Dear Colleagues,

please notice the following deadline extension for
our INFOCOMP 2016 events:

  January 26, 2016

Looking forward to your contributions and hopefully seeing you in Valencia!

Kind regards,
Dr. Claus-Peter Rueckemann
INFOCOMP General Chair



INVITATION:

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The submission deadline has been extended to January 26, 2016.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to:

- INFOCOMP 2016, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced
Communications and Computation

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== INFOCOMP 2016 | Call for Contributions ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

INFOCOMP 2016, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced
Communications and Computation
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/INFOCOMP16.html
Submission page:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/SubmitINFOCOMP16.html

Events schedule: May 22 - 26, 2016 - Valencia, Spain

Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital
library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: January 26, 2016

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital
Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies.
Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are
not under review in any other conference or journal in the
following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and
Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

INFOCOMP 2016 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on
the site)

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/CfPINFOCOMP16.html

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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; Highly
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

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

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)

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INFOCOMP 2016 Committee:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2016/ComINFOCOMP16.html

INFOCOMP General Chair
Claus-Peter Rückemann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
/ Leibniz
Universität Hannover / North-German Supercomputing Alliance, Germany

INFOCOMP Advisory Chairs
Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München (TUM) -
Garching, Germany
Petre Dini, Concordia University - Montreal, Canada / China Space
Agency Center - Beijing, China
Sik Lee, Supercomputing Center / Korea Institute of Science and
Technology Information (KISTI), Korea
Subhash Saini, NASA, USA
Manfred Krafczyk, Institute for Computational Modeling in Civil
Engineering (iRMB) - Braunschweig, Germany

INFOCOMP Academia Chairs
Alexander Knapp, Universität Augsburg, Germany
Malgorzata Pankowska, University of Economics, Katowice, Poland

INFOCOMP Research Institute Liaison Chairs
Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Edgar A. Leon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Ivor Spence, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland,
Research for High
Performance and Distributed Computing / Queen's University Belfast,
UK

INFOCOMP Industry Chairs
Alfred Geiger, T-Systems Solutions for Research GmbH, Germany
Hans-Günther Müller, Cray, Germany

INFOCOMP Special Area Chairs on Large Scale and Fast Computation
José Gracia, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS),
University of Stuttgart, Germany
Björn Hagemeier, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum
Juelich GmbH, Germany
Walter Lioen, SURFsara, Netherlands
Lutz Schubert, Institute of Information Resource Management,
University of Ulm, Germany

INFOCOMP Special Area Chairs on Networks and Communications
Noelia Correia, University of the Algarve, Portugal
Wolfgang Hommel, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre - Munich, Germany

INFOCOMP Special Area Chairs on Advanced Applications
Bernhard Bandow, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
(MPS), Göttingen, Germany
Diglio A. Simoni, RTI International - Research Triangle Park, USA

INFOCOMP Special Area Chairs on Evaluation Context
Huong Ha, University of Newcastle, Australia (Singapore campus)
Philipp Kremer, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Robotics
and Mechatronics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
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