[CFP] SCRAMBL'16: 3rd International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications

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3rd International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'16)

held in conjunction with Europar in Grenoble, France, August 22-26, 2016
 
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2016ws 
For SCRAMBL select the "Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications" track

Workshop website: http://volga.usc.edu/scrambl/
Full papers due: May 6, 2016

NEW: Special issue in Concurrency and Computaton: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.997)
SI website: http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2016.html#SCRAMBL2016
 
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DESCRIPTION:
 
The continuous growth of our society has lead to complex systems of behavior and also to the need to optimize certain aspects of our day to day activities. Time sensitive applications such as real time power management for smart grids, traffic control or network monitoring require on demand large scale information processing and real time responses. The data these applications gather on a regular basis from monitoring sensors exceeds the normal storage and capacity power of normal machines or even clusters. In addition, the complexities arising from handling large relational datasets include but are not limited to data heterogeneity (i.e. variability), data quality (missing/approximate), data temporality (i.e. high-velocity), data volume or data streaming. Traditional computing platforms and even storage/processing models cannot simultaneously address these efficiently.
Advances in the state of art in scalable computing platforms such as clouds, offer an ideal environment for showcasing and advancing methods for modeling, management, mining and analysis of real-time big data. At the same time novel models that take into account all these complexities need to be designed on top of these scalable systems.

Following the success of the previous 2 editions held in Chicago (2014) and Shenzhen (2015), this workshop aims at providing a venue for designers, practitioners, researchers, developers, and industrial/governmental partners to come together, present and discuss leading research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from real-time big data applications. SCRAMBL'16 is co-located with Europar 2016 (https://europar2016.inria.fr/) which in 2016 will take place in Grenoble France between August 22-26. Workshops will be held on August 22-23.
 
We intend to have one invited speaker discussing one of the hot topics in scalable computing for real-time big data applications.

Highly rated papers will be considered for publication in a special issue in a Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interests include but are not limited to novel techniques for addressing modeling, storage, processing, mining and analysis real-time big data in secure scalable computing environments:
 
* Scalable Models
-Data representation and data structures
-Dynamic/temporal data
-Heterogeneous data
-Relational
-Linked Data
-Semantic integration
-Complex event processing
-Messaging and data flow
-Wokflows/processes
 
* Scalable Algorithms & Architectures
-Data extraction, cleaning, processing
-Machine learning
-Reasoning
-Scalable architectures: Grids, Clouds, HPC, Clusters
-Programming paradigms (e.g. MapReduce)
-Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization
 
* Real-time Big Data Applications and Use Cases
-Big Data in-use and challenges
-Big Data mining and analytics
-Big Data visualization and interactive mining
 
* Security & Privacy Aspects
-Trust and risk in Big Data
-Security in scalable architectures
-Access control to computing resources and data

* Energy Efficiency
-Energy efficient scalable architectures
-Energy aware data storage and real-time computation


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION (alphabetically)
the list will be updated as new members join:
 
Co-chairs:
* Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA
* Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
* Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
 
Program Committee:

Albert Bifet, Telecom Paris Tech, France
Sandra Buda, IBM Research, Ireland
Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France
Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille / Inria, France
Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline: May 6, 2016
Acceptance/rejection notification: June 17, 2016

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

SCRAMBL'16 is a half day workshop conducted in a highly interactive manner. We envisage two presentations sessions followed by a general discussion. In addition to regular research papers, we accept real-world use cases and position papers to stimulate discussions including practitioners. Further, we will accept outrageous ideas statements, which may highlight controversial topics or visionary ideas, to further foster discussions.

Particularly, we welcome submissions in the form of:
* Outrageous ideas (2 page papers presented as posters during the workshop)
* Position papers (6 page short papers presented as posters during the workshop)
* Real-world use cases papers (6 page short papers available for oral presentation during the workshop)
* Research papers (10 page full papers)
 
IMPORTANT: Quality commitment with Springer implies that only long papers (10-12 pages), which have been positively reviewed by at least 3
referees before being presented at the workshop, may be included in the workshop proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to LNCS formatting guidelines (ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip) and submitted to via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2016ws. Note that there is one submission website for all workshops. For SCRAMBL select the "Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications" track. 

Submitted papers should not exceed 10 pages including figures, tables and references using the LNCS format (link above). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date will be returned without review. Authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to purchase additional pages, subject to approval of the Europar 2016 Proceedings chair. Submitted papers must represent original and unpublished work, that is not currently under review. All manuscripts will be evaluated by at least 3 reviewers according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

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NEW: Special issue in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF: 0.997)

We invite authors of accepted papers to submit extended versions to a special issue on "Scalable Computing for Fast Big Data Applications on Hybrid Platforms" in the journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience published by Willey. 

The CFP for the SI can be found at http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/issues/2016.html#SCRAMBL2016

Deadline for papers is October 2, 2016 with publication expected around mid 2017.

The CFP is OPEN for all papers.

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