Theory Announcements: January 2014

Friday, January 31, 2014

[DMANET] research internship @ Xerox Research Centre Europe

An open internship position on a mix of string algorithms, grammatical
inference and statistical machine learning

*Description*

We are looking for a motivated intern for a project involving the use
of sequential patterns for the inference of grammars.

The Smallest Grammar Problem is the problem of finding the smallest
context-free grammars that generates exactly one given sequence. We
plan to generalize this in order to find grammars which generate a set
of natural language documents with a strong but hidden structure. This
structure will then be converted into additional features (through
tree kernels for example) in our analytics pipeline or alternatively
as a starting template for existing multilingual authoring tools.

*Requirements*

Research-oriented master student or PhD candidate in computer science
Knowledge of standard text algorithms and data structures
Knowledge of formal grammars (a course covering the Hopcroft & Ullman
book or equivalent for example)
Knowledge in statistical machine learning applied to text is a strong plus
Fluency in either C, C++ or Java is a plus

The intern will work closely with researchers in a very international
environment, and will be strongly encouraged to produce scientific
publications.

*Duration*: 5-6 months
*Start Date*: March-April 2014

*Application instructions*

Informal inquiries are welcome and can be made at
matthias.galle@xrce.xerox.com .

To submit an application, please send your CV and cover letter to both
xrce-candidates@xrce.xerox.com and matthias.galle@xrce.xerox.com .

Ideally, you will also include in your CV people we can contact for
letters of recommendation.

link: http://www.xrce.xerox.com/About-XRCE/Internships/Grammatical-Inference-with-sequential-motifs

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[DMANET] computational optimization

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Call for Papers

7th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2014
Warsaw, Poland, September 7 - 10, 2014

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2014

http://www.fedcsis.org/

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We invite original contributions related with both theoretical and
practical aspects of optimization methods.
The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* combinatorial optimization
* global optimization
* multiobjective optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* large scale optimization
* parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
* random search algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other
derivative free optimization methods
* nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant
colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial
systems etc)
* hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
*computational biology and optimization
* distance geometry and applications
* optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
* application of optimization methods on real life and industrial problems
* computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, engineering etc

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Important dates:

11.04.2012 (April 11, 2014) - Full paper submission

12.05.2014 (May 12, 2014) - Position paper submission

19.05.2011 (May 19, 2014) - Notification of acceptance

17.06.2012 (June 17, 2014) - Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper and registration

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Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s), we will announce later the
publisher.
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If you have any question do not hesitate to send a mail to wco2014@fedcsis.org .

Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Antonio Mucherino, IRISA, France

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[DMANET] Methaeuristics for optimization problems

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "METAHEURISTICS FOR OPTIMIZATION
PROBLEMS" at the
8th Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications NM&A'14,
to be held 20-24 August 2014 in Borovets, Bulgaria.
The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- unconstrained and constrained optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- global optimization
- multi-objective optimization
- optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
- large scale optimization
- parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
- random search algorithms (simulated annealing, tabu search, free
search and other derivative free optimization methods).
- nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms,
ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune
artificial systems etc.).
- hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
- optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
- computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, biology, engineering etc

Proceedings
The refereed and presented papers will be published as a special
volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
April 30, 2014
Deadline for submission of full papers
May 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of full papers
June 30, 2014
Submission of accommodation forms
July 15, 2014

Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one
participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one
per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/dpa/NMA_2014/

Special session organizers
Assoc. Prof. S. Fidanova, Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of
Science, stefka@parallel.bas.bg
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

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[DMANET] First CfP: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams (July 2014)

Dear colleague, apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.

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ED 2014 Call For Papers: 4th International Workshop on Euler Diagrams,
July 28, 2014
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**Co-Located with Diagrams 2014 and VL/HCC 2014 in Melbourne, Australia **

ED 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014/ED2014
Diagrams 2014: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2014
VL/HCC 2014: https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2014/
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Euler diagrams represent relationships between sets, including
intersection, containment, and disjointness. These diagrams have become
the foundations of various visual languages and have notably facilitated
the modelling of, and logical reasoning about, complex systems. Over the
years, they have been extensively used in areas such as biosciences,
business, criminology and national security to intuitively visualize
relationships and relative cardinalities of sets. This widespread
adoption has allowed analysis of complex collections of data.

The workshop will cover all aspects of Euler diagram research,
including, but not limited to:

Theoretical Advances: drawability, layouts, logic, reasoning,
Software Support: diagram generation, automated reasoning, data
exploration,
Real-World Applications: system modelling, information visualization,
education,
Cognition and Perceptual Principles: readability, aesthetics and
evaluation, including comparison to other representations.

Recently, there have been significant advances in all of the above
areas. This workshop of peer-reviewed submissions will afford the
growing Euler diagrams community the opportunity to present and discuss
new research, and share multi-interdisciplinary expertise. We envisage
that this will stimulate collaborations on current and future research
needs. This will be the second time the workshop has run as part of the
Diagrams conference series and the fourth Euler diagrams workshop (after
successful workshops in 2012, 2004 and 2005). The workshop will bring
together researchers with diverse backgrounds, from both academia and
industry including those with expertise in mathematic, computer science,
artificial intelligence, information design, visualization,
human-computer interaction, as well as end-users from various
application area.

