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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on Energy Efficient High Performance
Parallel and Distributed Computing (EEHPDC-2013)

Co-located with ACM HPDC 2013, New York City, NY, USA
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Date: June 17th, 2013
Workshop URL: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/GreenHPC/EEHPDC/

Abstract submission: February 4th, 2013 (11:59PM PST)
Paper submission: February 11th, 2013 (11:59PM PST)


SCOPE:

The growing scale of High Performance Computing systems and enterprise data centers has made issues related to power consumption, air conditioning, and cooling infrastructures critical concerns in terms of efficiency and robustness as well as operating costs. Furthermore, with the advent of Cloud computing consolidated virtualized data centers are emerging as attractive computing platforms for data- and compute-intensive applications and provide opportunities for higher utilization and energy savings. As a result, energy efficiency and the tradeoffs between energy efficiency and performance have become key challenges that must be addressed in both, distributed and traditional performance-oriented infrastructures.

This workshop aims to provide a timely forum for presenting novel idea and latest findings as well as to discuss research directions and challenges related to Energy Efficient for High Performance Computing Parallel and Distributed Computing.


We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers should be up to 8 pages long.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-Energy-aware algorithms and application formulations
* Energy-aware HiPC applications
* Energy-efficient application design
* Algorithms for reduced power, energy and heat

- Energy-aware language abstractions, programming systems
* Code profiling and transformation for energy efficiency
* Programming models extensions for energy efficiency

- Energy-aware runtime and middleware
* Runtime systems for HiPC that assist in power saving
* Power-aware middleware for HiPC
* Energy-efficient grid, cloud, and data center technology

- Energy-aware virtualization
* Energy efficiency and virtualization
* Energy, performance, quality of service and other resource tradeoffs

- Energy-efficient architectures
* Power-aware architectures for HiPC
* Future energy-efficient architectures
* System-level optimization, cross-layer coordination


Work-in-progress papers as well as papers exploring unconventional and out-of-box approaches are specifically of interest to this workshop.

CONTACT:

Ivan Rodero (irodero AT rutgers DOT edu)
Manish Parashar (parashar AT rutgers DOT edu)


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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone: (848) 228-6474
Fax: (732) 445-0593
Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu
WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Sixth International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3-2013)
NOIDA, (outskirts of New Delhi), India
August 8 – 10, 2013
Technical Sponsor: IEEE Delhi Section
http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3/
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Computing is an ever-evolving area. The International Conference on Contemporary Computing, is jointly organized every year since 2008 by the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. It focuses on topics that are of contemporary interest to computer and computational scientists and engineers.

In the past, IC3 has had speakers from MIT, UC Berkley, Harvard University, CMU, University of Texas, Columbia University, University of Southern California, UC Santa Barba, University of Minnesota, University of Florida, Georgia State University, University of Geneva, IITs, IIITs, Yahoo Research, Google, Adobe Systems, IBM Research, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory (USA), Cisco Systems, Intel Labs, TCS Innovation Labs, SETLabs (now Infosys Labs), ST Microelectronics, Landis + Gyr, Strand Life Sciences, and Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, etc. Past conference proceeding have been published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science Series, ISSN: 1865:0929. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in ISI Proceedings, Scopus, DBLP.

IC3-2013 will bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government to deliberate upon the algorithmic, systemic, applied, and educational aspects of contemporary computing. The conference will be held in NOIDA (outskirts of New Delhi), India. The conference will feature world-class keynote speakers, exhibits, special sessions, tutorials, and paper presentations.

