CALL FOR PAPERS
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9th Workshop on Scalable Computing (WSC'17)

Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017

www.fedcsis.org
E-mail: wsc2017@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WSC’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017).

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 10, 2017 (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. 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).
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)
- other journal(s) to be announced later.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions)
- Position paper submission: May 31, 2017
- Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017
- Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017
- Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017
- Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017

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, Sashko, University of Innsbruck, Austria

CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES

Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki


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