The Faculty for Mathematics of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg,
Germany, invites applications for a
W2-Professorship for Pure Mathematics
at the Institute of Algebra and Geometry, to be filled as
soon as possible. A W2-Professorship is comparable to an
Associate Professorship.
We are looking for an internationally renowned scientist in the field
of Combinatorics, ideally with a focus in Algebraic or Geometric
Combinatorics.
More information is available through
www.uni-magdeburg.de/unimagdeburg/en/University/Job+Seekers/Job+Advertisements+for+Professorships.html
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Pott
Faculty for Mathematics
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
39106 Magdeburg
alexander.pott@ovgu.de
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Friday, February 28, 2014
[DMANET] FRICO 2014: Call for Registration
FRICO 2014
Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization
July 30 - August 02, 2014
Magdeburg, Germany
http://www.frico.ovgu.de
Workshop for young researchers (students, Ph.D. students, postdocs)
********************** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ************************
We are pleased to announce that this year's FRICO will take place at
Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
Magdeburg, Germany.
FRICO 2014 is the 18th workshop in a sequence of successful meetings
that bring together young researchers in order to establish new contacts
and exchange ideas in the field of combinatorial optimization.
FRICO is intended to be a workshop in the original meaning of the word.
In particular, we encourage the submission and presentation of on-going
and future research (even work containing gaps and unsolved problems).
Besides plenty of time between sessions, there will be a social program
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Participation is free of charge. Registration due date: May 31, 2014
As in the tradition of previous FRICOs, a best-talk prize will be
awarded. Furthermore, we also plan to invite partners from the industry
to highlight the application of combinatorial optimization in practice.
More information on http://www.frico.ovgu.de
The FRICO team
Julia Lange
Matthias Walter
Stefan Weltge
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Future Research in Combinatorial Optimization
July 30 - August 02, 2014
Magdeburg, Germany
http://www.frico.ovgu.de
Workshop for young researchers (students, Ph.D. students, postdocs)
********************** CALL FOR REGISTRATION ************************
We are pleased to announce that this year's FRICO will take place at
Institute of Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität
Magdeburg, Germany.
FRICO 2014 is the 18th workshop in a sequence of successful meetings
that bring together young researchers in order to establish new contacts
and exchange ideas in the field of combinatorial optimization.
FRICO is intended to be a workshop in the original meaning of the word.
In particular, we encourage the submission and presentation of on-going
and future research (even work containing gaps and unsolved problems).
Besides plenty of time between sessions, there will be a social program
that allows participants to exchange ideas and have fruitful discussions.
Participation is free of charge. Registration due date: May 31, 2014
As in the tradition of previous FRICOs, a best-talk prize will be
awarded. Furthermore, we also plan to invite partners from the industry
to highlight the application of combinatorial optimization in practice.
More information on http://www.frico.ovgu.de
The FRICO team
Julia Lange
Matthias Walter
Stefan Weltge
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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
====================
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
====================
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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IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
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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/
====================
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
====================
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
====================
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
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* 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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Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
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[DMANET] Metaheuristics 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.
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conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
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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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IICT-BAS
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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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IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
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Thursday, February 27, 2014
[DMANET] IPCO 2014: Summer School and Conference - Call for Participation
Call for Participation
in the
17th Conference on
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
(IPCO XVII)
Bonn, Germany
Poster submission deadline: March 31, 2014
Early registration deadline: April 20, 2014
Summer school: June 20-22, 2014
IPCO Conference: June 23-25, 2014
Website for additional details and registration:
http://www.or.uni-bonn.de/ipco/
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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.
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Summer School:
The following distinguished lecturers will give two 90-minute lectures each (see the website for abstracts):
Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh): Cut-generating functions in integer programming
András Frank (Eötvös University, Budapest): Constructive characterizations
Thomas Rothvoß (University of Washington, Seattle): Extended formulations
David Shmoys (Cornell University, Ithaca): t.b.a.
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IPCO conference:
34 papers, selected by the program committee (chaired by Jon Lee), will be presented in single-track sessions.
The detailed program is online now.
Each participant will receive a copy of the proceedings (Springer LNCS) at the conference.
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Poster session:
We plan a poster session at the welcome reception on June 22.
If you want to present a poster, submit title and abstract before March 31.
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in the
17th Conference on
Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
(IPCO XVII)
Bonn, Germany
Poster submission deadline: March 31, 2014
Early registration deadline: April 20, 2014
Summer school: June 20-22, 2014
IPCO Conference: June 23-25, 2014
Website for additional details and registration:
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.
---
Summer School:
The following distinguished lecturers will give two 90-minute lectures each (see the website for abstracts):
Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh): Cut-generating functions in integer programming
András Frank (Eötvös University, Budapest): Constructive characterizations
Thomas Rothvoß (University of Washington, Seattle): Extended formulations
David Shmoys (Cornell University, Ithaca): t.b.a.
---
IPCO conference:
34 papers, selected by the program committee (chaired by Jon Lee), will be presented in single-track sessions.
The detailed program is online now.
Each participant will receive a copy of the proceedings (Springer LNCS) at the conference.
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Poster session:
We plan a poster session at the welcome reception on June 22.
If you want to present a poster, submit title and abstract before March 31.
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[DMANET] CLAIO Monterrey 2014: Call for Papers (Extended deadline)
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*** The paper submission deadline is extended to 15 March 2014
*** Only-abstract submission deadline remains on 01 May 2014
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CLAIO XVII / CSMIO III
Joint ALIO/SMIO Conference
Monterrey, Mexico
6-10 October 2014
http://pisis.fime.uanl.mx/claio2014/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of
Operations Research (ALIO) and the worldwide Operational
Research (OR) community to take part in the
XVII Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research
held jointly with the III Conference of the Mexican Society of
Operations Research (CLAIO/CSMIO 2014) in Monterrey, Mexico,
October 6-10, 2014. The academic program will consist of parallel,
technical, plenary talks, tutorials, and short courses,
covering several aspects of OR.
ABSTRACT / PAPER SUBMISSION
To participate, an abstract of 1000 characters must be submitted. Additionally,
an 8-page paper going through a review process may be submitted.
Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or
Portuguese, the three official languages of CLAIO. Accepted papers
of registered authors will be published in the conference proceedings
CD-ROM with an ISBN. All accepted abstracts will be published in
the conference book of abstracts.
A post-conference special issue of "Annals of Operations Research"
devoted to the best works of the conference will be published.
See details in the conference web site.
IMPORTANT DATES
15/Mar/2014 (Optional) Paper submission deadline (extended deadline).
01/May/2014 Abstract submission deadline.
15/May/2014 Paper acceptance/rejection notification.
01/Jun/2014 Abstract acceptance/rejection notification.
15/Jun/2014 Camera-ready paper deadline.
31/Jul/2014 Early registration deadline
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Elena Fernandez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Hector Cancela, Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay
Jonathan F. Bard, U. of Texas at Austin, USA
Sheldon M. Ross, U. of Southern California, USA
CONFIRMED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Alexis Takvorian, Dell, USA
Andres Weintraub, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ruben Ruiz, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
CONFIRMED MINI COURSE SPEAKERS
Angelica Lozano, UNAM
Cristina Gigola, ITAM
Eduardo Fernandez, UAS
Idalia Flores, UNAM
Juan A. Diaz, UDLA
COMMITTEES
Conference Chairs:
Jose Luis Gonzalez-Velarde (Tecnologico de Monterrey)
and Roger Z. Rios (UANL)
Program Committee: Chair - Manuel Laguna (U. of Colorado, USA)
Adenso Diaz (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Andres Medaglia (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Andres Weintraub (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Belen Melian (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Carlos Andres Romano (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Carlos Paternina (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
Francisco R. Angel-Bello (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal)
Gladys Maquera (Universidad Peruana Unin, Peru)
Gregorio Tirado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Gulnara Baldoqun (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Irene Loiseau (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Joaquin Pacheco (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)
Jose Hernandez (Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, Venezuela)
Lorena Pradenas (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
Luis Miguel Torres (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Ecuador)
Maria Alvarez Rivas (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru)
Marita Urquhart (Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay)
Nelson Maculan (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Onesimo Hernandez (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico)
Pablo Miranda (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaso, Chile)
Regina Berretta (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Vincent Boyer (UANL, Mexico)
Organizing Committee: Ada Alvarez (UANL), Angelica Salazar (UANL),
Fernando Camacho (UANL), Iris Martinez (UANL), Maricarmen Temblador
(Tecnologico de Monterrey), Romeo Sanchez (UANL), Tomas Sanchez
(Tecnologico de Monterrey), Yajaira Cardona (Tecnologico de Monterrey),
Yasmin Rios (UANL)
See you in Monterrey!!!!
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*** The paper submission deadline is extended to 15 March 2014
*** Only-abstract submission deadline remains on 01 May 2014
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CLAIO XVII / CSMIO III
Joint ALIO/SMIO Conference
Monterrey, Mexico
6-10 October 2014
http://pisis.fime.uanl.mx/claio2014/
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CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of
Operations Research (ALIO) and the worldwide Operational
Research (OR) community to take part in the
XVII Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research
held jointly with the III Conference of the Mexican Society of
Operations Research (CLAIO/CSMIO 2014) in Monterrey, Mexico,
October 6-10, 2014. The academic program will consist of parallel,
technical, plenary talks, tutorials, and short courses,
covering several aspects of OR.
ABSTRACT / PAPER SUBMISSION
To participate, an abstract of 1000 characters must be submitted. Additionally,
an 8-page paper going through a review process may be submitted.
Papers and abstracts may be written in Spanish, English, or
Portuguese, the three official languages of CLAIO. Accepted papers
of registered authors will be published in the conference proceedings
CD-ROM with an ISBN. All accepted abstracts will be published in
the conference book of abstracts.
A post-conference special issue of "Annals of Operations Research"
devoted to the best works of the conference will be published.
See details in the conference web site.
IMPORTANT DATES
15/Mar/2014 (Optional) Paper submission deadline (extended deadline).
01/May/2014 Abstract submission deadline.
15/May/2014 Paper acceptance/rejection notification.
01/Jun/2014 Abstract acceptance/rejection notification.
15/Jun/2014 Camera-ready paper deadline.
31/Jul/2014 Early registration deadline
CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS
Carlos Coello Coello, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Elena Fernandez, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Hector Cancela, Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay
Jonathan F. Bard, U. of Texas at Austin, USA
Sheldon M. Ross, U. of Southern California, USA
CONFIRMED TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
Alexis Takvorian, Dell, USA
Andres Weintraub, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Jose Holguin-Veras, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Ruben Ruiz, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
CONFIRMED MINI COURSE SPEAKERS
Angelica Lozano, UNAM
Cristina Gigola, ITAM
Eduardo Fernandez, UAS
Idalia Flores, UNAM
Juan A. Diaz, UDLA
COMMITTEES
Conference Chairs:
Jose Luis Gonzalez-Velarde (Tecnologico de Monterrey)
and Roger Z. Rios (UANL)
Program Committee: Chair - Manuel Laguna (U. of Colorado, USA)
Adenso Diaz (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Andres Medaglia (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Andres Weintraub (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Belen Melian (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain)
Carlos Andres Romano (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)
Carlos Paternina (Universidad del Norte, Colombia)
Francisco R. Angel-Bello (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama (Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal)
Gladys Maquera (Universidad Peruana Unin, Peru)
Gregorio Tirado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Gulnara Baldoqun (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia)
Irene Loiseau (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Joaquin Pacheco (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)
Jose Hernandez (Universidad Metropolitana de Caracas, Venezuela)
Lorena Pradenas (Universidad de Concepcion, Chile)
Luis Miguel Torres (Escuela Politecnica Nacional, Ecuador)
Maria Alvarez Rivas (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru)
Marita Urquhart (Universidad de La Republica, Uruguay)
Nelson Maculan (Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Onesimo Hernandez (CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico)
Pablo Miranda (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaso, Chile)
Regina Berretta (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Vincent Boyer (UANL, Mexico)
Organizing Committee: Ada Alvarez (UANL), Angelica Salazar (UANL),
Fernando Camacho (UANL), Iris Martinez (UANL), Maricarmen Temblador
(Tecnologico de Monterrey), Romeo Sanchez (UANL), Tomas Sanchez
(Tecnologico de Monterrey), Yajaira Cardona (Tecnologico de Monterrey),
Yasmin Rios (UANL)
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[DMANET] CFP-POMM 2014: Parallel Optimization using Multi and Many-core Computing (As part of HPCS 2014)
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* Parallel Optimization using Multi and Many-core Computing (POMM 2014)
* http://www.umons.ac.be/pomm2014
* As part of The International Conference on High Performance
Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014)
* http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info
* July 21 - July 25, 2014
* The Savoia Hotel Regency
* Bologna, Italy
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Submission Deadline: March 25, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters
-----------------------------------------
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
-----------------------------------------
Plenty of hard problems in a wide range of areas including engineering
design, telecommunications, logistics, biology, etc., have been
modeled and tackled successfully with optimization approaches. These
approaches fall into two major categories: meta-heuristics
(evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, ant or bee colonies,
simulated annealing, Tabu search, etc.) and exact methods
(Branch-and-X, dynamic programming, etc.).
Nowadays, optimization problems become increasingly large and complex,
forcing the use of parallel computing for their efficient and
effective resolution. On the other hand, multi and many-core computing
(e.g. GPU, FPGA) has recently undergone a significant evolution with
the emergence of new high performance computing environments. Indeed,
multi and many-core computing are provided in laptops, high
performance workstations, clusters, grids, and clouds.
The design and implementation of parallel optimization methods raise
several issues related to the characteristics of these methods and
those of the new hardware execution environments at the same time.
This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for the researchers to
present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced
(discrete or continuous, single or multi-objective, static or dynamic,
deterministic or stochastic, hybrid) optimization methods and
distributed and/or parallel multi/many-core computing, and any related
issues.
-----------------------------------------
The POMM Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
the following:
-----------------------------------------
- Parallel models for optimization methods.
- Parallel mechanisms for hybridization of optimization methods.
- Redesign of parallel real or simulation-based optimization algorithms.
- Implementation issues of parallel optimization algorithms.
- Parallel-aware frameworks for parallel optimization techniques.
- Computational studies reporting results for hard and challenging
optimization problems.
- Issues and novel approaches and experiments in parallel solving
real-world applications.
- Theory and performance metrics for parallel optimization.
-----------------------------------------
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
-----------------------------------------
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to Parallel Computing for Simulation
and Optimization. Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone
numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list
of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full
manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4
pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to
http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission
details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple
authors, an indication of which author is responsible for
correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all
submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful
comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop submission
site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pomm2014.
Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.
Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of
three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted
papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and
presented at the workshop.
-----------------------------------------
Proceedings
-----------------------------------------
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be
posted on the HPCS 2014 web site. It is our intent to have the
proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are to be
published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online
through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services
accordingly (e.g., EI indexing).
If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop,
please feel free to contact the workshop organizers.
-----------------------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------------------
- Paper Submissions: March 25, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014
- Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 06, 2014
- Conference Dates: July 21 - 25, 2014
-----------------------------------------
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
-----------------------------------------
Nouredine Melab
Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS LIFL
Phone: +33 3 59 57 78 86
Fax: +33 3 28 77 85 37
Email: nouredine.melab(at)lifl.fr
Mohand Mezmaz
Universty of Mons
Phone: +32 65 37 46 91
Fax: +32 65 37 46 45
Email: mohand.mezmaz(at)umons.ac.be
-----------------------------------------
International Program Committee (To be extended)
-----------------------------------------
- Bertrand Le Cun, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La défense.
- Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- Ahcène Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algeria
- Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
- Malika Mehdi, USTHB, Algeria
- Nouredine Melab, Université de Lille1, France
- Mohand Mezmaz, University of Mons, Belgium
- Sanaz Mostagim, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
- Celso C. Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
- El-Ghazali Talbi, Université de Lille1, France
- Daniel Tuyttens, University of Mons, Belgium
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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* Parallel Optimization using Multi and Many-core Computing (POMM 2014)
* http://www.umons.ac.be/pomm2014
* As part of The International Conference on High Performance
Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014)
* http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info
* July 21 - July 25, 2014
* The Savoia Hotel Regency
* Bologna, Italy
*************************************************************************************
Submission Deadline: March 25, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters
-----------------------------------------
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
-----------------------------------------
Plenty of hard problems in a wide range of areas including engineering
design, telecommunications, logistics, biology, etc., have been
modeled and tackled successfully with optimization approaches. These
approaches fall into two major categories: meta-heuristics
(evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, ant or bee colonies,
simulated annealing, Tabu search, etc.) and exact methods
(Branch-and-X, dynamic programming, etc.).
Nowadays, optimization problems become increasingly large and complex,
forcing the use of parallel computing for their efficient and
effective resolution. On the other hand, multi and many-core computing
(e.g. GPU, FPGA) has recently undergone a significant evolution with
the emergence of new high performance computing environments. Indeed,
multi and many-core computing are provided in laptops, high
performance workstations, clusters, grids, and clouds.
The design and implementation of parallel optimization methods raise
several issues related to the characteristics of these methods and
those of the new hardware execution environments at the same time.
This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for the researchers to
present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced
(discrete or continuous, single or multi-objective, static or dynamic,
deterministic or stochastic, hybrid) optimization methods and
distributed and/or parallel multi/many-core computing, and any related
issues.
-----------------------------------------
The POMM Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
the following:
-----------------------------------------
- Parallel models for optimization methods.
- Parallel mechanisms for hybridization of optimization methods.
- Redesign of parallel real or simulation-based optimization algorithms.
- Implementation issues of parallel optimization algorithms.
- Parallel-aware frameworks for parallel optimization techniques.
- Computational studies reporting results for hard and challenging
optimization problems.
- Issues and novel approaches and experiments in parallel solving
real-world applications.
- Theory and performance metrics for parallel optimization.
-----------------------------------------
INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
-----------------------------------------
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to Parallel Computing for Simulation
and Optimization. Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone
numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list
of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full
manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4
pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to
http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission
details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple
authors, an indication of which author is responsible for
correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all
submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful
comments.
Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop submission
site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pomm2014.
Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.
Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of
three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted
papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and
presented at the workshop.
-----------------------------------------
Proceedings
-----------------------------------------
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be
posted on the HPCS 2014 web site. It is our intent to have the
proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are to be
published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online
through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services
accordingly (e.g., EI indexing).
If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop,
please feel free to contact the workshop organizers.
-----------------------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------------------
- Paper Submissions: March 25, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014
- Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 06, 2014
- Conference Dates: July 21 - 25, 2014
-----------------------------------------
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
-----------------------------------------
Nouredine Melab
Université Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS LIFL
Phone: +33 3 59 57 78 86
Fax: +33 3 28 77 85 37
Email: nouredine.melab(at)lifl.fr
Mohand Mezmaz
Universty of Mons
Phone: +32 65 37 46 91
Fax: +32 65 37 46 45
Email: mohand.mezmaz(at)umons.ac.be
-----------------------------------------
International Program Committee (To be extended)
-----------------------------------------
- Bertrand Le Cun, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La défense.
- Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- Ahcène Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algeria
- Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
- Malika Mehdi, USTHB, Algeria
- Nouredine Melab, Université de Lille1, France
- Mohand Mezmaz, University of Mons, Belgium
- Sanaz Mostagim, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
- Celso C. Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
- El-Ghazali Talbi, Université de Lille1, France
- Daniel Tuyttens, University of Mons, Belgium
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
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[DMANET] PhD positions at SUTD
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The Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar of the Singapore
University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is looking for bright and
motivated students who want to pursue a PhD in one or more of its
areas of interest. Multiple positions are available for September
2014.
SUTD is a research-intensive university, recently established in
collaboration with MIT. Thomas Magnanti, former Dean of Engineering at
MIT and former President of INFORMS, is the President of SUTD. Saif
Benjaafar, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and former
Director of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of
Minnesota, is the Head of the ESD Pillar.
ESD is a multidisciplinary department with faculty from the best
universities in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, UC
Berkeley, Caltech, and Cornell. The faculty are engaged in numerous
research projects in optimization, operations management, game theory,
applied probability, transportation, energy, environment, and more.
Qualified PhD applicants who are selected for a scholarship are
offered highly attractive financial packages covering tuition, a
monthly stipend and support for conference and workshop travel.
Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at
esd.sutd.edu.sg. For questions, please contact Giacomo Nannicini at
nannicini@sutd.edu.sg, or phd@esd.sutd.edu.sg for general inquiries.
Applications are evaluated on a regular basis and will be accepted
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University of Technology and Design (SUTD) is looking for bright and
motivated students who want to pursue a PhD in one or more of its
areas of interest. Multiple positions are available for September
2014.
SUTD is a research-intensive university, recently established in
collaboration with MIT. Thomas Magnanti, former Dean of Engineering at
MIT and former President of INFORMS, is the President of SUTD. Saif
Benjaafar, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and former
Director of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of
Minnesota, is the Head of the ESD Pillar.
ESD is a multidisciplinary department with faculty from the best
universities in the world, including MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, UC
Berkeley, Caltech, and Cornell. The faculty are engaged in numerous
research projects in optimization, operations management, game theory,
applied probability, transportation, energy, environment, and more.
Qualified PhD applicants who are selected for a scholarship are
offered highly attractive financial packages covering tuition, a
monthly stipend and support for conference and workshop travel.
Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at
esd.sutd.edu.sg. For questions, please contact Giacomo Nannicini at
nannicini@sutd.edu.sg, or phd@esd.sutd.edu.sg for general inquiries.
Applications are evaluated on a regular basis and will be accepted
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[DMANET] CfP: SSS 2014
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Call For Papers
- SSS 2014 -
16th International Symposium on
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
http://sss2014.cs.upb.de/
Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2014, Paderborn, Germany
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**
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the
design and development of distributed systems with self-* properties such as
self- stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing,
self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and
self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point
in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as
peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc
networks, robotic networks, opportunistic networks etc. Moreover, new
applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health
and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process
control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed
systems. We particularly encourage the submissions spanning these areas of
applications.
The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following
tracks:
* Self-stabilization
* Fault-tolerant and Dependable Systems
* Formal Methods, Safety, and Security
* Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems
* Cloud Computing, P2P, Self-organizing and Autonomous Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract Submission: April 16, 2014 (UTC-12)
* Paper Submission: April 21, 2014 (UTC-12)
* Notification: June 9, 2014
* Camera Ready Submission: July 4, 2014
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be prepared using the LNCS style and be electronically
submitted in PDF format using EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2014). Two types of papers
can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements. Submissions for
regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title,
authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may
have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief
announcements are restricted to two pages using the LNCS style, with no
appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected
without consideration of their merits. If requested by the authors, a
regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also
be considered for a brief announcement. This request must be clearly
indicated in the first page of the paper. Such a request will not affect
consideration of the paper for a regular paper. A paper submitted at this
forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A
submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference,
workshop, or journal.
PUBLICATION
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.Selected papers will be
published in the Journal of Self-Computing
(http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jsc).
BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best
student paper awards. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award
if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of
submission. This must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper.
CONFERENCE VENUE
SSS 2014 will take place in Paderborn, Germany.
ORGANIZATION
General Chairs:
Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Program Chairs:
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Vijay Garg, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Track Chairs:
* Self-stabilization
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Fault-tolerant and Dependabable Systems
Luís Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Formal Methods, Safety, and Security
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems
Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA
* P2P, Social, Self-organizing, Autonomic and Opportunistic Networks
Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Publicity Chairs
Habib Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin & Telekom Innovation
Laboratories, Germany
Steering Committee:
Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA
Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada, USA
Shlomi Dolev (Chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan
Vincent Villain, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France
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Call For Papers
- SSS 2014 -
16th International Symposium on
Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems
http://sss2014.cs.upb.de/
Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2014, Paderborn, Germany
****************************************************************************
**
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the
design and development of distributed systems with self-* properties such as
self- stabilizing, self-configuring, self-organizing, self-managing,
self-repairing, self-healing, self-optimizing, self-adaptive, and
self-protecting. Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point
in its evolution, marked by the importance of dynamic systems such as
peer-to-peer networks, large-scale wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc
networks, robotic networks, opportunistic networks etc. Moreover, new
applications such as grid and web services, banking and e-commerce, e-health
and robotics, aerospace and avionics, automotive, industrial process
control, etc. have joined the traditional applications of distributed
systems. We particularly encourage the submissions spanning these areas of
applications.
The conference provides a wide spectrum of topics, covered in the following
tracks:
* Self-stabilization
* Fault-tolerant and Dependable Systems
* Formal Methods, Safety, and Security
* Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems
* Cloud Computing, P2P, Self-organizing and Autonomous Systems
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract Submission: April 16, 2014 (UTC-12)
* Paper Submission: April 21, 2014 (UTC-12)
* Notification: June 9, 2014
* Camera Ready Submission: July 4, 2014
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers must be prepared using the LNCS style and be electronically
submitted in PDF format using EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2014). Two types of papers
can be submitted: Regular Papers and Brief Announcements. Submissions for
regular papers should be no longer than 15 pages (including the title,
authors, abstract, figures, and references) in LNCS style; a submission may
have an appendix of at most two pages beyond the 15 page limit. Brief
announcements are restricted to two pages using the LNCS style, with no
appendix. Submissions deviating from these guidelines will be rejected
without consideration of their merits. If requested by the authors, a
regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also
be considered for a brief announcement. This request must be clearly
indicated in the first page of the paper. Such a request will not affect
consideration of the paper for a regular paper. A paper submitted at this
forum is expected to be original research not previously published. A
submission may not be concurrently submitted to another conference,
workshop, or journal.
PUBLICATION
The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.Selected papers will be
published in the Journal of Self-Computing
(http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscinet/jsc).
BEST PAPER AND BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
The program committee will select two papers for best paper and best
student paper awards. A paper is eligible for the best student paper award
if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at the time of
submission. This must be clearly indicated in the first page of the paper.
CONFERENCE VENUE
SSS 2014 will take place in Paderborn, Germany.
ORGANIZATION
General Chairs:
Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Program Chairs:
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Vijay Garg, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Track Chairs:
* Self-stabilization
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Volker Turau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
* Fault-tolerant and Dependabable Systems
Luís Rodrigues, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
* Formal Methods, Safety, and Security
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, University of Waterloo, Canada
* Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mobile Networks, Cyberphysical Systems
Rajmohan Rajaraman, Northeastern University, USA
* P2P, Social, Self-organizing, Autonomic and Opportunistic Networks
Murat Demirbas, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA
Local Arrangements Chair:
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Publicity Chairs
Habib Ammari, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA
Stefan Schmid, Technical University of Berlin & Telekom Innovation
Laboratories, Germany
Steering Committee:
Anish Arora, Ohio State University, USA
Ajoy K. Datta, University of Nevada, USA
Shlomi Dolev (Chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Sukumar Ghosh, University of Iowa, USA
Mohamed Gouda, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ted Herman, University of Iowa, USA
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka University, Japan
Vincent Villain, Universite de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), France
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SPECIAL ISSUE ON PARAMETERIZED COMPLEXITY
Manuscripts are invited for a Special Issue on Parameterized Complexity published by the "Tsinghua Science and Technology".
The field of parameterized complexity is a vibrant research area and has witnessed a tremendous growth in the last two decades.
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[DMANET] Fwd: FP7 ONTIC project. PhD Open positions.
Dear all,
Technical University of Madrid offers a Ph.D. studentship for 3 years in
the context of the FP7 ONTIC project.
-----------------------------
TITLE
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Online Network Traffic Classification
-----------------------------
KEYWORDS
-----------------------------
Big Data Analytics, Scalability, Network Traffic Classification, Data
Stream Mining, Machine Learning
-----------------------------
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION
-----------------------------
The research will be conducted at the Technical University of Madrid,
within the Internet Next Generation Research Group at E.T.S. Sistemas
Informaticos and funded by the ONTIC European Project (FP7).
Accurate identification and categorization of network traffic according
to application type is an important element of many network management
and engineering tasks related with QoS, capacity planning and detection
of network attacks.
Terabytes of data may be transferred through the core network of a
typical ISP every day. Moreover, it is expected an exponential growth of
more than 50 billions of connected devices to Internet. Therefore, this
scenario hampers network data capture and analysis.
ONTIC (Online Network TraffIc Characterization) project investigates:
1)
A novel architecture of scalable mechanisms and techniques to be
able to a) characterize online network traffic data streams, identifying
traffic patterns evolution, and b) proactively detecting anomalies in
real time when hundreds of thousands of packets per second are
processed.
2)
A completely new set of scalable offline data mining mechanisms and
techniques to characterize network traffic, applying a Big Data
analytics approach and using distributed computation paradigms in the
cloud on extremely large network traffic summary datasets consisting on
trillions of records.
Under the context of the project, the proposed Ph.D. project aims at
investigating and proposing a new set of online and offline algorithms
and machine learning techniques to build autonomous network traffic
characterization systems while tackling scalability and real time
network traffic issues in a Big Data analytics scenario.
-----------------------------
REFERENCES
-----------------------------
- Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski, Unsupervised Network
Intrusion Detection Systems: Detecting the Unknown without Knowledge,
Computer Communications, Volume 35, Issue 7, 1 April 2012.
- Casas, P.; Mazel, J.; Owezarski, P., "Knowledge-independent traffic
monitoring: Unsupervised detection of network attacks," Network, IEEE ,
vol.26, no.1, pp.13,21, January-February 2012.
- Johan Mazel, Pedro Casas, Yann Labit, Philippe Owezarski: Sub-Space
clustering, Inter-Clustering Results Association & anomaly correlation
for unsupervised network anomaly detection. CNSM 2011.
- Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski: On the use of Sub-Space
Clustering & Evidence Accumulation for traffic analysis &
classification. IWCMC 2011.
- Apiletti, D., Baralis, E., Cerquitelli, T., & D'Elia, V.
Characterizing network traffic by means of the NetMine framework.
Computer Networks, 53(6), 2009.
- Nigel Williams, Sebastian Zander, and Grenville Armitage. 2006. A
preliminary performance comparison of five machine learning algorithms
for practical IP traffic flow classification. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun.
Rev. 36, 5 (October 2006).
- Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Ira Cohen, and Carey
Williamson. Semi-supervised network traffic classification. In
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS, 2007.
- Nguyen, Thuy TT, and Grenville Armitage. "A survey of techniques for
internet traffic classification using machine learning." Communications
Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE 10.4 ( 2008 ).
(*) P. Owerzarski, E. Baralis and D. Apilietti are part of the ONTIC
Consortium.
-----------------------------
SKILLS
-----------------------------
Machine learning, Distributed computing systems, Distributed
algorithms, Java and/or C programming
-----------------------------
LOCATION AND SALARY
-----------------------------
A Ph.D. studentship for 3 years is available. The monthly gross salary
is approximately 1900 Euro. The successful candidate will join the
Internet Next Generation Research Group in the E.T.S.I. Sistemas
Informaticos at Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university, with more
than 4.000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students and
6.000 postgraduates. UPM benefits from the heritage of its schools: the
most ancient ones were founded in the 18th.century. Nowadays UPM's
Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, as well as Architecture,
Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. Moreover, UPM as a top
quality academic establishment has a strong commitment to R&D and
Innovation, boasting over 225 Research Units and over 10 Research
Institutes and Technological Centres, contributing significantly to the
international scientific community with a high number of journal papers,
conference communications, and PhD theses. The UPM researchers have
large expertise in research projects participation both at national and
international level.
-----------------------------
APPLICATION
-----------------------------
Applicants are requested to submit the documents below by e-mail to
ontic-project@eui.upm.es
with subject "[PhD.ONTIC] Candidate".
The deadline to accept candidatures is March 14th, 2014.
- Resume
- Master thesis
- Master's grades
- Recommendation letters
- Publications (if any)
-----------------------------
CONTACT
-----------------------------
Please contact Dr. Alberto Mozo for further information
a.mozo@upm.es
-------
Alberto Mozo
ONTIC FP7 Coordinator
Associate Professor
Department Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores
Assistant Director for Postgraduate Studies and Research
E.U. Informatica / E.T.S.I. Sistemas Informaticos,
Campus Sur. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Camino Arboleda s/n 28031, Madrid, Spain
Email: a.mozo@upm.es
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Technical University of Madrid offers a Ph.D. studentship for 3 years in
the context of the FP7 ONTIC project.
-----------------------------
TITLE
-----------------------------
Online Network Traffic Classification
-----------------------------
KEYWORDS
-----------------------------
Big Data Analytics, Scalability, Network Traffic Classification, Data
Stream Mining, Machine Learning
-----------------------------
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION
-----------------------------
The research will be conducted at the Technical University of Madrid,
within the Internet Next Generation Research Group at E.T.S. Sistemas
Informaticos and funded by the ONTIC European Project (FP7).
Accurate identification and categorization of network traffic according
to application type is an important element of many network management
and engineering tasks related with QoS, capacity planning and detection
of network attacks.
Terabytes of data may be transferred through the core network of a
typical ISP every day. Moreover, it is expected an exponential growth of
more than 50 billions of connected devices to Internet. Therefore, this
scenario hampers network data capture and analysis.
ONTIC (Online Network TraffIc Characterization) project investigates:
1)
A novel architecture of scalable mechanisms and techniques to be
able to a) characterize online network traffic data streams, identifying
traffic patterns evolution, and b) proactively detecting anomalies in
real time when hundreds of thousands of packets per second are
processed.
2)
A completely new set of scalable offline data mining mechanisms and
techniques to characterize network traffic, applying a Big Data
analytics approach and using distributed computation paradigms in the
cloud on extremely large network traffic summary datasets consisting on
trillions of records.
Under the context of the project, the proposed Ph.D. project aims at
investigating and proposing a new set of online and offline algorithms
and machine learning techniques to build autonomous network traffic
characterization systems while tackling scalability and real time
network traffic issues in a Big Data analytics scenario.
-----------------------------
REFERENCES
-----------------------------
- Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski, Unsupervised Network
Intrusion Detection Systems: Detecting the Unknown without Knowledge,
Computer Communications, Volume 35, Issue 7, 1 April 2012.
- Casas, P.; Mazel, J.; Owezarski, P., "Knowledge-independent traffic
monitoring: Unsupervised detection of network attacks," Network, IEEE ,
vol.26, no.1, pp.13,21, January-February 2012.
- Johan Mazel, Pedro Casas, Yann Labit, Philippe Owezarski: Sub-Space
clustering, Inter-Clustering Results Association & anomaly correlation
for unsupervised network anomaly detection. CNSM 2011.
- Pedro Casas, Johan Mazel, Philippe Owezarski: On the use of Sub-Space
Clustering & Evidence Accumulation for traffic analysis &
classification. IWCMC 2011.
- Apiletti, D., Baralis, E., Cerquitelli, T., & D'Elia, V.
Characterizing network traffic by means of the NetMine framework.
Computer Networks, 53(6), 2009.
- Nigel Williams, Sebastian Zander, and Grenville Armitage. 2006. A
preliminary performance comparison of five machine learning algorithms
for practical IP traffic flow classification. SIGCOMM Comput. Commun.
Rev. 36, 5 (October 2006).
- Jeffrey Erman, Anirban Mahanti, Martin Arlitt, Ira Cohen, and Carey
Williamson. Semi-supervised network traffic classification. In
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMETRICS, 2007.
- Nguyen, Thuy TT, and Grenville Armitage. "A survey of techniques for
internet traffic classification using machine learning." Communications
Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE 10.4 ( 2008 ).
(*) P. Owerzarski, E. Baralis and D. Apilietti are part of the ONTIC
Consortium.
-----------------------------
SKILLS
-----------------------------
Machine learning, Distributed computing systems, Distributed
algorithms, Java and/or C programming
-----------------------------
LOCATION AND SALARY
-----------------------------
A Ph.D. studentship for 3 years is available. The monthly gross salary
is approximately 1900 Euro. The successful candidate will join the
Internet Next Generation Research Group in the E.T.S.I. Sistemas
Informaticos at Technical University of Madrid, Spain.
Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
UPM) is the oldest and largest Spanish technical university, with more
than 4.000 faculty members, around 38.000 undergraduate students and
6.000 postgraduates. UPM benefits from the heritage of its schools: the
most ancient ones were founded in the 18th.century. Nowadays UPM's
Schools cover most of engineering disciplines, as well as Architecture,
Computer Science and Geodesy & Cartography. Moreover, UPM as a top
quality academic establishment has a strong commitment to R&D and
Innovation, boasting over 225 Research Units and over 10 Research
Institutes and Technological Centres, contributing significantly to the
international scientific community with a high number of journal papers,
conference communications, and PhD theses. The UPM researchers have
large expertise in research projects participation both at national and
international level.
-----------------------------
APPLICATION
-----------------------------
Applicants are requested to submit the documents below by e-mail to
ontic-project@eui.upm.es
with subject "[PhD.ONTIC] Candidate".
The deadline to accept candidatures is March 14th, 2014.
- Resume
- Master thesis
- Master's grades
- Recommendation letters
- Publications (if any)
-----------------------------
CONTACT
-----------------------------
Please contact Dr. Alberto Mozo for further information
a.mozo@upm.es
-------
Alberto Mozo
ONTIC FP7 Coordinator
Associate Professor
Department Arquitectura y Tecnologia de Computadores
Assistant Director for Postgraduate Studies and Research
E.U. Informatica / E.T.S.I. Sistemas Informaticos,
Campus Sur. Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Camino Arboleda s/n 28031, Madrid, Spain
Email: a.mozo@upm.es
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[DMANET] PhD Studentships at the Open University, UK: Closing date 28th February 2014
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics,
Computing and Technology, The Open University
FULL-TIME PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
AVAILABLE FROM 1 OCTOBER 2014
*** Closing date: 28th February 2014 ***
We invite applications for several full-time three-year PhD
studentships in Mathematics and Statistics commencing 1 October 2014.
Studentships cover full-time fees and include a stipend (currently
£13,726 per annum).
Full-time PhD students are based at the University's Walton Hall
campus in Milton Keynes and are allocated office space and computer
facilities in the Department. Full-time students have an automatic
travel and subsistence allocation (currently £1250 per annum for three
years) to cover training and conference participation. Students are
also supported to join an appropriate learned society.
Details of research areas covered in the Mathematics and Statistics
Department, including combinatorics, are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/mathematics.htm and
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/statistics.htm.
Applications in all research areas covered by the Department are
welcomed. A detailed research proposal is not required, but applicants
should make clear their principal area of interest. Applications for
research projects highlighted inhttp://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/phd
are especially welcomed. Interested persons are strongly encouraged to
make informal enquiries to mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk.
General information about studying for a research degree with the Open
University is available from the Research Degrees Prospectus
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/index.htm and, in
particular,http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/degrees_we_offer/doctor_of_philosophy.htm.
Completed application forms, together with a covering letter
indicating your suitability and reasons for applying, should be sent
to research-degrees-MCT@open.ac.uk to arrive by 5pm on Friday, 28
February 2014. Application forms are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/how_to_apply/mphil_and_phd_application_process.htm
Overseas applicants are welcomed but those from a non-European
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a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
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FULL-TIME PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
AVAILABLE FROM 1 OCTOBER 2014
*** Closing date: 28th February 2014 ***
We invite applications for several full-time three-year PhD
studentships in Mathematics and Statistics commencing 1 October 2014.
Studentships cover full-time fees and include a stipend (currently
£13,726 per annum).
Full-time PhD students are based at the University's Walton Hall
campus in Milton Keynes and are allocated office space and computer
facilities in the Department. Full-time students have an automatic
travel and subsistence allocation (currently £1250 per annum for three
years) to cover training and conference participation. Students are
also supported to join an appropriate learned society.
Details of research areas covered in the Mathematics and Statistics
Department, including combinatorics, are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/mathematics.htm and
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/statistics.htm.
Applications in all research areas covered by the Department are
welcomed. A detailed research proposal is not required, but applicants
should make clear their principal area of interest. Applications for
research projects highlighted inhttp://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/phd
are especially welcomed. Interested persons are strongly encouraged to
make informal enquiries to mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk.
General information about studying for a research degree with the Open
University is available from the Research Degrees Prospectus
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/index.htm and, in
particular,http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/degrees_we_offer/doctor_of_philosophy.htm.
Completed application forms, together with a covering letter
indicating your suitability and reasons for applying, should be sent
to research-degrees-MCT@open.ac.uk to arrive by 5pm on Friday, 28
February 2014. Application forms are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/how_to_apply/mphil_and_phd_application_process.htm
Overseas applicants are welcomed but those from a non-European
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[DMANET] 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles): register you paper by February 28!
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications
(SmartVehicles 2014)
June 16-19, 2014, Sydney, Australia
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
**** Paper Registration Deadline --- February 28, 2014 ****
**** Paper Submission Deadline --- March 7, 2014 ****
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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nnThe development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication ne!
tworks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.
Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to:
+ Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network;
+ V2V, V2I and V2X communications
+ Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies
+ Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination)
+ Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks
+ Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet
+ Big data analytics for ITS applications
+ Security and privacy in ITS applications
+ Multimedia applications, infotainment
+ Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles
+ Traffic management and efficiency applications
+ Electrification of transportation systems
+ Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests
+ Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems
+ Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------
Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (http://edas.info/N16795).
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration Deadline: February 28, 2014 (mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014
Notification Deadline: April 15, 2014
Camera Ready Due: May 7, 2014
Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia
John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Publicity Chair
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy
Program Committee (to be completed)
Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Fan Bai, General Motors, USA
Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Saeed Bastani, University of Sydney, Australia
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
Yaser Fallah, West Virginia University, USA
Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Emma Fitzgerald, Lund University, Sweden
Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jerome Harri, EURECOM, France
Thorsten Hehn, Volkswagen, Germany
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, USA
Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lavy Libman, UNSW, Australia
Radovan Miucic, Honda R&D Americas, USA
Robert Schmidt, Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH, Germany
Katrin Sjoberg, Volvo, Sweden
Erik Strom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elisabeth Uhlemann, Malardalen University, Sweden
Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden
Alberto Zanella, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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nnThe development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication ne!
tworks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.
Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to:
+ Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network;
+ V2V, V2I and V2X communications
+ Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies
+ Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination)
+ Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks
+ Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet
+ Big data analytics for ITS applications
+ Security and privacy in ITS applications
+ Multimedia applications, infotainment
+ Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles
+ Traffic management and efficiency applications
+ Electrification of transportation systems
+ Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests
+ Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems
+ Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (http://edas.info/N16795).
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration Deadline: February 28, 2014 (mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014
Notification Deadline: April 15, 2014
Camera Ready Due: May 7, 2014
Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia
John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Publicity Chair
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy
Program Committee (to be completed)
Karl Andersson, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Fan Bai, General Motors, USA
Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Saeed Bastani, University of Sydney, Australia
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
Yaser Fallah, West Virginia University, USA
Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Emma Fitzgerald, Lund University, Sweden
Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jerome Harri, EURECOM, France
Thorsten Hehn, Volkswagen, Germany
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, USA
Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany
Yevgeni Koucheryavy, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Lavy Libman, UNSW, Australia
Radovan Miucic, Honda R&D Americas, USA
Robert Schmidt, Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH, Germany
Katrin Sjoberg, Volvo, Sweden
Erik Strom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ozan Tonguz, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Elisabeth Uhlemann, Malardalen University, Sweden
Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden
Alberto Zanella, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
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[DMANET] Swedish Summer School in Computer Science 2014
We are now accepting applications for the Swedish Summer School in
Computer Science 2014 (http://s3cs.csc.kth.se/). The summer school will be
held from June 29 to July 5 in the beautiful Stockholm archipelago at
Djuronaset (http://djuronaset.com/en/welcome).
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meals.
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Fri April 11: Notification of acceptance to course (or placement in
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held from June 29 to July 5 in the beautiful Stockholm archipelago at
Djuronaset (http://djuronaset.com/en/welcome).
The school runs for a full week Monday-Friday at the beginning of July
when Sweden is at its loveliest, with arrival on Sunday evening and
departure Saturday morning. It consists of two mini-courses on "Sums of
Squares" by Boaz Barak and "Analysis of Boolean Functions" by Ryan
O'Donnell.
The courses are primarily intended for PhD students, but postdocs and
bright masters students are also welcome. The registration fee, which is
3000 SEK (around 350 EUR or 450 USD), includes full accommodation and all
meals.
TIMELINE
Sun March 30: Application deadline.
Fri April 11: Notification of acceptance to course (or placement in
waiting list).
Sun May 4: Deadline for confirming participation and paying registration fee.
Sun June 29 -Sat Jul 5: The summer school
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[DMANET] The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and Deployment, for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014)
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The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and
Deployment
for Real-time and Healthcare Applications (RA-WERHA 2014)
(http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/RA-WERHA2014/main.html)
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To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local
Computer Networks (LCN),
Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada
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SCOPE
The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the
emergence of a wide
range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports,
consumer electronics,
social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the
most important and
promising among these applications for its potential for health
monitoring of chronic
illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to
provide round the clock
healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks
(WBANs) are the
key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected
to revolutionize
the health and real-time body monitoring industry.
WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from
researchers, practitioners
and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main
objective of WBAN
is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry
information and
communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical
applications. This
technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to
the elderly,
disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly
deployed in emergency
and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote
diagnosis of victims.
WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for
personalized medicine which
promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant
societal and economic
impact and improve the citizens' quality of life, particularly in future
smart cities.
However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research
community including:
passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and
reliability with
regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the
real-time transmission
of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging
applications,
which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in
various activity domains.
This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial
researchers,
practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major
technical challenges
and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical
applications.
All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings,
ideas, simulation
tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Wearable and body sensor networks
- Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies
- Emerging eHealth applications
- Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management
- Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for
Healthcare
- Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
- MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs
- Practical Applications of e-Health
- Intra and Inter WBAN communications
- Storage and Display devices for eHealth
- Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine
- Distributed storage of WBANs data
- Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs
- QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels
- Cross-layer Designs for WBANs
- QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs
- M-healthcare mobile social networks
- Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs
- Experimental prototypes and test-beds
- Security and privacy concerns in WBANs
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland
Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
André-Luc Beylot, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TBD
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The First International Workshop on Recent Advances in WBANs Design and
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To be held in conjunction with The 39th IEEE Conference on Local
Computer Networks (LCN),
Sep. 8-11, 2014, Edmonton, Canada
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SCOPE
The recent advances in wireless sensing technology have led to the
emergence of a wide
range of applications in different domains such as medical, sports,
consumer electronics,
social networking, and enterprise usage. E-health is recognized as the
most important and
promising among these applications for its potential for health
monitoring of chronic
illnesses, lifesaving in emergency situations, and its ability to
provide round the clock
healthcare to rural and disadvantaged areas. Wireless Body Area Networks
(WBANs) are the
key enabler of remote and in-hospital health monitoring and are expected
to revolutionize
the health and real-time body monitoring industry.
WBAN technology has quickly attracted a lot of attention from
researchers, practitioners
and clinicians as well as mobile health related data managers. The main
objective of WBAN
is to provide cost-effective, flexible, and secure use of biotelemetry
information and
communication technologies to support both medical and non-medical
applications. This
technology enables ambient assisted living by providing more freedom to
the elderly,
disabled, and chronic illness sufferers. Moreover, it can be rapidly
deployed in emergency
and disaster situations facilitating faster and more accurate remote
diagnosis of victims.
WBAN technology unleashes the possibilities and potentials for
personalized medicine which
promises to revolutionize healthcare that will have a significant
societal and economic
impact and improve the citizens' quality of life, particularly in future
smart cities.
However, WBAN applications present several challenges for the research
community including:
passive non-intrusive and power utilisation design issues, security and
reliability with
regards to the integrity of the acquired biotelemetry data and the
real-time transmission
of the monitored data using QoS aware techniques. Moreover, new emerging
applications,
which consider critical flows, are gaining more and more popularity in
various activity domains.
This workshop seeks to bring together leading academic and industrial
researchers,
practitioners, and clinicians to identify and discuss the major
technical challenges
and recent results related to WBANs based medical and non-medical
applications.
All are welcome to present and share their latest research findings,
ideas, simulation
tools and prototype test-beds at the 2014 RA-WERHA workshop.
WORKSHOP TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Wearable and body sensor networks
- Wireless biotelemetry sensor technologies
- Emerging eHealth applications
- Health monitoring, traffic characterization, and management
- Future Network/Communications Infrastructures and Architectures for
Healthcare
- Energy Saving for Long Time Monitoring
- Pervasive and ubiquitous computing on eHealth
- MAC and Routing protocols design for WBANs
- Practical Applications of e-Health
- Intra and Inter WBAN communications
- Storage and Display devices for eHealth
- Telemedicine and mobile telemedicine
- Distributed storage of WBANs data
- Interference mitigation techniques in WBANs
- QoS-mapping from Application level to Network and MAC levels
- Cross-layer Designs for WBANs
- QoS-oriented dynamic reconfiguration in WBANs
- M-healthcare mobile social networks
- Fault tolerant routing techniques in WBANs
- Experimental prototypes and test-beds
- Security and privacy concerns in WBANs
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GENERAL CHAIRS
Soufiene Djahel, University College Dublin, Ireland
Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France
John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland
TECHNICAL PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
Nikki Cranley, University College Dublin, Ireland
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
André-Luc Beylot, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Riadh Dhaou, INPT/ENSEEIHT, France
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TBD
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
[DMANET] CFP:: 3rd ICIEIS2014- Poland
CALL FOR PAPERS
ICIEIS2014
The Third International Conference on Informatics
Engineering and Information Science
September 22-24, 2014, Lodz, Poland
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icieis2014/
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The proposed conference will be held at Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz, Poland from September 22-24, 2014 which aims to enable researchers
build connections between different digital applications.
Important Dates
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Submission Date: Aug. 22, 2014
Notification of acceptance: Sept. 06, 2014
Camera Ready submission: Sept. 12, 2014
Registration: Sept. 12, 2014
Conference dates: Sept. 22-24, 2014
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ICIEIS2014
The Third International Conference on Informatics
Engineering and Information Science
September 22-24, 2014, Lodz, Poland
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icieis2014/
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The proposed conference will be held at Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz, Poland from September 22-24, 2014 which aims to enable researchers
build connections between different digital applications.
Important Dates
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Submission Date: Aug. 22, 2014
Notification of acceptance: Sept. 06, 2014
Camera Ready submission: Sept. 12, 2014
Registration: Sept. 12, 2014
Conference dates: Sept. 22-24, 2014
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[DMANET] Second call for papers: SIROCCO 2014, July 23-26, Takayama
Second Call for Papers
SIROCCO 2014
Twenty-First International Colloquium on Structural
Information and Communication Complexity
July 23-25, Takayama Green Hotel, Takayama, Japan
http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2014japan/
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= Theme =
SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between communication
and knowledge in multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and
quantitative viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative
approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts
to optimize current designs. Conference. SIROCCO has a tradition of
interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant
atmosphere, attracting leading researchers in a variety of fields
in which communication and knowledge play a significant role. This time,
SIROCCO is held at Takayama, a small town located at the central
region of Japan with exotic scenery. Scope. Original papers are
solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and
global communication and computational complexities. Among the typical
areas are distributed computing, communication networks, game theory,
parallel computing, social networks, mobile computing (including
autonomous robots), peer to peer systems, and communication
complexity. Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, new areas are
always welcome.
= SIROCCO Award =
The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing is awarded
annually in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose
research contributions had a major impact on the understanding of
the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized
computing. The contribution (or a related contribution) should have
been either made or demonstrated by the author in a paper that
appeared in SIROCCO in the past. Moreover, the author should have
made the contribution in at least one paper that appeared (in either
a scientific journal or the proceedings of a scientific conference)
at least 5 years ago.
= Best Student Paper =
A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if one or more
authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program
committee may decline to make this awards or split it.
= Submission =
Papers are submitted using Easy Chair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2014; see
submission guidelines on the conference website. The submission
deadline is 25 April 2014 (23:59 PST). Notifications will be sent out
by 25 May, and the camera-ready papers are due on 9 June.
= Publication =
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a part of the
LNCS series. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the
journal Theoretical Computer Science.
= Micro-MAC =
In conjunction with the conference, a compact version of Research
meeting on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots (MAC) will be
held on 26 July.
= Invited Speakers =
Yuval Emek Technion
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide U. Paderborn
Rotem Oshman Princeton
Gopal Pandurangan NTU Singapore
Michel Raynal IRISA
= Program Committee =
Hagit Attiya Technion
Amotz Bar-Noy CUNY
Guy Even Tel-Aviv U.
Sandor Fekete TU Braunschweig
Paola Flocchini U. Ottawa
George Giakkoupis INRIA Rennes
Magnus M. Halldorsson (Chair) Reykjavik U.
Taizuke Izumi Nagoya Tech.
Valerie King U. Victoria
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide U. Paderborn
Alessia Milani U. Bordeaux
Calvin Newport Georgetown U.
Hirotaka Ono Kyushu U.
Peter Robinson NTU Singapore
Jukka Suomela Aalto U.
Corantin Travers ENSEIRB-MATMECA
Roger Wattenhofer ETH
Peter Widmayer ETH
= Steering Committee =
Guy Even Tel-Aviv U.
Ralf Klasing CNRS & U. Bordeaux
Shay Kutten (chair) Technion
Thomas Moscibroda Microsoft
Boaz Patt-Shamir Tel-Aviv U.
Masafumi Yamashita Kyushu U.
= Organization Committee =
Taisuke Izumi (Chair) Nagoya Tech.
Tomoko Izumi Ritsumeikan U.
Sayaka Kamei Hiroshima U.
Yoshiaki Katayama Nagoya Tech.
Fukuhito Oosita Osaka U.
Yukiko Yamauchi Kyushu U.
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SIROCCO 2014
Twenty-First International Colloquium on Structural
Information and Communication Complexity
July 23-25, Takayama Green Hotel, Takayama, Japan
http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2014japan/
----------------------------------------------------------------------
= Theme =
SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between communication
and knowledge in multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and
quantitative viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative
approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts
to optimize current designs. Conference. SIROCCO has a tradition of
interesting and productive scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant
atmosphere, attracting leading researchers in a variety of fields
in which communication and knowledge play a significant role. This time,
SIROCCO is held at Takayama, a small town located at the central
region of Japan with exotic scenery. Scope. Original papers are
solicited from all areas of study of local structural knowledge and
global communication and computational complexities. Among the typical
areas are distributed computing, communication networks, game theory,
parallel computing, social networks, mobile computing (including
autonomous robots), peer to peer systems, and communication
complexity. Keeping with the tradition of SIROCCO, new areas are
always welcome.
= SIROCCO Award =
The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing is awarded
annually in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose
research contributions had a major impact on the understanding of
the relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized
computing. The contribution (or a related contribution) should have
been either made or demonstrated by the author in a paper that
appeared in SIROCCO in the past. Moreover, the author should have
made the contribution in at least one paper that appeared (in either
a scientific journal or the proceedings of a scientific conference)
at least 5 years ago.
= Best Student Paper =
A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if one or more
authors are full-time students at the time of submission. The program
committee may decline to make this awards or split it.
= Submission =
Papers are submitted using Easy Chair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2014; see
submission guidelines on the conference website. The submission
deadline is 25 April 2014 (23:59 PST). Notifications will be sent out
by 25 May, and the camera-ready papers are due on 9 June.
= Publication =
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a part of the
LNCS series. Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of the
journal Theoretical Computer Science.
= Micro-MAC =
In conjunction with the conference, a compact version of Research
meeting on Distributed Computing by Mobile Robots (MAC) will be
held on 26 July.
= Invited Speakers =
Yuval Emek Technion
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide U. Paderborn
Rotem Oshman Princeton
Gopal Pandurangan NTU Singapore
Michel Raynal IRISA
= Program Committee =
Hagit Attiya Technion
Amotz Bar-Noy CUNY
Guy Even Tel-Aviv U.
Sandor Fekete TU Braunschweig
Paola Flocchini U. Ottawa
George Giakkoupis INRIA Rennes
Magnus M. Halldorsson (Chair) Reykjavik U.
Taizuke Izumi Nagoya Tech.
Valerie King U. Victoria
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide U. Paderborn
Alessia Milani U. Bordeaux
Calvin Newport Georgetown U.
Hirotaka Ono Kyushu U.
Peter Robinson NTU Singapore
Jukka Suomela Aalto U.
Corantin Travers ENSEIRB-MATMECA
Roger Wattenhofer ETH
Peter Widmayer ETH
= Steering Committee =
Guy Even Tel-Aviv U.
Ralf Klasing CNRS & U. Bordeaux
Shay Kutten (chair) Technion
Thomas Moscibroda Microsoft
Boaz Patt-Shamir Tel-Aviv U.
Masafumi Yamashita Kyushu U.
= Organization Committee =
Taisuke Izumi (Chair) Nagoya Tech.
Tomoko Izumi Ritsumeikan U.
Sayaka Kamei Hiroshima U.
Yoshiaki Katayama Nagoya Tech.
Fukuhito Oosita Osaka U.
Yukiko Yamauchi Kyushu U.
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from Joan Boyar: Trends in On-Line Algorithms 2014 (TOLA 2014)
TRENDS in ONLINE ALGORITHMS (TOLA 2014)
- a satellite workshop of ICALP 2014
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
July 7, 2014
www.imada.sdu.dk/~kslarsen/Events/TOLA2014/
The workshop, Trends in On-Line Algorithms 2014 (TOLA 2014),
will take place on July 7, 2014, between SWAT 2014 and ICALP 2014,
both of which will be held in Copenhagen. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects
of online algorithms, including classical competitive analysis,
alternative performance measures, and advice complexity.
Anyone can register for participation, but in order to be
scheduled to give a talk, submission of an abstract is required.
The workshop will be informal, with no published proceedings.
If you are interested in speaking, please submit a two-page
abstract, excluding references, through the EasyChair system,
using the following URL:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tola2014
A submission should consist of a two-page abstract, not counting
the bibliography, in PDF format.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 22, 2014, 23:59 (CEST)
Notification: May 13, 2014
Workshop date: July 7, 2014
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Yossi Azar - Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Marek Chrobak - University of California, Riverside, USA
Leah Epstein - University of Haifa, Israel
Lene Monrad Favrholdt (chair) - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Alejandro López-Ortiz - University of Waterloo, Canada
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Joan Boyar (chair) - University of Southern Denmark
Lene M. Favrholdt - University of Southern Denmark
Kim S. Larsen - University of Southern Denmark
- a satellite workshop of ICALP 2014
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
July 7, 2014
www.imada.sdu.dk/~kslarsen/Events/TOLA2014/
The workshop, Trends in On-Line Algorithms 2014 (TOLA 2014),
will take place on July 7, 2014, between SWAT 2014 and ICALP 2014,
both of which will be held in Copenhagen. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects
of online algorithms, including classical competitive analysis,
alternative performance measures, and advice complexity.
Anyone can register for participation, but in order to be
scheduled to give a talk, submission of an abstract is required.
The workshop will be informal, with no published proceedings.
If you are interested in speaking, please submit a two-page
abstract, excluding references, through the EasyChair system,
using the following URL:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tola2014
A submission should consist of a two-page abstract, not counting
the bibliography, in PDF format.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 22, 2014, 23:59 (CEST)
Notification: May 13, 2014
Workshop date: July 7, 2014
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Yossi Azar - Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Marek Chrobak - University of California, Riverside, USA
Leah Epstein - University of Haifa, Israel
Lene Monrad Favrholdt (chair) - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Alejandro López-Ortiz - University of Waterloo, Canada
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Joan Boyar (chair) - University of Southern Denmark
Lene M. Favrholdt - University of Southern Denmark
Kim S. Larsen - University of Southern Denmark
[DMANET] MSc scholarships at Dept. of Management Science, Strathclyde Business School
Scholarships in MSc Operational Research and MSc Business Analysis and Consulting
University of Strathclyde Business School
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We have scholarships available for our full-time MSc Operational Research and MSc Business Analysis and Consulting courses in the academic year 2014/15. Each scholarship will be worth £7,000. Students with any nationality are eligible to apply. We will award two scholarships.
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[DMANET] CFP: GECCO 2014 Workshop on Metaheuristic Design Patterns (MetaDeeP)
- CALL FOR PAPERS - CALL FOR PAPERS -
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FIRST ANNUAL WORKSHOP ON METAHEURISTIC DESIGN PATTERNS (MetaDeeP-2014)
to be held as part of the 2014 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO-2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 12-16, 2014
Organized by ACM SIGEVO http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2014/
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 28th, 2014
Workshop URL:
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jsw/metaheuristic-design-patterns/MDPWorkshop2014.htm
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You've (presumably) received this email because you're interested in EC
and/or metaheuristics in general:
* Do you have an idea about how metaheuristics could be better
hybridized or generated?
* Have you observed some commonality (e.g. across frameworks or
methodologies) that is not yet widely recognized?
* Are you frustrated when researchers don't follow best practices that
are well-understood in your field?
If so, then you should attend MetaDeeP 2014 – the first Workshop on
Metaheuristic Design Patterns.
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Why Design Patterns?
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Over the last 20 years, Evolutionary Computation (and meta- and hyper-
heuristics in general) has flourished, spawning an enormous variety of
algorithms, operators and representations.The history of science and
mathematics demonstrates that such proliferation is inevitable in a
growing field, but that in order to progress non-incrementally it is
periodically necessary to obtain a unifying perspective.
Existing EC/metaheuristic frameworks provide a certain level of
abstraction, but these are not generally sufficient to capture
higher-level or cross-cutting concerns such as the automatic design of
metaheuristics "in the large" (c.f. Dijkstra on software componentization).
The "Design Patterns" revolution in 1994 was successful in addressing
analogous issues in the software industry. The default level of
discourse among practitioners was consequently significantly increased,
and today "factory method" or "chain of responsibility" are software
engineers' lingua franca, immensely facilitating communication and
design of software systems.
The workshop organizers strongly believe that the EC/metaheuristics
community needs and deserves a corresponding breakthrough. The domain of
metaheuristics has good mathematical and conceptual foundations, so
nothing precludes the creation of a coherent and useful set of concepts
to help move metaheuristics up an abstraction level. For instance,
hyper-heuristics can be considered as the well-known composite pattern
as applied to metaheuristics. Framing recurring methodological and
algorithmic themes in terms of such Metaheuristic Design Patterns (MDP)
has been advocated in a recent lecture [1] and several papers [2,3];
similar desires have also been expressed elsewhere [4].
This workshop provides a forum for those interested in contributing to
the MDP vision and/or willing to demonstrate its usefulness in practical
and theoretical studies.
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Topics and Themes
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The workshop welcomes original submissions on all applications of design
patterns to metaheuristics, which include (but are not limited to) the
following topics and themes:
- Applications of existing design patterns (e.g. from [5]) to
metaheuristics. Some examples are given in [1,4] and on the Workshop
website.
- New metaheuristic design patterns: algorithms and methodologies that
might be expected to be widely applicable but which have not yet been
documented at the appropriate level of abstraction.
- Automation of metaheuristic design via patterns. There is a wealth of
pattern literature in the (Search-Based) Software Engineering community
related to software automation. Much of this is directly applicable to
metaheuristic design.
- Pattern languages for metaheuristics. See [4] for the definitive example.
Further details (and examples) are available at the Workshop website:
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jsw/metaheuristic-design-patterns/MDPWorkshop2014.htm
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References
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[1] Jerry Swan. Metaheuristic Design Patterns. Available at
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jsw/.
[2] Krzysztof Krawiec and Jerry Swan, Pattern-guided Genetic
Programming. GECCO 2013.
[3] John R. Woodward and Jerry Swan, The automatic generation of
mutation operators for Genetic Algorithms, GECCO 2012.
[4] Natalio Krasnogor. Handbook of Natural Computation, chapter "Memetic
Algorithms". Natural Computing. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009.
[5] Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides. Design
Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley
Boston, USA. 1995.
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Paper Submission
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Submitted papers should follow the ACM format, and should be between 2
and 4 pages in length.
Please see "GECCO 2014 information for authors" for further details.
However, note that the review process of the workshop is not
double-blind and hence, authors' information should appear in the paper.
All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop and appear in the
GECCO workshop volume.
Proceedings of the workshop will be published on CD-ROM, and distributed
at the conference.
Papers should be submitted by 28 March, 2014 in PDF format to:
[jerry.swan -at- cs.stir.ac.uk]
containing the subject line "Metaheuristic Design Patterns Workshop".
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Important Dates
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* Paper submission deadline: 28 March, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2014
* Camera-Ready Accepted Papers Due: April 25, 2014
* GECCO-2014: July 12-16, 2014
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Workshop Chairs
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Jerry Swan - University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
jsw –at- cs.stir.ac.uk
John Clark - University of York, United Kingdom.
john.clark -at- cs.york.ac.uk
Krzysztof Krawiec - Poznan University of Technology, Poland.
krawiec –at- cs.put.poznan.pl
Chris Simons - University of the West of England, United Kingdom.
chris.simons -at- uwe.ac.uk
John Woodward - University of Stirling, United Kingdom.
jrw –at- cs.stir.ac.uk
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The traditional apologies are made in the event of cross-posting.
