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The submission deadline is February 12, 2014.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICCGI 2014, The Ninth International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology
June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICCGI14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICCGI14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICCGI14.html
Submission deadline: February 12, 2014
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICCGI 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Industrial systems
Control theory and systems; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Data engineering; Enterprise computing and evaluation; Electrical and electronics engineering; Economic decisions and information systems; Advanced robotics; Virtual reality systems; Industrial systems and applications; Industrial and financial systems; Industrial control electronics; Industrial IT solutions
Evolutionary computation
Algorithms, procedures, mechanisms and applications; Computer architecture and systems; Computational sciences; Computation in complex systems; Computer and communication systems; Computer networks; Computer science theory; Computation and computer security; Computer simulation; Digital telecommunications; Distributed and parallel computing; Computation in embedded and real-time systems; Soft computing; User-centric computation
Autonomic and autonomous systems
Automation and autonomous systems; Theory of Computing; Autonomic computing; Autonomic networking; Network computing; Protecting computing; Theories of agency and autonomy; Multi-agent evolution, adaptation and learning; Adjustable and self-adjustable autonomy; Pervasive systems and computation; Computing with locality principles; GRID networking and services; Pervasive computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence Computational linguistics; Cognitive technologies; Decision making; Evolutionary computation; Expert systems; Computational biology
Bio-technologies
Models and techniques for biometric technologies; Bioinformatics; Biometric security; Computer graphics and visualization; Computer vision and image processing; Computational biochemistry; Finger, facial, iris, voice, and skin biometrics; Signature recognition; Multimodal biometrics; Verification and identification techniques; Accuracy of biometric technologies; Authentication smart cards and biometric metrics; Performance and assurance testing; Limitations of biometric technologies; Biometric card technologies; Biometric wireless technologies; Biometric software and hardware; Biometric standards
Knowledge data systems
Data mining and Web mining; Knowledge databases and systems; Data warehouse and applications; Data warehousing and information systems; Database performance evaluation; Semantic and temporal databases; Database systems Databases and information retrieval; Digital library design; Meta-data modeling
Mobile and distance education
Human computer interaction; Educational technologies; Computer in education; Distance learning; E-learning; Mobile learning Cognitive support for learning; Internet-based education; Impact of ICT on education and society; Group decision making and software; Habitual domain and information technology; Computer-mediated communications; Immersing authoring; Contextual and cultural challenges in user mobility
Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems
Intelligent agent technologies; Intelligent and fuzzy information processing; Intelligent computing and knowledge management; Intelligent systems and robotics; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Fuzzy logic & systems; Genetic algorithms; Haptic phenomena; Graphic recognition; Neural networks; Symbolic and algebraic computation; Modeling, simulation and analysis of business processes and systems
Knowledge processing
Knowledge representation models; Knowledge languages; Cognitive science; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge processing under uncertainty; Machine intelligence; Machine learning; Making decision through Internet; Networking knowledge plan
Information technologies
Information technology and organizational behavior; Agents, data mining and ontologies; Information retrieval systems; Information and network security; Information ethics and legal evaluations; Optimization and information technology; Organizational information systems; Information fusion; Information management systems; Information overload; Information policy making; Information security; Information systems; Information discovery
Internet and web technologies
Internet and WWW-based computing; Web and Grid computing; Internet service and training; IT and society; IT in education and health; Management information systems; Visualization and group decision making; Web based language development; Web search and decision making; Web service ontologies; Scientific web intelligence; Online business and decision making; Business rule language; E-Business; E-Commerce; Online and collaborative work; Social eco-systems and social networking; Social decisions on Internet; Computer ethics
Digital information processing
Mechatronics; Natural language processing; Medical imaging; Image processing; Signal processing; Speech processing; Video processing; Pattern recognition; Pattern recognition models; Graphics & computer vision; Medical systems and computing
Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
Cognitive support for e-learning and mobile learning; Agents and cognitive models; Agents & complex systems; computational ecosystems; Agent architectures, perception, action & planning in agents; Agent communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics & protocols; Agent-based electronic commerce and trading systems Multi-agent constraint satisfaction; Agent programming languages, development environments and testbeds; Computational complexity in autonomous agents; Multi-agent planning and cooperation; Logics and formal models of for agency verification; Nomadic agents; Negotiation, auctions, persuasion; Privacy and security issues in multi-agent systems
Mobility and multimedia systems
Mobile communications; Multimedia and visual programming; Multimedia and decision making; Multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia systems; User-centered mobile applications; Designing for the mobile devices; Contextual user mobility; Mobile strategies for global market; Interactive television and mobile commerce
Systems performance
Performance evaluation; Performance modeling; Performance of parallel computing; Reasoning under uncertainty; Reliability and fault-tolerance; Performance instrumentation; Performance monitoring and corrections; Performance in entity-dependable systems; Real-time performance and near-real time performance evaluation; Performance in software systems; Performance and hybrid systems; Measuring performance in embedded systems
Networking and telecommunications
Telecommunication and Networking; Telecommunication Systems and Evaluation; Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Information Technology; Network and Decision Making; Networks and Security; Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand; Network and system monitoring and management; Feature interaction detection and resolution; Policy-based monitoring and managements systems; Traffic modeling and monitoring; Traffic engineering and management; Self-monitoring, self-healing and self-management systems; Man-in-the-loop management paradigm
Software development and deployment
Software requirements engineering; Software design, frameworks, and architectures; Software interactive design; Formal methods for software development, verification and validation; Neural networks and performance; Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Empirical software evaluation metrics; Software vulnerabilities; Reverse engineering; Software reuse; Software security, reliability and safety; Software economics; Software testing and debugging; Tracking defects in the OO design; Distributed and parallel software; Programming languages; Declarative programming; Real-time and embedded software; Open source software development methodologies; Software tools and deployment environments; Software Intelligence; Software Performance and Evaluation
Knowledge virtualization
Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes
Systems and networks on the chip
Microtechnology and nanotechnology; Real-time embedded systems; Programming embedded systems; Controlling embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip systems
Context-aware systems
Context-aware autonomous entities; Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements Design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
Networking technologies
Next generation networking; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks; Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; GRID networks; Broadband networks
Security in network, systems, and applications
IT in national and global security; Formal aspects of security; Systems and network security; Security and cryptography; Applied cryptography; Cryptographic protocols; Key management; Access control; Anonymity and pseudonymity management; Security management; Trust management; Protection management; Certification and accreditation; Virii, worms, attacks, spam; Intrusion prevention and detection; Information hiding; Legal and regulatory issues
Knowledge for global defense
Business continuity and availability; Risk assessment; Aerospace computing technologies; Systems and networks vulnerabilities; Developing trust in Internet commerce; Performance in networks, systems, and applications; Disaster prevention and recovery; IT for anti-terrorist technology innovations (ATTI); Networks and applications emergency services; Privacy and trust in pervasive communications; Digital rights management; User safety and protection
Information Systems [IS]
Management Information Systems; Decision Support Systems; Innovation and IS; Enterprise Application Integration; Enterprise Resource Planning; Business Process Change; Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks; Iterative and Incremental Methodologies; Agile Methodologies; IS Standards and Compliance Issues; Risk Management in IS Design and Development; Research Core Theories; Conceptualisations and Paradigms in IS; Research Ontological Assumptions in IS Research; IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities; IS vs Computer Science Research; IS vs Business Studies
IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment
IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices
Modeling
Continuous and discrete Models; Optimal Models; Complex System Modeling; Individual-Based Models; Modeling Uncertainty; Compact fuzzy models; Modeling languages; Real-time modeling; Performance modeling; Decision support systems; Multiple criteria decision aiding; Problem structuring methods
Optimization
Multicriteria Optimization; Multilervel Optimization; Goal Programming; Optimization and Efficiency; Optimization-based decisions; Evolutionary Optimization; Self-Optimization; Extreme Optimization; Combinatorial Optimization; Disccrete Optimization; Fuzzy Optimization; Lipschitzian Optimization; Non-Convex Optimization; Convexity; Continuous Optimization; Interior point methods; Semidefinite and Conic Programming
Complexity
Complexity Analysis; Computational Complexity; Complexity Reduction; Optimizing Model Complexity; Communication Complexity; Managing Complexity; Modeling Complexity in Social Systems; Low-complexity Global Optimization; Software Development for Modeling and Optimization; Industrial applications
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICCGI14.html
ICCGI Advisory Committee
Constantin Paleologu, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
Tibor Gyires, Illinois State University, USA
Luc Vouligny, Institut de Recherche d'Hydro-Qu�bec - Varennes, Canada
John Terzakis, Intel, USA
Yasushi Kambayashi, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan
Mirela Danubianu, "Stefan cel Mare" University of Suceava, Romania
Teemu Kanstr�n, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Mansour Zand, University of Nebraska, USA
Arno Leist, Massey University, New Zealand
Jean-Denis Mathias, IRSTEA, France
Dominic Girardi, RISC Software GmbH, Austria
ICCGI Special Area Chairs
Knowledge/Cognition
Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
Tadeusz Pankowski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
e-Learning/Mobility
Jos� Rouillard, Universit� Lille Nord, France
Industrial Systems
Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Bernhard Freudenthaler, Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Austria
ICCGI Publicity Chair
Marek Opuszko, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Germany
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Friday, January 24, 2014
[DMANET] FOMC2014 - Call for Papers
2014 Call for Papers
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The Tenth ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing
(Formerly known as DIALM-POMC)
Philadelphia, PA, USA
August 11, 2014
[Co-located with ACM MobiHoc 2014]
PDF version of the call for papers
Conference Site: http://fomc2014.cs.drexel.edu/
Two Tracks!
