================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 (CF'16) May 16 - 18, 2016, Como, 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. The field of computing requires new breakthroughs to adapt to the ever-changing requirements of society, especially with respect to science. Technology is on the verge of revolutions in memory devices and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning, data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and energy efficiency, and many more areas. New application domains that affect everyday life are constantly emerging. 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. Early research, using far-reaching projections of the future state of technologies, provides the bases that will allow revolutionary materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Revolutionary breakthroughs are enabled through collaborative efforts among researchers of different expertise and backgrounds. Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss such work, and it focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to the development of a spectrum of computer systems, from embedded devices to supercomputers and data centers. KEY DATES ========= Submissions deadline: January 29, 2016 Notification: March 11, 2016 Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 25, 2016 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 * 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, accelerators, PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices * Embedded and Cyber-Physical systems Design space exploration, ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging, reactive and realtime systems, reconfigurable and self-aware systems, sensor networks, internet of things, wearables * Big Data Analytics High performance data analytics, machine and deep learning, data search and representation, architecture and system design * Large-scale system design Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, runtimes, networking technologies and protocols, Cloud and Grid systems, datacenters, exa-scale computing, power- and energy management * Compiler technologies Novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies, applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, domain specific languages, advanced analysis, high-level synthesis * Security Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code, real-time implementation of security algorithms and protocols, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, advanced persistent threats, cyber and physical attacks and countermeasures * Computers and Society Education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets * Interdisciplinary Applications Applications that bridge multiple disciplines in interesting ways Computing Frontiers 2016 also encourages Position Papers, Trend Papers, and poster submissions on “frontier” topics. WORKSHOPS ========= Computing Frontiers 2016 will feature four Workshops and Special Sessions that focus. Submission of papers to the workshops is handled separately from the main conference. Please refer to the websites of the workshops for more details. ### LP-EMS16 - 2nd Workshop on design of Low Power EMbedded Systems Aim and Scope: Modern cyber-physical and highly networked systems may impose challenging and conflicting requirements. Implementing real-time high-performance systems and minimizing, contemporarily, their power consumption is not straightforward. It implies to devise advanced modelling strategies as well as efficient design automation techniques that have the capacity to optimize complex parallel applications over heterogeneous many-cores platforms. Complexity on algorithmic side and heterogeneity on hardware side are colliding system constraints, which can be tackled by adopting hw/sw co-design solutions and flexible design frameworks. With respect to this context, we expect contributions in different fields of digital signal processing such as: telecommunication, multimedia, medical imaging, computing graphics, biomedical applications... and many others! Papers may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - High-level synthesis and hw/sw co-design techniques for low-power digital signal/image processing; - Design of self-energy aware systems; - Design space exploration techniques, with special emphasis on power/energy estimations and power minimization methodologies; - Parallel/high throughput processing techniques for low-power digital signal/image processing; - Algorithm-level optimization, low-complexity algorithm for low-power digital signal/image processing; - MPEG Green Metadata; - Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, hw and sw dynamic power management. Workshop Organizers: Francesca Palumbo, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, PolComIng Maxime Pelcat, INSA de Rennes, IETR Daniel Menard, INSA de Rennes, IETR Workshop website: http://hpc.pnl.gov/LP-EMS16/Home.html Abstract due: February 19, 2016 Submission due (hard deadline): February 26, 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 11, 2016 Submission of camera-ready papers and registration: March 25, 2016 ### Big Data Analytics Managing and processing large volumes of data, or "Big Data" and gaining meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the distributed computing community; as a consequence, many business are demanding large scale streaming data analytics. This has significant impact in a wide range of domains including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business informatics, and scientific computing. Despite considerable advancements on high performance, large storage, and high computation power, there are challenges in identifying, clustering, classifying, and interpreting of a large spectrum of information. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a fertile ground for collaboration between research institutions and industries and in analytics, machine learning, and high performance computing. Topics of interest are: - High performance data analytics - Machine and deep learning - Data search and representation - Architecture and system design - Cloud-based big data solutions - Software infrastructures Workshop Organizers: Roberta Piscitelli, EGI.eu Workshop Website: http://go.egi.eu/BigDAW16 Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2016 ### Malicious Software and Hardware in Internet of Things Aim and Scope: Cyber-physical and smart embedded systems, already highly networked, will be even more connected in the near future to form the Internet of Things, handling large amounts of private and safety critical data. The pervasive diffusion of these devices will create several threats to privacy and could open new possibilities for attackers, since the security of even larger portions of the Internet of Things could be harmed by compromising a reduced number of components. The possibility of securely updating devices should be guaranteed and it should be possible to verify and assert the root of trust of components. With respect to this context we expect contributions in different areas of security in Internet of Things. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Malicious firmware design and detection - Malware in Internet of Things applications - Hardware root of trust - Privacy issues of smart-home systems and complex systems - Hardware Trojans and their effects on systems - Hardware authentication and IP protection - Secure communication and key-management - Implementation attacks and countermeasures - Emerging threats and attack vectors in the Internet of Things - Supply chain security Workshop Organizers: Georg T. Becker, Ruhr-University Bochum Francesco Regazzoni, ALaRI - USI Workshop Website: http://www.alari.ch/mal-iot2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 10, 2016 ### Special Session On Funded Projects This year CF will also feature a special session on funded projects at the "frontier" of computing. The special session will include talks from well known principle investigators of collaborative projects all over the world (Europe, America, Asia) dealing with themes such as quantum and post quantum cryptography, high performance computing, data analytics, machine learning, emerging and revolutionary architectures, internet of things, wearables, and biological sensors. SUBMISSION ========== Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf16 Authors are invited to submit full papers, position papers, trend papers, and poster abstracts to the main conference. Papers must be submitted through the conference paper submission site. Authors will declare in advance to which category they are submitting through the submission site. Full papers are allowed up to eight (8) double-column pages in standard ACM conference format (included in the registration fee). Authors, however, will be able to buy up to two (2) extra pages at 100 Euro per page. Authors can submit full papers of up to ten (10) double-column pages, provided that they do not reduce the size of the paper and agree to pay the additional pages if the paper is accepted. Position and trend papers should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) pages in the same format. Poster abstracts should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) 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 (and cite your own work in the third person). Authors of interesting work not mature enough for an oral presentation may be offered the option of presenting their work as posters. Position papers, trend papers, and 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 in special issues of IJPP or PARCO. As per ACM guidelines, at least one unique author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference. For information on workshop submissions, please see the individual workshop websites. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2016 Chairs General Chairs: Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT John Feo, PNNL/NIAC, US Program Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US Poster Chair: Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Finance Chair: Peter Zinterhof, University of Salzburg, AT Local Arrangements Chair: Vittorio Zaccaria, Politecnico di Milano, IT Workshop Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Francesco Regazzoni, ALARI, CH Publications Chair: Carlo Galuzzi, Maastricht University, NL Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, KORE University, IT Jianbo Dong, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Computing Frontiers 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, Maxeler, GB 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 Sassari, 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