[GeoIT.org] CFP: ACM PASC 21 Conference

Do Okt 22 14:02:47 CEST 2020

Dear Colleagues,

Below you can find the call for papers for next year's ACM SIGHPC PASC 
21 conference, in which I am participating as a member of the programme 
committee. This conference focusses on scientific computing and welcomes 
contributions from the fields of geographic data science, spatial 
statistics and analysis, geostatistics, and other areas related to 
geoinformatics and GIScience.

Kind regards,
René Westerholt

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                                 CALL FOR PAPERS
                   Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing
                                     PASC21

                              University of Geneva
                              Geneva - Switzerland
                                  5-8 Jul 2021

https://pasc21.pasc-conference.org

                     Deadline: 13 Dec 2020 (no extensions)

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The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) invites research 
paper
submissions for PASC21, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing 
Machinery
(ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the University of Geneva, 
Switzerland,
from July 5 to 8, 2021. The guidelines for submissions are published at
https://pasc21.pasc-conference.org/submission/guidelines-for-papers/.

The PASC Conference series is an international and interdisciplinary 
platform
for the exchange of knowledge in scientific computing and computational 
science
with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application 
challenges, and
novel techniques and usage of high performance computing.

As in previous years, the technical program of PASC21 is organized 
around eight
scientific domains:

* Chemistry and Materials
* Life Sciences (incl. but not limited to biophysics, genomics, 
bioinformatics,
systems biology, neuroscience and computational biology, ...)
* Physics (incl. but not limited to astrophysics, cosmology, plasma 
modelling,
QCD, ...)
* Climate and Weather
* Solid Earth Dynamics
* Engineering (incl. but not limited to CFD, computational mechanics,
computational engineering materials, turbulent flow, ...)
* Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
* Emerging Application Domains (incl. but not limited to social sciences,
finance, ...)

PASC21 solicits high-quality contributions of original research related to
scientific computing in all of these domains. Papers that engage with 
the theme
of PASC21 – New Challenges, New Computing Paradigms – are particularly 
welcome.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Extreme scalable methods in computational science and engineering, 
such as
algorithms and software for scalable multi-scale, multi-physics, and
high-fidelity computational science and engineering problems.
* Numerical methods, algorithms, or large-scale simulations in 
computational
fluid dynamics, computational mechanics, computational engineering 
materials,
turbulent flow, and computational cosmology.
* Effective use of advanced computing systems for large-scale scientific
applications, including modern multi- and many-core CPUs and 
accelerators with
deep memory hierarchies, and energy-efficient architectures.
* Best practices and tools for productive and sustainable scientific and
engineering software development.
* The integration of large-scale experimental and observational 
scientific data
and high-performance data analytics and computing.
* Reproducibility for computational science and engineering.
* Verification, validation, and uncertainty quantification.
* Domain specific languages; toolchains for source-to-source
translation/adaption.
* Runtime systems and middleware, such as task- and data-driven 
computation on
heterogeneous architectures.
* Algorithms and strategies for effective use of machine learning, deep
learning or AI to accelerate computational science.
* Unstructured vs structured meshes for computational science 
applications at
exascale
* Numerical algorithm development for exascale computing, including, but 
not
limited to, communication avoiding algorithms, use of reduced or mixed
precision, and integration of scalable numerical libraries in application
software.
* Computational approaches for social sciences such as finance, urban 
planning,
mobility or disaster response.

Papers accepted for PASC21 will be presented as talks, and published in the
Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via the ACM Digital 
Library. A
selection of the highest quality papers may be given the opportunity of a
plenary presentation. In selecting papers for plenary presentation, the 
Papers
Committee will place particular weight on impact, interdisciplinarity and
interest to a broad audience.

The goal of the PASC Conference Papers Program is to advance the quality of
scientific communication between the various disciplines of computational
science and engineering in the context of high performance computing. The
program was built from an observation that the computer science community
traditionally publishes in the proceedings of major international 
conferences,
while domain science communities publish primarily in disciplinary 
journals –
and neither of which is read regularly by the other. The PASC Conference
provides a unique venue that enables interdisciplinary exchange in a manner
that bridges the two scientific publishing cultures.

The Proceedings of the PASC Conference (PASC21) are published in the
Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM's) Digital Library. In 
recognition
of the high quality of the PASC Conference papers track, the ACM 
continues to
provide the proceedings as an Open Table of Contents (OpenTOC). This 
means that
the definitive versions of PASC Conference papers are available to 
everyone at
no charge to the author and without any pay-wall constraints for readers.

