Thursday, November 8, 2018

[DMANET] Two Tenure-Track Faculty Positions at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

Assistant Professors: Data Science, Security Science and Cyberinfrastructure
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Applications are invited for two (2) tenure track Assistant Professors
at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Information & Computer Sciences
(ICS) Department in the areas of Data Science, Security Science and
Cyberinfrastructure. We are especially interested in candidates that tie
the requested areas together, for example (1) Data Science and Security,
and (2) Cyberinfrastructure for Data Science Applications. Exceptional
candidates at higher ranks will also be considered.

Duties and Responsibilities
Duties include undertaking a program of independent research, teaching
graduate and undergraduate courses, and contributing to the academic and
scientific life of the ICS Department. Collaboration with Data Science
initiatives across campus is encouraged. Responsibilities also include
participation in University committees, helping to serve as academic
advisor to students; and performing related tasks as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
Applicants must hold a PhD in Computer Science or related areas by time
of the appointment, with research and development experience in Data
Science, Security Science or Cyberinfrastructure. Applicants should have
an outstanding research record, an ability to lead a research program
involving students and postdocs, and an ability to teach effectively at
the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Desirable Qualifications
For candidates combining Data Science and Cyberinfrastructure:
Experience working on data-intensive or computational problems using
cyberinfrastructure in collaboration with a domain-specific area in the
natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, humanities, business or
other disciplines.

To Apply
Applications must be uploaded to AcademicJobsOnline
(https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/12654). Please include a
curriculum vitae (including bibliography), names (and contact email) of
three references, statements of research and teaching interests and
plans and funding history (if any). All materials should be received by
December 20, 2018.

The University of Hawaiʻi is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the
basis of race, sex, gender identity and expression, age, religion,
color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, genetic
information, marital status, breastfeeding, income assignment for child
support, arrest and court record (except as permissible under State
law), sexual orientation, domestic or sexual violence victim status,
national guard absence, or status as a covered veteran.

Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility
verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
1986; reference checks of previous employers; and for certain positions,
criminal history record checks.

In accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy
and Campus Crime Statistics Act, annual campus crime statistics for the
University of Hawaii may be viewed at: http://ope.ed.gov/security/, or a
paper copy may be obtained upon request from the respective UH Campus
Security or Administrative Services Office.

Contact: Prof. Guylaine Poisson, guylaine@hawaii.edu
<mailto:guylaine@hawaii.edu>


--
Nodari Sitchinava
Assistant Professor
AlgoPARC - Algorithms and Parallel Computing Group
Department of ICS
University of Hawaii at Manoa

http://algoparc.ics.hawaii.edu
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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

[DMANET] The winter school on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science, Tbilisi, Georgia, February 4-9, 2019.

The winter school on Theoretical Foundations of Computer Science (
https://cte.ibsu.edu.ge/wstfcs2019/) will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia,
February 4-9, 2019. The school will be organized by the International Black
Sea University with the support of Shota Rustaveli National Science
Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG). The intended audience of the winter school
includes master and PhD students as well as young researchers from the
fields of computer science and mathematics. The lecturers and subjects of
the school are:

Volker Diekert (University of Stuttgart, Germany) - Algorithms and
Complexity

Santiago Escobar (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) - Program
Verification

Boris Konev (University of Liverpool, UK) - Logic for Computer Scientists

Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria) -
Automated Reasoning

Luigi Liquori (INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France) - Foundations
of Peer-to-peer Networks and Tools

Mircea Marin (West University of Timisoara, Romania) - Foundations of
Programming Languages

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[DMANET] Faculty Positions at IEOR, Columbia University

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at
Columbia Engineering invites applications for two tenure-track faculty
positions at the rank of Assistant Professor. We are looking for candidates
with exciting and relevant research in all areas of operations research.
Candidates with interests in computational methods for financial
engineering, large scale convex
and non-convex optimization methods, machine learning and reinforcement
learning for OR applications, and economic analysis of operations problems,
are especially encouraged to apply.

Applicants should have a record that demonstrates potential for research
and teaching excellence. Successful candidates are expected to contribute
to the advancement of their field and the department by developing an
original and leading research program, and to contribute to the
department's undergraduate and graduate educational programs. Columbia
fosters multi-disciplinary research and encourages collaborations with
academic departments and units across the university.

The Department is particularly interested in qualified candidates who can
contribute to the diversity and excellence of the university community.

For additional information, please see:
http://engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-job-opportunities. Applications
should be submitted electronically and include the following:
curriculum-vitae including a list of publications, a description of
research accomplishments, a statement of research and teaching interests
and plans, contact information for three experts who can provide letters of
recommendation, and a link to pre/reprints of scholarly work.

Applicants should apply at: http://pa334.peopleadmin.com/postings/1824

All applications received by December 1, 2018 will receive full
consideration.

Applicants can consult www.ieor.columbia.edu for more information about the
department. Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
employer---Disability/Veteran.

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[DMANET] VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize 2018

The VeRoLog Doctoral Dissertation Prize (VeRoLog DDP) is issued by the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization (VeRoLog) and is awarded at each VeRoLog annual conference. The purpose of the prize is to distinguish an outstanding PhD thesis on Operational Research methods applied to the Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization. It will be awarded at the VeRoLog 2019 conference (Seville, June 3-5, 2019).

The complete announcement can be found at https://www.euro-online.org/websites/verolog/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/11/VeRoLog-Doctoral-Dissertation-Prize-2018_WD.pdf <https://www.euro-online.org/websites/verolog/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2018/11/VeRoLog-Doctoral-Dissertation-Prize-2018_WD.pdf>
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[DMANET] [SMARTCOMP 2019] - Call for Workshop Proposals

IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING (SMARTCOMP 2019)
Washington D.C., (US) 12-15 June 2019
http://www.smart-comp.org <http://www.smart-comp.org/>


Call for workshop proposals
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Continuing the well-established tradition of this series of symposia, SMARTCOMP 2019
will provide an international technical forum for experts from industry and academia
to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art areas
of computers and communications. This year, special focus will be on the challenging issues
related to all the opportunities of computing, sensing and communication in the era of the
integration of Internet of Things, Cloud Computing, and Big Data.

The Workshops Committee of SMARTCOMP 2019 invites proposals for half or full day workshops
affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to SMARTCOMP 2019 attendees. The
purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in a
less formal and possibly more sharply focused way than at the conference itself.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Internet of Things, Software-Defined
Networking, Big Data, Cloud Computing, M2M communications and Smart Grid. Papers presented
in the SMARTCOMP 2019 workshops will be included in the conference proceedings and submitted
for publication in IEEE Xplore®.


Submission Guidelines
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Each workshop proposal must include the following:
* the name of the workshop;
* the names, addresses, and short bios of the organizers;
* a brief description (up to one page long) of the technical issues that the workshop's focus
will be on, and the reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time;
* the names of potential Program Committee members;
* the planned format of the workshop, including a strategy to facilitate lively discussions
and involvement of the attendees;
* if a keynote speech is included in the planned format of the workshop, the name(s) of the
potential keynote speaker(s);
* if applicable, a description of past versions of the workshop, including dates, organizers,
number of submitted and accepted papers, and number of attendees;
* if the workshop is going to be organized for the first time, an estimate of the expected
number of submissions and attendees;
* a tentative Call for Papers (as complete as possible);
a description of the plans for publicity and Workshop Web site.


Submission Method
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Workshop proposals should be submitted, no later than 23 November 2018, in PDF format by email with the subject line
"SMARTCOMP 2019 Workshop Proposal" to the Workshop Chairs:

Dario Bruneo (dbruneo@unime.it <mailto:dbruneo@unime.it>)
Christine Julien (c.julien@mail.utexas.edu <mailto:c.julien@mail.utexas.edu>)


Important Dates
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Proposal for workshop submission deadline: 23 November 2018
Notification of workshop acceptance: 15 December 2018
Paper submission deadline: 28 February 2019
Notification of paper acceptance: 30 March 2019
Submission of camera-ready deadline: 21 April 2019


SMARTCOMP 2019 Workshop Chair
Dario Bruneo, University of Messina, Italy
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Monday, November 5, 2018

[DMANET] MIPLIB 2017: Official release of the new Mixed-Integer Programming LIBrary, version 6

Dear colleagues and friends of MIP,

We are happy to announce the official release of the new MIPLIB 2017,
the 6th edition of the Mixed-Integer Programming LIBrary, at

http://miplib.zib.de/

Since 1992, MIPLIB has served as an important stimulus for researchers
and practitioners. The new library has been selected from more than 100
new submissions and publically available instances. The final
collection consists of over 1000 MIP models and is by far the largest
MIPLIB that was ever created.

For the first time, instances have been selected using a fully
data-driven process to represent the diversity of MIP best possible. A
subset of 240 benchmark instances has been carefully selected such that
the shifted geometric mean over all these instances allows, as much as
possible, a balanced but challenging assessment of current MIP solver
performance.

The web site provides an overview of the selection methodology and
convenient access to instance sets, individual instance information,
supplementary material, best known solutions, and much more. A more
detailed report is currently in preparation.

Finally, we would like to encourage the community to become active and
contribute bibliographic information and improving solutions to more
than 300 currently unsolved problem instances. Also general feedback
and suggestions for improvements are always welcome.

At this occasion, the committee of MIPLIB 2017 would like to thank all
involved people for their contributions and instance submissions to the
new edition of MIPLIB!

Happy problem solving,

Ambros Gleixner, Gregor Hendel, and Gerald Gamrath
on behalf of the MIPLIB committee

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[DMANET] UoM-Biopharm Sercives KTP: Expensive-Optimization, 13 months

JOB: KTP Associate: Expensive-Optimization for Bioprocessing (UK)
CLOSING DATE: 10th December 2018


The University of Manchester's Decision and Cognitive Sciences Research
Centre (DCSRC) and Machine Learning & Optimization Group, in partnership
with Biopharm Services Ltd, is offering a unique opportunity to work with
two prestigious organisations on a project to develop flexible optimization
techniques for computationally expensive problems in the area of drug
manufacturing. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) will address how to
(i) build optimization tools capable of dealing with problems that have
time-consuming simulations, constraints, multiple objectives and mixed-type
decision variables, followed by (ii) embedding the resulting tools into an
existing decision-making framework, and finally (iii) supporting the
commercialization of the framework.

Available from December 2018, the post is funded for 13 months in the first
instance and includes a £2,000 dedicated personal development budget and
£5,000 for travel and consumables.

* Key Requirements

Candidates should hold an MSc (for appointment at Grade 6) or PhD (for
appointment at Grade 7) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or a
closely related field. It is essential that the successful candidate has
experience in expensive optimization (e.g. Bayesian optimization),
programming experience in at least one language (ideally Python) and strong
analytical, problem solving and communication skills. Experience in drug
manufacturing is a bonus but not essential.

Appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this
is not the case, initial appointment will be at Grade 6 (salary range as
above) with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final
submission of the PhD thesis.

* Further Details

Please go to https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=16365 for
a job description and person specification, together with some details
about the DCSRC and Biopharm Services.

Informal enquiries regarding the vacancy may be addressed to

Dr Richard Allmendinger, email: richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk, tel:
+44(0)161 306 6598.

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[DMANET] Professors in Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland

The Department of Computer Science (https://cs.aalto.fi/) at Aalto
University invites applications from tenure-track candidates for the
Assistant Professor level, as well as from candidates with outstanding
records for tenured Associate or Full Professor levels. We welcome
applications in any area of computer science and are particularly
interested in the following: Algorithm Engineering, Data Management,
Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, and Software Systems.
Female candidates are especially encouraged to apply.

The Aalto Department of Computer Science provides world-class research
and education in modern computer science to foster future science,
engineering and society. The work combines fundamental research with
innovative applications. The department is routinely ranked among the
top 10 CS departments in Europe and in the top 100 globally. In terms of
the living environment, Finland has been assessed as among the best
countries in the world with respect to many quality of life indicators
(https://bit.ly/2swphVU), including being the overall #1 country in
human wellbeing (https://bit.ly/2hhky4b).

For more information, see job ad:
https://www.aalto.fi/careers/professors-in-computer-science, and
brochure:
https://www.aalto.fi/sites/g/files/flghsv161/files/2018-11/cs2018_brochure_181105.pdf.
The application period ends January 10, 2019.
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[DMANET] [CFP] DCOSS 2019 - 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems - deadline January 18, 2019

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call
for Papers (CFP).]

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The 15th Annual International Conference on
Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2019)*

May 29-31, 2019
Santorini Island, Greece
www.dcoss.org

*technically co-sponsored by IEEE
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DCOSS 2019 is the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing
in Sensor Systems to be hosted on Santorini Island in Greece, in May
29-31, 2019. In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant
growth in the use of distributed sensor systems in a number of
application areas, ranging from smart transport, energy and buildings,
to factory automation, smart healthcare and environmental monitoring. In
order for smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we
need to address a number of research challenges, including the tight
integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient
networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable
autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security,
privacy and trust. DCOSS focuses on distributed information processing
issues arising in networked sensor systems, covering aspects of
high-level abstractions, models and languages, novel algorithms and
applications, system design approaches and architectures, as well as
tools for simulated and real deployments.

Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts
that demonstrate recent advances in both theoretical and experimental
research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
- Energy harvesting models and optimization
- Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real time analytics
- Communication and networking primitives and protocols
- Autonomy: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
- Task allocation, reprogramming, and reconfiguration
- Robustness, resilience and dependability
- Security and privacy issues
- Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
- Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
- Mobile and human-centered sensing
- Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability
- Crowd sensing and social sensing techniques, applications, and systems
- Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
- Novel and compelling applications

******** Main Organizers ********

- General Chair:
Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece

- Technical Program Committee Chairs:
Niki Trigoni, University of Oxford, UK
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy

- Steering Committee Chair:
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland

- Technical Program Committee:
Stefano Basagni, Northeastern University, USA
Carlo Alberto Boano, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa (previous general chair), Canada
Jean-Francois Chamberland, Texas A&M University, USA
Kevin Chan, US Army Research Laboratory, USA
Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester, UK
Carlo Fischione, KTH Royal instiute of Technology, Sweden
Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
Raghu Ganti, IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA
Omprakash Gnawali, University of Houston, USA
Vlado Handziski, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Tian He, University of Minnesota, USA
Wendi Heinzelman, University of Rochester, USA
Wen Hu, University of New South Wales, Australia
Raja Jurdak, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Tomasz Jurdzinski, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
Olaf Landsiedel, Kiel University, Germany
Nic Lane, University of Oxford, UK
Chieh-Jan Mike Liang, Microsoft Research, China
Jun Luo, Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore
Radu Marculescu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Prasant Misra, TCS Research & Innovation, India
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France
Miguel A. Mosteiro, Pace University, USA
Luca Mottola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Amy Murphy, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Suman Nath, Microsoft Research, USA
Chiara Petrioli, Rome University `La Sapienza', Italy
Cristina Pinotti, University of Perugia, Italy
Utz Roedig, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Rik Sarkar, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Tam Vu, University of Colorado Denver, USA
Dong Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA
Hongkai Wen, University of Warwick, UK
Jie Yang, Florida State University, USA
Ying Zhang, Facebook
Desheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA
Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

******** Special Issue and Best Paper Awards ********

All accepted papers will be candidate to a "Best Paper Award" that will
be announced at the conference. Also, a best poster/demo award will be
announced.

Further, selected papers will be fast-tracked to a thematic special
issue of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal by Elsevier, on algorithms, systems
and applications for distributed sensing (D-SENSE).

******** Collocated Events ********

DCOSS 2019 will collocate with several thematic Workshops and Special
Sessions on emerging topics and technologies (such as WPSN, ISIoT, SmaCE).

The event will also feature a poster and demo session

********Important Dates********

Abstract Registration Deadline: January 11, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)
Paper Submission Deadline: January 18, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)
Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2019
Camera Ready Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 (11:59pm AoE)
Early Registration Deadline: April 10, 2019 (11:59 pm AoE)
Conference Dates: May 29-31, 2019


********Sponsors********
Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID), Patras
University, Greece
Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI), Greece
Athens Information Technology (AIT), Center of Excellence for Research
and Education, Greece
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

********Submission Guidelines********
http://www.dcoss.org/submission.html

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[DMANET] last call - Assistant Professor in Mathematics, LSE

Assistant Professor in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, LSE (The
London School of Economics and Political Science)

**application deadline 18 Nov 2018**

The Department of Mathematics at LSE seeks to appoint an Assistant
Professor with expertise in a subject area related to the Mathematics of
Operations Research. The successful candidate will have an established
track record or trajectory of research at a level of international
excellence, will be able to teach mathematics at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and will have a commitment to excellence in
teaching. They will contribute to the general work of the Department,
including the teaching of a range of courses. They will maintain an
active programme of research in mathematics and will have a clear, well
developed and viable strategy for future outstanding research. They will
have a PhD in a mathematical subject, or be close to completing one, by
the intended start date of 2nd September 2019. Expertise and research
interest in a subject area related to the Mathematics of Operations
Research is essential.

Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions
worldwide and not less than £54,984 per annum inclusive. For further
information about the post, benefits, shortlisting criteria, and contact
information, please see https://tinyurl.com/MathJobLSE and its links to
the "how to apply" document, job description, and person specification.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 18 November 2018
(23.59 UK time).

Should you have any queries about the role, please email the Head of the
Department of Mathematics, Professor Martin Anthony (m.anthony@lse.ac.uk).

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Saturday, November 3, 2018

[DMANET] Deadline extension: Job Opening for Statistical Computing in Quantitative Psychology

Dear colleagues,

Please note: The deadline for the below application has been extended to
November 15th!

We are searching for applications for a postdoc or predoc position at the
lab for Quantitative Psychology in the Department of Psychology, Universität
der Bundeswehr, München. The position is fully funded, first offered for 3
years with the possibility of an extension, at the level of E13 / E14 German
TVöD. We develop statistical software for the use in social sciences,
particularly in psychology, with special emphasis on Bayesian statistics and
Machine Learning. Applicants should have a master degree or comparable in
psychology, computer sciences, mathematics, or related fields. Applications
will be processed starting November 15th 2018, later applications may be
considered until the position is filled.

Cheers,

Timo von Oertzen

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Universität der Bundeswehr, München
Institut für Psychologie
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Büro: +49 89 6004 4456
Mobil: +49 152 5356 7264
Festnetz: +49 30 2241 2981
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[DMANET] INFORMS TSL Workshop 2019 in Vienna

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INFORMS TSL Workshop 2019 in Vienna
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tslworkshop2019.univie.ac.at

The next INFORMS TSL Workshop will be held from July 15-19, 2019 at the University of Vienna.
The topic of the workshop is "Transportation in the sharing economy". Sharing economy refers
to collaborative consumption. It is typically organized through platforms that facilitate the
exchange of goods or services. Given an increasing pressure to act economically and ecologically
efficient, mechanisms that help to benefit from idle capacities are on the rise. Both
transportation companies and heavy users of transportation services need to learn how to play in
a world of shared idle capacities. We anticipate talks on various types of collaborations, crowd
delivery, carsharing, carpooling, ridesharing, etc.

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Topics
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We will welcome contributions that address modeling, methodological or game theoretical
aspects. Possible topics are (but not limited to):

* Collaborative and cooperative transportation
* Crowd shipping or sourcing
* Car-, bike-, or ride sharing
* Car and bike repositioning
* Car pooling
* Intermodal and multimodal transportation
* Synchromodality and the physical internet
* Business model developments in the sharing economy
* Shared mobility services


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Important dates
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Submission deadline: January 15, 2019
Notification: February 28, 2019
Early registration deadline: March 31, 2019

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Submissions
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Abstracts should be as complete as possible, no less than 2 pages and not exceeding more than 3 pages.­Abstract submissions will be handled via EasyChair:easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsl2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tsl2019>

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Keynote speakers
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Martin Bichler (Technical University of Munich)
Michal Tzur (Tel Aviv University)

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Organizing Committee
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Margaretha Gansterer
Karl Dörner
Richard Hartl
Rudolf Vetschera

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Dr. Margaretha Gansterer, Priv.-Doz.

University of Vienna
Business, Economics and Statistics
Department of Business Decisions and Analytics
Production and Operations Management
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, A-1090 Wien
tel +43 (0)1 4277 37915
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[DMANET] Faculty position (all ranks) in Theoretical Foundations of Distributed Systems at Arizona State University

Dear all,

I would like to bring to your attention the following open faculty position (all ranks) in Computer Science (and realted fileds) in Theoretical Foundations of Distributed Systems at Arizona State University.

Best regards,

Andrea Richa (aricha@asu.edu)
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PROFESSOR (ALL RANKS) IN THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
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The Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) seek applicants for tenure-track/tenured faculty positions in Theoretical Foundations of Distributed Systems in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE). Researchers with interests in the theoretical aspects of distributed systems, algorithms, and computation (broadly defined) are encouraged to apply. Areas of interests include, but are not limited to, blockchain protocols, game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing, secure multiparty computation and cryptography, biologically-inspired distributed algorithms, resilient distributed systems, Internet of Things (IoT), and other emerging areas of distributed computing.

The distributed algorithms and systems, and the network algorithms and optimization groups in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering includes faculty working on a variety of topics spanning the theoretical aspects and the more applied sides of distributed systems, including bio-inspired collective algorithms, blockchain, cloud computing, crowdsensing, cybersecurity, network algorithms and optimization, self-organizing and self-stabilizing distributed systems, and survivable networks. Extensive collaborations exist with other world-class groups within our school and across the university, including the AI group, the Cybersecurity group, the Robotics group, the DHS Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency, the BioDesign Institute, and the Global Institute of Sustainability.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: Earned Ph.D. or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, algorithms, distributed systems, parallel and distributed computing or related field by the time of employment. Demonstrated evidence of excellence in research and teaching as appropriate to the candidate's rank. DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS (junior level): Commitment to teaching at both the graduate and the undergraduate levels, strong record of publications in top-tier venues and the potential for establishing an externally funded research program. Desired qualifications (senior level): Record of high-quality teaching and a record of acquiring external funding and publication in top-tier journals/conferences with real-world impact.

We seek applicants who will contribute to our programs and expand collaborations with existing faculty at ASU. Located in Tempe with easy access to the outdoors and urban amenities, ASU's vibrant and innovative approaches to research and teaching are charting new paths in education and research in the public interest. Faculty members are expected to develop an internationally recognized and externally funded research program, develop and teach graduate and undergraduate courses, advise and mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and undertake service activities. ASU strongly encourages transdisciplinary collaboration and use-inspired, socially relevant research. Successful candidates will be encouraged to expand expertise and collaborations in these areas. Although the tenure home may be in any of the Ira A Fulton Schools of Engineering, the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering is currently the most involved in the interest areas of this research.

Appointments will be at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank commensurate with the candidate's experience and accomplishments, beginning August 2019. Review of applications will begin December 14, 2018; if not filled, reviews will occur on the 1st and 15th of every month thereafter until the search is closed. Apply at https://hiring.engineering.asu.edu/. Candidates will be asked to submit the following through their Interfolio Dossier:

Cover letter
Current CV
Statement describing research interests
Statement describing teaching interests
(Optional) A short diversity statement
Contact information for at least three references

For further information or questions about this position please contact Professor Guoliang Xue at (xue@asu.edu).

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. See ASU's full non-‐ discrimination statement (ACD 401) at https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and the Title IX statement at https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/


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Professor and Barrett Honors Faculty
Computer Science and Engineering, CIDSE
BSS@Biodesign Institute, CHART@Global Security Initiative, and Biomimicry Center
Arizona State University
699 S Mill Ave #440, Tempe AZ 85281
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[DMANET] PhD positions at the London School of Economics, UK

The Department of Mathematics at LSE has openings for PhD students,
including in the areas of Discrete Mathematics, Operations Research and
Analytics, and Game Theory. We are seeking exceptionally talented and
motivated students with a strong mathematical background and interest in
combinatorics, discrete random structures, mathematical foundations of
operations research, discrete optimisation, algorithms, mathematical and
algorithmic game theory, and related areas.

For further information about the PhD programme, application procedures,
and faculty please see
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Applicants will automatically be considered for LSE funding covering
fees and paying GBP 18,000/year (approximately EUR 20,400 or USD 23,000)
for up to 4 years. The award of these scholarships is competitive,
based on academic performance (typically in an MSc or equivalent) and
suitability of the proposed research. The first (of two) application
deadline for funding is 7 January 2019; by this time a complete
application with references must have been submitted.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to contact the following
department faculty members, well in advance of the deadline, to discuss
their qualifications and research interests before submitting a formal
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[DMANET] CFP 19th International Conference on Application of Concurrency to System Design (ACSD'19)

Call for Papers and Announcement
ACSD 2019
19th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON APPLICATION OF CONCURRENCY TO SYSTEM
DESIGN
Aachen, Germany, June 23-28, 2019

Additional information about the conference will be published via
http://www.petrinets2019.de/acsd-2019/

The conference will be co-located with the 40th International Conference on
Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency (Petri Nets 2019).

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission: January 16, 2019 (*)
Submission of Papers: January 22, 2019 (*)
Notification: March 8, 2019
Final Version Due: March 22, 2019 (*)
Participation in Tool Exhibition: June 1, 2019
Conference: June 23-28, 2019
(*) The deadline is the end of day Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

The 19th international ACSD conference will be organized by the Process and
Data Science (PADS) group at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. The
new PADS group was established in the context of Wil van der Aalst's
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship. The conference will take place in the
conference area of the Tivoli football stadium close to the city center of
Aachen. The language of the conference is English, and the conference
proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.

CONFERENCE SCOPE:
The conference aims at cross-fertilizing both theoretical and applied
research about formal approaches (in a broad sense) to designing computer
systems that exhibit some kind of concurrent behavior. In particular, the
following topics are of interest:
- Formal models of computation and concurrency for the above systems and
problems, like data- flow models, communicating automata, Petri nets,
process algebras, graph rewriting systems, state charts, MSCs, modal and
temporal logics
- Compositional design principles like modular synthesis, distributed
simulation and implementation, distributed control, adaptivity, supervisory
control
- Algorithms and tools for concurrent systems, ranging from programming
languages to algorithmic methods for system analysis and construction,
including model checking, verification, and static analysis techniques as
well as synthesis procedures
- Synchronous and asynchronous systems on all design levels: polychronous
systems, endochronous systems, globally asynchronous locally synchronous
systems
- Cyber-physical systems, hybrid systems, networked systems, and networks
in biological systems
- High-performance computer architectures like many-core processors,
networks on chip, graphics processing units, instruction-level parallelism,
dataflow architectures, up to ad-hoc, mobile, and wireless networks
- Memory consistency models for multiprocessor and multicore architectures,
replicated data, including software and hardware memory models, DRAM
scheduling, cache coherency, memory-aware algorithms
- Real-time aspects, including hard real-time requirements, security and
safety-critical issues, functional and timing verification
- Implementation aspects like resource management, including task and
communication scheduling, network-, memory-, and power-management,
energy/power distribution, fault-tolerance, quality of service,
scalability, load balancing, power proportionality
- Design principles for concurrent systems, in particular hardware/software
co-design, platform-based design, component-based design, energy-aware
design, refinement techniques, hardware/software abstractions, cross-layer
optimization
- Business process modelling, workflow execution systems, process
(de-)composition, inter-organizational and heterogeneous workflow systems,
systems for computer-supported collaborative work, web services
- Case studies of general interest, from industrial applications to
consumer electronics and multimedia, automotive systems, (bio-)medical
applications, neuromorphic applications, internet (of things) and grid
computing, to gaming applications.


PAPER SUBMISSION:
ACSD seeks papers describing original work which has not been previously
published and is not under review for publication elsewhere. All files must
be prepared using the latest IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings
guidelines (8.5" × 11" two-column format). The page limit for regular
papers is 10 pages. Accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings. At least one author of each accepted contribution is expected
to present the paper at the conference, and will be required to sign the
copyright release forms. All papers have to be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsd2019.


ORGANIZATION

Program Committee Co-chairs
Jörg Keller
University of Hagen,
Faculty of Mathematics and
Computer Science
Germany
Joerg.Keller@fernuni-hagen.de

Wojciech Penczek
Institute of Computer Science PAS,
University of Natural Sciences and
Humanities
Poland
w.penczek@ipipan.waw.pl

General Chair
Wil van der Aalst
Process and Data Science (PADS)
RWTH Aachen University
52074 Aachen, Germany
wvdaalst@pads.rwth-aachen.de

Steering Committee
Alex Yakovlev, UK (chair)
Benoit Caillaud, France
Jordi Cortadella, Spain
Jörg Desel, Germany
Alex Kondratyev, USA
Luciano Lavagno, Italy
Antti Valmari, Finland
Andrey Mokhov, UK

Organizing Committee
Wil van der Aalst (general chair)
Anna Kalenkova (publicity chair)
Detlef Wetzler (web chair)

Program Committee
S. Akshay, India
Étienne André, France
Mohamed Faouzi Atig, Sweden
Josep Carmona, Spain
Franck Cassez, Australia
Thomas Chatain, France
Rocco De Nicola, Italy
Jörg Desel, Germany
Klaus Echtle, Germany
Alain Girault, France
Radu Grosu, Austria
Stefan Haar, France
Loïc Hélouët, France
Ludovic Henrio, France
Loïg Jézéquel, France
Gabriel Juhás, Slovakia
Marta Pietkiewicz-Koutny, UK
Jörg Keller, Germany (co-chair)
Christoph Kessler, Sweden
Jan KĹ™etínský, Czech Republic
Johan Lilius, Finland
Gerald Lüttgen, Germany
Roland Meyer, Germany
Andrey Mokhov, UK
Claire Pagetti, France
Wojciech Penczek, Poland (co-chair)
Laure Petrucci, France
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, France
Klaus Schneider, Germany
Sandeep Shukla, India
Ashutosh Trivedi, India
Jaco van de Pol, Denmark
Fei Xia, UK


AACHEN
Aachen is a historic city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, at the point
where Germany borders on Belgium and the Netherlands. Historically this
spa-town was a prominent city, the place where the German Kings were
crowned, and the residence of Charlemagne who still lies buried in the
impressive cathedral he himself had built. The city has many historical
sites that remind of those days, including medieval buildings, city gates,
and beautiful fountains. Aachen is Germany's westernmost city. It lies near
the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands and is nestled between the
large national parks of the Eifel and the Ardennes. The city has a
population of 260,000, which includes about 50,000 students and more than
4,000 academic staff from across the world. Its lively student community
lends the city just as much character as its history. Aachen is famous for
its Printen gingerbread, its hot springs, its Mardi Gras carnival and one
of the world's largest equestrian tournaments. The historic city center and
a wealth of bars, cafés, and restaurants, combined with the nearby nature
parks, such as the Eifel, make Aachen a city where everyone feels at home.
The venue of the conference, the Tivoli football stadium, is located on the
border of the city center. This beautiful venue will provide a unique
atmosphere with great views and excellent conference facilities.

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[DMANET] [SMARTCOMP 2019]: Call for papers

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IEEE SMARTCOMP 2019
Call for Papers
12-15 June 2019, Washington DC, USA
http://www.smart-comp.org
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SMARTCOMP is the premier conference on smart computing. Smart computing is based on the synergistic combination of advances in Sensor-based technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical Systems, Edge computing, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, Cognitive Computing, and Artificial Intelligence.

Smart computing is a multidisciplinary domain. Applications of smart computing can be found in different societal domains including, but not limited to, transportation, energy, environmental protection, smart and connected communities, healthcare, banking, entertainment, and social media. Algorithmic and system advancements of cloud computing, mobile/pervasive computing, cyber-physical systems, sensor networking and social computing are taking smart computing to a new dimension and improving our ways of living.

​SMARTCOMP 2019 is the 5th edition of the conference and will held in Washington, USA and will include smart computing innovations pertaining to pervasive/ubiquitous computing, cloud computing, sensor networks, internet of things, big data analytics, security and privacy, social computing, cognitive computing, cyber-physical systems and their application and validation within smart computing environments. This includes applications such as smart buildings, smart cities, smart grids, precision agriculture and other innovations contributing to smart living.
Submission Guidelines
Paper submissions must be no longer than 8 pages and formatted according to the two-column IEEE proceedings template. IEEE provides corresponding formatting templates at IEEE conference template. Make sure to use the conference mode of the template, i.e., LaTeX users must use the conference option of the IEEEtran document class.

Papers must be submitted electronically as a single PDF file on US Letter size paper (not A4), with all fonts embedded (the PDF-A standard complies with that). Prior to submission, ensure that any running headers/footers, page numbering, as well as blue underlining for URLs and email addresses has been removed.

All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. All presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Topics
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SMARTCOMP 2019 solicits submissions that address the fundamental questions of smart computing, namely how to design and build smart computing systems and how to use computing technology for resource sustainability to improve the human experience. Submissions should thus match to at least one of the following three major fields of interest:

SMART COMPUTING CONCEPTS, MODELS AND ALGORITHMS:
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Future Smart Computing Paradigms
Models of Smart Environments
Algorithms for Smart Computing
AI and Machine Learning in Smart Computing
Edge computing platforms and algorithms

SMART COMPUTING SYSTEMS:
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Security, Privacy, and Economics in Smart Environments
Cyber-physical System Platforms for Smart Environments
Middleware Platforms for Smart Environments
Mobile and Ubiquitous Platforms for Smart Environments

SMART COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS:
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Smart Precision Agriculture
Smart Transportation
Smart FinTech
Smart Food-Energy-Water Nexus/Life-cycle analysis
Smart Health
Smart Communities
Smart Human Environments, Entertainment, and Social Activities
Smart Energy Management and Analytics

Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs:
Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Antonio Puliafito (University of Messina, Italy)

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Raghu Ganti (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Julie McCann (Imperial College London, UK)

Workshops Co-Chairs:
Dario Bruneo (University of Messina, Italy)
Christine Julien (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Keynote Co-Chairs:
Mudhakar Srivatsa (IBM T J Watson Research Center)

WIP and Demo Chair:
Shiqiang Wang (IBM T J Watson Research Center)

PhD Forum Chair:
Nirupam Roy (University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA)

Publication Chair:
TBC

Registration and Finance Chair:
Carmen Au (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Maciej Zawodniok (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Baek-Young Choi (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)
Hemant Purohit (George Mason University, USA)
Francesca Righetti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Hesheng Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)

Local Arrangement Chair:
Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)

Web Chair:
Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Anamika Paul Rupa (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)

Steering Committee
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Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

TPC
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Christian Becker, University of Mannheim
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna
Dario Bruneo, University of Messina
Alessandra De Paola, University of Palermo
Wan Du, University of California at Merced, USA
Angelo Furno, IFSTTAR-France
Mohammad Hajiesmaili, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Fanxin Kong, University of Pennsylvania
Ulf Kulau, TU Braunschweig
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical University of Athens
Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST
Lucas Pereira, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI)
Dirk Pesch, Nimbus Centre For Embedded Systems Research, Cork Institute of Technology
Carlo Puliafito, University of Pisa
Andreas Reinhardt, TU Clausthal
Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Nishanth Sastry, KCL
Vijay Srinivasan, Samsung R&D
Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt
Hwee-Pink Tan, Singapore Management University
Athena Vakali, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Carlo Vallati, Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa
Desheng Zhang, Rutgers
Eugenio Zimeo, University of Sannio

Important Dates
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Workshop Proposal Submission: 23 November 2018
Notification of Workshop Acceptance: 15 December 2018
Paper Registration Deadline: 14 January 2019
Paper Submission Deadline: 28 January 2019
Acceptance Notification: 29 March 2019
Camera Ready Deadline: 28 April 2019

Venue
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The 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019) will be held at Washington DC, USA.

Contact
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For any Information about the conference, please contact the ​TPC Co-Chairs: Raghu Ganti or Julie McCann.
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[DMANET] “Data Scientist - Operational Research” position in Nottingham, UK

Data Scientist - Operational Research position in Nottingham, UK
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Microlise, a leading Transport Management solutions provider with HQ in
Nottingham, is looking to appoint a "Data Scientist - Operational Research"
as part of on-going expansion of the Data Science and Research team.

The successful applicant will be responsible for:

- Applying operational research, combinatorial optimisation, heuristics,
computational/artificial intelligence and big data analytics techniques
- Performing exploratory, experimental, analytical and visualisation works
- Complete the analysis, design and build of data models, propensity
models, analytical models and business and personal insights
- Preparing technical and scientific reports, presentations and patent
applications
- Framing business problems into questions that can be answered through
data analysis, and translating business needs into requirements that can be
understood by technical teams.

You can find more details and apply online at:
*https://www.microlise.com/careers/job/78474/
<https://www.microlise.com/careers/job/78474/>*

The application deadline is November 11th, 2018. Telephone interviews will
take place while the advert is still live, face to face interviews will
take place in w/c 19th November.

This role is eligible for a Certificate of Sponsorship for a UK Visa and
meets the resident labour market test.

Informal enquiries are welcome and may be sent to
mohammad.mesgarpour@microlise.com


Dr Mohammad Mesgarpour
Head of Data Science and Research, Microlise

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Thursday, November 1, 2018

[DMANET] University of Georgia Tenure Track Faculty Position -- Security and Resilience in IoT/CPS

The College of Engineering at the University of Georgia is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor, associate professor, or professor with expertise in the area of security and resilience for Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Applications at all academic rank will be considered. The position has an expected start date of August 1, 2019 or earlier.


To apply, candidates should submit an application at http://www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/32653. Questions related to the position may be directed to the search committee chair, Dr. WenZhan Song (wsong@uga.edu).


Please learn more at http://engr.uga.edu/uploads/main/CPS-IoT_Security_Position_Announcement_FINAL.pdf

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[DMANET] 2nd CfP: CSR 2019 (14th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, July 1-5, 2019, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

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Second Call for Papers

14th INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM IN RUSSIA (CSR 2019)

July 1-5, 2019, Novosibirsk, Russia

https://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2019/

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CSR is an annual international conference held in Russia that is
designed to cover a broad range of topics in Theoretical Computer
Science. The list of previous CSR conferences can be found at
https://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~csr/. Conference proceedings are published in
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of
accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the Springer
journal, "Theory of Computing Systems".

CSR'19 will be part of the Computer Science Summer in Russia
(http://cssr.nsu.ru) which will also include the Ershov Informatics
Conference (PSI'19) and Summer School in Computer Science for students.


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submissions: December 23, 2018
Notification of acceptance: February 13, 2019
Conference dates: July 1-5, 2019

Yandex Awards for the best paper and for the best student paper will be
given by the PC.

VENUE

Novosibirsk is the 3rd largest city in Russia and a major hub in Western
Siberia. It is easily accessible either via Moscow or Saint Petersburg,
or by a direct flight from Еurope (Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Prague,
Thessaloniki) or Asia (Tokyo, Seoul, Hongkong, Shanghai, Beijing or
Bangkok). The conference will take place at Novosibirsk State
University located in Akademgorodok -- a picturesque "academic town"
about 30km south from the main city of Novosibirsk.

TOPICS include, but are not limited to:

* algorithms and data structures
* computational complexity
* randomness in computing, approximation algorithms
* combinatorial optimisation, constraint satisfaction
* computational geometry
* formal languages and automata
* codes and cryptography
* combinatorics in computer science
* applications of logic to computer science, proof complexity
* fundamentals of machine learning
* theoretical aspects of big data

DISTINGUISHED OPENING LECTURE

Andrew Yao (Tsinghua U, China)

INVITED SPEAKERS

Michael Fellows (U Bergen, Norway) to be confirmed
Giuseppe Italiano (LUISS U, Italy)
Meena Mahajan (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
Petros Petrosyan (Erevan State U, Armenia)
David Woodruff (Carnegie Mellon U, USA)
Dmitry Zhuk (Moscow U, Russia)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maxim Babenko (Yandex/HSE Moscow, RU)
Petra Berenbrink (U Hamburg, DE)
Olaf Beyersdorff (U Jena, DE)
René van Bevern (Novosibirsk State U, RU)
Manuel Bodirsky (TU Dresden, DE)
Vladimir Braverman (Johns Hopkins U, US)
Holger Dell (Saarland U, DE)
Nachum Dershowitz (Tel Aviv U, IL)
Michael Elkin (Ben-Gurion U, IL)
Pierre Fraigniaud (CNRS & U Paris Diderot, FR)
Anna Frid (Aix-Marseille U, FR)
Pawel Gawrychowski (U Wrocław, PL)
Dora Giammarresi (U Rome, IT)
Elena Grigorescu (Purdue U, US)
Gregory Kucherov (CNRS & U Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, FR), chair
Christophe Paul (CNRS & U Montpellier FR)
Valentin Polishchuk (Linköping U, SE)
Artem Pyatkin (Sobolev Inst. of Mathematics & Novosibirsk State U, RU)
Alexander Rabinovich (Tel-Aviv U, IL)
Kunihiko Sadakane (U Tokyo, JP)
Arseny Shur (Ural Federal U, RU)
Igor Walukiewicz (CNRS & U Bordeaux, FR)
Jacobo Torán (U Ulm, DE)
Sergey Yekhanin (Microsoft Research, US)

CONFERENCE CHAIR

René van Bevern (Novosibirsk State U, RU)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Denis Ponomaryov (A.P. Ershov Inst. of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk)
Anastasia Karpenko (Novosibirsk State U)
Oxana Tsidulko (Sobolev Inst. of Mathematics, Novosibirsk)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Edward A. Hirsch (St. Petersburg Dept. of Steklov Inst. of Mathematics, RU)
Juhani Karhumäki (U Turku, FI)
Alexander Kulikov (St. Petersburg Dept. of Steklov Inst. of Mathematics, RU)
Ernst W. Mayr (Technische Universität München, DE)
Alexander Razborov (U of Chicago, USA and Steklov Inst. of Mathematics, Moscow, RU)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal U, RU)

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research in the
conference topics, in electronic form (pdf format) via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=csr19
Submissions must be unpublished, not under review for publication
elsewhere, and provide sufficient information to judge their merits.
Submissions must be in English, and not exceed 12 pages, including the
title page, in Springer's LNCS LaTeX style. Additional material, to be
read at the discretion of reviewers and PC members, may be provided in a
clearly marked appendix or by reference to a manuscript on a web site.

At least one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the
conference.
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[DMANET] Tenure-track Assistant/Associate/Full faculty position at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto

Dear colleagues,

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto invites applications for one tenure-stream faculty position in the area of data driven Industrial Engineering at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor, starting July 1, 2019. Please see the following link for details:

https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1804145&tz=GMT-04%3A00 <https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1804145&tz=GMT-04:00>

Regards,

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Assistant Professor, Dean's Spark Professor, Industrial Engineering

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | University of Toronto
5 King's College Rd., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8
Office: 40 St. George Street, BA8106 Phone: 416 978 4739

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[DMANET] IRIF Annual Postdoc Call (opens October - deadline mid-November)

IRIF (CNRS / U. Paris Diderot), Paris, France, is seeking excellent candidates for about 10 postdoctoral positions in all areas of the Foundations of Computer Science.

IRIF (Institute for Research in Foundations of Computer Science) is a joint laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) and Université Paris Diderot created in 2016 as the merger of the previous laboratories LIAFA and PPS. Research in IRIF spans areas such as the design and analysis of algorithms, complexity, combinatorics, quantum computing, networks and complex systems and distributed computation, theory and algorithms of graphs, automata theory and applications, systems modeling and verification, foundations of programming languages, interactive proof assistance systems, computational formalisms. For further information about IRIF please see https://www.irif.fr/en/informations/presentation

The positions are financed either by the laboratory resources, group or personal grants, or by joint applications of IRIF members and the candidate to outside funding agencies. The starting date of the positions will be in the course of 2019, usually around September-October but that can depend on the financial support. For this call, the application deadline is November 15, 2018, but late applications might be considered for future calls or in case of unfilled positions.

Candidate must hold a Ph.D. degree before the start date of position. Knowledge of French is not required, and applications can be sent either in French or in English. It is recommended, prior to applying, to contact one or more of the permanent members of IRIF, those closest to the potential candidate's area, in order to get more information.

To apply to the positions, please visit https://www.irif.fr/en/postes/postdoc

Frédéric Magniez
Director of IRIF - https://www.irif.fr/
Joint research unit of CNRS and Université Paris Diderot
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[DMANET] Tenure-Track / Tenured Faculty Position at NC State

The Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University
(NCSU) seeks to fill a tenure-track/tenured faculty position in theoretical
computer science starting August 2019. This search is part of an ongoing
effort to strengthen theory within the department.

The department seeks candidates from all areas of theoretical computer
science. Successful candidates must have a strong commitment to academic
and research excellence, and an outstanding research record commensurate
with the expectations of a major research university. Required credentials
include a doctorate in Computer Science or a related field. Candidates
with exceptional research records of all levels are encouraged to apply.

The Department of Computer Science values innovation, diversity,
collaboration, and lifelong learning, and has active research groups in
most areas of computer science with particular strengths in security,
systems, software engineering, educational informatics, and games. Situated
within a top College of Engineering, the department has extensive ties with
industry and government laboratories, and a strong record of faculty
research funding. NC State is committed to supporting interdisciplinary
work, and department faculty are regularly involved in cross-campus
initiatives including clusters in the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence
Program (https://facultyclusters.ncsu.edu).

NC State is located in Raleigh, which forms one vertex of the world-famous
Research Triangle, a metropolitan area that is routinely recognized as one
of the best places to live in the U.S (#13 in the 2018 U.S. News
rankings). The Triangle offers diversity, culture, events, and a
restaurant scene normally associated with a much larger city, while
enjoying reasonable traffic, high-quality public schools, affordable
housing, and great weather and infrastructure for outdoor pursuits
(including an extensive greenway system for running/biking, several lakes
for boating, and easy access to both the mountains and the beach).

Candidates can obtain additional information about the department and its
research programs at *http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/ <http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/>*.
Inquiries may be sent via email to: csc-theory-search@lists.ncsu.edu*.*

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and the position will
remain open until a suitable candidate is identified. Applicants are
encouraged to apply by January 1, 2019. Applicants should submit the
following materials online at *http://jobs.ncsu.edu/
<http://jobs.ncsu.edu/> *(position number *108539*): cover letter,
curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching statement, and names and
complete contact information of four references, including email addresses
and phone numbers.

NCSU is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. In addition,
NCSU welcomes all persons without regard to sexual orientation or genetic
information. Individuals with disabilities requiring disability-related
accommodations in the application and interview process please call (919)
515-3148.

Final candidates are subject to criminal & sex offender background checks.
Some vacancies also require credit or motor vehicle checks. If highest
degree is from an institution outside of the U.S., final candidates are
required to have their degree verified at www.wes.org. Degree must be
obtained prior to start date.

NC State University participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all
employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons
hired to work in the United States.

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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University
(919) 513-0453

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[DMANET] CFP of CASPer 2019 (PERCOM 2019 Workshop in Kyoto, Japan, March 2019)

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6th International Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and
Communications (CASPer 2019)
http://plus.shibaura-it.ac.jp/conf/casper2019/
in conjunction with 17th IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications, PERCOM 2019
March 11-15th 2019, Kyoto Japan
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Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit your work to the 6th International
Workshop on Crowd Assisted Sensing, Pervasive Systems and Communications (
CASPer 2019), held in conjunction with the 17th IEEE International
Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019). We
would appreciate if you could circulate this email to colleagues and
relevant mailing lists.

Call for Papers

With smart-phones in their pockets, more than 1 billion people now have
access to sensing, computation, and connectivity, making it possible to
harness the power of the crowd to collect and share data about their
surroundings and experiences on a massive scale. Crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
is a novel data collection paradigm that leverages this vast mobile sensor
network, making it possible to expand the scope of research endeavors and
address civic issues without requiring the purchase of specialized sensors
or the installation and maintenance of network infrastructure. Data
collected using such applications may come from unexpected yet interesting
and valuable sources and may allow for collecting data in previously
inaccessible locations and contexts.

This new data collection paradigm introduces several research challenges.
Privacy is a primary concern for users who contribute sensitive or
personally identifiable information (PII). Incentive mechanisms for
participation may be needed to encourage people to volunteer their
resources to collect data. Methods are needed for processing large-scale,
user-generated data sets into meaningful information, and for assessing and
understanding the quality of information to help guide decision-making.
Approaches, which involve the crowd in such data analysis tasks, with
humans serving as a source of semantic information, interpretation, and
evaluation of crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data, can also help to build an
understanding of the physical, computational, and socio-technical
environment.

At the same time, with the deployment of a tremendous number of sensing
devices collecting a huge amount of data for smart cities, smart home,
connected cars, e-halth or Industries, the Internet of Things is also
facing similar challenges regarding data privacy, scalability, data
processing or visualization. Thus, there is need to provide relevant data
science tools for citizens in order to extract all the properties of the
data and provide novel integrated services with data from the crowd or
sensors.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion,
debate, and collaboration focused on ideas, trends, techniques, and recent
advances in crowdsensing and crowdsourcing, as well as Internet of Things
and sensed devices. Similarly to our past editions, CASPer 2019 will also
feature an invited speech and a panel discussion devoted to the latest key
developments in the crowdsensing and crowdsourcing domain.

We invite original research contributions that advance the state-of-the-art
as well as position papers, which pose a new direction or present a
controversial point of view. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- Algorithms to handle, process, and visualize large-scale
crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data sets, e.g. big data analytics in
crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
- Data integrity, security, privacy, and provenance for
crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data
- Trust and reputation systems for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
applications
- Determining and assessing Quality of Information for
crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data
- Crowd-assisted (human-in-the-loop) approaches to analyzing
crowdsensing/crowdsourcing data
- Context modeling and reasoning in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
applications
- Incentive mechanisms for participation in crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
applications
- Supporting crowdsensing/crowdsourcing in heterogeneous networks
- Crowd assisted pervasive systems and communications
- Novel use of sensors for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications
- Energy-efficient mechanisms for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications
- Programming abstractions and middleware for crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
applications
- Novel large-scale crowdsensing/crowdsourcing applications
- Citizen science and Data science tools for Crowdsourcing and
Crowdsensing
- Internet of Things, Decision Support System, sustainability support,
prototyping, test-beds, and real-world implementations.


Submitted papers must be original contributions that are unpublished and
are not currently under consideration for publication by other venues.
Submissions are limited to a maximum length of 6 pages and must adhere to
IEEE format (2 column, 10pt. font). Templates are available via the
workshop website. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE PerCom
Workshop Proceedings. Note, that each accepted paper requires a full PERCOM
registration including workshop (no registration is available for workshops
only). Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25219

Important Dates:
Submission deadline: November 10, 2018
Author Notification: December 22, 2018
Camera ready due: January 12, 2019
Registration Deadline: January 12, 2019
PERCOM 2019: March 11-15, 2019

General Chairs
Thomas SILVERSTON – Shibaura Institute of Technology – Japan
Yu WANG – University of North Carolina in Charlotte – USA

Program Chairs
Luke DICKENS – University College of London – United Kingdom
Imre LENDAK – University of Novi Sad (UNS), Serbia & Eötvös Loránd
University (ELTE), Hungary

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[DMANET] Computational Optimization

Call for Papers

11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO19)
Leipzig, Germany, September 1-4, 2019

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2019

IEEE CS is a technical co-sponsor of FedCSIS 2019

https://fedcsis.org/2019/wco

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We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and
practical aspects of optimization methods. The list of topics
includes, but is not limited to:

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

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

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

The best WCO18 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2018.
The best paper will be selected by WCO19 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the
quality of the given oral presentation.

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Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers in PDF format.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages for regular
paper and 4 pages for short papers (IEEE style). IEEE style templates
are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database and submitted for
different indexations (Communication and Position papers will only
appear in the conference proceedings).
* Extended versions of selected papers presented at WCO18 will be
published in edited books of the series "Studies of Computational
Intelligence", Springer.

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Important dates:

Paper submission (sharp / no extensions) : May 14th, 2019
Position paper submission : June 4th, 2019
Author notification : June 25th, 2019
Final paper submission and registration : July 10, 2019
Conference date : September 1-4, 2019

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Organizing Committee

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

If you have any question do not hesitate to send an email to :
wco2019@fedcsis.org

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[DMANET] Application of Metaheuristics to large scale problems

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO
LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS" at the 12th International Conference on Large
Scale Scientific Computation - LSSC'19, June 10 - 14, 2019, Sozopol,
Bulgaria, with arrival: June 9 and departure: noon June 14.

The session is organized by:
Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
(former Institute for Parallel Processing), Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

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

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

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

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
January 31, 2019
Deadline for registration
February 15, 2019
Deadline for submission of full papers
March 01, 2019
Notification of acceptance of full papers
April 15, 2019


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

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

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page
http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom19/


Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Prof. Gabriel Luque

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