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HiPMoS 2015
HIGH PERFORMANCE MODELLING AND SIMULATION 2015
https://www.dem.unina2.it/hipmos/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
We have the great pleasure to invite you to participate in the High Performance Modeling and Simulation 2015 track, that will be held in the framework of the 29th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS 2015) in May 26th - 29th, 2015, Varna, Bulgaria. All ECMS papers are indexed by SCOPUS, DBLP, ISI, INSPEC and DOI.


SCOPE
Modeling and simulation are widely considered essential tools in many areas of science and engineering for the prediction and analysis of complex systems and natural phenomena. They often require a significant amount of computational resources with data sets typically scattered across different geographical locations.
Furthermore, the development of such complex modelling and simulation environments usually requires collaborative efforts from researchers with different domain knowledge and expertise, possibly at different locations. High performance computing is arguably required to deal with the behaviour and complexity of such large-scale systems.

ORGANIZATION AND TOPICS
HiPMoS 2015 is organized as a multi-session track and is composed of the following events:


** Special Session on "Modelling and Simulation of Data Intensive Systems (HiPMoS -DIS)"**

In today's data intensive computing, the application developers need abstract simulation models to expose expected hardware features (e.g., SIMD, lightweight cores, or specialized functional units) and performance targets in terms of hierarchical parallelism, scale, data movement, computational intensity, bandwidths, latencies, and storage capacities of possible data intensive applications and systems, as well as non-performance objectives such as power and resilience. System architects need architecture-independent models of important applications that they can use to identify, understand, and evaluate application behavior on these proposed architectures. These abstractions must exist across the modeling, simulation, and measurement infrastructures.
Modeling and simulation techniques must provide predictive and optimization capabilities at runtime. This will require the development of rapid evaluation techniques as well as interfaces for incorporating models into the layers within the software stack. In addition to dynamic model creation, models must be actionable. That is, the models must enable appropriate levels of the software stack to react to the instantaneous state of the system, both hardware and software, and provide the necessary information that can be used to guide and optimize system operation.
Topics of interest for this session include but are not limited to the following:
- Infrastructures and middleware as enablers for modelling and simulation of data intensive systems
- Evaluation of programming models supporting data intensive applications
- Runtime systems supporting modelling of data intensive applications
- Productivity tools for data intensive applications
- Development and generation of machine and application abstractions for data intensive computing
- Dynamic and actionable modeling of data intensive systems
- Standards, integration and interoperability of modelling and simulation methodologies and tools for data intensive computing


** Special Session on "Probability and statistical methods for modelling and simulation of high performance information systems (HiPMoS- ProbStat)" **

The development trends of modern information technologies lead to the constant growth of complexity of information systems and call for their high performance. Stochastic nature of flows that information systems need to serve and presence of stochastic internal processes that influence their behavior justifies the use of probabilistic modeling and simulation when one needs to analyze their performance. Despite increasing complexity obvious requirement for system’s high performance which ensures, for example, low response times and accuracy, remains unchanged and it calls for advanced methods of modeling and simulation. Such methods must not be limited to those which ensure fast computations but include also those which provide new suitable (from the point of view of high performance) approaches for representation and analysis of system’s component and system as a whole.
The topics of this session are focused on but not limited to the following:
- Queuing Systems Modelling and Simulation
- Performance Modelling and Analysis of Information and Telecommunication Networks
- Information Flows Modeling and Analysis
- Overload and Flow Control Modelling and Simulations
- Assessment of efficiency, reliability and stability (tolerance) of high performance information systems

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit research and application papers following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style available at the main conference web page (http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2015/authorkit.html).

We solicit the submission of academic conference papers (7 pages) representing original, previously unpublished work. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Papers should be prepared as PDF files and submitted electronically to the ECMS 2015 online submission system.
Submission of the paper implies that should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors must register and present the paper at the conference. Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the notification of acceptance. HiPMoS 2015 papers must be submitted for the selected HiPMoS session.
The authors must select the following options for BOTH SUBMISSION and REGISTRATION:
DIS for "Modelling and Simulation of Data Intensive Systems" special session
PROBSTAT for "Probability and statistical methods for modelling and simulation of high performance information systems " special session.
For more detailed information contact the HiPMOS track organizers or visit:
http://www.dem.unina2.it/hipmos/, the HiPMoS 2015 webpage
http://www.scs-europe.net/conf/ecms2015/, the ECMS 2015 webpage


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IMPORTANT DATES

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Paper Submissions: February 13, 2015

Notification of Acceptance: March 13, 2015

Camera-Ready/Registration: April 15, 2015

Conference Dates:
May 26 - 29, 2015

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COMMITTEES
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** HiPMoS 2015 **

CHAIR

Mauro Iacono
, Seconda Universitа degli Studi di Napoli, Italy


CO-CHAIR
Marco Gribaudo
, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


HONORARY CHAIR

Joanna Kolodziej, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland


** HiPMoS DIS session **


CHAIR

Mauro Iacono
, Seconda Universitа degli Studi di Napoli, Italy


CO-CHAIR
Marco Gribaudo
, Politecnico di Milano, Italy



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Piotr Arabas, Warsaw University of Technology and NASK, Poland
Enrico Barbierato, Seconda Universitа degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kingdom
Aleksander Byrski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Valentin Cristea, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Roman Debski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Daniel Grzonka, Cracow University of Technology, Poland
Catalin Leordeanu. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Alexander H. Levis, George Mason University, USA
Michal Marks, Research and Academic Computer Network NASK, Poland
Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universitа degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
Djamel Eddine Saidouni, MISC Laboratory, University Constantine 2, Algeria
Ewa Niewiadomska-Szynkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology and NASK, Poland
Magdalena Szmajduch, Cracow Univ. of Technology, Poland
Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Stelios Sotiriadis,Technical University of Crete, Greece
Jie Tao, Steinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Armin Zimmermann, TU Ilmenau, Germany

** HiPMoS ProbStat session **

CHAIRS

Alexander I. Zeifman
, Vologda State University, Russia

Pavel O. Abaev,
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia

Rostislav V. Razumchik,
Institute of Informatics Problems - Russian Academy of Sciences, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alexander A. Grusho Institute of Informatics Problems - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Victor Yu. Korolev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Alexander V. Pechinkin, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Konstantin E. Samouylov, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, Russia

Sergey Ya. Shorgin, Institute of Informatics Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia