Dear Colleagues and Contributors, we are very happy to welcome new contributions for the next INFOCOMP events, coming to NICE, France, in 2019! Please consider to contribute to The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation (INFOCOMP 2019) and events and/or forward to your colleagues and to the appropriate groups. http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/cpr/x/rwerkr/en/#2019INFOCOMP Thank you so much for the excellent contributions from scientific and applied disciplines and for the active support from all participants, speakers, panelists, independent peer reviewers, from the chairs, committees, and moderators, from the editorial supporters and other volunteers, over the past years! Your contributions and active support have made the INFOCOMP conferences a successful and most lively event series with highest quality standards and publications! INFOCOMP 2019 continues a successful series of events dedicated to advanced communications and computing aspects, covering academic and industrial achievements and visions. We solicit both academic, research, and industrial contributions. We welcome technical papers presenting research and practical results, position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the standard fora or in industry consortia, survey papers addressing the key problems and solutions on any of the above topics short papers on work in progress, and panel proposals. Tracks feature trends and advances, 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, mobility, legal informatics, database applications, as well as tracks on evaluation context, biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications. In 2019 INFOCOMP, again, also hosts MODOPT 2019, the Special Track on Modeling and Optimization. The conference aims on bringing together world's leading international experts, researchers, computational scientists, developers, system managers, users, doctoral students, and industry and business affiliates for sharing experiences, publishing and presenting new research results and discussing recent developments, challenges, and future advancements and collaboration in exciting keynotes, expert panels, workshops, special sessions, and tutorials. In this context, in addition to the Call for Papers please also note the chance for proposals on TUTORIALS, PANELS, SPECIAL SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND SYMPOSIA. Wish you all the best with your research and beyond! Looking forward to your contributions and hopefully seeing you in Nice! Kind regards, Dr. Claus-Peter Rueckemann INFOCOMP General Chair and Chair of the Steering Committee INVITATION: ============== Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to: *INFOCOMP 2019*, The Ninth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation, The submission deadline is *March 19, 2019*. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions for a journal. ============== === CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS === ============= INFOCOMP 2019 | Call for Papers ============== Call for Papers, Tutorials, Panels INFOCOMP 2019 THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS AND COMPUTATION July 28 - August 1, 2019 - Nice, France ============================================================ For General Page, Call for Papers and topics, submission, committees, and program for INFOCOMP please see: http://www.user.uni-hannover.de/cpr/x/rwerkr/en/#2019INFOCOMP Event schedule: July 28 - August 1, 2019 - Nice, France Contribution types: - Regular papers [in proceedings and digital library] - Short papers (work in progress) [in proceedings and digital library] - Ideas: Two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - Extended abstracts: Two pages [in proceedings and digital library] - Posters: Two pages [in proceedings and digital library] - Posters: Slide only [slide-decks will be posted] - Presentations: Slide only [slide-decks will be posted] - Demos: Two pages [will be posted] - Doctoral forum submissions: [in proceedings and digital library] Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to INFOCOMP 2019. The paper submission deadline is March 19, 2019. ISSN: 2308-3484 ISBN: 978-1-61208-732-0 ISBN: 978-1-61208-093-2 (e-Proceedings) Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html INFOCOMP 2019 proceedings will be submitted for indexing with ISI Thomson Reuters in WoS (Web of Science Core Collection). Articles and full proceedings will also be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library ("Golden Open Access"): http://www.thinkmind.org INFOCOMP proceedings and publication data are also hosted as Open Access by various libraries (please see the conference page for detailed information). Authors of selected and presented papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the associated Journals without additional costs. Call for Papers and Submission: ------------------------------- 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. INFOCOMP 2019 conference tracks: -------------------------------- Trends and advances on architecture/methods Intensive computing and Big Data; Performance portability; Trading off locality and load balancing; Complex multi-physics models; Multiscale methods;Emerging programming models;Hybrid parallel programming; APGAS (Asynchronous Partitioned Global Address Space) programming model; Resiliency and elasticity approaches; Scalable petascale data-driven approach; Extreme scale technologies; Task characterization-driven scheduling; Data analytics and visualization; HPC in IoT (Internet of Things) systems; Observational data and simulations; Complex scientific data sets; Massively scalable task parallelism; Routing-aware tasks; Multi-tenant cloud workloads; Soft error resiliency Trends and advances on disciplines/applications Urban Simulations; Scalable cortical computing; Molecular dynamics supercomputing; Petascale biomolecular simulations; Data-centric parallel systems; Lithospheric dynamics; Graph computation; Genome-scale gene networks; Scale free graphs; Migratable objects; Quantum simulations; Metascalable quantum molecular dynamics simulations; Real-time data analytics; Uncertain execution scales; Sharing in IaaS clouds; Large-scale visualization; Distributed NoSQL data stores 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; High 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 Turbulence modeling and simulation Fundamental turbulence; Complex flows; Turbulence modeling; Environmental turbulence; Simulation of solid-liquid systems; Heat/cooling transfer modeling; Transitional flows models; Flows simulation; Particle simulations; Turbulent multi-phase flows; Oscillations; Stability and instability; Turbulent air-water flows; Liquid/Liquid interface turbulence; Aeroacoustics Advanced applications Computation: Advanced applications, scientific, theoretical, methodological, practical, and technical contributions; Advanced scientific computing; Simulation and modeling (scientific applications, engineering, industry); Mathematical and numerical algorithms and methods; Molecular dynamics simulation; Genetic algorithms; Physics and chemistry applications; Multi-dimensional data visualization; Search engines and scientific discovery; Scientific data processing; Database applications and development; Knowledge discovery, documentation, and classification; Data intensive computing, data science; Methodology and case studies regarding computing and communication scenarios; Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) applications; Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications Systems: Computer science and geoinformatics; e-Energy, geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Information and database systems; Mobility and logistic services; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology; Climatology and environmental sciences; Medicine, genetics, epidemiology, medical geology; Online social networking; Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications; Education, e-Learning, and e-Science; ICT business evaluation and management; Earth and planetary sciences; Archaeology, cultural heritage; Computation frameworks and tools; Mathematica, SAGE, Maple, Matlab, Scilab, Gromacs, ANSYS, Fluent, etc.) Legal context, economic use and re-use Legal informatics; Science, information technology, and copyright; Open access, license models, legal aspects of open source; Legal aspects of collaborative software development; Ownership and information technology; Digital rights; Patents; Toll access; Accounting; billing; National and international legal regulations 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)