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW

The PASC21 Papers Program Committee
(https://pasc21.pasc-conference.org/about/papers-program-committee/) is
responsible for the paper evaluation process. The committee is chaired 
by Kate
Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Damian Rouson (Sourcery 
Institute)
and is comprised of Domain Chairs who are specialists in their scientific
fields. Papers will be evaluated on their significance, technical 
soundness,
originality, and quality of communication.

We employ a rigorous academic peer-review process: most notably, we 
allow the
possibility for provisional acceptance (revision and author rebuttal), and
specialized reviewers are solicited for each submission (there is no
pre-selected standing committee of reviewers). The paper selection 
process thus
combines the strengths of conference and journal publication schemes to 
provide
an effective, high-impact publication venue in large-scale computational
science.

Contributions must be submitted through the PASC Conference online 
submission
portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org). Submissions should 
include
the following:

* Title: Maximum 20 words.
* Scientific Domain: Select a primary and optionally secondary scientific
domain(s).
* Author details: Full names and contact details of author(s).
* Short Abstract: Maximum 200 words.
* Paper: Maximum 10 pages including figures, tables, and appendices.

As submissions are evaluated double blind, authors should not be named 
in the
paper itself (nor should their affiliations or funding bodies), and 
references
to previous own work should be made in the third person. Papers must be
submitted in the current ACM Article Template (sigconf proceedings) 
format [1].

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

The deadline for submissions for PASC21 is December 13, 2020 at 11:59 pm
anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12').

* 13 December 2020: Deadline for paper submissions (no extensions!)
* 8 February 2021: Review notifications
* 1 March 2021: Deadline for paper revisions
* 5 April 2021: Acceptance notifications

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS

Authors of papers that are accepted for PASC21 will be given 20-30 minute
presentation slots at the conference, grouped in topically-focused parallel
sessions. A selection of the highest quality papers may be given the
opportunity of a plenary presentation. Papers that are presented at 
PASC21 will
be published in the Proceedings of the PASC Conference, accessible via 
the ACM
Digital Library. Please note that speakers must register for the 
conference and
are subject to the corresponding registration fee.

POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SUBMISSION

Following the conference, authors will have the opportunity to develop 
their
papers, and, where appropriate, associated open-source software, for
publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific 
journal.
The journal paper should be an expanded version of the conference paper
(consistent with the ACM policy for major revisions [2]) presenting a more
complete description of the work – a fuller introduction, deeper project
description, additional results, etc. and may be accompanied by associated
open-source software.

To facilitate post-conference journal publications, the PASC Conference has
formed collaborative partnerships with a number of high-quality scientific
journals, including Computer Physics Communications (CPC) [3], the 
Journal of
Advances in Modeling Earth Systems (JAMES) [4], and ACM Transactions on
Mathematical Software (ACM TOMS) [5]. Members of the journals' editorial 
boards
will work with the Scientific Committee in reviewing PASC papers and in
identifying papers to be extended and submitted to partner journals. 
Authors
should communicate their interest in publishing with a partner journal 
during
the submission process.

PAPERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

General Chairs
* Kate Evans (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Damian Rouson (Sourcery Institute, US)

Chemistry and Materials
* Stephan Irle (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Clemence Corminboeuf (EPFL, Switzerland)

Climate and Weather
* Oliver Fuhrer (Vulcan Inc., US)
* Samantha Adams (Met Office, UK)

Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
* Laura Grigori (INRIA Paris, France)
* Sameer Shende (University of Oregon, US)

Emerging Application Domains
* Yan Liu (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* WenWen Li (Arizona State University, US)

Engineering
* Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
* Rachel Slaybaugh (UC Berkeley, US)

Life Sciences
* Anotida Madzvamuse (University of Sussex, UK)
* Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee, US)

Physics
* Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory, US)
* Axel Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US)

Solid Earth Dynamics
* Monica Maceira (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US)
* Andreas Fichtner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland))

If you have any questions regarding the submission or reviewing process 
please
email info at pasc-conference.org.

Notes:

[1]: 
www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html; see
section "LaTex Authors" for the link to download the template
[2]: To distinguish between a new derivative work and a minor revision, ACM
uses, respectively, a rule of greater than or less than 25 percent changed
[3]: www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-physics-communications
[4]: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1942-2466/
[5]: toms.acm.org

-- 
Dr René Westerholt FRGS
[Juniorprofessor]
[Head, Spatial Modelling Lab]

TU Dortmund University
School of Spatial Planning
Room III/318
August-Schmidt-Straße 10
44227 Dortmund
Germany

[Tel] +49 (0)231 7552287
[Web (uni)] https://ram.raumplanung.tu-dortmund.de/
[Web (private)] https://www.westerholt-giscience.net
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