samedi 17 mai 2014

5th Workshop on Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems November 27-28, 2014 El Jadida - Morocco (WCCCS'14)

Dear Colleague,

We are cordially inviting you to submit papers to WCCCS'14

Call for papers 
5th Workshop on Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems November 27-28, 2014 El Jadida - Morocco (WCCCS'14)

General Chairs

A Aaroud (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)
M. Belkasmi (ENSIAS, Morocco)Program Committee ChairsK. Zine-Dine (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)A. Kobbane (ENSIAS, Morocco)P. Roose (LIUPPA, University of Pau, France)Publicity & International Relations ChairsA. Tmiri (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)M. Bakhouya (UIR, Rabat, Morocco)Local Advisory & organizing CommitteA. Beni Hssane (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)B. Cherradi (CRMEF, El Jadida, Morocco)A. El Hore (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)J. El Kafi (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)M. Laghdir (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)A. Madani (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)A. El Moutaouakkil (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)M. E. Riffi (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)H. Silkan (FS, El Jadida, Morocco)
WCCCS'14 is the fifth edition of workshops devoted to the theory and applications of Error Correcting Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems. It is the result of fruitful cooperation between many universities and institutes. WCCCS'14 is a continuity of the previous editions wich has been held in ENSAM-Meknes (2010), ENSIAS-Rabat (2011), FS-Oujda (2012), EST-Meknes (2013). The present edition, WCCCS'14, will be held at Faculty of Sciences (Chouaib Doukkali University), El Jadida, Morocco.
This workshop aims at presenting the latest research works dealing with up-to-date and emerging applications and theories of Error Correcting Codes, Cryptography and Communication Systems.TopicsThe topics of the worshop include, but not limited to:

  • Information and Communication Theories
  • Error Correcting Codes: Design and Decoding Algorithms
  • Cryptography, Watermarking and Cryptanalysis
  • Source Encoding
  • Turbo-codes, Iterative Processing
  • Signal, Image and Video Processing
  • Channel Characterization and Modeling
  • Wireless Sensor Network and Embeded Systems
  • Network Coding
  • MIMO Systems
  • Space-Time Coding
  • Spread Spectrum Communications
  • Broadband Communication Systems
  • Wireless Communication
  • Communication and System Security
  • Cognitive Radio Networks
  • Genetic Algorithms & Neural Networks for Communication Systems
  • Optimization of Communication Systems
  • Ambient and Pervasive Middleware
  • Context Aware Software Architecture
  • Dynamic Adaptation, reconfiguration, evolution of application or services
  • Context acquisition, designing, modeling, reasoning, distribution
  • Mobility issues in pervasive computing

Important dates

  • Submission deadline :   September 1st, 2014
  • Notification for authors :  October 5th, 2014
  • Camera-ready papers : October 15th, 2014
  • WCCCS’14 conference : November 27th _ 28th, 2014

Best regards
TPC Chairs 

jeudi 8 mai 2014

Groupe de sport d'athlétisme au Parc Ibnou Sina (Hilton) à Rabat

Chers Amis et Collègues,

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer le lancement d'un groupe de sport en athlétisme sous la supervision d'un coach professionnelle depuis plus de deux mois (phase pilote et expérimentale) au parc Ibnou Sina (appelé Hilton) à Rabat.

Les entraînements suivent un programme progressif tenant compte des conditions de santé et physiques de chaque participant et se limitent à l'heure actuelle à une seule séance par semaine convenue chaque dimanche à 08h00. Il n'est pas exclus de revoir l'heure de démarrage à 07h30 ou 07h00 avec le temps qui devient plus chaud avec l'été. Aussi, on pourrait envisager des séances dans d'autres zones forestières de la région ou près de la mer...

A cet effet, je vous invite à adhérer à ce groupe pour renforcer cet initiative visant à s'entraider à résoudre des problèmes de santé, de stresse... et d'assurer un moment agréable de rencontre entre amis. 

Vous pouvez diffuser ce message à vos contacts et relations pour assurer le maximum de participants (entre 40 et 50 personnes, actuelle entre 10 et 15 sur 25 confirmations).

NB. Un email, avec des documents rattachés (CV du coach, fiche de santé et fiche d'information) vous sera transmis incessamment dans ce cadre.

Très Cordialement

Yassine Ouardirhi
0673697450

lundi 5 mai 2014

CFP: IEEE GLOBECOM’14 Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks and Applications (CCSNA), 8-12 December 2014, Austin, Texas, USA

IEEE International Workshop on
Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA)

Organized in conjunction with
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2014) 
8-12 December 2014, Austin, Texas, USA
Workshop web: http://cloud.it.teithe.gr/ 
EDAS submission web link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17545

Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2014

Cloud Computing, as well as Cloud-inspired business models, enable on-demand access to a shared pool of resources, namely computing, storage, networks, services, and applications. With the advent of Cloud-based systems, cloud operators have been aiming at reliable, secured, privacy-preserving and cost-efficient cloud design and management. As the Cloud infrastructure aims at offering various IT resources as services, requirements of Cloud applications vary based on the resources which are requested as services. Thus, the resources may refer to heavy computation resources, massive storage resources, high-capacity network resources and so on. The heterogeneity of cloud applications leads to the challenge of holistic design of a robust Cloud system which can oversee and handle the diverse needs of numerous types of applications. On the other hand, these challenges enforce cooperation of various players in the Cloud system, each of which focuses on a different segment such as network, computing, applications, and systems. The Second International workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA-2014) aims at the crossroads between scientists, researchers, practitioners and students from diverse domains in Cloud computing research. The workshop aims at attracting contributions of system and network design that can support existing and future applications and services. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to:
*Cloud computing systems and networking- principles, designs, analyses, and performance
-Theoretical analysis for cloud systems
-Cloud system and network design
-Optimization for cloud computing, networking, and applications
-Green cloud systems and networking
-Storage, data, and analytics for clouds design and networking
-Virtualization for cloud computing systems and networking
-Modeling and performance analysis for cloud system, network and storage
-Intra-cloud/inter-cloud computing and networking
-Cloud computing architectures and cloud solution design patterns
-Cloud migration, composition, federation, bridging, and bursting
-Cloud provisioning and migration
-Cloud DevOps
-Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU
-Network Programmability, Software-Defined Networking and Virtual Ethernet Switching


*Big data, data centers, and cloud managements
-Big data storage and networking
-Real-time resource reporting and monitoring for cloud management
-Cloud quality management and service level agreement (SLA)
-Cloud configuration, performance, and capacity management
-Cloud workload profiling and deployment control
-Autonomic business process and workflow management in clouds
-Collaboration, management, and administration of clouds and services
-Quality of service on clouds and applications, including reliability, availability
-Scalability, performance, and load balance
-Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques and systems on clouds
-Data center network management, reliability, optimization, and bridging
-Distributed data center architectures
-Cloud traffic engineering and control-plane architectures

*Cloud services, applications, security, and interdisciplinary topics
-Cloud system and storage security
-Mobile cloud system design
-Cloud media and storage design
-Security, privacy, and compliance management for clouds
-Self-service cloud portal, dashboard, and analytics
-Infrastructure, platform, application, business, social, and mobile clouds
-Security, privacy, and compliance management for public, private, and hybrid clouds
-Innovative cloud applications and experiences
-Economic, business and ROI models for cloud computing
-Mobile-aware networking, protocols, and infrastructures
-Content and service distribution in clouds
-Audit, authentication and authorization in clouds
-Service-oriented architecture in clouds
-Cloud support for IoTs and their services
-Cloud for service discovery
-Image processing and efficient video transmission on clouds
-Multimedia service provisioning on clouds
-MapReduce
-Resilience, fault tolerance

*Surveys
-Surveys on any topics above

Submission Procedure
Submitted papers must represent original material which is not currently under review in any other conference or journal and has not been previously published. Paper length should not exceed five-page standard IEEE conference two-column format (including all text, figures, and references)Please see the Author Information page for submission guidelines in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 website http://www.ieee-globecom.orgAll submitted papers willgo through a peer review processAll accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2014 proceedings and IEEE digital library. IEEE reserves the right to exclude an accepted and registered but not presented paper from the IEEE digital library.  Selected papers will be invited to be peer-reviewed for a special issue in IEEE Access and another journal special issue.

Honorary General Chair
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

General co-Chairs:
Andy Rindos, IBM Research, USA
Periklis Chatzimisios, Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece

Technical Program co-Chairs:
Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
Kun Yang, University of Essex, U.K,
Di Wu, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chairs: 
Luca Foschini (University of Bologna, Italy)
Sun Zhili (University of Surrey, UK)
Fen Hou ( University of Macau, China)

Publication and EDAS Co-Chairs: 
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
Berk Canberk (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Publicity Co-chairs
Elhadj Benkhelifa, (Staffordshire University, UK)
Tolga Soyata (University of Rochester)
Ying Qian (East China Normal University, China)
Christos Kouroupetroglou (Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece) 
Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Steering Committee
Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey,UK) 
Jinsong Wu (Alcatel-Lucent, China)  
Yaser Jararweh (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) 
Mladen Vouk (North Carolina State University, USA)

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: July 15, 2014
Author notification: August 20, 2014
Camera ready: October 1, 2014

Best Regards,
--
Publicity Co-chairs

jeudi 27 février 2014

Théorie des jeux et théorie de l’information

L’Equipe Mobile Intelligent System (MIS)

Organise, à l’ENSIAS du 20 au 23 mai 2014, la deuxième édition de l’école :


Modélisation et évaluation des performances des Systèmes Distribués et Télécoms :
Théorie des jeux et théorie de l’information


Après le succès de la première édition de l’école d’hivers du 20 au 24 décembre 2012. L’équipe MIS du laboratoire SIME organise la 2ème édition de cette école du 20 au 23 mai 2014 qui porte sur la théorie de jeux, la théorie d’information et leurs applications. Cette école compte 4 journées de cours intensifs en théorie des jeux et en théorie de l’information dispensés par M. Hamidou TENBINE, professeur à Supelec en France et chercheur au KAUST, et éventuellement par Dr. Zouhair REZKI, Chercheur au KAUST.
Cette école est ouverte à des participants nationaux et internationaux qui travaillent ou qui souhaitent travailler sur des axes de recherche liés à la théorie de jeux et/ou à la théorie d’information.


Le programme : comporte les modules suivants:

-       Game theory : Basic notions
-       STRATEGY LEARNING
-       PERFORMANCE ESTIMATIONS
-       APPLICATIONS TO WIRELESS NETWORKING, COMMUNICATIONS
-       APPLICATIONS TO NETWORK ECONOMICS
-       Information theory
-       Harvesting energy

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes dans la limite des places disponibles.
Frais d’inscription de 1000 dh et qui comprenant :
•    les repas déjeuners ;
•    pauses café;
•    Participation aux cours;

Date limite des inscriptions est le 30 avril 2014. Pour s’inscrire merci de contactez le comité d’organisation
Comité d’organisation
-       Mohammed EL KOUTBI, elkoutbi@ensias.ma, Tel 0661403143
-       Abdellatif KOBBANE, kobbane@ensias.makobbane@gmail.com, Tel 0661606313.

mardi 25 février 2014

8th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2014 September 3-5, 2014, Madrid, Spain

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2014 September 3-5, 2014, Madrid, Spain
http://aida.ii.uam.es/IDC2014


HIGHLIGHTS
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Invited Speakers

Thomas Stützle, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium Juan Julián Merelo, University of Granada, Spain

Journal Special Issues

International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Inderscience (SCI indexed) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley (SCI indexed)

Workshops

Workshop on the Interplay between Human-Computer Interaction and Data Analysis and Modeling (HCI-DAM) 
http://aida.ii.uam.es/IDC2014/hci-dam.php

Sixth International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems Technology and Semantics (MASTS
2014)
http://aimas.cs.pub.ro/masts2014/

1st International Workshop on Big Data Processing (BigDP 2014) 
https://sites.google.com/site/bigdp2014/

Workshop on Cyber Security and Resilience of Large-Scale Systems (WSRL 2014)
http://parsec.unina2.it/a4c/index.php/wsrl-2014

CALL FOR PAPERS
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The emergent field of Intelligent Distributed Computing focuses on the development of a new generation of intelligent distributed systems. It faces the challenges of adapting and combining research in the fields of Intelligent Computing and Distributed Computing. Intelligent Computing develops methods and technology ranging from classical artificial intelligence, computational intelligence and multi-agent systems to game theory. The field of Distributed Computing develops methods and technology to build systems that are composed of interacting and collaborating components. The symposium welcomes submissions of original papers on all aspects of intelligent distributed computing ranging from concepts and theoretical developments to advanced technologies and innovative applications.

