Thursday, October 15, 2020

[DMANET] CIAC 2021: Deadline Approaching

CALL FOR PAPERS
CIAC 2021 - 12th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity
10-12 May 2021 – Larnaca, Cyprus
http://easyconferences.eu/ciac2021/

COVID19 contingency plan: The steering committee is monitoring closely the
situation with COVID19. In case there are any travel restrictions at the
time of the conference due to the ongoing pandemic, the organizers will
make the necessary arrangements so that affected presenters could make
their presentations remotely.


Aims and Scope

The International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity is intended to
provide a forum for researchers working in all aspects of computational
complexity and the use, design, analysis and experimentation of efficient
algorithms and data structures.


Topics

Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms and
complexity are sought, including (but not limited to):
- sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms and data structures
- approximation and randomized algorithms
- graph algorithms and graph drawing
- on-line and streaming algorithms
- analysis of algorithms and computational complexity
- algorithm engineering
- web algorithms
- exact and parameterized computation
- algorithmic game theory
- computational biology
- foundations of communication networks
- computational geometry
- discrete optimization


Invited Speakers

- Henning Fernau, Trier University, Germany
- Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK
- Seffi Naor, Technion Haifa, Israel


Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
ARCoSS/LNCS series and will be available for distribution at the
conference. Accepted papers will be allocated 12 pages total in the LNCS
format in the proceedings. More information about the LNCS format can be
found on the author instructions page of Springer-Verlag.


Special Issue

The authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended
version of their paper for possible publication on a special issue of
Theoretical Computer Science devoted to CIAC 2021.


Best Paper Award

There will be a CIAC 2021 Best Paper Award, accompanied by a prize of EUR
1,000 offered by Springer.


Important dates

- Deadline for submission: October 31, 2020, 23:59 AoΕ
- Deadline for uploading new versions of already submitted papers: November
6, 2020, AoE
- Notification of acceptance: December 22, 2020
- Final manuscript, camera ready: January 31, 2021


Submission

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 12 pages by
October 31, 23:59 AoE.
Uploading updated versions of already submitted papers will be allowed
until November 6, 23:59 AoE
Submissions are handled by EasyChair at the following web
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciac2021
All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis
of the quality of their contribution, originality, soundness, and
significance.
Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with proceedings
published or made publicly available, or submitting papers previously
accepted for journal publication is not allowed.

Submission Format: An extended abstract submitted to CIAC 2021 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 of the
main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results, including
motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The extended abstract
should not exceed 12 pages total in the LNCS format.
Note: References/Bibliography will not be counted as part of the 12 pages;
figures and tables will be counted. If the authors believe that more
details are essential to substantiate the claims of the paper, they may
include a clearly marked appendix (with no space limit) that will be read
at the discretion of the Program Committee. It is strongly recommended that
submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are
clearly too long may be rejected immediately.

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[DMANET] Post-Doc Position at the Databases Group of the University of Bremen

At the University of Bremen in the department of mathematics and
informatics there is a full PostDoc position available, commencing at
the earliest convenience.
The position is at the level of

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
Entgeldgrupppe 13 TV-L

within the group "Databases" headed by Prof. Sebastian Maneth.
The position is for a duration of 3 years, with a possible prolongation
of additional 2 years. This position is research only (= no teaching
obligations) within a project that is funded by the DFG. The topic of
the project is "definability of tree transformations".
Example questions addressed by the project are:

(1) Given a functional bottom-up tree transducer, is it decidable
whether or not its translation can be realized by a deterministic
top-down tree transducer?

(2) Given an attributed tree transducer, is it decidable whether or not
it is equivalent to a deterministic top-down tree transducer?

These questions are difficult and open research problems. We are looking
for a post-doctoral researcher with an excellent track record in
automata theory or formal language theory and with the will and
enthusiasm to crack these hard problems.

We specifically support the employment of women and encourage qualified
female researchers to apply. Disabled applicants with equal
qualification will be favored for the positions.

For questions, and for applications (consisting of a cover letter
stating the name of a referee who is willing to write a letter of
recommendation,
your CV, your motivation to work in this area, your PhD thesis) please
contact

Universitaet Bremen
Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Maneth
Bibliothekstrasse 1
28359 Bremen
GERMANY

or in electronic form (one PDF file) to maneth@uni-bremen.de
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[DMANET] CFP: [Algorithms, MDPI] Special Issue on Online Algorithms beyond Competitive Analysis

We are pleased to announce the launch of new Special Issue dedicated to
"Online Algorithms beyond Competitive Analysis" in the journal
Algorithms, an *EI-*, *ESCI-*, and *Scopus-indexed* open access journal.

We are looking for new online algorithms and their competitive analysis.
More realistic models have been studied as well, either by giving more
power to the algorithm or by giving less power to the adversary.

Further information can be found at the Special Issue website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Online_Competitive_Analysis

The submission deadline is 31 January 2021. Papers will be published on
an ongoing basis, so you can submit your paper at any point before the
deadline. For any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Alina Chen
(alina.chen@mdpi.com).

Algorithms is Open Access since 2009, and is since then rising steadily
in the ranks (see https://www.journalindicators.com/indicators for an
independent ranking) and widely indexed in commercial databases. And
Algorithms has received its 2019 CiteScore 2.20, ranking Q2 in the
category "Computer Science, Theory & Methods".We are on our way to
achieve our goal--indexed by SCI, your support would be highly appreciated.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

CiteScore of Algorithms (2019): 2.2
CiteScoreTracker 2020 (updated on 7 July, 2020): 2.3

Best regards,
Alina Chen
Section Managing Editor
E-Mail: alina.chen@mdpi.com

MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
Skype: live:a70ca49eff100a5b

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[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc Position at University of Augsburg

A position for a PhD student or a postdoctoral researcher is available in the  "Optimization" group at the
University of Augsburg (http://www.uni-augsburg.de/math/opt/harks)
for a duration of up to 3 years. The successful applicant will perform innovative research within the DFG funded project ''Models and Algorithms for Multi-Level Congestion and Security Problems'' led by Tobias Harks and Jannik Matuschke.