For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jsw/metaheuristic-design-patterns/MDPWorkshop2014.htm
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GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).
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[DMANET] PhD studentship at University of Strathclyde, Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Management Science
A cross-faculty PhD studentship is available at University of Strathclyde (Departments of Mathematics & Statistics and Management Science), funded through the Capita/University of Strathclyde Strategic Partnership.
PROJECT TITLE: Network Science, Optimization and Data Fusion in a Smart City
START DATE: Oct 2014
CO-SUPERVISORS
Kerem Akartunali (Management Science) kerem.akartunali@strath.ac.uk
Des Higham (Mathematics & Statistics) d.j.higham@strath.ac.uk
ELIGIBILITY
Sufficient funding is available to cover 3 years of tuition fees for a UK/EU student only, plus a standard stipend. This PhD project requires a highly numerate graduate with skills and interests in computational science.
TOPICS AND AIM OF THE PROJECT
There is a compelling case for training graduates in the mathematical sciences to play a leading role in data-rich applications. Going beyond the fundamental issues of storing, sharing, curating and securing data, mathematicians and operational researchers develop models and algorithms that deliver actionable insights.
This project will drive a new collaboration across the Strathclyde Business School and the Faculty of Science, by combining mathematical ideas from three very active, hot-topic areas
. Network Science: studying not only the individual elements in a system, but also the complex, emergent behaviour that arises when these elements combine,
. Optimization: developing computational strategies for discovering optimal solutions to quantifiable problems, notably on very large data sets, where High Performance Computing is necessary,
. Data Fusion: where heterogeneous sources of data are combined in order to add value, with the relative "influence" and "distinctness" of each data set simultaneously quantified.
The project will be application-driven, with close involvement of Strathclyde's new Institute for Future Cities (http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/cities/). The Institute is designed to work in partnership - integrating and catalysing expertise and research from multiple disciplines within Strathclyde and other academic, government and commercial organisations.
The project will meet the Institute's aim to tackle the large, complex and difficult issues and opportunities for cities. In order to maximise impact, the precise details will be fleshed out in collaboration with the key data generators and users; notably Glasgow City Council, who administer the £24 Million TSB-funded Smart City Demonstrator award, which is at the heart of the City Observatory, to be housed in Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre. The essence of this project is to develop new, customized Big Data and High Performance Computing algorithms that can be stress-tested and validated on data from the Observatory. A typical case study for the algorithms would be in combining data sources from the observatory sensors to monitor and predict energy levels across the city, including the new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems, with a view to allowing energy storage when demand is low for use during times of higher activity. This has the potential to cut people's fuel bills, help the city in its fight against fuel poverty and give Glaswegians access to affordable warmth.
HOW TO APPLY
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PROJECT TITLE: Network Science, Optimization and Data Fusion in a Smart City
START DATE: Oct 2014
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Des Higham (Mathematics & Statistics) d.j.higham@strath.ac.uk
ELIGIBILITY
Sufficient funding is available to cover 3 years of tuition fees for a UK/EU student only, plus a standard stipend. This PhD project requires a highly numerate graduate with skills and interests in computational science.
TOPICS AND AIM OF THE PROJECT
There is a compelling case for training graduates in the mathematical sciences to play a leading role in data-rich applications. Going beyond the fundamental issues of storing, sharing, curating and securing data, mathematicians and operational researchers develop models and algorithms that deliver actionable insights.
This project will drive a new collaboration across the Strathclyde Business School and the Faculty of Science, by combining mathematical ideas from three very active, hot-topic areas
. Network Science: studying not only the individual elements in a system, but also the complex, emergent behaviour that arises when these elements combine,
. Optimization: developing computational strategies for discovering optimal solutions to quantifiable problems, notably on very large data sets, where High Performance Computing is necessary,
. Data Fusion: where heterogeneous sources of data are combined in order to add value, with the relative "influence" and "distinctness" of each data set simultaneously quantified.
The project will be application-driven, with close involvement of Strathclyde's new Institute for Future Cities (http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/cities/). The Institute is designed to work in partnership - integrating and catalysing expertise and research from multiple disciplines within Strathclyde and other academic, government and commercial organisations.
The project will meet the Institute's aim to tackle the large, complex and difficult issues and opportunities for cities. In order to maximise impact, the precise details will be fleshed out in collaboration with the key data generators and users; notably Glasgow City Council, who administer the £24 Million TSB-funded Smart City Demonstrator award, which is at the heart of the City Observatory, to be housed in Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre. The essence of this project is to develop new, customized Big Data and High Performance Computing algorithms that can be stress-tested and validated on data from the Observatory. A typical case study for the algorithms would be in combining data sources from the observatory sensors to monitor and predict energy levels across the city, including the new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems, with a view to allowing energy storage when demand is low for use during times of higher activity. This has the potential to cut people's fuel bills, help the city in its fight against fuel poverty and give Glaswegians access to affordable warmth.
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[DMANET] AFL 2014: Call for Papers
2nd Call for Papers
Automata and Formal Languages, AFL2014
14th International Conference
Szeged, May 27--29, 2014.
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/afl2014
*Topics*
The AFL series, initiated by the late Professor Istv\'an
Pe\'ak in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences
cover all aspects of automata and formal languages,
including theory and applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees,
graphs, arrays, etc., algebraic theories for automata and
languages, combinatorial properties of words and languages,
formal power series, decision problems, efficient algorithms
for automata and languages, relations to complexity theory
and logic, picture description and analysis, quantum
computing, cryptography, concurrency, applications of
automata and language theory in biology, natural language
processing, and other fields.
The scientific program will consist of invited lectures
and contributed presentations selected by the international
program committee.
*Invited Speakers*
Arnaud Carayol (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Markus Holzer (Giessen)
Christof L\"oding (Aachen)
Sebastian Maneth (Edinburgh)
*Program Committee*
Marie-Pierre B\'eal (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u (Budapest)
J\"urgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
P\'al D\"om\"osi (Debrecen, Ny\'\i regyh\'aza)
Frank Drewes (Umea)
Zolt\'an \'Esik (Szeged, chair)
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op (Szeged, co-chair)
Viliam Geffert (Kosice)
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Kamal Lodaya (Chennai)
Markus Lohrey (Siegen)
Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Friedrich Otto (Kassel)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan)
Libor Pol\'ak (Brno)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, ON, Canada)
Pedro V. Silva (Porto)
Gy\"orgy Vaszil (Debrecen)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)
*Important dates*
Paper submission deadline: *March 14, 2014.*
Author notification: *April 22, 2014.*
Camera-ready deadline: *May 5, 2014.*
Conference: *May 27--29, 2014.*
*Submission guidelines*
Submissions to AFL2014 must not exceed 15 pages
(in EPTCS style and including bibliography).
If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read
at the discretion of the program committee.
Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings or submitting
previously published papers is not allowed.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted.
Information about the submission procedure is
available on the conference web page.
The proceedings will be published in the EPTCS series.
A special issue of the
*International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science*
containing expanded versions of selected papers will
be published after the conference.
*Contact*
Zolt\'an \'Esik: ze@inf.u-szeged.hu
or
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op: fulop@inf.u-szeged.hu
The conference is organized by the Department of Foundations
of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.
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Automata and Formal Languages, AFL2014
14th International Conference
Szeged, May 27--29, 2014.
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/afl2014
*Topics*
The AFL series, initiated by the late Professor Istv\'an
Pe\'ak in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences
cover all aspects of automata and formal languages,
including theory and applications.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees,
graphs, arrays, etc., algebraic theories for automata and
languages, combinatorial properties of words and languages,
formal power series, decision problems, efficient algorithms
for automata and languages, relations to complexity theory
and logic, picture description and analysis, quantum
computing, cryptography, concurrency, applications of
automata and language theory in biology, natural language
processing, and other fields.
The scientific program will consist of invited lectures
and contributed presentations selected by the international
program committee.
*Invited Speakers*
Arnaud Carayol (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Markus Holzer (Giessen)
Christof L\"oding (Aachen)
Sebastian Maneth (Edinburgh)
*Program Committee*
Marie-Pierre B\'eal (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u (Budapest)
J\"urgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
P\'al D\"om\"osi (Debrecen, Ny\'\i regyh\'aza)
Frank Drewes (Umea)
Zolt\'an \'Esik (Szeged, chair)
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op (Szeged, co-chair)
Viliam Geffert (Kosice)
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Kamal Lodaya (Chennai)
Markus Lohrey (Siegen)
Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Friedrich Otto (Kassel)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan)
Libor Pol\'ak (Brno)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, ON, Canada)
Pedro V. Silva (Porto)
Gy\"orgy Vaszil (Debrecen)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)
*Important dates*
Paper submission deadline: *March 14, 2014.*
Author notification: *April 22, 2014.*
Camera-ready deadline: *May 5, 2014.*
Conference: *May 27--29, 2014.*
*Submission guidelines*
Submissions to AFL2014 must not exceed 15 pages
(in EPTCS style and including bibliography).
If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read
at the discretion of the program committee.
Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings or submitting
previously published papers is not allowed.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted.
Information about the submission procedure is
available on the conference web page.
The proceedings will be published in the EPTCS series.
A special issue of the
*International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science*
containing expanded versions of selected papers will
be published after the conference.
*Contact*
Zolt\'an \'Esik: ze@inf.u-szeged.hu
or
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op: fulop@inf.u-szeged.hu
The conference is organized by the Department of Foundations
of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.
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