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CALL AND CALENDAR

CALLS FOR ARTICLES FOR COMPUTER Computer seeks submissions for an August 2015 special issue on irregular applications.

Irregular applications are charac-terized by unpredictable memory ac-cess patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically use pointers or linked list–based data structures such as graphs, unbalanced trees, and unstructured grids. These applications’ complex behavior makes it difficult to fully exploit their signif-icant latent parallelism. In addition to performance concerns, dataset size presents a challenge in such applica-tions because they often operate on massive amounts of unstructured het-erogeneous data that is usually difficult to partition.

This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting the efficient design, development, and execution of irregular applications. Suggested topics include but are not limited to micro- and system-level architectures, network and memory architectures, innovative algorithmic techniques, languages and programming models, and case studies.

Articles are due 1 February 2015. Visit www.computer.org/web/computingnow /cocfp8 to view the complete call for papers.

CALLS FOR ARTICLES FOR OTHER IEEE CS PUBLICATIONSIT Professional plans a September/

October 2015 special issue on wearable computing.

Given the growing popularity of Google Glass, the Apple iWatch, Fit-bit, and many other devices, wearable computing is a topic of significant interest and a technology being ad-opted in numerous applications and businesses.

Driven by advances in mobile com-puting and communications, ambient intelligence, and ubiquitous sensors, wearable computing facilitates a new form of human–computer interaction via small, on-body devices that are al-ways on, ready, and accessible.

This special issue will review wear-able computing trends and applica-tions, and consider the engineering and operational aspects of wearable computing.

Articles are due 1 February 2015. Visit www.computer.org/web/computingnow /2015-itcfp5 to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) plans a special issue on emerging security trends for deeply embedded computing systems for the last issue of 2015.

Unlike traditional embedded sys-tems, emerging computing systems are embedded in every aspect of our lives and often perform extremely sensitive and critical tasks. Thus, these systems exhibit a larger attack surface and are prone to more serious or life-threatening malicious attacks.

This calls for an examination of tradi-tional security mechanisms, not only because of the nature of the threats, but also because of these computing systems’ resource limitations.

The focus of this special issue will be novel security approaches for deeply embedded computing systems, including cryptographic techniques.

Articles are due 1 February 2015. Visit www.computer.org/cms/Computer . o r g / t r a n s a c t i o n s / c f p s / c f p _tetcsi_estdecs.pdf to view the com-plete call for papers.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) plans a special issue on circuit and system design method-ologies for emerging technologies for the first issue of 2016.

The demand for smaller, portable, low-power, and high-performance electronic systems has been the pri-mary driver for CMOS technology scaling. As CMOS scaling approaches physical limits, we face challenges requiring the introduction of newer processes and materials. To become practical, however, new design meth-odologies must allow efficient mod-eling, design space exploration, and tradeoff analysis.

This special issue will examine these matters.

Articles are due 1 February 2015. Visit www.computer.org/cms/Computer .org/t ra nsac t ions/cf ps/cf p _tetcsi _csdmet.pdf to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Internet Computing plans a No-vember/December 2015 special issue on the Internet of You: Data Big and Small.

This special issue aims to explore today’s technologies and issues related to small data (individual-scale data sources, processing, and modeling) and huge datasets (community-level aggregation and analytics).

Abstracts are due 1 February 2015.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The Call and Calendar section lists conferences, symposia, and workshops that

the IEEE Computer Society sponsors or cooperates in presenting.

Visit www.computer.org/conferences for instructions on how to submit con-

ference or call listings as well as a more complete listing of upcoming computer-

related conferences.

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Articles are due 1 March 2015. Visit www.computer.org/eb/computingnow /iccfp6 to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applica-tions plans a November/December 2015 special issue on cutting-edge vi-sualization and computer graphics re-search in Asia.

In recent years, the world has wit-nessed rapid economic development and research progress in Asia. In the big-data era, this has provided a rich base for the quick development of both research in and applications for visu-alization and computer graphics.

This special issue will cover recent advances in new methods, designs, and systems for scientific visualiza-tion; information visualization and visual analytics; new computer graph-ics algorithms and systems; and case studies describing success and failure in applying visualization to real-world problems in Asia.

Articles are due 1 March 2015. Visit www.computer.org/web/computingnow /cgacfp6 to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) plans a special issue on advances in mobile cloud comput-ing for the first issue of 2016.

There has been a phenomenal burst of research in mobile cloud computing.

Mobile applications demand greater resources and improved interactivity for a better user experience. Resources in cloud computing platforms such as Amazon, Google AppEngine, and Mi-crosoft Azure offer a way to remedy mobile devices’ lack of local resources.

The objective of this special issue is to cover the most recent R&D on mobile cloud computing technologies and to give industry and academia an opportunity to showcase their recent progress in this area.

Articles are due 1 March 2015. Visit w w w.computer.org/cms/Computer .org/t ra nsac t ions/cf ps/cf p _tetcsi _amcc.pdf to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) plans a special issue on emerging trends in education for the first issue of 2016.

Technological advancements such as those used in cloud computing; mo-bile devices; and big, open, and linked data bring with them great opportuni-ties for enriching and broadening the educational experience.

For instance, virtual learning en-vironments are becoming commonly used in communications between students and teachers. At the same time, mobile computing is expand-ing the reach of learning content and frameworks.

Although there are many future

visions for education, great efforts will be needed to reach a profound integra-tion between well-established tech-nologies and emerging ones.

By building on a solid scientific and methodological foundation where the-ory and practice converge, this special issue aims to present both the current trends that characterize the learning and teaching domains of today, as well the expected evolution that will shape the education of tomorrow.

Articles are due 1 March 2015. Visit w w w.computer.org/cms/Computer .org/t ra nsac t ions/cf ps/cf p _tetcsi _ete.pdf to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Security & Privacy plans a Janu-ary/February 2016 special issue on the interconnected Web ecosystem.

The Web is being fused into the human experience in a number of in-teresting ways, leading to the creation of an intricate system of systems. For example, infant monitoring devices provide parents with real-time infor-mation on their smartphones about their baby’s breathing, skin tempera-ture, body position, and activity level. Unfortunately, this Web-enabled in-terconnectedness has opened a host of serious security, privacy, and de-pendability concerns. A single flaw or feature in Web technology could have significant, unforeseen negative con-sequences on myriad interconnected systems. This special issue will ad-dress these challenges.

Abstracts are due 1 March 2015. Ar-ticles are due 1 April 2015. Visit www .computer.org/web/computingnow /spcfp-jan-feb-2016 to view the com-plete call for papers.

IEEE Software plans a November/December 2015 special issue titled “Refactoring: accelerating software change.”

Modern software is rarely written from scratch. It usually incorporates

ICSE 2015

The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015) is

sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society’s Technical Council on Software

Engineering (TCSE), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s Special

Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT).

The conference provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators

to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences, and

concerns in the field of software engineering.

ICSE 2015 will take place 16–24 May 2015 in Florence, Italy. Visit http://2015

.icse-conferences.org for complete conference information.

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code from previous systems and is it-self reincarnated in other programs. Software also isn’t static; it constantly changes as bugs are fixed and features are added. These changes are usually performed by more than one program-mer, and not necessarily by the code’s original authors.

Refactoring—improving code’s in-ternal structure without altering its ex-ternal behavior—supports this highly dynamic software life cycle.

This special issue will focus on the real-world application of research, practical experiences, success stories, and lessons learned.

Articles are due 1 April 2015. Visit www.computer.org/software/cfp6 to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Internet Computing plans a January/ February 2016 special issue on Internet economics.

The breadth of economic activity on the Internet is exploding. The result-ing economic systems lead to a pleth-ora of new research questions, both theoretical and data-driven, touching on both analysis and design.

This special issue will address theo-retical and applied research related to the modeling, analysis, and design of Internet-specific economic activities and incentive systems. The issue will be interdisciplinary in nature and will include any research related to eco-nomic aspects of the Internet.

Articles are due 1 May 2015. Visit www.computer.org/web/computingnow /iccfp1 to view the complete call for papers.

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) plans a special issue on big data benchmarks, performance optimization, and emerging hardware for the second issue of 2016.

Organizations and governments need to generate value from big data. In doing so, they face a challenge in selecting systems to utilize their data,

which requires effective benchmarks. They also must determine how to opti-mize the systems for both specific and comprehensive workloads.

Meanwhile, researchers are work-ing on innovative data management systems, hardware architectures, and operating systems to improve performance.

This special issue’s focus will be on architecture and system support for big data systems. Articles are due 1 June 2015. Visit www.computer.org /cm s/Computer.org/t ra n sac t ion s /cfps/cfp_tetcsi_bdbpoeh.pdf to view the complete call for papers.

FEBRUARY 20159–11 February: BIGCOMP 2015, 2nd Int’l Conf. Big Data and Smart Computing, Jeju Island, Korea; www .bigcomputing.org/main

9–11 February: ICSC 2015, 9th IEEE Int’l Conf. Semantic Computing, Anaheim, California; http://ieee-icsc .org/icsc2015

MARCH 20159–13 March: NetSys 2015, Int’l Conf. Networked Systems, Cottbus, Germany; www.netsys2015.com

23–27 March: PerCom 2015, IEEE Int’l Conf. Pervasive Computing and Comm., St. Louis, Missouri; www.percom.org

23–27 March: VR 2015, IEEE Vir-tual Reality, Arles, France; http://ieeevr.org/2015

APRIL 201513–17 April: NetSoft 2015, 1st IEEE Conf. Network Softwarization, Lon-don; http://sites.ieee.org/netsoft

20–22 April: BigMM 2015, 1st IEEE Int’l Conf. Multimedia Big Data, Beijing; www.bigmm2015.org

29–30 April: ENASE 2015, 10th Int’l Conf. Evaluation of Novel Ap-proaches to Software Eng., Barce-lona; www.enase.org

MAY 20154–8 May: WICSA 2015, 12th Work-ing IEEE/IFIP Conf. Software Archi-tecture, Montreal; http://wicsa2015.org

4–8 May: FG 2015, 11th IEEE Int’l Conf. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Ljubljana, Slovenia; www .fg2015.org

16–24 May: ICSE 2015, 37th Int’l Conf. Software Eng., Florence, Italy; http://2015.icse-conferences.org

EVENTS IN 2015

FEBRUARY 20159–11 ��������������������������� BIGCOMP 2015

9–11 �������������������������������������ICSC 2015

MARCH 20159–13 ������������������������������� NetSys 2015

23–27 �������������������������� PerCom 2015

23–27 ������������������������������������VR 2015

APRIL 201513–17 �����������������������������NetSoft 2015

20–22 ��������������������������� BigMM 2015

29–30 ��������������������������� ENASE 2015

MAY 20154–8 ��������������������������������WICSA 2015

4–8 ��������������������������������������� FG 2015

16–24 ���������������������������������ICSE 2015

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