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Today's Topics:

1. SSTiC 2014: December 21st, 1st registration deadline (GRLMC)
2. CfP: Diagrams 2014 -- DEADLINE EXTENDED (James Burton)
3. IPDPS 2014 - ALERT! Several Workshop Deadlines Approaching
(Francesco Silvestri)
4. Last Days, December 25 || ICAS 2014 || April 20 - 24, 2014 -
Chamonix, France (Cristina Pascual)


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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 09:42:08 +0100
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Subject: [DMANET] SSTiC 2014: December 21st, 1st registration deadline
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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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--- December 21st, 1st 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 5
keynote lectures and 24 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), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

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

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

Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer
Interaction

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), [advanced] Visualization

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

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

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits

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 will be available on the website of the
School in due time.

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




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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 21:43:45 +0000
From: James Burton <J.Burton@brighton.ac.uk>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] CfP: Diagrams 2014 -- DEADLINE EXTENDED
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Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. Please note that the deadline for submitting papers to Diagrams 2014 has been extended to 6th January.

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Call for Papers: Extended deadline Diagrams 2014

Eighth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams

Submission deadline extended to 6th January 2014

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014
diagrams2014@diagrams-conference.org

28th July to 1st August
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia

* CALL FOR PAPERS *

Diagrams is an international interdisciplinary conference series,
covering all aspects of research on the theory and application of
diagrams. In 2014 it will be held at Swinburne University, Melbourne,
Australia, from the 28th of July 2014 to the 1st of August 2014.
Diagrams 2014 will be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Visual
Languages and Human-Centric Computing.

Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum
for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams, including
architecture, artificial intelligence, biology, cartography, cognitive
science, computer science, education, graphic design, history of
science, human-computer interaction, linguistics, logic, mathematics,
philosophy, psychology, and software modelling. The conference attracts
a large number of researchers from almost all these related fields,
positioning Diagrams as the major international event in the area.

Diagrams 2014 will include presentations of refereed papers, posters,
tutorials, workshop sessions, and a graduate symposium. We invite
submissions that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows.

- long research papers (15 pages)
- short research papers (7 pages)
- posters (3 pages)
- tutorial proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details)
- workshop proposals (2 pages; see the conference web page for full details)
- graduate symposium submissions (3 pages; see the conference web page for
full details)

All submissions will be fully peer reviewed. The proceedings, which will
include accepted long and short papers and posters, will be published by
Springer in their Lecture Notes in Computer Science series,
http://www.springer.com/lncs.

Full details on the preparation of submissions can be found on the conference
web site http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/submission-instructions

Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
- applications of diagrams
- computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams
- design of diagrammatic notations
- diagram understanding by humans or machines
- diagram aesthetics and layout
- educational uses of diagrams
- evaluation of diagrammatic notations
- graphical communication and literacy
- heterogeneous notations involving diagrams
- history of diagrammatic notations
- information visualization using diagrams
- nature of diagrams and diagramming
- novel technologies for diagram use
- psychological issues pertaining to perception, comprehension or production
of diagrams
- software to support the use of diagrams
- usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams

* Submission Dates *

Paper submissions: 6th January 2014

Poster submission: 20th December 2013
Tutorial proposal submissions: 10th January 2014
Graduate symposium submissions: 18th April 2014
Conference dates: 28th of July 2014 to the 1st of August 2014


* Organising Committee *

General Chair: Tim Dwyer (Monash University)
Program Chairs: Aidan Delaney (University of Brighton),
Helen Purchase (University of Glasgow)
Workshops Chair: Karsten Klein (University of Sydney)
Tutorials Chair: Michael Wybrow (Monash University)
Graduate Symposium Chair: Stephanie Schwartz (Millersville University)
Treasurer: Cagatay Goncu (Monash University)
Publicity Chair: Jim Burton (University of Brighton)


* Program Committee *

Lisa Best, University of New Brunswick
Peter Rodgers, University of Kent
Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware
Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University
Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emmanuel Manalo, Waseda University
Barbara Tversky, Columbia and Stanford
Beryl Plimmer, University of Auckland
Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton
Jacques Fleuriot, University of Edinburgh
Mark Minas, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen
Paolo Bottoni, University of Rome
Max Egenhofer, University of Maine
Ian Oliver, Nokia Research Center
Ryo Takemura, Nihon University
Hari Narayanan, Auburn University
Kim Marriott, Monash University
Richard Cox, University of Edinburgh
Yuri Uesaka, University of Tokyo
Lopamudra Choudhury, Jadavpur University
John Howse, University of Brighton
Gerard Allwein, US Navy Research Lab
Nik Swoboda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Jim Davies, Carleton University
James Corter, Columbia University
Frank Ruskey, University of Victoria
Jean Flower, Autodesk
Alan Blackwell, Cambridge University
Michael Wybrow, Monash University
Nathaniel Miller, University of Northern Colorado
Luis Pineda Cortes, Universidad Nacional Aut?noma de M?xico
Mateja Jamnik, University of Cambridge
Frithjof Dau, SAP
Peter Cheng, University of Sussex
Mary Hegarty, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephanie Elzer-Schwartz, Millersville University
Dave Barker-Plummer, Stanford University
Phil Cox, Dalhousie University
John Lee, University of Edinburgh
Atsushi Shimojima, Doshisha University
B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University


Apart from submissions to the main Diagrams 2014 conference we are also
soliciting proposals for:

- half-day or full-day workshops
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/workshops

- one or two hour tutorials
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/tutorials

- the graduate student symposium
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/graduate-symposium

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 09:53:56 +0100
From: Francesco Silvestri <silvest1@dei.unipd.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IPDPS 2014 - ALERT! Several Workshop Deadlines
Approaching
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IPDPS 2014 December 16, 2013 Release
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28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 19-23, 2014
Arizona Grand Resort
PHOENIX (Arizona) USA
www.ipdps.org

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IPDPS 2014 ALERTS
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...Next PhD Forum poster application submission due date is January 1, 2014.
...Most 2014 workshops have due dates after December 15, 2013.
...See invitation for Commercial Participation at
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_commercial_participation.html.

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IPDPS 2014 PhD FORUM
For details go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_phd_forum.html
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Still two more submission dates:
...January 1st Submissions .........Acceptance notice will be sent by
January 1, 2014
...February 1st Submissions .......Acceptance notice will be sent by
February 7, 2014

Bring your students to the IEEE IPDPS 2014 PhD Forum! It is good value!!
IPDPS 2014 in Phoenix will provide a comprehensive venue for students
to better prepare for their research and career path in parallel and
distributed computing. Participating students will have the
opportunity to both present their research work and interact with
senior academic and industry people in an informal setting and also to
be part of mentoring sessions on communication skills, career
planning, and the latest research topics ? all while enjoying the
IPDPS main conference and many associated workshops. IPDPS 2014 will
prioritize student travel fund allocation to PhD Forum participants
(those presenting posters) within the pool of all applicants.

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IPDPS 2014 WORKSHOPS - SEE SUBMISSION DUE DATES BELOW
Go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_workshops.html for link to
each workshop.
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See new workshop added: Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop (CHIUW)
with due date 17 JAN 2014.
Held on the first and last day of the conference, workshops are a
major part of the IPDPS week-long compendium of events and provide the
IPDPS community with an opportunity to explore special topics and/or
present work that is more preliminary or cutting-edge than the more
mature research presented in the main symposium. Proceedings of the
workshops are published by the IEEE Digital Library and are
distributed at the conference. Please note that each workshop has its
own requirements and schedule for submissions, and all the workshops
are linked from the workshops page on the IPDPS Website. The
submission deadline for most workshops is after the main conference
author notification date of December 9th. Check the IPDPS Webpage to
confirm the following dates.

WORKSHOP ACRONYM
Workshop Name-Description
PAPER SUBMISSION DUE DATE

HCW
Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop
20 DEC 2013

RAW
Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
20 DEC 2013

HIPS
Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments
14 JAN 2014

NIDISC
Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
16 DEC 2013

HiCOMB
Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
03 JAN 2014

APDCM
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models
20 JAN 2014

HPPAC
High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing
14 JAN 2014

HPGC
High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop
03 JAN 2014

ASHES
Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems
07 JAN 2014

PLC
Programming Models, Languages and Compilers Workshop for Manycore and
Heterogeneous Architectures
14 JAN 2014

EduPar
NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
21 JAN 2014

PDSEC
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing
20 JAN 2014

DPDNS
Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems
31 DEC 2013

MTAAP
Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications
19 JAN 2014

LSPP
Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing
13 DEC 2013

PCO
Parallel Computing and Optimization
06 JAN 2014

ParLearning
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning and Inference Problems
30 DEC 2013

HPDIC
High Performance Data Intensive Computing
15 JAN 2014

CloudFlow
Workflow Models, Systems, Services and Applications in the Cloud
13 JAN 2014

JSSPP
Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
19 JAN 2014

ViPES
Virtual Prototyping of Parallel and Embedded Systems
31 DEC 2013

CHIUW
Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop [new]
17 JAN 2014

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IPDPS 2014 COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION
For details go to
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_commercial_participation.html
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There are several ways for your company to participate in IPDPS 2014
and share the benefits of associating with our international community
of top researchers and practitioners in fields related to parallel
processing and distributed computing. Visit the IPDPS Website for
details.

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28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The 28th IEEE-IPDPS will be held 19-23 May in Phoenix at the Arizona
Grand Resort, an all-suites, family-friendly resort and meeting place.
Phoenix has an international airport and is the hub for several US
airlines. It is only a six hour drive from Los Angeles and Las Vegas
and the starting point for one day tours of the Grand Canyon as well
as other historic communities in the area. The IPDPS event offers a
rich program of workshops, a PhD Forum, and the technical program of
contributed papers, invited speakers, and tutorials. Check the IPDPS
Web pages for updates and information as the full program develops.

GENERAL CHAIR
Manish PARASHAR (Rutgers University, USA)
PROGRAM CHAIR
David A. BADER (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
?mit V. ?ATALY?REK (Ohio State University, USA)
WORKSHOPS VICE-CHAIR
Yogesh SIMMHAN (University of Southern California, USA)
PhD FORUM CO-CHAIRS
Luc BOUG? (ENS Cachan, France)
Bo HONG (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRY CHAIR
Kalyana CHADALAVADA (NCSA, USA)

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...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/IPDPS
...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IPDPS
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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:07:07 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Last Days, December 25 || ICAS 2014 || April 20 -
24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICAS 2014.

The submission deadline is December 25, 2013.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICAS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICAS14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICAS14.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICAS14.html
Submission deadline: December 25, 2013

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICAS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems

AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations

AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems

CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware

CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalabilit!
y of self-adaptable context-aware s
ystems

KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobil!
ity impaired; Interfacing with ambi
ent intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICAS14.html

ICAS Advisory Chairs
Michael Bauer, The University of Western Ontario - London, Canada
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Bruno Dillenseger, Orange Labs, France
Mark J. Balas, University of Wyoming - Laramie, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jacques Malenfant, Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mark Perry, University of New England in Armidale, Australia
Wendy Powley, Queen's University - Kingston, Canada
Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
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