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Call for Chapters: High Performance and Cloud Computing in Scientific Research and Education

Editors

Dr. Marijana Despotovic-Zrakic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Dr. Veljko Milutinovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Dr. Aleksandar Belic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Proposals Submission Deadline: June 15, 2013

Full Chapters Due: July 15, 2013

Submission Date: September 30, 2013

Nowadays, requirements for design and implementation of information systems that are used for educational and research purposes at universities become more complex. These information systems include a plethora of services, applications, resources, and interactions. The resulting conglomerate of services and solutions is getting increasingly difficult to deal with and further improve. In addition to that, new and extremely important concepts, such as mobility, pervasiveness, and services on demand, have further fuelled the need for changing and improving existing approaches. As a result, efforts to design a new computing architecture--the so called cloud computing--have been initiated over the last couple of years and are ongoing across the world. New paradigms such as high performance computing and cloud computing will provide reliable and cost effective IT infrastructure that enhance realization of research and educational processes at universities.

The main subject of the book is high performance computing and cloud computing applications in the area of scientific work and education. Supercomputers are used for compute-intensive tasks such as problems including quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research, oil and gas exploration, molecular modeling (computing the structures and properties of chemical compounds, biological macromolecules, polymers, and crystals), and physical simulations (such as simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels, simulation of the detonation of nuclear weapons, and research in nuclear fusion). In the scope of this publication, the following areas of high computing application were discussed and presented through case studies and exercises: industry, research and academic community works, simulation, and hydroinformatics. Cloud computing is an emerging area that includes a set of disciplines, technologies, and business models used to deliver IT capabilities (software, platforms, hardware) as an on-demand, scalable, elastic service. This book presents the applications of cloud computing in scientific research, education, e-learning, ubiquitous learning, CRM and social computing.

Objective of the Book

The primary goal of the proposed publication is to provide a variety of research and survey articles in the field of modern computer technologies and their application in science and education. Findings and discussion provided within publication should foster the potentials and capabilities of research, the academic community, and also industry. The publication is oriented towards making an impact in practice. A loy research presented in the publication will leverage dissemination of knowledge and awareness of the potential benefits of cloud computing.

Target Audience

The publication research provides numerous examples, practical solutions, and applications of high performance computing and cloud computing that can improve capacity and capability as well as the quality of research, teaching, and learning processes. This publication can contribute to the seamless adoption of modern technologies in the areas of science, research, and business; it can also foster new IT infrastructures and services, enable efficient and cost-effective usage of software and hardware resources, and determine what is of significant importance for each business entity, particularly in developing countries. In addition, the presented works are expected to contribute to introducing cloud computing and high performance application and services in other areas (business, industry). Guidelines and case studies provided in the book can help developing cost effective solutions in business and industry. This manuscript is also beneficial to computer and system infrastructure designers, developers, business managers, entrepreneurs, and investors within the cloud computing related industry. The target audience of this book will be composed of professionals and researchers working in the field of information and communication technologies, and their applications in science and education. Researchers and scholars will gain insight on how modern technologies can be used as a support for scientific research. The book will also provide resources on how cloud technologies can be used to build effective infrastructure of educational institutions.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

1. High performance computing:

High performance computer architectures and technologies

Grid computing

Parallel and distributed algorithms

Scalable servers and systems

Energy efficient high-performance computing

Software support and advanced micro-architecture techniques

Operating systems for scalable high-performance computing

High performance computing in science

Emerging applications such as biotechnology and nanotechnology

2. Cloud computing concepts and architecture:

Cloud architecture

Virtualization

Transition from traditional high performance architecture to cloud architecture

IaaS, PaaS, SaaS

Middlewares for implementing clouds

Development and applications of cloud concepts

Autonomic cloud management

Security issues and risk management in cloud environments

3. Cloud computing in science:

Synergy between grid computing and cloud computing in science

Synergy between ubiquitous computing and cloud computing in science

Synergy between pervasive computing and cloud computing in science

Cloud computing in specific scientific domains

Cloud services as support to scientific research

GIS and cloud technologies

4. Cloud computing in education:

Cloud architecture for e-education

Allocation and resource management

Federation of university clouds

Digital identity management in the cloud

Cloud services as support to education

Knowledge management in the cloud

5. Applications and projects

Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 15, 2013, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by June 30, 2013 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by July 15, 2013. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. For additional information regarding the manuscript, please visit www.elab.rs/cc-book/.

Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This book is anticipated to be released in 2013.

Important Dates

June 15, 2013: Proposal Submission Deadline

June 30, 2013: Notification of Acceptance

July 15, 2013: Full Chapter Submission

August 15, 2013: Review Results Returned

September 30, 2013: Final Chapter Submission

November 30, 2013: Final Deadline

Editorial Advisory Board Members:

Borko Furth, Florida Atlantic University, USA

Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Vladimir Brusic, Boston University, USA

Milorad Stanojevic, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Srdan Krco, Ericsson Ireland Research Centre, Ireland

Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document):

Dr. Marijana Despotović-Zrakić
Faculty of Organizational Science
University of Belgrade, Jove Illića 154
Tel.: +381698893144

Call for Abstracts on the Topic "Patents for Humanity" for a Special Issue of Technology & Innovation: Proceedings of the National Academy

The journal Technology & Innovation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Inventors is currently soliciting manuscripts for a special issue: Patents for Humanity.

Abstracts should be submitted by June 3, 2013. The abstract submission should contain the title, author affiliation, an abstract of no more than 250 words, key words, and corresponding author’s contact information. Upon approval, full manuscripts will be due by Aug. 23.

Articles should concern patented technologies or innovations that have made/have the potential for making significant contributions to humanity. Articles may include commentaries by field experts concerning patents, original articles describing the development and research toward a technology or patent, and/or narrative-like stories that emphasize the societal benefits of select innovations.

Submissions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

Economics of a technology, governmental and policy action, and innovation

Environmental impact of various technologies/patent types

Health impacts of technologies and innovations

Analyses of the distribution and access to technology

All submissions should meet Technology and Innovation’s author instructions and should be submitted online.

Questions? Contact Diana Vergara (TIJournal@research.usf.edu), editorial assistant.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics: Just Food: Bioethics, Gender, and the Ethics of Eating

Vol 8, No. 2: Just Food: Bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating

The deadline for submission for this issue is April 1, 2014.

Editor: Mary C. Rawlinson

Western ethics rarely makes eating a main theme. Food belongs to the often invisible domain of women’s labor. While obesity, malnourishment, and lack of access to clean water are regularly cited as global factors in mortality and morbidity, bioethics, even feminist bioethics, gives little attention to culinary practices, water rights, or agricultural policy or to their effects on the status of women and the health of communities.

What and how we eat determines not only our health, but also our relation to other animals, the forms of social life, the gender division of labor, and the integrity of the environment. If hunger is the hallmark of poverty, obesity and obesity-related diseases are ironically afflicting the poor at alarming rates. Hunger also attends war, violence, and catastrophic environmental events; thus, thinking ethically about food engages issues of war and peace, as well as calling into question the global dependence on fossil fuels. Food can reflect social inequity or economic independence and social justice. It can preserve cultural integrity or yield to the homogenizing force of global capital. Food encompasses the full range of issues arising at the intersection of health and justice.

The Editorial Office of IJFAB invites submissions for Just Food: bioethics, gender, and the ethics of eating, vol. 8.2. Essays may investigate any aspect of the ethics of eating, particularly as it relates to health and gender.

Women are disproportionately responsible for food around the world, yet they are globally underrepresented in the ownership of property or decisions about land use or in determining environmental or food policy. As the spike in obesity among women and children in “low-income” countries under the shift to global food indicates, women, like other vulnerable and underrepresented populations, are disproportionately affected by the globalization of food, as well as by environmental degradation and climate change.

Research suggests, however, that women are also “key drivers of change,” necessary to improving food production and consumption, as well as environmental health in any community. “If you pull women out, there will be no sustainable development.” (Report of Regional Implementation Meeting for Asia and Pacific Rim, Jakarta, 2007.)

IJFAB 8.2 will investigate the bioethical problems that result from the industrialization and globalization of agriculture, as well as the role of feminist bioethics in reimaging agriculture and our culinary practices to be more life-sustaining and to better promote justice, community health, and agency for each and all. Only very recently have large populations been able to eat without any knowledge of how their food is produced. This issue explores the question of our responsibility for what and how we eat, as well as global responsibilities for hunger and diet-related disease.

Possible areas of research include:

hunger and poverty
hunger and violence
consumption and health
immobility, obesity, and agency
animal rights
environmental ethics
ethics of land and water policies
agricultural policy and economic independence
scale in farming
food security
sustainability
local vs. global food
geopolitics of food
food as commodity
biotechnology
food and labor
eating and culture
the aesthetics of food
food and community.

All papers must be submitted in IJFAB style. Authors who plan to submit are encouraged to contact the Editor ahead of time.

IJFAB also welcomes proposals for future special issues.

Instructions for authors are available at www.ijfab.org. Papers should be submitted in Microsoft Word, as email attachments to IJFAB@sunysb.edu.