================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2015 (CF'15) May 18 - 21, 2015, Ischia, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS www.computingfrontiers.org ================================================================== EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE SCOPE ===== Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the field of computing. We are presently on the cusp of several revolutions, including new memory technologies, networking technologies, algorithms for handling large-scale data, power-saving and energy-efficient solutions for data centers, systems solutions for cloud computing, new application domains that affect every day life and many, many more. Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering, and information technology. Before revolutionary materials, devices, and systems enter the mainstream, early research must be performed using far-reaching projections of the future state of technologies. Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss such work, focusing on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to the development of the whole spectrum of computer systems, from embedded to high-performance computing. This year we are adding Industry Sessions and Workshops that focus on special topics. These sessions should have a special computing frontiers focus and can run between 1/2 and a full day. KEY DATES ========= Submissions deadline: January 30, 2015 Notification: March 2, 2015 Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 20, 2015 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of computing topics, from more traditional research in architecture and systems to new technologies and devices. We seek contributions on novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory technologies and smarter life applications. We are also interested in emerging fields that may not fit within traditional categories. * Algorithms and Models of Computing approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic computing * Biological Computing Models brain computing, neural computing, computational neuroscience, biologically-inspired architectures * Big Data analytics, machine learning, search and representation, system design * System Complexity Management cloud systems, datacenters, exa-scale computing * Computers and Society education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets * Security architecture and systems support for protection against malicious code * Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon * Uses of Technology Scaling 3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs, PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices * Compiler technologies novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies, applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, advanced analysis * Networking technology and protocols, bandwidth management, social networks, internet of things * Interdisciplinary Applications applications that bridge multiple disciplines in interesting ways * Position Papers, Trend Papers and Crazy Ideas * Industry Sessions and Workshops Sessions should have a special computing frontiers focus and can run between 1/2 and full day. INDUSTRY SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS =============================== ### Future Information Security, Privacy and Forensics for Complex Systems FISP-2015 is the first International Workshop on Future Information Security, Privacy, and Forensics for Complex Systems. The aim of FISP-2015 is to provide a premier international platform for scholars, researchers, and practitioners in academia and industry to discuss the most recent challenges and developments in "Information Security, Privacy and Forensics for Complex systems" from the perspective of providing security awareness and its best practices for the real world. This workshop is open to submit novel and high quality research contributions in the field of information security and privacy. We anticipate that this workshop will open new entrance for further research and technology improvements in this important area. Paper Submission Deadline: January 16, 2015 (Fri), 11:59:59 PM (PST) Workshop website: http://www.icsrg.org/fisp-2015.html ### LP-EMS15 - Design of Low Power Embedded Multimedia Systems Digital Media Technologies (DMTs) constitute one of the widest and most important research areas in the ICT domain. Digital technologies allowed the design of complex systems for creation, fruition and sharing of audio/video/image contents pervading consumer electronics. A key challenge in this domain regards the possibility of implementing real-time high-performance multimedia systems minimizing, contemporarily, their power consumption. Complexity on algorithmic side and heterogeneity on processing platform side, are normally colliding system constraints. It is necessary to close the gap between efficient processing and optimal hardware support by adopting smart hardware-software co-design solutions and flexible design frameworks. In this perspective, dataflow-streaming based system models are naturally capable of capturing domain-specific knowledge into formal abstract system specifications capable of exposing the intrinsic potential parallelism of the algorithms. Such representations result very appropriate to model and explore the design space of DMTs applications. Paper Submission Deadline: Monday February 2, 2015, 11:59.59 PM (PST) Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/site/cf15lowpowersystems/ ### Analytics Platforms for the Cloud Cloud computing has become popular because of cost, agility, scale, and flexibility. At the same time, the use of flexible analytic platforms such as Hadoop, Spark, etc. have grown in popularity and are being used to drive the computational side of many types of workloads. Many are now starting to bring these two together to drive efficient deployment of analytic capabilities which can specifically leverage the flexibility and agility of Cloud delivery. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in analytics and cloud computing an end-to-end view on the challenges and opportunities of cloud-based analytics, and enable idea sharing. Paper Submission Deadline: February 8th, 2015 Workshop website: http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=5744 ### Making Sense of Sensed Data - Issues in Developing Heterogeneous Cognitive Systems A new frontier in computing is evolving around developing systems that 'sense' and respond to data in ways that represent or mimic human 'cognition'. These advancements represent the intersection of developments in processor hardware, software, and sensing devices. Examples include the implementation of low power architectures that mimic the type of synaptic information transmission that occur in animal brains (Neuromorphic systems), improvements in probability based software for big data analysis systems such as Natural Language Processing, the development of "deep learning systems" which have demonstrated systems that 'learn' representations of data, and the explosive growth of user based content in data systems such as cell phone video etc.. The evolution of these systems is leading to new possibilities for computing systems to interpret a vast amount of big data collected by sensors into a meaningful representations and to learn from that data or draw inferences from it. Paper Submission Deadline: Friday, Feb 13, 2015 Workshop website: http://computingfrontiers.org/2015/workshops/MSSD15/ SUBMISSION ========== Authors are invited to submit full papers or posters to the main conference. Full papers and poster abstracts must be submitted through the conference paper submission site. Full papers should not exceed eight double-column pages in standard ACM conference format. Poster abstracts should not exceed two pages in the same format. These limits include figures, tables, and references. Our review process is double-blind. Thus, please remove all identifying information from the paper submission (also if citing own work). Abstracts for accepted posters will be published in the proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library (note that authors of these works retain their copyright rights to publish more complete versions later). The best papers from the Computer Frontiers Conference and Workshops will be invited to be published in special issues of IJPP or PARCO. As per ACM guidelines, at least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register for the conference. For information on workshop submissions, please see the individual workshop websites. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2015 Chairs General Chairs: Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Valentina Salapura, IBM, US Program Chairs: Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US Rui Hou, Institute for Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PRC Finance Chair: Jens Breitbart, TU Munich, DE Local Arrangements Chair: Silvia Rossi, Universite degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", IT Poster Chair: Alexander Heinecke, Intel Parallel Computing Lab, US Publicity Chairs: Kun Wang, Microsoft, PRC Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux, FR Publication Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, US Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Computing Frontiers 2015 Steering Committee Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Hubertus Franke, IBM, US Diana Franklin, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Georgi Gaydadijev, Chalmers University, SE Alexander Heinecke, Intel Parallel Computing Lab, US Paul Kelly, Imperial College, GB Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Krishna Palem, Rice University, US / Nanyang Technological University, SG Francesca Palumbo, University of Cagliari, IT Valentina Salapura, IBM, US Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, DE Eli Upfal, Brown University, US Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universität München, DE