[agents] CFP: IEEE ScalCom 2018

[Scott Fowler]

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======================= IEEE ScalCom 2018 =======================

The 18th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications

October 8-12, 2018, Guangzhou, China

http://www.smart-world.org/2018/scalcom/ 

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Keynote Speeches Section

You are welcome to attend 15+ Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders, which will be shared by the IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops. Detailed information will be available at the conference website later.

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Special Issues Section

Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues* (to be confirmed). Special issues will be shared by IEEE Smart World Congress 2018 and its six Co-Located Conferences (UIC, ATC, ScalCom, CBDCom, IoP, SCI) and their associated Symposiums/Workshops:

(1) IEEE Internet of Things Journal (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 7.596)
http://ieee-iotj.org/

(2) Information Fusion - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.667)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/

(3) Information Sciences - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.832)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-sciences/

(4) Future Generation Computer Systems - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.997)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/

(5) Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.500)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-network-and-computer-applications/

(6) IEEE Access (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.244)
http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/

(7) Ad Hoc Networks - Elsevier (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.047)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ad-hoc-networks/

(8) Soft Computing -  Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.472)
https://link.springer.com/journal/500

(9) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.899)
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/wcmc/

(10) International Journal of Parallel Programming - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 1.156)
https://link.springer.com/journal/10766

(11) Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Springer (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.956)
http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/11390

(12) Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - IOS (SCI & EI Indexed, Impactor Factor: 0.809)
https://www.iospress.nl/journal/journal-of-ambient-intelligence-and-smart-environments/

(13) IEICE Transactions  on Information and Systems - (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.411)
http://www.ieice.org/eng/

(14) IEEE Cloud Computing - (EI Indexed)
https://cloudcomputing.ieee.org/

(15) Journal of Information Security and Applications - Elsevier (ESCI & EI Indexed)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-information-security-and-applications/

(16) Future Internet - MDPI (ESCI & EI Indexed)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet

(17) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) - INDERSCIENCE (ESCI & EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJCSE

(18) International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJES

(19) International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking (IJHPCN) - INDERSCIENCE (EI Indexed)
http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn

* More special issues will be added later. 

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Towards Scalable Computing Systems and Networks

Nowadays, parallel architectures are ubiquitous and the arena of computing and communicating devices is quickly reaching an unprecedented scale. The trend is to keep increasing both the number of cores in a single device as well as the number of communicating devices. In this massively parallel and heterogeneous context, the need for scalable computing is everywhere and scalability is rapidly becoming a central aspect of computing. 

The 18th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2018) will provide a forum for researchers willing to present their original work on scalable parallel and distributed computing. ScalCom 2018 will offer a unique opportunity to exchange ideas at the highest technical level related to communication networks, performance analysis and distributed applications with particular emphasis on scalability. 

We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work relating to all aspects of scalable computing and communications. The program committee will interpret it very broadly; everything from engineering principles to practical experiences on different levels of a parallel and distributed system including High Performance Computing (HPC), massively parallelsystems and heterogeneous computing. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. 

The topics of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications include, but are not limited to:

Cloud and Fog Computing
- X as a Service, where X includes backend, business process, database, infrastructure, network, platform, security, software, and storage
- performance, dependability, and service level agreements
- cloud programming models and tools
- fog computing algorithms and infrastructures

Tools for Big Data
- statistical data mining
- extreme big data
- Hadoop
- convergence of IoT, cloud and big data

Extreme Scale, Multicore, GPU Accelerators and Novel Architectures for Scalability-Rethinking
- parallel programming models and tools
- GPU, MIC, and FPGA based parallel systems, heterogenous platforms
- Extreme scale systems and applications
- peta-scale and exa-scale workloads
- high-performance and high-throughput computing
- fault-tolerance in large scale applications
- near-data processing and data-centric approaches

Modelling and Simulation of Large Complex Systems
- cellular automata, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm Intelligence implementations
- integrated approach to optimization and simulation
- high-performance software developed to solve sciences (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems

Mobile, Wireless and Pervasive Computing
- queueing theory, design and performance analysis of communication networks
- communication protocols of IoT
- distributed applications with emphasis on scalability, distributed applications deployment
- pervasive computing, distributed robotics
- convergence of communication and computing

Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE (IEEE-DL and EI indexed) in the conference proceedings. Best paper awards will be presented to high quality papers for the Congress and each of the co-located conferences.

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposal Due: April 8, 2018 (Extended Firm Deadline)
Proposal notification: Within two weeks after submission
Paper Submission Deadline: April 8, 2018
Author Notification Date: June 25, 2018
Camera-ready Deadline: August 8, 2018

PAPER SUBMISSION
A submission is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop or special session paper, and 2 pages for a poster or demo paper in the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). A submission can have at most 2 additional pages with the pages overlength charge if accepted. Please submit at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scalcom2018 

PAPER PUBLICATION
Accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE CPS (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the conference; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to special issues. More details can be found via www.smart-world.org/2018/scalcom/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Honorary Chair
Didier EL Baz, LAAS-CNRS, France

General Chairs
Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
Nikos Tziritas, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Chairs
Frederic Loulergue, Northern Arizona University, USA
Yuhui Deng, Jinan University, China
Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada

Workshop Chairs
Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan
Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China

Executive General Chair
Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China

Publicity Chairs
Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden
Wenbin Jiang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Xiaokang Wang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Web Chair
Xueyan Zhang, Central South University, China

Registration Chairs
Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China
Pin Liu, Central South University, China

Local Organizing Committee Chair
Jianer Chen, Guangzhou University, China

Steering Chairs
Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

Contact

Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ScalCom 2018 to Conference Organizers: IEEEScalCom2018 at googlegroups.com.

Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of IEEE ScalCom 2018
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Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor
Director of Institute of Computer Networks,
Vice Dean of School of Computer Science and Educational Software,
Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province,
P. R. China, 510006
Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, Mobile: +86-13360581866
Email: csgjwang at gzhu.edu.cn; csgjwang at gmail.com
http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/publications.html
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