Sunday, December 31, 2017

[DMANET] WAW 2018 - Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

http://www.math.ryerson.ca/waw2018/cfp.html

WAW 2018 invites original research papers and abstracts on all aspects of algorithmic and mathematical research in the areas pertaining to the World-Wide Web, especially papers that espouse the view of complex data as networks.

Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
• Algorithms: graph algorithms, clustering, collaborative filtering.
• Analysis: structural properties, visualization, patterns, communities, discovery.
• Data Models: graph models, evolution, trust and reputation networks.
• Topics: Web, social networks, recommender networks, citation networks, Wikipedia, biological networks, blogs, p2p.
• Applications: web mining, social applications, web search and ranking.
The papers must be formatted according to Springer LNCS style. The maximum length of papers is at most 15 pages. The workshop proceedings will be published as a Springer LNCS volume. Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to a special issue of Internet Mathematics. Talks associated with proceedings papers will be 30 minutes.

Abstracts are a maximum of one page, may be in any style, and must be pdf files. They should include the title, speakers, and a summary of research. All abstracts related to the conference areas will be accepted (at the discretion of the program committee), and published on the conference website (but not published in the proceedings). Talks associated with abstracts will be 20 minutes.

Papers and abstracts must be submitted via Easychair.

IMPORTANT DATES

• WAW 2018: May 17-18, 2018
• Full paper submission: February 1, 2018
• Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2018
• Final version due: April 1, 2018

Thank you, Pawel Pralat
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Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Ryerson University


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Saturday, December 30, 2017

[DMANET] CFP- WASA2018

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA)

Tianjin, China

June 20 - June 22, 2018

http://wasa-conference.org/WASA2018/


WASA is an international conference on algorithms, systems, and applications of wireless networks. It is motivated by the recent advances in cutting-edge electronic and computer technologies that have paved the way for the proliferation of ubiquitous infrastructure and infrastructure-less wireless networks.

WASA is designed to be a forum for theoreticians, system and application designers, protocol developers and practitioners to discuss and express their views on the current trends, challenges, and state-of-the-art solutions related to various issues in wireless networks. Topics of interests include, but not limited to, effective and efficient state-of-the-art algorithm design and analysis, reliable and secure system development and implementations, experimental study and testbed validation, and new application exploration in wireless networks.

In addition to technical sessions and panels, the conference will feature several keynote speeches, given by leading researchers and practitioners in the areas of algorithms, systems, and applications in wireless networks.

Interested Topics (but not limited to):

* Cognitive Radio Networks, Software-defined radio, reconfigurable radio networks
* Cyber-physical systems including intelligent transportation systems and smart healthcare systems
* Theoretical frameworks and analysis of fundamental cross-layer protocol and network design and performance issues
* Distributed and localized algorithm design and analysis
* Information and Coding theory for Wireless Networks
* Localization
* Mobility models and mobile social networking
* Mobile cloud computing
* Topology control and coverage
* Security and privacy
* Underwater and underground Networks
* Vehicular networks
* Radar and Sonar Networks
* PHY/MAC/Routing protocols
* Information processing and data management
* Programmable service interfaces
* Energy-efficient algorithms, systems and protocol design
* Operating system and middleware support
* Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Local area and personal wireless networks
* Applications, design, and performance of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
* Delay/disruption tolerant networks
* Experimental testbeds, models and case studies

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IMPORTANT DATES

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Submission Deadline: March 5, 2018
Notification: April 5, 2018
Camera-Ready Submission Date: April 10, 2018


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SUBMISSION

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Submitted papers should be original, unpublished work and not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected.


EasyChair Paper submission link for WASA 2018 is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wasa2018

Authors are required to submit their papers in the Springer LNCS Format with at least 10 point font and no more than 12 pages. All submissions should be in the PDF format.
Accepted papers will be published in the Springer-LNCS series. LNCS Proceeding template in Microsoft Word or Latex is http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0


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SPECIAL ISSUES

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Extended versions of most conference papers will be published in special issues of

•International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
•Tsinghua Science and Technology
•EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
•Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
•KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
•IEEE Access


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Friday, December 29, 2017

[DMANET] 3(+2)-years researcher position in sequential and parallel software energy optimization at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa is happy to announce the opening of a three-years junior researcher position (RTD-A). This is the entry point of the academic career in Italy, quite above to standard post-doc positions in terms of salary and duties.

The position is entirely financed by the H2020 project "Plan4RES". The project aims at constructing a software system capable of optimising the integrated pan-European energy system (electricity, gas, heat/cooling, mobility, ...) on long time scales (10 years or more). The research will focus on development of decomposition algorithms for large- and very-large-scale problems, and in particular on their implementation in highly modular and well-engineered software codes capable of satisfying the needs of the project. The required skills then primarily lie in the development of modular and efficient software, both sequential and parallel, with focus on numerical optimization.

The researcher will have to work full-time on the Plan4RES project, contributing to achieving its scientific objectives in terms of scientific publications on high-level scientific journals, dissemination to international conferences, and, above all, development of the deliverables of the project also in terms of implementation and test of efficient and modular software codes. Also, teaching of one course (one semester) per year is mandatory; teaching in English is generally possible.

The position is fully funded for three years. At the end of this term, conditioned to reciprocal interest and availability of funds (likely, but not certain), the position can be extended for two further years, then with research duties to be agreed.

The official documents for applying for the position can be found here:

http://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/atto/concorsi/caricaDettaglioAtto/originario?atto.dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=2017-12-29&atto.codiceRedazionale=17E09934

Any request for further details can be addressed to Antonio Frangioni (frangio@di.unipi.it), scientific responsible for the project at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.

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[DMANET] Google AI Residency Program

We invite applications to the Google AI Residency program, a one-year
post-graduate program designed for exceptional students who wish to
spend one year after their degree (PhD, MS, or BSc) to learn more
about new advances in Machine Learning and perform top research in a
related area. The program offers a unique opportunity for students in
adjacent fields (e.g., CS theory, Math, OR) to gain exposure to an
applied research area aligned with recent developments in machine
learning.

The Google NYC Algorithms and Optimization team expects to host AI
residents in various areas of data-driven optimization: optimization
in ML, ML for market design, and graph-based learning. Students
interested in working with our team in NYC may highlight this in their
application and contact us for further guidelines. Further information
about our team, including recent projects and publications, can be
found at https://research.google.com/teams/nycalg .

The application deadline is January 8, 2018. See g.co/airesidency for
more information about the program, and visit g.co/airesidency/apply
to submit an application.
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

[DMANET] SPIRE 2018 1st Call for Papers

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIRE 2018
25th International Symposium on
String Processing and Information Retrieval
October 9-11, 2018, Lima, Peru

http://eventos.spc.org.pe/spire2018/

Paper submission: May 18, 2018 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification: July 9, 2018

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LOCATION
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SPIRE 2018 will take place in Lima, the capital of Peru.
The area around Lima had already been inhabited for centuries
when Spanish troops founded the city in 1535. In 1542 it was
made the seat of the Viceroyalty of Peru, which contained most
of Spanish-ruled South America, and in 1551 the oldest
continuously-functioning university in the Americas was founded
there. Lima is located on the Pacific coast and is famed for
its beaches and cuisine. October is early spring and the
temperatures are usually around 20 degrees Celsius or 68 degrees
Fahrenheit, both highs and lows. There are direct flights from
New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, Madrid, Paris,
Amsterdam and many major cities in South America, and visitors
from Asia and Oceania can arrive via Santiago de Chile, for example.
The conference venue will be the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología
(UTEC), winner of the inaugural RIBA International Prize for
architecture and described by the Guardian as "Peru's modern-day
Machu Picchu", across the street from the Museum of Modern Art
and a 15-minute walk from the beach.

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SCOPE
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SPIRE 2018 covers research in all aspects of string processing,
information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications.
Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data
structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data
structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern
matching, automata based string processing.

- Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation,
algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR
systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text
analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic
modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop
search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search, (micro)
blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital libraries.

- Computational Biology: high-throughput DNA sequencing (assembly, read
alignment, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics,
proteomics), evolution and phylogenetics, gene and regulatory element
recognition, motif finding, protein structure prediction.

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SUBMISSION
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SPIRE 2018 invites submissions in two categories: long papers (up to 12
pages, excluding references and optional appendices) and short papers
(up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices). The
reviewing process of SPIRE 2018 will be single-blind, namely each submission
should be non-anonymous. The submission server will be EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire18).
The proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag.
The use of either LaTeX or Word LNCS templates is mandatory.
Suitable templates are available at the Springer Website
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https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
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Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title
page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings
is not permitted.

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BEST PAPER
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A Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, will be given to the author(s) of
the most outstanding work included in the proceedings of SPIRE 2018 and
presented at the event.

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SISAP AND WORKSHOPS
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SPIRE 2018 will be co-located with SISAP 2018, the 11th
International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
(http://www.sisap.org/2018), which will run October 8th-10th.

There will be a StringMasters workshop on Monday October 8th,
immediately before the conference.
The Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) will be held
on Friday October 12th, sponsored by BIRDS MSCA RISE 2015 project.
The venue for both workshops will be the same as for SPIRE.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper deadline: May 18th, 2018 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification: July 9th, 2018
Camera-ready due: July 23rd, 2018
Early bird registration: July 23rd, 2018
Main conference: 9th-11th October, 2018
Workshops: 8th and 12th October, 2018

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Philip Bille, Technical University of Denmark
- Natasa Przulj, University College London
- Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa

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COMMITTEES
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Program Committee Chairs:
- Travis Gagie, Diego Portales University
- Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne
- Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile

Program Committee:
- Diego Arroyuelo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Hideo Bannai, Kyushu University
- Ilaria Bordino, UniCredit R&D
- Christina Boucher, University of Florida
- Broňa Brejová, Comenius University
- Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruña
- Ruey-Cheng Chen, RMIT University
- Shane Culpepper, RMIT University
- Fabio Cunial, MPI-CBG
- Antonio Fariña, Universidade da Coruña
- David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State University
- Allyx Fontaine, Université de Guyane
- Simon Gog, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Roberto Grossi, Universita' di Pisa
- Inge Li Gørtz, Technical University of Denmark
- Cecilia Hernandez, Universidad de Concepción
- Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsing Hua University
- Tomohiro I, Kyushu Institute of Technology
- Katharina Jahn, ETH Zürich
- Dominik Kempa, University of Helsinki
- Roberto Konow, eBay
- Gregory Kucherov, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
- Susana Ladra, Universidade da Coruña
- Gad M. Landau, University of Haifa and NYU
- Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University
- Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki
- Matthias Petri, University of Melbourne
- Cinzia Pizzi, Universita' di Padova
- Giovanna Rosone, Universita' di Pisa
- Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki
- Diego Seco, Universidad de Concepción
- Julian Shun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Jouni Sirén, University of California Santa Cruz
- Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore
- Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida
- Andrew Trotman, University of Otago
- Przemysław Uznański, ETH Zürich
- Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
- Guido Zuccon, Queensland University of Technology

Organizing Committee Chair:
Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC)

Steering Committee:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Gabriele Fici, Universita' di Palermo
- Costas Iliopoulos, King's College London
- Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University
- Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki
- Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais
- Kunihiko Sadakane, University of Tokyo
- Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University
- Marinella Sciortino, Universita' di Palermo
- Rossano Venturini, Universita' di Pisa
- Emine Yilmaz, University College London
- Nivio Ziviani, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais

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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

[DMANET] Happy New Year from TAG

Dear Colleagues,

Happy New Year from Theory and Applications of Graphs!

We are excited to announce the completion of Volume 4, Issue 2 (2017)
of *Theory
and Applications of Graphs* (TAG). We have had over 1600 downloads in the
past year from all around the world and we look forward to many more in
2018! Please see the table of contents for Vol. 4, Iss. 2 below.
Additionally, there is a new dynamic survey:

An updated survey on rainbow connections of graphs - a dynamic survey

Xueliang Li and Yuefang Sun

Please consider TAG for your research. TAG is all Open Access and
completely free to authors and subscribers, supported by Georgia Southern
University. We maintain high standards through a dual-referee policy,
leading to an acceptance rate of around 30% in 2017. Double-blind reviewing
is available at the authors' discretion. We are also interested in
publishing surveys (dynamic or static), exposition articles, and conference
proceedings.

Thank you for your interest in TAG!

TAG Editors

ISSN: 2470-9859

http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/tag/

Application of an Extremal Result of Erdős and Gallai to the (n,k,t) Problem

Matt Noble, Peter Johnson, Dean Hoffman, and Jessica McDonald

Edge Colorings of Complete Multipartite Graphs Forbidding Rainbow Cycles

Peter Johnson and Andrew Owens

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[DMANET] Helsinki ICT Network: Positions for Exceptional Doctoral Students (deadline Jan 31, 2018)

The Helsinki Doctoral Education Network in Information and
Communications Technology (HICT) is a joint initiative by Aalto
University and the University of Helsinki, the two leading universities
within this area in Finland. The network involves at present over 60
professors and over 200 doctoral students, and the participating units
graduate altogether more than 40 new doctors each year.

The activities of HICT are structured along five research area specific
tracks:

Algorithms and machine learning
Life science informatics
Networks, networked systems and services
Software and service engineering and systems
User centered and creative technologies

There are two ways to participate in the present HICT call. If you wish
to be considered as a potential new doctoral student in HICT you can (1)
apply generally for a PhD position in the research group of any HICT
supervisor(s) of your choice. All group descriptions can be found
through the list at "http://www.hict.fi/supervisors". You can also (2)
apply directly to one or a number of specific PhD projects, listed at
"https://www.hict.fi/Spring_call_2018_projects".

For more information and application instructions, go to
"https://www.hict.fi/spring_2018". The online application form closes
January 31, 2018 at midnight Finnish time.
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[DMANET] PhD positions at Technical University of Munich (AdONE)

PhD positions at Technical University of Munich (AdONE)

The Research Training Group (RTG) "Advanced Optimization in a Networked Economy" funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) and jointly hosted by the Schools of Management, Informatics, and Mathematics at Technical University of Munich offers several positions for PhD students.

Focus of the Research Training Group

The challenges of a networked economy are fundamental and necessitate new research at the intersection of management science, computer science, and mathematics. New computational techniques are needed to solve large-scale optimization problems and to handle large data sets; incentive structures have to be considered in situations with multiple decision makers; uncertainties and other dynamics in the parameters of resource allocation problems require new modeling tools and solution strategies. The research program focuses on important application-oriented projects that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach, including shared mobility, resource pooling, retail coordination, sales and operations planning, IT management, and airport operations.

Students with a background in one of the three involved disciplines and a strong interest in at least one of the other two fields will be offered a comprehensive study, training and research program. Specifically designed interdisciplinary projects will help to develop the ability to model, analyze, solve, and implement solutions for challenging real-world problems. A detailed description of the projects, participating researchers and further information regarding the application process is available at our website

http://www.gs.tum.de/adone/

Application Process

We expect a Master of Science (or, in exceptional cases, an excellent Bachelor degree) in Management, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field and experience with Operations Research methods. Further, excellent written and verbal communication skills in English are required. Selected candidates will receive a three-year position according to the German public service salary scale (TVL-13, 75%). We specifically encourage applications by qualified female researchers. Applicants with disabilities are treated with preference given comparable qualification.
For further information, please contact the RTG's coordinator Dr. Yoshimi von Felbert (adone@tum.de<mailto:adone@tum.de>). In order to apply, please submit your complete application documents (one pdf) to adone@tum.de<mailto:adone@tum.de> by February 1st, 2018.


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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

[DMANET] CfP: EvoCOP 2018: Late-Breaking Abstracts (deadline: January 15, 2018)

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EvoCOP 2018 - The 18th European Conference on
Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation
http://www.evostar.org/2018/cfp_evocop.php

April 4 - April 6, 2018
Parma, Italy

Part of Evo* 2018 (http://www.evostar.org)
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The 18th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial
Optimisation is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers
working on evolutionary computation methods and other metaheuristics for
solving difficult combinatorial optimisation problems appearing in various
industrial, economic, and scientific domains. Prominent examples of
metaheuristics include: evolutionary algorithms, estimation of distribution
algorithms, swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony and particle swarm
optimisation, local search methods such as simulated annealing, tabu search,
variable neighbourhood search, iterated local search, scatter search and path
relinking, and their hybridisation, such as memetic algorithms. Automatic
algorithm configuration and design, meta-optimisation, model-based methods, and
hyperheuristics are also topics of interest. Successfully solved problems
include, but are not limited to, multi-objective, uncertain, dynamic and
stochastic problems in the context of scheduling, timetabling, network design,
transportation and distribution, vehicle routing, graph problems,
satisfiability, energy optimisation, cutting, packing, and planning problems.


The EvoCOP 2018 conference will be held in the city of Parma, Italy, together
with EuroGP (the 21st European Conference on Genetic Programming), EvoMUSART
(7th European conference on evolutionary and biologically inspired music,
sound, art and design) and EvoApplications (specialist events on a range of
evolutionary computation topics and applications), in a joint event
collectively known as EvoStar (Evo*).


**** Areas of Interest and Contributions ****

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Applications of metaheuristics to combinatorial optimisation problems
* Representation techniques
* Practical solution of NP-hard problems
* Neighbourhoods and efficient algorithms for searching them
* Variation operators for stochastic search methods
* Theoretical developments
* Constraint-handling techniques
* Parallelisation and grid computing
* Search space and landscape analyses
* Comparisons between different (also exact) methods
* Heuristics
* Genetic programming and Genetic algorithms
* Tabu search, iterated local search and variable neighbourhood search
* Ant colony optimisation
* Artificial immune systems
* Scatter search
* Particle swarm optimisation
* Memetic algorithms
* Hybrid methods and hybridisation techniques
* Matheuristics (hybrids of exact and heuristic methods)
* Hyper-heuristics and autonomous search
* Automatic algorithm configuration and design
* Metaheuristics and machine learning
* Surrogate-model-based methods
* Estimation of distribution algorithms
* String processing
* Scheduling and timetabling
* Network design
* Vehicle routing
* Graph problems
* Satisfiability
* Packing and cutting problems
* Energy optimisation problems
* Multi-objective optimisation
* Search-based software engineering


**** Late-Breaking Abstracts ****

EvoCOP 2018 invites submissions of late-breaking abstracts (LBAs)
summarising ongoing research, recent studies and applications of evolutionary
computation and other meta-heuristics to real-world or academic combinatorial
optimisation problems. LBAs will be presented as posters during the conference.

At least one author of each accepted work has to register for the conference,
attend the conference and present the work.

The reviewing process will be double-blind, please omit information about the
authors in the submitted abstract. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS
format.

Page limit (LBAs): 1 page

Submit your LBA via https://myreview.saclay.inria.fr/evocop18_lba/
(Authors-
>Submit new paper)


**** Important Dates ****

Submission deadline (LBAs): 15 January 2018
Notification (LBAs): 1 February 2018
Camera-ready (LBAs): 15 February 2018
Mandatory registration per paper/LBA: 9 February 2018
EvoStar: April 4-6, 2018


**** EvoCOP Programme Chairs ****

Arnaud Liefooghe
University of Lille, France
arnaud.liefooghe@univ-lille1.fr

Manuel Lopez-Ibanez
University of Manchester, United Kingdom
manuel.lopez-ibanez@manchester.ac.uk

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Saturday, December 23, 2017

[DMANET] Tenure-track position in Artificial Intelligence at Aalto University

Tenure-Track Professor in Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University (Helsinki,
Finland) invites applications for a tenure-track or tenured professor in
Artificial Intelligence. The university is presently investing strongly
in fundamental AI research and the Finnish state is undertaking large
applied AI initiatives, and thus we aspire to recruit a future leader in
the area, with an inspiring vision for its development.

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto (http://cs.aalto.fi/) is
among Europe's top-20 CS departments, and is particularly strong in
areas represented in the present call. The department hosts a national
Centre of Excellence on Computational Inference Research
(http://research.cs.aalto.fi/coin/), and the current faculty's strength
is apparent in e.g. the high volume of highly competitive funding from
the Academy of Finland (equivalent to the National Science Foundation)
and the European Research Council. The department attracts significant
numbers of high-achieving international students into its MSc and PhD
programmes, and as the foremost CS educator in Finland, it is home to
the majority of the best Finnish CS students. In total, the department
employs 44 professors with diverse interests, forming a fertile
environment for cross-disciplinary collaborations. On a larger scale, as
a technology-friendly, yet small country, Finland offers ample
opportunities for low-overhead collaboration with industrial and
government partners as well. A shared appointment with the Helsinki
Institute for Information Technology HIIT (http://hiit.fi/), a joint
research centre with the University of Helsinki, can be negotiated.

The review of the new position will begin on Jan 25, 2018 and the
position will remain open until filled. For further information, please
visit http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/1576/ .
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Friday, December 22, 2017

[DMANET] Posdoc position in Discrete Mathematics at University of Hamburg

We invite applications for Postdoc positions in Discrete
Mathematics in the group of Professor Mathias Schacht at the
University of Hamburg.

The position is fully funded through the ERC Consolidator Grant
"Problems in extremal and porbabilistic combinatorics". The salary grade
is according to 100% TV-L 13 (the standard rate for junior scientific
staff at German universities) and there are no teaching obligations.

Research within the project concerns extremal problems for hypergraphs
and for sparse random and pseudorandom discrete structures. A solid
background and knowledge in extremal and probabilistic combinatorics is
therefore desirable. But we are also inviting applications of
candidates working in related fields in Discrete Mathematics or
Theoretical Computer Science.

The starting date is negotiable and we are interested to fill the
position as soon as possible.

Applications containing at least a cover letter, a cv and a list of
references should be submitted by January 31, 2018 preferably
electronically in one PDF-file to

sekr.dm@math.uni-hamburg.de

or

Prof. Mathias Schacht
Universität Hamburg
Fachbereich Mathematik
Bundesstr. 55
20146 Hamburg

For any further questions and inquiries please contact
schacht@math.uni-hamburg.de
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[DMANET] SCIP Optimization Suite Release 5.0

Dear colleagues,

we are happy to announce the release of the SCIP Optimization
Suite 5.0. It consists of SCIP 5.0, SoPlex 3.1, ZIMPL 3.3.4, GCG
2.1.3, and UG 0.8.5. A corresponding new version SCIP-SDP 3.1.0
has been released at http://www.opt.tu-darmstadt.de/scipsdp/.

The SCIP Optimization Suite 5.0 provides

- detection and handling of symmetries in MIP
- major improvements in cutting plane separation
- a new adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic
- improved handling of bilinear and quadratic terms
- conflict analysis through dual solutions of bound exceeding LPs

and many more features. All in all, SCIP 5.0 is 41% and 17%
faster than SCIP 4.0 on our extended MIP and MINLP test sets,
respectively. On hard MIPs a speed-up factor of 2.1 was
achieved.

For more information check out our website http://scip.zib.de and
the release report with an in-depth description of the
improvements to the SCIP Optimization Suite, which is available
here:

https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-zib/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6629

Get even more out of SCIP and meet the developers:
Come and join our upcoming SCIP workshop from March 6 to 8, 2018 at
RWTH Aachen! The workshop provides a forum for current and prospective
SCIP users to discuss their applications and share their experience
with SCIP.

Best regards,
the SCIP team and friends

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[DMANET] [CFP] DCOSS 2018 - Abstract Registration Deadline on January 2017

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call
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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                              DCOSS 2018
                               The 14th International Conference on
                          Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)
                                          New York, U.S.A.
                                         June 18 - 20, 2018

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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Registration Deadline: 23:59:59 EDT on January 17, 2018
Paper Submission Deadline: 23:59:59 EDT on January 24, 2018
Acceptance Notification: March 28, 2018
Camera Ready Deadline: April 11, 2018

SCOPE
Distributed sensor systems today are increasingly ubiquitous, producing
information-rich massive data about the physical world. Due to the
potential of impacting an entire host of application areas, distributed
sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The
International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems
(DCOSS) focuses on distributed computing issues in networked sensor
systems (including, but not limited to, algorithms and applications,
systems design techniques and tools, and in-network signal and
information processing). The conference normally features three tracks
on Systems and Applications, Algorithms and Protocols, and Signal and
Information Processing.

Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts
that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental
research. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the
following aspects:
˙    Computation and programming models from sensor to cloud
˙    Energy models, minimization, awareness
˙    Sensor data storage, retrieval, and processing
˙    Distributed collaborative information processing
˙    Machine learning techniques for sensor data analytics
˙    Abstractions for modular design
˙    Communication and networking primitives and protocols
˙    Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration
˙    Sensor network management, diagnosis, and fault tolerance
˙    Security and privacy issues
˙    Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
˙    Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation
˙    Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
˙    Mobile and human-centered sensing
˙    Sensing for the Internet of Things
˙    Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems
˙    Sensing for smart grid systems, green networks, and sustainability

In addition to DCOSS?s traditional focus, DCOSS 2018 will include a
?track of the year?: Massive Sensing for the Industrial IoT. Topics of
interests include but are not limited to:
˙    Dependable, safe, secure networked sensing and control
˙    Cloud-based big sensor data management
˙    Real-time sensor data analytics
˙    Data intensive applications and algorithms, e.g. VR/AR for industry
˙    Industrial diagnosis and fault analysis based on sensing systems
˙    Networking and communication in the industrial environments
˙    Location and time management for industrial processes
˙    Heterogeneity and interoperability of sensor systems
˙    Service description and discovery
˙    Digital twins and simulation of physical processes
˙    Industrial applications such as predictive maintenance, smart
factories, smart products, ...

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that
demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to
DCOSS topics of interest. Papers must be submitted electronically via
HotCRP system: https://dcoss18.hotcrp.com/.

All submissions should be written in English with a maximum of eight (8)
printed pages including figures. Authors may add at most two (2) pages,
but only for an appendix, i.e. these two pages contain supplementary
material only. The additional two pages will incur overlength charges at
$100/page.

Please read  http://www.dcoss.org/submission.html for more details.

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

HONORARY GENERAL CHAIRS
Frank Hsu (Fordham University, USA)
Sethuraman Panchanathan (Arizona State University, USA)

GENERAL CHAIRS
Habib M. Ammari, (Fordham University, USA)
David Wei, (Fordham University, USA)
Gary M. Weiss (Fordham University, USA)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS
Yuan He (Tsinghua University, China)
Guevara Noubir (Northeastern University, USA)
Kay Romer (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

WORKSHOPS CHAIR
Jiannong Cao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Alberto Garcia-Ortiz University of Bremen, Germany)

POSTER & DEMO CHAIR
Ulf Kulau (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)
Damian Lyons (Fordham University, USA)
Lars Wolf (Technical University Braunschweig, Germany)

Ph.D. FORUM CHAIRS
Pierre Leone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Utz Roedig (Lancaster University, UK)
Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA)

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
Stefano Basagni (Northeastern University, USA)
Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan (Fordham University, USA)
Flavia Delicato (Federal Univesity of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Jing Liang (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,
China)
Aline Carneiro Viana (Inria, France)

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[DMANET] ACRI 2018 Preliminary Call for Papers

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ACRI 2018 - Preliminary Call for Papers

13th International Conference on CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY

September 17 - 21, 2018

Villa del Grumello - Lake Como School Of Advanced Studies
Como, Italy

http://acri2018.disco.unimib.it
The conference is organised by the University of Milano-Bicocca
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SCOPE

Cellular Automata (CA) present a very powerful approach for the study of
complex emergent phenomena build up out of many simple local interactions.
Because of this, CA are very popular for studying real applications and
have generated a great deal of interest both in academia and industry
by researchers working in different scientific fields and dealing with
theoretical aspects as well as practical applications.

Since its first edition in 1994, the ACRI conference focused on challenging
problems and new research on Cellular Automata (CA). Its primary goal is
to offer both scientists and engineers in academies and industries an
opportunity to enforce international collaborations on Cellular Automata
and express their views on current trends, challenges, and state-of-the art
solutions to various problems in several scientific fields:
biology, computer science, chemistry, ecology, economy, engineering, geology,
medicine, physics, sociology, etc.

This 13th edition of ACRI Conference aims at enlarging the classical topics
to include other areas related to or extending Cellular Automata. This will
offer a larger community the opportunity to discuss their work in various
related fields as for instance: complex networks, games on networks,
bio-inspired computing, cryptography, biological network modelling,
multiagent models, etc.

Papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical and
computational aspects of Cellular Automata as well as applications of
CA-based models are sought/welcomed.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Tools and Theory: new algorithms based on CA, theory of computation,
CA environments,
- Theoretical aspects of CA: algebraic, dynamics, and topological issues
- Dynamical Complex Systems and Emergent Phenomena,
- Image Processing and Pattern Recognition,
- Natural Computing and Unconventional Computing,
- Quantum Cellular Automata,
- Complex Networks, Games on Networks,
- Bio-Inspired Computing,
- Cryptography,
- Lattice Gas and Lattice Boltzmann Models,
- Agent-Based Models,
- Mathematical Systems Theory: analysis, optimization and control,
identification,
- Biological and Ecological Modelling: metabolic networks, species evolution,
immune systems, contamination processes, infectious diseases, biodiversity,
- Modelling of Physical or Chemical Systems: hydrodynamics, reaction diffusion,
systems, complex flows,
- Environmental Modelling: Pollution models, biomass evolution,
desertification,
- Socio-Economical Models: vehicular and pedestrian traffic, urbanism, market.

WORKSHOPS

The ACRI-2018 Organizing Committee invites proposals for the Workshops
Program.
Workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the
opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters
the active exchange of ideas.

In the past editions of ACRI the number of ACRI Workshops and satellite
Workshop
has grown: C&CA (Crowds & Cellular Automata), T&CA (Traffic & Cellular
Automata), ACA (Asynchronous Cellular Automata and Asynchronous Discrete
Models),
CACGI (Cellular Automata of Cancer Growth and Invasion), IWNC (International
Workshop of Natural Computing), ABSim&CA (Agent-Based Simulation & Cellular
Automata).

Details on how to send Workshop proposals will be announced soon.

VENUE

The Conference will take place at the Villa del Grumello (Como, ITALY), within
the Como Lake School of Advanced Studies, see http://www.villadelgrumello.it .
Villa del Grumello overlooks the first basin of Como Lake. It is framed by
century-old trees and enchants its visitors with its delicate atmospheres and
its harmonious setting. Driving force of the development of the Lariano area,
Villa del Grumello is a reference point for culture, science and the business
community.


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: March 8, 2018
Notification of acceptance: May 3, 2018
Final versions: June 8, 2018
ACRI 2018: September 17-21, 2018


CHAIRS
Giancarlo Mauri (chair), University of Milano-Bicocca
Samira El Yacoubi (co-chair), University of Perpignan

CHAIR OF WORKSHOPS
Stefania Bandini, University of Milano-Bicocca


INVITED SPEAKERS to be announced


PROGRAM COMMITTEE to be announced


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Giancarlo Mauri (chair)
Stefania Bandini
Alberto Dennunzio
Luca Manzoni
Luca Mariot
Giuseppe Vizzari

SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers of no more than 10 pages
via the EasyChair system.

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.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by
Springer in the LNCS series.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

It is planned that extended version of some selected papers will be
considered for publication in a special issue of Natural Computing.

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[DMANET] ACM DEBS 2018: Call for Contributions (Multiple Tracks)

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ACM DEBS 2018 — Call for Papers

Research, Industry, and Grand Challenge tracks; Tutorials and Workshops

http://debs.org/2018/calls/

Where: Hamilton, New Zealand

When: 25 - 29 June 2018

Over the past decade, the ACM International Conference on Distributed

and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) has become one of the leading venues for

contributions in the fields of distributed and event-based systems. The

ACM DEBS conference provides a forum dedicated to the dissemination of

original research, the discussion of practical insights, and the

reporting of experiences relevant to distributed systems and event-based

computing. It brings together academia and industry to discuss

innovative technology and exchange ideas.

Scope

The DEBS conference covers topics both in distributed and in event-based

computing. The scope of the conference includes systems dealing with

detecting, processing and responding to events and with massively

distributed middleware and applications. Topics include, but are not

limited to:

1. Models, Architectures and Paradigms: Event-driven architectures,

real-time analytics, complex event processing, event processing in big

data, stream processing, rule-based systems, logic-based event

recognition, event correlation and pattern languages.

2. Middleware infrastructures: Distributed data processing, distributed

programming, federated event-based systems, information-centric

networking, fault tolerance, reliability, availability, and scalability,

as well as cloud, peer-to-peer, ubiquitous and mobile computing.

3. Applications, Experience and Requirements: Use cases and

applications of distributed and event-based systems in various domains

including Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks,

network monitoring, online machine learning, online graph algorithms,

smart cities, smart grids, finance, healthcare, transportation, and

logistics. Also, relevant topics span enterprise-level computing,

including enterprise application integration, real-time enterprises,

event-based business process management, and support for enterprises to

respond in timely fashion to changing situations.

Structure of the conference

Please check http://debs.org/2018/calls/ for how to participate:

1. The Research Track presents original research contributions.
Submissions will be evaluated by an experienced program committee
consisting of eminent researchers from all around the world.

2. The Grand Challenge Track involves developing systems that can solve
a specified set of challenge problems, given real-world input data.
Solutions will be judged in terms of how innovatively they solve the
challenge problems, and how the compare to others' solutions.

3. Workshops are often co-located with the DEBS conference. Please
check the website for more details.

4. Submissions to the Industry Track are expected to report on
innovative developments of event-based systems. Contributions will be
reviewed by both researchers and industry practitioners.

5. In the Tutorial Track recognised experts in the field will present
their tutorials on relevant emerging areas of research.

6. The Poster and Demo Track will accept authors' reports on work in
progress, and/or demonstrations of interesting ideas and applications
that involve distributed and event‐based systems.

7. The Doctoral Symposium Track is intended to receive submissions from
doctoral candidates whose research topics overlap with distributed and
event-based systems.

Some Important Dates

- Abstract submission for research track: Feb 21st, 2018

- Research and industry paper submission: Feb 26th, 2018

- Research paper notification: Apr 17th, 2018

- Conference: Jun 25th–29th, 2018

Submissions

All submissions must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will

be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.

Note that the proceedings will be available prior to the conference, and

that the official publication date is the date the proceedings appear in

the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the

first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the

deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Further information about the submissions will be posted on the

conference website: http://debs.org/2018

Organizers

General Co-Chairs:

Annika Hinze, University of Waikato

David Eyers, University of Otago

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Martin Hirzel, IBM T.J. Watson

Matthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Grand Challenge Co-Chairs:

Holger Ziekow, Furtwangen University

Vincenzo Gulisano, Chalmers University of Technology

Zbigniew Jerzak, SAP

Martin Strohbach, AGT International

Industry Track Chair:

Scott Schneider, IBM T.J. Watson

Workshops Chair:

Jatinder Singh, University of Cambridge

Tutorials Co-Chairs:

Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University

Vinay Setty, University of Oslo

Web Chair:

Nicholas Vanderschantz, University of Waikato

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Ruben Mayer, Universität Stuttgart

Kai-Cheung Leung, University of Auckland


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Ruben Mayer
IPVS - Distributed Systems Group
Universität Stuttgart
Universitätsstraße 38
D-70567 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel.: +49 711 685 88 239

http://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilungen/vs/abteilung/mitarbeiter/Ruben.Mayer?__locale=en

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[DMANET] EATCS Bulletin, call for abstracts

EATCS Bulletin, http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-bulletin, has a
section for "Technical contributions." To stimulate this section
further, we have recently started publication abstracts of works
that have been accepted by journals and/or conferences or have
appeared in major archives. The topics of interest include all areas
of theoretical computer science (for instance, see topics of the three
Tracks of ICALP, http://www.easyconferences.eu/icalp2016/cfp.html).

Abstracts should be rather detailed, 2-3 pages long in the format
given at http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-bulletin. Submissions
should include the information on the full paper (the name of
conferences, archives, etc) and sufficiently detailed explanation of
its merits, e.g., importance, motivations, clear comparison with
existing results and novelty and/or new ideas of proof techniques.

The Bulletin is published in Feb, Jun and Oct. The deadline for the
abstract submission is 15th of the previous month, for instance, Jan
15, 2018 for the Feb issue of 2018. All materials including
tex and pdf files should be sent electrically to bulletin@eatcs.org
and iwama@kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp. Acceptance/rejection, decided based on
its merit mentioned above, will be notified as soon as possible. The
Bulletin will not require copy-right transfer for accepted abstracts.

Kazuo Iwama
Editor-in-Chief
Bulletin, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

[DMANET] CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2018 Workshop - 3rd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 3rd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for
Computational Social Systems
May 25 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Conference Website : http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial
(In conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS))

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline : January 15, 2018
Notification of acceptance : March 1, 2018
Camera-ready papers : March 10, 2018
Workshop : May 25, 2018
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ABOUT PARSOCIAL
Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social
information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods,
such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how
social information can be utilized to better understand social processes,
and model the evolution of social systems over time. We have also seen a
rapid proliferation of sensor technologies, such as smartphones and medical
sensors, for collecting a wide variety of social data, much of it in real
time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of
multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, such as
MapReduce, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and
simulation, and new tools for analysis. These two trends have dramatically
broadened the scope of computational social systems research, and are
enabling researchers to tackle new challenges. These challenges include
modeling of real world scenarios with dynamic and real-time data, and
formulating rigorous computational frameworks to embed social and
behavioral theories. The IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial) provides a platform
to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, such as
computer science, social sciences, applied mathematics and computer
engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social
systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed
processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing.

The papers selected for ParSocial will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference
and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after
the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Areas of research interests and domains of applications include, but are
NOT LIMITED to:

*Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems*
Social network based models
Models of social interactions (e.g. influence spread, group formation,
group stability, and social resilience)
Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models (e.g. modeling emergence in social
systems)
Models incorporating socio-cultural factors
Novel agent based social modeling and simulation
Modeling with uncertain, incomplete social data
Models using real-time social data
Representations of social and behavioral theories in computational models
Simulation methodologies for social processes including numerical and
statistical methods
Models for network dynamism
Modeling human and social elements in cyber systems (e.g. cyber-physical
systems, socio-technical systems, and network centric systems)
Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms

*Analysis of massive social data*
Algorithms for dynamic social data
Algorithms for social network analysis
Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data
Social analysis methods on parallel and distributed frameworks
Social computing for emerging architectures (e.g. cloud,
multi-core/many-core, GPU, and mobile computing architectures)

*Application*
Emergency management (e.g. infrastructure resilience, natural disaster
management)
National security (e.g. political stability, counter-terrorism, and
homeland security)
Health science (e.g. disease spread models, health informatics, and health
care analytics)
Social media analytics (e.g. business analytics, political analysis, and
economic analysis)

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column
pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference
style), including figures, tables, and references.
Please visit the workshop website(http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial) for
details on submission.


*Workshop Organization*

**Workshop Co-Chairs**
Eunice E. Santos, Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair and Professor of
Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
John Korah, Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA

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George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering,
Dartmouth College, USA
Eugene Santos Jr., Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
V. S. Subrahmanian, Distinguished Professor in Cybersecurity, Dartmouth
College, USA
James A. Hendler, Tetherless World Professor of Computer Science,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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ITCS 2018 Announcement (Registration Deadline: Dec 28)

Hi All,

ITCS is back in the east coast, and will be at MIT from January 11-14, 2018. ITCS is a conference that is unique in many respects: it's a conference that emphasizes dialog and discussion among all sub-areas of TCS, facilitating it with a single track structure and "chair rants" providing the context for each session. Submissions, refereeing and presentations emphasize the "I" in ITCS: new concepts and models, new lines of inquiry, new techniques or novel use of existing techniques, and new connections between areas.

All in all, great fun! This year, ITCS will run for four full days with lots of activities. Tickets are going fast: the deadline for early registration and hotel block are both December 28, 2017.

A great tradition at ITCS is the "graduating bits" session, where graduating PhD students and postdocs give brief overviews of their research in advance of going out on the job market. If you fit the description, you should sign up here.

Following the success of the poster session at ITCS'17 and STOC'18, we will have one too, at the Marriott the first evening of the conference. To sign up, go here.

We hope to see many of you at ITCS!

Your local organizers,

Costis, Yael & Vinod

[DMANET] ACM OSNED 2018: WWW workshop on Online Social Networks and Media: Network Properties and Dynamics

______________________________________________________________________

CALL FOR PAPERS

ACM OSNeD 2018
First International workshop on
Online Social Networks and Media: Network Properties and Dynamics

co-located with
The Web Conference (WWW) 2018

24 April 2018, Lyon, France
https://osned.netsons.org/

____________________________________________________________________


SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
__________________

Online Social Networks and Media (OSNEM) are one of the most disruptive
communication platforms of the last 15 years with high socio-economic value.
Within this framework, the network properties of OSNEM can be used to
capture multiple phenomena related to OSNEM, at different logical
layers, from a
technical perspective (e.g., OSNEM data management and information
diffusion),
as well as a societal perspective (e.g., the OSNEM users' social
structures).
Moreover, the analysis of network dynamics represents one of the biggest
challenges that emerged in recent years within the network science
community.

Therefore, OSNeD will focus on the analysis of OSNEM from the standpoint
of its
network properties and dynamics at all scales, from macro- to meso- (e.g.,
community) to micro (e.g., ego network) scales. It will be particularly
interesting to highlight the impact of network properties and dynamics on
emerging phenomenon, such as diffusion of information, the acquisition
of the
role of influencer, trust among users, polarization of opinions,
diffusion of
fake news, etc.
The OSNeD workshop aims at engaging a multidisciplinary community.
The workshop also welcomes submissions applying a wide range of
(computer- and
network-science) techniques and tools to OSNEM for investigating the
properties
and roles of the network of (online) social relationships in the various
sectors
of the society (e.g., politics, economics, finance, health, entertainment).

Within the general focus of the workshop on OSNEM network properties and
dynamics, topics include:
- OSNEM platforms, protocols and applications;
- Decentralized, mobile and location-based OSNEM;
- Dynamic Analysis of OSNEM
- Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNEM;
- Recommendations and advertising in OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular OSNEM platforms (Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.);
- BigData analysis of OSNEM seen as large- meso- or micro-scale complex
networked systems;
- Information extraction and search in OSNEM;
- Complex-network analysis of OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of social networked users' behavior
through
OSNEM data;
- Analysis of the use of OSNEM in the urban context;
- Network challenges of crowdsourcing is OSNEM;
- Network challenges in multidisciplinary applications of OSNEM (economics,
medicine, society, politics, homeland security, etc.)
- OSNEM event detection;
- Evolutionary community / cluster discovery;
- Dynamic network generative models;
- Dynamic network embedding;
- Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNEM


PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
________________________________________

Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the new ACM format
published in ACM
guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template),
selecting the
generic "sigconf" sample.

We accept two types of submissions, i.e., full papers and "disruptive"
papers.
Full papers can be up to six (6) pages, plus 2  additional pages if needed.

"Disruptive" papers will be of maximum 2 pages. They would primarily
propose a
disruptive idea in the framework  of the workshop topics. A disruptive idea
should be really novel. So, for  instance, working on improving the
quality on
an already existing approach is  not disruptive (usually), while proposing a
totally new problem addressing a  particularly new challenge, is disruptive.
Disruptive papers will be evaluated  by the PC, according to a standard
review
process.

Both regular and disruptive (accepted) papers will be included in the
workshops
proceedings, which will be published as companion proceedings of The Web
Conference.

Submissions  must be in English. Papers should neither have
been published  elsewhere nor being currently under review by another
conference
or journal. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines may be rejected
without review. Please follow the submission link at: https://easychair.org/
conferences/submission_new.cgi?a=16699902
and Select the full name of the
workshop in the submission list.

Please also refer to the submission guidelines are the same as for the main
conference and are available here
https://www2018.thewebconf.org/call-for-papers/
#guideline
.

At least one author of an accepted paper must register, attend the
workshop and
present the paper.


AWARDS AND EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
_______________________________

We will consider to assign a best paper award, and to organize a special
issue
on the Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal
(https://www.journals.
elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/), soliciting submissions
of extended versions of particularly promising papers.


IMPORTANT DATES
_______________

Abstract Registration:        21 January 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Submission Deadline:    28 January 2018 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Authors Notification:   20 February 2018
Camera Ready Due:       04 March 2018
Workshop:               24 April 2018


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
____________________

Program Committee Chairs
- Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook, UK
- Giulio Rossetti, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Rémy Cazabet, University of Lyon, France

Technical Program Committee
TBA

For more information, please write to the workshop co-chairs at
osned2018 <at> iit <dot> cnr <dot> it

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Preannouncement of 5th 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) in August next year.

We will celebrate our 5th summmer school anniversary by going significantly out of our comfort zone and learn about quantum computation. Ronald de Wolf (https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/) will give a series of lectures accessible to people who do not know quantum from before. The idea is that this will help all those of us who routinely skip intimidating quantum talks at workshops and conference to overcome our deepest fears and learn enough so that during the next conference we can confidently go to the quantum sessions and actually understand some of what is going on (and maybe even ask a smart question or two).

Another reason for being scared about quantum is that the crypto systems we know and love might no longer be safe. But fear not: Oded Regev (https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/) will give lectures on lattices and cryptography, explaining, among other things, how to survive in a post-quantum world. Other exciting topics that Oded will touch upon are the Learning with errors (LWE) problem and fully homomorphic encryption.

S3CS 2018 will again be held at the beautiful venue Djuronaset in the Stockholm archipelago. A formal call for participation with more detailed information should appear at http://s3cs.csc.kth.se/ in February or so, but for now you can make note of the following tentative timeline:
- Mid-March: Application deadline
- Mid-April: Notification
- Sun Aug 5: Arrival
- Mon Aug 6 -- Fri Aug 10: Lectures
- Sat Aug 11: 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] Preannouncement of 5th 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) in August next year.

We will celebrate our 5th summmer school anniversary by going significantly out of our comfort zone and learn about quantum computation. Ronald de Wolf (https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/) will give a series of lectures accessible to people who do not know quantum from before. The idea is that this will help all those of us who routinely skip intimidating quantum talks at workshops and conference to overcome our deepest fears and learn enough so that during the next conference we can confidently go to the quantum sessions and actually understand some of what is going on (and maybe even ask a smart question or two).

Another reason for being scared about quantum is that the crypto systems we know and love might no longer be safe. But fear not: Oded Regev (https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/) will give lectures on lattices and cryptography, explaining, among other things, how to survive in a post-quantum world. Other exciting topics that Oded will touch upon are the Learning with errors (LWE) problem and fully homomorphic encryption.

S3CS 2018 will again be held at the beautiful venue Djuronaset in the Stockholm archipelago. A formal call for participation with more detailed information should appear at http://s3cs.csc.kth.se/ in February or so, but for now you can make note of the following tentative timeline:
- Mid-March: Application deadline
- Mid-April: Notification
- Sun Aug 5: Arrival
- Mon Aug 6 -- Fri Aug 10: Lectures
- Sat Aug 11: 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/

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[DMANET] ORBEL 32 - Abstract Submission Deadline Extended

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for abstract submission has
been extended from December 22nd to January 5th.

ORBEL 32, 32nd annual conference of the Belgian Operational Research
Society Liège, Belgium, February 1 – 2, 2018

https://www.orbel.be/orbel32/

We invite all researchers, practitioners, and students interested in
quantitative methods for decision making to attend the 32nd annual
conference of the Belgian Operational Research Society (ORBEL 32) on
February 1 – 2, 2018 in Liège.

ORBEL is the annual conference of the Belgian Operational Research (OR)
Society, a member of EURO, the association of European OR Societies, and
Belgian representative of IFORS (International Federation of OR
Societies).

ORBEL 32 is organized by the research centre QuantOM (Quantitative Methods
and Operations Management) of HEC Liège - Management School of the
University of Liège.

The conference is intended as a meeting place for researchers and users of
OR, statistics, computer science, and related fields.

It provides managers, practitioners, and researchers with a unique
opportunity to exchange information on quantitative techniques for
decision making.

ORBEL welcomes every year more than one hundred participants from Belgium
and from France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands.

The confirmed keynote speakers of this edition are:

Prof. Michel Bierlaire, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Title: Modeling advanced disaggregate demand as MILP

Prof. Dominique Feillet, Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne and LIMOS

Title: Vehicle routing problems with road-network information

Prof. Martin Savelsbergh, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems
Engineering, Georgia Tech

Title: Recent advances in criterion space search algorithms for multi-
objective mixed integer programming

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

We invite contributions in all fields of methodology and application:

continuous, discrete or stochastic optimization, graphs and networks,
multicriteria decision making, decision theory, game theory, simulation,
queueing theory, complexity theory, data mining, ...;

supply chain management, production planning, scheduling, project
management, transportation and traffic management, energy management, DEA
and performance management, financial modelling, ...;

applications in industry, in the energy sector, in life sciences and in
bioinformatics, in public services, in engineering, in health care, in
banking, in telecommunications, in sports, in media and entertainment,
...;

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract submission deadline: December 22, 2017

Extended abstract submission deadline: January 5, 2018

End of early registration: January 22, 2018

ORBEL 32: February 1 – 2, 2018

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Arda, Yasemin (Chair)

Bay, Maud

Crama, Yves

Hoffait, Anne-Sophie

Limbourg, Sabine

Michelini, Stefano

Paquay, Célia

Pironet, Thierry

Rodriguez Heck, Elisabeth

Schyns, Michaël

Smeulders, Bart

CONFERENCE VENUE:

The conference will take place in the main building of HEC Liège, in the
heart of the City of Liège, Belgium's third largest city and the largest
agglomeration of the French-speaking Walloon region.

Liège is home to the third inland port of Europe and the eighth freight
airport in Europe.

Recognized for its quality of life and its rich historical patrimonium,
Liège is ideally situated within the Meuse-Rhin Euregio, 40 kilometers
from Maastricht (the Netherlands) and 60 kilometers from Aachen (Germany).

It is less than 1.5 hours away from Köln, 2.5 hours from Paris, and 4
hours from London by high-speed train (TGV) starting from the new
magnificent train station designed by the renowned architect Santiago
Calatrava.

In the name of the organizing committee,

Yasemin ARDA & Yves CRAMA


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[DMANET] Call for presentations - ISMP 2018: Optimization in sciences, societal issues, economics

23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming 2018 (ISMP 2018)

in Bordeaux, France, 1-6 july 2018


Call for presentations:

Optimization in sciences, societal issues, economics


We are collecting presentations (in the form of a title and short abstract, to be submitted as a text file containing also the authors' details and contacts) to be inserted into sessions in Track 4.f (Sciences: Optimization in Sciences, Computational Biology, Societal Issues, Finance, and Economics), itself a part of Cluster 4 (Problem specific models, Algorithm implementations, and Software).


We are planning sessions in:

- Theory and applications of Distance Geometry (Liberti)

- Optimization methods in Computational Biology (Liberti)

- Optimization in Natural Language Processing (Liberti)

- Mathematical Programming in Economics (Peis)

- Mathematical Programming for Dynamic Traffic Assignment (Peis)

- Mathematical Programming in Air Transportation and Traffic Management (Cafieri)


Please send your contributions to:

Leo Liberti <liberti@lix.polytechnique.fr>

Sonia Cafieri <sonia.cafieri@enac.fr>

Britta Peis <britta.peis@oms.rwth-aachen.de>

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

[DMANET] Research position on time-dependent optimization problems in logistics at Institute of Transport Logistics, TU Dortmund University

Mit über 6.200 Beschäftigten in Forschung, Lehre und Verwaltung und ihrem einzigartigen Profil gestaltet die Technische Universität Dortmund Zukunftsperspektiven: Das Zusammenspiel von Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften, Gesellschafts- und Kulturwissenschaften treibt technologische Innovationen ebenso voran wie Erkenntnis- und Methoden fortschritt, von dem nicht nur die 34.200 Studierenden profitieren.

An der Technischen Universität Dortmund ist in der Fakultät Maschinenbau, im Institut für Transportlogistik zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt die Stelle

einer / eines wissenschaftlich Beschäftigten

zunächst befristet für die Dauer von 3 Jahren mit der Option auf Verlängerung zu besetzen. Die Vertragslaufzeit wird dem Qualifizierungsziel angemessen gestaltet. Die Entgeltzahlung erfolgt entsprechend den tarifrechtlichen Regelungen nach Entgeltgruppe E 13 TV-L bzw. ggfls. nach dem Übergangsrecht (TVÜ-L). Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Ganztagsstelle. Eine
Beschäftigung in bzw. Reduzierung auf Teilzeit ist grundsätzlich möglich. Die Möglichkeit zur Promotion ist gegeben.

In einem interdisziplinären Team forschen und lehren die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter des ITL im Bereich der Verkehrs- und Transportlogistik. Dabei stehen die Optimierung von Verkehrsflüssen oder die Verbesserung der Ressourcenplanung und
-nutzung in logistischen Anlagen im Mittelpunkt der Aktivitäten.

Anforderungsprofil

* Überdurchschnittlich abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches Hochschulstudium (Diplom/Master) in der Fachrichtung (Wirtschafts-) Mathematik, Informatik, Verkehrsingenieurwesen o. ä.,
* Fundierte Kenntnisse in mathematischer, insbesondere diskreter, Optimierung und Algorithmenentwicklung,
* Interesse an logistischen Fragestellungen, insbesondere im Bereich von Pickup-and-Delivery-Diensten, Cross-Docking-Anlagen, sowie im öffentlichen Verkehr (ÖV),
* Programmierkenntnisse (z. B. C++ oder Java) sind wünschenswert,
* Erfahrungen im Umgang mit einer Modellierungssprache (GAMS, Aimms, etc.) sind von Interesse,
* Sicherer Umgang mit den gängigen Office-Anwendungen,
* Gute Englischkenntnisse,
* Interesse an einer selbstständigen Bearbeitung von wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollen Fragestellungen,
* Fähigkeit zur Zusammenarbeit in einem interdisziplinären Team, soziale Kompetenz und ein hohes Maß an Engagement und Kooperationsbereitschaft.

Aufgabenbereich

In vielen Optimierungsproblemen in der Logistik ist die Betrachtung zeitabhängiger Komponenten aus Praxissicht (z. B. Zustellfenster) erforderlich. Hierdurch erhöht sich die algorithmische Komplexität allerdings erheblich. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist die Aufgabe die Lösbarkeit von zeitabhängigen logistischen Optimierungsproblemen mit Hilfe zeitreduzierter Relaxierungen zu verbessern. Die Untersuchung dieser Fragestellung wird von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) gefördert.

Die Technische Universität Dortmund will den Anteil von Frauen in der Wissenschaft in der Fakultät Maschinenbau erhöhen und bittet daher insbesondere Frauen um ihre Bewerbung. Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter erwünscht ist. Sie sind interessiert? Dann senden Sie uns Ihre Bewerbung mit den üblichen Unterlagen bitte bis zum 18.01.2018 unter Angabe der Referenznummer w46-17 an:

Technische Universität Dortmund
Herrn Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Clausen
Institut für Transportlogistik (ITL)
Leonhard-Euler-Straße 2
44227 Dortmund

Für Fragen steht zur Verfügung:
Herr Sven Langkau
Tel.: 0231/755-7329
E-Mail: langkau@itl.tu-dortmund.de<mailto:langkau@itl.tu-dortmund.de>

Dortmund, 15.12.2017

--
Nicolas Kämmerling, M.Sc.
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Gruppenleiter Mathematische Optimierung

Technische Universität Dortmund
Fakultät Maschinenbau / Institut für Transportlogistik
Leonhard-Euler-Str. 2
D-44227 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 231 755-7322
Fax: +49 231 755-6338
kaemmerling@itl.tu-dortmund.de<mailto:kaemmerling@itl.tu-dortmund.de>
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