Dear Colleagues,

thank you so much for the great support from all participants, speakers, panelists,
committees, peer reviewers, and all the other contributors and volunteers
with the INFOCOMP conferences!

We are very happy to welcome new contributions for the upcoming INFOCOMP events!
        
Please consider to contribute to The Sixth International Conference on
Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP 2017)
and events and/or forward to the appropriate groups.

INFOCOMP 2017 continues a successful series of events dedicated to advanced
communications and computing aspects, covering academic and industrial
achievements and visions.

Tracks feature application scenarios, state of the art, and outreach
developments of advanced scientific computing, supercomputing, HPC, and
communication from present to future architectures, integrated systems, beyond
cloud, and reaching exaflop:
Large scale and fast computation, networks/systems communications, measurement,
control and management, advanced applications from geosciences, scientific data
processing, natural sciences, archaeology, planetology, spatial and
environmental sciences, geoprocessing, integrated information and computing
systems, intelligent systems, big data, knowledge discovery and manegement,
mobility, legal informatics, database applications, as well as tracks on
evaluation context, biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications.

The conference aims on bringing together world's leading international experts, researchers,
computational scientists, developers, system managers, users, students, and
industry and business affiliates and government officials and funding agencies' representatives
for sharing experiences, publishing and presenting new research results and
discussing recent developments, challenges, and future advancements and collaboration
in exciting expert panels, workshops, symposia, and tutorials.

In this context, please also note the chance for proposals on:

- Tutorials
  see http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/CfPINFOCOMP17.html

- Panels
  see http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/CfPINFOCOMP17.html

- Workshops
  http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

- Symposia
  http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
 
In 2017 INFOCOMP will also host MODOPT 2017,
The International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization.
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/MODOPT.html

Wish you all the best with your research and beyond!

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

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


============= INFOCOMP 2017 | Call for Papers ==============

             Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels

                       INFOCOMP 2017

            THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
           ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTATION

             June 25 - 29, 2017 - Venice, Italy

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to INFOCOMP 2017.

The paper submission deadline is February 5, 2017.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended
article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/INFOCOMP17.html
Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/ComINFOCOMP17.html
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/SubmitINFOCOMP17.html

ISSN: 2308-3484
ISBN: 978-1-61208-567-8
Visibility Index: 13.3 [2011]

Call for Papers:
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http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/CfPINFOCOMP17.html

         
Contribution types:
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- 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:
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- Symposia: See http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- Workshops: See http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- Tutorials: [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- Panels: [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission page:
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http://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/SubmitINFOCOMP17.html


Paper submission deadline: February 5, 2017


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 open access
ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

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 conform with the Editorial
rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


INFOCOMP 2017 Tracks and Topics
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(topics and submission details: See CfP on the site)


Large scale and fast computation
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- 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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