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10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018): Fourth Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

**** FOURTH CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS **** (Papers, Workshop Proposals, Posters, Demos, PhD consortium) The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018) Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 10-13 December, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… *** Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July, 2018 (extended) *** CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. CloudCom 2018 will be held in Nicosia, Cyprus between 10-13 December, 2018. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest of CloudCom 2018 are grouped into four tracks: · Architecture, Storage and Virtualization · Cloud Services and Applications · Security, Privacy and Trust · Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud The (non-exhaustive) list of topics for each track is as follows: Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Intercloud architecture models · Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices · Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & ìlast mileî issues · Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) · Networking technologies · Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs · Storage & file systems · Scalability & performance · Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance · Operational, economic & business models · Green data centers · Computational resources, storage & network virtualization · Resource monitoring · Virtual desktops · Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery · Modeling & performance evaluation · Disaster recovery · Energy efficiency Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy, Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy · XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) · Cloud services models & frameworks · Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud · Cloud service management · Cloud workflow management · Cloud services reference models & standardization · Cloud-powered services design · Cloud elasticity · Machine learning and systems interactions · Data management applications & services · Service for computing-intensive applications · Mining and analytics · Data-provisioning services · Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools · Cloud-based services & protocols · Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications · Application development and debugging tools · Business models & economics of cloud services Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway, Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Accountability & audit · Authentication & authorization · Cloud integrity · Blockchain Cloud services · Cryptography in the Cloud · Hypervisor security · Identity management & security as a service · Prevention of data loss or leakage · Secure, interoperable identity management · Trust & credential management · Trust models for cloud services · Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments · Privacy policy framework for clouds · Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds · Information sharing and data protection in the cloud · Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds · Privacy protection in cloud platforms · Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain, Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Cloudlet-enabled applications · Distributed Cloud Infrastructure · Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing · Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications · Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers · Interoperability and mobility · Software infrastructure for cloudlets · Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing · Fog Computing · IoT cloud architectures & models · Cloud-based context-aware IoT · Economics and pricing · Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair submission system: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… . Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…) All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2018 will be published by IEEE Conference Publishing Service with ISBN and ISSN, and submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexing services such as Ei Compendex. Distinguished papers will be recommended for fast-track publication in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing or invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals. CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS IEEE CloudCom 2018 is soliciting proposals for full-day / half-day tutorials to be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018. For more information on the tutorials and for the complete Call for Tutorial Proposals, please see the conference website. CALL FOR POSTERS, DEMOS & SHORT PAPERS (Late-breaking Results) Authors are invited to submit their research work as a poster, demo or short paper (late-breaking results) to the CloudCom 2018 conference. For the complete Call for Call for Posters, Demos & Short Papers (Late-breaking Results) please see the conference website. CALL FOR PH.D. CONSORTIUM A Ph.D. consortium will be held in conjunction with IEEE CloudCom 2018 in Nicosia, Cyprus. For the complete Call for Ph.D. consortium, please see the conference website. IMPORTANT DATES · Tutorial Proposals Due: 30 June 2018 · Regular Papers Due: 6 July 2018 (*** extended ***) · Ph.D. Consortium Papers Due: 31 August 2018 · Short Papers, Posters and Demos Due: 31 August 2018 · Notification of Paper Acceptance: 14 September 2018 · Camera Ready: 08 October 2018 · Author Registration: 15 October 2018 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE GENERAL CHAIR · George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus PROGRAM CHAIRS · George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus · Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg PROGRAM TRACK CHAIRS · Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain · Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil · Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria · Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy · Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway · Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden · Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universitaí di Napoli, Italy · Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS · Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy · Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University, Greece PH.D. COMSORTIUM CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus SHORT PAPERS, POSTERS & DEMO CHAIR · Ioannis Konstantinou, NTUA, Greece PUBLICITY CHAIR · Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Call for Participants - Exploring the Shifting Sands: Accounting for Evolution In Analyzing Data from Social Media Platforms
by Proferes, Nicholas 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

