Wednesday, January 31, 2024

[DMANET] PODC 2024: Final Call For Papers

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The submission site https://podc24.hotcrp.com/ is up!
Waiting for your submissions and good luck!

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PODC 2024: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 43rd ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
June 17-21, 2024, Nantes, France

PODC 2024 will be co-held with ACM SPAA.

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

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DATES (all times are AoE)
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All deadlines are at 23:59 AoE in the year 2024.

Abstract submission: February 11, 2024
Full paper submission: February 15, 2024

Notification: April 22, 2024

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SUBMISSION PAGE
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https://podc24.hotcrp.com/

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DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS
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https://www.podc.org/podc2024/call-for-papers/

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[DMANET] [CP 2024] - Call for Papers

===================== CP 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS ===========================

Thirtieth International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming, CP 2024 (https://cp2024.a4cp.org<https://cp2024a.a4cp.org/>)

September 2-6, 2024, Girona, Spain

The CP conference is the premier international event for presenting research in
all aspects of computing with constraints, including, but not restricted to:
theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications.
CP 2024 will be the 30th edition of the CP conference and will be held in the
historic city of Girona on the University of Girona campus, September 2-6, 2024.

The conference welcomes submissions that advance the state of the art of
fundamental constraint-based technologies, as well as those that seek
connections with other domains: for example, operations research,
satisfiability, computational biology, configuration and design, computer music,
entertainment, sport, cybersecurity, and AI in its broader context.

--- Tracks

Besides the main technical track, CP 2024 especially encourages submission to
three additional specialized tracks. A paper may only be submitted to either the
main technical track or at most one specialized track. Special track papers will
undergo the same review and publication process as that of the main technical
track.

* Applications
* CP and Machine Learning
* CP and Operations Research

--- Important Dates

* Abstract registration: 18/04
* Paper submission: 23/04
* Author rebuttal: 29/05-02/06
* Final notification: 20/06
* Camera Ready: 01/07
* Conference: September 2-6, 2024

Dates should be considered as Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

--- Submission Instructions

The submission Web page for CP 2024 is
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cp2024

Papers should be submitted in the form of a PDF file following LIPIcs guidelines
(https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author). Authors should
carefully follow the formatting instructions and keep to the style defined by
LIPIcs. Papers should also be readable in black and white.

To open the conference more widely, two types of submissions will be accepted:

* Full papers, that can use up to 15 pages (references excluded and appendices
excluded).

* Short papers, that can use a maximum of 8 pages (references and appendices
excluded).

Short papers cover early results or results that can be adequately reported in
the allocated 8 pages. They must nonetheless respect the quality expectations of
the conference. Both full and short papers should attract a wide audience and
will be allocated time for presentation during the conference.

Appendices may be included and will not contribute towards the total page count,
although the program chair reserves the right to limit the number of pages in
extreme cases. Supplemental material (for example, experimental results or code)
may be referenced, but only if this can be done in a manner which would not
reveal the authors' identities (see below on the double-blind review process).
Papers should be self-contained and be comprehensible without reference to
either appendices or supplemental material. Authors should not place elements
essential to their paper in either appendices or supplemental material and
indeed it will be left to the discretion of each reviewer whether they refer to
this material or not.

Submissions exceeding the page limits or improperly formatted will be rejected
without review.

To facilitate reviewing management, authors who intend to submit a paper to CP
2024 should submit an abstract of up to 150 words, summarizing the contribution
of the paper, by the 18th of April, 2024. The paper submission must be completed
by the 23rd of April, 2024.

All papers will go through a double-blind reviewing process, meaning that
authors and reviewers are mutually anonymous. For this reason, submitted papers
should not contain author names, affiliations, or links to identifying websites.
References to the authors' own papers should be cited in such a way so as to
avoid revealing the authorship of the paper.

A given paper must be submitted to one track only. When necessary, the Program
Chair may move a submission to a more suitable track.

Submitted papers must not appear in, be accepted for, or be under review for a
journal or another peer-reviewed conference with archived conference
proceedings. Submissions that have appeared at workshops or other meetings and
have not been formally published or have appeared only in highly shortened form
(e.g., abstracts) can be submitted as papers.

--- Proceedings

Accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings published by LIPIcs. The
proceedings will be available at the time of the conference.

--- Other Information

Questions about the paper submission process may be addressed to the Program
Chair, Paul Shaw (cp2024@easychair.org<mailto:cp2024@easychair.org>).

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Jordi Coll
Universitat de Girona
CP2024 Publicity Chair
https://cp2024.a4cp.org/


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[DMANET] Final deadline: 14th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2024) in conjunction with 38th IEEE symposium IPDPS, San Francisco USA

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.


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Final submission deadline: February 9, 2024.

The 14th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2024)


https://pdco2024.sciencesconf.org/

held in conjunction with
the 38th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2024)

May 27 - May 31, 2024

San Francisco, USA
http://www.ipdps.org<http://www.ipdps.org/>
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Scope:
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The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization, scheduling problems and planning problems.

Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence study, complexity, etc.) are welcome.

Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, robotics, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology.


Topics:
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Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming.
Exact methods, heuristics.
Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
Graph computing, combinatorial pattern matching.
Parallel metaheuristics.
Parallel and distributed computational intelligence methods,
e.g. evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, ant colonies, cellular automata, DNA and molecular computing) for problem solving environments.
Parallel and distributed metaheuristics for optimization (algorithms, technologies and tools).
Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity).
Distributed optimization algorithms.
GPU computing and optimization.
Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing.
Hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems.
Peer-to peer computing and optimization problems.
Applications: cloud computing, machine learning, planning, manufacturing, logistics, finance, telecommunications.


Steering Committee:
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Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia


General Chairs:
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Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France


Program Chairs:
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Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain


Publicity Chairs:
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Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Program Committee (to be confirmed):
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A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China
J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
N. Melab, University of Lille, France
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
B. Plazolles, GET, France
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France
M. Seredynski, e-Bus Competence Center, Luxembourg
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico
S. Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada


Submission :
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Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2024 submission system:

In order to submit a paper, please choose PDCO Workshop<https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?args=Aprcnt3DxGzb0zU3TJUHtGyfHfbQIf0zU30Jprcnt3DbATzU30IXrfGzIXrfNNhTz0Cx0zfsGhahD_THQP0Aprcnt3DxfGzU3ACIIfb0HQP0Aprcnt3DxfTtUbprcnt3DsfGbprcnt3DsfNM_TtUbb0XfQbGCrxrz9M9_TzYprcnt3D40bprcnt3DQxGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40QHHGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40Iprcnt3Dxprcnt3DGdbUfTrAprcnt3DxGzU3ACI0IQ3TrJUHtGzU3ACI0IQ3TEGDhpM>

Abstract and paper can be uploaded until Friday February 9, 2023. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available on IPDPS website<http://www.ipdps.org/>.


Special Issue:
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Selected papers from PDCO 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of journal:
Engineering Applications of Artifical Intelligence dedicated to
Artificial Intelligence for High-Performance Computing Systems.

Important Dates:

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- Final submission deadline: February 9, 2024;
- Author notification: March 8, 2024;
- Camera-Ready papers due: March 15, 2024;
- Workshop: May 31, 2024.


Contact:
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For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at: pdco2024@sciencesconf.org<mailto:pdco2024@sciencesconf.org>
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[DMANET] PhD position in Networks design and optimization in Paris Dauphine University - PSL (France)

A PhD position is offered at Paris Dauphine University - PSL, at LAMSADE UMR CNRS 7243 laboratory (https://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/en.html), on networks design using decomposition-based approaches for a resilient response to uncertainty. More detail can be found at https://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~arossi/PhD_proposal.pdf

We welcome applicants with an MSc degree in Operations Research, Algorithms and Computer Science in general. Good programming skills are required (well documented code, systematic testing, C/C++ Julia or Java proficiency, use of solvers like CPLEX or Gurobi through API). Another important requirement is the ability to produce quality writing in English.

The position is funded by the French government, and the gross salary for the position is 2100 Euro per month, starting on October 1st, 2024 for three years. The PhD candidate will also be given the opportunity to teach (possibly in English) up to 64 hours per year at Paris Dauphine University - PSL. Knowledge of French language is not mandatory. Interested candidates are expected to send a CV and a full transcript of records to andre.rossi@lamsade.dauphine.fr, before April 26th, 2024.


Prof. André Rossi

Co-Head of MIDO department (Mathematics & Computer Science)

LAMSADE UMR CNRS 7243

Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny

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[DMANET] SOFSEM 2024 Registration Deadline

Dear potential participants,


we would like to let you know that we will close registration on February 8th, 2024 for this year's SOFSEM at Cochem in Germany.

If you want to check out what you might miss, please visit https://www.uni-trier.de/index.php?id=90670&L=2


See you soon at the Moselle river,

Henning Fernau

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[DMANET] WAIFI 2024: CFP - International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields

Dear colleagues,

(apologies for multiple postings)


WAIFI 2024 paper submission:
Paper submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waifi2024

Important dates:
Submission deadline: March 8th, 2024
Acceptance notification: May 3rd, 2024
Workshop: June 10-12, 2024
Final post-proceedings version due: July 7th, 2024

The "International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields (WAIFI) 2024", to be held in Ottawa, Canada, June 10-12, 2024, is a forum of mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and physicists performing research on finite field arithmetic, interested in communicating the advances in the theory, applications, and implementations of finite fields. The workshop will help to bridge the gap between the mathematical theory of finite fields and their hardware/software implementations and technical applications, specially in cryptography and coding theory.

The topics of WAIFI 2024 include but are not limited to:

Theory of finite field arithmetic:
Bases (canonical; normal; dual; etc.)
Polynomials (irreducible; primitive; permutation)
Boolean functions and special functions over finite fields
Algebraic curves over finite fields
Dynamical systems over finite fields
Hardware & Software implementations:
Design & implementation of finite field processors
Design & implementation of arithmetic algorithms
Pseudorandom number generators
Hardware/Software co-design
Applications of finite fields in:
Cryptography (ciphers; PQC; etc.)
Coding theory (AG codes; LDPC codes; etc.)
Combinatorics (designs; arrays; etc.)
Finite geometry

Invited Speakers:
Paulo Barreto (University of Washington, USA)
Koray Karabina (National Research Council, Canada)
Chloe Martindale (University of Bristol, England)
Maria Montanucci (DTU, Denmark)

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the workshop as post-proceedings.

The workshop website http://www.waifi.org <http://www.waifi.org/>, will be updated regularly with more information.

Kind regards,

José L. Imaña
Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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[DMANET] Post-doctorate in Computer Science, in support of the ANR-DYNATEAM project

*Contact* : Géraldine Del Mondo (LITIS INSA ROUEN) & Eric Sanlaville (LITIS
univ Le Havre)

geraldine.del_mondo@insa-rouen.fr

eric.sanlaville@univ-lehavre.fr


*Team Coordination Dynamics : a team seen as an adaptive complex system,
modelized by a temporal semantic graph*


This project, funded by the ANR for a 3-year period starting January 1,
2024, brings together specialists in computer science and in cognitive
science applied to competitive sports. The main objective of DynaTeam is to
propose graph-theoretic models for identifying and then predicting team
strategies in various team sports (basketball, rugby, handball, etc.). The
proposed models must take into account the temporal and spatial aspects of
interactions between players, both in matches and during training sessions.
In the second type of situation, the way in which the coach's instructions
are taken into account will be analyzed.

The DynaTeam teams are already collaborating on these modeling aspects in
various projects. So far, the models proposed take into account the
networks of passes between players during the possessions of a match thanks
to dynamic graphs that ignore spatial aspects [1]. A major objective of the
project is to propose and validate models that take greater account of all
aspects (temporal, spatial, coach's instructions).


Example of recent works on the subject by the team (available on hal.fr) :

[1] Bourgeais, Q., Hacques, G., Charrier, R., Sanlaville, E., & Seifert, L.
(2023, July). Identify team sport team signature through passing network.
In *European College of Sport Science*.

[2] Oberoi, K. S., & Del Mondo, G. (2021, May). Graph-based pattern
detection in spatio-temporal phenomena. In *16th Spatial analysis and
geomatics conference (SAGEO 2021)*.

*Activity details*

The person recruited will participate in Work Package 1 (analysis tools),
and more specifically in Task 1.2: Dynamic graph integrating the spatial
characteristics of players on the playing field.

The candidate will propose new, more general models that take into account
both temporal and spatial aspects. He/she will draw on the two research
themes of temporal graphs and semantic graphs. The proposed models will be
tested using field data from matches and training sessions. They will be
accompanied by indicators to differentiate the behavior of different teams
under different real-life conditions.

The candidate will work closely with the 3 teams and the other people
recruited for the project, including a post-doc creating a prediction model
using graph-based machine learning, and another post-doc studying the
emergence of adaptive collective behavior according to training and
prescription conditions.

*Skills and abilities required*

The candidate will hold a PhD in Computer Science or Applied Mathematics.
He or she must have in-depth skills in graph algorithms, and be able to
implement, validate and test the models and algorithms designed. Knowledge
of temporal graphs (or dynamic graphs) and/or semantic graphs is a plus, as
is initial experience in social network applications, particularly in
sports.

*Practical conditions*

The candidate will be under contract to the University of Le Havre. He/she
will work within the RI2C team at LITIS in Le Havre, but in constant
contact with the APP team at LITIS in Rouen, and in particular with
Géraldine Del Mondo (and Sébastien Adam). Frequent travel to the Madrillet
campus in Rouen is required, and will be covered by the project budget. The
post doc is for 12 months, renewable once.

*Contact* :

Géraldine Del Mondo (LITIS INSA ROUEN) & Eric Sanlaville (LITIS univ Le
Havre)

Geraldine.del_mondo@insa-rouen.fr

Eric.Sanlaville@univ-lehavre.fr

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

[DMANET] Postdoctoral position in Discrete Mathematics in Finland

We are offering a one-year postdoctoral position in the field of discrete mathematics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Turku, Finland. The starting date is negotiable (the earliest is May 1st, 2024). Preference will be given to those candidates whose research interests lie in graph theory or coding theory. The application deadline is February 20th, 2024.

Please see the official application link for more details:
https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkijatohtori-diskreetti-matematiikka/8VqNez?lang=en&UTUID=20173

Best regards,
Tero Laihonen

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[DMANET] CFP: First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing

First IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC)
June 20-23, 2024 Qingdao China

Over the past 60 years, computing paradigms have undergone significant
developments, evolving from the original Client-Server model to newer ones
such as Cloud Computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and Edge Computing. The
development history of computing paradigms is also the development history
of computing power, which is defined to be the amount of information that
can be transmitted, processed, and stored by a system, as newer computing
technologies have always been driven by the needs of novel applications
that demand stronger computing power. Nowadays, emerging applications such
as Web 3.0, Metaverse, and Industrial Internet put forward demands on
next-generation computing technologies that can consolidate the networking
resources to provide the desired quality of services, overcoming the
increasingly serious computing power shortage problem.

Meta Computing was proposed to address the limitations faced by existing
computing paradigms: 1) terminal-end IoT resources are not fully exploited;
2) there exist barriers to the integration of network-wide computing power;
and 3) there is a lack of strong fault tolerance. It aims to utilize all
available computing resources hooked on the Internet, provide efficient,
fault-tolerant, smart, and personalized services with strong security and
privacy guarantee, and virtualize the whole Internet as a giant computer,
that is, ``Network-as-a-Computer, NaaC'', or ``Meta Computer'' for short,
for any task or any person at any time on-demand. Meta computing possesses
the following four functional characteristics: supporting zero-trust
environments and fault-tolerance computing, integrating all available
cloud-edge-terminal computing resources, constructing self-evolving and
self-driving cyber-physical fusion, and configuring meta computers
on-demand. To the emerging applications such as Web 3.0, Metaverse, and
Industrial Internet, meta computing intends to turn the Internet into a
distributed giant computing power pool to elastically fulfill the
ever-increasing needs on computing power; it also refers to the integrated
technologies that can offer trust-worthy, fault-tolerant, intelligent, and
easy-to-use computing techniques that can support trusted data flow and
sharing as well as smart cyber-physical fusion.

IEEE International Conference on Meta Computing (ICMC) solicits original
submissions that present innovative research and development outcomes in
the field of meta computing. Topics of interests are covered by the
following tracks:

Track 1: Meta Computing Architectures and Systems
Meta computer architecture
Computational resource virtualization
Resource scheduling mechanism of meta computer
Computation-storage-communication integration
Decentralized storage system
Verifiable and Heterogeneous computation
Security and privacy of meta computing

Track 2: Cloud-Edge-Terminal Resource Consolidation and Intelligence in
Meta Computing
Resource management and scheduling
Privacy protection
Integration of edge computing with terminals
Terminal computation
Large-scale data processing and storage
Data management and security
Collaborative decision
Network architecture and transmission
Real-time computation
Multimedia processing

Track 3: Blockchain, fault-tolerance, and Zero-trust Computing
Blockchain architectures and systems
Consensus and trust management
Security and privacy for blockchain
Fault-tolerant systems
Trusted data space
Data and blockchain integration
Zero-trust computing architectures and systems
Blockchain governance and regulatory

Track 4: Meta Computing for Web 3.0, DApp, Defi
Decentralized web infrastructure
Decentralized solutions for web identity and authentication
Decentralized solutions for digital asset management and ownership
Decentralized data storage and sharing
Smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) in Web 3.0
Interoperability and standardization in Web 3.0
Privacy and security in Web 3.0
Web 3.0 applications
Track 5: Meta Computing for Metaverse
Network architecture and system design for metaverse
Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality
Decentralized communications for metaverse
Privacy and security for metaverse
Interactions between cyber and physical spaces
Trusted network architecture for metaverse
Scalability and interoperability
Metaverse applications
Track 6: Meta Computing for Industrial Internet and Internet-of-Things
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) architecture and design principles
IIoT security and privacy
Big data analytics for IIoT
Edge and cloud computing for IIoT
IIoT applications
Intelligent control and automation in IIoT
Industrial wireless networks and communication protocols
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) and Industry 4.0
Track 7: Emerging Technologies for Meta Computing
Large language model and multimodal LLM
Embodied intelligence
Quantum computing
Sustainable computing
Green computing
Vehicle, drone, satellite computing


Important Dates:
Full Paper Submission: April 1, 2024
Notification: May 15, 2024
Camera-ready Submission: June 1, 2024
Author registration: June 10, 2024

Proceedings of ICMC 2024:
Accepted papers will be published in IEEExplore Digital Library. Extended
versions will be recommended to the Elsevier High-confidence Computing
Journal with publication fees waived.

Submission Guidelines
Submission page: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IEEEICMC2024

It is required that the manuscript follows the standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double column, 10-pt font). The maximum length of ICMC paper
without over-length charge is TEN (10) pages. The authors are allowed to
pay for up to TWO (2) additional pages at $100 per over length page.
Submitted papers may not have been previously published in or under
consideration for publication by another journal or conference.

General Chair:
Xiuzhen Cheng, Shandong University, China
Xue Xiao, Inspur Cloud Information Technology Co., Ltd., China

Program Co-Chairs
Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany
Mohsen Guizani, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
(MBZUAI),
United Arab Emirates
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Qun Li, William & Mary, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA
Suparna De, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Yan Huang, Kennesaw State University, USA
Minghui Xu, Shandong University, China
Yanni Yang, Shandong University, China

Publication Chair:
Wei Li, Georgia State University, USA

Technical Program Committee:
Zhipeng Cai, Georgia State University, USA
Mihaela Cardei, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Quan Chen, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
Xiuzhen Cheng, Shandong University, China
Sriram Chellappan, University of South Florida, USA
Suparna De, University of Surrey, UK
Yingfei Dong, University of Hawaii, USA
Falko Dressler, TU Berlin University, Germany
Zhuojun Duan, James Madison University, USA
Xiaofeng Gao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zaobo He, Miami University, USA
Chunqiang Hu, Chongqing University, China
Pengfei Hu, Shandong University, China
Qin Hu, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Yan Huo, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Xiaohua Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
Wonjun Lee, Korea University, Korea
Feng Li, Shandong University, China
Ruinian Li, Bowling Green State University, USA
Liran Ma, Texas Christian University, USA
Jian Mao, Beihang University, China
Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata Sai, Towson University, USA
Tuo Shi, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Madhuri Siddula, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
My T. Thai, University of Florida, USA
Yingjie Wang, Yantai University, China
Kuai Xu, Arizona State University, USA
Bowu Zhang, Marist College, USA
Xu Zheng, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Yifei Zou, Shandong University, China

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[DMANET] PhD position in algorithms, NP-complete problems, and complexity theory at TU Chemnitz

The professorship for theoretical computer science at Chemnitz University
of Technology, Germany, is offering one fully funded position for a

PhD student (100% E13 TV-L)

available from April 1, 2024. Possible research directions include
algorithms for NP-complete problems and complexity theory. The position
comes with teaching obligations amounting to 4 hours per semester (e.g.
holding tutoring sessions). To be eligible, you should hold (or be close to
finishing) a Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or
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dekan@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de, including:

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[DMANET] Last Call: Day of Computational Game Theory

This is the last call for registration of the Day of Computational Game
Theory. This year's edition takes place in Bonn on March 7 and 8. It is
a workshop for researchers in algorithmic game theory, social choice,
and algorithmic mechanism design. We will have two great keynote talks
from Lázló A. Végh and Michal Feldman and also the participants have the
chance to present their work in talks and posters. Registration is free
of charge and open till February 5.

Information about the workshop and a link to the registration can be
found on
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[DMANET] Assistant/Associate Professor in `AI/Computing for Space' at Durham University Computer Science, UK

There's an exciting opening combining Computing and Space at Durham
University, UK. Application deadline: 15-March 2024.

Please see below for details:

*Assistant/Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence for Space-Enabled
Technologies *

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002269&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon


Regards,

Amitabh

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Head, NESTiD Research Group
Computer Science
Durham University, UK
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[DMANET] 15 PhD positions in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network / Joint Doctorate TENORS (Tensor modEliNg, geOmetRy and optimiSation)

TENORS (Tensor modEliNg, geOmetRy and optimiSation) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network / Joint Doctorate (2024-2027), offering

15 PhD positions.

The objective of TENORS is to conduct advanced research that addresses critical challenges in the fields of tensor modeling and computation, joining forces from algebraic geometry, global optimisation, numerical computation, high performance computing, data science, quantum physics.

The project aims to feed an innovative and ambitious joint-PhD program to train highly qualified young scientists in new scientific and technological knowledge.
The PhD candidates will obtain joint/double Phd diplomas from reputed universities within TENORS project.

For more information on TENORS: http://tenors-network.eu/

How to apply: https://project.inria.fr/tenors/phd-positions/

Where to submit your application: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=tenors2427

Applications received before 31 March 2024 will be given full priority, but later applications may be accepted until all positions will be filled. Positions are expected to start in September/October 2024.


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[DMANET] IEEE WoWMoM 2024 Call for Ph.D. Forum Extended Abstracts

IEEE WoWMoM 2024 Call for Ph.D. Forum Extended Abstracts

SCOPE AND OVERVIEW

Welcome to the 25th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks.

The Ph.D. Forum on Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks will be held at IEEE WoWMoM 2024 in Perth, Australia. The Forum provides an excellent opportunity for current and recently completed Ph.D. and Masters researchers to present their dissertation research, including work in progress, to an internationally renowned audience of researchers from the Academia and Industry. This forum offers an opportunity to meet and obtain feedback from accomplished international researchers and share experiences with other researchers.

FORMAT

The Forum will be organized as a co-located WoWMoM event, attended by experts in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and ubiquitous and pervasive systems. Accepted abstracts will be invited to present during a Conversation event (more information to follow). During the Conversations, senior community members will be present to provide constructive technical comments to each attendee.

GUIDELINES

Ph.D. and Masters researchers are invited to submit two-page extended abstracts that describe their current research and potential contributions. Authors should be currently registered Ph.D. or Master Students or recently graduated (within the last year). Submissions should be aligned with the specific interests of WoWMoM and broadly aligned to the field of mobile and wireless networking and applications. The abstract must be in English and adhere to the IEEE two-column conference format. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Submissions must be in PDF format, be no more than two pages in length (including references and figures). Submissions that are substantially similar to presentations from a previous Postgraduate Forum are not allowed. Abstracts should discuss the research questions addressed within the thesis and should focus on highlighting the challenges of the problems, the originality of the proposed approach, and technical aspects of the proposed techniques. Inclusion of preliminary experimental results are also encouraged. The abstract should include the author's name, affiliation, and email address. The name of the supervisor should be marked ("supervised by …") on the paper under the author's name. Submissions will be reviewed by the Ph.D. Forum Technical Program Committee to ensure quality and relevance. In case of acceptance, the length of the camera-ready paper will be limited to two pages. Accepted abstracts will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2024 and will be made available through the IEEE Xplore digital library. All papers must be registered and submitted through the EDAS.

SUBMISSION

https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31399&track=121699

PARTICIPATION

Authors of accepted submissions are expected to participate in the Ph.D. Forum and deliver the Conversation presentations at the WoWMoM 2024 conference in person. Standard WoWMoM 2024 registration fees apply. Participants who are currently full-time students are eligible for the student registration fee.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract due: March 14, 2024

Acceptance notification: April 6, 2024

Camera-ready version due: April 14, 2024

PH.D. FORUM CO-CHAIRS

For any additional information, please contact the Ph.D. Forum Co-chairs.

Shantanu Pal (Deakin University, Australia) shantanu.pal@deakin.edu.au <mailto:shantanu.pal@deakin.edu.au>

Zimu Zhou (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) zimuzhou@cityu.edu.hk <mailto:zimuzhou@cityu.edu.hk>

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[DMANET] IEEE WoWMoM 2024: Call for Demos and Posters

*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for paper***

IEEE WoWMoM 2024: Call for Demos and Posters
June 04-07, 2024, Perth, Western Australia
https://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wowmom/2024/call_for_demos.html

Demo and Poster submissions links:
Poster submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31399&track=121697
Demo submission: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31399&track=121698


Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 8, 2024

IEEE WoWMoM 2024 invites submissions of technical demonstrations and posters that exhibit innovative and original research. We seek contributions that validate significant research concepts or demonstrate practical applications. The topics of interest span a broad spectrum, including but not limited to:
• 5G/B5G/6G networks for mobile and multimedia services
• AI-assisted and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks
• Communication technologies and services for MTC
• Connected vehicles: networking issues and services
• Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking and service
• Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks
• Internet/Web of Things
• Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services
• Middleware services for wireless, mobile and multimedia networks
• Mobile big data networking and services
• Mobile social networks
• Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Network traffic characterization and measurements
• Participatory, mobile, and urban sensing
• Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning
• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks
• Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning
• Seamless inter-networking and self-organization
• Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, and slicing for wireless and mobile networks
• System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, and experiences
• Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
• Virtual mobile infrastructure
• Wearable Computing
• Wireless multimedia systems, services, and applications

We particularly encourage the following types of submissions:
• Demos of research related to accepted IEEE WoWMoM papers
• Demos and posters from student authors related to their research topics within the IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest
• Demos from experts from industry and academia showing the state-of-the-art within IEEE WoWMoM topics of interest
• Posters showing results of a work-in-progress paper

Demo and Poster Submission Instructions:
All posters/demos should be submitted electronically in PDF and be no longer than 3 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format including tables, figures and references. Detailed guidelines are available in the IEEE submission instructions. Poster title must start with "Poster:" and Demo title must start with "Demo:" Note that the sessions for demos and posters will be held in person, requiring at least one author present to showcase the work. Should your demo necessitate special equipment or arrangements, include a detailed request in your submission for budget approval consideration.

Poster submissions should be made via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31399&track=121697
Demo submissions should be made via EDAS using this link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31399&track=121698

IMPORTANT DATES
Demo or poster paper submission deadline: March 8, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2024
Camera-ready version: April 12, 2024
IEEE WoWMoM 2024 conference dates: June 4 - 7, 2024

IEEE WoWMoM 2024 Demo/Posters Co-Chairs:
• Sougata Sen (BITS Pilani Goa campus, India) – sougatas@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in <mailto:sougatas@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in>
• JeongGil Ko (Yonsei University, South Korea) - jeonggil.ko@yonsei.ac.kr <mailto:jeonggil.ko@yonsei.ac.kr>

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[DMANET] Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference (April 2024 in London)

The 28th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference (PCC) will be held in London on 15-17 April 2023. The conference website<https://sites.google.com/view/pcc-2024/home> includes further details.

The PCC is a well-established three-day event promoted by the British Combinatorial Committee. The conference is organised by, and for, current research students in all areas of combinatorial and discrete mathematics. The PCC is mainly aimed at UK-based students but is also open to those from abroad.

The main goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity for research students to discuss their research in a relaxed environment, to gain practice at presenting their research outside of their own department and to meet other researchers in their area. Each student is encouraged to contribute by giving a talk which will last 25 minutes (including 5 minutes for questions). Those who wish to contribute a talk should send a title and abstract (following the template available on the conference website) to pcc2024@gmx.com<mailto:pcc2024@gmx.com> by 15 March 2024.

We are also pleased to announce the following invited speakers.

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Carla Groenland<https://cgroenland.wordpress.com/> (Delft University of Technology)
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Richard Montgomery<https://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/R.H.Montgomery/> (University of Warwick)
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Alexey Pokrovskiy<https://alexeypokrovskiy.com/> (University College London)
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Julia Wolf<https://www.juliawolf.org/> (University of Cambridge)

We might be able to provide some financial support. Further information on how to access refunds for travelling will be given during the conference. If your possibility of attending the conference depends on our financial support, please send an email to pcc2024@gmx.com<mailto:pcc2024@gmx.com> by the 15th of March).

For any queries, please email us at pcc2024@gmx.com<mailto:pcc2024@gmx.com>.

Organisers:

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Francesco Di Braccio (LSE)
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Kyriakos Katsamaktsis (UCL)
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Joanna Lada (LSE)
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Domenico Mergoni Cecchelli (LSE)

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Alp Müyesser (UCL)

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[DMANET] [Call for short abstract] Second volume of "Combating Fake News with Computational Intelligence Techniques

Dear Colleagues, Students and /Fellows,

We are editing a second volume of Springer Book entitled *"Combating Fake
News with Computational Intelligence Techniques"*

We cordially invite you to contribute a chapter. The full chapter is due
later this year but for now, We will just need the following:

- Author List

- Chapter Title

- Abstract (between 2 and 6 sentences)

The last deadline to submit your short abstract directly at *lahby@ieee.org
<ahby@ieee.org>* is
*Feb, 10, 2024. *


NB: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to
this book for publication


The tentative structure of the book (but are not limited to the following
Parts) is mentioned below:.

*Part 1: *Theoretical and Applied Aspects

*Part 2:* Data Analysis and Text Mining for combating fake news

*Part 3:* Knowledge Retrieval for combating fake news

*Part 4:* Generative AI for combating fake news

*Part 5:* Futuristic Ideas and Cases studies


Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Feel free to share with your
network as well

Best regards!

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Laboratory of Mathematics and Applications, University Hassan II, Ecole
Normale Supérieure (ENS) Casablanca, Morocco

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[DMANET] Opening position in TCS at the University of Geneva

Dear all,

The CS department at University of Geneva (Switzerland) is opening
a professor position in Theoretical Computer Science. The position
is opened at the three levels (assistant/associate/full), depending
on the candidates.

*Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.*

All TCS-related topics are eligible, with a priority given to
"Track B" topics, which include (but are not limited to):

* Logic and games
* Automata theory
* Semantics of programming languages
* Proof assistants
* Type theory
* Verification
* Computational complexity
* ...

Candidates are assumed to be able to teach in French (or be
credibly able to do so within a couple of years).

The deadline for application is *March 1, 2024.*

Guidelines for application can be found there:

https://jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=63896

Note that this announce replaces an earlier announcement, the opening
was delayed due to administrative reasons. We apologize for the
inconvenience.

Best regards,
Arnaud Casteigts

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[DMANET] CfP for Workshop on Smart & Sustainable Mobility & Logistics in Smart Cities (SSMLS 2024 @COMPSAC)

The 7th IEEE International Workshop on Smart & Sustainable Mobility &
Logistics in Smart Cities (SSMLS 2024) will be held in Osaka, Japan, on
July 2-4, 2024, hosted by the 48th IEEE International Conference on
Computers, Software, and Applications COMPSAC 2024 (
https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2024/).


We invite researchers and practitioners all over the world, from both
academia and industry, working in the areas of Smart Cities, City
Logistics, Sustainable Transportation and Sharing Mobility to discuss
state-of-the-art solutions, novel issues, recent developments,
applications, methodologies, and techniques.

Accepted papers will be submitted for indexing to IEEE Xplore.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-Cooperative intelligent transportation systems
-Road transport automation
-Electric mobility
-Maps and travel planning
-Mobility modeling
-Behavior change approaches
-Travel demand estimation and modelling
-Evidence-based planning and decision-making
-Big Data and analytics in transport
-New Business models in mobility and logistics
-Blockchain and trusted network for mobility and logistics
-AI/ML systems for sustainable operations
-Cybersecurity Threat analysis and risk management
-Cybersecurity and resilience issues and solutions for mobility and
logistics

Important dates:

* Paper Submission: April 15, 2024
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 1, 2024
* Camera ready version: June 1, 2024

To submit the paper, please register your paper here
https://easychair.org/cfp/COMPSAC2024 (select the track 7th IEEE
International Workshop on Smart and Sustainable Mobility & Logistics in
Smart Cities).


Check our website https://ieeecompsac.computer.org/2024/ssmls/ for the
latest updates.

Organisers:
Cataldo Basile, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
Email: cataldo.basile@polito.it
Maria Elena Bruni, University of Calabria and CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada
Email: mariaelena.bruni@unical.it
Prof. Guido Perboli, Director of the ICT for City Logistics and Enterprises
Lab – Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy and CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada
Email: guido.perboli@polito.it
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Maria Elena Bruni
Associate Professor of Operations Research
University of Calabria (Italy)
Scopus <https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=14040099200>
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[DMANET] EURO 2024 – “Advances in Stochastic Dynamic Programming” session in the “Combinatorial Optimization” stream

Dear Colleagues,

We are organizing a session on "Advances in Stochastic Dynamic Programming"
in the "Combinatorial Optimization" stream at the 33rd European Conference
on Operational Research (EURO 33rd), which will be held in Copenhagen,
Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024 (www.euro2024cph.dk ).

Session organizer: Alice Raffaele (alice.raffaele@unical.it)

We welcome both theoretical contributions for a broader range of Stochastic
Dynamic Programming problems and specific applications in various fields.

Submission deadline: March 3rd, 2024.

To submit an abstract for this session, please visit
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro33 and use the session
number b63a1e9b.

Please also remember the following requirements:
- Abstracts must be written in English and contain at most 1500 characters.
- Each attendee is allowed to present one paper at the conference
- The person submitting the abstract must be the one presenting and has to
appear as the first author.
- To submit an abstract, you need to have an EURO account. If you do not
have one, you will need to create one.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,

Alice Raffaele

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Monday, January 29, 2024

[DMANET] MAPSP 2024 – Call for Submissions *New Submission Deadline*

MAPSP 2024 – Call for Submissions

16th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling Problems

June 23–28, 2024

Hotel Koldingfjord, Kolding, Denmark

Website: https://event.sdu.dk/mapsp2024/

Contact: mapsp2024@sdu.dk

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MAPSP is a biennial workshop dedicated to building a community of
researchers interested in theoretical and practical aspects of scheduling,
planning, and timetabling. The 16th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for
Planning and Scheduling Problems (MAPSP 2024) will be organized at Hotel
Koldingfjord, Kolding, Denmark. It will take place in the week of June
23–28, 2024.

The impressive 1911 building of Hotel Koldingfjord is located right by the
water and surrounded by forests. The hotel is a conference hotel with
modern facilities. The closest relevant airports are in Billund (about 50
km), Copenhagen (about 200 km), and Hamburg (about 200 km). Kolding has a
train station. From there, the hotel can be reached by bus.

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

Nicole Megow (University of Bremen)

Thomas Kesselheim (University of Bonn)

Sergei Vassilvitskii (Google Research)

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Submissions:

We invite submissions describing research related to scheduling, planning,
or timetabling (broadly defined). Further we invite submissions describing
research in adjacent topical areas that would be of interest to researchers
in the MAPSP community. MAPSP submissions undergo a selection process
based on a light refereeing by the Program Committee. MAPSP does not
publish proceedings, other than a conference booklet (no ISSN). Hence,
presenting your contribution at MAPSP will not prevent you from submitting
it to journals or to other conferences. Similarly, it is acceptable to
submit a contribution that has already appeared elsewhere. It is expected
that one author of each submission will give a short (approximately 20
minutes) talk at the workshop. MAPSP has a firm policy of only one talk
per person. Abstracts of 2–3 pages must be submitted using EasyChair using
the MAPSP LaTeX template. Please remember to specify the speaker in the
abstract.

EasyChair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapsp2024

MAPSP LaTeX Template: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~kirk/MAPSP/mapsp
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<https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~kirk/MAPSP/mapsp-template.tex>

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Important dates:

Submission deadline: February 1, 2024, Anywhere on Earth February 8, 2024,
Anywhere on Earth

Notification: February 29, 2024

Early registration deadline: March 22, 2024, Anywhere on Earth

Conference: June 23–28, 2024

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Program Committee:

Benjamin Moseley (Carnegie Mellon University, chair)

Martin Böhm (University of WrocÅ‚aw)

Etienne Bamas (ETH Zürich)

Tim Oosterwijk (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Bertrand Simon (CNRS and CC-IN2P3)

Lars Rohwedder (Maastricht University)

William Kuszmaul (Harvard University)

Ruben Hoeksma (University of Twente)

Malin Rau (University of Hamburg)

Hsiang-Hsuan (Alison) Liu (Utrecht University)

Shikha Singh (Williams College)

Sam McCauley (Williams College)

Rudy Zhou (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Organizing Committee:

Kevin Schewior (University of Southern Denmark, chair)

Lene Monrad Favrholdt (University of Southern Denmark)

Marco Chiarandini (University of Southern Denmark)

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[DMANET] 3-year postdoc at Durham on a CSP project

Applications are invited for a full time 3-year postdoc position at the Department of Computer Science, Durham University, UK.

The position is funded by the research project "Promise Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Structure and Complexity", led by Andrei Krokhin. Prior experience of research on mathematics of constraint satisfaction is desirable, but not essential.
The closing date for applications is 31 March. The indicative starting date for the post is 1 September.

Further details and the link to apply can be found here: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=24000096&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon

Informal inquiries are welcome, email andrei.krokhin@durham.ac.uk

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[DMANET] PhD position at Inria Lille, team LINKS

Dear all,

The LINKS team at Inria Lille is currently seeking PhD candidates to work on
the topic of "Query-Directed Width Measures for Probabilistic Databases". More
information on the PhD subject and the context follows.

Please circulate this offer to potential candidates and colleagues who are
looking for PhD positions (and don't hesitate to contact us to ask any
questions if you are interested).

PhD topic.

We are interested in designing algorithms for query evaluation over uncertain
data. The typical tasks are the following: given as input a query and a
probabilistic database, compute the probability that the data satisfies the
query, or compute provenance information that can help explain the query
results. The complexity of these problems has so far mostly been studied from
two different angles: the first one is to fix the query and to not restrict the
shape of the data, while the second one is to restrict to databases of a
certain shape (e.g., bounded treewidth), which allows for more queries to be
tractable. The goal of this PhD is to develop algorithms and techniques that
combine both approaches. More details can be found here:
https://a3nm.net/work/research/offers/thesis_proposal_query.pdf

Advisors and context.

The PhD will be carried out in LINKS, which is a joint research team between
Inria Lille, the University of Lille, and the CRIStAL laboratory. It will be
supervised by Sylvain Salvati and co-supervised by Mikaël Monet and Antoine
Amarilli. Mikaël Monet (https://mikael-monet.net/) is an Inria full-time
researcher in LINKS working on theoretical aspects of uncertain data
management, knowledge compilation, and formal explainability. Antoine Amarilli
(https://a3nm.net/) is an associate professor at Télécom Paris and works on
database theory, knowledge compilation, and enumeration complexity. Sylvain
Salvati (https://pro.univ-lille.fr/sylvain-salvati) is a professor in LINKS
working on formal methods and programming languages.

Candidates.

Candidates to this PhD proposal should have a good background in the following
areas of computer science: discrete mathematics, complexity theory, formal
languages, logic, and databases. The thesis could be preceded by a master
internship of a few months.

To apply, simply email us at mikael.monet@inria.fr and a3nm@a3nm.net !

Best regards,

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[DMANET] [CFP] 1st Workshop on Digital and Mobile Smart Health Systems (DM-SmartHealth'24)

* Call for Papers *

First International workshop on Digital and Mobile Smart Health Systems (DM-SMARTHEALTH 2024) will be held in conjunction with the 10th International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2024) 29th June - 2nd July, 2024 in Osaka, Japan.

https://dm-smarthealth2024.iit.cnr.it/

As the healthcare landscape undergoes a digital transformation, integrating smart technologies plays a pivotal role in revolutionizing patient care. This workshop aims to bring together experts, researchers, and professionals from different research fields to delve into the latest advancements in smart health solutions, addressing critical topics that span from context-aware behavioral models, smart healthcare applications based on mobile and wearable technologies, digital phenotyping, novel techniques to optimize and develop more robust and reliable Artificial Intelligence models for digital health solutions, up to ethical challenges and privacy/security issues. This workshop provides a unique platform for participants to engage in discussions, share insights, and collaborate on the forefront of smart health technologies. By exploring these diverse topics, we aim to advance the field, ultimately contributing to the development of more effective, secure, and ethical smart health solutions

* Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-aware behavioral modeling techniques
- Innovative approaches for collecting, labeling, and validating multimodal health and behavioral data
- Novel smart health applications for early diagnosis, remote monitoring, and decision support systems based on wearable and mobile technologies
- Middleware solutions for smart health and care systems
- Decentralized architectures for mobile health solutions
- Federated, Distributed, and Personalized learning solutions for privacy-preserving smart health
- AI optimization techniques for smart and mobile health systems
- Digital phenotyping: identification of novel digital biomarkers from IoT and commercial smart/wearable devices
- Human-computer interaction solutions to support smart health applications
- Social interaction analysis from personal mobile devices and social media
- Synthetic data generation to support faster development of novel and robust AI solutions for digital healthcare
- Causal AI for healthcare and precision medicine
- Novel explainable AI approaches to improve trustworthiness in digital healthcare systems
- Security, privacy, and ethical challenges in smart health applications
- Papers including new datasets and clinical/on-the-field validations will be highly appreciated.

* Submission and Registration
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Authors are invited to submit technical or theoretical papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop. Accepted workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore).

Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Authors can purchase one additional page for the camera-ready version. Papers above the page limits will not be considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found on the IEEE website.

Submission must be made via EDAS using https://edas.info/N32036.

It is a requirement that all the authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in EDAS. The author section of EDAS will be locked after the workshop submission deadline to ensure that conflict of interest can be properly enforced during the review process. If the list of authors differs between the paper and EDAS, the paper may not be reviewed. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full SMARTCOMP registration (no registration is available for workshops only) and in-person presentation. Papers that are not presented at the workshop will not be published in the proceedings.

* IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submissions: March 31, 2024
- Paper notification: April 30, 2024
- Camera ready deadline: May 10, 2024

* ORGANIZERS
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Workshop co-chairs:
- Mattia G. Campana, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Nikil Dutt, University of California, Irvine, USA

Publicity Chair:
- Flavio Di Martino, IIT-CNR, Italy

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[DMANET] Five open positions in Optimization at IASI-CNR, ROME

The OPTIMA group at IASI-CNR (Institute of System Analysis and Computer
Science of the Italian National Research Council) invites applications
for five positions in the area of Mixed-Integer Programming.
IASI is a CNR institute located in Rome, near the city center, with a
long-standing experience in Optimization and Discrete Mathematics and
collaborations with top universities in Italy and abroad.
A background in Optimization and knowledge of English are required.
Knowledge of Italian is required at a basic level.
As the projects will focus on development of solution algorithms, some
experience
in coding is necessary (preferable in C/C++ or Python with knowledge of
MIP solvers --- e.g. CPLEX, Gurobi, xpress, or open-source solvers ---
and modeling languages --- e.g., AMPL, Pyomo, JuMP).
Specific requirements for each position are specified below:
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1) Position code: IASI-007-2023-RM-Prot 412323, Expiration: Jan 31, 2024
http://bandi.urp.cnr.it/doc-assegni/documentazione/15448_DOC_IT.pdf
ResearchTopic: Development of mixed integer linear programming models,
models for machine learning / AI, solution algorithms and applications
to problems for sustainable mobility, shortest paths, location,
transport, environmental sustainability.
Level: post-PhD degree
Number of positions: 2
Reference: Giuseppe Stecca, giuseppe.stecca@iasi.cnr.it

2) Position code: IASI-008-2023-RM-Prot 412328, Expiration: Feb 1, 2024
http://bandi.urp.cnr.it/doc-assegni/documentazione/15449_DOC_IT.pdf
Research Topic: Development of mixed integer linear programming models,
models for machine learning / AI, solution algorithms and applications
to problems for sustainable mobility, shortest paths, location,
transport, environmental sustainability.
Level: post-M.Sc. degree
Number of positions: 2
Reference: Giuseppe Stecca, giuseppe.stecca@iasi.cnr.it

3) Position code: IASI-005-2023-RM-Prot 412305, Expiration : Feb 02,
2024
http://bandi.urp.cnr.it/doc-assegni/documentazione/15441_DOC_IT.pdf
Research Topic: Optimization Models for Production and Distribution of
Power Energy, algorithm definition and implementation.
Level: post-M.Sc. degree
Reference: Claudio Gentile, gentile@iasi.cnr.it


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Istituto di Analisi dei Sistemi ed Informatica "A. Ruberti".
Via dei Taurini 19, 00185 Roma.
Tel. +39 06 4993 7128

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Saturday, January 27, 2024

[DMANET] Research Fellowship in Combinatorics

The School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham welcomes
applications for a research fellowship in Combinatorics to work with Dr
Eoin Long on the EPSRC funded project "A high-dimensional approach to
Ramsey Theory".

