Theory Announcements: 2020

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

[DMANET] Postdoc position in OR

The group of Management Informatics of the Universidad de Talca, Chile, is
looking for talented (postdoctoral) researchers in the field of
(robust/stochastic)
mixed-integer programming (and its applications). Selected candidates are
expected to contribute to the design and implementation of novel (exact and
heuristic) solution methods to solve robust/stochastic mixed-integer
programming problems (e.g., network design, scheduling, routing) emerging
from different application areas (supply chain management, power systems
engineering, healthcare management, natural resources management, among
others).

We are looking for candidates with experience and interest in:

- Coding and implementing exact and heuristic algorithms for solving
(mixed-integer programming) optimization problems in C++.
- Presenting and writing up academic papers.
- Some experience with GIS is a plus.

This is a two-year position (with a possible extension to up to three
additional years) and selected applicants are expected to join the group
starting from March 2021 (although the start date can be negotiated within
a relatively flexible time frame). A yearly budget for travel expenses,
conference registration fees and other expenditures is also considered.

If you are interested and/or want more information about the position and
application process, please contact Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda at
ealvarez@utalca.cl and eduardo.alvmir@gmail.com

Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda

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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

[DMANET] Announcement and call for papers --- EUROCOMB'21

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1st ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications

EUROCOMB 2021

https://eurocomb2021.upc.edu/

6-10 September 2020
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The conference EUROCOMB 2021 will be held *online* September 6-10, 2021.

SCOPE

In the tradition of EUROCOMB'01 (Barcelona), EUROCOMB'03 (Prague),
EUROCOMB'05 (Berlin), EUROCOMB'07 (Seville), EUROCOMB'09 (Bordeaux),
EUROCOMB'11 (Budapest), EUROCOMB'13 (Pisa), EUROCOMB'15 (Bergen),
EUROCOMB'17 (Vienna) and EUROCOMB'19 (Bratislava), this conference will
cover the full range of Combinatorics and Graph Theory including
applications in other areas of Mathematics, Computer Science, and
Engineering.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Algebraic Combinatorics
Combinatorial Geometry
Combinatorial Number Theory
Combinatorial Optimization
Designs and Configurations
Enumerative Combinatorics
Extremal Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Ordered Sets
Probabilistic Combinatorics
Random discrete structures
Topological Combinatorics

PLENARY SPEAKERS

To be confirmed

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline: March 19th, 2021
Nominations for the European Prize in Combinatorics deadline: April 15th,
2021
Notification of acceptance of abstract: April 30th, 2021
Proceedings camera ready: May 21st, 2021
Early registration deadline: August 15th, 2021
EUROCOMB'21: 6-10 September 2021

ORGANISATION

The conference is organised by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
- BarcelonaTECH.

CONTACT

The organising committee may be contacted at: eurocomb.2021@event.upc.edu

For up-to-date information please consult the conference web site:
https://eurocomb2021.upc.edu/

SUBMISSIONS

The submission of extended abstracts for EUROCOMB'21 is now open.

Submissions should describe recent original theoretical results or
applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory.

Please use the template available in the webpage of the conference for the
submissions. They should have a maximum of 6 pages in this format. They
should be submitted as a pdf file using the interface provided on EasyChair

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocomb21

There will be a volume of CRM Research Perspectives

https://www.springer.com/series/13332

which will publish all accepted abstracts of the conference.

The deadline for submissions is March 19th, 2021.

EUROPEAN PRIZE IN COMBINATORICS

Continuing with the tradition established at EUROCOMB'03 in Prague, the
European Prize in Combinatorics will be awarded during the conference
EUROCOMB'21.

The aim of the prize is to recognise excellent contributions in
Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics, and their applications, by young
European researchers (eligibility of EU) not older than 35 years. The prize
carries a monetary award.

A nomination letter including CV and the list of publications of the
nominee should be sent to the organisers of EUROCOMB'21 at
eurocomb.2021@event.upc.edu with subject "European prize in Combinatorics"
before April 15th, 2021.

The nominations will be evaluated by an international jury.

REGISTRATION

Registration will be open in early March 2021.

There will be a low registration fee of 40€ (regular) and 20€
(undergraduate and graduate students, retired participants) for early bird
(before August 15, 2021)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maria Axenovich (KIT, Karlsruhe)
Agnes Backhausz (Eötvös Loránd U., Budapest)
Marthe Bonamy (LABRI, Bordeaux)
Michael Drmota (TUWien)
Zdenek Dvořák (Charles U., Prague)
Stefan Felsner (TU Berlin)
Ervin Gyori (Alfred Rényi Institute, Budapest)
Dan Král' (Masaryk U., Brno)
Bojan Mohar (SFU, Vancouver and U. of Ljubljana)
Rob Morris (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro)
Jaroslav Nešetřil (Charles U. and ITI, Prague), Chair
Marc Noy (UPC, Barcelona)
Patrice Ossona de Mendez (CNRS and EHESS, Paris)
Marco Pellegrini (IIT-CNR, Pisa)
Oleg Pikhurko (Warwick)
Andrzej Ruciński (UAM, Póznan and Emory)
Oriol Serra (UPC, Barcelona), Co-chair
Martin Skoviera (Comenius U., Bratislava)
Jozef Skokan (LSE, London)
Maya Stein (U. de Chile, Santiago de Chile)
Benjamin Sudakov (ETH, Zurich)
Xuding Zhu (Zhejiang Normal U., Jinhua)

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

[DMANET] [SecMT2021] CFP - International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies

International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies

https://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2021/ACNS_Workshop/index.html

will be held in conjunction with ACNS2021
<http://sulab-sever.u-aizu.ac.jp/ACNS2021/>

June 21-24, 2021 (in parallel with the main conference)

Kamakura, Japan

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Despite being small computing devices, smartphones offer a wide range of
functionalities and services to their users, which are currently
encountered to be more than one third of the world population. This
range of features introduces new security and privacy threats, which
expose users to serious damages. Even though research in mobile security
has been active over the past 10 years, as long as the mobile technology
is used, new challenges will always come up. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring researchers, hardware and software developers, as
well as practitioners and policy makers, to explore the latest advances
in the security and privacy for mobile devices.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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Mobile network security

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Mobile operating system security

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Side-channel attacks on mobile devices

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Mobile authentication

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Mobile transactions security

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Software vulnerabilities in mobile devices

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Hardware vulnerabilities in mobile devices

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Mobile applications security

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Mobile malware

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Workshop paper submission deadline: March 20, 2021

Workshop paper notification: April 27, 2021

Camera-ready papers submission deadline: May 10, 2021

Workshop dates: TBD during June 21-24, 2021 (in parallel with the main
conference)

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PROGRAM CHAIRS:

Olga Gadyatskaya, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS),
Leiden University, the NetherlandsEleonora Losiouk, University of Padua,
Italy

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WEB CHAIR:

Eleonora Losiouk, University of Padua, Italy

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SUBMISSION

Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the
authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel to any
other venue with formally published proceedings. Information about
submissions may be shared with program chairs of other conferences for
that purpose. Submissions must be anonymous, with no author names,
affiliations, acknowledgement or obvious references. Each submission
must begin with a title, short abstract, and a list of keywords. The
introduction should summarize the contributions of the paper at a level
appropriate for a non-specialist reader. All submissions must follow the
original LNCS format (seehttp://www.springeronline.com/lncs) with a page
limit of 18 pages (incl. references)for the main part (reviewers are not
required to read beyond this limit) and 30 pages in total. Authors of
accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the
conference and must make a full version of their paper available online.
Best paper award (selected from all workshops at ACNS21) will be awarded
to the selected paper based on the reviews by the committee. Submissions
not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits. It is strongly encouraged that
submissions be processed in LaTeX. The accepted papers will have
post-proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series.

There will be a best paper award.

The accepted papers will have post-proceedings published by Springer.

Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system.

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Best Regards,

Eleonora Losiouk, PhD,

Research/Postdoc Fellow,

University of Padua - Department of Mathematics,

SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group

https://www.math.unipd.it/~elosiouk/

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[DMANET] Postdoc position in parameterized complexity at University of Warwick, UK (application deadline: January 18, 2021)

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the area of parameterized algorithms, at the University of Warwick. The position is for 2 years and the start date can be negotiated for the successful candidate.

The position is available in connection with a research grant of Dr. Ramanujan Sridharan (https://msramanujan.weebly.com/parity-project.html) with the goal of pursuing cutting edge research in the design of parameterized graph algorithms exploiting novel notions of graph-edit distance. The project comes with a generous travel budget which will enable the project team to closely collaborate with internationally leading research groups in algorithms and complexity.

You will need to have a strong background in the mathematical analysis of algorithms, with a specialization in one of the following areas: graph algorithms, combinatorics or parameterized complexity. You will need to have (or expect to obtain shortly) a PhD in the relevant area.

You will be formally based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and you will be associated with the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap) and the Division of Theory and Foundations at the University of Warwick. The Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick is one of the top-ranking computing departments in the United Kingdom. The department is especially renowned for its excellence in theoretical aspects of computer science, in the areas of algorithms and combinatorial optimization.

The Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) is an internationally renowned centre of excellence in algorithms, discrete mathematics and combinatorics, theoretical computer science and mathematical aspects of operational research. It is led by a number of internationally recognised researchers and has an extensive programme of scientific seminars, international workshops and conferences, and visiting researchers. For further information about DIMAP, please see our website http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/dimap/

For further information about the position, please contact Dr. Sridharan (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/ramanujan_sridharan/).

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application by 18 Jan 2021 at the following link: https://bit.ly/3h9QDLv.

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Two tenure-track positions in theoretical CS at UC Santa Cruz

We have two openings for tenure-track faculty positions in Theoretical Computer Science in the Computer Science and Engineering Department here at UC Santa Cruz. We welcome applications!

The details of the positions, and the application process, can be found here: https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/departments/computer-science-and-engineering/job-openings and here: https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/sites/default/files/TCS%20JPF00962-21.pdf

Many thanks,

Luca de Alfaro

luca@ucsc.edu

Professor, Computer Science and Engineering

UC Santa Cruz

[DMANET] CIAA 2021 -- Call for Papers

Please distribute as appropriate, and
excuse if you receive multiple copies.

Call for Papers
C I A A 2 0 2 1

THE 25th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
IMPLEMENTATION AND APPLICATION OF AUTOMATA

http://wwwdb.informatik.uni-bremen.de/ciaa2021/

The 25th International Conference on Implementation and Applications of
Automata will take place in Bremen, Germany between July 19 and 23, 2021.
It is organized by the Database Group (headed by Sebastian Maneth)
of the University of Bremen.

* IMPORTANT DATES *

Deadline for submissions: March 15 2021, AoE
Notification of acceptance or rejection: April 19, 2021
Camera ready for the conference proceedings: May 3, 2021
Conference: July 19--23, 2021

* SUBMISSIONS *

Submissions must be written in LaTeX using the LNCS style and must not
exceed 12 pages, bibliography included. If the authors believe that more
details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include
a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the
program committee. Simultaneous submissions of papers to journals or any
other conference with published proceedings, or submitting previously
published papers is not allowed. Only electronic submission of PDF
documents is possible. The proceedings will be published in the Springer
LNCS series and will be available at the conference. Authors should
submit their contributions at the website

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciaa2021

* SHENG YU AWARD *

A "Best Paper Award," since 2014 called "Sheng Yu Award" will be
presented to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best on the
basis of the referee reports.

* SPECIAL ISSUE *

It is planned to invite selected papers from the conference for
consideration in an extended version for a planned special issue in
Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

* TOPICS *

Original papers are sought in all areas that relate to implementation
and application of automata, including (but not limited to):

algorithms on automata,
automata and logic,
bioinformatics,
complexity of automata operations,
compilers,
computer-aided verification,
concurrency,
data structure design for automata,
data and image compression,
design and architecture of automata software,
digital libraries,
DNA/molecular/membrane computing,
document engineering, editors, environments,
experimental studies and practical experiences,
implementation of verification methods and model checking,
industrial applications,
natural language and speech processing,
networking, new algorithms for manipulating automata,
new algorithms for manipulating automata,
object-oriented modeling,
pattern-matching,
pushdown automata and context-free grammars,
quantum computing,
speech and speaker recognition,
structured and semi-structured documents,
symbolic manipulation environments for automata,
teaching,
text processing,
techniques for graphical display of automata,
transducers and multi-tape automata,
VLSI,
viruses and related phenomena, and the world-wide web

* PROGRAM COMMITTEE *

Marie-Pierre Béal, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
Francine Blanchet-Sadri, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, USA
Cezar Câmpeanu, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Jan Daciuk, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
Mike Domaratzki, University of Manitoba, Canada
Emmanuel Filiot, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Yo-Sub Han, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Jan Holub, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Markus Holzer, University of Giessen, Germany
Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Christos Kapoutsis, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar
Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Finland
Markus Lohrey, University of Siegen, Germany
Sylvain Lombardy, LaBRI - CNRS - Institut Polytechnique de
Bordeaux, France
Andreas Maletti, University of Leipzig, Germany
Sebastian Maneth, University of Bremen, Germany (PC Chair)
Brink van der Merwe, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Nelma Moreira, University of Porto, Portugal
Cyril Nicaud, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
Dirk Nowotka, University of Kiel, Germany
Alexander Okhotin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Giovanni Pighizzini, University of Milan, Italy
Bala Ravikumar, Sonoma State University, USA
Daniel Reidenbach, Loughborough University, Great Britain
Rogério Reis, University of Porto, Portugal
Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Hiroyuki Seki, Nagoya University, Japanb
Shinnosuke Seki, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Helmut Seidl, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jean-Marc Talbot, Aix-Marseille University, France
Bruce Watson, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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[DMANET] Carlos III University of Madrid - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) positions

The Department of Statistics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M),
Spain, invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track Assistant
Professor positions, starting on September 1, 2021.

Job requirements include:

• An excellent track record of research experience in any of the areas of
the Department (Econometrics, Operations Research, Probability and
Statistics), reflected in high-quality internationally refereed
publications.
• A PhD in related fields by the expected start date.
• Demonstrated high-quality teaching experience and/or proven didactic
skills.
• Excellent proficiency in English (written and verbal, as faculty are
expected to teach courses in English, both at the undergraduate and
graduate levels).

Conditions of employment include:

• A contract subject to internal evaluations, with the prospect of becoming
a tenured Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), subject to Spanish and
University regulations.
• The salary corresponds to that of an Associate Professor in Spanish
public universities.

UC3M (see www.uc3m.es/Home) is a high-ranking young (founded in 1989)
research- oriented public Spanish university. The Department of Statistics
(see www.uc3m.es/statistics), which has about 35 full-time faculty members
with a broad variety of research interests, mostly within Statistics, but
also in Econometrics and in Operations Research, is committed to excellent
standards in teaching and research. The Department is in charge of teaching
Statistics related courses in most undergraduate degrees offered by UC3M,
spanning the Schools of Engineering, Social Sciences, and Humanities. The
Department is involved as well in a number of postgraduate programs,
especially the Master in Statistics for Data Science and the Master in Big
Data Analytics, and in a PhD program. A large share of courses are taught
in English.

Foreign applicants must have valid documentation to work in Spain before
starting.

By the deadline of February 28, 2021, applicants should send the following
by email to departamento.estadistica@uc3m.es (to which queries can also be
addressed):

• A cover letter including statements of research and teaching interests
and goals.
• A curriculum vitae.
• At least two letters of reference, to be sent by letter writers to the
above address.

The Department will invite short-listed candidates for an interview and to
present a research seminar, both possibly online.

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Jose Niño-Mora
Professor and Head, Department of Statistics
Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain

[DMANET] [Deadline Approaching, December 29] 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks, IEEE WISARN 2021, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2021

[apologies for cross-posting]

14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks
IEEE WISARN 2021, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2021 conference

Deadline (Already Extended): December 29, 2020 (hard deadline)
Submission link: https://edas.info/N27895

Website: https://wisarn2021.nws.cs.unibo.it
May 10, 2021 Virtual Conference

Features:

- Best Paper Award (BPA) sponsored by the Technology Innovation
Institute (TII) with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro.

- Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will
be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on
"Internet of Things and Sensors Network in 5G Wireless
Communications", MDPI Sensors journal.

- Best-selected papers related to robotic sensors networks and 5G will
be invited to submit an extended paper to the Special Issue on
"Mobile Fog and Edge Computing in Drone Swarms", MDPI Drones journal.

Important Deadlines:
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Deadline (Already Extended): December 29, 2020 (hard deadline)
Notification: January 15, 2021
Camera-ready: February, 15, 2021
Workshop date: May 10, 2021

Scope of the workshop
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Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV networks are characterized by the
coordination and mobility of nodes that are able to accomplish
distributed sensing and actuation tasks. Leveraged by the control and
mobility of actors, the networking process and applications embrace a
whole new set of possibilities. Specialized networked systems, made of
intelligent devices (such as robots and UAVs), may deploy, repair and
relocate sensors to improve coverage, build routes and fix network
partition to ensure data communication, change network topology to
shape routing patterns and balance energy consumption, and to respond
to reported events in a timely and effective manner. Also, they might
be able to integrate within existing and upcoming mobile
infrastructures (e.g. the 5G), by enabling the sensing operations on
complex and dynamic scenarios, and to process the data on the edge or
to offload them toward existing cloud services. The benefits are
limited only by imagination. As an emerging field, ground and aerial
robotic systems are in need of new networking techniques as well as of
novel cloud/edge architectures for data gathering and processing that
might unlock the potentials of such systems. To this purpose, WiSARN
aims at bringing together state-of-the-art contributions on the
design, specification and implementation of architectures, algorithms
and protocols for current and future applications of sensor robotic
and aerial networks. IEEE WiSARN 2021 will serve as incubator for
scientific communities that share a particular research agenda in the
area of the workshop's topics. Moreover, it will provide its
participants with opportunities to understand the major technical and
application challenges of UAV/Robot networking as well as exchange and
discuss scientific and engineering ideas related to their
architecture, protocol, algorithm, and application design.

Topics of interest
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Original, unpublished contributions are solicited in design,
implementation and evaluation of wireless sensor, robot and UAV
networks. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- UAV-aided wireless sensor networks

- Communication protocols and wireless technologies for robotic systems

- UAV and robot networks in 5G systems

- Emergent behavior in robotic systems

- Cloud/fog/edge computing platforms in robotic systems

- Data management, gathering and aggregation issues in robotic systems

- Modeling and control of fleet of UAVs

- Autonomic and self-organizing coordination and communication in Robot
and UAV networks

- Energy-efficient and real-time communication protocols in Robot and
UAV networks

- Distributed control and management for Robot and UAV network deployments

- Map exploration and pattern formation of mobile robots

- Robot task assignment

- Biologically inspired communication systems for Robot and UAV networks

- Software-Defined Aerial Networks

- Endurance Management

- Context-awareness and decision making for UAV systems

- Path planning, and target tracking in UAV networks

- Quality of service, security and robustness issues

- Robot advanced motion control

- Optimal control of networked robots

- Novel applications of Robot and UAV networks

Committees
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General Chairs

- Enrico Natalizio, University of Lorraine, France
- Yannis Paschalidis, Boston University, USA

Technical Program Chairs

- Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
- Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
- Guan Zhangyu, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Web and Publicity Chairs

- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy

Technical Program Committee
- Fatemeh Afghah, Northern Arizona University, USA
- Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada
- Christian Bettstetter, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
- Marcos Caetano, University of Brasilia, Brasil
- Christelle Caillouet, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, France
- Carlos Calafate, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Arnaud Casteigts, University of Bordeaux, France
- Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC, France
- Salvatore D'Oro, Northeastern University, USA
- Giulia De Masi, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE
- Saptarshi Debroy, City University of New York, USA
- Isabelle Guérin Lassous, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - LIP, France
- Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria, Italy
- Hongzhi Guo, Norfolk State University, USA
- Karin Hummel, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Pedram Johari, Northeastern University, USA
- Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
- Filippo Malandra, University at Buffalo, USA
- Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
- Nicholas Mastronarde, University at Buffalo, USA
- Jorge Ortín, Centro Universitario de la Defensa Zaragoza, Spain
- Angelo Trotta, University of Bologna, Italy
- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA
- Fabrice Valois, Univ Lyon, INSA Lyon, Inria, CITI, France
- Christian Wietfeld, TU Dortmund University, Germany
- Evsen Yanmaz, Ozyegin University, Turkey
- Nicola Roberto Zema, Paris-Saclay University, France

Submission Instructions
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To submit your paper, it is required that the manuscript follows the
standard IEEE camera-ready format (double column, 10-pt font) and be
submitted as PDF file (formatted for 8.5-11 inch paper) as well as the
requirement set by the EDAS paper submission system. Submitted paper
must be original and unpublished papers with no more than 6 pages,
including bibliography.

All accepted papers of INFOCOM (main program and workshops), after
being presented at the conference, will be included in the proceedings
to be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.

Submission link: https://edas.info/N27895

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Monday, December 21, 2020

[DMANET] [LATIN 2020] Call for participation / Registration closing soon!

Dear colleague,

Registration for LATIN 2020 is closing soon!

http://latin2020.ime.usp.br

Please check

https://latin2020.ime.usp.br/#registration

for the registration procedure.

Deadline for registration is this Sunday, 27 December 2020.

When: from 5 to 8 January 2021
What: a symposium devoted to theoretical computer science
Where: online, by Virtual Chair on the Gather platform

https://www.virtualchair.net/events/latin-2020

How much: the registration fee is 100 Brazilian Reals (approximately
19 US dollars)

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AlCoB 2020 & 2021: 3rd call for papers

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7^th-8^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2020 & 2021

Missoula, Montana, USA

June 7-11, 2021

Co-organized by:

Department of Computer Science
University of Montana

and

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Brussels/London

https://irdta.eu/alcob2020-2021/

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AIMS:

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, phylogeny reconstruction, and structure prediction.

AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for AlCoB 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.

Previous events were held in Tarragona, Mexico City, Trujillo (Spain), Aveiro, Hong Kong and Berkeley.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in computational biology, with topics including:

1) assembling sequence reads into a complete genome,
2) identifying gene structures in the genome,
3) recognizing regulatory motifs,
4) aligning nucleotides and comparing genomes,
5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and
6) inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Special focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be reserved for scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will take place in Missoula, Montana, a college town located in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, near Glacier National Park and Yellowstone National Park. The meeting will be hosted in the University Center, a few hundred feet from the base of Mount Sentinel.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:

Sequence analysis
Sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks, mass spectrometry analysis
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, epigenomics
Genome CD architecture
Microbiome analysis
Cancer computational biology
Systems biology

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2020 & 2021 will consist of:

invited lectures
peer-reviewed contributions
posters

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Terry Gaasterland (University of California, San Diego), Genetic Risk of Disease through Genome Variation and Regulation of Transcription

Christine Orengo (University College London), Algorithms for Mining Massive Metagenome Repositories to Detect Novel Enzymes

Tamar Schlick (New York University), Folding Genes at Nucleosome Resolution

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Ludmil Alexandrov (University of California, San Diego, US)
Can Alkan (Bilkent University, TR)
Mani Arumugam (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Bonnie Berger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
Sanchita Bhattacharya (University of California, San Francisco, US)
Chao Cheng (Baylor College of Medicine, US)
Keith Crandall (George Washington University, US)
Colin Dewey (University of Wisconsin, Madison, US)
Ian Dunham (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
Anton Enright (University of Cambridge, UK)
Joe Felsenstein (University of Washington, US)
Pedro G. Ferreira (University of Porto, PT)
Martin Frith (University of Tokyo, JP)
Debashis Ghosh (University of Colorado, US)
Michael Gribskov (Purdue University, US)
Michael Hawrylycz (Allen Institute for Brain Science, US)
Daniel Huson (University of Tübingen, DE)
Kazutaka Katoh (Osaka University, JP)
Miriam Konkel (Clemson University, US)
Maria-Jesus Martin (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
David H. Mathews (University of Rochester, US)
Aaron McKenna (Dartmouth College, US)
Ryan E. Mills (University of Michigan, US)
Burkhard Morgenstern (University of Göttingen, DE)
Zemin Ning (Wellcome Sanger Institute, UK)
Joel S. Parker (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, US)
Kay Prüfer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, DE)
Knut Reinert (Free University of Berlin, DE)
Walter L. Ruzzo (University of Washington, US)
Russell Schwartz (Carnegie Mellon University, US)
Gordon Smyth (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, AU)
Peter F. Stadler (Leipzig University, DE)
Alfonso Valencia (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES)
Fabio Vandin (University of Padua, IT)
Kai Wang (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, US)
Matthew T. Weirauch (Cincinnati Children's Hospital, US)
Travis Wheeler (University of Montana, US)
Zohar Yakhini (Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, IL)
Shibu Yooseph (University of Central Florida, US)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez (Cáceres)
Travis Wheeler (Missoula, co-chair)

SUBMISSIONS:

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

Upload submissions to:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob20202021

PUBLICATIONS:

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

A special issue of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2019 JCR impact factor: 2.85) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

https://irdta.eu/alcob2020-2021/registration/

DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):

Paper submission: January 18, 2021
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: February 15, 2021
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: March 1^st, 2021
Early registration: March 1^st, 2021
Late registration: May 24, 2021
Submission to the journal special issue: September 11, 2021

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david (at) irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

University of Montana

IRDTA – Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

[DMANET] Postdoc Position: Research Fellow in Mathematical Optimization - University of Southampton

Applications are invited for a Research Fellow in Mathematical Optimization, based at the University of Southampton. The post is a key part of a new research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

The aim of the project is to develop theoretically sound approximations for two-level optimal value functions and study their applications to solve pessimistic bilevel optimization problems. Subsequently, practical implementations of the developed techniques will be applied to case studies based on open-source data sets and from some of the partners of the project. The partners of the project are the Alan Turing Institute for data science and artificial intelligence<https://www.turing.ac.uk/>, Transport for London<https://tfl.gov.uk/>, and Decision Analysis Services Ltd<https://www.das-ltd.co.uk/>.

This full-time position is for 2 years, with a possibility to extend for up to another year, provided further funding is secured. Funding will be available to take part in key international conferences in optimization and for memberships in some leading organizations in optimization. Limited relocation cost can also be covered. The successful applicant must have a PhD* or equivalent professional qualifications and experience in Operational Research, Mathematical Optimization or any related area, the ability to pursue research independently and as part of a team, and a track record of high-quality original research. Expertise in nonsmooth optimization, nonconvex optimization, and/or computational optimization would be advantageous.

The Research Fellow will be affiliated to the Operational Research Group (one of the four research groups of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Southampton; further information can be found at http://www.southampton.ac.uk/maths) and the Centre for Operational Research, Management Science, and Information Systems (CORMSIS). CORMSIS is one of the largest and strongest groups of OR/MS/IS researchers in Europe. Its Statistics and Operational Research ranks among the top 40 in the world and among the top 10 in the UK (QS subject rank 2020). The centre has many contacts with industry as well an extensive academic network and has a strong track record of published research work.

The position is tenable from 1 February 2021, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications should include a Curriculum Vitae, including a list of publications, a brief (<1 page) statement of research interests and the names and addresses of three referees

*Applications for Research Fellow positions will be considered from candidates who are working towards or nearing completion of a relevant PhD qualification. The title of Research Fellow will be applied upon successful completion of the PhD. Prior to the qualification being awarded the title of Senior Research Assistant will be given.

Informal enquiries can be made at any time to Dr Alain Zemkoho via email: a.b.zemkoho@southampton.ac.uk<mailto:a.b.zemkoho@southampton.ac.uk> or telephone: +44 23 8059 3863.

Application Procedure

You should submit your completed online application form at https://jobs.soton.ac.uk<https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/>. The application deadline will be midnight on the closing date stated above. If you need any assistance, please call Elizabeth Cessford (Recruitment Team) on +44 (0) 23 8059 2750 or email recruitment@soton.ac.uk<mailto:recruitment@soton.ac.uk> Please quote reference 1317220PJ on all correspondence.

Further details:

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Please note that applications from agencies will not be accepted unless indicated in the job advert.

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School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Southampton
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[DMANET] CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2021 Workshop - 5th IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for
Computational Social Systems
May 21 2021, Portland, Oregon USA.
Conference Website : https://www.cpp.edu/~jkorah/parsocial/
(In conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS))

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline : Feb. 8, 2021
Notification of acceptance : Feb. 22, 2021
Camera-ready papers : Mar. 15, 2021
Workshop : May 21, 2021
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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 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 while
taking into account ramifications in relation to policy, ethics, privacy
and other areas. This workshop provides a platform to bring together
interdisciplinary researchers from areas, such as computer science, social
sciences, applied mathematics and 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. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must
register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the
workshop.

TOPICS
*Special Session: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Techniques for
Pandemics*
This year we are inviting papers for a special session on topics in
computational social systems that tackle the issues related to pandemics,
with a focus on COVID 19. COVID 19 has revealed shortcomings in modeling
and simulation techniques for a fast moving, global pandemic which can
provide time bounded analysis and predictions. The need of the hour is a
new set of cutting edge l techniques that go beyond predicting the spread
of the contagion and also analyze and predict the concomitant effects on
societies including social, economic, heath, political and other effects.
COVID 19 has also revealed vulnerabilities in existing infrastructure and
the need to overcome these vulnerabilities in multiple areas including
health policies, transportation, community wellness, economic vitality,
race relations, and political leaning. This pandemic has also been unique
as the large amount of data and information available for researchers, has
required many to turn to parallel and distributed processing methodologies
and techniques. ParSocial, as such, can provide a platform for researchers
grappling with these research questions to present their work. Topics
include, but are not limited to:

**Dynamics of infection/reinfection
**Outbreak emergency management and resource allocation
**Resilience of various infrastructure including health infrastructure
**Economic behavior and decision making
**Health disparities and response to pandemics
**Evolution of Health policy during pandemics
**Economic epidemiology
**Nutrition security
**Risk communication
**Special case studies and analyses

*Other areas of research interests and domains of applications include, but
are not limited to:

**Social Computing Algorithms
***Algorithms for massive and dynamic social data
***Social sensing
***Big Cross-Modal Social Media Data Analytics
***Novel machine learning/data mining-based techniques
***Social Internet of Things (SIoT)
***Computing for social good and privacy
***Social network analysis with incomplete, uncertain social data
***Social computing for heterogeneous architectures (e.g. cloud,
multi-core/many-core, GPU, and neuromorphic computing architectures)

**Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems
***Social network-based models
***Models of social interactions and network dynamism (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 and real-time social data
***Representations of social and behavioral theories in computational models
***Simulation methodologies for social processes including numerical and
statistical methods
***Modeling human and social elements in cyber systems (e.g. cyber-physical
systems, and socio-technical systems)

**Application
***Domains of applications include but are not limited to:
***Emergency management (e.g. infrastructure resilience, and natural
disaster management)
***Financial Technology (e.g. algorithmic trading, blockchains, and P2P
lending)
***Health science (e.g. health informatics and health policy models)
***Social analytics (e.g. business analytics and economic analysis)
***Political science (e.g. political influence, fake news and election
predictions)

PAPER SUBMISSION
The workshop will accept submissions for both *regular* and *short* papers.
Manuscripts for regular papers should not exceed 10 single-spaced
double-column pages. Manuscripts for short papers should not exceed 4
single-spaced, double-column pages. The manuscripts should use 10-point
font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style) and the page limit
includes references, figures and tables.

Please visit the workshop website(https://www.cpp.edu/~jkorah/parsocial/)
for details on submission.

*Workshop Organization*

**Workshop Co-Chairs**
John Korah, Assistant Professor, California Polytechnic University
Pomona, USA.
Eunice E. Santos, Professor and Dean of the School of Information
Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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[DMANET] EATCS Awards - Deadline for submitting nominations REMINDER

We would kindly like to remind you that the deadline for submitting nominations for the 4 awards are:

EATCS Award 2021 <http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-award> : December 31, 2020
Presburger Award 2021 <http://eatcs.org/index.php/presburger> : February 15, 2021
EATCS Fellows 2021 <http://eatcs.org/index.php/eatcs-fellows> : December 31, 2020
EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award 2020 <http://eatcs.org/index.php/dissertation-award> : December 31, 2020

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[DMANET] SODA 2021 FUNDS for STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES

Dear TCS students:

By now, it is hard to overestimate the impact of the COVID19 pandemic to
society. However, like every challenge, it has created some opportunities.
For example, essentially all major conferences in TCS this year have been
transformed into virtual ones, making them more accessible to
scholars/students across the world (of course at the expense of
traditional interactions).

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA21) will be held virtually
this year, on Jan. 10 - 13, 2021. As you may know, this is the premier
conference on algorithms .

See https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/soda21

Thanks to our industry partners and ACM SIGACT group, SODA has some funds
for covering student registrations. I am writing to informing you this
opportunity and encourage you to apply:
See:
1. https://awards.siam.org/
2.
https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/lodging-and-support/travel-support/soda21-travel-support

That deadline is Dec. 27, 2020. Like before, having papers in SODA is not
prerequisite.

Shang-Hua Teng
On Behalf of SODA Steering Committee

Shang-Hua Teng (滕尚华),
University Professor
Seeley G. Mudd Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
Viterbi School of Engineering, USC
https://viterbi-web.usc.edu/~shanghua/

SODA 2021 FUNDS for STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES

Dear TCS students:

By now, it is hard to overestimate the impact of the COVID19 pandemic to society. However, like every challenge, it has created some opportunities. For example, essentially all major conferences in TCS this year have been transformed into virtual ones, making them more accessible to scholars/students across the world (of course at the expense of traditional interactions).

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA21) will be held virtually this year, on Jan. 10 - 13, 2021. As you may know, this is the premier conference on algorithms .

See https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/soda21

Thanks to our industry partners and ACM SIGACT group, SODA has some funds for covering student registrations. I am writing to informing you this opportunity and encourage you to apply:
See:
1. https://awards.siam.org/
2. https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/lodging-and-support/travel-support/soda21-travel-support

That deadline is Dec. 27, 2020. Like before, having papers in SODA is not prerequisite.

Shang-Hua Teng
On Behalf of SODA Steering Committee

[DMANET] Deadline Extension: IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems

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ADHS 2021 Second Call for Papers
The 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
Brussels, Belgium, July 7-9, 2021.
Website: https://sites.uclouvain.be/adhs21/

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* Invited Session Proposals due: *January 4, 2021* (Previously: December 16, 2020)
* Paper Submissions due: *January 8, 2021* (Previously: December 23, 2020)
* Author notification: mid-February, 2021

The Organising Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS 21) to be held in Brussels, Belgium, July 7-9, 2021.

ADHS 2021 will take place at the University Foundation, Brussels and is organized by the department of Applied Mathematics of UCLouvain. Virtual attendance will be possible, and the extent of this possibility will be adapted to the situation of the pandemia.
The conference happens under the auspices of IFAC and is sponsored by the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems.

Contributions are invited in all areas pertaining to the engineering of hybrid systems including: modelling, specification, verification, analysis, control synthesis, simulation, validation, and implementation. We solicit papers and invited session proposals describing theoretical or applied research in the area. We also welcome papers describing tools, reporting case studies or connecting the cognate fields of control theory and formal verification.

Contributions are encouraged on applications of hybrid methods in various fields, such as automotive, avionics, energy and power, mobile and autonomous robotics, the process and manufacture industry, transportation and infrastructure networks, communication networks and networked control systems, cyber-physical systems, safety-critical systems, systems and synthetic biology.

An interactive session with scientists from the industry will be organized. A poster session will be organized and IFAC Young Author, Best Paper, Best Repeatability and Best Poster Prizes will be awarded.

The Program Chairs are planning to edit a special issue of NAHS: the authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute with significantly revised and extended versions of their manuscripts, containing new results.

New this year: ADHS'21 will feature a repeatability evaluation (RE). In other words, all accepted papers which include computational artifacts will be invited to submit these for evaluation to be conducted by a RE program committee. In this way, we aim to improve the reproducibility of computational results in the papers accepted for publication. Note that it is optional to submit an RE package, i.e., availability of a RE package will not affect the final publication of the corresponding paper. Papers whose RE packages pass the repeatability evaluation will be listed online and in the final proceedings. At the same time, papers whose RE package does not pass the repeatability evaluation criteria will be treated the same as papers which do not submit RE packages.

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Author Guidelines

* Regular papers: Regular papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at submission. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the conference preprints and on-line proceedings. For papers describing tools, please tick the keyword "Computational tools" upon submission.

* Invited session proposals: Invited sessions consist of 4 to 6 papers related to a common theme that fits within the scope of ADHS. An invited session proposal should contain a short description of the common theme as well as the list of papers in the session and their abstracts.
The invited session organiser first has to submit the pdf file of the session proposal (without participating papers). The IFAC Conference Manuscript Management System then returns an acknowledgment that contains an alpha-numeric code for the proposed session. Subsequently, the organiser has to notify the contributing authors of their invited session code. The corresponding author of each paper then submits the paper on-line as an invited paper.

* Invited session papers: Invited session papers can have a length of up to 8 pages at submission. Invited session papers go through the same review process as regular papers. Accepted papers are limited to 6 pages in the conference preprints and on-line proceedings. Submission as an invited session paper requires the invited session code, which can be obtained from the session organiser.

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Submission Instructions

* The website for submission is: https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl

* All papers submitted to ADHS 21 must be written in English and formatted in the standard IFAC 2-column format, provided on the IFAC Conference Management System website.

* For initial submissions, all regular and invited session papers are limited to eight (8) pages. The submission website will not permit longer papers to be uploaded.

* For the final upload, all accepted and invited papers are limited to six (6) pages.

* For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors should have a full registration in order to have the paper included in the preprints and the post-conference on-line proceedings at IFAC-PapersOnLine.

* Author's kits with style (.cls) files for LaTeX are available from the submission website. Go to http://ifac.papercept.net and select "Support" for these files and example files, or directly go to the support page. Please do not change the formatting in any way.

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Important Dates

Invited Session Proposals due: *January 4, 2021* (Previously: December 16, 2020)
Paper Submissions due: *January 8, 2021* (Previously: December 23, 2020)
Author notification: mid-February, 2021
Final papers due: TBA
Early registration: TBA
Conference: July 7-9, 2021

The reference timezone is Central European Summer Time.

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Invited Speakers

* Paulo Tabuada (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
* Verena Wolf (Saarland University, Germany)
* Claire Tomlin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

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Committees

General Chair
* Raphaël Jungers (UCLouvain, Belgium)

Vice-Chair from Industry
* Damien Ernst (ULiège, Belgium)

Program Chairs
* Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK)
* Necmiye Ozay (University of Michigan, USA)

Repeatability Chair
* Sergiy Bogomolov (Newcastle University, UK)
* Aditya Zutshi (Galois, Portland, USA)

Award Chair
* Maurice Heemels (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Program Committee
* Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University)
* Matthias Althoff (Technische Universität München)
* Duarte Antunes (Eindhoven University of Technology)
* Nikolaos Athanasopoulos (Queen's University Belfast)
* Ebru Aydin Gol (Middle East Technical University)
* Shun-ichi Azuma (Nagoya University)
* Laurent Bako (Ecole Centrale de Lyon)
* Ezio Bartocci (TU Wien)
* Sergiy Bogomolov (Newcastle University)
* Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste)
* Bernard Brogliato (UR Rhône-Alpes)
* Christos G. Cassandras (Boston Univ.)
* Patrizio Colaneri (Politecnico di Milano)
* Samuel Coogan (Georgia Tech)
* Alessandro D'Innocenzo (Università degli Studi di L'Aquila)
* Jamal Daafouz (Université de Lorraine, CRAN, CNRS)
* Thao Dang (VERIMAG)
* Bart De Schutter (Delft University of Technology)
* Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (University of Southern California)
* Dimos V. Dimarogonas (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
* Uli Fahrenberg (Ecole Polytechnique)
* Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University)
* Goran Frehse (ENSTA ParisTech, U2IS)
* Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg)
* Sicun Gao (University of California, San Diego)
* Antoine Girard (CNRS)
* Alessandro Giua (University of Cagliari, Italy)
* Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
* Sofie Haesaert (TU Eindhoven)
* Maurice Heemels (Eindhoven University of Technology)
* Holger Hermanns (Saarland University)
* João Hespanha (University of California, Santa Barbara)
* Laurentiu Hetel (CNRS)
* Jianghai Hu (Purdue Univ)
* Nils Jansen (Raadboud U.)
* Qing-Shan Jia (Tsinghua University)
* Karl H. Johansson (Royal Institute Of Technology)
* Taylor T Johnson (Vanderbilt University)
* Agung Julius (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
* Marc Jungers (CNRS - Université de Lorraine)
* Joost-Pieter Katoen (Univ of Twente/RWTH Aachen University)
* Françoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue (CNRS-EECI)
* Fabien Lauer (Université de Lorraine)
* Mircea Lazar (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology)
* Daniel Liberzon (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
* Hai Lin (University of Notre Dame)
* Jun Liu (University of Waterloo)
* Paolo Mason (L2S CentraleSupélec, CNRS)
* Manuel Mazo Jr (TU Delft)
* Ian M. Mitchell (University of British Columbia)
* Irinel Constantin Morarescu (Universite de Lorraine)
* George J. Pappas (Univ of Pennsylvania)
* Mihaly Petreczky (CNRS)
* Romain Postoyan (CRAN, CNRS, Université de Lorraine)
* Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University)
* Maria Prandini (Politecnico di Milano)
* Christophe Prieur (CNRS)
* Joerg Raisch (Technische Universität Berlin)
* Spyros A. Reveliotis (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* David Safranek (Masaryk University Brno)
* Ricardo Sanfelice (University of California Santa Cruz)
* Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado)
* Oleg Sokolsky (Univ of Pennsylvania)
* Sadegh Soudjani (Newcastle University)
* Paulo Tabuada (Univ of California at Los Angeles)
* Bert Tanner (University of Delaware)
* Andrew R. Teel (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara)
* Ashish Tiwari (SRI International)
* Ufuk Topcu (University of Pennsylvania)
* Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University)
* Jana Tumova (Royal Institute of Technology)
* Yorai Wardi (Georgia Institute of Technology)
* Rafal Wisniewski (Aalborg University)
* Verena Wolf (University of Saarbrücken)
* Xiang Yin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
* Luca Zaccarian (LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento)
* Majid Zamani (University of Colorado Boulder)
* Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science)
* Paolo Zuliani (Newcastle University)

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Accepted papers that have been presented at an IFAC meeting will be published in the proceedings of the event using the open-access IFAC-PapersOnLine series hosted on ScienceDirect (https://sciencedirect.com/). To this end, the author(s) must grant exclusive publishing rights to IFAC under a Creative Commons license when they submit the final version of the paper. The copyright belongs to the authors, who have the right to share the paper in the same terms allowed by the end user license, and retain all patent, trademark and other intellectual property rights (including research data)."

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[DMANET] CPM 2021 - Second Call for Papers

(Apologies for multiple copies)

The Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM) has by now
over 30 years of tradition and is considered to be the leading conference
for the community working on Stringology. The objective of the annual CPM
meetings is to provide an international forum for research in combinatorial
pattern matching and related applications such as computational biology,
data compression and data mining, coding, information retrieval, natural
language processing, and pattern recognition.

*The 32nd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2021)
will be held in Wroclaw, Poland, July 5-7, 2021 in a hybrid mode (with
reduced fees for remote participants).*

WEBSITE OF THE CONFERENCE: http://cpm2021.ii.uni.wroc.pl/

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CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers on original research unpublished elsewhere in all areas related
to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications are welcome.

The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs (of Dagstuhl).

TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:
Bioinformatics and computational biology
Coding and data compression
Combinatorics on words
Data mining
Information retrieval
Natural language processing
Pattern discovery
String algorithms
String processing in databases
Symbolic computing
Text searching and indexing

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Hideo Bannai (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)
Michal Koucký (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy & Erable Team INRIA, France)

HIGHLIGHT SPEAKERS
Panagiotis Charalampopoulos (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel)
Travis Gagie (Dalhousie University, Canada)

DEADLINE
Friday, January 29, 2021, anywhere on Earth

SUBMISSION
Submission is through the EasyChair conference system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2021

SUBMISSION FORMAT
The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 15 pages,
including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and
a short abstract. The authors are required to use the LaTeX style file
supplied by Dagstuhl (LIPIcs) with the original settings (including
the font size and the margins). References will not be counted in the
page limit.

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

Papers must be submitted as a single file in PDF format.

Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication
in the final version—for example details of proofs—may be placed in a
clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously
unpublished work. At the time the extended abstract is submitted to
CPM, and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the
same paper) should not be under review by any other conference with
published proceedings or by a scientific journal.

COVID-19
We are carefully watching the situation with the Covid-19 pandemic. We
hope to conduct a physical event, but we will certainly offer the
possibility of remote participation (with a lower
registration fee) for those who are unable to come due to travel
restrictions or other circumstances. In the worst case, we will move
the event online but are not planning to postpone it.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Golnaz Badkobeh (Goldsmiths University of London, UK)
Frédérique Bassino (University Paris 13, France)
Christina Boucher (University of Florida, USA)
Laurent Bulteau (CNRS and Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Raphaël Clifford (University of Bristol, UK)
Fabio Cunial (MPI-CBG, Germany)
Funda Ergun (Indiana University, USA)
Paweł Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław, Poland), Co-Chair
Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark)
Stepan Holub (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Tomohiro I (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu University, Japan)
Tomasz Kociumaka (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Christian Komusiewicz (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)
Dmitry Kosolobov (Ural Federal University, Russia)
Gad M. Landau (University of Haifa, Israel)
Florin Manea (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Pierre Peterlongo (INRIA, France)
Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova, Italy)
Leena Salmela (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Srinivasa Rao Satti (Seoul National University, South Korea)
Marinella Sciortino (University of Palermo, Italy)
Braha-Riva Shalom (Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel)
Tatiana Starikovskaya (École normale supérieure, France), Co-Chair
Yasuo Tabei (RIKEN, Japan)
Tomasz Waleń (University of Warsaw, Poland)

[DMANET] Full professor position "Discrete Mathematics and Probability", TU Graz

Dear colleagues,

TU Graz is looking to appoint a tenured full professor of Discrete
Mathematics and Probability, starting October 2022. We are looking for a
highly qualified individual of international standing who has an excellent
research profile and is committed to represent the intersection of
Discrete Mathematics and Probability in both teaching and research.

