Thursday, November 21, 2024

[DMANET] Invitation to Serve as Keynote Speaker at ISGAIE'2025

Dear Colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well and safe

I am delighted to announce that the University of Málaga in Spain will host
the *Second Edition of the International Symposium on Generative AI and
Education (ISGAIE'2025)*. The symposium is scheduled to take place in
hybrid format at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Málaga from *May
15–16, 2025*.

For further information, please visit our official page: ISGAIE'25
<https://research-conf.com/>

We are looking for one researcher with high expertise and background in the
subject matter, I would like to extend an invitation for him to serve as a
keynote speaker for this event. If you are interested in this
collaboration, kindly provide me with the following details as soon as:

- *Full Name*
- *Affiliation*
- *Email Address*
- *Curriculum Vitae (CV)*

Your contribution would greatly enrich the discussions and outcomes of this
symposium.

Looking forward to your response.

Best regards,

--


*Dr. M.Lahby*

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

mlahby@gmail.com
GSM : +212 6 65 29 23 76
In the world of Linux, who needs Windows and Gates

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[DMANET] Tenure-track position in Computer Science at John Cabot University - Rome - Italy

Dear all,

We have an opening for a 2-year tenure-track position as Assistant/Associate Professor in Computer Science within the department of Mathematics, Natural, and Applied Sciences at John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. Please find the official ad here<https://www.johncabot.edu/employment-opportunities/teaching.aspx>.

John Cabot University is an American Liberal-Arts University in the heart of Rome, offering degree programs in a broad range of disciplines in the fields of humanities, social sciences, digital arts and media, finance, and business. Ideally, we are searching for a candidate with a background in application domains connected to one or more of these fields, and with the willingness of engaging in interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Please feel free to share this email with anyone you think may be interested in this position.

Thanks and all the best,
Patrizio

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Patrizio Angelini, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Pronouns: he/him/his

Chair, Department of Mathematics, Natural, and Applied Sciences
John Cabot University
Via della Lungara, 233
00165 - Rome - Italy
c.f. 01476880586


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[DMANET] CANT 2025: first announcement

We are thrilled to announce the 5th edition of the CANT school-conference from 29th September to 3rd October 2025 at CIRM in Marseille, France.

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About CANT
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CANT is an acronym for Combinatorics, Automata, and Number Theory. The first two editions of the school were held in Liège (Belgium) in 2006 and 2009, while the last two editions both took place at CIRM (Marseille, France) in 2012 and 2016.

CANT is meant to be an international school and an international conference at the same time. We will propose 6 courses (3 hours each), supplemented by 30-minute presentations and a poster session. The main topics of the event include, but not limited to, the following:

* Symbolic dynamics
* Algorithmics and calculability
* Formal language and automata theory
* Combinatorics on words
* Number theory
* Tilings
* Combinatorial group theory
* Softwares for these topics (e.g., SageMath, Diddy, Walnut, Pecan)

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Invited speakers
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France Gheeraert
Herman Goulet-Ouellet
Clemens Heuberger & Daniel Krenn
Joël Ouaknine
Ville Salo
Yotam Smilansky & Yaar Solomon

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Important dates and information
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Event: September 29—October 3 2025

Websites

* Ours: http://www.discmath.ulg.ac.be/CANT2025/index.html
* CIRM webpage: https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/3355.html

Call for presentation/posters

* Follow the procedure here: http://www.discmath.ulg.ac.be/CANT2025/CFP.html
* Deadline: June 30/August 20 2024
* Notification: July 15/August 25 2024

Registration and financial support

* Follow the procedure here: http://www.discmath.ulg.ac.be/CANT2025/registration.html
* Deadline: June 30

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Organizers
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Valérie Berthé
Michel Rigo
Manon Stipulanti

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Inquiry
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Should you have any question, please contact Manon Stipulanti at m.stipulanti@uliege.be<mailto:m.stipulanti@uliege.be>.
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[DMANET] AAMAS 2025: Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium

Dear all,

Please find below the call for contributions to the Doctoral Consortium of
the 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2025) to be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA, on May 19-23,
2025.

We look forward to seeing you in Detroit!

Tim Baarslag and Thanh Nguyen

Publicity Chairs

On behalf of the AAMAS 2025 Organizing Committee
—Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium

We invite PhD students working in the broad research areas served by AAMAS
to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of AAMAS 2025. The DC is an
opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field
as well as other students, to receive feedback on your work, and to get
advice on managing your career.

Each accepted student will be matched with an established researcher from
the community who will act as the student's mentor. The mentor will
interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research and
career management questions, and help foster new contacts. Each accepted
student will also have the opportunity to present their work to their peers
and senior members of the community attending. The programme will be
completed with an informal lunch for participating students and mentors as
well as a panel discussion focusing on questions of career management.

The DC is specifically intended for PhD students who already have a
concrete research proposal and preliminary results, but who still have
sufficient time before the completion of their dissertation so as to be
able to benefit from the DC experience. Preference will be given to
students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from
students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will
also be considered.

Submission

1. Application package: A complete application package to the DC should
be submitted as a single PDF and should have the following components (in
this order):

● Cover page (1 page), with the following information: name,
university, homepage, preferred personal pronouns, citizenship, PhD start
date, expected graduation date, and name(s) of PhD supervisor(s).

● Extended abstract (2 pages + 1 page of references) motivating and
describing your PhD topic and outlining some of the results obtained so far
as well as your plans for continuing the work.

● Personal statement (1 page) with citations and brief discussions of
up to five papers that have inspired your own research.

● Curriculum vitae (at most 2 pages), including your list of
publications.

The extended abstract must be formatted using the official AAMAS 2025
submission
format
<https://aamas2025.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AAMAS-2025-Formatting-Instructions-CCBY.zip>,
including abstract and keywords. Look at the proceedings
<https://www.ifaamas.org/proceedings.html> of past editions of AAMAS for
inspiration for how to write such a document.

In addition, you will need to provide:

2. Letter of support: A 1-page letter (PDF) by your supervisor (signed
and on official letterhead), in which they confirm that they support your
application to the DC and explain why they believe that this is the right
moment for you to attend the DC. A detailed letter of recommendation is
neither required nor expected.

3.

Mentor suggestions: The names and affiliations of three or more
individuals you would hope might get assigned to you as a mentor during the
DC. These should be established members of the AAMAS research community who
would typically attend the conference. For inspiration, look at the
listings of PC and SPC members of recent editions of the conference and ask
your supervisor for advice.

If your application is accepted, your extended abstract (and none of the
other components of your application package) will get published in the
official AAMAS-2025 conference proceedings.

Submissions should be made through EasyChair AAMAS 2025 DC page:

AAMAS 2025 Doctoral Consortium Submission Link
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcaamas25>

Note that you will need to register an abstract (outlining your research
topic in a few lines) several days before the final submission deadline.
You can update your submission as often as you like before that final
deadline, and you are advised to make use of this opportunity.

You are welcome to also apply for a scholarship, but please note that this
is a separate process. While acceptance to the DC may play a role in
scholarship decisions, those decisions are made by the scholarship chairs
and are subject to available funding.

Important Dates

● Submission Opens: Monday, 18 November 2024

● Abstract Deadline: Monday, 13 January 2025

● Submission Deadline: Friday, 17 January 2025

● Author Notification: Monday, 17 February 2025

● Camera-Ready Deadline: Wednesday 26 February 2025

All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth
(UTC-12).

Questions?

For any questions, please contact the DC chairs either through EasyChair (
dcaamas25@easychair.org), or directly: Roxana Rădulescu (Utrecht
University, r.t.radulescu@uu.nl) and Reshef Meir (Technion-Israel Inst. of
Technology, reshefm@ie.technion.ac.il).

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[DMANET] Tenure-track assistant professorship at Lund University in foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning

The Department of Computer Science at Lund University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in the foundations of computer science with a focus on logic and automated reasoning.

The assistant professor will be working at the Department of Computer Science, where research into the foundations of computer science is conducted by professors Susanna de Rezende and Jakob Nordstrom. Jakob Nordstrom leads the research group Mathematical Insights into Algorithms for Optimization (https://jakobnordstrom.se/miao-group), which is also active at the University of Copenhagen. The research has a unique profile in that it spans a wide range of questions from the theoretical, mathematical foundations of efficient computation all the way to state-of-the-art practical algorithms for real-world problems. This creates a very special environment, where the research projects do not only go deep into different theoretical and applied topics, but where different lines of research cross-fertilise each other and unexpected and exciting synergies often arise.

This position focuses on algorithms for foundational problems within logic, automated reasoning, and combinatorial optimization. This includes design and implementation of algorithms for computational problems within Boolean satisfiability (SAT) solving, constraint programming, mixed integer linear programming, and/or satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) solving. In addition to algorithm construction, another topic of interest is to develop a scientific understanding of the practical performance of automated reasoning algorithms, and to investigate relations between empirical observations and theoretical results in algorithm analysis and computational complexity theory. Yet another related area concerns methods of ensuring that algorithms compute provably correct results, which can be used to develop trustworthy solvers for automated reasoning and combinatorial optimization.

Lund University was founded in 1666 and is repeatedly ranked among the top 100 universities in the world. Lund Technical College (LTH) forms the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, where research of the highest international standard is conducted.

The Department of Computer Science at LTH is a partner in the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), which is Sweden's largest ever individual research program and addresses research on artificial intelligence broadly construed, and also in the ELLIIT Excellence Centre focused on basic and applied research in information technologies. Furthermore, there are extensive collaborations across the Oresund Bridge with the Basic Algorithms Research Copenhagen (BARC) centre at the University of Copenhagen as well as with the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

The application deadline is January 8, 2025. See https://jakobnordstrom.se/openings/AsstProf-Lund-250108.html for more information and instructions how to apply. Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to jakob.nordstrom@cs.lth.se.


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[DMANET] [2nd Call for Participation and Posters] DTW 2025: International Workshop on Digital Twins - February 19-21, 2025 - Padova, Italy

Dear Colleagues

We are organizing a workshop on Digital Twins in Padova, Italy, on February 19-21, 2025.
The workshop will be interdisciplinary: mathematics and computer science.

Important information:
- the website of the event is here: https://sites.google.com/view/dtw25
- there is no registration fee but registration is mandatory due to limited capacity.
- we have a call for posters here: https://sites.google.com/view/dtw25/call-for-posters with deadline January 10, 2025.

Theme:
Digital twins constitute a virtual, precise representation of some physical system. As such, they are an
ultimate goal of the most advanced mathematical models. The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading
experts in some of the intertwined fields connected to similar applications, focusing in particular on the mathematical
and on the computer science aspects of Machine Learning and cyber-physical systems. On the mathematical side,
emphasis will be given to the analysis of differential equations and algorithms arising in specific models or in more
general theories. On the computer science side, attention will be devoted to formal methods and artificial intelligence
for advanced modeling, analysis, verification, synthesis, and control of cyber-physical systems.

Chairs:
- Mattia Fogagnolo, University of Padova, Italy
- Matteo Zavatteri, University of Padova, Italy

Scientific committee:
- Davide Bresolin, University of Padova, Italy
- Erik Chinellato, University of Padova, Italy
- Marco Cirant, University of Padova, Italy
- Francesco Fantin, University of Padova, Italy
- Antonia Larese, University of Padova, Italy
- Fabio Marcuzzi, University of Padova, Italy
- Nicolò Navarin, University of Padova, Italy
- Luca Pasa, University of Padova, Italy
- Mario Putti, University of Padova, Italy
- Alessandro Sperduti, University of Padova, Italy
- Daniela Tonon, University of Padova, Italy

Invited speakers:
1) Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, U.K.
2) Martin Burger, University of Hamburg, Germany
3) Luca Dedè, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
4) Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University, Germany
5) Mauro Maggioni, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.
6) Michel Reniers, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands
7) Carola Bibiane Schönlieb, University of Cambridge, U.K
8) Stefano Tonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

Sincerely,
Mattia Fogagnolo
Matteo Zavatteri
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[DMANET] Master thesis in Lille: Connecting discrete and continuous neural network models

The ESTAS lab of Université Gustave Eiffel in Lille is opening a Master
thesis on the topic of "Connecting discrete and continuous neural
network models".

The goal of this Master thesis is to establish formal relationships
between the behavior of a discrete neural network and the corresponding
continuous neural ordinary differential equation (neural ODE). Such
relationships could then be used to guarantee the safe behavior of one
of the models after proceeding to the safety verification of the other
model.

The main objectives of this Master thesis are the following:
- Short literature review of existing neural ODE models and their
relation to discrete neural networks, and on formal behavioral
relationships between models.
- Establishing formal relations between the discrete and continuous
neural models.
- Combining these formal relationships with existing verification
algorithms (for neural networks or neural ODE) to deduce the safety of
one model based on the safety verification of the other.

More details on desired profile and application procedure are provided
in the following link:
[ https://gdr-macs.fr/sites/default/files/2024-11/241112_Master_thesis_neural_ODE.pdf | https://gdr-macs.fr/sites/default/files/2024-11/241112_Master_thesis_neural_ODE.pdf ]

Best regards,
_ _ _ _
Abdelrahman Sayed Ibrahim
MSCA-CLEAR-Doc
COSYS Department - ESTAS Laboratory
Campus de Lille
20, rue Élisée Reclus • BP 70317
F-59666 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex • FRANCE

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

[DMANET] Two tenure track faculty positions at the College of Business, California State University San Marcos

The College of Business Administration at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions in the Operations and Supply Chain Management Department at the rank of Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management and Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, starting Fall 2025. California State University San Marcos is a vibrant, innovative university in sunny Southern California, just minutes from the coast and San Diego's dynamic cultural scene. Known for its commitment to student success and diversity, CSUSM offers faculty the opportunity to thrive in a supportive academic community while enjoying an exceptional quality of life.

Please use these two links to apply:
Operations and Supply Chain Management position: https://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/873/sm/en-us/job/544299/assistant-professor-of-operations-and-supply-chain-management

Business Analytics position: https://careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/873/sm/en-us/job/544302/assistant-professor-of-business-analytics


Nima Zaerpour, Ph.D.

Chair and Associate Professor

Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management

College of Business Administration

California State University San Marcos

nzaerpour@csusm.edu<mailto:nzaerpour@csusm.edu> | 760 750-4272 | faculty.csusm.edu/nzaerpour<http://faculty.csusm.edu/nzaerpour>

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[DMANET] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Supply Chain Security

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce a Special Issue in collaboration with the *Journal
of Supply Chain Analytics* (Elsevier), focusing on *Supply Chain Security:
Analytical, Operations Research, and Decision Sciences Perspectives*.

This Special Issue aims to address critical challenges in modern supply
chains through innovative approaches in *risk management, optimization
techniques, and data-driven decision-making.*

*Topics include (but are not limited to): *
- Resilience metrics and optimization
- Risk identification and management
- Predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Decision-making strategies for disruptions (natural disasters,
geopolitical risks, cybersecurity threats)
- Applications in manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, and more

*Important Dates: *
- Submission Open: *Submissions are now open *
- Final Manuscript Deadline: August 31, 2025

This Special Issue welcomes *original research, case studies, and
theoretical models*. If you are working on cutting-edge solutions to
enhance the security and resilience of supply chains, we strongly encourage
you to contribute.

*Key Details: *
- Ensure you select *"VSI:SCA_Supply Chain Security"* during the *Article
Type* step in the submission process.

- For any inquiries, feel free to contact the Guest Editors:
- Nelson Maculan (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
- Yu-Hong Dai (Chinese Academy of Science)
- Rahimeh Neamatian Monemi (Predictim Globe)
- Ruiping Yuan (Beijing Wuzi University)
- Shahin Gelareh (Université d'Artois)

We look forward to your contributions.

Best regards,
Guest Editors

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[DMANET] Become a Member of the Bilevel Optimization Society

Dear All,

----- Apologies for any cross posting -----

(Become a Member of the Bilevel Optimization Society by filling the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/xa7m37UDcJ).

As you would remember, about a year ago, many of you signed up to support the initiative to create a Bilevel Optimization Society (BOS). The good news is that this process has now completed, and we are delighted to inform you that the BOS has now been approved as a technical section of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS). We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported this initiative in various ways, and in particular by signing up to be a proposer for the MOS application.

Recall that the goal of the BOS is to create and maintain a community of researchers that recognize their work as related to bilevel optimization, while at the same time expanding its basis and promoting its outreach within and outside academia. This will be achieved through the organization of (i) the International Conference on Bilevel Optimization (ICBO) series and (ii) the dissemination and promotion of research and information related to bilevel optimization. The bylaws of the BOS and some more information about it can be found on the Society's website: https://bileveloptimization.org/.

Purpose of this call: The aim of this message is first to announce the good news above, and secondly to ask you to now register to become a member of the BOS by filling the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/xa7m37UDcJ. If you fill and submit this form, you will automatically become a member of the BOS if you do not hear from us within a week from your submission. Additionally, note that as a member of the BOS, you will receive regular email updates on the activities of the Society. You will be expected to engage with as many of those activities as possible in order to help the BOS to grow and thrive in the coming years.

Election of the first COBOS: The activities of the BOS will officially start in January 2025. For this to be possible, the first Committee of the Bilevel Optimization Society (COBOS) (i.e., the Chair, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Webmaster) needs to be elected by the end of this calendar year (precisely, the elections will take place from 7 to 21 December 2024). For more information on the duties of each of these roles, see the bylaws of the Society, which are available via a link on its website: https://bileveloptimization.org/. As part of filling this form, you can nominate someone to stand for elections for each of the aforementioned positions; see more details in item 11 of the registration form.

Deadline to sign up to become a BOS member: There is no deadline to sign up to become a member of the BOS. However, to take part in the election process for the first COBOS, please sign up by 6 December 2024. If you do not sign by this date, you will not be able to nominate someone for the different positions or stand for the elections. But of course, you will still be able to vote if you sign up to become a member of the BOS by 21 December 2024.

With best wishes from the BOS founding committee
(Luce Brotcorne, Victor Bucarey-Lopez, Margarida Carvalho, Ted Ralphs, Martin Schmidt, Alain Zemkoho, and Jin Zhang)


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[DMANET] Workshop On Randomness and Discrete Structures (Groningen, April 7-9, 2025)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the
Workshop On Randomness and Discrete Structures (WORDS 2025)
7-9 April 2025
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
The workshop will explore various topics related to discrete structures and
randomness, including but not limited to percolation, random graphs, and
stochastic geometry. The program will feature presentations from the 9
keynote speakers below, as well as contributed talks.

- Timothy Budd (Radboud University)
- Nicolas Curien (Université Paris-Sud)
- Daniel Dadush (Utrecht University)
- Zakhar Kabluchko (University of Münster)
- Júlia Komjáthy (Delft University of Technology)
- Irène Marcovici (Université de Rouen Normandie)
- Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg)
- Wioletta Ruszel (Utrecht University)
- Clara Stegehuis (Twente University)

For more information and registration, please visit our website:
https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/words2025/home

The registration deadline is February 28, 2025. We encourage junior
researchers to propose a contributed talk.

We look forward to seeing you in Groningen!

Best regards,
Tobias Müller, Réka Szabó and Gilles Bonnet

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[DMANET] [CFP] CPAIOR 2025 — Approaching Deadline

The 22nd International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research <https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2025/home> will be held in Melbourne, Australia from November 10 to November 13, 2025. The conference will be co-located with ICAPS 2025 <https://icaps25.icaps-conference.org/home/>.

While the conference will take place later in the year than usual, papers are still due in December 2024, to not interfere with the usual sequence of conference deadlines.

The aim of the conference is to promote a space where researchers from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) present innovative techniques, new applications, and original cutting-edge ideas, thereby encouraging researchers from one area to learn from the others. Of particular interest to the conference are papers that integrate concepts and methodologies from these different fields, either proposing interesting new techniques for complex/practical problems or expanding our theoretical insights and cross-field understanding. However, high-quality original papers from a single area are welcome when also relevant to the other communities involved. The conference also strongly encourages regular papers or experience reports showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on challenging real-world applications.
The program committee invites submissions that include, but are far from limited to, the following topics:
New methodologies in the interface between predictive and prescriptive pipelines, such as machine learning techniques applied to tackle optimization problems and, conversely, CP/OR techniques to address AI and machine learning tasks.
Novel relaxation and inference methods based on constraint propagation, polyhedral techniques/cutting planes, convex/second-order conic optimization, graph-based algorithms, dynamic programming, and decision diagrams for optimization.
New search perspectives involving enumeration/branch-and-bound strategies, innovative decomposition techniques (e.g., based on column generation/Benders), intelligent backtracking, incomplete search, and learning-based heuristics.
Advanced integrated methods that expose new model transformations, communication strategies across MIP/CP/SAT solvers, distributed solution techniques, and solver selection (e.g., portfolio approaches).
Innovative models and applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.
Implementation or evaluation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems.
Submissions are of two types: regular papers (submitted for publication and presentation) and extended abstracts (submitted for presentation only).
The conference will recognize a distinguished paper award and a student paper award.
Instructions for Regular Papers
Regular papers present original unpublished work and can be of two types:
long papers (at most 15 pages plus references)
short papers (at most 8 pages plus references)
Both long and short papers will undergo rigorous review and are subject to the same criteria of quality. Both types are also eligible for the distinguished paper or student paper award. Short papers are particularly encouraged for interesting and novel work in progress, for which the practical or theoretical relevance is not yet fully identified.
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series <http://www.springer.com/lncs>. All regular papers should be prepared in the format used for that series (LNCS instructions <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?referer=www.springer.de&countryChanged=true>).
Submission schedule for regular papers (both long and short):
Abstracts: December 8, 2024 (AoE: anywhere on Earth)
Full papers: December 15, 2024 (AoE, no extension possible)
Rebuttal Phase: January 26-29, 2025 (AoE)
Notification: February 10, 2025
Camera ready: TBA

Papers submitted to CPAIOR must not be under review at a different venue at the same time during the reviewing period. Abstracts can be submitted if the paper is still under review elsewhere, but the paper will have to be withdrawn by the full paper submission deadline from CPAIOR or the other venue.
Instructions for Extended Abstracts
Extended abstracts should be one or two pages in length and may present preliminary work or work already published in other outlets. The extended abstracts are submitted for presentation only (if accepted), and will not be formally published in the LNCS conference volume. A collection of the accepted extended abstracts will be published on the conference website. A submission representing work submitted or published in another outlet should state that outlet. Extended abstracts will be reviewed to ensure appropriateness for the conference.
Submission schedule for extended abstracts:
Abstract: August 2025 (TBA)
Notification: September 2025 (TBA)
Submission Process
Submissions to CPAIOR are single blind. In a single blind review process, the author names are not hidden for the reviewers, but the reviewer names are hidden for the authors.

We will use OpenReview.net to manage the reviewing process. Please use the following link to submit your papers:

https://openreview.net/group?id=cpaior.org/CPAIOR/2025/Conference

Reviewing will follow the same process as in previous years: the process is single-blind, and all submissions, reviews, rebuttals, and comments will stay private throughout the entire review period as well as afterwards.

For any queries on the submission process, please contact the Program Chair Guido Tack at cpaior2025@gmail.com.


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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[DMANET] Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024 and allied workshops

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024
and allied workshops

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QUICK LINKS:

Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/
Local website: https://fsttcs.info/

Registration: https://fsttcs.info/registration/
Early-bird
registration deadline: 24th November, AoE

Volunteer Program: https://fsttcs.info/volunteers/
Deadline to apply: 20th November, AoE

Social Events: https://fsttcs.info/social/
Virtual Participation: https://fsttcs.info/online/

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WORKSHOPS:

MM: Milestones and Motifs in the Theory of Proofs, Algebraic Computation,
and Lower Bounds
Dates: December 14 – 15, 2024
https://mmcomplexity.github.io/

RHPL: Research Highlights in Programming Languages
Dates: December 16 – 18, 2024
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/

WAGS: Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis
Dates: December 19, 2024
https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop

AMD: Workshop on Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Dates: December 19 – 20, 2024
http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~amd-24

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FSTTCS 2024 is the 44th conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian
Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM
India. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational
aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. Within Track B, there
is a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages
and Practical Verification, in addition to theoretical results.

FSTTCS 2024 will be held in IIT Gandhinagar during December 16–18, 2024.
The conference is being organized as an in-person event.

We also have several exciting workshops lined up! You can register for the
conference and any subset of the workshops, or just for one or more of the
workshops.

We are also on a social media network near you. Please follow us to keep up
with updates:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@fsttcs
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We look forward to welcoming you at IIT Gandhinagar this December!

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[DMANET] CFP: 15th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2025) in conjunction with 39th IEEE symposium IPDPS, Milano, Italy

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


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The 15th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2025)

https://pdco2025.sciencesconf.org/
held in conjunction with
the 39th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2025)

June 3 - June 7, 2025

Milano, Italy
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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M. Alswaitti, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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
J.L. Jimenez-Laredo, University of Granada, Spain

K. Li, State University of New York, USA
G. Maudet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

N. Melab, University of Lille, France

M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
J. Musial, Poznań University of Technology, Poland

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
A. Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France

M. Seredynski, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
D.H. Stolfi, LIST, Luxembourg

G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy

A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico

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 the Workshop PDCO 2025 submission system<https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?args=Aprcnt3DxGsprcnt3DyCH0IQ3THf40XfQbGCrxrz9M9pTz0Cx0zfsG9hchDTHQP0Aprcnt3DxfGzb0sprcnt3Dyprcnt3DUI0HQP0Aprcnt3DxfTtUbb0XfQbGCrxrz9M9pTzYprcnt3D40bprcnt3DQxGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40QHHGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40Iprcnt3Dxprcnt3DGdbUfTrAprcnt3DxGsprcnt3DyCH0IQ3TrJUHtGsprcnt3Dyprcnt3DUITEGDhhM_>.

In order to submit a paper, please choose PDCO Workshop

Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 17, 2025. 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/>.


Important Dates:
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- Submission deadline: January 17, 2025;
- Author notification: February 21, 2025;
- Camera-Ready papers due: March 6, 2025;
- Workshop: June 3, 2025.


Contact:
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For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at: pdco2025@sciencesconf.org


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Monday, November 18, 2024

[DMANET] Multiple tenure-track and non-tenure positions at DePaul University, Chicago

Colleagues,

The School of Computing at DePaul University, Chicago, USA, invites
applications for multiple tenure-track positions at the level of
assistant or associate professor. We are particularly interested in
candidates in:
- Cybersecurity,
- Systems,
- HCI,
- AI (including AI applications to healthcare and biomedical engineering)

We also encourage applications from candidates in other core areas of
Computer Science.

The School of Computing includes over 70 full-time faculty and more
than 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students. We offer a PhD
program, 12 master's degrees, and 10 bachelor's degrees as well as a
growing number of multidisciplinary CS X degrees. The School of
Computing is committed to providing a flexible and supportive
environment for its faculty, promoting a rewarding academic career
with a balance between teaching and research. Located in the heart of
Chicago's vibrant downtown, it offers vast opportunities to forge
relationships with industry, national laboratories, universities, and
other organizations in the Chicago area.

Full ad & application link for these positions:
https://apply.interfolio.com/149107

We also invite applications for a full-time non-tenure-track faculty
position in Computer Science. The faculty appointment is with full
benefits and renewable contingent upon satisfactory performance. We
seek candidates with a commitment to high-quality teaching. The
candidate will have additional responsibilities including curriculum
development and other service to the School.

Full ad & application link for this position:
https://apply.interfolio.com/149096

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[DMANET] CG 2024 - Registration open (free of charge)

The Computers and Games conference (CG 2024) will be held online this year November 25-28 2024. CG is an internationally renowned conference that publishes computer-based studies of games. It originated in Japan and is now organized by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA). Further information on the conference and the ICGA can be found here:

https://icga.org/?page_id=3907


The conference will be held over three days, with the first day presentations at a time that is convenient for American attendees, the second day well timed for Eastern Asia, and the third day accommodates African and European participants. The schedule can be found following this link:

https://jstorage.app.box.com/s/gs9n9mwjyev6jdrzco4pk3b75gncevd1


Among the presentations on peer-reviewed paper we have four excellent keynote speakers:

- Craig Sherstan (Sony AI)

- Hiroki Takizawa (Preferred Networks, Inc)

- I-Chen Wu (National Chiao Tung University)

- Jaap van den Herik (Leiden University)


Conference attendance to view all talks will be free of charge. You can register for the conference using the following link:

https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iWk07JQoTNCpKO5bEx8oeg


Program Co-Chairs

- Michael Hartisch, University of Passau, Germany

- Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan


Advisory Committee

- Cameron Browne, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

- Akihiro Kishimoto, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

- Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Canada


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[DMANET] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IEEE HONET 2024

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IEEE HONET 2024: 2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
December 03-04, 2024
University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar

We invite you to participate in the main track of IEEE HONET 2024, a premier conference focusing on innovative technologies for smart communities. Join us to explore leading-edge research and applications in AI, IoT, Robotics, and more. You can register for the conference here: https://honet-ict.org/registration.html

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Dr. Gordon Cheng: Fellow IEEE, Professor and Coordinator Center of Competence Neuro-Engineering in ECE Department, Technical University Munich, Germany
- Dr. James Won-Ki Hong: Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Dir. Distributed Processing & Networks Management Lab, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
- Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour: Fellow IEEE, Bodine Chair Professor and Director, Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Ms. Duha Al Buhendi, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, State of Qatar
- Mr. Raghav Thalabhakthula, CISCO

Workshop/Symposium speakers: https://honet-ict.org/workshop-symposium-speakers.html

PARTICIPATE IN KEY EVENTS:

Main Conference
Symposium on Smart Sensing for e-Healthcare Applications: https://honet-ict.org/symp-smart-ehealth.html
Symposium on Smart City and IoT Applications to Urban Mobility (SCIAUM'24): https://honet-ict.org/symp-smart-city.html
Workshop on Secure and Efficient AI on the Edge: https://honet-ict.org/wksp-secure-ai.html
Tutorial on Soft Robotics: https://honet-ict.org/tut-soft-robotics.html

REGISTRATION:
Register for the conference here: https://honet-ict.org/registration.html

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
Download the full conference program here: https://honet-ict.org/downloads/ieee-honet24-program.pdf

SPONSORS:
- University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
- Center for Opto-electronics and Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte NC 28223, USA
- IEEE Qatar Section
- IEEE North Carolina Council

TOPICS of the main conference:
Researchers and Authors are invited to submit R&D and concept papers presenting original research work related to the practices and theory related to the theme and scope of HONET. The topics of interest include (but are not limited):

1. AI & IoT
a. Enhancing the capabilities of Smart Communities using AI
b. Machine Learning models for Smart Cities (LSTM, Deep Learning, Transformers)
c. Realizing Smart Localities using IoT
2. Robotics
a. Robotics & Automation
b. Autonomous Vehicles and Charging Technologies
c. Computer Vision
3. Computer and Communication Networks and Network Security
a. Wireless Networks
b. Photonic Networks
c. 5G Communication and beyond
d. Software Defined Networks (SDN)
e. Network Security and Forensic Analysis
4. Energy and Power Technologies
a. Renewable Energy Sources
b. Smart-Grids and Robust Infrastructure
c. Smart Storage and Demand & Response
d. Micro Grid Analytics and Management
e. Smart Grid and Smart Cities
5. Photonics
a. LEDs, Lasers and Solar Cells and Panels
b. Packaging

STEERING COMMITTEE
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Senior Member IEEE, Optica and Fellow SPIE, Prof. Phys. & Optical Science,
Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Rachid Benlamri, Prof. & VP Academics, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Glenn D. Boreman, Prof. and Chair Physics & Optical Science, Fellow IEEE, SPIE and Optica,
Dir. Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, USA
M. Iqbal Choudhary, Prof., Coordinator General COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

GENERAL CHAIRS
Rachid Benlamri, Prof. & VP Academics, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Senior Member IEEE, Optica and Fellow SPIE, Prof. Physics & Optical Science,
Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Zakaria Maamar, Prof., University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Mohammad Ilyas, SMIEEE, Prof., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA

TPC co-chairs
Syed A. Haider, CIS, SUNY Fredonia, NY, USA
Abdulhalim Dandoush, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Charles Lord, Chair, IEEE North Carolina Council, NC, USA

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[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Philippe Laborie (Hexaly) | November 20 | Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Philippe Laborie (Hexaly).
The title is " Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling ". The seminar will take
place on Zoom on Wednesday, November 20 at 14:00 UTC.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/99723070697?pwd=UpfVCqZTGBxoCQMoJ7czR8p490QSyc.1
Meeting ID: 997 2307 0697
Passcode: 433986
You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as
well:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.
Hexaly Optimizer is a model-and-run mathematical optimization solver
that addresses a broad range of industrial optimization problems in the
areas of supply chain and workforce management, such as routing,
scheduling, packing, clustering, matching, assignment, or facility
location. Its mathematical formalism extends classical Mixed-Integer
Linear Programming with set, permutation and interval variables on which
any usual algebraic operator (arithmetic, logic, relational, etc.) can
be applied. Hexaly Optimizer is widely used in industry today, has
performances often comparable to the best dedicated algorithms, allows
compact modeling, scales well (with problem size and complexity) and is
constantly improving. This seminar focuses on the use of Hexaly
Optimizer to model and solve industrial scheduling problems. We show how
to exploit the mathematical concepts of the input formalism to model
several classic scheduling problems in an elegant and compact manner and
give an idea of the solver's performance compared to the state of the
art. Next, we outline the various techniques employed under the hood to
produce good-quality primal and dual solutions like constraint
propagation, local search, large neighborhood search, linear
relaxations, scheduling heuristics, or exact scheduling algorithms on
particular sub-problems.

The next talk in our series will be:
Norbert Trautmann (University of Bern) | December 4 | Mixed-integer
linear programming for project scheduling with resource-unit related
constraints
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan

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Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

[DMANET] Deadline Extended: *LESS'25 Workshop @PerCom (March 17 – 21, 2025, Washington DC)

*LESS'25 – 4th Workshop on Serverless Computing for Pervasive Cloud-Edge-Deivce Systems and Services

co-located with IEEE PerCom 2025, March 17–21, 2025 in Washington DC, USA
tl;dr:

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Paper submissions due: December 01, 2024 (AoE)
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Notification of acceptance: January 08, 2025
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Website: https://starless.iit.cnr.it/cfp/
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Email: starless.inf@lists.uni-hamburg.de

Call for Papers
*LESS is an ongoing workshop series on serverless computing for pervasive cloud-edge-device systems and services. The edge-to-cloud continuum presents a promising approach for deploying pervasive applications and services. Although serverless computing has gained traction for mobile applications, its transformative potential within the context of pervasive applications remains under-explored. To address this gap, *LESS aims to investigate how the edge-to-cloud continuum can unlock new opportunities tailored to the unique requirements and structures of pervasive applications and services.
Topics of Interest
*LESS offers a unique platform to challenge and advance serverless computing in decentralized and pervasive contexts. The workshop aims to raise awareness for serverless and FaaS in the PerCom community and foster collaboration with experts from the networking, virtualization, and cloud computing scientific fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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Architectures & Deployment:
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Edge, fog, and cloud serverless computing
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Serverless on the edge-to-cloud continuum
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Orchestration & Management:
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Intent-based and context-aware serverless application orchestration
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Applications & Services:
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Serverless computing for pervasive systems and services
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Function-as-a-service (FaaS) for pervasive applications
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) with/for serverless computing
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Technologies & Protocols:
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Distributed serverless computing protocols
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Serverless computing in emerging communication patterns (e.g., 6G)
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Evaluation & Analysis:
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Performance evaluation in pervasive scenarios
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Modelling, analysis, and simulation using serverless computing
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Experimentation & Business Cases:
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Prototypes and real-life experiments involving pervasive systems
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Technical-economic analysis of serverless/FaaS for pervasive computing
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Emerging Areas:
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Serverless quantum computing
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Sustainability and energy-awareness in edge serverless systems

Submission Guidelines
Submissions of papers are due by December 01, 2024 (AoE).
All papers must be in PDF format with at most 6 pages, including references. Papers should contain names and affiliations of the authors (not blinded). 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 at the IEEE Computer Society website<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>.
Paper submission must be done through EasyChair, just like with the main PerCom conference:

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Register for a free account<https://easychair.org/account2/create> on EasyChair
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Follow the direct submission link for PerCom 2025<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025> to create a new submission
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Select the *LESS Track on the second page

*LESS will be held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom'25<http://www.percom.org/>. All accepted papers will be included in the PerCom 2025 Workshops proceedings and included and indexed in the IEEE digital library Xplore. At least one author will be required to have a full registration in the PerCom 2025 conference and present the paper during the workshop.
Organising & Steering Commitee

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Adel N. Toosi – The University of Melbourne, Australia (Homepage<https://adelnadjarantoosi.info/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/adel-n-toosi/>)
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Gabriele R. Russo – Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy (Homepage<https://grussorusso.github.io/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-russo-russo>)
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Janick Edinger – Universität Hamburg, Germany (Homepage<https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/dos/people/members/edinger.html>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/janick-edinger>)
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Claudio Cicconetti – IIT-CNR, Italy (Homepage<https://ccicconetti.github.io/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicconetti/>)
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Pablo Serrano – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (Homepage<https://www.it.uc3m.es/pablo/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloserrano/>)
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Christian Becker – University of Stuttgart, Germany (Homepage<https://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/institute/team/Becker-00039/>)


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Saturday, November 16, 2024

[DMANET] PhD Student Openings in the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Augusta University

I am looking for highly self-motivated students with a strong background in Mathematics and/or algorithms to pursue PhD in the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Augusta University. Financial support is expected to be in the form of a research/teaching assistantship.

Ideal candidates should meet the following qualifications:

* B.S. or M.S. in either Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
* Strong interest in algorithms
* Additional PhD admission criteria for the PhD program can be found at https://www.augusta.edu/ccs/phd-ccs.php.
The positions will remain open until filled with applications being processed in the order in which they are received. If you are interested, please email your CV and academic transcripts to Dr. Ming Ming Tan (mtan@augusta.edu)


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[DMANET] Stream "Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science" - EURO 2025 Leeds

34 th Conference EURO Leeds, UK, 22-25 June 2025,


Stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science "

Dear colleague,

We would like to warmly welcome you to the 34 th Conference of the Association of European Operational Research Societies ( EURO ) in Leeds, UK, 22-25 June 2025 ( https://euro2024cph.dk/ ), in the stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science " .


The 3 sessions of the Stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science " (EURO 34 Leeds 2025) are:

Stream

Session Name

Code


Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 1


995553e1

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science


Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 2

b957b445

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science


Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 3


5baf8aab


Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science 1, 2, 3


Session Organizer: Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (gerhard-wilhelm.weber@put.poznan.pl)

Codes 995553e1 b957b445 5baf8aab

Submission deadline for abstracts is 8 March 2025 .


The link to the Abstract Submission System is https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/ .


You may submit an abstract in one of the organized sessions by inserting the corresponding Session Code and then putting in your abstract (max. 1500 characters).

Key dates and Deadlines
Abstract submission opens – 30 October 2024
Registration opens – 6 November 2024
Abstract submission closes – 8 March 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance – From submission to Sunday 23 March 2025
Early registration closes – 30 March 2025
Author registration and payment deadline – 20 April 2025
Conference registration closes – 25 May 2025

I look forward to seeing you at EURO 2025 in Leeds !


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Friday, November 15, 2024

[DMANET] metaheuristics for optimization

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in the
special session (workshop) on
"APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS" at the 15th
International Conference on
Large Scale Scientific Computation - LSSC'25, June 16 - 20, 2025, Sozopol,
Bulgaria,
with arrival: June 15 and departure: noon June 20.

The session is organized by:
Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka.fidanova@gmail.com)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

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

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

Proceedings
We plan to continue publishing the proceedings of only refereed and
presented papers as a
special volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the submitted
abstract
January 31, 2025
Deadline for registration
March 01, 2025
Deadline for submission of full papers
March 01, 2025
Notification of acceptance of full papers
April 15, 2025


Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the results)
are to be written in standard LaTeX.
The length of the contributed papers is limited to 8 pages. It is assumed
that ONE participant
will present not more than ONE talk.

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

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation,
registration form and conference location you can find at the conference
web page http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom25/


Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Prof. Gabriel Luque

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Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
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Ph. +359-2-9796642

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[DMANET] Computational Optimization

Call for Papers

18th International Thematic Track/Workshop on Computational Optimization
(CO25)
Krakow, Poland, September 14-17, 2025

organized in the framework of CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2024


IEEE CS is a technical co-sponsor of FedCSIS 2025

https://2025.fedcsis.org/thematic/co
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We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and practical
aspects of optimization methods. The list of topics includes, but is not
limited to:

* combinatorial and continuous global optimization
* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* multiobjective and robust optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* optimization on graphs
* large-scale optimization, in parallel and distributed computational
environments
* meta-heuristics for optimization, nature-inspired approaches and any
other derivative-free methods
* exact/heuristic hybrid methods, involving natural computing techniques
and other global and local optimization methods
*numerical and heuristic methods for modeling

The applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not
limited to:

* classical operational research problems (knapsack, traveling salesman,
etc)
* computational biology and distance geometry
* data mining and knowledge discovery
* human motion simulations; crowd simulations
* industrial applications
* optimization in statistics, econometrics, finance, physics, chemistry,
biology, medicine, and engineering.
*environment modeling and optimization
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Best paper award

The best CO25 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2025.
The best paper will be selected by CO25 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the quality
of the given oral presentation.

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Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers in PDF format.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages for regular paper
and 6 pages for short papers (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are
available at http://2025.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the trakc.
* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database and submitted for
different indexations (Communication and Position papers will only appear
in the conference proceedings).
* Extended versions of selected papers presented at CO25 will be published
in edited book of the series "Studies of Computational Intelligence",
Springer with SJR 0.237.

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Important dates:


+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 28, 2025, 23:59:59 pm HST (there
will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 02, 2025
+ Author notification: June 18, 2025
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 9, 2025
+ Conference date: September 14-17, 2025

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Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Antonio Mucherino, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania

If you have any question do not hesitate to send an email to :
wco@fedcsis.org

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[DMANET] Postdoc in Quantum Computing at LaBRI (France)

A postdoctoral position is available in the Quantum Information and
Computation group (https://quantique.labri.fr) at the CS department of the
University of Bordeaux (France). Applications should be submitted by
*January 15* for full consideration.

We are seeking candidates with an interest in research on quantum
information, quantum algorithms, and complexity theory. Specific topics
they can expect to work on include:
* Quantum Algorithms and Computational Speedups (optimization and Monte
Carlo methods, combinatorial algorithms, distributed algorithms, quantum
walks, quantum simulation)
* Information and Complexity Theory (query complexity, limitations of
near-term quantum computers, simulation of quantum circuits, quantum graphs)
* Quantum Computing and Fundamental Physics (simulation of fermionic
systems, quantum field theory, holographic complexity)

Candidates should have training or experience in at least one of the
following areas: quantum information and computation, algorithmic theory,
or complexity theory.

The recruited candidate is expected to start in Fall 2025 (or earlier). The
position is for a duration of 24 months, with a net income ranging between
2100€ and 2500€, depending on the candidate's experience. The position
includes French social security coverage and employee benefits (health
insurance, public transport expenses, paid leave, etc.). We welcome
applicants from all backgrounds and promote a friendly, safe, and
supportive team environment.

Interested applicants should contact Yassine Hamoudi (
yassine.hamoudi@labri.fr) with the following materials: a CV (including a
list of publications), a brief cover letter or research statement, and the
names and email addresses of one or two referees.

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[DMANET] Deadline Approaching: PhD Position in Robust, Bilevel, and Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)

PhD Position in Robust, Bilevel, and Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (Johannes Thürauf)

The University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) is currently offering an opening for a doctoral research opportunity in the field of robust, bilevel, and discrete optimization at the Discrete Optimization Lab by Johannes Thürauf.

- Potential research topics are flexible and can be in the fields of robust, bilevel, discrete, and/or mixed-integer nonlinear optimization.
- The doctoral research opportunity is fully funded (100% position – TVL E13) and supervised by Johannes Thürauf.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. To receive full consideration, please apply until 24.11.2024. Applications received after that date might still be considered.

For more details about the position and the application process, please see the official advertisement here:

https://www.utn.de/en/career/opportunities-for-doctoral-researchers/#disc-opt

To learn more about the ongoing research in the lab, please visit my personal website https://www.johannesthuerauf.com/ and the Discrete Optimization Lab website https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-liberal-arts-and-sciences/discrete-optimization-lab/

Please feel free to share this announcement to any student who may be interested.
If you have any question regarding the position, please do not hesitate to contact me at johannes.thuerauf@utn.de


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[DMANET] Job - Senior Computer Science Professorship at Oxford

Oxford University's Computer Science Department (together with St John's College at Oxford) is hiring a senior Professor in Computer Science. We are looking for somebody with a world-leading research reputation with broad academic leadership. For more information, see:
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=173846

Thanks
Jo

Jo Francis (she/her)
HR Manager, Chartered MCIPD, PGC Coaching & Mentoring
Mental Health First Aider - MHFA England.

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Department of Computer Science
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My core working hours are 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Friday.
On site Tue/Wed/Thur.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Christmas season we will not be advertising any new roles after the 9th December 2024 and unless already advertised or agreed with HR the closing date will be after the 13th January 2025.


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[DMANET] [DEADLINE EXTENSION] HCCS PerCom 2025

*Deadline for paper submission has bee extended to December 1st*

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Call for Papers

Fifth Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25)
co-located with the IEEE PerCom 2025, March 17-21, 2025 -
Washington DC, USA.
https://sites.google.com/view/hccs25/home

The fifth edition of the Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25) workshop aims to advance and promote research on how unobtrusive observations of human cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and contextual data are increasingly enabling innovative computing experiences. The workshop will also foster discussions about the societal implications of computational sensing. Traditionally, sensors have been understood narrowly as devices that capture physiological measurements, often through wearables. This workshop adopts a broader, human-centric perspective, envisioning sensing as time-evolving measurable data directly linked to individuals and their communities. With this approach, sensing encompasses human reactions and interactions observed through spoken, written, or signed language, eye gaze, facial and bodily expressions, social networks, geospatial patterns, and other forms of human-generated data. Advances in multimodal human data acquisition and fusion have the potential to significantly impact all areas of human life, including productivity, health and well-being, training and education, human-computer interaction, accessibility, safety and security, as well as gaming, sports, and entertainment.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
* Context-Aware Sensing for Adaptive Learning Environments
* Emotion Recognition through Physiological and Behavioral Signals
* Personalized Well-being Applications using Continuous Sensing
* Smart Workplaces through Behavioral Sensing
* Human Activity Recognition in Unstructured Environments
* Emotion-Adaptive Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction
* Geospatial Behavior Analysis for Urban Planning
* Fusion of multifaceted, heterogeneous, and/or incommensurable human sensing data
* Localization and proximity-detection systems
* AI-empowered mobile sensing systems
* Generative AI for synthetic sensor data generation and evaluation
* User acceptance, quality of experience, and social impact studies
* Accessibility of human sensing technologies
* New interventions acting on human-centered computational sensing
* Experimental analysis with human sensing data from real-world applications
* Human-centered sensing for healthcare, industry, social goods and all possible application domains
* Experiences and lessons learned from research projects focused on human-centered computational sensing
* Privacy and ethical considerations for human-centered computational sensing, including gender equality.

Organizers will consider the possibility of inviting authors of selected papers accepted to HCCS'25 to submit an extended work to a Special Issue of an international journal.

Submission and Registration:
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 in excess of 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 at the IEEE website.

Submission instructions will be available soon on the workshop and conference websites.

It is a requirement that all the authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in the submission system. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Papers that are not presented in presence at the workshop will not be published in the proceedings.

Please submit papers using this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025

After login, select the track "HCCS (5th Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing 2025)" and proceed with your submission.

Important Dates:
* Paper submission deadline: December 1st 2024
* Paper notification: January 8th, 2025
* Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2025

Organizers:

Workshop co-chairs
* Franca Delmastro (IIT-CNR)
* Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR)
* Marco Levorato (Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences)

Publicity co-chairs
* Flavio Di Martino (IIT-CNR)
* Rajesh Titung (Rochester Institute of Technology)
* Viet Dung Nguyen (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Steering Committee
* Cecilia O. Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology)
* Reynold Bailey (Rochester Institute of Technology)

For any further information please contact: hccs2025@iit.cnr.it
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