Dear Colleagues,
Please see below the Call for Papers for ACM SafeThings 2017. We enthusiastically look forward to your submissions on advancements in the safety of the Internet of Things ecosystem.
1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017)
https://www.safethings.info/
November 5, 2017 at TU Delft, The Netherlands
Co-located with ACM SenSys 2017
As the traditionally segregated systems are brought online for next generation connected applications, we have an opportunity to significantly improve the safety of legacy systems. For instance, insights from data across systems can be exploited to reduce accidents, improve air quality and support disaster events. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) also bring new risks that arise due to the unexpected interaction between systems. These safety risks arise because of information that distracts users while driving, software errors in medical devices, corner cases in data-driven control, compromised sensors in drones or conflicts in societal policies.
Accordingly, the Internet of Safe Things workshop (or SafeThings, for brevity) seeks to bring researchers and practitioners that are actively exploring system design, modeling, verification, authentication approaches to provide safety guarantees in the Internet of Things (IoT). The workshop welcomes contributions that integrate hardware and software systems provided by disparate vendors, particularly those that have humans in the loop. As safety is inherently linked with the security and privacy, we also seek contributions in security and privacy that address safety concerns. With the SafeThings workshop, we seek to develop a community that systematically dissects the vulnerabilities and risks exposed by these emerging CPSes, and create tools, algorithms, frameworks and systems that help in the development of safe systems.
SafeThings workshop covers safety topics as it relates to an individual’s health (physical, mental), the society (air pollution, toxicity, disaster events), or the environment (species preservation, global warming, oil spills). The workshop considers safety from a human perspective, and thus, does not include topics such as thread safety or memory safety in its scope.
Our workshop will cover, but not limit itself to, the following subject categories:
- Verification of safety in IoT platforms
- Privacy preserving data sharing and analysis
- Compliance with legal, health and environmental policies
- Integration of hardware and software systems
- Conflict resolution between IoT applications
- Safety in human-in-the-loop systems
- Support for IoT development - debugging tools, emulators, testbeds
- Usable security and privacy for IoT platforms
- Resiliency against attacks and faults
- Secure connectivity in IoT
Our workshop will cover, but not limit itself to, the following domains: autonomous vehicles and transportation infrastructure; medical CPS and public health; smart buildings, smart grid and smart cities.
Submission Types:
We solicit two types of original submissions:
* Regular papers for oral presentation (6 pages)
* Technical posters and demos (1 page)
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: July 23, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
Paper Submission Deadline: July 30, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
Poster and demo submission deadline: July 30, 2017 (11.59 PM AoE)
Acceptance Notification: August 21, 2017
Camera-ready versions: September 10, 2017
Organizing Committee:
General Chairs:
Patrick Tague (Carnegie Mellon University)
Bharathan Balaji (University of California, Los Angeles)
Program Chairs:
Mani Srivastava (University of California, Los Angeles)
Yuan Tian (Carnegie Mellon University)
Poster and Demo Chair:
Houssam Abbas (University of Pennsylvania)
Publication Chair:
Rasit Eskicioglu (University of Manitoba)
SenSys Workshop Chair:
Xiaofan (Fred) Jiang (Columbia University, USA)
Technical Program Committee:
Blase Ur (University of Chicago)
Xiao Feng Wang (Indiana Bloomington)
Xinyu Xing (Penn State)
Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles)
Supriyo Chakraborty (IBM Research)
Muhammad Naveed (University of Southern California)
Yasser Shoukry (University of California, Berkeley)
Yuvraj Agarwal (Carnegie Mellon University)
Rajesh Gupta (University of California, San Diego)
Brad Campbell (University of Virginia)
John Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Madhur Behl (University of Virginia)
Houssam Abbas (University of Pennsylvania)
Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
João Vilela (University of Coimbra)
Eric Wustrow (Colorado Boulder)
Richard Han (Colorado Boulder)
Lu Feng (University of Virginia)
Earlence Fernandes (University of Michigan)
Falko Dressler (Paderborn University)
Jie Liu (Microsoft Research)
Kay Roemer (TU Graz)
Nic Lane (University College London)
Fang-Jing Wu (NEC Lab)
Jyotrimoy Deshmukh (Toyota)
Saman Zonouz (Rutgers University)
Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University)
Yutaka Arakawa (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven)
Stefano Zanero (Politecnico di Milano)
Thorsten Holz (Ruhr University Bochum)
Amir Rahmati (University of Michigan)
Cong Zheng (Palo Alto Networks)
Chenguang Shen (Facebook)
Shaunak Mishra (Yahoo Research)
Steering Committee:
John Stankovic (University of Virginia)
Lorrie Faith Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)
Srdjan Capkun (ETH Zurich)
Rupak Majumdar (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
PROGRAM SOLICITATION: CRITICAL TECHNIQUES, TECHNOLOGIES AND METHODOLOGIES FOR ADVANCING FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF BIG DATA SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING (BIGDATA) - NSF 17-534
View the full solicitation at: https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767
SYNOPSIS
The BIGDATA program seeks novel approaches in computer science, statistics, computational science, and mathematics, along with innovative applications in domain science, including social and behavioral sciences, education, biology, the physical sciences, and engineering that lead towards the further development of the interdisciplinary field of data science.
The solicitation invites two categories of proposals:
Foundations (F): those developing or studying fundamental theories, techniques, methodologies, and technologies of broad applicability to big data problems, motivated by specific data challenges and requirements; and
Innovative Applications (IA): those engaged in translational activities that employ new big data techniques, methodologies, and technologies to address and solve problems in specific application domains. Projects in this category must be collaborative, involving researchers from domain disciplines and one or more methodological disciplines, e.g., computer science, statistics, mathematics, simulation and modeling, etc.
Proposals in both categories must include a clear description of the big data aspect(s) that have motivated the proposed approach(es), for example: the scalability of methods with increasing data volumes, rates, heterogeneity; or data quality and data bias; etc. Innovative Applications proposals must provide clear examples of the impacts of the big data techniques, technologies and/or methodologies on (a) specific domain application(s).
Proposals in all areas of sciences and engineering covered by participating NSF directorates and partnering agencies [the Office of Financial Research (OFR)], are welcome.
Before preparing a proposal in response to this BIGDATA solicitation, applicants are strongly urged to review other related programs and solicitations and contact the respective NSF program officers listed in them should those solicitations be more appropriate. In particular:
For the development of robust and shared data-centric cyberinfrastructure capabilities, applicants should consider the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) program, https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504776;
For computational and data science research not specifically addressing big data issues, applicants should consider the Computational and Data Enabled Science and Engineering (CDS&E) program, http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504813;
For work that is focused more on scaling of software, rather than data-related issues, applicants should consider the Scalable Parallelism in the Extreme (SPX) program, https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505348;
Proposals that are specific to the geosciences, and respond to the community needs and requirements expressed by the geosciences community, should consider the NSF EarthCube program for Developing a Community-Driven Data and Knowledge Environment for the Geosciences, https://www.nsf.gov/geo/earthcube/;
Proposals that focus on research in mathematics or statistics that is not tied to a specific big data problem should be submitted to the appropriate program within the MPS Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS); see a list of DMS programs at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/programs.jsp?org=DMS; and
Proposals that focus on research in the computer and information sciences not tied to a specific big data problem should be submitted to the appropriate CISE core program:
Computer and Network Systems (CNS) Core Programs: https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=12765&ods_key=nsf16579;
Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Core Programs: https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=503220&ods_key=nsf16578; and
Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS) Core Programs: https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=13707&ods_key=nsf16581.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PROPOSERS
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 17-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 30, 2017. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 17-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft are now participating in the solicitation by providing cloud credits/resources to qualifying projects. The solicitation provides details regarding the participation of these companies, and the use of their cloud resources.
Additionally, slight revisions of the Program Description have been introduced.
Any proposal submitted in response to this solicitation should be submitted in accordance with the revised NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 17-1), which is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after January 30, 2017.
AWARD INFORMATION
Anticipated Type of Award: Standard Grant or Continuing Grant or Cooperative Agreement
Estimated Number of Awards: 27 to 35
About 27-35 projects will be funded, subject to availability of funds.
Anticipated Funding Amount: $26,500,000
Up to $26,500,000 will be invested by NSF and the Office of Financial Research (OFR), in proposals submitted to this solicitation, subject to the availability of funds. Up to $9,000,000 will be invested by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft (up to $3,000,000 each) in the form of cloud credits/resources.
Projects will typically receive NSF funding in the range of $200,000 to a maximum of $500,000 per year, for 3 to 4 years of support. The minimum award size will be $600,000 of total NSF/OFR funding, reflecting the minimum expected level of effort for BIGDATA projects, which are expected to be multidisciplinary in nature and include significant student involvement. Any allocation of cloud credits/resources from AWS, Google or Microsoft will be in addition to the NSF/OFR funding.
Submission Window Date(s): March 15, 2017 - March 22, 2017
Submitted by Katie Dey on June 30th, 2017
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS 2017)
October 15-20, 2017, Lotte Hotel, Seoul, South Korea
Researchers both from academia and industry are invited to submit proposals for special sessions to be held during the CODES+ISSS 2017 conference. The special sessions should aim at providing a complementary experience compared to the regular sessions and hence should include hot topics of interest to the Embedded Systems community that may also go beyond disciplines traditionally represented at CODES+ISSS. The special session could constitute either a thematic session containing individual presentations or a panel.
http://esweek.org/codes/about
CODES+ISSS Program Chairs:
- Andy Pimentel, University of Amsterdam, NL
- Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University, US
Timeline
- Proposal submission: May 1, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: June 11, 2017
- Camera-ready version: July 14, 2017
Submission Information
The special session proposal should include:
- Title of the special session
- Rationale of the need for the special session at CODES+ISSS. The rationale should stress the novelty of the topic and/or its multidisciplinary flavor, and must explain how it is different from the subjects covered by the regular sessions
- Short biography of the organizers
- List of 3-4 contributed presentations (including titles, presenters, contact information of the corresponding presenter, and an abstract of each contribution). For panel proposals, list three to five panelists and their area of expertise.
Proposals are due on or before May 1, 2017 and should be sent via e-mail (PDF or ASCII) to the Program Chairs, Andy Pimentel (A.D.Pimentel@uva.nl) and Aviral Shrivastava (Aviral.Shrivastava@asu.edu). Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and the qualification of presenters involved in the session. Participants of each accepted special session will have the opportunity to submit a single overview paper covering the main aspects of the session (the presenters will co-author this paper, which will appear in the ESWeek proceedings). Alternatively, each presenter will have the option of submitting an extended abstract of their presentation.
The 1st US-Japan Workshop on Collaborative Global Research on Applying Information Technology
June 5-6, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA (co-located with IEEE ICDCS’17)
Workshop Objective
This workshop will bring together researchers from around the world to discuss experiences, challenges, and opportunities in transnational and international collaborative research on information technology (IT) and IT-supported applications, with focus on active collaborations between the United States (U.S.) and Japan. The workshop will provide opportunities for participants to interact directly and promote collaborative research activities. The collaboration is expected to achieve scientific knowledge that would be difficult to obtain individually.
Workshop attendance will be by invitation only, following response to this call as outlined below. Prospective attendees are expected to be investigators on funded research projects, and should submit papers or whitepaper for consideration by the program committee. Workshop organizers are requesting funding from NSF and JST to support partially the travel costs and registration fees of invited attendees from the U.S. and Japan. Principal Investigators of projects in relevant NSF and JST programs are strongly encouraged to apply. Additionally, early career researchers and underrepresented minorities are encouraged to apply.
Priority Research Topics
Topics of interest for collaboration include, but are not limited to:
- Big Data Fundamental Technologies and Applications: novel techniques, methodologies, and technologies in computer science, statistics, computational science, and mathematics, together with innovative applications in domain science, which may include, for example, disaster management.
- Smart and Connected Communities (SCC): strongly interdisciplinary, integrative research that will improve understanding of smart and connected communities and lead to discoveries that enable sustainable change to enhance community functioning.
- Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT): system science needed to engineer complex, reliable cyber-physical systems that people can use, interact with, and depend upon, namely the cross-cutting fundamental scientific and engineering principles that underpin the integration of cyber and physical elements across all application sectors.
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: research enabling computational understanding and modeling of intelligence in complex, realistic contexts, or more generally, processing and functionality to address data of unprecedented scale, complexity, heterogeneity, etc.
Papers and Submissions
Papers and whitepapers must be written in English, and they must be in PDF or Word format. The complete manuscript should be no more than 4 pages following IEEE conference proceedings style and guidelines. The following information must be included:
- paper title, full name, affiliation of the author(s)
- contact author’s email address
- abstract (up to 150 words).
The submission should fit into one of the following types (declared in the title):
- Type 1: Ongoing collaborations: joint projects, collaborative work, continued interactions, preferably with demonstrated success (e.g., joint papers or grants); should include co-authors from both sides, and financial support for up to one co-author from each side may be available.
- Type 2: Promising or potential collaborations: occasional interactions; “blue sky” ideas allowed; must have concrete chances of successful future collaboration; may be submitted by author(s) from just one country; only the main author will be considered for support.
The submissions will be considered for the following categories:
- Refereed papers: accepted for inclusion in Workshop Proceedings of ICDCS (as a regular workshop paper), and invitation to attend workshop with NSF/JST partial support.
- Whitepapers: Invitation to attend workshop with NSF/JST partial support (whitepapers will be accessible through open repositories such as cps-vo.org).
The submissions will be evaluated by a program committee and workshop organizers with collaborative research experience and expertise in the priority research areas. Both Type 1 and Type 2 submissions will be evaluated with respect to their scientific merit and research potential, as well as their collaboration experience (Type 1 only). The submissions received by the first deadline will be considered for both the Workshop Proceedings (published as part of the ICDCS Workshop Proceedings) and invitation to attend the workshop. Papers accepted for the Workshop Proceedings will have reviews and the authors are expected to revise the papers accordingly before submitting their camera-ready (conforming to the IEEE Proceedings Format) for publication. Submissions that did not meet the criteria for Workshop Proceedings will be considered as whitepapers.
The submissions received by the second deadline will be considered as whitepapers for invitation to attend the workshop. The program committee will evaluate both Type 1 and Type 2 whitepapers for their scientific merit and research potential, as well as their collaboration experience (Type 1 only).
Important dates:
- The Early Submission Deadline for refereed papers has passed, but we are allowing late submissions until March 31, with best-effort reviewing. If the review of late submissions cannot be completed on time, those submissions will be considered for whitepaper.
- March 31, 2017: Notification of Early Submission acceptance as refereed paper or whitepaper, and invitation to attend workshop.
- April 3, 2017: Camera-ready deadline for accepted refereed papers for Workshop Proceedings.
- April 28, 2017 (Final Submission Deadline for whitepapers only): Submissions received by this date will be considered for whitepaper and invitation to participate in the Workshop (not included in ICDCS Workshop Proceedings and informal review only).
- May 5, 2017: Notification of Final Submission acceptance as white paper and invitation to attend workshop (submissions received between March 26 and April 28).
Financial Support:
Funding support in the form of travel expenses and partial workshop registration for invited participants may be available. All accepted submissions will be considered by the Workshop Organizers for funding, but actual financial support is contingent upon availability of funds.Financial suppport for US and Japanese researchers will be considered independently, and support may be available in both cases. Please visit this page for updates regarding the availability of financial support.
The workshop organizers will make the invitations.
Workshop Organizers
Calton Pu (Georgia Tech – USA)
Masaru Kitsuregawa (NII – Japan)
Program Committee: TBD
Submitted by Emily Wehby on March 21st, 2017
Call for Workshop Proposals
38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2017)
Scope of the Workshops
The Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. RTSS 2017, the 38th edition of the conference, will take place in Paris, France from December 5 to December 8, 2017. Continuing a successful tradition, RTSS 2017 will organize one-day workshops on December 5th, 2017. The purposes of the workshops are to:
- strengthen interactions between the real-time community and other related research areas;
- create a stimulating environment that facilitates the discussion of open or hot research topics.
Proposal Submission Instructions
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals. Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the research community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if any). A second, organizational part should include:
- contact information for the workshop organizers;
- estimate of the audience size (note: the Workshop Selection Committee reserves the right to cancel workshops that have a low number of participants);
- past attendance numbers (if not a new workshop);
- proposed format (contributed short papers or long abstracts, invited papers, open discussion, keynote speakers, etc.);
- potential invited speakers (if any);
- proposed sponsorships (if any);
- procedures for selecting papers and participants (e.g., program committee, review process, etc.);
- plans for dissemination of contributions (e.g., website, special issues of journals, etc.);
- special technical or audio/video needs; and
- any other relevant information.
Submission of proposals should be made by sending an email to Song Han (song.han@uconn.edu) with the subject line “RTSS 2017 Workshop Proposal”.
Important Dates
- June 9, 2017 – FIRM Workshop Proposal Submission Deadline
- June 23, 2017 – Workshop Selection Notification
- July 14, 2017 – Workshop Web Pages Posted with CFPs
- September 15, 2017 – FIRM Workshop Papers Submission Deadline
- October 13, 2017 – Workshop Papers Notification of Acceptance
- October 20, 2017 – FIRM Workshop Papers Camera Ready Deadline
Workshop Selection Committee
- Song Han, University of Connecticut, USA (Workshops Chair)
- Isabelle Puaut, University of Rennes/IRISA (Program Chair)
- Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA (General Chair)
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
THE 23RD IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMBEDDED AND REAL-TIME COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Hsinchu, Taiwan | August 16-18, 2017 | http://www.rtcsa.org/
The IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) is the premier conference of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems located in Asia. The 23rd edition will take place in Hsinchu, Taiwan, from August 16th to 18th, 2017.
The purpose of the workshops are:
- to strengthen interactions between the real-time community and other related research areas;
- to create a stimulating environment that facilitates the discussion of open or hot research topics.
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit workshop proposals. Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the research community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if any). Second, an organizational part should include:
- contact information of the workshop organizers;
- estimate of the audience size;
- proposed format (contributed short papers or long abstracts, invited papers, open discussion, keynote speakers, etc.);
- potential invited speakers, if any;
- proposed sponsorships, if any;
- procedures for selecting papers and participants, if any (program committee, review process, etc.);
- plans for dissemination, if any (website, special issues of journals, etc.);
- special technical or audio/video needs;
- any other relevant information.
Submission of proposals should be made by sending an email to Vincent Nelis (nelis@isep.ipp.pt).
Important dates:
- Workshop proposal deadline: March 25th, 2017 (Extended to April 5!)
- Notification of workshop acceptance: April 5th
- Workshop website on-line and CFP out: April 30st (+/- few days)
- Workshop papers submission deadline: May 31th (+/- few days)
- Workshop papers notification of acceptance: June 10th (+/- few days)
- Camera ready deadline: July 7th
- Workshop date: to be decided by the RTCSA program chairs according to the conference room allocation.
RTCSA 17: August 16th-18th
SMART CITY WORKS BUSINESS ACTUATOR
Location: Center for Innovative Technology, Herndon, VA www.cit.org
Important Dates:
Applications Due: March 10, 2017
Acceleration Boot Camp: March 27, 2017 – June 28, 2017
DEMO DAY Pitch to Investors: June 29, 2017
Call For Innovation: Smart City Business Actuator
Smart City Works (www.smartcityworks.io) is pleased to announce the Call for Innovation (CFI) for the Spring 2017 cohort class.
We are looking for entrepreneurs, startups, and companies with emerging products and technologies to apply for the Spring 2017 inaugural Washington DC Metro cohort to be held at the Center for Innovative Technology (www.cit.org) in Herndon, VA. The 90-day program is open to startups globally whose visionary founders are willing to bring their ideas and passions to participate in person in a unique and impactful acceleration process. In particular, we seek innovative commercial solutions that address significant social and civic challenges—safety, security, livability, and resilience—in urban environments across the United States and the world.
For the Spring 2017 cohort, solutions will focus on one of 3 key areas of the infrastructure challenge:
- Transport – Solutions that reduce costs, extend serviceable life, reduce congestion, improve parking, improve inter-modalities (car, train, bus, bike, pedestrian), or leverage smart, autonomous, and intelligent transportation solutions to improve our transportation infrastructure network.
- Resilience and Public Safety – Solutions and/or IoT technologies that address the safety and security of the urban public; that mitigate the impact of rising sea levels, extreme weather events, or other natural or man-made shocks; that protect critical infrastructure; or those solutions that allow cities to be more livable and sustainable.
- Construction Techniques – Solutions that improve the design, construction, or maintenance of infrastructure; reduce lifecycle costs or improve safety, schedules, or margins.
IMPORTANT DATE
Smart City Works Application Deadline: Applications open now, March 1 we will begin selecting companies until the class is full. Final date for any applications is March 10th, 2017.
Apply Now: https://www.f6s.com/smartcityworks/apply
For more information about the program, visit: http://www.smartcityworks.io
Contact us with questions: innovate@smartcityworks.io
About Smart City Works:
Smart City Works (www.smartcityworks.io) was created to galvanize innovation and enable commercialization uniquely focused on improving civil infrastructure (the “built environment”) and livability in cities. Through the creation of a new business accelerator, and the first business actuator, Smart City Works will help startups and mature companies transition new ideas or inventions into viable growing businesses that deliver high-impact solutions to make cities smarter, safer, and more resilient.
About Center for Innovative Technology:
Center for Innovative Technology (www.cit.org) accelerates innovation and commercialization in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Created in 1985, CIT, a non-profit corporation, plugs gaps at the earliest stages of the Innovation Continuum – commercialization and seed funding – as it helps entrepreneurs launch high-growth technology companies and create high-paying jobs for the future. Through programs like the MACH37 Cyber Accelerator and the EMERGE First Responder Wearable Technologies Accelerator, we facilitate national innovation leadership and accelerate the rate of technology adoption through partnerships between innovative start-up companies and advanced technology consumers.
Submitted by Emily Wehby on March 2nd, 2017
CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2017)
Austin, Texas | Sept 17-22, 2017 | http://www.modelsconference.org/
Following the tradition of previous conferences, MODELS 2017 will host tutorials as part of its satellite events on September 17-19, 2017.
Tutorials provide intensive courses on topics in the area of model-based software and systems engineering ranging from modeling methodologies and research methods through new modeling tools and technologies to thoughts on the past, current, and future development of the modeling discipline.
Important Dates
- Submission: March 10, 2017
- Notification: April 10, 2017
- Tutorials: September 17-19, 2017
Audience
Tutorials target an audience of practitioners, researchers (academic and industrial), students, and developers familiar with and already working with modeling techniques. The target audience typically has a strong interest in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), including work on improving and evolving modeling languages (such as UML or DSLs), developing sophisticated MDE tool support, and using MDE to develop/test/reverse/maintain complex systems. Potential attendees may also be interested in how modeling has been applied effectively in specialized domains (e.g., in the automotive industry), and in learning about successful uses of MDE methods in real-world applications.
Topics
The following themes are examples of what is considered relevant for
tutorials:
- Modeling techniques for specific domains
- Modeling methodologies and model-oriented processes
- Presentation of new tools or new versions of old tools (e.g., modeling tools, language workbenches, model transformation languages, model verification tools, model execution tools)
- Dissemination of project results from industry-related projects
- Teaching of model-driven software development
- Research methods in MD* (Model-Driven Development (MDD), Model Driven Engineering (MDE), Model Driven Software Development (MDSD), etc.)
- Modeling for re-engineering and legacy evolution
- Empirical studies in the context of modeling
- User experience in model-based software engineering
- Practical experiences of general interest
- General topics of interest to young researchers, like presentation skills or research methodologies
For more details please visit:
http://www.modelexecution.org/models2017tutorials/
Proposal Contents
All submissions must be in English and adhere to the IEEE formatting instructions (https://goo.gl/UAQ5Ci). The submission must include the following information in the indicated order:
- Title
- Presenters: Name, affiliation, contact information, and short bio.
- Authors of the proposal or tutorial material, who are not going to be presenting, may be listed, but must be listed last with a footnote "Author only; will not be presenting".
- Abstract (maximum of 200 words)
- If accepted, the abstract will be used to advertise the tutorial. Thus, the abstract should clearly highlight the goals of the tutorial and the skills that participants will acquire.
- Keywords (at least 3 keywords)
- Proposed length: half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours)
- Regular tutorials should be setup as half-day tutorials (3 hours). A proposal for a full-day tutorial (6 hours) must be accompanied by a clear justification of why 6 hours are necessary.
- Level of the tutorial: beginner/introduction or advanced
- Target audience and any prerequisite background required by attendees to be able to follow the tutorial (beyond average modeling skills)
- Description of the tutorial and intended outline (maximum of 4 pages)
- Novelty of the tutorial
- List offerings of similar tutorials at previous editions of the MODELS conference or other conferences, and discuss the differences with respect to the current proposal.
- Required infrastructure
- Declare any infrastructure that you would need for your tutorial besides a data projector (e.g., flip charts, white boards). We will do our best together with the local organizers to provide you with the needed infrastructure.
- Sample slides (minimum of 6 slides, maximum of 40 slides)
- Supplementary material (optional)
Submission Instructions
Proposals must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the MODELS 2017 Tutorials EasyChair submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tmodels2017) by March 10, 2017 anywhere on earth (local times).
This is a hard deadline. No extensions will be allowed.
Review Process
The Tutorials Selection Committee will review each submitted proposal to ensure high quality, and select tutorials based on their anticipated benefit for prospective participants and their fit within the tutorial program as a whole. Factors to be considered also include: relevance, timeliness, importance, and audience appeal; effectiveness of teaching methods; and past experience and qualifications of the instructors. The goal will be to provide a diverse set of tutorials that attracts a high level of interest among broad segments of the MODELS participants.
Compensation
As in previous years, participants will pay a single satellite fee, which will cover both tutorials and workshops. This permits unifying the treatment of workshops and tutorials, and it makes tutorials more attractive to attendees. Under this schema, tutorial presenters will not receive monetary compensation, and will have to pay their own registration to the satellite events. By submitting a tutorial proposal, the presenter accepts that there will be no compensation for giving the tutorial if accepted and that the registration fees for the instructors have to be funded by the instructors themselves. The benefit to the presenter is the opportunity to extend their sphere of influence to the MODELS community.
Tutorial Chairs
Silvia Abrahão, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien, Austria
Selection Committee
- Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
- Loli Burgueño, University of Málaga, Spain
- Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada
- Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA
- Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
- Richard Paige, University of York, UK
- Ernesto Posse, Zeligsoft, Canada
- Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada
- Arnor Solberg, SINTEF, Norway
- Tao Yue, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
For further information, please contact the tutorial chairs at models-tutorials@cs.utexas.edu.
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
3rd International Conference on Event-Based Control, Communication and Signal Processing (EBCCSP)
May 24-26, 2017 | Funchal, Madeira, Portugal | http://ebccsp2017.org/
We invite all researchers interested in organizing special sessions on the event-driven paradigm and its applications in control, communication, and signal processing, at EBCCSP 2017, to submit their special session proposals according to the following format.
HOW TO PROPOSE A SPECIAL SESSION
The proposal for a special session should be sent by Special Session Organizers to the Special Session Chairs: Andrzej Pawlowski a.pawlowski@dia.uned.es and Amir Aminifar amir.aminifar@epfl.ch and should include:
1. Title of the session.
2. Names, affiliations, and contact addresses of the organizers, including telephone and email addresses.
3. Description of the technical focus area of the session: background and rationale for organizing the session, at least 150 words.
4. Tentative titles of at least four (4) contributions, together with the names and contact addresses of the contributing and committed authors, no more than a quarter of contributions is to be from the same institute.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline for special session proposals: January 29, 2017
- Submission deadline for special session papers: February 26, 2017
- Notification of acceptance for special session papers: April 9, 2017
The detailed call for special session proposals is available at http://ebccsp2017.org/special_sessions_proposal
Request for Proposal—Bid on ACM IUI 2019
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) is the premier conference series sponsored by ACM (SIGCHI and SIGAI)
held annually as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces since 1997.To involve the greater IUI community in conference organization and better plan for the conference, we request proposals for hosting and organizing IUI two years ahead of time.