We solicit submissions on the topics mentioned above, in the following
forms:

full papers (15 pages), consisting of:
- original research
- surveys
short papers (7 pages), consisting of:
- systems descriptions
- software demonstrations
- position statements
- original research contributions

All submissions should be in Springer's LNCS format. The proceedings
will be published by CEUR. We plan to organise a special issue of a
journal for extended versions of the best papers.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission (optional): April 21st
Paper submission: April 28th
Notification: May 27th

Although abstract submission is optional, authors are strongly
encouraged to upload their abstract. Program Committee members will be
asked to bid on papers for review, between the abstract and paper
submission dates. Making your abstract available will help to ensure
that the most appropriate experts review your paper.

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ORGANIZERS
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Co-Chairs
Jim Burton, University of Brighton
Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton

Program Committee (to be completed)
Francesco Bellucci, Tallinn University of Technology
Peter Chapman, University of Brighton
Rosario de Chiara, Poste Italian
Renata de Freitas, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeira
Tim Dwyer, Monash University
Jean Flower, Autodesk
Luana Micallef, University of Kent
Mitsuhiro Okada, Keio University
Peter Rodgers, University of Kent
Sun-Joo Shin, Yale University

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CONTACT
If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers
ed2014@easychair.org.
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Dr Jim Burton
Senior Lecturer in Computing
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
University of Brighton

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[DMANET] [IoTIP'14] International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives

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Call for papers
IEEE DCOSS
International workshop on Internet of Things – Ideas and Perspectives
(IoTIP'14)
May 25-27, 2014
Marina Del Rey, USA
https://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr/
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Important dates
Submission Deadline: March 9th, 2014
Acceptance Notification: April 5th, 2014
Camera Ready Due: April 25th, 2014
Workshop Date: May 27th, 2014

Call for papers:

Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology.
The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution.
The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate "Big brother scenario". Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms.
The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0.

IoTIP features two tracks:
- Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation;
- Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies
- IoT systems and components
- IoT for semantic web and personalization
- Tools for developing IoT applications
- Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT
- Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT
- Security and privacy control mechanisms
- Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc)
- PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications
- MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT
- Mobility management
- Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability
- Object, device and service management
- RFID, sensors, actuator technologies
- Middleware
- Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
- Test-beds and field trials
- Standardization and regulatory issues

Submission guidelines :
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html .
The submission link will be available soon on the website of the workshop: http://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr

All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (8) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks:
- Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation;
- Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT.
Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track.

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal ( http://iot.ieee.org/journal )

Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings.

Program committee members:
Yacine Challal, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Flavio Esposito, Boston University, USA
Samira Hayat, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria
Antonio Iera, Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade, Serbia
Satish Kumar, Coastal Carolina University, USA
Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University, USA
Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France (publicity chair)
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France (workshop chair)
Enrico Na talizio, Université de Technologi e de Compiègne, F rance (workshop chair)
Giuseppe Ruggeri, Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Anna Maria Vegni, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands

Valeria Loscri
Research Scientist FUN Team

Inria Lille-Nord Europe .
Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne
40, avenue Halley - Bât A - Park Plaza
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq - France

www.inria.fr

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[DMANET] CfP: HM 2014 (9th Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics) in Hamburg

HM 2014
9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics

June 9-13, 2014
Hamburg, Germany
(http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/)

Back to back with the
5th international Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics

CALL FOR PAPERS

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General Chair

Stefan Voss (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Program chair

Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)

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Steering Committee

Maria Blesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)
Luca di Gaspero (University of Udine, Italy)
Paola Festa (University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy)
Günther Raidl (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
Michael Sampels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

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Important Dates

Submissions Due: February 21, 2014
Notification: March 28, 2014
Final Papers Due: April 4, 2014

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Aims & Scope

The HM Workshops are intended to be an international forum for
researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental
evaluation of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics, such as simulated
annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony
optimization, scatter search and iterated local search, are
considered state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In
recent years, however, it has become evident that the
concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A
skilled combination of concepts from different optimization
techniques can provide a more efficient behavior and a higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale
problems.

Hybrid Metaheuristics are such techniques for optimization that
combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques
into metaheuristics. Previously organized Workshops were held
in Ischia Island (HM 2013), Vienna (HM 2010), Udine (HM 2009),
Malaga (HM 2008), Dortmund (HM 2007), Gran Canaria (HM 2006),
Barcelona (HM 2005), and València (HM 2004).

HM2014 is organized as a non-profit event.

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Topics of Interest

Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but
not limited to:

- Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics
- Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques
- Low-level hybridization
- High-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems
- Cooperative search
- Automated parameter tuning
- Empirical and statistical comparison
- Theoretical aspects of hybridization
- Parallelization
- Software libraries

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Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit a full paper describing original,
unpublished research with at most 15 pages (in LNCS style).
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an
appendix to be read by the program committee members at their
discretion.

Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous
submission to other conferences or workshops with published
proceedings is not allowed.

The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series.

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Further and Contact information:

Stefan Voss (stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de)
Institute of Information Systems
Department for Business and Economics
University of Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 5
Office VMP 5, Room 3064
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany

Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838-3064
Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-5535

Conference Website: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

[DMANET] Workshop on Graphs and Algorithms Toronto May 5-6 2014: celebrating Derek Corneil's research

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement.
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Workshop on Graphs and Algorithms
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May 5-6 2014
Fields Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Toronto
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in honour of Derek Corneil's contributions to graph theory and computer science
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Invited talks will be given by Feodor Dragan, Michel Habib, Ekki Koehler, and Mike Molloy and we are planning for a larger number of contributed talks (open call below).

The Fields Institute will provide partial funding for travel expenses of graduate students and PDFs.

Details about student/PDF funding, registration, and the workshop in general will be posted on the workshop webpage:

http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/13-14/structured_graph/

We hope that you will join us in Toronto in May!
Jason Brown and Lorna Stewart, organizers

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Workshop on Graphs and Algorithms
in honour of Derek Corneil's contributions to graph theory and computer science

Attendees are welcome to contribute a talk. We welcome contributions in all areas of graphs and their algorithms. If you would like to give a talk, please e-mail a preliminary title to Lorna Stewart <lorna.stewart@ualberta.ca> by February 28. You will be asked to provide a final title and abstract in March.

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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

[DMANET] Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement)

Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement)

The spring school "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications"
will take place in Lisbon, March 3-4 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal.

School lecturers - Rüdiger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ALREADY AVAILABLE.

The school precedes and is associated to the 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) that will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal.

For more information on the School and the Symposium, how to register, registration deadline and registration fees, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt.
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[DMANET] [CPAIOR 2014] Call for Workshops

Call for Workshops

Eleventh International Conference on Integration of Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint
Programming

CPAIOR series: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/vanhoeve/cpaior/

The CP-AI-OR 2014 conference organizers invite proposals for the
workshop program.

The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers
from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Operations Research (OR) to present new techniques or new applications
in combinatorial optimization and to provide an opportunity for
researchers in one area to learn about techniques in the others. A
main objective of this conference series is also to give these
researchers the opportunity to show how the integration of techniques
from different fields can lead to interesting results on large and
complex problems.

CP-AI-OR 2014 workshops will provide an informal setting where
workshop participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific
technical topics in an atmosphere that facilitates the active exchange
of ideas. It is an opportunity to disseminate work in progress or to
promote new and emerging areas at the intersection of CP, AI, and OR.

All workshops will take place on May 19, 2014 at the site of the main
conference. Workshops can be proposed for a full or a half day. The
internal format of the workshop will be determined by the organisers
of each workshop.

Important Dates

February 15, 2014: Proposal submission deadline
March 1, 2014: Acceptance notification
March 15, 2014: Deadline for receipt of CFP and URL for workshop web page
May 1, 2014: Deadline for workshop working notes
May 19, 2014: CP-AI-OR 2014 workshops

Writing a Proposal

Proposals for workshops should contain the following information:

The title and a brief technical description of the workshop,
specifying the goals and the technical issues it will focus on.
A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
A list of related workshops held within the last three years, if any,
and their relation to the proposed workshop.
The names of the proposed organizing committee.
The name and email address of the main organizer.

Responsibilities of the Workshop Organizers

Each workshop main organizer will be responsible for:

Producing a "Call for Papers" and a Web page for their workshop by
March 15, 2014. Please provide a web page/URL that can be linked into
the CP-AI-OR 2014 home page. The call must mention that at least one
author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop, and that
all workshop participants must pay the either the CP-AI-OR
registration fee including the workshop fee or only the workshop fee.
Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference program.
Selecting submitted papers.
Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local
organizers and the workshop chairs.
Providing working pdf notes to be duplicated for the workshop (up to a
maximum of 200 pages) by May 1, 2014.

Responsibilities of the CP-AI-OR 2014 Organizing Committee

The CP-AI-OR 2014 organizing committee will be responsible for the following:

Providing publicity for the workshop series as a whole.
Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.
In conjunction with the organizers, determining the start and end
times of the workshop.
Duplicating working notes (possibly in electronic form) and
distributing them to the participants.

Submitting a Proposal

All proposals should be submitted by electronic mail (in ASCII), to
the workshop chair.

CP-AI-OR 2014 Workshop Chair:

Lars Kotthoff (larsko at 4c.ucc.ie)
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[DMANET] Post-doc position (UniversitätsassistentIn, tenure track) at the University of Vienna

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA

Post-doc position (UniversitätsassistentIn, tenure track) at the Faculty
of Computer Science for the Field of Algorithms

The Rectorate invites applications for a post-doc position
(UniversitätsassistentIn, tenure track) at the Faculty of Computer Science
for the Field of Algorithms. The position is available as soon as
possible.
The candidate should have a strong background in the development and
analysis of combinatorial algorithms in the standard as well as in more
refined models of computation such as distributed computing and data
stream algorithms.

Position Offering:
The advertised position is a scientific tenure track position: within the
first two years of employment the University of Vienna may offer a
"qualification agreement" if the scientific performance of the employee
suggests that the required qualification can be reached.
This agreement is connected with the title of "Assistant Professor"
[AssistenzprofessorIn].
In case the goals of the "qualification agreement" are met, the employment
(limited to a period of 6 years) will be made permanent and the title of
the employee will be changed to "Associate Professor" [assoziierte/r
ProfessorIn].
If the qualification is not reached, the employment ends upon expiry of
the contract term; in case of an indefinite employment at that time, such
employment may be terminated by the University.

Working time: 100%
Prerequisites for application:
 PhD and a minimum of two years of post-doc experience
 scientific publications relevant to the field
 teaching experience or teaching concept
See
http://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/for-applicants/tenure-tracks/faculty-of-computer-science/
for more details.

