Monday, December 15, 2025

[DMANET] CfP: SCML-2026 - International Conference on Symbolic Computation and Machine Learning

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SCML-2026: International Conference on
Symbolic Computation and Machine Learning
July 6-8, 2026, Hagenberg, Austria
https://scml.risc.jku.at/conference-2026/
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Organized by the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC)
as part of the RISC Summer 2026 jointly with the SCDDE 2026 workshop
on Symbolic Computation and Differential and Difference Equations.

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The SCML-2026 conference is dedicated to all research that strives to
combine "Symbolic Computation" (SC) and "Machine Learning" (ML) as two
major approaches to "Artificial Intelligence", in particular to the
application of ML to SC, the application of SC to ML, and the hybrid
combination of SC and ML to solving problems. SCML-2026 provides ample
space to exchange ideas and discuss recent approaches in this newly
emerging research field. It presents, in particular, plenty of
opportunities to discuss new research projects, form project consortia,
and identify funding programs in this area.

SCML-2026 is a "presentation-oriented" conference that solicits
submissions in the form of extended abstracts (1-2 pages) which are only
briefly reviewed with respect to their relevance to the topics of the
conference. The abstracts of accepted presentations are collectively
published as a "conference booklet" in the frame of the SCML publication
forum. At least one author of an accepted abstract is required to
register as a presenter at the conference.

CALL FOR FULL PAPERS

Furthermore, we explicitly encourage the SCML-2026 authors to also
submit full papers related to their presentations to the

SCML Publishing Forum
https://scml.risc.jku.at/

where they are refereed according to the rules of the forum and, if
accepted, published there. According to the "continuous call for papers"
of the SCML publishing forum, papers can be submitted at any time before
or after the conference (without deadline). However, the acceptance of a
presentation at the SCML-2026 conference does not depend on the
acceptance of a paper at the SCML publishing forum. On the other hand,
if a paper accepted for the SCML publication forum is already presented
at the SCML-2026 conference, we waive its presentation at a later SCML
virtual workshop.

TOPICS

Examples of topics in the scope of SCML-2026 are:

* Applying ML to computer mathematics, algebra, geometry;
integrating ML into mathematical software systems.
* Applying ML to automated reasoning, theorem proving, satisfiability
solving; integrating ML into interactive and automated provers.
* Applying ML to the synthesis of programs ("vibe coding") and their
verification; integrating ML into program verification systems.
* Applying SC to analyzing ML models ("explainable AI"), deriving error
bounds, ensuring robustness, interpreting answers.
* Applying SC to verifying ML models ("verified AI"), preventing errors
and hallucinations.
* Applying SC to synthesizing ML models with guaranteed error bounds,
robustness, correctness properties.
* Integrating SC capabilities (such as computer algebra and automated
reasoning) into ML models.
* Applying LLMs to the automatic formalization of
mathematical/logical texts.
* Applying LLMs as natural language interfaces to SC systems,
integrating co-pilots into SC systems.
* Combining linguistic reasoning (LLMs) and formal reasoning
(theorem provers).
* Combining LLMs and SC systems for education.
* Teaching (for example, in mathematics) using a combination of
SC and ML systems.
* Software and system descriptions, datasets, benchmarks, and
metrics related to the interplay of SC and ML.

All in all, we consider submissions that explore the interaction between
the two fields of SC and ML - not standalone works on either SC or ML.

DATES

December 15, 2025: Opening of submissions
March 2, 2025: Opening of registrations
April 27, 2026: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
May 11, 2026: Last notifications of acceptance
May 25, 2026: Deadline for registrations of presenters
June 15, 2026: Deadline for registration of non-presenters
July 6, 2026: Start of conference

After the submission of an extended abstract, the notification of
acceptance is sent out WITHIN TWO WEEKS.

CONTACT

Email: scml@risc.jku.at
Web: https://scml.risc.jku.at/conference-2026/

Please consider subscribing to the SCML Mailing List

https://scml.risc.jku.at/conference-2026/mailinglist/

in order to stay informed about the SCML-2026 conference.
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[DMANET] CFP Computational optimization

Call for Papers

19th International Thematic Track/Workshop on Computational Optimization
(CO25)
Riga, Latvia, August 23-26, 2026

organized in the framework of CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2026


IEEE CS is a technical co-sponsor of FedCSIS 2026

https://2026.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 CO26 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2026.
The best paper will be selected by CO26 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://2026.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the track.
* 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 CO26 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): April 15, 2026, 23:59:59 pm HST
(there will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: May 19, 2026
+ Author notification: June 16, 2026
+ Final paper submission and registration: June 30, 2026
+ Conference date: August 23-26, 2026

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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 :
co@fedcsis.org

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IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

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[DMANET] CFP Envirorisks 2026

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the *International Conference EnviroRisks*
will be held in the period *0**1**-0**3** June 202**6**, Sofia**, Bulgaria*.
The conference will provide an excellent international forum for
dissemination of original research results, new ideas and practical
development experiences which concentrate on both theory and practices of
the academics, researchers, engineers and also industry professionals.

*All accepted and presented papers will be submitted* *for publication** to
the SPRINGER **Series* *"Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems"**.*

*Please**, **visit the conference web page for more details:
**https://envirorisks.cmdrcoe.org/*

*Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:*

*1. Disaster Management, Natural Hazards, Risk reduction and Building
Resilience*

*2. **Environmental Degradation*

*3**. **Resilience and Business Continuity Management*

*4. **High Performance Computing, Modeling & Simulations, GIS for
environmental monitoring and Artificial Intelligent *

Please, save the dates and feel free to circulate this message among your
friends.

