FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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3rd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'14)
and
8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids (LaSCoG'14)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/scodis-lascog
E-mail: scodis-lascog2014@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

FedCSIS is an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, International Federation for Information Processing, European Alliance for Innovation, Informatics Europe, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociación de Técnicos de Informática, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT.

The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'14 pair of events shares a joint Program Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems.

TOPICS
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Covered topics include (but are not limited to):
- Large-scale algorithms and applications
- Symbolic and numeric computations
- High performance computations for large scale simulations
- Large-scale distributed computations
- Agent-based computing
- Data models for large-scale applications
- Security issues for large-scale computations
- Science portals
- Data visualization
- Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction
- Programming models
- Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids
- Collaborative science applications
- Business applications
- Data-intensive applications
- Operations on large-scale distributed databases
- On-demand computing
- Computation as a service
- Federation of compute capacity
- Virtualization supporting computations
- Self-adaptive computational / storage systems
- Volunteer computing
- Large scale computation with GPU
- Cloud computing architectures and models
- Load Balancing in large-scale distributed systems
- Intelligent resource allocation
- Cloud Security, Privacy, Confidentiality and Compliance
- Mobile Cloud
- High Performance Cloud Computing
- Green Cloud Computing
- Economic, Business and ROI Models for Cloud Computing
- Performance, Capacity Management and Monitoring of Cloud Configuration
- Cloud Interoperability and Portability
- Cloud Application Scalability and Availability
- Big Data Cloud Service

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should be submitted by April 23, 2014 (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 and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events).

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: April 23, 2014 (strict deadline)
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

EVENT CHAIRS
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- 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
- Feldmann, Anja
- Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- Ganzha, Maria, University of Gda?sk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- Gepner, Pawe?, Intel Corporation, United Kingdom
- Gordon, Minor, Squarable, Inc., United States
- Gorgan, Dorian, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- 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, Wroc?aw University of Technology, Poland
- Lang, Tran Van, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
- Lastovetsky, Alexey, University College Dublin, Ireland
- Lee, Dongwoo, Gulf University for Science and Technology & OikoLab, Kuwait
- 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
- Xu, Baomin
- Zavoral, Filip, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic