Sunday, March 31, 2019

[DMANET] * Extended Deadline: April 14 * 12+SIs * CFP SpaCCS 2019: The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage

Call For Papers
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The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in
Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019)
July 14-July 17, 2019, Atlanta, USA

http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/

The 2019 International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in
Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) is the 12th event in
the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and
anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now
recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many
dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware
policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and
communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical
experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation,
communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks
have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security,
privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference
will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share
their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly
challenging research fields.


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All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Best
Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished
papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 12+ SCI & EI
indexed prestigious journals (confirmed).
1. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
Special Issue on Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures
for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems
https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications.pdf
Publisher: ACM, IF = 1.727
2. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
Special Issue: Blockchain in Future Networks and Vertical Industries
Publisher: IEEE
3. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications
Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems
Publisher: IET
4. IEEE Access
Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances
and Challenges
https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/deep-learning-security-and-forensics-research-advances-and-challenges
Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557
5. Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications
http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html
Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things
6. Digital Communications and Networks
Special Issue: TBD
Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019
7. Sensors
Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet
Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475
8. Remote Sensing
Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing
Networks in Water Hydrology
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computational
Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406
9. Journal of Systems Architecture
Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-dependable-cyber-physical-systems-sidcps19
Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913
10. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog
https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing
Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407
11. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things
https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor
Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407
12. CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction
Special Issue: Pervasive Intelligence: State-of-the- Art, Challenges and
Perspectives
* More special issues will be added later.


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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline (Extended): April 14, 2019
Authors Notification Date: May 12, 2019
Final Manuscript Due: June 02, 2019
Conference Date: July 14 - July 17, 2019


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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
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Track 1: Security
1.1 Computation
- Secure computation
- Artificial Intelligence Security
- CPS/Internet-of-Things/CPSS Security
- Blockchain Security
- Secure Sustainable Computing
- Homomorphic Encryption
- Big Data Security
- Cloud Computing Security
- Fog Computing Security
- Edge Computing Security
- Secure Network Computing
- Risk Analysis and Management
- Software and System Security
1.2 Communication
- Network Security
- Malware and Botnets
- Intrusion Detection
- Security in Web Services
- Security in Mobile Social Networks
- Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications
- Fraud and Cyber-Crime
1.3 Storage
- Access Control
- Accounting and Audit
- Applied Cryptography
- Database Security
- Authentication
- Computer forensics
- Data Protection and Data Integrity
- Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics
- Information Hiding
- Security in Big Data and its Applications

Track 2: Privacy
2.1 Computation
- Measuring and Quantifying Privacy
- Privacy Modelling and Analysis
- Software and System Privacy
- Privacy-preserving Computing
- Differential Privacy
- Blockchain-based Computation
- Privacy-enhanced Network Computing
- Obfuscation-based Privacy
- Cryptographic Tools
- Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems
- Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems
2.2 Communication
- Privacy in Web Services
- Privacy Metrics and Policies
- Crowdsourcing for Privacy
- Location and Mobility Privacy
- Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications
- Blockchain-based Communication
- Quantum Communications
- Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices
- Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems
- Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management
2.3 Storage
- Data Protection Technologies
- Privacy in Big Data and its Applications
- Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy
- Privacy and Human Rights
- Blockchain-based Storage
- Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields
- Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing
- Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy
- Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing

Track 3: Anonymity
3.1 Computation
- Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing
- Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity
- Anonymity in Big Data Analytics
- Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships
- Anonymous Video Analytics Technology
- Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations
- Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity
3.2 Communication
- Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems
- Anonymous Communication Protocols
- Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks
- Anonymous Proxy Software
- Anonymous Communication and Internet
- Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks
- Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity
3.3 Storage
- Anonymous Information Storage and Management
- Private and Anonymous Data Storage
- Forensics
- Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database
- Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management
- Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios
- Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases


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Paper Submission
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
website (https://edas.info/N25666) with PDF format. Submitted papers must
not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages (or
up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge) in Springer LNCS format (
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines),
including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be
selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity
of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper
should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at
least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present
the work.


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
- Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA

Program Chairs
- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA
- Jun Feng, St Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada

Workshop Chair
- Wm. Bradley Glisson, Sam Houston State University, USA

Publicity Chairs
- Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
- Reza M. Parizi, Kennesaw State University, USA
- Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Loughborough University London, UK

Local Chair
- Yubao Wu, Georgia State University, USA

Web Chairs
- Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee
- Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair)
- Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (Chair)
- Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia
- Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK
- Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
- Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portuga
- Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
- Wei Jie, University of West London, UK
- Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece
- Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA
- Jianbin Li, Central South University, China
- Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan
- Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain
- Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK
- Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland
- Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA
- Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan
- Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
- Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and
Management, India
- Jie Wu, Temple University, USA
- Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA
- Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Wanlei Zhou, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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St. Francis Xavier University
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Friday, March 29, 2019

[DMANET] MAPSP 2019 - Call for Participation; early registration deadline approaching

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MAPSP 2019 - Call for Participation

14th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems

June 2-7, 2017
Renesse, the Netherlands
http://sbe.maastrichtuniversity.nl/mapsp2019/

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MAPSP is a biennial workshop dedicated to all theoretical and practical aspects of scheduling, planning, and timetabling.

The 14th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP 2019) will be organized in Hotel "De Zeeuwse Stromen" in Renesse. It will take place in the week of June 2nd-7th 2019. Renesse is a village on the isle of Schouwen-Duiveland in the province Zeeland of the Netherlands. The hotel is a short walk from the beach.

The program will consist of invited plenary lectures and shorter contributed talks. The invited speakers are:

Mike Bender (Stony Brook University)
Petra Berenbrink (Universität Hamburg)
Neil Olver (Free University of Amsterdam)
Aravind Srinivasan (University of Maryland)

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Open problem session:

If you would like to present an open problem, please send an email with
a 2-3 line description to mapsp2019-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:mapsp2019-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl> by May 19. We might have to make a selection.

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Registration:

The registration site is now open. You can register at https://www.aanmelder.nl/107177/ or alternatively by following the link on http://sbe.maastrichtuniversity.nl/mapsp2019/ on the registration tab. The early registration fee (until April 8) is 400 EUR, late registration fee is 500 EUR.

Accommodation:

Accommodation at the conference hotel can be reserved at a special rate of 397.50 EUR per person (discount applies for sharing a room) for the duration of the workshop (Sunday night through Thursday night). Please follow the instructions on the website.

