterns descriptions. Special call of the Semantic Web journal Message-ID: <5374387D.3050709@wright.edu> Special Call of the Semantic Web journal for ONTOLOGY DESIGN PATTERN DESCRIPTIONS http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-call-ontology-design-pattern-descriptions An ontology design pattern is a reusable solution to a recurring ontology modeling problem. Different kinds of ontology design patterns have been identified, and they are used for different purposes ranging from their use as building blocks and strategies for ontology creation to their utilization for heterogneity preservation in information integration. The Semantic Web journal calls for papers containing concise descriptions of an Ontology Design Pattern. Papers are typically expected to include discussions of at least the following aspects. * A general introduction concerning the rationale of making the pattern. * A graphical depiction of the pattern accompanied by an explanation, in intuitive terms, of the design choices made. * A detailed axiomatization, e.g. using OWL, for the relationships between the vocabulary terms used in the patterns. * A detailed discussion of related patterns or ontology modeling practices and their relationships with the presented pattern. * A convincing discussion of use cases. * Examples for existing datasets which can be used with the pattern. Papers will be evaluated along the following dimensions: Quality of the pattern, usefulness (or potential usefulness) of the pattern, clarity and completeness of the descriptions. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors Deadlines: Paper submission: June 15, 2014 Notification: Usually within 8 weeks of submission Members of the Guest Editorial Board will be invited as papers are submitted. In case of questions, please contact the Editors-in-chief: Pascal Hitzler Krzysztof Janowicz contact at semantic-web-journal.net -- Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler Dept. of Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, OH pascal at pascal-hitzler.de http://www.knoesis.org/pascal/ Semantic Web Textbook: http://www.semantic-web-book.org Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net From georg.grossmann at cs.unisa.edu.au Thu May 15 10:33:20 2014 From: georg.grossmann at cs.unisa.edu.au (Georg Grossmann) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 18:03:20 +0930 Subject: [ecoop-info] CfP: MULTI-Level Modelling Workshop 2014 @ MODELS2014 Message-ID: <53747BD0.9070302@cs.unisa.edu.au> MULTI 2014 -- CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling (MULTI 2014) Co-Located with the ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2014) September, 28, 29 or 30, 2014 in Valencia, Spain Homepage: http://miso.es/multi/2014/ Contact: multi2014 at informatik.uni-mannheim.de Paper submission: 11 July 2014 Author notification: 22 August 2014 Proceedings online: 19 September 2014 In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of multi-level modelling approaches to better represent the multiple classification levels that are frequently found in the real world and are needed to effectively engineer languages. Multi-Level modelling approaches have not only been successfully used in numerous industrial projects and standards definition initiatives they are now supported by an array of dedicated tools. However there is still no clear consensus on what multi-level modelling actually is and what kinds of constructs and concepts provide the best support for it. For example, there are diverging views on whether it is sound to combine instance facets and type facets into so-called clabjects, whether strict metamodelling is too restrictive, and what principles should be used in establishing meta-level boundaries, etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in multi-level modelling to debate foundations, discuss challenges in applying multi-level modelling techniques and share experiences regarding multi-level modelling tools. GOALS The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with an interest in multi-level modelling to foster a fruitful cross-pollination of ideas and lay the foundation for a unified discipline. In particular, the workshop will aim to identify a set of criteria for judging the strengths and weaknesses of different multi-level modelling approaches and for defining possible benchmark case studies. We encourage submissions on new concepts, implementation approaches and formalisms as well as submissions on controversial positions, requirements for evaluation criteria or case-study scenarios. Contributions in the area of tool building, multi-level modelling applications, and educational material are also welcome. TOPICS Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: * the exact nature of elements in a multi-level hierarchy and how best to represent them * the importance and role of potency and its variants such as durability * the role of power types and the best way to represent them * the structure and labelling of a multi-level modelling framework * methods and technique for discovering multi-level elements, specialisations and classification relationships * formal approaches to multi-level modelling * experiences and challenges in providing tools for multi-level modelling * experiences and challenges in applying multi-level modelling techniques to large and/or real world problems * model management languages (transformation, constraint etc.) in a multilevel setting * criteria for comparing multi-level modelling approaches * comparisons of multi-level and two-level solutions for modelling problems CONTRIBUTIONS Two kinds of papers are solicited: regular papers (max 10 pages), and position papers (max 6 pages), adhering to Springer LNCS style. Accepted papers will be published as CEUR-WS workshop proceedings, and indexed in DBLP. The best papers will be considered for publication, in an extended form, in a theme issue of the Journal of Software & Systems Modeling (SoSyM). ORGANIZERS Colin Atkinson (Germany) Georg Grossmann (Australia) Thomas K?hne (New Zealand) Juan de Lara (Spain) PROGRAMM COMMITTEE Samir Al-Hilank (Germany) Joao-Paulo Almeida (Brazil) Jorn Bettin (Switzerland) Tony Clark (UK) Dirk Draheim (Austria) Alexander Egyed (Austria) Ulrich Frank (Germany) Ralph Gerbig (Germany) Martin Gogolla (Germany) Cesar Gonzalez-Perez (Spain) Esther Guerra (Spain) Brian Henderson-Sellers (Australia) Stefan Jablonski (Germany) Manfred Jeusfeld (Sweden) Ivan Kurtev (the Netherlands) Yngve Lamo (Norway) Tihamer Levendovszky (USA) Tomi M?nnist? (Finland) Wolfgang Pree (Austria) Alessandro Rossini (Norway) Michael Schrefl (Austria) Markus Stumptner (Australia) Hans Vangheluwe (Belgium) Daniel Varro (Hungary) Manuel Wimmer (Austria) Steffen Zschaler (UK) From patkos at csd.uoc.gr Thu May 15 15:49:45 2014 From: patkos at csd.uoc.gr (Theodore Patkos) Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 16:49:45 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CfP] Rule Challenge 2014 Final Call for Papers Message-ID: <5374C5F9.4090705@csd.uoc.gr> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers 8th International Rule Challenge 2014 (http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge) part of the RuleML 2014 symposium held in conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prague, Czech Republic, August 19, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------- About Rule Challenge 2014 ========================= The Rule Challenge 2014 is one of the highlights at the RuleML 2014 Symposium: it provides a showcase for innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Rule Challenge 2014 proceedings will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS, and a selection of the best systems will be invited for demonstration at PAIS 2014 (part of ECAI 2014). Moreover, a complimentary 1-year online membership is offered by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to RuleML Symposium participants who are new to AAAI. RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition ================================ RuleML Inc announces a US$1000 Award for the best RuleML Rulebase of 2014. This year's rulebases are solicited in Deliberation RuleML 1.01. More information is available here: http://blog.ruleml.org/post/28221570-4652-42e6-9556-8d304372bdeb/, "RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition" Topics ======= Key themes of the RuleML 2014 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following: - Demos related to the RuleML 2014 Track Topics - Extensions and implementations of rule-related standards, e.g. RIF, CL, SBVR, BPMN, BPEL, RuleML, etc. - Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning - Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules - Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines - Distributed rule bases and rule services - Reports on industrial experience about rule systems - Real cases and practical experiences Awards ======== At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards: * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards * RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition Award RuleML 2014 Challenge Chairs ============================ Theodore Patkos (FORTH-ICS, Greece) Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK) Adrian Giurca (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus--Senftenberg, Germany) Important Dates =============== Paper submission: 23 May 2014 Notification: 6 June 2014 Camera ready: 20 June 2014 Rule Challenge 2014 dates: 19 August 2014 Submission Guidelines ===================== High quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 2-15 pages can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014challenge Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). 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The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. ICTH-2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/). Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal. Keynote Speakers Confirmed: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#keynoteSpeakers We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems Clinical Data and Knowledge Management Cloud Computing for Healthcare Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare Data Visualization Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Drug Information Systems Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare Digital Hospitals E-health & m-health Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Health grids Health Portals Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare RFID Solutions for Healthcare Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments Telemedicine and Health Telematics Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare Usability & Socio-technical studies User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Chairs Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Chair Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada International Journal Chair Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada Publicity Chairs Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#programCommittees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From giacomo.cabri at unimore.it Fri May 16 10:57:33 2014 From: giacomo.cabri at unimore.it (Giacomo Cabri) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 10:57:33 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] SASO2014: Joint Call for Workshop Papers Message-ID: <5375D2FD.1030401@unimore.it> IEEE SASO Workshops: Call for Papers ******************************************************************** *** http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/saso2014/workshops.php *** ******************************************************************** *** Important Dates *** Paper Submission Deadline: July 11, 2014 Paper Acceptance Notification: August 1, 2014 Camera-Ready Deadline: August 13, 2014 Workshop Dates: September 8 and 12, 2014 *** Workshops *** 2nd Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems (FoCAS 2014) Workshop on Quality Assurance for Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems (QA4SASO) 2nd Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems (SASO^ST 2014) Workshop on Self-Adaptive Self-Organising Manufacturing Systems (SASOMS 2014) Workshop on Self-Adaptive Self-Organising Manufacturing Systems (SISSY 2014) ******************************************************************** *** 2nd Workshop on Fundamentals of Collective Adaptive Systems *** (FoCAS 2014) ******************************************************************** Monday, September 8th, 2014 http://focas.eu/focas-workshop-saso-2014 Organizing Committee: Emma Hart, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Giacomo Cabri, Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Collective Adaptive Systems (CAS) is a broad term that describes large scale systems that comprise of many units/nodes, each of which may have their own individual properties, objectives and actions. Decision-making in such a system is distributed and possibly highly dispersed, and interaction between the units may lead to the emergence of unexpected phenomena. CASs are open, in that nodes may enter or leave the collective at any time, and boundaries between CASs are fluid. The units can be highly heterogeneous (computers, robots, agents, devices, biological entities, etc.), each operating at different temporal and spatial scales, and having different (potentially conflicting) objectives and goals, even if often the system has a global goal that is pursued by means of collective actions. Our society increasingly depends on such systems, in which collections of heterogeneous technological nodes are tightly entangled with human and social structures to form artificial societies. Yet, to properly exploit them, we need to develop a deeper scientific understanding of the principles by which they operate, in order to better design them. This workshop solicits papers that address new methodologies, theories and principles that can be used in order to develop a better understanding of the fundamental factors underpinning the operation of such systems, so that we can better design, build, and analyse such systems. We welcome inter-disciplinary approaches. Invited contributions from the workshop will be published in a Special Issue of the Journal of Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (http://scpe.org/) ********************************************************************************* *** Workshop on Quality Assurance for Self-adaptive, Self-organising Systems *** (QA4SASO) ********************************************************************************* Monday, September 12th, 2014 http://qa4saso.isse.de Organizing Committee: Wolfgang Reif Augsburg University, Germany Institute for Software & Systems Engineering reif at informatik.uni-augsburg.de Franz Wotawa Technical University of Graz, Austria Institute for Software Technology wotawa at ist.tugraz.at Tom Holvoet Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Department of Computer Science tom.holvoet at cs.kuleuven.be For all enquiries about the workshop, please contact: Benedikt Eberhardinger Augsburg University, Germany Institute for Software & Systems Engineering benedikt.eberhardinger at informatik.uni-augsburg.de Developing self-adaptive, self-organising systems (SASO) that fulfil the requirements of different stakeholders is no simple matter. Quality assurance is required at each phase of the entire development process, starting from requirements elicitation, system architecture design, agent design, and finally in the implementation of the system. The quality of the artefacts from each development phase affects the rest of the system, since all parts are closely related to each other. Furthermore, the shift of adaption decisions from design-time to run-time - necessitated by the need of the systems to adapt to changing circumstances - makes it difficult, but even more essential, to assure high quality standards in these kind of systems. Accordingly, the analysis and evaluation of these self-* systems has to take into account the specific operational context to achieve high quality standards. ********************************************************************************* *** 2nd Workshop on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organising Socio-Technical Systems *** (SASO^ST 2014) ********************************************************************************* Friday, September 12th, 2014 http://sasost.isse.de Organizing Committee: Gerrit Anders, University of Augsburg, Germany, anders at informatik.uni-augsburg.de Jean Botev, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, jean.botev at uni.lu Markus Esch, Fraunhofer FKIE, Germany, markus.esch at fkie.fraunhofer.de The design and operation of computer systems has traditionally been driven by technical aspects and considerations. However, the usage characteristics of information and communication systems are both implicitly and explicitly determined by social interaction and the social graph of users. This aspect is becoming more and more evident with the increasing popularity of social network applications on the internet. This workshop will address all aspects of self-adaptive and self-organising mechanisms in socio-technical systems, covering different perspectives of this exciting research area ranging from normative and trust management systems to socio-inspired design strategies for distributed algorithms, collaboration platforms and communication protocols. SASO^ST 2014 has a call for papers and a call for talks *********************************************************************** *** Workshop on Self-Adaptive Self-Organising Manufacturing Systems *** (SASOMS 2014) *********************************************************************** Monday, September 8th, 2014 http://TBA Organizing Committee: Svetan Ratchev, University of Nottingham David Sanderson, University of Nottingham Derek McAuley, Connected Digital Economy Catapult SASOMS at nottingham.ac.uk Economic prosperity increasingly depends on maintaining and further expanding a resilient and sustainable manufacturing sector based on sophisticated technologies, relevant knowledge and skill bases, and a manufacturing infrastructure that has the ability to produce a high variety of complex products faster, better, and cheaper. Manufacturing competitiveness depends on maximising the utilisation of all available resources, empowering human intelligence and creativity, and capturing and capitalising on available information and knowledge for the whole product life cycle. It requires an infrastructure that can quickly respond to consumer and producer requirements, and minimise energy, transport, materials, and resource usage while maximising sustainability, safety, and economic competitiveness. Manufacture and distribution of products in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceutical, and medical industries is a key production process in high labour cost areas. To respond to the current challenges, manufacturers need to transform current capital-intensive assembly lines into smart systems that can react to external and internal changes and can self-heal, self-adapt, self-organise, and reconfigure. ***************************************************** *** Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration *** (SISSY 2014) ***************************************************** Monday, September 8th, 2014 http://www.informatik.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle /oc/Veranstaltungen/SISSY14/ Organizing Committee: Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, Kirstie.L.Bellman at aero.org Sven Tomforde, Universit?t Augsburg, Organic Computing Group, sven.tomforde at informatik.uni-augsburg.de Rolf P. W?rtz, Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Institute for Neural Computation, rolf.wuertz at ini.rub.de Please contact Sven Tomforde for all enquiries. This workshop intends to focus on the important work of applying self-X principles to the integration of ?Interwoven Systems" (where an "Interwoven System" is a system cutting across several technical domains, combining traditionally engineered systems, systems making use of self-X properties and methods, and human systems). The goal of the workshop is to identify key challenges involved in creating self-integrating systems and consider methods to achieve continuous self-improvement for this integration process. The workshop specifically targets an interdisciplinary community of researchers (i.e. from systems engineering, complex adaptive systems, socio-technical systems, and the OC/AC domains) in the hope that collective expertise from a range of domains can be leveraged to drive forward research in the area. -- |----------------------------------------------------| | Prof. Giacomo Cabri - Ph.D., Associate Professor | Dip. di Scienze Fisiche, Informatiche e Matematiche | Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia - Italia | e-mail giacomo.cabri at unimore.it | tel. +39-059-2058320 fax +39-059-2055216 |----------------------------------------------------| From synasc14 at synasc.ro Fri May 16 13:17:15 2014 From: synasc14 at synasc.ro (SYNASC 2014) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:17:15 +0300 (EEST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP Synasc 2014, Timisoara, Romania Message-ID: <1380033083.1330126.1400239035790.JavaMail.zimbra@synasc.ro> [Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] Call for Papers --------------- SYNASC 2014 16th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing September 22-25, 2014, Timisoara, Romania http://synasc.ro/2014/ http://synasc14.info.uvt.ro/ Aim --- SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction between the two scientific communities of symbolic and numeric computing and to exhibit interesting applications of the areas both in theory and in practice. The choice of the topic is motivated by the belief of the organizers that the dialogue between the two communities is very necessary for accelerating the progress in making the computer a truly intelligent aid for mathematicians and engineers. Important Dates --------------- 08 June 2014 (EXTENDED) : Abstract submission 15 June 2014 (EXTENDED) : Paper submission 27 July 2014 (EXTENDED) : Notification of acceptance 01 September 2014 : Registration 05 September 2014 : Revised papers according to the reviews 22-25 September 2014 : Symposium 30 November 2014 : Final papers for post-proceedings Tracks ------ * Symbolic Computation + computer algebra + symbolic techniques applied to numerics + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms + numerics and symbolics for geometry + programming with constraints, narrowing * Numerical Computing + iterative approximation of fixed points + solving systems of nonlinear equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization + parallel algorithms for numerical computing + scientific visualization and image processing * Logic and Programming + automatic reasoning + formal system verification + formal verification and synthesis + software quality assessment + static analysis + timing analysis * Artificial Intelligence + methods for hard computational problems + intelligent systems for scientific computing + agent-based complex systems modeling and development + scientific knowledge management + computational intelligence + machine learning + recommender and expert systems for scientific computing + data mining and web mining + natural language processing + uncertain reasoning in scientific computing + intelligent hybrid systems * Distributed Computing + parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving + applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments + architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing + modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators + any other topic deemed relevant to the field * Advances in the Theory of Computing + data Structures and algorithms + combinatorial Optimization + formal languages and Combinatorics on Words + graph-theoretic and Combinatorial methods in Computer Science + algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms + computational Complexity Theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing + logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory + algorithmic and computational learning theory + aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory + proof complexity + computational social choice and game theory + new computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to Computability + randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity + automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification + applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics + experimental algorithmics This list is not intended to be exhaustive. Workshops --------- * Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys) http://synasc.ro/2014/workshops/acsys-2014 * Workshop on Computational Topology in Image Context (CTIC) http://ctic2014.synasc.ro/index.html * Workshop on HPC research services (HPCReS) http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcres-2014-international-workshop-on-hpc-research-services/ * Workshop on GIC and Hydrologic Modeling (HydroGIS) http://synasc.ro/2014/workshops/hydrogis-2014 * Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP) http://synasc.ro/2014/workshops/iafp-2014 * Workshop on Management of Resources and Services in Cloud and Sky Computing (MICAS) http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2014 * Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA) http://synasc.ro/2014/workshops/nca-2014 Tutorials --------- * Tutorial on Symbolic Summation in Difference Rings http://synasc.ro/2014/tutorials/carsten-schneider * Tutorial Multi-Cloud http://synasc.ro/2014/tutorials/multi-cloud Publication ----------- Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be collected as post-proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS) (included in IEEE Xplore) and will be submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science, DBLP, SCOPUS. Extended versions of the selected papers published in post-proceedings will be considering to be published as special issues in international journals. Invited Speakers ---------------- * Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Gheorghe Paun, Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania * William Langdon, University College London, UK * Stefan Takacs, TU Chemnitz, Germany * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan Honorary Chairs --------------- * Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Stefan Maruster, West University of Timisoara, Romania Steering Committee ------------------ * Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania General Chair ------------- * Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania Program Chair ------------- * Franz Winkler, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Track Chairs ------------ * Symbolic Computation + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan + Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada * Numerical Computing + Richard Liska, Technical University of Prague, Czech Republic + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Logic and Programming + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria + Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden * Artificial Intelligence + Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Distributed Computing + Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, US and West University of Timisoara, Romania + Karoly Bosa, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Advances in the Theory of Computing + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania + Gabriel Istrate, Research Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Special sessions and workshops chair ------------------------------------ * Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania Tutorial chair -------------- * Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Proceedings Chairs ------------------ * Franz Winkler, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria * Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania Local Committee Chairs ---------------------- * Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania * Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania Submission ----------- Submissions of research papers are invited. The papers must contain original research results not submitted and not published elsewhere. The submission process consists of two steps. * In the first step the authors are invited to express their intention to participate at the conference by submitting a short abstract (1/2 page, at maximum) where it is clearly stated the main contribution(s) of the paper. * In the second step the authors should submit the full paper (up to 8 pages in the two-columns IEEE conference style). Both the abstract and the full paper should be submitted electronically through http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2014. ----------- SYNASC 2014 West University of Timisoara Department of Computer Science Bd. V. Parvan 4, 300223 Timisoara, Romania tel: + (40) 256 592195, +(40) 256 592389 fax: + (40) 256 592316, +(40) 256 592380 e-mail: synasc14 at synasc.ro From grace.sdiwc at gmail.com Fri May 16 18:07:12 2014 From: grace.sdiwc at gmail.com (Grace Allas) Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 00:07:12 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CFP for Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications Message-ID: [My apologies for receiving multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------- The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communications DINWC2014 June 24-26, 2014 VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Ostrava, Czech Republic http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic From June 24-26, 2014. 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The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: ? Access Controls ? Antenna Systems and Design ? Anti-cyberterrorism ? Assurance of Service ? Biometrics Technologies ? Channel Modeling and Propagation ? Cloud Computing ? Coding for Wireless Systems ? Computational Intelligence ? Computer Crime Prevention and Detection ? Computer Forensics ? Computer Security ? Confidentiality Protection ? Critical Computing and Storage ? Critical Infrastructure Management ? Cryptography and Data Protection ? Data Compression ? Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks ? Data Mining ? Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks ? Digital Communications ? Distributed and Parallel Applications ? E-Government ? E-Learning ? E-Technology ? Embedded Systems and Software ? Forensics, Recognition Technologies and Applications ? Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems ? Green Computing ? Grid Computing ? Information Technology Human Resources ? Information Technology Infrastructure ? Information Technology Strategies ? Mobile Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity ? Mobile Social Networks ? Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Management ? Multimedia Computing ? Multiuser and Multiple Access Schemes ? National Policies and Standards ? Network Security ? Optical Wireless Communications ? Peer-to-Peer Social Networks ? Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance ? Resource Allocation over Wireless Networks ? Security; Authentication and Cryptography for Wireless Networks ? Signal Processing Techniques and Tools ? Software and Cognitive Radio ? System Development and Implementation ? Technology Developments ? Technology Futures ? Wireless Communications ? Wireless System Architectures and Applications ? Wireless Traffic and Routing Ad-hoc Networks All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. Event email ad: digitalsec2014 at sdiwc.net Paper Submission: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/openconf/openconf.php Registration: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/digitsec2014/registration/ -------------------------- Important Dates: Submission Deadline : May 25, 2014 Notification of Acceptance : June 04, 2014 or 4 weeks from the submission date Camera Ready Submission : June 14, 2014 Registration Date : June 14, 2014 however, it is recommended to do it few days before Conference Dates : June 24-26, 2014 Contact email: digitalsec2014 at sdiwc.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mavega at unex.es Fri May 16 18:12:30 2014 From: mavega at unex.es (Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:12:30 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [Deadline Extended] CFP - IEEE Cluster Workshop: PBio 2014 (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in Journal CCPE (IF: 0.845, Q2) Message-ID: <537638EE.1000602@unex.es> Call for Papers --- IEEE Cluster Workshop: 2nd International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in the Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) (Impact Factor: 0.845, Quartile Q2) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2014 (EXTENDED) We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for DNA computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio2014/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-25-72-63 Fax: +34-927-25-71-87 ------------------------------------------------- From icfp.publicity at googlemail.com Fri May 16 22:26:29 2014 From: icfp.publicity at googlemail.com (David Van Horn) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:26:29 -0400 Subject: [ecoop-info] ICFP 2014 Student Research Competition: Call for Submissions Message-ID: ====================================================================== CALL FOR SUBMISSION SRC at ICFP 2014 Gothenburg, Sweden 1-3 September 2014 http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2014/src.html Co-located with the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP 2014) ====================================================================== Student Research Competition ------------------------ This year ICFP will host a Student Research Competition where undergraduate and postgraduate students can present posters. The SRC at the ICFP 2014 consists of three rounds: Extended abstract round: All students are encouraged to submit an extended abstract outlining their research (800 words). Poster session at ICFP 2014: Based on the abstracts, a panel of judges will select the most promising entrants to participate in the poster session which will take place at ICFP. Students who make it to this round will be eligible for some travel support to attend the conference. In the poster session, students will have the opportunity to present their work to the judges, who will select three finalists in each category* (graduate/undergraduate) to advance to the next round. ICFP presentation: The last round will consist of an oral presentation at the ICFP to compete for the final awards in each category. Prizes ----- * Both the top three graduate and the top three undergraduate winners will receive prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. * All six winners will receive award medals and a two-year complimentary ACM student membership, including a subscription to ACM???s Digital Library. * The names of the winners will be posted on the SRC web site. * The overall first place winner of the SRC will be invited to participate in the ACM SRC Grand Finals, an on-line round of competitions among the winners of other conference-hosted SRCs. * Grand Finalists and their advisors will be invited to the Annual ACM Awards Banquet for an all-expenses-paid trip, where they will be recognized for their accomplishments along with other prestigious ACM award winners, including the winner of the Turing Award (also known as the Nobel Prize of Computing). * The top three graduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. Likewise, the top three undergraduate Grand Finalists will receive an additional $500, $300, and $200. All six Grand Finalists will receive Grand Finalist certificates. * The ACM, Microsoft Research, and our industrial partners provide financial support for students attending the SRC. You can find more information about this on the ACM website. Eligibility -------- The SRC is open to both undergraduate (not in a PhD programme) and graduate students (in a PhD programme). Upon submission, entrants must be enrolled as a student at their universities, and are ACM student members. Furthermore, there are some constraints on what kind of work may be submitted. Previously published work: Submissions should consist of original work (not yet accepted for publication). If the work is a continuation of previously published work, the submission should focus on the contribution over what has already been published. We encourage students to see this as an opportunity to get early feedback and exposure for the work they plan to submit to the next ICFP or POPL. Collaborative work: Students are encouraged to submit work they have been conducting in collaboration with others, including advisors, internship mentors, or other students. However, submissions are individual, so they must focus on the contributions of the student. Submission Details --------------- Each submission should include the student author???s name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address, and postal address; research advisor???s name; ACM student member number; category (undergraduate or graduate); research title; and an extended abstract addressing the following: * Problem and Motivation: Clearly state the problem being addressed and explain the reasons for seeking a solution to this problem. * Background and Related Work: Describe the specialized (but pertinent) background necessary to appreciate the work. Include references to the literature where appropriate, and briefly explain where your work departs from that done by others. * Approach and Uniqueness: Describe your approach in attacking the problem and clearly state how your approach is novel. * Results and Contributions: Clearly show how the results of your work contribute to computer science and explain the significance of those results. The abstract must describe the student???s individual research and must be authored solely by the student. If the work is collaborative with others and/or part of a larger group project, the abstract should make clear what the student???s role was and should focus on that portion of the work. The extended abstract must not exceed 800 words and must not be longer than 2 pages. The reference list does not count towards these limits. To submit an abstract, please register through the submission page and follow the instructions. Abstracts submitted after the deadline may be considered at the committee's discretion, but only after decisions have been made on all abstracts submitted before the deadline. If you have any problems, don't hesitate to contact the competition chair. Important Dates ------------- * Deadline for submission: 29 June * Notification of acceptance: 14 July Selection Committee ---------------- Jeremy Gibbons, University of Oxford Andrew Kennedy, Microsoft Research Cambridge Matthieu Sozeau, INRIA Paris Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Indiana University Meng Wang, Chalmers University of Technology (Chair) Stephanie Weirich, University of Pennsylvania Transport of your poster ------------------- You can either bring your poster on your own to the conference or mail it to the local organizers: Attn.: Meng Wang Chalmers University of Technology Department of Computer Science and Engineering SE-412 96 G?teborg, Sweden If you choose to mail, please make sure that the poster will arrive at the latest on 30th August 2014. From mrasslan at alumni.concordia.ca Sat May 17 10:49:14 2014 From: mrasslan at alumni.concordia.ca (Mohamed rasslan) Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 10:49:14 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP:: The International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2014 (PSCare14) Message-ID: Dears, It gives me honor to invite you to submit your work to The International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2014 (PSCare14), Halifax, Canada, 22-25 September 2014. I highly appreciate your acceptance and cooperation. PSCare14 workshop URL: https://sites.google.com/site/pscare14/ Please note that the date for submission for PSCare14 has been extended: Important Dates ------------------ - Paper Submission Due: May 30, 2014 (Extended and Final) - Acceptance Notification: June 24, 2014 - Final Manuscript Due: July 17, 2014 Please encourage your colleagues to submit papers and please consider submitting a paper yourself. The International Workshop on Privacy and Security in HealthCare 2014 (PSCare14) is an international forum dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practical implementation of Privacy and Security in HealthCare. PSCare14 intends to provide the state-of-the-art technologies in the broad areas of privacy and security techniques in healthcare to industry, researchers, physicians, engineers, and students. PSCare14 will be held in Halifax, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 4th International Conference on Current and Future Trends of Information and Communication Technologies in Healthcare (ICTH-2014). ICTH-2014 URL:http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/ Best Regards, Mohamed Raslan, Ph.D. From fjblas at arcos.inf.uc3m.es Sat May 17 20:49:58 2014 From: fjblas at arcos.inf.uc3m.es (=?utf-8?Q?Javier_Garcia_Blas?=) Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 20:49:58 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_Workshop_on_Enhancing_Parallel_Scie?= =?utf-8?q?ntific_Applications_with_Accelerated_HPC_=28ESAA=29_2014_+_Spec?= =?utf-8?q?ial_Issue__=28Deadline_extended_to_May_31st=29?= Message-ID: <050cdbd8.wbP.xC0.1e.8xyEwY@mailjet.com> View online version International Workshop on Enhancing Parallel Scientific Applications with Accelerated HPC (ESAA 2014) to be held as part of EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 Kyoto, Japan, September 9-12, 2014 Extended deadline to May 31st!!! BACKGROUND Since 2011, the most powerful supercomputers systems ranked in the Top500 list are hybrid systems composed of thousands of nodes that includes CPUs and accelerators, as Xeon Phi and GPUs. Programming and deploying applications on those systems is still a challenging work, due to the complexity of the system and the need to mix several programming interfaces (MPI, CUDA, Intel Xeon Phi) in the same application.This Workshop is aimed to explore the state of the art of developing applications in accelerated massive HPC architectures, including practical issues of hybrid usage models with MPI, OpenMP, and other accelerators programming models. The idea is to publish novel work on the use of available programming interfaces (MPI, CUDA, Intel Xeon Phi) and tools for code development, application performance optimizations, application deployment on accelerated systems, as well as the advantages and limitations of accelerated HPC systems. Experiences with real-world applications, including scientific computing, numerical simulations, healthcare, energy, data-analysis, etc. are also encouraged. TOPICS Areas of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to: Tools, libraries, and environments for accelerators. Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and accelerators. Performance evaluation scientific applications based on accelerators. Automatic performance tuning of scientific applications with accelerators. Integrating accelerators on existing HPC middlewares. Run-times for accelerators. Energy efficient HPC solutions based on accelerators. Storage cache solutions based on SSD accelerators. Parallel data analysis for MPI and SSD. Real-world scientific and engineering applications using accelerated HPC. Future trends and prospects for accelerated HPC. SPECIAL ISSUE Extended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in ESAA 2014, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Computers & Electrical Engineering . SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES Submission: May 31st, 2014 Author notification: June 6th, 2014 Camera Ready papers due: June 20th, 2014 Conference: September 9th-12th, 2014 COMMITTEE Workshop Organizers: Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. Program Committee: Ivona Brandic. Vienna University of Technology, Austria Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Francisco Igual Pe?a, Universidad Complutense, Spain Florin Isaila, Argonne National Labs, Chicago, USA Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Timothy K. Jones, University of Cambridge, UK Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, University of Lyon, France Diego R. Llanos, University of Valladolid,Spain Dimitar Lukarski, Uppsala University, Sweden Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Raffaele Montella, University of Napoli Parthenope, Italy Ravi S Nanjundiah, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India Ariel Olesiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Antonio J. Pe?a, Argonne National Labs, Chicago, USA Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I de Castellon, Spain Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada Leonel Sousa, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Alexander Supalov, INTEL, USA Rupa K. Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Manuel Ujaldon, Universidad de Malaga, Spain Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Julius Zilinskas, Vilnius University, Lithuani Xingshe Zhou, Northwestern Polytech University, China PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 6 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to double-column ACM ICPS proceedings style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found at www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/ . All contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Registration for EuroMPI/ASIA 2014 main conference is mandatory to attend workshops. 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There have also been presentations on a variety of proposed benchmarks including, BigBench, HiBench, BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline. Meeting Topics: To continue making progress towards big data benchmarking standards, the workshop will explore a range of issues including: - Data features: New feature sets of data including, high-dimensional data, sparse data, event-based data, and enormous data sizes. - System characteristics: System-level issues including, large-scale and evolving system configurations, shifting loads, and heterogeneous technologies for big data and cloud platforms. - Implementation options: Different implementation options such as SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop software ecosystem, and different implementations of HDFS. - Workloads: Representative big data business problems and corresponding benchmark implementations. Specification of benchmark applications that represent the different modalities of big data, including graphs, streams, scientific data, and document collections. - Hardware options: Evaluation of new options in hardware including different types of HDD, SSD, and main memory, and large-memory systems, and new platform options that include dedicated commodity clusters and cloud platforms. - Synthetic data generation: Models and procedures for generating large-scale synthetic data with requisite properties. - Benchmark execution rules: E.g. data scale factors, benchmark versioning to account for rapidly evolving workloads and system configurations, benchmark metrics. - Metrics for efficiency: Measuring the efficiency of the solution, e.g. based on costs of acquisition, ownership, energy and/or other factors, while encouraging innovation and avoiding benchmark escalations that favor large inefficient configuration over small efficient configurations. - Evaluation frameworks: Tool chains, suites and frameworks for evaluating big data systems. - Early implementations: E.g. of, say, BigBench, HiBench, BigDataBenchmark, BigDecision, and the Deep Analytics Pipeline, and lessons learned in benchmarking big data applications. ================================ Important Dates: - Submission Date: May 30 - Notification Date: June 20 - Camera-ready: August 30 ================================ General Chairs Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) UC San Diego Tilmann Rabl, Middleware Services Research Group, University of Toronto Kai Sachs, SAP AG Local Arrangements Matthias Uflacker, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Publicity Chair Henning Schmitz, SAP Innovation Center Publication Chair Meikel Poess, Oracle Program Committee Milind Bhandarkar, Pivotal Anja Bog, SAP Labs Dhruba Borthakur, Facebook Joos-Hendrik B?se, Amazon Tobias B?rger, Payback Tyson Condie, UCLA Kshitij Doshi, Intel Pedro Furtado, University of Coimbra Bhaskar Gowda, Intel Goetz Graefe, HP Martin Grund, Exascale Alfons Kemper, TU M?nchen Donald Kossmann, ETH Z?rich Tim Kraska, Brown University Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden Christof Leng, UC Berkeley Raghu Nambiar, Cisco Manoj Karunakaran Nambiar, Tata Consulting Services Glenn Paulley, Conestoga College Scott Pearson, CLDS Industry Fellow Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin / HU Berlin Berni Schiefer, IBM Labs Toronto Saptak Sen, Hortonworks Florian Stegmaier, University of Passau Till Westmann, Oracle Labs Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science Contact Info: For questions please contact Chaitan Baru, baru at sdsc.edu ============================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please consider contributing, and circulate this CfP among your colleagues and students. ========================== 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF PROGRAMMING ON THE JAVA PLATFORM: VIRTUAL MACHINES, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TOOLS Cracow, Poland, September 23-26, 2014 http://www.pppj2014.uck.pk.edu.pl ========================== AIM & SCOPE ========================== Java today is envisaged as a fundamental technology for future generation scalable intelligent systems. The modern Java-based Platforms cover a rich diversity of system components, languages, tools, frameworks and techniques. It impacts and is impacted by all recent developments in the cloud, networks and mobile computing and related spaces. PPPJ'14 - the 11th conference in the PPPJ series - provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. ========================== Important Dates ========================== Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Authors notification: July 12, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: July 26, 2014 Conference dates: September 23-26, 2014 ========================== Topics ========================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual machines for Java and Java-like language support: * JVM and similar VMs * VM design and optimization * VMs for mobile and embedded devices * Real-time VMs * Isolation and resource control Languages on the Java platform: * JVM languages (Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala) * Domain-specific languages * Language design and calculi * Compilers * Language interoperability * Parallelism and concurrency * Modular and aspect-oriented programming * Model-driven development * Frameworks and applications * Teaching Techniques and tools for the Java platform: * Static and dynamic program analysis * Testing * Verification * Security and information flow * Workload characterization Please contact the PC Chair, Bruce Childers (email: childers(at)cs.pitt.edu) to clarify whether a particular topic falls within the scope of PPPJ2014. ====================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== PPPJ accepts three types of papers: full research papers (up to 12 pages), short research and industry papers (up to 6 pages), and tool papers (up to 4 pages). All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be available from the ACM Digital Library. More information about review criteria, submission guidelines and paper format are available from the PPPJ web site. ===================== CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lorenzo Bettini, University of Torino, Italy Fernando Miguel Gamboa Carvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Xavier Clerc, INRIA, France Luke D?Alessandro, Indiana University, USA Cormac Flanagan, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA John Gough, Oracle, USA David Gregg, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India Rajiv Gupta, Univeristy of California Riverside, USA Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Herbert Kuchen, University of Muenster, Germany Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo, USA Du Li, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Jonathan Misurda, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, University of Linz, Austria Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Italy Mauricio Pilla, University of Pelotas (UFPEL), Brasil Vivek Sarkar, Rice University, USA Jennifer B. Sartor, Ghent University, Belgium Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia, USAia Chenggang Wu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia GENERAL CHAIR: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland PROGRAMME CHAIR: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ciprian Dobre, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania Prem Jayaraman, CSIRO, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE: Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, Germany Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Magdalena Szmajduch, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Daniel Grzonka, Cracow University of Technology, Poland LOCAL ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT: Anna Plichta, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Katarzyna Smelcerz, Cracow University of Technology, Poland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Please consider contributing, and circulate this CfP among your colleagues and students. ========================== 2014 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF PROGRAMMING ON THE JAVA PLATFORM: VIRTUAL MACHINES, PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND TOOLS Cracow, Poland, September 23-26, 2014 http://www.pppj2014.uck.pk.edu.pl ========================== AIM & SCOPE ========================== Java today is envisaged as a fundamental technology for future generation scalable intelligent systems. The modern Java-based Platforms cover a rich diversity of system components, languages, tools, frameworks and techniques. It impacts and is impacted by all recent developments in the cloud, networks and mobile computing and related spaces. PPPJ'14 - the 11th conference in the PPPJ series - provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss novel results on all aspects of programming on the Java platform including virtual machines, languages, tools, methods, frameworks, libraries, case studies, and experience reports. ========================== Important Dates ========================== Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2014, 11:59 PM EST Authors notification: July 12, 2014 Camera-ready papers due: July 26, 2014 Conference dates: September 23-26, 2014 ========================== Topics ========================== Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Virtual machines for Java and Java-like language support: * JVM and similar VMs * VM design and optimization * VMs for mobile and embedded devices * Real-time VMs * Isolation and resource control Languages on the Java platform: * JVM languages (Clojure, Groovy, Java, JRuby, Kotlin, Scala) * Domain-specific languages * Language design and calculi * Compilers * Language interoperability * Parallelism and concurrency * Modular and aspect-oriented programming * Model-driven development * Frameworks and applications * Teaching Techniques and tools for the Java platform: * Static and dynamic program analysis * Testing * Verification * Security and information flow * Workload characterization Please contact the PC Chair, Bruce Childers (email: childers(at)cs.pitt.edu) to clarify whether a particular topic falls within the scope of PPPJ2014. ====================== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ====================== PPPJ accepts three types of papers: full research papers (up to 12 pages), short research and industry papers (up to 6 pages), and tool papers (up to 4 pages). All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, which will be available from the ACM Digital Library. More information about review criteria, submission guidelines and paper format are available from the PPPJ web site. ===================== CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS ===================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lorenzo Bettini, University of Torino, Italy Fernando Miguel Gamboa Carvalho, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal Xavier Clerc, INRIA, France Luke D?Alessandro, Indiana University, USA Cormac Flanagan, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine, USA John Gough, Oracle, USA David Gregg, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland Apala Guha, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India Rajiv Gupta, Univeristy of California Riverside, USA Andreas Krall, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Herbert Kuchen, University of Muenster, Germany Prasad Kulkarni, University of Kansas, USA Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo, USA Du Li, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Jonathan Misurda, University of Pittsburgh, USA Hanspeter M?ssenb?ck, University of Linz, Austria Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Italy Mauricio Pilla, University of Pelotas (UFPEL), Brasil Vivek Sarkar, Rice University, USA Jennifer B. Sartor, Ghent University, Belgium Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia, USAia Chenggang Wu, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia GENERAL CHAIR: Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Poland PROGRAMME CHAIR: Bruce R. Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Ciprian Dobre, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania Prem Jayaraman, CSIRO, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE: Markus Aleksy, ABB Corporate Research, Germany Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Conrad Cunningham, University of Mississippi, USA Martin Pl?micke, Duale Hochschule Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany Christian Probst, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark WEB ADMINISTRATOR: Magdalena Szmajduch, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Daniel Grzonka, Cracow University of Technology, Poland LOCAL ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT: Anna Plichta, Cracow University of Technology, Poland Katarzyna Smelcerz, Cracow University of Technology, Poland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sebastian.goetz at acm.org Mon May 19 11:06:14 2014 From: sebastian.goetz at acm.org (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_G=F6tz?=) Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 11:06:14 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: 9th International Workshop on Models@run.time Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 9th International Workshop on Models at run.time Co-located with ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages & Systems (MODELS 2014) September 28th - October 3rd, 2014, Valencia, Spain http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/MRT2014/ Important Dates Submissions of papers: July 11th, 2014 Notification: August 22nd, 2014 Workshop date: t.b.a. We are witnessing the emergence of new classes of application that are highly complex, inevitably distributed, and operate in heterogeneous and rapidly changing environments. Such systems are required to be adaptable, flexible, reconfigurable and, increasingly, self-managing. Such characteristics make systems more prone to failure when executing and thus the development and study of appropriate mechanisms for runtime validation and monitoring is required. In the model-driven software development area, research effort has focused primarily on using models at design, implementation, and deployment stages of development. However, the use of model-driven techniques for validating and monitoring run-time behaviour can also yield significant benefits. A key benefit is that models provide a richer semantic base for run-time decision-making. For example, one can use models to help determine when a system reconfiguration is beneficial. Model-based monitoring and management of executing systems plays a significant role in implementing the key self-* properties associated with autonomic computing. The goal of this workshop is to look at issues related to developing appropriate model-driven approaches to managing and monitoring the execution of systems. We build on the previous events where we have succeeded in building a community and bringing about an initial exploration of the core ideas of Models at Runtime and now seek: - experiences with actual implementations of the models at run.time concept - rationalisation of the various concepts into overall architectural perspectives - to make explicit the specific roles that models play at runtime. - impact on software engineering methodologies - to continue to build a network of researchers in this emerging area, based on the results of the earlier editions. Workshop Format The workshop participants will be selected based on their experience and ideas related to this new and emerging field. You are invited to apply for attendance by sending a full-paper (8-10 pages) or a position paper (5-6 pages) in PDF. The paper must conform to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs (it is the same format of the Conference, see conference website for more information). Submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 PC members. The authors will be notified about acceptance before the MODELS 2014 early registration deadline. Candidates for best papers (if finally chosen) can be just taken from the category of full-papers. A primary deliverable of the workshop is a report that clearly outlines (1) the research issues and challenges in terms of specific research problems in the area, and (2) a synopsis of existing model-based solutions that target some well-defined aspect of monitoring and managing the execution of systems. Potential attendees are strongly encouraged to submit position papers that clearly identify research issues and challenges, present techniques that address well-defined problems in the area, and are supported by small demos. The workshop aims to: - Integrate and combine research ideas from the areas cited above. - Provide a "state-of-the-research" assessment expressed in terms of research issues, challenges, and accomplishments. A preliminary version of the intended outcome can be found in the summary of last year's models at run. time workshop (see homepage). - Plan and promote further events on these topics. Papers on models at run.time can relate (but are not limited) to the following domains: - Safety-critical systems - Cyber-physical systems - Energy-efficient systems - Cloud-based systems - Self-adaptive systems in general We strongly encourage authors to address the following topics in their papers when relevant. - What a runtime model looks like and how does it evolve? - How are the causal links with executing code realized? - The role of models at run.time in the software development process - Models at runtime, the silver bullet for runtime assurance and V&V? - Role of requirement at runtime, requirements reflection - MDE at Runtime: Are MDE tools ready (performance, etc.) for more dynamic usages? - How do models at other phases of the SE lifecycle relate to the corresponding runtime models? - Models at runtime and scalability: horizontally (managing large set of nodes) and vertically (from the cloud to the sensors) - Models at runtime and software aging: does it help or hurt? - Small demos and tools that support the use of models at run.time - Vision papers on novel future directions for models at runtime - No papers on executable models, unless they are causally (bi-)connected to a running system. Organizers - Sebastian G?tz (main contact), TU Dresden, Germany - Mohammed Al-Refai, Colorado State University, USA - Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK - Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Programme Committee - Christoph Bockisch, Uni. Twente, Netherlands - Walter Cazzola, Uni. Milano, Italy - Franck Chauvel, SINTEF, Norway - Peter J. Clark, Florida International University, USA - Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias, Brazil - Antonio Filieri, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany - Holger Giese, Universit?t Potsdam, Germany - Martin Gogolla, Universit?t Bremen, Germany - Gang Huang, Peking University, China - Jean-Marc J?z?quel, Triskell Team,IRISA, France - Rui Silva Moreira, UFP & INESC, Portugal - Hausi A. M?ller, Uni. of Victoria, Canada - Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen, Germany - Matthias Tichy, Uni. Gothenborg, Germany - Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany - Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway - Hui Song, SINTEF, Norway - Tha?s Vasconcelos Batista, UFRN, Brasil - Thomas Vogel, Universit?t Potsdam, Germany - Andreas Winter, Universit?t Oldenburg, Germany - Uwe Zdun, Uni. Vienna, Austria -- -- -- Dr.-Ing. Sebastian G?tz Researcher Technische Universit?t Dresden Fakult?t f?r Informatik Institut f?r Software- und Multimediatechnik Lehrstuhl f?r Softwaretechnologie www: http://www.st.inf.tu-dresden.de/ Mail: sebastian.goetz at acm.org Kontakt: INF 2082 Tel.: +49 351 463 38346 jExam Group www: http://www.jexam.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Show us your stuff! *FPW?ELC* will present live demonstrations before an audience. The SPLASH event will be an intense, private *writer?s workshop*1 ,2 . This process will be a chance to give and take both creative support and incisive criticism. Submissions will be *15 minute demo screencasts*. You can select either or both of the events in your submission. The submission deadline is June 8 and notifications will be sent June 27. After the events participants will have until December 1 to revise their screencasts for archival publication on our website. The online version of this call is at http://www.future-programming.org/call.html. The submission site is now open. For questions please see the FAQ or ask info at future-programming.org . *Program Committee* - Jeremy Ashkenas, New York Times - Avi Bryant, Stripe - Chas Emerick - Steve Jenson - Gregor Kiczales, U. British Columbia - Andrew Ko, U. 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URL: From taoxie at illinois.edu Mon May 19 21:44:45 2014 From: taoxie at illinois.edu (Tao Xie) Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 14:44:45 -0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers (Deadline Upcoming): IEEE Software Special Issue on Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond Message-ID: Call for Papers: IEEE Software Special Issue "Software Engineering for Internet Computing: Internetware and Beyond" Submission Deadline: **1 June 2014** Publication: January/February 2015 Detailed CFP: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/swcfp1 This special issue seeks articles that explore state-of-the-art research and industry practices of software engineering for Internet computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: *. software and programming models for dominant and emerging Internet-based systems such as cloud computing, service computing, social computing, mobile Internet, Internet-of-things, and cyber-physical systems; *. platforms and application frameworks for Internet-based software, such as Web-based integration (for example, REST and JSON), infrastructure provisioning and deployment (for example, OpenStack and Capistrano), Web-scale data analytics and content handling (for example, MongoDB and Hadoop); *. engineering and quality-assurance approaches for Internet-based software; *. software design models for Internet-based software, such as UML, BPM, and Petri Net; *. software development processes and tools for the Internet (for example, agile development for Internet-based software), or with the Internet (for example, cloud-based development environments); *. technology and human-interaction models and techniques in the development of Internet-based software; *. migration or integration of legacy software to Internet-based software; and *. case studies and experience reports on one or more of the above aspects in industry practices. 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URL: From Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk Tue May 20 11:28:40 2014 From: Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk (Sergio de Cesare) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:28:40 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline extension - 1st Joint Workshop Onto.Com/ODISE Message-ID: <1A7DB4CD-4C73-476C-8ADE-FDC7BAD097C9@brunel.ac.uk> *** Deadline extended to 1 June 2014 *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 1st Joint Workshop Onto.Com/ODISE on Ontologies in Conceptual Modeling and Information Systems Engineering URL: http://www.mis.ugent.be/ONTO-ODISE-2014/ co-located with the 8th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2014) 22-25 September 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil *** Purpose and scope *** The role of formal ontology in Conceptual Modeling (CM) and Information Systems Engineering (ISE) is increasingly being recognized as fundamental by both the research and practitioner communities. The importance of formal ontology to these interrelated areas has been the theme of two workshops series held over the past years, namely the Workshop on Ontologies and Conceptual Modeling (Onto.Com) and the Workshop on Ontology-Driven Information Systems Engineering (ODISE). Given the strong relationship between the two fields as well as the synergies between the workshops, Onto.Com and ODISE have merged at FOIS 2014. Formal ontology, whose theoretical underpinnings are grounded in disciplines such as Philosophy, Cognitive Sciences and Linguistics, has led to the development of theoretical foundations for conceptual modeling. In particular, a number of ontological theories such as BORO, BWW, DOLCE, GFO and UFO have been successfully applied to the evaluation of conceptual modeling languages, frameworks and standards (e.g., UML, ORM, ER, REA, TROPOS, ARIS, BPMN, RM-ODP, Archimate, OWL and ISO 15926), and to the development of information systems engineering tools (e.g., methodological guidelines, modeling profiles, design patterns) that contribute to the theory and practice of conceptual modeling and ISE. Additionally, there has been an increasing interest in the use of empirical studies to assess the impact of the application of these theoretical foundations to the design of conceptual modeling grammars and tools and their application in the development, integration and evolution of information systems. The objective of this workshop is to collect innovative and high-quality research contributions regarding the role played by the aforementioned disciplines to the foundations of conceptual modeling and to the development of information systems. With this workshop we would like to create a true forum for discussion and, in that spirit, we would like to solicit papers that address specific questions of relevance to body of knowledge of the emerging discipline of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling and Information Systems Engineering. WE PARTICULARLY WELCOME PAPERS THAT RAISE CHALLENGING QUESTIONS, INNOVATIVE IDEAS AND ?OUT-OF-THE-BOX? THINKING AND WHICH, AS A CONSEQUENCE, CAN HELP TO PROMOTE INTERESTING DISCUSSIONS AT THE WORKSHOP. *** Topics *** Examples for topics that can be of interest address questions such as: - What is the relation between Ontology as an Artifact, Ontology as a Philosophical Discipline, Conceptual Modeling and Metamodeling? - What is the relation between Ontology Levels of Instantiation and Metamodeling Levels of Instantiation? - What is the relation between Ontological Semantics, Formal Semantics, Abstract and Concrete Syntax for Visual Conceptual Modeling Languages? - What kind of Logical, Ontological and Epistemological Foundations are needed for Conceptual Modeling? - How can fundamental theoretical research on Ontological Foundations for Conceptual Modeling and Empirical Research fit together? - How can Formal Ontological Theories be used for the Analysis and Design of Conceptual Modeling languages (including Enterprise Modeling and Domain-Specific Modeling languages)? - How researchers and practitioners in other domains not related to computer science and information systems (such as the Bioinformatics) are using Ontologies? - Is there a common notion of "Ontology" shared in all these domains, or are we including different notions under the same term (Ontology)? - How does ontology inform the process of gathering requirements? - How does ontology support architecture development directly from requirements specifications? - How does ontology help in software design and its mapping to the architecture specification? - How can ontologies be used as run-time artefacts or to inform the design of run-time artefacts. - What is the role of ontology reasoning in the software engineering process? - What is the role of ontology in model-driven development? - How can ontology drive the development of service software? - What are the methodological issues for Ontology-Driven CM and ISE? - How can problems of semantic mismatch between traditional IS modelling paradigms, approaches, techniques, etc. and ontological modelling be overcome? - How can ontology help in the design of development/modelling/programming languages? *** Important Dates and Submission *** Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair. Please check the workshop Web site for further instructions. Deadlines are as follows: 1 June 2014: Submission deadline for papers 1 July 2014: Notification of acceptance 1 August 2014: Revisions due 22 or 23 September 2014: Workshop The workshop papers will be published as CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org). *** Organizers *** - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil - Oscar Pastor, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain - Yair Wand, University of British Columbia, Canada - Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, U.K. - Frederik Gailly, Ghent University, Belgium - Mark Lycett, Brunel University, U.K. - Chris Partridge, BORO Solutions Ltd., U.K. *** Program Committee *** - Mohammad AL Asswad, Cornell University, U.S.A. - Jo?o Paulo Andrade Almeida, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil - Alessandro Artale, Free University of Bolzano, Italy - Palash Bera, Texas A&M International University, USA - Alex Borgida, Rutgers University, USA - Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, University of Glasgow, U.K. - Andrea Cali, Birkbeck College, University of London, U.K. - Vinay Chaudri, SRI International, USA - Richard Dapoigny, University of Savoie, France - Sergio Espa?a, Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia, Spain - Enrico Franconi, Free University of Bolzano, Italy - Guido Geerts, University of Delaware, U.S.A. - Nicola Guarino, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy - Chiara Ghidini, FBK, Italy - Brian Henderson-Sellers, University Technology Sydney, Australia - Pavel Hruby, Microsoft, Denmark - Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden - Claudio Masolo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology (ISTC-CNR), Italy - Simon Milton, University of Melbourne, Australia - Thomas Moser, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - John Mylopoulos, University of Trento, Italy - Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway - Leo Obrst, MITRE Corporation, USA - Fernando Silva Parreiras, FUMEC University, Brazil - Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada - Geert Poels, Ghent University, Belgium - Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel - K?roly Tilly, Invarion, Hungary - Karsten Tolle, Frankfurt University, Germany - Gerd Wagner, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany - Matthew West, Information Junction, U.K. - Roel Wieringa, University of Twente, The Netherlands -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Building on the success of MDD for design and implementation, RE may benefit from MDD techniques when properly balancing flexibility for capturing varied user needs with formal rigidity required for model transformations as well as high-level abstraction with information richness. Reuse of requirements models becomes a distinct possibility with MDD and model transformations. This workshop intends to identify new challenges, discuss on-going work and potential solutions, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MDD approaches for RE, foster stimulating discussions on the topic, and provide opportunities to apply MDD approaches for RE. For more information, see the complete CFP at http://www.modre2014.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm and the Program Committee at http://www.modre2014.ece.mcgill.ca/pc.htm or contact the organizers at modre2014-info at cs.mcgill.ca. 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URL: From Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk Tue May 20 13:20:29 2014 From: Sergio.deCesare at brunel.ac.uk (Sergio de Cesare) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 11:20:29 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline extension Workshop on Enterprise Modeling Message-ID: <8108A05F-A4C5-43E8-8174-B4F67AEEC56B@brunel.ac.uk> *** Deadline extended to 1 June 2014 *** *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** 1st International Workshop on Enterprise Modeling (ENMO 2014) URL: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~cbstssc2/events/enmo2014 co-located with the 33rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2014) Atlanta, GA, USA, October 27-30, 2014 *** Purpose and scope *** The objective of the Workshop on Enterprise Modeling (ENMO) is to provide an international forum for exchanging ideas on the latest developments in the area of enterprise modeling by both academics and practitioners. Enterprise modeling can be broadly defined as the use of conceptual specifications as part of business applications. The workshop looks for papers that present state-of-the-art research or practices in the area of enterprise modeling. Example of topics that would be a good fit for the ENMO workshop include: novel applications resulting from the formalization of enterprise ontologies, behavioral studies related to enterprise modeling notations from a user perspective, the specification of reference models for specific business applications such as internal control or supply chain, a discussion of how ERP vendors employ enterprise modeling techniques in the era of the semantic web and cloud computing, a discussion of how enterprise ontologies are being used in practice. One of the workshop?s goals is to create an environment that allows cross-fertilization between research and practice and across the different enterprise modeling sub-disciplines. *** Topics *** Enterprise modeling covers a wide range of topics with new issues continuously emerging. Therefore, the topics listed below are examples and many other topics will be considered. Also, we are open to any research methodology. - Alignment Between Business Strategy and Enterprise Models - Enterprise Modeling Patterns - Enterprise Modeling Paradigms and Languages - Enterprise Ontologies - Extraction of Business Knowledge from Legacy Systems - Formal Specification of Enterprise Models - Methods, Techniques and Tools for Enterprise Modeling - Ontology-Driven Development of Enterprise Systems - Traceability of Enterprise Models to Enterprise Software Systems *** Important Dates and Submission *** Authors are invited to submit papers via EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enmo2014 For any questions regarding submission please contact either Sergio de Cesare (sergio.decesare at brunel.ac.uk) or Guido Geerts (geerts at udel.edu). Submissions can be in the form of full research papers or experience reports (up to 10 pages) or short position papers (up to 6 pages). Accepted research papers will be published in the ER 2014 workshop proceedings with Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). For formatting your paper please have a look at the LNCS instructions for authors available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0. Please note that experience reports and position papers will be published on the workshop Web site only. Deadlines are as follows: Paper submission deadline: Extended to 1 June 2014 Notification to authors: 23 June 2014 Camera-ready copies: 7 July 2014 Workshop date: 27 or 28 October 2014 *** Organizers *** Sergio de Cesare, Brunel University, U.K. Guido Geerts, University of Delaware, U.S.A. *** Program Committee *** Palash Bera (Saint Louis University, USA) Frederik Gailly (Ghent University, Belgium) Giancarlo Guizzardi (Federal University of Esp?rito Santo, Brazil) Pavel Hruby (CSC, Denmark) Mark Lycett (Brunel University, UK) William E. McCarthy (Michigan State University, USA) Daniel E. O'Leary (University of Southern California, USA) Chris Partridge (BORO Solutions, UK) Oscar Pastor (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Geerts Poels. (Ghent University, Belgium) Hans Weigand (Tilburg University, Netherlands) From conference at icdim.org Tue May 20 13:27:28 2014 From: conference at icdim.org (conference at icdim.org) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:57:28 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: FGCT 2014 Message-ID: <20140520165728.Horde.Q6ip1C9zV1RPAAwOcn0sWw1@webmail.netandhost.com> Call for Papers Third International Conference on Future Generation Communication Technologies (FGCT 2014) Irish Computer Society, Dubline, Ireland Technically co-sponsored by IEEE UK& RI Proceedings will be pubilished in IEEE Xplore www.socio.org.uk/fgct In the last decade, a number of newer communication technologies have been evolved, which have a significant impact on the technology, as a whole. The impact ranges from incremental applications to dramatical breakthrough in the society. Users rely heavily on broadcast technology, social media, mobile devices, video games and other innovations to enrich the learning and adoption process. This conference is designed for teachers, administrators, practitioners, researchers and scientists in the development arenas. It aims to provide discussions and simulations in the communication technology at the broad level and broadcasting technology and related technologies at the micro level. Through a set of research papers, using innovative and interactive approach, participants can expect to share a set of research that will prepare them to apply new technologies to their work in teaching, research and educational development amid this rapidly evolving landscape. Topics discussed in this platform are not limited to- Emerging cellular and new network architectures for 5G New antenna and RF technology for 5G wireless Modulation algorithms Circuits, software and systems for 5G Convergence of multi-modes, multi-bands, multi-standards and multi- applications in 5G systems Cognitive radio and collaborative transmissions in 5G Computing and processing platform for 5G Programming models and development tools to enable 5G systems Small cells and heterogeneous networks Metrics and Evaluation of 5G systems Standardization of 5G Broadcost technology Future Internet and networking architectures Future mobile communications Mobile Web Technology Mobile TV and multimedia phones Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications Communication Interfaces Communication Modelling Satellite and space communications Communication software Future Generation Communication Networks Communication Network Security Communication Data Grids Collaborative Communication Technology Intelligence for future communication systems Forthcoming optical communication systems Communication Technology for Elearning, Egovernment, Ebusiness Games and games designing Social technology devises, tools and applications Crowdsourcing and Human Computation Human-computer communication Pervasive Computing Grid, crowd sourcing and cloud computing Hypermedia systems Software and technologies for E-communication Intelligent Systems for E-communication Future Cloud for Communication Future warehousing The conference will have workshops on specific themes, industrial presentation, invited talks and collaborative discussion forums. Important Dates Submission of Papers: June 15, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: July 10, 2014 Camera Ready: August 05, 2014 Conference Dates: August 20-22, 2014 The selected papers after extension and modification will be published in many peer reviewed and indexed journals. Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Email: fgct @ socio.org.uk ------------------------ From fan10 at inf.ufpr.br Tue May 20 14:44:48 2014 From: fan10 at inf.ufpr.br (Flavio Arieta) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 09:44:48 -0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IFIP Latin America Networking Conference (LANC 2014) In-cooperation with ACM Message-ID: * IFIP LANC 2014* *The 8th Latin America Networking Conference 2014 (LANC 2014)* * In-cooperation with ACM* http://lanc2014.ufpa.br/ 18-19 September, 2014 Montevideo ? Uruguay Collocated with CLEI 2014 The IFIP Latin America Networking Conference 2014 is in-cooperation with ACM and will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia everywhere in the world, but especially from the Latin American countries, to exchange ideas and present results of ongoing research in networking. LANC 2014 is organized jointly with CLEI (Centro Latinoamericano de Estudio em Informatica) 2014 - http://clei.org/clei2014/ . Topics include, but are not limited to: NETWORKS and COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Cloud computing - Delay/Disruption-tolerant networks - Green and Energy-efficient communications - Internet based applications - Low cost access networks - Multimedia networking systems - National ICT infrastructures for education - Network and service management - Network performance evaluation - Network security - Optical communications - Peer-to-peer and overlay networks - Protocols - Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) in communication systems - Routing and switching - Smart grid communications - Social Multimedia Networking - Software Defined Networks - Web infrastructure - Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks - Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things - Dynamic spectrum management - Implementation and experimental testbeds - Cognitive radio networking - Cross layer design and optimization Submission of papers that cover solutions of specific network problems of this region of the world is especially encouraged. *IMPORTANT DATES* - Full and Short Paper Submission deadline: June 10 - Notification of acceptance: August 01 - Camera-ready copy: August 20 *PAPER SUBMISSION* The submission is now open: Only original papers (written in English) not published or under review elsewhere can be submitted - full papers (up to 8 pages including references) and short papers (4 pages up to 1 additional page). Templates can be downloaded from the ACM website ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates / The LaTeX2e - Tighter Alternate style is preferable to the Strict one). Papers should be uploaded electronically, ONLY in PDF format, to the Easychair website: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lanc2014 *REVIEW PROCESS* All submitted papers will have at least three reviews. Acceptance will be based on originality, quality, relevance and the practical value of the work. *PROCEEDINGS* All accepted papers will be published in the* ACM* Digital Library. There will be a special issue of the CLEI electronic journal ( http://www.clei.cl/cleiej) devoted to extended versions of a selection of the papers presented at LANC 2014. *Travel Support* IFIP TC6 Student Travel Grant Programme Under the IFIP TC6 Student Travel Grant Programme, students or young researchers from an IFIP member country may apply for partial funding to assist them towards paying their travel and accommodation costs when attending the 8th Latin America Networking Conference 2014. Young researchers are researchers who have not yet completed their studies up to, and including a doctoral degree. Such persons would normally not be older than 35 years on the 15th September 2014. An Awards Committee reviews the application and awards a grant where the applicant would not otherwise have the resources to attend a conference or workshop, with benefits to both the student and the symposium. 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URL: From maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it Tue May 20 14:46:42 2014 From: maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it (Maurizio Proietti) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:46:42 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] LOPSTR 2014: Deadline Approaching Message-ID: ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================== 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2014 http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/ University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 10-11, 2014 DEADLINES Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 ============================================================ NEW! Invited Speakers: Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL, Switzerland) ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 Notification: July 18, 2014 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014 Symposium: September 10-11, 2014 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2014. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program co-chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt ?tienne Andr? Universit? Paris 13, France Martin Brain University of Oxford, UK Wei-Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Comini University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent IPIPAN, Poland and Link?ping University, Sweden Fabio Fioravanti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel G?mez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jacob Howe City University London, UK Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Yanhong Annie Liu Stony Brook University, USA Jorge Navas NASA, USA Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Corneliu Popeea Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair) Tom Schrijvers Ghent University, Belgium Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair) Jon Sneyers K.U. Leuven, Belgium Fausto Spoto University of Verona, Italy Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Program Co-Chairs: Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy (maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it) Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (seki at nitech.ac.jp) Symposium Co-Chairs Olaf Chitil and Andy King School of Computing University of Kent CT2 7NF Kent, UK Organizing Committee Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara and IASI-CNR, Italy Fabrizio Smith, IASI-CNR, Italy From emanuele.deangelis at unich.it Tue May 20 14:55:53 2014 From: emanuele.deangelis at unich.it (Emanuele De Angelis) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 14:55:53 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] LOPSTR 2014: Deadline Approaching Message-ID: ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================== 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2014 http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/ University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 10-11, 2014 DEADLINES Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 ============================================================ NEW! Invited Speakers: Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL, Switzerland) ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: May 30, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 6, 2014 Notification: July 18, 2014 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014 Symposium: September 10-11, 2014 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2014. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program co-chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt ?tienne Andr? Universit? Paris 13, France Martin Brain University of Oxford, UK Wei-Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Comini University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent IPIPAN, Poland and Link?ping University, Sweden Fabio Fioravanti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel G?mez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jacob Howe City University London, UK Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Yanhong Annie Liu Stony Brook University, USA Jorge Navas NASA, USA Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Corneliu Popeea Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair) Tom Schrijvers Ghent University, Belgium Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair) Jon Sneyers K.U. Leuven, Belgium Fausto Spoto University of Verona, Italy Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Program Co-Chairs: Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy (maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it) Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (seki at nitech.ac.jp) Symposium Co-Chairs Olaf Chitil and Andy King School of Computing University of Kent CT2 7NF Kent, UK Organizing Committee Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara and IASI-CNR, Italy Fabrizio Smith, IASI-CNR, Italy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be Tue May 20 22:24:22 2014 From: ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be (Ansar YASAR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 22:24:22 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] cfp: First International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS14) - DEADLINE APPROACHING In-Reply-To: de10f6cbee5b96be868d8d282aa5ff81@mail.gmail.com References: de10f6cbee5b96be868d8d282aa5ff81@mail.gmail.com Message-ID: <705b1e5a5f2abda88cac8b2986f0556e@mail.gmail.com> First International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS14) In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks EUSPN 2014 http://www.multiagent.fr/Conferences:IFSMS14 22-25 September, 2014, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Description The 1st International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS?14) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of smart mobility solutions. We are living in a world where cars will soon all be very well-equipped with sensors such as GPS sensors, laser radars, infrared parking sensors, rear dead angle cameras, etc. Besides that, the infrastructure itself is likely to soon exploit technologies currently widely used, like smartphones, navigators and digital radio broadcast. Finally, there have been huge advances on traffic simulation, optimization, intensive computational techniques, distributed computing, data networks, wireless connectivity, and many others. If we combine all of this, there is the richest variety ever of information sources available for smart mobility solutions. The technology is out there, and now it is needed to take firm steps towards wisely combining the sources of information into smart applications that make roads safer and ensure a smooth mobility of individuals. IFSMS 2014 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2014). Scope The aim of the proposed workshop is to enhance profitable discussions on what techniques, software, methodologies, transportation and traffic models, and in general, data fusion techniques are being explored for its use for traffic simulation and mobility management and other intelligent transportation system applications for smart mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Agent-based modeling and simulation Data fusion and Smart Transportation Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport) Implementation Issues such as Algorithmic Issues, Real-World Computational Demands, Real-Time Constraints in the context of Fusion systems for Transportation Infrastructures Environmental Aware Smart Data Fusion applications Advanced Architectures for Traffic Simulation using Data Mining as Real-World input Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment Important Dates Submission deadline: May 30, 2014 (Extended) Notification: June 24, 2014 Final date for camera-ready copy: July 17, 2014 Workshop: September 22-25, 2014 Submission All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2014 website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: EasyChair. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.elsevier.comand on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect, and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus and Engineering Village (Ei). This includes EI Compendex. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP. Workshop Chairs Ansar-Ul-Haque YASAR (Hasselt University, Belgium) - ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be St?phane GALLAND (IRTES-SET, France) - stephane.galland at utbm.fr Program Committee Emmanuel ADAM (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) Tom BELLEMANS (Hasselt University, Belgium) Cindy CAPPELLE (IRTES-SET, France) Paul DAVIDSSON (Malmo University, Sweden) Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France) Franck GECHTER (IRTES-SET, France) Tom HOLVOET (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Davy JANSSENS (Hasselt University, Belgium) Sathish KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA) Marco LUETZENBERGER (DAI-Labor, Germany) Ren? MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) Davy PREUVENEERS (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional, Argentina) Michael SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland) Ren? SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland) Harry TIMMERMANS (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Rashid a. WARAICH (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Accepted Papers The list of the accepted papers will be available after July 17, 2014. Registration Please visit the EUSPN14 Registration Page for more information. Venue, Accomodation & Visa Requirements Please visit the EUSPN14 Venue & Accomodation Page for more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz Wed May 21 00:17:45 2014 From: Craig.Anslow at ecs.vuw.ac.nz (Craig Anslow) Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:17:45 -0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] Final CFP for SLE 2014 Message-ID: <687DDEBC-640D-48F8-B767-55522D7E950B@ecs.vuw.ac.nz> ======================================================================= FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) 2014 Vasteras, Sweden , September 15-16, 2014 http://www.sleconf.org/2014/ Co-located with: 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014) 13th International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts and Experiences (GPCE 2014) Keynote speaker: Colin Atkinson - From Language Engineering to Viewpoint Engineering Award Sponsors: Google, Itemis, and GEMOC initiative --------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for abstracts: 23 May, 2014 Deadline for papers: 30 May, 2014 Author notification: 1 July, 2014 Camera ready copies due: 14 July, 2014 SLE workshops: 14 September, 2014 Conference: 15-16 September, 2014 All dates are Anywhere on Earth. --------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages. The term "software language" is used broadly, and includes: general-purpose programming languages; domain-specific languages (e.g. BPMN, Simulink, Modelica); modeling and metamodeling languages (e.g. SysML and UML); data models and ontologies (e.g. XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies). --------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST The overall principle of SLE is to be broad-minded and inclusive about relevance and scope. We solicit high-quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions to tools, techniques, and frameworks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Tools and methods for software language design and extension (incl. meta-languages, meta-tools, language workbenches) - Generative approaches, transformation and transformation languages, code generation - Techniques for analysing software language descriptions - Techniques for software language reuse, evolution and managing variation (syntactic/semantic) within language families - Integration and coordination of software languages and tools - Engineering Domain-Specific Languages (for modeling, simulating, generation, description, checking) - Novel applications and/or empirical studies on any aspect of SLE (development, use, deployment, and maintenance of software languages) - Cross-fertilization of different technological spaces (e.g. modelware, grammarware, etc) --------------------------------------------------------- TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS - Research papers: These should report a substantial research contribution to SLE or successful application of SLE techniques or both. Full paper submissions must not exceed 20 pages (in LNCS format). - Tool papers: Because of SLE's ample interest in tools, we seek papers that present software tools related to the field of SLE. Selection criteria include originality of the tool, its innovative aspects, and relevance to SLE. Tool papers should include an appendix outlining the proposed demonstration, including screenshots etc. A short video may be linked as well. Tool paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages (in LNCS Format, excluding appendix). - Industrial position papers: These papers discuss practical applications of SLE technology with an emphasis on the advantages and disadvantages of the method, techniques, or tools used. Industry paper submissions must not exceed 10 pages (in LNCS Format). - Bridging position papers: These papers discuss bridging ideas from the different areas of SLE (e.g. modelling, PL, grammars, etc). This includes both foundational ideas and/or practical techniques. Bridging position papers must not exceed 4 pages (in LNCS Format). All papers have to be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sle2014 Papers should follow the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently be submitted for publication elsewhere. The program chairs will apply the principles of the ACM Plagiarism Policy throughout the submission and review process. --------------------------------------------------------- PUBLICATIONS All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Authors will be given a brief opportunity for a reply to the reviews. The replies will be considered in the PC's discussions, and considered in the selection of the best reviewer. All accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (www.springer.com/lncs). All papers must be formatted according to the Springer?s Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for a special issue of the Journal on Science of Computer Programming. --------------------------------------------------------- AWARDS - Best paper. Award for best overall paper, as determined by the PC chairs based on the recommendations of the programme committee. - Best reviewer. Award for best reviewer, as determined by the PC chairs using feedback from the authors. Award Sponsors: Google, Itemis, and GEMOC initiative --------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT For any questions or concerns about the call for paper, please contact the program co-chairs at: pcchairs at sleconf.org --------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL COMMITTEE CHAIR Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France David J. Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emilie Balland, INRIA, France Tony Clark, Middlesex University, UK Zinovy Diskin, McMaster University / University of Waterloo, Canada Martin Erwig, Oregon State University, USA Anne Etien, University of Lille, France Joerg Evermann, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Jean-Marie Favre, University of Grenoble, France Robert France, Colorado State University, USA Andy Gill, University of Kansas, USA Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil G?rel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden Markus Herrmannsdoerfer, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany Jean-Marc J?z?quel, University of Rennes, France Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ralf Laemmel, Universit?t Koblenz-Landau, Germany Peter Mosses, Swansea University, UK Sean Mcdirmid, Microsoft, China Kim Mens, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia Pierre-Alain Muller, University of Haute-Alsace, France Nathaniel Nystrom, University of Lugano, Switzerland Klaus Ostermann, University of Marburg, Germany Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland Richard Paige, University of York, UK Fiona Polack, University of York, UK Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Davide Di Ruscio, Universit? degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy Jo?o Saraiva, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada Jim Steel, University of Queensland, Australia Tijs Van Der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA Steffen Zschaler, King's College London, UK WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION CHAIR Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota, USA PANEL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ralf Lammel, Universitat Koblenz-Landau, Germany PUBLICATION CHAIR Olivier Barais, University of Rennes, France PUBLICITY CHAIRS Craig Anslow, University of Calgary, Canada (general publicity) Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (social media) Davy Landman, Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, The Netherlands (web) LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR Ivica Crnkovic, Malardalen University, Sweden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lionel.Seinturier at univ-lille1.fr Wed May 21 07:55:29 2014 From: Lionel.Seinturier at univ-lille1.fr (Lionel Seinturier) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:55:29 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CompArch 2014 - Call for Posters Message-ID: ================================ CompArch 2014 Federated Events on Component-Based Software Engineering and Software Architecture http://www.comparch2014.eu Call for posters ================================ CompArch is a federated conference series bringing together researchers and practitioners from the domains of component-based software engineering and software architecture. The 2014 edition will be held in Lille, France, from 30 June to 3 July 2014. We are soliciting proposals for posters. The topics of interest are broad and covers the general themes that are of interest to the CompArch community. They are centered around software components and architectures but covers also software engineering in general, and applications domains such as those for embedded systems, cloud systems, distributed systems, etc. If you feel up to the challenge, please send a proposal to: Lionel Seinturier . Your poster should be ideally at minimum A1 (841 x 594 mm or 36" x 24") and at maximum A0 (1189 x 841 mm or 48" x 36"), in one single sheet. The poster session will be held on Wednesday 2 July. An award will be granted to the best poster. Deadline: 9 June Notification of acceptance: 11 June -- Prof. Lionel Seinturier University Lille 1 http://www.lifl.fr/~seinturi From conference at icdim.org Wed May 21 09:00:25 2014 From: conference at icdim.org (conference at icdim.org) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 12:30:25 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: INTECH 2014 at London Message-ID: <20140521123025.Horde.odyZuXFbEhl5-IWXoPVnYA1@webmail.netandhost.com> Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology University of Bedfordshire Luton (near London), UK Augsut 13-15, 2014 (Technically co-sponsored by UK & RI IEEE) (Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore) www.socio.org.uk/intech The First international conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2011) was held at Sao Carlos in Brazil followed by the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH 2012) at Casablanca in Morocco. The INTECH 2014 offers the opportunity for institutes, research centers, engineers, scientists and industrial companies to share their latest investigations, researches, developments and ideas in area of Innovative Computing Technology, which covers huge topics. The INTECH intends to address various innovative computing techniques involving various applications. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of computing technologies, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. This conference (INTECH 2014) will include presentations of contributed papers by invited keynote speakers. Conference papers will include innovative computing paradigms in the following topics: Network and Information Security Innovative Computing Systems and Applications in S & T domains such as - Algorithms Applied Information Systems Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Broadcasting Technology Cloud Computing Computational Intelligence Data and Network mining Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks Database Systems Digital Image/Video Processing E-Learning, e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government Electronics Environmental modeling and precision agriculture Fault Classification and Pattern Recognition Green Computing Grid computing Human-Computer Interaction Intelligent Condition Monitoring Mobile network and systems Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Payment Systems Peer-to-peer social networks Precision Farming Web Farming Signal Processing Soft Computing: Fuzzy and Neural Network Systems, optimization algorithms Software Engineering Intelligent Farming: Web farming, Web irrigation Ubiquitous Computing User Interfaces, Visualization and Modeling Virtual Reality Visualization Web services WWW Applications and Technologies XML and other Extensible Languages The INTECH proceedings will also be indexed by dblp. All the papers will be reviewed and the accepted papers in the conference will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for indexing and will be indexed in many global databases.In addition, all the accepted papers (for Journals) will be published in the following special issues journals after substantial revision and modification. In addition, selected papers after complete modification and revision will be published in the following special issues of journals. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM) (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) IMPORTANT DATES submission of papers: June 5, 2014 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: July 1, 2014 Camera Ready: August 1, 2014 Registration: August 1, 2014 Conference: August 13-15, 2014 contact: intech at dirf.org OR intech at socio.org.uk --------------------------------- From jesus.carretero at uc3m.es Wed May 21 10:29:46 2014 From: jesus.carretero at uc3m.es (=?utf-8?Q?Jesus_Carretero?=) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:29:46 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_Techniques_and_Applications_for_Sus?= =?utf-8?q?tainable_Ultrascale_Computing_Systems__=28TASUS_2014=29_+_IS_?= =?utf-8?q?=28SIMPAT=29?= Message-ID: <62d462e6.wbP.xC0.1i.8Btnc4@mailjet.com> TASUS 2014: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE ULTRASCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMS To be held at EUROPAR 2014 , Porto, Portugal , August 25-26, 2014 Background The ever-increasing data and processing requirements of applications from various domains are constantly pushing for dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities. Today, we have reached a point where computer systems? growth cannot be addressed anymore in an incremental way, due to the huge challenges lying ahead, in particular scalability, energy barrier, data management, programmability, and reliability.Ultrascale computing systems (UCS) are envisioned as a large-scale complex system joining parallel and distributed computing systems, maybe located at multiple sites, that cooperate to provide solutions to the users. As a growth of two or three orders of magnitude of today?s computing systems is expected, including systems with unprecedented amounts of heterogeneous hardware, lines of source code, numbers of users, and volumes of data, sustainability is critical to ensure the feasibility of those systems. Due to those needs, currently there is an emerging cross-domain interaction between high-performance in clouds or the adoption of distributed programming paradigms, such as Map-Reduce, in scientific applications, the cooperation between HPC and distributed system communities still poses many challenges towards building the ultrascale systems of the future. Especially in unifying the services to deploy sustainable applications portable to HPC systems, multi-clouds, data centers, and big data.TASUS workshop focuses on the software side, aiming at bringing together researchers from academia and industry interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of services and system software mechanisms to improve sustainability in ultrascale computing systems with a holistic approach. Topics We are looking for original high quality research and position papers on applications, services, and system software for sustainable ultrascale systems. Topics of interest include: Existing and emerging designs to achieve sustainable ultrascale systems. High-level parallel programming tools and programmability techniques to improve applications sustainability on ultrascale platforms. (model driven, refactoring, dynamic code generation, unified services, middlewares, ?). Synergies among emerging programming models and run-times from HPC, distributed systems, and big data communities to provide sustainable execution models (increased productivity, transparency, elasticity, ?). New energy efficiency techniques for monitoring, analyzing, and modeling ultrascale systems, including energy efficiency metrics for multiple resources (computing, storage, networking) and sites. Eco-design of ultrascale components and applications, with special emphasis on energy-aware software components that help users to shape energy issues for their applications. Sustainable resilience and fault-tolerant mechanisms that can cooperate throughout the whole software stack to handle errors. Fault tolerance techniques in partitioned global address space (e.g. PGAS, MPI, hybrid) and federated cooperative environments. Data management optimization techniques through cross layer adaptation of the I/O stack to provide global system information to improve data locality. Enhanced data management lifecycle on scalable architectures combining HPC and distributed computing (clouds and data centers). Experiences with applications, high-level algorithms, and services amenable to ultrascale systems. Important dates ? Workshop papers due: May 30, 2014 ? Workshop author notification: July 4, 2014? Workshop early registration: July 25, 2014? Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2014 Committees Workshop Organizers:Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Dr. Laurent Lefevre. INRIA, ENS of Lyon. FranceProf. Gudula R?nger. Technical University of Chemnitz. Germany.Prof. Domenico Talia. Universit? della Callabria. Italy.Program Committee:Francisco Almeida. Universidad de la Laguna. Tenerife. Spain.Angelos Bilas. ICS. FORTH. Greece.Harold Castro. Universidad de los Andes. Colombia.Alok Choudhary. Northwestern University. USA.Raimondas Ciegis. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Lithuania.Michele Colajanni. Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia. ItalyToni Cortes. BSC. Spain.Georges DaCosta. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Jack Dongarra. University of Tennessee. USA.Skevos Evripidou. University of Cyprus. Cyprus.Thomas Fahringer. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Sonja Filiposka. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Jose D. Garcia. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Florin Isaila. Argonne National Labs. USA.Emmanuel Jeannot. INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France.Helen Karatza. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.Alexey Lastovetsky. University College Dublin. Ireland.Dimitar Lukarski. Uppsala University. Sweden.Pierre Manneback. University of Mons. Belgium.Svetozar Margenov. Bulgarian Academic of Sciences. Bulgaria.Attila Marosi. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Hungary.Mar?a Jos? Mart?n Santamar?a. University of Coru?a. Spain.Anastas Mishev. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Ricardo Morla. Universidade de Porto. Portugal.Maya Neytcheva. Uppsala University. Sweden.Ariel Oleksiak. Poznan Supercomputing Center. Poland.Dana Petcu. West University of Timisoara. Romania.Jean Marc Pierson. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Radu Prodan. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Gudula Ruenger. Technische Universit?t Chemnitz .Germany.Enrique S. Quintana-Orti. Universitat Jaume I. Spain.Thomas Rauber. University of Bayreuth. Germany.Karolj Skala. Ru?er Bo?kovi? Institute. Croatia.Victor J. Sosa. CINVESTAV. Mexico.Leonel Sousa. INESC. Portugal.Roman Trobec. Jozef Stefan Institute. Slovenia.Trinh Anh Tuan. Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Hungary.Eero Vainikko. University of Tartu. Estonia.Pascal Voubry. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.Roman Wyrzykowski. Czestochowa University of Technology. Poland.Laurence T. Yang. St.Francis University. Canada.Julius Zilinskas. Vilnius University. Lithuania.Albert Zomaya. University of Sydney. Australia. Paper submission guidelines Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Download LNCS Latex style HERE. Paper submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX). Use the PAPER SUBMISSION ONLINE SYSTEM to submit a paper.Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered.Workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2014 volume after the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. Journal special issue Extended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in TASUS 2014, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of the journalSimulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT ) that is indexed in JCR. Co-Organized by ContactMail to: tasus at arcos.inf.uc3m.es ? This email has been sent to ecoop-info at ecoop.org , click here to unsubscribe . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk Wed May 21 10:46:55 2014 From: n.bencomo at aston.ac.uk (Bencomo, Nelly) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 08:46:55 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] AIRE 2014] : First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering @ RE 2014 Message-ID: <95FDDD5B-A6AD-46EF-A6D8-E0F35A690459@aston.ac.uk> ------------------------------> AIRE Workshop <------------------------------ First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Requirements Engineering watch this space: http://re.cs.depaul.edu/ai4re/ @RE'14, Karlskrona, Sweden - http://webhotel.bth.se/re14/ -------- Call for Papers ------- The purpose of this work is to explore synergies between Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering in order to identify complex RE problems that could benefit from the application of AI techniques. Given the current sparsity of AI techniques applied within the RE research community, this workshop will include a keynote that lays the foundations for challenges in our domain as well as interactive presentations from RE researchers who are in early stages of adopting AI techniques. Three types of papers will be solicited. These include: - Full Research Papers: Maximum length 8 pages, describing the application and evaluation of AI techniques to an RE problem, surveying the use of AI in a particular RE-related field, or outlining a vision for AI in their field. Such papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the IEEE digital library. - Position Statements Maximum length 4 pages, describing a preliminary idea with initial validation. Such papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the IEEE digital library. - Presentation Only Workshop attendees may opt to submit a short abstract (Maximum length 2 pages) describing an idea or position. Such abstracts will not be published, but submitters will receive presentation slots at the workshop. This option is idea for somebody who is at the initial idea stage of a project, or somebody who sees the potential for adopting AI techniques and simply wishes to get feedback. Any material that is not released via the IEEE Digital library will be made available to workshop participants only as a protected, downloadable file. Formatting and Submission Guidelines Submissions must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE formatting instructions. All submissions must be in PDF format. Please visit the Formatting and Submission Guidelines page for paper requirements. Key Dates: Paper Submission: Monday, June 2, 2014 Paper Notification: Monday, June 23, 2014 Camera Ready Due: Friday, July 7, 2014 Workshop: Tuesday August 26, 2014 Organizing Committee: Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University, USA Jin Guo, DePaul University, USA Rachel Harrison, Oxford Brookes University, UK Program Committee (to be completed ) Burak Tuhran, University of Oulu, Finland Carlos Castro-Herrera, Universidad de Costa Rica, CostaRica Max DiPenta, University of Sannio, Italy Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy Sol Greenspan, Invited in his independent capacity Tim Menzies, West Virginia University, USA Bamshad Mobasher, DePaul University, USA Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University, UK Robert Feldt, Chalmers/Blekinge University, Sweden Daniel Rodriguez, University of Alcal?, Spain Seok-Won Lee, Ajou University, South Korea Alistair Sutcliffe, Manchester University, UK ??????????????????????? Nelly Bencomo Lecturer in Computer Science School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK email: nelly at acm.org www.nellybencomo.me From calendarsites at insticc.org Wed May 21 15:47:58 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (calendarsites at insticc.org) Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 14:47:58 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - MODELSWARD 2015 Message-ID: <007001cf74fb$5f759b30$1e60d190$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - MODELSWARD 2015 Website: www.modelsward.org February 9 ? 11, 2015 ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 9, 2014 Authors Notification: November 25, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: December 10, 2014 Position Papers Paper Submission: October 28, 2014 Authors Notification: November 28, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: December 10, 2014 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: November 27, 2014 Authors Notification: December 11, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: December 23, 2014 Sponsored by: INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Co-organized by: Groupe ESEO - Graduate School of Engineering INSTICC is Member of: WfMC ? Workflow Management Coalition OMG ? Object Management Group FIPA ? The Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS ? Science and Technology Events Technically Co-sponsored by: AIS SIGMAS ? Special Interest Group on Modeling and Simulation In Cooperation with: ACM ? Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGMIS ? Special Interest Group of the ACM on Management Information Systems The Open Group ? Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Work Group The purpose of the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2015, is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for Software Development. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach to the development of IT systems in which models take a central role, not only for analysis of these systems but also for their construction. MDD has emerged from modelling initiatives, most prominently the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) fostered by the Object Management Group (OMG). In the scope of MDA, a couple of technologies have been developed that became the cornerstones of MDD, like metamodelling and model transformations. MDD relies on languages for defining metamodels, like the Meta-Object Facility (MOF) and Ecore (developed in the scope of the Eclipse Modelling Framework), and transformation specification languages like QVT and ATL. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Bran Selic, University of Toronto, Canada PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.modelsward.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Philippe Desfray, SOFTEAM, France Joaquim Filipe, Polytechnic Institute of Set?bal / INSTICC, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Slimane Hammoudi, ESEO, MODESTE, France Luis Ferreira Pires, University of Twente, Netherlands CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. MODELING LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND ARCHITECTURES 2. METHODOLOGIES, PROCESSES AND PLATFORMS 3. APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AREA 1: MODELING LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND ARCHITECTURES ? Domain-Specific Modeling ? General-Purpose Modeling Languages and Standards ? Model Transformation ? Syntax and Semantics of Modeling Languages ? Meta-Modeling: Foundations and Tools ? Reasoning about Models ? Constraint Modeling and Languages ? Model-Driven Architecture ? Service Oriented Architectures AREA 2: METHODOLOGIES, PROCESSES AND PLATFORMS ? Systems Engineering ? Model Transformations and Generative Approaches ? Frameworks for Model-Driven Development ? Hybrid Multi-Modeling Approaches ? Modeling for the Cloud ? Software Process Modeling, Enactment and Execution ? Workflow Management Systems ? Business Process Modeling ? Agile Model-Driven Development AREA 3: APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ? Model-Driven Project Management ? Model-Based Testing and Validation ? Model Execution and Simulation ? Model Quality Assurance Techniques ? Executable UML ? Meta-Programming ? Component-based software engineering ? Software Factories and Software Product Lines ? Generative programming PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.modelsward.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website http://www.modelsward.org --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This ongoing research encompasses theoretical aspects including quality definition and quality models, and practical/empirical aspects such as the development of methods, approaches and tools for quality measurement and improvement. Research can be general and conceptual in nature or focused on specific application domains, such as web application quality, data warehouse quality, requirements model quality, model transformations quality, etc. Although research contributions are highly diverse and relevant, they are not adopted by practitioners as useful solutions to reach better developed solutions. Nowadays, with the development of web technologies and the growth of collected and exploited data volumes (or to exploit), IS and CM communities are faced to new challenges. They have to envision new perspectives to the problem of evaluating quality in IS. The QMMQ workshop intends to provide a space for fruitful exchanges involving both researchers and practitioners having a variety of interests such as: data quality, information quality, system quality as well as models, methods, processes and tools for managing quality. The aim of the workshop is twofold: firstly, to provide an opportunity for researchers and industry developers working on various aspects of information systems quality to exchange research ideas and results and discuss them; secondly, to promote research on information systems and conceptual model quality to the broader conceptual modeling research community attending ER 2014. Data and information in general need to be of high quality to be valuable. However, this quality, to be ensured, requires reliable IS that can only be designed with a precise ontological commitment. Moreover, research on quality needs more contributions based on experimentation to provide empirical evidences of successful IS design. Empirical Software Engineering techniques and protocols should be followed in the CM modeling to provide reliable and useful results to assess IS quality. *Topics of interest* - Quality constructs, models and ontologies - Quality measures and instruments - Experiments for validating quality models, measures and instruments - Methodological issues of research on IS quality - Method and tool support for improving and monitoring quality - Quality of requirements engineering artifacts and processes - Quality of models and meta-models - Quality of ontologies and reference models - Data quality - Big data quality - Quality modeling languages - Ontological analysis of conceptual modeling grammars - Cost/benefit analysis of quality assurance processes - Quality assurance practices : case studies and experiences - Experiments and case studies on quality evaluation. *Important dates* Paper submission 02 May 2014 *Extended paper submission 30 May 2014* Author notification 02 June 2014 Camera-ready paper submission 02 July 2014 Workshop dates 27 October - 30 October 2014 *Submission* https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qmmq2014 Authors guidelines : http://qmmq2014.cnam.fr/?content=guidelines *Co-organizers* Samira SI-SAID ? CHERFI (CNAM, France) Oscar PASTOR (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain) Charlotte HUG (University Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne, France), Publicity chair -- Ce message a ete verifie par MailScanner pour des virus ou des polluriels et rien de suspect n'a ete trouve. From xristinastrathgakh at gmail.com Thu May 22 10:38:50 2014 From: xristinastrathgakh at gmail.com (Xristina Str) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 11:38:50 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM) 2014, Working Conference, Manchester Message-ID: PoEM 2014 is the 7th IFIP WG 8.1 working conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling. It aims at improving the understanding of the practice of Enterprise Modelling (EM) by offering a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic community and practitioners from industry and the public sector. Submissions are sought on any topic of enterprise modelling, including, but not limited to: Enterprise modelling Approaches and Tools for Agility and Flexibility Enterprise Architecture Change Management and Transformation Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Enterprise Modelling and Requirements Quality of Enterprise Models Conceptualizations, Notations, and Ontologies Enterprise Modelling and Business Processes Compliance in Enterprise Modelling Use of Enterprise Models at Run-Time Economics of Enterprise Modeling Multilevel Modeling We invite authors to submit original papers in the following categories: Research papers - describe original research contributions to the area of EM. Experience papers - present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial cases and practices. Practitioner papers - may address any aspect of EM or enterprise architectures relevant from a practitioners point of view. These papers have a specific review procedure. Short papers - can be used to present work in progress and emerging EM challenges. That includes presentation of ongoing thesis or research work by PhD or Master students. For further information including submisssion guidelines please refer to the conference web pages (poem2014.org). *Important Dates:* Deadline for paper submission: July 14th Notification of acceptance: September 8th Conference: 12-13 Nov. 2014 *General Chair:* Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK & Harokopio University of Athens, Greece *PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS:* Oscar Pastor, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany *Program Committee* Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Guiseppe Berio, University of South Brittany, France Robert Buchmann, University of Vienna, Austria Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Artur Caetano, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal Albertas Caplinskas, VU IMI, Lithuania Jaelson Castro, UFPE, Brazil Panagiotis Chountas, University of Westminster, UK Tony Clark, Middlesex University, London Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sergio Espa?a, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Xavier Franch, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Italy Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden H?vard J?rgensen, Commitment AS, Norway J?rgen Jung, DHL Global Forwarding, Bonn, Germany Lutz Kirchner, BOC Berlin, Germany Vassilis Kodogiannis, University of Westminster, UK Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Birger Lantow, University of Rostock, Germany Ulrike Lechner, Munich University of the Armed Forces, Germany Florian Matthes, Munich University of Technology, Germany Graham McLeod, inspired.org, South Africa Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics, Austria Bj?rn Nilsson, Anat?s AB, Luxembourg Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Sietse Overbeek, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Anne Persson, University of Skovde, Sweden Michael Petit, University of Namur, Belgium Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jolita Ralyt?, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Colette Rolland, Universit? Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France Kurt Sandkuhl, J?nk?ping Technical University, Sweden Ulf Seigerroth, J?nk?ping International Business School, Sweden Khurram Shahzad, University of the Punjab, Pakistan Janis Stirna, University of Stockholm, Sweden Darijus Strasunskas, DS Applied Science, Norway Stefan Sturm, IREB GmbH Francisco Valverde, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Barbara Weber, University of Insbruck, Austria Eric Yu, University of Toronto, Canada Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From conference at icdim.org Thu May 22 11:15:49 2014 From: conference at icdim.org (conference at icdim.org) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:45:49 +0530 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: ICDIM 2014 Message-ID: <20140522144549.Horde.PGyvsg__Xush_bK6Z3wg7w8@webmail.netandhost.com> Ninth International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2014) Rajabhat University, Bangkok Thailand September 29-October 01, 2014 (Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Technology Management Council) (Proceedings will be indexed in IEEE Xplore) www.icdim.org Following the successful earlier conferences at Bangalore (2006), Lyon (2007), London (2008), Michigan (2009) , Thunder Bay (2010), Melbourne (2011), Macau (2012) and Islamabad (203) the ninth event is being organized at Bangkok, Thailand in 2014. The International Conference on Digital Information Management is a multidisciplinary conference on digital information management, science and technology. The principal aim of this conference is to bring people in academia, research laboratories and industry together, and offer a collaborative platform to address the emerging issues and solutions in digital information science and technology. The ICDIM intends to bridge the gap between different areas of digital information management, science and technology. This forum will address a large number of themes and issues. The conference will feature original research and industrial papers on the theory, design and implementation of digital information systems, as well as demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and industrial presentations. The 9th International Conference on Digital Information Management will be held on September 29- October 01, 2014 at the Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand. The topics in ICDIM 2014 include but are not confined to the following areas. Information Retrieval Data Grids, Data and Information Quality Big Data Management Temporal and Spatial Databases Data Warehouses and Data Mining Web Mining including Web Intelligence and Web 3.0 E-Learning, eCommerce, e-Business and e-Government Natural Language Processing XML and other extensible languages Web Metrics and its applications Enterprise Computing Semantic Web, Ontologies and Rules Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems Knowledge Management Ubiquitous Systems Peer to Peer Data Management Interoperability Mobile Data Management Data Models for Production Systems and Services Data Exchange issues and Supply Chain Data Life Cycle in Products and Processes Case Studies on Data Management, Monitoring and Analysis Security and Access Control Information Content Security Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Network Security Distributed information systems Information visualization Web services Quality of Service Issues Multimedia and Interactive Multimedia Image Analysis and Image Processing Video Search and Video Mining Proceedings - All the accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE. - All papers will be fully indexed by IEEE Xplore. - All the ICDIM papers are indexed by DBLP. Modified version of the selected papers will appear in the special issues of the following peer reviewed journals. Journal of Digital Information Management (SCOPUs/EI) International Journal of Web Applications (IJWA) International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) International Journal of Emerging Sciences (IJES) International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC) (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Full Paper Submission July 15, 2014 Notification of Authors August 15, 2014 Registration Due September 15, 2014 Camera Ready Due September 15, 2014 Workshops/Tutorials/Demos September 30, 2014 Main conference September 30-October 01, 2014 General Chair Sakorn Soisungwan, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Thailand Organizing Chairs Khongsak Srikaeo, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Thailand Varaporn Suepraditkul, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Thailand Program Chairs Buncha Samruayruen, Pibulsongkram Rajabhat University, Thailand Adrian FLOREA, 'Lucian Blaga' University of Sibiu, Romania Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Charles P. Rubenstein, Pratt Institute, USA Workshop Chairs Muhammad Asif Naeem, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand SUBMISSIONS AT: http://www.icdim.org/submission.html Email: conference at icdim.org ------------------------- From joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu Thu May 22 13:45:43 2014 From: joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu (Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:45:43 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Deadline Approaching (June 15), Special issue on Critical Systems Modeling and Security, Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal In-Reply-To: <537DE354.8040907@telecom-sudparis.eu> References: <537DE354.8040907@telecom-sudparis.eu> Message-ID: <537DE367.6010401@telecom-sudparis.eu> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ======================================================== **Call for Papers** Elsevier Computers & Electrical Engineering (CAEE) Special issue on Critical Systems Modeling and Security ======================================================== *Aim and Scope* Modeling is an essential tool for the study and analysis of security and dependability of Critical Information Infrastructures. It can be used to evaluate properties such as disruption, disturbance and loss of information, and to anticipate incidents that could lead to situations involving economical, material and, even, human loss. This special issue is intended to report the most recent research works related to security threats, critical service malfunctioning or information leakage targeting, among others, SCADA, Industrial Control Systems and other Critical Scenarios, associated to both government and industrial companies. It also seeks to report new needs, approaches, methods and tools addressing this crucial topic. *Topics of Interest* The objective is to bring together advances particularly in the following fields (not limited to): -- Attack and vulnerability analysis -- Benchmarking and statistical analysis tools -- Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) -- Cybersecurity and cyberwarfare modeling -- Continuity of services -- Dependable communication models -- Early Warning Systems -- Embedded Technologies Security -- Intrusion detection and prevention in Critical Scenarios -- Fault tolerance and incident response -- Risk analysis and management -- SCADA/DCS and Control System Security -- Secure information sharing -- Security and dependability logistic models -- Self-management architectures -- Situation awareness and response optimization -- Trust and reputation management in Critical Scenarios *Submission Guidelines* Papers will be evaluated based on their originality, presentation, relevance and contribution to the topic associated to the special issue, and for their overall quality. The submitted papers have to describe original research which has not been published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Guest editors will make an initial determination of the suitability and scope of all submissions. Papers that either lack originality, clarity in presentation or fall outside the scope of the special issue will not be sent for review and authors will be promptly informed in such cases. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscript can be found at: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/367/authorinstructions Papers should be submitted via the EES application that can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/compeleceng/ To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, it is important that authors select SI-sec4 when they reach the 'Article Type' step in the submission process. *Schedule* Manuscript Due: June 15, 2014 First Round of Reviews: October 15, 2014 Second Round of Reviews: November 31, 2014 Acceptance of Final papers: January 15, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: February 15, 2015 Publication Date: October 2015 *Guest Editors* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, France Email: joaquin.garcia_alfaro at telecom-sudparis.eu Francesco Longo University of Calabria, Italy Email: f.longo at unical.it Gregorio Martinez Perez University of Murcia, Spain Email: gregorio at um.es More info at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-electrical-engineering/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-critical-systems-modeling-and-security/ From rs-workshop-at-floc14 at weizmann.ac.il Thu May 22 15:42:13 2014 From: rs-workshop-at-floc14 at weizmann.ac.il (rs-workshop-at-floc14 at weizmann.ac.il) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:42:13 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [RS-at-FLoC-14] Reactive Systems workshop in honor of David Harel - July 23 In-Reply-To: <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C611F@IBWMBX02> References: <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C5968@IBWMBX02>, <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C5996@IBWMBX02>, <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C5AB8@IBWMBX02>, <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C5ACF@IBWMBX02>, <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C5AE6@IBWMBX02>, <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C611F@IBWMBX02> Message-ID: <7C49247693F60649ACEDA338EB78591E1C6169@IBWMBX02> Call for Participation (apologies for multiple postings) We are happy to invite you to attend a one-day workshop affiliated with CAV'14 at FLoC/Vienna Summer of Logic - July 23, 2014 - http://smlab.cs.tau.ac.il/rs14vsl/ =============================== Special Workshop on Reactive Systems: Directions in Development and Analysis =============================== The workshop celebrates thirty years of statecharts and David Harel?s 2^6th birthday, and will feature invited talks by distinguished speakers. Confirmed speakers include: * Albert Benveniste, INRIA * Edmund Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University * Nachum Dershowitz, Tel Aviv University * Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research and University of Cambridge * Orna Grumberg, Technion * Thomas A. Henzinger, IST Austria * Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research and Cambridge University Computing Laboratory * Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research * Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University * Moshe Vardi, Rice University Areas include software and system engineering, biological modeling, design, development, logic, verification, and applications. Please feel free to forward to other individuals, groups, students, etc., who may be interested. For the detailed program see http://smlab.cs.tau.ac.il/rs14vsl/ or contact the organizers: Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel (maoz at cs.tau.ac.il) Assaf Marron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (assaf.marron at weizmann.ac.il) Register via Vienna Summer of Logic registration at http://vsl2014.at/registration/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.boubeta at uca.es Fri May 23 09:56:35 2014 From: juan.boubeta at uca.es (Juan Boubeta Puig) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:56:35 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Second CfP: Int. Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2014) @ ESOCC 2014 Message-ID: [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es *Paper Submission Due: May 30th, 2014* GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. *As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a JCR Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book*. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 - Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending). As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research, United States - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Andreas Metzger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Achille Peternier, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz-Cort?s, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- [image: UCA] Juan Boubeta Puig Grupo UCASE de Ingenier?a del Software / UCASE Software Engineering Research Group *Departamento de Ingenier?a Inform?tica / Department of Computer Science and Engineering Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a / School of Engineering* Universidad de C?diz / University of C?diz C/ Chile n? 1 11002 - C?diz (Spain) Tel (+34) 956 015692 juan.boubeta at uca.es https://ucase.uca.es/juan-boubeta-puig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.boubeta at uca.es Fri May 23 09:59:55 2014 From: juan.boubeta at uca.es (Juan Boubeta Puig) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 09:59:55 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Second CfP: Int. Workshop on Adaptive Services for the Future Internet (WAS4FI 2014) @ ESOCC 2014 Message-ID: [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es *Paper Submission Due: May 30th, 2014* GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. *As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a JCR Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book*. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: May 30th, 2014 - Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending). As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (to be confirmed) ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Anis Charfi, SAP Research, Germany - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, ES - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Almaden Research, United States - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Andreas Metzger, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Achille Peternier, University of Lugano, Switzerland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz-Cort?s, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- [image: UCA] Juan Boubeta Puig Grupo UCASE de Ingenier?a del Software / UCASE Software Engineering Research Group *Departamento de Ingenier?a Inform?tica / Department of Computer Science and Engineering Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a / School of Engineering* Universidad de C?diz / University of C?diz C/ Chile n? 1 11002 - C?diz (Spain) Tel (+34) 956 015692 juan.boubeta at uca.es https://ucase.uca.es/juan-boubeta-puig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Over the last decade, matching systems have made great strides in finding equivalence relations between classes and instances, and real-world applications making use of these capabilities have begun to appear. Nevertheless, challenges stemming from the size, complexity, and variety of relationships among resources on the Semantic Web today require further technical and theoretical innovation. We welcome original papers that address the following areas: - Large-scale matching - Complex matching (e.g. non-equivalence relations, expressive alignment languages, etc.) - Real-world applications - Interactive matching - Social and collaborative matching - Matching with background knowledge - Alignment repair and reasoning - Self-configuring matching systems - Alignment evaluation and benchmarks - Ontology design pattern-driven matching *Submissions* *September 30, 2014* - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the *Ontology and Linked Data Matching* special issue. Submissions are possible in all standing paper type of the journal, see http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors for descriptions: full research papers, surveys, linked dataset descriptions, ontology descriptions, application reports, tool/systems reports. *Guest editors* Michelle Cheatham, Wright State University (www.michellecheatham.com) Isabel F. Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago ( http://www.cs.uic.edu/Cruz/) J?r?me Euzenat, INRIA & University of Grenoble ( http://exmo.inria.fr/~euzenat/) Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~catiapesquita/ ) The editors can be reached by emailing Catia Pesquita at cpesquita at di.fc.ul.pt *Guest Editorial Board* to be announced -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Over the last decade, matching systems have made great strides in finding equivalence relations between classes and instances, and real-world applications making use of these capabilities have begun to appear. Nevertheless, challenges stemming from the size, complexity, and variety of relationships among resources on the Semantic Web today require further technical and theoretical innovation. We welcome original papers that address the following areas: - Large-scale matching - Complex matching (e.g. non-equivalence relations, expressive alignment languages, etc.) - Real-world applications - Interactive matching - Social and collaborative matching - Matching with background knowledge - Alignment repair and reasoning - Self-configuring matching systems - Alignment evaluation and benchmarks - Ontology design pattern-driven matching *Submissions* *September 30, 2014* - Paper submission deadline Submissions shall be made through the Semantic Web journal website at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net. Prospective authors must take notice of the submission guidelines posted at http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/authors. Note that you need to request an account on the website for submitting a paper. Please indicate in the cover letter that it is for the *Ontology and Linked Data Matching* special issue. 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URL: From S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl Fri May 23 23:15:19 2014 From: S.S.T.Q.Jongmans at cwi.nl (FOCLASA 2014) Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 23:15:19 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] FOCLASA 2014 - Final CfP (The 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems) Message-ID: <537FBA67.9080703@cwi.nl> [Apologies for multiple postings] -- Final Call for Papers -- FOCLASA 2014: The 13th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptive Systems http://foclasa.lcc.uma.es/ September 6, 2014, Rome (Italy) In conjunction with CONCUR 2014 -- http://www.concur2014.org/ ============================================================== FOCLASA 2014 is a workshop colocated with the 25th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2014). The goal of the FOCLASA workshop is to put together researchers and practitioners to share and identify common problems, and to devise general solutions in the context of coordination languages and self-adaptive systems. == IMPORTANT DATES == 11 June 2014: Deadline for abstract submission 15 June 2014: Deadline for paper submission 13 July 2014: Notifications 23 July 2014: Final versions == TOPICS OF INTEREST == * Theoretical models and frameworks for component and service coordination, service composition, service adaptation and concurrent system modeling. * Applications and usability studies for the aforementioned theoretical models, interaction and coordination challenges in decentralized self-adaptive systems and various application domains. * Languages and specification protocols for component and service interaction, their semantics, expressiveness, validation and verification, type checking, static and dynamic analysis. * "Software as a Service" models (e.g., cloud computing) and dynamic software architectures, such as self-adaptive and self-organizing systems. * Tools and environments for the development of concurrent and customizable self-monitoring, self-adaptive and self-organizing applications. * Algorithms, mathematical models and realization frameworks for quality-of-service observation, storage, history-based analysis in self-adaptive systems (queuing models, load balancing, fault-tolerance analysis, machine learning systems). * Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, stochastic modeling and analysis, reasoning under uncertainty, run-time synthesis. In particular, practice, experience and methodologies from the following areas are solicited as well: * Business process modeling * Cloud computing * Service-oriented computing * Component-based systems * Grid computing * Large-scale distributed systems * Multi-agent systems * Peer-to-peer systems Survey works analysing and comparing literature on the topics of FOCLASA are also welcome. == PAPER SUBMISSION == Submissions must describe authors' original research work and their results. Description of work-in-progress with concrete results is also encouraged. The contributions should not exceed 15 pages in the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/) and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=foclasa2014 Submitting an abstract does not put any obligation on the authors to submit a full paper. Abstracts without an accompanying full paper by the paper submission deadline are automatically considered withdrawn. The authors are, however, encouraged to explicitly withdraw their abstract, if they decide not to submit a full paper. All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results. Concurrent submission to other venues (conferences, workshops or journal) and submission of papers under consideration elsewhere are not allowed. A printed version of the proceedings will be distributed among participants during the workshop. The proceedings of the workshop will be published as a separate volume. Participants will give a presentation of their papers in twenty minutes, followed by a ten-minute round of questions and discussion on participants' work. Following the tradition of the past editions, we plan to have a special issue of an international scientific journal devoted to FOCLASA 2014. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. These extended versions will be reviewed by an international program committee, which will decide on their final publication on the special issue. In the last few editions of FOCLASA, a special issue of Science of Computer Programming has been dedicated to this workshop. == PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS == * Javier C?mara Institute for Software Research Carnegie Mellon University, USA jcmoreno at cs.cmu.edu * Jos? Proen?a iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium and HASLab/INESC TEC, University of Minho, Portugal jose.proenca at cs.kuleuven.be == PUBLICITY CHAIR == * Sung-Shik Jongmans, CWI, The Netherlands == PROGRAM COMMITTEE == * Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy * Carlos Canal, University of M?laga, Spain * Javier C?mara, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Carlos Cuesta, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain * Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland * Rog?rio de Lemos, University of Kent, UK * Natallia Kokash, Leiden University, The Netherlands * Christian Krause, Hasso Plattner Institut, Germany * Ant?nia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Sun Meng, Peking University, China * Liliana Pasquale, University of Limerick, Ireland * Pascal Poizat, Paris Ouest University and LIP6, France * Jos? 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The Call for Papers can be downloaded from the BPMS2'2014 Web site : http://www.bpms2.org/ All BPM'2014 conference "workshop papers" will be published in Springer LNBIP post-proceedings. Best regards, Rainer Schmidt, Selmin Nurcan BPMS2 2014 organisers -------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<-------------------8<--- BPMS2 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Workshop on Business Process Management and Social Software (BPMS2) in conjunction with BPM 2014 September 8th, 2014, Haifa, Israel Papers submission deadline: June 1st, 2014 http://www.bpms2.org/ Organizers: Rainer Schmidt ? Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Selmin Nurcan ? University Paris 1 Panth?on Sorbonne, France ------ SCOPE ------ Social software is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. More and more enterprises use social software to improve their business processes and create new business models. Social software provides new interaction patterns that allow to integrate more stakeholders in a broader way and to design business processes in a completely new way. These four patterns are: ? Weak ties Weak-ties are spontaneously established contacts between individuals that create new views and allow combining competencies. Social software supports the creation of weak ties by supporting to create contacts in impulse between non-predetermined individuals. ? Social Production Social Production is the creation of artefacts, by combining the input from independent contributors without predetermining the way to do this. By this means it is possible to integrate new and innovative contributions not identified or planned in advance. ? Egalitarianism Egalitarianism is the equal handling of all contributors of a business process. This is done with the intention to encourage a maximum of contributors and to get the best solution fusioning a high number of contributions, thus enabling the wisdom of the crowds. ? Value co-creation Social software is based on the idea, that value-creation is a mutual process. Thus both service producer and consumer (or better prosumer) cooperate in order co-create value. Applying these four patterns to business processes creates huge chances for the design, implementation and operation of business processes. Social software is used to communicate with the customer increasingly in a bi-directional manner. Companies integrate customers into product development using social software to capture ideas for new products and features. Mass production is more and more replaced by the individualized provisioning of services and products. Thus social software establishes learning relationships with customers and stakeholders. Inside companies, hierarchical structures are more and more dissolved and replaced by a culture of trust. The exchange of knowledge and information is improved. Innovations and decisions are created socially and not by single experts and managers. Combining social software and business process management benefits a lot from the recent advances of data processing, subsumed as Big Data. Today large amounts of semi-structured and unstructured data as created by social software can be processed. Based on the analysis of this data, social software is able to influence business process (management) significantly. ----------------- WORKSHOP GOALS ----------------- The workshop has the goal to investigate the relationship of social software and business process management in three areas. 1. Interaction of social software with business process management 2. Use of social software in business processes. 3. Leverage social software in business process management and business processes using Big Data. ------------------- WORKSHOP THEMES ------------------- The workshop are organized according to the three areas. 1. Interaction of social software with business process management - How interact weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and value co-creation with business process management? - Which phases of the BPM lifecycle (Design, Deployment, Operation, and Evaluation) can profit the most from social software? - Do we need new BPM methods and/or paradigms to cope with social software? - How are trust and reputation established in business processes using social software? - How does social software interact with WFMS or other business process support systems? 2. Use of social software in business processes - Are there business processes which require sociality, especially when they are not predictable (as production workflows) but collaborative or ad hoc? - How can we use Wikis, Blogs etc. to support business processes? - Which types of social software can be used in which phases of the BPM lifecycle? - What new kinds of business knowledge representation are offered by social production? 3. Leverage social software in business process management using Big Data. - Which data created with social software can be used to support business processes? - Which categories of business processes can profit from big data ? - Are there any similarities or relationships with process mining techniques and also with workflow control and role patterns? ----------- SUBMISSION ----------- Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of full papers must not exceed 12 pages (There is no possibility to buy additional pages). Position papers and tool reports should be no longer than 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in the new LNBIP format (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0). Papers have to present original research contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere. The title page must contain a short abstract, a classification of the topics covered, preferably using the list of topics above, and an indication of the submission category (regular paper/position paper/tool report). Please use Easychair for submitting your paper: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpms214 The paper selection will be based upon the relevance of a paper to the main topics, as well as upon its quality and potential to generate relevant discussion. All the workshop papers will be published by Springer as a post-proceeding volume (to be sent around 4 months after the workshop) in their Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. ----------------- EXPECTED RESULTS ----------------- All papers will be published on workshop wiki (www.bpms2.org) before the workshop, so that everybody can learn about the problems that are important for other participants. A blog will be used to encourage and support discussions. The workshop will consist of long and short paper presentations, brainstorming sessions and discussions. The workshop report will be created collaboratively using a wiki. A special issue over all workshops will be published in a journal (decision in progress). The two papers collaboratively written by the BPMS2?08 and BPMS2?09 workshop authors (see below) have been accepted for publication in the Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (including Software Process: Improvement and Practice): S. Erol, M. Granitzer, S. Happ, S. Jantunen, B. Jennings, A. Koschmider, S. Nurcan, D. Rossi, R. Schmidt, P. Johannesson. Combining BPM and Social Software : Contradiction or Chance ? Special issue of the Software Process: Improvement and Practice Journal on "BPM 2008 selected workshop papers", Volume 2, Issue 6-7, pp. 449-476, October-November 2010. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smr.460/abstract G. Bruno, F. Dengler, B. Jennings, R. Khalaf, S. Nurcan, M. Prilla, M. Sarini, R. Schmidt, R. Silva. Key challenges for enabling Agile BPM with Social Software. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, incorporating Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Special Issue on BPM'09 selected workshop papers, Volume 23, Issue 4, pp. 297-326, June 2011. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smr.v23.4/issuetoc ---------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------- Paper submission: June 1, 2014 Author notification: July 1, 2014 Camera-ready: July 23, 2014 ------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------ Ofer Arazy - Haifa University, Israel Ilia Bider - IbisSoft, Sweden Jan Bosch - Intuit, Mountain View, California, USA Marco Brambilla - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Pietro Fraternali - Politecnico di Milano, Italy Chihab Hanachi - Toulouse 1 University, France Ralf-Christian H?rting, Hochschule Aalen, Germany Monique Janneck - Luebeck University of Applied Sciences, Germany Rania Khalaf, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Ralf Klamma - Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Germany Sai Peck Lee - University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Myriam Lewkowicz - Universite de Technologie de Troyes, France Renata Mendes de Araujo - Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Bela Mutschler, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, Germany Gustaf Neumann - Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria Selmin Nurcan - University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France Andreas Oberweis - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Erik Proper - Public Research Centre - Henri Tudor, The Netherlands Sebastian Richly, TU Dresden, Germany Rainer Schmidt - Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany Miguel-?ngel Sicilia - University of Alcal?, Madrid, Spain Pnina Soffer - University of Haifa, Israel Karsten Wendland - University of Applied Sciences, Germany Christian Zirpins - Seeburger AG, Germany -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Selmin NURCAN Ma?tre de Conf?rences HDR / Associate Professor ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University Paris 1 Panth?on-Sorbonne has been running for the last 16 years, a highly successful Masters programme (SIC - apprenticeship) that is open for the 5th year to Foreign students http://www.iksem.org http://mastersic.univ-paris1.fr/ http://www.meilleurs-masters.com/master-management-des-systemes-dinformation/universite-paris-1-pantheon-sorbonne-master-systemes-d-information-et-de-connaissance.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- The 15th edition on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS'2014) in conjunction with CAISE'2014 *BPMDS is a WORKING CONFERENCE in conjunction with CAISE*. 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To handle others, use your heart. ---------------------------------------------------------------- From scott_fowler at ymail.com Sun May 25 09:05:35 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 08:05:35 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: IEEE SpaIoT 2014 In-Reply-To: <1399818532.81220.YahooMailNeo@web133102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1401001535.49038.YahooMailBasic@web133106.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Apologies if you received multiple copies of this IEEE SpaIoT 2014 CFPs (Paper Submission Deadline: June 10, 2014) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 7th IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Internet of Things (SpaIoT 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaIoT2014/ In Conjunction with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2014) Beijing, China, 24-26 September, 2014 http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/ Introduction With the extensive research and development of computer, communication and control technologies, it is possible to connect all things to the Internet such that the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) can be formed. These things may be equipped with devices such as sensors, actuators, and RFID tags, in order to allow people and things to be connected anytime and anywhere, with anything and anyone. IoT will enable collaborations and communications among people and things, and among things themselves, which expand the current Internet and will radically change our personal, corporate, and community environments. When more and more things connect to the Internet, security and privacy issues become more s erious, especially in the case that these things are equipped with actuators and can support control. For the better protection of secure communication and user privacy, including location, identity and behavior habits, it is necessary to develop anonymous communication theories, methods and key technologies of anonymous communication systems in all varieties of application environments. Anonymous communication is used to hide communication participants or communication relations so as to achieve effective protection for network nodes and user identities. Anonymous communication can address potential network security issues, and becomes one of the hot topics in the field of network and information security. Scope and Interests SpaIoT 2014 aims at providing a forum for discussing the latest academic and industrial research results in all aspects of security and privacy in IoT. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: (1) Security, privacy architectures for IoT (2) Security, privacy platforms for IoT (3) Security, privacy applications for IoT (4) Architecture for anonymous communication system (5) Resilience to external and internal attacks in IoT (6) Anonymity measures and evaluation (7) Anonymous communication in IoT (8) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (9) Anonymous communication & privacy protection (10) Anonymous browsing system Submission and Publication Information All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the symposium website. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with the over length charge). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and award one "Best Paper Award" for this symposium. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Important Dates (1) Submission Deadline: 10 June, 2014 (2) Authors Notification: 10 July, 2014 (3) Final Manuscript Due: 30 July, 2014 (4) Registration Due: 30 July, 2014 (5) Conference Dates: 24-26 September, 2014 Steering Chairs Guojun Wang, Central South University, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain General Co-Chairs Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of Valencia, Spain Program Co-Chairs Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Mianxiong Dong, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT),Japan Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Afrand Agah, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA Sachin Kumar Agrawal, University of Limerick (UL), Ireland Rui L. Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal Reaz Ahmed, University of Waterloo, Canada Kemal Akkaya, Southern Illinois University, USA Mehran Asadi, Lincoln University of Pennsylvania, USA Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Pino Caballero-Gil, University of La Laguna , Spain Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy Garth V. Crosby, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, IMT / TELECOM Bretagne Yao Guo, Peking University, China Ying Guo, Central South University, China Bidyut Gupta, Southern Illinois University, USA Hsiang-Cheh Huang, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Youssef Iraqi, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research, The United Arab Emirat Wissam Mallouli, Montimage, French Mirka Miller, The University of Newcastle, Australia Juan Pedro Munoz-Gea, Technical University of Cartagena, Spain Renita Murimi, Oklahoma Baptist University, USA Hebert Perez-Roses, Open University Barcelona, Spain Pedro Peris-Lopez, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Altair Olivo Santin, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Brazil Kaoru Ota, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Gang Tan, Lehigh University, USA Qiang Tang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Bin Wang, Central South University, China Lanier A. Watkins, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA Congxu Zhu, Central South University, China Publicity Co-Chairs Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Md. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Central South University, China Kami Makki, Lamar University, USA Webmaster Yuxin Ye, Central South University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning IEEE SpaIoT 2014 to: Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and the symposium organizers: SpaIoT2014 AT gmail DOT com Copyright @ Trusted Computing Institute, CSU http://trust.csu.edu.cn/ From scott_fowler at ymail.com Sun May 25 09:36:17 2014 From: scott_fowler at ymail.com (Scott Fowler) Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 08:36:17 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ecoop-info] CWiP: QShine 2014 Message-ID: <1401003377.42002.YahooMailNeo@web133102.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> *** Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message *** CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS ******************************************************************************** 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QSHINE) 18-19 August, 2014 The Greek Island of Rhodes, Greece http://qshine.org/2014/show/home ******************************************************************** Quick Facts ???? Submission Deadline: 31 May 2014 ???? Online Submission: Confy website ???? Notification Date: 27 June 2014 ???? Camera-Ready Deadline: 14 July 2014 ???? Submission Format: a 2-page short-paper The goal of the work-in-progress session is two-fold: ???? To provide the opportunity for attendees to present and discuss preliminary results from their latest work obtaining some early feedback from the community ???? To provide the opportunity to present position papers on emerging hot topics in the field of performance engineering motivating new research directions Work-in-progress papers present promising preliminary results that may not have been fully validated yet. Although full validation is not required, the work presented should be advanced enough to allow attendees to appreciate its scope and significance. Topics Original submissions, not under any concurrent reviews, are solicited in all areas related to heterogeneous wired, wireless and hybrid networks varying from sensor, vehicle, cellular, ad hoc, enterprise, datacenter, to service-provider networks, ranging from in/on-body, personal/local/metropolitan/wide-area, to intra/inter-planetary scales. Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following: ???? Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning: architectures, protocols, mechanisms, etc ???? Quality of Experience (QoE): user-perceived quality, cost-sensitive experience, etc ???? Reliability and Scalability: performance, adaptation, cognition, extensibility, etc ???? Security and Privacy: system/network security, user privacy/accountability, etc ???? Robustness: fault/disruption/disaster-tolerance, resilience, survivability, etc ???? Cross-Layer Design, Optimization and Implementation: spectrum/energy efficiency ???? 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The current lack of universally accepted standards supporting cloud interoperability is severely affecting the portability of cloud-based applications across different platforms. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss problems, solutions and perspectives of the ongoing research activities aimed at enabling an efficient and adaptive management of service-based applications across multiple clouds. The workshop is promoted by the ongoing European research project EC-FP7-ICT-610531 SeaClouds (http://www.seaclouds-project.eu/), whose ultimate objective is to enable a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and migration of application modules over multiple heterogeneous clouds. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest for the workshop is: - Design of portable multi-cloud applications - Analysis of multi-cloud application specifications - Discovery of cloud services - Adaptive deployment of multi-cloud applications - Efficient monitoring of multi-cloud applications - Adaptive reconfiguration of multi-cloud applications - Controlled migration of application modules across multiple clouds - Emerging standards supporting multi-cloud application management - Case studies and best practices in multi-cloud applications --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, position papers and papers describing work in progress. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, whereas position papers and papers describing work in progress must not exceed 8 pages. All contributions should be written in English in the LNCS format. Contributions can be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaclouds2014).For formatting instructions and templates please see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science series. Moreover, subject to the number and quality of contributions, a journal special issue with a selection of the best papers will be organised. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Extended submission deadline: June 14th, 2014 - Extended notification deadline: July 4th, 2014 - Camera-ready due: July 15th, 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee - Marcos Almeida, Softeam, France - Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Martin Chapman, Oracle, Ireland - Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain - Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland - Francesco D?Andria, ATOS, Spain - Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Fehling, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Norway - Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft, U.K. - Simon Moser, IBM, Germany - Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - PengWei Wang, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity chair - Michela Fazzolari, University of Pisa, Italy Webmaster - Adrian Nieto, University of Malaga, Spain From fazzolar at di.unipi.it Mon May 26 18:13:00 2014 From: fazzolar at di.unipi.it (fazzolar at di.unipi.it) Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 18:13:00 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] [2nd CFP] - SeaClouds - First workshop on seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications Message-ID: <95b600116fccbcd9a9a5c2e5282ec23d.squirrel@oldwww.di.unipi.it> ======================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= SeaClouds - First workshop on seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of service-based applications Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014 Manchester, UK http://seaclouds.lcc.uma.es ========================================================================= EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 14th, 2014 ========================================================================= Deploying and managing in an efficient and adaptive way complex service-based applications across multiple heterogeneous clouds is one of the problems that have emerged with the cloud revolution. The current lack of universally accepted standards supporting cloud interoperability is severely affecting the portability of cloud-based applications across different platforms. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss problems, solutions and perspectives of the ongoing research activities aimed at enabling an efficient and adaptive management of service-based applications across multiple clouds. The workshop is promoted by the ongoing European research project EC-FP7-ICT-610531 SeaClouds (http://www.seaclouds-project.eu/), whose ultimate objective is to enable a seamless adaptive multi-cloud management of complex applications by supporting the distribution, monitoring and migration of application modules over multiple heterogeneous clouds. ------------------ Topics of interest ------------------ A non-exhaustive list of the topics of interest for the workshop is: - Design of portable multi-cloud applications - Analysis of multi-cloud application specifications - Discovery of cloud services - Adaptive deployment of multi-cloud applications - Efficient monitoring of multi-cloud applications - Adaptive reconfiguration of multi-cloud applications - Controlled migration of application modules across multiple clouds - Emerging standards supporting multi-cloud application management - Case studies and best practices in multi-cloud applications --------------------- Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers, position papers and papers describing work in progress. Regular papers must not exceed 12 pages, whereas position papers and papers describing work in progress must not exceed 8 pages. All contributions should be written in English in the LNCS format. Contributions can be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seaclouds2014).For formatting instructions and templates please see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer's Communications in Computer and Information Science series. Moreover, subject to the number and quality of contributions, a journal special issue with a selection of the best papers will be organised. --------------- Important Dates --------------- - Extended submission deadline: June 14th, 2014 - Extended notification deadline: July 4th, 2014 - Camera-ready due: July 15th, 2014 ------------ Organization ------------ Program Chairs - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee - Marcos Almeida, Softeam, France - Jorge Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal - Martin Chapman, Oracle, Ireland - Javier Cubo, University of Malaga, Spain - Tommaso Cucinotta, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Ireland - Francesco D?Andria, ATOS, Spain - Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Christoph Fehling, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Norway - Alex Heneveld, Cloudsoft, U.K. - Simon Moser, IBM, Germany - Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - PengWei Wang, University of Pisa, Italy Publicity chair - Michela Fazzolari, University of Pisa, Italy Webmaster - Adrian Nieto, University of Malaga, Spain From angevald at ucm.es Mon May 26 18:59:23 2014 From: angevald at ucm.es (Leonardo Valdivieso) Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 18:59:23 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services Message-ID: *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** SDN-NGAS 2014 - Workshop on Software Defined Networks for a New Generation of Applications and Services August 20, 2014 Niagara Falls, Canada http://gass.ucm.es/sdn-ngas-2014/ Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a promising architecture that is reinventing the way of thinking the networks. The decoupling of control and data planes in network devices and the centralized control of the networks remove the rigidity of today?s networks. This new concept enables the integration between different heterogeneous architectures and facilitates the creation of Network Applications and Services more adapted to the needs of customers. Moreover, this New Generation of Application and Services opens the door of innovative business opportunities. However, the potential techno-economic sustainability of SDN requires the consensus between research community, vendors, regulators and customers. This Workshop represents a unique opportunity to expose the latest advances in this technology as well as share experiences and build collaborations. Topics for this Workshop: - Advancement in the development of Applications and Services for SDN networks - Advancement in Southbound and Northbound APIs for SDN networks. ? SDN programming and simulation. ? Tools for Management and Troubleshooting of SDN based networks. ? Interoperable service-oriented technologies to share real world data among heterogeneous devices. ? Advanced security, privacy, authentication, trust and verification with the SDN technology. ? Integration of Software Defined technologies with traditional network architectures. ? Performance analysis on single and multi-controller architectures. ? Orchestration of virtual network resources. ? Other related topics. Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------- Paper submission deadline: May 30, 2014 Paper acceptance notification: June 5, 2014 Camera ready papers due: June 19, 2014 Workshop: August 20, 2014 Publication: ------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com < http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( www.sciencedirect.com ), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com ) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index ( http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Extended and revised version of the best papers presented in the Workshop will be invited to these two journal special issues: IET Networks (Special Issue on Software Defined Networking) and IET Wireless Sensor Systems (Special Issue on Advanced Applications and Services on Software Defined Networking and Software Defined Sensor Networks). Committees: ------------------------------------------------- Chairs: - Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Jun Bi, Tsinghua University, China Technical Program Committee: - Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Tarun Banka, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA, USA - Sergio Beker, Huawei Technologies, Munich, Germany. - Anura P. 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The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. ICTH-2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/). Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal. Keynote Speakers Confirmed: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#keynoteSpeakers We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems Clinical Data and Knowledge Management Cloud Computing for Healthcare Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare Data Visualization Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Drug Information Systems Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare Digital Hospitals E-health & m-health Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Health grids Health Portals Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare RFID Solutions for Healthcare Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments Telemedicine and Health Telematics Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare Usability & Socio-technical studies User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Chairs Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Chair Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada International Journal Chair Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Shyamala C. 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URL: From garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp Tue May 27 05:23:04 2014 From: garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp (Jacques Garrigue) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 12:23:04 +0900 Subject: [ecoop-info] APLAS 2014: Extended deadline Message-ID: <99C2BFED-65C8-428D-A70E-78D31D264BAF@math.nagoya-u.ac.jp> =============================================================== APLAS 2014 12th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/APLAS2014/ 17-19 November 2014, Singapore CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts due June 2 (full paper by June 8) =============================================================== ================ INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Zhenjiang Hu (NII, Japan) Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, USA) Julien Verlaguet (Facebook, USA) ========== BACKGROUND ========== APLAS aims to stimulate programming language research by providing a forum for the presentation of latest results and the exchange of ideas in programming languages and systems. APLAS is based in Asia, but is an international forum that serves the worldwide programming language community. APLAS is sponsored by the Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) founded by Asian researchers in cooperation with many researchers from Europe and the USA. Past APLAS symposiums were successfully held in Melbourne ('13), Kyoto ('12), Kenting ('11), Shanghai ('10), Seoul ('09), Bangalore ('08), Singapore ('07), Sydney ('06), Tsukuba ('05), Taipei ('04) and Beijing ('03) after three informal workshops. Proceedings of the past symposiums were published in Springer's LNCS. ====== TOPICS ====== The symposium is devoted to foundational and practical issues in programming languages and systems. Papers are solicited on topics such as * semantics, logics, foundational theory; * design of languages, type systems and foundational calculi; * domain-specific languages; * compilers, interpreters, abstract machines; * program derivation, synthesis and transformation; * program analysis, verification, model-checking; * logic, constraint, probabilistic and quantum programming; * software security; * concurrency and parallelism; * tools and environments for programming and implementation. Topics are not limited to those discussed in previous symposiums. Papers identifying future directions of programming and those addressing the rapid changes of the underlying computing platforms are especially welcome. Demonstration of systems and tools in the scope of APLAS are welcome to the System and Tool presentations category. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic are welcome to consult with the program chair prior to submission. ========== SUBMISSION ========== We solicit submissions in two categories: *Regular research papers* describing original scientific research results, including tool development and case studies. Regular research papers should not exceed 18 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is significant. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity. In case of lack of space, proofs, experimental results, or any information supporting the technical results of the paper could be provided as an appendix or a link to a web page, but reviewers are not obliged to read them. *System and Tool presentations* describing systems or tools that support theory, program construction, reasoning, or program execution in the scope of APLAS. System and Tool presentations are expected to be centered around a demonstration. The paper and the demonstration should identify the novelties of the tools and use motivating examples. System and Tool papers should not exceed 8 pages in the Springer LNCS format, including bibliography and figures. Submissions will be judged based on both the papers and the described systems or tools. It is highly desirable that the tools are available on the web. Papers should be submitted electronically via the submission web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aplas2014 Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ===== DATES ===== Abstracts due: June 2, 2014 (Monday) 23:59 UTC-11 Submission due: June 8, 2014 (Sunday) 23:59 UTC-11 Notification: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday) Final paper due: September 1, 2014 (Monday) Conference: November 17-19, 2014 (Monday-Wednesday) ========== ORGANIZERS ========== General chair: Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore) Program chair: Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya University) Program committee: Xiaojuan Cai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) James Chapman (Institute of Cybernetics, Estonia) Cristian Gherghina (Singapore University of Technology and Design) Eric Goubault (CEA LIST and Ecole Polytechnique, France) Fei He (Tsinghua University, China) Gerwin Klein (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) Raghavan Komondoor (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Paddy Krishnan (Oracle, Australia) Daan Leijen (Microsoft Research, USA) Yasuhiko Minamide (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Shin-Cheng Mu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Sungwoo Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea) Julian Rathke (University of Southampton, UK) Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea) Alexandra Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands) Martin Sulzmann (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, Germany) Munehiro Takimoto (Tokyo University of Science, Japan) Jan Vitek (Purdue University, USA) Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA) ======= CONTACT ======= aplas2014 at easychair.org From alfy at kfupm.edu.sa Tue May 27 09:33:23 2014 From: alfy at kfupm.edu.sa (El-Sayed Mohamed El-Alfy) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 07:33:23 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP: special session on "Data Hiding and Multimedia Security" under IEEE SSCI 2014 Message-ID: <543B6E2C643FD24DBB747E7B49A4E7710129171113@SRVINFMBXE02.kfupm.edu.sa> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is our pleasure to announce a special session on "Data Hiding and Multimedia Security" to be held in conjunction with the IEEE SSCI 2014 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security (CICS?14), 9-12 December 2014, Orlando, Florida, USA. SSCI is an IEEE Sponsored International Symposium Series featuring multiple exciting symposia at one location to promote all aspects of Computational Intelligence (CI). So, we hope you will join us at IEEE SSCI 2014 in December 2014. Important Dates: ? Paper Submission: June 15, 2014 ? Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2014 ? Camera-ready final paper submission: October 5, 2014 ? Early registration: October 5, 2014 ? Conference: December 9-12, 2014 Paper Submission: For paper submissions, please go to the conference website: www.ieee-ssci.org and click the "Paper Submission" from the left panel, or directly go to the paper submission link at: www.ieee-ssci.org/submission.html The theme of the special session Data Hiding and Multimedia Security which has been an important and very active research area, especially with the massive growth of digital data and communication technologies. Several security breaches and threats have put many challenges to investigators for distribution and communication of digital media. The aim of this special session is to provide an environment to foster interaction of researchers to exchange ideas about research trends and share their expertise in the theory and application of computational intelligence techniques to data hiding and multimedia security. The special session invites papers on the following or related topics: ? Watermarking and steganography ? Targeted and blind steganalysis ? Data embedding and detection audio, image and video ? Multimedia forensics ? Content authentication and integrity verification ? Fraud/forgery detection ? Theoretical aspects of information hiding and detection ? Secure multimedia system designs ? Security metrics for information hiding ? New applications of information hiding ? Pattern recognition and security for forensics traces ? Content traces and copyright management Chairs and Organizers: El-Sayed M. El-Alfy Associate Professor & Intelligent Systems Research Group Coordinator College of Computer Sciences and Engineering King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia alfy at kfupm.edu.sa Mian M. Awais Associate Professor, LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan awais at lums.edu.pk Short biographies of the organizers: El-Sayed M. El-Alfy is currently working at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia as Associate Professor & Intelligent Systems Research Group Coordinator. His research interests are pattern recognition and machine learning, computational intelligence and soft computing, data mining with applications in the areas of computer networks, document analysis, information retrieval, multimedia content security and forensics. Dr. El-Alfy attended several international conferences and contributed in the organization of many world-class international conferences as program chair, track chair, tutorial committee member, program committee member, session chair, and reviewer. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACM, IEEE CIS and CS, APNNA, INSTICC, MRLAB, ACS; member of technical committees of ADPRL, CISTC, and Multimedia Computing. He is also an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, associate editor, International Journal on Trust Management in Computing and Communications, associate editor of the International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, editor of the Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI), editor of the International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology. Dr. Mian M. Awais received his Ph.D. from Imperial College, University of London. Prior to joining LUMS, Dr. Awais conducted European Union research and development projects for a UK based SME. His Ph.D. work related to the development of on-line models for parametric estimation of solid fuel-fired industrial boilers. Dr. Awais has also conducted research work on a class of iterative methods pertinent to Krylov subspaces for optimization, such as the oblique projection and implicitly restarted model reduction methodologies. His present research interests include soft computing based knowledge management and engineering, behavior modeling in robotics, case based reasoning, and statistical learning. For further information, please visit the SSCI website at http://www.ieee-ssci.org/ and the special session at http://ieee-ssci.org/CICS_session1.html Save a tree. Don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These kinds of networks need to manage an increasing usage demand, provide support for a significant number of services, guarantee their QoS, and optimize the utilization of network resources. Therefore, architectures and algorithms in these networks become very complex and it seems imperative to focus on new models and methods as well as mechanisms, which can enable the network to perform adaptive behaviors. The aim of BWCCA is to present the innovative researches, and technologies as well as developments related to broadband networking, mobile networking, wireless communications and applications. Conference Topics Broadband Networks Applications Heterogeneous Networking High-speed Network Protocols Routing Algorithms Congestion Control Call Admission Control Multimedia Communication and Applications WDM Networks Distributed Algorithms and Systems Wireless Communication Protocols, Systems and Applications Wireless Networks Modeling Wireless Positioning and Tracking Systems Wireless Home Automation Technologies Wireless Systems and Applications Ubiquitous Computing Applications Lower Power Mobile Devices Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Mobile Agent Framework Mobility and Location Management Mobile Networking Applications Ad Hoc, Sensor Networks and Mesh Networks Autonomic Computing and Networking Vehicular Networks Pervasive and Ubiquitous Networks Network Security and Privacy Intelligent Networking Social Networking Interoperable Networks Honorary Chair Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan General Co-Chairs Leonard Barolli, FIT, Japan Fatos Xhafa, UPC, Spain Program Committee Co-Chairs Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Hsing-Chung Chen, Asia University, Taiwan Mauro Migliardi, University of Padua, Italy Workshops Co-Chairs Zheli Liu, Nankai University, China Fang-Yie Leu, Tunghai University, Taiwan Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT, Pakistan WEB Administrator Chair Joan Arnedo Moreno, UOC, Spain Submission Guidelines Submit a full paper not more than eight pages (CPS proceedings manuscripts: two-column, single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 font size, and number each page. You can find instructions for authors how to format the CS proceedings manuscripts, at this webpage: http://www.computer.org/portal/site/cscps/. Please prepare your paper in PDF file and submit it electronically to the BWCCA-2014 web page: http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~net4all/BWCCA-2014/. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. Proceedings of the BWCCA-2014 will be published by CPS will be indexed by EI. Extended versions of presented papers at BWCCA-2014 will be considered for publication in several special issues in international journals. Important Dates Papers Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014 Author Notification:July 20, 2014 Final Manuscript:August.8, 2014 Author Registration: Conference Dates: August.8 2014 November 8-10, 2014 http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~net4all/BWCCA-2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pcvinh at ntt.edu.vn Tue May 27 11:44:52 2014 From: pcvinh at ntt.edu.vn (Phan Cong Vinh) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 16:44:52 +0700 Subject: [ecoop-info] [ICTCC 2014] CFP: The International Conference on NaTure of Computation and Communication Message-ID: ICTCC 2014 : The International Conference on NaTure of Computation and Communication -- Link: http://ictcc.org/2014/show/home -- When: Nov 24, 2014 - Nov 25, 2014 Where: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Submission Deadline: Jul 31, 2014 -- CALL FOR PAPERS The ICTCC 2014 jointly organized by EAI and Nguyen Tat Thanh University (NTTU) is a place for highly original ideas about how the nature is going to shape computing systems of the future. Hence, it focuses on rigorous approaches and cutting-edge solutions, which encompass three classes of major methods: Those that take inspiration from nature for the development of novel problem solving techniques; Those that are based on the use of computers or networks to synthesize natural phenomena; and Those that employ natural materials (e.g., molecules,) to compute or communicate. Its purpose is to make a formal basis more accessible to researchers, scientists, professionals and students as well as developers and practitioners in ICT by providing them with state-of-the-art research results, applications, opportunities and future trends. We hope that the conference will receive many papers and the participation of a large number of students, researchers, and professionals from all over the world. Original papers are solicited for the ICTCC 2014. In particular, theoretical contributions should be formally stated and justified, and practical applications should be based on their firm formal basis. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: SCOPE OF TOPICS: Autonomic computing/communicating Amorphous computing Biologically-inspired computing/communicating Cellular automata Cellular computing Collective intelligence in computing/communicating Collision-based computing Computation/communication based on chaos and dynamical systems Context-aware computing/communicating DNA computing Evolutionary computing Fuzzy computing Hypercomputation Massive parallel computing Membrane computing Molecular computing Neural computing Optical computing Physarum computing Quantum computing Relativistic computing Spatial computing Swam intelligence in computing/communicating Wetware computing HIGHLIGHTS The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organization devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by Google Scholar, ISI, EI Compendex, Scopus and many more IMPORTANT DATES Workshop proposals due: 01 April 2014 Tutorial/Industry track proposal deadline: 06 June 2014 Demo/Poster proposal deadline: 06 June 2014 Submission deadline: 31 July 2014 Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2014 Camera-ready deadline: 01 October 2014 PUBLICATION Official conference proceedings of ICTCC 2014 will appear in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST) series jointly published by ICST and Springer and indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, ISI Proceedings, EI, CrossRef and Zentralblatt Math. All papers, but particularly those nominated for the Best Paper competition, will be automatically considered for publication in an expanded form in the special issues of ELSEVIER Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal (indexed in SCIE), ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal (indexed in SCIE) and EAI endorsed Transactions on Context-Aware Systems and Applications From AHARONA at il.ibm.com Tue May 27 14:46:10 2014 From: AHARONA at il.ibm.com (Aharon Abadi) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:46:10 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call For Papers [CFP] MobileDeLi 2014 co-located with SPLASH 2014 October Portland, Oregon, United States Message-ID: Call for Contribution Mobile Development Lifecycle (MobileDeLi) http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/mobiledeli2014/index.shtml in conjunction with SPLASH 2014 http://splashcon.org/2014/ October 20 - 24, 2014 Portland, Oregon, United States Our excellent keynotes will be given by ( http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/mobiledeli2014/keynotes.shtml ) Dr. Daniel M. Yellin Vice President, IBM Mobile Platform Development, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer. Bernd Bruegge is university professor of computer science with a chair for Applied Software Engineering at the Technische Universit?t M?nchen and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Mobile application usage and development is experiencing exponential growth. According to Gartner, by 2016 more than 300 billion applications will be downloaded annually. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, including diverse capabilities as GPS, sensors, and input modes. Applications must be omni-channel and work on all platforms. Activated on mobile platforms, modern applications must be elastic and scale on demand according to the hardware abilities. Applications often need to support and use third-party services. Therefore, during development, security and authorization processes for the dataflow must be applied. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies bring new security data leaks challenges. Developing such applications requires suitable practices and tools e.g., architecture techniques that relate to the complexity at hand; improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications using dynamic languages and polyglot development and applications; and testing techniques for applications that run on different devices. This workshop aims at establishing a community of researchers and practitioners to share their work and lead further research in the mobile development area. We solicit contributions related to mobile software development. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Mobile development environments and tools - Mobile testing - Agile development for mobile applications - Empirical studies and metrics - Maintenance and evolution - Mobile patterns, frameworks, and product lines - Mobile software refactoring, restructuring, and renovation - Mobile program transformation and optimization - Practice and experience reports - Management of mobile applications - Event processing for mobile - User experience of mobile applications - Hybrid versus native applications - Model-driven development for mobile - Application security - Mobile operating system and middleware security - Secure application development methodologies - Cloud support for mobile security - Static and dynamic analysis of mobile applications - Mobile optimization debugging techniques and tools - Research challenges in mobile software engineering We accept contributions of three types: 1. Research papers up to 8 pages that describe original work in the area of mobile software engineering. Since we wish to create a vibrant significant community, we will not have official proceedings thus accepted authors will be able to submit their work to other venues. 2. Short papers up to 4 pages of emerging ideas and on research in progress. 3. Extended abstracts up to 2 pages on in-practice experience. Your paper must conform to the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format ( http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm). Submit your paper in Adobe PDF via EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiledeli14 ). Authors will be able to decide if they wish to publish their work in the conference proceedings. Important Dates : Important dates ? Paper submission: July 15, 2014 ? Notification of acceptance: August 18th, 2014 ? 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URL: From AHARONA at il.ibm.com Tue May 27 14:46:33 2014 From: AHARONA at il.ibm.com (Aharon Abadi) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 15:46:33 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call For Papers [CFP] DeMobile 2014 co-located with FSE 2014 Nov 17, 2014Hong Kong Message-ID: Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile (DeMobile 2014) http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/demobile2014/index.shtml Nov 17, 2014 Hong Kong Co-located with FSE http://fse22.gatech.edu Our excellent keynotes will be given by Yannick Pellet Vice President of the Advanced Software Platform Lab at Samsung Research America Greg Truty, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect, IBM Mobile Platform, IBM Software Group Mobile application usage and development is experiencing exponential growth. According to Gartner, by 2016 more than 300 billion applications will be downloaded annually. The mobile domain presents new challenges to software engineering1. Mobile platforms are rapidly changing, including diverse capabilities as GPS, sensors, and input modes. Applications must be omni-channel and work on all platforms. Activated on mobile platforms, modern applications must be elastic and scale on demand according to the hardware abilities. Applications often need to support and use third-party services. Therefore, during development, security and authorization processes for the dataflow must be applied. Bring your own device (BYOD) policies bring new security data leaks challenges. Developing such applications requires suitable practices and tools e.g., architecture techniques that relate to the complexity at hand; improved refactoring tools for hybrid applications using dynamic languages and polyglot development and applications; and testing techniques for applications that run on different devices. This workshop aims at establishing a community of researchers and practitioners to share their work and lead further research in the mobile development area. Goal of the Workshop The workshop has several goals. First, we want to develop and create a vibrant research community of researchers and practitioners for sharing work and leading further research in the area of mobile software development. Second, we want to identify the most important research problems in the mobile application development space. The workshop also has a set of specific technical goals: * Investigating new directions of model-driven development in the context of mobile software development * Examining the lifecycle of mobile software development and how it relates to the software engineering lifecycle * Exploring and evaluating existing techniques, patterns, and best practices of mobile software development * Bringing together people from both academia and industry to talk and learn about real-world problems facing mobile software engineering Topics The topics include, but are not limited to: * Mobile development environments and tools * Mobile testing * Agile development for mobile applications * Empirical studies and metrics * Maintenance and evolution * Mobile patterns, frameworks, and product lines * Mobile software refactoring, restructuring, and renovation * Mobile program transformation and optimization * Practice and experience reports * Management of mobile applications * User experience of mobile applications * Hybrid versus native applications * Model-driven development for mobile * Application security * Mobile operating system and middleware security * Secure application development methodologies * Cloud support for mobile security * Static and dynamic analysis of mobile applications * Mobile optimization debugging techniques and tools * Research challenges in mobile software engineering Submission Guidelines We solicit contributions of three types: 1. Research papers up to 8 pages that describe original work in the area of mobile software engineering. Since we wish to create a vibrant significant community, we will not have official proceedings thus accepted authors will be able to submit their work to other venues. 2. Short papers up to 4 pages of emerging ideas and on research in progress. 3. Extended abstracts up to 2 pages on in-practice experience. Your paper must conform to the ACM format ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Submit your paper in Adobe PDF via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=demobile14 ). Important dates * Paper submission: July 1, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: August 3th, 2014 * Camera-ready submission: August 15, 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best, Robert LiKamWa roblkw at rice.edu MobiCASE Publicity Co-chair Rice University ECE Ph.D. Student =========================================================== ??????? ?????********************************************** ????????????? Announcement and Preliminary Call for Papers ???????????? ********************************************** ?????????????????????????? MOBICASE 2014 ???????????????????? http://mobicase.org/2014/ ???????????????? The Sixth International Conference on ????????????? Mobile Computing, Applications and Services ?????????????? November 06-07, 2014, Austin (Texas, USA) MobiCASE, the International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services, is a confluence between academia and industry on mobile applications and services research. Now, in its sixth edition, MobiCASE is a leading scientific forum for cutting-edge research results in mobile computing, applications, and services. As in previous years, MobiCASE 2014 is scheduled to include high-quality paper presentation sessions revealing the latest in mobile computing research, industry demos of exciting mobile applications and services, and participant engagement in hands-on projects and tutorials. Relevant topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Anticipatory Computing -- e.g., predictive systems that could power mobile services such as Microsoft Cortana or Google Now * Mobile Advertising -- e.g., location-based search and the recommendation of goods/services * Energy Efficiency -- e.g., approaches for coping with battery limits * Mobile Payments -- e.g., NFC-based services and other emerging technologies * Mobile User Interfaces -- e.g., utilizing voice, eyes, gestures * Mobile Sensing ? e.g., continuous sensing, mobile vision, mHealth * Wearable Platforms and Smartphones -- e.g., software support, prototype hardware, sensing modalities * Mobile development tools and testing methodologies -- e.g., bug reporting, malware identification * App Distribution Channels and Stores -- e.g., the next steps in the evolution of app stores * Location-based Social Networks and Media -- e.g., studies of existing or novel mobile social platforms * Mobile Cloud Computing and Mobile Web support -- e.g., personal clouds, and proposed new architectures and standards PRESENTATION & PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be presented at MobiCASE. Papers will be published in the MobiCASE Conference Proceedings and by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes of ICST (LNICST). The proceedings will be available both in book form and via the SpringerLink digital library. Selected papers will be published also in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Registration: 16 July 23:59 GMT Submission Deadline:?? 21 July 23:59 GMT Notification Date:???? 16 Sept Camera-ready deadline: 16 Oct For more information, including submission requirements and links to previous MobiCASE conferences, please visit http://mobicase.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs: Christine Julien, University of Texas -- Austin TPC co-Chairs: Nic Lane, Microsoft Research ?????? Shivakant Mishra, University of Colorado -- Boulder Poster/Demo Chair: Jamie Payton, University of North Carolina -- Charlotte Publicity co-Chairs: Youngki Lee, Singapore Management University ????????????????? Robert LiKamWa, Rice University Social Media Chair: Sarfraz Nawaz, University of Cambridge Local Chair: Mina Guirguis, Texas State University -- San Marcos STEERING COMMITTEE Martin Griss, Carnegie Mellon University -- Silicon Valley??? Thomas Phan, Samsung R&D? Petros Zerfos, IBM Research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From patkos at ics.forth.gr Tue May 27 18:30:31 2014 From: patkos at ics.forth.gr (Theodore Patkos) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 19:30:31 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] Rule Challenge 2014 - Submission Deadline Extension (June 6) Message-ID: <5384BDA7.4010801@ics.forth.gr> Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues. --------------------------------------------- 8th International Rule Challenge 2014 (http://2014.ruleml.org/challenge) part of the RuleML 2014 symposium held in conjunction with ECAI 2014, the 21st European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prague, Czech Republic, August 19, 2014 --------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION ==================== The submission deadlines have been extended to the following dates: * Paper submission: 6 June 2014 * Paper notification: 18 June 2014 About Rule Challenge 2014 ========================= The Rule Challenge 2014 is one of the highlights at the RuleML 2014 Symposium: it provides a showcase for innovative rule-oriented applications, aimed at both the research and industrial side. Rule Challenge 2014 proceedings will be published as CEUR Proceedings and indexed by SCOPUS, and a selection of the best systems will be invited for demonstration at PAIS 2014 (part of ECAI 2014). Moreover, a complimentary 1-year online membership is offered by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to RuleML Symposium participants who are new to AAAI. RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition ================================ RuleML Inc announces a US$1000 Award for the best RuleML Rulebase of 2014. This year's rulebases are solicited in Deliberation RuleML 1.01. More information is available here: http://blog.ruleml.org/post/28221570-4652-42e6-9556-8d304372bdeb/, "RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition" Topics ======= Key themes of the RuleML 2014 Challenge include, but are not limited to the following: - Demos related to the RuleML 2014 Track Topics - Extensions and implementations of rule-related standards, e.g. RIF, CL, SBVR, BPMN, BPEL, RuleML, etc. - Rule-based Event Processing and Stream Reasoning - Editing environments and IDEs for Web rules - Benchmarks and comparison results for rule engines - Distributed rule bases and rule services - Reports on industrial experience about rule systems - Real cases and practical experiences Awards ======== At a special session of RuleML 2014, we will present the following awards: * Rule Challenge Best System and Runner-up Awards * RuleML 2014 Rulebase Competition Award RuleML 2014 Challenge Chairs ============================ Theodore Patkos (FORTH-ICS, Greece) Adam Wyner (University of Aberdeen, UK) Adrian Giurca (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus?Senftenberg, Germany) Important Dates =============== Paper submission: 6 June 2014 Notification: 18 June 2014 Camera ready: 28 June 2014 Rule Challenge 2014 dates: 19 August 2014 Submission Guidelines ===================== High quality, original papers, potentially referencing online material, and ranging between 2-15 pages can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ruleml2014challenge Please upload all submissions in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based on clarity and significance of objectives and demonstration of results. ====================== Website: http://ruleml2014.vse.cz/challenge Twitter hashtag: #ruleml2014 Blog: http://blog.ruleml.org From cfp.announcements at gmail.com Wed May 28 10:17:12 2014 From: cfp.announcements at gmail.com (Romain Rouvoy) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 10:17:12 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Middleware 2014 - CALL FOR DEMOS & POSTERS Message-ID: 15th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference Bordeaux, France 8-12 December, 2014 http://2014.middleware-conference.org CALL FOR DEMOS & POSTERS IMPORTANT DATES September 19, 2014 - Demo Submission October 10, 2014 - Notification of Acceptance December 8-12, 2014 - Conference ------------------- The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design, construction and use of middleware systems. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. Demo & Posters Middleware 2014 will provide a forum for live software demonstrations of middleware applications, systems, and tools. Demos could take a wide and open-ended variety of forms. Typical examples include: (i) presentation of an application which leverages advanced middleware concepts, (ii) working through coding of an example on a novel middleware platform, or (iii) real-time visualizations of middleware system metrics under simulated workloads. Although the form may vary, demo presenters should take advantage of not being constrained by the format of a traditional slide presentation. Demos are encouraged for both early prototypes and mature technology. Posters will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview late-breaking research results. Poster sessions will provide an informal setting for presenters to communicate ideas or results and also to collect feedback from attendees. Free poster printing services will be available for the authors of accepted posters. Demo or poster contributions are solicited in all areas of middleware research and applications. The best demos and posters will be invited to give a 3-minutes oral presentation during one of the plenary sessions. For a list of applicable topics, please consider those from the call for papers:http://2014.middleware-conference.org/calls/papers Submission Details Live demos Submissions describing live demos should be at most 2 pages PDF using the ACM proceedings format. The submission should include: ? a description of the problems addressed, ? research and technical approach, ? a ?scripted timeline? that describes what the audience will see during the demo including one or more screenshots, ? related work with bibliography. For the purpose of submission, assume a 20 minute demo (actual allocated demo time is to be determined). For added flexibility to make it more accessible to attendees, we also strongly encourage the author of an accepted live demo to provide a 5 minute video. Posters Submissions describing posters should be at most 2 pages PDF using the ACM proceedings format. The submission should include: ? a description of the problems addressed ? research and technical approach ? any preliminary results ? related work with bibliography Deadline for submissions of both Demo and Poster papers is September 19th. Please use our EasyChair page for submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mw14-demos-posters Contact of the poster and demo chair: romain.rouvoy at univ-lille1.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendarsites at insticc.org Wed May 28 13:17:44 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (calendarsites at insticc.org) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 12:17:44 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?iso-8859-1?q?CFP_4th_International_Conference_on_S?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ensor_Networks_-_SENSORNETS_2015?= Message-ID: <00cc01cf7a66$9c200230$d4600690$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 4th International Conference on Sensor Networks ? SENSORNETS 2015 Website: www.sensornets.org February 11 ? 13, 2015 ESEO, Angers, Loire Valley, France Regular Papers Paper Submission: September 9, 2014 Authors Notification: November 25, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: December 10, 2014 Position Papers Paper Submission: October 28, 2014 Authors Notification: November 28, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: December 10, 2014 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: December 11, 2014 Authors Notification: December 24, 2014 Camera Ready and Registration: January 14, 2015 Sponsored by: INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Co-organized by: Groupe ESEO - Graduate School of Engineering INSTICC is Member of: FIPA ? Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents OMG - Object Management Group WfMC- Workflow Management Coalition Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS ? Science and Technology Events In Cooperation with: ACM ? Association for Computer Machinery ACM SIGAPP - Special Interest Group on Applied Computing Current developments show that in the near future the wide availability of low cost, short range radio technology, along with advances in wireless networking, will enable wireless adhoc sensor networks to become commonly deployed. In these networks, each node may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as acoustic, seismic, infrared, motion, biomedical and chemical sensors with higher level of information inference associated with identification, embedded signal processing and networking of the data. This conference intends to be the meeting point of researchers and practitioners share experience and ideas on innovative developments in any aspect of sensor networks, including Hardware of Sensor Networks, Wireless Communication Protocols, Sensor Networks Software and Architectures, Wireless Information Networks, Data Manipulation, Signal Processing, Localization and Object Tracking through Sensor Networks, Obstacles, Applications and Uses. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS SENSORNETS 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef ( http://www.crossref.org/). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.sensornets.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS C?sar Benavente-Peces, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain Patrick Plainchault, ESEO, France PROGRAM CHAIR Octavian Postolache, Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1 . Sensor Networks Software and Architectures 2 . Wireless Information Networks 3 . Hardware 4 . Data Manipulation 5 . Signal Processing 6 . Obstacles 7 . Applications and Uses AREA 1: SENSOR NETWORKS SOFTWARE AND ARCHITECTURES ? Internet of Things ? Interoperability ? Agent-based Simulation ? Decision Support ? Platforms and Operating Systems ? Programming and Middleware ? Connectivity and Communication ? Scheduling, Tasking and Control AREA 2: WIRELESS INFORMATION NETWORKS ? Technologies and Standards ? WiFi, ZigBee, WiMax, Bluetooth ? Wireless Network Protocols ? Routing Techniques ? Network Architecture ? Ad Hoc Networks ? Hierarchical Networks ? Wireless Mesh Networks ? Network Performance ? Power Management ? Remote Sensing and Telemetry ? Ubiquitous Computing AREA 3: HARDWARE ? Hardware Design, Fabrication Techniques ? Packaging, Testing and Reliability ? Electronic Interfaces ? RFID Readers and Tags ? MEMS ? Swarm Sensors ? Cooperating Objects ? Sensor Types for Chemical and Biomedical Applications ? Electronic Nose ? Electronic Tongue AREA 4: DATA MANIPULATION ? Sensor Data Fusion ? Data Visualization ? Multi-sensor Data Processing ? Aggregation, Classification and Tracking ? Pattern Recognition ? Reasoning on Sensor Data ? Indexing and Publishing ? Data Quality and Integrity AREA 5: SIGNAL PROCESSING ? Statistical and Adaptive Signal Processing ? Sparse Signal Processing ? Multimedia/Audio Signal Processing ? Coding, and Compression ? Distributed and Collaborative Signal Processing ? Array Processing of Nonstationary Signals ? Neural Networks ? DNA Computing ? Data Mining ? Fault Detection AREA 6: OBSTACLES ? Security: Vulnerability and Privacy ? Authentication ? Data Overload ? Real-time Constraints ? Energy Efficiency ? Fault Tolerance and Diagnosis ? Environmental Impact Reduction ? Self-healing ? Infrastructure Reliability AREA 7: APPLICATIONS AND USES ? Smart Grids and Energy Control Systems ? Industrial and Structural Monitoring ? Environment Monitoring ? Gas Analysis and Sensing ? Measurement and Control of Water ? Well-being and Well-working ? Smart Buildings and Smart Cities ? Home Monitoring and Assisted Living Applications ? Healthcare ? Medical Imaging ? Wireless Surveillance ? Defense and Security ? Vehicular Networks ? Aeronautical ? Sport and Leisure ? Smart Fabrics and Wearables PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.sensornets.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website: http://www.sensornets.org --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This leads to a framework with omnipresent models. Some represent the syntax of formalisms used for modeling, others are used to model the transformations that represent the operational semantics, as well as model-to-model transformations for inter-formalism transformation. Moreover, others are used to model the composition of models or even to model the composition of modeling formalisms. These models are then used to facilitate generative tasks in a language engineering space, such as evolving a domain specific modeling formalism as its requirements change, but also in a tool engineering space, such as automatic generation of integrated development environments. The use of ubiquitous explicit models during the whole system design process, from modeling formalism definition to system implementation, allows multiple types of analyses at various levels with great benefits in terms of performance, cost- effectiveness, safety, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ TOPICS OF INTEREST (including, but not limited to) - Heterogeneous models: multi-domain and multi-physics modeling, multi-view modeling, multi-abstraction modeling; - Heterogeneity in modeling languages: engineering of the modeling language, modeling - Models of Computation (MoCs), quality evaluation and usability of modeling languages; - Multi-Paradigm Modeling techniques: model transformation, model composition and integration, modeling cross-domain interactions, model-based detection of unanticipated interactions in heterogeneous systems, visualization of multi-paradigm models; - Applications of and experience with current MPM techniques. Non-exhaustive list of domains: healthcare, smart cities, smart homes, automotive, future energy systems, human-computer interaction, etc. Contributions should clearly address the foundations of multi-paradigm modeling by demonstrating the use of models to achieve the stated objectives and discuss the benefits of explicit modeling. ------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND PUBLICATION PROCEDURE Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF via EasyChair from the workshop web site: http://msdl.cs.mcgill.ca/conferences/MPM/ Papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted workshop papers will be published by CEUR, and will be indexed by DBLP. ------------------------------------------------------------------ TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS Conceptual papers, as well as application and tool papers, are all welcome. Papers may be short (max. 6 pages) or full (max. 10 pages) and must follow the LNCS style available at the workshop web site. ------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTACT For any questions or concerns, please contact mpm14 at supelec.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Daniel Balasubramanian, Vanderbilt University - Christophe Jacquet, Sup?lec - Sahar Kokaly, McMaster University - Tam?s M?sz?ros, Budapest University of Technology and Economics - Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE (tentative) Maur?cio Alferez, INRIA Bruno Barroca, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation Fr?d?ric Boulanger, Sup?lec Didier Buchs, University of Geneva Arnaud Cuccuru, CEA LIST Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Joachim Denil, McGill University Dirk Deridder, Smals Thomas Huining Feng, LinkedIn Corp. Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut Esther Guerra, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester Wesley Hewett, Lockheed Martin MST Steve Hostettler, University of Geneva Thomas K?hne, Victoria University of Wellington Levi Lucio, McGill University Jos? Luis Risco Mart?n, Universidad Complutense de Madrid at Madrid Allan McInnes, University of Canterbury Gergely Mezei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Bart Meyers, University of Antwerp Mark Minas, University of the Federal Armed Forces Chris Paredis, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University Srini Srinivasan, Lockheed Martin Martin Toerngren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefan Van Baelen, iMinds Jeroen Voeten, Eindhoven University of Technology Bernhard Westfechtel, University of Bayreuth Best regards, Pieter Van Gorp, Assistant Professor Information Systems Group, TU/e De Lismortel 2, 5612AR, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Phone: +31 40 247 2062, Skype & Twitter: pvgorp http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/ http://is.ieis.tue.nl/research/hc/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Submissions are sought on any topic of enterprise modelling, including, but not limited to: Enterprise modelling Approaches and Tools for Agility and Flexibility Enterprise Architecture Change Management and Transformation Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Enterprise Modelling and Information Systems Enterprise Modelling and Requirements Quality of Enterprise Models Conceptualizations, Notations, and Ontologies Enterprise Modelling and Business Processes Compliance in Enterprise Modelling Use of Enterprise Models at Run-Time Economics of Enterprise Modeling Multilevel Modeling We invite authors to submit original papers in the following categories: Research papers - describe original research contributions to the area of EM. Experience papers - present problems or challenges encountered in practice, relate success and failure stories, or report on industrial cases and practices. Practitioner papers - may address any aspect of EM or enterprise architectures relevant from a practitioners point of view. These papers have a specific review procedure. Short papers - can be used to present work in progress and emerging EM challenges. That includes presentation of ongoing thesis or research work by PhD or Master students. For further information including submisssion guidelines please refer to the conference web pages (poem2014.org). *Important Dates:* Deadline for paper submission: July 14th Notification of acceptance: September 8th Conference: 12-13 Nov. 2014 *General Chair:* Pericles Loucopoulos, University of Manchester, UK & Harokopio University of Athens, Greece *PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS:* Oscar Pastor, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany *Program Committee* Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece Marko Bajec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Guiseppe Berio, University of South Brittany, France Robert Buchmann, University of Vienna, Austria Rimantas Butleris, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Artur Caetano, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal Albertas Caplinskas, VU IMI, Lithuania Jaelson Castro, UFPE, Brazil Panagiotis Chountas, University of Westminster, UK Tony Clark, Middlesex University, London Wolfgang Deiters, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany Sergio Espa?a, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain Xavier Franch, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University, Latvia Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jennifer Horkoff, University of Trento, Italy Marta Indulska, University of Queensland, Australia Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden H?vard J?rgensen, Commitment AS, Norway J?rgen Jung, DHL Global Forwarding, Bonn, Germany Lutz Kirchner, BOC Berlin, Germany Vassilis Kodogiannis, University of Westminster, UK Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University, Latvia Birger Lantow, University of Rostock, Germany Ulrike Lechner, Munich University of the Armed Forces, Germany Florian Matthes, Munich University of Technology, Germany Graham McLeod, inspired.org, South Africa Jan Mendling, Vienna University of Economics, Austria Bj?rn Nilsson, Anat?s AB, Luxembourg Andreas Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Sietse Overbeek, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Anne Persson, University of Skovde, Sweden Michael Petit, University of Namur, Belgium Erik Proper, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands Jolita Ralyt?, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Colette Rolland, Universit? 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URL: From jesus.carretero at uc3m.es Wed May 28 23:30:55 2014 From: jesus.carretero at uc3m.es (=?utf-8?Q?Jesus_Carretero?=) Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 23:30:55 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] =?utf-8?q?CFP=3A_Techniques_and_Applications_for_Sus?= =?utf-8?q?tainable_Ultrascale_Computing_Systems_+_IS_=28SIMPAT=29=2E_DEAD?= =?utf-8?q?LINE_EXTENDED?= Message-ID: TASUS 2014: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE ULTRASCALE COMPUTING SYSTEMS To be held at EUROPAR 2014 , Porto, Portugal , August 25-26, 2014 Deadline extended: June 9th, 2014. No further extensions are available. Background The ever-increasing data and processing requirements of applications from various domains are constantly pushing for dramatic increases in computational and storage capabilities. Today, we have reached a point where computer systems? growth cannot be addressed anymore in an incremental way, due to the huge challenges lying ahead, in particular scalability, energy barrier, data management, programmability, and reliability.Ultrascale computing systems (UCS) are envisioned as a large-scale complex system joining parallel and distributed computing systems, maybe located at multiple sites, that cooperate to provide solutions to the users. As a growth of two or three orders of magnitude of today?s computing systems is expected, including systems with unprecedented amounts of heterogeneous hardware, lines of source code, numbers of users, and volumes of data, sustainability is critical to ensure the feasibility of those systems. Due to those needs, currently there is an emerging cross-domain interaction between high-performance in clouds or the adoption of distributed programming paradigms, such as Map-Reduce, in scientific applications, the cooperation between HPC and distributed system communities still poses many challenges towards building the ultrascale systems of the future. Especially in unifying the services to deploy sustainable applications portable to HPC systems, multi-clouds, data centers, and big data.TASUS workshop focuses on the software side, aiming at bringing together researchers from academia and industry interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of services and system software mechanisms to improve sustainability in ultrascale computing systems with a holistic approach. Topics We are looking for original high quality research and position papers on applications, services, and system software for sustainable ultrascale systems. Topics of interest include: Existing and emerging designs to achieve sustainable ultrascale systems. High-level parallel programming tools and programmability techniques to improve applications sustainability on ultrascale platforms. (model driven, refactoring, dynamic code generation, unified services, middlewares, ?). Synergies among emerging programming models and run-times from HPC, distributed systems, and big data communities to provide sustainable execution models (increased productivity, transparency, elasticity, ?). New energy efficiency techniques for monitoring, analyzing, and modeling ultrascale systems, including energy efficiency metrics for multiple resources (computing, storage, networking) and sites. Eco-design of ultrascale components and applications, with special emphasis on energy-aware software components that help users to shape energy issues for their applications. Sustainable resilience and fault-tolerant mechanisms that can cooperate throughout the whole software stack to handle errors. Fault tolerance techniques in partitioned global address space (e.g. PGAS, MPI, hybrid) and federated cooperative environments. Data management optimization techniques through cross layer adaptation of the I/O stack to provide global system information to improve data locality. Enhanced data management lifecycle on scalable architectures combining HPC and distributed computing (clouds and data centers). Experiences with applications, high-level algorithms, and services amenable to ultrascale systems. Important dates ? Workshop papers due: May 30, 2014 June 9th, 2014. Final deadline extension.? Workshop author notification: July 4, 2014? Workshop early registration: July 25, 2014? Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2014 Committees Workshop Organizers:Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Dr. Laurent Lefevre. INRIA, ENS of Lyon. FranceProf. Gudula R?nger. Technical University of Chemnitz. Germany.Prof. Domenico Talia. Universit? della Callabria. Italy.Program Committee:Francisco Almeida. Universidad de la Laguna. Tenerife. Spain.Angelos Bilas. ICS. FORTH. Greece.Harold Castro. Universidad de los Andes. Colombia.Alok Choudhary. Northwestern University. USA.Raimondas Ciegis. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. Lithuania.Michele Colajanni. Universit? di Modena e Reggio Emilia. ItalyToni Cortes. BSC. Spain.Georges DaCosta. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Jack Dongarra. University of Tennessee. USA.Skevos Evripidou. University of Cyprus. Cyprus.Thomas Fahringer. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Sonja Filiposka. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Jose D. Garcia. University Carlos III of Madrid. Spain.Florin Isaila. Argonne National Labs. USA.Emmanuel Jeannot. INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France.Helen Karatza. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Greece.Alexey Lastovetsky. University College Dublin. Ireland.Dimitar Lukarski. Uppsala University. Sweden.Pierre Manneback. University of Mons. Belgium.Svetozar Margenov. Bulgarian Academic of Sciences. Bulgaria.Attila Marosi. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Hungary.Mar?a Jos? Mart?n Santamar?a. University of Coru?a. Spain.Anastas Mishev. University of Ss Cyril and Methodius. FYR Macedonia.Ricardo Morla. Universidade de Porto. Portugal.Maya Neytcheva. Uppsala University. Sweden.Ariel Oleksiak. Poznan Supercomputing Center. Poland.Dana Petcu. West University of Timisoara. Romania.Jean Marc Pierson. Universit? Paul Sabatier. Tolouse 3. France.Radu Prodan. University of Innsbruck. Austria.Gudula Ruenger. Technische Universit?t Chemnitz .Germany.Enrique S. Quintana-Orti. Universitat Jaume I. Spain.Thomas Rauber. University of Bayreuth. Germany.Karolj Skala. Ru?er Bo?kovi? Institute. Croatia.Victor J. Sosa. CINVESTAV. Mexico.Leonel Sousa. INESC. Portugal.Roman Trobec. Jozef Stefan Institute. Slovenia.Trinh Anh Tuan. Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Hungary.Eero Vainikko. University of Tartu. Estonia.Pascal Voubry. University of Luxembourg. Luxembourg.Roman Wyrzykowski. Czestochowa University of Technology. Poland.Laurence T. Yang. St.Francis University. Canada.Julius Zilinskas. Vilnius University. Lithuania.Albert Zomaya. University of Sydney. Australia. Paper submission guidelines Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Download LNCS Latex style HERE. Paper submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX). Use the PAPER SUBMISSION ONLINE SYSTEM to submit a paper.Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered.Workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2014 volume after the conference. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. Journal special issue Extended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented in TASUS 2014, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of the journalSimulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT ) that is indexed in JCR. Co-Organized by ContactMail to: tasus at arcos.inf.uc3m.es ? 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However, under the hood, many parameters at both software and hardware level need to be controlled to ensure the reliability, performance, and energy efficiency of cloud applications. Furthermore, workload variability and software heterogeneity make optimal parameter selection complex, which combined with the large scale of clouds call for distributed resource management solutions. The workshop is aimed to foster multidisciplinary research in Cloud Control, leveraging expertise in areas such as distributed systems, control theory, autonomic computing, systems management, mathematical statistics, energy management, and performance management. By providing an understanding of the research challenges ahead and by enabling multi-disciplinary research collaborations, the ambition is to shape the future of cloud management. The 6th Cloud Control Workshop is held in conjunction with the 7th IEEE/ACM Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014). Expected attendees are leading researchers from any scientific discipline with potential to contribute to this multidisciplinary topic. Workshop Format. For the first time in the workshop series, the workshop is open for contributed papers. The workshop will include invited and contributed presentations as well as discussion sessions. Topics Relevant topics are cloud management methods, systems, and principles including any methods from other disciplines supporting the realization of management systems. Target clouds include the whole range of architectures, spanning from single cloud datacenters to highly distributed telecom or mobile clouds. Examples topics are: * Management of cloud resources (compute, storage, network, etc) * Cloud scheduling * Scalability and capacity autoscaling (elasticity management) * Differentiated quality of service * Resource overbooking * High availability and reliability * Managing complex cloud applications * Cloud simulation * Cloud workload modeling, prediction, and generation * Performance management and QoS * Energy-efficient resource provisioning * Control theory for cloud management * Autonomic computing for cloud management * Machine learning for cloud management Workshop Details Paper format. Contributed papers should be of maximum 6 pages in length (in IEEE format). Additional pages may be purchased subject to approval by the proceedings chair. Paper submission. For further instructions and submission system access, please visit the workshop website at www.cloudresearch.org/workshops/6th Paper selection. Contributed papers will be selected based on reviews provided by the workshop?s Program Committee. Evaluation criteria include novelty, scientific quality, and relevance to the workshop topic. Proceedings. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the main UCC 2014 proceedings. For inclusion in the workshop program and the conference proceedings, at least one author of each accepted submission must register and attend the workshop. Venue Hilton London Paddington Hotel, London, UK Organizing Committee: Erik Elmroth, Ume? University, Sweden (Workshop chair) Maria Kihl, Lund University, Sweden (Workshop co-chair) Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden (Publicity) Per-Olov ?stberg, Ume? University, Sweden (Publicity) Cristian Klein, Ume? University, Sweden (Proceedings) Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Ume? University, Sweden (Proceedings) Alessandro Papadopoulos, Lund University, Sweden (Social) Program Committee: Samuli Aalto, Aalto University, Finland Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Karl-Erik ?rz?n, Lund University, Sweden Peter Bodik, Microsoft Research, USA Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria David Breitgand, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Tommaso Cucinotta, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories, Ireland Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Johan Eker, Ericsson Research, Sweden Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Anshul Gandhi, Stony Brook University, USA Francisco Hern?ndez-Rodriguez, Ume? University, Sweden Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Norway Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Anders Robertsson, Lund University, Sweden Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Craig Sheridan, Flexiant, UK Rolf Stadler, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Giovanni Toffetti, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Johan Tordsson, Ume? University, Sweden Simon Tuffs, simontuffs.com, USA Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden John Wilkes, Google, USA Ramin Yahyapour, University of G?ttingen, Germany Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware inc., USA From dqzhang at ieee.org Thu May 29 14:37:46 2014 From: dqzhang at ieee.org (Daqiang Zhang) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:37:46 +0800 Subject: [ecoop-info] SI CFP on Social Media at New Review on Hypermedia and Multimedia Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------- Special Issue on Advances in Social Media New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (SCI, IF: 0.259) Taylor & Francis Press Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014 CFP: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/special-issue-on-advances-in-social-media Submission link: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Social media are fundamentally changing the manner in which we connect, communicate, interact, collaborate and socialize in our daily lives. Before social media appeared, the public could only passively access information released by traditional media. With the rise of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and other social networks (SNS), a huge volume of social media information is disseminated. The availability of massive and heterogeneous social media data, involving user?s profiles, geo-locations, trajectories, albums, audio, videos, and interaction records, media contents and other metadata, has created numerous new research challenges and opportunities. For example, there are various issues concerning security and privacy, and the identification and avoidance of false information in social media. With the emergence of big data as an important information technology in support of computational analytical methods for understanding relations in human society, it becomes possible to use text mining, image recognition, behavior modeling, affective computing, and public opinion analysis and monitoring with social media to provide more precise recommendations and more personalized services. This special issue aims to bring the research community together with the engineering community to provide a picture of the state-of-the-art in social media study. This special issue seeks original papers that report novel ideas, models, theories, systems and applications regarding social media. We are particularly interested in the work leveraging the key technologies of big data and mobile computing. Potential contributions include, but are not limited to, areas such as: * Indexing, ranking, and retrieval on big social media data * Machine learning and data mining for social media * Understanding social content and dynamics from social media * Affective computing by social media * User interests and behavior modeling in social media * Public opinion monitoring by social media * Security and privacy in social media * Identification and avoidance of false information in social media * Mobile and Wearable Social Networks and Systems * Efficient learning algorithms for scalable social network analysis * Cyber-physical and Smart Interactive System for Social Networks * Measuring predictability of real world phenomena based on social media * Novel social media applications *Submission Instructions* Manuscripts should be written in English and strictly follow ?Instructions for authors? of the New Review on Hypermedia and Multimedia at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tham20&page=instructions . *Editorial information* Guest Editor: Daqiang Zhang, Tongji University (dqzhang at ieee.org) Guest Editor: Yin Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology ( yin.zhang.cn at ieee.org) Guest Editor: Min Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology ( minchen at ieee.org) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From calendarsites at insticc.org Thu May 29 19:10:49 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (Calendar Sites) Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 18:10:49 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2015 Message-ID: <01bc01cf7b61$0edd44e0$2c97cea0$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2015 Website: www.closer.scitevents.org May 20 ? 22, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Regular Papers Paper Submission: December 16, 2014 Authors Notification: March 11, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Position Papers Paper Submission: February 3, 2015 Authors Notification: March 12, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Sponsored by: INSTICC ? Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: WfMC ? Workflow Management Coalition OMG ? Object Management Group Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS ? Science and Technology Events The 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2015, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CLOSER 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: closer.scitevents.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CHAIR Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS V?ctor M?ndez Mu?oz, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Donald Ferguson, Dell, United States CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS 2. SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING 3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS 4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY 5. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS ? Cloud Application Portability ? Cloud Computing Architecture ? Cloud Delivery Models ? Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud ? Cloud Education ? Cloud Interoperability ? Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance ? Cloud Scenarios ? Cloud Standards ? QoS for applications on clouds ? Energy Management ? Resource Management ? Privacy, Security and Trust AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ? Business Process Management and Web Services ? Business Services Realized by IT Services ? Cloud Brokering ? Cloud Cost Analysis ? Cloud Governance ? Enterprise Architectures and Services ? Federated Cloud ? Human Beings in Service Systems ? Industrial Applications of Services Science ? Information and Service Economy ? Internet of Services ? Model-Driven Web Service Engineering ? Semantic Web Technologies ? Service Brokering ? Service Composition and Mashups ? Service Discovery ? Service Innovation ? Service Marketing and Management ? Service Modeling and Specification ? Service Monitoring and Control ? Service Strategy ? Service-Oriented Architecture ? Services Security and Reliability ? Web Services AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS ? Access Control ? Application Data Migration ? Big Data Cloud Services ? Cloud Application Architectures ? Cloud Application Scalability and Availability ? Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring ? Cloud Economics ? Cloud Middleware Frameworks ? Cloudsourcing ? Development Methods for Cloud Applications ? XaaS ? Cloud Services AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY ? API Management ? Cloud Abstraction of Composite IT Systems ? Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting ? Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability) ? Cloud Optimization and Automation ? Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition ? Virtual Infrastructure Management ? VM Live Migration ? Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control ? Distributed Management of Clouds ? High Performance Cloud Computing ? Metering, pricing, and software licensing ? Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements ? Performance Development and Management ? Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing ? Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management ? Troubleshooting and Best Practices ? Virtualization Technologies AREA 5: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES ? Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks ? Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-Based Systems ? Location-based mobile cloud applications and services ? Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches ? Mobile Clouds for E-Commerce Services ? Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration ? Mobile Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance ? Pervasive Environments ? Quality of service on mobile clouds and applications ? Security Issues in Mobile Systems Software and Hardware ? 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Description The 1st International Workshop on Information Fusion for Smart Mobility Solutions (IFSMS'14) provides an international forum on the latest technologies and research in the field of smart mobility solutions. We are living in a world where cars will soon all be very well-equipped with sensors such as GPS sensors, laser radars, infrared parking sensors, rear dead angle cameras, etc. Besides that, the infrastructure itself is likely to soon exploit technologies currently widely used, like smartphones, navigators and digital radio broadcast. Finally, there have been huge advances on traffic simulation, optimization, intensive computational techniques, distributed computing, data networks, wireless connectivity, and many others. If we combine all of this, there is the richest variety ever of information sources available for smart mobility solutions. The technology is out there, and now it is needed to take firm steps towards wisely combining the sources of information into smar t applications that make roads safer and ensure a smooth mobility of individuals. IFSMS 2014 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (22-25 September 2014) in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks(EUSPN-2014). Scope The aim of the proposed workshop is to enhance profitable discussions on what techniques, software, methodologies, transportation and traffic models, and in general, data fusion techniques are being explored for its use for traffic simulation and mobility management and other intelligent transportation system applications for smart mobility. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Agent-based modeling and simulation - Data fusion and Smart Transportation - Social and emergent behavior in MAS-T (multi-agent systems applied to traffic and transport) - Implementation Issues such as Algorithmic Issues, Real-World Computational Demands, Real-Time Constraints in the context of Fusion systems for Transportation Infrastructures - Environmental Aware Smart Data Fusion applications - Advanced Architectures for Traffic Simulation using Data Mining as Real-World input - Calibration and validation of agent-based models for traffic and transportation - Role of multi-agent methodologies for complex systems - Multi-modal routing of agents in a dynamic traffic environment Important Dates - Submission deadline: June 30, 2014 - Notification: June 24, 2014 - Final date for camera-ready copy: July 17, 2014 - Workshop: September 22-25, 2014 Submission All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the EUSPN-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in EUSPN-2014 website. The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to *6 pages*. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: EasyChair . The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org. If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshops, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues. In case of any problem with submission, please contact the workshop chair for assistance. All workshops accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.elsevier.comand on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect , and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopusand Engineering Village (EI). This includes EI Compendex . All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP . Workshop Chairs - Ansar-Ul-Haque YASAR (Hasselt University, Belgium) - ansar.yasar at uhasselt.be - St?phane GALLAND (IRTES-SET, France) - stephane.galland at utbm.fr Program Committee - Emmanuel ADAM (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) - Tom BELLEMANS (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Cindy CAPPELLE (IRTES-SET, France) - Paul DAVIDSSON (Malmo University, Sweden) - Nicolas GAUD (IRTES-SET, France) - Franck GECHTER (IRTES-SET, France) - Tom HOLVOET (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Davy JANSSENS (Hasselt University, Belgium) - Sathish KUMAR (Coastal Carolina University, USA) - Marco LUETZENBERGER (DAI-Labor, Germany) - Ren? MANDIAU (University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambr?sis, France) - Davy PREUVENEERS (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) - Sebastian RODRIGUEZ (Universidad Tecnol?gica Nacional, Argentina) - Michael SCHUMACHER (HES-SO, Switzerland) - Ren? SCHUMANN (HES-SO, Switzerland) - Harry TIMMERMANS (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) - Rashid a. WARAICH (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Accepted Papers The list of the accepted papers will be available after July 17, 2014. Registration Please visit the EUSPN14 Registration Page"for more information. Venue, Accomodation & Visa Requirements Please visit the EUSPN14 Venue & Accomodation Pagefor more information. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Science and Technology Events The purpose of the 11th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST) is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS WEBIST 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a LNBIP Series book. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.webist.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Val?rie Monfort, LAMIH Valenciennes UMR CNRS 8201, France Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM CO-CHAIRs Tim A. Majchrzak, University of M?nster, Germany Ziga Turk, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia / Reflection Group, Slovenia CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. INTERNET TECHNOLOGY 2. WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS 3. SOCIETY, E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT 4. WEB INTELLIGENCE 5. MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS AREA 1: INTERNET TECHNOLOGY ? Authentication and Access Control ? Databases and Datawarehouses ? Distributed and Parallel Applications ? Protocols and Standards ? System Integration ? Web Programming ? Web Security and Privacy ? Web Services and Web Engineering ? XML and data management AREA 2: WEB INTERFACES AND APPLICATIONS ? Accessibility issues and Technology ? Big Data for Internet-based services ? Metadata and Metamodeling ? Multimedia and User interfaces ? Ontology and the Semantic Web ? Personalized Web Sites and Services ? Portal strategies ? RESTful Web services ? Searching and Browsing ? Usability and Ergonomics ? User Modeling ? Web Geographical Information Systems AREA 3: SOCIETY, E-BUSINESS AND E-GOVERNMENT ? B2B, B2C and C2C ? Communities of interest ? Communities of practice ? e-Business and e-Commerce ? e-Government ? e-Payment ? Knowledge Management ? Social and Legal Issues ? Social Media Analytics ? Social Networks and Organizational Culture ? Web 2.0 and Social Networking Controls AREA 4: WEB INTELLIGENCE ? Collective Intelligence ? Computational Intelligence on the Web ? Data Mining ? Learning User Profiles ? Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation ? Opinion mining and sentiment analysis ? Privacy and Confidentiality ? Recommendation Systems ? Text mining ? User-Centric Systems ? Web Information Filtering and Retrieval ? Web of Things AREA 5: MOBILE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ? Context Aware Media Tagging ? Context Awareness ? Context Detection ? Mobile APIs and services ? Mobile cloud ? Mobile commerce ? Mobile learning ? Mobile Media Sharing Systems ? 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Science and Technology Events In Cooperation with: TAGC ? IEEE TCSC Technical Area in Green Computing GCC ? IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications & Computing FOSG ? Friends of the Supergrid The purpose of the 4th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS) is to bring together researchers, designers, developers and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of Smart Grids, Green Information and Communication Technologies, Sustainability, Energy Aware Systems and Technologies. KEYNOTE SPEAKER ?lvaro Oliveira, Alfamicro, Portugal PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: http://www.smartgreens.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland Karl-Heinz Krempels, RWTH Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Cornel Klein, Siemens AG, Germany Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. SMART CITIES 2. ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES 3. SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS AREA 1: SMART CITIES ? Smart City Business Models ? Human Smart Cities ? Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ? e-Mobility ? e-Work and e-Business Applications ? Supporting the Ageing Population ? User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities ? Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ? Mechanisms for Motivating Behaviour Change ? Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services ? Service Innovation and Design to Support Smart Cities ? Cloud Computing and Service Models for Smart City Solutions ? Smart Sensor-Based Networks and Applications ? Analytics for Smart Cities ? IS Architecture Designs and Platforms for Smart Cities ? Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Smart(er) Cities ? Planning and Design Challenges for Smart Cities ? Frameworks and models for Smart City Initiatives AREA 2: ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES ? Architectures for Smart Grids ? Smart Grid Security and Reliability ? Load Balancing in Smart Grids ? Energy Management Systems (EMS) ? Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ? Energy Monitoring ? Renewable Energy Resources ? Greener Systems Planning and Design ? Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ? Virtual Power Plants ? Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ? Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ? Energy Profiling and Measurement ? Harvesting Energy ? Energy-Aware Process Optimisation ? Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ? Microgeneration ? Energy Storage AREA 3: SUSTAINABLE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS ? Wireless Systems and Neworks ? Security and Privacy ? Wearable Computing ? Green Data Centers ? Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ? Ecological monitoring, analytics and visualization ? Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ? Qos and Green Computing ? Integration of Smart Appliances ? Embedded Sensor Networks ? Pervasive Embedded Systems ? Smart Homes (Domotics) ? Educational Ecosystems ? Green Computing and Education ? Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ? Interoperability ? Energy Efficient Network Hardware ? Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ? Low power Communication Technologies ? Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ? Virtualization Impact for Green Computing ? Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://www.smartgreens.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website www.smartgreens.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sadaf at comsats.edu.pk Fri May 30 11:35:16 2014 From: sadaf at comsats.edu.pk (Dr. Sadaf Tanvir) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:35:16 +0500 Subject: [ecoop-info] Call for Papers: ITDS-2014: Elsevier, Halifax, Canada 22-25 September 2014 Message-ID: <20140530143516.59167fhovjmf1t5g@webmail.comsats.edu.pk> (Please accept our apologies for multiple postings) ITDS 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2014), Halifax, Canada, September 22-25, 2014. http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/itds-14/ SCOPE ====== This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on all branches of artificial intelligence and sensor networks technologies in an effort to highlight the state-of-the-art and discuss the techniques, challenges and opportunities to explore new research directions. The main topics to be addressed include (but not limited to): -Artificial Intelligence based Intrusion Detection Systems -Artificial Intelligence Approaches in Issues of Social Networking - Distributed Sensor Networks and Systems -Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing -Machine Learning and Data Mining Techniques -Multi-agent Systems and Sensor Networks -Networking and Cloud Computing -Security, Privacy and Trust in Distributed Systems -Simulation Tools and Methods -Techniques for Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Network -Web 2.0 and Web-based Communities Publications ========= Only original papers will be considered that have neither been published nor submitted for publication elsewhere, including web publication. All submissions will be handled electronically. The length of the paper is limited to 6 pages. All papers will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. All accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Important Dates ============ Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 Author Notification: June 30, 2014 Manuscript Due: July 15, 2014 Workshop Dates: September 22-25, 2014 Paper Submission ============== Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference management system in PDF format before the deadline. The submission processes will be managed by ?easychair.org. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. Program Committee Chairs ==================== Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Safdar Hussain Bouk, Kyungpook National University, Korea Steering Committee Chair =================== Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Publicity Chairs ============ Sadaf Tanvir, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan Technical Program Committee Members ============================== Umar Qasim, University of Alberta, Canada Turki Ali Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia Sajjad Ali Mushtaq, wingenius, Toronto, Canada TBC Thanks and Best regards, Sadaf Tanvir, Ph D. Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Park Road Chak Shahzad, 44000 Islamabad, Pakistan Ph: +92 51 9049 5362 email: sadaf at comsats.edu.pk https://sites.google.com/site/sadaftanvir/ ww3.comsats.edu.pk/faculty/FacultyDetails.aspx?Uid=1145 From calendarsites at insticc.org Fri May 30 13:50:26 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (Calendar Sites) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 12:50:26 +0100 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2015 Message-ID: <03d301cf7bfd$737cba10$5a762e30$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - CSEDU 2015 Website: www.csedu.org May 23 - 25, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Regular Papers Paper Submission: December 16, 2014 Authors Notification: March 11, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Position Papers Paper Submission: February 3, 2015 Authors Notification: March 12, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Sponsored by: INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: WfMC - Workflow Management Coalition OMG - Object Management Group SEFI - European Society for Engineering Education EATEL - European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning IGIP - International Society for Engineering Pedagogy Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS - Science and Technology Events In Cooperation with: ACM - Association for Computing Machinery ATIEF - Association des Technologies de l'Information pour l'Education et la Formation ACM SIGITE - Special Interest Group of Information Technology Education CSEDU 2015, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers. In particular, the Web is currently a preferred medium for distance learning and the learning practice in this context is usually referred to as e-learning. CSEDU 2014 is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world. KEYNOTE SPEAKER Glenn Wintrich, Dell, United States PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: www.csedu.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland Maria Teresa Restivo, FEUP, Portugal PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Susan Zvacek, Fort Hays State University, United States James Uhomoibhi, University of Ulster, United Kingdom CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING 2. LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT 3. SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS 4. DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES 5. UBIQUITOUS LEARNING AREA 1: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SUPPORTING LEARNING . Authoring Tools and Content Development . AV-Communication and Multimedia . Classroom Management . e-Learning Hardware and Software . e-Learning Platforms, Portals . Tools for Educational Communication and Collaboration . Intelligent Tutoring Systems . Learning Analytics . Ontologies and Meta-Data Standards . Security Issues . Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning AREA 2: LEARNING/TEACHING METHODOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENT . Tools to Assess Learning . Blended Learning . Educating the Educators . Game-based and Simulation-based Learning . Higher Order Thinking Skills . Immersive Learning . Immersive Learning and Multimedia applications . Instructional Design . Mentoring and Tutoring . Metrics and Performance Measurement . Project Based Learning and Engineering Education . Virtual Communities of Practice AREA 3: SOCIAL CONTEXT AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS . Assessment and Accreditation of Courses and Institutions . Collaborative Learning . Community Building . Cooperation with Industry in Teaching . Course Design and e-Learning Curriculae . Distance and e-Learning in a Global Context . Ethics and Social Learning Environments . International Collaboration . K-12 Students . Learning Organizations . Lifelong Learning: Continuing Professional Training and Development . Teacher Evaluation . Theoretical Bases of e-Learning Environments . Vocational Training Tools and Methods . Web 2.0 and Social Computing for Learning and Knowledge Sharing AREA 4: DOMAIN APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES . Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning . e-Learning in Developing Countries . e-Learning in Engineering Education . e-Learning Success Cases . Industrial and Medical Applications . Intelligent Learning and Teaching Systems . Interdisciplinary Programs for Distance Education AREA 5: UBIQUITOUS LEARNING . Accessibility to Disabled Users . Cloud-based Learning and Assessment . Context Dependent Learning . Distance Education . Mobile Learning (M-learning) . Smart Devices as Collaborative Learning Tools . Standards and Interoperability . Virtual Labs and Virtual Classrooms PROGRAM COMMITTEE www.csedu.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website www.csedu.