<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(51,51,255)">[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">==============  IEEE ScalCom 2019 CFP  ===============</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 19th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications </span></b><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.smart-world.org/2019/scalcom/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span style="color:blue">http://www.smart-world.org/2019/scalcom/</span></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Leicester, UK, 19-23 August 2019</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sponsored by </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">INTRODUCTION<br>=============</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0cm;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Towards Scalable Computing Systems and Networks</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Scalability is one of the key evaluation criteria of computing systems. In particular, scalability is essential in HPC systems. High scalability represents a kind of elasticity, which can guarantee high throughput, small delay and high performance. Additionally, with the need to process the data deluge and to solve complex large scale problems, new architectures using computing accelerator, e.g., Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) and Many Integrated Core (MIC) have emerged. Improvements to these architectures are still needed in order to use them in large scale heterogeneous systems. Similarly, new parallel algorithms, software, and tools are needed to improve scalability. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The 19th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom 2019) will provide a forum for researchers to present their original work on scalable parallel and distributed computing. This conference will also 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:11pt">SCOPE AND TOPICS<br>================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Cloud and Fog Computing (e.g. Cloud programming models and tools; Fog and Edge computing algorithms and infrastructures)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Extreme Scale, Multicore, GPU Accelerators and Novel Architectures for Scalability-Rethinking (e.g. Parallel programming models and tools; GPU, MIC, and FPGA based parallel systems and heterogeneous platforms; Performance modeling and evaluation of Parallel Algorithms; Extreme scale systems and applications/workloads; High-performance and high-throughput computing; Fault-tolerance in large scale applications; Near-data processing and data-centric approaches).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Tools for Big Data (e.g. New data analytics tools for extreme big data; Distributed architectures/parallel programming models for machine learning/Deep Learning).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Modelling and Simulation of Large Complex Systems (e.g. Cellular automata/genetic algorithms/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).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Mobile, Wireless and Pervasive Computing (e.g. design and performance analysis of communication networks; Communication protocols of IoT; Distributed applications with emphasis on scalability; Pervasive computing, distributed robotics)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Scalable Machine Learning (deploying large scale analytics) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (e.g. Distributed Consensus and Fault Tolerance, Performance and Scalability Issues for Blockchain, Blockchain in cyber physical systems, Blockchain in edge and cloud computing, Blockchain-based Applications and Services, Distributed Database Technology for Blockchain)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IMPORTANT DATES<br>================</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission Deadline: 19 March 2019 (this is the extended absolute deadline) </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors Notification: 19 April 2019 </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Camera-ready Deadline: 19 May 2019 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">===========================</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A submission is limited to 8 pages for a main conference paper, 6 pages for a workshop or special session paper, and 4 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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PAPER PUBLICATION</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">==================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Website: More details can be found via <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://www.smart-world.org/2019/scalcom/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">http://www.smart-world.org/2019/scalcom/</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact: Please email inquiries concerning IEEE ScalCom 2019 to Conference Organizers: <span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"><a href="mailto:scalcom2019@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">scalcom2019@gmail.com</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">======================</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medi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