SIGOPS ANNOUNCE monthly posting (02/01/2018)


CONTENTS

  1. Announcements:
    CrossCloud '182018-02-01http://bit.ly/CrossCloud
    SFMA 20182018-02-01https://sites.google.com/site/sfma2018eurosys/home
    W-P2DS 20182018-02-02http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~p2ds/
    DAIS 20182018-02-02http://2018.discotec.org
    * ReQuEST 20182018-02-05http://cKnowledge.org/request
    PaPoC 20182018-02-07https://papoc-workshop.github.io/2018/index.html
    SACMAT 20182018-02-10www.sacmat.org/2018/
    EuroDW 20182018-02-10http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/EuroDW2018/
    * Grand-Challenges2018-02-10https://www.asplos2018.org/grandchallenges/
    * ISMM 20182018-02-15https://conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2018
    SecureComm 20182018-02-16http://securecomm.org
    * DEBS 20182018-02-21http://debs.org/2018
    SATIS 20182018-02-28http://site.uit.no/satis2018
    * NVMW 20182018-02-28http://nvmw.ucsd.edu
    * MAPL 20182018-02-28http://pldi18.sigplan.org/track/mapl-2018-papers
    * WiSec 20182018-03-01https://wisec18.conf.kth.se
    FiCloud 20182018-03-05http://www.ficloud.org/2018/
    * SPC 20182018-03-05http://spc2018.di.unimi.it/
    ProvenanceWeek2018-03-12http://provenanceweek2018.org
    * DBSec 20182018-03-30http://dbsec18.unibg.it
    * BCRB 20182018-04-01https://bcrb18.fim.uni-passau.de

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1. ANNOUNCEMENTS

CrossCloud '18

Title:5th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms
Submission Deadline:2018-02-01
Webpage:http://bit.ly/CrossCloud
Dates:April, 23, 2018
Location:Porto, Portugal
Contact Email:CrossCloudRsrch@gmail.com
Synopsis:
CrossCloud is an international workshop series that aims to bring to light several issues related to cross-cloud systems: cloud federation, multi-cloud architectures, cross-cloud applications, and hybrid clouds. CrossCloud aims to attract researchers from both academia and industry to share and discuss their recent research and experiences in designing and operating multiple cloud systems. Work in this area extends over various topics including cross-cloud resource management, monitoring, service migration, API interoperability, portability, policy enforcement, benefit–cost analysis, and fault mitigation. We solicit two types of submissions: (1) technical papers (max 6 double-column pages), and (2) posters (max 2 double-column pages).

SFMA 2018

Title:8th Workshop on Systems for Multi-core and Heterogeneous Architectures
Submission Deadline:2018-02-01
Webpage:https://sites.google.com/site/sfma2018eurosys/home
Dates:April, 23, 2018
Location:Porto, Portugal
Contact Email:mark@ee.technion.ac.il
Synopsis:
Modern multi-core and accelerator-rich architectures present a variety of challenges for system developers. To achieve high performance on these platforms, application developers will need to exploit parallelism and leverage low-level hardware features to a much greater extent than before. The workshop (the eight installment of the successful SFMA and MaRS workshops) brings together researchers in operating systems, language runtime, virtual machine and architecture communities to present and discuss their system building experiences with the new generations of parallel and heterogeneous hardware.

W-P2DS 2018

Title:Workshop on Privacy by Design in Distributed Systems
Submission Deadline:2018-02-02
Webpage:http://www.gsd.inesc-id.pt/~p2ds/
Dates:April, 23, 2018
Location:Porto, Portugal
Contact Email:francisco.a.maia@inesctec.pt
Synopsis:
The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners from the cryptography, distributed systems, and security systems communities to discuss the current state of the art, emerging challenges and trends, as well as novel solutions, implementation and deployment of privacy-preserving systems and applications. The focus is on concrete applications that bring privacy-preserving mechanisms into cloud computing infrastructures. The workshop is looking for submissions in the form of papers with 6 pages or less describing novel contributions and results as well as experimental reports. The organization welcomes contributions from both academia and industry.

DAIS 2018

Title:18th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
Abstract Deadline:2018-02-02
Submission Deadline:2018-02-09
Webpage:http://2018.discotec.org
Dates:June, 18 - 21, 2018
Location:Madrid, Spain
Contact Email:dais2018@easychair.org
Synopsis:
The DAIS conference series addresses all practical and conceptual aspects of distributed applications, including their design, modeling, implementation and operation, the supporting middleware, appropriate software engineering methodologies and tools, as well as experimental studies and practice reports. Submissions will be judged on their originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and technical correctness.

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ReQuEST 2018

Title:1st Tournament on Reproducible and Pareto-Efficient Deep Learning at ASPLOS'18
Abstract Deadline:2018-02-05
Submission Deadline:2018-02-12
Webpage:http://cKnowledge.org/request
Dates:March 24th 2018 (afternoon)
Location:Williamsburg, VA, USA
Contact Email:grigori@dividiti.com, moreau@uw.edu
Synopsis:
The 1st ReQuEST workshop aims to bring together multidisciplinary researchers in systems, compilers, architecture and machine learning to optimize the quality vs. efficiency Pareto optimality of deep learning systems on complete hardware/software platforms in a standardized, reproducible and comparable fashion. The target application for the first incarnation of ReQuEST will be the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) and will focus solely on optimizing inference on real systems. Restricting the competition to a single application domain will allow us to test an open-source tournament infrastructure, validate it across multiple platforms and environments, and prepare a dedicated live scoreboard with the "winning" solutions. For future incarnations of ReQuEST, we will provide broader application coverage. The workshop co-located with ASPLOS 2018 will be the opportunity for the participants to share their research and implementation insights with the research community. A common academic and industrial panel will be held at the end of the workshop to discuss how to improve common SW/HW co-design methodology for deep learning and other real-world applications.

PaPoC 2018

Title:5th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data
Submission Deadline:2018-02-07
Webpage:https://papoc-workshop.github.io/2018/index.html
Dates:April, 23 2018
Location:Porto, Portugal
Contact Email:sburckha@microsoft.com
Synopsis:
Consistency is one of the fundamental issues of distributed computing. There are many competing consistency models, with subtly different tradeoffs. In practice, these translate to difficult choices between fault tolerance, performance, and programmability. This workshop aims to investigate the principles and practice of consistency models for large-scale, distributed shared data systems. It will bring together theoreticians and practitioners from different horizons: system development, distributed algorithms, concurrency, fault tolerance, databases, language and verification, including both academia and industry.

SACMAT 2018

Title:23rd ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies
Submission Deadline:2018-02-10
Webpage:www.sacmat.org/2018/
Dates:June 13-15, 2018
Location:The Omni Severin Hotel Indianapolis, USA
Contact Email:conti@math.unipd.it
Synopsis:
The organizing committee of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT 2018) invites contributions in all aspects of access control. The symposium will provide participants the opportunity to present work at different levels of development, from early work on promising ideas to fully developed technical results as well as system demonstrations.

EuroDW 2018

Title:EuroSys Doctoral Workshop 2018
Submission Deadline:2018-02-10
Webpage:http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/EuroDW2018/
Dates:April, 23, 2018
Location:Porto, Portugal
Contact Email:pramod.bhatotia@ed.ac.uk
Synopsis:
The 12th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW 2018) will provide a forum for PhD students to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. Technical presentations will be augmented with general advice and discussions about getting a PhD, doing research, and post-doctoral careers. We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies.

NEW THIS MONTH!

Grand-Challenges

Title:Grand Challenges in Computer Systems Research Workshop
Submission Deadline:2018-02-10
Webpage:https://www.asplos2018.org/grandchallenges/
Dates:March, 24-25, 2018
Location:Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Contact Email:research_challenges@cs.illinois.edu
Synopsis:
It is a time of wrenching changes in computer systems research. The community is researching an unprecedentedly broad range of topics, ranging from the small (internet of things) to the large (exascale datacenters), simultaneously addressing technology discontinuities (End of Moore’s Law and Energy Wall), new challenges in security and privacy, and the rise of artificial intelligence. It is in this context that NSF is sponsoring a community visioning workshop on Grand Challenges in Computer Systems Research on a 10-15 year horizon, co-located with ASPLOS. Submit a 1-page PDF to research_challenges@cs.illinois.edu by Feb 10th, and find more details at our website!

