Saturday, December 31, 2016

[DMANET] PhD scholarships in Combinatorics at Birmingham

There are several PhD scholarships in Mathematics available at the University of Birmingham (UK). In particular, we are keen to attract strong PhD students in Combinatorics/Discrete Mathematics.

Information about the Combinatorics group at the University of Birmingham can be found at

http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/combinatorics/

Informal enquiries should be directed e.g. to Daniela Kuhn (d.kuhn@bham.ac.uk) or Deryk Osthus (d.osthus@bham.ac.uk)

In order to be considered for a PhD scholarship, candidates have to ensure that their online application is complete (i.e. both referee reports have been uploaded as well) by 20 February 2017. However, we strongly encourage applicants to apply as early as possible.

Information how to apply can be found at

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/mathematics/phd/phd.aspx

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Friday, December 30, 2016

[DMANET] ISNN2017 Final Call for Papers - International Symposium on Neural Networks, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

*Final Call for Pap**er**s*

http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/isnn/
<https://mail.udc.edu/owa/redir.aspx?REF=5c4-NeuwWnHHNuBcCRLv2Vvp9cLnUFU3ncUM024c7uzrQOvtIzHUCAFodHRwOi8vY29uZmVyZW5jZS5jcy5jaXR5dS5lZHUuaGsvaXNubi8.>

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*Updated news:*

Upon numerous requests, the submission deadline is postponed to January 10,
2017.

Post-symposium tutorial/workshop will be arranged in Hakodate/Muroran on
June 24-26, 2017.

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The 14th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2017) will be
held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan during June 21-23, 2017, following the
successes of previous events. Located in northern island of Hokkaido,
Sapporo is the fourth largest Japanese city and a popular summer/winter
tourist venue. ISNN 2017 aims to provide a high-level international forum
for scientists, engineers, and educators to present the state of the art of
neural network research and applications in related fields. The symposium
will feature plenary speeches given by world renowned scholars, regular
sessions with broad coverage, and special sessions focusing on popular
topics.

Authors are invited to submit full-length papers by the submission deadline
through the online submission system. The submission of a paper implies
that the paper is original and has not been submitted under review or is
not copyright-protected elsewhere and will be presented by an author if
accepted. All submitted papers will be refereed by experts in the field
based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality, and clarity.
Papers presented at ISNN 2017 will be published in the EI-indexed
proceedings in the Springer LNCS series and selected good papers will be
included in special issues of several SCI journals.

*Important Dates*

Extended Paper submission deadline: January 1, 2017 January 10, 2017

Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2017

Camera-ready copy and author registration: March 1, 2017

Conference: June 21-23, 2017

Post-symposium tutorial/workshop: June 24-26, 2017

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Preannouncement of 4th Swedish Summer School in Computer Science

This is a preannouncement that the Theoretical Computer Science Group
at KTH Royal Institute of Technology will again arrange the Swedish
Summer School in Computer Science (S3CS) during the latter half of
July next year.

The 4th edition of S3CS will focus on circuit complexity --- one of
the truly classic areas in theoretical computer science, which has
seen an exciting revival in the last few years. We are very happy to
announce that our speakers are two of the key players behind this
revival, namely Benjamin Rossman (http://www.math.toronto.edu/rossman/)
and Ryan Williams (http://web.stanford.edu/~rrwill/).

S3CS 2017 will again be held at the beautiful venue Djurönäset in the
Stockholm archipelago. A formal call for participation with more
detailed information will follow in early 2017, but for now you can
make note of the following timeline:
- Mid-March: Application deadline
- Mid-April: Notification
- Sun July 16: Arrival
- Mon July 17 -- Fri July 21: Lectures
- Sat July 22: Departure

With best regards,
Jakob Nordstrom

Jakob Nordström, Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/

[DMANET] Emploi de professeur à Paris 6 / Professor position at Paris 6

Pardon pour les envois multiples
Apologies for cross-posting

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/FIDIS/0751722P/FOPC_0751722P_4417.pdf

jpa


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Thursday, December 29, 2016

[DMANET] Research grant: New Optimization Models for Transportation

Research grant in "New Optimization Models for Transportation"

INESC TEC is accepting applications to award 1 Postdoctoral Grant in
project SMILES - Smart, Mobile, Intelligent and Large scale Sensing
and analytics.

Project overview: The goal is to provide simulation and optimization
models for transportation under new paradigms. Outputs of this project
should contribute to state-of-the-art mathematical models, reflecting
new specificities arising under this paradigm, as well as with off-
and on-line optimization algorithms to handle these problems.

Reference Monthly Value: €1495,00
Application Period: 2017-01-05 to 2017-01-20

For additional information on the project and project team please
check:
http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~jpp/Announcements/Smiles.html

Application guidelines are available at:
https://www.inesctec.pt/ip-en/work-with-us/bolsas-inescporto/AE2016-0387?set_language=en&cl=en

For additional information please contact
João Pedro Pedroso (University of Porto) - jpp [@] fc.up.pt
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

[Mycolleagues] Erice School on "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications"

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

School on "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications"
International School of Mathematics -- "Guido Stampacchia"
Centre "Ettore Majorana" for Scientific Culture
Erice, Sicily (Italy)
May 5--13, 2017
http://www.graphalgorithms.it

LECTURERS:
* Paolo Boldi, University of Milan, IT
* Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv University, IL
* Andrew V. Goldberg, Amazon.com Inc., US
* Giuseppe F. Italiano, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
* Jon Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
* Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, CA
* Piotr Sankowski, University of Warsaw, PL
* Martin Skutella, Technische Universität Berlin, DE
* Mariagrazia Speranza, Claudia Archetti, University of Brescia, IT
* Ola Svensson, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH
* Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University, US
* Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, IT

DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL:
Prof. Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno
Dr. Andrew V. Goldberg, Amazon.com Inc.
Prof. Giuseppe F. Italiano, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University

DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE:
Prof. Franco Giannessi

LOCATION:
Erice is among the oldest cities in Sicily. The town is placed on the
homonymous mount Eryx, religious center of the Elimi, which is famous
for its temple where the Phoenicians worshipped Astarte, the Greeks
Aphrodite and the Romans Venus. Throughout history Erice was contended
by many different populations, and each of them left a palpable sense
of history. Erice is nowadays an enchanting wonderfully preserved
Mediaeval town offering the most breathtaking views in Sicily.

APPLICATION:
Advanced undergraduates, MS and PhD students, and young scientists (35
or under) interested in graph algorithms are encouraged to apply.
Qualified candidates should complete their application on the School
Website (http://www.graphalgorithms.it) by February 28, 2017.
Application material includes a short CV and optional recommendation
letters. Space is limited. Acceptance notifications will be sent
around March 2017.

REGISTRATION:
The registration fee for the School is 900 Euro. It includes meals and
accommodation for 8 days, i.e., from May 5 (evening) to May 13
(morning).

FURTHER DETAILS:
More information is avalaible on the School Web Site
(http://www.graphalgorithms.it)

FOLLOW US ON:
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/EriceSchool/)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/EriceGraphs) @EriceGraphs

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Tuesday, December 27, 2016

[DMANET] 3rd Competition on the Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components

"3rd Competition on the Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"

Website: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/TTP2017Comp/ <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/TTP2017Comp/>
(contains links to code, instances, papers, ...)

Motivation

Real-world optimization problems often consist of several NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems that interact with each other. Such multi-component optimization problems are difficult to solve not only because of the contained hard optimization problems, but in particular, because of the interdependencies between the different components. Interdependence complicates a decision making by forcing each sub-problem to influence the quality and feasibility of solutions of the other sub-problems. This influence might be even stronger when one sub-problem changes the data used by another one through a solution construction process. Examples of multi-component problems are vehicle routing problems under loading constraints, the maximizing material utilization while respecting a production schedule, and the relocation of containers in a port while minimizing idle times of ships.

The goal of this competition is to provide a platform for researchers in computational intelligence working on multi-component optimization problems. The main focus of this competition is on the combination of TSP and Knapsack problems. However, we plan to extend this competition format to more complex combinations of problems (that have typically been dealt with individually in the past decades) in the upcoming years.

The set of benchmarks used in this competition follows the idea of the "Travelling Thief Problem" (Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Luigi Barone: The travelling thief problem: The first step in the transition from theoretical problems to realistic problems. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2013: 1037-1044, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6557681&tag=1 <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6557681&tag=1>). Euclidian 2D Traveling Salesperson instances are combined with 0-1-Knapsack instances in such a way that it reflects aspects of problems from the real-world; for example, the total weight of the items in the knapsack influences the travel speed of a traveller. This introduced interdependence sets our benchmarks apart from capacitated vehicle routing problem instances, where this interdependence does not exist. For technical details on how the benchmarks were created, please see the manual (http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/TTP2017Comp/2014gecco-ttp.pdf <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/TTP2017Comp/2014gecco-ttp.pdf>, identical to the GECCO 2014 article "A comprehensive benchmark set and heuristics for the traveling thief problem").

Some related work (including approximate approaches, instance analyses, and code) can be found at the University of Adelaide's TTP Project Page (http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/research/ttp.php <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/research/ttp.php>).

All 9720 instances are available for researchers to experiment with: http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014COMP_InstancesNew/ <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014COMP_InstancesNew/>. In order to encourage researchers during the weeks before the submission deadline, we invite you to submit solutions for the sample instances - the system to do this will be setup soon. If you are interested in an access ID, please contact Kelly (wanru.gao@adelaide.edu.au <mailto:wanru.gao@adelaide.edu.au>). These results will be displayed online (without a reference to the authors) and then will serve as performance indications for other researchers.

Tracks

Track 1: The original TTP formulation is used, as defined in the documents above.
Track 2: A relaxed TTP formulation is used, in which not all cities need to be visited, and more than one thief can be used (Shelvin Chand, Markus Wagner: Fast Heuristics for the Multiple Traveling Thieves Problem. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016).
In both tracks, the same 9720 instances will be used.
Individuals and teams can make one competition submission per track.

Evaluation

In contrast to previous years, we will not run the code, and we also do not impose any resource limits. The participants will send us the solutions (one solution per instance) in the pre-defined format. This relaxation has the advantage that researchers are no longer bounded by the established "10 minutes of 1 CPU core", opening up the research on multi-component problems to new approaches.

Prize

Markus Wagner provides AUD 1000 in cash. Additional sponsors are being sought right now.

Conference Participation

We encourage the entrants to write papers on their methods and to submit those to an relevant conference. Examples include, among other, CEC 2017, SEA 2017, GECCO 2017, ... (please do not submit the same research several times in parallel, of course)
While we do not require this, we strongly encourage the participants to register for a conference due to the advantages.

Important Dates

1 May 2017 (anywhere on Earth): submission deadline
Please contact us if you want to receive notifications via email.

The Competition Organizers wish you good luck and good health in 2017!

Wanru Gao, http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kelly/personalPage/index-kelly.html <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~kelly/personalPage/index-kelly.html>, wanru.gao@adelaide.edu.au <mailto:wanru.gao@adelaide.edu.au>
Sergey Polyakovskiy, http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~sergey <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~sergey>, sergey.polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au <mailto:sergey.polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au>
Markus Wagner, http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~markus <http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~markus>, markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au <mailto:markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au>
School of Computer Science
The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia
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8 Postdoc Stipends at Ume=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A5_?=University, Sweden

Umeå University, Sweden, announces 8 Postdoc stipends in autonomous systems, addressing a range of different fields, spanning from distributed systems and cloud management to human-robot interaction, digital companions, and the design of hydraulic cranes:

* Autonomous anomaly detection in future cloud computing infrastructures (PI: Erik Elmroth)

* Automation for heavy-duty mobile hydraulic cranes with applications in agriculture and forestry (PI: Leonid Freidovich)

* Verbal human-robot interaction (PI: Thomas Hellström)

* Socially intelligent autonomous systems (PI: Helena Lindgren)

* Autonomous systems that recognise, explain, and predict complex human activities (PI: Juan Carlos Nieves)

* Autonomous systems' ability to understand their own limitations (PI: Kai-Florian Richter)

* Realtime physics-based computer vision for crane manipulators (PI: Martin Servin)

* Autonomous resource allocation for rack-scale systems (PI: Johan Tordsson)

For the full announcement, including links to the individual projects, please see:

Application deadline is February 1, 2017.

Best regards,
Erik Elmroth




Friday, December 23, 2016

[DMANET] Two postdoc positions at Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (Belgium) announces two Postdoc positions within the ERC project FOREFRONT (Frontiers of Extended Formulations) of Prof. Samuel Fiorini. Each position can be extended by one extra year. Strong candidates with interests in Combinatorial optimization (theoretical and/or computational aspects) and/or Complexity theory (communication complexity, inapproximability) are encouraged to apply.

See http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~sfiorini/ERC.html for more information about the project and the way to apply.

Both positions are expected to start in Fall 2017. E-mail enquiries about the positions are welcome.
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[DMANET] 2nd Call for Papers - 5th Workshop on Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust (HotSpot 2017)

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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HotSpot 2017
5th Workshop on Hot Issues in Security Principles and Trust
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Affiliated with ETAPS 2017 ( http://www.etaps.org/2017/ )
Uppsala, Sweden
April 23rd, 2017

https://infsec.uni-trier.de/events/hotspot2017

Important Dates
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Deadline for submissions: January 15th, 2017
Notification: February 13th, 2017
Final version for informal proceedings (optional): February 20th, 2017
Workshop: April 23rd, 2017

Invited Speaker
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Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Taint Tracking without Tracking Taints

Scope
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This workshop is intended to be a less formal counterpart to the
Principles of Security and Trust (POST) conference at ETAPS with an
emphasis on "hot topics", both of security and of its theoretical
foundations and analysis.

Submissions about new and emerging topics (for example, those that have
not appeared prominently in conferences and workshops until now) are
particularly encouraged. Submissions of preliminary, tentative work are
also encouraged.

This workshop is organized by the IFIP WG 1.7: Theoretical Foundations
of Security Analysis and Design (http://www.dsi.unive.it./IFIPWG1_7/)


Program Committee Chair
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Ralf Küsters, University of Trier, Germany


Program Committee
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Aslan Askarov, Aarhus University, Denmark
David Basin, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Véronique Cortier, CNRS, Loria, France
Cas Cremers, University of Oxford, UK
Riccardo Focardi, Ca' Foscari University, Italy
Joshua Guttman, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Boris Köpf, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Ninghui Li, Purdue University, USA
Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Tamara Rezk, INRIA, France
Peter Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University, USA
Nikhil Swamy, MSR Redmond, USA


Submissions
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Submissions are via
EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hotspot2017

There is no page limit, but the length of your submission should be
appropriate to its content. There will be no formal proceedings.
Inclusion in informal proceedings is optional.

Contact
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Ralf Küsters (PC chair): kuesters@uni-trier.de


Registration, accommodation, and travel
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See ETAPS web site http://www.etaps.org/2017/
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[DMANET] open position (PhD candidate or Postdoc) in the field of network security in the context of datacenter networks at TU Chemnitz, Germany

The Chair for Communication Networks at TU Chemnitz invites applications for
an open PhD or PostDoc position. The position is available beginning from
January 2017 at the earliest until March 2018. Further continuation is
possible. The area of research is network security in the context of
datacenter networks. The candidate will participate in the European
Celtic-Plus research project SENDATE Secure-DCI
(https://www.celticplus.eu/project-sendate-secure-dci/).

Requirements:
- MSc or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology or Computer Science
- Background in the following areas:
- network security
- datacenter network architectures
- communication networks and protocols (particularly IP and optical
transport networks)
- software defined networking (SDN) and network functions
virtualization (NFV)
- modelling, simulation and analysis
- Good programming skills
- Good English language skills

Research Field and Responsibilities:
- Security and resilience in networked datacenters and cloud networks
- Security risk and impact analysis according to ITU-T X.805
- Mechanisms for service and network layer threat/anomaly detection
- Robust design (wrt. security threats and failures) of networked
datacenters
- Mechanisms for security attack defense/mitigation and resilience for
networked datacenters based on SDN and NFV

The Chair for Communication Networks offers an excellent working environment
within our international research group. Taking part in teaching graduate
seminar courses is encouraged but not required. TU Chemnitz envisages to
ensure equal opportunity for men and women. Applications from female
candidates with the advertised qualifications are explicitly solicited.

Applicants should submit their documents (including a letter of interest,
CV, copies of academic certificates and previous scientific work such as
master, diploma or PhD thesis) via Email mentioning the keyword "security"
to:

Technische Universität Chemnitz
Chair for Communication Networks
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauschert
D-09126 Chemnitz, Germany
Email: thomas.bauschert@etit.tu-chemnitz.de
<mailto:matthias.werner@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>


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[DMANET] open position (PhD candidate or Post-Doc) in the field of SDN and NFV in the context of datacenter networks at TU Chemnitz, Germany

The Chair for Communication Networks at TU Chemnitz invites applications for
an open PhD or PostDoc position. The position is available beginning from
January 2017 at the earliest until March 2018. Further continuation is
possible. The area of research is Software Defined Networking (SDN) and
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in the context of datacenter
networks. The candidate will participate in the European Celtic-Plus
research project SENDATE Secure-DCI
(https://www.celticplus.eu/project-sendate-secure-dci/).

Requirements:
- MSc or PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Information
Technology or Computer Science
- Background in the following areas:
- communication networks and protocols (particularly IP and optical
transport networks)
- SDN (OpenDaylight, ONOS), NFV, Cloud technologies (OpenStack), ETSI
MANO
- datacenter network architectures
- modelling, simulation and analysis
- discrete optimization
- Good programming skills
- Good English language skills

Research Field and Responsibilities:
- Resource management and traffic engineering in datacenter/cloud
networks
- Application of SDN and NFV in datacenter/cloud networks
- Mechanisms for dynamic re-configuration of datacenter networks based
on SDN
- Dynamic placement of service function chains in datacenters
considering specific constraints
- Traffic engineering in networked datacenters
- Algorithms/methods for coordination of the aforementioned mechanisms


The Chair for Communication Networks offers an excellent working environment
within our international research group. Taking part in teaching graduate
seminar courses is encouraged but not required. TU Chemnitz envisages to
ensure equal opportunity for men and women. Applications from female
candidates with the advertised qualifications are explicitly solicited.

Applicants should submit their documents (including a letter of interest,
CV, copies of academic certificates and previous scientific work such as
master, diploma or PhD thesis) via Email mentioning the keyword "network"
to:

Technische Universität Chemnitz
Chair for Communication Networks
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauschert
D-09126 Chemnitz, Germany
Email: thomas.bauschert@etit.tu-chemnitz.de
<mailto:matthias.werner@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>


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Thursday, December 22, 2016

[DMANET] MSc scholarships in Data Analytics

Dear colleagues,

Please distribute the below opportunity to your students -- and apologies for any cross-postings.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks,
Kerem Akartunali

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Scholarships for MSc Data Analytics

We are delighted to offer 3 prestigious scholarships towards tuition fees for the MSc Data Analytics 2017 entry (full-time only). Strathclyde's MSc Data Analytics is unique by bringing together essential skills from three departments, Management Science, Mathematics & Statistics, and Computer & Information Sciences, in order to address the needs of a fast-growing industry. The course focuses on the uses of data analytics techniques within business contexts, on making informed decisions about appropriate technology to extract knowledge from data and on understanding the theoretical principles by which such technology operates.

Applications are open to *all (UK/EU/international)* students, and each of these scholarships will be worth £9,500 (note this will cover the full tuition fee for the UK and EU students). The application deadline is 31 May 2017. Further details are provided below.

ELIGIBILITY
The applicants are expected to have (or be near completion of) at least a strong Upper Second Class Honours (undergraduate) degree or equivalent (a minimum 3.3 GPA in a 4.0 GPA system, or a minimum 85% average, or a minimum average of B+ in a letter system). Final year undergraduate students are eligible to apply.

Candidates interested in applying for these prestigious scholarships are required to provide a brief statement (up to 300 words) in their online applications which should clearly articulate their interest in the growing area of data science and analytics and their reasons for applying for the scholarship.

CONDITIONS AND SELECTION PROCESS
Funded students will be expected to complete the MSc course. The selected students will be announced by the end of May. The selection process will be based on your background (in particular the level of your degree) as well as the short statement you provide.

MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY
For more information about the course, please refer to:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/dataanalytics/

For scholarship applications, please visit the following page and click "How to Apply": http://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/scholarships/strathclydebusinessschoolscholarships/managementsciencescholarships/mscdataanalytics/

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Wednesday, December 21, 2016

[DMANET] 1 Postdoc and 13 PhD positions in Magdeburg, Germany

The newly formed DFG Research Training Group 2297 "Mathematical
Complexity Reduction" in Magdeburg, Germany, invites applications for
13 PhD student positions (75% E13, 3 years) and for one postdoctoral
position (100% E14, 3+3 years) in diverse areas of mathematics.
The positions have no teaching duties and offer a competitive salary as
well as a set of specially tailored compact courses.

Hiring commences now for starting dates after April 1, 2017, and continues
until all positions are filled. Interested candidates are invited to get in
contact with the spokesperson sager@ovgu.de or with the PIs as early as
possible. Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

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[DMANET] Preannouncement of 4th Swedish Summer School in Computer Science

This is a preannouncement that the Theoretical Computer Science Group
at KTH Royal Institute of Technology will again arrange the Swedish
Summer School in Computer Science (S3CS) during the latter half of
July next year.

The 4th edition of S3CS will focus on circuit complexity --- one of
the truly classic areas in theoretical computer science, which has
seen an exciting revival in the last few years. We are very happy to
announce that our speakers are two of the key players behind this
revival, namely Benjamin Rossman (http://www.math.toronto.edu/rossman/)
and Ryan Williams (http://web.stanford.edu/~rrwill/).

S3CS 2017 will again be held at the beautiful venue Djurönäset in the
Stockholm archipelago. A formal call for participation with more
detailed information will follow in early 2017, but for now you can
make note of the following timeline:
- Mid-March: Application deadline
- Mid-April: Notification
- Sun July 16: Arrival
- Mon July 17 -- Fri July 21: Lectures
- Sat July 22: Departure

With best regards,
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[DMANET] Postdoc in Container Terminal Optimization

Postdoc in Container Terminal Optimization
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The Department of Management Engineering invites applications for a position as Postdoc in Operations Research with a focus on Container Terminal Optimizaiton.

The Department is looking for a flexible and enthusiastic candidate, who is willing to be a part of a pilot research project on how operation research techniques can be used to boost collaboration between container carriers and container terminals. We are interested in optimizing the ship handling operations by exploiting synergies between the container vessel stowage plan and the scheduling of the cranes in a container terminal. The project is to be run in collaboration with APM Terminals in Aarhus, which will be providing data and details about the current planning practices.

The postdoc appointment is of the total of 1 year from the starting date. Being a pilot project, the candidate will also have the possibility of participating on the writing of the next funding application, and eventually on the execution of the defined project.

Responsibilities and tasks
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The applicant will be responsible of the development of optimisation models and/or algorithms for the ship loading problem. An integrated container to transport vehicle assignment and scheduling problem.

There will be possibilities to contribute with lectures to the teaching within the area.

Qualifications
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Candidates should have a PhD degree or equivalent. A good knowledge of operations research techniques including: mathematical modelling, heuristics, metaheuristics and matheuristics. The applicant should also be able to program in an efficient programming language such as Java or C++.

The research team has a Linux server available for performing computational experiments, thus knowledge of the Linux environment would be a plus but not a requirement.

We offer
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We offer an interesting and challenging job in an international environment focusing on education, research, scientific advice and innovation, which contribute to enhancing the economy and improving social welfare. We strive for academic excellence, collegial respect and freedom tempered by responsibility. The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is a leading technical university in northern Europe and benchmarks with the best universities in the world.

Salary and terms of employment
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The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union. The period of employment is 1 year.

Further information
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Further information may be obtained from Associate Professor Dario Pacino, tel.: +45 4525 1512, email darpa@dtu.dk.

You can read more about DTU Management Engineering on www.man.dtu.dk/english.

Application procedure
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Please submit your online application no later than 2 January 2017. Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open http://www.dtu.dk/Job/job?id=48acc154-cbd0-4585-b220-5f8135131b6b# and follow the link "Apply online", fill in the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:
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- List of publications
- Applications and enclosures received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

The Department of Management Engineering actively researches in the development of management tool and optimization of processes by utilizing and re-thinking engineering driven methods, models and perspectives. It has a staff of 300 including around 70 doctoral students. The Department has close collaboration across a number of sectors including Danish and international partners from industry and public authorities as well as leading international universities.

DTU is a technical university providing internationally leading research, education, innovation and scientific advice. Our staff of 5,800 advance science and technology to create innovative solutions that meet the demands of society; and our 10,600 students are being educated to address the technological challenges of the future. DTU is an independent academic university collaborating globally with business, industry, government, and public agencies.


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[DMANET] Abstracts for contibuted talks: The Second Malta Conference in Graph Theory and Combinatorics

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2MCGTC 2017

Malta, 26-30 June 2017

www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/

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Call for Abstracts

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Submission of Abstracts: ***OPEN***

Abstracts for contributed talks should be prepared using the LaTeX template
found on: http://www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/contributedTalks.html. Both
the TEX and the PDF files should be submitted by e-mail on
2mcgtc2017@um.edu.mt. The closing date for the submission of abstracts is 28
February 2017. Acceptance depends on the reviewers' feedback and will be
communicated to the author within a month from the submission date.

Early-Bird Package: ***Registrations are open!***

A limited number of Early-Bird Packages is available on a first-come
first-served basis. The registration form can be found on:
http://www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/registration.html

This package includes the accommodation on bed-and-breakfast at the
Conference venue, the 4-star db San Antonio Hotel+Spa, at a very
advantageous price. The organisers encourage the participants to reserve
their Early-Bird Package as early as possible. This offer will be available
until all such Packages on offer last or until 15 February 2017, whichever
is the earliest. After this, participants would need to make their own
accommodation arrangements.

Student support:

A limited number of students will be supported and can apply for the Special
Students Rate as part of the Early-Bird Registration. To qualify for the
special Student Rate, you need to provide official evidence of your
studentship from your institution on a stamped letterhead.

Further information:

Website: www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/

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[DMANET] AUTOMATA 2017 - Call for Papers

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AUTOMATA 2017 - Call for Papers

23rd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex
Systems

June 7 - 9, 2017

University of Milano-Bicocca
Milan, Italy

http://automata2017.disco.unimib.it
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SCOPE

Papers presenting original and unpublished research on all fundamental
aspects of cellular automata, affine/correlated models of automata
(such as automata networks, finite automata over finite/infinite words,
picture languages), and related discrete complex systems are sought.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- dynamics, topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects
- algorithmic and complexity issues
- emergent properties
- formal languages
- symbolic dynamics
- tilings
- models of parallelism and distributed systems
- synchronous versus asynchronous models
- phenomenological descriptions and scientific modelling
- practical applications


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: February 8, 2017
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2017
Final versions: March 22, 2017
Submission deadline for exploratory papers: May 3, 2017
Notification of acceptance for exploratory papers: May 10, 2017
AUTOMATA 2017: June 7-9, 2017


PAPER CATEGORIES

There are two categories of submission - full papers and exploratory
papers. Full papers are meant to report more complete and denser research,
while the later submission deadline for exploratory papers allows quick
reporting of recent discoveries, work-in-progress and/or partial
results. Submissions in the full paper category are refereed and
selected by the program committee. Papers in the exploratory category
go through a less rigorous evaluation process. All accepted papers must
be presented at the conference.


INVITED SPEAKERS

Eric Goles (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chile)
Adrien Richard (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Ville Salo (University of Turku, Finland)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Alberto Dennunzio (Italy), co-chair
Pedro de Oliveira (Brazil)
Bruno Durand (France)
Nazim Fatès (France)
Paola Flocchini (Canada)
Enrico Formenti (France), co-chair
Anahi Gajardo (Chile)
Dora Giammaresi (Italy)
Eric Goles (Chile)
Katsunobu Imai (Japan)
Jarkko Kari (Finland)
Petr Kurka (Czech Republik)
Martin Kutrib (Germany)
Andreas Malcher (Germany)
Carlos Martin-Vide (Spain)
Giancarlo Mauri (Italy)
Kenichi Morita (Japan)
Ronnie Pavlov (USA)
Karl Petersen (USA)
Ion Petre (Finland)
Renzo Pinzani (Italy)
Siamak Taati (Netherlands)
Edgardo Ugalde (Mexico)
Hiroshi Umeo (Japan)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Alberto Dennunzio (co-chair)
Enrico Formenti (co-chair)
Luca Manzoni
Luca Mariot
Antonio E. Porreca


SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 12
pages (for full papers) or 8 pages (for exploratory papers) via the
EasyChair system at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automata2017

Submissions should contain original research that has not previously
been published. Concurrent submissions to other conferences/journals are
not allowed. Supplementary material that exceeds the above mentioned
page limits may be included as an appendix and will be considered at
the committee's discretion (note that appendices will not be published
in the proceedings). Submission must be formatted in LaTeX using the
LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors)
and submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers authored or
co-authored by PC members are also welcome and will follow a specific
evaluation process.


PROCEEDINGS

Accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings published by
Springer in the LNCS series.
Exploratory papers will not be included in the LNCS proceedings.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

It is planned that extended version of some selected papers will be
considered for publication in special issues of an international
renown journal (Information & Computation, Theoretical Computer
Science, ...).

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[DMANET] CTW 2017 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

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CTW 2017 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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15th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
Cologne, Germany, June 6-8, 2017.

*** Submission and registration procedures are now open. ***

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Website:http://ctw.uni-koeln.de
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Aims & Scope
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The 15th CTW welcomes contributions on theory and applications of
discrete optimization algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in
a wide sense. Following a well established tradition, the 15th edition
of the workshop aims to disseminate scientific results, especially by
doctoral students and young researchers, in a friendly and interactive
atmosphere.

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Contributions & Submissions
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If you wish to submit a contribution, please prepare an extended
abstract of at most 4 pages by February 17, 2017, following the
guidelines on the workshop website:http://ctw.uni-koeln.de/cop

Submissions to CTW are refereed, yet CTW does not publish proceedings other
than a conference booklet. Hence, presenting your paper at CTW will not
prevent you from submitting it to journals or to other conferences.
Similarly, it is acceptable to submit a paper that has been presented at
an earlier conference.

A special proceedings volume of Discrete Applied Mathematics, containing
full length papers, refereed according to the high standards of DAM, is
planned.

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Scientific Committee
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Ali Fuat Alkaya (U Marmara)
Albert Ceselli (U Milano)
Roberto Cordone (U Milano)
Ekrem Duman (U Ozyegin)
Ulrich Faigle (U Köln)
Johann L. Hurink (U Twente)
Leo Liberti (École Polytechnique, Paris)
Bodo Manthey (U Twente)
Gaia Nicosia (U Roma Tre)
Andrea Pacifici (U Roma Tor Vergata)
Stefan Pickl (UBw München)
Bert Randerath (TH Köln)
Giovanni Righini (U Milano)
Heiko Röglin (U Bonn)
Britta Peis (RWTH Aachen)
Oliver Schaudt (U Köln)
Rainer Schrader (U Köln)
Rüdiger Schultz (U Duisburg-Essen)
Frank Vallentin (U Köln)

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Organizing Committee
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Bert Randerath, Heiko Röglin, Britta Peis, Oliver Schaudt, Rainer Schrader, Frank Vallentin, Vera Weil

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Local Organization
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Alexander Apke, Toni Böhnlein, Jun-Gyu Kim, Roland Mainka, Martin Olschewski, Andrea Oversberg, Fabian Senger

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Important dates
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* Deadline for submission: February 17, 2017
* Notification of acceptance: March 24, 2017
* Workshop dates: June 6-8, 2017
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We have pre-reserved some rooms within walking distance to the workshop venue.
For more information, please visithttp://ctw.uni-koeln.de/local


For further details, please contact: ctw2017 at zpr.uni-koeln.de


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[DMANET] CfP - ADVERSE 2017 workshop on Adversarial Reasoning in Multi-agent Systems

------------------------------------- Second CFP for ADVERSE -------------------------------------------
ADVERSE 2017: Adversarial Reasoning in Multi-agent Systems
http://teamcore.usc.edu/people/haifeng/Adverse17/index.html
Co-located with AAMAS 2017 (http://www.aamas2017.org/)
May 8-12, 2017, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Workshop will be held either May 8 or May 9)
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Adversarial reasoning is essential for modeling real-world problems in presence of adversaries, competitions, strategic interactions or uncertainties. Research and applications related to adversarial reasoning span a broad variety of disciplines, including computer science, electrical engineering, economics, biology, etc. The focus of this workshop is to bring together the broad community working on adversarial reasoning in multi-agent systems motivated by any of these domains.

We invite full length research submissions from a broad range of researchers and practitioners, including (1) computer scientists applying their AI/MAS research to real-world problems in presence of adversary, uncertainties, competitions, etc., (2) interdisciplinary researchers combining AI/MAS with various disciplines (e.g., game theory, operations research, social science, and psychology), and (3) engineers and scientists from private companies and public organizations performing security related research and development, as well as building real adversarial reasoning systems. We encourage all researchers working towards applying security and multi-agent systems concepts for real-world problems to submit to the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Real-world applications of game theory for security
Worst case analysis and reasoning
Risk analysis and modeling
Cybersecurity
Adversarial/robust learning
Privacy
Security applications of machine learning
Information Leakage
Foundations of game theory for security
Online learning
Learning in games
Algorithms for scaling to very large games
Behavioral game theory
Decision making under uncertainty
Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization
Protection against environmental crime
Security applications of AI methods
Evaluation/lessons learned of deployed systems

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Important Dates

Submission deadline: February 1, 2017
Notification: March 7, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: March 10, 2017

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Organizing Committee

Haifeng Xu, University of Southern California, USA
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Vanderbilt University, USA
Long Tran-Thanh, University of Southampton, UK
Debarun Kar, University of Southern California, USA

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Program Committee
Bo An, Nanyang technical University, Singapore
Jose M. Such, Security lancaster, Lancaster University, UK
John P. Dickerson, University of Maryland, MD, USA
Stefan Rass, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
William Yeoh, New Mexico State University, NM, USA
Arunesh Sinha, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Branislav Bosansky, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Bo Li, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Zinovi Rabinovich, Mobileye
Thanh H. Nguyen, University of Michigan, MI, USA
Yang Liu, Harvard University, MA, USA
Vinh-Thong Ta, University of Central lancashire, UK
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Submission and Publication

Authors should submit original papers (maximum length 8 double-columned pages in AAMAS format)
in PDF through the Easychair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adverse2016

The most "visionary paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book
will be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2017 workshop.

Additionally, the "best paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2017 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2017 workshop. Authors of the selected most visionary paper and the best paper are expected to provide their latex files promptly upon request.

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Encore Session

In addition to accepting original research, the workshop will also feature a new encore session for researchers to present their previously published papers (not at AAMAS'17) to more relevant audience at the workshop. We encourage submissions from all related areas. To present in the encore session, you only need to send us an email (haifengx@usc.edu) attaching the paper which was accepted at another conference or a link to that paper. Papers submitted to the encore session will not be published and considered for best/visionary paper awards. Up to 5 papers will be selected for presentation at the encore session.

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Dr. Long Tran-Thanh
Lecturer
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Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group,
Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
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http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ltt08r
tel: +44 (0) 2380593715
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[DMANET] CFP: 2017 IEEE CEC Theory Special Session. DEADLINE: Jan 16

CALL FOR PAPERS

CEC 2017 Special Session on
Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation

June 5 - 8, 2015, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain

*** Paper submission deadline: January 16, 2017 ***

Website: https://hpi.de//friedrich/conf/cec2017.html

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TCS Special Issue
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Selected papers will be invited to a *special issue* of the journal of
Theoretical Computer Science.

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Motivation
==========

Bio-inspired search heuristics often turn out to be highly successful
for optimization in practice. The theory of these randomized search
heuristics explains the success or the failure of these methods in
practical applications. Theoretical analyses lead to the understanding
of which problems are optimized (or approximated) efficiently by a
given algorithm and which are not.

The benefits of theoretical understanding for practitioners are
threefold.

1. Aiding the algorithm design,

2. guiding the choice of the best algorithm for the problem at
hand,

3. determining the optimal parameter settings.

The theory of evolutionary computation has grown rapidly in recent
years. The primary aim of this special session is to bring together
people working on theoretical aspects of bio-inspired computation. The
latest breakthroughs in the theory of bio-inspired computation will be
reported and new directions will be set.

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Scope
=====

Potential authors are invited to submit papers describing original
contributions to the foundations of evolutionary computation. Although we
are most interested in theoretical foundations, computational studies
of a foundational nature are also welcome.

The scope of this special session includes (but is not limited to) the
following topics:

* Theoretical foundations of bio-inspired heuristics

* Exact and approximation runtime analysis

* Black box complexity

* Self-adaptation

* Population dynamics

* Fitness landscape and problem difficulty analysis

* No free lunch theorems

* Statistical approaches for understanding the behavior of
bio-inspired heuristics

* Computational studies of a foundational nature

All problem domains will be considered including:

* combinatorial and continuous optimization

* single‐objective and multi‐objective optimization

* constraint handling

* dynamic and stochastic optimization

* co‐evolution and evolutionary learning

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Paper Submission
================

To submit to the special session:

1. prepare your manuscript following the IEEE CEC 2017 paper
submission guidelines (see http://www.cec2017.org),

2. submit your manuscript electronically in the CEC 2017 system:
http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2017/upload.php,

3. *IMPORTANT* On the submission system you must select
"SS31. Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation"
as "Main Research Topic".

Special session papers are treated in the same way as regular
conference papers.

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Important Dates
===============

* Paper submissions: January 16, 2017

* Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2017

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Special Session Organizers
==========================

Pietro S. Oliveto
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/

Andrew M. Sutton
Algorithm Engineering Group
Hasso-Plattner-Institute
Potsdam, Germany
https://hpi.de/friedrich/people/andrew-m-sutton.html

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This special session is organized as a part of the IEEE CIS Task Force
on Theoretical Foundations of Bio-inspired Computation

Task Force Website:
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/CIStheory.html
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[DMANET] Postdoc position in evolutionary biomathematics at Greifswald University (Germany) at the Baltic Sea

Dear DMANET members,


I currently invite applications for a postdoc position in my working group, starting asap, but the starting date is negotiable.

It is a 100% position (paid according to German TVL 13) with 4 hours per week teaching obligation. If the candidate prefers a part-time position with reduced teaching load, this would also be possible. Teaching may include lectures if the candidate wants to gain experience, but will mainly consist of tutorials (4 hours per week amount to two tutorials per week during the semester; no teaching is done during the long summer break from mid-July to mid-October and from the end of January to early April).

Research in my group is focussed on biomathematics with a special interest in mathematical phylogenetics and population genetics, i.e. evolutionary research from a mathematical perspective. The ideal candidate has a strong background in mathematics and / or theoretical computer science, preferably with some biological pre-knowledge (and, if not, at least a strong interest in biology in general and evolution in particular). Mathematical areas needed for our research include, but are not limited to, graph theory, probability theory, combinatorics and complexity theory. Programming skills in at least one mathematical programming language (such as Mathematica, Maxima, Matlab, Maple or R) are required; additional programming skills are also desirable.

Knowledge of the German language is desirable, but is not a must at first (teaching at the Master's level can be done in English). Greifswald university offers affordable German language courses for researchers. However, the candidate must be proficient in both written and spoken English.

The offer:
- PostDoc position for 2 years with a possible extension if funding permits.
- No pre-set fixed project, i.e. the work focus is negotiable and will be chosen to match the candidate's interests and ideas.
- 4 hours teaching duties per week.
- The application deadline is January 31st 2017 (starting date flexible, but as soon as possible), but the offer will be kept open until a suitable candidate is found.
- A small but highly specialized maths institute with a renowned research focus on biomathematics, located in Greifswald in North-Eastern Germany, directly at the Baltic Sea with lots of nearby beaches and generally good living quality.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact me: mareike.fischer@uni-greifswald.de or to read the official job offer online (in German): https://www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/information/stellenausschreibungen/oeffentliche-stellenausschreibungen/wissenschaftliches-personal/institut-fuer-mathematik-und-informatik-16sa34/


Please send your applications electronically to mareike.fischer@uni-greifswald.de IN A SINGLE PDF FILE and refer to job number 16/SA34.

Best wishes,
Mareike Fischer


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[DMANET] CFP: 11th Int. Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-2017), 21-23 June 2017

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The 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology
(FCST-2017)
http://cse.stfx.ca/~FCST2017/
Exeter, England, UK, 21-23 June 2017

INTRODUCTION
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The 11th International Conference on Frontier of Computer Science and Technology (FCST-2017) is intended to facilitate effective communications and exchanges all over the world. It will not only reflect the significant progresses that are currently being made in computer science and technology, but also represent a powerful and unique forum for discussing innovative, cutting-edge advances in all aspects of computer science and technology from researchers and practitioners in academia, government and corporate institutions around the globe.

FCST 2017 will be held in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the serene beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines.

SCOPE AND TOPICS

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FCST2017 is an international forum for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends in the frontier of computer science and technology from both the research community as well as the industry.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Track 1: Big Data Analytics and Applications

* Track 2: Graphs and Interconnection networks
* Track 3: Health and Biomedical Informatics
* Track 4: Distributed Algorithms and Graph Computing
* Track 5: Parallel, Distributed and Edge-Computing Systems
* Track 6: Mobile Computing and Communication
* Track 7: Cloud Computing and Data Center Management
* Track 8: Global Networking and Cyber Security
* Track 9: Multimedia Communication and Computing

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Workshop Proposal Due: 15 December 2016
* Paper Submission Deadline: 23 February 2017
* Authors Notification: 22 April 2017
* Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 May 2017
* Early Registration Due: 15 May 2017
* Conference Date: 21-23 June 2017

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( http://cse.stfx.ca/~FCST2017/sub/ ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix (with no space limit) that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
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Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference.


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[DMANET] CFP: 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF-2017), 21-23 June 2017

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The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics
(CYBCONF-2017)
http://cse.stfx.ca/~CybConf2017
Exeter, England, UK, 21-23 June 2017
Sponsored by
IEEE;
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC).

and supported by
IEEE SMC Technical Committees on Cybermatics for Cyber-enabled Worlds;
IEEE SMC Technical Committees on Awareness Computing;
IEEE SMC Technical Committees on Intelligent Industrial Systems;
IEEE SMC Technical Committees on Distributed Intelligent Systems.

INTRODUCTION
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The biennial International Conference on Cybernetics (CYBCONF) provides a premier international forum for researchers and practitioners to report the latest innovations, summarize the state-of-the-art, and exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of Cybernetics. Apart of the main track it includes special sessions and plenary talks by invited eminent speakers.

CYBCONF-2017 is organized by University of Exeter, sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), and supported by IEEE SMC Technical Committees on Cybermatics for Cyber-enabled Worlds, Awareness Computing, Intelligent Industrial Systems; and Distributed Intelligent Systems. CYBCONF-2017 will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines.

Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to CYBCONF-2017. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, available on IEEE Xplore and submitted to be indexed in CPCi (ISI conferences and part of Web of Science) and Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6221036>, IEEE SMC Magazine, Evolving Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA).

SCOPE AND TOPICS

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The topics of interest include all aspects of Cybernetics and its applications and are organized in the following topic areas (not limited to):
Track 1: Cybernetics and Control Systems

* Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
* Artificial Immune Systems
* Bioinformatics
* Computational Intelligence
* Control Systems
* Evolutionary Computation
* Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems
* Fuzzy Systems and Applications
* Machine Learning
* Optimization
* Self-Adaptive and Evolving Systems
* Swarm Intelligence
Track 2: Human-Machine Interaction and Systems

* Cognitive Systems
* Brain Machine Interface
* Human-Computer Interaction
* Human-Machine Cooperation and Systems
* Human-Machine Interface and Communications
* Social Systems
* Supervisory Control
* User Interface Design
* Web Intelligence and Interaction
* Image Processing/Pattern Recognition
* Machine Vision
* Multimedia Computation
Track 3: Systems Science, Engineering and Industrial Applications

* Autonomous Systems
* Distributed Intelligent Systems
* Intelligent Power and Energy Systems
* Intelligent Transportations Systems
* Intelligent Vehicle Systems and Control
* Medical and Health Informatics
* Neural Networks and Applications
* Robotic Systems

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Workshop Proposal Due: 15 December 2016
* Paper Submission Deadline: 23 February 2017
* Authors Notification: 22 April 2017
* Camera-Ready Paper Due: 15 May 2017
* Early Registration Due: 15 May 2017
* Conference Date: 21-23 June 2017

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( http://cse.stfx.ca/~CybConf2017/sub/ ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 6 pages (or 8 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:
http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/
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https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
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JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

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Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals or their Special Issues:

- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6221036>

- IEEE SMC Magazine

- Evolving Systems (Springer)

- Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer)


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[DMANET] Call for Submissions: ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies!

Call for Submissions: ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the Responsible
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies!

Do you have an opinion on the responsible use of AI technologies?

Do you want to win one of several $500 cash prizes?

Do you want to talk one-on-one (via skype) to one of the following AI
researchers:

* Murray Campbell (Senior Manager, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

* Eric Horvitz (Managing Director, Microsoft Research)

* Peter Norvig (Director of Research, Google)

* Stuart Russell (Professor, University of California at Berkeley) or

* Michael Wooldridge (Head of the CS Department, University of Oxford)?

