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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7­11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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‐‐‐ May 10, 6 th  registration deadline ‐‐‐

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AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event,
see  http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and
PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them
about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science
and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and
will be available for interaction with the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6 keynote
lectures and 24 six‐hour courses dealing with some of the most lively topics in the
field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract the
brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre‐requisites in
terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be
several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge
background in the description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of
computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with
scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.
REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event.
Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend
as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona.
The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer
Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in NP‐
Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Top‐N Recommender Systems:
Revisiting Item Neighborhood Methods

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data
Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics Challenges
and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory] Usability
Engineering and Scenario‐based Design
Kwang‐Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling Salesman
Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate] Optimization
Techniques for Sparse/Low‐rank Recovery Problems in Image Processing and
Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [intermediate/advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate]
Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in Computer
Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate] Beyond
LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance Handover
System Designs

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms
Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana‐Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín‐Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only
tentative and non‐binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an
approximation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed
on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the
capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the
event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of
the) week (full‐time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to participate to all courses.
They vary depending on the registration deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation is available on the website of the School.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d’Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili