Theory Announcements: March 2014

Monday, March 31, 2014

[DMANET] [SWANSITY 2014 - Self-Organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart City (SWANSIT] IEEE SWANSITY 2014: Deadline extended

SWANSITY 2014 Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY

-----In conjuction with IEEE-SECON 2014-------

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June 30th, 2014 Singapore

https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014

Important dates
Submission deadline: April 7th, 2014 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance:April 30th, 2014
Camera Ready: May 12th, 2014
Program: June 1st, 2014

*Scope*
The SWANSITY workshop aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms,
methodological studies and experimentations on how to make a city-wide
network infrastructure able to self-adapt to the dynamic requirements posed
by the users and by the applications, to manage the complexity of
heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust,
ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments. At the
same time, beside studying the issues of the city-wide infrastructure
deployment, the workshop aims to investigate the potential provided by the
end-users devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) when augmented with
self-organization capabilities, in order to turn them into active components
of the smart-city network, instead of mere connection end-points. Such a
potential includes the possibility to extend the network access in a
pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to favor the
emergence of "collectivity intelligence behaviors" through
collaboration and direct communication among devices.

In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics
of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
- Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city
- Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing wireless networks on
large-scale urban environments
- Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access
- Self-organizing and self-repairing wireless networks for disaster
recovery
- Dynamic resource allocation schemes for urban environments
- Evolutionary design of wireless network components and devices
- Enabling technologies and algorithms for self-configuring wireless nodes
- Self-organizing femtocell and cognitive radio networks
- Cooperative Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability
- Decision making strategies for software defined radio devices
- Emerging collective intelligence in self-organizing wireless networks
- Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless networks
- Bio-inspired models for self-organizing wireless networks
- Controlled mobility algorithms for self-placing wireless networks
- Self-organizing networks through Device-2-Device technology (D2D)
- Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing
- Security, Privacy and Trust issues in Self-organizing wireless networks

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the
deadline of 31 March 2014. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS.
All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed
pages in length, including figures.

Important dates & Information

Submission deadline: April 7th, 2014 (EXTENDED)
Format: All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6)
printed pages in length via edas http://edas.info/N16973
Notification of acceptance:April 30th, 2014
Camera Ready: May 2nd, 2014
Program: June 1st, 2014

For full details, please visit the following website:
https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014

TPC Co-Chairs
Gianluca ALOI, University of Calabria, Italy
Marco DI FELICE, Univesity of Bologna,Italy
Valeria LOSCRI', Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France
Pasquale PACE, University of Calabria, Italy
Giuseppe RUGGERI, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Steering Committee
Emanuele VITERBO, MONASH University
Giancarlo FORTINO, UNICAL- Italy

TPC Members
Luca Bedogni - University of Bologna, Italy
Kaushik Roy Chowdhury - Northeastern University, USA
Marcos Fagundes Caetano - University of Brasilia, Brasil
Claudia Campolo - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Yue Gao (Frank) - Queen Mary University of London, UK
Yi Hong - Monash University, Australia
Antonio Iera - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Won-Yeol Lee, - Korea Telecom
Wenfeng Li - Wuhan University of Technology, China
Antonio Liotta - Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands
Karnouskos Stamatis - SAP, Germany
Petri Mahonen - RWTH Aachen University, German
Pietro Manzoni - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Pedro Jose Marron - University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Nathalie Mitton - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Antonella Molinaro - University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
Enrico Natalizio - Compiegne Technology University, France
Sotiris Nikoletseas - University of Patras and CTI, Greece
Tahiry Razafindralambo - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Anna Maria Vegni - University of Roma Tre, Italy
Mengchu Zhou - New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, USA.
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Valeria Loscri
Research Scientist FUN Team

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

www.inria.fr

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[DMANET] SSTiC 2014: April 12, 5th registration deadline

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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

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

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--- April 12, 5th registration deadline ---

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AIM:

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

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

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

ADDRESSED TO:

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

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

REGIME:

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

VENUE:

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

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

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

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

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

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

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

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

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

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

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

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

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits

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

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

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

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

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

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

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

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

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

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

FEES:

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

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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

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Saturday, March 29, 2014

[DMANET] (last two days) SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY >>>>> In conjuction with SECON 2014 <<<<<

CFP: SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY

(In conjunction with SECON 2014)

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30 June 2014, Singapore

< https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014 >
https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014

Important dates

Submission deadline: March 31st, 2014

Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2014

Camera Ready: May 12th, 2014

Program: June 1st, 2014

Accepted paper will be published in IEEE Xplore

Proceedings will be submitted for indexing by SCOPUS

Scope

The SWANSITY workshop aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms,
methodological studies and experimentations on how to make a city-wide
network infrastructure able to self-adapt to the dynamic requirements posed
by the users and by the applications, to manage the complexity of
heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust,
ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments. At the
same time, beside studying the issues of the city-wide infrastructure
deployment, the workshop aims to investigate the potential provided by the
end-users devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets) when augmented with
self-organization capabilities, in order to turn them into active components
of the smart-city network, instead of mere connection end-points. Such a
potential includes the possibility to extend the network access in a
pervasive way, to provide ubiquitous computing services, and to favor the
emergence of "collectivity intelligence behaviors" through collaboration and
direct communication among devices.

In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics
of interest including, but not limited to, the following:

• Models of network components' interactions on a
smart-city

• Techniques and tools for modeling self-organizing
wireless networks on large-scale urban environments

• Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban
access

• Self-organizing and self-repairing wireless networks for
disaster recovery

• Dynamic resource allocation schemes for urban
environments

• Evolutionary design of wireless network components and
devices

• Enabling technologies and algorithms for self-configuring
wireless nodes

• Self-organizing femtocell and cognitive radio networks

• Cooperative Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks
Interoperability

• Decision making strategies for software defined radio
devices

• Emerging collective intelligence in self-organizing
wireless networks

• Network virtualization for heterogeneous wireless
networks

• Bio-inspired models for self-organizing wireless networks

• Controlled mobility algorithms for self-placing wireless
networks

• Self-organizing networks through Device-2-Device
technology (D2D)

• Business model to promote users collaboration and
resources sharing

• Security, Privacy and Trust issues in Self-organizing
wireless networks

Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the
deadline of 31 March 2014. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS. All
submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages
in length, including figures.

Important dates & Information

Submission deadline: March 31st, 2014

Format: All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6)
printed pages in length via edas < http://edas.info/N16973 >
http://edas.info/N16973

Notification of acceptance:April 30th, 2014

Camera Ready: May 12th, 2014

Program: June 1st, 2014

For full details, please visit the following website:
< https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014 >
https://sites.google.com/site/swansity2014

TPC Co-Chairs

Gianluca ALOI, University of Calabria, Italy

Marco DI FELICE, Univesity of Bologna,Italy

Valeria LOSCRI', Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France

Pasquale PACE, University of Calabria, Italy

Giuseppe RUGGERI, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Steering Committee

Emanuele VITERBO, MONASH University

Giancarlo FORTINO, UNICAL- Italy

TPC Members

Luca Bedogni - University of Bologna, Italy

Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA

Marcos Fagundes Caetano - University of Brasilia, Brasil

Claudia Campolo, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Yue Gao (Frank), Queen Mary University of London, UK

Yi Hong, Monash University, Australia

Antonio Iera, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Won-Yeol Lee, - Korea Telecom

Wenfeng Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China

Antonio Liotta, TU/e, Netherlands

Karnouskos Stamatis, SAP, Germany

Petri Mähönen - RWTH Aachen University, German

Pietro Manzoni, UPV -Valencia, Spain

Pedro Jose Marron, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France

Antonella Molinaro, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Enrico Natalizio, Compiegne,Technology, University, France

Sotiris Nikoletseas - University of Patras and CTI, Greece

Tahiry Razafindralambo, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France

Anna Maria Vegni, University of Roma Tre, Italy

Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Valeria Loscri
Research Scientist FUN Team

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

www.inria.fr

Friday, March 28, 2014

[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.

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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Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
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[DMANET] Tenure-Track Position at U. of Sao Paulo

University of São Paulo
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
Department of Computer Science
Tenure-Track Positions
Assistant Professor
Application Dealine: April 14th 2014

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

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

We expect candidates with strong potential for research and teaching
abilities. The candidates should have a PhD in Computer Science or a
related area. The selected candidate will be responsible for doing
research and for teaching graduate and udergraduate courses provided
by the department. Deadlines and documents required for the
application are specified at www.ime.usp.br/dcc/faculty_position .
The documents and selection interview may be either in Portuguese or
English.

The University of São Paulo (USP) is one of the most prestigious
educational institution in South America. It is the best ranked
Brazilian university. The Department of Computer Science of
IME-USP is responsible for the BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Computer
Science, offering some of the most competitive courses in Brazil.

More information: http://www.ime.usp.br/dcc

Contact: mac@ime.usp.br

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[DMANET] CfP: NoSQL Databases and Linked Data Applications

[Apologies for crossposting]

Call for industrial and research papers for the 1st International Workshop
on NoSQL Databases and Linked Data Applications (part of DEXA 2014 in
Munich).

For industrial papers: We are looking for experience reports on NoSQL
databases and linked open data in industrial applications and production
environments.

For research papers: This workshop is intended to be a meeting point for
the research communities of NoSQL data management and Linked Data. It aims
to instigate discussion and new collaboration between researchers of the
two communities.

Submission deadline for full papers: April 10, 2014.
Workshop date: September 1 or 2, 2014.

More information:
http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/NoSQL-Net2014/cfp.html

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Dr. Lena Wiese
Institute of Computer Science, University of Goettingen
Goldschmidtstrasse 7, 37077 Goettingen, Germany
http://wiese.free.fr

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Thursday, March 27, 2014

[DMANET] ReSA4CI 2014 - Call for Paper

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CALL FOR PAPERS

1st International Workshop on Reliability and Security Aspects for Critical Infrastructure Protection ReSA4CI 2014
co-located with SAFECOMP 2014
September 9th, 2014, Florence, Italy
http://www.safecomp2014.unifi.it/resa4ci/
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Scope
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This workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers and engineers in academia and industry to foster an exchange of research results, experiences, and products in the area of reliable, dependable and secure computing for critical systems protection from both a theoretical and practical perspective. Its ultimate goal is to envision new trends and ideas about aspects of designing, implementing, and evaluating reliable and secure solutions for the next generation critical infrastructures. Critical Infrastructures present several challenges in the fields of distributed systems, dependability and security methods and approaches crucial for improving trustworthiness on ICT facilities. The workshop aims at presenting the advancement on the state of art in these fields and spreading their adoption in several scenarios involving main infrastructures for modern society.

Topics of interest are (but not limited to):
• Model-based and experimental assessment of safety, reliability and security
• Security & Privacy
• Quantitative analysis of dependability and security metrics
• Risk Assessment and Management
• Fault tolerant and Dependable Distributed Algorithm
• Threat Analysis
• Monitoring systems
• Adaptive solutions for secure and safe systems
• Self-* solutions

Domains of application are (but not limited to):
• Critical infrastructure, Smart Grid, and SCADA systems
• Medical device and healthcare
• Telecommunication and networks
• Railways, automotive, aerospace, and avionics
• Defence, cyber intelligence

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General Chair
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Silvia Bonomi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Ilaria Matteucci, IIT-CNR, Italy

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Program Committee
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Valentina Bonfiglio, University of Florence, Italy
Silvia Bonomi, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy (co-chair)
Felicita Di Giandomenico, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Karama Kanoun, LAAS, France
Ilaria Matteucci, IIT-CNR, Italy (co-chair)
Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France
Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, Sweden
Federica Paci, University of Trento, Italy
Marta Patino Martinez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Marinella Petrocchi, IIT-CNR, Italy
Maria Gradinariu Potop-Butucaru, UPMC Paris 6, France
Sara Tucci Piergiovanni, CEA, France

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Important dates
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Submission deadline: May 20, 2014
Acceptance notification: June 20, 2014
Camera-ready copy due: July 1, 2014

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Submission
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Submitted papers must be written in English and each papers must contain results that have not previously appeared and have not been concurrently submitted to a journal or conference with published proceedings.
In all cases, any partial overlap with any published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated.
Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the LNCS format. Additional details maybe included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of
the PC. The papers must be submitted electronically following the instructions at http://www.safecomp2014.unifi.it/resa4ci/.

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Publication
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The selection of contributions to be presented at the conference and published in the proceedings will be based on peer-review by the Programm Committee.
Accepted paper will be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series jointly with the SAFECOMP 2014 proceedings.
It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the workshop by one of its authors.
Authors of accepted papers are required to submit the final, camera-ready versions of their papers (in LNCS format), including
an electronic version as specified in the authors' instructions.

Silvia Bonomi
Fixed Term Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti"
Via Ariosto 25 (1st floor, room B109)
I-00185 Roma, Italy

e-mail: bonomi@dis.uniroma1.it
tel. : +39 0677274017
fax : +39 0677274002

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The final deadline for submitting to the 7th workshop on Numerical Software Verification is *March, 30th*

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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** NSV 2014 **
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7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification

July 17-18, 2014

A Sattelite Workshop of Vienna Summer of Logic 2014
Vienna, Austria

Web Page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bouissou/NSV14

Important Dates
===============
Submissions deadline: March 30th 2014.
Notification: May 4th 2014.
Final version: May 25th 2014.
Workshop: July 17th-18th 2014.

Novelty of this edition
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The 2014 edition of NSV will be published electronically by Elsevier
in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Serie (ENTCS).

In this new NSV edition, we encourage publications about the numerical
issues in new domains, in particular computational finance and
biological systems: problems, consequences and state-of-the-art
approaches.

Description of the Workshop
===========================
Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision,
prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical
calculus to achieve desired goals. Verification of numerical
algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from
the rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and
validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to
precisely represent local behaviors of each component. In fact, in
numerical algorithms, coarse abstractions are unlikely to succeed
essentially because of the above mentioned issue. The implementation
of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of
approximation: the use of finite representations of infinite
precision numbers usually lack basic arithmetic properties such
as commutativity and associativity. It is hence imperative to develop
logical and mathematical techniques that would allow reasoning about
programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the
current development and the future prospects for such techniques.

Topics
===============
The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the
following topics:
- Models and abstraction techniques
- Specifications of correctness for numerical programs
- Formal specification and verification of numerical programs
- Quality of finite precision implementations
- Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models
- Numerical properties of control software
- Hybrid systems verification
- Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications
- Validation for scientific computing programs
- Optimality of program behavior
- Trade-offs between quality of service and resource (for example
energy) consumption in programs
- Benchmarks and tools for numerical software verification
- Numerical issues in computational finance

Submission information
======================
We solicit regular and short papers.
Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2014

Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented
in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged
on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and
clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and
why it is significant.

Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style,
including bibliography and well-marked appendices:
http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html
Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and
thus papers must be intelligible without them.

Short papers are also welcomed, they should present tools, benchmarks,
case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short
papers should not exceed 6 pages.

Regular papers will be published electronically by Elsevier in the
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science serie ENTCS), all
accepted (regular and short) papers will also be included in the
Vienna Summer of Logic USB-stick distributed to all participants to the VSL.

Confirmed Invited Speakers
===========================
* Jean-Michel Muller, LIP, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
* Sumit Kumar Jha, University of Central Florida, Orlando

Organizers
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Olivier Bouissou, CEA, LIST
Khalil Ghorbal, Carnegie Mellon University

All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via email:
nsv2014@easychair.org

Program Committee
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- Sylvie Boldo Inria
- Olivier Bouissou CEA, LIST
- Jyotirmoy Deshmukh Toyota Technical Center
- Khalil Ghorbal Carnegie Mellon University
- Eric Goubault CEA, LIST
- Sylvie Putot CEA, LIST
- Sriram Sankaranarayanan Boulder University
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[DMANET] ISAAC 2014 : 1st Call for Papers

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The 25th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
(ISAAC 2014)

December 15-17, 2014

Jeonju, Korea

http://tcs.postech.ac.kr/isaac2014/
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The 25th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2014)
will be held in Jeonju, Korea during December 15-17, 2014. The symposium is
intended to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory
of computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms
and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are
also welcomed.

INVITED SPEAKERS
* Ulrik Brandes (University of Konstanz)
* Giuseppe F. Italiano (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata")

IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission deadline: June 16, 2014 (23:59 Honolulu Time)
* Notification date: August 29, 2014
* Final version due: September 19, 2014

PUBLICATIONS
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica and
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques,
and results, including motivation and a comparison with related work.
The main text, including title, abstract, and references, should not exceed
11 pages in LNCS style. An optional appendix should be used to provide proof
details that do not fit in the main text. Submitted papers must describe
unpublished work.
Authors should not submit papers with the same results or essentially
the same results that are accepted or published or under review by a
conference with refereed proceedings or a journal.
Only electronic submission will be allowed and only pdf files will be accepted.

It will be done via Easychair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2014

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at
the conference as a registered participant.

AWARDS
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper may be awarded. A paper is eligible for
the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students at the time
of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the phrase
"Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in the abstract.

CONFERENCE CHAIR
* Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
* Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
* Chan-Su Shin, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Peter Brass (City College of New York, USA)
* Gerth St\olting Brodal (Madalgo, Denmark)
* Xavier Goaoc (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France)
* Simon Gog (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Mordecai Golin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
* Roberto Grossi (Pisa, Italy)
* Sungjin Im (UC Merced, USA)
* Rahul Jain (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Akinori Kawachi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
* Christian Knauer (Bayreuth University, Germany)
* Pinyan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
* Kazuhisa Makino (RIMS, Japan)
* Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* Wolfgang Mulzer (FU Berlin, Germany)
* Joong Chae Na (Sejong University, Korea)
* Saket Saurabh (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
* Srinivasa Rao Satti (SNU, Korea)
* Tetsuo Shibuya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Michiel Smid (Carleton University, Canada)
* Hisao Tamaki (Meiji University, Japan)
* Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
* Alexander Wolff (Universit\"{a}t W\"{u}rzburg, Germany)
* Bang Ye Wu (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
* Chee Yap (New York University, USA)
* Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
* Xiao Zhou (Tohoku University, Japan)
* Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
* Peng Zhang (Shandong University, China)
* Binhai Zhu (Montana State University, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Hee-Kap Ahn (Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea)
* Sang Won Bae (Kyonggi University, Korea)
* Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Korea)
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

[DMANET] Postdoc position in theoretical computer science at University of Edinburgh

A postdoc position in theoretical computer science is available at the
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The position is funded
by the EPSRC Grant "Sublinear algorithms for approximating probability
distributions",
held by Ilias Diakonikolas.

The goal of the project is to advance a research program of developing
efficient algorithms
for estimating a wide range of natural and important classes of
probability distributions.

Candidates should have a strong background in theoretical computer
science, mathematics or statistics, and a strong publication record.
Candidates should also have a PhD, or be close to completion of a PhD.

The application deadline is April 18, 2014, and the application link is
here:

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=027849

Informal queries may be directed to Ilias Diakonikolas
at the e-mail address ilias.d@ed.ac.uk
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[DMANET] Last CFP: Parallel Optimization using high perforMance coMputing (As part of HPCS 2014)

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

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* Parallel Optimization using high perforMance 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 31, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters

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PURPOSE AND SCOPE
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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.

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The POMM Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
the following:
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- 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.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
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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.

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Proceedings
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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.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper Submissions: March 31, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014
- Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 06, 2014
- Conference Dates: July 21 - 25, 2014

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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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

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International Program Committee
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- Ahcène Bendjoudi, Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique
et Technique, Algeria
- Didier El Baz, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- Bertrand Le Cun, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La défense, France
- Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
- Malika Mehdi, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, 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
- Catherine Roucairol, Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La défense, France
- Valeria Ruggiero, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- El-Ghazali Talbi, Université de Lille1, France
- Daniel Tuyttens, University of Mons, Belgium
- Gaetano Zanghirati, University of Ferrara, Italy

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[DMANET] Train2Move positions at University of Turin

Train To Move (T2M) is a new transnational mobility fellowship programme promoted by the Università degli Studi di
Torino (UNITO) with the active support of the banking foundation Compagnia di San Paolo (CSP). T2M it is cofounded
within the FP7 People specific programme – Cofund Actions. Further details are available here:
- http://www.train2move.unito.it
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T2M provides incoming fellowships to researchers, who at the time of the call deadline, have up to 7 years since PhD
or have a track record in full time equivalent research activities of 4 - 10 years in the last ten years since MSc. Mobility
can be from EU Member or Associated Countries or from other Third Countries. Fellowships will last 24 months.
The total gross salary is 37500€. A contributions to research costs/year is fixed to 8000€.

T2M is open to researchers of any nationality, provided however that at time of the deadline for submission of proposals,
they must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Italy for more than 12 months in the 3
years immediately prior to the closing date for submitting proposals.

The Computer Science Department of the University of Turin is proud to offer its hospitality to the Train2Move programme
participants. The Department will host and support researchers presenting a proposal in the research areas listed here:
http://www.di.unito.it/train2move/

The deadline for this first call for applications is 5 May 2014 h. 12.00 (Italian time).