*Important dates:*


*Abstract** Submission D**ate**: **01** of **March**, 202**6*

*Notification of Abstract Acceptance: **20 March, 2026*

*Full **Paper Submission D**ate**: **01 **of **April**, 202**6*
* Notification** for Paper Acceptance**: ** 01 **of **May**, 202**6*

*Final paper submission:** 20 of May, 2026*
*Conference Dates: **0**1**-**03** of **June**, 202**6*


*Best regards, **EnviroRISKs*
* Organizing Team E-mail: **envirorisks@gmail.com*


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[DMANET] Extension of the deadline for regular papers

NEW DEADLINE FOR EGULAR PAPERS
December 30, 2025


ISCO 2026
CALL FOR PAPERS
9th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2026)
May 6-8, 2026, İzmir-Kuşadası, Turkey
Spring School "Packing and Covering", May 4-5, 2026
https://isco2026.com.tr/

THEME AND SCOPE
ISCO is a biennial symposium whose aim is to bring together researchers from all the communities related to combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity, mathematical programming and operations research. It is intended to be a forum for presenting original research in these areas and especially in their intersections. Quality papers on all aspects of combinatorial optimization, from mathematical foundations and theory of algorithms to computational studies and practical applications, are solicited.

SESSIONS
The conference is organized into plenary and parallel sessions. The conference language is English. Each speaker can give only one talk. Proposals for invited sessions are welcome. Researchers who are interested in organizing an invited session should contact Hakan Kutucu (hakankutucu@karabuk.edu.tr<mailto:hakankutucu@karabuk.edu.tr>).

SPRING SCHOOL
ISCO 2026 will be preceded by a school on "Packing and Covering". Gérard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon University, and Ahmad Abdi, London School of Economics, will offer the school. They will give 16 hours of lectures on May 4 and 5, 2026.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Miguel F. Anjos, Operational Research, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Tinaz Ekim, Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey.
Hande Yaman Paternotte, Faculty of Economics and Business, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Sebastian Pokutta, Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.

SUBMISSION – PUBLICATION

Papers presenting original unpublished results in all areas of combinatorial optimization and its applications are welcome. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings or journals are not allowed. There are two types of submissions:

Regular papers up to 12 pages. The submission deadline is December 15, 2025. The proceedings will be published by a special volume of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, it should be presented at the conference by one of the authors. More information about the submission procedure are available in the web site of the conference.

Short papers up to 4 pages. The submission deadline is January 31, 2026. Accepted short papers will be included in a volume of local proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of regular papers: December 30, 2025
Submission of short papers: January30, 2026
Notification: February 15, 2026
Early registration conference: March 1, 2026
Early registration school: March 1, 2026

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Volker Kaibel, Otto-von-Guerricke Universität, Germany
Simge Küçükyavuz, Northwestern University, USA
Hakan Kutucu, Karabuk University, Turkey
A. Ridha Mahjoub, Kuwait University, Kuwait; University Paris-Dauphine, France

STEERING COMMITTEE
Mourad Baïou, LIMOS, CNRS, University Clermont-Auvergne, France
Pierre Fouilhoux, LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France
Luis Gouveia, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Jon Lee, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, USA
Ivana Ljubic, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France
Nelson Maculan, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
A. Ridha Mahjoub, Kuwait University, Kuwait; University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
Giovanni Rinaldi, IASI, Rome, Italy)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Onur Baysal, University of Malta, Malta
Mariem Ben Salem, ESPRIT, Tunis, Tunisia
Gulnaz Boruzanlı, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
Korhan Günel, Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Izmir, Turkey
Hakan Kutucu, Karabuk University, Turkey

For more information on the Symposium and the School, see https://isco2026.com.tr/

Co-Chairs
Volker Kaibel
Simge Küçükyavuz
Hakan Kutucu
A. Ridha Mahjoub


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Sunday, December 14, 2025

[DMANET] postdoctoral position in combinatorics at Monash University

Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) is advertising a two year
postdoctoral position in combinatorics: see
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job
/687653/research-fellow-in-fractional-edge-decompositions-of-graphs

The successful applicant will work on a project concerning fractional edge
decompositions of graphs with Daniel Horsley (Monash), Darryn Bryant and
Barbara Maenhaut (University of Queensland), and Peter Dukes (University of
Victoria). Applicants need not have worked on exactly this topic before,
but should have expertise relevant to tackling such questions. Applications
close on Friday 9 January 2026 (Australian time). Informal enquiries to
daniel.horsley@monash.edu are welcome.

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Saturday, December 13, 2025

[DMANET] DeepLearn 2026: early registration January 5

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13th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING

DeepLearn 2026

Orléans, France

July 20-24, 2026

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/

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Co-organized by:

University of Orléans

Centre Val de Loire Doctoral College

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

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Early registration: January 5, 2026

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SCOPE:

DeepLearn 2026 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari, and Porto.

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and healthcare, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics and astrophysics, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, mathematical proofs, etc. etc.

The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about efficiency and robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, risks and safety, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion.

Most deep learning subareas will be displayed and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table, and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduates, postgraduates and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, hence people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well.

Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses.

Overall, DeepLearn 2026 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

DeepLearn 2026 will take place in Orléans, located in the heart of the Loire Valley, which was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site in 2000. The venue will be:

University of Orléans
Faculty of Law, Economics and Management
11 rue de Blois
45100 Orléans, France

https://www.univ-orleans.fr/en

STRUCTURE:

3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.

An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their industrial developments for 10 minutes.

The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges.

Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), Theoretical Characterization of Training Transformers for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Le Song (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Multiscale Foundation Models for Biology

PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)

Yuejie Chi (Yale University), [introductory/intermediate] Statistical and Algorithmic Foundations of Reinforcement Learning

Bo Han (Hong Kong Baptist University), [introductory/intermediate] Trustworthy Machine Learning from Data to Models

Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Structure-Guided, Theme-Based Knowledge Discovery with Large Language Models

Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Bilevel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Application in AI

Cho-Jui Hsieh (University of California Los Angeles), [intermediate/advanced] Optimizers for Large Language Model Training

Furong Huang (University of Maryland), [advanced] Generative AI Agents

Tara Javidi (University of California San Diego), [intermediate] Active Physical Intelligence for Industrial Scale Monitoring

Yan Liu (University of Southern California), [intermediate] Time Series Foundation Models: From Forecasting to Reasoning

Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University), [intermediate/advanced] Semantic Communications

Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University), [intermediate] Human Centered AI: Challenges and Opportunities

Ivor Tsang (A*STAR Centre for Frontier AI Research), [introductory/intermediate] Long-Horizon Agentic Intelligence

Zhangyang (Atlas) Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate/advanced] Beyond Sparsity or Low Rank: In-Between Neural and Symbolic Learning

Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California Merced), [advanced] Recent Advances in Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Tong Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Reinforcement Learning for Foundation Models

Jun Zhu (Tsinghua University), [introductory/advanced] Generative Models: from Virtual to Physical World

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral presentations of work in progress by participants.