CfP: Exploring the Shifting Sands: Accounting for Evolution In Analyzing Data from Social Media Platforms Workshop http://www.socialmediaevolution.org/ AOIR 2018 – Montreal, Canada Oct 10th, 2017 We invite 1-page extended abstracts for participation in our workshop on social media data evolution at AoIR 2018. Researchers are drawn to the magnitude of social media data available today. Yet, social media are not static, often undergoing numerous changes to user interfaces, default settings, affordances, algorithms, policies, and APIs. While social media data has opened new opportunities in research, researchers often struggle with the question of contextualizing the evolution of the research site. Changing platforms and changing data structures can fix conclusions to narrow points in time. So how do we account for this 1) amalgamation of data, its 2) evolution, and 3) the impact platform and design changes have on the kinds of data sets produced and analyzed by researchers. The goal of this half-day workshop is to explore the problems of studying social media platforms and data while accounting for their evolution. Participants interested in attending the workshop should submit a 1-page extended abstract to platformevolutions(a)gmail.com by July 10th, 2018 (see important dates). Submissions will be evaluated by the Organizing Committee on the basis of quality and fit to the workshop theme. We will invite authors of a select portion of the abstracts to give a short presentations Abstracts should address some facet of social media platform evolution while conducting research. This might include (for example): + Creating histories of social media sites (SMS) evolution to contextualize SMS research. + Identifying open questions on how to account for biases in academic research arising from platform evolution. + State-of-the-art tools and methodologies that can help mitigate bias when studying evolving media platforms. + Identifying issues arising from reliance on historical data in rapidly evolving platforms. + Developing a theoretical basis or methodology to account for historical data. There will be no formal Proceedings for the work submitted. Notification about accepted proposals will be issued on July 20th. ---Important Dates--- Proposal Submission: July 10th, 2018 Proposal Notification: July 20th, 2018 Please send any questions and submit workshop extended abstract to platformevolutions(a)gmail.com<mailto:platformevolutions@gmail.com>. More information about the workshop can be found at http://www.socialmediaevolution.org More information about AOIR 2018, Montreal can be found at: https://aoir.org/aoir2018/ Workshop Co-Chairs: Emi Moriuchi, @emoriuchi, Rochester Institute of Technology Christian Newman, @sourceslicer, Rochester Institute of Technology Nicholas Proferes, @moduloone, University of Kentucky Kristen Shinohara, @kristenshino, Rochester Institute of Technology Shawn Walker, @walkeroh, Arizona State University, --- Nicholas Proferes, PhD Assistant Professor School of Information Science College of Communication & Information University of Kentucky

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Ford Foundation - A call for research on digital infrastructure
by Joly MacFie 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

[from my inbox] https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/a-call-for-re… Michael Brennan, Technology Program Officer, Internet Freedom 30 MAY 2018 Everything in our modern society, from hospitals to banks to social media platforms, runs on software. Nearly all of this software is built on “digital infrastructure,” a foundation of free and public code that is designed to solve common challenges. Last year, I wrote about the importance of this surprisingly fragile but critical infrastructure [1], and the dangers in store when it fails. Now the Ford and Sloan foundations have come together to support a new wave of research exploring the economics, sustainability, and maintenance of this digital infrastructure [2] —with an eye to strengthening it in ways that benefit us all. We’re seeking research projects that explore questions like: * What makes an open source project “critical digital infrastructure”? * What role should private companies play in maintaining a stable ecosystem of open source technology? * What are barriers to diversity and inclusion in the field of digital infrastructure? * How can we better sustain the open source community that maintains digital infrastructure? In 2016, the Ford Foundation funded Nadia Eghbal’s report, “Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure.” In it, Eghbal described how the development and maintenance of digital infrastructure often falls to communities of volunteers who take it upon themselves to maintain this infrastructure in their own free time, and for little or no money. Unsurprisingly, this leads to significant risks to the open internet, and challenges in developing new, innovative research and businesses within it. If you’re interested in submitting a concept note, we encourage you to read Eghbal’s report, as we are primarily interested in the scope of digital infrastructure as she defines it there. But we’re also eager for your creative thinking, and hope you will use the questions above as inspiration for your own. We will accept concept notes until June 13, 2018. Read more about the process and criteria, and submit yours here. [3] [1] https://www.fordfoundation.org/ideas/equals-change-blog/posts/every-day-we-… [2] https://ford-foundation-6.forms.fm/digital-infrastructure-research-rfp/form… [3] https://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridge… [4] https://ford-foundation-6.forms.fm/digital-infrastructure-research-rfp/form… -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST THU/FRI Personal Democracy Forum in NYC #pdf18
by Joly MacFie 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Under way. Forward thinkers. Great quality stream. [image: PDF18] <https://www.pdf-18.com/>On *Thu-Fri June 7-8 2018* the *2018 Personal Democracy Forum <https://www.pdf-18.com/>* (PDF18) takes place at New York Law School in NYC. Held annually since 2004, the PDF focuses on technology’s impact on government, politics, media, and democratic societies. This year’s theme is “*How we make good*“. The event will be webcast live via *YouTube <https://youtube.com/personaldemocracy/videos>*. *What: Personal Democracy Forum 2018 <https://www.pdf-18.com/>* *When: Thu-Fri June 7-8 2018* *Where: NYU Law School NYC* *Program: https://www.pdf-18.com/#schedule <https://www.pdf-18.com/#schedule>* *Webcast: https://youtube.com/personaldemocracy/videos <https://youtube.com/personaldemocracy/videos>* *Twitter: #pdf18 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/pdf18?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash>* Comment <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10280#respond> See all comments <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10280#comments> *Permalink* http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10280 -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CfP iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation (27-28 October 2018), The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
by Mercea, Dan 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Locked out of Social Platforms: An iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation (27-28 October 2018), The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2018. More info: https://blogit.itu.dk/ics2018/ After years of exalting rhetoric praising the democratisation of public discourse with the diffusion of the internet, informed observers have sounded a note of alarm about the scope for the distortion of electoral processes in democratic countries. The Brexit campaign, along with recent elections in the US and France have been linked to disinformation, misinformation or propaganda campaigns seeking to strategically diffuse content that heightens partisanship and erodes the general trust in democratic institutions. In the run-up to the 2018 US mid-term elections, the aftermath of the Irish abortion referendum and the Italian general elections, this two-day symposium aims to address the topical question of how independent, ethical research on dis/misinformation in political communication can be conducted in a corporate environment that favours platform 'lockdowns' and the throttling of API access in response to the strategic use of data analytics, bots, trolls, fake news, and dis/misinformation operations in electoral politics, public information campaigns, and activist communication. What are the challenges for independent academic research examining these developments? How can researchers investigate disinformation in a context of narrowing access to trace data? How can these challenges be met, and what meaningful ways can be imagined for making social media platforms more accountable to the democratic constituencies where they operate? How is such disruptive communication designed, executed, with what effects and how are these measured? What data policies can be envisaged to strike a balance between safeguarding privacy and enabling academic research into the impact dis/misinformation or propaganda campaigns have on social media and beyond, in the attitudes and behaviours of their users? We encourage submissions that address but are not limited to the following aims: * reflect on the structural and contextual factors that have acted as fertile ground for dis/misinformation and propaganda; * determine the scope and intricacies of dis/misinformation and propaganda campaigns; * explore the relationship between dis/misinformation and the polarization of public opinion; * consider the weaponization of social media platforms and discuss the interdependencies among the vast plurality of newsmakers operating in the current hybrid media ecosystem; * reflect on the political, cultural or socio-economic costs of distortive communication, the relevance of such research to industry and public policy and the ethical implications attendant to such studies; * untangle technological design choices and ideological leanings that shape platform communication, enable dis/misinformation and propaganda and their bearing on independent research; * examine the implications for academic research of controlled access by private owners of data produced in public communication spaces such as the Facebook page of a political candidate, and methodological solutions for sustaining the investigation of these topics; * consider the changing social media research landscape as the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force in May 2018; We invite 500-word abstracts outlining empirical, theoretical or policy-orientated papers that address these or cognate topics. Abstracts should be accompanied by a 100-word biography of the presenter(s) together with contact details. Abstracts/biographies/contact details should be sent to dan.mercea.1(a)city.ac.uk<mailto:dan.mercea.1@city.ac.uk>. by 31 July 2018. A selection of papers presented at the symposium will be published in a special issue of the journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS).

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CfP: The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies
by Roberge Jonathan 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** The Cultural Life of Machine Learning: An Incursion into Critical AI Studies Preconference Workshop, #AoIR2018 Montréal, Canada Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre, INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) Wednesday October 10th 2018 Machine learning (ML), deep neural networks, differentiable programming and related contemporary novelties in artificial intelligence (AI) are all leading to the development of an ambiguous yet efficient narrative promoting the dominance of a scientific field—as well as a ubiquitous business model. Indeed, AI is very much in full hype mode. For its advocates, it represents a ‘tsunami’ (Manning, 2015) or ‘revolution’ (Sejnowski, 2018)—terms indicative of a very performative and promotional, if not self-fulfilling, discourse. The question, then, is: how are the social sciences and humanities to dissect such a discourse and make sense of all its practical implications? So far, the literature on algorithms and algorithmic cultures has been keen to explore both their broad socio-economic, political and cultural repercussions, and the ways they relate to different disciplines, from sociology to communication and Internet studies. The crucial task ahead is understanding the specific ways by which the new challenges raised by ML and AI technologies affect this wider framework. This would imply not only closer collaboration among disciplines—including those of STS for instance—but also the development of new critical insights and perspectives. Thus a helpful and precise pre-conference workshop question could be: what is the best way to develop a fine-grained yet encompassing field under the name of Critical AI Studies? We propose to explore three regimes in which ML and 21st-century AI crystallize and come to justify their existence: (1) epistemology, (2) agency, and (3) governmentality—each of which generates new challenges as well as new directions for inquiries. In terms of epistemology, it is important to recognize that ML and AI are situated forms of knowledge production, and thus worthy of empirical examination (Pinch and Bijker, 1987). At present, we only have internal accounts of the historical development of the machine learning field, which increasingly reproduce a teleological story of its rise (Rosenblatt, 1958) and fall (Minsky and Papert 1968; Vapnik 1998) and rise (Hinton 2006), concluding with the diverse if as-yet unproven applications of deep learning. Especially problematic in this regard is our understanding of how these techniques are increasingly hybridized with large-scale training datasets, specialized graphics-processing hardware, and algorithmic calculus. The rationale behind contemporary ML finds its expression in a very specific laboratory culture (Forsythe 1993), with a specific ethos or model of “open science”. Models trained on the largest datasets of private corporations are thus made freely available, and subsequently détourned for the new AI’s semiotic environs of image, speech, and text—promising to make the epistemically recalcitrant landscapes of unruly and ‘unstructured’ data newly “manageable”. As the knowledge-production techniques of ML and AI move further into the fabric of everyday life, it creates a particularly new form of agency. Unlike the static, rule-based systems critiqued in a previous generation by Dreyfus (1972), modern AI models pragmatically unfold as a temporal flow of decontextualized classifications. What then does agency mean for machine learners (Mackenzie, 2017)? Performance in this particular case relates to the power of inferring and predicting outcomes (Burell, 2016); new kinds of algorithmic control thus emerge at the junction of meaning-making and decision-making. The implications of this question are tangible, particularly as ML becomes more unsupervised and begins to impact on numerous aspects of daily life. Social media, for instance, are undergoing radical change, as insightful new actants come to populate the world: Echo translates your desires into Amazon purchases, and Facebook is now able to detect suicidal behaviours. In the general domain of work, too, these actants leave permanent traces—not only on repetitive tasks, but on the broader intellectual responsibility. Last but not least, the final regime to explore in this preconference workshop is governmentality. The politics of ML and AI are still largely to be outlined, and the question of power for these techniques remains largely unexplored. Governmentality refers specifically to how a field is organised—by whom, for what purposes, and through which means and discourses (Foucault, 1991). As stated above, ML and AI are based on a model of open science and innovation, in which public actors—such as governments and universities—are deeply implicated (Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, 2000). One problem, however, is that while the algorithms themselves may be openly available, the datasets on which they rely for implementation are not—hence the massive advantages for private actors such as Google or Facebook who control the data, as well as the economic resources to attract the brightest students in the field. But there is more: this same open innovation model makes possible the manufacture of military AI with little regulatory oversight, as is the case for China, whose government is currently helping to fuel an AI arms race (Simonite 2017). What alternatives or counter-powers could be imagined in these circumstances? Could ethical considerations stand alone without a proper and fully developed critical approach to ML and AI? This workshop will try to address these pressing and interconnected issues. We welcome all submissions which might profitably connect with one or more of these three categories of epistemology, agency, and governmentality; but we welcome other theoretically and/or empirically rich contributions. Interested scholars should submit proposal abstracts, of approximately 250 words, by 11:59pm EDT on June 30th, 2018 to CriticalAI2018 [at] gmail [dot] com. Proposals may represent works in progress, short position papers, or more developed research. The format of the workshop will focus on paper presentations and keynotes, with additional opportunities for group discussion and reflection. This preconference workshop will be held at the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre of INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique). The Centre is located at 385 Sherbrooke St E, Montreal, QC, and is about a 20-minute train ride from the Centre Sheraton on the STM Orange Line (enter at the Bonaventure stop, exit at Sherbrooke), or about a 30-minute walk along Rue Sherbrooke. For information on the AoIR (Association of Internet Researchers) conference, see https://aoir.org/aoir2018/ ; for other preconference workshops at AoIR 2018, see https://aoir.org/aoir2018/preconfwrkshop/. Organizers: Jonathan Roberge (INRS), Michael Castelle (University of Warwick), and Thomas Crosbie (Royal Danish Defence College). ************** Jonathan Roberge Professeur-chercheur agrégé Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur les Nouveaux Environnements Numériques et l'Intermédiation Culturelle (NENIC Lab) Institut national de la recherche scientifique Centre Urbanisation Culture Société 490, rue de la Couronne, Québec, Qc., Canada, G1K 9A9 Tél. 418-687-6401, fax. 418 687-6425

