Tuesday 29 April 2014

IEEE CLOUDNET 2014

Call for Papers: IEEE CLOUDNET 2014
3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking

October 8-10, 2014 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/
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Submit now using EDAS system:
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=16271&track=44157

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 15th, 2014 (Extended)
- Notification: August 1st, 2014
- Final Paper: August 15th, 2014

Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient and
reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic
location of  service  facilities  and the  virtualization of hardware and
software elements are  stressing the communication network and protocols,
especially when data centers are interconnected through the Internet.
Although the "computing" aspects of Cloud technologies have been largely
investigated, lower attention  has been devoted to the "networking" aspects.
The  3rd IEEE  International  Conference on Cloud Networking  (IEEE CloudNet
2014),  part  of  the  IEEE  Cloud  Computing Initiative, precisely
addresses these aspects.

Conference topics include (but are not limited to):

- Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization
- Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks
- Big Data Management
- Internet Routing of Cloud data
- Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging
- Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements
- Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management
- Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures
- Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking
- Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking
- Virtualization of Network Equipment
- Unified User and Machine Mobility Management
- Data Flow Management and Load Balancing
- Mobile Cloud Networking
- Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
- Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels
- Content and Service Distribution

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CORPORATE PATRONS
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DIMENSION DATA (Platinum), TELINDUS (Gold), BULL (Silver), EBRC (Bronze),
FUJITSU
in collaboration with CROSSFIRE, FNR, LUXINNOVATION

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SPECIAL ISSUES
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The following journals will invite submission of "extended versions" of the
best quality papers from the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 conference. For more details
please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/cfp.html.

- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, special issue on "Cloud Networking"
- Journal of Grid Computing (Impact Factor 1.603), special issue on "Green
Cloud Computing"
- International Journal of Metaheuristics, Special Issue on "Metaheuristics
and the Cloud"

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida
Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for
publication in the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 Conference Proceedings.

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of
six (6) single-spaced, double-column pages without incurring additional page
charges. One (1) additional page is allowed with a charge of USD100, if
accepted.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
submitted to IEEExplore.

The best accepted paper will receive Best Paper Award.

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TRAVEL GRANTS
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A number of student travel grants is reserved to be awarded to the authors
of the accepted papers. For more details and application guidelines please
visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/travelgrants.html.

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VENUE
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The conference will be held in the Abbey of  Neumunster. Located in the
heart of Luxembourg city, the Abbey of Neumunster is classified as World
Heritage by the UNESCO.

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General Chairs
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Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Technical Program Committee Chairs
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Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, U.S.A.
Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
El-Ghazali Talbi, INRIA, France

Organizing Chair
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Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Posters and Demos Chairs
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Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Sebastien Varrette, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Special Sessions Chairs
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Bernabe Dorronsoro, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain
Nicos Passas, University of Athens, Greece

Awards Chairs
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Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy
Nelson Fonseca, State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil

Publicity Chairs
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Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Yongwei WU, Tsinghua University, China

Financial Chair
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Laurent Betry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Publication and Web Chair
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Claudio Fiandrino, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Local Arrangement Chairs
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Stephanie Annet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Celine Lagrost, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Bertrand Dessart, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

More info at: http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/

DINWC2014 The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking, and Wireless Communication

Call for Papers
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The International Conference on  Digital Information, Networking, and
Wireless Communication (DINWC2014)
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
June 24-26, 2014

Event website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/
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The proposed conference with the theme ? The International Conference on
Digital Security and Forensics (DigitalSec2014) that will be held at
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic on June 24-26, 2014.
The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by
researchers from the international community, including presentations from
keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.
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/
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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@sdiwc.net

CAC 2014 Call for Papers

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
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone: (732) 993-8837
Fax:   (732) 445-0593
Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu
WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero

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Sunday 27 April 2014

SSTiC 2014 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- May 10, 6th registration deadline ---

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AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see  http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose,
renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with
the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 23 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding
speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites
in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific
knowledge background in the description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches
of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss
with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top-N Recommender Systems:
Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One
Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate]
Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance
Handover System Designs

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and
Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is
only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be
helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very
convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or
most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili