[alife] Call for Papers - Advances in Complex Systems: Modelling and Parallel Implementation

[William Willy Spataro]

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Call for Papers
Advances in Complex Systems: Modelling and Parallel Implementation
Workshop (ACSModPar)
within the 14th International Conference on Computational Science and
Its Applications (ICCSA 2014)

June 30-July 3, 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal.

Deadline: February 15, 2014
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The ACSModPar workshop (http://www.acsmodpar.org) will be held within
the 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and its
Applications (ICCSA 2014) on June 30 - July 3 2014, University of
Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal (http://www.iccsa.org/).


===== AIMS AND SCOPE =====
The workshop aims to bring together computer scientists, modellers,
and experts to present significant applications, new approaches,
cutting edge techniques and results and to discuss research challenges
related to the use of HPC to support the modelling and simulation of
complex systems.


===== TOPICS =====
The topics of the ACSModPar workshop include but are not limited to:

- High-performance computing in complex systems modelling and simulation;
- MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU implementation and benchmarking of complex systems models;
- Parallel and distributed implementations of:
  -- models based on multi-agent systems and cellular automata;
  -- simulation-driven optimizations through metaheuristics;
  -- complex systems simulations based on the dynamic data-driven approach;
  -- simulation-based decision support tool for complex systems;
- Tools based on complex systems models and HPC in the field of urgent
computing;
- Hardware approaches to HPC in modelling and simulation of complex systems
- Applications to physics, chemistry, biology, geology, engineering,
medicine, ecology, economics and social science;


===== PROCEEDINGS =====
Submitted papers will be subject to peer review and carefully
evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and
clarity of exposition.

Accepted papers will appear in the ICCSA conference proceedings to be
published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (edited by
Springer).

Each participant will receive the electronic copy of all the
proceeding volumes on a USB key.

For a selected number of top quality papers, after the Conference, the
authors will be requested to extend the paper in order to be published
as special issues in appropriate ISI international journals.


===== PAPER PREPARATION =====
The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to
the rules of LNCS (a maximum number of 16 pages is allowed). For
formatting information, see the publisher's web site.

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. For details about the authors'
registration see the ICCSA registration page (http://www.iccsa.org/).

Each paper must deal with original and unpublished work, not submitted
for publication elsewhere.


===== SUBMISSION =====
Papers must be submitted through the ICCSA submission system.

Please, during the submission process, don't forget to select
"Advances in Complex systems: Modelling and Parallel Implementation -
ACSModPar" workshop from the drop-down list of all workshops.

For more details see the authors'information on the ICCSA website
(http://www.iccsa.org/authors-instructions)


===== IMPORTANT DATES =====
February 15, 2014:            Deadline for paper submission
April 10, 2014:               Notification of acceptance and
early-bird registration starts.
May 6, 2014:                  Early-bird Registration ends.
May 6, 2014:                  Submission deadline for the final
version of the Papers
June 30 - July 3, 2014:       ACSModPar workshop


===== ORGANIZERS =====
- Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy
- Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy


===== CONTACT INFORMATION =====

acsmodpar at uniss.it

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William Spataro
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
High Performance Computing Center
University of Calabria
I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS)
Italy

Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464
Fax : +39.0984.493570
Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro
Email: spataro at unical.it
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