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Marjan.Mernik at um.si Fri May 30 17:03:53 2014 From: Marjan.Mernik at um.si (Marjan Mernik) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:03:53 +0000 Subject: [ecoop-info] [CFP] ACM SAC'15 PL Track Message-ID: <94FDD455863B5B4D8246F5F0B819A21D084B1940@ex2.thor.um.si> *** Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement *** CALL FOR PAPERS SAC'15 - ACM 2015 SYMPOSIUM ON APPLIED COMPUTING April 13-17, 2015 Salamanca, Spain Technical Track on "Programming Languages" SAC '15 Over the past 29 years, the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing has become a primary forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers, software engineers, and application developers from around the world to interact and present their work. SAC 2015 is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP). For additional information, please check the SAC web page: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~bryant/sac2015/. This document is also available at: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~bryant/sac2015/PL-SAC15-CFP.pdf PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (PL) TRACK A technical track on Programming Languages will be held at SAC'15. It will be a forum for engineers, researchers and practitioners throughout the world to share technical ideas and experiences relating to implementation and application of programming languages. Original papers and experience reports are invited in all areas of programming languages. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - Compiling Techniques, - Domain-Specific Languages, - Formal Semantics and Syntax, - Garbage Collection, - Language Design and Implementation, - Languages for Modeling, - Model-Driven Development and Model Transformation, - New Programming Language Ideas and Concepts, - New Programming Paradigms, - Practical Experiences with Programming Languages, - Program Analysis and Verification, - Program Generation and Transformation, - Programming Languages from All Paradigms (Agent-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented, Functional, Logic, Object-Oriented, etc.), - Visual Programming Languages. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions must be original, unpublished work. Submissions should be in electronic format, via the link provided at SAC web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/. Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. Submitted papers will undergo a blind review process. Authors of accepted papers should submit an editorial revision of their papers that fits within six two-column pages (an extra two pages, to a total of eight pages, may be available at a charge). Please comply with this page limitation already at submission time. For accepted papers the paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. A set of selected papers, which did not get accepted as full papers, will be accepted as poster papers and will be published as extended 2-page abstracts in the symposium proceedings. After the conference, selected accepted papers will be invited to a special issue of the Computer Languages, Systems and Structures journal (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-languages-systems-and-structures/). SAC 2015 will also hold a Student Research Competition (SRC). To enter this in the area of programming languages, please submit via the link at SAC web page: http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2015/. IMPORTANT DATES September 12, 2014: Full Paper Submissions November 17, 2014: Author Notification December 8, 2014: Camera-Ready Copy The SAC 2015 Programming Language Track Program Committee Members (Tentative) Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Roberto da Silva Bigonha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil Judith Bishop, Microsft Research, USA Johan Fabry, University of Chile, Chile Christian Hammer, Saarland University, Germany Nigel Horspool, University of Victoria, Canada Zoltan Horvath, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Hiroshi Inoue, IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan Jan Janousek, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Geylani Kardas, Ege University, Turkey Hakjoo Oh, Seoul National University, Korea Nikolaos Papaspyrou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Marco Patrignani, University of Leuven, Belgium Peter Pirkelbauer, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Enrico Pontelli, New Mexico State University, USA Komondoor Raghavan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Ulrik Pagh Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Bostjan Slivnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia Kenny Q. Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Track Chairs Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia, marjan.mernik at um.si Barrett Bryant, University of North Texas, USA, Barrett.Bryant at unt.edu From juan.boubeta at uca.es Fri May 30 18:27:46 2014 From: juan.boubeta at uca.es (Juan Boubeta Puig) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:27:46 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CfP-Extended Deadline: 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET Message-ID: [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es * Paper Submission Due; June 14th, 2014 (extended)* GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: June 14th, 2014 (extended deadline) - Acceptance notification: July 4th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending). *As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book.* At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Pascal Poizat, Universit? Paris Ouest, France - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- [image: UCA] Juan Boubeta Puig Grupo UCASE de Ingenier?a del Software / UCASE Software Engineering Research Group *Departamento de Ingenier?a Inform?tica / Department of Computer Science and Engineering Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a / School of Engineering* Universidad de C?diz / University of C?diz C/ Chile n? 1 11002 - C?diz (Spain) Tel (+34) 956 015692 juan.boubeta at uca.es https://ucase.uca.es/juan-boubeta-puig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From juan.boubeta at uca.es Fri May 30 18:30:03 2014 From: juan.boubeta at uca.es (Juan Boubeta Puig) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 18:30:03 +0200 Subject: [ecoop-info] Last CfP-Extended Deadline: 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET Message-ID: [We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this message] ------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 4th INT. WORKSHOP ON ADAPTIVE SERVICES FOR THE FUTURE INTERNET WAS4FI 2014 Held in conjunction with ESOCC 2014 September 2, 2014, Manchester, UK http://was4fi.lcc.uma.es *Paper Submission Due; June 14th, 2014 (extended)* GOALS ===== The Future Internet has emerged as a new initiative to pave a novel infrastructure linked to objects (things) of the real world to meet the changing global needs of business and society. It offers internet users a standardized, secure, efficient and trustable environment, which allows open and distributed access to global networks, services and information. To be consistently adopted, the Future Internet will be enabled through standards-based notations for messaging, semantics, process and state (such as those RDF, OWL, SOAP, REST and WS-BPEL), enabling distributed systems and entities to be described in a scalable and flexible robust dynamic environment. Multi-tenancy will enable their remote access as Software as a Service (SaaS), by performing the integration into larger networks of communicating software (e.g., a mashup or a plug-in to a Cloud platform). Future Internet applications will have to support the interoperability between many diverse stakeholders by governing the convergence and life-cycle of Internet of Contents (IoC), Services (IoS), Things (IoT), and Networks (IoN). These applications should handle dynamic and continuous change: for example, in the provisioning of services, availability of things and contents, connectivity of networks, diversity of user devices etc. They should also bear in mind that the Future Internet should provide a better experience for the user journey, with personalized and context-aware contents, adapted to their preferences, and where users also play an active part in creating or sharing services. There is a need for both researchers and practitioners to develop platforms made up of adaptive Future Internet applications. In this sense, the emergence and consolidation of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Cloud Computing and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) give benefits, such as flexibility, scalability, security, interoperability, and adaptability, for building these applications. Although there already are emerging solutions to host software services and data on remote computers and create public sensor networks by using these technologies; the mentioned solutions employ simple technical approaches related to replication strategies to ensure availability and to achieve a load-balancing scalability. Future Internet systems, however, will also need to sense and respond to a huge amount of signals sourced from different entities in real-time. In this context, an event would be detected if, for example, there is non-existence of a signal which normally occurs, affecting the execution of other services. These events would be produced by IoT and processed in the IoS. In order to build business level events Complex Event Processing (CEP) may be used. CEP allows detecting complex and meaningful events and inferring valuable knowledge for end users. The main advantage of using CEP to process complex events is that the latter can be identified and reported in real time, reducing the latency in decision making, unlike the methods used in traditional software for event analysis. Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) are also being used to respond to events that occur as a result of business processes. The first edition of WAS4FI was held in conjunction with ServiceWave 2011, in Poznan, Poland, on October 28th 2011. The second edition was held in conjunction with ESOCC 2012, in Bertinoro, Italy, on September 19th 2012. The third edition was also held in conjunction with ESOCC 2013, in M?laga, Spain, on September 11th 2013. In this fourth edition, WAS4FI again aims to bring together the community at ESOCC and addresses different aspects of adaptive Future Internet applications, emphasizing the importance of governing the convergence of contents, services, things and networks in order to achieve building platforms for efficiency, scalability, security and flexible adaptation. In this workshop, we cover the foundations of the aforementioned technologies as well as new emerging proposals for their potential in Future Internet services. To promote collaboration, WAS4FI has a highly interactive format with short technical sessions complemented by discussions on Adaptive Services in the Future Internet Applications. TOPICS ====== WAS4FI encourages a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes papers that address challenges of Future Internet applications. Participation of researchers and practitioners from academia and industry are encouraged in order to promote cross-community interactions and thus avoiding disconnection between these groups. Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) - Cloud Computing Environments (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) - Services Mashups Development - Service Discovery, Semantic Web and Ontology - Secure Data Management and Adaptation, Privacy and Trust - Self-Adaptive Services and Applications and Autonomic Computing - Context-Aware, Mobile and Pervasive Adaptive Services on the Cloud - Emerging Internet of Things Business Models - Business Models for Quality of Services (QoS) and Cost of Services (CoS) - Adaptation Contract and Service Level Agreements (SLA) - Service Adaptive Composition, Orchestration and Choreography - Dynamic Adaptation of Services on the Cloud - Dynamic Internet Content Delivery - Run-Time Monitoring, Services Evolution and Maintenance - Model-Driven SOA and Service Systems Deployment - Sensor Web Enablement and Web-Connected Devices (Sensor Web, smartphone, RFID) - Services Computing in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) - Service-Oriented Middleware Deployment for Sensor as a Service - Software Engineering for Sensors in the Internet of Things (IoT) - Formal Methods in Services Computing - SOA Reference Models and Frameworks to Adaptive Services - Event-Driven Service-Oriented Architectures (ED-SOA or SOA 2.0) - Complex Event Processing - Linked Open Data - Software Service Engineering (SSE) Practices, Case Studies and Experience Reports - Novel Applications based on Content Networks - Application Scenarios as eHealth (AAL), Transport and Logistics (ITS), Smart Cities) IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Paper submission: June 14th, 2014 (extended deadline) - Acceptance notification: July 4th, 2014 - Camera-ready papers: July 15th, 2014 - Workshop date: September 2nd, 2014 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ======================= Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers in two categories. Both regular papers (must not exceed 12 pages) and short papers (must not exceed 8 pages) should be written in English and following LNCS format. Please, submit papers via the WAS4FI conference management tool (EasyChair submission system, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=was4fi2014) in PDF format. For formatting instructions and templates see the Information for LNCS authors in Springer website http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. It is planned to publish the proceedings with Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science series (final approval pending).* As in previous editions, we are also intending to consider the best papers to be extended for their publication in a Special Issue of a related International Journal or in a prestigious book.* At least one author of an accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the main ESOCC conference http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ==================== - Javier Cubo, University of M?laga, Spain - Juan Boubeta-Puig, University of C?diz, Spain - Howard Foster, City University London, United Kingdom - Winfried Lamersdorf, University of Hamburg, Germany PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ==================== - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy - Florian Daniel, University of Trento, Italy - Valeria de Castro, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Gregorio D?az, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain - Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Nadia G?mez, University of M?laga, Spain - Laura Gonz?lez, Universidad de la Rep?blica, Uruguay - Alberto Lluch Lafuente, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy - Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany - Massimo Mecella, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy - Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland - Ernesto Pimentel, University of M?laga, Spain - Pascal Poizat, Universit? Paris Ouest, France - Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, United Kingdom - Gustavo Rossi, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina - Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille 1, France - Antonio Ruiz, University of Sevilla, Spain - Quanzheng Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia - Massimo Tivoli, University of L'Aquila, Italy - Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy If you have further queries please email to the workshop chairs on: was4fi at lcc.uma.es -- [image: UCA] Juan Boubeta Puig Grupo UCASE de Ingenier?a del Software / UCASE Software Engineering Research Group *Departamento de Ingenier?a Inform?tica / Department of Computer Science and Engineering Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a / School of Engineering* Universidad de C?diz / University of C?diz C/ Chile n? 1 11002 - C?diz (Spain) Tel (+34) 956 015692 juan.boubeta at uca.es https://ucase.uca.es/juan-boubeta-puig -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rdautov at seerc.org Fri May 30 19:12:06 2014 From: rdautov at seerc.org (Rustem Dautov) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 20:12:06 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFP - CSB 2014 - Extended deadline! Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues. CLOUD SERVICE BROKERAGE - TOWARDS THE MULTI-CLOUD ECOSYSTEM =========================================================== The 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Service Brokerage (CSB 2014). Co-located with the 3rd European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2014), Manchester, UK, 2-4 September, 2014. CALL FOR PAPERS The workshop series on Cloud Service Brokerage is the premier workshop focusing on enabling technology for realising the multi-cloud ecosystem, in which cloud service brokers will play a pivotal role in supporting cloud service providers and consumers. CSB 2014 is the second workshop in the series, co-hosted by the EU FP7 projects Broker at Cloud and PaaSage, and will be held at ESOCC 2014 in Manchester. It focuses on enabling technology for the multi-cloud ecosystem. The first CSB 2013 workshop was held in conjunction with ICSOC 2013 in Berlin, and focused on methods and mechanisms for cloud service brokerage. CSB 2014 Workshop Website: http://csb2014.modelbased.net/ ESOCC 2014 Conference Website: http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ Broker at Cloud Project Website: http://www.broker-cloud.eu/ PaaSage Project Website: http://www.paasage.eu/ BACKGROUND This workshop looks to a future in which a multi-cloud ecosystem exists, within which many cloud providers and consumers interact to create, discover, negotiate and use software services. Supporting this ecosystem are cloud brokers, whose role is to bring together providers and consumers, by offering service portals with added value for all parties. A central feature of the broker?s role will be to assist with software service generation (from abstract models to platform-specific deployments), multi-cloud translation (model-driven adaptation and deployment of services) and assure quality control (governance; functional testing and monitoring), service continuity (failure prevention and recovery; service substitution) and market competition (arbitrage; service optimization; service customization). To promote the creation of this kind of ecosystem, it is necessary to develop common standards, service models, methods and mechanisms that will operate across a wide variety of platforms and infrastructure, and across disparate service protocols, which currently include: WSDL/SOAP-based services, RESTful services and Rich Client/AJAX applications. TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit original research papers covering the following topics of interest: Abstract service models ? current service description languages are only up to the task of describing the service interface; what is needed are abstract models to describe the complete behaviour and performance of services, such that model-translation algorithms can generate equivalent services on different platforms. Model-driven generation ? current software services are designed in vendor-specific ways that prevent them being ported onto different platforms; what is needed are sets of translation algorithms for converting abstract service models into platform-specific applications, or sets of equivalent applications deployed across multi-clouds. Service behaviour certification ? current quality control is mostly achieved by in-house developer-based testing; what is needed is a means of determining whether alternative services are equivalent, certified by generating standard test sets from functional specifications of services, and grounding these for each of the service protocol technologies described above; Service performance monitoring ? current service monitoring technology is limited to SLAs for response-times and availability of end-points; what is needed is a more sophisticated data fusion approach, such as complex event processing, with trend prediction, supporting service optimisation and substitution. Service optimization ? current service platforms offer single-vendor services with failover substitution, or manual selection from several providers; what is needed is a means of offering multi-vendor services on a competitive basis, with automatic arbitrage between different providers, to support constrained optimization of cloud performance. Service governance ? current services and platforms are developed following in-house software processes; what is needed are explicit standards and methods for governing the whole service lifecycle, ensuring common quality standards and interfaces, supporting convergent service development and service customisation. This list is not exhaustive; other topics relevant to the Consumer, Provider and Broker roles (NIST cloud role definitions) will be considered. Please note that service security is out of scope, being a matter for the Auditor role. Please note also that only design-time adaptation will be considered, since another ESOCC workshop will be devoted to run-time adaptation issues. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: (30 May) extended to 14 June 2014 * Reviews completed: (30 June) extended to 4 July 2014 * Camera-ready copy: 15 July 2014 SUBMISSION PROCESS Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research papers written in English. We invite (i) full research papers up to 12 pages in length; and (ii) short vision, or position papers up to 6 pages, both including all references and figures, on a topic within the remit of the workshop. All submissions must be prepared in the Springer LNCS format. The Springer formatting guidelines are available at: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 All submissions will be peer-reviewed by members of the international program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of presentation. Please submit papers in PDF via EasyChair, following instructions to be published on the CSB 2014 website: http://csb2014.modelbased.net/ We anticipate a 50% acceptance rate after reviewing has been completed. Accepted full papers will be allowed up to 15 pages; and short vision/position papers up to 8 pages. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and participate in the workshop. Please see details to be published on the ESOCC website: http://esocc2014.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ It is anticipated that publication will be in the Springer CCIS series (Communications in Computer and Information Science), in proceedings shared jointly with other ESOCC workshops and the PhD symposium. WORKSHOP ORGANISATION ESOCC 2014 Organisation: Workshop Chairs * Guadalupe Ortiz, University of C?diz, Spain * Cuong Tran, The University of Manchester, UK CSB 2014 Workshop: Organising Chairs * Iraklis Paraskakis, SEERC, Thessaloniki, Greece * Anthony Simons, University of Sheffield, UK * Alessandro Rossini, SINTEF, Oslo, Norway * Jens Jensen, STFC, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK CSB 2014 Workshop: Programme Committee * Gregoris Mentzas, ICCS NTUA, Athens * Symeon Veloudis, SEERC, Thessaloniki * Kleanthis Mokios, SEERC, Thessaloniki * Yiannis Verignadis, ICCS NTUA, Athens * Raluca Lefticaru, University of Sheffield * Brice Morin, SINTEF, Oslo, Norway * Franck Fleurey, SINTEF, Oslo, Norway * Andreas Friesen, SAP, Karlsruhe, Germany * Antonia Schwichtenberg, CAS Software, Karlsruhe, Germany * Volker Kuttruff, CAS Software, Karlsruhe, Germany * Panagiotis Gouvas, SingularLogic, Athens, Greece * Christian P?rez, INRIA, Lyon, France * Nikos Parlavantzas, INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France * Jorg Domaschka, University of Ulm, Germany * Lutz Schubert, University of Ulm, Germany * Craig Sheridan, Flexiant, Edinburgh, UK * Anthony Sulistio, HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rustem Dautov Research Associate South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) The University of Sheffield, International Faculty - City College 24 Proxenou Koromila, 54622 Thessaloniki, Greece Tel: +(30) 2310 253 477 Fax: +(30) 2310 234 205 Mob: +(30) 6945 069 303 Email: rdautov at seerc.org Web: http://www.seerc.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Workshop Website: www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan/BASNet-14/ SCOPE The workshop provides a multi-disciplinary collaborative forum for researchers and practitioners to submit papers with novel ideas, innovative solutions, and research results related to the field of the Body Area Sensor Networks. The workshop also invites researchers to submit original work on sensors communication in Body Area Networks. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Wearable and implantable sensors * Bio-sensors communication * Sensors communication in Body Area Networks * Body Area Networks in Hospital environment * Body Area Networks for Medical Applications * Routing Layer protocols for Body Area Networks * MAC Layer protocols for Body Area Networks * Cross layer routing protocols for Body Area Networks * Body Area Networks and cloud computing * RFID tags for Body Area Networks * Security protocols for Body Area Networks * E-Health wireless applications * Body Area Networks used for patient health monitoring IMPORTANT DATES * Submission due: 15 June, 2014 (extended). * Notification of acceptance: 30 June, 2014. * Camera-ready due: 17 July, 2014. * Workshop: 22-25 September, 2014. SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers accepted for workshops will be included in the ICTH-2014 proceedings, which will be published by Elsevier. The authors must follow Elsevier guidelines as given in ICTH-2014 website (http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/). The number of pages for workshop papers is limited to 6 pages. Authors should submit their contributions electronically in PDF format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=basnet2014. The submission processes will be managed by easychair.org . If you have used this system before, you can use the same username and password. If this is your first time using EasyChair, you will need to register for an account by clicking "I have no EasyChair account" button. Upon completion of registration, you will get a notification email from the system and you are ready for submitting your paper. You can upload and re-upload the paper to the system by the submission due date. All BASNet-2014 accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/. The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The selective outstanding papers presented at the workshop, after further revision, will be considered for publication in journals special issues at ICTH'14. TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Bill Robertson, Dalhousie University (Canada) * William Phillips, Dalhousie University (Canada) * Shyamala Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University (Canada) * Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky (USA) * Ansar-Ul-Haque Yasar, Hasselt University (Belgium) * Saad Qaiser, NUST (Pakistan) * Farrukh A. Khan, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Muhammad Moid Sandhu, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) * Muhammad Imran, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Ayesha Hussain Khan, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) * Umar Qasim, University of Alberta (Canada) * Hasan Mehmood, Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan) * Hai Wang, Saint Mary's University (Canada) * Kashif Saleem, King Saud University (Saudi Arabia) * Faisal Shaikh, MUET (Pakistan) * Amjad Gawanmeh, Concordia University (Canada) * Turki Alghamdi, Umm AlQura University (Saudi Arabia) WORKSHOP CHAIRS * Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University (Canada) * Nadeem Javaid, COMSATS IIT (Pakistan) --------------------------------------------------------- Zahoor Khan, PhD, MCSc, MSc (Computer Engineering), MSc (Electronics), BSc, MCSE Faculty/Postdoctoral Fellow, Internetworking Program Faculty of Engineering, Dalhousie University Halifax, NS Canada B3J 1Y9 Phone: +1-(902)-494-3571 www.cs.dal.ca/~zkhan Zahoor.Khan at Dal.ca --------------------------------------------------------- Part-time Faculty of Computing & Information Systems Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University Halifax, NS Canada B3H 3C3 Zahoor.Khan at smu.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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[apologies for multiple posting] ==================== EXTENDED DEADLINES ==================== Abstract submission: June 11, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 18, 2014 ===================== CALL FOR PAPERS ====================== 24th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation LOPSTR 2014 http://www.iasi.cnr.it/events/lopstr14/ University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, September 10-11, 2014 ============================================================ Invited Speakers: Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy) Viktor Kuncak (EPFL, Switzerland) ============================================================ The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively, friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can incorporate this feedback in the published papers. The 24th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2014) will be held at the University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom; previous symposia were held in Madrid, Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester. LOPSTR 2014 will be co-located with PPDP 2014 (International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming). Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of logic-based program development, including, but not limited to: * synthesis * transformation * specialization * composition * optimization * inversion * specification * analysis and verification * testing and certification * program and model manipulation * transformational techniques in SE * applications and tools Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new perspective, and application papers that describe experience with industrial applications are also welcome. Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions). Important Dates Abstract submission: June 11, 2014 Paper/Extended abstract submission: June 18, 2014 Notification: July 18, 2014 Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): August 25, 2014 Symposium: September 10-11, 2014 Submission Guidelines Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them. Paper should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for LOPSTR 2014. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact the program co-chairs for information on how to submit hard copies. Proceedings The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal proceedings. Program Committee Slim Abdennadher German University of Cairo, Egypt ?tienne Andr? Universit? Paris 13, France Martin Brain University of Oxford, UK Wei-Ngan Chin National University of Singapore, Singapore Marco Comini University of Udine, Italy Wlodzimierz Drabent IPIPAN, Poland and Link?ping University, Sweden Fabio Fioravanti University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy J?rgen Giesl RWTH Aachen University, Germany Miguel G?mez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Arnaud Gotlieb SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway Gopal Gupta University of Texas at Dallas, USA Jacob Howe City University London, UK Zhenjiang Hu National Institute of Informatics, Japan Alexei Lisitsa University of Liverpool, UK Yanhong Annie Liu Stony Brook University, USA Jorge Navas NASA, USA Naoki Nishida Nagoya University, Japan Corneliu Popeea Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Maurizio Proietti IASI-CNR, Italy (Program Co-Chair) Tom Schrijvers Ghent University, Belgium Hirohisa Seki Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (Program Co-Chair) Jon Sneyers K.U. Leuven, Belgium Fausto Spoto University of Verona, Italy Wim Vanhoof University of Namur, Belgium German Vidal Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Program Co-Chairs: Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy (maurizio.proietti at iasi.cnr.it) Hirohisa Seki, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (seki at nitech.ac.jp) Symposium Co-Chairs Olaf Chitil and Andy King School of Computing University of Kent CT2 7NF Kent, UK Organizing Committee Emanuele De Angelis, University of Chieti-Pescara and IASI-CNR, Italy Fabrizio Smith, IASI-CNR, Italy? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference encourages innovative research contributions providing the recent significant developments and promising future trends of ICT based applications, systems, tools, environments and infrastructures in the fields of health/medical care, and related domains, such as public health and pharmaceuticals. ICTH-2014 will be held in conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-14/). Accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on the Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of an international journal. Keynote Speakers Confirmed: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#keynoteSpeakers We invite submissions on either completed or ongoing work. Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 5 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and references. We encourage students to submit short papers or works in progress, and welcome proposals on workshops in areas of special interest to participants. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------------ Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems Clinical Data and Knowledge Management Cloud Computing for Healthcare Collaboration Technologies for Healthcare Context-aware Applications for Patient Monitoring and Care Data Mining Techniques and Data Warehouses in Healthcare Data Visualization Decision Support Systems in Healthcare Drug Information Systems Design and Development Methodologies for Healthcare Systems Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technologies in Healthcare Digital Hospitals E-health & m-health Electronic Health Records (EHR) & Personal Health Records (PHR) Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) Health grids Health Portals Information and Knowledge Processing in Healthcare Environments Middleware Support for Smart Homes and Intelligent Applications Privacy, Confidentiality and Security Issues in Healthcare Systems Related Real World Experiments and Case Studies in Healthcare RFID Solutions for Healthcare Smart Homes and Home Care Intelligent Environments Telemedicine and Health Telematics Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing in Healthcare Usability & Socio-technical studies User Interface Design for Healthcare Applications Virtual and Augmented Reality in Healthcare Virtual Environments for Healthcare Committees ------------- General Chair Jane Liu, Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan Program Chairs Wendy MacCaull, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Ellen Jaatun, Institute of cancer research and molecular medicine, NTNU, and St Olavs Hospital, Norway Advisory Committee Sergio Camorlinga, Head eHealth Research, TRLabs, Canada Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA Finn Kensing, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Francesco Pinciroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Abdul Roudsari, University of Victoria, Canada Workshops Chair Zahoor Khan, Dalhousie University, Canada International Journal Chair Ridha Khedri, McMaster University, Canada Local Arrangements Chairs Janet Light, University of New Brunswick, Canada Haroon Malik, University of Waterloo, Canada Shyamala C. Sivakumar, Saint Mary's University, Canada Publicity Chairs Tayseer Alkhdour, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Adrian Rutle, Aalesund University College, Norway Steering Committee Chair Elhadi Shakshuki, Acadia University, Canada Technical Program Committee http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/icth-14/#programCommittees -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com Sat May 31 20:34:44 2014 From: tayseeralkhdour at gmail.com (Dr. Tayseer ALkhdour) Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 21:34:44 +0300 Subject: [ecoop-info] CFPs :The 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Cloud Message-ID: The 2nd International Workshop on Sensor Cloud In conjunction with the 5th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks 22-25 September, 2014 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/site/scloudeuspn/ *************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES =============== - Papers Submission Deadline June 10, 2014 (Extended) - Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014 - Camera-Ready Submission: July 17, 2014 Research and applications in wireless sensor networks (WSN) and cloud computing (CC) continue to grow. The integration of sensor networks and cloud computing play a vital role in the advancement of modern sensor technology with the strength of cloud computing. The aim of sensor cloud (SC) is to make the sensed and processed data accessible from distributed networks. With sensor clouds, large-scale data can be collected, processed, and shared among multiple networks. Sensor cloud raises many research and practical challenges such as event processing and management, real time data processing, large scale computing infrastructure and frameworks, and harvesting collective intelligence. All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line. Procedia Computer Sciences is hosted on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect ( http://www.sciencedirect.com), and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (http://www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (http://www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (http://www.ei.org/compendex). All accepted papers will also be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The goal of SC 2013 workshop is to bring together multi-disciplinary researchers, professionals and practitioners from academia and industry who are involved in the fields of both wireless sensor networks and cloud computing areas to discuss recent advances and innovative ideas in these fields. SC workshop solicits papers on either completed or ongoing research in the following and related topics of interests include (but not limited to): ? Mobility in Sensor Clouds ? Monitoring techniques/mechanism for Sensor-Cloud infrastructure ? Performance management of sensor in cloud (Algorithms and protocols) ? Platform to manage sensory data in clouds (e.g. Hadoop, Pig, Mapreduce, Hive and HDFS). ? Provisioning of virtual sensor in cloud ? Reliability issues, Service Level Agreement (SLA) and QoS guarantees for sensing technologies for clouds ? Security in Sensor Clouds ? Sensor Cloud enabled applications (e.g., Health-care, Traffic management, Weather monitoring and Surveillance) ? Sensor Cloud Intelligence ? Sensor Cloud management (Aggregation, Enablement, Interoperability and Resource management) ? Sensor Cloud vision: Case-studies, Challenges, Lesson-learnt and Opportunities ? Smart tags, location aware remote sensing and RFID as Services (Raas) in clouds ? Standardization mechanism/functions for Sensor Cloud For further details, please see website at: https://sites.google.com/site/scloudeuspn/. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: