The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation

INFOCOMP 2018

July 22, 2018 to July 26, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain

Deadlines

Submission

Apr 10, 2018

Notification

May 13, 2018

Registration

May 26, 2018

Camera ready

Jun 08, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

Publication

Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)

Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library

Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal

Indexing Procedure

Affiliated Journals

INFOCOMP 2018 - The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation

July 22, 2018 - July 26, 2018

INFOCOMP 2018

ISSN: 2308-3484
ISBN: 978-1-61208-655-2

INFOCOMP 2018 is colocated with the following events as part of DataSys 2018 Congress:

  • AICT 2018, The Fourteenth Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications
  • ICIW 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services
  • ICIMP 2018, The Thirteenth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection
  • SMART 2018, The Seventh International Conference on Smart Cities, Systems, Devices and Technologies
  • IMMM 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management
  • INFOCOMP 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation
    • MODOPT 2018, The International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization
  • MOBILITY 2018, The Eighth International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users
  • SPWID 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Smart Portable, Wearable, Implantable and Disability-oriented Devices and Systems
  • ACCSE 2018, The Third International Conference on Advances in Computation, Communications and Services

Special tracks:

MODOPT 2018: Modeling and Optimization
Chair and Coordinator:Ian Flood, Rinker School, College of Design, Construction and Planning | University of Florida, USA flood@ufl.edu

ECO-PAR: Energy-efficient Computing on Parallel Architectures
Chair and Coordinator: Dr. Sebastiano Fabio Schifano, University of Ferrara and INFN-Ferrara, Italy schifano@fe.infn.it
Co-Chair: Dr. Enrico Calore, University of Ferrara and INFN-Ferrara, Italy calore@fe.infn.it

INFOCOMP 2018 conference tracks:

Trends and advances on architecture/methods

Intensive computing and Big Data; Performance portability; Trading off locality and load balancing; Complex multi-physics models; Multiscale methods;Emerging programming models;Hybrid parallel programming; APGAS (Asynchronous Partitioned Global Address Space) programming model; Resiliency and elasticity approaches; Scalable petascale data-driven approach; Extreme scale technologies; Task characterization-driven scheduling; Data analytics and visualization; HPC in IoT (Internet of Things) systems; Observational data and simulations; Complex scientific data sets; Massively scalable task parallelism; Routing-aware tasks; Multi-tenant cloud workloads; Soft error resiliency

Trends and advances on disciplines/applications

Urban Simulations; Scalable cortical computing; Molecular dynamics supercomputing; Petascale biomolecular simulations; Data-centric parallel systems; Lithospheric dynamics; Graph computation; Genome-scale gene networks; Scale free graphs; Migratable objects; Quantum simulations; Metascalable quantum molecular dynamics simulations; Real-time data analytics; Uncertain execution scales; Sharing in IaaS clouds; Large-scale visualization; Distributed NoSQL data stores

Large scale and fast computation

Developments in information and computing systems; Grid computing; Cloud computing; Pervasive / ubiquitous computing; Services computing and Opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data processing; Real-time processing; Fast switching and routing protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Large scale data visualization; Tools for parallelization; High performance codes; Optimization; Innovative architectures; Distributed systems, dynamical systems; Future architectures, integrated systems, beyond cloud, reaching exaflop; Supercomputing architectures, operation, and management; Petascale, Exascale; Big data, dCache; HPC centers, data centers; Benchmarking; Green500, Graph500, Top500; Service provisioning; Green computing, cooling techniques

Programming models

Programming languages and parallel algorithms; Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenMP; Massively Parallel Processing, Symmetric Multi-Processing; PGAS, GASPI, CAF (Co-array Fortran), UPC (Unified Parallel C); X10, Chapel, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, OpenHMPP, Lime, OmpSs, OpenStream; Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM); Programming paradigms; Manycore, multicore; CPU, GPU, FPGA, accelerators; Chip design, architectures, and programming; Fault tolerance, troubleshooting, debugging; High end issues, latency, concurrency

Networks/systems communications

Cross-layer design and optimization; Cyber-physical systems and networks; Data centers, virtualization, and cloud networks; Delay/disruption tolerant networks; Future Internet broadband services; Software Defined Networks (SDN); Fast networks / InfiniBand architectures for future interactive multicore applications; Sensor networks and embedded systems; Ad hoc mobile networks; Access technologies; P2P networks; Optical networks; Cellular and broadband wireless networks; Mobility models and mobile networks; Multicast, broadcast and anycast; Multimedia protocols and networking; Software defined radio and cognitive radio networking; Content-based network service; Certification, public key infrastructures, data integrity; Privacy and anonymity

Networks/systems measurement, control and management

Networks/systems measurement, simulation and emulation; Network-, system-, and application-management; Congestion control and capacity planning; Dynamic spectrum management; Addressing and location management; Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE); Quality of Data (QoD) and Quality of Context (QoC); e-Commerce, accounting, pricing and billing; Highly parallel file systems, Lustre, GPFS; Interconnects, high speed ethernet; Use of distributed compute and storage resources; Energy-aware mechanisms for control and management; Configuration, reuse of software components; Resource allocation and management; Denial of service mitigation and prevention; System and data security; Communication visualization

Turbulence modeling and simulation

Fundamental turbulence; Complex flows; Turbulence modeling; Environmental turbulence; Simulation of solid-liquid systems; Heat/cooling transfer modeling; Transitional flows models;  Flows simulation; Particle simulations; Turbulent multi-phase flows; Oscillations; Stability and instability; Turbulent air-water flows;  Liquid/Liquid interface turbulence; Aeroacoustics

Advanced applications

Computation
Advanced applications, scientific, theoretical, methodological, practical, and technical contributions;  Advanced scientific computing; Simulation and modeling (scientific applications, engineering, industry); Mathematical and numerical algorithms and methods; Molecular dynamics simulation; Genetic algorithms;  Physics and chemistry applications; Multi-dimensional data visualization;  Search engines and scientific discovery;  Scientific data processing; Database applications and development; Knowledge discovery, documentation, and classification;  Data intensive computing, data science;  Methodology and case studies regarding computing and communication scenarios; Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) applications;  Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications
Systems
Computer science and geoinformatics; e-Energy, geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Information and database systems; Mobility and logistic services; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology;  Climatology and environmental sciences;  Medicine, genetics, epidemiology, medical geology;
Online social networking;  Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications;  Education, e-Learning, and e-Science; ICT business evaluation and management;  Earth and planetary sciences; Archaeology, cultural heritage; Computation frameworks and tools; Mathematica, SAGE, Maple, Matlab, Scilab, Gromacs, ANSYS, Fluent, etc.)

Legal context, economic use and re-use
Legal informatics; Science, information technology, and copyright; Open access, license models, legal aspects of open source; Legal aspects of collaborative software development; Ownership and information technology; Digital rights; Patents; Toll access;
Accounting; billing;  National and international legal regulations

Evaluation context

Energy-aware and energy-efficient networks; Implementation and experimental testbeds; Traffic measurement and traffic patterns; Characterization of topology dynamics; Access and biometric technologies, performance, and cost prediction; Web services and performance; Performance measurement and benchmarking; Energy-aware and energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Usability studies; Social and ethic consequences with biometry and data security; Standards, benchmarks, protocols

Biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications

Technologies and advances in biometric algorithms and interfaces (gait, electrocardiography, iris, image, fingerprint, palm veins, multi-modality); Biometric systems; Integration of biometrics with other technologies; Challenge response; Simplified enrollment; NFC support, spoofing, and countermeasures; Single sign on (SSO); Adaptive trust; Template protection (protection of reference data); Large and scalable biometric systems using cloud services; Deployed solutions and applications; Experience reports and systems; Description in physical and logical access control; information system access, immigration and border control, law enforcement, entertainment, finance, life science, healthcare, forensics); Distributed and mobile devices; Public Key Infrastructures; Digital Forensics; Quantum cryptography theory and application for commercial usage; topology of information (braid group approach)


Deadlines:

Submission

Apr 10, 2018

Notification

May 13, 2018

Registration

May 26, 2018

Camera ready

Jun 08, 2018

Deadlines differ for special tracks. Please consult the conference home page for special tracks Call for Papers (if any).

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