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Important dates:

Early registration: April 8, 2019
Send open problem: May 19,2019
Workshop: June 2-7, 2019

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[DMANET] Learning and Automata (LearnAut) 2019 Last Call for Papers -- LICS 2019 Workshop

SUBMISSION DEADLINE POSTPONED to April 6th
Learning and Automata (LearnAut) -- LICS 2019 workshop
June 23rd - Vancouver, Canada
Website: https://learnaut19.github.io

Learning models defining recursive computations, like automata and formal
grammars, are the core of the field called Grammatical Inference (GI). The
expressive power of these models and the complexity of the associated
computational problems are major research topics within mathematical logic
and computer science, spanning the communities that the Logic in Computer
Science (LICS) conference brings together. Historically, there has been
little interaction between the GI and LICS communities, though recently
some important results started to bridge the gap between both worlds,
including applications of learning to formal verification and model
checking, and (co-)algebraic formulations of automata and grammar learning
algorithms.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together experts on logic who could
benefit from grammatical inference tools, and researchers in grammatical
inference who could find in logic and verification new fruitful
applications for their methods.

We invite submissions of recent work, including preliminary research,
related to the theme of the workshop. Similarly to how main machine
learning conferences and workshops are organized, all accepted abstracts
will be part of a poster session held during the workshop.
Additionally, the Program Committee will select a subset of the abstracts
for oral presentation. At least one author of each accepted abstract is
expected to represent it at the workshop. Note that participation to the
poster session is on a voluntary basis for papers selected for oral
presentation.
High-quality submissions will be strongly encouraged to submit an extended
version to an upcoming special issue of the Machine Learning Journal (
https://grammarlearning.org/mlj-gi-special-issue).

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Computational complexity of learning problems involving automata and
formal languages.
- Algorithms and frameworks for learning models representing language
classes inside and outside the Chomsky hierarchy, including tree and graph
grammars.
- Learning problems involving models with additional structure, including
numeric weights, inputs/outputs such as transducers, register automata,
timed automata, Markov reward and decision processes, and semi-hidden
Markov models.
- Logical and relational aspects of learning and grammatical inference.
- Theoretical studies of learnable classes of languages/representations.
- Relations between automata and recurrent neural networks.
- Active learning of finite state machines and formal languages.
- Methods for estimating probability distributions over strings, trees,
graphs, or any data used as input for symbolic models.
- Applications of learning to formal verification and (statistical) model
checking.
- Metrics and other error measures between automata or formal languages.

** Invited speakers **

Lise Getoor (UC Santa Cruz)
Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
Nils Jansen (Radboud University)
Dana Fisman (Ben-Gurion University)

** Submission instructions **

Submissions in the form of extended abstracts must be at most 8
single-column pages long at most (plus at most four for bibliography and
possible appendixes) and must be submitted in the JMLR/PMLR format. The
LaTeX style file is available here:
https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/jmlr

We do accept submissions of work recently published or currently under
review.

- Submission url: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=learnaut2019
- Submission deadline: April 6th
- Notification of acceptance: April 25th
- Early registration: April 22nd

** Program Committee **

Dana Angluin (Yale University)
Borja Balle (Amazon Research Cambridge)
Leonor Becerra-Bonache (Université de Saint-Etienne)
Alexander Clark (King's College London)
François Denis (Aix-Marseille Université)
Kousha Etessami (University of Edinburgh)
Matthias Gallé (Naver Labs Europe)
Colin de la Higuera (Nantes University)
Falk Howar (TU Clausthal)
Makoto Kanazawa (Hosei University)
Ariadna Quattoni (Naver Labs Europe)
Alexandra Silva (University College London)
Frits Vaandrager (Radboud University)

** Organizers **

Remi Eyraud (Aix-Marseille Université)
Tobias Kappé (University College London)
Guillaume Rabusseau (Université de Montréal / Mila)
Matteo Sammartino (University College London)

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[DMANET] Job announcement: PhD position in Greifswald, Germany

Job announcement: PhD position available

There is a (bio-)mathematics PhD position available in my group as of the 1st of July 2019.

This position is part of a larger project aiming at digitalizing ecological data, but the subproject concerning this PhD position is about graph theory and graph symmetry/balance. Ideally, graph balance measures can be used to interpret root data of plants (which graph theoretically can be modelled by rooted trees or sometimes by networks; and the other subprojects will digitalize suitable underground photographs of roots), but the development of new balance indices is a purely mathematical problem. Thus, this project offers ideal perspectives for a mathematically oriented PhD student to develop new mathematical models for ecology.

For the position, mathematical pre-knowledge, particularly in the area of graph theory, is essential. It is beneficial if the candidate is also fluent in at least one programming language. Ecological and biological pre-knowledge is also beneficial, but not mandatory. However, willingness to cooperate interdisciplinarily is essential. Knowledge of the German language is not essential in this project.

The application deadline is the 14th of April 2019. Applications should be sent as one single PDF file to mareike.fischer@uni-greifswald.de <mailto:mareike.fischer@uni-greifswald.de> with the job number 19/Sa14 in the subject line.

The official position description (unfortunately in German) is to be found here: https://www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/information/stellenausschreibungen/oeffentliche-stellenausschreibungen/wissenschaftliches-personal/institut-fuer-mathematik-und-informatik-19sa14/ <https://www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet/information/stellenausschreibungen/oeffentliche-stellenausschreibungen/wissenschaftliches-personal/institut-fuer-mathematik-und-informatik-19sa14/>

Greifswald is located in northeastern Germany directly at the Baltic Sea. It is a beautiful holiday region with a high quality of life. Greifswald is a small town with roughly 55,000 inhabitants. It is renowned for its academic flair, as besides the university, it also hosts a Max Planck Institute and the Friedrich-Loeffler Institute.


Should you have any questions about this PhD position, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Mareike Fischer


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[DMANET] Post-doc position at Reykjavik University

A post-doctoral position is available at School of Computer Science,
Reykjavik University, under the direction of Magnus M. Halldorsson. The
focus of our lab has been particularly on algorithmic topics related to
networking and distributed computing. Current topics include dynamic
algorithms, wireless scheduling, local algorithms, and blockchains.

The position is renewable yearly for three years. Current salary is around
5 million ISK per annum. Conference travel with comfortable per-diem is
covered, as is the initial travel to Reykjavik. The university will assist
in finding housing.

We also have Ph.D. positions available. The School of Computer Science is
currently advertising other post-doctoral and Ph.D. positions. We will work
with applicants with two-body problems.

Reykjavik is a vibrant city with easy outdoors access. With lunar-like
landscapes, Iceland offers unsurpassed opportunities to see nature at work.

For first preference, applications should be submitted by April 15.
Applications should include three names of researchers that can provide an
informed reference letter at short notice, besides a curriculum vitae and a
brief description of current research. For further information, contact
Magnus M. Halldorsson, magnusmh@gmail.com. Submit applications by email to
Tigran Tonoyan, ttonoyan@gmail.com

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[DMANET] 2nd Workshop on Multi-objective Reasoning in Verification and Synthesis (MoRe 2019): 2nd call for contributions

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2nd International Workshop on
Multi-objective Reasoning in Verification and Synthesis

MoRe 2019
http://math.umons.ac.be/more2019/

Saturday 22nd June 2019, Vancouver, Canada
LICS 2019 workshop

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TOPICS:

MoRe aims at bringing together researchers interested in multi-objective
reasoning for verification and synthesis.

Traditionally, verification and synthesis techniques focus on a single
qualitative or quantitative objective for the reactive system. In
practice, it is often desired that systems satisfy a functional
requirement expressed as a qualitative property, while optimising some
quantitative dimension (e.g., reach a target state while minimising the
energy consumption). Furthermore, there are numerous application
contexts in which reasoning simultaneously about multiple, heterogeneous
quantitative and qualitative characteristics is important. In many
cases, the analysis of such systems may be complicated by the fact that
there are trade-offs between objectives. Such trade-offs may also arise
between several interpretations of the same quantitative dimension: for
example, between the average-case and the worst-case performance of a
system.

MoRe is a meeting place for researchers in the area of multi-objective
reasoning for verification and synthesis, with topics of interest
ranging from novel theoretical models to industrial challenges and
practical applications. Typical topics of the workshop include, but are
not limited to, formal approaches toward verification and synthesis in
the following settings:

- games (and related models) with multiple qualitative and quantitative
objectives;
- multi-criteria reasoning in probabilistic models (e.g., percentile
queries, quantiles, trade-off between worst-case and average-case
performance);
- extensions of timed automata including probabilistic or weighted
aspects;
- stochastic hybrid systems;
- temporal logics enabling quantitative reasoning;
- probabilistic programs;
- practical applications involving multi-objective challenges;
- any related attempt to tackle trade-offs between multiple criteria
in formal models for verification and synthesis.


INVITED SPEAKERS:

Michael Blondin, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
David Parker, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom


SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS:

The aim of MoRe is to stimulate discussions on a broad range of topics
and highlight recent advances in the field. Thus we warmly welcome
presentations of recently published as well as ongoing work. We
encourage all interested authors to submit an extended abstract (at
most 2 pages, excluding references) describing their presentation,
together with a short one-paragraph abstract, through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=more2019
Abstracts will be assessed by the program committee on the basis of
potential interest to workshop participants. The workshop will not have
a formal proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES:

- Abstract submission: April 3, 2019.
- Notification: April 29, 2019.
- Workshop: June 22, 2019.


ORGANISATION:

Program committee chairs

- Mickael Randour, UMONS - Université de Mons, Belgium
- Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin, Italy

Program committee

- S. Akshay, IIT Bombay, India
- Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique, France
- Véronique Bruyère, UMONS - Université de Mons, Belgium
- Stefan Kiefer, University of Oxford, UK
- Jan Kretinsky, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Benjamin Monmege, Aix-Marseille Université, France
- Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas at Austin, USA

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[DMANET] Salomaa Prize: Deadline for nominations April 15th

The Developments in Language Theory (DLT) Symposium has decided to
create a prize to be awarded during the DLT conference. The SALOMAA
PRIZE is named to honor the scientific achievements and influence of
Academician Arto Salomaa, a founder of the DLT symposium. The prize
consists of a diploma and 2000 euros, funded by the University of
Turku, Finland, the home university of Arto Salomaa.

The first Salomaa prize was awarded to Jean-Éric Pin at DLT 2018 in
Tokyo, Japan, see the report in No. 126 of the EATCS Bulletin, see
http://bulletin.eatcs.org/index.php/beatcs/article/view/551 . A call
for nominations is now open for the Salomaa prize of 2019 that will be
awarded at the 23rd DLT conference to be held in in Warsaw, Poland on
August 5th-9th, 2019, see http://dlt2019.mimuw.edu.pl/. A detailed
nomination letter, following the instructions in the guidelines at
http://math.utu.fi/salomaaprize/guidelines/, should be sent to the
chair of the prize committee:

Prof. Mikhail Volkov
Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
Ural Federal University
Ekaterinburg, Russia
m.v.volkov@urfu.ru

The deadline for the nominations is April 15, 2019

The prize committee:
Juhani Karhumäki, University of Turku, Finland
Dominique Perrin, University of Marne la Vallee, France
Mikhail Volkov (chair for 2019), Ural Federal University, Russia

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

[DMANET] PACE 2019: Second call for participation

This is the second call for participation for the 4th iteration of PACE, the Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge. This year, the PACE challenge consists of two separate tracks: Vertex Cover and Hypertree Width. Please distribute this announcement to any party that may be interested.

The goal of PACE is to investigate the applicability of algorithmic ideas studied and developed in the subfields of multivariate, fine-grained, parameterized, or fixed-parameter tractable algorithms.

More information and official reports for past challenges can be found on our new website: https://pacechallenge.org/


** Track 1 (Vertex Cover)
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a) Compute an optimal vertex cover. You have 30 minutes per instance.
Contestants are ranked by number of instances solved and time required.

Detailed instructions: https://pacechallenge.org/2019/vc/

** Track 2 (Hypertree Width)
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a) Compute an optimal hypertree decomposition (hypertree decomposition of minimum hypertree width). You have 30 minutes per instance.
Contestants are ranked by number of instances solved and time required.

b) Compute some hypertree decomposition of decent hypertree width. You have 30 minutes per instance. Contestants are ranked by quality of results and time required. Exact ranking method will be published online.

Detailed instructions and public instances:
https://pacechallenge.org/2019/htd/


** Prizes
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Thanks to the generous sponsoring of the NETWORKS project
(https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/) and data-experts.de, a total of 4750 Euro of prize money and travel support is available for the winners of the competition.


** Timeline
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* December 10th, 2018: Public Hypertree Width instances online
* January 7th, 2019: Public Vertex Cover instances online
* May 2nd, 2019: Submission of final version
* July 1st, 2019: Announcement of the results
* September 11-13, 2019: Award ceremony at the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2019) in Munich


** Program Committee
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* Johannes Fichte (TU Dresden, Germany)
* Markus Hecher (TU Vienna, Austria)


** Steering Committee
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* Édouard Bonnet (Middlesex University, London)
* Holger Dell (Saarland Informatics Campus)
* Bart M. P. Jansen (chair) (Eindhoven University of Technology)
* Thore Husfeldt (ITU Copenhagen and Lund University)
* Petteri Kaski (Aalto University)
* Christian Komusiewicz (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
* Frances A. Rosamond (University of Bergen)
* Florian Sikora (LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine)

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[DMANET] Second Call for Nominations - PODC Doctoral Dissertation Award 2019 (PODCDDA19)

SECOND CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - PODC DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD 2019

We are soliciting nominations for the 2019 Principles of Distributed
Computing Doctoral Dissertation Award.

Please nominate excellent dissertations in the area of Distributed
Computing that were successfully defended (or, in lieu of a defense,
obtained final approval) in the period January 1st, 2017 through
December 31st, 2018.

The award will be presented at PODC 2019, which will take place July 29
- August 2, 2019 in Toronto, Canada.

The deadline for nominations is April 14, 2019. More information about
the award is available on the award web page
https://www.podc.org/dissertation/

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=podcdda19

Sincerely,

The 2019 Award Committee:
Prasay Jayanti, Dartmouth College
Nancy A. Lynch, MIT
Nicola Santoro, Carleton University
Ulrich Schmid, TU Wien (chair)


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from Johan Hastad: Inaugural FOCS Test of Time Award: Call for Nomi

The newly instated FOCS Test of Time Award recognizes papers published at the Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science. Three awards will be given in 2019, one targeted towards papers presented at the conference in 2009, one targeted towards papers presented at the conference in 1999, and the final one for papers presented in 1989.
In each of these categories, it is possible to nominate papers published in up to four conferences earlier than the targeted conference. Thus papers published at FOCS 85-88 can compete for the award targeting the 1989 conference and similarly for the other two awards.

Nomination Procedure. Anyone in the Theoretical Computer Science community may nominate at most one paper in each category. To do so, please send nominations to : focs.tta.2019@gmail.com with a subject line of FOCS Test of Time Award by April 23, 2019. The nomination should contain an explanation of the impact of the nominated paper(s), including references to follow-up work.

Selection. The winners are selected by a committee appointed by the FOCS steering committee and for 2019 it consists of Paul Beame (U of Washington), Allan Borodin (U of Toronto), Uri Feige (Weizmann Inst), Monika Henzinger (U of Vienna), Johan Hastad (KTH, chair), and Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia U). In selecting the Test of Time Award, the Committee will pay particular attention to long term impact.
This impact can come in many forms and some possibilities are to; (i) open up a new area of research; (ii) introduce new techniques; (iii) solve a problem of lasting importance.
The committee expects to select exactly one paper in each category, and moreover, it expects it to be a paper from the corresponding targeted year. However, if the committee finds that circumstances justify this, it may select up to three papers in each category, and include among them papers from up to four years prior to the targeted year. The committee is free to give an award also to papers that are not nominated.

About the Award. This is the first FOCS Test of Time Award and it will be an annual award. The 2019 award winners will be presented at FOCS 2019, held in Baltimore, November 9 to 12.

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

[DMANET] Inaugural FOCS Test of Time Award: Call for Nominations

The newly instated FOCS Test of Time Award recognizes papers published
at the Proceedings of the Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of
Computer Science. Three awards will be given in 2019, one targeted
towards papers presented at the conference in 2009, one targeted towards
papers presented at the conference in 1999, and the final one for
papers presented in 1989.
In each of these categories, it is possible to nominate papers published
in up to four conferences earlier than the targeted conference. Thus
papers published at FOCS 85-88 can compete for the award targeting the
1989 conference and similarly for the other two awards.

*Nomination Procedure.* Anyone in the Theoretical Computer Science
community may nominate at most one paper in each category. To do so,
please send nominations to : focs.tta.2019@gmail.com with a subject line
of FOCS Test of Time Award by April 23, 2019. The nomination should
contain an explanation of the impact of the nominated paper(s),
including references to follow-up work.

*Selection. *The winners are selected by a committee appointed by the
FOCS steering committee and for 2019 it consists of Paul Beame (U of
Washington), Allan Borodin (U of Toronto), Uri Feige (Weizmann Inst),
Monika Henzinger (U of Vienna), Johan Hastad (KTH, chair), and Mihalis
Yannakakis (Columbia U).
    In selecting the Test of Time Award, the Committee will pay
particular attention to long term impact. This impact can come in many
forms and some possibilities are to; (i) open up a new area of research;
(ii) introduce new techniques; (iii) solve a problem of lasting importance.
   The committee expects to select exactly one paper in each category,
and moreover, it expects it to be a paper from the corresponding
targeted year. However, if the committee finds that circumstances
justify this, it may select up to three papers in each category, and
include among them papers from up to four years prior to the targeted
year. The committee is free to give an award also to papers that are not
nominated.

*About the Award.* This is the first FOCS Test of Time Award and it
will be an annual award. The 2019 award winners will be presented at
FOCS 2019, held in Baltimore, November 9 to 12.


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[DMANET] Special Issue on "Advances in Recent Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Neural Engineering". Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (ISSN:1687-5265, JCR:1.649)

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Special Issue on Advances in Recent Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Neural Engineering
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/si/842956/cfp/

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
ISSN: 1687-5265
JCR Impact factor (2017): 1.649 (Q2)

Aims and Scope
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Nature-inspired algorithms are general-purpose problem solvers that operate as a collection of intelligent agents, mimicking interesting phenomena from nature in order to efficiently solve a specific problem. Many optimization techniques belonging to artificial intelligence were born under this paradigm, which are able to combine data, knowledge, learning, and search strategies for building advanced algorithms. This is a particularly interesting area for neural engineering, and other AI-related applications.
During the last three years, many new nature-inspired algorithms have been proposed, such as human behavior-based optimization, spotted hyena optimization, dragonfly optimization, Andean Condor Algorithm, water evaporation optimization, collective decision optimization, interactive search algorithm, vapour-liquid equilibrium metaheuristic, selfish herds algorithm, scattering and repulsive swarm intelligence, social engineering optimization, virus colony search, thermal exchange optimization, and kidney-inspired algorithm. Most of them involve interesting novel aspects that have enabled the efficient solving of complex problems, particularly from the NP-hard and NP-complete class of problems.
This special issue aims to publish original research and review articles involving theoretical and/or practical aspects of recent nature-inspired algorithms for Neural Engineering.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Recent nature-inspired algorithms in neural engineering
- Recent nature-inspired algorithms in neural networks
- Recent nature-inspired algorithms in computational neuroscience
- Recent nature-inspired algorithms in real-world optimization problems
- Neural network learning in recent nature-inspired algorithms and vice versa

Manuscript Submission
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Submission Deadline: Friday, 26 July 2019
Publication Date: December 2019
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/cin/arnia/.
Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date.

Lead Guest Editor
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Ricardo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile

Guest Editors
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Juan A. Gómez-Pulido, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
Eduardo Rodriguez-Tello, CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Pedro Isasi, University Carlos III of Madrid, Getafe, Spain

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[DMANET] Optimization and Modeling

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on
"Application of Artificial Intelligence in Optimization and Modeling"
at the International Conference on
High-Performance Computing 2019 (HPC 2019) will take place in
Borovets, Bulgaria, from 2-nd to 6-th of September 2019.

The session is organized by:
Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
(former Institute for Parallel Processing), Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences and
Assoc. Prof. Vassia Atanassova (vassia.atanassova@gmail.com)
from the Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

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

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

After reviewing, presented papers will be published as a post
conference publication in the Springer series "Studies in
Computational Intelligence" (SJR 0.184).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts - April 15, 2019
Deadline for submission of full papers - May 15 2019
Notification of acceptance of full papers - July 05, 2019

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

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/dpa/HPC_2019/

Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Assoc. Prof. Vassia Atanassova

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[DMANET] CFP: 7th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning

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                     SR 2019 - Call for Contributions

         7th International Workshop on Strategic Reasoning

                   Macao, China, 11-12 August 2019

                       http://sr2019.irisa.fr/

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Strategic reasoning is a key topic in multi-agent systems research.
The extensive literature in the field includes a variety of logics used
for modeling strategic ability. Results from the field
are now being used in many exciting domains such as
information system security, adaptive strategies for robot teams,
and automatic players capable to outperform human experts.
A common feature in all these application domains is the requirement for
sound theoretical foundations and tools accounting for the strategies
that artificial agents may adopt in the situation of conflict and
cooperation.

The SR international workshop series aims to bring together researchers
working
on different aspects of strategic reasoning in computer science, both from a
theoretical and a practical point of view.

SR 2019 will be held with IJCAI 2019 in Macao, China.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST

The topics covered by SR include, but are not limited to, the
following:

* Logics for reasoning about strategic abilities;
* Logics for multi-agent mechanism design, verification, and synthesis;
* Logical foundations of decision theory for multi-agent systems;
* Strategic reasoning in formal verification;
* Automata theory for strategy synthesis;
* Strategic reasoning under perfect and imperfect information;
* Applications and tools for cooperative and adversarial reasoning;
* Robust planning and optimisation in multi-agent systems;
* Risk and uncertainty in multi-agent systems;
* Quantitative aspects in strategic reasonings.

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SUBMISSIONS

We invite submissions reporting on:

(A) original contributions,
(B) published work, and
(C) challenging open problems.

Each submission should be clearly identified as belonging to one of
these three categories.

In all three categories, submissions will be evaluated by the usual
high standards of research publications. In particular, they should
contain enough detail to allow the program committee to identify
the main contribution of the work, to explain its significance, its
novelty, its relevance to the strategic-reasoning audience, and its
practical or theoretical implications, and include comparisons with
and references to relevant literature.

Strong preference will be given to contributions on topics of interest
to a broad, interdisciplinary audience and all papers should be
written so that they are accessible to such an audience.

Submissions should be in PDF, preferably using the EPTCS style
(http://style.eptcs.org/), and not exceed 12 pages (not including
bibliography).
Authors are invited to submit their manuscript via EasyChair:
  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sr19

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IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: 12 April 2019 (AoE)
* Notification: 10 May 2019
* Final version: 3 June 2019

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PROCEEDINGS

All contributions will be made available to the participants
on a USB stick.
Accepted original papers (in the category A) will be included
in the workshop proceedings published as a volume in
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science.

As for previous editions, extended revised versions of selected original
papers will be invited to a special issue of Information & Computation
(in process).

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COMMITTEES

Workshop Co-chairs

* Dietmar Berwanger, LSV, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay, France
* François Schwartzentruber, Univ. Rennes, CNRS & INRIA, France
* Sophie Pinchinat, Univ. Rennes, CNRS & Inria, France


Program Committee

* Francesco Bellardinelli, IBISC, Univ. Évry, France
* Véronique Bruyère, UMons, Belgium
* Nathanaël Fijalkow, LaBRI, CNRS & Univ. Bordeaux, France
* Julian Guttierez, Univ. Oxford, UK
* Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen, IST Austria
* Wojtech Jamroga, Polish Academy of Science, Poland
* Jan KÅ™etínský, TU Munich, Germany
* Fangzhen Lin, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
* Christof Löding, RWTH Aachen, Germany
* Nicolas Markey, Univ. Rennes, CNRS & Inria, France
* Nello Murano, Univ. Naples, Italy
* Yoram Moses, Technion, Haifa, Israel
* R Ramanujam, IMSc, Chennai, India
* Sasha Rubin, Univ. Naples, Italy
* Abdallah Saffidine, Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
* Ashutosh Trivedi, Univ. Colorado at Boulder, USA

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

[DMANET] University Teacher in Operational Research and Data Science in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh

The School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) and Data Science. This is a fixed-term position, focusing mainly on teaching across a range of OR and Optimization courses, but with opportunities to take part in the world class research activities in our School.

The duties allocated will be dependent on the expertise of the appointee and will include delivering effective teaching to undergraduate and/or taught postgraduate programmes. The role will also include the supervision of student projects and involvement in assessment of students, helping to develop courses and programmes, possibly online where this is appropriate, and teaching related administration. The School takes career development seriously: we will mentor the postholder to develop key skills and experiences in teaching and learning and support participation in the Edinburgh Teaching Award, which leads to a Higher Education Academy Fellowship.

A PhD in Operational Research or Optimization (or closely related discipline) and experience of teaching these topics at University level is essential, as well as the ability to demonstrate effective team working, communication and interpersonal skills.

The post is available at a mutually agreed date from 1 June 2019, fixed term until 31 Aug 2021.

Informal enquiries can be made by contacting: Professor Iain Gordon (i.gordon@ed.ac.uk<mailto:i.gordon@ed.ac.uk>)

Salary Scale: £33,199 - £39,609 per annum.

The University of Edinburgh promotes equality and diversity. We strive for a family-friendly School of Mathematics<https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/atoms/files/familyfriendlypolicies.pdf>. The School holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award and supports the London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme.

All applicants should apply online at www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=047181<http://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=047181>
Please attach your curriculum vitae and a brief document outlining your teaching experience and your approach to teaching.

Closing date for applications is Monday 1 April 2019 at 5pm (GMT).


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Joerg Kalcsics
Lecturer in Operational Research
Programme Director OR MSc
School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh

James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK

Room: 6226
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953
Email: joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk<mailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk>
Web: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/people/show?person=450

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[DMANET] Post-doctoral position at ISEN Rennes (France) on Artificial Intelligence

Yncréa Ouest/ISEN is a French major engineering school, specialized in
digital sectors, recognized by the Ministry of Education and accredited
by the CTI (French national engineering qualification board). The
mission of our dedicated teaching and administrative team is to provide
students with a 5-year general engineering qualification, specializing
in digital technologies.

Based in Brest (700 students), Nantes (120 students) and Rennes (30
students), our 3 campuses offer engineering programs in embedded
electronics, Internet of Things, mobile robotics, artificial
intelligence, business engineering, bio technologies, energy and
sustainable development. Our school has experienced/registered a strong
growth for a few years.

With more than 30 members, our research laboratory L@bISEN focuses on
smart and autonomous systems (information processing and decision,
sensors network, energy). Our laboratory is most dynamic, with
publications in top-ranked journals. In this context, we are recruiting
a postdoctoral fellow for 24 months in Rennes in the field of artificial
intelligence.

The work consists in contributing to the development of a system which
can extract some relevant information for studying the behavior of a
people or a group of people. The information is acquired from multimodal
sensors (images from optical camera, sensors such as accelerometers,
thermometers, pressure sensors…) and is processed to extract relevant
information (fall detection for elderly, suspicious activities to
prevent terrorism…). The work will consist in delimiting some simple
scenarios with different sensors, then to test and validate, and to
complexify the scenarios by bringing new sensors and new kind of
information in order to be able to trigger alerts related to the
behavior. The candidate will focus on applying artificial intelligence
methods on the existing data and evaluate the extracted information.

The candidate holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science,
Applied Mathematics or a related discipline. She/he should be
independent in organizing their work, a spirit of initiative and
creativity. A taste for teaching is also an appreciated skill for the
position (some lectures to our students could be proposed). This
position is funded by the Brittany region (SAD). The candidate must have
spent at least 18 months outside France during the last 3 years. The
post-doctoral position may be converted into a full-time
research/teaching position in our institution at the end of the contract.

To apply, please send your CV and a cover letter before June, 30th 2019
to Dr. Matthieu Saumard, matthieu.saumard@isen-ouest.yncrea.fr and Dr.
Michaël Aron, michael.aron@isen-ouest.yncrea.fr

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[DMANET] [CFP] EAI GOODTECHS 2019, 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good - Valencia, Spain, 25/09 - 27/09

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*
* Call for Papers
*
* GoodTechs 2019
*
* 5th EAI International Conference on
* Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good
*
* September 25-27, 2019
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* Submissions due: April 10, 2019 [extended]
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SCOPE
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By social good we refer to a "good" or a service that benefits the
largest number of people in the largest possible way. Some classic
examples of social goods are, of course, healthcare, safety,
environment, democracy, and human rights, but we can add to this
classic list even communication, art, entertainment and much more.

In this context, the popularity of portable computing devices, like
smartphones, tablets, or smart watches combined with the emergence of
many other small smart objects with computational, sensing and
communication capabilities coupled with the popularity of social
networks and new human-technology interaction paradigms is creating
unprecedented opportunities for each of us to do something useful,
ranging from a single person to the whole world. Furthermore, Internet
of Things, Smart-cities, distributed sensing and Fog computing are
representative examples of modern ICT paradigms that aim to describe a
dynamic and globally cooperative infrastructure built upon objects'
intelligence and self-configuring capabilities. These connected
objects are finding their way into our pockets, vehicles, urban areas
and infrastructure, thus becoming the very texture of our society and
providing us the possibility, but also the responsibility, to shape it.

In GOODTECHS we are hence interested in experiences with the design,
implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects
and technologies for social good. Clearly, we are not considering only
the so called first world as the scenario for this evolution; we also
refer to those areas where ICT is currently less widespread, hoping
that it may represent a societal development opportunity rather than a
source for further divide.

Topics
Authors are solicited to submit original, previously unpublished
papers in the following, but not limited to topic areas:

- App concepts and technologies for different mobile platforms
- Blockchain for social good
- Communication between mobile devices
- Content Distribution
- E-learning solutions
- Data collection, organization and dissemination methods
- Delay-tolerant aerial networks and ferrying approaches
- Deployment and field-testing
- Digital tools for art and feelings
- Environment sensing, monitoring and preservation
- Experimental results of communication testbeds
- Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications
- Health and social care
- Human-object interaction
- ICT for development
- Mobile service architectures and frameworks
- Mobility and handover management
- New application scenarios for vehicular communications
- Pervasive and ubiquitous services in cloud and IoT
- Platforms and frameworks for mobile devices
- Privacy issues and solutions
- Protocol design, testing and verification
- Security issues, architectures and solutions
- Smart cities and transportation
- Smart economy solutions: e-banking, e-business
- Smart governance and e-administration
- Smart living and E-health
- Technology addressing the digital divide

SPECIAL SESSIONS
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In addition to the main conference, GOODTECHS19 features special
sessions, aimed to emphasize emerging topics not fully or not
specifically covered in the main conference. Special sessions
highlight current topics related to experiences with the design,
implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of smart objects
and technologies for social good.

Presentations delivered during the events should be based on original
papers, selected through a peer-review process and that have not been
previously published. Accepted papers will be included in the
Conference Proceedings.

For more information please refer to the main conference website:
http://goodtechs.eu

PUBLICATION
===========

All registered papers will be published by ACM and made available
through ACM Digital Library.

Papers should be in English.
Regular papers should be up to 6 pages in length.
Short papers should be up to 4 pages in length.
Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be
concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers
will be rejected without review.
Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing
services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google
Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited
to submit an extended version to:

- Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal (IF: 2.497)
- Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Journal
(IF: 1.114)

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a
fast track of:

- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems
- EAI Endorsed Transactions on Serious Games


SUBMISSION
==========

Papers should be submitted through EAI 'Confy' system
(http://confy.eai.eu/52608), and have to comply with the ACM format
(see Author's kit section).

IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Full Paper Submission deadline: April 10, 2019
Notification deadline: June 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline: July 1, 2019
Start of Conference: September 25, 2019
End of Conference: September 27, 2019

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Ph.D student
University of Padua
Department of Mathematics
Via Trieste, 63 - Office 731
35121, Padua, Italy

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Ph.D student
University of Padua
Department of Mathematics
Via Trieste, 63 - Office 731
35121, Padua, Italy

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[DMANET] [GECCO 2019] CFP - Approaching Deadline : IAM Workshop - Industrial Applications of Metaheuristics

**** Call for Papers / approaching deadline!!! ****

IAM 2019

4th GECCO Workshop on Industrial
Applications of Metaheuristics

IAM is held as part of the 2019 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2019), July 13-17, Prague, Czech Republic


Aims and Scope
================

Metaheuristics have been applied successfully to many aspects of applied mathematics and science, showing their capabilities to deal effectively with problems that are complex and otherwise difficult to solve. There are a number of factors that make the usage of metaheuristics in industrial applications more and more interesting. These factors include the flexibility of these techniques, the increased availability of high-performing algorithmic techniques, the increased knowledge of their particular strengths and weaknesses, the ever increasing computing power, and the adoption of computational methods in applications. In fact, metaheuristics have become a powerful tool to solve a large number of real-life optimization problems in different fields and, of course, also in many industrial applications such as production scheduling, distribution planning, and inventory management.

This workshop proposes to present and debate about the current achievements of applying these techniques to solve real-world problems in industry and the future challenges, focusing on the (always) critical step from the laboratory to the shop floor. A special focus will be given to the discussion of which elements can be transferred from academic research to industrial applications and how industrial applications may open new ideas and directions for academic research.

Topic areas include (but are not restricted to):

- Success stories for industrial applications of metaheuristics
- Pitfalls of industrial applications of metaheuristics.
- Metaheuristics to optimize dynamic industrial problems.
- Multi-objective optimization in real-world industrial problems.
- Meta-heuristics in very constrained industrial optimization problems.
- Reduction of computing times through parameter tuning and surrogate modelling.
- Parallelism and/or distributed design to accelerate computations.
- Algorithm selection and configuration for complex problem solving.
- Advantages and disadvantages of metaheuristics when compared to other techniques.
- New research topics for academic research inspired from industrial applications.


Submission
============

Authors can submit:
- Short contributions including position papers of up to 4 pages - and/or
- Regular contributions of up to 8 pages.

In both cases, it is mandatory to follow the official GECCO paper formatting guidelines. Please see the GECCO 2019 information for authors for further details, accessible through http://gecco-2019.sigevo.org. Papers do not need to be anonymized. Software demonstrations will also be welcome. Workshop papers must be submitted using the GECCO submission system this year. After login, the authors need to select the "Workshop Paper" submission form. In the form, the authors must select the workshop they are submitting to. The GECCO submission system accessible at https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/. Further information on the workshop paper submission is available at http://gecco-2019.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=Workshops.

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

Submission deadline: April 3, 2019
Authors notification: April 13, 2109
Camera-ready submission: April 24, 2019
Workshop dates July 13 or 14, 2019
GECCO Conference, Prague, Czech Republic: July 13-17, 2019

Workshop Chairs
=================

Silvino Fernandez Alzueta (ArcelorMittal)
Pablo Valledor Pellicer (ArcelorMittal)
Thomas Stuetzle (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, ULB)


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M +34 683 702 032 (50492)
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[DMANET] [ICUFN 2019, IEEE] (Extended Deadline (Hard): March 31, 2019) [July 2 (Tue.) ~ July 5 (Fri.) 2019]

We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to ICUFN
2019.

Due to many requests, the paper submission deadline has been extended to **
March 31, 2019!! **
Please note that this is a hard deadline!

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Call For Papers for ICUFN 2019 (IEEE, July 2 (Tue.) ~ July 5 (Fri.) 2019,
Zagreb, Croatia)

*** Extended Paper submission deadline (Hard): March 31, 2019 ***

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*** IEEE Technical Co-Sponsorship
*** IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
*** IEICE Technical Co-Sponsorship
*** IEICE Communications Society
*** SCI/Scopus-indexed Journal Publication
*** IEEE Xplore, Scopus, EI
*** Keynote Speeches and Special Talks by VIPs and Prominent Experts
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*** Extended versions of selected papers will be also published
*** in the following international journals,
*** Wireless Personal Communications (SCIE)
*** - International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (SCIE)
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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICUFN 2019

The 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
July 2 (Tue.) ~ July 5 (Fri.) 2019, Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.icufn.org

GENERAL INFORMATION:

During the last decade, we have witnessed fast developments of various
networking technologies, and many forms of networking and systems are
becoming core parts of our daily lives. With the proliferation of future
wireless technologies and electronic devices, there is a fast growing
interest in ubiquitous and future networks. In the days to come, we
expect that the ubiquitous communication and networking technologies
will become ubiquitous along with the emergence of many future networking
technologies. The ubiquitous and future network will offer multiservice,
multimedia services convergence, mobility, service ubiquity and context
awareness, fixed mobile convergence, quality of service, variable
connectivity, spontaneous networking, autonomic networking and other
capabilities as the norm. Building on the success of the last ten years,
the eleventh International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
(ICUFN 2019) aims at addressing advances in research on ubiquitous and
future networks, covering topics ranging from technology issues to emerging
applications and test-bed developments. ICUFN 2019 solicits original,
unpublished contributions in all aspects of ubiquitous and future
networking
and system. Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered
elsewhere
for publication. We also encourage authors to submit short papers on the
early stages of research or development in progress, which present
important
new challenges. Position papers on new idea and industry papers are also
welcome. The conference is organized by KICS (The Korean Institute of
Communications and Information Sciences). Accepted and presented
papers will be published in the ICUFN 2019 Conference Proceedings with an
assigned
ISBN number and submitted to IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and EI Compendex.
Also Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the
following
international journals as a special section for the ICUFN 2019.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

Mobile Communication
- Wireless and Communication Network
- Cognitive Radio Network
- 6G, 5G, PS-LTE, LTE-R, LTE-Advanced,
- WLAN, WPAN
- Wireless Ad-hoc and Mesh Network
- Small Cell Networks
- Heterogeneous Networks
- Interference Management
- Radio Resource Management
- Cooperative and Collaborative Communications
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization

Open Networking
- QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS
- Future Internet and Network
- SDN and Network Virtualization
- Web-services and SOA
- Security, Blockchain, and Network Management
- Open Platform, Software and Services
- Network Theory and Network Science
- Information Networks
- Social Network
- Network Coding

Bigdata and Cloud
- Cloud Computing and Networks
- Datacenter Networking
- CCN/CDN/ICN/Delay-tolerant networks
- Big Data Networks
- Fog Computing and Networking
- Storage Networking Protocols
- Distributed and Parallel Systems
- Embedded Systems
- Smartphone Applications
- Applied Computing
- Energy/Power Management

Internet of Things
- Ubiquitous Computing and Sensor Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID and QR Code
- Cyber-physical system (CPS)
- Optical Wireless Communications(OWC), VLC and IR Communication
- Underwater Sensor Networks
- Internet of things (IoTs) and Internet of Lights(IoL)
- Body Area Network
- D2D and M2M
- Nano Communication Networks

Autonomous Systems/Machine Learning
- Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence
- Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks and Autonomous Vehicles
- Energy Internet, Smart Grid and Green Internets
- LBS, Localization, Positioning and Navigation
- Location and mobility management
- e-Health
- AR, VR, MR, Multi Screen and Digital Signage
- Computer Vision Applications
- Safety Critical System
- Reliability, Availability and Scalability

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, and uploaded
on EDAS. The direct link for paper submission is http://edas.info/N25428
There are two options for the submissions, either a full paper or a short
paper. We decided to allow the submission of short papers in order to
accommodate the most recent research outcomes. The submissions should be
formatted with single-spaced, double-column pages using at least 10 pt
size fonts on A4 or letter pages in IEEE style format. The maximum number
of pages is 6 for full papers and 3 for short papers. Please make sure
that both full paper and short papers must be at minimum 3 pages in length.
Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available on the
conference web site (http://www.icufn.org).


SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATION:
Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICUFN 2019
Conference
Proceedings. Also extended versions of
selected papers will be published in the following international journals
as
a special issue or section for the ICUFN 2019.
- Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (SCIE)
- Wireless Personal Communications (SCIE)
- International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (SCIE)
- Mobile Information System (SCIE)
- Sensors (SCIE)
- ICT Express (Scopus)
- Recent Advances on Communications and Networking Technology

BEST PAPER AWARDS:
Best papers will be selected by the technical program committee members
among regular papers presented at ICUFN 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Extended Submission Deadline (Hard) (6-page Full Paper or 3-page Short
Paper): Mar. 31, 2019
- Acceptance Notification: April 26, 2019
- Camera-Ready Paper (6-page Full Paper or 3-page Short Paper): May 10, 2019

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[DMANET] CFP: The 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)

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C a l l F o r P a p e r s

Twenty-fourth European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS
2019)

Luxembourg -- September 23-27, 2019

WWW: https://esorics2019.uni.lu

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Overview
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ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The
Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries,
attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and
industrial communities. Papers offering novel research contributions in
computer security are solicited for submission to the 2019 Symposium, to be
held in Luxembourg. The primary focus is on original, high quality,
unpublished research and implementation experiences. We encourage
submissions of papers discussing industrial research and development.

Important Dates
----------------
* Title and Abstract deadline: April 22, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa
time, UTC-11)
* Paper submission deadline: April 29, 2019 (11:59 p.m. American Samoa
time, UTC-11)
* Notification to authors: June 21, 2019
* Camera ready due: July 9, 2019

Topics of Interest
-------------------
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* access control
* accountability
* ad hoc networks
* anonymity
* applied cryptography
* authentication
* biometrics
* blockchain and finance security
* data and computation integrity
* database security
* data protection
* deep learning for attack and defense
* digital content protection
* digital forensics
* distributed systems security
* embedded systems security
* inference control
* information hiding
* identity management
* information flow control
* information security governance and management
* intrusion detection
* formal security methods
* language-based security
* network security
* phishing and spam prevention
* privacy
* privacy preserving data mining
* risk analysis and management
* secure electronic voting
* security architectures
* security economics
* security metrics
* security models
* security and privacy for big data
* security and privacy in cloud scenarios
* security and privacy in complex systems
* security and privacy in content centric networking
* security and privacy in crowdsourcing
* security and privacy in the IoT
* security and privacy in location services
* security and privacy for mobile code
* security and privacy in pervasive / ubiquitous computing
* security and privacy policies
* security and privacy in social networks
* security and privacy in web services
* security and privacy in cyber-physical systems
* security, privacy and resilience in critical infrastructures
* security verification
* software security
* systems security
* trust models and management
* trustworthy user devices
* usable security and privacy
* web security
* wireless security


Paper Submission Guidelines
----------------------------
Submissions must be made through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esorics19

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference/workshop with proceedings. The symposium proceedings will be
published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series
(LNCS).

All submissions should follow the LNCS template ( available from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html ) from the time they are
submitted. Submitted papers should be at most 16 pages (using 10-point
font), excluding the bibliography and well-marked appendices, and at most
20 pages total. Committee members are not required to read the appendices,
so the paper should be intelligible without them. All submissions must be
written in English.

Submissions are to be made to the submission web site. Only pdf files will
be accepted. Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection
without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must
agree with Springer LNCS copyright and guarantee that their papers will be
presented at the conference.

Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates, 11:59 p.m. American
Samoa time (UTC-11).

Organisation Committee
-----------------------
General Chair:

* Peter Y A Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Organization Chair:

* Peter B Roenne, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Workshop Chair:

* Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro,Telecom SudParis, France

Program Committee Chairs:

* Kazue Sako, NEC Japan
* Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK

Program Committee:

Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Elli Androulaki, IBM, Switzerland
Frederik Armknecht, University of Mannheim, Germany
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
Marina Blanton, University of Notre Dame, USA
Carlo Blundo, Universita` degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Christian Cachin, University of Bern, Switzerland
Alvaro Cardenas, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Aldar Chan, University of Hong Kong, HK
Yan Chen, Northwestern University, USA
Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Jorge Cuellar, Siemens A.G., Germany
Frederic Cuppens, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, TELECOM Bretagne, France
Marc Dacier, EURECOM, France
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France
Stéphanie Delaune, IRISA, France
Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain
Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, China
Francois Dupressoir, University of Surrey, UK
Jose Fernandez, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Jose-Luis Ferrer-Gomila, UIB, Spain
Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden
Simon Foley, IMT Atlantique, France
Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK
Debin Gao, SMU, Singapore
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University, USA
Juan Hernandez, UPC, Spain
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Ghassan Karame, NEC Labs Europe, Germany
Vasilios Katos, Bournemouth University, UK
Sokratis Katsikas, NTNU, Norway
Stefan Katzenbeisser TU Darmstadt, Germany
Steve Kremer, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Marina Krotofil, FireEye, USA
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Yingjiu Li, SMU, Singapore
Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK
Hoon Wei Lim, SingTel, Singapore
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Peng Liu, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Konstantinos Markantonakis, RHUL, UK
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford, UK
Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Weizhi Meng, DTU, Denmark
Chris Mitchell, RHUL, UK
John C. Mitchell, Stanford University, USA
Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University, Japan
Haris Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK
David Naccache, Ecole Normale Suprieure, France
Satoshi Obana, Hosei University, Japan
Martin Ochoa, SUTD, Singapore
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Olivier Pereira, UCL, Belgium
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Christina Popper, New York University, US
Joachim Posegga, University of Passau, Germany
Bart Preneel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Indrajiti Ray, Colorado State University, USA
Giovanni Russello, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK
Rei Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Kazue Sako, NEC, Japan
Pierangela Samarati, Universitá degli studi di Milano, Italy
Damien Sauveron, XLIM, France
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Einar Snekkenes, Gjovik University College, Norway
Pawel Szalachowski, SUTD, Singapore
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Qiang Tang, LIST, Luxembourg
Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, Singapore
Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK
Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
Jaideep Vaidya, Rutgers University, USA
Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, HK
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Edgar Weippl, SBA Research, Austria
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Zhe Xia, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Kehuan Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK
Sencun Zhu, Pennsylvania State University, USA

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