Conference Tracks:
(i) Algorithms, (ii) Systems (Hardware & Software), (iii) Applications, (iv) Education
A partial list of areas of interest follows:

Distributed and Cloud Computing
Parallel and Multi-core Computing
System/network-on-chip
Reconfigurable architectures
Novel Algorithmic Paradigms
Algorithms
Machine Learning
Intelligent Systems
Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery
Big Data Analytics
Information Security
Mobile Computing
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Entertainment Technology and Cultural Informatics
Multimedia Computing
Next generation Internet
Embedded Systems and Robotics
Human Computer Interaction
Information and Collaboration Systems
E-commerce
Software Engineering
Bio-informatics and Scientific Computing
Wireless Networking
Medical Informatics
Computational Finance
Remote Sensing
Computing Education
E-learning
Education Informatics
Research Methods for Computing


Paper Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that demonstrate original unpublished research. Please see the conference website http://www.jiit.ac.in/jiit/ic3 for paper submission procedures and detailed guidelines. Papers will be reviewed by experts and selected for presentation and inclusion in the conference proceedings based on their clarity, originality, relevance and significance. Accepted papers, only when presented in the Conference (numbered 31296 in the IEEE Record) by duly registered authors, shall be uploaded to IEEE Xplore.


Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: May 30, 2013 (HARD, NO EXTENSIONS)
Author Notification: June 30, 2013
Final Manuscripts and Registration: July 10, 2013

Conference Organization:

Patrons:
Jaiprakash Gaur
Manoj Gaur

Steering Committee:
Yaj Medury, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
S. C. Saxena, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA
Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA & IIT Bombay, India
Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Guna Seetharaman, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, NY, USA
Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA & ITRA, MCIT India
Pankaj Jalote Director, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Sanjay Goel, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India

Advisory Committee:
SK Kak, VC, Mahamaya Technical University
Shiban K Koul, IIT Delhi and Chairman IEEE Delhi Section, India
Om Vikas, Former Director, IIITM, Gwalior
K. Karmeshu, JNU, Delhi India
K.K. Biswas, IIT Delhi, India
S.K. Gupta, IIT Delhi, India
A.B. Bhattacharyya, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
Krishna Gopal, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
K.Kant, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
RC Jain, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
Abdul Quaiyum Ansari, JMI, New Delhi and IEEE, Delhi Section, India

General Co-chairs
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA
Hari Om Gupta, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India
Sanjay Goel, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India

Program Co-Chair
Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Track Co- Chairs
Algorithms
Jianer Chen, Texas A&M University, USA
Applications
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Systems
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Education
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University

Publicity Co-Chairs
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, AUS
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Koji Nakano, Hiroshima University, Japan
Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA
Bhardwaj Veeravalli, University of Singapore, Singapore
Divakar Yadav, JIIT, India
Shishir Kumar, Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, India
Nitin, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India


Website Administration
Sandeep Singh, JIIT, India
Publication Committee
Vikas Saxena, JIIT Noida, India (Publication Chair)
Satish Chandra, JIIT, India
Maneesha Srivastava, JIIT, India
Chetna Gupta, JIIT, India
Buddha Singh, JIIT, India
Advitiya Sinha, JIIT, India
Sangeeta Lal, , JIIT, India

Graphic Design
Anuja Arora, JIIT, India
Registration and Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Prakash Kumar, JIIT, India
Saurabh K. Raina, JIIT, India
Manish K Thakur, JIIT, India
Sangeeta Mittal, JIIT, Noida
Shikha Mehta, JIIT, Noida

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IEEE TCSC Young Achievers in Scalable Computing

The IEEE TCSC annual young achievers in scalable computing award recognizes up to 5 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field
of scalable computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award.

Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted online via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=yasc13. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details:

• Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are
not eligible).
• Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended.
• A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the
nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award
is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the
contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant.
The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination.
• CV of the nominee.
• Up three support letters from persons other than
the nominator – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination.

Important Dates:

• Nomination Deadline: June 01, 2013
• Results Notification: August 01, 2013

Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consists of:

• David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Chair)
Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters.

Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC13 conference that will be held in Denver, CO, USA during November 17-22 2013. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc13.supercomputing.org/.

For more information, please send email to awa...@tcsc.org.

