dimanche 10 mai 2015

4ième édition du Prix de l’Innovation pour l’Afrique, 12-13 Mai 2015 à Skhirat, Maroc

Le Maroc abrite la 4ième édition du Prix de l’Innovation pour l’Afrique (IPA) qui est organisée, sous  le haut patronage de Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, par le Ministère de l’Industrie, du Commerce, de l’Investissement et de l’Economie Numérique (MICIEN) et la Fondation Africaine de l’Innovation (AIF), les 12-13 mai 2015 au Centre International de Conférences Mohammed VI à Skhirat.

Dans un objectif d’encourager les projets innovants orientés marché ayant un impact sur le développement socio-économique du continent africain,  l’organisation d’une telle initiative phare a pour objet de :
  • o mobiliser les leaders de tous les secteurs afin de renforcer l'innovation africaine ;
  • o promouvoir l'innovation africaine dans les secteurs clés à travers la concurrence ;
  • o   promouvoir la science, la technologie et l'ingénierie chez les jeunes africains ;
  • o  Encourager les entrepreneurs, les innovateurs, les organismes de financement et les services de développement des entreprises d'échanger les idées et d'explorer les opportunités d'affaires.


On prévoie une participation de 300 à 500 personnalités et acteurs, marocains et étrangers, relevant des mondes de entrepreneuriat et de l’innovation.

Ce prestigieux prix constitue qui constitue l’une des plus hautes distinctions de l’innovation en Afrique a reçu plus de 3000 projets innovants  issus de 49 pays africains et a pu mobiliser chaque année un public diversifié regroupant les innovateurs des pays africains, des chefs d’Etat et des ministres africains, des représentations diplomatiques ainsi que les acteurs de l’écosystème de l'innovation dans les pays d’Afrique.

Pour rappel, l’AIF a été crée en 2009 par des entrepreneurs et investisseurs africains dans le but de mobiliser toutes les parties prenantes de l’innovation en Afrique.


Depuis son impulsion par la Conférence des Ministres Africains des Finances, du Plan et du Développement Economique en 2012, trois éditions du PIA ont été organisées en Ethiopie, Nigéria et Sénégal, respectivement, en 2012, 2013 et 2014. 

Pour plus d'informations: 

http://innovationprizeforafrica.org/

jeudi 7 mai 2015

Call for Proposals/ Papers
OSSCOM 2015
1st International Conference on Open Source Software Computing
10 - 13 September 2015, German Jordanian University Campus, Madaba - Jordan
Partially funded by EC - Tempus and technically sponsored by IEEE
Objectives  
To promote opportunities for cooperation towards enabling OSS key technologies, building cross-cutting sciences, and driving disruptive innovations; to disseminate research on technology and applications of open source software computing; and to expand the framework of effective participation of universities in developing OSS industry through incubators and business accelerators.  
Conference Venue  
German Jordanian University Campus, Madaba - Jordan  
Topics of Interest  
Track 1: Systems Software  
-        Operating systems: Linux Kernel, Server and Desktop Linux: RedHat, Debian, Slackware, Caldera, SuSe, Fedora.  
-        Distributed Operating systems: Open source platforms and software for the cloud platform as a service (PaaS), software as a service (SaaS), and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).   
-        Embedded and Realtime Operating systems: Microkernel, uC/OS, VxWorks, pSOS, OSEK, iRMX, QNX, RTLinux.  
-        Ubiquitous mobile computing and technologies: middleware, operating system (e.g. Android), new I/O and user interfaces, mobile protocols.  
Track 2: Applications and services  
-        Open-source software services and applications in energy, environment, education, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine and other pressing global issues and problems.  
-        Open-source software for e-Services, including e-Government, e-Libraries, e-Learning and any e-*.  
-        Open-source software for Smart Education, Smart Cities, Smart Power Grids, Smart Transportation.  
-        Open Source applications for mobile and tablets.  
Track 3: Networking, and security  
-        Open source network simulation/emulations tools.  
-        Open source platforms for network security deployment, testing and verification.  
-        Network and security open source management software.  
Track 4: Open Source Development and Support  
-        Perspectives on open-source software development and services, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, and security.  
-        National, regional and international organizations and their role in funding and supporting open-source software applications in research and education.  
-        Collaborative projects and initiatives in research and education at national, regional and global levels.  
-        Research and education challenges and open access paradigm.  
-        Business models for open-source software development and services.  
All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available through IEEE Explorer.    
Important dates    
15th  June, 2015              Submission Deadline (Papers, Posters and Presentations)  
30th  June, 2015              Acceptance Notification  
15th  August, 2015          Registration Deadline  
10th – 13th September, 2015      OSSCOM 2015 Conference  
Registration Fees  
OSSCOM members           50 Euro  
OSSCOM non-members  100 Euro   
For more information and paper submission, please contact                
Paper submission:  
-     Prof. Salem Al-Agtash, alagtash@gju.edu.jo  
-     Prof. Rainer Herpers, rainer.herpers@h-brs.   de  
Publication Chair:  
-     Dr. Mwaffaq Otoom, motoom@gmail.com  
Proposals, Presentations and Program:  
-   Dr. Mohammad Aldaoud, mohammad.aldaoud@gju.edu.jo  
-   Dr. Sahel Alouneh, sahel.alouneh@gju.edu.jo  
-   Dr. Ismail Hababeh, ismail.hababeh@gju.edu.jo  
-   Dr. Ala Khalifeh, ala.khalifeh@gju.edu.jo  
Publicity:  
-   Dr. Muhannad Quwaider (chair), mqquwaider@just.edu.jo  
-   Dr. Yaser Jararweh (co-chair), yijararweh@just.edu.jo  
-   Dr. Yasser Rajjal, yasser.rajjal@gju.edu.jo  
-   Mr. Ramez Quneibi, rquneibi@tagorg.com  
Logistics:  
-  Ms. Ikram Al Naji, ikram.alnaji@gju.edu.jo  
All information is available at: http://osscom2015.osscom.org  

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
---------------

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/