Friday 30 May 2014

2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2014)

> ****  Call for papers  ******
>
> ==== Proceedings will be published by IEEE and Index by EI, Journal special issue opportunities ====
>
> 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2014)
> 30 October-2 November, 2014, Shanghai, China
> Website: http://datamining.it.uts.edu.au/conferences/dsaa14/
>
> Important Dates
> ================
>
> Paper Submission deadline:    5 June, 2014
> Notification of acceptance:   10 August, 2014
> Final Camera-ready papers due:        30 August, 2014
>
> Submissions
> ============
>
> https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsaa14
>
> Publications
> =============
>
> All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL) and IEEE Xplore. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE. Selected top quality papers accepted and presented in the conference for extension and publication in the special issues of some international journals, including IEEE Intelligent Systems, WWWJ, and Neurocomputing. The accepted workshop papers will be published through Springer CCIS series.
>
> Introduction
> =============
>
> Data driven scientific discovery approach has already been agreed to be an important emerging paradigm for computing in areas including social, service, Internet of Things (or sensor networks), and cloud. Under this paradigm, Big Data is the core that drives new researches in many areas, from environmental to social. There are many new scientific challenges when facing this big data phenomenon, ranging from capture, creation, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization. The complication here is not just the storage, I/O, query, and performance, but also the integration across heterogeneous, interdependent complex data resources for real-time decision-making, collaboration, and ultimately value co-creation. Data sciences encompass the larger areas of data analytics, machine learning and managing big data. Data analytics has become essential to glean some understanding from large data sets and convert data into actionable intelligence. With the rapid growth in the v
 olumes of data available to enterprises, Government and on the web, automated techniques for analyzing the data have become essential.
> The 2014 International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA2014) aims to provide a timely forum that brings together researchers, industry practitioners, as well as potential users of big data and advanced analytics, to promote collaborations and exchange of ideas and practices, discuss new opportunities, and investigate the best actionable analytics framework for wide range of applications. The conference solicits experimental and theoretical works on data science and advanced analytics along with their application to real life situations.
>
> DSAA is in cooperation with ACM SIGKDD and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
>
> Topics of Interest
> ==================
>
> General areas of interest to DSAA?2014 include but not Limited to:
> Foundations
> * New mathematical, probabilistic and statistical models and theories
> * New learning theories, models and systems
> * Deep analytics and learning
> * Distributed and parallel computing (cloud, map-reduce, etc.)
> * Non-iidness (heterogeneity & coupling) learning
> * Invisible structure, relation and distribution learning
> * Intent and insight learning
> * Scalable analysis and learning
> * Mining multi-source and mixed-source information
> * Architecture, management and process
> * Data pre-processing, sampling and reduction
> * Feature selection and feature transformation
> * High performance/parallel/
distributed computing
> * Analytics architectures and infrastructure
> * Heterogeneous data/information integration
> * Crowdsourcing
> * Human-machine interaction and interfaces
>
> Retrieval, query and search
> * Web/social web/distributed search
> * Indexing and query processing
> * Information and knowledge retrieval
> * Personalized search and recommendation
> * Query languages and user interfaces
>
> Analytics, discovery and learning
> * Mixed-type data
> * Mixed-structure data
> * Big data modeling and analytics
> * Multimedia/stream/text/visual analytics
> * Coupling, link and graph mining
> * Personalization analytics and learning
> * Web/online/network mining and learning
> * Structure/group/community/network mining
> * Big data visualization analytics
> * Large scale optimization
>
> Privacy and security
> * Security, trust and risk in big data
> * Data integrity, matching and sharing
> * Privacy and protection standards and policies
> * Privacy preserving big data access/analytics
> * Social impact
>
> Evaluation, applications and tools
> * Data economy
> * Domain-specific applications
> * Quality assessment and interestingness metrics
> * Complexity, efficiency and scalability
> * Anomaly/fraud/exception/change/event/crisis analysis
> * Large-scale recommender and search systems
> * Big data representation and visualization
> * Post-processing and post-mining
> * Large Scale Application Case Studies
> * Online/business/government data analysis
> * Mobile analytics for handheld devices
> * Living analytics
>
> Submission Guidelines
> ======================
>
> Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of seven (7) pages, in the IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Press Proceedings Author Guidelines:  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to conference topics of interest, originality, significance, and clarity. Author names and affiliations must not appear in the submissions, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Press.
>
> Advisory Committee
> ===================
>
> * Usama Fayyad                ChoozOn Corporation, USA
> * Masaru Kitsuregawa  University of Tokyo, Japan
> * Rao Kotagiri                University of Melbourne, Australia
> * Vipin Kumar         University of Minnesota, USA
> * Bengchin Ooi                National University of Singapore
> * Xin Yao             University of Birmingham, UK
> * Philip S Yu         University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
>
> Steering Committee
> ===================
>
> * Hiroshi Motoda      Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan
> * Geoff Webb          Monash University, Australia
> * Osmar Zaiane                University of Alberta, Canada
> * Longbing Cao                University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
> * Vincent Tseng               National Cheng kung University, Taiwan
> * Limsoon Wong                National University of Singapore
> * Herve Martin                Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
> * Jian Pei            Simon Fraser University, Canada
> * Kyu-Young Whang     Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
> * Diane J. Cook               Washington State University
> * Charu C. Aggarwal   IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
> * Bart Goethals               University of Antwerp, Belgium
>
>
> Organizing Committee
> =====================
>
> General Chairs
> * Philip S Yu         University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
> * Masaru Kitsuregawa  University of Tokyo
>
> Conference Chairs
> * Hiroshi Motoda      Osaka University and AFOSR/AOARD, Japan
> * Bart Goethals               University of Antwerp, Belgium
> * Minyi Guo           Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
>
> Program Committee Chairs
> * Longbing Cao                University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
> * George Karypis      University of Minnesota, USA
> * Irwin King          Chinese University of Hong Kong
> * Wei Wang            Fudan University, China
>
> Local Arrangement Chairs
> * Hongming Cai                Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
> * Wei Liu             University of Technology, Sydney
>
> Workshop Chairs
> * Gang Li             Deakin University, Australia
> * Eric Gaussier               Universit?Joseph Fourier, France
>
> Tutorial Chairs
> * Junbin Gao          Charles Stuart University, Australia
> * Sourav S Bhowmick   Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
>
> Panel Chairs
> * Gabriella Pasi      Universit?di Milano Bicocca, Italy
> * Em-Ping Lim         Singapore Management University, Singapore
>
> Sponsorship Chairs
> * Guangtao Xue                Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
>
> Publicity Chairs
> * Xiaohui Tao         University of Southern Queensland, Australia
> * Xin Wang            University of Calgary, Canada
> * Xiaodong Yue                Shanghai University
>
> Registration/Finance Chairs
> * Qi Gu                       Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
>
> Publication Chair
> * Frank Jiang         University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
>
> Technical Sponsors
> ===================
>
> * ACM SIGKDD
> * IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
> * Springer
> * IEEE Task Force on Data Sciences and Advanced Analytics
>
> Conference organizers
> ======================
>
> * University of Technology Sydney, Australia
> * Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
> * Stanford University, USA
> * University of Joseph Fourier, France
>

padabs'14 - Extended deadline Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations

Extended deadline (strict) June 9th, 2014.

August 25-26th, 2014, Porto (Portugal), jointly with Euro-Par 2014
http://www.padabs.org.

Deadlines:

Workshop papers due:                        June 9, 2014
Workshop author notification:             July 4, 2014
Workshop early registration:               July 25, 2014
Workshop:                                           August 25/August 26th 2014
Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2014

Organizers:

 Vittorio Scarano (Universit? di Salerno, Italy), chair
 Gennaro Cordasco (Seconda Universit? di Napoli, Italy)
 Rosario De Chiara (Poste Italiane, Italy)
 Ugo Erra (Universit? della Basilicata, Italy)

Program Committee:

Maria Chli (Aston University, United Kingdom)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
Biagio Cosenza (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Nick Collier (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)
Andrew Evans (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Bernardino Frola (The MathWorks, Cambridge, UK)
Joanna Kolodziej (Cracow University of Technology and AGH University
of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
Nicola Lettieri (Universit? del Sannio e ISFOL, Italy)
Sean Luke (George Mason University, USA)
Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Mario Paolucci (CNR, Italy)
Paul Richmond (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Arnold Rosenberg (Northeastern University, USA)
Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)


Objectives of the Workshop

Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for
research and management in many fields such as ecology, economics,
sociology, etc.. In some fields, such as social sciences, these models
are seen as a key instrument to the generative approach, essential for
understanding complex social phenomena. But also in policy-making,
biology, military simulations, control of mobile robots and economics,
the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based Simulation Models is
recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms
that can help the development and testing of new models in each
specific field by providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed
up and make massive simulations possible.
The key objective of this Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based Simulations is to bring  together the researchers that are
interested in getting more performances from their simulations, by
using synchronized, many-core simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly
coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI) and loosely coupled,
distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this
field. They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to
Distributed simulation environments. In the first category, you can
find FLAME GPU, that allows also non GPU specialists to harness the
GPUs performance for real time simulation and visualization. For
tightly-coupled, large computing clusters and supercomputers a very
popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing
(REPAST-HPC), a C++-based modeling system. On the distributed side,
recent work on Distributed MASON, allows non specialists to use
heterogeneous hardware and software in local area networks for
enlarging the size and speeding up the simulation of complex
Agent-Based models.

Topics of interest

Frameworks for parallel/distributed ABSs
Case studies of ABSs in parallel/distributed settings, with an
emphasis on the technical implementation, architectural choices and
their impact on performances Benchmark parallel/distributed ABSs
Debugging parallel/distributed ABSs
Formal methods and algorithms for ABSs in parallel/distributed models
Load Balancing algorithms, techniques and frameworks
Management and deployment of parallel/distributed ABSs
Visualization of parallel/distributed ABSs


Paper submission

The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS
format, 5 pages for short papers) and will be reviewed, anonymously by
at least 2 reviewers of the Program Committee. Acceptance as
regular/short papers will depend upon scientific value, originality
and relevance to the Workshop theme.

Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops.
Submissions and reviewing will be through EasyChair via
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws

Contact information:

Vittorio Scarano: vitsca@dia.unisa.it
Ugo Erra: ugo.erra@unibas.it
Gennaro Cordasco: gennaro.cordasco@unina2.it
Rosario De Chiara: dechia24@posteitaliane.it


--
Gennaro Cordasco
Dipartimento di Informatica
Universita' di Salerno
Fisciano (SA) -- 84084 ITALY
e-mail: cordasco[@]dia.unisa.it
http://www.di.unisa.it/~cordasco/

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ROME 2014 2nd Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era

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               2nd Workshop on
     Runtime and Operating Systems
            for the Many-core Era
                  (ROME 2014)

            held in conjunction with
Euro-Par 2014, August 25 - August 29, 2014
                  Porto, Portuga

http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de
========================================================================

Submission deadline: May 30, 2014

Background
=========

Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across
the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase according to Moore's Law, a
next step needs to be taken: away from common multicores towards innovative many-core
architectures. Such systems, equipped with a significant higher amount of cores per chip than
multicores, pose challenges in both hardware and software design. On the hardware side,
complex on-chip networks, scratchpads and memory interfaces as well as cache-hierarchies,
cache-coherence strategies and the building of coherency domains have to be taken into
account.

However, the ROME workshop focuses on the software side because without complying
system software, runtime and operating system support, all these new hardware facilities
cannot be exploited. Hence, the new challenges in hardware/software co-design are to
step beyond traditional approaches and to wage new programming models and OS designs
in order to exploit the theoretically available performance as effectively and
power-aware as possible.

The focus of the ROME workshop stands in the tradition of a successful series of events
originally hosted by the Many-core Applications Research Community (MARC). Prior
MARC Symposia took place at ONERA research center in Toulouse, at the Hasso Plattner
Institute in Potsdam and at the RWTH Aachen University. Last year, this successful
series has been continued by the 1st ROME workshop at the Euro-Par 2013 conference
as a thematically related follow-up event for a broader audience.

Topics
=====

This year, too, authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished
papers regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures. The call for papers
especially emphasizes on the challenges and research questions arising from the upcoming
generation of heterogeneous and/or massive parallel systems stepping towards a many-core
dominated exascale era. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Operating system support for novel many-core architectures
- Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration
- Many-core aware runtime support for large-scale applications
- Virtualization solutions to deal with hardware limitations
- Tools for performance analysis on many-core systems
- Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures
- New approaches for leveraging on-die messaging facilities
- Experiences porting, running, or developing applications
- Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware
- Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware
- Bare-metal programming and system software
- Power-aware many-core computing

Paper Submission, Registration, and Publication
=====================================

Workshop papers must not exceed twelve single-spaced, single-column pages (LNCS style).
On acceptance of the submission, at least one author is required to register for workshop
attendance at Euro-Par 2014 and present the paper in the workshop session.
Upload your submission to the submission server
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws) in PDF format. It must not
be simultaneously submitted to the main conference or any other publication outlet

For the workshop, we will prepare hand-outs with the accepted papers. The revised version
will be published after the conference in the workshop proceedings of Euro-Par 2014, part
of the LNCS series of Springer.

Important Dates
============

May 30, 2014: Submission deadline
July 4, 2014: Notification of acceptance
July 25, 2014: Workshop early registration
October 3, 2014: Workshop camera-ready papers due

Program Committee
===============
- Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH
- Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University
- Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Labs
- J?rg Nolte, BTU Cottbus
- Eric Noulard, ONERA, France
- Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany
- Michael Riepen, IAV GmbH, Germany
- Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen Univeristy, Germany
- Carsten Trinitis, TU M?nchen
- Theo Ungerer, Universit?t Augsburg
- Josef Weidendorfer, TU M?nchen

Workshop Organizers
=================

- Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes
  Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems,
  E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University
- Dr.-Ing. Carsten Clauss
  ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH

Further Information
===============

See the ROME'14 website at http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

?
Dr. rer. nat. Stefan Lankes
Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems
E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University
Mathieustra?e 10
52074 Aachen, Germany
E-Mail: slankes@eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

HPCRes 2014 Workshop on HPC research services

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HPCRes 2014

Workshop on HPC research services
http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcres-2014-international-workshop-on-hpc-research-services/

September 24-25, 2014, Timisoara, Romania
in conjunction with SYNASC 2014 (http://synasc.ro/2014/)

=================================================================

Full paper submissions: 30 June 2014
Notifications: 16 July 2014
Revised papers and registrations: 1 Sept 2014
Event: 24-25 Sept 2014
Publication in IEEE proceedings of SYNASC 2014: Jan 2015
Extended version of selected papers for Scalable Computing (SCPE): Feb 2015
Notifications: March 2015
Publication of selected papers in SCPE: April 2015

AIM:
The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art
in high-performance scientific computing with applications and various fields,
like environment, chemistry, physics etc.
Thus, the presentations will focus on applications needing high-performance computing,
physical modeling of large-scale problems, and the development of scalable algorithms
for solving large scale problems on modern parallel
and distributed high-performance computing platforms,
including multicore architectures, GPGPUs/GPUs, and clusters.
Furthermore, during the workshop the participants will have the opportunity
to discuss and share the latest research in parallel and distributed
high performance computing systems applied to scientific problems.
The emphasis of this workshop will be on running complex realistic applications
at sustained performance in production-grade HPC environments.
Scalability studies of complex computing codes on HPC platforms and the tools
and development environments facilitating improved scalability are among the expected contributions.

TOPICS:
Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Interactive HPC applications
* Multi-Scale / Multi- Physics HPC applications
* Exploration of large data sets on HPC systems
* Multicore/manycore architectures
* GPU support for applications
* Parallelization of compute or data-intensive tasks
* Data handling, integration and visualization in HPC
* Distributed infrastructures for scientific applications
* Programming paradigms for high performance computing
* Tools and programming environments supporting high performance computing
* Scheduling in high performance computing for scientific applications
* Workflow management and remote collaboration for scientific applications
* System level support for high performance computing
* Fault tolerance of parallel applications
* Scalability of infrastructures and applications

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
* Ionel Muntean ? Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
* Emil Slusanschi ? Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

PROGRAMME CHAIRS:
* Ralf Peter Mundani ? Technical University of Munich, Germany
* Dana Petcu ? West University of Timisoara, Romania

PROGRAM COMMITEE:

* Jesus Carretero, Polytechnical School of University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
* Andrea Clematis, Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche, CNR, Italy
* Martin Buecker, Institut fuer Informatik, Universitat Jena, Germany
* James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
* Ann C. Elster, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
* Voichita Iancu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
* Florin Isaila, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Adrian Jackson, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK
* Emmanuel Jeannot, LABRI, INRIA, France
* Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Pierre Manneback, Polytech-Mons, Belgium
* Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
* Gabriel Mateescu, Institute for Applied Remote Sensing at EURAC Research, Italy
* Maya Neytcheva, Uppsala University, Sweden
* Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany
* Karolj Skala, Ruder Boskovic Institute, Croatia
* Suleyman Tosun, Ankara University, Turkey
* Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
* Julius Zilinskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania

SUBMISSION:
Papers presenting original results are welcomed.
The papers should have maximum 8 pages in CPS Format submitted
in the Easychair account of SYNASC workshops

MICAS'2014 3rd Workshop on the management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing

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MICAS'2014

3rd Workshop on the management of resources and services in Cloud and Sky computing

September 22-23, 2014, Timisoara, Romania
in conjunction with SYNASC 2014

http://amicas.hpc.uvt.ro/micas-2014/
=========================================================

* Paper submissions: 30 June 2014
* Notifications: 15 July 2014
* Registrations: 1 Sept 2014
* Revised papers: 8 Sept 2014
* Event: 22-23 Sept 2014
* Publication in the proceedings of SYNASC 2014: Jan 2015
* Extended version of  selected papers for Scalable Computing (SCPE): Feb 2015
* Notifications: March 2015
* Publication of selected papers in SCPE: April 2015

The event intends to be an open forum for discussions about the state-of-the-art,
the recent achievements and the future in breaking
the barriers of Cloud adoption on large scale,
barriers that are related to vendor lock-in,
lack of common interfaces and standards and so on,
shortly the ones hindering the vision of InterCloud or Sky computing.

Original contributions are invited to be reported to the event.

The suggested topics are the followings (but not restricted to):

* self-management in Clouds and federation of Clouds
* applications using multiple Clouds
* interoperability between Clouds
* portability of Cloud based applications
* run-time selection of Cloud services
* reliability of Cloud services
* auto-scaling techniques
* scheduling over heterogeneous Clouds
* dynamic load balancing between multiple Clouds
* architectures for automatic management of applications based on multiple Clouds
* model-driven architectures for multiple Cloud usage scenarios
* open-source support for Cloud computing
* tools, frameworks and processes to enable the transition from the traditional IT delivery model to the

(multi)cloud delivery model
* Cloud provider selection mechanisms to achieve performance and other non-functional requirements
* security-as-a-service
* SLA management for Clouds
* Experiences to move an application to the cloud
* SME-related aspects of cloud computing


Special session:
     A Multi-Cloud tutorial will be organized for half a day.
     Details will be announced in June.

Programme Chair:

    Dana Petcu, West University and Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania

Programme Committee:

    Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
    Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK
    Francesco D?Andria, ATOS, Spain
    Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
    Erik Elmroth, Umea University, Sweden
    Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy
    Teodor-Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
    Horacio Gonzalez-Velez, National College of Ireland, Ireland
    George Kousiouris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    Harald K?hn, BOC, Austria
    Brian Lee, Athlone Institute of Technology, Ireland
    Dan Marinescu, University of Central Florida, USA
    Peter Matthews, CA Technologies, UK
    Andreas Menychtas, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
    John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland
    Victor Muntes-Mulero, CA Technologies, Spain
    Juan Manuel Murillo Rodriguez, University of Extremadura, Spain
    Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
    Aida Omerovic, SINTEF ICT and University of Oslo, Norway
    Leire Orue-Echevarria, Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Spain
    Massimiliano Rak, Second University of Naples, Italy
    Arnor Solberg, SINTEF ICT, Norway
    Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain