[DMANET] Professorship (W2) in Theoretical Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn (Germany)
invites applications for the following position:

Professorship (W2, tenured) in Theoretical Computer Science.

The department welcomes applications from candidates with an excellent
research track record in the area of algorithms.

The conditions of employment are according to § 36 of the Higher
Education Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hochschulgesetz
Nordrhein-Westfalen). The University of Bonn is an equal opportunities
employer. Preference will be given to suitably qualified women or
persons with disabilities, all other considerations being equal.

Applications (including CV, list of publications, an outline of
current and future research topics, and a record of teaching experience)
should be sent by November 30, 2013 to the head of the Fachgruppe
Informatik: fachgruppe@informatik.uni-bonn.de.
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[DMANET] AlCoB 2014: 1st call for papers

1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 1-3, 2014

Organized by:

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/

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AIMS:

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and
graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in
biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and
structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in
computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling
sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the
genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and
comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be the Catalunya Campus.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification,
differential analysis …
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics,
metatranscriptomics ...
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

to be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto, JP)
Amihood Amir (Ramat-Gan, IL)
Alberto Apostolico (Atlanta, US)
Joel Bader (Baltimore, US)
Pierre Baldi (Irvine, US)
Serafim Batzoglou (Stanford, US)
Bonnie Berger (Cambridge, US)
Francis Y.L. Chin (Hong Kong, HK)
Benny Chor (Tel Aviv, IL)
Keith A. Crandall (Washington, US)
Bhaskar DasGupta (Chicago, US)
Joaquín Dopazo (Valencia, ES)
Liliana Florea (Baltimore, US)
Olivier Gascuel (Montpellier, FR)
David Gilbert (Uxbridge, UK)
Gaston H. Gonnet (Zurich, CH)
Roderic Guigó (Barcelona, ES)
Dan Gusfield (Davis, US)
Vasant Honavar (University College, US)
Sorin Istrail (Providence, US)
Tao Jiang (Riverside, US)
Inge Jonassen (Bergen, NO)
Anders Krogh (Copenhagen, DK)
Giovanni Manzini (Alessandria, IT)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Satoru Miyano (Tokyo, JP)
Burkhard Morgenstern (Göttingen, DE)
Shinichi Morishita (Tokyo, JP)
Cédric Notredame (Barcelona, ES)
Graziano Pesole (Bari, IT)
Mark Ragan (Brisbane, AU)
Timothy Ravasi (Thuwal, SA)
Allen G. Rodrigo (Durham, US)
Steven Salzberg (Baltimore, US)
David Sankoff (Ottawa, CA)
Thomas Schiex (Toulouse, FR)
João C. Setubal (São Paulo, BR)
Steven Skiena (Stony Brook, US)
Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig, DE)
Wing-Kin Sung (Singapore, SG)
Alfonso Valencia (Madrid, ES)
Jacques van Helden (Marseille, FR)
Arndt von Haeseler (Vienna, AT)
Lusheng Wang (Hong Kong, HK)
Limsoon Wong (Singapore, SG)
Xiaohui Xie (Irvine, US)
Dong Xu (Columbia, US)
Zohar Yakhini (Santa Clara, US)
Alex Zelikovsky (Atlanta, US)
Michael Q. Zhang (Dallas, US)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings expectedly published by Springer in the LNBI series
will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from September 21, 2013 to July 1, 2014.
The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: February 4, 2014 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: March 15, 2014
Final version of the paper for the proceedings: March 22, 2014
Early registration: March 29, 2014
Late registration: June 17, 2014
Starting of the conference: July 1, 2014
End of the conference: July 3, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: October 3, 2014

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559543
Fax: +34 977 558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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


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[DMANET] Special issue of DAM dedicated to the 65th birthday of Andreas Brandstädt

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics dedicated to the 65th
birthday of Andreas Brandstädt


Guest editors

Feodor Dragan, Kent State University, United States <dragan@cs.kent.edu>
Dieter Kratsch, Université de Lorraine, France
<dieter.kratsch@univ-lorraine.fr>
Van Bang Le, University of Rostock, Germany <le@informatik.uni-rostock.de>


Introduction

A special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics will be
published on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Andreas
Brandstädt. The scope of the issue will include all aspects of
theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics related to the
research areas in which Andreas Brandstädt has been involved. These
include graph and hypergraph theory, graph algorithms, and
combinatorics. Research on the structural and algorithmic properties of
special graph classes as well as research related to the work of Andreas
Brandstädt will be highly appreciated.


List of topics

Examples of such areas include

- Graph theory
- Graph classes
- Intersection graphs
- Perfect graphs
- Decompositions of graphs
- Hypergraphs
- Graph algorithms
- NP-hard graph problems in special graph classes


Submissions

Authors are invited to submit original papers relevant to the scope of
the special issue. All submissions should be uploaded via Elsevier's
Online Manuscript Submission, Review and Tracking System for Discrete
Applied Mathematics (http://ees.elsevier.com/dam/default.asp ) where you
can find detailed information and instructions. Please note that once
you select 'Submit a Manuscript', you must choose "Special Issue: To A.
Brandstädt" from the drop-down list when prompted for 'Choose Article
Type'. All papers will be refereed, and acceptance will follow the
standards of Discrete Applied Mathematics.


Deadline for submission

15 April 2014


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[DMANET] ECCO 2013 - Special issue in DAM- deadline extended

Please note that the submission deadline of the special issue ECCO XXVI
in the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics has been extended to October
31, 2013.


Guest editors
Silvano Martello
Bernard Ries

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Dr Bernard Ries
Associate Professor
LAMSADE - Université Paris-Dauphine
E-mail: bernard.ries@dauphine.fr
Homepage: http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~ries

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[DMANET] Open PhD or Postdoc Position at TU Berlin

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Open PhD or Postdoc Position at TU Berlin

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A PhD or Postdoc position is available in the Discrete Mathematics
group at Technische Universitaet Berlin. The position is within the
Eurocores project EuroGIGA. The research focus can be centered around
`combinatorial problems for point sets and arrangements' or `contact
and intersection representations of graphs'. Candidates will be
expected to undertake research in at least one of these areas.

The position comes with a 3/4 Berlin TVL-13 salary (approx. 20000 EUR
net salary per annum). We are seeking excellent students or Postdocs
with a Masters degree resp. PhD in mathematics, computer
science or a closely related field. Solid background in discrete
geometry, graph theory and combinatorics is requested. Applications,
including CV, list of publications and a letter of recommendation
should be sent to me, preferably by email in pdf format:

Prof. Dr. Stefan Felsner
Inst. Mathematik, MA 6-1
Technische Universitaet Berlin
Strasse des 17. Juni 136
10623 Berlin, Germany
Email: felsner@math.tu-berlin.de

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[DMANET] ETAPS 2014 last call for papers

[We apologise for multiple copies.]

Abstracts due 4 Oct, full papers 11 Oct 2013

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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS: ETAPS 2014

17th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software

Grenoble, France

5-13 April 2014

http://www.etaps.org/2014

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-- ABOUT ETAPS --

ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial
researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS,
established in 1998, is a confederation of six main annual
conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2014 is the
seventeenth event in the series.


-- MAIN CONFERENCES (7-11 April) --

* CC: Compiler Construction
* ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
* FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
* FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science
and Computation Structures
* POST: Principles of Security and Trust
* TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems

TACAS '14 hosts the 3rd Competition on Software Verification
(SV-COMP).


-- INVITED SPEAKERS --

* Robert Harper (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
* John Launchbury (Galois, US)
* Benoit Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray, France)
* Maurice Herlihy (Brown University, US)
* Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
* Petr Jancar (Technical Univ of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
* David Mazieres (Stanford University, US)
* Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel)


-- IMPORTANT DATES --

* 4 October 2013: Submission deadline for abstracts (strict)
* 11 October 2013: Submission deadline for full papers (strict)
* 20 December 2013: Notification of acceptance
* 17 January 2014: Camera-ready versions due

ESOP and FoSSaCS will use a rebuttal (author response) phase.


-- GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION --

ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers
and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the
proceedings and have presentations during the conference. (TACAS has
more categories, see below.)

A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one
of the authors attends the conference to give the
presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original
research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same
contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. The
proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing
and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series.

Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at
the URL

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

and be submitted electronically in pdf through the Easychair author
interface of the respective conference.

Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be
rejected immediately.


- Research papers

Different ETAPS 2014 conferences have different page limits.
Specifically, FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pages,
whereas CC, ESOP and POST allow at most 20 pages. Additional material
intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version
- for example, details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked
appendix that is not included in the page limit. ETAPS referees are at
liberty to ignore appendices and papers must be understandable without
them.

TACAS solicits not only regular research papers, but also case study
papers.


- Tool demonstration papers

Submissions should consist of two parts:

* The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool
presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and
provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of
the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.)

* The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the
demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including
screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the
proceedings, but will be evaluated.)

ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers.

In addition to tool demonstration papers (max 6 pages in their case),
TACAS solicits also regular tool papers (max 15 pages) adhering to
specific instructions about content and organization.


-- SATELLITE EVENTS (5-6 April, 12-13 April) --

Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the
main conferences. In addition, on 6 April, some tutorials on topics of
wide interest will be offered.


-- HOST CITY --

Located in the southeastern part of France, Grenoble is considered as
the capital of the Alps. Grenoble is surrounded by nature and high
mountains: down the Alps, Grenoble is the meeting point of two
important rivers, Drac and Isere. Grenoble has important historical
and gastronomic heritages. Leisure activities in breathtaking nature
are easily organizable and within short-distance. Grenoble is also a
major scientific center in Europe dedicated to high-tech technologies,
e.g., nano, micro, bio, and information technologies.


-- HOST INSTITUTION --

The event is organized by Universite Joseph Fourier. Located at the
heart of the Alps, in outstanding scientific and natural surroundings,
the Universite Joseph Fourier in Grenoble is a leading University of
Science, Technology and Health.


-- ORGANIZERS

* General chair: Saddek Bensalem
* Conferences chair: Yassine Lakhnech
* Workshops chair: Axel Legay
* Publicity chair: Ylies Falcone
* Finance chair: Nicolas Halbwachs
* Web site chair: Marius Bozga


-- FURTHER INFORMATION --

Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at
etaps2014.organization@imag.fr.



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[DMANET] Special Issue of "Discrete Applied Math" for CTW 2013 - 3rd Call for Papers - Deadline Extended

Third Call for Papers for the special issue of

Discrete Applied Mathematics

for the 12th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial
Optimization (CTW 2013)

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Extended deadline: October 20, 2013
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Following the tradition of previous CTWs, a special issue of Discrete
Applied Mathematics will be devoted to the 12th Cologne-Twente Workshop
on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization (CTW 2013,
http://www.math.utwente.nl/~ctw/), held on May 21-23, 2013 at the
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.

All interested researchers are invited to contribute to this special
volume. The topics should relate to the themes of the workshop (graph
theory, combinatorial optimization and the design and analysis of
algorithms). Submissions of contributions not presented at the workshop
are also welcome.

All articles will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards
of Discrete Applied Mathematics.

The full papers must be submitted through the Elsevier Editorial System
(http://ees.elsevier.com/dam). When submitting your paper, make sure
that you specify that the paper is a submission to the special issue of
CTW 2013.

Looking forward to your contribution,

The guest editors,
Johann Hurink & Bodo Manthey
ctw2013@utwente.nl
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[DMANET] IPCO 2014 Call for Papers

Call for Papers for the
17th Conference on
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
(IPCO XVII)
to be held at
Bonn, Germany,
June 23-25, 2014

Conference website for additional details and paper submission:
http://www.or.uni-bonn.de/ipco/

The IPCO conference is a forum for researchers and practitioners working on various aspects of integer programming and combinatorial optimization. The aim is to present recent developments in theory, computation, and applications. The scope of IPCO is viewed in a broad sense, to include algorithmic and structural results in integer programming and combinatorial optimization as well as revealing computational studies and novel applications of discrete optimization to practical problems.

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of their recent work by November 15, 2013; see the submission guidelines for more information. The program committee will select the papers to be presented on the basis of the submitted extended abstracts. Contributions are expected to be original, unpublished and not submitted to journals or conferences with proceedings before the notification date (January 31, 2014). Papers violating these requirements will not be considered by the Program Committee.

During the conference, approximately 33 papers will be presented in single-track sessions. Each lecture will be 30 minutes long. The proceedings will be published as Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. They will contain extended abstracts of all accepted submissions. It is expected that revised and extended versions will subsequently be submitted for publication in appropriate journals. Each participant will receive a copy of the proceedings at the conference.

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: November 15, 2013 (23:59 CET).
Notification date: January 31, 2014
Conference: June 23-25, 2014

Program Committee:

Flavia Bonomo (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Sam Burer (University of Iowa)
Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University)
Satoru Fujishige (Kyoto University)
Michael Jünger (Universität zu Köln)
Matthias Köppe (University of California, Davis)
Jon Lee, chair (University of Michigan)
Jeff Linderoth (University of Wisconsin)
Jean-Philippe Richard (University of Florida)
András Sebő (CNRS, Laboratoire G-SCOP, Grenoble)
Maxim Sviridenko (University of Warwick)
Chaitanya Swamy (University of Waterloo)
Jens Vygen (Universität Bonn)
David P. Williamson (Cornell University)
Laurence Wolsey (Université catholique de Louvain)

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[DMANET] MPB Special Issue

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING Series B
Special issue on POLYNOMIAL OPTIMIZATION
Second Call for Papers

Polynomial Optimization (PO) refers to optimization problems in which all
objective and constraint functions are polynomials. Such problems form an
important and remarkably general class of NP-hard global optimization
problems. A fascinating feature of PO is that it can be approached from
several different directions. Indeed, in addition to traditional techniques
drawn from operational research, computer science and numerical analysis,
new techniques have recently emerged based on concepts taken from
algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and moment theory. For this
reason, PO is a rapidly expanding field.

We are pleased to announce this special issue of Mathematical Programming
Series B on PO, the deadline for which is 30th November 2013. We welcome
papers on all aspects of PO, whether concerned with theory, applications,
algorithms or software. Since we expect a large number of submissions,
all papers that we receive will be refereed to a high standard. Papers that
are deemed to be of high quality, yet are not included in the special issue,
may be forwarded to either Mathematical Programming Series A or
Mathematical Programming Computation for consideration (with the agreement
of both the authors and the respective editor-in-chief).

Manuscripts must be submitted on-line via:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/mapr/
When prompted to Choose Article Type, please select
"S.I. : Polynomial Optimization - Series B" from the menu. Due to limits in
page volume, we request that initial submissions be no more than 25 pages
in length. We also request that papers use the standard Springer LaTeX
style "svjour3". The necessary files are available at:
www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~dr241/MPB/MPB-Springer-latex-style-files.zip.

Many thanks in advance for your contributions to this special issue.

The guest editors:
Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse)
Adam Letchford (Lancaster, UK)
Pablo Parrilo (MIT)
David Steurer (Cornell).
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[DMANET] Postdoc in Combinatorics/Vienna

Postdoc position in Combinatorics
University of Vienna, Austria

A postdoc position in Combinatorics at the University of Vienna is
available. The position is within the framework of a START project, which
is funded by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF and led by Ilse Fischer,
and deals with recent topics in enumerative and algebraic combinatorics as
wells as statistical physics.

Successful candidates will join the combinatorics group
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~kratt/comb.html

The appointment is initially for one year and can be extended up to a
total of three years subject to satisfactory progress. The position comes
along with substantial travel funding and is available from December 1,
2013 (negotiable).

Applications, including CV, list of publications, research plan and the
names of two references including email addresses, should be sent to

Ilse Fischer
ilse.fischer at univie.ac.at
http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~ifischer/

and will be considered until the position is filled.

For further information do not hesitate to contact Ilse Fischer.

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[DMANET] NSF-Workshop (at SODA 2014) on Self-Organizing Particle Systems

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SOPS 2014
NSF Workshop on Self-Organizing Particle Systems
January 8, 2014, co-located with SODA
http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

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The goal of this NSF-sponsored workshop is to bring together people from
thetheory and practice of self-organizing physical and biological systems
in order to report on recent advances in this area and to identify
directions for interdisciplinary research that will help shape the future
of the field. The one-day meeting will consist of several invited talks
around four major research areas, namely

- amorphous computing,
- modular robotics,
- self-organizing biological systems, and
- self-assembling DNA

Confirmed speakers are currently Bernard Chazelle (Princeton U.), John Reif
(Duke U.), Mark Yim (U. Pennsylvania), Nikolaus Correll (U. Colorado), and
Andrea Richa (Arizona State U.). For more information please consult

http://sops2014.cs.upb.de/

Early registration deadline: December 2, 2013

NSF-funded travel grants are available for PhD students, postdocs, women,
and under-represented minorities. Application deadline: November 17, 2013

======================================================

Organizers:

Andrea W. Richa, Arizona State University, USA
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany


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[DMANET] PhD studentship available for the project "Real-Time Scheduling of Patrols Serving Motor Vehicle Breakdowns"

This PhD project will address problems of deployment and real-time
scheduling of patrol vehicles that have to service breakdowns. The main
goal of the project will be to use operational research techniques to
design algorithms that are effective in dealing with problems with about
2500 patrol vehicles across the UK. Specific objectives are:
(a) finding the optimal number and locations of new patrol stations (if
any) to be established under the uncertainty of the breakdown locations;
(b) determining the number of patrol vehicles to be deployed at each
(existing or new) station; and
© online scheduling of the patrol vehicles to service the incoming
requests for assistance within a target response time (where possible),
and with an overall objective of minimizing the total operation costs.
A simulation model will also be developed to evaluate the performance of
the algorithms that are developed.

The student will be based in the Operational Research Group in
Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton. The project will
run in collaboration with the AA (Automobile Association), which is based
in Basingstoke. Consequently, the student will spend some time in the AA
offices observing the processes, collecting data, liaising with staff, and
eventually communicating the results. The project will be jointly
supervised by Prof. Chris Potts and Prof. Tolga Bektas.

Applicants should have completed, or expect to complete before November
2013, a Bachelor¹s degree in Operational Research, Mathematics,
Statistics, or a related area with at least an upper second class
classification (or the equivalent), and preferably a Master¹s degree. The
deadline for applications is 14 October 2013, and the latest start date
for the PhD project is 1 December 2013.

The studentship will cover tuition fees at the UK/EU level and a stipend
of approximately £13,500. Both UK/EU students and international students
are encouraged to apply.

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[DMANET] Postdoctoral Positions in Algorithms and Lower Bounds (Bristol University, UK)

Two three-year postdoctoral positions available in Algorithms and
Lower bounds at
the University of Bristol, UK.

This is a "rolling advert" with a nominal advert close date of 31
December 2013. Applications are welcome at any time and the timing of
the selection process will be dependent on the applications received.
Start date is dependent on the circumstances of the successful
candidates.

Based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of
Bristol you will carry out research within a project concerned with
the development of new algorithms as well as provable time and space
lower bounds. This is part of an EPSRC funded research project on
pattern matching in dynamically changing as well as streaming data.

The role will require a high level of expertise in areas which may include
but not be limited to data structures, algorithms, probability,
discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Candidates with a strong
mathematical background are particularly encouraged to apply.

Post 1
The emphasis will be new pattern matching algorithms with provable
performance bounds such as appear in the conferences
ICALP/SODA/STOC/FOCS. You will also at times implement and test
algorithms related to the proposal.

Post 2
This role will have as its main focus the development of time and
space lower bounds for pattern matching problems. You will ideally
already be familiar with lower bound techniques such as the chronogram
method and Mihai Patrascu's information transfer method.

For both posts you will have Ph.D. in theoretical computer science or
closely related area together with a strong track record of
international publications in algorithms/theoretical computer science
venues.

In addition you will have excellent written and spoken communication
skills including the ability to explain and share deep concepts. You
should have a strong mathematical background and ideally excellent
programming skills.

Appointments will be made at Research Assistant or Research Associate
depending on skills and experience.

More details are available by following the link in the News section
of http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Research/Algorithms/ .

Informal enquires can be made by email to Raphael.Clifford@bristol.ac.uk .

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[DMANET] Postdoc Position at Univ. Trier

Applications are invited for a postdoc position at the Department of
Mathematics at the University of Trier (Germany).

The postdoc will be working in the research project "Completely
Positive and Copositive Matrices" which is funded by the
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development
(GIF). The investigators in this project are Mirjam Duer (University
of Trier, Germany), Abraham Berman (Technion - Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa) and Naomi Shaked-Monderer (The Max Stern Yezreel
Valley College). The research area will be in the intersection of
matrix theory and nonlinear optimization. More specifically, we are
interested in optimization problems over the copositive and completely
positive matrix cones, as well as the geometry of these cones.

The position will be starting 1 January 2014 or later, and is granted
for one year. Monthly salary will be according to TVL-E13. The
position may be extended for a second year which will be spent in
Israel at the Technion.

Applicants must hold a PhD degree in mathematics or a related field,
and should have an expertise in either matrix theory or conic
optimization. They should be able to communicate in English, German is
desirable but not mandatory.

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* a letter of application
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University of Trier
54286 Trier, Germany

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[DMANET] Utrecht Graphs Workshop, 31/10 & 1/11, a second announcement

We are pleased to announce a workshop in graph theory to be held on
Thursday, 31 October and Friday, 1 November 2013. It will take place
in Utrecht, an ancient and beautiful city in the heart of the
Netherlands.

We have an exciting programme planned. The speakers include Maria
Axenovich (Karlsruhe), Aart Blokhuis (Eindhoven), Hajo Broersma
(Twente), Louis Esperet (CNRS), Tom Kaiser (West Bohemia), Dan Král'
(Warwick), Alex Scott (Oxford), Benny Sudakov (UCLA/ETH), and Carsten
Thomassen (DTU).

There are a limited number of slots for short contributed talks; those
interested are requested to send their provisional talk titles.

The workshop is open to all, but participants are kindly asked to
register by email to ross.kang@gmail.com. Make sure to include the
following information: name and affiliation (as it should appear on a
badge), dietary restrictions, day/time of arrival/departure. We may be
able to provide a booking code for a discount at a recommended hotel,
on request.

More information on the event at
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~Kang0002/UGW2013.html

Sincerely yours,

Ross Kang and Tobias Müller

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[DMANET] 2nd CFP: EvoENERGY 2014

EvoENERGY 2014
Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications
23-25 April 2014 - Baeza, Spain
http://www.evostar.org


INTRODUCTION

Along with the worldwide incentive to reduce fossil and nuclear based power
generation, the number of distributed generators and other forms of
distributed energy resources which are installed in power networks has been
steadily increasing over the last years. This increased integration has
triggered a transformation of the energy system and challenges the
conventional operation of these networks.

On a network level, this transformation requires new control and communication
approaches, to guarantee the security of energy supplies as well as an optimal
exploitation of available resources. On a generator level, advanced control
strategies as well as morphological optimization (e.g., tuning of wind-blade
design) can help to assure an optimal performance of the generator.

EvoEnergy is intended as a platform for new, innovative computational
intelligence and nature-inspired techniques in the domain of energy-related
optimization research. We seek contributions ranging from new control concepts
for decentralized generation, strategies for their coordination in the network
to the morphological optimization of distributed generators.


TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, any of
the following:
- management of distributed generation and storage
- evolutionary design and morphological optimization in energy systems
- advanced distribution management system functionalities
- Smart Grid monitoring and control
- real time configurations of energy networks
- distributed optimization in energy networks
- grid planning and asset management
- energy demand reduction through evolutionary design optimisation


PUBLICATION DETAILS

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoStar, published in a
volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, which will be
available at the Conference.

Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. The submissions will
be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The
authors of accepted papers will have to improve their paper on the basis of
the reviewers comments and will be asked to send a camera ready version of
their manuscripts. At least one author of each accepted work has to register
for the conference and attend the conference and present the work. The
reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted paper.

Submission format: Springer LNCS (see EvoENERGY web page)
Page limit: 12 pages
Submission page: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evoapps14/


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 1 November 2013
Notification:
Camera ready:
EvoENERGY: 23-25 April 2014


CHAIRS

Paul Kaufmann, University of Kassel, paul.kaufmann(at)gmail.com
Kyrre Glette, University of Oslo, kyrrehg(at)ifi.uio.no


CONFIRMED PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK
Frank Neumann, University of Adelaide, AU
Jan Ringelstein, Fraunhofer Institure for Wind Technology and Energy System Technology, Germany
Kalyan Veeramachaneni, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, US
Konrad Diwold, Fraunhofer Institure for Wind Technology and Energy System Technology, Germany
Maizura Mokhtar, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Martin Middendorf, University of Leipzig, Germany
Peter Palensky, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Ralph Evins, Laboratory of Building Science and Technology, Empa, Switzerland
Sanaz Mostaghim, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Una-May O'Reilly, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, US


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[DMANET] Faculty Position - Dept of CS, U. of Sao Paulo

University of São Paulo
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Computer Science
Tenure-Track Positions
Assistant Professor
Application Deadline: 15th October 2013

http://www.ime.usp.br/dcc/faculty_position

The Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São
Paulo (IME-USP) invites applications for faculty positions at the
Assistant Professor level. The Department is accepting applications in
all areas of Computer Science.

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[DMANET] WICT 2013 - Final CFP - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Final deadline: September 30, 2013


** WICT 2013 - Second Call for Papers **

Third World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies ( WICT2013)

December 15-18, 2013

Venue: Hanoi, Vietnam

http://www.mirlabs.org/wict13
http://www.mirlabs.net/wict13

Related event: SoCPaR 2013: http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar13

After the success of the Second World Congress on Information and
Communication Technologies (WICT 2012 -
http://www.mirlabs.net/wict12), we are pleased to announce the
organization of WICT 2013 to provide an opportunity for the
researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss latest
solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and
applications of ICT in the real world.

Objective:
--------------

As we all know, our society has been through several dramatic changes,
driven by innovations such as transportation systems, telephone etc.

Last few decades have experienced technologies that are evolving so
rapidly, altering the constraints of space and time, and reshaping the way
we communicate, learn and think. Rapid advances in information technologies
and other digital systems are reshaping our ecosystem. Innovations in ICT
allow us to transmit information quickly and widely, propelling the growth
of new urban communities, linking distant places and diverse areas of
endeavor in productive new ways, which a decade ago was unimaginable. Thus,
the theme of this World Congress is 'Innovating ICT For Social Revolutions'.

The four day World Congress is expected to provide an opportunity for the
researchers from academia and industry to meet and discuss the latest
solutions, scientific results and methods in the usage and applications of
ICT in the real world. The conference programme will include workshops,
special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and
regular paper presentations in parallel tracks. All accepted papers will be
compiled in conference proceedings published by the IEEE.

Publication: IEEE
-------------------------

All accepted papers will be compiled in conference proceedings published by
the IEEE. Like previous editions, all accepted papers presented at WICT 2012
may be selected and recommended for possible publication in Journal
Special Issues and Edited Volumes (indexed by SCI, EI Compendex, etc.).
http://www.mirlabs.org/wict13/journal.php

Call for Papers:
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Please submit your papers to one of the following tracks or the main track
mentioned in the link: http://www.mirlabs.org/wict13/cfp.php

Author Guidelines:
--------------------------

Submission of paper should be made through the submission link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wict20130

Please refer to the conference website link
http://www.mirlabs.org/wict13/#submission for guidelines to prepare your
manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference
proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory that at least one of the
authors registers for every paper that is included in the conference
proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference.

Call for Workshops and Special Sessions:
------------------------------------------------------------

WICT 2013 is seeking original high quality Special Sessions and Workshops
on focused discussion addressing innovative research highlighting
significant topics and emerging issues which are related to the conference
theme and with the desired expertise. Interdisciplinary session themes are
strongly sought after. Each special session resembles a mini-conference
within the main WICT meeting and will run throughout the conference in
parallel to other tracks (except the keynote presentations).

Important Dates:

Paper submission due: September 30, 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: October 20, 2013
Final manuscript due: November 05, 2013
Registration and full payment due: November 05, 2013

Organizing Committee
(please see web site)

Contact:
Technical Matters:
Ajith Abraham
< ajith.abraham@ieee.org>

Local Organization:
Ngo Thanh Long,
<ngotlong@gmail.com>

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[DMANET] IPDPS 2014 - ALERT! Abstract Submission Deadline Approaching

IPDPS 2014 September 21, 2013 Release
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28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 19-23, 2014
Arizona Grand Resort
PHOENIX (Arizona) USA
www.ipdps.org
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- October 11, 2013......Abstracts due
- October 18, 2013......Submission deadline
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IPDPS 2014 ALERTS
...Submission portal now open at
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_call_for_papers.html
...Due dates for most of 21 workshops are after December 09, 2013. See
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_workshops.html
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IPDPS 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS
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SCOPE : Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present
original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed
processing, including the development of experimental or commercial
systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on topics such as:
numerical, combinatorial, and data-intensive parallel algorithms,
scalability of algorithms and data structures for parallel and
distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols,
network algorithms, scheduling, and load balancing.

- Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including
computational and data-enabled science and engineering, big data
applications, parallel crowd sourcing, large-scale social network
analysis, management of big data, cloud and grid computing, scientific
and biomedical applications, and mobile computing. Papers focusing on
applications using novel commercial or research architectures, big
data approaches, or discussing scalability toward the exascale level
are encouraged.

- Parallel and distributed architectures, including architectures for
instruction-level and thread-level parallelism; petascale and exascale
systems designs; novel big data architectures; special-purpose
architectures, including graphics processors, signal processors,
network processors, media accelerators, and other special purpose
processors and accelerators; impact of technology on architecture;
network and interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage
systems; architecture of the memory hierarchy; power-efficient and
green computing architectures; dependable architectures; and
performance modeling and evaluation.

- Parallel and distributed software, including parallel and multicore
programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating
systems, resource management including green computing, middleware for
grids, clouds, and data centers, libraries, performance modeling and
evaluation, parallel programming paradigms, and programming
environments and tools. Papers focusing on novel software systems for
big data and exascale systems are encouraged.

WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT
More details on submissions and instructions for submitting
manuscripts are available at www.ipdps.org. All submitted manuscripts
will be reviewed. Submitted papers should NOT have appeared in or be
under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal. Go to
this page for instructions on submitting manuscripts:
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_call_for_papers.html

IMPORTANT DATES
ïOctober 11, 2013......Abstracts due
ïOctober 18, 2013......Submission deadline
ïDecember 09, 2013...Author notification
ïFebruary 01, 2014.....Camera ready due
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IPDPS 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
The 28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium will be held 19-23 May 2014 in Phoenix at the Arizona Grand
Resort, an all-suites family-friendly resort and meeting place.
Phoenix has an international airport and is the hub for several US
airlines. It is only a six hour drive from Los Angeles and Las Vegas
and the starting point for one day tours of the Grand Canyon as well
as other historic communities in the area. For those who come early or
stay late, there are boundless Southwest tourist attractions and
activities. For shorter trip times, AGR has a water-world, golf
course, and hiking and riding trails on the premises and an indoor
athletic club and spa for fitness training. Check the IPDPS Web pages
for updates and information on workshops, the PhD Forum, and other
events as the full program develops and see the full call for papers
for details on submitting papers for 2014.

GENERAL CHAIR
Manish PARASHAR (Rutgers University, USA)

PROGRAM CHAIR
David A. BADER (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS
-Algorithms
Anne BENOIT (ENS Lyon, France)
-Applications
Padma RAGHAVAN (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
-Architecture
Yan SOLIHIN (North Carolina State University, USA)
-Software
Ron BRIGHTWELL (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Ümit V. ÇATALYÜREK (Ohio State University, USA)
WORKSHOPS VICE-CHAIR
Yogesh SIMMHAN (University of Southern California, USA)
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IPDPS 2014 WORKSHOPS
IPDPS workshops, held on the first and last days of the symposium,
provide attendees an opportunity to explore special topics. The 21
workshops planned for IPDPS 2014 in Phoenix are listed
athttp://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_workshops.html. That page has a
link to the call for papers for each workshop. Note that most
workshops have a due date for submissions later than the author
notification date of December 9th for regular conference papers.

PhD FORUM CO-CHAIRS
Luc BOUG… (ENS Cachan, France)
Bo HONG (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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ENHANCED STUDENT AUTHOR PROGRAM 2014
The PhD Forum & Student Author Program will provide added value to
encourage advisors to bring their students to IPDPS, with an enhanced
program providing a comprehensive venue for students to better prepare
for their research and career path in parallel and distributed
computing. Participating students will have the opportunity to both
present their research work and interact with senior academic and
industry people in an informal setting. In addition, there will be
mentoring sessions to help students improve communication skills,
obtain valuable information for career planning, get familiar with a
few of the trendy research topics, and make valuable contacts ñ all
while enjoying the IPDPS main conference and many associated
workshops. See details at
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_phd_forum.html

28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
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In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical
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[DMANET] SoCPaR 2013 - Final CFP - Hanoi, Vietnam

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Apologies for cross-posting. Appreciate if you can distribute this CFP
to your network.
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Extended Dateline:
Paper submission due: September 30, 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: October 20, 2013
Final manuscript due: November 05, 2013
Registration and full payment due: November 05, 2013



*** SoCPaR 2013 - Final Call for Papers ***


Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern
Recognition (SoCPaR 2013)
* Hanoi, Vietnam *
December 15-18, 2013

http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar13/
http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar13/


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Objective:
The aspiration of SoCPaR 2013 is to bring together worldwide leading
researchers, developers, practitioners, and educators interested in
advancing the state of the art in soft computing and pattern
recognition for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of
disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that
researchers will bring new prospect for collaboration across
disciplines and gain idea facilitating novel breakthrough. The 4-day
conference will feature prominent keynote speakers,workshop,tutorials,
poster and paper presentation in parallel tracks. SoCPaR 2013 invites
novel contributions/papers of soft computing and pattern recognition
from fundamental aspects to various practical applications.

Topics:

** Soft Computing and Applications **
Evolutionary computing
Swarm intelligence
Artificial immune systems
Fuzzy Sets
Uncertainty analysis
Fractals
Rough Sets
Support vector machines
Artificial neural networks
Case Based Reasoning
Wavelets
Hybrid intelligent systems
Nature inspired computing techniques
Machine learning
Ambient intelligence
Hardware implementations

** Pattern Recognition and Applications **
Information retrieval
Data Mining
Web Mining
Image Processing
Computer Vision
Bio-informatics
Information security
Network security
Steganography
Biometry
Remote sensing
Medical Informatics
E-commerce
Signal Processing
Control systems

Author Guidelines:
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Submission of paper should be made through the submission link:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=socpar2013

Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your
manuscript. All accepted papers will be compiled in conference
proceedings published by the IEEE. It is mandatory at least an author
registers for every paper that is included in the conference
proceedings. Proceedings will be made available during the conference.
Expanded versions of SoCPaR 2013 selected papers will be published in
special issues of internationally referred journals (SCI/SCIE).

Important Dates:
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Paper submission due: September 30, 2013
Notification of paper acceptance: October 20, 2013
Final manuscript due: November 05, 2013
Registration and full payment due: November 05, 2013


SoCPaR 2013 Organizing team:
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General Chairs
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Long Thanh Ngo, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam
Ajith Abraham, MIR Labs, USA
Andre Carvalho, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil


Program Chairs
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Vaclav Snasel, VSB- Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Lam Thu Bui, Le Quy Don University, Vietnam
Emilio Corchado, University of Salamanca, Spain


Advisory Chairs and TPC Members, please see web site:
http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar13/committees.php


Local information Contact:
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Ngo Thanh Long
ngotlong@gmail.com
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[DMANET] LATA 2014: 3rd call for papers

8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND
APPLICATIONS

LATA 2014

Madrid, Spain

March 10-14, 2014

Organized by:

Research Group on Implementation of Language-Driven Software and
Applications (ILSA)
Complutense University of Madrid

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/

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AIMS:

LATA is a yearly conference on theoretical computer science and its
applications. Following the tradition of the diverse PhD training events in
the field developed at Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona since 2002,
LATA 2014 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning
of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from both classical
theory fields and application areas (bioinformatics, language technology,
artificial intelligence, etc.).

VENUE:

LATA 2014 will take place in Madrid, the capital of Spain. The venue will be
the School of Informatics of Complutense University.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata, concurrency and Petri nets
automatic structures
cellular automata
codes
combinatorics on words
compilers
computability
computational complexity
data and image compression
decidability issues on words and languages
descriptional complexity
DNA and other models of bio-inspired computing
digital libraries and document engineering
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
fuzzy and rough languages
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
language-theoretic foundations of artificial intelligence and artificial
life
natural language and speech automatic processing
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
quantum, chemical and optical computing
semantics
string and combinatorial issues in computational biology and bioinformatics
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
symbolic neural networks
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata

STRUCTURE:

LATA 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Javier Esparza (Munich Tech, DE), On Trees and Fixed Point Equations
(tutorial)
Leslie A. Goldberg (Oxford, UK), The Complexity of Approximate Counting
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, US), tba
Sanjeev Khanna (Philadelphia, US), tba
Helmut Seidl (Munich Tech, DE), tba

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Dana Angluin (Yale, US)
Eugene Asarin (Paris Diderot, FR)
Jos Baeten (Amsterdam, NL)
Christel Baier (Dresden, DE)
Jan Bergstra (Amsterdam, NL)
Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, US)
Marek Chrobak (Riverside, US)
Andrea Corradini (Pisa, IT)
Mariangiola Dezani (Turin, IT)
Ding-Zhu Du (Dallas, US)
Michael R. Fellows (Darwin, AU)
Jörg Flum (Freiburg, DE)
Nissim Francez (Technion, IL)
Jürgen Giesl (Aachen, DE)
Annegret Habel (Oldenburg, DE)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto, JP)
Sampath Kannan (Philadelphia, US)
Ming-Yang Kao (Northwestern, US)
Deepak Kapur (Albuquerque, US)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (Aachen, DE)
S. Rao Kosaraju (Johns Hopkins, US)
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton, CA)
Gad M. Landau (Haifa, IL)
Andrzej Lingas (Lund, SE)
Jack Lutz (Iowa State, US)
Ian Mackie (École Polytechnique, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (Milan, IT)
Faron G. Moller (Swansea, UK)
Paliath Narendran (Albany, US)
Enno Ohlebusch (Ulm, DE)
Helmut Prodinger (Stellenbosch, ZA)
Jean-François Raskin (Brussels, BE)
Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt Berlin, DE)
Marco Roveri (Bruno Kessler, Trento, IT)
Michaël Rusinowitch (LORIA, Nancy, FR)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Keio, JP)
Davide Sangiorgi (Bologna, IT)
Colin Stirling (Edinburgh, UK)
Jianwen Su (Santa Barbara, US)
Jean-Pierre Talpin (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Andrzej Tarlecki (Warsaw, PL)
Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK)
Sophie Tison (Lille, FR)
Rob van Glabbeek (NICTA, Sydney, AU)
Helmut Veith (Vienna Tech, AT)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Ana Fernández-Pampillón (Madrid)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Antonio Sarasa (Madrid)
José-Luis Sierra (Madrid, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be formatted according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be
available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from July 15, 2013 to March 10, 2014.
The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/lata2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: October 14, 2013 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 25, 2013
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: December 2, 2013
Early registration: December 9, 2013
Late registration: February 24, 2014
Starting of the conference: March 10, 2014
End of the conference: March 14, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: June 14, 2014

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

LATA 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34-977-559543
Fax: +34-977-558386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d'Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universitat Rovira i Virgili



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[DMANET] CfP: AMAI Special Issue on Geometric Reasoning

Call for Papers

Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Special Issue on Geometric Reasoning
http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/amai-geom

Geometry is one of most studied areas of mathematics and, though its
role as a
foundational system has evolved over time, it remains key to our
understanding
of many aspects of the world. It is one of the first areas to which
Artificial
Intelligence (AI) was applied and has remained the focus of much work in
the
field, giving rise to new mathematical concepts and techniques, heuristics,
algorithms, and applications over the past fifty years. In view of the
importance
of geometry and the sustained advances in the field of computer-based
geometric
reasoning and its applications, the time seems ripe to take stock of the
progress
so far and look at some of the latest mathematical and AI-related
advances in
the field. Thus, we invite original contributions -- ranging from theory to
implementations and applications -- and insightful surveys to a special
issue of
the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence on Geometric
Reasoning.

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

* Automated and interactive theorem proving in geometry involving
algebraic,
logical, and/or probabilistic approaches.
* Symbolic and numerical methods for geometric computation and constraint
solving.
* The formal verification of geometric algorithms, for instance in
relation to
computational geometry.
* Reasoning and manipulation via diagrams, including approaches based on
dynamic
geometry.
* The design, implementation, and evaluation of software for geometric
reasoning.
* Knowledge management and libraries of test problems for theorem
proving in
geometry.
* The applications to geometric modelling, CAGD/CAD, computer vision,
robotics,
and education.

Submission

Prospective authors should follow the instructions set out by the Annals of
Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence on its webpage
(http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10472) and submit their
articles
through Springer's Editorial Manager System (at
https://www.editorialmanager.com/amai)
by the deadline indicated below.

Please note that the guest editors will first carry a quick assessment
of each
submission and only papers that are deemed relevant to the special issue
and are
of high enough quality will be forwarded to at least two referees for full,
independent reviews.

Important dates

* Submissions due: December 31, 2013
* First-round acceptance notification: March 31, 2014
* Revised versions due: April 30, 2014
* Final decision: June 30, 2014
* Final papers due: August 31, 2014
* Publication date: 2014 (To be confirmed)

Special Issue Editors

* Jacques Fleuriot (University of Edinburgh, UK)
* Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan)


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[DMANET] CFP: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

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Call for Papers

Special Issue on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary Computation

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

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Aim and Scope

Evolutionary computation methods such as evolutionary algorithms or
ant colony optimization have been successfully applied to a wide range
of problems. This includes classical combinatorial optimization
problems and many hard real-world optimization problems. Real-world
problems are often hard to optimize by traditional methods as they are
non-linear, highly constrained, multi-objective, and come with a wide
range of uncertainties. Many different evolutionary computation
methods for dealing with complex problems have been proposed over the
years

In contrast to the successful applications to extremely difficult
problems, the theoretical understanding of these algorithms lags far
behind the practical success. This is unfortunate, since a rigorous
understanding of the working principles of evolutionary methods can
lead to a better understanding under which situations a given type of
algorithm works, and provide design guidelines for new powerful
methods in practice.

