Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC)

Starting May 30th, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) is going to be held in the city of Salvador - Bahia - Brazil. This is a quite traditional conference - it is the 34th edition - and even though it is not HPC focused, it has many tracks related to HPC, for example, cloud computing, distributed systems and fault tolerance. In addition to paper presentations, there will be short-courses, workshops, demo sessions, panels and tutorials. The keynotes of this edition are Jon Crowcroft, from University of Cambridge, and Matti Hiltunen, from AT&T Research Lab. So far, there will be two tutorials, both about cloud computing: the first about HPC Cloud, delivered by a team from IBM Research and the other about OpenStack, by people from UFCG and HP. For more information, visit:

  http://www.sbrc2016.ufba.br/en/

For those interested in the proceedings from previous years, there is the following url available:

  http://ce-resd.facom.ufms.br/?page_id=40

11th Colombian Computing Congress

The 11th Colombian Congress on Computing (11th CCC) will take place in Popayan, Colombia, between September 27th and September 30th, 2016. This congress has been organized by the Colombian Computing Society (SCO2) since 2005. Researchers, both national and international, will participate to exchange new ideas, methodologies, and tools in all the areas related to computing. The conference will be supported by the Colombian Computing Society, the University of Popayan Foundation, the University of Cauca, and IEEE Colombia. The conference will feature research papers presenting innovative works, panels, tutorials and a doctoral showcase.

The deadline for submitting research papers is on February 19th. Full papers should not exceed 8 pages following IEEE standards. Short papers are also accepted and should not exceed 4 pages. Submissions can be done either in English or in Spanish. The notification should come on March 19th and the camera-ready deadline is on April 8th. There is also a call for contributions for the doctoral showcase and the tutorials. The submission deadlines are May 13th and June 10 respectively. All submissions must be done through EasyChair.

The research topics are:

• Formal methods and computational logic.
• Systems architecture.
• Software engineering.
• Human-computer interactions.
• Image processing and visualization.
• Smart systems and robotics.
• Data mining and machine learning.
• E-learning technologies.
• High performance computing and cloud computing.