Read on!

We are happy to announce the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on the
Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies.

An increasing number of AI technologies now affect our lives (or soon
will), from intelligent assistants to self-driving cars. As a result, AI
technologies are often in the news and a number of organizations (including
the U.S. government) are trying to ensure that AI technologies are being
used for the maximum benefit of society. As with all potentially
transformative technologies (such as the automobile and the transistor),
there is some uncertainty about exactly how the future will look like and
how it should best be shaped to harness the power of AI technologies while
avoiding any drawbacks or misuses. ACM SIGAI is in a unique position to
shape the conversation around these issues.

ACM SIGAI is interested in obtaining input from students worldwide to help
shape this debate. We therefore invite all student members to enter an
essay in the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be published in the ACM
SIGAI newsletter "AI Matters," answering the following questions while
providing supporting evidence:

What do you see as the 1-2 most pressing ethical, social or regulatory
issues with respect to AI technologies? What position or steps can
governments, industries or organizations (including ACM SIGAI) take to
address these issues or shape the discussions on them?

The ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest is open to all ACM SIGAI student
members at the time of submission. (If you are a student but not an ACM
SIGAI member, you can join ACM SIGAI before submission for just USD 11,
even if you are not an ACM member.) The deadline for submissions is March
1, 2017.

Please find all details in the ACM SIGAI AI Matters blog
<https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2016/12/04/essaycontest/> (
https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2016/12/04/essaycontest/).

Please also help us out by distributing this email to students who might be
interested in participating.


Thanks


--Nick

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*IBM T.J. Watson Research Center*
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[DMANET] CTW 2017 - 2nd Call for Papers

------------------------------ CTW 2017 - 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
------------------------------ 15th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs &
Combinatorial Optimization Cologne, Germany, June 6-8, 2017. ***
Submission and registration procedures are now open. ***
-------------------------------------- Website: http://ctw.uni-koeln.de
-------------------------------------- Aims & Scope -------------- The
15th CTW welcomes contributions on theory and applications of discrete
optimization algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in a wide
sense. Following a well established tradition, the 15th edition of the
workshop aims to disseminate scientific results, especially by doctoral
students and young researchers, in a friendly and interactive
atmosphere. ----------------------------- Contributions & Submissions
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please prepare an extended abstract of at most 4 pages by February 17,
2017, following the guidelines on the workshop website:
http://ctw.uni-koeln.de/cop Submissions to CTW are refereed, yet CTW
does not publish proceedings other than a conference booklet. Hence,
presenting your paper at CTW will not prevent you from submitting it to
journals or to other conferences. Similarly, it is acceptable to submit
a paper that has been presented at an earlier conference. A special
proceedings volume of Discrete Applied Mathematics, containing full
length papers, refereed according to the high standards of DAM, is
planned. ---------------------- Scientific Committee
---------------------- Ali Fuat Alkaya (U Marmara) Albert Ceselli (U
Milano) Roberto Cordone (U Milano) Ekrem Duman (U Ozyegin) Ulrich Faigle
(U Köln) Johann L. Hurink (U Twente) Leo Liberti (École Polytechnique,
Paris) Bodo Manthey (U Twente) Gaia Nicosia (U Roma Tre) Andrea Pacifici
(U Roma Tor Vergata) Stefan Pickl (UBw München) Bert Randerath (TH Köln)
Giovanni Righini (U Milano) Heiko Röglin (U Bonn) Britta Peis (RWTH
Aachen) Oliver Schaudt (U Köln) Rainer Schrader (U Köln) Rüdiger Schultz
(U Duisburg-Essen) Frank Vallentin (U Köln) -----------------------
Organizing Committee ----------------------- Bert Randerath, Heiko
Röglin, Britta Peis, Oliver Schaudt, Rainer Schrader, Frank Vallentin,
Vera Weil
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Local Organization
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Alexander Apke, Toni Böhnlein, Jun-Gyu Kim, Roland Mainka, Martin Olschewski, Andrea Oversberg, Fabian Senger

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Deadline for submission: February 17, 2017 * Notification of acceptance:
March 24, 2017 * Workshop dates: June 6-8, 2017
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venue. For more information, please visit http://ctw.uni-koeln.de/local
For further details, please contact: ctw2017 at zpr.uni-koeln.de


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[DMANET] SPAA 2017 and PODC 2017 Call for Workshops and Tutorials

SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS - DEADLINE JANUARY 6, 2017

SPAA 2017 and PODC 2017
July 24-27, 2017, Washington, D.C., USA
http://spaa.acm.org/
http://www.podc.org/

The 29th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architecture (SPAA 2017) and the 36h Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC 2017) invites proposals for half-day and full-day workshops and tutorials that are closely related to the current scope of the conference or are new emerging research fields complementing or extending it, including but not restricted to:

- distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity
- communication networks: algorithms, architectures, services, protocols, applications
- multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
- shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, concurrent programming
- fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, self-organization, self-stabilization
- codes and reliable communication
- Internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
- dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms
- distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, databases
- game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- distributed mechanisms design
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, distributed data management
- high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
- wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents and robots
- context-aware distributed systems
- security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- distributed cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols
- quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
- nanonetworks
- biological distributed algorithms
- sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
- specification, semantics, verification of concurrent systems

Workshops and tutorials will be held in conjunction with SPAA and PODC on Sunday, July 23, 2017 and on Friday, July 28, 2017. Interested members of the community are invited to send proposals for workshops and tutorials by email to the workshops and tutorials coordinator:

Leonid Barenboim <leonidb@openu.ac.il>

The following are required in a workshop or a tutorial proposal:

- Title of the workshop or tutorial;
- An abstract describing the main focus of the workshop or tutorial and why it would be of interest to the SPAA and PODC community;
- Names and contact information of the organizers;
- The duration of the workshop or tutorial;
- For the workshops, we need the estimated number of submitted and accepted papers, and a brief description of the review process.
- Declare, if any, your preference regarding the date (Sunday, July 23, 2017 or Friday, July 28, 2017).

The proposals should be submitted to the workshops and tutorial coordinator as soon as possible, but no later than

Friday, January 6, 2017.

Decision on the proposals will be made no later than January 15, 2017. The organizers may opt to review and decide on the proposals on a first-come-first-served basis.

We are happy to announce that the following workshops have been already accepted to be collocated with PODC 2017.

- The 5th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA 2017)
- The 4th Workshop on Adaptive Resource Management and Scheduling for Cloud Computing (DeMIST 2017)


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