NEW THIS MONTH!

ISMM 2018

Title:ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Memory Management 2018
Submission Deadline:2018-02-15
Webpage:https://conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-2018
Dates:June, 18, 2018
Location:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Contact Email:hpayer@google.com
Synopsis:
The International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM 2018) is soliciting full-length submissions covering new work on memory management topics, as well as papers presenting confirmations or refutations of important prior results. Surveys and comparative analyses that shed new light on previously published techniques are also welcome.

SecureComm 2018

Title:14th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)
Submission Deadline:2018-02-16
Webpage:http://securecomm.org
Dates:August 8-10, 2018
Location:Singapore
Contact Email:ygtian@smu.edu.sg
Synopsis:
SecureComm seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of well-developed papers. Topics of interest encompass research advances in ALL areas of secure communications and networking. Topics in other areas (e.g., formal methods, database security, secure software, theoretical cryptography) will be considered only if a clear connection to private or secure communication/networking is demonstrated.

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DEBS 2018

Title:12th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS'18)
Abstract Deadline:2018-02-21
Submission Deadline:2018-02-26
Webpage:http://debs.org/2018
Dates:June, 25 - 29, 2018
Location:Hamilton, New Zealand
Contact Email:ruben.mayer@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Synopsis:
Over the past decade, the ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS) has become the premier venue for contributions in the fields of distributed and event-based systems. The objectives of DEBS are to provide a forum dedicated to the dissemination of original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the reporting of experiences relevant to distributed systems and event-based computing. The scope of the conference includes systems dealing with detecting, processing and responding to events and with massively distributed middleware and applications. Application domains covered by the conference include IOT, sensor networks, social networking, finance, healthcare and logistics.

SATIS 2018

Title:1st ACM SIGOPS Summer School on Advanced Topics in Systems
Submission Deadline:2018-02-28
Webpage:http://site.uit.no/satis2018
Dates:August, 14-17, 2018
Location:Sommarøy / Tromsø, Norway
Contact Email:havard.johansen@uit.no
Synopsis:
ACM SIGOPS is sponsoring a series of summer schools on Advanced Topics in Systems, to be held once every two years. The summer schools will feature a teaching staff of well-known researchers and is targeted at Ph.D. students, engineers, and junior faculty. This first summer school will focus on advanced topics in distributed systems, and will be held on the picturesque and secluded island of Sommarøy located in a Norwegian fjord 300 km (200 miles) north of the Arctic circle. This summer school will feature lectures by nine distinguished speakers. In the evenings we will have social activities and/or poster sessions.

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NVMW 2018

Title:2018 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop
Submission Deadline:2018-02-28
Webpage:http://nvmw.ucsd.edu
Dates:March, 11-13, 2018
Location:San Diego, CA, USA
Contact Email:swanson@cs.ucsd.edu
Synopsis:
The 9th Annual Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2018) provides a unique showcase for outstanding research on solid state, non-volatile memories. Registration is now open. This year, the NVMW will present three awards: The first is the inaugural Persistent Impact Prize to recognize high-impact research published more than 5 years ago. We will also award two Memorable Paper Awards recognizing the best work published in the last 18 months. The program will also include a tutorial: "Caches for the Persistent Memory and Flash Era” by Ymir Vigfusson (Emory University) and Irfan Ahmad (CEO of CachePhysics), and several keynotes include Bianca Schoeder (University of Toronto).

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MAPL 2018

Title:ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Machine Learning and Programming Languages
Submission Deadline:2018-02-28
Webpage:http://pldi18.sigplan.org/track/mapl-2018-papers
Dates:June 2018
Location:Philadelphia, USA
Contact Email:akcheung@cs.washington.edu
Synopsis:
Now in its second edition, MAPL is a forum for researchers to discuss new advances in programming systems and machine learning, and to encourage collaboration and exploration in the areas of mutual benefit. The workshop seeks papers on a diverse range of topics related to programming languages and machine learning including.

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WiSec 2018

Title:11th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
Submission Deadline:2018-03-01
Webpage:https://wisec18.conf.kth.se
Dates:June 18-20, 2018
Location:Stockholm, Sweden
Contact Email:butler@ufl.edu
Synopsis:
ACM WiSec is the leading ACM and SIGSAC conference dedicated to all aspects of security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks and their applications. In addition to the traditional ACM WiSec topics of physical, link, and network layer security, we welcome papers focusing on the security and privacy of mobile software platforms, usable security and privacy, biometrics, cryptography, and the increasingly diverse range of mobile or wireless applications such as Internet of Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems. The conference welcomes both theoretical as well as systems contributions.

FiCloud 2018

Title:IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud
Submission Deadline:2018-03-05
Webpage:http://www.ficloud.org/2018/
Dates:08, 6-8, 2018
Location:Barcelona, Spain
Contact Email:ficloud.info@gmail.com
Synopsis:
The theme of this conference is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of the IoT and cloud computing. It provides a forum for bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas in the area of IoT and cloud computing.

NEW THIS MONTH!

SPC 2018

Title:4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud
Submission Deadline:2018-03-05
Webpage:http://spc2018.di.unimi.it/
Dates:May 30 - June 1, 2018
Location:beijing, China
Contact Email:spc2018@di.unimi.it
Synopsis:
Cloud computing is today the reference paradigm for large-scale data storage and processing due to the convenient and efficient network access to configurable resources that can be easily adjusted according to the users’ needs. Although the benefits of cloud computing are tremendous, security and privacy concerns have still a detrimental impact on the adoption and acceptability of cloud services. In fact, users as well as companies that rely on cloud storage and computation services lose the direct control over the systems managing their data and applications, thus putting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data at risk. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are interested in discussing the security, privacy, and data protection issues emerging in cloud scenarios, and possible solutions to them.

ProvenanceWeek

Title:3rd ProvenanceWeek (2018)
Abstract Deadline:2018-03-12
Submission Deadline:2018-03-19
Webpage:http://provenanceweek2018.org
Dates:July, 9-13, 2018
Location:London, UK
Contact Email:provenanceweek2018@easychair.org
Synopsis:
Following successful ProvenanceWeek events in 2014 and 2016, this year's installment will again co-locate the IPAW and TaPP workshops as well as several satellite events that focus on novel directions for provenance. IPAW and TaPP build on a successful history of provenance workshops that bring together researchers from a wide range of computer science fields including workflows, semantic web, databases, high performance computing, distributed systems, operating systems, programming languages, and software engineering, as well as researchers from other fields, such as biology and physics that have urgent provenance needs.

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DBSec 2018

Title:32nd IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy
Submission Deadline:2018-03-30
Webpage:http://dbsec18.unibg.it
Dates:July, 16-18, 2018
Location:Bergamo, Italy
Contact Email:dbsec18@unibg.it
Synopsis:
DBSec is an annual international conference covering research in data and applications security and privacy. The 32nd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2018) will be held in Bergamo, Italy. The conference seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of data protection, privacy, and applications security.

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BCRB 2018

Title:DSN Workshop on Byzantine Consensus and Resilient Blockchains
Submission Deadline:2018-04-01
Webpage:https://bcrb18.fim.uni-passau.de
Dates:June, 25-28, 2018
Location:Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Contact Email:bcrb18@sec.uni-passau.de
Synopsis:
The workshop provides a forum for discussing novel trends in blockchain technology and the role of Byzantine consensus/BFT technology in the development of resilient blockchain technology. It aims at identifying novel threats and attacks to blockchain and BFT technologies, as well as at promoting discussions on methods and system support for improving the resilience and scalability. The workshop shall contribute to identifying new application areas for blockchain and BFT, and identifying open problems and future research challenges for BFT, including the impact of new hardware developments on BFT consensus and blockchain technology.

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