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Call for Papers

Computing in Science & Engineering

Extreme Data

Submissions due: March 2014
Estimated Publication date: November 2014

The current era of extreme data culled from a range of diverse data sources, ranging from extreme scale simulations to instruments, experiments, and pervasive sensors and systems, has the potential for revolutionizing science, engineering, and society in general. However, the expanding distribution and dynamism of the data, increasing data heterogeneity and uncertainty about its quality and availability, as well as the growing costs (time and energy) associated with transporting and processing this data, requires new paradigms and practices in data management and analytics, as well as supporting software stacks before this potential can be realized.

The goal of this special issue of CiSE is to explore the fundamental challenges — as well as the state of the art in solutions — of extreme data. From innovative algorithmic formulations to implementation frameworks and software stacks, what can accelerate insights from extreme data? End-to-end application workflows and relevant experiences with real applications are of particular interest.

Published by the IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics, CiSE magazine features the latest computational science and engineering research in an accessible format, along with departments covering news and analysis, CSE in education, and emerging technologies.

We strongly encourage submissions that include multimedia, data, and community content, which will be featured on the IEEE Computer Society website along with the accepted papers.

For more information please see http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cscfp4

Questions?

Contact guest editors Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (parashar at rutgers.edu) or George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago (gkt at cs.luc.edu).

Submission Guidelines

Authors are asked to submit high-quality original work that has neither appeared in nor is under consideration by other journals. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following standard journal practices. Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be extended substantially to include at least 30 percent new material. Manuscripts should be written in the active voice, should be no longer than 7,200 words (counting each standard figure and table as 250 words), and should follow the style and presentation guidelines of CiSE (see www.computer.org/cise/author for details).

Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at ci...@computer.org.

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Call for Papers

Computing in Science & Engineering

Extreme Data

Submissions due: 4 November 2013
Estimated Publication date: July/August 2014

The current era of extreme data culled from a range of diverse data sources, ranging from extreme scale simulations to instruments, experiments, and pervasive sensors and systems, has the potential for revolutionizing science, engineering, and society in general. However, the expanding distribution and dynamism of the data, increasing data heterogeneity and uncertainty about its quality and availability, as well as the growing costs (time and energy) associated with transporting and processing this data, requires new paradigms and practices in data management and analytics, as well as supporting software stacks before this potential can be realized.

The goal of this special issue of CiSE is to explore the fundamental challenges — as well as the state of the art in solutions — of extreme data. >From innovative algorithmic formulations to implementation frameworks and software stacks, what can accelerate insights from extreme data? End-to-end application workflows and relevant experiences with real applications are of particular interest.

Published by the IEEE Computer Society and the American Institute of Physics, CiSE magazine features the latest computational science and engineering research in an accessible format, along with departments covering news and analysis, CSE in education, and emerging technologies.

We strongly encourage submissions that include multimedia, data, and community content, which will be featured on the IEEE Computer Society website along with the accepted papers.

For more information please see http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cscfp4

Questions?

Contact guest editors Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (parashar at rutgers.edu) or George K. Thiruvathukal, Loyola University Chicago (gkt at cs.luc.edu).

Submission Guidelines

Authors are asked to submit high-quality original work that has neither appeared in nor is under consideration by other journals. All submissions will be peer-reviewed following standard journal practices. Manuscripts based on previously published conference papers must be extended substantially to include at least 30 percent new material. Manuscripts should be written in the active voice, should be no longer than 7,200 words (counting each standard figure and table as 250 words), and should follow the style and presentation guidelines of CiSE (see www.computer.org/cise/author for details).

Please submit your article using the online manuscript submission service at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cs-ieee. When uploading your article, select the appropriate special-issue title under the category "Manuscript Type." Also include complete contact information for all authors. If you have any questions about submitting your article, contact the peer review coordinator at ci...@computer.org.

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058

Phone: (732) 993-8837

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First Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science:
Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE)

http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/
(in conjunction with SC13)
Sunday, November 17, 2013, Denver, CO

Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of
software at all levels and it is now critical to address many new challenges
related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software. In
addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to
learn and adopt a new set of software-related skills and methodologies.
Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills, and in
particular a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic
environments who are an integral and embedded part of successful research teams.
This workshop will provide a forum for discussion of the challenges, including
both positions and experiences. The short papers and discussion will be archived
as a basis for continued discussion, and we intend the workshop to feed into the
collaborative writing of one or more journal publications.

In practice, scientific software activities are part of an ecosystem where key
roles are held by developers, users, and funders. All three groups supply
resources to the ecosystem, as well as requirements that bound it. Roughly
following the example of NSF's Vision and Strategy for Software
(http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12113), the ecosystem
may be viewed as having challenges related to:

* the development process that leads to new software
- how fundamental research in computer science or science/engineering
domains is turned into reusable software
- software created as a by-product of research
- impact of computer science research on the development of scientific
software
* the support and maintenance of existing software, including
- software engineering
- governance, business, and sustainability models
- the role of community software repositories, their operation and sustainability
* the role of open source communities or industry
* use of the software
- growing communities
- reproducibility, transparency needs that may be unique to science
* policy issues, such as
- measuring usage and impact
- software credit, attribution, incentive, and reward
- career paths for developers and institutional roles
- 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
* education and training

This workshop is interested in all of the above topics. We invite short
(4-page) position/experience reports that will be used to organize panel and
discussion sessions. These papers will be archived by a third-party service,
and provided 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. An
interactive site will be created to link these papers and the workshop
discussion, with options for later comments and contributions. Contributions
will be peer-reviewed for relevance and originality before the links are
added to the workshop site; contributions will also be used to determine
discussion topics and panelists. We will also plan one or more papers to
be collaboratively developed by the contributors, based on the panels and
discussions.

Deadline:

6 September 2013 (any time of day, no extensions)

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
that can be cited, for example http://arXiv.org, http://figshare.com, etc.
The submitter should then email the URL and identifier (or any questions) to
wss...@gmail.com

Organizers:

* Daniel S. Katz, d.k...@ieee.org, National Science Foundation, USA
* Gabrielle Allen, al...@skoltech.ru, Skolkovo Institute of Science and
Technology, Russian Federation
* Neil Chue Hong, N.Chu...@software.ac.uk, Software Sustainability
Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Manish Parashar, para...@rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, USA
* David Proctor, djpr...@gmail.com, National Science Foundation, USA

Program Committee:

* David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia
* Aron Ahmadia, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
* Samuel Arbesman, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, USA
* Lorena A. Barba, Boston University, USA
* Phil Bourne, University of California, San Diego, USA
* Karen Cranston, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, USA
* Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
* David De Roure, University of Oxford, UK
* Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland
* Anshu Dubey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
* Victor Eruhimov, Itseez, Russian Federation
* David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK
* Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University, USA
* Alexander A. Granovsky, Firefly project, Russian Federation
* Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA
* Sol Greenspan, National Science Foundation, USA
* James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* James Hetherington, University College London, UK
* James Howison, University of Texas at Austin, USA
* Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA
* Greg Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA
* Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA
* Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA
* Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK
* Cameron Neylon, PLOS, UK
* Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK
* Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA
* Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
* Jennifer M. Schopf, IEEE Computer Society, USA
* Edgar Spalding, University of Wisconsin, USA
* Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA
* Matthew Turk, Columbia University, USA
* Greg Watson, IBM, USA
* Scott Wilson, OSS Watch, UK
* Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058

Phone: (732) 993-8837

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Call for Papers
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
(http://taas.acm.org)

Aim and Scope: The ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) is a venue for high quality research contributions addressing foundational, engineering, and technological aspects related to all those complex ICT systems that have to serve – in autonomy and with capabilities of autonomous adaptation – in highly dynamic socio-technico-physical environments.

TAAS addresses research on autonomous and adaptive systems being undertaken by an increasingly interdisciplinary research community -- and provide a common platform under which this work can be published and disseminated. TAAS encourages contributions aimed at supporting the understanding, development, and control of such systems and of their behaviors. Contributions are expected to be based on sound and innovative theoretical models, algorithms, engineering and programming techniques, infrastructures and systems, or technological and application experiences.

Call for Papers: TAAS invites authors to submit original and unpublished articles that are written in English and on topics that are within the scope of the journal. Paper should have an introductory part that is comprehensible by a non-expert, and should reference up-to-date related literature. Papers can be up to 10000 words (20 printed pages) in length – papers exceeding this limit will have to either be shortened, or have to move some of the material to an appendix that will only be published online. Additional information can be found at http://taas.acm.org/authors.html.

Expected Turnaround Times: Currently, the average review turnaround time (the time from article submission to first notification) is approximately 2 months and the time from acceptance to publication is now typically less than 6 months for papers requiring revision. Additional statistics can be found at http://dl.acm.org/pub.cfm?id=J1010.

Editorial Board:

Editors-in-Chief
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Associated Editors
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Ozalp Babaoglu, University of Bologna, Italy
Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jake Beal, BBN Technologies and MIT, USA
Simon Dobson, St Andrews University, UK
Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Indy Gupta, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Salima Hassas, University of Lyon, France
Anthony Karageorgos, University of Thessaly, Greece
Michael Luck, University of Southampton, UK
Julie Mc Cann, Imperial College London, UK
Andrea Omicini, University of Bologna, Italy
Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
Omer F. Rana, University of Cardiff, UK
Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab and Bar Ilan University, Israel
Roy Sterritt, University of Ulster, UK
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Jacobs Technology Inc., USA
Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058

Phone: (732) 993-8837

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLOUD FOR BIO (C4Bio)

to be held as part of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014

Chicago, USA, May 26-29, 2014

http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~c4bio2014

BACKGROUND
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In the last 20 years, computational methods have become an important part of developing emerging technologies for the field of bioinformatics and biomedicine. Research areas such as biomodelling, molecular dynamics, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, evolutionary biology, medical biology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, nanobiotechnology, biological engineering, pharmacology, genetics therapy, or automatic diagnosis, rely heavily on large scale computational resources as they need to manage Tbytes or Pbytes of data with large-scale structural and functional relationships, TFlops or PFlops of computing power for simulating highly complex models, or many-task processes and workflows for processing and analyzing data.

As applications require more and more computational resources every day in order to increase the knowledge of biological and health processes, bio disciplines create new challenges of scale for computation, storage, and interpretation of petascale data that are difficult to solve with single clusters. Cloud computing has the potential to help solve these problems by offering a utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage capabilities and abstraction layers that allows overcoming many of the constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in an easy way.

The aim of the workshop is to promote the synergies of the cloud computing and bio communities by exploring applications developed in clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio, and new trends and needs shared between both communities. Thus, this workshop will feature articles that discuss the application of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including solutions to area problems and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems.


TOPICS
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Areas of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to:

- Cloud-based bioinformatics applications
- Cloud-based biomedicine applications
- Cloud-based application in public health systems
- Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes
- Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution
- Molecular Dynamics
- Data intensive biomedical applications
- Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Ontologies and biomedical text mining using clouds
- Biological data mining and visualization using clouds
- Managing large scale biological and biomedical databases using clouds
- Visualization and analysis of biomedical images
- Integration and analysis of biomedical data
- Biosignals processing using clouds
- Computational Modeling and Data Integration
- Privacy issues for cloud-based biomedical applications
- Security challenges in big data and biomedicine
- Biocloud services and resource specification
- Cloud Computing architectures for bio*
- Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures
- Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications.
- Resource provisioning for bioclouds
- Distributed cloud solutions
- Cloud solutions for biosensors and mobility
- Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds
- Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications

SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission: February 10th, 2014
- Author notification: March 1st, 2014
- Camera Ready papers due: March 14th, 2014
- Conference: May 26th-29th, 2014



COMMITTEE
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Workshop Organizers:

- Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Dr. Manuel Desco. Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid. Spain.
- Prof. Dana Petcu. University of Timisoara, Romania.

Program Committee:

- Ivona Brandic. Vienna University of Technology, Austria.
- Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Alejandro Calderon, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- David E. Singh, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Geoffrey Fox. Indiana University, USA.
- Felix Garcia-Carballeira. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Jose Daniel Garcia, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Wolfgang Gentzsch. The UberCloud, USA.
- Pesole Graziano. University of Bari, Italy.
- Hsien-Da Huang. National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan.
- Florin Isaila, Argonne National Labs, USA.
- Cedrid Notredame. Center For Genomic Simulation, Spain.
- Javier Pascau, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Jorge Ripoll, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
- Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA.
- Omer F. Rana. Cardiff University, UK.
- Saman K. Halgamuge. The University of Melbourne, Australia.
- Domenico Talia. University of Calabria, Italy.
- Peter J. Tonellato. Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, USA.
- Oswaldo Trelles.University of Malaga. Spain.
- Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
- Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez. University of Extremadura, Spain.
- Tin Wee Tan. National University of Singapore. Singapore.
- Roel Wuyts, IMEC, Belgium.
- Laurence T. Yang. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages.

The paper submission online system is open: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c4bio2014

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Call for Papers :

ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems

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May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA
during CCGrid 2014: the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/extremegreen


Important dates :
• Papers due on : February 15th, 2014
• Author Notification : March 1st, 2014
• Final Papers Due : March 14th, 2014
• ExtremeGreen Workshop: May 26, 2014

Workshop co-chairs:

• Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France
• Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil
• Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
• Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA

Workshop description :

Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g.
data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and
industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of
attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem
conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their
impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to
provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than
small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real
world".

After the success of ExtremGreen2013 workshop, the ExtremeGreen2014 workshop will focus on scientific and
industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in
terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches
and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome.
The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on
ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of
large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary
results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the
proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international
group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency.

Topics of interests :

• Green clouds
• Energy efficiency of data centers
• Green Grids
• Green networks for large scale distributed systems
• Energy efficiency of storage solutions
• Energy-aware design and programming
• Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures
• Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems
• Energy-efficient resource management tools
• Energy-efficient scalable approaches
• Experimental results of Green solutions

Papers submission :

Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system :

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2014


Program Committee (TBC):

• Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
• Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil
• George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA
• Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France
• Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK
• Jean-Patrick Gelas, Universite de Lyon / INRIA, France
• Yiannis Georgiou, BULL, France
• Olivier Gluck, Université de Lyon, France
• Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago, NEw Zealand
• Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil
• Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
• Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, France
• Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
• Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University / CAC, USA
• Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
• Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
• Xavier Vigouroux, BULL, France
• Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

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CAC 2014 Call for Papers
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The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014)

Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences

Collocated with

The 8th IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System Conference
The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference

Imperial College, London, September 8-12, 2014

http://www.autonomic-conference.org

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Important Dates

Abstract registration: April 7, 2014 (Extended)
Paper submission due: April 14, 2014 (Extended)
Notification to authors: June 12, 2014
Final paper due: July 12, 2014

Please find attached the complete CFP in PDF format.

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624

[Ivan Rodero]

Due to numerous requests, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to May 3rd 11:59PM EDT.

CAC 2014 Call for Papers
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The International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC-2014)

Part of FAS* - Foundation and Applications of Self* Computing Conferences

Collocated with

The 8th IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing System Conference
The 14th IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing Conference

Imperial College, London, September 8-12, 2014

http://www.autonomic-conference.org

Important Dates

Abstract registration: May 3, 2014
Paper submission due: May 3, 2014

Notification to authors: June 12, 2014
Final paper due: July 12, 2014

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624