[DMANET] CFP: IEEE Int. Conferences (ISPA, BDCloud, SocialCom, SustainCom) in Exeter, England, UK, 15-17 October 2020

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*** IEEE (ISPA-2020,BDCloud-2020, SocialCom-2020, SustainCom-2020
International Conferences ***



To be held in Exeter, England, UK, 15-17 October 2020.



The 18th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed
Processing with Applications (ISPA-2020)

https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/ispa2020



The 10th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing
(BDCloud-2020)

https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/bdcloud2020



The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Social Computing and Networking
(SocialCom-2020)

https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/socialcom2020



The 10th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and
Communications (SustainCom-2020)

https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/sustaincom2020



Sponsored by

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable
Computing (TCSC)



IMPORTANT DATES

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Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: 1 May 2020

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 June 2020

Authors Notification: 10 August 2020

Camera-Ready Paper Due: 8 September 2020

Early Registration Due: 8 September 2020

Conference Date: 15-17 October 2020



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
websites with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not
be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8
pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and
references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two
columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer
Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page:

http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/

Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at

https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference
proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). The
authors of selected papers will be invited to extend their contributions
for special issues of prestigious journals.

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[DMANET] New internet seminar on extremal and probabilistic combinatorics

*We are launching a new internet seminar with focus on extremal and
probabilistic combinatorics each Monday 13:00 UTC. The first speaker
will be Rob Morris (IMPA), on April 6. More information can be found on
the webpage of the webinar: https://sites.google.com/view/epcwebinar/.
You can also subscribe to the seminar mailing list there.*


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[DMANET] Postdoc in Algorithms at the University of Glasgow

We are pleased to announce a postdoctoral position at the University of Glasgow, working with Kitty Meeks and Jessica Enright on the EPSRC-funded project Multilayer Algorithmics to Leverage Graph Structure (MultilayerALGS). The position is funded for up to 36 months starting on 1st July 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Candidates should have (or expect to obtain very soon) a PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a closely related area. We are ideally looking for a candidate with experience in algorithmic graph theory and/or parameterised complexity, as well as practical coding skills (e.g. knowledge of Python, C, Java or another suitable programming language).

The closing date for applications is 29th April 2020, and interviews are scheduled to take place remotely on 20th May 2020. Informal enquiries to Kitty Meeks (kitty.meeks@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:kitty.meeks@glasgow.ac.uk>) or Jessica Enright (jessica.enright@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:jessica.enright@glasgow.ac.uk>) are very welcome.

For more details and to apply, see https://my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=037548.


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[DMANET] GECCO 2020: Workshop on Evolutionary Computation + Multiple Criteria Decision Making (EC + MCDM)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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Workshop on

Evolutionary Computation + Multiple Criteria Decision Making (EC + MCDM)


The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020) July 8-12, 2020, Cancun, Mexico: Please note that the conference will be held as an electronic-only conference. More details will be provided soon.


Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2020 April 17, 2020

Webpage: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ecmcdm/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.exeter.ac.uk%2Fecmcdm%2F&data=02%7C01%7CT.Chugh%40exeter.ac.uk%7C944e3b8a817c426aaef308d78413e6c6%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637123093317123856&sdata=6LCzXWNxDVZLSKelqqdj2etStx7EAFolZzv0QYrG6sA%3D&reserved=0>

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About the workshop

In many real-world problems, several conflicting objectives need to be optimized simultaneously. Therefore, it is crucial to properly structure and solve the problem with relevant tools for supporting a decision maker. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g. health care, education, environment, transportation, business and production. In recent years, there has also been growing interest in merging EC and MCDM techniques for several applications. This workshop will showcase research that is both at the interface of EC and MCDM as well as in the more traditional MCDM domain.

The workshop on Evolutionary Computation + Multiple Criteria Decision Making (EC + MCDM) to be held in GECCO 2020 aims to promote the research on theory and applications in the field. Topics of interest (but not limited to) include:



• Preference elicitation and representation

• Interactive multiobjective optimization or decision maker in the loop

• Visualization in EC + MCDM • Aggregation/trade-off operators & algorithms

• Fuzzy logic based decision making techniques

• Bayesian and other decision making techniques

• Interactive multiobjective optimization for (computationally) expensive problems

• Using surrogates (or metamodels) in MCDM

• Hybridization of EC and MCDM

• Scalability in EC + MCDM

• MCDM and machine learning

• MCDM for Big data

• MCDM in real-world applications

• Exploring and using cognitive capabilities in MCDM

• Use of psychological tools to aid decision maker



Submission

We invite papers up to 8 pages relevant to the workshop and position papers of up to 2 pages showing preliminary results. We also welcome posters, demonstrations or presentations on ground-breaking theoretical and application results in the field. Accepted papers will be published in the GECCO Companion Proceedings and will be presented orally at the workshop.
For paper submission instructions and templates, please see: https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org/index.html/Papers+Submission+Instructions

Keynote talk

Prof. Michael Emmerich from Leiden University, Netherlands will be giving a keynote talk in the workshop.

Important dates

Submission opening: February 27, 2020

Submission deadline: April 3, 2020 April 17, 2020

Reviews due: April 13, 2020 April 27, 2020

Decisions due: April 17, 2020 May 1, 2020

Camera-Ready Material: April 24, 2020 May 8, 2020

Early author registration: April 24, 2020 May 11, 2020



Workshop organizers

Tinkle Chugh (University of Exeter, UK) Richard Allmendinger (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK) Jussi Hakanen (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

More information about the organizers can be found on the workshop webpage http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ecmcdm/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.exeter.ac.uk%2Fecmcdm%2F&data=02%7C01%7CT.Chugh%40exeter.ac.uk%7C944e3b8a817c426aaef308d78413e6c6%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C637123093317133809&sdata=FG1x%2BwTHEb4%2Fd9nI25B3iYx02MeBA4%2B7XnjYXBp03i4%3D&reserved=0>



Contact

Please feel free contact any of the special session organizers at t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk> , richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk> , jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi<mailto:jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi>

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[DMANET] CFP - IEEE TNSM Special Issue on Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Network and Service Management — New Deadline

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (impact factor: 4.682)

Special Issue on Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Network and
Service Management

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnsm/cfp/data-analytics-and-machine-learning-network-and-service

(Submissions due: 1 May 2020)

Network and Service analytics can harness the immense stream of operational
data from clouds, to services, to social and communication networks. In the
era of big data and connected devices of all varieties, analytics and
machine learning have found ways to improve reliability, configuration,
performance, fault and security management. In particular, we see a growing
trend towards using machine learning, artificial intelligence and data
analytics to improve operations and management of information technology
services, systems and networks.
Research is therefore needed to understand and improve the potential and
suitability of data analytics and machine learning in the context of
services, systems and network management. This will provide deeper
understanding and better decision making based on largely collected and
available operational and service data. It will also present opportunities
for improving machine learning and data analytics algorithms and methods on
aspects such as reliability, dependability and scalability, as well as
demonstrate the benefits of these methods in management and control
systems. Moreover, there is an opportunity to define novel platforms that
can harness the vast operational data and advanced data analysis algorithms
to drive management decisions in networks, data centers, and clouds.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a
premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the
management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following the
success of three recent TNSM special issues on Big Data Analytics for
Management in 2016, 2018, and 2019, this special issue will also focus on
recent, emerging approaches and technical models that exploit data
analytics and machine learning in network and service management solutions.
We welcome submissions addressing the underlying challenges and
opportunities, presenting novel techniques, experimental results, or
theoretical approaches motivated by management problems. Survey papers that
offer a perspective on related work and identify key challenges and
opportunities for future research are also in the scope of the special
issue. We look forward to your submissions!

Topics of Interest:

Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited, to
the following:

Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Analysis, modelling and visualization
Operational analytics and intelligence
Event and log analytics, text mining
Outlier / Anomaly detection and prediction
Monitoring and measurements for management
Predictive analytics and real-time analytics
Artificial intelligence, neural networks, and deep learning for management
Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management

Application Domains and Management Paradigms

Cloud and network analytics
Social and communication networks analysis
Data centric management of virtualized infrastructure, clouds and data
centers
Data centric management of software defined networks
Data centric management of storage resources
Data centric management of Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
Data centric management of zero touch and driverless networks
Platforms for analyzing and storing logs and operational data for
management tasks
Applications of data analytics to traffic classification, root-cause
analysis, service quality assurance, IT service and resource management
Novel approaches to cyber-security, intrusion detection, threat analysis,
and failure detection based on data analytics and machine learning


Submission Guidelines:

All papers should be submitted through the IEEE Transactions on Network and
Service Management manuscript submission site. Authors must indicate in the
submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the "Data
Analytics and Machine Learning for Network and Service Management" special
issue. View detailed author guidelines.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 1 May 2020
Publication Date (Tentative): December 2020

Guest Editors:

Nur Zincir-Heywood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK)
David Carrera (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Takeru Inoue (NTT Laboratories, Japan)
Hanan Lutfiyya (The University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Taghrid Samak (Google, USA)

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[DMANET] SGT'20 is postponed

Due to the Covid-19 situation, the Summer school on Graph Theory (SGT'20) is postponed.
This event was supposed to be held on June 7-12 2020 near Clermont-Ferrand (France).
https://sgt2020.limos.fr/

Aurélie Lagoutte, for the organizing committee

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[DMANET] Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability Seminar

This is to announce the new Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability
Seminar, which will take place on Tuesdays, on Zoom, starting on 31st
March. The series will feature talks in both Combinatorics and
Probability and is open to anyone to attend. 

For the first week we will have a single seminar at 2pm (UK time); in most
future weeks we will also have a second seminar at 3.30pm.

The first two talks will be:

31st March, 2pm: Rob Morris (IMPA), Erdős covering systems

7th April, 2pm: Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Hipster random walks.

More details can be found at http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/scott/dmp.htm .

This will be something of an experiment while we get to grips with the
technology, but we're excited about the possibilities this format might
bring!  We are aware of several other excellent such initiatives going on,
and will be keen to share our experiences and learn what works.

We have set up a mailing list for seminar announcements,
discmathprob@maillist.ox.ac.uk. In order to subscribe, please send an email
to sympa@maillist.ox.ac.uk with subject "subscribe discmathprob Firstname
Lastname" (replace "Firstname" and "Lastname" appropriately); leave the
message body blank. You should receive a message to let you know that your
subscription has been successful.

Our intention (of course with the agreement of the speakers) is to record
the seminars and put them on YouTube for an indefinite period of time, to
act as a resource for the community.  This has consequences from the
perspective of data protection since, by default, if you participate,
personal data consisting of your username, audio and video may be recorded.
If you wish to participate but do not want your personal data recorded, you
should please make sure to turn off your video and mute your microphone.

Christina Goldschmidt and Alex Scott
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[DMANET] FW: Faculty position - University of Kent

[Apologies for cross-posting]

Dear colleagues

Kent Business School is seeking a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Assistant/Associate Professor) in Big Data Analytics to join the Management Science group.
The successful applicant will lead and contribute to the delivery of business analytics modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In particular, the post holder will be expected to provide teaching in data visualisation, machine learning, database management with SQL, data analytics software and statistical programming languages (e.g. Python, R). The post holder should also have a clearly defined research agenda with a track record or clear potential to publish in top peer-reviewed journals.

Please see the links below to view the full job description and apply for this post:
https://jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SS-186-20

To apply, please submit your CV, cover letter and a 2-page research plan.

Key Information
Salary: £34,804 to £59,135 per annum
Closing date for application: Sunday 19 April 2020
Interview date: Friday 22 May 2020 (interviews may need to be held via zoom or skype)

Informal enquiries may be directed by email to Prof Maria Paola Scaparra (m.p.scaparra@kent.ac.uk<mailto:m.p.scaparra@kent.ac.uk>).

Please do share this email with your postdocs or final-year PhD students who may be interested in the position.

Thank you and stay safe.

Paola

Maria Paola Scaparra | Head of the Management Science Group
Professor of Management Science
Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation(CLHO)
Kent Business School, University of Kent
Room 304, Sibson, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7FS, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1227 824556 | Fax: +44 (0)1227 827726

http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs | https://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/our-staff/profiles/scaparra_maria.html

Gold for Kent in Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)<https://www.kent.ac.uk/news/kentlife/14115/gold-award-for-kent-in-teaching-excellence-framework-tef>

Principal Investigator of the GCRF OSIRIS project
Twitter: @GCRF_OSIRIS
Website: https://research.kent.ac.uk/gcrf-osiris<https://research.kent.ac.uk/gcrf-osiris/>


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[DMANET] Algorithms: Special issue on "Algorithms for Nonparametric Estimation" - call for contributions

Journal: Algorithms (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms)

Special issue on "Algorithms for Nonparametric Estimation"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Nonparametric_Estimation

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Adam Krzyzak

Submission deadline: 30 July 2020
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We invite you to submit your latest research in the area of the
development of algorithms for nonparametric estimation to this Special
Issue, "Algorithms for Nonparametric Estimation". We are looking for new
and innovative approaches for solving nonparametric estimation problems
exactly or approximately. High-quality papers are solicited to address
both theoretical and practical issues of nonparametric estimation.
Submissions are welcome both for traditional nonparametric estimation
problems, as well as new applications. Potential topics include, but are
not limited to, algorithms for nonparametric density and regression
estimation, nonparametric classification and decision procedures,
nonparametric modeling, deep learning, dimensionality reduction and
variable selection, algorithms for nonparametric techniques in image
processing, computer vision, financial statistics, bioinformatics and
medical applications.

Keywords

Nonparametric Regression and Density Estimation
Rank and Distribution-free Procedures
Multivariate Analysis
Deep Learning Algorithms
Dimension Reduction
Inverse Problems
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Algorithms for Financial Statistics
Algorithms for Bioinformatics and Medical Applications
Complexity Analysis for Nonparametric Estimation Algorithms

Manuscript Submission Information
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering
(www.mdpi.com/register)
and logging in (www.mdpi.com/login) to this website. Once you are
registered, click here
(https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=algorithms) to
go to the submission form.

Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers
will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and
will be listed together on
the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as
short communications are
invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100
words) can be sent to the
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for
publication elsewhere, except conference proceedings papers. In the
latter case (of conference
proceedings papers), the submitted manuscript should provide at least
40% new content.

All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind
peer-review process. A guide for
authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is
available on the Instructions
for Authors page (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions).
Algorithms is an international
peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions)
before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC -
https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc)
for publication in this open access
(https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess) journal is 1000 CHF
(Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good
English. Authors may use
MDPI's English editing service (https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english)
prior to publication or
during author revisions.

Kind regards,
Yi Zhang

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[DMANET] Algorithms: Special issue on "Virtual Network Embedding" - call for contributions

Journal: Algorithms (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms)

Special issue on "Virtual Network Embedding"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Virtual_Network

Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischer

Submission deadline: 15 July 2020
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With the rise of software-defined networking and network function
virtualization, sophisticated optimization of complex communication
networks is more important than ever. The field of virtual network
embedding has emerged, discussing all aspects of the optimization of
resource assignment in complex networks. Practical applications include
federated cloud environments or mobile (5G) telecommunication networks.
The optimization itself often hits a performance bound, as the
underlying resource assignment problem is found to be NP-complete. This
requires elaborate heuristic algorithms. Solution approaches encompass
all types of optimization algorithms, online and offline, with resource
models ranging from simple numbers to elaborate node and link
categories. Recently, advances in artificial intelligence and machine
learning have also provided promising results this field. Further, the
evaluation and in-depth comparison of related solution approaches has
started to gain more attention.
In this Special Issue, we want to discuss recent research advances in
this field. We invite novel contributions showing interesting and
relevant results related to the keywords listed below.

Keywords

Planning and optimization for complex networks
Service function chain embedding
Network embedding for cloud providers
Dynamic service provisioning in operator networks
Resource planning for software-defined networks
Network resource allocation
Nonlinear optimization algorithms
Machine learning for network optimization
Mixed integer linear programming for embedding
Embedding heuristics and metaheuristics
Algorithmic experimentation and evaluation
Random problem generation for embedding algorithms
Simulation environments

Manuscript Submission Information
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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering
(www.mdpi.com/register)
and logging in (www.mdpi.com/login) to this website. Once you are
registered, click here
(https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=algorithms) to
go to the submission form.

Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers
will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and
will be listed together on
the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as
short communications are
invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100
words) can be sent to the
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be
under consideration for
publication elsewhere, except conference proceedings papers. In the
latter case (of conference
proceedings papers), the submitted manuscript should provide at least
40% new content.

All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind
peer-review process. A guide for
authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is
available on the Instructions
for Authors page (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions).
Algorithms is an international
peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions)
before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC -
https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc)
for publication in this open access
(https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess) journal is 1000 CHF
(Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good
English. Authors may use
MDPI's English editing service (https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english)
prior to publication or during author revisions.

Kind regards,
Yi Zhang








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[DMANET] [CFP ICICS 2020] Information and Communications Security, Springer, LNCS, Denmark, Aug 2020

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22nd International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS 2020)
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Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-27 August 2020

http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/

Submission deadline:
**3 May 2020 (23:59 AOE - Extended!)**
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The 2020 International Conference on Information and Communications
Security will be the 22nd event in the ICICS conference series, started
in 1997, that brings together individuals involved in multiple
disciplines of Information and Communications Security in order to
foster exchange of ideas. There will be Best Paper and Best Student
Paper awards with cash reward sponsored by Springer. It will be
organized by Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
http://icics2020.compute.dtu.dk/

Program Topics:

Original papers offering novel research contributions on all aspects of
information and communications security are solicited for submission to
ICICS 2019. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

Access control
Social networks security, privacy and trust
Key management and key recovery
Software defined networking security
Anonymity
Embedded systems security
Language-based security
Security management
Applied cryptography
Security models, metrics, and policies
Malware and anti-malware
Fraud and cyber-crime
Authentication and authorization
Security and privacy of Big Data
Mobile computing security and privacy
Hardware security
Biometrics security
Security of critical Infrastructures
Network security
Identity access management
Blockchain security and privacy
Trust and reputation systems
Cloud and edge computing security
Trusted and trustworthy computing technologies
Operating systems security
Usable security and privacy
Computer and digital forensics
Insider threat detection
Cyber-physical systems security
Underground economy
Privacy protection
Intellectual property protection
Data and system integrity
Verification of security protocols
Privacy-preserving data mining
Intrusion detection
Database security
Web security
Risk assessment
IoT security and privacy
Distributed systems security
Wireless security

Instructions for Authors:

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published
nor submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference,
workshop or journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no
author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.

Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded,
in the Springer-Verlag LNCS format (details can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset
with 11pt font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should
not exceed 16 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but
excluding well-marked appendices (no more than 18 pages in total). Note
that papers should be intelligible without all appendices, since
committee members are not required to read them. Submitted papers may
risk being rejected directly without consideration of their merits if
they do not follow all the above submission instructions.

Accepted papers will be presented at ICICS 2020 and included in the
conference's post-proceeding published by Springer in its Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series. Please note that at least one author of each
accepted paper should register with full rate to the conference and give
a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from
the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in
the conference proceedings.

Organization:

General Chairs
- Christian D. Jensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Program Chairs
- Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
- Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

If there is any question, please contact us at: icics2020-1@easychair.org.
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[DMANET] Open PhD position: Formal Methods for Reliable Networks

Dear all,

We are looking for a motivated student interested in pursuing a PhD on
developing the foundations of a next generation of reliable networks:
networks which are highly automated, and verify and correct themselves
autonomously, relying on formal methods. Communication networks have become
a critical infrastructure of our society and hence come with stringent
requirements on dependability. We believe that automation can improve
reliability: many network outages these days are due to human errors.

The research position is at the Faculty of Computer Science at the
University of Vienna and is fully funded. The candidate also has the
opportunity to collaborate with Aalborg University, Denmark, and engage
into longer visits, if she/he is interested: Aalborg University is a
project partner.

The candidate should have a strong background in formal methods, model
checking and algorithms, and be knowledgeable about communication networks,
with a strong interest in this application domain.

We offer a productive research environment and excellent contacts to other
universities as well as industry interested in this application domain.
While our goal is to lay the theoretical foundations of such networks, we
also plan to prototype our ideas and ideally make a practical contribution.

For an idea on the kind of research we are doing in this area, please see
the sample publications attached below.

To apply, please send your CV, motivation letter and reference letters to
me by email, or use the online portal at
https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/ .

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information, And
please do distribute this email to colleagues and students who may be
interested.

Thank you,

Stefan Schmid (in collaboration with Kim G. Larsen and Jiri Srba at Aalborg
University)

PS: More information about our research group at:
https://ct.cs.univie.ac.at/

Some related papers:

P-Rex: Fast Verification of MPLS Networks with Multiple Link Failures
Jesper Stenbjerg Jensen, Troels Beck Krogh, Jonas Sand Madsen, Stefan
Schmid, Jiri Srba, and Marc Tom Thorgersen.
14th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and
Technologies (CoNEXT), Heraklion/Crete, Greece, December 2018.
https://www.univie.ac.at/ct/stefan/conext18.pdf

Polynomial-Time What-If Analysis for Prefix-Manipulating MPLS Networks
Stefan Schmid and Jiri Srba.
37th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Honolulu,
Hawaii, USA, April 2018.
https://www.univie.ac.at/ct/stefan/infocom18prefixnet.pdf


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[DMANET] The 43rd Australasian Combinatorics Conference (43ACC)

The 43rd Australasian Combinatorics Conference (43ACC) will be held at The University of Melbourne, Australia, 14-18 December 2020. Previously known as the Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing (ACCMCC), the Australasian Combinatorics Conference (ACC) is the annual conference of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia (CMSA). It covers all areas of combinatorics in mathematics and computer science.

Researchers in any area of discrete mathematics and its applications are warmly invited to attend 43ACC and give talks. Contributed talks will be around 20 - 25 minutes in length including time for questions.

Invited speakers:
* Vida Dujmović, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Rongquan Feng, Peking University, China
* Michael Giudici, The University of Western Australia, Australia
* Sarada Herke, The University of Queensland, Australia
* Mikhail Isaev, Monash University, Australia
* Daniel Kráľ, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic
* Bojan Mohar, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Jeroen Schillewaert, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
* Edwin van Dam, Tilburg University, Netherlands
* Nick Wormald, Monash University, Australia

Organising committee:
Malwina Luczak, Charl Ras, Lawrence Reeves, Binzhou Xia, Sanming Zhou (Chair)

Key dates:
Early bird registration deadline: 31 October 2020
Registration closes: 22 November 2020
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 22 November 2020

Conference website: http://43acc.ms.unimelb.edu.au

Email: 43acc@ms.unimelb.edu.au

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Best regards,

Professor Sanming Zhou
School of Mathematics and Statistics
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
T: +61 3 8344 3453 E: sanming@unimelb.edu.au
http://researchers.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~sanming@unimelb/

Editor-in-Chief
Australasian J. Combinatorics
https://ajc.maths.uq.edu.au
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[DMANET] CANCELLED: 32nd Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics Graph Theory and Computing

Dear colleagues,

In light of the current coronavirus situation, we have to cancel the 32nd Cumberland Conference on Combinatorics Graph Theory and Computing, which we had planned to hold at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia on May 23-24, 2020.

This is a very sad decision for us to make. We were well-prepared to have a great conference here in Virginia. Four outstanding scholars (Daniel Kral, Blair Sullivan, Douglas West, Yufei Zhao) had agreed to be our plenary speakers (https://gyu.people.wm.edu/32Cumberland/32-cumberland.html). Our college had provided generous support and we had also requested funding from NSF to support the travel of more junior researchers (Zi-Xia Song and Rong Luo were very kind to share with us their previous NSF proposals). Our secretaries also worked very hard to reserve more than 60 hotel rooms for us. Even though the conference will not happen this year at W&M, we are very grateful for all the support and appreciate all the help!

I know this must be an disappointing news for some of you. We do hope to bring Cumberland to Virginia some time in the future. Cumberland will resume in 2021 at Middle Tennessee State University.

Best wishes,
Gexin and Martin



Gexin Yu, PH.D.
Professor of Mathematics
William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA, 23187-8795


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[DMANET] AofA2020 cannot take place as a physical event in Klagenfurt in June 2020

After careful consideration of the current Coronavirus outbreak and in
consultation with the Steering Committee, the Organising Committee for the 31st
International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods
for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA2020) decided not to hold AofA2020 as a
physical event in Klagenfurt in June 2020.

When the situation clarifies, we will decide on alternatives together with the
Steering Committee.

The proceedings will appear in LIPIcs as planned.

We would like to wish you all the best and thank you for your support of AofA2020!

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[DMANET] ALGOSENSORS 2020: International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Sensor Networks

ALGOSENSORS 2020: International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for
Wireless Sensor Networks

Polo Didattico delle Piagge, Giacomo Matteotti, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Pisa, Italy, September 9-10, 2020

The Organization Committee (OC) is committed to ALGO 2020 aware of the
pandemic situation for the COVID-19 outbreak, announced by the World Health
Organization. As already happened for other conferences, the OC is
preparing backup plans such as moving the events or (partially) running
them in a virtual way. What is most important is that the scientific
activity of the Programme Committees of the ALGO conferences is not
suspended or stopped: peer review, accepted papers, camera ready and
proceedings will be accomplished as usual. As for the talks and the
participation, the health and safety of our community is our priority:
attending and giving the talks will be safe, and virtual presence will be
possible in case of remaining safety concerns or travel restrictions.

The ALGOSENSORS symposium aims to bring together research contributions
related to diverse algorithmic aspects of sensor networks, wireless
networks as well as distributed robotics, both from a theoretical and an
experimental perspective. This year ALGOSENSORS has three tracks:

- (A) Algorithms and Theory
- (B) Distributed and Mobile
- (C) Wireless Sensor Networks and Emergent applications

Each paper will be initially submitted to a single track but will be
handled by the same program committee. The program committee will make sure
that all papers are reviewed by PC members in the expertise area.

Link: http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/ALGOSENSORS2020/index.html

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algosensors2020

Important Dates
Abstract registration deadline April 15, 2020
Submission deadline April 22, 2020

Scope
ALGOSENSORS is an international symposium dedicated to the algorithmic
aspects of wireless networks. Originally focused on sensor networks, it now
covers algorithmic issues arising in wireless networks of all types of
computational entities, static or mobile, including sensor networks,
sensor-actuator networks, autonomous robots. The focus is on the design and
analysis of algorithms, models of computation, and experimental analysis.
It is colocated with ALGO 2020.

List of Possible Topics
Algorithms
Complexity and Computability
Computational Models
Experimental Analysis
Performance Evaluation
Systems and Testbeds
Cyber Physical Systems
Game Theoretic Aspects
Social Networks and Algorithms
Communication Protocols
Fault Tolerance and Dependability
Data Aggregation and Fusion
Deployment
Routing and Data Propagation
Energy Management
Infrastructure Discovery
Localization
Mobility and Dynamics
Obstacle Avoidance
Swarm Computing
Time Synchronization
Topology Control
Delivery with Drones
Smart Farming
Precision Agriculture
Precise Localization
Autonomous Navigation
Wireless Sensor Networks
Ad-Hoc Networks
Internet of Things

Submission Guidelines
Papers are to be submitted electronically using the EasyChair server at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algosensors2020

The submissions must contain original results that have not already been
published and are not concurrently submitted to a journal or conference
with published proceedings. Each paper should select one of the two tracks
(Algorithms & Theory or Experiments & Applications). Authors need to ensure
that for each accepted paper at least one author will register and attend
the symposium.

Submissions are limited to twelve (12) single-column pages in the LNCS
format. This includes figures, but excludes references and an optional
appendix (to be read at the program committees discretion). Authors should
consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their proceedings templates,
either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers.

Accepted papers will be published as ALGOSENSORS 2020 post-proceedings in
the Springer LNCS series. Springer encourages authors to include their
ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each
paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete
and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the
copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper.
Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the
authorship of the papers cannot be made.

Committees

Steering Committee
Josep Diaz, U.P. Catalunya, Spain
Magnus M. Halldorsson, Reykjavik U., Iceland
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, U. of Southern California, USA
P.R. Kumar, Texas A&M U., USA
Sotiris Nikoletseas, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece (Chair)
Jose Rolim, U. of Geneva
Paul Spirakis, U. of Patras and CTI, Greece
Adam Wolisz, T.U. Berlin, Germany

Program committee
John Augustine, IIT Madras, India
Stefano Carpin, Univ. of California, Merced, USA
Jérémie Chalopin, CNRS Marseille, France
Mattia D'Emidio, Univ. of L'Aquila, Italy
Irene Finocchi, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy
Paola Flocchini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Leszek Gasieniec, Univ. of Liverpool, UK
Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram, IIT Hyderabad, India
Ralf Klasing, CNRS Bordeaux, France
Irina Kostitsyna, TU/e, Netherlands
Euripides Markou, Univ. of Thessaly, Greece
Dominik Pająk, Wroclaw Univ., Poland
Giuseppe Prencipe, Univ. of Pisa, Italy
Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK
Christian Scheideler, Paderborn University, Germany
Mordohay Shalom, Institute of Technology, Israel
Dimitrios Zorbas, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork,
Ireland
Vlady Ravelomanana, CNRS Paris Diderot, France
Christopher Thraves, U. Concepcion, Chile
Theofanis P. Raptis, IIT-CNR Pisa, Italy
Miguel A. Mosteiro, Pace U., USA
Xavier Defago, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Co-Chairs
Amitabha Bagchi, IIT Delhi, India
Alfredo Navarra, Univ. of Perugia, Italy
Cristina M. Pinotti, Univ. of Perugia, Italy

Publicity Chair
Francesco Betti Sorbelli, MS&T Rolla, USA

Contact: All questions about submissions should be emailed to
cristina.pinotti@unipg.it

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[DMANET] LSE Fellow in Mathematics (Operations Research)

LSE Fellow in Mathematics (Operations Research)

The Department of Mathematics at LSE seeks to appoint an LSE Fellow with
expertise in a subject area related to the Mathematics of Operations
Research. The successful candidate will have a developing research
record in Mathematical Operations Research and a clear and viable
strategy for future research. She or he will have a PhD related to
Mathematical Operations Research (or be close to completing one) by the
intended start date of 1 September 2020.

For further information about the post, other benefits that come with
this job and shortlisting criteria please see the how to apply document,
job description and person specification which are available at
tiny.cc/MathsFellowLSE2020. Salary from £36,647 to £44,140 p.a.
inclusive. This is a fixed term, full time appointment from September
2020 for 1 year in the first instance, with possible renewal subject to
funding. The closing date for applications is 19 April 2020.
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[DMANET] [CFP] Call for Papers - ACM MobiArch 2020 (Submission deadline: May 15, 2020)

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

      MobiArch 2020: 15th Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet
Architecture

                      In conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2020

                   21st September, 2020, London, United Kindom

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IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions:    15th May, 2020
Notification of acceptance:    30th June, 2020
Camera-ready Papers Due:    31st July, 2020
MobiArch Workshop Date:        21st September, 2020

SCOPE
MobiArch 2020 workshop will focus on the research and development of
network and computing architectures for next generation mobile Internet.
It will cover comprehensive and holistic, design, development and
evaluation of novel architectures for mobile Internet systems, to enable
new mobile services of broader importance (such as connected autonomous
vehicles and systems, machine learning applications, augmented reality
and virtual reality). Under the context of architectural research for
the evolving mobile internet, the workshop will also examine, exploit
and integrate the latest advances in mobile communications, mobile
computing, networking technologies and network control.

MobiArch 2020 solicits submissions of original research from academia
and industry that tackle the challenges and exploit recent advances in
architectures and technologies for mobile Internet systems. In addition,
it welcomes work-in-progress and position papers that describe original
ideas, present new directions, or have the potential to generate
insightful discussion.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite submissions covering the aspects around system architecture,
networking and computing support for the evolving mobile Internet (e.g.
terahertz and cell-free communication, integrated space-earth networks,
massive IoT, edge computing, autonomous cars and systems, distributed
artificial intelligence, and network virtualization), including but not
limited to:

- Novel architectures and protocols for mobility support at Internet
protocol stack
- Mobile networking and computing architectures for 4G/5G, beyond 5G and 6G
- Mobile network architecture design and management with data analytics
and machine learning
- Joint communication, computing, networking and computing architecture
design
- Software defined and cloud–assisted mobile networking
- Network virtualization in mobile Internet architecture
- Mobile internet architectures and technologies for connected
autonomous vehicles, UAV, cooperative ITS
- Mobile internet architecture for massive and low-power IoT access, and
smart cities
- Mobile Internet architectures and protocols for mobile edge
computing/intelligence, virtual and augmented reality
- Mobile data sensing and fusion for big M2M data
- Information-Centric Networking for mobile networks and mobile computing
- Seamless mobility and mobility-prediction-enhanced techniques in
heterogeneous networks
- Future Internet architecture for efficient mobility support
- Security and privacy technologies such as block-chains for mobile
Internet and computing
- Cognitive network design for mobile systems and applications
- Social, economic, scalability, and deployment issues for new mobile
internet architectures
- Field trials, deployment and evaluation of innovative mobile Internet
architectures

SUBMISSION
All paper submissions will be handled electronically via the EasyChair
submission website. The submission Web page for MobiArch'20 is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobiarch20

Authors should prepare a PDF version of their full paper. Submitted
papers must be no more than 6 pages long (for regular papers) and no
more than 3 pages long (for position papers), in two columns and with 10
point or larger font size, and must fit properly on US "Letter"-sized
paper (8.5x11 inches). Margins should be of 1 inch on all edges (top,
bottom, left, and right) of each page.

Please direct any questions about the paper submission process to the
Workshop Chairs, Dr Jianhua He (j.he@essex.ac.uk) and Dr Aline Carneiro
Viana (aline.viana@inria.fr).

Workshop Chairs

- Jianhua He, University of Essex, UK
- Aline Carneiro Viana, Inria, France

Steering Committee

- Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge
- Xiaoming Fu, University of Goettingen
- Katherine Guo, Bell Labs Research
- Michele Nogueira, Federal Univ. of Parana
- Stefano Secci, Cnam, Paris

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[DMANET] Ph.D. student positions in Graz, geometry

TU Graz is offering 2 Ph.D. student positions in the areas of (1) discrete
differential geometry and (2) nonlinear subdivision processes. Both are
associated with the doctoral college "Discrete Mathematics" which is
funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Please contact me if you are
interested.

One position is funded by grant money, and contacting me is sufficient for
applying. The other position is funded by TU Graz, and applicants must
visit the official TU Graz web page for advertisements, which is
https://www.tugraz.at/sites/mibla/mitteilungsblaetter/studienjahr-20192020/12-stueck-18-maerz-2020/
Please search for code 5070/20/005 and send your application to the email
address bewerbungen.mpug@tugraz.at specified there. The deadline is April
8, 2020.

best regards,
Johannes Wallner
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[DMANET] [IMPORTANT NEWS] [Extended Deadline] Call for Papers: Industrial Application of Metaheuristics (IAM 2020) @ GECCO 2020

Call for Papers:
IAM 2020
5th GECCO Workshop on Industrial Applications of Metaheuristics

[Very IMPORTANT NOTES:
Given the current situation with COVID-19 around the World and because nothing is more important than the health and safety of the attendees, the GECCO organizing committee has decided that GECCO 2020 will be an electronic-only conference.
It will make mandatory the presentation of all accepted papers in the form of a pre-recorded talk.]

IAM is held as part of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2020), July 8th-12th, Cancun, Mexico Electronic-Only Conference, Organized by ACM SIGEVO


Aims and Scope
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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/Many-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
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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 2020 information for authors for further details, accessible through http://gecco-2020.sigevo.org. Papers do not need to be anonymised. 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-2020.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=Workshops.


Important Dates
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Submission opening: February 27, 2020
Submission deadline: April 3, 2020 April 17, 2020,
Authors notification: April 17, 2020 May 1, 2020
Camera-ready submission: April 24, 2020 May 8, 2020
Author registration deadline: April 27, 2020 May 11, 2020
Workshop dates July 8 or 9, 2020
GECCO Conference, Electronic-Only: July 8-12, 2020


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

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We have a fully-funded three-year PhD position in formal methods for
information security. This is a joint doctorate (cotutelle) between
IRISA (Rennes, France) and Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland).
The student will obtain a PhD degree from both universities.

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[DMANET] [CPS-Sec 2020] CFP - IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security **** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 7, 2020 ****

*CPS-Sec 2020 - CALL FOR PAPERS
* =================================================================
The 5th IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security
(CPS-Sec)https://cns2020.ieee-cns.org/workshop/workshop-cyber-physical-systems-security-cps-secwill
be held in conjunction with IEEE Conference on Communications and
Network Security (CNS) 2020 29 June - 1 July 2020 in Avignon, France
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The scientific evolution of digital, analog, and physical devices and
their interactions with the networked systems created the Cyber-Physical
Systems (CPS). Today, the boundary between cyber and physical systems is
blurring. CPS covers a multitude of smart devices, ranging from
smartphones and tablets to devices and applications which exist in
industrial, transportation, medical, home security, building automation,
emergency management, power, and many other systems. These all enable
the vision of CPS by allowing human beings to interact with the physical
world and serve critical functions in our lives. Given the popularity of
the CPS applications, securing them against malicious activities is of
utmost importance. Otherwise, malfunctioning and insecure CPS devices
and applications can cause enormous damage to individuals, businesses,
and nations.

Therefore, the International Workshop on CyberPhysical Systems Security
(CPS-Sec) seeks novel submissions describing practical and theoretical
solutions to the cyber security challenges facing CPS. Submissions may
represent any application area for CPS. Hence, papers that are pertinent
to the security of embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT),
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Smart-Grids,
Critical Infrastructure Networks, Transportation Systems, and Medical
Devices are all welcome. Example topics of interest are given below, but
are not limited to:

* Secure CPS architectures
* Authentication mechanisms for CPS
* Access control for CPS
* Key management in CPS
* Data security and privacy for CPS
* Forensics for CPS
* Intrusion detection for CPS
* Trusted-computing in CPS
* Energy-efficient and secure CPS
* Availability, recovery, and auditing for CPS
* Distributed secure solutions for CPS
* Threat models for CPS
* Physical layer security for CPS
* Security on heterogeneous CPS
* Secure protocol design in CPS
* Vulnerability analysis of CPS
* Anonymization in CPS
* Security of CPS in automotive systems
* Security of CPS in aerospace systems
* Security of embedded systems
* Security of CPS in medical devices/systems
* Security of CPS in civil engineering systems/devices
* Security of industrial control systems
* Security of Internet-of-Things

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IMPORTANT DATES:*
Submission Deadline: April 7, 2020
Acceptance Notification: May 3, 2020
Camera Ready: May 8, 2020
Workshop Date: July 1, 2020
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*STEERING COMMITTEE:*
Kemal Akkay, PhD - Florida International University (USA)
Mauro Conti, PhD - University of Padua (Italy)
Selcuk Uluagac, PhD - Florida International University (USA)
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:*
Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, PhD - Florida International University (USA)
Tooska Dargahi, PhD - University of Salford (UK)
Eleonora Losiouk, PhD - University of Padua (Italy)
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*PUBLICITY CHAIR:***
Eleonora Losiouk, University of Padua, Italy
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WEB CHAIR:***
Alessandro Visintin , University of Padua, Italy
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*SUBMISSION*
Submitted papers must represent original material that is not currently
under review in any other conference or journal, and has not been
previously published. All submissions must be written in English with a
maximum paper length of 6 pages and formatted according to the
two-column IEEE conference format
<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Accepted
papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library after the
conference and included in the IEEE CNS proceedings. Papers should be
submitted using EDAS submission system <https://edas.info/N26622>.
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Best Regards,
Eleonora Losiouk, PhD, Research/Postdoc Fellow, University of Padua -
Department of Mathematics, SPRITZ - Security and Privacy Research Group
http://spritz.math.unipd.it/team.html
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[DMANET] [Extended Deadline] Gecco 2020 Workshop: Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation

[Apologies for multiple emails]
Please find below a Call for Contributions for the following GECCO 2020
WORKshop.

*Note that GECCO 2020 will be an electronic-only conference due to
COVID-19. * *It will be required that the presentation of all accepted
papers is provided in the form of a pre-recorded talk. More details about
this will be provided soon (together with how workshop discussions will
occur).*

Extended Submission deadline: April 17, 2020

Good Benchmarking Practices for Evolutionary Computation

BENCHMARK @ GECCO

https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-network/home/activities/GECCO20
<https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-network/home/activities/%0DGECCO20>

(Please copy and paste the above link in your browser if it does not work)

see also http://iao.hfuu.edu.cn/benchmark-gecco20

PDF Flyer:
http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/~naujoks/gecco/benchmark_gecco20_cfp.pdf

Exteneded Submission Deadline: April 17th, 2020
to be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
(GECCO 2020) July 8-12, 2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, organized by
ACM SIGEVO https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

Benchmarking aims to illuminate the strengths and weaknesses of algorithms
regarding different problem characteristics. To this end, several
benchmarking suites have been designed which target different types of
characteristics.

Gaining insight into the behavior of algorithms on a wide array of problems
has benefits for different stakeholders. It helps engineers new to the
field of optimization find an algorithm suitable for their problem. It also
allows experts in optimization to develop new algorithms and improve
existing ones.

Even though benchmarking is a highly-researched topic within the
evolutionary computation community, there are still a number of open
questions and challenges that should be explored:

1.

(i) most commonly-used benchmarks are small and do not cover the space
of meaningful problems,
2.

(ii) benchmarking suites lack the complexity of real-world problems,
3.

(iii) proper statistical analysis techniques that can easily be applied
depending on the nature of the data are lacking or seldom used, and
4.

(iv) user-friendly, openly accessible benchmarking techniques and
software need to be developed and spread.