The post is available for a period of 24 months in the first instance, with
the possibility of being extended for a further 12 months. The starting
date is 1 May 2024 (although there is flexibility here).

The successful candidate will join a community of researchers in the
Combinatorics group within the School of Mathematics, University of
Birmingham. The group consists of eight permanent staff as well as a large
cohort of postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers and has a
proven track-record in mentoring and supporting the development of
early-career researchers. The profile and research interests of the group
may be found at:

https://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/combinatorics/index.html

Applicants should have a PhD (or one near to completion) in Mathematics at
the time of taking up the position, a strong record of research and
publications and familiarity with techniques from both Extremal and
Probabilistic Combinatorics.

The School is a supportive and people-focused friendly environment,
committed to equality, diversity and inclusivity, which aims to allow
colleagues to develop as researchers and educators. We encourage
applications from the widest community and provide equal opportunities in
our recruitment processes.

The School of Mathematics holds an Athena SWAN Bronze award, supports the
London Mathematical Society Good Practice Scheme and is a member of the
Piscopia.

The University of Birmingham holds the Advance HE's Race Equality Charter
Bronze award, a framework through which we are working to self-reflect,
identify and remove barriers standing in the way of Black, Asian and
Minority Ethnic staff and students. The University of Birmingham is an
equal opportunity and a Disability Confident employer.

In addition to completing the online application form, you should make sure
to upload the following: a cover letter, a CV (including full publication
list), a research statement (5 pages maximum) and names and emails of three
contactable referees.

For further details about the position, and to apply please see the
following link:

https://edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_6001/job/4004/?utm_medium=jobshare

Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Eoin Long (e.long@bham.ac.uk)
or Dr Stacey Law (s.law@bham.ac.uk).

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[DMANET] Special issue in memory of Dr. Jean-Marie Proth (7.12.1938–17.06.2021)

Dear all,

The special issue in memory of Dr J.M. Proth edited on the basis of the
corresponding invited sessions at IFAC MIM 2022 has appeared.

All articles are available for free till the end of March 2024 on the
web site of the journal:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/62/1-2?nav=tocList

Could you disseminate this information in your professional circles as
large as possible, please? Good reading.

The selection of other papers from MIM 2022 for IJPR is under review,
many papers are already accepted and published online.

Best wishes,
Alexandre Dolgui


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Alexandre Dolgui, Dr.habil., Ph.D., IISE Fellow,
Professor and Head

Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Dept.
IMT Atlantique, LS2N-CNRS
La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler - B.P. 20722
F-44307 NANTES Cedex 3, France
E-mails:alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr
URL:www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/alexandre-dolgui

Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Production Research
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/current

New Book: Supply Network Dynamics and Control
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031091780

The 60th Anniversary of IJPR was celebrated at the
10th IFAC MIM conference, June 22 to 24, 2022, Nantes, France
www.mim2022.com (with 767 attendees)
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[DMANET] QUASAR 2024: Workshop on QUAntum Search And information Retrieval

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QUASAR 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS

The Workshop on QUAntum Search And information Retrieval (QUASAR) (https://www.dmi.unict.it/quasar) aims to explore and advance the field of quantum information retrieval. The workshop focuses on leveraging quantum computing principles and algorithms to enhance search and retrieval processes. The QUASAR workshop serves as a platform for researchers, experts, and enthusiasts to exchange ideas, discuss advancements, and collaborate on the development of quantum algorithms and technologies in the context of information retrieval.

QUASAR'24 is colocated with the ACM International Symposium on High-Performance and Distributed Computing<https://www.hpdc.org/2024/> (HDPC) 2024, the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. The HDPC workshops will take place on June 3/4 2024 (QUASAR will be scheduled for either these days) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, Pisa (Italy). The proceedings of QUASAR will be published by the ACM in dedicated proceedings.

We invite you to contribute to and advertise the QUASAR workshop. Contributions from early-career researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students are particularly welcome.


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Workshop Theme and Key Topics
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The Quantum Search and Information Retrieval Workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers, academicians, and industry professionals to discuss and exchange insights on the advancements, challenges, and emerging trends in quantum information retrieval and search algorithms.

The primary topics of this workshop include:

* Exploring Quantum Search Algorithms: Presenting and examining novel quantum search algorithms aimed at improving search efficiency, scalability, and accuracy in various domains.
* Information Retrieval Techniques: Investigating cutting-edge information retrieval methodologies leveraging quantum computing paradigms for enhanced data indexing, retrieval, and analysis.
* Applications and Implementations: Showcasing real-world applications of quantum search and information retrieval techniques across diverse fields such as machine learning, data science, cryptography, and artificial intelligence.
* Theoretical and Practical Discussions: Facilitating discussions on theoretical foundations, practical implications, and potential advancements in quantum search and information retrieval.
* Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration among quantum computing experts, information retrieval specialists, and researchers exploring novel approaches in this field.

The workshop invites submissions of research papers, case studies, and presentations addressing these objectives, aiming to foster an interactive environment conducive to knowledge sharing and collaboration in the quantum information retrieval domain.


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Submissions guidelines
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Original research papers contributing to QUASAR are required to range from a minimum of 5 pages to a maximum of 8 pages (excluding clearly marked appendices), and to be formatted using the sigconf style, accessible at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.

The workshop papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the HotCRP workshop platform quasar24.hotcrop.com<https://quasar24.hotcrp.com>.

More detailed information on submissions and the review process can be found at the section Submission Guidelines of
https://www.dmi.unict.it/quasar/.

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Important Dates
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* Paper submission: February 29, 2024
* Paper notification: April 7, 2024
* Camera-ready workshop papers due: April 17, 2024
* Workshop Date: June 3/4, 2024
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Program Committee
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* Simone Faro, Università degli Studi di Catania
* Raffaele Guarasci, ICAR- Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni
* Robin Kaarsgaard, University of Southern Denmark
* Massimo Melucci, Università degli Studi di Padova
* Arianna Pavone (PC Chair), Università degli Studi di Palermo
* Caterina Viola (PC Chair), Università degli Studi di Catania
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Contacts
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Arianna Pavone: ariannamaria.pavone@unipa.it
Catrina Viola: caterina.viola@unict.it


Further information on QUASAR Workshop will be available soon at https://www.dmi.unict.it/quasar/<https://www.dmi.unict.it/quasar>.




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