Complex, large-scale, collaborative simulations are becoming more and more crucial for decision making in critical situations like floods, earthquakes, wildfires, terroristic attacks, epidemics, pandemics, instabilities in financial markets and similar. Very often they are run in almost real time. Urgent computing is a new interdisciplinary research area of computer science addressing algorithms, methods and tools enabling prioritized and immediate access to distributed, large compute and storage systems (computers, grids, clouds) for such emergency computations required for clever decision making. This type of simulation provides data to decision support systems enabling decision makers to choose an optimal behavior scenario in time limitations.
Urgent computing is still in development and the main aim of this workshop is to assess its current status and identify the most important challenges. In 2017 Urgent Computing workshop will take place for the 6th time in the framework of International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS).
We invite users and developers of time limited applications, scientists working on methods and tools for urgent computing, resources providers, and decision makers to submit papers addressing topics related to urgent computing.
Papers
We invite you to submit manuscripts reporting original, unpublished research and recent developments or innovative practical application in the area of urgent computing technologies and decision support systems for critical situations.
The submitted papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format (download Latex template with instructions or MS Word template ).
At least one author of an accepted paper should register at the conference site and present the paper at the workshop.
Procedia Computer Science
All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series.
the Journal of Computational Science
After the conference, selected papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science.
Important dates
- FULL PAPERS IN ICCS SYSTEM December 16, 2016
- NOTIFICATIONS SENT TO AUTHORS January 27, 2017
- CAMERA READY PAPERS March 03, 2017
- EARLY REGISTRATION WORKSHOP June 12-14, 2017
Program Committee
- Henri Bal Vrije, Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Bartosz Balis, AGH Krakow, Poland
- Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Peter Coveney, UCL London, UK
- Peter Brezany, Vienna University, Austria
- Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK
- Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Ladislav Hluchy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
- Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Robert Lovas, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary
- Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA
- Nick Trebon, University of Chicago, USA
- Krzysztof Zielinski, AGH Krakow, PL
Scope and Topics
- applications requiring emergency computations, including (but not limited to): urgent computing in the medical environment, disaster prediction and preventing using urgent computing, urgent computing applications in science and engineering
- algorithms and methods of providing immediate access to large scale compute and storage facilities
- tools, environment and middleware for urgent computing
- data placement, resource management and optimization for urgent computing
- solutions enabling collaboration in urgent computing
- decision support systems based on urgent computing
- SLA and policies in urgent situations
- methods implementing urgent computing on a voluntary user-by-user basis
Contacts
199034, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, 4, Birzhevaya Liniya
Tel.: +7 (812) 337-6494
Anna Bilyatdinova bilyatdinova@mail.ifmo.ru
HPC Department, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia