Tuesday, June 30, 2020

[DMANET] [Submission Deadline: Sep. 1, *9+ Special Issues*] CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, Dec. 14-16, Fiji

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Call For Papers
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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud,
and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December
2020, Fiji [Submission Deadline: Sep. 1][9+ Special Issues]

http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html

IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of
conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas,
techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor,
cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the
Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors,
individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and
Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to
the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to
become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running.
Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems
and applications has become increasingly critical.

This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners,
and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer
systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great
confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of
challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing
properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance,
real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption,
anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate
privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability,
adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on.


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IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE
Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will
be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards
will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after
further revisions, will be published in 9+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious
journals (confirmed).
1. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669)
SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-fusion-from-big-data-to-smart-data
2. Information Fusion (IF: 13.669)
SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-data-fusion-for-trust-evaluation
3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 9.112)
SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for
Virtual Representation
http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrating_AI-ML_and_Big_Data_Analytics_for_Virtual_Representation_2020-4-30.pdf
4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 6.125)
SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/artificial-intelligence-for-cyber-defence-and-smart-policing
5. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.788)
SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing
https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud?from=singlemessage
6. Software: Practice and Experience
SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical
Systems
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_softandhard.pdf
7. MDPI Electronics (IF: 2.412)
SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA
8. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica (IF: 5.129)
SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems:
Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges
http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_en.htm
9. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (IF: 5.213)
SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-networking-cyber-physical-social-systems
* More special issues will be added later.


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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal/Special Session Due: 30 June 2020
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020
Authors Notification Date: 15 October 2020
Final Manuscript Due: 10 November 2020
Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020


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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
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Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies
- Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and
methodologies
- Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined
networks
- Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge
- Security and privacy
- Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge
- Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy
- Blockchain security
- Artificial intelligence
- Big data foundation and management
- Dependable IoT supporting technologies

Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems
- Dependable sensor systems
- Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems
- Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart
grid systems)
- Database and transaction processing systems
- Safety and security in distributed computing systems
- Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
- Dependability in automotive systems
- Dependable integration
- Dependability in big data systems
- Software system security

Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications
- Sensor and robot applications
- Big data applications
- Cloud/fog/edge applications
- Datacenter monitoring
- Safety care, medical care and services
- Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications
- Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications
- Decentralized applications, federated learning applications
- Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking

Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments
- Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity,
easiness, comfort, and worry
- Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority
- Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
- Dependability evaluation
- Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation
- Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor,
cloud, big data systems


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Paper Submission
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
submission website (http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html) 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). At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the
paper at the conference.


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
- Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada
- Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
- Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Chairs
- Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada
- Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia
- Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee
- Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair)
- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair)
- Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
- Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
- Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
- A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji
- Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh
- Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
- Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
- Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University,
Australia


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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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WeChat: junfeng10001000
E-Mail: junfeng989@gmail.com

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[DMANET] ECCB 2020 Workshop on Computational Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications

Dear All,

We would like to invite you to the ECCB 2020 Workshop on *Computational
Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications*, which will be taking place
*virtually* on Friday, 4th September, 2020.

For more information about the workshop see below and for registration
details please visit https://eccb2020.info/registration/. Notice that
ECCB 2020 goes virtual and so *a reduced fee applies*.

Best, Solon P. Pissis (CWI and VU) & Yuri Pirola (UNIMIB)

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*Computational Pangenomics: Algorithms & Applications*

https://eccb2020.info/ntbw05-computational-pangenomics-algorithms-applications/

*Date:* Friday, 4th September

*Time:* 17:00 to 20:00 (CEST)

*Organisers*

Solon P. Pissis | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI and VU), The
Netherlands
Yuri Pirola | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy

*Invited Speakers*

Valentina Boeva | ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Tobias Marshall | Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

*Summary*

Computational Pangenomics encompasses different research efforts for
transitioning the existing paradigm from a sequence-based reference
genome to a pan-genome, i.e., an evolutionarily coherent collections of
genomes. Such a transition is urgently needed to effectively exploit the
data masses produced by the technical advances and the widespread
adoption of sequencing technologies. Graph-based representations of
collections of genomes and diploid-aware assemblers have been recently
proposed, but a large amount of work is still needed to shift to a
pan-genomic view into the current research practice.

Computational Pangenomics is at its infancy and, to better sustain its
full (and possibly, rapid) development, an interdisciplinary
collaboration between Bioinformatics, Theoretical Computer Science, and
Medicine is of crucial importance. As such, the workshop aims to provide
an occasion for researchers of these disciplines to know the recent
advances of the topic and the questions that will drive the future
research efforts in this area.

This virtual workshop is articulated in two keynote talks focusing on
algorithms (graph and string algorithms, indexing) and on applications
(genome assembly, variant calling, comparative and evolutionary
genomics) and in several invited talks given by researchers from the EU
Project PANGAIA's partners.

*Target audience*

The workshop aims to strengthen the interdisciplinary collaborations
between computer scientists and bioinformaticians as well as
practitioners of the field of computational genomics that are interested
to deal with the complexity of data related to genomes at population scale.

The workshop is open to everyone who wants to share their ideas and work
about algorithms and applications related to computational pangenomics.

Furthermore, the workshop is the main occasion to present the EU Project
PANGAIA (https://www.pangenome.eu/)  to  the  whole community  of 
researchers  in  computational biology. Participants will be able to
virtually meet the members and the partners of the PANGAIA project and,
possibly, start new collaborations on the subject.

*Schedule*

17:00 - 17:45    Tobias Marshall
17:45 - 18:30    Valentina Boeva
18:30 - 19:30    Invited talks given by researchers from the EU Project
PANGAIA's partners
19:30 - 20:00    Final round table with the keynote and invited speakers

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Solon P. Pissis, Ph.D

Principal Investigator
Life Sciences and Health research group
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Science Park 123, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Associate Professor
Faculty of Science, Bioinformatics
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Tel: +31 62 881 7122
Skype: solonas13
Email: solon.pissis@cwi.nl
WWW: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~solon/


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[DMANET] WINE 2020 - Call for Papers

WINE 2020
16th Conference on Web and Internet Economics
December 7-11, 2020
Beijing, China


WINE'20 submission deadline is approaching. Please consider submitting
your new and interesting works at the intersection of algorithms,
economics, and networks.

For detailed information see the website:
https://econcs.pku.edu.cn/wine2020

Submit your papers at:
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wine2020


=== Important Dates ===

Submission: July 12, 2020, 11:59pm anywhere on Earth
Notification: September 7, 2020


=== COVID-19 ===

As already happened for other conferences, backup plans such as
(partially) running the events in a virtual way are being considered.
The scientific activity of the conference will take place, and peer
review, accepted papers, camera-ready and proceedings will be
accomplished as usual. For the conference, the health and safety of our
community is our priority. Authors of accepted papers will have a choice
to attend the conference virtually.
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[DMANET] PhD position in Online and Approximation Algorithms at Utrecht University

We are looking for a candidate to fill a 5-year PhD position on Online and
Approximation Algorithms. The PhD candidate will be part of the Algorithms
and Complexity group of Prof Hans L. Bodlaender and will work under the
daily supervision of Dr Hsiang-Hsuan (Alison) Liu. The position consists of
70% research and 30% teaching. This will allow you to develop a strong
academic profile.


As a PhD candidate, you primarily perform research on online and
approximation algorithms, design novel algorithms and analyze the
competitive/approximation ratio by providing mathematical proofs. The goal
is to publish the results in scientific journals and proceedings and
present them at international conferences. This should result in a PhD
thesis. You will also be involved in teaching by supervising tutorial
groups of Bachelor's and Master's level courses and also by supervising
student projects.


Qualifications:

You are an enthusiastic and driven student and hold a Master's degree in
Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field. You also have:

- a strong interest in research on online and/or approximation algorithms
and analysis;

- experience with algorithm design and analysis;

- strong written and oral communication skills in English.

Candidates of all nationalities may apply. The university is striving for
gender balance in its research and teaching staff. Hence, women are
especially encouraged to apply for these positions. Candidates are
encouraged to mention any personal circumstances that need to be taken into
account in their evaluation (parental leave, military service etc.).


Details about the requirements for the position, conditions of employment,
and Utrecht University can be found in the full advertisement on Academic
Transfer:

https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-position-in-online-and-approximation-algorithms-10-fte


The deadline for applications is on July 12, 2020.

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[DMANET] CFP - MDPI Sensors (IF: 3.031) Special Issue “Recent Advances in Sensing and IoT Technologies

(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this CFP)

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CALL FOR PAPERS for Special Issue of MDPI Sensors on

"Recent Advances in Sensing and IoT Technologies"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SIoTT

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2020

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Special Issue Information

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network connecting billions of
physical objects and devices that are capable of sensing and sharing
data between themselves and the Internet. Hence, one of the core goals
of an IoT system is to provide a digital overlay of information over the
physical world, in domains such as industries, smart cities,
transportation, and energy. Thus, sensing and embedded systems are key
enabling technologies for the IoT vision.

The increasing popularity of IoT applications is driving an exponential
growth in connected IoT devices and generated data. As a result, the
current IoT system architectures and communication technologies are
facing significant technical challenges to meet the requirements of
connectivity, scalability, and interoperability, as well as to
efficiently support the transmission and processing of large volumes of
data. Hence, there is a need for new enabling technologies, end-to-end
architectures, and data management platforms. This Special Issue aims to
foster the dissemination of high-quality research with emerging ideas,
approaches, theories, and practice to resolve the challenging issues
related to the development of IoT ecosystems. Comprehensive review
papers on the emerging research trends in the IoT domain are highly
encouraged.

This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things". Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Sensor technologies and protocols for IoT systems
- IoT technologies and wireless sensor networks for smart cities and
smart homes
- IoT in 5G and beyond 5G networks
- Edge, fog, and cloud computing architectures for IoT systems
- SDN and NFV solutions for IoT systems
- Mission-critical IoT applications like smart grid, healthcare,
connected vehicles, and so on
- Security, privacy, and trust management in IoT
- IoT solutions for crowdsourcing and crowd-sensing

Special Issue Editors
Dr. Raffaele Bruno
Prof. Sherali Zeadally


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Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com
(https://www.mdpi.com/) by registering
(https://www.mdpi.com/user/register/) and logging in to this website
(https://www.mdpi.com/user/login/). Once you are registered, click here
to go to the submission form
(https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=sensors).
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). 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
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions) page. Sensors
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/) is an international
peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/instructions) page 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 1800 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.
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[DMANET] Call for Papers: Advances in Facility Location and Logistics

Please accept our apologies in case of cross-posting!