1. Regular Paper Track
2. Position Paper Track
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Registration due: May 2, 2014
Full Paper Submission due: May 9, 2014
Author Notification: June 14, 2014
Workshop Date: August 11, 2014
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Overview:
With the growing ubiquity of mobile communication devices in our daily lives, mobile computing is emerging as an important new field in computer science. This increasing interaction between mobility, communication and computing has generated a number of challenging algorithmic issues in diverse areas, including coverage, mobility, routing, cooperation, capacity planning, scheduling, and power control.
The Foundations of Mobile Computing (FOMC) workshop is dedicated to these issues. It covers contributions both in the design and analysis of discrete/distributed algorithms, and in the system modeling of mobile, wireless and similarly dynamic networks. It aims to bring together the practitioners and theoreticians of the field to foster cooperation between research in mobile computing and algorithms.
Details:
FOMC 2014 will be held on August 11, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA, USA, and will be co-located with the 15th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2014). Previous workshops (under the name DIALM-POMC through 2010) have been co-located with the Annual Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), the International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), and the International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC).
Submissions can be submitted to one of two tracks:
1. The regular paper track solicits technical papers describing original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review.
2. The position paper track solicits descriptions of creative and compelling new research directions concerning the convergence of discrete/distributed algorithms and mobile computing.
Topics:
FOMC covers all areas related to mobile and wireless computing and communications where discrete algorithms and methods are used. Specific topics include, but are not limited to the following:
➢ Models of mobility and dynamic networks, and algorithmic aspects of mobility, including:
● autonomous agents, dynamic graph algorithms
● local algorithms
● distributed optimization
➢ Game-theoretic and economic aspects of mobility:
● incentives and cooperation
➢ Cryptographic and combinatorial methods for mobility
➢ Gossiping and information diffusion
➢ Communication protocols, including routing, multicast and broadcast
➢ Scheduling and network capacity
➢ Data link protocols:
● MAC
● Channel allocation
● Cognitive Radio networks
➢ Topology discovery, localization and clock synchronization
➢ Location- and context-aware distributed applications, sensor networks
➢ Emerging networks, including delay-tolerant networks, mobile social applications, vehicular networks
➢ Fault tolerance and security
➢ Energy saving methods and protocols
SUBMISSIONS
Authors must submit their papers electronically, following the guidelines available on the FOMC web page. Submissions should use letter-size paper with at least 11-point font and 1-inch margins, and no longer than 10 pages for the regular paper track, and no longer than 6 pages for the position paper track. The page restrictions do not include figures, tables, and references. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee
PUBLICATION
The Proceedings of the workshop will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
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Program Committee Chairs
Jared Saia (University of New Mexico)
Maxwell Young (Drexel University)
Publicity Chair
Amitabh Trehan (Queen's University Belfast)
Program Committee
Alex Cornejo (Harvard University)
Jeremy Fineman (Georgetown University)
Majid Ghaderi (University of Calgary)
Seth Gilbert (National University of Singapore)
Wenbo He (McGill University)
Valerie King (University of Victoria)
Darek Kowalski (University of Liverpool)
Rami Langar (UPMC - Sorbonne Université )
Chul-Ho Lee (North Carolina State University)
Hyunyoung Lee (Texas A&M University)
Mahnush Movahedi (University of New Mexico)
Calvin Newport (Georgetown University)
Gopal Pandurangan (Nanyang Technological University, Brown University)
Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (ABB Corporate Research)
Peter Robinson (Nanyang Technological University)
Christian Scheideler (University of Paderborn)
Siddhartha Sen (Microsoft Research)
Chiu C. Tan (Temple University)
Steering Committee
Maurizio Bonuccelli (University of Pisa)
Errol L. Lloyd (University of Delaware)
Nancy Lynch (MIT)
Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft Research)
Andrea Richa (Arizona State University)
Andre Schiper (EPFL)
Arunabha Sen (Arizona State University)
Nitin Vaidya (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jennifer L. Welch (Texas A&M University)
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[DMANET] IPCO 2014 Call for Posters
Call for Posters for the
17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Bonn, Germany,
June 23-25, 2014
The 17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial
Optimization will hold a poster session.
The poster session is meant to be a platform for young members of the
community to promote their research.
We thus particularly welcome posters from PhD students and Postdocs on
research in any of the IPCO topics.
**Important Dates:
Short abstract submission deadline:**March 31, 2014
Poster confirmation:**April 4, 2014*
*IPCO early registration deadline: April 20, 2014
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17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
Bonn, Germany,
June 23-25, 2014
The 17th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial
Optimization will hold a poster session.
The poster session is meant to be a platform for young members of the
community to promote their research.
We thus particularly welcome posters from PhD students and Postdocs on
research in any of the IPCO topics.
**Important Dates:
Short abstract submission deadline:**March 31, 2014
Poster confirmation:**April 4, 2014*
*IPCO early registration deadline: April 20, 2014
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[DMANET] Master's degree scholarships -- ENS de Lyon
The Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon offers scholarships
for its "Foundations of Computer Science" Master.
for its "Foundations of Computer Science" Master.
This two year program provides a wide choice of high quality
courses in computer science ranging from the most theoretical
aspects to applications.
We are looking for talented International students who wish to
deepen their understanding of Computer Science. We encourage
students with a taste for theoretical computer science to apply.
Mathematics students with some knowledge in computer science
are also welcome. Candidates can apply either in Master 1
(4th year degree) or Master 2 (5th year degree). Please visit
our websites here:
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/DI/?page_id=2579&lang=en
(Master 1)
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/DI/?page_id=16&lang=en
(Master 2 year 2013 - 2014)
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/DI/?p=100&lang=en
(Master 2 year 2014 - 2015)
We also propose a Complex Networks Master 2 specialization,
which is described here here:
http://www.ixxi.fr/?p=2629
Courses and materials are provided in English to encourage
International students to join our program. Academic tutoring is
provided to every student for finding internships, choosing courses,
etc.
The typical scholarship is around (1000 euros/month) for a 10
month period basically covering tuition and living costs in Lyon.
We also provide administrative help for critical issues like visas,
registration, housing, etc.
The application deadline is 4th February on the following website:
Contacts:
Stéphan Thomassé, Head of the Master program,
stephan.thomasse@ens-lyon.fr
Paulo Gonçalves, International coordinator of the department,
paulo.goncalves@ens-lyon.fr
Best regards,
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Damien Stehlé, Professor
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Head of the Computer Science teaching department
Tel.: +33 4 3728 7644
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
[DMANET] 15th Annual Winter Combinatorics Meeting, Open University, 29th January
15th Annual Winter Combinatorics Meeting
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Wednesday 29 January 2014
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
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Talks will take place in Room 15, Christodoulou Meeting Rooms at
Walton Hall Campus.
Refreshments will be served in the Mathematics and Statistics Common
Room, Alan Turing Building.
Anyone attending the Meeting is welcome to join the group going to a
restaurant afterwards. For details see the 'Dinner' page of the
website.
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Wednesday 29 January 2014
The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
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Talks will take place in Room 15, Christodoulou Meeting Rooms at
Walton Hall Campus.
Refreshments will be served in the Mathematics and Statistics Common
Room, Alan Turing Building.
Anyone attending the Meeting is welcome to join the group going to a
restaurant afterwards. For details see the 'Dinner' page of the
website.
All welcome -- no registration is necessary.
We gratefully acknowledge support from the British Combinatorial
Committee and the London Mathematical Society.
Further details and abstracts: http://wcm.open.ac.uk
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Provisional schedule:
10:15 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 11:40 Dan Kral (University of Warwick, UK)
11:45 - 12:25 Alex Scott (University of Oxford, UK)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 Pinar Heggernes (University of Bergen, Norway)
14:45 - 15.25 Brett Stevens (Carleton University, Canada)
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 16:40 Misha Rudnev (University of Bristol, UK)
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[DMANET] Post-doc positions at Aalto University
There are now several post-doc positions open at Aalto
University, Department of Communications and Networking.
For detailed information, see
http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs//view/105/
A broad range of subfields of ICT are represented in
the department. For example, my own team does research in
information and communications theory, combinatorial
algorithms, and discrete mathematics in general.
http://users.tkk.fi/pat/
The deadline is February 28.
Patric Östergård
Professor
Dept. of Communications & Networking
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 13000, 00076 Aalto, FINLAND
Tel: +358 50 344 3610
Fax: +358 9 470 22474
Email: patric.ostergard@aalto.fi
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University, Department of Communications and Networking.
For detailed information, see
http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs//view/105/
A broad range of subfields of ICT are represented in
the department. For example, my own team does research in
information and communications theory, combinatorial
algorithms, and discrete mathematics in general.
http://users.tkk.fi/pat/
The deadline is February 28.
Patric Östergård
Professor
Dept. of Communications & Networking
Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
P.O. Box 13000, 00076 Aalto, FINLAND
Tel: +358 50 344 3610
Fax: +358 9 470 22474
Email: patric.ostergard@aalto.fi
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[DMANET] CfP: Deadline extension, February 12 || COLLA 2014 || June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain
INVITATION:
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COLLA 2014.
The submission deadline is February 12, 2014.
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
COLLA 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COLLA14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOLLA14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOLLA14.html
Submission deadline: February 12, 2014
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
COLLA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Open collaborative research
Open collaboration research; Research via wikis and social media; Open research access; Open sources for collaboration; Open WEB and public data research; Education for Open research; Scientific trust and legal aspects in open collaboration
Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes
Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;
Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;
Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments
Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOLLA14.html
COLLA Advisory Committee
Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College - T�nsberg, Norway
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Military Institute/Virginia Tech, USA
Howard Spoelstra, Open University in the Netherlands, Netherlands
Pascal Salembier, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Wendy Lucas, Bentley University - Waltham, USA
Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christophe Thovex, University of Nantes, France
Alessandro Campi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anna Kocurova, University of West London, United Kingdom
COLLA Industry/Research Chairs
Anna Divoli, Pingar Research, New Zealand
Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) - Adelphi, USA
Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO - Stuttgart, Germany
Byoung Uk Kim, Ridgetop Group Inc. - Tucson, USA
Raymond A Liuzzi, Raymond Technologies - Whitesboro, USA
J�r�me Dantan, Esitpa, France
COLLA Publicity Chairs
Dapeng Dong, University College Cork, Ireland
Benjamin Knoke, BIBA � Bremer Institut f�r Produktion und Logistik, Germany
Mateusz Adamczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Kenji Takagi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Yann Veilleroy, Universit� Catholique de Lille, France
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COLLA 2014.
The submission deadline is February 12, 2014.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== COLLA 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
COLLA 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
June 22 - 26, 2014 - Seville, Spain
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COLLA14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOLLA14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOLLA14.html
Submission deadline: February 12, 2014
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
COLLA 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
Open collaborative research
Open collaboration research; Research via wikis and social media; Open research access; Open sources for collaboration; Open WEB and public data research; Education for Open research; Scientific trust and legal aspects in open collaboration
Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes
Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications
Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;
Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;
Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments
Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions
Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOLLA14.html
COLLA Advisory Committee
Lasse Berntzen, Vestfold University College - T�nsberg, Norway
Mohamed Eltoweissy, Virgina Military Institute/Virginia Tech, USA
Howard Spoelstra, Open University in the Netherlands, Netherlands
Pascal Salembier, University of Technology of Troyes, France
Atsuo Hazeyama, Tokyo Gakugei University, Japan
Wendy Lucas, Bentley University - Waltham, USA
Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christophe Thovex, University of Nantes, France
Alessandro Campi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anna Kocurova, University of West London, United Kingdom
COLLA Industry/Research Chairs
Anna Divoli, Pingar Research, New Zealand
Jin-Hee Cho, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (USARL) - Adelphi, USA
Holger Kett, Fraunhofer IAO - Stuttgart, Germany
Byoung Uk Kim, Ridgetop Group Inc. - Tucson, USA
Raymond A Liuzzi, Raymond Technologies - Whitesboro, USA
J�r�me Dantan, Esitpa, France
COLLA Publicity Chairs
Dapeng Dong, University College Cork, Ireland
Benjamin Knoke, BIBA � Bremer Institut f�r Produktion und Logistik, Germany
Mateusz Adamczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Kenji Takagi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Yann Veilleroy, Universit� Catholique de Lille, France
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[DMANET] Position for a PhD student at Einstein-Center ecmath, TU Berlin
Position for a PhD student in mathematics at Einstein-Center ecmath,
TU Berlin.
CH3: "Multiview geometry for ophthalmic surgery simulation"
Epipolar geometry provides a mathematical approach to modelling
machine visions via several cameras. The project's goal is to analyze
epipolar geometry with methods from computer algebra and algberaic
geometry (e.g., Groebner bases). In addition to studying the theory
we wish to examine aspects of the subject which occur in real-world
applications, even under real-time conditions. This includes medical
applications, in particular, related to the simulation of eye surgery.
Applications should be acquainted with at least one of the following
fields: computational geometry, computer algebra, algebraic geometry.
Applications should have a degree as a Master of Science in
mathematics (or equivalent). It is expected that the applicant works
towards a PhD thesis in mathematics on the project, as a member of the
group on Discrete Mathematics/Geometry at TU Berlin; see
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/fachgebiete_ag_diskalg/fg_diskrete_mathematik_geometrie/
The project will start on June 1, 2014 to end on May 31, 2017.
Application deadline: February 20, 2014.
See
http://www.ecmath.de/onECMath/jobs.html
for details concerning the application procedure.
--
Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig <joswig@math.tu-berlin.de>
Technische Universitaet Institut fuer Mathematik, MA 6-2
Str. des 17. Juni 136 D-10623 Berlin, Germany
phone +49 (30) 314-75904 fax +49 (30) 314-25047
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TU Berlin.
CH3: "Multiview geometry for ophthalmic surgery simulation"
Epipolar geometry provides a mathematical approach to modelling
machine visions via several cameras. The project's goal is to analyze
epipolar geometry with methods from computer algebra and algberaic
geometry (e.g., Groebner bases). In addition to studying the theory
we wish to examine aspects of the subject which occur in real-world
applications, even under real-time conditions. This includes medical
applications, in particular, related to the simulation of eye surgery.
Applications should be acquainted with at least one of the following
fields: computational geometry, computer algebra, algebraic geometry.
Applications should have a degree as a Master of Science in
mathematics (or equivalent). It is expected that the applicant works
towards a PhD thesis in mathematics on the project, as a member of the
group on Discrete Mathematics/Geometry at TU Berlin; see
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/fachgebiete_ag_diskalg/fg_diskrete_mathematik_geometrie/
The project will start on June 1, 2014 to end on May 31, 2017.
Application deadline: February 20, 2014.
See
http://www.ecmath.de/onECMath/jobs.html
for details concerning the application procedure.
--
Prof. Dr. Michael Joswig <joswig@math.tu-berlin.de>
Technische Universitaet Institut fuer Mathematik, MA 6-2
Str. des 17. Juni 136 D-10623 Berlin, Germany
phone +49 (30) 314-75904 fax +49 (30) 314-25047
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[DMANET] CfP: HM 2014 (9th Intl. Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics) in Hamburg
HM 2014
9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
June 9-13, 2014
Hamburg, Germany
(http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/)
Back to back with the
5th international Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
CALL FOR PAPERS
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General Chair
Stefan Voss (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Program chair
Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)
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Steering Committee
Maria Blesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)
Luca di Gaspero (University of Udine, Italy)
Paola Festa (University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy)
Günther Raidl (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
Michael Sampels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
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Important Dates
Submissions Due: February 21, 2014
Notification: March 28, 2014
Final Papers Due: April 4, 2014
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Aims & Scope
The HM Workshops are intended to be an international forum for
researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental
evaluation of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics, such as simulated
annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony
optimization, scatter search and iterated local search, are
considered state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In
recent years, however, it has become evident that the
concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A
skilled combination of concepts from different optimization
techniques can provide a more efficient behavior and a higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale
problems.
Hybrid Metaheuristics are such techniques for optimization that
combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques
into metaheuristics. Previously organized Workshops were held
in Ischia Island (HM 2013), Vienna (HM 2010), Udine (HM 2009),
Malaga (HM 2008), Dortmund (HM 2007), Gran Canaria (HM 2006),
Barcelona (HM 2005), and València (HM 2004).
HM2014 is organized as a non-profit event.
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Topics of Interest
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but
not limited to:
- Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics
- Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques
- Low-level hybridization
- High-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems
- Cooperative search
- Automated parameter tuning
- Empirical and statistical comparison
- Theoretical aspects of hybridization
- Parallelization
- Software libraries
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Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit a full paper describing original,
unpublished research with at most 15 pages (in LNCS style).
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an
appendix to be read by the program committee members at their
discretion.
Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous
submission to other conferences or workshops with published
proceedings is not allowed.
The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series.
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Further and Contact information:
Stefan Voss (stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de)
Institute of Information Systems
Department for Business and Economics
University of Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 5
Office VMP 5, Room 3064
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838-3064
Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-5535
Conference Website: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/
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9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics
June 9-13, 2014
Hamburg, Germany
(http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/)
Back to back with the
5th international Workshop on Model-Based Metaheuristics
CALL FOR PAPERS
************************************************************************
General Chair
Stefan Voss (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Program chair
Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)
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Steering Committee
Maria Blesa (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Christian Blum (IKERBASQUE and Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain)
Luca di Gaspero (University of Udine, Italy)
Paola Festa (University of Napoli FEDERICO II, Italy)
Günther Raidl (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
Michael Sampels (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
************************************************************************
Important Dates
Submissions Due: February 21, 2014
Notification: March 28, 2014
Final Papers Due: April 4, 2014
************************************************************************
Aims & Scope
The HM Workshops are intended to be an international forum for
researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental
evaluation of metaheuristics. Metaheuristics, such as simulated
annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony
optimization, scatter search and iterated local search, are
considered state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In
recent years, however, it has become evident that the
concentration on a sole metaheuristic is rather restrictive. A
skilled combination of concepts from different optimization
techniques can provide a more efficient behavior and a higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale
problems.
Hybrid Metaheuristics are such techniques for optimization that
combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques
into metaheuristics. Previously organized Workshops were held
in Ischia Island (HM 2013), Vienna (HM 2010), Udine (HM 2009),
Malaga (HM 2008), Dortmund (HM 2007), Gran Canaria (HM 2006),
Barcelona (HM 2005), and València (HM 2004).
HM2014 is organized as a non-profit event.
************************************************************************
Topics of Interest
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but
not limited to:
- Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics
- Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques
- Low-level hybridization
- High-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems
- Cooperative search
- Automated parameter tuning
- Empirical and statistical comparison
- Theoretical aspects of hybridization
- Parallelization
- Software libraries
************************************************************************
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit a full paper describing original,
unpublished research with at most 15 pages (in LNCS style).
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an
appendix to be read by the program committee members at their
discretion.
Electronic submissions should be formatted in pdf. Simultaneous
submission to other conferences or workshops with published
proceedings is not allowed.
The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series.
************************************************************************
Further and Contact information:
Stefan Voss (stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de)
Institute of Information Systems
Department for Business and Economics
University of Hamburg
Von-Melle-Park 5
Office VMP 5, Room 3064
D-20146 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42838-3064
Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-5535
Conference Website: http://iwi.econ.uni-hamburg.de/hm14/
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[DMANET] First Call for Papers - Graph Drawing
First Call for Papers – Graph Drawing 2014
22nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing
September 24-26, 2014 • Würzburg, Germany
http://gd2014.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs
and networks and the algorithmic methods for visualizing them. It is
motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and
interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas
include social sciences, Internet and Web computing, information
systems, computational biology, networking, VLSI circuit design, and
software engineering.
The International Symposium on Graph Drawing is the main annual event
in this area and will be hosted by the University of Würzburg from
September 24 to 26, 2014, in Würzburg, Germany. Researchers and
practitioners working on any aspect of graph drawing and network
visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to
participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 23:59 GMT and fixed. There will be no extensions.
Paper submission deadline: June 13, 2014
Notification of paper acceptance: July 23
Poster submission deadline: August 19
Notification of poster acceptance: August 29
Final versions due: September 3
Contest submission deadline: September 22
Symposium on Graph Drawing: September 24-26
INVITED SPEAKERS
Oswin Aichholzer, TU Graz
Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, Paris
PAPERS
Submitted papers must describe original research of theoretical or
practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization.
Each paper must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks.
Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted
to the other track.
Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects
This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances,
such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of
topics for this track includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms
- Theory of geometric graphs
- Geometric computing
- Geometric and topological graph theory
- Optimization on graphs
Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects
This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph
drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and
interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for
this track includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Visualization of graphs and networks in application areas (e.g.,
social sciences, biology, cartography, software engineering,
circuit design, business intelligence)
- Software systems for graph visualization
- The engineering of visualization systems and algorithms
- Experimental results in graph theory and graph algorithms
- Benchmarks and experimental analysis for graph visualization
systems and user interfaces
- Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction
- Interfaces for interacting with graphs
All submissions must be formatted using the LATEX style file for the
conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by
Springer-Verlag. The margins and font size must not be
modified. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk being
rejected. Each submission may be up to 12 pages in length. The
claims of the paper should be fully substantiated, including full
proofs or appropriate experimental data. If this information does not
fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly
marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the
reviewers may read at their own discretion.
POSTERS
Submissions of posters on graph drawing and related areas are also
solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the
communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear
elsewhere) to the graph drawing community. Posters should be
accompanied by an abstract (up to two pages in the single-spaced LNCS
style). The abstract and poster must be submitted as a single pdf
document.
CONTEST
The graph drawing contest held in conjunction with the conference
traditionally begins after the initial paper submission deadline has
passed. Further details will be available on the conference website.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers and abstracts of accepted posters will appear in the
conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be invited
for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms
and Applications.
AWARD
To recognize the effort of participants to present their work in a
clear and elegant way, a best-presentation award will once again be
given this year.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Patrizio Angelini, Univ. Roma Tre
Daniel Archambault, Swansea Univ.
David Auber, LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux
Michael Bekos, Nat. Tech. Univ. Athens
Anastasia Bezerianos, LRI-Univ. Paris-Sud
Franz Brandenburg, Univ. Passau
Erin Chambers, St. Louis Univ.
Stephan Diehl, Univ. Trier
Christian Duncan (co-chair), Quinnipiac Univ.
Tim Dwyer, Monash Univ.
David Eppstein, Univ. of California, Irvine
Emden Gansner, AT&T Research Labs
Michael Kaufmann, Univ. Tuebingen
Stephen Kobourov, Univ. of Arizona
Jan Kratochvíl, Charles Univ. Prague
Giuseppe Liotta, Univ. of Perugia
Maarten Löffler, Utrecht Univ.
Anna Lubiw, Univ. of Waterloo
Petra Mutzel, Univ. Dortmund
Lev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research
Antonios Symvonis (co-chair), Nat. Tech. Univ. Athens
Ioannis Tollis, Univ. of Crete
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.
Hsu-Chun Yen, Nat. Taiwan Univ.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Krzysztof Fleszar, Univ. of Würzburg
Philipp Kindermann, Univ. of Würzburg
Joachim Spoerhase, Univ. of Würzburg
Alexander Wolff (chair), Univ. of Würzburg
CONTEST COMMITTEE
Carsten Gutwenger (chair), TU Dortmund
Maarten Löffler, Utrecht Univ.
Lev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research
Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.
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22nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing
September 24-26, 2014 • Würzburg, Germany
http://gd2014.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/
Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs
and networks and the algorithmic methods for visualizing them. It is
motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and
interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas
include social sciences, Internet and Web computing, information
systems, computational biology, networking, VLSI circuit design, and
software engineering.
The International Symposium on Graph Drawing is the main annual event
in this area and will be hosted by the University of Würzburg from
September 24 to 26, 2014, in Würzburg, Germany. Researchers and
practitioners working on any aspect of graph drawing and network
visualization are invited to contribute papers and posters and to
participate in the symposium and the graph drawing contest.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 23:59 GMT and fixed. There will be no extensions.
Paper submission deadline: June 13, 2014
Notification of paper acceptance: July 23
Poster submission deadline: August 19
Notification of poster acceptance: August 29
Final versions due: September 3
Contest submission deadline: September 22
Symposium on Graph Drawing: September 24-26
INVITED SPEAKERS
Oswin Aichholzer, TU Graz
Jean-Daniel Fekete, INRIA, Paris
PAPERS
Submitted papers must describe original research of theoretical or
practical significance to graph drawing and network visualization.
Each paper must be submitted explicitly to one of two distinct tracks.
Papers submitted to one track will not compete with papers submitted
to the other track.
Track 1: Combinatorial and algorithmic aspects
This track is mainly devoted to fundamental graph drawing advances,
such as combinatorial aspects and algorithm design. The range of
topics for this track includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Design and analysis of graph drawing algorithms
- Theory of geometric graphs
- Geometric computing
- Geometric and topological graph theory
- Optimization on graphs
Track 2: Experimental, applied, and network visualization aspects
This track is mainly devoted to the practical aspects of graph
drawing, such as the development of network visualization systems and
interfaces in different application areas. The range of topics for
this track includes (but is not limited to) the following:
- Visualization of graphs and networks in application areas (e.g.,
social sciences, biology, cartography, software engineering,
circuit design, business intelligence)
- Software systems for graph visualization
- The engineering of visualization systems and algorithms
- Experimental results in graph theory and graph algorithms
- Benchmarks and experimental analysis for graph visualization
systems and user interfaces
- Cognitive studies on graph drawing readability and user interaction
- Interfaces for interacting with graphs
All submissions must be formatted using the LATEX style file for the
conference series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) provided by
Springer-Verlag. The margins and font size must not be
modified. Submissions that do not comply with this format risk being
rejected. Each submission may be up to 12 pages in length. The
claims of the paper should be fully substantiated, including full
proofs or appropriate experimental data. If this information does not
fit within the page limits, the authors should include it in a clearly
marked appendix, whose length is not constrained and which the
reviewers may read at their own discretion.
POSTERS
Submissions of posters on graph drawing and related areas are also
solicited. The poster session will provide a forum for the
communication of late-breaking research results (which may also appear
elsewhere) to the graph drawing community. Posters should be
accompanied by an abstract (up to two pages in the single-spaced LNCS
style). The abstract and poster must be submitted as a single pdf
document.
CONTEST
The graph drawing contest held in conjunction with the conference
traditionally begins after the initial paper submission deadline has
passed. Further details will be available on the conference website.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers and abstracts of accepted posters will appear in the
conference proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag in the series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be invited
for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Graph Algorithms
and Applications.
AWARD
To recognize the effort of participants to present their work in a
clear and elegant way, a best-presentation award will once again be
given this year.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Patrizio Angelini, Univ. Roma Tre
Daniel Archambault, Swansea Univ.
David Auber, LaBRI, Univ. Bordeaux
Michael Bekos, Nat. Tech. Univ. Athens
Anastasia Bezerianos, LRI-Univ. Paris-Sud
Franz Brandenburg, Univ. Passau
Erin Chambers, St. Louis Univ.
Stephan Diehl, Univ. Trier
Christian Duncan (co-chair), Quinnipiac Univ.
Tim Dwyer, Monash Univ.
David Eppstein, Univ. of California, Irvine
Emden Gansner, AT&T Research Labs
Michael Kaufmann, Univ. Tuebingen
Stephen Kobourov, Univ. of Arizona
Jan Kratochvíl, Charles Univ. Prague
Giuseppe Liotta, Univ. of Perugia
Maarten Löffler, Utrecht Univ.
Anna Lubiw, Univ. of Waterloo
Petra Mutzel, Univ. Dortmund
Lev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research
Antonios Symvonis (co-chair), Nat. Tech. Univ. Athens
Ioannis Tollis, Univ. of Crete
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.
Hsu-Chun Yen, Nat. Taiwan Univ.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Krzysztof Fleszar, Univ. of Würzburg
Philipp Kindermann, Univ. of Würzburg
Joachim Spoerhase, Univ. of Würzburg
Alexander Wolff (chair), Univ. of Würzburg
CONTEST COMMITTEE
Carsten Gutwenger (chair), TU Dortmund
Maarten Löffler, Utrecht Univ.
Lev Nachmanson, Microsoft Research
Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Inst. Tech.
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[DMANET] 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:
6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
(http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/)
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Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA
Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized
by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/)
and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and
present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15,
2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to
be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be
advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be
registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution
during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a
background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are
eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is
strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which
the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team
advisor's responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate
knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved
as a participant in the solution process.
As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all
over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can
come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The
official language of the competition is English.
The competition problem has been posted; please visit:
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/
for a description of the problem and further details.
All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate.
Important Dates:
Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon
as you start
work on the problem)
Solutions Due: 13 June 2014
Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014
Conference Begins: 13 August 2014
For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluagas@lehigh.edu
and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid@lehigh.edu
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Luis F. Zuluaga,
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
(http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/)
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Dear Colleagues,
It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA
Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized
by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/)
and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and
present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15,
2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to
be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be
advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be
registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution
during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a
background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are
eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is
strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which
the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team
advisor's responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate
knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved
as a participant in the solution process.
As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all
over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can
come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The
official language of the competition is English.
The competition problem has been posted; please visit:
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/
for a description of the problem and further details.
All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate.
Important Dates:
Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon
as you start
work on the problem)
Solutions Due: 13 June 2014
Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014
Conference Begins: 13 August 2014
For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluagas@lehigh.edu
and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid@lehigh.edu
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Luis F. Zuluaga,
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2014
Grenoble, France
October 14-16, 2014
Organised by:
Équipe GETALP
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/
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AIMS:
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at
attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these
areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and
people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular
focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical
methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing.
The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:
phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2014 will consist of:
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
to be announced
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Gaël Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Björn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Departament d'Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
SLSP 2014
Grenoble, France
October 14-16, 2014
Organised by:
Équipe GETALP
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/
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AIMS:
SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims at
attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of these
areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between subdomains and
people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career and particular
focus will be put on methodology.
VENUE:
SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.
SCOPE:
The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of statistical
methods (including machine learning) within language and speech processing.
The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:
phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering
STRUCTURE:
SLSP 2014 will consist of:
invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions
INVITED SPEAKERS:
to be announced
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Gaël Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Björn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)
ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices) and should be prepared according to
the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Submissions have to be uploaded to:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014
PUBLICATIONS:
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series will
be available by the time of the conference.
A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
REGISTRATION:
The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:
http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php
DEADLINES:
Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat
POSTAL ADDRESS:
SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Departament d'Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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[DMANET] PhD student position in Discrete Optimization at TU Dortmund
The department of Mathematics at TU Dortmund offers a PhD student
position to be filled at the next possible date. The initial appointment
will be for one year, with a possible extension to December 31, 2017.
The position is a full-time appointment with a salary according to E13
of the TV-L public-employee tariff or TVÜ-L, if applicable. The position
is in principle suitable for part-time employees.
The position will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
through subproject C3 within the Collaborative Research
Centre/Transregio 63 "InPROMPT". The goal of this project is, in
cooperation with the chair of Automation/Modeling at the University of
Magdeburg (Germany), to develop new mathematical methods for the global
optimization of integrated liquid multi-phase systems.
Candidates must hold a qualifying university degree in mathematics and
have profound knowledge in the field of discrete optimization and/or
mixed-integer global optimization. The official job announcement (in
German) including a detailed job description and a full list of required
qualifications can be found at
https://service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18/1299244/Wiss.+Besch%C3%A4ftigte+bzw.+wiss.+Besch%C3%A4ftigter+%28Ref.Nr.+186-13%29/7d15356c-1f8e-448e-8195-828019fcfafc?version=1.0
Please send applications, including the usual documentation and quoting
reference no 186-13 by February 05, 2014, to:
Technische Universitaet Dortmund
Fakultaet fuer Mathematik
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dennis Michaels
Vogelpothsweg 87
44227 Dortmund
Germany
or applications in electronical form (pdf) at
dennis.michaels@tu-dortmund.de
For further information, please contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dennis Michaels
Tel. +49 231 755 7225
email: dennis.michaels@tu-dortmund.de
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position to be filled at the next possible date. The initial appointment
will be for one year, with a possible extension to December 31, 2017.
The position is a full-time appointment with a salary according to E13
of the TV-L public-employee tariff or TVÜ-L, if applicable. The position
is in principle suitable for part-time employees.
The position will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
through subproject C3 within the Collaborative Research
Centre/Transregio 63 "InPROMPT". The goal of this project is, in
cooperation with the chair of Automation/Modeling at the University of
Magdeburg (Germany), to develop new mathematical methods for the global
optimization of integrated liquid multi-phase systems.
Candidates must hold a qualifying university degree in mathematics and
have profound knowledge in the field of discrete optimization and/or
mixed-integer global optimization. The official job announcement (in
German) including a detailed job description and a full list of required
qualifications can be found at
https://service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18/1299244/Wiss.+Besch%C3%A4ftigte+bzw.+wiss.+Besch%C3%A4ftigter+%28Ref.Nr.+186-13%29/7d15356c-1f8e-448e-8195-828019fcfafc?version=1.0
Please send applications, including the usual documentation and quoting
reference no 186-13 by February 05, 2014, to:
Technische Universitaet Dortmund
Fakultaet fuer Mathematik
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dennis Michaels
Vogelpothsweg 87
44227 Dortmund
Germany
or applications in electronical form (pdf) at
dennis.michaels@tu-dortmund.de
For further information, please contact:
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dennis Michaels
Tel. +49 231 755 7225
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[DMANET] LATIN2014: Call for participation and information about grants to students.
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
11th Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN 2014)
March 31 - April 4, 2014
Montevideo, Uruguay
http://www.fing.edu.uy/eventos/latin2014
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
To register please follow the instructions given at
http://www.fing.edu.uy/eventos/latin2014/field.php/Main/Registration
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute
Computer-aided cryptographic proofs
* Ian Munro, University of Waterloo
Succinct Data Structures ... not just for graphs
* Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile
Encoding Data Structures
* Ronitt Rubinfeld, MIT
Something for Almost Nothing: Advances in Sub-linear Time Algorithms name
* Robert Sedgewick, Princeton University
"If You Can Specify It, You Can Analyze It" ---The Lasting Legacy of
Philippe Flajolet
PROGRAM
The Symposium's program is available at
http://www.fing.edu.uy/eventos/latin2014/field.php/Main/Program
VENUE
LATIN 2014 will be held at the Four Points Hotel located at the City Center,
opposite Montevideo's City Hall.
ACCOMMODATION
LATIN participants can obtain rooms at Four Points Hotel at a discounted rate.
Details can be found at
http://www.fing.edu.uy/eventos/latin2014/field.php/Main/Accommodation
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GRANTS
In order to promote the participation at LATIN 2014 a limited number of grants
will be offered. Support will be given in the form of fee reduction.
Priority will be given to students working in a research institution based in
Latin America.
Those interested in applying for a grant are required to provide the
information requested in the grant application form. Details can be found at
http://www.fing.edu.uy/eventos/latin2014/field.php/Main/Grants
The deadline for the grant application is February 10, 2014. The results will
be sent by February 17, 2014.
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[DMANET] CFP OptMAS-DCR@AAMAS - DEADLINE EXTENDED (10th February)
UPDATE
Due to several requests, the paper submission deadline for OptMAS-DCR
has been extended to February 10, 2014!!
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CFP: International Workshop on
Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems and Distributed Constraint Reasoning
(OptMAS-DCR)
To be held in conjunction with the
Thirteenth International Conference on Autonomous and Multi-Agent Systems
(AAMAS 2014)
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Workshop Website
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http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/optmas-dcr2014/
Call
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We are glad to announce that a Joint Call for papers has been agreed
between the Workshop on Optimization
in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMAS) and the Workshop on Distributed
Constraint Reasoning (DCR). This joint
OptMAS-DCR workshop invites works from different strands of the
multi-agent systems community that pertain
to the design of algorithms, models, and techniques to deal with
multi-agent optimisation problems. We will also
place a particular emphasis on DCR approaches, which include the
modeling, formulation and solution of DCR
problems, including both Distributed Constraint Satisfaction and
Optimization problems.
Important dates
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* February 10th, 2014 (Extended!)- Submission of contributions to workshops
*March 1st, 2014 (Extended!)- Workshop paper acceptance notification
* March 12, 2014 - Submission of camera-ready version
* May 5-6, 2014 - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2014.
Invited Talk
-----------------------
An invited speech will be given by Prof. Toby Walsh
Background
-----------------
The number of novel applications of multi-agent systems has followed an
exponential trend
over the last few years, ranging from online auction design, through
multi-sensor networks,
to scheduling of tasks in multi-actor systems. Multi-agent systems
designed for all these
applications generally involve some form of very hard optimization
problems that are
substantially different from problems traditionally dealt with in other
areas (e.g. industrial
processes or scheduling applications). More specifically, the technical
issues that multi-agent
algorithm designers have to deal with include:
* Open systems:algorithms to compute solutions to mechanisms that deal
with different
stakeholders, who may be self-interested or may have different
computation/communication
capabilities from their peers.
* Distributed systems:algorithms that are across different system
components, such as those
that deal with agents that are tied to physical devices. This involves
considerations of
computation and communication constraints, and the possibility of
failures of the components
and/or communication links.
* Privacy concerns:optimizing while minimising the exchange of private
information.
* Solution quality bounds:problems requiring algorithms with quality bounds.
* Robust optimisation:techniques to deal with optimizations that are
repeated with only slight
changes in the input data and/or unreliable input data.
* Highly parallel architectures:e.g., multi-core, GPGPU, which deal with
large-scale problems.
Keywords
--------------
Topics include but are not limited to:
* Distributed constraint optimization/satisfaction
* Winner determination algorithms in auctions
* Coalition formation algorithms
* Algorithms to compute Nash and other equilibria in games
* Optimization under uncertainty
* Optimization with incomplete or dynamic input data
* Algorithms for real-time applications
* GPU for general purpose computations (GPGPU)
* Multi-core and many-core computing
* Cloud, distributed and grid computing
Submission
-----------------
Participants should submit a paper (maximum *15* pages in LNCS Springer
style), describing their work
on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop. Alternatively,
participants may submit a shorter
paper (maximum *5* pages in LNCS Springer style) presenting a research
statement or perspective on
topics relevant to the workshop.
All submissions are conducted via the OptMAS-DCR 2014 EasyChair website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optmasdcr2014
Reviewing process
---------------------------
Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members.
Criteria for selection of papers
will include: technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity.
Publication
-----------------
Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided
electronically on a USB stick as a part
of the AAMAS workshop registration package. Best papers from OptMAS 2008
and OptMAS 2009
were selected for publication in the special issue on Optimisation in
Multi-Agent System of the
Journal of Autonomous and Multiagent Systems. Best papers from OptMAS
2011 and 2012 were
invited to submit to a special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent
System of the Computer Journal.
We plan to continue this initiative for the current and next editions.
Organizing committee
--------------------------------
Dr. Archie Chapman, University of Sydney
Dr. Meritxell Vinyals, University of Southampton
Dr. William Yeoh, New Mexico State University
Dr. Roie Zivan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Programme Committee
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Tenda Okimoto
Roger Mailler
Christian Bessiere
Jesus Cerquides
Alessandro Farinelli
Juan Rodriquez-Aguilar
Marius Silaghi
Matthew Taylor
Chongje Zhang
Jose Fernandez-Marquez
Talal Rahwan
Onn Shehory
Kagan Tumer
Pradeep Varakantham
Tomas Klos
Sven Koenig
Robert Lass
Hala Mostafa
Gauthier Picard
Christian Blum
Fei Fang
Katsutoshi Hirayama
Yoonheui Kim
Bo An
Ana Bazzan
Patricia Gutierrez
Pedro Meseguer
Toni Penya-Alba
Maria Polukarov
Marc Pujol-Gonzalez
Long Tran-Thanh
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[DMANET] CFP - IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on System Safety and Safety Critical Systems
IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on "System Safety and Safety-Critical
Systems"
CALL FOR PAPERS
GUEST EDITORS
Shrisha Rao, IIIT-BANGALORE, India, shrao@ieee.org
Paul C. Hershey, RAYTHEON, USA, Paul_C_Hershey@raytheon.com
Michael J. Hirsch, ISEA TEK, USA, mjh8787@ufl.edu
SCOPE
Safety, "The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk or injury,"
is a concern for life in general, and an important issue in the design of
complex systems in particular. While the precise nature of safety in
relation to security is a matter of some debate, it may be said that safety
is the property of a system not to misbehave (in some defined way) on its
own, whilst security is its resistance to malicious actions. It is also
accepted that safety is an emergent system property that must be "baked into
the cake" in the design and construction of complex systems, and that it
cannot be bolted on to an unsafe system later. Likewise, standards and
practices for system operation that are framed for other objectives such as
profitability or operational readiness do not necessarily ensure system
safety, and safety may be in conflict with such other objectives, requiring
a compromise approach. In particular, "safety-critical" systems are those
where safety is considered as the paramount concern, where every design or
operational conflict between safety and another objective such as
availability, must be decided in favor of safety. The range of systems where
safety is a concern is vast, and includes such diverse domains as aviation,
oil and gas installations, power systems, medical devices and services,
maritime, and military, along with many others. While every such domain has
certain important features that call for a unique approach, it is quite
fruitful to look for common threads in reasoning about safety in complex
systems, and gain insights that are useful in a range of systems.
The IEEE Systems Journal will publish a special issue dedicated to system
safety and safety-critical systems. The aim of this special issue is to
present a collection of high-quality archival research papers that address
theoretical and practical perspectives of the entire system life cycle, to
help create safer systems. Papers that integrate multiple perspectives to
take a larger system-level view, and papers that offer insights valid across
different domains, will be preferred over papers that deal with specific
technologies, theoretical concepts, and local perspectives. The topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:
• Functional safety
• Formal methods for safety in complex systems
• Hazard identification and assessment
• Software safety
• Human factors
• Man-machine interfaces and ergonomics
• Safety and systems engineering
• Safety standards and their evolution
• Safety audits and certification for critical systems
• Design innovations for safety
• Mitigation of natural and man-made disasters
• Safety cultures, policies, and practices
• Corporate governance for safety
• Safety in complex systems with legacy technologies
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions by following
the detailed instructions given in the "Information for Authors" at
http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org. In the cover letter, authors should
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Safety and Safety-Critical Systems." Questions about the special issue may
be directed to the Guest Editors.
SCHEDULE
Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2014
Notification of first decisions: October 15, 2014
Revised paper submission: December 1, 2014
Notification of second reviews: February 1, 2015
Minor revision deadline: March 1, 2015
Final notification: April 1, 2015
Final manuscript: May 1, 2015
Expected publication: 2015/2016
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Systems"
CALL FOR PAPERS
GUEST EDITORS
Shrisha Rao, IIIT-BANGALORE, India, shrao@ieee.org
Paul C. Hershey, RAYTHEON, USA, Paul_C_Hershey@raytheon.com
Michael J. Hirsch, ISEA TEK, USA, mjh8787@ufl.edu
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Safety, "The condition of being safe; freedom from danger, risk or injury,"
is a concern for life in general, and an important issue in the design of
complex systems in particular. While the precise nature of safety in
relation to security is a matter of some debate, it may be said that safety
is the property of a system not to misbehave (in some defined way) on its
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accepted that safety is an emergent system property that must be "baked into
the cake" in the design and construction of complex systems, and that it
cannot be bolted on to an unsafe system later. Likewise, standards and
practices for system operation that are framed for other objectives such as
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safety is a concern is vast, and includes such diverse domains as aviation,
oil and gas installations, power systems, medical devices and services,
maritime, and military, along with many others. While every such domain has
certain important features that call for a unique approach, it is quite
fruitful to look for common threads in reasoning about safety in complex
systems, and gain insights that are useful in a range of systems.
The IEEE Systems Journal will publish a special issue dedicated to system
safety and safety-critical systems. The aim of this special issue is to
present a collection of high-quality archival research papers that address
theoretical and practical perspectives of the entire system life cycle, to
help create safer systems. Papers that integrate multiple perspectives to
take a larger system-level view, and papers that offer insights valid across
different domains, will be preferred over papers that deal with specific
technologies, theoretical concepts, and local perspectives. The topics of
interest include, but are not restricted to:
• Functional safety
• Formal methods for safety in complex systems
• Hazard identification and assessment
• Software safety
• Human factors
• Man-machine interfaces and ergonomics
• Safety and systems engineering
• Safety standards and their evolution
• Safety audits and certification for critical systems
• Design innovations for safety
• Mitigation of natural and man-made disasters
• Safety cultures, policies, and practices
• Corporate governance for safety
• Safety in complex systems with legacy technologies
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the detailed instructions given in the "Information for Authors" at
http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org. In the cover letter, authors should
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be directed to the Guest Editors.
SCHEDULE
Paper submission deadline: June 30, 2014
Notification of first decisions: October 15, 2014
Revised paper submission: December 1, 2014
Notification of second reviews: February 1, 2015
Minor revision deadline: March 1, 2015
Final notification: April 1, 2015
Final manuscript: May 1, 2015
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[DMANET] QPlib2014: call for instances
Quadratic programming problems have received an increasing amount of
attention in recent years, both from theoretical and practical points
of view. However, a library specifically conceived for this class of
problems does not exist yet. For this reason we feel the need to
define a standard test set to compare the performance of different
generic quadratic optimization software and to evaluate the
computational performance of newly developed algorithms and solution
techniques. We are looking for interesting and challenging problems
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* Generic Quadratic objective function.
* Binary, integer and continuous variables.
* Generic Quadratic and/or linear constraints.
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* authors/institution/company providing the instance
* references (optional)
* optimum value or upper and lower bounds (optional)
* any additional relevant information (optional)
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http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/QPlib2014/
The submission deadline is: 1st March 2014.
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We are looking forward to your contribution!
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* Pietro Belotti
* Samuel Burer
* Sourour Elloumi
* Antonio Frangioni
* Fabio Furini
* Nick Gould
* Leo Liberti
* Andrea Lodi
* Ruth Misener
* Frederic Roupin
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Prof. Andrea Lodi
DEI, University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2
40136 Bologna, Italy
phone: +39 051 2093029
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attention in recent years, both from theoretical and practical points
of view. However, a library specifically conceived for this class of
problems does not exist yet. For this reason we feel the need to
define a standard test set to compare the performance of different
generic quadratic optimization software and to evaluate the
computational performance of newly developed algorithms and solution
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Combinatorial Optimization, ideally those which have been built to
model real life problems.
We are interested in benchmarking instances with the following characteristics:
* Generic Quadratic objective function.
* Binary, integer and continuous variables.
* Generic Quadratic and/or linear constraints.
Please submit by email to the following address: QPlib2014@gmail.com
The submitted instances must be in one of the following formats:
GAMS/AMPL/LP/MPS. The submission of instances should be accompanied by a
few lines of description with the following information:
* authors/institution/company providing the instance
* references (optional)
* optimum value or upper and lower bounds (optional)
* any additional relevant information (optional)
Please find the QPlib2014 web page here:
http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/QPlib2014/
The submission deadline is: 1st March 2014.
Please feel free to contact us for any questions, doubts or additional
information.
We are looking forward to your contribution!
The QPlib2014 Committee:
* Alper Atamturk
* Pietro Belotti
* Samuel Burer
* Sourour Elloumi
* Antonio Frangioni
* Fabio Furini
* Nick Gould
* Leo Liberti
* Andrea Lodi
* Ruth Misener
* Frederic Roupin
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Prof. Andrea Lodi
DEI, University of Bologna
Viale Risorgimento 2
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[DMANET] [AOC 2014] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2014)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2014)
June 16, 2014 - Sydney, Australia
http://aoc2014.conference.nicta.com.au
Fast Track on Computer Communication Journal
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom
**** Submission Deadline --- March 7, 2014 ****
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The recent proliferation of sensor-rich portable devices is enabling
novel communication paradigms for users and contributing to the
implementation of the ubiquitous computing and networking vision.
Opportunistic networking represents a key communication paradigm for
this vision. Either as a standalone communication mode or as a
complement to infrastructure-based communication, opportunistic
networking leverages the mobility of end users to enhance their ability
to communicate in the absence of reliable end-to-end connectivity.
Opportunistic networking opens up many possibilities but also poses
countless new challenges. The goal of the AOC 2014 workshop is to serve
as a forum for researchers, professionals, application developers, and
other experts from both academia and industry to exchange new ideas,
discuss new solutions, and share their experiences. As with previous
editions, this year's workshop is particularly interested in novel
research directions, such as service composition techniques,
co-existence with infrastructure networks, and insights from game
theory, social networking analysis, and cognitive psychology. The
workshop will solicit original papers addressing theoretical and
practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications as well
as papers describing prototype implementations and deployments.
Topics of interest for AOC 2014 include, but are not limited to:
* Routing, transport, and reliability issues
* Techniques for data dissemination and replication
* Applications and middleware support, mobile social networking
applications
* Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
* Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
* Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile
wireless networks
* Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
* Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
* Performance modelling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for
autonomic and opportunistic communications
* Game-theoretical insights to the operation of autonomic and
opportunistic networks
* Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic
networks
* Trust, security, and reputation
* Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes,
measurement data from real experiments
* Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
* Mobile Social networks
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
================================
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently
under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited
to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to
the template format.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by
IEEE. There will be no separate workshop registration, as one single
registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. At
least one author of each accepted
paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop. We will use
a free submission system for processing the submissions and reviews.
Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for
possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal
(Elsevier).
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full papers due: March 7, 2014
* Notification: April 15, 2014
* Workshop: June 16, 2014
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Chairs
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* Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
* Peizhao Hu, NICTA, Australia
Steering Committee
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* Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
* Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland
* Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece
Publicity Chair
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* Olivier Mehani, NICTA, Australia
* Davide Mascitti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Webmaster
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* Christoph Dwertmann, NICTA, Australia
Program Committee (tentative)
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* Nils Aschenbruck University of Osnabruck, Germany
* Chiara Boldrini IIT-CNR, Italy
* Eleonora Borgia IIT-CNR, Italy
* Vania Conan Thales, France
* Serge Fdida UPMC, Paris VI, France
* Laura Galluccio University of Catania, Italy
* Tristan Henderson University of St. Andrews, UK
* Kyunghan Lee North Carolina State University, USA
* Franck Legendre ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Daniele Miorandi Create-net, Italy
* Refik Molva Eurecom, France
* Valtteri Niemi Nokia, Switzerland
* Katia Obraczka University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
* Konstantinos Oikonomou Ionian University, Greece
* Joerg Ott HUT, Finland
* Elena Pagani Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy
* Daniele Puccinelli SUPSI, Switzerland
* Christian Rohner Uppsala University, Sweden
* Abdullatif Shikfa Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France
* Weisheng Si University of Western Sydney, Australia
* Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos EURECOM, France
* Roger Whitaker Cardiff University, UK
* Hongyi Wu University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
* Eiko Yoneki University of Cambridge, UK
* Franco Zambonelli University of Modena-Reggio, Italy
* Sebastian Zander Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Eighth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications (AOC 2014)
June 16, 2014 - Sydney, Australia
http://aoc2014.conference.nicta.com.au
Fast Track on Computer Communication Journal
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/comcom
**** Submission Deadline --- March 7, 2014 ****
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The recent proliferation of sensor-rich portable devices is enabling
novel communication paradigms for users and contributing to the
implementation of the ubiquitous computing and networking vision.
Opportunistic networking represents a key communication paradigm for
this vision. Either as a standalone communication mode or as a
complement to infrastructure-based communication, opportunistic
networking leverages the mobility of end users to enhance their ability
to communicate in the absence of reliable end-to-end connectivity.
Opportunistic networking opens up many possibilities but also poses
countless new challenges. The goal of the AOC 2014 workshop is to serve
as a forum for researchers, professionals, application developers, and
other experts from both academia and industry to exchange new ideas,
discuss new solutions, and share their experiences. As with previous
editions, this year's workshop is particularly interested in novel
research directions, such as service composition techniques,
co-existence with infrastructure networks, and insights from game
theory, social networking analysis, and cognitive psychology. The
workshop will solicit original papers addressing theoretical and
practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic communications as well
as papers describing prototype implementations and deployments.
Topics of interest for AOC 2014 include, but are not limited to:
* Routing, transport, and reliability issues
* Techniques for data dissemination and replication
* Applications and middleware support, mobile social networking
applications
* Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
* Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
* Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile
wireless networks
* Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
* Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
* Performance modelling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for
autonomic and opportunistic communications
* Game-theoretical insights to the operation of autonomic and
opportunistic networks
* Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic
networks
* Trust, security, and reputation
* Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes,
measurement data from real experiments
* Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
* Mobile Social networks
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently
under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited
to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to
the template format.
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by
IEEE. There will be no separate workshop registration, as one single
registration will cover both conference and workshops participation. At
least one author of each accepted
paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop. We will use
a free submission system for processing the submissions and reviews.
Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for
possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal
(Elsevier).
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Full papers due: March 7, 2014
* Notification: April 15, 2014
* Workshop: June 16, 2014
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
====================
Workshop Chairs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
* Peizhao Hu, NICTA, Australia
Steering Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
* Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland
* Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece
Publicity Chair
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Olivier Mehani, NICTA, Australia
* Davide Mascitti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Webmaster
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* Christoph Dwertmann, NICTA, Australia
Program Committee (tentative)
=============================
* Nils Aschenbruck University of Osnabruck, Germany
* Chiara Boldrini IIT-CNR, Italy
* Eleonora Borgia IIT-CNR, Italy
* Vania Conan Thales, France
* Serge Fdida UPMC, Paris VI, France
* Laura Galluccio University of Catania, Italy
* Tristan Henderson University of St. Andrews, UK
* Kyunghan Lee North Carolina State University, USA
* Franck Legendre ETH Zurich, Switzerland
* Daniele Miorandi Create-net, Italy
* Refik Molva Eurecom, France
* Valtteri Niemi Nokia, Switzerland
* Katia Obraczka University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
* Konstantinos Oikonomou Ionian University, Greece
* Joerg Ott HUT, Finland
* Elena Pagani Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
* Andrea Passarella IIT-CNR, Italy
* Daniele Puccinelli SUPSI, Switzerland
* Christian Rohner Uppsala University, Sweden
* Abdullatif Shikfa Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France
* Weisheng Si University of Western Sydney, Australia
* Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos EURECOM, France
* Roger Whitaker Cardiff University, UK
* Hongyi Wu University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
* Eiko Yoneki University of Cambridge, UK
* Franco Zambonelli University of Modena-Reggio, Italy
* Sebastian Zander Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
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Monday, January 20, 2014
[DMANET] Workshop on Algebraic Complexity Theory (WACT 2014)
Workshop on Algebraic Complexity Theory - WACT 2014
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
March 24-28, 2014
On 24-28 March 2014, Saarland University hosts the Workshop on Algebraic
Complexity Theory - WACT 2014.
WACT 2013 was held in Aarhus, Denmark.
Algebraic Complexity Theory is a classical subfield of computational
complexity theory.
In recent years, the field has been the subject of an intense revival.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together world leading experts
within algebraic complexity with
the aim of discussing the current state of the art and setting the
directions for the future.
Confirmed invited speakers are:
V. Arvind – The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Peter Bro Miltersen - Aarhus University
Neeraj Kayal - Microsoft Research India
Pascal Koiran – ENS Lyon
Meena Mahajan - The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Chandan Saha - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Nitin Saxena - IIT Kanpur
Amir Sphilka – Technion
Thomas Thierauf - Aalen University
Chris Umans - Caltech
For further information, see the website:
http://www-cc.cs.uni-saarland.de/wact2014/
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Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
March 24-28, 2014
On 24-28 March 2014, Saarland University hosts the Workshop on Algebraic
Complexity Theory - WACT 2014.
WACT 2013 was held in Aarhus, Denmark.
Algebraic Complexity Theory is a classical subfield of computational
complexity theory.
In recent years, the field has been the subject of an intense revival.
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together world leading experts
within algebraic complexity with
the aim of discussing the current state of the art and setting the
directions for the future.
Confirmed invited speakers are:
V. Arvind – The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Peter Bro Miltersen - Aarhus University
Neeraj Kayal - Microsoft Research India
Pascal Koiran – ENS Lyon
Meena Mahajan - The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
Chandan Saha - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Nitin Saxena - IIT Kanpur
Amir Sphilka – Technion
Thomas Thierauf - Aalen University
Chris Umans - Caltech
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[DMANET] Approx 2014 and Random 2014: Call for Papers
APPROX 2014 and RANDOM 2014
17th Intl. Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems - APPROX 2014
&
18th Intl. Workshop on Randomization and Computation - RANDOM 2014
http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/
Sep. 4-6, 2014
UPC, Barcelona
Call for papers
SCOPE
The 17th. International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for
Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX'2014), and the 18th.
International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM'2014)
will be held on 4-6 September 2014 in Barcelona.
APPROX'2014 focuses on algorithmic and complexity theoretic issues
relevant to the development of efficient approximate solutions to
computationally difficult problems, while RANDOM'2014 focuses on
applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems.
RANDOM'2014 is the eighteenth workshop in the series; APPROX'2014 is
the seventeenth in the series.
TOPICS
Papers are solicited in all research areas related to randomization and
approximation, including, but not limited to:
APPROX
- design and analysis of approximation algorithms
- hardness of approximation
- small space, sub-linear time and streaming algorithms
- embeddings and metric space methods
- mathematical programming methods
- combinatorial problems in graphs and networks
- algorithmic game theory and economics
- computational geometric problems
- approximate learning
- online algorithms
- approaches that go beyond worst case analysis
- other applications
RANDOM
- design and analysis of randomized algorithms
- randomized complexity theory
- pseudorandomness and derandomization
- random combinatorial structures
- random walks/Markov chains
- expander graphs and randomness extractors
- probabilistic proof systems
- random projections and embeddings
- error-correcting codes
- average-case analysis
- property testing
- computational learning theory
SUBMISSIONS
Abstract Format: Electronic submissions are solicited. Please consult
the following servers:
For submission of APPROX papers:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=approx2014
For submission of RANDOM papers:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=random2014
Note: You will be asked to login using an EasyChair account. Directions
on how to register for such an account are available at the submission
servers (you may also have an old account from a previous conference
submission).
The submission must be received by 17:00pm (PDT) of April 17 for your
submission to be considered.
Submission Format: Submissions should start with the title of the
paper, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, followed by
a one-paragraph summary of the results to be presented. This should
then be followed by a technical exposition on single-spaced pages on
letter-size paper, using reasonable margins and at least 11-point
font. The first 10 pages should contain the main ideas and techniques
used to achieve the results including motivation and a clear comparison
with related work (not including the references). There is no page
limit but any material beyond the first 10 pages will be read at the
sole discretion of the program committee.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings
is not allowed.
PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings of the
conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in
Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees
perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain
the rights over their work. Further detail will be available early
January at the conference website.
Previous proceedings of APPROX appeared as LNCS 1444, 1671, 1913, 2129,
2462, 2764, 3122, 3624, 4110 and 4627 while previous proceedings of
RANDOM appeared as LNCS 1269, 1518, 1671, 2129, 2483, 2764, 3122, 3624,
4110, 4627 and as Proceedings in Informatics 8.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions: April 17th, Thursday
Notifications: June 6th, Friday
Camera ready: June 20th, Friday
PROGRAM COMMITTEES
Approx
Niv Buchbinder - Tel-Aviv University
Deeparnab Chakrabarty - Microsoft Research, India
Siu On Chan - Microsoft Research, New England
Shuchi Chawla - University of Wisconsin
Eden Chlamtac - Ben Gurion University
Nikhil Devanur (Chair) - Microsoft Research, Redmond
Alina Ene - Princeton University
Konstantinos Georgiou - University of Waterloo
Telikepalli Kavitha - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Ken Ichi Kawarabayashi - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Amit Kumar - Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Konstantin Makarychev - Microsoft Research, Redmond
Debmalya Panigrahi - Duke University
Thomas Rothvoss - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barna Saha - AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory, New Jersey
Bruce Shepherd - MCGill University
Aravind Srinivasan - University of Maryland
David Williamson - Cornell University
Random
Louigi Addario-Berry - MCGill University, Canada
Nayantara Bhatnagar - University of Delaware
Amin Coja-Oghlan - Goethe University, Germany
David Galvin - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Valentine Kabanets - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Michael Molloy - University of Toronto
Cris Moore (Chair) - Santa Fe Institute
Assaf Naor - New York University
Krzysztof Onak - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dana Ron - Tel-Aviv University
Alex Russell - University of Connecticut
Dominik Scheder - Aarhus University
Devavrat Shah - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Perla Sousi - University of Cambridge
Mario Szegedy - Rutgers University
Amnon Ta-Shma - Tel-Aviv University
Thomas Vidick - Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
Program Chairs
APPROX
Nikhil Devanur - Microsoft Research, Redmond
email: nikdev@microsoft.com
RANDOM
Cris Moore - Santa Fe Institute
email: mmore@santafe.edu
Workshop Chairs
José Rolim, U. of Geneva
e-mail: jose.rolim@unige.ch
Klaus Jansen, U. of Kiel
e-mail: kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de
Organizing Commitee Chair
Carme Alvarez - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
email: alvarez@lsi.upc.edu
CONFERENCE WEB PAGE
http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/
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