CALL FOR PAPERS
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8th Workshop on Scalable Computing (WSC'16)

Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016

WWW: https://fedcsis.org/wsc
E-mail: wsc2016@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WSC - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016).

FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

TOPICS
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Covered topics include (but are not limited to):

General issues in scalable computing
- Algorithms and programming models for large-scale applications, simulations and systems
- Large-scale symbolic, numeric, data-intensive, graph, distributed computations
- Architectures for large-scale computations (GPUs, accelerators, quantum systems, federated systems, etc.)
- Data models for large-scale applications, simulations and systems
- Large-scale distributed databases
- Security issues for large-scale applications and systems
- Load-balancing / intelligent resource management in large-scale applications, simulations and systems
- Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction
- Portals, workflows, services and collaborative research
- Data visualization
- On-demand computing
- Virtualization supporting computations
- Self-adaptive computational / storage systems
- Volunteer computing
- Scaling applications from small-scale to exa-scale (and back)
- Computing for Big Data
- Business applications
Grid / Cloud computing
- Cloud / Grid computing architectures, models, algorithms and applications
- Cloud / Grid security, privacy, confidentiality and compliance
- Mobile Cloud computing
- High performance Cloud computing
- Green Cloud computing
- Performance, capacity management and monitoring of Cloud / Grid configuration
- Cloud / Grid interoperability and portability
- Cloud / Grid application scalability and availability
- Economic, business and ROI models for Cloud / Grid computing
- Big Data cloud services

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of:
- Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience journal,
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier, IF = 2.229).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 30, 2016
- Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016
- Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016
- Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016

EVENT CHAIRS
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- Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdańsk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Gusev, Marjan, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia
- Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Ristov, Sasko, University Sts Cyril and Methodius, Macedonia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far)
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- Anderson, David, University of California, Berkeley, United States
- Bass, Len, NICTA, Australia
- Brodnik, Andrej, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Slovenia
- Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
- D'Ambra, Pasqua, ICAR-CNR, Italy
- Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- Gepner, Paweł, Intel Corporation, United Kingdom
- Gordon, Minor, Software development consultant, United States
- Goscinski, Andrzej, Deakin University, Australia
- Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States
- Holmes, Violeta, The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
- Hsu, Ching-Hsien (Robert), Chung Hua University, Taiwan
- Kalinov, Alexey, Cadence Design Systems, Russia
- Karaivanova, Aneta, IICT-BAS, Bulgaria
- Kitowski, Jacek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Poland
- Knepper, Richard, Indiana University, United States
- Kranzlmüller, Dieter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Germany
- Kwiatkowski, Jan, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
- Lang, Tran Van, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
- Lastovetsky, Alexey, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Legalov, Alexander, Siberian Federal University, Russia
- Luo, Mon-Yen, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Taiwan
- Margaritis, Konstantinos G., University of Macedonia, Greece
- Milentijevic, Ivan, University of Nis, Serbia
- Morrison, John, University College Cork, Ireland
- Nosovic, Novica, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Olejnik, Richard, CNRS - University of Lille I, France
- Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
- Rak, Massimiliano, Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy
- Schikuta, Erich, University of Vienna, Austria
- Schreiner, Wolfgang, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Shen, Hong, University of Adelaide, Australia
- Song, Ha Yoon, Hongik University, South Korea
- Stankovski, Vlado, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Talia, Domenico, ICAR-CNR and University of Calabria, Italy
- Telegin, Pavel, JSCC RAS, Russia
- Trystram, Denis, Grenoble Technical University, France
- Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
- Tvrdik, Pavel, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
- Vazhenin, Alexander, University of Aizu, Japan
- Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China
- Wyrzykowski, Roman, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
- Xu, Baomin, Beijing JiaoTong University, China
- Zavoral, Filip, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic


CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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