Dear colleagues,

 We cordially invite you to submit an article to the special issue of
the *EURO Journal of Transportation and Logistics *dedicated to
*Advances in Facility Location and Logistics*. The detailed call for
papers is available on the journal website

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/euro-journal-on-transportation-and-logistics/call-for-papers/special-issue-advances-in-facility-location-and-logistics

 The submission deadline is *15 December 2020*. Please forward this
email to any interested colleagues.

With our best regards,

Isabel Correia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa& CMA (Portugal)
*isc@fct.unl.pt <mailto:isc@fct.unl.pt>
Teresa Melo, Saarland University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
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[DMANET] ConicBundle Version 1.alpha.0 available for testing

The ConicBundle Library for Convex Optimization Version 1.alpha.0 is now
available for testing

   https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~helmberg/ConicBundle/

ConicBundle is a callable library for C/C++ that implements a bundle
method for minimizing the sum of convex functions that are given by
first order oracles or arise from Lagrangian relaxation of particular
conic linear programs.

The library offers a number of special features:

* Upper and lower bounds may be specified for each design variable; in
a less efficient and somewhat experimental variant general linear
constraints are allowed, as well.
* Instead of one common cutting plane model for the entire sum of
functions, each function may either have its own specialized cutting
model – this may help to improve convergence – or it may be grouped
together with others in a common standard cutting plane model.
* It provides substantial support for Lagrangian relaxation, i.e., if
the problem corresponds to finding the optimal dual multipliers
obtained by relaxing linear constraints in a relaxation or
decomposition of a primal problem.
o It allows to generate approximate primal optimal solutions.
o It supports cutting plane approaches by allowing dynamic
addition and deletion of dual variables without loss of quality
in the cutting models.
* The code offers special cutting models for linear programs over the
second order cone and the cone of real symmetric positive
semidefinite matrices.

The library comes with three variants of interfaces:

* Interface to ConicBundle for the Language C
* Interface to ConicBundle for the Language C++
* Interface to ConicBundle for the Language C++ using Matrix Classes
The interface offers the most but may require more time to get
acquainted with. It includes
o an abstract first order oracle for general convex functions
o a specialized box oracle with special purpose cutting model
which together with supported affine argument transformations
supports Lagrangian relaxation of linear programs over box
constrained domains
o an abstract positive semidefinite cone oracle (ConicBundle
exploits this in a special purpose model for the semidefinite
cone or, equivalently, for maximum eigenvalue functions) and an
implemented variant for affine matrix functions
o an abstract second order cone oracle (ConicBundle exploits this
in a special purpose model for the second order cone) and an
implemented variant for affine vector functions
o all oracles can be combined with affine function transformations
o each oracle may be used either as an objective function or as a
penalty function with fixed or adaptive penalty factor
o dynamic submodel selection allows to optimize various oracles
jointly as a sum of convex functions where each oracle's model
moves between being part of a common general cutting model and
forming a dedicated cutting model
o support for various quadratic proximal terms with support for
variable metric
o regarding the groundset of the design variables there is special
support for
+ unconstrained ground sets (no constraints on the design
variables)
+ box constrained ground sets (upper and lower bounds on each
variable)
+ linearly constrained ground sets (may be significantly
slower, testing was limited to simple instances so far)
o dynamic modification support for adding/deleting/modifying
variables, oracles and constraints (needed e.g. for Lagrangian
relaxations of cutting planes; see also the Tutorial
Implementation of the SDP Max-Cut Relaxation with Triangle
Separation)

Anything free comes without guarantee:
The program is distributed is under the terms of the Gnu General Public
License Version 3 or any later version, in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

An Online-Manual is available at the site.
Please give me your feedback on errors and misleading explanations ...

Christoph Helmberg


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Monday, June 29, 2020

[DMANET] Postdocs & PhD students in the theory of distributed & parallel computing at Aalto University

This ad can also be found at https://research.cs.aalto.fi/da/


The research groups of Jukka Suomela and Jara Uitto at Aalto University
(Helsinki, Finland) are among the leading research groups in the areas of
theory of distributed and parallel computing. Our work frequently appears
in the top conferences of the field and we have received a number of
awards, e.g. the best paper award at FOCS 2019.

Our research groups are now looking for several

postdoctoral researchers

and/or

doctoral students

to work on the foundations of distributed and parallel computing. The
candidates are funded by the following research projects supported by the
Academy of Finland:

"Local Checking, Solving, and Mending—New Perspectives on Distributed
Computing"

"Massively Parallel Algorithms for Large-Scale Graph Problems"

"Parallel and distributed computing for Bayesian graphical models".

The candidates for the postdoctoral researcher positions are expected to
have a doctoral degree and relevant publications in leading conferences or
journals. A good command of English is necessary. In addition to research
work, postdocs participate in the supervision of students and teaching. The
salary for the position is between 3660 and 3840 EUR per month depending on
experience and qualifications. These are fixed-term contracts typically for
1–2 years.

The candidates for the doctoral student positions are expected to have a
Master's degree and a good command of English. The starting salary for the
position is 2537 EUR per month. The expected length of the doctoral studies
in Finland is 4 years.

The starting dates of the contracts are also negotiable, and we can offer
flexible terms of employment. In addition to the salary, the contracts
include occupational health benefits. Finland has a comprehensive social
security system and is particularly suitable for families. Diversity is
part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's
diversity and inclusiveness in the future as well; this is why we warmly
encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.

To apply for the positions, please send an email to both
jukka.suomela@aalto.fi and jara.uitto@aalto.fi by the end of August 2020.
Your application should be a single PDF file that contains a cover letter,
your CV and list of publications, a brief research statement, and the
relevant transcripts of studies and certificates of the degrees. Please
also ask two or three senior academics to send their recommendation letters
to the same email addresses, by the same deadline. While all applicants who
have submitted an application by the deadline will be appropriately
considered, Aalto University reserves the right to consider also other
candidates for the announced positions.

For more information, please contact:

Jukka Suomela

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Aalto University

jukka.suomela@aalto.fi

https://jukkasuomela.fi/

Jara Uitto

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer Science

Aalto University

jara.uitto@aalto.fi

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[DMANET] IPEC 2020: Final Call for Papers

Final Call for Papers
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15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020)
International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) is an
annual conference covering all aspects of parameterized and exact
algorithms and complexity. Its 15th edition will happen online in 2020.

Webpage: http://apsec2012.comp.polyu.edu.hk/index.html

------ Topics ------
Papers presenting original research in the area are sought, including but
not limited to:
* new techniques for the design and analysis of parameterized and exact
algorithms;
* fixed-parameter tractability and kernelization results;
* parameterized complexity theory;
* parameterized (in)approximability results;
* relationships between parameterized complexity and traditional
complexity classifications;
* applications of parameterized and exact computation; and
* implementation issues of exact, parameterized, and kernelization
algorithms.
Theoretically grounded studies on parameterized and exact computations and
kernelization for real-world applications and algorithmic engineering are
especially encouraged.

------ Conference ------
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IPEC 2020 will be an online event taking
place on 14–18 December 2020. On each day, there will be two roughly
90-minute sessions of invited and contributed talks with a 30-minute break
in between, scheduled between 8am and noon UTC (i.e., spanning European
morning / Asian afternoon or evening). The conference will also feature
virtual rooms for coffee break discussions. Participating in the conference
will be free of charge.

Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at
Schloss Dagstuhl. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their
work at the symposium (preferably by a live online talk or at the very
least by a prerecorded talk), and to incorporate the comments from the
program committee. Authors are also encouraged to be present at virtual
coffee breaks at least after the session with their talk. A special issue
of Algorithmica is planned for selected papers presented at IPEC 2020.

------ Awards ------
The program committee may award a Best Paper Award and a Best Student
Paper Award,
both of which may be exceptionally split between two or more papers. A
student is someone who has not received a PhD degree before the full
paper submission
deadline. A paper accepted to the conference is eligible for the Best
Student Paper Award if either all its authors are students, or besides
student co-author(s) there is one non-student co-author that confirms, at
the moment of submission, that a clear majority of conceptual work on the
paper was done by the student co-author(s). In the latter case, it is
moreover expected that a student gives a presentation at the conference.
Papers co-authored by members of the programme committee are not eligible
for the Best Paper Award or the Best Student Paper Award.

------ Special events ------
An invited talk is planned by the 2020 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize winner. In
addition, there will be a session presenting the results of the 5th
Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE
2020).

------ Submission guidelines ------
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 12 pages
(excluding the title page and references section) in LIPIcs style, in
English, describing original unpublished research. The title page consists
exclusively of the title of the paper, author information, and abstract.
Results previously published in another conference proceedings or journal
(or scheduled for publication prior to IPEC) will not be considered.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or
to journals is not allowed. However, the authors are encouraged to make
full versions of their submissions freely accessible in an online
repository such as ArXiv or ECCC.

The extended abstract should contain a summary of the main results, their
motivation and importance, and evidence of their correctness. All claims
made in the extended abstract must be fully justified in a clearly marked
appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. The
authors may choose to either present in the appendix only the material
excluded from the extended abstract or to attach a full version of the paper as
the appendix. In either case, the authors should take a particular notice
that the extended abstract should present their work in a comprehensible
and self-contained way and the quality of the presentation in the extended
abstract will be taken into account by the programme committee.

Authors must submit their papers electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipec2020 . The use of the LIPIcs
style file (
https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors) is
mandatory; no changes to font size, page margins, etc., are permitted.
Program committee members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit
papers.

------ Important Dates ------
Submission deadline: 15th July 2020 (AoE)
Notification: by 18th September 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 30th September 2020
Conference: 14th-18th December 2020

------ Program Committee ------
Marthe Bonamy (CNRS Bordeaux, France)
(co-chair) Yixin Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Yijia Chen (Fudan University, China)
David Eppstein (UC Irvine, USA)
Eun Jung Kim (CNRS, France)
Marvin Künnemann (MPII, Germany)
Euiwoong Lee (New York University, USA)
Pasin Manurangsi (Google Research, USA)
Pranabendu Misra (MPII, Germany)
Irene Muzi (TU Berlin, Germany)
(co-chair) Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Marc Roth (University of Oxford, UK)
R.B. Sandeep (IIT Dharwad, India)
Darren Strash (Hamilton College, USA)

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[DMANET] REMINDER: NCN Online Colloquium--Cheryl Praeger--30 June

We hope to see you this Tuesday!

NOTE THE EARLY TIME of 9:00 a.m. EDT instead of the usual time.

Please join us for the following up-coming Virtual Combinatorics
Colloquium. The zoom link is below, and a poster can be found here
https://sites.google.com/view/northeastcombinatoricsnetwork/virtual-combinatorics-colloquium.
Past VCC presentations, which may also be of interest for online courses,
may be found here:
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Please share this information.


Speaker: Cheryl Praeger (University of Western Australia),
Title: "Diagonal Structures and Permutation Groups".

Date and Time: Tuesday June 30, 2020, 9:00am EDT (13:00 UTC)
Zoom Meeting ID: 913 6952 1801 (active link below)
Password: 16180339

Abstract. Permutation groups are often best understood by the
structures they preserve on the underlying point set. For example, several
families of maximal subgroups of finite symmetric groups arise as
stabilisers of subsets, or partitions, or Cartesian decompositions of the
point set. Among the finite primitive groups, one family (apart from the
almost simple groups) resisted such a description until now, namely the
maximal simple diagonal groups. We introduce the concept of a diagonal
structure associated with any group T, finite or infinite, and any integer
m at least 2. We prove that the stabiliser of the diagonal structure is
precisely the corresponding diagonal group, and that this group is
primitive essentially when T is characteristically simple.

This work began as a collaboration with Csaba Schneider, and over the past
almost two years the collaboration includes also R. A. Bailey and Peter
Cameron. We have introduced also a diagonal graph, built from a collection
of Hamming graphs: its automorphism group is the diagonal group. And there
are close connections with Latin squares, and with certain kinds of higher
dimensional Latin hypercubes. We continue to learn more about the
combinatorial links.


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[DMANET] Call for Papers -Robust Data Analysis and Its Applications

Dear Colleagues,

This is to invite you to submit high-quality research papers for the
special issue of *Annals of Operations Research* on ''*Robust Data Analysis
and Its Applications*'' . The special issue aims to publish recent works in
the fields of robust data analysis and its applications. The topics of the
special issue include, but are not limited to, those addressing the following
topics.The main topics of interest are:
•Robust data mining
•Robust optimization
•Robust computing
•Robust kernel methods
•Robust classification
•Robust deep learning
•Robust network
•Robust clustering
•Robust intelligent systems
•Robust pattern recognition
•Robust big data
•Interval analysis
•Interval data
•Applications of robust data mining and optimization in domains such as
business, energy and power systems, health care, environmental sciences,
portfolio analysis,and all other relevant areas.

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is *February 1, 2021*.

For further information please visit the call for papers at
https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/18100768/data/v1

If you have any question regarding this special issue you can contact at
hmoosaei@gmail.com (Hossein Moosaei)

*Guest Editors:*
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Hossein Moosaei, University of Bojnord, Iran and Charles University, Czech
Republic
Milan Hladík, Charles University, Czech Republic
M. Tanveer, Indian Institute of Technology Indore
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

[DMANET] Final CFP ALGOCLOUD 2020

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ALGOCLOUD 2020
6th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing
9-10 September 2020, Pisa, Italy - part of ALGO 2020
http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/ALGOCLOUD2020/index.html
Submission deadline: 1 July 2020

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SCOPE
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ALGOCLOUD is an annual international symposium aiming to tackle the diverse
new topics in the emerging area of algorithmic aspects of computing and
data management in modern cloud-based systems (which are broadly defined so
as to include edge- and fog-based systems, cloudlets, cloud micro-services,
as well as virtualization environments).

ALGOCLOUD aims at bringing together researchers, students, and
practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related
to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based
systems. ALGOCLOUD 2020 is co-located with ALGO 2020, a leading
international event of researchers working on algorithms and their
engineering.

ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and
implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is
particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud
computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates
contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also
welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful system
developments, as well as experience/use-case articles and high-quality
survey papers. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for
modeling, practices for building and techniques for evaluating operations
and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to,
virtualized infrastructures, cloud computing platforms, edge computing
platforms, fog computing platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options,
cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, and
HPC architectures.

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Submission deadline: 1 July 2020
Author Notification: 31 July 2020
Symposium: 9-10 September 2020

PAPER SUBMISSION
----------------
Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format, excluding
references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the
Program Committee. Papers should be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair submission system at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2020
By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at
least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2020, and present
the paper, provided that there are no safety concerns due to the COVID-19.

TOPICS
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Submissions should focus on aspects of cloud-based systems and their
algorithms, including (but not limited to) the following areas:
• Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures
• Resource Management and Scheduling
• Data Center and Infrastructure Management
• Privacy, Security and Anonymization
• Cloud-based Applications
• Virtualization and Containers
• Performance Models
• Cloud deployment tools and their analysis
• Novel programming models
• Storage management
• Fog and Edge Computing
• Economic models and Pricing
• Energy and Power Management
• Big Data and the Cloud
• Network Management and Techniques
• Caching and Load Balancing
• Machine Learning Techniques on Edge, Fog, Cloud


COMMITTEES
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Guillaume Pierre, URUSA / University of Rennes 1. France
Kostas Tsichlas, University of Patras, Greece


PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass, Amherst, USA
Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France
Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
David Breitgand, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
Valeria Cardellini, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Fanny Dufossé, Inria, France
Mayank Goswami, City University of New York, USA
Dimitrio Katsaros, University of Thessaly, Greece
Alessandro Vittorio Papadopoulos, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Krzysztof Rzadca, University of Warsaw, Poland
Francesco Silvestri, University of Padova, Italy
Nodari Sitchinava, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Animesh Trivedi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Przemysław Uznański, University of Wrocław, Poland
Monica Vitali, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceesings published by
Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs)

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[DMANET] IEEE BCCA - Deadline EXTENDED: July 25th- REDUCED REGISTRATION FEES and Virtual Presentations

*The Second IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and
Applications (BCCA 2020)*

*Nov. 02 – NOV 05, 2020 – ANTALYA, TURKEY*

http://intelligenttech.org/BCCA2020/index.html

*COVID-19 Update:*

The organizing team is closely monitoring the development of the COVID-19
situation. The safety and well-being of all conference participants is our
priority. Considering the current circumstances, *BCCA 2020* *will run as
a virtual conference* *and the registration fees will be reduced.*

As a revolutionary technology, Blockchain provides a practical solution to
enable a secure and decentralized public ledger that a huge plethora of
exciting new technology applications in several areas, such as the Internet
of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Manufacturing, Supply-Chain, etc.
Blockchain technology has infiltrated all areas of our lives, from
manufacturing to healthcare and beyond. Cybersecurity is an industry that
has been significantly affected by this technology and maybe more so in the
future. Blockchain Technology is defined as a decentralized system of
distributed registers that are used to record data transactions on multiple
computers. The reason this technology has gained popularity is that you can
put any digital asset or transaction in the blocking chain, the industry
does not matter. Blockchain technology can be used to prevent any data
breach, identity theft, cyber-attacks or criminal acts in transactions.
This ensures that data remains private and secure. The main goal of this
workshop is to encourage both researchers and practitioners to share and
exchange their experiences and recent studies between academia and industry
in the Blockchain field.

Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all
major areas, which include, but not limited to:

· State-of-the-art of the Blockchain technology and cybersecurity

· Blockchain Technologies and Methodologies

· Recent development and emerging trends Blockchain for Cybersecurity
and Privacy

· New models, practical solutions and technological advances related
to Blockchain

· Theory of Blockchain in Cybersecurity

· Blockchain-based security for the Internet of Things and
cyber-physical systems

· Blockchain-based security solutions of smart cities infrastructures

· Authentication and authorization in Blockchain

· Applications of blockchain technologies in digital forensic

· Privacy aspects of blockchain technologies

· Applications of blockchain technologies in computer & hardware
security

· Implementation challenges facing blockchain technologies

· Blockchain-based threat intelligence and threat analytics techniques

· Blockchain-based open-source tools

· Forensics readiness of blockchain technologies

· Vulnerabilities of smart contracts

· Open issues and trends in Blockchains

*Full paper Important Dates:*

Submission deadline: June 25th, 2020 July 25th, 2020

Notification of Acceptance: Aug 15th, 2020

Submission of camera-ready: Sept 10th, 2020

*Journal Special Issues:*

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended
version to the following journal(s). Confirmed Special Issues:

- Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (IF: 2.397)

- Springer Cluster Computing (IF: 1.85)

- Springer Journal of Network and System Management (IF: 1.676)

Papers will be selected based on their reviewers' scores and
appropriateness to the Journal's theme. All extended versions will undergo
reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further
details will be made available at a later stage.

*Committee:*

*General Co-Chair*

Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Turkey

*Program Co-Chairs*

Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis, Russia

Ali Dorri, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia

*Keynotes:*

Professor Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia

*Tutorial: *

Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

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Saturday, June 27, 2020

[DMANET] CSR 2020 - 15th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia | June 29 - July 3, 2020 | Virtual Event

This is the final call for participation in CSR 2020 -
15th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia.

In the week Monday, June 29th, through Friday, July 3rd, the
the conference Computer Science in Russia is held as an online event.
There are more than a handful of invited talks, plus 25 contributed
ones. More details can be found at https://csr2020.sciencesconf.org/,
in particular at https://csr2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/11

The organizers are providing links to the talks through this website,
so that everybody interested could watch the talks at one's leisure in
the coming days. Still, in order to get further details and also in
order to get involved into the online discussions that will be
organized during the conference week, we ask you to register for
this event now via the registration form at
https://forms.gle/Gh4Uy3p4pqozMGoW6.
There is no registration fee.

The discussions are scheduled in a way to minimize overlap with
the talks at CiE 2020 (Computability in Europe, https://cie2020.wordpress.com/).
This is one of the benefits of online conferences; it is possible to attend
two of them in the same week.

"See you" soon online,

Henning Fernau
Arseny Shur
Mikhail Volkov

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Friday, June 26, 2020

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

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]



*** 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

===============

Paper Submission Deadline: 1 July 2020

Authors Notification: 18 August 2020

Camera-Ready Paper Due: 8 September 2020

Early Registration Due: 8 September 2020

Conference Date: 15-17 October 2020



PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

==========================

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).

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).



JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

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



- IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

- Computer Networks (Elsevier)

- Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier)

- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier)

- Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier)

- Neurocomputing (Elsevier)

- Information Fusion (Elsevier)

- IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica

- IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

- IEEE ACCESS

- Sensors

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[DMANET] CIAC 2021 (preliminary CFP)

CIAC 2021 - 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity, 10-12
May 2021 – Larnaca, Cyprus

http://easyconferences.eu/ciac2021/

*Preliminary Call for Papers*

*Aims and Scope*

The International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity is intended to
provide a forum for researchers working in all aspects of computational
complexity and the use, design, analysis and experimentation of efficient
algorithms and data structures.

*Topics*

Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms and
complexity are sought, including (but not limited to):

· sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms and data structures

· approximation and randomized algorithms

· graph algorithms and graph drawing

· on-line and streaming algorithms

· analysis of algorithms and computational complexity

· algorithm engineering

· web algorithms

· exact and parameterized computation

· algorithmic game theory

· computational biology

· foundations of communication networks

· computational geometry

· discrete optimization

*Proceedings*

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series and will be available for distribution at the conference.

Simultaneous submission to another conference with published proceedings or
to a journal is not allowed. Results previously published in another
conference proceedings or journal (or scheduled for publication prior to
CIAC) will not be considered.

*Program Committee*

Cristina Bazgan, Univ. Paris Dauphine, France

Tiziana Calamoneri (Chair), Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Jianer Chen, Texas A&M Univ. College Station, USA

Thomas Erlebach, Univ. of Leicester, UK

Guillaume Fertin, Nantes Univ., France

JiÅ™í Fiala, Charles Univ., Czech Republic

Peter Damaschke, Chalmers Univ., Sweden

Paola Flocchini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

Dimitris Fotakis, NTU Athens, Greece

Paolo Franciosa, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Leszek Antoni GÄ…sieniec, Univ. of Liverpool, UK

Mordecai Golin, Hong Kong Univ. Kowloon, Hong Kong

Jan Kratochvíl, Charles Univ., Czech Republic

Vadim Lozin, Univ. of Worwick, UK

Bodo Manthey, Twente Univ. Enschede, The Netherlands

Marios Mavronicolas, Univ. of Cyprus Nicosia, Cyprus

Cécile Murat, Dauphine Univ. Paris, France

Gaia Nicosia, Roma Tre Univ., Italy

Hirotaka Ono, Nagoya Univ., Japan

Maurizio Patrignani, Roma Tre Univ., Italy

Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK

Laura Sanità Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

Charles Semple, Canterbury Univ. Christchurch, New Zealand

Blerina Sinaimeri, Univ. Lyon I – INRIA, France

Csaba D. Tóth, California State Univ. Northridge, USA

Luca Trevisan, Bocconi Univ. Milan, Italy

Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST, Japan

*Steering Committee*

Giorgio Ausiello, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Pinar Heggernes, Univ. of Bergen, Norway

Vangelis Paschos, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, France

Rossella Petreschi, Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


*Organizing Committee*

Federico Corò (Publicity), Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Anna Philippou (Co-chair), Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus

Chryssis Georgiou (Co-chair), Univ. of Cyprus, Cyprus

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Thursday, June 25, 2020

[DMANET] Postdoc and PhD openings in theoretical computer science and combinatorial optimization

In connection with the move of the Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (MIAO) research group to Copenhagen and Lund, the computer science departments at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University announce openings for:
- PhD students in SAT solving and combinatorial optimization: http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/PhD-SAT-LTH-200706.php
- PhD students in theoretical computer science: http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/PhD-TCS-DIKU-200706.php
- Postdocs in theoretical computer science: http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/openings/Postdoc-TCS-DIKU-200706.php

In one sentence, the goal of our research is on the one hand to show exponential lower bounds on running time for algorithms solving NP-complete problems, and on the other hand to devise new algorithms that crack such problems in linear time. To be able to do so, candidates will need a suitable combination of math wizardry, awesome programming skills, and a healthy dose of schizophrenia...

The application deadline is July 6, 2020, for all positions. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to jakob.nordstrom@cs.lth.se.

At the University of Copenhagen we expect to have tenure-track openings in theoretical computer science in the near future, and encourage postdoctoral researchers interested in exploring such opportunities. We also welcome candidates interested in applying for an Individual Fellowship within the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions program (https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/actions/get-funding/individual-fellowships-2020_en).



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[DMANET] Postdoc Opening in Experimental Algorithms at National University of Singapore

A one-year postdoc position (with a possibility of extension for another
year, subject to performance) in *experimental (/practical) algorithms* is
available at National University of Singapore. The broad goal of the work
is design of algorithms with rigorous theoretical guarantees whose
practical implementations can handle problems arising from real world. The
position will be jointly hosted by *Diptarka Chakraborty *(
https://sites.google.com/view/diptarka/) *and* *Kuldeep S. Meel (*
https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~meel/*)*. Applications are invited from
candidates who have solid background in *algorithm design/formal methods,
mathematics. *A prior experience in *programming* would be a plus.
Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. degree in computer science or
mathematics within the last 3 years (or will complete by Fall 2020). Start
date is flexible. The selected candidate will be offered competitive
salaries and benefits including generous travel funding.

The application should contain:

- A short research statement with description of research so far and
future research goals and interests,
- CV including the complete list of publications and details of two
referees.


*Application deadline:* August 15, 2020 (although applications will be
welcome even after the deadline until the position is filled).

The application and the recommendation letters should be sent
electronically to: diptarka@comp.nus.edu.sg and meel+postdoc@comp.nus.edu.sg
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*Living and working in NUS/Singapore:*

NUS is a world-class university that provides an outstanding and supportive
research environment. Its School of Computing is highly ranked (within the
top 15) among the computer science departments in the world. Singapore is a
vibrant, well-connected city with low taxes and research hub in Asia.



Thanking you,

Diptarka Chakraborty
Assistant Professor,
School of Computing,
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[DMANET] Postdoc Opening in Theoretical Computer Science at National University of Singapore

A one-year postdoc position (with a possibility of extension for another
year, subject to availability of fund) in *theoretical computer science* is
available in the research group of *Diptarka Chakraborty* (
https://sites.google.com/view/diptarka/) at National University of Singapore.
Applications are invited from candidates who have solid background in
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design, computational complexity, mathematics*, and have completed their
Ph.D. degree in theoretical computer science or mathematics within the last
3 years (or will complete by Fall 2020). Start date is flexible. The
selected candidate will be offered competitive salaries and benefits
including generous travel funding.

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- A short research statement with description of research so far and
future research goals and interests,
- CV including the complete list of publications,
- At least two letters of recommendation (to be sent directly to
diptarka@comp.nus.edu.sg).

*Application deadline:* August 15, 2020 (although applications will be
welcome even after the deadline until the position is filled)

The application and the recommendation letters should be sent
electronically to: diptarka@comp.nus.edu.sg.

*Living and working in NUS/Singapore:*

NUS is a world-class university that provides an outstanding and supportive
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top 15) among the computer science departments in the world. Singapore is a
vibrant, well-connected city with low taxes and research hub in Asia.



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Assistant Professor,
School of Computing,
National University of Singapore,
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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

[DMANET] FUN 2020 postponed to 2021

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Due to the COVID-19 global emergency, FUN was not held this June
as originally planned. To be on the safe side, we have decided to postpone
FUN 2020 to next year. The exact new dates will be communicated as
soon as all organizational details are sorted out; however we are planning
on keeping it in the first half of June 2021 (the week between 7th and 13th
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Different dates, same venue, same FUN!

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[DMANET] Postdoc Position in Mathematical Programming and SAT solving at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

The Institute of Production and Logistics Management at the Johannes
Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria, is inviting applications for a 15
month Postdoc position within the JKU Business School funded project
"Hybridization of Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques
for Managerial Decision Making / OPTIM-AI". The project is done in
collaboration with the Institute for Formal Models and Verification at
the JKU Linz.

The project concerns the design and improvement of generic solution
algorithms, including SAT and MaxSAT solvers, for hard optimization
problems and decision problems. The focus lies on hybridization of
mathematical optimization algorithms, in particular for Mixed-Integer
programming, and SAT solving algorithms, as well as on idea transfer
between these two disciplines. For further information please contact
Dr. Markus Sinnl (markus.sinnl@jku.at)

Starting date: September 1, 2020.

Candidates interested in the above position should have

* PhD degree in Computer Science, Operations Research, Industrial
Engineering or a related field
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programming) and/or SAT-solving and/or constraint programming
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The salary follows FWF-rules for postdoctoral researchers:
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Participation and presentations at scientific conferences are expected
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at one of the nicest campus universities in Austria, only 1 hour and 20
minutes by train from Vienna, please send the following documents

* motivation letter
* detailed CV
* certificates
* list of PhD courses and grades
* PhD thesis (if in another language than English, a three-page abstract
in English)
* list of publications

to markus.sinnl@jku.at, until July 12, 2020.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

The Johannes Kepler University wishes to increase the proportion of
academic female faculty and, for this reason, especially welcomes
applications by qualified women. If applicants are equally qualified, a
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[DMANET] [Submission Deadline: Sep. 1][9+SIs] CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications, 14-16 December 2020, Fiji

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Call For Papers
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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud,
and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December
2020, Fiji (Submission Due: 1 September 2020)

http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html

IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of
conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas,
techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor,
cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the
Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors,
individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and
Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to
the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to
become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running.
Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems
and applications has become increasingly critical.

This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners,
and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer
systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great
confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of
challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing
properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance,
real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption,
anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate
privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability,
adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on.


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IEEE DependSys 2020 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE
Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). All accepted papers will
be submitted to IEEE Xplore and Engineering Index (EI). Best Paper Awards
will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after
further revisions, will be be published in 9+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious
journals (confirmed).
1. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716)
SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data
2. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716)
SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-data-fusion-for-trust-evaluation
3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 7.377)
SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for
Virtual Representation
http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrating_AI-ML_and_Big_Data_Analytics_for_Virtual_Representation_2020-4-30.pdf
4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768)
SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/artificial-intelligence-for-cyber-defence-and-smart-policing
5. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.14)
SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing
https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud?from=singlemessage
6. Software: Practice and Experience (IF: 1.931)
SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical
Systems
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_softandhard.pdf
7. MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764)
SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA
8. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica
SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems:
Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges
http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_en.htm
9. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
SI on Computing and Networking for Cyber-Physical-Social Systems
https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse/cfp/computing-and-networking-cyber-physical-social-systems
* More special issues will be added later.


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Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal/Special Session Due: 30 June 2020
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020
Authors Notification Date: 15 October 2020
Final Manuscript Due: 10 November 2020
Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020


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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
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Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies
- Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and
methodologies
- Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined
networks
- Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge
- Security and privacy
- Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge
- Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy
- Blockchain security
- Artificial intelligence
- Big data foundation and management
- Dependable IoT supporting technologies

Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems
- Dependable sensor systems
- Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems
- Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart
grid systems)
- Database and transaction processing systems
- Safety and security in distributed computing systems
- Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
- Dependability in automotive systems
- Dependable integration
- Dependability in big data systems
- Software system security

Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications
- Sensor and robot applications
- Big data applications
- Cloud/fog/edge applications
- Datacenter monitoring
- Safety care, medical care and services
- Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications
- Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications
- Decentralized applications, federated learning applications
- Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking

Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments
- Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity,
easiness, comfort, and worry
- Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority
- Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
- Dependability evaluation
- Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation
- Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor,
cloud, big data systems


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Paper Submission
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All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference
submission website (http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html) 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). At
least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the
paper at the conference.


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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs
- Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada
- Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
- Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia

Program Chairs
- Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada
- Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia
- Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Steering Committee
- Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair)
- Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair)
- Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China
- Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
- Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
- Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
- A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji
- Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh
- Kenli Li, Hunan University, China
- Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
- Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University,
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