For more information and the mandatory application form please see the
detailed advertisement contained in the web page
https://www.tugraz.at/go/professorships-vacancies. Applications
must be sent to the email address bewerbungen.mpug@tugraz.at no later than
March 31, 2021.

With best regards,
Johannes Wallner
(for the hiring committee).
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[DMANET] MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers

Due to the continuing Coronavirus pandemic in the world, the organizers are
considering the possibility to hold the conference online. In any case,
remote presentation of accepted papers will be allowed.

MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers

19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference

15-17 June 2021, Ibiza, Spain

https://2021.medcomnet.org

MedComNet 2021 continues the tradition of the MedHocNet conference series
that started in Sardinia in 2002 and was held annually in beautiful
locations on the shores of the Mediterranean.

MedComNet is a forum for the presentation of new research results in the
broad area of wired and wireless communication and computer networking. All
aspects of the networking research area will be welcome.

MedComNet has requested the Technical Co-Sponsorship of the IEEE, and
accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. Extended
versions of the best papers presented at the conference will be considered,
by invitation and upon additional review, for publication in Elsevier
Computer Communications journal. The best paper in the conference will be
awarded the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Wireless networks

- Cellular networks including 5G and 6G

- Vehicular networks

- Dynamic spectrum sharing

- Interference management and mitigation

- Medium access control

- MIMO-based networking

- mmWave, THz, VLC networking

- Mobile sensing and applications

- Mobility management and models

- Innovative Internet architectures

- Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems

- Router and switch design

- Routing and multicast

- Software-defined Networking and Radio

- Optical networks

- Overlay and peer-to-peer networks

- Age of Information

- Energy efficiency in networks

- Machine Learning and AI for networks

- Edge and fog computing

- Datacenter networking

- Localization and location-based services

- Multimedia networking

- Network economics and pricing

- Network management

- Network measurement and analysis

- Network security and privacy

- Network virtualization

Important information

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Paper submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2021

Acceptance notification: April 28

Registration (authors and early birds): May 19, 2021

Camera Ready Papers due: May 19, 2021

Conference: June 15-17, 2021

Instructions for authors: <https://medcomnet.org/authors-instructions/>
https://2021.medcomnet.org/authors-instructions/

No-show policy

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Submission to the conference implies willingness to present. No-shows will
be excluded from the proceedings. No-show papers are defined as papers
submitted by authors who subsequently did not present the paper in-person
at the technical meeting (given the current situation, remote presentations
will be allowed). Presentations by proxies are not allowed. No refund of
the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show author. Exceptions to this
policy can only be made by the Technical Program Chairs and only if there
is evidence that the no-show occurred because of unanticipated events
beyond the control of the authors, and every option available to the
authors to present the paper was exhausted.

Organizing Committee

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General Chairs

Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain

Gonzalo Camarillo, Ericsson Finland

TPC Chairs

Antonio de La Oliva, UC3M, Spain

Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy

EDAS Chair

Edgar Arribas, CEU San Pablo, Spain

Publication Chair

Cise Midoglu, Simula Research Lab, Norway

Treasurers

Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, CNIT, Italy

Paola Magri, CNIT, Italy

Publicity Chairs

Antonio Fernandez, IMDEA Networks, Spain

Andres Garcia, NEC Europe, Germany

Christian Vitale, KIOS, Cyprus

Chuan Xu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

Panel Chairs

Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, Sweden

Andra Lutu, Telefonica, Spain

Web Chair

Michele Segata, University of Bolzano, Italy

Virtualization Chair

Christiana Ioannou, RISE, Cyprus

Steering Committee

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Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Chair)

Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Edmundo De Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia

Giovanni Pau, Sorbonne Université, France

Guy Pujolle, Sorbonne Université, France

Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Sunday, December 20, 2020

[DMANET] Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Science, Dalhousie University

The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University (https://www.cs.dal.ca) invites applications for up to two Tenure-Stream Assistant Professor positions in any area of Computer Science.

Dalhousie's Faculty of Computer Science offers a supportive, inclusive, multicultural, research-oriented environment with a firm commitment to justice, equality, diversity and inclusion. The Faculty offers reasonable teaching loads (with excellent TA support), and competitive pay and benefits (including health insurance, dental insurance and an exceptional pension plan). The Faculty supports new hires with moving assistance and start-up funding. Early-career researchers will enjoy the collaborative lab environment; mentoring; peer support for teaching, research, and grant writing; and extensive ties to local industry.

Dalhousie is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (http://www.discoverhalifaxns.com). Halifax is the largest city in Atlantic Canada and is vibrant, multicultural, and welcomes many newcomers. It is also a regional tech hub, and affords residents with a high quality of life. We enjoy a wide variety of restaurants, parks, playgrounds, watersports in the summer, snow sports in the winter, a vast number of arts and cultural events, an excellent library system, and a passable public transit system. Nova Scotia is home to many beautiful communities, campgrounds, trails, lakes, rivers, beaches, lighthouses and opportunities for running, hiking, cycling, ATVing, boating and generally exploring the great outdoors. Located in one of Canada's more temperate areas, Nova Scotia gets warm, sunny summers, long, colorful autumns and cool, snowy winters.

Dalhousie University is one Canada's U15 group of research-intensive universities. The funding situation is excellent: active researchers have many opportunities for both investigator-led operating grants and support for industry collaboration.

The Faculty of Computer Science is a research focused faculty with over 40 faculty members, including Tier I and Tier II Canadian Research Chairs. Around one third of our 1400 students are enrolled in master's or doctoral programs. The Faculty also partners with other faculties and departments (including management, medicine and statistics) to offer various multi-disciplinary study streams under the Master of Digital Innovation and is an active participant in the Interdisciplinary PhD program.

The successful candidate will be an outstanding scholar who holds or will have completed a PhD in Computer Science or a related area by the appointment date. Evidence of a strong commitment to and aptitude for both research and teaching is essential. The ideal candidate will be open to collaborative research within the Faculty.

Applicants should have demonstrated potential to establish independent scholarly research. The successful candidate will teach both undergraduate and graduate courses, develop graduate-level courses, and support the Faculty's initiatives. The applicant will be expected to establish a strong externally funded research program, supervise graduate student research, and foster existing and new collaborations with government, industry, and with other members of Dalhousie's research community.

Dalhousie University is committed to fostering a collegial culture grounded in diversity and inclusiveness. The university encourages applications from Indigenous persons, persons with a disability, racially visible persons, women, persons of a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity, and all candidates who would contribute to the diversity of our community. For more information, please visit https://www.dal.ca/hiringfordiversity. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Applications must include an application letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, sample publications, and the names and full contact information of three referees.

Applicants are encouraged to indicate in their research statement how they see their research fit in one or more of the Faculty's research concentrations, described in
https://www.dal.ca/faculty/computerscience/research-industry/fcs_research.html

Review of applications will commence on January 15, 2021. However, applications will be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled.

All application materials should be submitted directly at http://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/4973 except for the letters of reference; please arrange for your referees to forward letters of reference directly to appointments@cs.dal.ca by the above deadline.

DOCUMENTS NEENED TO APPLY:

Cover Letter
Résumé / Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Research Statement
Teaching Statement
Sample Publication(s)
List of referees

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Norbert Zeh
Professor
Faculty of Computer Science | Dalhousie University
nzeh@cs.dal.ca | www.cs.dal.ca/~nzeh | 902.441.8133

[DMANET] PODC 2021 - Second Call for Papers

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PODC 2021: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 40th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
July 26-30, 2021, Salerno, Italy
[Updates with respect to the COVID-19 situation will appear on the website]

https://www.podc.org<https://www.podc.org/>
Twitter: https://twitter.com/podc_disc

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DATES (all times are AoE)
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Abstract submission: February 11th, 2021
Full paper submission: February 15th, 2021
Notification: April 30th, 2021
Proceedings version: May 21st, 2021

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SCOPE
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The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing is an international forum on the theory, design, analysis, implementation and application of distributed systems and networks. We solicit papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are welcome. The goal of the conference is to improve understanding of the principles underlying distributed computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- biological distributed algorithms
- blockchain protocols
- coding and reliable communication
- communication networks: algorithms, protocols, applications
- complexity and impossibility results for distributed computing
- concurrency, synchronization, and persistence
- design and analysis of distributed algorithms
- distributed and cloud storage
- distributed and concurrent data structures
- distributed graph algorithms
- distributed machine learning algorithms
- distributed operating systems, middleware, databases
- distributed resource management and scheduling
- fault-tolerance, reliability, self-organization, self-stabilization
- game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
- internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
- languages, verification, formal methods for distributed systems
- multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
- parallel network computations
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks
- population protocols
- quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
- replication and consistency
- security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
- specifications and semantics
- system-on-chip and network-on-chip architectures
- transactional memory
- wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents

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PAPER SUBMISSION
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A submitted paper should clearly motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, discuss prior work and its relationship to the paper, explicitly and precisely state the paper's key contributions, and outline the key technical ideas and methods used to achieve the main claims. A submission should strive to be accessible to a broad audience, as well as having sufficient details for experts in the area.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format via https://podc2021.hotcrp.com<https://podc2021.hotcrp.com/> and fall in two categories: regular papers and brief announcements.

A regular paper must report on original research that has not been previously published. It is not permitted to submit the same material concurrently to journals or conferences with proceedings. Format and length requirements for submissions are stated below. All ideas necessary for an expert to fully verify the central claims in a paper, including experimental results, should be included in the submission.

A brief announcement may describe work in progress or work presented elsewhere. The title of a brief announcement must begin with "Brief Announcement:".

Submissions not conforming to the rules stated in this call, as well as papers outside the scope of the conference, risk being rejected without consideration.

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SUBMISSION FORMAT
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Submissions must be prepared in LaTeX and use the official ACM Master article template (acmart.cls, version of 1.73 or greater), available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. The authors must use `manuscript`, `nonacm` and `anonymous` options when preparing the submission, and use the ACM format for references. No modifications of the format or style are allowed. Sample files are available on the PODC website at https://www.podc.org/podc2021/call-for-papers/.

For regular papers, there is no page limit, and authors are encouraged to use the "full version" of their paper as the submission. The initial 15 pages should contain a clear presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. The submission must contain full proofs of all claims in the paper. Although there is no bound on the length of a submission, material other than the first 15 pages will be read at the committee's discretion.

Papers submitted as brief announcements should comply with the above rules, replacing 15 pages with 5 pages.

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ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS
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The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should ensure that any references to their own related work are in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of this process is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the PC chair by email.

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST
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Indications of conflicts of interest will be required in the submission form.
A conflict of interest is limited to the following categories:

1. Family member or close friend.
2. Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoctoral or undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past five years.
3. Person with the same affiliation.
4. Involved in an alleged incident of harassment. (It is not required that the incident be reported.)
5. Collaborators who jointly author works within the last two years.

If you feel that you have a valid reason for a conflict of interest not listed above, contact the PC chair or either of the Theory of Computing Advocates affiliated with this conference (Faith Ellen and Idit Keidar). If there is doubt about the validity of a claim of conflict of interest, the PC chair may request that a ToC advocate confidentially verify the reason.

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PUBLICATION
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Accepted regular papers of up to 10 pages and brief announcements of up to 3 pages in two-column ACM proceedings format will be included in the conference proceedings. They must be formatted with the ACM Master templates using \documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}. If more space than available in the proceedings for an accepted paper is needed, a full version must be available publicly, e.g. on arXiv, by the due date for the proceedings version (May 21, 2021), and the proceedings version must refer to this.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the Distributed Computing journal. Up to two papers will be selected to be considered for publication in JACM.

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available 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.

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AWARDS
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Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. Regular papers co-authored by full-time students may also be eligible for the best student paper award. For a paper to be considered for this award, the nominated authors should be full time students at the time of submission and they should be principally responsible for the paper's contributions. The program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.

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ORGANIZATION
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Program Committee:
- James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
- Sepehr Assadi, Rutgers University, USA
- Alkida Balliu, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Petra Berenbrink, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Trevor Brown, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Janna Burman, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France
- Armando Castañeda, Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Mexico
- Keren Censor-Hillel (chair), Technion, Israel
- Peter Davies, IST Austria, Austria
- Pascal Felber, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Pierre Fraigniaud, Université de Paris and CNRS, France
- Ran Gelles, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
- Mohsen Ghaffari, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- George Giakkoupis, INRIA, France
- Alexey Gotsman, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
- Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia
- Magnús M. Halldórsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
- Jakub Łącki, Google Research, USA
- François Le Gall, Nagoya University, Japan
- Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel
- Calvin Newport, Georgetown University, USA
- Merav Parter, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Arpita Patra, Indian Institute of Science, India
- Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Andrzej Pelc, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Canada
- Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK
- Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne Université - LIP6, France
- Andrea Richa, Arizona State University, USA
- Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
- Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
- Alexander Spiegelman, Novi, USA
- Gadi Taubenfeld, IDC, Israel
- Josef Widder, Informal Systems, Austria
- Philipp Woelfel, University of Calgary, Canada
- Vassilis Zikas, University of Edinburgh and Purdue University, UK

Conference Committee:
- Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel (Program chair)
- Roberto DePrisco, Università di Salerno, Italy (Organizing chair)
- Avery Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada (General chair)
- Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France (Treasurer)
- Janne H, Korhonen, IST Austria, Austria (Proceedings chair)
- William K. Moses Jr., Technion, Israel (Publicity chair)
- Hsin-Hao Su, Boston College, USA (Workshop chair)

Steering Committee:
- Jennifer Welch (2018-2021), Texas A&M, USA (chair)
- Keren Censor-Hillel (2020-2023), Technion, Israel (PC chair 2021)
- Christian Cachin (2019-2022), University of Bern, Switzerland (PC chair 2020)
- Faith Ellen (2018-2021), University of Toronto, Canada (PC chair 2019)
- Avery Miller, University of Manitoba, Canada (General chair 2021)
- Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France (Treasurer 2021)
- Youla Fatourou (2019-2021), University of Crete, Greece (At-large)

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Regards,
William K. Moses Jr.
Publicity Chair, PODC 2021
https://sites.google.com/view/wkmjr
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Theory Announcements

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

[DMANET] Postdoc position in OR

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

[DMANET] Announcement and call for papers --- EUROCOMB'21

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

[DMANET] [SecMT2021] CFP - International Workshop on Security in Mobile Technologies

[DMANET] Postdoc position in parameterized complexity at University of Warwick, UK (application deadline: January 18, 2021)

Two tenure-track positions in theoretical CS at UC Santa Cruz

[DMANET] CIAA 2021 -- Call for Papers

[DMANET] Carlos III University of Madrid - Assistant Professor (tenure-track) positions

[DMANET] [Deadline Approaching, December 29] 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks, IEEE WISARN 2021, co-located with IEEE INFOCOM 2021

Monday, December 21, 2020

[DMANET] [LATIN 2020] Call for participation / Registration closing soon!

AlCoB 2020 & 2021: 3rd call for papers

[DMANET] Postdoc Position: Research Fellow in Mathematical Optimization - University of Southampton

[DMANET] CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2021 Workshop - 5th IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems

[DMANET] EATCS Awards - Deadline for submitting nominations REMINDER

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SODA 2021 FUNDS for STUDENT REGISTRATION FEES

[DMANET] Deadline Extension: IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems

[DMANET] CPM 2021 - Second Call for Papers

[DMANET] Full professor position "Discrete Mathematics and Probability", TU Graz

[DMANET] MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers

Sunday, December 20, 2020

[DMANET] Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Science, Dalhousie University

[DMANET] PODC 2021 - Second Call for Papers

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