The 8th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing has a special interest in (but will not be limited to) novel architectures, systems and methods that facilitate distributed / parallel / multi-agent biocomputing for solving complex computational and real-life problems.

Paper acceptance and publication will be judged on the basis of their relevance to the symposium themes, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. Symposium topics include, but are not limited to:

Intelligent Distributed and High-Performance Architectures
- Hybrid distributed systems involving software agents and human actors
- Intelligent grid and cloud infrastructures
- Agent-based wireless sensor networks
- Distributed frameworks and middleware for the Internet of Things
- GPU, multicore, and many-core intelligent computing
- Intelligent high-performance architectures
- Context-aware intelligent computing
- Virtualization infrastructures for intelligent computing
- Bio-inspired and nature-inspired distributed computing

Organization and Management
- Autonomic and adaptive distributed computing
- Intelligent service composition and orchestration
- Self-organizing and adaptive distributed systems
- Emerging behaviors in complex distributed systems
- Intelligent integration of heterogeneous data and processes
- Methodologies for development of intelligent distributed systems and applications

Intelligent Distributed Knowledge Representation and Processing
- Information extraction and retrieval in distributed environments
- Knowledge integration and fusion from distributed sources
- Data mining and knowledge discovery in distributed environments
- Semantic and knowledge grids
- Ontologies and meta-data for describing heterogeneous resources and services
- Distributed fusion of sensor data streams

Networked Intelligence
- E-service and web intelligence
- Intelligence in mobile, ubiquitous and wearable computing
- Intelligence in peer-to-peer systems
- Intelligence in distributed and networked multimedia systems
- Security, privacy, trust and reputation

Intelligent Distributed Applications
- Distributed problem solving and decision making
- Intelligent applications in e-business/e-commerce, e-learning, e-health, e-science, e-government, crisis management, smart grid
- Modeling, simulation and development of intelligent distributed systems
- Simulation of groups and crowds
- Intelligent data processing
- Intelligent robots

Paper Submission and Publication

All accepted papers will be included in the Symposium Proceedings, which will be published by Springer as part of their series Studies in Computational Intelligence.
Papers must have at most 10 pages length and must be formatted according to Springer format for Proceedings and Other Multiauthor Volumes (Latex only) available at:
http://www.springer.com/series/7092

Submissions and reviews are automatically handled by Easychair. Please submit your paper at: 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=idc2014

Extended versions of the best papers accepted and presented at this symposium may be considered for publication in a Special Issue of an internationally recognized journal.

Important dates

Full paper submission: March 3, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2014 Final (camera ready) paper due: May 25, 2014
Symposium: September 3-5, 2014

More information

For more information regarding this call for papers, the 8th IDC conference, please refer to the IDC 2014 website:
http://aida.ii.uam.es/IDC2014/

Kind Regards,
publicity chair Sorin Ilie, Ph.D. Eng
University of Craiova
Member of the Intelligent Distributed Systems research group 
http://ids.software.ucv.ro/

jeudi 2 janvier 2014

4ème Edition des Journées Nationales de la Sécurité (JNS4) - 4th Edition of National Security Days

4th Edition of National Security Days
4èmeEdition des Journées Nationales de la Sécurité (JNS4)
FS-Tetuan - May, 12 - 13 2014
With the partnership of IEEE Morocco Section
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Submission deadline: February 15, 2014
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Call For Papers

We have the real pleasure to invite you to submit a paper to the 4th National Security Days (Journées Nationales de la Sécurité : JNS) which is taking place in Tetuan-Morocco, in May 12-13, 2014.
We are planning that all accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. English versions of accepted and presented papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential publication in the IEEE Xplore. IEEE reserves the right to not publish any proceedings not meeting its quality standards.
JNS4 is organized with the objective to bring together researchers and practitioners working on the information systems security field. A wide range of topics is covered by JNS, ranging from security management to security policies formalization, while integrating trust management systems, network security solutions, crypto-systems, together with newer topics such as security issues in cloud computing, collaborative systems, mobile applications, critical infrastructures, etc.

TOPICS:

Security Policies Formalization & Security and Trust Management

Security Policies, Formal methods & verification,
Digital Identity,
Access Control Models,
Trust management systems, Public-Key Infrastructures (PKI), Reputation systems
Risk Analysisthreats and vulnerabilities
Metrology, measurement of security
Privacy Protection
Organizational, juridical and ethical Aspects of Security
Information Systems Security and Governance, …
Network and Application Security
Security of e-commerce, e-government, e-health,…
Web Applications Security
Intrusion Detection, Honeypots, Malware prevention
Embedded Systems Security, smartcards security,...
Authentication and biometric Access Control
Wired, Mobile and Next Generation Networks Security,…
Cloud Computing and Collaborative Systems Security
Cloud Computing Security
Virtualization and Security
Web Services, midellewares and Security
Peer to Peer and distributed systems Security
Social Networks Security and Privacy
Workflow and Collaborative Systems Security, …
Cryptology, Watermarking & Steganography
Steganography, Watermarking
Secret-key & public-key Cryptography (Encryption, Hash functions, electronic signatures, ...)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Quantum Cryptography
Cryptanalysis, security proofs
- Cryptographic Protocols
- etc.
This topic list is not meant to be exhaustive; so any contribution related to networks and information systems security is welcome. Presentations of practical deployment and implementations of security techniques in new application areas are particularly encouraged.
Submissions from both industry and institutional circles will be considered with particular interest.

Paper Submission and publication
We invite Research Papers submission to the conference which should not exceed 6 pages using the IEEE Conference Template (Word, Latex) without page numbers. Papers will be peer-reviewed (by at least 3 reviewers), and selected based on their originality, technical strength and topical relevance. One of the authors of an accepted submission must attend the conference and present their work as a condition of publication. A dedicated session of the conference will be held for the presentation of posters. The full papers should be submitted in PDF format to the JNS'4 EasyChair online submission system.
The following instructions should be respected:
  1. Authors should make sure that the English of their papers (that will be published) meets the required standard.
  2. No hyperlinks should be included in the document (e. g., clickable website addresses in the references).
  3. The quality of figures, photos and tables is also a very important requirement for the publication.
  4. It is also the obligation of the authors to make sure that all sources of the research used in their papers have been adequately referenced.

DEADLINES

  • Submission deadline: February 15, 2014
  • Notification to authors: March 15, 2014
  • Final version due: January March 30, 2014
  • JNS’4 Conference: May 12-13, 2014

CONTACT

Contact: jns4@uae.ma

mercredi 1 janvier 2014

META'2014 International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing

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                          META'2014
International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing

            27-31 Oct 2014
            Marrakech, Morocco

      http://meta2014.sciencesconf.org/

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The 5th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing META’14 will held in Marrakech, Morocco from 27 to 31 Oct 2014.

The Conference will be an exchange space thanks to the sessions, tutorials, workshops and a vocational training of metaheuristics and nature inspired computing.

The scope of the META’2014 conference includes, but is not limited to:
    * Local search, tabu search, simulated annealing, VNS, ILS, …
    * Evolutionary algorithms, swarm optimization, scatter search, …
    * Emergent nature inspired algorithms: quantum computing, artificial immune systems, bee colony, DNA computing, …
    * Parallel algorithms
    * Hybrid methods with machine learning, game theory, mathematical programming, constraint programming, co-evolutionary, …
    * Application to: logistics and transportation, networks, scheduling, data mining, engineering design, energy, cloud, bio-medical, …
    * Theory of metaheuristics, landscape analysis, convergence, problem difficulty, very large neighbourhoods, …
    * Multi-objective optimization, bi-level optimization
    * Dynamic optimization, problems with uncertainty, …
    * Parameter tuning (static, dynamic, adaptive, self-adaptive)
    * Software frameworks for metaheuristics and nature inspired computing


Submission papers:
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- Submission of papers should be in shape of an abstract of two pages sent before the 9th May 2014 via the website.
- Proceedings of the conference will be provided. Selected papers will be published in international journals (ISI journals).
- Predefined styles are available on the website http://meta2014.sciencesconf.org/
- Proposals for invited sessions, workshops and tutorials: Deadline 26th April 2014. 

contact talbi@lifl.fr - ellaia@emi.ac.ma


R. Ellaia (Co-Chair)