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Today's Topics:

1. [padabs'14] - Extended deadline - Call for Papers 2nd
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations.
(Gennaro Cordasco)
2. Symposium "GRAPHS" - ICNAAM 2014 (vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs)
3. 2nd CFP - IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on System Safety
and Safety Critical Systems (Michael Hirsch)
4. ISAAC 2014: Second Call for Papers (Yoonho Hwang)
5. ACM CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): only a few
days left for abstract registration (Elisabetta Biondi)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 12:56:41 +0200
From: Gennaro Cordasco <cordasco@dia.unisa.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [padabs'14] - Extended deadline - Call for Papers
2nd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations.
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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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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:08:00 +0200
From: vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Symposium "GRAPHS" - ICNAAM 2014
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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Symposium GRAPHS, ICNAAM 2014 (International Conference
of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics 2014),
22-28 September 2014, Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece

Organizer: Vojislav Petrovic (DMI Novi Sad)

Topics:

- scores in graphs and digraphs

- Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs and digraphs

- planar graphs

- graph factors and decompositions

- graph colorings

- extremal graphs

- graph spectra

- tournaments and hypertournaments

- graph algorithms




Email to vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs or vojpet@gmail.com to announce
registration.

For further information

vojpet@dmi.uns.ac.rs or vojpet@gmail.com

or visit

http://www.icnaam.org/



Vojislav Petrovic



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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 19:27:26 -0400
From: "Michael Hirsch" <mhirsch@iseatek.com>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] 2nd CFP - IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on
System Safety and Safety Critical Systems
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IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on ?System Safety and Safety-Critical
Systems?

CALL FOR PAPERS

GUEST EDITORS
Shrisha Rao, IIIT-BANGALORE, India, shrao@ieee.org Paul C. Hershey,
RAYTHEON, USA, Paul_C_Hershey@raytheon.com Michael J. Hirsch, ISEA TEK, USA,
mhirsch@iseatek.com

SCOPE
Safety, ?The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk or injury,?
is a concern for life in general, and an important issue in the design of
complex systems in particular.? While the precise nature of safety in
relation to security is a matter of some debate, it may be said that safety
is the property of a system not to misbehave (in some defined way) on its
own, whilst security is its resistance to malicious actions. It is also
accepted that safety is an emergent system property that must be ?baked into
the cake? in the design and construction of complex systems, and that it
cannot be bolted on to an unsafe system later.? Likewise, standards and
practices for system operation that are framed for other objectives such as
profitability or operational readiness do not necessarily ensure system
safety, and safety may be in conflict with such other objectives, requiring
a compromise approach.? In particular, ?safety-critical? systems are those
where safety is considered as? the paramount concern, where every design or
operational conflict between safety and another objective such as
availability, must be decided in favor of safety. The range of systems where
safety is a concern is vast, and includes such diverse domains as aviation,
oil and gas installations, power systems, medical devices and services,
maritime, and military, along with many others.? While every such domain has
certain important features that call for a unique approach, it is quite
fruitful to look for common threads in reasoning about safety in complex
systems, and gain insights that are useful in a range of systems.
The IEEE Systems Journal will publish a special issue dedicated to system
safety and safety-critical systems. The aim of this special issue is to
present a collection of high-quality archival research papers that address
theoretical and practical perspectives of the entire system life cycle, to
help create safer systems.? Papers that integrate multiple perspectives to
take a larger system-level view, and papers that offer insights valid across
different domains, will be preferred over papers that deal with specific
technologies, theoretical concepts, and local perspectives.? The topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:
?
? Functional safety
? Formal methods for safety in complex systems ? Hazard identification and
assessment ? Software safety ? Human factors ? Man-machine interfaces and
ergonomics ? Safety and systems engineering ? Safety standards and their
evolution ? Safety audits and certification for critical systems ? Design
innovations for safety ? Mitigation of natural and man-made disasters ?
Safety cultures, policies, and practices ? Corporate governance for safety ?
Safety in complex systems with legacy technologies
?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions by following
the detailed instructions given in the ?Information for Authors? at
http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org.? In the cover letter, authors should
explicitly state that the paper is submitted to the ?Special Issue on System
Safety and Safety-Critical Systems.?? Questions about the special issue may
be directed to the Guest Editors.?

SCHEDULE
Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2014 Notification of first decisions:
October 15, 2014 Revised paper submission: December 1, 2014 Notification of
second reviews: February 1, 2015 Minor revision deadline: March 1, 2015
Final notification:?April 1, 2015 Final manuscript:?May 1, 2015 Expected
publication:?2015/2016




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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 12:06:54 +0900
From: Yoonho Hwang <youknow04@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] ISAAC 2014: Second Call for Papers
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The 25th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
(ISAAC 2014)

December 15-17, 2014

Jeonju, Korea

http://tcs.postech.ac.kr/isaac2014/
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The 25th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2014)
will be held in Jeonju, Korea during December 15-17, 2014. The symposium is
intended to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory
of computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms
and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are
also welcomed.

INVITED SPEAKERS
* Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz)
* Giuseppe F. Italiano (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata")

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: June 16, 2014 (23:59 Honolulu Time)
* Notification date: August 29, 2014
* Final version due: September 19, 2014

PUBLICATIONS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica and
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques,
and results, including motivation and a comparison with related work.
The main text, including title, abstract, and references, should not exceed
11 pages in LNCS style. An optional appendix should be used to provide proof
details that do not fit in the main text. Submitted papers must describe
unpublished work.
Authors should not submit papers with the same results or essentially
the same results that are accepted or published or under review by a
conference with refereed proceedings or a journal.
Only electronic submission will be allowed and only pdf files will be accepted.

Submission is now open at EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2014

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at
the conference as a registered participant.

AWARDS
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper may be awarded. A paper is eligible for
the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students at the time
of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the phrase
"Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in the abstract.


CONFERENCE CHAIR
* Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
* Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
* Chan-Su Shin, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Peter Brass (City College of New York, USA)
* Gerth St\olting Brodal (Madalgo, Denmark)
* Xavier Goaoc (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France)
* Simon Gog (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Mordecai Golin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
* Roberto Grossi (Pisa, Italy)
* Sungjin Im (UC Merced, USA)
* Rahul Jain (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Akinori Kawachi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Christian Knauer (Bayreuth University, Germany)
* Pinyan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
* Kazuhisa Makino (RIMS, Japan)
* Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* Wolfgang Mulzer (FU Berlin, Germany)
* Joong Chae Na (Sejong University, Korea)
* Saket Saurabh (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
* Srinivasa Rao Satti (SNU, Korea)
* Tetsuo Shibuya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Michiel Smid (Carleton University, Canada)
* Hisao Tamaki (Meiji University, Japan)
* Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Alexander Wolff (Universit\"{a}t W\"{u}rzburg, Germany)
* Bang Ye Wu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
* Chee Yap (New York University, USA)
* Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
* Xiao Zhou (Tohoku University, Japan)
* Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Peng Zhang (Shandong University, China)
* Binhai Zhu (Montana State University, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Hee-Kap Ahn (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea)
* Sang Won Bae (Kyonggi University, Korea)
* Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Korea)


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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:48:35 +0200
From: Elisabetta Biondi <chants14_publicity@iit.cnr.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] ACM CHANTS 2014 (co-located with ACM MobiCom): only
a few days left for abstract registration
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ACM CHANTS 2014 - 9th Workshop on Challenged Networks
co-located with ACM MobiCom 2014
7 September 2014, Maui, Hawaii, USA

www.acm-chants.org/14


Supported by the FP7 EU MOTO project
http://www.fp7-moto.eu
______________________________________________________________________


******* PAPER REGISTRATION DEADLINE: JUNE 1st *******


SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
__________________

Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is
desired,
but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively.
Such networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a
heterogeneous
mix of nodes, nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions.
Traditional
examples of challenged networks include inter-planetary networks, sensor
and
wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, rural and remote areas,
and military battlefields. Recently, challenged networking has also found
applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially
conceived,
such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications,
traffic offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud computing,
opportunistic and participatory sensing. Inter-disciplinary approaches to
challenged networking protocols are also successfully explored, exploiting,
for example, findings in the area of social networking.
The availability of enabling technologies in mobile devices, such as
WiFi direct in Android and D2D communication in latest LTE releases, will
further push towards practical developments of challenged networking
solutions.

This workshop builds on the success of the eight previous CHANTS workshops,
and WDTN 2005, to stimulate research on the most novel and challenging
topics
of challenged network research. CHANTS provides an ideal venue for
researchers
and engineers to present cutting-edge work and results, as research
papers or demos,
in the following topics:

- Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs)
- Opportunistic communication and computing
- Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems
for challenged networks
- Modeling, analysis and characterization of challenged networks and
protocols
- Network Coding in Challenged Networks
- Information Centric and Content-centric Networking in Challenged Networks
- Security/Trust/Privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks
- Case studies involving real challenged network solutions in various stages
of development or use
- Applications of challenged networks in disrupted scenarios
(e.g. disaster relief and emergency management) and in daily use
(e.g., vehicular networks, mobile social networking, censorship evasion,
crowdsourcing,
sensor networks)
- Green and energy-efficient communication using challenged networks
- Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for
challenged environments
- Network science methods for challenged networks
- Mobile data offloading via challenged networks
- Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems
- Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks
- Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud
- Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic
sensing

Selected papers will be forward-looking, will describe their relationship
to existing work, and will have impact and implications for ongoing or
future research.
We aim to have a highly interactive workshop, also including demos,
which have been
an integral part of CHANTS. Paper authors who can also run a demo of
their work will be
encouraged to do so. In exceptional cases, where live demos are simply
not practical
to present, poster or video presentations of practical results are
acceptable.


PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
________________________________________

Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being
currently under review by another conference or journal.
Submitted papers must be no more than 6 pages long, and should adhere to
the standard ACM conference proceedings format.
Demo proposals (to be published as part of the proceedings) must not be
longer
than 3 pages plus 1 page description of the precise setup and requirements
(the 1-page setup description will not be published in the proceedings).
Papers will be reviewed single blind.
Please follow the submission link at: http://www.acm-chants.org


EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
_____________________

Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for
possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal
(Elsevier),
in a special section on Challenged Networks.


IMPORTANT DATES
_______________

Abstract Registration: 1 June 2014
Submission Deadline: 8 June 2014
Authors Notification: 20 July 2014
Camera Ready Due: 27 July 2014
Workshop: 7 September 2014



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
____________________

Program Committee Chairs
- Mario Gerla (UCLA, USA)
- Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)

Technical Program Committee
- Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
- Aruna Balasubramanian (University of Washington, USA)
- Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)
- Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy)
- Scott Burleigh (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of
Technology, USA)
- Guohong Cao (Penn State University, USA)
- Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France)
- Marco Conti (IIT-CNR, Italy)
- Marcelo Dias de Amorim (CNRS and UPMC, France)
- Roberto Di Pietro (Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy)
- Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA)
- Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
- Ahmed Helmy (University of Florida, USA)
- Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK)
- Pan Hui (Deutsche Telekom Laboratories/Hong Kong Univ. of Science and
Technology, Hong Kong)
- Karin Anna Hummel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
- Kyunghan Lee, (UNIST Ulsan National Institute of Science and
Technology, Korea)
- Uichin Lee (KAIST-KSE, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology, Korea)
- Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)
- Giovanni Neglia (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France)
- Melek Onen (EURECOM, France)
- Joerg Ott (Aalto University, Finland)
- Elena Pagani (University of Milan, Italy)
- Andreea Hossmann-Picu (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)
- Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
- Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK)

Steering Committee
- Kevin Almeroth, UC-Santa Barbara, USA
- Mostafa Ammar, Georgia Tech, USA
- Christophe Diot, Technicolor, France
- Deborah Estrin, UC-Los Angeles, USA
- Kevin Fall, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland
- James Scott, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs
- Elisabetta Biondi (IIT-CNR, Italy)
- Yong Li (Tsinghua University, China)
- Sungwon Yang (UCLA, USA)

Web Chair
- Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)

For more information, please check out www.acm-chants.org or write to
the workshop co-chairs at chants2014@iit.cnr.it







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