Monday, January 27, 2014

[DMANET] PostDoc position at Graz University of Technology

The Department of Mathematics at Graz University of Technology offers
a Post
Doctoral Position within the Special Research Program ``Quasi-Monte Carlo
Methods: Theory and Applications'', funded by the Austrian Science Fund
(FWF). The applicant will be part of a research group under supervision of
Peter Grabner
working on minimal energy point sets, spherical designs and their
asymptotic
distribution properties. We are looking for talented and self-motivated
applicants with good command of English and the capacity for teamwork.

The position is available from now on (beginning date is negotiable)
and is
based on a fixed term contract with negotiable length of up to 4 years.

Requirements: completed PhD degree in mathematics or a closely related
field
with strong background in mathematics; experience in publication and
presentation of scientific results. Preference is given to candidates
with
solid knowledge in at least one of the following fields: number theory,
algebra, numerical analysis, approximation theory or functional analysis.

Salary: The monthly gross salary is based on the salary scale of the
FWF and
will be EUR 3411.80 (14 times per year). The weekly working time is 40
hours
and includes five weeks of vacation.

Applications: Applicants should provide a letter of motivation, curriculum
vitae, PDF file of their doctoral thesis, list of publications, list
of talks
and presentations, and the names and contact details of two references.

Applicants are invited to send their application documents in one pdf file
electronically to Peter Grabner (peter.grabner@tugraz.at).
Deadline for applications is March 15, 2014.

The Special Research Program ``Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and
Applications'' is committed to increasing female employment in scientist
positions. Qualified female applicants are encouraged to apply and will be
given preference when equally qualified. Handicapped persons with
appropriate
qualifications are also explicitly encouraged to apply.

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Peter Grabner
Institut für Analysis und Computational Number Theory
Technische Universität Graz
Steyrergasse 30/II
8010 Graz
Austria
Tel: +43 316 873 7124
Fax: +43 316 873 107124
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[DMANET] [WiSARN 2014] 8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks

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Call for papers
WiSARN 2014
8th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Actuator and Robot Networks
(in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless )
Benidorm, Spain
22-27 June 2014
https://wisarn2014.hds.utc.fr

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Important Dates:

Paper submission: February 28th

Author notification: March 20th

Author registration: March 28th

Camera ready: March 28th

Call for papers
Wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) are the confluence point where the traditional fields of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), robot networks and control theory meet. In WSAN, nodes collaborate to accomplish distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a whole new set of possibilities. Actors may deploy, repair and relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and respond to reported events in a timely and effective manner. The benefits are limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, WSANs are in need of new networking techniques, by which they can fully exploit their particularities and potentials. WiSARN aims to bring together state-of-the-art contributions on the design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms and protocols for current and future applications of WSAN.
Topic of Interest
Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in ALL aspects of WSAN and traditional wireless sensor networks, robot networks, as well as robotics and automation. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Autonomous sensor networks
* Emergent behavior in WSAN
* Modeling and simulation of WSAN
* WSAN architectural and operational models
* Optimal control of networked robots
* Robot advanced motion control by WSAN
* Modeling and control of flying robots
* Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication
* Sensor-robot and robot-robot coordination
* Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols
* Bandwidth-efficient and delay-tolerant communication protocols
* Distributed control and management in WSAN
* Neighborhood discovery and mobility management
* Communication protocols for swarms of mobile robots
* Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots
* Robot task assignment
* Biologically inspired communication
* Ecological systems
* Architectures and topology control
* Localization in WSAN
* Probabilistic integration in WSAN
* Quality of service, security and robustness issues
* Applications and prototypes
* Hybrid networks and wireless Internet
* Data management, gathering, aggregation and query processing

Papers must not exceed 14 pages.
The submission link will be available soon on wisarn2014.hds.utc.fr

TPC Committee

General Chair:
Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Program Co-Chairs:

Enrico Natalizio, Université de Technologie de Compiègne , France

Danilo Tardioli, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain

Publicity Chair:

Valeria Loscrì, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France
Eduardo Montijano, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain

Submission Chair:
Rafael Falcon, Larus Technologies, Canada

Web Chair:
Dimitrios Zorbas, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France

Technical Program Committee (under construction):

Luis Almeida, University of Porto, Portugal
Novella Bartolini, University of Rome « La Sapienza », Italy
Xianghui Cao, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Gianni Di Caro, IDSIA Lugano, Switzerland
Isabelle Fantoni, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
Jianping He, Zhejiang University, China
Shibo He, Arizona State University, USA
Jonathan How, MIT, USA
Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Egons Lavendelis, Riga Technical University, Latvia
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France
Alejandro Mosteo, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain
Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa (Zaragoza), Spain
Angela Schoellig, University of Toronto, Canada
Ahmet Sekercioglu, Monash University, Australia
Simone Silvestri, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Olivier Simonin, INSA de Lyon, France
Fabrice Theoleyre, CNRS, France
Fabrice Valois, INSA de Lyon, France
Evsen Yanmaz, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Shuhui Yang, Purdue University, USA

Valeria Loscri
Research Scientist FUN Team

Inria Lille-Nord Europe .
Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne
40, avenue Halley - Bât A - Park Plaza
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq - France

www.inria.fr

[DMANET] Postdoc position in applied cryptography

The Chair for Information Security and Cryptography at
University of Trier, Germany, offers

a full-time position for a postdoctoral researcher

in a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The goal
of the project is to develop methods for the modular analysis of
real-world cryptographic protocols, such as TLS, SSH, WPA2, etc.,
based on the approach of universal composability, and to apply the
developed methods to such protocols.

We offer a creative international environment and the possibility to
participate in internationally leading research.

The position is available immediately, with an internationally
competitive salary. The starting date is negotiable. Contracts can
initially be offered for up to three years, with the perspective of an
extension.

There are no teaching obligations.

The successful candidate must have a Master's degree (or an equivalent
degree) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline, and
have completed, or be near completion of a PhD degree relevant to the
research area of the project. You should have a proven high level of
analytical capability and mathematical skills. Good English skills
are expected; knowledge of German is not required. Candidates with
severe disabilities will be given priority in case their qualification
level is the same as that of other applicants.

Applications should include:
* CV (including your contact address and work experience)
* Transcripts of all courses and grades for your Bachelor and Master
program
* Publication list
* Research statement, including a summary of your PhD thesis
* Contact details of at least two references

Please send your application by e-mail to Ralf Kuesters
(kuesters (at) uni-trier.de), with the aforementioned documents attached
in pdf format. Applications should be submitted by

February 21st, 2014.

However, late applications will be considered until the position is filled.

For further inquiries please contact Ralf Kuesters by phone
or email.

Prof. Dr. Ralf Kuesters
Universitaet Trier
FB IV - Informatik
54286 Trier, Germany
Email: kuesters (at) uni-trier.de
Phone: +49 (0)651 2012852
http://infsec.uni-trier.de/
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[DMANET] CFP: The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014)

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The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart
Cities (VTM 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/VTM2014/VTM.html)
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To be held in conjunction with The 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC2014-Spring), 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a
plethora of
challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic
congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the
last
decade, researchers from both industry and academia have focused their
efforts
on exploiting advances in sensing and communication technologies to make
the
existing road Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) more efficient.
Their main goal is to improve the traveler's safety, shorten the travel
time
and reduce the environmental impact.

Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual
traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.)
and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in
order
to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide
accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers
and
authorities. Moreover, it is foreseen that future smart cities will provide
faster and secure emergency service delivery by granting proper traffic
privileges to emergency vehicles.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers
from various research communities, as well as practitioners and
administrators
who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all
welcome to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas,
simulation tools and applications at the 2014 VTM workshop.

Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Vehicular traffic management
• Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) protocols
for smart cities
• Data sensing and gathering techniques in urban environments
• Mobile sensing (privacy, trust management and security issues)
• Data fusion and integration for traffic management systems
(techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.)
• Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments
• Route planning protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms
• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and VANETs
applied to traffic management systems in smart cities
• Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation
• Security and QoS issues for ITS applications
• V2X feasibility over LTE networks
• M2M communication for data collection in road environment
• Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management
• Deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas
• Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management
• Decision making tools for road traffic management
• Electric vehicles

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the VTM2014
workshop and made available through IEEE Xplore.

Important Dates
---------------
Submission deadline ------ 10 February 2014
Acceptance notification ------ 15 March 2014
Camera-ready version ------ 24 March 2014

Keynote speakers
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Prof. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, L3i Lab, University of La Rochelle, France
Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan

Submission guidelines
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The VTM workshop follows the formatting guidelines of IEEE
VTC2014-Spring. Submissions should be original and limited to 5
double-column pages (Maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 7 pages in
total - with over-length page fee) in IEEE paper templates. All
submissions should be written in English using 10-point font. Authors
are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format through Track
Chair conference system
(http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1237/submit). Please
contact Dr. Soufiene Djahel (soufiene.djahel at ucd dot ie), Prof.
Damien Magoni (magoni at labri dot fr) or Dr. Philip Perry (philip.perry
at ucd dot ie) if you have any questions about submitting your manuscripts.

General co-Chairs
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Soufiene Djahel
University College Dublin, Ireland

Falko Dressler
University of Innsbruck, Austria

John Murphy
University College Dublin, Ireland

TPC co-Chairs
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Damien Magoni
University of Bordeaux 1, France

Philip Perry
University College Dublin, Ireland

Publicity Chair
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Rahim Kacimi
Paul Sabatier University, France

TPC members
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Wei Wei, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, China
Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
Mélanie Bouroche, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-communications, Japan
Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France
Abdelmalik Bachir, Imperial College London, UK
Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France
Christoph Sommer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Saïd Gharout, Orange Labs, France
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Ali Hamieh, University of Nevada, USA
Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France
Yacine Belhoul, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Intesab Hussain, QUEST, Nawabshah, Pakistan
Mikael Asplund, Linköping University, Sweden
Nafaâ Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman
Huaqun Guo, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Ahcene Bendjoudi, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France
Fen Zhou, Avignon University, France
Said Yahiaoui, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Michael Feiri, University of Twente, Netherlands
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

[DMANET] 15 fully funded PhD student positions in Helsinki

The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and
Communications Technology (HICT) is a collaborative doctoral education
network hosted jointly by Aalto University and the University of
Helsinki, the two leading universities within this area in Finland. The
network involves at present 55 professors and over 200 doctoral
students, and the participating units graduate altogether more than 40
new doctors each year.

The activities of HICT are structured along six research area
specific tracks:
- Algorithms and machine learning
- Creative technologies
- Life science informatics
- Networks, networked systems and services
- Software and service engineering and systems
- User centered information technology

The quality of research and education in both HICT universities is
world-class, but the education is still practically free as there are no
tuition fees in the Finnish university system. Helsinki has been ranked
as the World's Most Livable City (Monocle, 2011), and is the capital
city of Finland, which is in the top 10 of the most highly educated
nations in the world (OECD, 2013), and has been selected as the world's
best country to live in (Newsweek, 2010).

The participating units of HICT have currently 15 fully funded positions
available for exceptional doctoral students. For more information and
application instructions, see "http://www.hict.fi/".
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

[DMANET] CfP: Deadline extension, February 12 || INTELLI 2014 || June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

Friday, January 24, 2014

[DMANET] DEBS 2014 deadline extension (abstracts: Feb 1, paper Feb 10)

Please, note that the deadlines for research abstracts (Feb 1st) and
paper submission (February 10) are extended.

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DEBS 2014: 8th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event Based
Systems
May 26th-29th 2014, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India,
Co-sponsored by ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGSOFT

http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/debs2014/

The scope of DEBS conference covers all topics relevant to event-based
computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g.,
software systems, distributed systems, data management, dependability,
knowledge management, networking, programming languages, security and
software engineering), to domain-specific topics of event-based
computing (e.g., real-time analytics, mobile computing, social
networking, pervasive, green computing and ubiquitous computing, sensors
networks, user interfaces, big data processing, spatio-temporal
processing, Cloud computing, the internet of things, peer-to-peer
computing, embedded systems and stream processing), and
enterprise-related topics (e.g., complex event detection, enterprise
application integration, real-time enterprises and web services).

=== DEBS2014 tracks:

- A Research Track featuring high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers.
- An Industry Track for systems and concepts and experience reports.
- A Tutorial Track geared towards both academia and industry.
- A Demonstration and Posters Track with practical demonstrations and
early work.
- A Grand Challenges Track to test research and commercial systems.
- A Doctoral Workshop.

=== DEBS 2014 Important Dates:

Research Track:

Abstracts due February 1, 2014 (extended)
Full papers due February 10, 2014 (extended)
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready papers April 15, 2014

Industry Track
Papers due Feb 15, 2014
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready papers April 15, 2014

Tutorials:
Proposals due February 1, 2014
Presenter Notification March 15, 2014
Tutorials date May 26, 2014

Grand Challenge
Grand Challenge Problem Posted November 22, 2013
Submissions due March 1, 2014
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready Submission April 15, 2014

Doctoral Symposium:
Papers due April 5, 2014
Author Notification April 15, 2014

Poster and Demo Track
Submissions due April 5, 2014
Author Notifications April 15, 2014
Camera Ready Copies due April 20, 2014

=== Submissions

All submissions must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will
be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.

More information about the tracks and submission information can be
found on the DEBS 2014 website:

http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/debs2014/

=== Scope of the Conference

The topics addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to):

*** Models, Architectures and Paradigms

- Event-driven architectures
- Big Data (event-processing in Big Data)
- Internet of Things (event-processing in M2M)
- Basic interaction models
- Event algebras, event schemas and type systems
- Languages for event correlation and patterns, streaming and continuous
queries, data fusion
- Models for static and dynamic environments
- Complex event processing
- Design and programming methodologies
- Event-based business process management and modeling
- Experimental methodologies
- Performance modeling and prediction based on analytic approaches
- Functional Reactive Programming

*** Middleware Infrastructures for Event-Based Computing

- Federated event-based systems
- Middleware for actuator and sensor networks
- Algorithms and protocols
- Optimization techniques for event-based (or streaming) systems
- Event dissemination based on p2p systems
- Context and location awareness
- Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and recovery
- Security issues
- (Self-)Management
- Mobility and resource constrained device support
- Streaming queries, transformations, or correlation engines
- Logic-based event processing
- Semantic event processing
- Business Process Management with events

*** Applications, Experiences, and Requirements

- Use cases and applications of event-based systems
- Real-world application deployments using event-based middleware
- Domain-specific deployments of event-based systems
- Real-world data characterizing event-based applications
- Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
- Application requirements for next-generation event-based solutions
- Relation to other architectures
- Enterprise application integration
- Event-driven business process management
- Information logistics
- Seamless integration of event-based mechanisms into middleware platforms

=== Organization:

General Co-Chairs:
Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay, India)
Ravi Kothari (IBM India Research Labs)

Program Co-Chairs:
Dharanipragada Janakiram (IIT Madras, India)

Pascal Felber (U. of Neuchatel, Switzerland)

Proceedings Chairs:
David Eyers (U. of Otago, New Zealand)

Industry Co-Chairs:
Koustuv Dasgupta (Xerox Research Center, India)
Todd Montogomery (Informatica, USA)

Local Organization Chair:
Shruti Kunde (Xerox Research Center India)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
R K Shyamsundar (TIFR, India)
Alexander Wolf (Imperial College, London, UK)

Poster & Demo Co-Chairs:
Vana Kalogeraki (U. of Athens, Greece)
Puru Kulkarni (IIT Bombay, India)

Doctoral Workshop Co-Chairs:
Niloy Ganguly (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA)

Grand Challenge Co-Chairs:
Zbigniew Jerzak (SAP AG, Germany)
Holger Ziekow (AGT International, Germany)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Annika Hinze (U. of Waikato, New Zealand)
Boris Koldehofe (U. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Madhu Kumar SD (NIT Calicut, India)
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[DMANET] OR2014: Call for papers

International Conference on Operations Research (OR2014)
"Business Analytics and Optimization"

Aachen, Germany, September 2-5, 2014

www.or2014.de

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

This year's International Conference on Operations Research (OR2014) takes place in the beautiful city of Aachen, Germany, the city of Charlemagne. We invite presentations in all areas of operations research, broadly interpreted, by researchers and practitioners in mathematics, computer science, business/economics, and related disciplines. We appreciate theory and applications, and in particular submissions related to the conference theme: business analytics and optimization.

Submission of short abstracts (1800 characters only) is open now, please visit www.or2014.de -> abstract submission.

The deadline is April 30, 2014. Notification of acceptance is around beginning of June, 2014. Selected presentations will be invited to be published in Springer proceedings.

The conference is the Annual Meeting of the German OR Society. Currently confirmed plenary or semi-plenary speakers are

Brenda Dietrich
Mike Trick

David Barber
Aharon Ben-Tal
Stephen Boyd
Karl Dörner
Peter Gritzmann
Eva Lee
Andreas Marschner
Laura McLay
Jean-François Puget
Mikael Rönnqvist

Besides an attractive scientific program in 18 parallel streams, we will host pre-conference workshops, and offer a nice social program in a truely European destination. Be our guest!

MORE INFORMATION

web: www.or2014.de
twitter: @or2014de
email: info@or2014.de

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[DMANET] CfP: Deadline extension, February 12 || ICCGI 2014 || June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICCGI 2014.

The submission deadline is February 12, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICCGI 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICCGI 2014, The Ninth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology

June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICCGI14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICCGI14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICCGI14.html

Submission deadline: February 12, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICCGI 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Industrial systems

Control theory and systems; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Data engineering; Enterprise computing and evaluation; Electrical and electronics engineering; Economic decisions and information systems; Advanced robotics; Virtual reality systems; Industrial systems and applications; Industrial and financial systems; Industrial control electronics; Industrial IT solutions

Evolutionary computation

Algorithms, procedures, mechanisms and applications; Computer architecture and systems; Computational sciences; Computation in complex systems; Computer and communication systems; Computer networks; Computer science theory; Computation and computer security; Computer simulation; Digital telecommunications; Distributed and parallel computing; Computation in embedded and real-time systems; Soft computing; User-centric computation

Autonomic and autonomous systems

Automation and autonomous systems; Theory of Computing; Autonomic computing; Autonomic networking; Network computing; Protecting computing; Theories of agency and autonomy; Multi-agent evolution, adaptation and learning; Adjustable and self-adjustable autonomy; Pervasive systems and computation; Computing with locality principles; GRID networking and services; Pervasive computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence Computational linguistics; Cognitive technologies; Decision making; Evolutionary computation; Expert systems; Computational biology

Bio-technologies

Models and techniques for biometric technologies; Bioinformatics; Biometric security; Computer graphics and visualization; Computer vision and image processing; Computational biochemistry; Finger, facial, iris, voice, and skin biometrics; Signature recognition; Multimodal biometrics; Verification and identification techniques; Accuracy of biometric technologies; Authentication smart cards and biometric metrics; Performance and assurance testing; Limitations of biometric technologies; Biometric card technologies; Biometric wireless technologies; Biometric software and hardware; Biometric standards

Knowledge data systems

Data mining and Web mining; Knowledge databases and systems; Data warehouse and applications; Data warehousing and information systems; Database performance evaluation; Semantic and temporal databases; Database systems Databases and information retrieval; Digital library design; Meta-data modeling

Mobile and distance education

Human computer interaction; Educational technologies; Computer in education; Distance learning; E-learning; Mobile learning Cognitive support for learning; Internet-based education; Impact of ICT on education and society; Group decision making and software; Habitual domain and information technology; Computer-mediated communications; Immersing authoring; Contextual and cultural challenges in user mobility

Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems

Intelligent agent technologies; Intelligent and fuzzy information processing; Intelligent computing and knowledge management; Intelligent systems and robotics; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Fuzzy logic & systems; Genetic algorithms; Haptic phenomena; Graphic recognition; Neural networks; Symbolic and algebraic computation; Modeling, simulation and analysis of business processes and systems

Knowledge processing

Knowledge representation models; Knowledge languages; Cognitive science; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge processing under uncertainty; Machine intelligence; Machine learning; Making decision through Internet; Networking knowledge plan

Information technologies

Information technology and organizational behavior; Agents, data mining and ontologies; Information retrieval systems; Information and network security; Information ethics and legal evaluations; Optimization and information technology; Organizational information systems; Information fusion; Information management systems; Information overload; Information policy making; Information security; Information systems; Information discovery

Internet and web technologies

Internet and WWW-based computing; Web and Grid computing; Internet service and training; IT and society; IT in education and health; Management information systems; Visualization and group decision making; Web based language development; Web search and decision making; Web service ontologies; Scientific web intelligence; Online business and decision making; Business rule language; E-Business; E-Commerce; Online and collaborative work; Social eco-systems and social networking; Social decisions on Internet; Computer ethics

Digital information processing

Mechatronics; Natural language processing; Medical imaging; Image processing; Signal processing; Speech processing; Video processing; Pattern recognition; Pattern recognition models; Graphics & computer vision; Medical systems and computing

Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems

Cognitive support for e-learning and mobile learning; Agents and cognitive models; Agents & complex systems; computational ecosystems; Agent architectures, perception, action & planning in agents; Agent communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics & protocols; Agent-based electronic commerce and trading systems Multi-agent constraint satisfaction; Agent programming languages, development environments and testbeds; Computational complexity in autonomous agents; Multi-agent planning and cooperation; Logics and formal models of for agency verification; Nomadic agents; Negotiation, auctions, persuasion; Privacy and security issues in multi-agent systems

Mobility and multimedia systems

Mobile communications; Multimedia and visual programming; Multimedia and decision making; Multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia systems; User-centered mobile applications; Designing for the mobile devices; Contextual user mobility; Mobile strategies for global market; Interactive television and mobile commerce

Systems performance

Performance evaluation; Performance modeling; Performance of parallel computing; Reasoning under uncertainty; Reliability and fault-tolerance; Performance instrumentation; Performance monitoring and corrections; Performance in entity-dependable systems; Real-time performance and near-real time performance evaluation; Performance in software systems; Performance and hybrid systems; Measuring performance in embedded systems

Networking and telecommunications

Telecommunication and Networking; Telecommunication Systems and Evaluation; Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Information Technology; Network and Decision Making; Networks and Security; Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand; Network and system monitoring and management; Feature interaction detection and resolution; Policy-based monitoring and managements systems; Traffic modeling and monitoring; Traffic engineering and management; Self-monitoring, self-healing and self-management systems; Man-in-the-loop management paradigm

Software development and deployment

Software requirements engineering; Software design, frameworks, and architectures; Software interactive design; Formal methods for software development, verification and validation; Neural networks and performance; Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Empirical software evaluation metrics; Software vulnerabilities; Reverse engineering; Software reuse; Software security, reliability and safety; Software economics; Software testing and debugging; Tracking defects in the OO design; Distributed and parallel software; Programming languages; Declarative programming; Real-time and embedded software; Open source software development methodologies; Software tools and deployment environments; Software Intelligence; Software Performance and Evaluation

Knowledge virtualization

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

Systems and networks on the chip

Microtechnology and nanotechnology; Real-time embedded systems; Programming embedded systems; Controlling embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip systems

Context-aware systems

Context-aware autonomous entities; Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements Design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations

Networking technologies

Next generation networking; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks; Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; GRID networks; Broadband networks

Security in network, systems, and applications

IT in national and global security; Formal aspects of security; Systems and network security; Security and cryptography; Applied cryptography; Cryptographic protocols; Key management; Access control; Anonymity and pseudonymity management; Security management; Trust management; Protection management; Certification and accreditation; Virii, worms, attacks, spam; Intrusion prevention and detection; Information hiding; Legal and regulatory issues

Knowledge for global defense

Business continuity and availability; Risk assessment; Aerospace computing technologies; Systems and networks vulnerabilities; Developing trust in Internet commerce; Performance in networks, systems, and applications; Disaster prevention and recovery; IT for anti-terrorist technology innovations (ATTI); Networks and applications emergency services; Privacy and trust in pervasive communications; Digital rights management; User safety and protection

Information Systems [IS]

Management Information Systems; Decision Support Systems; Innovation and IS; Enterprise Application Integration; Enterprise Resource Planning; Business Process Change; Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks; Iterative and Incremental Methodologies; Agile Methodologies; IS Standards and Compliance Issues; Risk Management in IS Design and Development; Research Core Theories; Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS; Research Ontological Assumptions in IS Research; IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities; IS vs Computer Science Research; IS vs Business Studies

IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment

IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices

Modeling

Continuous and discrete Models; Optimal Models; Complex System Modeling; Individual-Based Models; Modeling Uncertainty; Compact fuzzy models; Modeling languages; Real-time modeling; Performance modeling; Decision support systems; Multiple criteria decision aiding; Problem structuring methods

Optimization

Multicriteria Optimization; Multilervel Optimization; Goal Programming; Optimization and Efficiency; Optimization-based decisions; Evolutionary Optimization; Self-Optimization; Extreme Optimization; Combinatorial Optimization; Disccrete Optimization; Fuzzy Optimization; Lipschitzian Optimization; Non-Convex Optimization; Convexity; Continuous Optimization; Interior point methods; Semidefinite and Conic Programming

Complexity

Complexity Analysis; Computational Complexity; Complexity Reduction; Optimizing Model Complexity; Communication Complexity; Managing Complexity; Modeling Complexity in Social Systems; Low-complexity Global Optimization; Software Development for Modeling and Optimization; Industrial applications

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICCGI14.html

ICCGI Advisory Committee
Constantin Paleologu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Tibor Gyires, Illinois State University, USA
Luc Vouligny, Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Qu�bec - Varennes, Canada
John Terzakis, Intel, USA
Yasushi Kambayashi, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan
Mirela Danubianu, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
Teemu Kanstr�n, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Mansour Zand, University of Nebraska, USA
Arno Leist, Massey University, New Zealand
Jean-Denis Mathias, IRSTEA, France
Dominic Girardi, RISC Software GmbH, Austria

ICCGI Special Area Chairs
Knowledge/Cognition
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Tadeusz Pankowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

e-Learning/Mobility
Jos� Rouillard, Universit� Lille Nord, France

Industrial Systems
Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Bernhard Freudenthaler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Austria

ICCGI Publicity Chair
Marek Opuszko, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
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