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Mozilla award competition for advocacy exploring AI on the internet
by Ansgar Koene 06 Jun '18

06 Jun '18

Hi all, just spotted this award competition that has been launched by Mozilla. Could be of interest to us, our students or associates. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a… [https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSC05778-1400x770.jpg]<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a…> Mozilla Announces $225,000 for Art and Advocacy Exploring Artificial Intelligence – The Mozilla Blog<https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/06/04/mozilla-announces-225000-for-art-a…> blog.mozilla.org Mozilla’s latest awards will support people and projects that examine the effects of AI on society At Mozilla, one way we support a healthy internet is by fueling the ... Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: UnBias, CaSMa & Horizon Policy Impact Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://casma.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/7003.html https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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CFP_Elsevier SPF2C 2018
by Yassine MALEH 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

*The International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing (**SPFC2'18)* *In conjunction with* *The 9th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks (EUSPN-2018)* December 5-8, 2018, *Leuven, Belgium* Workshop website: *https://sites.google.com/view/spfc2/ <https://sites.google.com/view/spfc2/>* Conference website: http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/euspn-18/workshops.html ===================== Important Dates===================== Paper submission deadline: July 02th, 2018 Acceptance Notification: August 08th, 2018 Registration (Authors): July 31th, 2018 Final Manuscript: September 8, 2018 EUSPN Conference: December 5-8, 2018 ===================== *SPFC2 2018*=========================== In cloud and fog computing field, security and privacy threats have been extensively studied and received considerable attention in recent few years, as witnessed by the number of related publications. In the context of these trends, the forthcoming workshop on recent advances on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing will address significant issues in the field. The main goal of this workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and exchange their experiences and recent studies with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and novel techniques to increase the security posture of Cloud/fog computing. Therefore, the suggested topics of interest for International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Fog and Cloud Computing (SPFC2-2018) include, but are not limited to: · Authentication in cloud/fog computing · Information management in cloud/fog computing · Auditing and accountability in cloud/fog computing · Access control mechanisms in cloud/fog computing · Security models and frameworks for cloud/fog applications · Key management in cloud/fog computing · Privacy preserving in cloud/fog computing · Privacy enhanced technologies for cloud/fog applications · Data confidentiality in cloud/fog devices · Security and privacy in SDN/NFV Networks · Intrusion Detection & Prevention in cloud/fog computing · Security and privacy in Internet of Things (IoT) · Cyber physical security of cloud/fog devices ===================== Publication ============================= Papers delivered at *SPFC2* 2018 will be published by Procedia Computer Science hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com <http://www.elsevier.com/> and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-i ndex/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus ( www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com) This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex) Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/) The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. Selected papers will be invited for publication, in the special issues of: - International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 1.588), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652) - International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.504), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index) - IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine (IF: 3.654), by IEEE (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=5117645) ===================== Submission Guidelines ===================== Authors are invited to submit their papers by July 02, 2018. Submitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages for full papers, 6 pages for short papers and 4 pages for work in progress, including all figures, tables and reference. All submissions must be done via Easychair conference management system using this https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spfc2 Best Regards, *SPFC2'18* Organizing Committee.

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YECREA pre-conference
by Inês Amaral 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

[Apologies for cross-posting] The YECREA pre-conference workshops on /31 October 2018/ at ECC 2018 in Lugano are now*FREE* of charge for all early career scholars thanks to funding from ECREA. Please circulate! The deadline for the three connected workshops is */15 June 2018/*. The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops in connection to the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Lugano, Switzerland. 1) Workshop on Methodological Challenges: Opportunities and Challenges of Action Research 31 October 2018, 9.30 – 11.30 Senior facilitators: Jule Uldam (Roskilde University) and Tina Askanius (Malmö University) 2) Workshop on Academic Writing: Writing Academic Publications Based on Your Research 31 October 2018, 12.30 – 14.30 Senior facilitators: Prof Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt (Malmö University) and Alessandro Nanì (Tallinn University). 3) Workshop on Digital Methods: Researching Digital Media Environments 31 October 2018, 15.00 – 17.00 Senior facilitators: Andreas Hepp (ZeMKI, University of Bremen) and Cornelius Puschmann (Hans Bredow Institute for Media Research and Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society) More information on the following link: http://yecrea.eu/ecc-lugano/ecc-yecrea-pre-conference/ YECREA Pre-conference – ECREA 2018 < http://yecrea.eu/ecc-lugano/ecc-yecrea-pre-conference/> Three Young Scholar Workshops: Methods, Writing and Activism. The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) are happy to invite students and early-career scholars to a full day of workshops in connection to the 7th European Communication Conference (ECC) in Lugano, Switzerland. Abstract submissions should be sent to yecreapreconf(a)gmail.com <mailto: yecreapreconf(a)gmail.com> Furthermore, the workshops also include coffee (in Workshops 1 and 3), and lunch (Workshop 2).** So do not hesitate and miss a great opportunity to attend this unique event! We are looking forward to seeing you! The Organisers: Johan Farkas (Malmö University) - Workshop 1 Anna Zsubori (University of Leicester) - Workshop 2 Inês Amaral (University of Minho) - Workshop 3

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CFP CHI PLAY 2018 (Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, Interactivity and Works in Progress) - 28 - 31 Oct - Melbourne
by Nicole Crenshaw 05 Jun '18

05 Jun '18

Apologies for cross-posting! ***************************************************************************** * CHI PLAY 2018 | 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play * * Submission deadlines * July 13, 2018: Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, * Interactivity and Works-in-Progress * * Melbourne, Australia * October 28?31, 2018 * https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ | #chiplay18 * ****************************************************************************** CHI PLAY is the international and interdisciplinary conference, sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games, and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area ?player-computer interaction?. The goal of the CHI PLAY conference is to highlight and foster discussion on high-quality (full paper acceptance rate has been consistently <30%) research in games and HCI, as a foundation for the future of digital play. To this end, the conference blends academic research papers, interactive play demos, and industry insights. CHI PLAY 2018 is being held as part of Melbourne International Games Week with games events throughout the city, including PAX Australia (the only Penny Arcade Expo outside the USA) a gaming culture festival drawing tens of thousands of gamers to Melbourne each year. *** SUBMISSIONS *** As a SIGCHI-sponsored conference, CHI PLAY welcomes contributions that further an understanding of the player experience, as well as contributions on novel designs or implementations of player-computer interactions, including, but not limited to, the following: + Playful interactions and new game mechanics + Innovative implementation techniques that affect player experiences + Studies of applied games and player experiences (e.g., games and play for health, wellbeing, and learning) + Accessible and inclusive design and play experience + Advances in game user research and game evaluation methods + Psychology of players and typologies of games and players + Gamification, persuasive games, and motivational game design + Virtual and augmented reality in games and play + Novel controls or display technologies for games and play + Tools for game creation + Innovations to advance the work of game designers and developers + Game analytics and novel visualizations of player experiences + Developer experiences and studies of developers + Industry case studies Although CHI PLAY welcomes contributions on the effects of various technologies, software, or algorithms on player experience, technical contributions without clear indications of the impact on players or developers are not within the scope of CHI PLAY. The conference invites submissions including interactive demos, work-in-progress papers and spotlight papers. Additionally, students are invited to submit to the student game competition and the doctoral consortium. * Submission deadlines * July 13, 2018: Spotlight Papers, Doctoral Consortium, Student Game Competition, * Interactivity and Works-in-Progress For further details please see the website: https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ ***************************************************************************** * CHI PLAY 2018 * 5th ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play * https://chiplay.acm.org/2018/ * Twitter: #chiplay18 * ***************************************************************************** -- Dr. Nicole Crenshaw Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine http://sites.uci.edu/nicolecrenshaw/

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