We wish to enable a culture of sharing to ensure direct access to resources
as well as reproducibility. This helps to avoid common pitfalls in
benchmarking such as overfitting to specific test cases. We aim to
establish new standards for benchmarking in evolutionary computation
research so we can objectively compare novel algorithms and fully
demonstrate where they excel and where they can be improved.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

As the goal of the workshop is to discuss, develop and improve benchmarking
practices in evolutionary computation, we particularly welcome informal
position statements addressing or identifying open challenges in
benchmarking, as well as all other suggestions and contributions for a
discussion. Possible contributions include, but are not limited to:

-

- lists of open questions/issues in benchmarking
-

- examples of good benchmarking
-

- descriptions of common pitfalls in benchmarking and how to avoid them.

For all other information about the workshop, please contact Thomas Weise
at tweise@ustc.edu.cn with CC to p.oliveto@sheffield.ac.uk, lacava@upenn.edu
, boris.naujoks@th-koeln.de, and vanessa@modl.ai.

We also welcome the submission of workshop papers to be published in the
GECCO companion proceedings. The Workshop Call for Papers (CfP) can be
downloaded in PDF format or as plain text file here:
https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-network/home/activities/GECCO20

Our goal for the WORKshop is to collaboratively produce output that
improves the state-of-the-art of benchmarking in evolutionary computation,
not to organize yet another mini-conference!

TOPICS

The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

- the selection of meaningful (real-world) benchmark problems,

- performance measures for comparing algorithm behavior,

- novel statistical approaches for analyzing empirical data,

- landscape analysis,

- data mining approaches for understanding algorithm behavior,

- transfer learning from benchmark experiences to real-world problems, and

- benchmarking tools for executing experiments and analysis of experimental
results.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Opening: 27 February 2020

Extended Submission Deadline: 17 April 2020

Decisions Due: 1 May 2020

Camera-Ready Material Due: 8 May 2020

Author Registration Deadline: 27 April 2020 (TBC)

Conference Presentation: 8-9 July 2020

*Submission Instructions*

All relevant instructions regarding paper submission are available at
https://gecco-2020.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=Workshops.

RELATED EVENT

A similar benchmarking best practices workshop will be held at PPSN 2020,
which takes place from September 5-9, 2020, in Leiden, The
Netherlands: https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-
network/home/activities/PPSN20
<https://sites.google.com/view/benchmarking-%0Dnetwork/home/activities/PPSN20>
. Contributions to this workshop are welcome in any format until June 8,
2020.

LIST OF ORGANIZERS (alphabetical order)

 Thomas Bäck, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
 Carola Doerr, CNRS and Sorbonne University, Paris, France
 Tome Eftimov, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
 Pascal Kerschke, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 William La Cava, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 Manuel López-Ibáñez, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
 Boris Naujoks, Technical University of Cologne, Köln (Cologne), Germany
 Pietro S. Oliveto, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
 Patryk Orzechowski, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 Mike Preuss, LIACS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
 Jérémy Rapin, Facebook AI Research, Paris, France
 Ofer M. Shir, Tel-Hai College and Migal Institute, Israel
 Olivier Teytaud, Facebook AI Research, Paris, France
 Heike Trautmann, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
 Ryan J. Urbanowicz, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
 Vanessa Volz, modl.ai, Copenhagen, Denmark
 Markus Wagner, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
 Hao Wang, Sorbonne University, Paris, France
 Thomas Weise, Institute of Applied Optimization, Hefei University, Hefei,
China  Borys Wróbel, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
 Aleš Zamuda, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

HOSTING EVENT
The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020) July 8-12,
2020, Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexicohttp://gecco-2020.sigevo.org

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2020) will
present the latest high- quality results in genetic and evolutionary
computation. Topics include genetic algorithms, genetic programming,
evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, memetic algorithms,
hyper-heuristics, real-world applications, evolutionary machine learning,
evolvable hardware, artificial life, adaptive behavior, ant colony
optimization, swarm intelligence, biological applications, evolutionary
robotics, coevolution, artificial immune systems, and more. The full list
of tracks is available at: https://gecco-
2020.sigevo.org/index.html/Program+Tracks

This workshop is organized as part of ImAppNIO Cost Action 15140.

--
Pietro S. Oliveto
Senior Lecturer,
EPSRC Early Career Fellow,
Department of Computer Science,
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
*www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/rig/
<http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/rig/>*

*Fully funded PhD studentships available now* in time complexity analysis
of bio-inspired computation. Enquiries by excellent candidates can be sent
to me by email. Applications will be accepted until the posts are filled.
Further details are here
<http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/P.Oliveto/PhDStudentships.html>.
Applicants should apply using the online application form here
<http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/online>

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[DMANET] EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize - Call for Nominations (Postponed deadline)

EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize - Call for Nominations
Deadline: March 15, 2020

The EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize for outstanding papers in the area of multivariate algorithmics, is presented annually with the presentation taking place at IPEC (International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation). IPEC 2020 takes place within ISAAC 2020, December 14-16, 2020, Hong Kong. The Prize is named in honor of Anil Nerode in recognition of his major contributions to mathematical logic, theory of automata, computability and complexity theory.


Award Committee

The winning paper(s) will be selected by the EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize Award Committee. This year's committee consists of the following people.

Hans L. Bodlaender (Chair, Utrecht University, h.l.bodlaender@uu.nl),
Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge, anuj.dawar@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Virgi V. Williams (MIT, virgi@mit.edu).
Deadline for Nominations: April 15, 2020. (Original deadline: March 15, 2020.)

Decision: June 15, 2020.

The Award Committee is solely responsible for the selection of the winner of the award which may be shared by more than one paper or series of papers. The Award Committee reserves the right to declare no winner at all.

Eligibility

Any research paper or series of research papers by a single author or by a team of authors published in a recognized refereed journal. The research work nominated for the award should be in the area of multivariate algorithms and complexity meant in a broad sense, and encompasses, but is not restricted to those areas covered by IPEC. The Award Committee has the ultimate authority to decide on the eligibility of a nomination. Papers authored by a member of the Award Committee are not eligible for nomination.

Note that the past restrictions that require a certain number of years before/after the publication of the nominated papers have been removed.

Nominations

Nominations may be made by any member of the scientific community including the members of the Award Committee. A nomination should contain a brief summary of the technical content of each nominated paper and a brief explanation of its significance. Nominations are done by an email to the Award Committee Chair with copies to the members of the committee. The Subject line of the nomination E-mail should contain the group of words "Nerode Prize Nomination".

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