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Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino
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[DMANET] EngOpt 2014 - New Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31

Dear Colleague,

The 4th International Conference on Engineering Optimization abstract
submission deadline was extended to March 31.

You are invited to submit your abstract
http://www.dem.ist.utl.pt/engopt2014/index.php/paper-submission.

Main Conference Themes: Design Optimization, Multidisciplinary Optimization,
Structural Optimization, Optimization in Identification and Inverse
Problems, Numerical Optimization Techniques, Efficient Analysis and
Reanalysis Techniques, Sensitivity Analysis, Applications in Engineering,
Material Science and Biomedical Science, Industrial Applications.

The conference proceedings will be published by the Taylor & Francis Group
(CRC/Balkema) and indexed in SCOPUS.

For more details and up-to-date information about this scientific meeting
please visit http://www.dem.ist.utl.pt/engopt2014.

We look forward to welcome you in Lisboa in September 8-11, 2014.

Yours Truly

Helder Rodrigues, Jose Herskovits, Cristovao Mota Soares

EngOpt2014 Chairmen

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EngOpt2014 Secretariat:

CPM - Centre for Mechanical Design

Instituto Superior Técnico

Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

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[DMANET] PST 2014 - deadlline extented to April 7, 2014, 12th Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) Annual Conference, IEEE Xplore proceedings

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Call for Papers

Twelfth annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2014)
Toronto, Canada, July 23 - 24 2014
http://pst2014.ryerson.ca/

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 7, 2014 (11:59 PM EDT) ***

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The PST2014 Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) is
being held in Toronto, Canada, July 23-24, 2014. PST2014 is the twelfth
such annual conference focusing on PST technologies. PST2014 provides a
forum for researchers world-wide to unveil their latest work in privacy,
security and trust and to show how this research can be used to enable
innovation.

PST2014 topics include, but are NOT limited to, the following:

- Privacy Preserving / Enhancing Technologies
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Network and Wireless Security
- Operating Systems Security
- Intrusion Detection Technologies
- Secure Software Development and Architecture
- PST Challenges in e-Services, e.g. e-Health, e-Government, e-Commerce
- Network Enabled Operations
- Digital forensics
- Information Filtering, Data Mining and Knowledge from Data
- National Security and Public Safety
- Cryptographic techniques for privacy preservation
- Security Metrics
- Recommendation, Reputation and Delivery Technologies
- Continuous Authentication
- Trust Technologies, Technologies for Building Trust in e-Business Strategy
- Observations of PST in Practice, Society, Policy and Legislation
- Digital Rights Management
- Identity and Trust management
- PST and Cloud Computing
- Human Computer Interaction and PST
- Implications of, and Technologies for, Lawful Surveillance
- Biometrics, National ID Cards, Identity Theft
- PST and Web Services/SOA
- Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity
- Trust and Reputation in Self-Organizing Environments
- Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability
- Access Control and Capability Delegation
- Representations and Formalizations of Trust in Electronic and Physical
Social Systems

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SUBMISSIONS
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High-quality papers in all PST related areas that, at the time of
submission, are not under review and have not already been published or
accepted for publications elsewhere are solicited. Accepted papers will
be accepted as 'regular' papers up to 8 pages, or 'short' papers of up
to 4 pages. Up to 2 additional pages will be allowed in each category
with over-length charges. Every additional page has a cost of $100. The
standard IEEE two-column conference format should be used for all
submissions. A copy of the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Microsoft Word
or LaTeX and additional information about paper submission and
conference topics and events can be found at the conference web site.
All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
by the IEEE Conference Publishing Services (CPS) and will be included in
the IEEE Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries.
These are also indexed through EI's Engineering Information Index,
Compendex, and ISI Thomson's Scientific and Technical Proceedings,
ISTP/ISI Proceedings, and Current Contents on Diskette.

Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be presented.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission Deadline: April 7, 2014 (11:59 PM EDT)
Notification of Acceptance: May 12, 2014
Final Manuscript Due: May 25, 2014
PST 2014: July 23-24, 2014

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FURTHER INFORMATION
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Additional information about paper submission and conference topics and
events can be found at the conference web site:

http://pst2014.ryerson.ca/

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[DMANET] WAOA 2014 - Call for papers

12th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms 2014

WAOA 2014 - Call for papers

http://algo2014.ii.uni.wroc.pl/waoa/

Scope

Algorithms have become a fundamental tool in several fields outside of Computer Science, and in several applications algorithms have to cope with computationally hard problems and problems in which the input is gradually disclosed over time. The workshop focuses on the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms. WAOA 2014 will be part of ALGO 2014, which also hosts ESA, ALGOSENSORS, ATMOS, IPEC, MASSIVE and WABI. ALGO 2014 will take place 8-12 September 2014 in Wrocław, Poland.

Invited Speaker

Aleksander Mądry, EPFL

Tutorial

Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA

Topics

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation and online algorithms, including, but not limited to:

• algorithmic game theory
• algorithmic trading
• coloring and partitioning
• competitive analysis
• computational advertising
• computational finance
• cuts and connectivity
• geometric problems
• graph algorithms
• inapproximability results
• mechanism design
• natural algorithms
• network design
• packing and covering
• paradigms for the design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms
• parameterized complexity
• real-world applications
• scheduling problems

Important dates

Deadline: June 20, 2014
Notification: July 27, 2014
Workshop: September 11-12th, 2014

Publication

Proceedings will be published after the workshop takes place in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Instructions for authors can be found at Springer web site.

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 12 pages describing original unpublished research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. The title page of the submission should include the authors' full names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and an abstract summarizing the results in roughly 100-200 words; the remainder of the submission should contain a description of the main results and an explanation of their importance. The submission must include a full proof of the results, part of which can be placed in the appendix, whose length is not constrained. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system.

The WAOA proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag.
Each accepted paper will be allotted 12 pages in the proceedings.

Program Committee

Evripidis Bampis, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, France, co-chair
Nikhil Bansal, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Ioannis Caragiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Marek Chrobak, University of California Riverside, USA
Alina R. Ene, Princeton University, USA
Moran Feldman, EPFL, Switzerland
Laurent Gourvès, CNRS, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Nguyen Kim Thang, Université d'Evry, France
Alejandro López-Ortiz, University of Waterloo, Canada
Giorgio Lucarelli, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC, France
Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Julian Mestre, The University of Sydney, Australia
Seffi Naor, Technion, Israel
Neil Olver, CWI & VU University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Thomas Rothvoss, University of Washington, USA
Laura Sanità, Univesity of Waterloo, Canada
Ola Svensson, EPFL, Switzerland, co-chair
José Verschae, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Andreas Wiese, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

[DMANET] IPEC 2014 - first call for papers

Call For Papers

IPEC 2014

The 9th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation
Wrocław, Poland, September 10-12, 2014
http://algo2014.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ipec

The 9th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation
(IPEC 2014) covers research in all aspects of parameterized/exact
algorithms and complexity. Papers presenting original research in the
area are sought, including but not limited to: new techniques for the
design and analysis of parameterized and exact algorithms,
fixed-parameter tractability results, parameterized complexity theory,
relationship between parameterized complexity and traditional
complexity classifications, applications of parameterized and exact
computation, and implementation issues of parameterized and exact
algorithms. In particular, studies on parameterized and exact
computations for real-world applications and algorithmic engineering
are especially encouraged.

IPEC 2014 will be part of ALGO 2014, which also hosts ESA 2014 and a
number of more specialized conferences and workshops. ALGO 2014 will
take place September 8-12, 2014, Wrocław, Poland

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in English no
longer than 12 pages (excluding references and appendices) using at
least 11-point font, in LNCS-style, describing original unpublished
research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published
proceedings is not permitted. Additional details as necessary may be
included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the
discretion of the program committee. Authors must submit their papers
electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission
process is available at the symposium website. Program committee
members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit papers.

Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the
Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors of accepted
papers are expected to present their work at the symposium, and to
incorporate the comments from the program committee.

The program committee may award an Excellent Student Paper Award to
one or more papers accepted to the symposium. A paper is eligible for
the award if all authors are students at the time of submission, where
a student is someone who has not been awarded a PhD before the paper
submission deadline.

Additionally this year there will be a poster session, hence authors
are also invited to submit their posters to IPEC 2014.

SPECIAL ISSUE OF ALGORITHMICA

Selected papers of IPEC 2014 will be invited for a special issue of
Algorithmica.

EATCS-IPEC NERODE PRIZE 2014

The 2014 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in the area of
multivariate algorithmics will be awarded during IPEC 2014 to Hans L.
Bodlaender, Rodney G. Downey, Michael R. Fellows, Lance Fortnow, Danny
Hermelin, and Rahul Santhanam. Hans L. Bodlaender will give an invited
talk at IPEC 2014.
http://eatcs.org/images/awards/nerode.pdf

INVITED TALK

Hans Bodlaender, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

INVITED TUTORIALS

Stefan Szeider, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission: June 19, 2014
Paper Submission: June 21, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: July 18, 2014
Poster submission: July 20, 2014
Symposium: September 10-12, 2014

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hans Bodlaender, Utrecht University
Marek Cygan (co-chair), University of Warsaw
Holger Dell, University of Paris Diderot
Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University
Pinar Heggernes (co-chair), University of Bergen
Marcin Kaminski, University of Warsaw
Petteri Kaski, Aalto University
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Japan National Institute of Informatics
Mike Langston, University of Tennessee
Jesper Nederlof, Maastricht University
Marcin Pilipczuk, University of Bergen
Saket Saurabh, Chennai Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Ildi Schlotter, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Jan Arne Telle, University of Bergen

[DMANET] DLT 2014 3rd CfP: Deadline Extension

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
Third Call for Papers -- DLT 2014

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SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED: MARCH 31, 2014 (STRICT)
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18th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
August 26-29, 2014
http://dlt2014.sciencesconf.org/
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The 18th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
(DLT 2014) will take place at Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg,
Russia, on August 26-29, 2014 under the auspices of the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
Arto Salomaa, the co-founder of the DLT series and one of the major
contributors to the area as a whole, celebrates his 80th birthday
in June 2014. DLT 2014 plans a special session in Arto's honor.
The opening lecture of the session surveying Arto's achievements
will be delivered by Juhani Karhumaki (University of Turku, Finland).

TOPICS
Typical topics include, but are not limited to, grammars, acceptors and
transducers for words, trees and graphs, algebraic theories of automata;
algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages;
variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes
and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation
and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography,
concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum
computing.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: *******March 31st, 2014******* (Extended deadline, STRICT)
Notification: April 28th, 2014
Final version: May 12th, 2014
Conference: August 26-29, 2014

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals
or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style
LaTeX2e (available athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All
proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or
made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic
preprint. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the
EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt20140

INVITED SPEAKERS
Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
Martin Kutrib (Universitat Giessen, Germany)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
Pascal Weil (Universite Bordeaux I, France)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jorge Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marie-Pierre Beal, Universite Paris-Est, France
Olivier Carton, Universite Paris Diderot, France
Vesa Halava, University of Turku, Finland
Yo-Sub Han Yonsei University, Korea
Oscar Ibarra University of California Santa Barbara, USA,
Markus Lohrey, Universit"at Siegen, Germany
Dirk Nowotka, Universit"at Kiel, Germany
Giovanni Pighizzini, UniversitР° degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool, UK
Elena Pribavkina, Ural Federal University, Russia
Michel Rigo, Universite de Liege, Belgium
Marinella Sciortino, UniversitР° degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo, Canada
Arseny Shur (co-chair), Ural Federal University, Russia
Mikhail Volkov (co-chair), Ural Federal University, Russia
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

SATELLITE EVENT
CSEDays. Theory 2014: Computer Science Days in Ekaterinburg

This is a summer school for advanced graduate and PhD students in
mathematics, computer science and software ingeneering, as well as young
researchers and developers from industry. The main objective of the
CSEdays is to expose the students in computer science and related
disciplines to the research topics usually not covered within the regular
university curricula.
The topic of the 2014's edition is "Strings, Languages, and Automata".

INVITED LECTURERS:
Mario Guarracino (High Perfomance Computing and Networking Institute, Italy)
Gregory Kucherov (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart)
Narad Rampersad (University of Winnipeg, Canada)

Further information about the school is on the website http://www.csedays.ru/

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Web: http://dlt2014.sciencesconf.org/
E-mail: dlt2014@sciencesconf.org

[DMANET] Final call for participation: LOT - In memory of Professor Arne Løkketangen

Final call for participation

LOT - Logistics, Optimization, and Transportation
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Molde University College, Molde, Norway
September 1.-2., 2014

LOT is a special EU/MEeting in memory of Professor Arne Løkketangen.

The meeting is open to contributions on both methodological advances and real-world applications within logistics and transportation. Participation is based on submitting a short abstract, limited to 200 words. A list of relevant topics for LOT includes, but is not limited to:

- TSP and all variants
- VRP and all variants
- Combining inventory and transportation
- Multi-modal transportation
- Combining manufacturing and transportation
- Transportation Choice Modeling
- Stochastic Programming
- Meta-heuristics
- Matheuristics
- Exact Methods

Invited speakers:
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Professor Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada,
Professor Odd I. Larsen, Molde University College, Molde, Norway,
Professor Stefan Voss, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Important dates:
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Submission of abstract:               April 1, 2014
Notification of acceptance:       May 1, 2014
Early registration deadline:       June 15, 2014
Late registration deadline:        August 1, 2014
Get-together event:                     August 31, 2014
Conference dates:                         September 1-2, 2014

For submitting an abstract, please use the following address: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lot2014

A post conference special issue will appear in Annals of Operations Research, with full papers to be submitted before December 31. 2014. All papers submitted to the special issue will be rigorously refereed by experts selected by the editors.

Conference fees:
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The conference fee will be NOK 1500 for early registration, and NOK 2500 for late registration.
PhD students can register for free, with a confirmation letter from the supervisor or the institution.

Webpage:
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http://kursinfo.himolde.no/forskningsgrupper/optimering/LOT2014/index.htm

Organizing committee:
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Svein Bråthen
Arild Hoff
Halvard Arntzen
Johan Oppen
Urooj Pasha
Jianyong Jin
Jorge Oyola
Brice Assimizele

Scientific committee:
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Lars M. Hvattum
Marielle Christiansen
Odd I. Larsen
Arild Hoff
Geir Hasle
David L. Woodruff

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[DMANET] CFP: 25th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms

Call For Papers

25th International Workshop on Combinatorial
Algorithms
15--17 October 2014, Duluth, MN, USA

http://mcs.uwsuper.edu/iwoca2014
http://www.iwoca.org/

Scope:
The series of IWOCA conferences grew out of a
17-year history of AWOCA | Australasian Workshop
on Combinatorial Algorithms. Previous AWOCA and
IWOCA meetings have been held in Australia,
Indonesia, South Korea, Japan, Czech Republic,
Canada, India and France.

IWOCA 2014 continues the long and well-established
tradition of encouraging high-quality research in
theoretical computer science and bringing together
specialists and young researchers working in the
area. The scientic program will include invited
lectures covering the areas of main interest,
accepted contributed talks, posters, and a
problems session.

The topics of the workshop include (but are not
restricted to)
o Algorithms and Data Structures
o Applications (including Bioinformatics,
Networking, etc.)
o Combinatorial Enumeration
o Combinatorial Optimization
o Complexity Theory (Structural and Computational)
o Computational Biology
o Databases (Security, Compression and
Information Retrieval)
o Decompositions and Combinatorial Designs
o Discrete and Computational Geometry (including
Graph Drawing)
o Graph Theory and Combinatorics

Invited Speakers:
J. Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
P. Heggernes (University of Bergen)
S. Saurabh (University of Bergen)
X. Zhu (Zhejiang Normal University)

Proceedings:
The conference proceedings with invited papers and
accepted contributed papers
will be published after the conference as a volume
of the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer
Science.

Important Dates:
Paper submission 24 June 2014
Notication of acceptance 20 August 2014
Early Registration: 20 September 2014

Organizing Committee:
S. Bezrukov (Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior)
<sb@mcs.uwsuper.edu>
D. Froncek (Chair, Univ. of Minnesota Duluth)
<dfroncek@d.umn.edu>
X. Gu (Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior) <xgu@uwsuper.edu>
U. Leck (Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior)
<uleck@uwsuper.edu>
S. Rosenberg (Univ. of Wisconsin-Superior)
<SRosenbe@uwsuper.edu>

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Dalibor Froncek

Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Minnesota Duluth

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[DMANET] Postdoctoral research position in graph theory, Ryerson University

Postdoctoral research position, Ryerson University

Applications are invited for one postdoctoral fellow in Graph Theory in
the Department of Mathematics at Ryerson University
(http://math.ryerson.ca/) to begin on September 1, 2014. The research
will be led jointly by Drs. Anthony Bonato and Pawel Pralat. This
position provides an opportunity to engage in research in Mathematics,
with a limited amount of teaching, and is suited for talented
mathematicians who have recently completed their Ph.D. The salary is
competitive, with funding provided for a year and with potential for
renewal for a second year.

The applicant should have a PhD in Mathematics or Computer Science. The
ideal candidate would have expertise in one or more of the areas of
complex networks (such as the web graph or on-line social networks),
random graphs, or graph searching games (such as Cops and Robbers). The
position is open to candidates of any nationality and selection will be
based upon the candidate's research record and potential. Experience
with computer programming (such as C/C++, or Java) is a plus. As the
applicant will normally teach, some teaching experience is preferred.

Applicants should provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and at least
three letters of recommendation. At least one of these letters should
report on the candidate's teaching abilities.
Applicants should apply no later than April 21, 2014, and the position
will remain open until filled. Please note the position is advertised
pending budgetary approval.
Application material and reference letters will be submitted by e-mail
to pralat@ryerson.ca
We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants
under consideration will be contacted. Ryerson University is strongly
committed to fostering diversity within our community. We welcome those
who would contribute to the further diversification of our faculty and
its scholarship including, but not limited to, women, visible
minorities, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities, and persons of
any sexual orientation or gender identity.

Thank you,
-- Pawel Pralat
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http://www.math.ryerson.ca/~pralat/
Associate Chair for Research
Department of Mathematics
Ryerson University
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[DMANET] Post-doc positions in Copenhagen, Denmark

The Scalable Similarity Search (SSS) project led by Professor Rasmus Pagh is seeking 3 post-docs with a strong background in algorithms theory, combinatorics, or statistics. Positions are for 1-2 years, with starting date in late summer/early fall, 2014. The aim of the project is to improve theory and practice of algorithms for high-dimensional similarity search on big data, and to extend similarity search algorithms to work in settings where data is distributed (using a communication complexity perspective) or uncertain (using a statistical perspective). A post-doc position may include a long-term visit to a project partner (at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, or HKUST) if all parties find the visit beneficial.

For more info: http://www.itu.dk/people/pagh/SSS/
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Monday, March 24, 2014

[DMANET] SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers

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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING

SLSP 2014

Grenoble, France

October 14-16, 2014

Organised by:

Équipe GETALP
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble

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

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at
attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these
areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and
people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular
focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical
methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing.
The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and
Statistical Error Mining
Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look
Outside?
Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning: Hierarchical
Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
James Glass (Cambridge, US)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Gaël Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Björn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

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

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014

PUBLICATIONS:

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

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

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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

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Theory Announcements

Monday, March 31, 2014

[DMANET] [SWANSITY 2014 - Self-Organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart City (SWANSIT] IEEE SWANSITY 2014: Deadline extended

[DMANET] SSTiC 2014: April 12, 5th registration deadline

Saturday, March 29, 2014

[DMANET] (last two days) SWANSITY 2014- Self-organizing Wireless Access Networks for Smart cITY >>>>> In conjuction with SECON 2014 <<<<<

Friday, March 28, 2014

[DMANET] Metaheuristics for optimization problems

[DMANET] Tenure-Track Position at U. of Sao Paulo

[DMANET] CfP: NoSQL Databases and Linked Data Applications

Thursday, March 27, 2014

[DMANET] ReSA4CI 2014 - Call for Paper

[DMANET] Deadline Approaching: NSV 2014

[DMANET] ISAAC 2014 : 1st Call for Papers

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

[DMANET] Postdoc position in theoretical computer science at University of Edinburgh

[DMANET] Last CFP: Parallel Optimization using high perforMance coMputing (As part of HPCS 2014)

[DMANET] Train2Move positions at University of Turin

[DMANET] EngOpt 2014 - New Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31

[DMANET] PST 2014 - deadlline extented to April 7, 2014, 12th Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) Annual Conference, IEEE Xplore proceedings

[DMANET] WAOA 2014 - Call for papers

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

[DMANET] IPEC 2014 - first call for papers

[DMANET] DLT 2014 3rd CfP: Deadline Extension

[DMANET] Final call for participation: LOT - In memory of Professor Arne Løkketangen

[DMANET] CFP: 25th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms

[DMANET] Postdoctoral research position in graph theory, Ryerson University

[DMANET] Post-doc positions in Copenhagen, Denmark

Monday, March 24, 2014

[DMANET] SLSP 2014: 2nd call for papers

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