We regularly rotate the conference locations to engage with IUI research communities around the globe.
Below shows the location and time of the last three IUIs:
- IUI 2016 - Sonoma, CA March, 7–10
- IUI 2017 - Limassol, Cyprus, March, 13-16
- IUI 2018 - Tokyo, Japan, March
Why host IUI?
There are several benefits of hosting and organizing an IUI conference. First, conference hosts/organizers have an opportunity to publicize their work, build relationships, and interact with the international IUI community. Second, this is a great opportunity for the organizers/hosts to introduce their students and colleagues to the IUI community and help grow the community as a whole. Third, hosts/organizers can use the opportunity to build local IUI communities, connecting representatives from both academia and industries.
Bid Requirements
All proposals must be written in English. The proposal should address each aspect outlined below and not exceed 5000 words. Based on the merits of the proposals and when the proposals are submitted, the board will choose the winning proposal. The organization team will then be announced during IUI 2017.
Location
Since IUI is an international forum, we expect that attendees travel from different parts of the world to the conference location. It is important that the proposed location is conveniently located for all attendees to reach by available means of transportation.
Time
IUI conferences have been held at various times during late winter through early spring, around the end of January through late March. Your bid should include a proposed time within that range with key dates (e.g., paper submission and notification). The choice of time should also take into account the weather conditions of the proposed location to avoid
potential weather-caused travel delays and potential conflicts with other conferences (e.g., CHI 2019 paper deadline and CSCW 2019 conference dates).
Conference Venue
Please describe the proposed conference venue from the following aspects:
- Capacity. The main IUI is a single-track conference, typically with around 250 attendees. IUI officially includes four days with the workshops and tutorials on its first day, which need to be hosted in separate rooms (10-20 people) in parallel, as well as the student consortium. To encourage interaction among the attendees, during the main conference, it is also desirable to have additional space at the venue to put up IUI posters for the attendees to visit during coffee breaks.
- Facilities.The venue should provide basic conference facilities, such as internet access and LCD projectors.
- Location. The venue should be centrally located for attendees to reach quickly by ground transportation and have access to other amenities (e.g., restaurants).
- Reception and poster session dinner. Traditionally, IUI will open with a reception on the night before the 1st day of the conference and hold a dinner reception with the poster session on the second night of the conference. While the location(s) of the reception and dinner are not required to be co-located with the venue, the above location criterion still should be used to minimize the travel for the attendees.
Accommodation
Most attendees will need accommodation during the conference period. One of the responsibilities of the conference hosts/organizers is to locate and reserve a bulk of affordable lodging for attendees. Please describe the proposed accommodation options, including the price range of the hotel rooms and the distance to the main venue.
Provisionary Budget Plan
The proposal should also include a provisionary budget plan, outlining the cost of major items, including the rental of conference venue, cost/per person for the reception and banquet, and the estimated conference registration fee.
Please provide details for three versions of the budget: conservative (assuming 150 attendees), regular (200), optimistic (250).
Hosts/Organizers
Conference hosts/organizers should have knowledge of the IUI community (e.g., having
attended recent IUI conferences) and experience with conference organization. One of main
IUI goals is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. So ensuring the
diversity of the organizing committee (e.g., from different geos and gender) is highly encouraged and
preferred. In particular, we request that the key co-organizers (general co-chairs and program co-chairs) must have representatives from both academia and industry. In addition, IUI is at the intersection of AI and HCI, we require that the make of the program
co-chairs represents expertise in both AI and HCI research communities equally well. Please
include short bios of the key hosts/organizers and roles of individuals, including the conference chair(s) and program chairs.
Important Dates
- Jan 8th, 2017: bids are due. Please submit your bid to krueger@dfki.de
- Jan 29th, 2017: notifications sent.
For further information, please contact:
krueger@dfki.de
and
tsvikak@is.haifa.ac.il