Call for Papers: HPDC 2020
http://hpdc.org/2020/
Submitted by David Irwin

The 29th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
Stockholm, Sweden
June 22-26, 2020

Submissions Due: January 23, 2020

OVERVIEW
The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing.

SCOPE AND TOPICS
Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed computing (HPDC) topics including but not limited to: clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and extreme-scale computing systems. Experience reports of operational deployments that provide significantly novel insights for future research on HPDC applications and systems will
also receive special consideration.

In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Operating systems, networks, and architectures
* High performance runtime environments
* Massively multicore systems, including heterogeneous systems
* Datacenter technology, resource virtualization
* Programming languages, APIs, and system inter-operation approaches
* File and storage systems, I/O, and data management
* Big data stacks and big data ecosystems
* Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques
* Performance modeling, analysis, and engineering
* Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
* Operational guarantees, risk assessment and management
* Emerging application areas that include cloud/edge computing and IoT

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via the conference web site. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. Submissions should be double-blind. Refer to the HPDC website below for more information.

http://hpdc.org/2020/papers/call-for-papers/

GENERAL CHAIRs
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University
Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Stockholm

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
David Irwin, UMass Amherst

DEADLINES
* Abstracts due: January 16, 2020
* Papers due: January 23, 2020
* Author notifications: March 27, 2020
* Conference dates: June 22 – 26, 2020

MORE INFO http://www.hpdc.org/2020

Call for Papers: LCTES 2020
https://conf.researchr.org/home/LCTES-2020
Submitted by Dongyoon Lee

The 21st ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2020) 
London, United Kingdom (co-located with PLDI 2020)
https://conf.researchr.org/home/LCTES-2020
June 16, 2020


Submissions Due: Feb 28, 2020

Embedded system design faces many challenges both with respect to functional requirements and nonfunctional requirements, many of which are conflicting. They are found in areas such as design and developer productivity, verification, validation, maintainability, and meeting performance goals and resource constraints. Novel design-time and run-time approaches are needed to meet the demands of emerging applications and to exploit new hardware paradigms, and in particular to scale up to multicores (including GPUs and FPGAs) and distributed systems built from multicores.

LCTES 2020 solicits papers presenting original work on programming languages, compilers, tools, theory, and architectures that help in overcoming these challenges. Research papers on innovative techniques are welcome, as well as experience papers on insights obtained by experimenting with real-world systems and applications.

LCTES 2020 accepts two types of submissions:

1. Full paper: 10 pages papers presenting original work.
2. Work-in-progress paper: 4 pages papers triggering interesting discussions.

Accepted papers in both categories will appear in the proceedings published by ACM.

This year LCTES is introducing a journal mode in addition to the usual conference mode. ***All accepted full papers will be invited to be published in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)***

Important dates:
-  Paper submission: Feb 28
-  Author notification: Mar 30
-  Camera-ready submission: April 26

Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest including, but not
limited to:

1. Compiler challenges, including:
- Interaction between embedded architectures, operating systems, and compilers
- Interpreters, binary translation, just-in-time compilation, and split compilation
- Support for enhanced programmer productivity
- Support for enhanced debugging, profiling, and exception/interrupt handling
- Optimization for low power/energy/code size, and best-effort/real-time performance
- Parameterized and structural compiler design space exploration and auto-tuning

2. Tools for analysis, specification, design, and implementation, including:
- Hardware, system software, application software, and their interfaces
- Distributed real-time control, media players, and reconfigurable architectures
- System integration and testing
- Performance estimation, monitoring, and tuning
- Run-time system support for embedded systems
- Design space exploration tools
- Support for system security and system-level reliability
- Approaches for cross-layer system optimization

3. Theory and foundations of embedded systems, including:
- Predictability of resource behavior: energy, space, time
- Validation and verification, in particular of concurrent and distributed systems
- Formal foundations of model-based design for code generation/analysis/verification
- Mathematical foundations for embedded systems
- Models of computations for embedded applications

4. Novel embedded architectures, including:
- Design and implementation of novel architectures
- Workload analysis and performance evaluation
- Architecture for new language features/virtualization/compilation/debugging tools
- Architectural features to improve power/energy, code/data size, and predictability

5. Mobile systems and IoT, including:
- Operating systems for mobile and IoT devices
- Compiler and software tools for mobile and IoT systems
- Energy management for mobile and IoT devices
- Memory and IO techniques for mobile and IoT devices

6. Empirical studies and their reproduction, and confirmation

Organizers:
- General Chair: Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- Program Chair: Changhee Jung, Purdue University
- Publicity Chair: Dongyoon Lee, Stony Brook University

More information can be found at https://conf.researchr.org/home/LCTES-2020

Call for Papers: SDS 2020 PhD Forum and Posters
http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/PhD-Posters.php
Submitted by Marco Guazzone

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7th International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS 2020)
Paris, France.
April 20-23, 2020

Submissions Due: December 1, 2019
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*** PHD FORUM AND POSTERS Track ***

URL: http://emergingtechnet.org/SDS2020/PhD-Posters.php

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Date: 1 December 2019
* Notification to Authors: 21 February 2020
* Camera Ready Submission: 10 March 2020

CALL FOR PHD FORUM

The PhD Forum provides a unique opportunity for PhD students to present their research work and to receive constructive feedback from their peers as well as experts in the field (including academics and practitioners) at the conference. The forum will also be an excellent occasion for stimulating fruitful interactions and developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers. The goal of this forum is to create opportunities for students to meet with peers outside of their home institution, to get technical feedback as well as career advice from established researchers in their field, to find out about internship and job opportunities, and to articulate their own work in a public, friendly forum. The presenters at the forum are expected to be PhD students in any phase of their doctoral studies. Topics of interest are the same as those listed in the main conference call for papers. We will try to offer remote video presentation options for authors who are unable to attend due to visa issues. A Best Student Paper Award will be assigned by an independent review committee according to the quality of research work and the quality of presentation.

CALL FOR POSTERS

The poster session provides an excellent opportunity to present early-stage or ongoing research, and to receive interesting and valuable feedback from conference attendees. We also strongly encourage student and industry submissions. Topics of interest are the same as those listed in the main conference call for papers. A Best Poster Award will be assigned by an independent review committee according to the quality of research work and the quality of poster presentation.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

* Software Defined Systems support for Cloud Computing .
* Software Defined Networking (SDN).
* SDN concepts, architecture, and APIs.
* Network Virtualization
* SDN and OpenFlow protocol
* Software Defined Radio
* Cognitive Radio Networks .
* Access Control models in SDN.
* Software Defined Storage.
* Storage Automation and Abstraction.
* Policy-driven storage provisioning.
* Software Defined Servers and Virtualization.
* Software Defined Datacenters.
* Software Defined Security o Security policies automation.
* Autonomic Security in SDS.
* Autonomic Computing techniques.
* Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction.
* Software Defined Systems Scalability.
* Software Defined Systems optimization.
* Software tools and frameworks to support SDS .
* Software Defined Systems challenges and opportunities
* Software Defined Systems surveys .
* Social engineering, insider threats system for SDS.
* Incident Handling and Penetration Testing with SDS.
* Software Defined Systems support if IoT.
* Security protocols and mechanisms in SDS.
* Security and privacy of mobile SDS based cloud computing
* Service-oriented architectures, service portability andP2P
* Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

* Attila Kertesz
* Marco Guazzone

Call for Papers: FMEC 2020 PhD Forum and Posters
http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/PhD-Posters.php
Submitted by Marco Guazzone

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5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2020)
Paris, France.
April 20-23, 2020

Submission Due: December 1, 2019
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*** PHD FORUM AND POSTERS Track ***

URL: http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2020/PhD-Posters.php

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission Date: 1 December 2019
* Notification to Authors: 21 February 2020
* Camera Ready Submission: 10 March 2020

CALL FOR PHD FORUM

The PhD Forum provides a unique opportunity for PhD students to present their research work and to receive constructive feedback from their peers as well as experts in the field (including academics and practitioners) at the conference. The forum will also be an excellent occasion for stimulating fruitful interactions and developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers. The goal of this forum is to create opportunities for students to meet with peers outside of their home institution, to get technical feedback as well as career advice from established researchers in their field, to find out about internship and job opportunities, and to articulate their own work in a public, friendly forum. The presenters at the forum are expected to be PhD students in any phase of their doctoral studies. Topics of interest are the same as those listed in the main conference call for papers. We will try to offer remote video presentation options for authors who are unable to attend due to visa issues. A Best Student Paper Award will be assigned by an independent review committee according to the quality of research work and the quality of presentation.

CALL FOR POSTERS

The poster session provides an excellent opportunity to present early-stage or ongoing research, and to receive interesting and valuable feedback from conference attendees. We also strongly encourage student and industry submissions. Topics of interest are the same as those listed in the main conference call for papers. A Best Poster Award will be assigned by an independent review committee according to the quality of research work and the quality of poster presentation.

TOPICS OF INTERESTS

* Mobile Cloud Computing Systems.
* FMEC Security and Privacy Issues.
* FMEC Pricing and billing models.
* FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS
* Cloudlet based computing
* Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture.
* Access Control models in FMEC.
* Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers.
* The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues.
* FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques.
* FMEC architecture features and evolution.
* FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols.
* FMEC virtualization.
* Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform.
* Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of FMEC.
* Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers
* Admission control for FMEC.
* Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing.
* Incident Handling and Penetration Testing.
* Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments.
* Security protocols in FMEC.
* Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing
* Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT
* Security and privacy of IoT
* Security and privacy management in MCC
* MCC intrusion detection systems
* Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services
* Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds
* Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things
* Security of mobile social networks
* Security and privacy in smartphone devices
* Security and privacy in social applications and networks
* Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds
* Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things
* Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing
* Security and privacy in sensor networks
* Security and privacy in social applications and networks
* Web service security
* Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc
* Security of Mobile social networks
* Near field communication services
* Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P
* Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks

PUBLICATION

All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings and will be published by IEEE and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

* Attila Kertesz
* Marco Guazzone

Call for Papers: FPGA 2020
http://www.isfpga.org
Submitted by Jing (Jane) Li

Twenty-Eighth ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
February 23-25, 2020
Seaside, California, USA

Submissions due: September 9, 2019

The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA 2020) is the premier conference for presentation of advances in FPGA technology. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library.

Types of Submissions Sought:

1. Research Papers (with and without Artifacts)

As usual, we solicit research papers related to the following areas:
– FPGA Architecture: Architectures for programmable logic fabrics or their components, including routing, flexible logic cells, embedded blocks (memory, DSP, processors), and I/O interfaces. Novel commercial architectures and architectural features.
– FPGA Circuit Design: Circuits and layout techniques for the design of FPGAs. Impact of future process and design technologies on FPGAs as well as novel memory memory or nano-scale devices. Methods for analyzing and improving static and dynamic power, power and clock distribution, yield, manufacturability, security, reliability, and testability.
– CAD for FPGAs: Algorithms for synthesis, technology mapping, logic and timing optimization, clustering, placement, and routing of FPGAs. Novel design software for system-level partitioning, debug, and verification. Algorithms for modeling, analysis and optimization of timing and power.
– High-Level Abstractions and Tools for FPGAs: General-purpose and domain-specific languages, tools, and techniques to facilitate the design, debugging and verification of FPGA-based applications and systems. Novel hardware/software co-design and high-level synthesis methodologies enabling digital signal processing, compute acceleration, networking, machine learning, and embedded systems.
– FPGA-based and FPGA-like Computing Engines: Systems and software for compiled accelerators, reconfigurable/adaptive computing, and rapid-prototyping. Programmable overlay architectures implemented using FPGAs.
– Applications and Design Studies: Implementation of novel designs on FPGAs establishing state-of-the-art in high-performance, low-power, security, or high-reliability. Designs leveraging unique capabilities of FPGA architectures or demonstrating significant improvements over alternative programmable technologies (e.g., CPU, GPU). Design studies or architecture explorations enabling improvement of FPGA architectures.

Research submissions may be either:
– Full: at most 10 pages (excluding references), for a full presentation at the conference; or
– Short: at most 6 pages (excluding references), for a brief presentation.

A paper submitted as either full or short will only be considered in that category and may include artifacts if desired (see below for more details on artifact submission and evaluation).

2. Tutorial Papers on Emerging Applications / Methodologies

The conference will include a Sunday workshop oriented toward users of FPGAs: be it deep learning implementations, computer security or other emerging topics of interest. For this category, we solicit tutorial papers describing effective design techniques and design flows. The ideal submission will enable beginning researchers to enter the area, current researchers to broaden their scope, and practitioners to gain new insights and applicable skills. Tutorial submissions need not present novel research results, but should integrate expert practical and/or research knowledge related to FPGAs for a broader audience. This may include:
– Technical descriptions of new commercial or academic design tools of general interest;
– Insightful summaries of the state-of-the-art that suggest open research problems; and
– In-depth design tutorials and design experiences.

Tutorial submissions are at least 4 and at most 10 pages. Accepted submissions are published in the proceedings and allocated a presentation time of up to one hour, appropriate to the content.

3. Panel Discussion Proposals

We also solicit proposals for the panel discussion at the conference banquet. The submission should outline the topic, questions to be addressed, and suggested speakers.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Submissions of all types should be made in the form of an English language PDF file. Papers should use the sigconf ACM format template posted at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/. Submissions will be considered for acceptance as full or short regular papers, workshop papers, or posters. Regular submissions related to the workshop topic may be scheduled for presentation during the workshop. Regular or workshop submissions will also be considered for acceptance as a poster. A paper submitted to the short or full paper category will only be considered in that category. Once a paper has been submitted, its authorship list is considered to be fixed and finalized. As the inclusion and evaluation of artifacts is new for FPGA 2020, additional information will be provided at http://www.isfpga.org/artifactEvaluation.html by August 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submissions due: September 9, 2019
Full Paper Submissions due: September 9, 2019
Final Artifacts for Evaluation due: September 9, 2019
Author Paper Rebuttals due: October 18, 2019
Notification of acceptance: Mid-November, 2019
Camera-ready copy of accepted papers due: Early December, 2019

ORGANIZERS:
General Chair: Stephen Neuendorffer, Xilinx
Program Chair: Lesley Shannon, Simon Fraser University
Finance Chair: Kia Bazargan, University of Minnesota, financechair@isfpga.org.
Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, and Suhaib Fahmy, University of Warwick
Publicity Chair: Jing Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Call for Papers: CF 2020: ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
http://computingfrontiers.org/
Submitted by Salvatore Monteleone

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ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2020 (CF’20)
May 11 – 13, 2020
Catania, Sicily, Italy

Submissions Due: January 28, 2020

www.computingfrontiers.org
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The next ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers will be held May 11th – 13th in Sicily, Italy in the town of Catania. Computing Frontiers is an eclectic, interdisciplinary, collaborative community of researchers who investigate emerging technologies in the broad field of computing: our common goal is to drive the scientific breakthroughs that transform society.

CF’s broad scope is driven by recent technological advances in wide-ranging fields impacting computing, such as memory hardware and systems, network and systems architecture, cloud computing, novel device physics and materials, power efficiency, new application domains of machine and deep learning and big data analytics, and systems portability and wearability. The boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the advancing frontiers of science, engineering, and information technology — and are the CF community focus. CF provides a venue to share, discuss and advance broad, forward-thinking, early research on the future of computing and welcomes work on a wide spectrum of computer systems, from embedded and hand-held/wearable to supercomputers and datacenters.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submissions deadline: January 28th, 2020
Notification: March 15th, 2020
Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5th, 2020
Conference Dates: May 11-13th, 2020

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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We seek original research contributions at the frontiers of a wide range of topics, including novel computational models and algorithms, new application paradigms, computer architecture (from embedded to HPC systems), computing hardware, memory technologies, networks, storage solutions, compilers, and environments.

* Innovative Computing Approaches, Architectures, Accelerators, Algorithms and Models
– Approximate, analog, inexact, probabilistic computing
– Quantum computing
– Neuromorphic, biologically-inspired computing and optical computing
– Dataflow architectures, near-data and in-memory processing

* Technological Scaling Limits and Beyond
– Limits: Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, dark silicon
– Extending past Moore’s law: 3D-stacking, many-core architectures and accelerators, distributed computing on mobile devices and their challenges

* Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics
– Novel architecture and systems across computing systems (IoT to datacenter)
– High performance data analytics
– Exascale data management

* Embedded, IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
– Ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging
– Physical security, attack detection and prevention
– Reactive, real-time, scalable, reconfigurable and self-aware systems
– Sensor networks, IoT, and architectural innovation for wearable computing

* Large-Scale System Design and Networking
– Large-scale homogeneous/heterogeneous architectures and networking
– System-balance and CPU-offloading
– Power- and energy-management for clouds, datacenters and exascale systems

* System Software, Compiler Technologies and Programming Languages
– Technologies that push the limits of operating systems, virtualization, and container technologies
– Large scale frameworks for distributed computing and communication
– Resource and job management, scheduling, workflow systems for managing large-scale heterogeneous systems
– Compiler technologies: hardware/software integrated solutions, high-level synthesis
– Tools for analyzing and managing performance at large scale
– Novel programming approaches

* Fault Tolerance and Resilience
– Solutions for ultra-large and safety-critical systems (e.g. infrastructure, airlines)
– Hardware and software approaches in adverse environments such as space

* Security
– Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code
– Real-time implementations of security algorithms and protocols
– Quantum and post-quantum cryptography

* Computers and Society
– Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics and AI environmental impact
– Education, health, cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, and emerging markets, interdisciplinary applications

We strongly encourage submissions in emerging fields that may not fit into traditional categories — if in doubt, contact the PC co-chairs by email.

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
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http://www.computingfrontiers.org/

SUBMISSION
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We encourage the submission of both full and short papers containing high-quality research describing original and unpublished work.

Papers must be submitted through

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf2020

Short papers describe preliminary or highly speculative work as well as position papers. Full papers are a maximum of eight (8) (excluding references) and short papers a maximum of four (4) double-column pages (including references) in ACM conference format. Authors may buy up to two (2) extra pages for accepted full papers. Page limits include figures, tables and appendices. The review process is double-blind and removal of all identifying information from paper submissions (i.e. cite own work in third person) is required. Papers not conforming to the above submission policies on formatting, page limits and the removal of identifying information will be automatically rejected.

No-show policy: Any accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference and at least one full registration is required from a submission author for each accepted paper. A no-show of papers will result in exclusion from the ACM digital library proceedings. If circumstances arise such that authors are unable to present their papers at the conference, they must contact the PC co-chairs.

ORGANIZATION
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Computing Frontiers 2020 Chairs

General Co-Chairs:
Maurizio Palesi, University of Catania, IT
Gianluca Palermo, Politechnico di Milano, IT

Program Co-Chairs:
Cat Graves, Hewlett Packard Labs, US
Eishi Arima, ITC University of Tokyo, JP

FURTHER INFORMATION
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For further information and updates, check the CF20 website at

www.computingfrontiers.org