They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 12, 2026.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry.

Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event.

Abstracts have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 12, 2026.

HACKATHON:

A hackathon will take place, where participants can voluntarily work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by the end of August 2026. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate.

SPONSORS:

Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/sponsors/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Karim Abed-Meraim (Orléans, local co-chair)
Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair)
Meryem Jabloun (Orléans, local co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Santiago Montes (Tarragona, webpage)
Sara Morales (Luxembourg, finances)
Philippe Ravier (Orléans, local chair)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/registration/

The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches.

There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.

The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2026/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities (40). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Université d'Orléans

Collège Doctoral Centre-Val de Loire

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Luxembourg/London
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Friday, December 12, 2025

[DMANET] Seeking LLM Math Proof Evaluators

Call for Mathematicians: Help Evaluate LLM Math Proofs

We are a team at Yale and MIT who is building a new, fine-grained benchmark
to evaluate the correctness of LLM-generated mathematical proofs. We are
looking for domain experts to help us ensure these benchmarks are rigorous
and reproducible.

Who we are looking for:

We are recruiting Faculty, Researchers, and PhD Students (current
candidates or degree holders) with expertise in upper-level mathematics.

The Incentive:

We are offering paper co-authorship to evaluators who complete ~20 hours of
high-quality reviews before December 31, 2025.

The Role:

We need experts in Algebra, Number Theory, ODE, Analysis, Topology, Number
Theory, Combinatorics, and other upper-level fields to:

Review model-generated proofs (blind to identity).
Score them against a rubric.
Provide brief rationales for your scores.

Logistics:

Deadline: December 31st, 2025
Time Commitment: ~20 hours (Flexible/Asynchronous)
Remote

Apply Here: https://forms.gle/UcSGpGhwfKdvCS8E9

If you are interested in how we measure the true reasoning capabilities of
AI in mathematics, we'd love to have you on the team.

Questions? Email qql@mit.edu

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[DMANET] pyTensorlab – a new Python toolbox for tensor computations

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the release of pyTensorlab, a Python package for advanced tensor computations and complex-valued optimization.

The initial release of pyTensorlab provides a broad collection of algorithms for computing the canonical polyadic decomposition (CPD), multilinear singular value decomposition (MLSVD/HOSVD), and tensor-train (TT) decomposition for dense, sparse, incomplete, or structured tensors. The package also includes numerous auxiliary tools for tensor-tensor and tensor-matrix products, folding/unfolding operations, tensorization techniques, tensor generation, and visualization. Both real and complex data are supported through a built-in complex optimization framework. A detailed API reference is available at: https://pytensorlab.net/docs/reference/

pyTensorlab can be installed via PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pyTensorlab/. A collection of demonstrations showcasing the use of pyTensorlab in various applications is available at https://gitlab.esat.kuleuven.be/tensorgroup-public/pytensorlab-demos. An extensive user guide and reference manual can be found at https://pytensorlab.net/docs. These resources are also accessible through the project website https://pytensorlab.net/.

pyTensorlab is the latest addition to the Tensorlab family. Tensorlab 3.0 (https://tensorlab.net<https://tensorlab.net/>) is a MATLAB toolbox offering similar functionality, including an extensive structured data fusion framework and support for block-term decompositions. Tensorlab+ (https://tensorlabplus.net<https://tensorlabplus.net/>) is a reproducible research repository built on top of Tensorlab, providing all algorithms, code, and data required to reproduce published experiments, as well as tutorials and demos showing how the proposed algorithms can be used in your own applications.

The package is freely available for non-commercial research use. We hope you find pyTensorlab valuable for your work, and we welcome any suggestions or feedback.

Best regards,

The pyTensorlab Team

URL: https://pytensorlab.net<https://pytensorlab.net/>
E-mail: pytensorlab@esat.kuleuven.be


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[DMANET] [CFP] Submission Deadline: January 18, 2026 – The 4th International Workshop on TwinNetApp in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2026 | Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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Call for Papers

The Fourth International Workshop on Data Driven and AI-Enabled

Digital Twin Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp)

in conjunction with IEEE ICC 2026

May 24-28, 2026 – Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Workshop Website: https://icc26-twinnetapp.bcrg.uk/

Conference Website: https://icc2026.ieee-icc.org/

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Digital Twin (DT) technology has emerged as a critical enabler for
next-generation communication networks. Regarding this, DTs provide
real-time synchronization between physical and digital systems and support
advanced monitoring, emulation, and optimization capabilities. By bridging
the physical and virtual domains, DTs provide novel approaches to design,
analyze, and operate complex infrastructures that go far beyond traditional
simulation methods. Real-time network monitoring, predictive modelling,
proactive management, and what-if simulation are significant examples that
highlight DT's potential in the communication domain and beyond. When
combined with next-generation mobile communications (5G/6G), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), Generative AI (GenAI), Internet of Things (IoT),
Transfer Learning (TL), Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR),
Edge/Fog Computing, federated architectures, and microservice-based
platforms, DT becomes a foundation to guarantee latency-sensitive,
energy-efficient, and secure services. These synergies create opportunities
for sustainable and scalable solutions in diverse sectors, from smart
cities and agriculture to healthcare, manufacturing, and autonomous
systems. This workshop invites original contributions that address all
aspects of DT networks, systems, and applications, including theoretical
models, system architectures, optimization methods, security mechanisms,
and real-world testbeds. By bringing together academia, industry, and
standardization bodies, the workshop aims to establish a cross-disciplinary
forum to explore the transformative role of DT in shaping sustainable,
intelligent, and connected communication infrastructures. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:

- Data-driven and IoT-based DT networks for real-time communication
systems
- Real-time communication protocols for DT networks
- DT-enabled health applications
- Wireless communications for cyber-physical DT applications
- Security and privacy concepts in DT
- Quantum-enabled DT networks
- DT-assisted AI applications for smart cities
- Communication protocols for enabling DT deployment in real-world
applications
- AI applications of DT systems
- DT in Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
- DT for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type
Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications
(URLLC) applications
- DT for resource management and network optimization
- Connected DT networking systems for environmental sensing
- DT for precision agriculture, and industry 4.0 applications
- Real-world DT simulations, prototypes, and testbed demonstrations

General Chairs

- Kubra Duran, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (K.Duran@napier.ac.uk)
(IEEE Member)
- Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (B.Canberk@napier.ac.uk)
(IEEE Senior Member)
- Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada (odobre@mun.ca) (IEEE
Fellow)

Important Dates

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Paper Submission Deadline: January 18, 2026

Notification of Acceptance: March 8, 2026

Camera Ready: March 15, 2026

Submission

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The page length limit for all initial submissions for review is SIX (6)
printed pages (10-point font) and must be written in English. Initial
submissions longer than SIX (6) pages will be rejected without review.

Submission Link: TBA

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[DMANET] Several Assistant and Associate Professor positions at Aalborg University

The Department of Computer Science [1] at Aalborg University in Denmark,
and in particular the DEIS section for Distributed, Embedded and
Intelligent Systems [2], are inviting applications for several Assistant
and Associate Professor positions. The positions are available both at
the Aalborg and the Copenhagen campus, and across all research areas at
the department.

More information is available at the links below.

Assistant Professor (deadline: 12.01.):
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Assistant Professor, tenure track (deadline: 04.01.):
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/882630

Associate Professor (deadline: 04.01.):
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/882672

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[DMANET] 1st Call for Papers of QEST+FORMAT 2026

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1st Call for Papers of QEST+FORMAT 2026
September 2-4, 2026, Liverpool, UK
https://www.qest-formats.org/
https://confest-2026.github.io/


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Tentative Dates:

Abstract submission: April 3, 2026
Paper submission: April 10, 2026
Artifact submission: April 17, 2026
Author notification: May 24, 2026
Camera-ready submission: June 14, 2026


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Scope and Topics

The two flagship conferences QEST (International Conference on Quantitative
Evaluation of SysTems) and FORMATS (International Conference on Formal
Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems) are pursuing a strategic process of
joining forces and sparking a new joint conference for quantitative
modelling, analysis, and verification. This culminated in 2024 in the first
QEST+FORMATS joint conference. In 2026, the two conferences will form the
third QEST+FORMATS joint conference, which will be held on 2-4 September
2026 in Liverpool, UK, as part of the CONFEST 2026 umbrella conference.

The joint conference is the leading forum for the quantitative evaluation
and verification of systems. QEST+FORMATS aims to promote the study of
fundamental and practical aspects of systems with quantitative nature (such
as probability, timing, and cost). It aims to bring together researchers
from different disciplines who share interests in the modelling, design,
and analysis of computational systems. Systems of interest include
biological and chemical systems; computer networks; critical
infrastructures; cyber-physical systems; data-driven AI systems; energy
systems; hardware and software systems; industrial systems; mobility
networks; and quantum systems. The QEST+FORMATS joint conference also aims
to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design,
performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and
verification of timed, hybrid, and probabilistic systems. In general, the
conference aims to attract experts in quantitative and timed systems from
any domain.

Topics and scientific areas of interest include:

--- Models and metrics for the correctness, performance, reliability,
safety, and security of systems (stochastic, probabilistic, quantum, and
non-deterministic models including Markov chains, automata, Petri nets,
process algebra, and their variations);
--- Languages and methods for the specification of quantitative properties
of systems;
--- Techniques, algorithms, and data structures for the analysis,
evaluation, and verification of the above models, e.g., for model checking,
testing, constraint solving, scheduling, optimization, and worst-case
execution time analysis;
--- Quantitative and probabilistic aspects of programming;
--- Data-driven and machine-learning techniques for the analysis,
prediction, and verification of quantitative properties of systems;
--- Case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification,
modelling, and evaluation in the design and analysis of systems, with
emphasis on emerging problems and technologies, or novel domains;
--- Software tools to support the practical application of research results
in all of the above areas.


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Confirmed Invited Speakers

Ezio Bartocci, TU Wien, Austria
Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark


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Submissions

QEST+FORMATS 2026 considers three types of submissions (authors will be
able to specify the type of contribution upon submission):

--- Research papers: Theoretical and methodological contributions that
advance the understanding of a topic or issue, or describe the development
of new analysis processes and techniques.
--- Case study papers: Contributions that present practical applications of
quantitative methods to challenging real-world case studies. Case study
papers shall provide detailed evaluation and insights, and highlight the
value added to the domain experts.
--- Tool papers: Contributions introducing new tools or significant
improvements of existing ones, and the formalisms they support. These
papers shall focus on the software architecture, practical implementation,
and evaluation (e.g., usability, scalability, and effectiveness). Tool
papers must be accompanied by an artifact in the Artifact Evaluation as
detailed below.

All three types of papers can be regular or short:
--- Regular papers must not exceed 16 pages, excluding references.
--- Short papers should be limited to 7 pages, also excluding references.
--- All papers can have an appendix containing supporting material. Note
that reviewers are not required to read the appendix to fully assess the
merits of the paper.

We are considering additional presentation-only submission types; details
will be provided in the later CfPs.

All papers must be submitted in Springer's LNCS format and will undergo a
rigorous single-blind review process. All submitted papers must be
unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should
be submitted electronically using EasyChair (Track: QEST+FORMATS 2026).

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers.
Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use Springer's
LaTeX templates for the preparation of their papers. Submitted papers not
complying with the above guidelines may be rejected without undergoing
review.

We are considering awards for best papers and best artifacts.


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Publications

All accepted papers need to be presented and discussed at the conference by
one of the authors. Similarly to last year, the QEST+FORMATS 2026
proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series indexed by ISI
Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar. All
submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis
of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical
contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of
references.


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Special Issue

We are working on a special issue in a Q1 journal. A selection of the best
papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a
special issue in an internationally recognized journal.


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Artifact Evaluation

Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere
of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward
reproducibility, QEST+FORMATS 2026 will include a dedicated Artifact
Evaluation (AE). Submission of an artifact is mandatory for tool papers
(both regular and short), and optional but encouraged for research and case
study papers where it can support the results presented in the paper. More
details will follow.

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

[DMANET] SAT 2026 Call for Papers.

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Twenty-Ningth International Conference on
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING
--- SAT 2026 ---

Lisbon, Portugal, 20 - 23 July 2026

https://satisfiability.org/SAT26/

Abstract submission deadline: 20 February 2026, 23:59 AoE
Paper submission deadline: 27 February 2026, 23:59 AoE

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SAT 2026 will take place 20-23 July, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal at ISCTE, as part of FLoC 2026 <https://www.floc2026.org/>.

Scope

SAT is the premier annual meeting for researchers focusing on the theory and applications of propositional satisfiability, broadly construed. That includes Boolean optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), model counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear connections to Boolean-level reasoning. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Theoretical advances (including algorithms, proof complexity, parameterized complexity, and other complexity issues)
- Practical search algorithms
- Knowledge compilation
- Implementation-level details of SAT solving tools and SAT-based systems
- Problem encodings and reformulations
- Applications (including both novel applications domains and improvements to existing approaches)
- Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous experimentation

Out of Scope

Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a Millennium Prize is offered), are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal.

Paper Categories

Submissions to SAT 2026 are invited in the following three categories:

- Long papers (9 to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices)
- Short papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices)
- Tool papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices)

Long and short papers should contain original research, with sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and implementation available with the submission. Submissions on applications and case studies are encouraged. Such papers should describe details, weaknesses and strengths of the proposed approaches in sufficient depth, but they are not expected to introduce novel solving methods.

Long and short papers will be evaluated with the same quality standards, and are expected to contain a similar contribution per page ratio. The authors should choose between a long or a short paper depending on the space they need to fully describe their contribution. The classification between long and short papers impacts the duration of the presentation of the work during the conference. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure that their paper is self-contained in the chosen limit of pages. Reviewers are not required to read appendices. There will be no re-classification of the submissions by the PC.

Tool papers are expected to report on the design and implementation of a tool and its novel features. Here "tool" is interpreted in a broad sense, including descriptions of solvers, preprocessors, etc., as well as systems that exploit SAT solvers or their extensions for use in a relevant problem domain. It is expected that a tool paper is accompanied by a publicly available artifact with a usage description or manual. Papers describing tools that have already been presented previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to the tool.

Submission

Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted elsewhere while under review for SAT 2026, and should not consist of previously published material. Submissions not consistent with these guidelines may be returned without review.

Papers must be formatted in the LIPIcs LaTeX style available here <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publishing/series/details/LIPIcs%23author>. Submissions must be made electronically <https://submissions.floc26.org/sat/> in PDF format. The reviewing process for SAT 2026 is single-blind.

Authors may submit a supplement containing detailed proofs, examples, software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the submission, to be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. Supplements will be treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper itself. The supplement must consist of a single file in one of the following formats: zipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz), gzipped file (.gz), or zip archive (.zip).

One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference.

Deadlines

- Abstract Submission: 20 February, 2026 (AoE)
- Paper Submission: 27 February, 2026 (AoE)
- Rebuttal: 13-17 April, 2026
- Author Notification: 30 April, 2026
- Camera-ready Version: 14 May, 2026
- Conference: 20-23 July, 2026

Best Paper Awards

Long and short papers may be considered for a Best Paper Award. If the main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper may be considered for a Best Student Paper Award.

Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/> as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>.

Contact

For questions, please contact the PC Chairs at sat2026@ac.tuwien.ac.at <mailto:sat2026@ac.tuwien.ac.at>.


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[DMANET] Save the Date - CGT2026

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to announce that the

        16th Day on Computational Game Theory (CGT)

will take place on

        March 5 - 6, 2026 at Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf,
Germany.

CGT is a yearly event for researchers in algorithmic game theory, social
choice and mechanism design to connect, share their work and ideas. The
location of this even alternates between Germany and the Netherlands.
Especially young researchers are encouraged to present their work.

Invited Speakers are Thomas Kesselheim and Rebecca Reifenhäuser.

More details will be announced shortly. If you have any questions about
the event, feel free to contact Andreas Abels at andreas.abels@hhu.de.

I hope to see you at CGT 2026!

Best regards,

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[DMANET] WG 2026: Second Call for Papers

We welcome submissions to WG 2026 (52nd International Workshop on
Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science). The conference will take
place  from Tuesday 2nd June to Thursday 4th June 2026 in Kortrijk, Belgium.
The conference website is: https://wg2026.be

The scientific program involves invited talks by:
* Rose McCarty (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
* Pascal Schweitzer (TU Darmstadt, Germany),
a talk by one of the recipients of WG 2026 Test of Time Award:
* Dimitrios M. Thilikos (LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, France),
and a number of contributed talks.

AIMS AND SCOPE

WG is mainly concerned with efficient algorithms of various types (e.g.,
sequential, parallel, distributed, randomized, parameterized) for
problems on graphs and networks. The goal is to present recent results
and to identify and explore directions for future research. Submitted
papers should describe original results in any aspects of graph theory
related to computer science, including but not restricted to:
* design and analysis of sequential, parallel, randomized, parameterized
algorithms
* distributed graph and network algorithms
* structural graph theory
* computational complexity of graph and network problems
* graph drawing and layouts
* computational geometry
* computational biology
* graph mining
* random graphs and models of the web and scale-free networks
* support of the above concepts by suitable implementations and
applications.

IMPORTANT DATES (all dates in AoE time zone)

Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2026
Paper submission deadline: 4 February 2026
Acceptance notification: 3 April 2026
Final version: 4 May 2026
Conference: 2-4 June 2026

SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS

WG 2026 is the first edition to have LIPIcs proceedings. The conference
will use a lightweight double-blind model for the reviewing process. For
more details on the format, see the conference website:
https://wg2026.be/cfp.html
The Program Committee will bestow a Best Paper Award and a Best Student
Paper Award.  Papers eligible for the best student paper can have
non-student co-authors, but the main work in a paper that is a candidate
for the best student paper award must be done by co-authors that were
students at the time of submission, and the award can be received only
by such co-authors.

The submission server is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wg2026
. We welcome your submissions.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Tara Abrishami (Stanford University, USA)
Marthe Bonamy (CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, France)
Nick Brettell (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Linda Cook (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Vida Dujmović (University of Ottawa, Canada)
David Eppstein (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Louis Esperet (CNRS, Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Robert Ganian (TU Wien, Austria)
Serge Gaspers (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Jan Goedgebeur (co-chair) (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Shenwei Huang (Nankai University, China)
Gwenaël Joret (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Tereza Klimošová (Charles University, Czech Republic and Vilnius
University, Lithuania)
Dušan Knop (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Tuukka Korhonen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Michael Lampis (Université Paris Dauphine, France)
Neeldhara Misra (IIT Gandhinagar, India)
Irene Muzi (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Karolina Okrasa (University of Oxford, UK)
Yota Otachi (Nagoya University, Japan)
Paweł Rzążewski (co-chair) (Warsaw University of Technology and
University of Warsaw, Poland)
Roohani Sharma (Institute for Basic Science, South Korea)
Ana Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)
Nicolas Trotignon (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France)
Kristina Vušković (University of Leeds, UK)
Alexander Wolff (Universität Würzburg, Germany)
Paul Wollan (University of Rome, Italy)

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[DMANET] EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026

Apologies for cross-posting.

EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026

The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding doctoral
dissertation in OR defended in the countries having an OR society that is a
member of EURO.
We invite you to widely disseminate this announcement.

THE PRIZE

The prize consists of a certificate and reward of €1,000

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The EDDA jury will only consider dissertations in Operational Research
defended between 1 January 2025 and 31 December 2025. The dissertation must
have been defended in a University located in a member country of EURO. The
author of the dissertation must be a member of a member society of EURO.

To be considered, a dissertation should be nominated by the supervisor of
the thesis (one of them in case of multiple supervisors). The supervisor of
the dissertation is asked to provide the jury with the following
information:

*The text of the dissertation;
*An extended abstract (3 to 5 pages) of the dissertation; this abstract
should be written in English and should include precise keywords;
*An itemization of the candidate's contribution to each co-authored article
if the dissertation contains co-authored articles (i.e., published papers
or unpublished manuscripts);
*If the dissertation is not in English, a paper in English which has been
authored or co-authored by the candidate and which describes the core ideas
of the dissertation. This paper should preferably have been published in or
submitted to an international journal;
*Nomination letters (or reports) from two referees selected by the
dissertation supervisor, supporting the submission and stating their
assessment of why the dissertation should win the award;
*An up-to-date CV of the candidate, including a list of publications.

No nomination will be considered without these items. Please also check the
guidelines (https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/242/guidelines).

Since many doctoral dissertations in OR are defended each year only
outstanding pieces of work are expected to be submitted. The jury would
like to remind supervisors that only high-quality theses might have a
chance of winning the award.

Evaluation Criteria. Submissions will be evaluated based on the originality
and significance of the scientific contribution to Operational Research,
methodological soundness and rigor, relevance and potential impact, clarity
and coherence of presentation, and the extent and independence of the
candidate's individual contribution.

The jury selects a shortlist of finalists who will present their work in a
special session at the IFORS Conference in Vienna. There is no registration
fee for each finalist. EURO will also contribute to the travel and
accommodation expenses. The winner will be determined by the jury at the
end of the special session(s) and will be announced by the chair of the
jury during the closing session of the IFORS 2026 Conference.

Applications should be submitted (as a zip file or equivalent single
submission) online
https://www.euro-online.org/awards/edda2026/registration.php by the
deadline of January 31, 2026.
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Manager of EURO

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

[DMANET] DCFS 2026: First Call for Papers (Aug. 9-11, Kingston, Canada)

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DCFS 2026: 27th International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 9-11, 2026
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DCFS 2026 will be held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on August 9-11, 2026. The conference is organized jointly by the School of Computing at Queen's University and by the IFIP Working Group 1.02 "Descriptional Complexity".

The conference will be co-located with CIAA 2026 (August 5-8, 2026).

The International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems (DCFS) is an annual international working conference concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems and structures (and its applications). The website of the conference series is:
https://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/dcfs/

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions to DCFS must not exceed 12 pages (in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes style, excluding the bibliography). If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. However, if slightly longer submissions are deemed necessary, authors must contact the program committee chairs in advance for approval.

Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or submitting previously published papers is not allowed. Only electronic submissions in the PDF format are accepted. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at this link:

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=dcfs2026

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Extended versions of selected papers from the conference will be invited for consideration in a special issue of International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

PRINCIPAL TOPICS

Submissions concerning the descriptional complexity of formal systems and structures (and its applications) are invited for DCFS 2026. Original papers are sought in all aspects of descriptional complexity. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes of operations and complexity measures.
- Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena.
- Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures.
- Size complexity of formal systems.
- Structural complexity of formal systems.
- Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation.
- Applications of formal systems-- for instance in software and hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling or in modeling natural languages-- and their complexity constraints.
- Co-operating formal systems.
- Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling natural languages.
- Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words.
- Descriptional complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded environments.
- Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity.
- Frontiers between decidability and undecidability.
- Universality and reversibility.
- Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional models of computing.
- Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.

INVITED SPEAKERS

[ To be announced ]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
- Cezar Câmpeanu (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, co-chair)
- Pamela Fleischmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany)
- Dora Giammarresi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)
- Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)
- Markus Holzer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
- Stavros Konstantinidis (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
- Martin Kutrib (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Andreas Malcher (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
- Nelma Moreira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough University, UK, co-chair)
- Rogério Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
- Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
- Taylor J. Smith (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, co-chair)
- Gyorgy Vaszil (Debreceni Egyetem, Hungary)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Salimur Choudhury (Queen's University, Canada, chair)

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: March 13, 2026
- Author notification: April 17, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: May 1, 2026
- Conference: August 9-11, 2026

CONTACT

- Email: dcfs2026@cs.queensu.ca
- Website: https://research.cs.queensu.ca/dcfs2026/

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Department of Computer Science
St. Francis Xavier University

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[DMANET] CIAA 2026: First Call for Papers (Aug. 5-8, Kingston, Canada)

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CIAA 2026: 30th International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
Queen's University
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CIAA 2026 will be held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on August 5-8, 2026. The conference is organized by the School of Computing at Queen's University.

The conference will be co-located with DCFS 2026 (August 9-11, 2026).

The International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA) is an annual conference in the field of theoretical computer science. The website of the conference series is:
https://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/ciaa/

The purpose of CIAA is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in the theory, implementation, and application of automata and related structures. The conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions to CIAA must not exceed 12 pages (in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes style, excluding the bibliography). If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may include a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. However, if slightly longer submissions are deemed necessary, authors must contact the program committee chairs in advance for approval.

Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other conference with published proceedings or submitting previously published papers is not allowed. Only electronic submissions in the PDF format are accepted. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system at this link:

https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ciaa2026

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

BEST PAPER AWARD

The Sheng Yu Award will be presented to the author(s) of the paper judged to be the best on the basis of the referee reports.

SPECIAL ISSUE

Extended versions of selected papers from the conference will be invited for consideration in a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS).

PRINCIPAL TOPICS

We solicit papers on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects, including but not limited to:

- Algorithms on automata
- Automata and logic
- Bioinformatics
- Complexity of automata operations
- Compilers
- Computer-aided verification
- Concurrency
- Data structure design for automata
- Data and image compression
- Design and architecture of automata software
- Digital libraries
- DNA/molecular/membrane computing
- Document engineering
- Editors, environments
- Experimental studies and practical experiences
- Industrial applications
- Natural language processing
- Networking
- New algorithms for manipulating automata
- Object-oriented modeling
- Pattern-matching
- Quantum computing
- Speech and speaker recognition
- Structured and semi-structured documents
- Symbolic manipulation environments for automata
- Teaching
- Text processing
- Techniques for graphical display of automata
- VLSI
- Viruses, related phenomena
- World-wide web

INVITED SPEAKERS

[ To be announced ]

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Frédérique Bassino (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
- Cezar Câmpeanu (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada)
- Pascal Caron (Université de Rouen, France)
- Giuseppa Castiglione (Università di Palermo, Italy)
- Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)
- Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, South Korea)
- Markus Holzer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
- Jarkko Kari (Turun yliopisto, Finland)
- Stavros Konstantinidis (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
- Martin Kutrib (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Andreas Malcher (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany)
- Florin Manea (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
- Sabrina Mantaci (Università di Palermo, Italy)
- Brink van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
- Nelma Moreira (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Cyril Nicaud (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)
- Giovanni Pighizzini (Università di Milano Statale, Italy)
- Luca Prigionero (Loughborough University, UK)
- Rogério Reis (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
- Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)
- Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
- Taylor J. Smith (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, chair)
- Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Russia)
- Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Salimur Choudhury (Queen's University, Canada, chair)

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission deadline: March 20, 2026
- Author notification: April 24, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: May 8, 2026
- Conference: August 5-8, 2026

CONTACT

- Email: ciaa2026@cs.queensu.ca
- Website: https://research.cs.queensu.ca/ciaa2026/

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St. Francis Xavier University

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[DMANET] [PhD Opportunity] Optimization for Sustainable Remanufacturing Supply Chains – LIMOS, UCA

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce a fully funded PhD position at the LIMOS
Laboratory, University of Clermont Auvergne (France), starting around
September 2026, on the topic of Optimization for Sustainable
Remanufacturing Supply Chains.

Project Overview
Remanufacturing plays a crucial role in the circular economy by extending
product lifecycles, reducing waste, and improving resource efficiency. This
PhD position is part of a broader research initiative aimed at optimizing
remanufacturing-oriented reverse supply chains, integrating production
scheduling and inventory-routing decisions in complex, uncertain
environments involving multiple stakeholders (3PLs, retailers,
remanufacturers, etc.).
The PhD will focus on the Remanufacturing and Inventory Routing Problem
with Pickup and Delivery (RIRP-PD), incorporating Corporate Sustainability
Rules (CSR) with a special emphasis on human factors (stress and fatigue at
the plant level) and environmental indicators (CO2 emissions from
transportation).
A key challenge is to balance economic performance, workload, time, and
environmental impact while solving interconnected subproblems, inventory
routing, pickup and delivery, and job shop scheduling.
The project includes:
- Modeling a multi-stage problem involving pickup, job shop scheduling
with resource constraints, and delivery with time windows.
- Developing mathematical models and metaheuristics for sequential and
integrated problem solving.
- Studying multi-period variants, inventory strategies, labor workload
constraints, and CO2 emissions.
- Each major research step is expected to lead to publications in
international conferences and journals.

Candidate Profile
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate with strong analytical
and programming skills.
Required:
- Master's degree in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Industrial
Engineering, Computer Science, or related fields;
- Strong programming skills (C++, Python, or Java);
- Knowledge of: Mathematical modeling, especially Mixed Integer
Programming (MIP); Solvers such as CPLEX or Gurobi; Heuristics and
metaheuristics;
Appreciated (not mandatory):
- Experience with exact methods (Branch-and-Bound, Branch-and-Price,
decomposition approaches);
- Interest in sustainability, circular economy, or human-centered systems;
- Familiarity with machine learning for optimization.

Application Documents
- Detailed CV
- Motivation letter
- Academic transcripts (Master's degree or equivalent)
- Optional: recommendation letters

For applications and inquiries, please contact:
- Prof. Philippe Lacomme (philippe.lacomme@uca.fr)
- Prof. Katyanne Farias (katyanne.farias_de_araujo@uca.fr)
- Prof. Flavien Lucas (flavien.lucas@imt-nord-europe.fr)


Best regards,

Katyanne FARIAS
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Assistant Professor
Brazil and Portugal Area Coordinator
LIMOS – UMR 6158 CNRS | UCA

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[DMANET] Call for Papers – IJPR Special Issue on Innovations in Production Planning

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Call for Papers – International Journal of Production Research

Special Issue on Innovations in Production Planning
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the International
Journal of Production Research (IJPR) Special Issue: "Innovations in
Production Planning: Emerging Problems and Modern Solution Paradigms."

This special issue, led by Chief Editor Alexandre Dolgui, invites
contributions that address the evolving challenges of production
planning in modern manufacturing contexts.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Evolution of classical planning problems in modern manufacturing (lot
sizing, capacity planning, scheduling, assembly line balancing)
- Planning in reconfigurable, modular, and hybrid manufacturing systems
- Integration of additive manufacturing with conventional processes in
planning

- Additive manufacturing production scheduling
- Digital twin–enabled planning and real-time adaptive scheduling
- Production planning under sustainability, circular economy, emissions,
and carbon goals

- Resilience-oriented planning under uncertainty, disruptions, and
volatility
- Advanced optimization methods: decomposition, robust/stochastic
models, metaheuristics
- Machine learning, reinforcement learning, and hybrid AI–optimization
for planning
- Simulation–optimization frameworks and surrogate modeling
- Production planning in customized environments (engineering-to-order,
make-to-order, mass customization)

- Human–robot collaborative systems and operator-driven planning in
Industry 5.0
- Reinforcement learning / deep learning models for dynamic planning and
scheduling (e.g., graph neural networks, RL architectures)
- Optimization of production and inventory strategies in modern
distribution systems (e-commerce, platform-based logistics)

Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026

More Information:
https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/ijpr-production-planning/


We encourage researchers and practitioners to submit their latest work
and contribute to advancing knowledge in this critical area.

Special Issue Editors:
- Mirco Peron, NEOMA Business School, France

- Ibrahim Kucukkoc, Balikesir University, Turkey

- Daniel Rossit, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

- Ilkyeong Moon, Seoul National University, South Korea

- Olga Battaïa, KEDGE Business School, France

- Michael Pinedo, Stern School of Business, New York University, USA

We look forward to your valuable contributions.

Best regards,
GUEST EDITORS


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[DMANET] Stream “Moments in the History of OR and IFORS” at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING ***

We invite you to the Stream "Moments in the History of OR and IFORS" at the 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies 12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria (https://ifors2026.at/).

We welcome contributions related to all aspects of OR history.

In the past, this stream hosted talks such as:

* "The life and contribution of William Sealy Gosset: Student's t-test brewed at Guinness" (G. Rand);
* "Computational Science in the 18th Century Test Cases for the methods of Newton, Raphson and Halley: 1685 to 1745" (T. Steihaug).
* "The origin of the Branch-and-Bound Method" (J. Leung)
* "The life and work of Harry M Markowitz" (J. Fogg)

We also regularly host talks related to history of national and international OR Societies, e.g. "75 years of the world's first OR journal" (G. Rand).

If you intend to participate, please upload an abstract of maximum 1500 characters, including spaces, to the EURO Conference submission platform (https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2026) using Session Codes:

428e924e - "Moments in the History (and Future) of OR"

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Stream Co-Organisers: Roberto (roberto.rossi@ed.ac.uk ) and Willi (gerhard-wilhelm.weber@put.poznan.pl ).

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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[DMANET] DSB 2026: 2nd Call for Abstracts and Participation

Dear All,

The 12th edition of the 2-days workshop "Data Structures in
Bioinformatics" (DSB) will take place in Venice (Italy) on February
18-19th, 2026: https://dsb-meeting.github.io/DSB2026/

The workshop "Data Structures in Bioinformatics" is an annual scientific
meeting at the crossroads of computer science and biology. It is
a unique forum to discuss compact data structures and algorithms in the
context of data processing for the life sciences. Topics include string
algorithms and combinatorics, data structures, algorithms for
genome/pangenome/metagenome/transcriptome/... analysis.
More details on DSB at https://dsb-meeting.github.io/

**REGISTRATION** HERE: https://forms.gle/V9yrUXYvAsTPpq6J7
Registrations will be open until January 31st, 2026.

**ABSTRACT SUBMISSION** HERE: https://forms.gle/baHkDCZW1Lvx1xZT6
Submissions of abstracts for an oral presentation are open until January
2nd, 2026.

DSB 2026 is organized by the RAVEN
<https://raven-laboratory.github.io/> (Research
on Algorithms VENice) research group at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

Looking forward to seeing you in Venice!
The DSB 2026 organizing team

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

[DMANET] The IEEE co-sponsored 2nd International Conference on Emerging and Intelligent Technologies and Systems (EITS 2026), 9-12 June, 2026 | Valencia, Spain

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation]

The 2nd International Conference on Emerging and Intelligent Technologies
and Systems (EITS 2026)

Hybrid Event

https://ais-conference.org/2026/

9-12 June, 2026 | Valencia, Spain

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section

*AIS 2026 CFP:*

Emerging and intelligent technologies and systems represent the forefront
of innovation in computing, communication, and automation. They combine
advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of
Things (IoT), cloud and edge computing, 5G/6G networks, robotics, and data
science to create adaptive, efficient, and human-centered solutions. These
technologies are transforming industries such as healthcare,
transportation, energy, and smart cities by enabling intelligent
decision-making, real-time responsiveness, and sustainable development. As
they continue to evolve, emerging and intelligent systems are shaping the
foundation of next-generation digital societies, offering both
opportunities and challenges in terms of security, ethics, and large-scale
deployment.

The International Conference on Emerging and Intelligent Technologies and
Systems (EITS 2026) will bring together leading researchers, practitioners,
and industry experts to present and discuss the latest advances,
applications, and challenges in intelligent technologies and
next-generation systems. EITS 2026 serves as a premier forum for
innovation, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and knowledge exchange across
academia and industry. We invite the submission of high-quality, original
research papers describing innovative ideas, breakthrough results, and
practical applications. with special interest in, but not limited to, the
following:

· Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI

· Intelligent Communication, Networking and Computing Systems

· Generative AI, Foundation Models, and Large Language Models

· Computer Vision, Image and Video Processing

· Cybersecurity and Trustworthy Systems

· Artificial Intelligence Systems Security

· Computational Language and Human-Centered Systems

· Emerging Applications, Ethics, Society, and Governance

· Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Sustainable Systems

*Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings*

Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11"
two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted
electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages
(including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must
present original unpublished research that is not currently under review
for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines
may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due
date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not
be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further
information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least
three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the EITS Proceeding, and be
published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and
be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion.

Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under
consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular
papers must follow the IEEE paper format. And include up to 7 keywords.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the
conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could
not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length
of short papers can be up to 6 pages.

*Important Dates:*

- *Paper submission deadline: February 20th, 2026*
- Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2026
- Camera-ready Submission: May 5th, 2026

*Contact:*

Please send any inquiry on AIS to: info@gaclm.org

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