European Research and Innovation Days are an annual policy event that brings together world leaders from industry, finance, academia and business to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. Registrations will open soon. 

Follow the link for more information about the event, programme and speakers: https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation/events/upcoming-events/european-research-and-innovation-days_en

Introduction

The 2nd International Workshop on Software Architectures Challenges in Big Data (SACBD) is organized by the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) as part of the European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA, https://ecsa2019.univ-lille.fr/home). The objective of this workshop is to  provide a forum for discussing all aspects of the software architecture challenges of big data systems. The workshop welcomes the contributions of practitioners and researchers alike.

Technical issues and challenges related to software architecture are well covered by the European Big Data Value Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. Such software architecture trends are facilitating new data-driven operations and services which are at the core of the new economy revolving around big data value. As organizations become more and more data-centric, they need to re-design their software architectures accordingly. This affects not only the architecture design but also its implementation and non-functional aspects. This situation creates a need for new methods and tools to design and reason about software architectures in Big Data scenarios and paves the way for various research directions. How to design software architectures when dealing with Big Data? Which are the typical architectural patterns? How to assess the performance or the privacy risk of Big Data architectures? This workshop will focus on these and many others aspects of software architectures in the Big Data era.

 Agenda

 Call for papers already closed

Topics of interest

The workshop solicits papers on all aspects of software architecture for big data. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Software architectures in genuine big data scenarios
• Architectural patterns for big data
• Architectures of big data systems (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop)
• Integration of Big Data systems with other business systems
• Non-functional requirements (e.g., performance, security, privacy, reliability)
• Combining big data with IoT, HPC, cloud computing, fog computing
• Applying machine learning to big data scenarios, big data integration with artificial intelligence
• Fostering business with big data and analytics

Submission Guidelines

Original, high-quality papers are solicited, from researchers and practitioners alike. Both full papers (maximum 8 pages) and short papers (maximum 4 pages) will be considered. All papers must be written in English and follow the ACM formatting instructions and templates for conference papers, as specified under https://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. Independently from the length, several types of papers will be considered (experience reports, new approaches, review or analysis of existing approaches, empirical studies, theoretical results, negative results, position papers, vision papers). The contribution of a paper must be commensurate with its length.

Submitted papers must be original, not submitted and not published elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the ECSA companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be submitted in PDF using the online submission system under the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sacbd2019.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Paper acceptance will be based on originality, significance, technical soundness, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the workshop topics.

 Further information

The workshop is part of the European Conference on Software Architectures (ECSA), the premier European software architecture conference, providing researchers, practitioners and educators with a platform to present and discuss the most recent, innovative and significant findings and experiences in the field of software architecture research and practice. The 13th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2019) will be held on 9-13 September 2019 in Paris, France at FIAP Jean Monnet.

The workshop will take place on 9th September 2019 in the afternoon in Paris, right before the main ECSA conference.

At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the workshop, and present the work. Registration is subject to the terms, conditions and procedure of the ECSA 2019 conference.

 Organization committee

• Zoltán Ádám Mann (paluno – the Ruhr Institute for Software Technology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany).
• Daniel Alonso Román (Technology Institute of Valencia, Spain)
• Michele Guerriero (Politecnico di Milano, Italy).
• Alessandra Bagnato (Softeam, France)

Program committee

• Ali Serdar Atalay, BitNet, Turkey
• Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
• Arne Berre, SINTEF, Norway
• David Bowden, DELL, Ireland
• Sergio Campos, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain
• Alexandru Costan, IRISA / INSA Rennes, France
• Carlos E. Cuesta, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste, Italy
• Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Omar Elloumi, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
• Ibai Laña, Tecnalia, Spain
• Daphne Lopez, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
• Andreas Metzger, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
• Ignacio Olabarrieta Palacios, Tecnalia, Spain
• Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden
• Zoheir Sabeur, Bournemouth University, UK
• Andrey Sadovykh, Innopolis University, Russia
• Angel Serrano Sánchez de León, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Damian Andrew Tamburri, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Ana Isabel Torre, Tecnalia, Spain
• Anwar Vahed, Meraka Institute, South Africa
• Juan Manuel Vara, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

The Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) is a long-standing international forum for researchers, practitioners from business and industry, and students to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, experiences, and concerns in the field of Software Engineering and Advanced Applications in information technology for software-intensive systems.

This special session aims to explore the impact of software and big data analytics on software engineering and vice versa, serving as a forum for the exchange of ideas, solutions and experiences among researchers and practitioners from the communities of software visualization, mining software repositories, software analytics and big data systems in software engineering. Call for papers here: http://dsd-seaa2019.csd.auth.gr/seaa/indexbb58.html?sec=sessions_sa#page...

Important Dates:

• Abstract submission to tracks and sessions: March 1st, 2019
• Paper submission deadline March 15th, 2019
• Notification of accepted papers: May 6th, 2019
• Camera-ready paper due: June 3rd, 2019

The European Commission is co-hosting a workshop on artificial intelligence in manufacturing, in collaboration with the European Factories of the Future Research Association (EFFRA), the European Robotics Association (euRobotics) and the Big Data Value Association (BDVA).

See the website for more information: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/workshop-artificial-intelligence-manufacturing

Registration is now closed.

IoT Week is an annual event organized by the IoT Forum since 2011. The IoT Week conference gathers industry and academia representatives from around the world. 

See more information: https://iotweek.org/

The 2nd Big Data For Precision Medicine Symposium (BDPM 2019) will take place in Instituto Maimónides De Investigación Biomédica de Córdoba (IMIBIC).

The event will take place on June 4th, 2019 as prelude to the 32th IEEE CBMS International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2019).

After the successful first edition of BDPM workshop, which took place in Athens in July 11, 2018, BDPM organizes this second edition of the event with the aim of bringing together institutions with the mutual interest of the research and innovation within the scope of Big Data and Precision Medicine.

More info at: https://medal.ctb.upm.es/bdpm2019/ 

European AI Night will be the launching event for the AI4EU consortium (European Artificial Intelligence Project).
AI4EU brings together 70+ public and private sector partners from 21 countries. This €20m project is funded by the European Commission and will run for the next three years.
It aims to create a landmark platform of resources to facilitate collective work in AI research and business in Europe.
The platform is designed to provide access to certified AI algorithms, high-power computing and data repositories, which are vital for developing and producing AI applications.

More information here: https://www.ai-night.com/

On 5 April in Brussels EUROGI (BDVA member) is organising an event "Horizon 2030 - Visions and Challenges in GI", where they will have interesting discussion on the challenges of European Geographical Information sector in the next decade from various aspects. It is foreseen to have different speakers from the COM, industry, research, views by two national associations as the panel speakers in the first part of the program. In the second part of the program, before the panel discussion, some further short presentations of EUROGI members and partners would take place. The draft program and registration is available on http://eurogi.org/event/eurogi-members-meeting-i-2019/. 

e-SIDES* team invite you to the upcoming workshop Towards Value-Centric Big Data: Connect People, Processes and Technology that will be held on April 2 in Brussels from 10.00 to 16.00 at the BDVA venue.

The workshop that will bring together data science researchers, big data operators, policy makers, and civil society representatives to debate on how big data solutions can be developed and used in a responsible way, protecting societal values to the greatest possible extent.

The workshop will host a knowledge café focused on developing the community paper on responsible big data sharing with research/industry and civil society representatives, we will launch a call for contributors on our online platform.

You can register at the workshop on this website where you will find a detailed description and the agenda. We would highly appreciate your participation and involvement in our community initiative.

Should you have any questions please contact Stefania Aguzzi (Community and Communication Manager) or Richard Stevens (Project Coordinator)

We look forward to welcoming you in Brussels.

e-SIDES Team

* e-SIDES is a research project funded by European Commission H2020 Programme that deals with the ethical, legal, social and economic implications of privacy-preserving technologies in different big data context, and impacting businesses’ and citizens’ life.