For these reasons the last 20 years saw increasing efforts to lay the
theoretical foundations of evolutionary methods. The aim of this
special issue is to advance the theoretical understanding of
evolutionary computation methods and bridge theory and practice. We
solicit novel, high-quality scientific contributions on theoretical or
foundational aspects of evolutionary computation. A successful
exchange between theory and practice in evolutionary computation is
very desirable and papers bridging theory and practice are of
particular interest. In addition to strict mathematical
investigations, experimental studies strengthening the theoretical
foundations of evolutionary computation methods are very welcome.

Topics

The special issue will present in a coherent form novel results from
different sub-areas of evolutionary computation theory. Authors are
encouraged to submit novel, high-quality research from any sub-area,
including (but not limited to):

- Representations
- Scaling issues
- Methods for handling constraints
- Dynamic and stochastic environments
- Feature-based analysis, fitness landscapes and problem difficulty
- Co-evolution
- Evolutionary multi-objective optimization
- Meta-optimization
- Human/evolutionary algorithm interactions (human in the loop)
- Runtime analysis of all types of evolutionary computing techniques
including evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, memetic
algorithms and artificial immune systems.

Submission

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the instructions of the
"Information for Authors" section of the journal, available at
http://ieee-cis.org/pubs/tec/authors/. Papers incorrectly formatted
will be returned without review.

Papers must be submitted through the IEEE TEVC journal website:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tevc-ieee. Authors must clearly
indicate "Special issue on Theoretical Foundations of Evolutionary
Computation" in the comments to the Editor-in-Chief. Submitted papers
will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The submission of a
manuscript implies that it is the authors' original unpublished work
and is not being submitted for possible publication elsewhere.

Schedule

- 30 Nov 2013: Submission deadline
- 1 Feb 2014: Notice of the first round review
- 15 Mar 2014: Revision due
- 1 May 2014: Final notice of acceptance / reject
- 1 Jun 2014: Final manuscript due

Guest Editors

- A/Prof Frank Neumann, University of Adelaide,
<frank.neumann@adelaide.edu.au>
- Prof Benjamin Doerr, Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
<doerr@mpi-inf.mpg.de>
- Dr Per Kristian Lehre, University of Nottingham,
<perkristian.lehre@nottingham.ac.uk>
- Prof Pauline Haddow, Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, <pauline@idi.ntnu.no>

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[DMANET] 1 PhD position in Parameterized Complexity at TU Berlin (application deadline: October 1)

Department of Software Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science
Technical University Berlin

1 PhD position in Parameterized Complexity
Research Assistant (100% TV-L 13)

A PhD position is available in the DFG-funded Emmy Noether Junior Research
Group

"Efficient preprocessing for hard problems"

led by Stefan Kratsch at TU Berlin. The successful candidate will perform
research on parameterized complexity, kernelization, and related topics.
The main focus of research is on the rigorous study of polynomial-time
preprocessing for NP-hard combinatorial problems. Apart from scientific
contributions, the successful candidate will pursue a PhD in theoretical
computer science, with the goal of defending a doctoral thesis within
3-4 years.

The position is fulltime with an initial contract for 2 years and the
possibility to extend by up to 2 further years. There are no teaching
obligations,
but interest in teaching (exercises or lectures) is encouraged. The
position is available from November 1, 2013. Starting salary is roughly
1900
Euros net (includes mandatory health insurance; 3200 Euros before tax).

The junior research group is associated with the "Algorithms and
complexity"
group chaired by Prof. Rolf Niedermeier (http://www.akt.tu-berlin.de/),
which currently consists of 9 further PhD students and postdocs.

Berlin offers a strong scientific landscape including three renowned
universities.
Furthermore there are a DFG (German Research Foundation) research
training group, called "Methods for Discrete Structures" (MDS) and the DFG
research center MATHEON; these offer opportunities for joint research and
support for PhD students (e.g., meetings, lecture series, summer schools).
Besides sciences, Berlin offers an exceptional variety of attractions,
and a
flourishing cultural scene as well as a fast-paced multicultural living
environment that should cater to most interests and hobbies.

Candidates must hold a master's degree (or equivalent) in computer science,
mathematics or a related area, or have almost completed their study.
They should have a very good knowledge about algorithms and complexity.
Background in parameterized complexity and, e.g., algebra and probability
theory as well as programming skills are beneficial.
Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are mandatory,
as all publications as well as presentation of results by talks at
conferences and workshops will be in English.
Knowledge of German is not required, but it will be encouraged to learn
at least the basics.

First and foremost, candidates should bring strong curiosity and eagerness
to both ask and pursue scientific questions.

Interested applicants should send their application containing
- cover letter (see below)
- curriculum vitae
- an overview of grades and courses taken
- copy of Bachelor and Master certificates (or equivalent)
- summary of master/diploma thesis (English, 1-3 pages)
- (optionally) complete thesis and any other scientific publications
- recommendation letters (see below)

by

October 1, 2013

to

Dr. Stefan Kratsch
stefan.kratsch@tu-berlin.de
http://www.user.tu-berlin.de/stefan.kratsch/


*Cover letter*
Please include clear statements regarding your motivation to work in
research and why you want to pursue a PhD. Why are you interested in
parameterized complexity and/or kernelization? What other directions of
theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics are you interested
in and/or possess strong qualification in?

*Recommendation letters*
It is requested that interested applicants supply between
1 and 3 letters of recommendation written by professors and researchers
that they have interacted with (this should include the supervisor of
the master/diploma thesis). *The letters should be sent directly by email*
to stefan.kratsch@tu-berlin.de and preferably arrive around October 1 too.


Applications arriving by October 1 will receive full consideration,
however, the search remains open until the position is filled.

Qualifications being equal, precedence will be given to candidates with
disabilities.

Do not hesitate to contact stefan.kratsch@tu-berlin.de if you have any
questions regarding the position or your application.


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