Candidates should have an excellent academic degree in mathematics, computer science or a related area, and must have very good knowledge in algorithmic discrete mathematics and/or algorithm theory. Good communication skills and solid English writing skills are expected. Profound knowledge of combinatorial optimization and related areas are desirable. Teaching experience (e.g., as a student assistant) is a plus.

Applications must be sent electronically to: tobias.harks@math.uni-augsburg.de
The application deadline is: November 15, 2020.
Informal inquires about the position can be directed at any time to:
tobias.harks@math.uni-augsburg.de or jannik.matuschke@kuleuven.be

Prof. Dr. Tobias Harks
Institute of Mathematics
Augsburg  University
https://www.uni-augsburg.de/math/opt/harks/

Prof. Dr. Jannik Matuschke
Faculty of Economics and Business
KU Leuven
https://sites.google.com/view/jannikmatuschke/


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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

[DMANET] ACM HSCC 2021 Call for Papers

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ACM HSCC 2021 Call for Papers
24th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC 2021)
Part of CPS-IoT Week 2021
May 19-21, 2021
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
URL: https://hscc.acm.org/2021/
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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC) 2021 is the 24th in a series of conferences focusing on original research on concepts, tools, and techniques from computer science, control theory, and applied mathematics for the analysis and control of hybrid dynamical systems, with an emphasis on computational aspects. By drawing on strategies from computation and control, the hybrid systems field offers techniques that are applicable to both man-made cyber-physical systems (ranging from small robots to global infrastructure networks) and natural systems (ranging from biochemical networks to physiological models). Papers in the conference are expected to range over a wide spectrum of topics from theoretical results to practical considerations, and from academic research to industrial adoption.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Mathematical foundations, computability and complexity
- Analysis, verification, validation, and testing
- Modeling paradigms and techniques
- Design, synthesis, planning, and control
- Programming and specification languages
- Network science and network-based control
- Security, privacy, and resilience for cyber-physical systems with focus on computation and control
- Safe autonomy, Artificial intelligence and Machine learning in CPS
- Software tools for the above topics
- Applications and industrial case studies in: automotive, transportation, autonomous systems, avionics, energy and power, robotics, medical devices, manufacturing, systems and synthetic biology, models for the life sciences, and other related areas.

Two special areas: Similarly to last year, HSCC invites submissions exploring synergies with artificial intelligence as part of a special session "Safe and trustworthy AI". In addition, the conference will feature a special session on "Systems biology and epidemiology" which aims at addressing the challenges that emerged with COVID-19.

Submission Guidelines
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*New this year*: HSCC invites submissions in two categories: (1) regular papers and (2) tool and case study papers. Submissions in *both* of these categories can be either long (10 pages max, 9pt font, two-column ACM format) or short papers (6 pages max, 9pt font, two-column ACM format). We will employ a double blind reviewing process and will have a rebuttal phase to provide authors the opportunity to reply to reviewer concerns. Authors are asked to submit their paper using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hscc2021.

Important dates
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Submission deadline: *October 26, 2020 (AOE)*
Tool/case study paper repeatability package submission deadline: November 1, 2020 (AOE)
Rebuttal phase: Beginning of December 2020 (tentative)
Acceptance/rejection notifications: December 2020 (tentative)
Posters/demos submission deadline: January 2021 (tentative)

Organization
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PC Chairs:
Sergiy Bogomolov (Newcastle University, UK)
Raphaël Jungers (UCLouvain, Belgium)

Repeatability Evaluation Chairs:
Stanley Bak (Stony Brook University, USA)
Bardh Hoxha (Toyota Research Institute of North America, USA)

Publication Chair:
Nikos Athanasopoulos (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

Publicity Chair:
Dorsa Sadigh (Stanford University, USA)

Demo/Poster Chair:
Jana Tumova (KTH, Sweden)

Awards Chair:
Antoine Girard (L2S-CNRS, Paris)

Steering Committee:
Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK)
Thao Dang (Verimag, France)
Martin Fränzle (Universität Oldenburg, Germany)
Radu Grosu (TU Wien, Austria)
Sayan Mitra (UIUC, USA)
Paulo Tabuada (UCLA, USA)
Claire Tomlin (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

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[DMANET] PhD openings @ Imperial College

Dear all,

I have two PhD openings within my group @Imperial College. The deadline for applying is Nov 6th, see full Phd ad: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dpaccagnan/PhD-ad.pdf.

The theme is broadly that of "Smart mobility and its societal impact". Tools include but are not limited to game theory, optimization, decision making under uncertainty, control theory.

Should anyone be interested, feel free to reach out to me directly.

Best,
Dario Paccagnan

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Dr Dario Paccagnan
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~dpaccagnan

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[DMANET] Algorithms PhD positions – deadline November 1st

Starting February 1, 2021 or later, two PhD positions in the area of big data analysis algorithms are available at Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, under the supervision of Professor Lars Arge (www.cs.au.dk/~large) and/or Professor Gerth Stølting Brodal (www.cs.au.dk/~gerth).

The positions are part of a project funded by a grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark. The overall objective of the project is to develop memory-hierarchy efficient (such as I/O-efficient or cache-oblivious) algorithms and data structures for a number of fundamental geometric data structure problems, a number of fundamental graph data problems, as well as for a number of fundamental massive terrain data and flood risk assessment problems. The project is conducted in collaboration with leading international experts at Duke University (Pankaj Agarwal), UC Irvine (Mike Goodrich), Universite Libra de Bruxelles (John Iacono) and Goethe University Frankfurt (Ulrich Meyer), as well as at Aarhus University spin-out company SCALGO.


The positions are administered through the Graduate School of Natural Sciences at Aarhus University (phd.nat.au.dk) and include full tuition waiver and a very competitive scholarship. Applications are welcomed from students with either a BS or an MS degree, as well as a strong background in algorithms and data structures. Students with experience within I/O-efficient algorithms, cache-oblivious algorithms, or algorithm engineering are preferred. The application deadline for the positions is November 1, 2020. Applicants should apply using the Graduate School of Natural Sciences application system (reachable from phd.nat.au.dk)

Applicants seeking further information in regards to scientific questions are invited to contact Professor Lars Arge (large@cs.au.dk) or Professor Gerth Stølting Brodal (gerth@cs.au.dk). For other questions, please contact research group coordinator Julie Rasmussen (jras@cs.au.dk)

For further details: https://phd.nat.au.dk/for-applicants/apply-here/november-2020/algorithms-supporting-big-data-analysis/


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[DMANET] INFORMS Telecommunications & Network Analytics Conference 2020 - Reminder for Registration

Final reminder

Dear colleagues,

This is a final reminder for the 15th INFORMS Telecommunications and Network Analytics Conference 2020, which will be a virtual event this year.

The conference is going to be held online on 20-21 October 2020 as a Zoom webinar, starting 2:00 PM Berlin time (CET). Attending the conference is free of charge, but the registration is mandatory to access the online event. You can register at https://zib-de.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_puuqlvMARnOvEEabnJnrFw. The conference program is now published on the website (http://informs_tnac2020.zib.de/program.html).

Confirmed keynote talks:

* From shortest path routing to segment routing: challenges in the optimization of Internet networks, by Prof. Bernard Fortz - Université Libre de Bruxelles.
* Bilevel optimization for integrating network design and discrete choice models, by Prof. Bernard Gendron - Université de Montréal/ Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT).
* From 5G to 6G: challenges and opportunities, by Dr. Bo Bai - Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Hong Kong.
* Nonlinear optimization techniques in wireless communications, by Dr. Cong Sun - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

A special issue of the international journal Networks (ISSN:1097-0037) on "Telecommunications and Network Analytics" will follow the conference.

We are looking forward to your participation!

The Organization Committee:

Thorsten Koch, Conference Chair– Zuse Institute Berlin
Haldun Süral – Middle East Technical University
Christine Tawfik – Zuse Institute Berlin
Inci Yüksel-Ergün – Zuse Institute Berlin


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[DMANET] Call for Postdocs 2020: Euler Institute

Call for Postdocs 2020

https://eimi.ru/call-for-postdocs/

The Euler International Mathematical Institute in St. Petersburg is seeking postdocs in all areas of Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics.

Applicants should send their applications to euler.postdoc@gmail.com

The applications should include:

* CV,
* List of publications (including preprints, if necessary),
* Description of research interests, ideally mentioning possible host or other research contacts in St.Petersburg,
* Names, affiliations and contacts of 2-3 people willing to send recommendation letters if asked by the committee,
* Any special requirements wrt the dates, etc.

Basic conditions:

* Competitive salary of 126,314 RUB per month (taxed at 13% for residents and foreigners), this is double the average salary in St. Petersburg,
* Housing allowance enough to cover all or most of the rent (in addition to the salary),
* The institute partially covers travelling expenses to St. Petersburg of up to 300 Euro for the postdocs from Europe and up to 600 Euro for the postdocs outside Europe,
* The institute has some funds for covering participation in conferences that cannot be covered from other sources,
* 1 or 2 years extendable for another year,
* Small teaching load,
* Flexibility with respect to the starting date, length, specific calendar requirements (such as a leave in the middle),

St. Petersburg is the most beautiful city in the world and has multiple mathematical locations including Steklov Institute of Mathematics http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/pdmi/en/laboratories and the newly created Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in St. Petersburg State University http://math-cs.spbu.ru/en/people/ (the links are provided also as a "menu" of possible hosts).

The preference is given to applications completed before November 30, 2020. Preferable starting date is September 1, 2021.

If you have questions, please do not hesitate to ask them by email.

The results of the previous Call:
https://eimi.ru/news/1577/

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[DMANET] CFP: [Algorithms, MDPI] Special Issue on Meshless Numerical Methods and Applications

We are pleased to announce the launch of new Special Issue dedicated to
"Meshless Numerical Methods and Applications" in the journal Algorithms,
an *EI-*, *ESCI-*, and *Scopus-indexed* open access journal.

Algorithms is Open Access since 2009, and is since then rising steadily
in the ranks (see https://www.journalindicators.com/indicators for an
independent ranking) and widely indexed in commercial databases.

We invite you to submit high quality papers to this Special Issue. The
following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interests:

algorithms for node generation (spatial discretization)
adaptive meshless methods
domain decomposition techniques in meshless contexts
advanced implementation of meshless methods
application of meshless methods in realistic problems

Further information can be found at the Special Issue website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Meshless_Numerical_Methods

The submission deadline is 28 April 2021. Papers will be published on an
ongoing basis, so you can submit your paper at any point before the
deadline. For any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Alina Chen
(alina.chen@mdpi.com).

We look forward to receiving your submission.

CiteScore of Algorithms (2019): 2.2
CiteScoreTracker 2020 (updated on 7 July, 2020): 2.3

Best regards,
Alina Chen
Section Managing Editor
E-Mail: alina.chen@mdpi.com

MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
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[DMANET] ANTS 2020: Call for Participation

ANTS 2020: Call for Participation
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ANTS 2020: 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
October 26-28, 2020. Online.
Program information: https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#conference
Registration: https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#registration

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Scope of the Conference
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Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with the study of
self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems.
Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed a number of
models to explain interesting aspects of collective behaviors such as
movement coordination, shape-formation or decision making. Recently,
algorithms and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to
solve difficult problems in many domains. Among these, it is worth
mentioning ant colony optimization (ACO) and particle swarm optimization
(PSO), focusing respectively on discrete and continuous optimisation
problems. Also, Swarm robotics represents another field of techniques
derived from swarm intelligence for the design of collaborative
multi-robot systems featuring enhanced efficiency, robustness and
scalability. ANTS 2020 aims to give researchers in swarm intelligence
the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to
discuss current developments and applications.

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Participation
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference will be held online.
However, this gives you the opportunity to assist to this interesting
event (check the program at
https://www.iiia.csic.es/ants2020/#conference) for a reduced
registration fee of 160 Euros. Apart from presentations on cutting edge
research in optimization, robotics and other swarm intelligence topics,
the conference will feature the following three highly interesting
keynote talks:

Speaker: Radhika Nagpal
Title: The Collective Intelligence of Army Ants, and the Robots They Inspire

Speaker: Orit Peleg
Title: Collective Ecophysiology and Physics of Social Insects

Speaker: Gabriela Ochoa
Title: Complex Networks in Search and Optimisation

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Contact
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For any questions please contact Christian Blum
(christian.blum@iiia.csic.es)
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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

[DMANET] Call for Papers - EvoMUSART 2021 - 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Seville, Spain, 7-9 April 2021)

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Call for papers for the 10th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART)

Please distribute (apologies for cross-posting)
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The 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music,
Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will be held in Seville, Spain, on 7-9
April 2021, as part of the evo* event.

EvoMUSART webpage: www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart
Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=evo2021

Special Issue on Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines
The journal "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines" (Q2, IF: 1.78)
will publish a Special Issue called "Evolutionary computation in Art, music
& Design". The editors of this Special Issue will be Juan Romero and
Penousal Machado. Some authors from EvoMUSART 2021 will be invited to
submit a new paper to this Special Issue.

The main goal of EvoMUSART is to bring together researchers who are using
Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g. Artificial Neural Network,
Evolutionary Computation, Swarm, Cellular Automata, Alife) for artistic
tasks such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games,
Poetry, or Design. The conference gives researchers in the field the
opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 1 November 2020
Conference: 7-9 April 2021

We welcome submissions which use Artificial Intelligence techniques in the
generation, analysis and interpretation of Art, Music, Design, Architecture
and other artistic fields. Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in
Springer LNCS format. Each submission must be anonymised for a double-blind
review process. The deadline for submission is 1 November 2020. Accepted
papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in
the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Verlag in a dedicated
volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Indicative topics include but are not limited to:
* Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry,
text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
* Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound
effects, sound analysis, etc.;
* Systems that create artefacts such as game content, architecture,
furniture, based on aesthetic and/or functional criteria;
* Systems that resort to artificial intelligence to perform the analysis of
image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic object;
* Systems in which artificial intelligence is used to promote the
creativity of a human user;
* Theories or models of computational aesthetics;
* Computational models of emotional response, surprise, novelty;
* Representation techniques for images, videos, music, etc.;
* Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area;
* New ways of integrating the user in the process (e.g. improvisation,
co-creation, participation).

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=evo2021

More information on the submission process and the topics of EvoMUSART can
be found at: www.evostar.org/2021/evomusart

Papers published in EvoMUSART can be found at:
https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt


We look forward to seeing you in Seville in 2021!


The EvoMUSART 2021 organisers
Juan Romero
Tiago Martins
Nereida Rodríguez-Fernandez (publication chair)

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Monday, October 12, 2020

[DMANET] Phd position in Algorithmic Social Choice at TU Vienna

One fully funded PhD position (3 years with the possibility of
extension, salary: about 2929 Euros gross x 14 months per year) is
available at the group of Jiehua Chen, TU Vienna, Austria, to work in
the WWTF research project titled

"Structural and Algorithmic Aspects of Preference-based Problems in
Social Choice"

https://www.wwtf.at/programmes/vienna_research_groups/VRG18-01
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The project is about algorithm design and complexity analysis for
problems arising from Algorithmic Social Choice, with a special focus on
voting theory and matchings under preferences.

The position is available immediately and the starting date is flexible.
Applicants with a solid background in areas such as algorithm design
(including but not limited to parameterized algorithms and approximation
algorithms), computational complexity, and/or discrete mathematics are
strongly encouraged to apply.

Please send your application, including
(1) your academic CV,
(2) a motivation letter, including an explanation of your *interest in
the project*,
(3) your Master's thesis and degree certificate,
(4) a list of subjects studied, giving sufficient details and
grades/marks obtained and
(5) letters of recommendation or any supporting documents

directly to

jiehua.chen@tuwien.ac.at

(Please send all documents in a single PDF file.)

For informal inquiries please contact Jiehua Chen
(jiehua.chen@tuwien.ac.at).

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Jiehua Chen
jiehua.chen@tuwien.ac.at
https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/people/jchen/

Technische Universität Wien
Institute of Logic and Computation
Favoritenstraße 9-11, E192-01, Stiege 2, 4. Stock
A-1040 Wien
Austria

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[DMANET] Funded 3-year Post-Doc position (work contract) at IMT Lille Douai, Univ. Lille, France: Combinatorial Optimization and Multi-Agent Systems applied to the agriculture robot fleet coordination

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AGRIFLEETS: Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets



The Post-Doc researcher will work in a research team with a PhD student to be contracted within the AGRIFLEETS research project (funded by French National Research Agency - ANR) led by Prof. Marin Lujak (IMT Lille Douai) in close collaboration with Prof. Frederic Semet from the Ecole Centrale de Lille and various renowned national and European academic partners from Italy, Spain, and the UK. The Post-Doc research position is open at the Department of Digital Systems at IMT Lille Douai, University of Lille in France.



Context. The need for sustainable agriculture has led to the recent introduction of Agriculture Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Precision Agriculture (PA) that makes the practice of farming more accurate and efficient. The AMR research so far has focused on a single robot and its agriculture-specific capabilities. Very little work has been done in the domain of distributed, efficient, and scalable real-time agriculture vehicle fleet coordination in general and AMR fleet coordination in particular, considering the overall fleet performance as well as tactical and operational real-time vehicle, implement, raw material, and crop cultivating constraints. This topic is of utmost importance in the case of corporate agriculture where conglomerates with heterogeneous agriculture vehicle fleets operate large lands with precision farming. Fully autonomous farming, with multiple AMRs running and coordinating simultaneously with one another in the same farm, is still an open challenge. Advance!
s in ICT and agriculture technologies allow for a higher level of autonomy of AMR fleets where integrated decision-making potential at present is unrealised. With the objective to increase the opportunity for autonomy in agriculture fleets, in the AGRIFLEETS project, we study dynamic and decentralized coordination of agriculture fleets and develop a distributed route guidance system for autonomous coordination of AMR fleets. The expected outcome of the research will be the development of distributed and scalable algorithms for dynamic and decentralized agriculture fleet vehicle routing and coordination followed by the development of a multi-agent based decentralized vehicle fleet coordination architecture and the integration of the dynamic AMR allocation and routing modules into the architecture and the overall simulation testing.



The work contract should start as soon as possible, preferably in November 2020 and should last for three years with an internationally competitive salary.



Eligibility criteria

The candidate is expected to have a PhD Degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related field with a strong academic background in Combinatorial Optimization and programming (preferably in IBM ILOG Cplex Studio, MATLAB and Java). A good knowledge of written and spoken English are required.



How to apply

If you wish to apply for this Post-Doc researcher work contract, you are kindly asked to send the following in the same order: 1) motivation letter with research interests and goals, 2) CV, 3) three recommendation letters with respective contacts, 4) copies of your diplomas and transcripts, 5) certificates, and 6) three relevant publications in one PDF file at the following e-mail: [ marin dot lujak at imt-lille-douai dot fr ] preferably by October 26th 2020. The applications are considered on a rolling basis.







Best regards,




Marin Lujak

Associate Professor

IMT Lille Douai

http://marinlujak.eu





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[DMANET] Computability in Europe 2021 CALL FOR PAPERS

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS:
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CiE 2021: Connecting with computability

5 - 9 July 2021
website: www.CiE2021.ugent.be [1]

**Due to the current pandemic CiE 2021 will be held as a virtual
conference.**

CiE 2021 is the seventeenth conference organized by the Association
Computability in Europe. The /Computability in Europe/ conference (CiE)
series has built up a strong tradition for developing a scientific
program which is interdisciplinary at its core bringing together all
aspects of computability and foundations of computer science, as well as
the interplay of these theoretical areas with practical issues in CS and
other disciplines such as biology, mathematics, history, philosophy, and
physics. For more information about the CiE conferences and the
Association CiE, please have a look at: https://www.acie.eu/ [2].

CiE 2021 will be the second CiE conference that is organized as a
virtual event and aims at a high-quality meeting that allows and invites
active participation from all participants. It will be hosted virtually
by Ghent University.

Previous meetings have taken place in Amsterdam (2005), Swansea (2006),
Siena (2007), Athens (2008), Heidelberg (2009), Ponta Delgada (2010),
Sofia (2011), Cambridge (2012), Milan (2013), Budapest (2014), Bucharest
(2015), Paris (2016), Turku (2017), Kiel (2018), Durham (2019) and
virtually in Salerno (2020)

PLENARY SPEAKERS

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*

Laura Crosilla (University of Oslo, Norway)
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Markus Lohrey (Universität Siegen. Germany)
*

Russell Miller (tutorial speaker, CUNY, US)
*

Joan Rand Moschovakis (UCLA, US)
*

Joël Ouaknine (Max Planck Institute for software systems, Germany)
*

Christine Tasson (tutorial speaker, Université Paris Diderot, France)
*

Keita Yokoyama (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan)
*

Henry Yuen (University of Toronto, Canada)

SPECIAL SESSIONS

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_/Classical Computability theory: Open problems and solutions/_
Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) and
Steffen Lempp (University of Wisconsin)

_/Proof theory and computation/_
David Fernández Duque (Ghent University, Belgium) and Juan Pablo
Aguilera (Ghent University, Belgium)

_/Quantum computation and information/_
Harry Buhrman (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Frank
Verstraete (Ghent University, Belgium)

/Church's thesis in constructive mathematics (HaPoC session)/
Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München,
Germany) and Alberto Naibo (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

_/Computational geometry/_
Maike Buchin (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Maarten Löffler
(Utrecht University, Netherlands)

/Computational Pangenomics/
Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis (University
of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

WOMEN IN COMPUTABILITY

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The Computability in Europe conference series has a long tradition in
setting up a Women in Computability program. For CiE 2021 we plan a
Women in Computability workshop combined with an online mentoring
program. For more details on the Special Interest Group Women in
Computability, see:
https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
[3]

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Deadline for article registration (abstract submission): January 17,
2021
Deadline for article submission: February 5, 2021
Notification of acceptance: April 13, 2021
Final versions due: April 27, 2021
Deadline for informal presentations submission: May 1, 2021

The notifications of acceptance for informal presentations will be sent
a few days after submission.

ORGANIZED BY:
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Department of Mathematics WE16, Ghent University
Organizing Committee:

Juan Pablo Aguilera (Ghent University)

David Bélanger (Ghent University)

Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Université de Lille)

David Fernández-Duque (chair, Ghent University)

Fedor Pakhomov (Ghent University)

Frederik Van De Putte (Ghent University)

Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University)

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS:
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The Programme Committee cordially invites all researchers (European and
non-European) to submit their papers in computability related areas for
presentation at the conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Papers
building bridges between different parts of the research community are
particularly welcome.

Papers should be in English and anonymized. They must be submitted in
PDF format, using the LNCS style (available at
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip [4]) and
should have a maximum of 10 pages, including references but excluding a
possible appendix in which one can include proofs and other additional
material.

Authors should submit their papers electronically using EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cie2021

Abstracts should be submitted by January 17th 2021, followed by the full
papers to be submitted by February 5 2021. Each submitted paper will be
peer-reviewed by a panel of PC members based on originality,
significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance
for the conference. For each accepted paper, at least one author is
required to register for the conference and should plan to present the
paper.

The CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS will be published with LNCS, Springer Verlag.


INFORMAL PRESENTATIONS:
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Continuing the tradition of past CiE conferences, in addition to the
formal presentations based on the LNCS proceedings volume, CiE 2021 will
host a track of informal presentations, that are prepared very shortly
before the conference and inform the participants about current research
and work in progress. The deadline for the submission of abstracts for
informal presentations is May 1st, 2021.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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Marianna Antonutti Marfori (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)

Nathalie Aubrun (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay)

Christel Baier (TU Dresden)

Nikolay Bazhenov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)

Marie-Pierre Béal (Université Paris-Est)

Arnold Beckmann (Swansea University)

David Bélanger (Ghent University)

Joel Day (Loughborough University)

Liesbeth De Mol (CNRS, Université de Lille, PC co-chair)

Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University, CNRS)

Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans)

David Fernández-Duque (Ghent University)

Zuzana Haniková (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

Mathieu Hoyrup (LORIA)

Assia Mahboubi (INRIA)

Florin Manea (University of Göttingen)

Irène Marcovici (Université de Lorraine)

Klaus Meer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg)

Ludovic Patey (Institut Camille Jordan)

Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova)

Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan)

Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Università di Torino)

Paul Schafer (University of Leeds)

Svetlana Selivanova (KAIST)

Monika Seisenberger (Swansea University)

Alexander Shen (CNRS & Univ. Montpellier 2)

Alexandra Soskova (Sofia University)

Mariya Soskova (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore)

Peter Van Emde Boas (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Sergey Verlan (Université Paris Est - Créteil Val de Marne)

Andreas Weiermann (Ghent University, PC co-chair)

Damien Woods (Maynooth University)

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[1] http://www.cie2021.ugent.be/
[2] https://www.acie.eu/
[3]
https://www.acie.eu/cie-conference-series/cie-cs-women-in-computability/
[4] ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip
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[DMANET] 3 PhD positions (all genders welcome) at Univ. Klagenfurt (Austria)

The doc.funds doctoral school Modeling -- Analysis -- Optimization of discrete,
continuous, and stochastic systems at Univ. Klagenfurt (Austria) announces
3 more PhD positions.

The successful candidates will be employed at the Faculty of Technical
Sciences, Departments for Mathematics and Statistics. The starting date is
negotiable, August, 1, 2021 at the latest, preferably February 1, 2021.

A Master's degree in mathematics, statistics, or a related field and profound
knowledge in one or more of the following fields is required: discrete
optimization, regularization methods, dynamical systems.

Every PhD student will have one of our faculty members (of whom 45% are female)
as supervisor and they will have a co-supervisor and an international mentor on
their side.

For further details please visit www.math.aau.at/doctoralschool .

The direct link to the job announcement is this one:
https://jobs.aau.at/en/job/3-predoc-positions-all-genders-welcome/

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[DMANET] Joint ACP, CNRS GDR IA and RO International Autumn School on Constraint Programming, Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning- 24-27 November 2020 - Toulouse, France

Joint ACP, CNRS GDR IA and RO International Autumn School on Constraint Programming, Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning

The international autumn school on Constraint Programming, Combinatorial Optimization and Machine Learning is a joint autumn school of the Association for Constraint Programming (ACP) and 4 working groups of the CNRS research networks on Artificial Intelligence (GDR IA) and Operations Research (GDR RO). These working groups are CAVIAR (Constraints and Learning), RAP (Representation and Algorithms in Practice), ROCT (Operations Research and Constraints), GT2L (Transportation and Logistics). The Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI) is also co-organizer. The purpose of the school is, first, to cover the basics of Constraint programming, Discrete Optimization and Machine learning and, second, to present advanced combinations of at least two approaches to attack complex problems. Applications in scheduling and vehicle routing will be addressed. Training sessions and software tutorials will be organized.

The school will take place at LAAS-CNRS, 7 avenue du Colonel Roche 31031 Toulouse France from 24 to 27 November 2020.

There will be two possible participation modes:

• online participation
• onsite participation (limited number of persons subject to future unknown restrictions)

Registration if free in both cases. Please register by following instructions on the school web site.

https://acp-iaro-school.sciencesconf.org <https://acp-iaro-school.sciencesconf.org/>

Speakers (see detailed program and schedule on the school website)

Tias Guns - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Combinations of machine learning and constraint programming for smart prediction and preference learning for combinatorial optimisation

Nadjib Lazaar, LIRMM Univ. Montpellier
Samir Loudni - LS2N-CNRS, TASC, IMT Atlantique, Nantes
Constraint acquisition and declarative data mining

Joao Marques-Silva, IRIT and ANITI Chair DeepLEVER Toulouse
Machine Learning Meets Automated Reasoning: Explainability, Fairness, Robustness and Model Learning

Axel Parmentier - CERMICS, Ecole des Ponts Paristech
Machine Learning and mathematical programming

Pierre Schaus, UC Louvain
Constraint Programming Solver Technology - Mini CP Tutorial

Simon de Givry and Thomas Schiex, INRAE Toulouse, ANITI DIL chair
Learning and solving Cost Function Networks : Algorithms in Theory and Practice

Mohamed Siala - LAAS-CNRS, INSA, Toulouse
Constraint Programming vs Boolean Satisfiability: similarities, differences, and hybrid frameworks.

Christine Solnon - CITI, INSA de Lyon
Solving Clustering Problems with Constraint Programming

Denys Trystram - LIG, Grenoble INP
Some experiences of using Machine Learning for scheduling jobs in distributed systems

Daniele Vigo - University of Bologna
Integrating Machine Learning into state of the art Vehicle Routing Heuristics
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[DMANET] Extended deadline: Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC 2021)

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CALL FOR PAPERS - AISC 2021
Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC 2021)

1 - 5 February 2021
Virtual Conference
(originally scheduled at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)

Paper Submission Deadline:The deadline has been extended to 26 October 2020 (FIRM)!

https://sites.google.com/view/aisc2021

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Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC 2021) will be held as part
of the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2021, http://acsw.org.au/),
which represents the largest annual gathering of computer scientists and researchers
in Australasia. This conference aims at promoting research on all aspects of information
security and increasing communication between academic and industrial researchers working
in this area. AISC welcomes not only computer scientists and researchers, but also
educators, students, technicians and industry from across the world. We encourage
contributions from different fields such as computer science, cyber security, mathematics
and etc.

AISC 2021 invites submissions from practitioners with an interest in a wide range of areas,
including the following but not restricted:

·Access Control
·Anonymity
·Applied Cryptography
·Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity
·Authentication
·Blockchain Security
·Cloud Security
·Cyber Physical Systems Security
·Database Security
·Data Security and Privacy
·Denial of Service Attacks and Countermeasure
·Digital Forensics
·Edge/Fog Computing Security
·Electronic Payments
·Electronic Voting
·Embedded Systems Security
·Human Aspects of Cybersecurity
·Identity Management
·Internet of Things (IoT) Security
·Malicious Software
·Mobile Security
·Network Security
·Operating Systems Security
·Privacy Enhancing Technologies
·(post-)Quantum Cryptography
·Smart Grid Security and Privacy
·Software Defined Networking Security
·Trust and Risk
·Usable Security
·Web Security
·Wireless Security
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Submission and Publication Information

AISC 2021 seeks submissions from academic and industrial researchers on all theoretical
and practical aspects of information security. Submitted papers must not substantially
overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a
journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings. Submitted papers will be subject to
stringent peer review by at least three members of the program committee and carefully
evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. Submission of papers will be managed through EasyChair, a comprehensive
conference paper management system. First create your own account there then login
and follow the prompts to submit your paper for reviewing.

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw2021


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Important Dates
Paper submission due: 26 October 2020 (FIRM)
Author notification: 16 November 2020
Camera-ready due: 23 November 2020
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Organizing Committee

General Chair
Jin B. Hong, University of Western Australia, Australia

Program committee Co-chairs
Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jongkil Kim, University of Wollongong, Australia

Program Committee (TBC - the current list rolled over from AISC 2020)
Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Gregory Blanc, Télécom SudParis, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Philip Branch, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Jabed Chowdhury, La Trobe University, Australia
Shujie Cui, Imperial College London, UK
Olivier De Vel, DSTO, Australia
Denise De Vries, Flinders University, Australia
Simon Yusuf Enochson, University of Queensland, Australia
Debin Gao, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Mengmeng Ge, Deakin University, Australia
Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Jin B. Hong, University of Western Australia, Australia
Qinwen Hu, University of Auckland, New Zealand
ASM Kayes, La Trobe University, Australia
Dong Seong Kim, University of Queensland, Australia
Udaya Parampalli, Melbourne University, Australia
Josef Pieprzyk, CSIRO/Data61, Australia
Chun Ruan, Western Sydney University, Australia
Ron van Schyndel, RMIT University, Australia
Theo Spyridopoulos, University of the West of England, UK
Chang-Ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
Rolando Trujillo, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Tanvir Ul Huque, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia
Ian Welch, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan
Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia
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[DMANET] IGAFIT Algorithmic Colloquium

On the 15th of October 2020 we will have the second *IGAFIT Algorithmic
Colloquium* on *"An almost-linear time deterministic algorithm for expander
decomposition"* given by *Thatchaphol Saranurak*, Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago. The seminar will take place at *14:00 CEST* (local
time in central Europe), and will be followed by a discussion session. We
would like to invite you to take part in the event including the networking
session. This new event aims to integrate the European algorithmic
community and keep it connected during the times of the pandemic. The
meeting will be held using *Airmeet* platform and to attend please go to
https://www.airmeet.com/e/97c8c5c0-0c70-11eb-98e7-d55d6ecb87dc. You can
find more information about the initiative and the talk on IGAFIT web page:
http://igafit.mimuw.edu.pl/?page_id=483786.

In order to access Airmeet platform, you will need to register, so that
others know who you are. Then before and after the talk, you will be
located inside a Social Lounge, where discussion tables are visible. Most
of the tables can have up to 8 chairs, and you can join a table by clicking
"Take a Seat" button on a table. This way you will be able to talk to
people seating currently at the table. When the session starts you will be
automatically switched to see the stage. You can find more instructions on
how to use Airmeet here:
https://www.airmeet.com/hub/step-by-step-guide-use-airmeet-for-attendees/.

We invite you to take part in the event. Please advertise broadly and bring
your students/postdocs as well.

The details of the talk are given below.

*October 15, 2020, 14:00 CEST*
*Thatchaphol Saranurak*, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Title: *An almost-linear time deterministic algorithm for expander
decomposition*
Abstract: Expander decomposition is a powerful tool in many areas on graph
algorithms (e.g. approximation algorithm, dynamic algorithm, distributed
algorithm, property testing, and sketching). We give a deterministic
algorithm for finding this decomposition in almost-linear time. Previous
algorithms are either randomized or take quadratic time. As a consequence,
we resolve a major open problem if there is a deterministic dynamic
connectivity algorithm with n^{0.4999} worst-case update time by giving an
algorithm with n^{o(1)} worst-case update time. The result also implies
almost-linear-time deterministic algorithms for approximate max flow,
electric flow, and Laplacian solvers.

Joint work with Julia Chuzhoy, Yu Gao, Jason Li, Danupon Nanongkai, and
Richard Peng.

Organization Committee:
Nikhil Bansal
Artur Czumaj
Andreas Feldmann
Adi Rosén
Eva Rotenberg
Piotr Sankowski
Christian Sohler

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[DMANET] DCOSS 2021 -- Call for Posters and Demos

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The 17th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems (DCOSS 2021)*

Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus

June 7 - 9, 2021

www.dcoss.org

* DCOSS has always been technically co-sponsored by IEEE; approval for this
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DCOSS 2021 is the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in
Sensor Systems to be hosted in Coral Bay, Pafos, Cyprus in June 7-9, 2021.
In the last few years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the use of
IoT and 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
issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack:
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:

- Artificial Intelligence for IoT

- Smart healthcare to combat epidemics (including COVID-19)

- 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

- IoT systems for emerging and developing economies

- Green and environmentally-friendly IoT

DCOSS 2021 will feature a poster session and a demo session that provide
opportunities for researchers and developers from academia, industry, and
government to interact with and explore the latest research results. The
presentations will provide authors with early feedback on their research
work and enable them to exchange ideas with DCOSS participants. Besides
presentations in the respective poster and demo sessions, DCOSS will host a
dedicated session where poster and demo authors will give a short oral
presentation of their work, during the main conference program. Also, a
best poster/demo award will be announced.

Posters and demos should present recent original results or ongoing
research in all aspects of sensor networks, including algorithms,
protocols, systems and applications. All submissions will be reviewed and
judged based on originality, technical contribution and, particularly,
potential to generate interesting and interactive exchanges of ideas.
Poster and Demo abstracts will be included in the Conference Proceedings
(same volume with main event papers).

Accepted posters/demos must be presented at the Conference and at least one
author for each poster/demo must be registered for the conference.

*Requirements for Posters:*
Poster dimension: A1 (594 x 841 mm) vertically oriented.
Poster paper: Poster papers will be included in the Proceedings of the
Conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Each poster
paper is limited to three (3) pages. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X
11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template
available on the link below:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
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Authors should highlight the leading ideas of the on-going research and its
expected outcome and impact. Poster papers should present a summary of the
research work and ideas that will be presented during the poster session
and the oral presentation.

*Requirements for Demos:*
Demo presentation: Research prototypes and testbeds are welcomed. The
authors will be allowed to display one A1 (594 x 841 mm) vertically
oriented poster explaining the demonstration or/and will be provided with
space to showcase their demos on their laptops/tablets, if they wish.
Demo abstract: Demonstration abstracts are limited to 3 pages. Please use
the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or
Microsoft Word template available on the link below:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
.
All accepted abstracts will appear in the proceedings. Demonstration
abstracts should include a description of the demonstration activity. For
the demo instructions, including any special requirements such as space or
dedicated frequency channels, please append an extra (4th) page to your
submitted document, that will not be published.

*Oral presentation for Posters and Demos:*
All accepted posters and demos will be allocated three (3) minutes for oral
presentation during a dedicated poster and demo session. This will be part
of the main conference. All attending authors for posters and demos should
prepare a small presentation (2-4 slides) and send it to the session chair
(Thomas Lagkas: tlagkas@cs.ihu.gr) by May 15th, with subject: "DCOSS2021
(Poster or Demo) Oral Presentation". The presentation should be in pdf
format.

*Submission Instructions:*

Poster papers and demo abstracts should be submitted through with the
indication (POSTER) or (DEMO) in front of the Title:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcoss2021postersandd

*Important Dates:*

- Poster/Demo submission deadline: March 26, 2021
- Notification of acceptance: April 16, 2021
- Camera ready abstracts due: April 30, 2021

*Posters and Demos Chair:*

Thomas Lagkas (International Hellenic University, Greece): tlagkas@cs.ihu.gr
Roger Chamberlain (Washington University in St. Louis, USA): roger@wustl.edu


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*Tamoghna Ojha*
*Publicity Co-Chair*, DCOSS 2021,
*Richard E Merwin Student Scholar (2016)*, IEEE Computer Society,
Smart Wireless Applications & Networking (SWAN
<http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~smisra/swan/>) Lab,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,
Kharagpur, India - 721302
Alternate Email ID: <tojha@sit.iitkgp.ernet.in>, <tamoghna.ojha@gmail.com>

URL: Personal Website <http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~tamoghna/> LinkedIn
<http://in.linkedin.com/in/tamoghnaojha>

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Sunday, October 11, 2020

[DMANET] Call for participation: IFIP PERFORMANCE 2020 (Program Available)

IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020
38th International Symposium on
Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation

November 2-6, 2020, Milan, Italy
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/


NEWS AND UPDATES

** Early registration deadline has been extended to October, 14th **

** Keynote Speakers **

Keynote 1 - November 3, 10.00 NYC, 16.00 Milan
Enterprise Data Trends for Hybrid Multi-clouds
Dr. Naresh M. Patel, Senior Technical Director
Storage Media Architect NetApp Inc, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Keynote 2 - November 5, 10.00 NYC, 16.00 Milan
Scheduling Impatient Customers in a Multiclass Many Server Queue
Prof. Amy R. Ward
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, IL, USA

** Meet the Star Event **
November 6, 11.00 NYC, 17.00 Milan

PhD students can discuss their work with the keynote speakers,
Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter and Prof. Don Towsley, reserve your slot.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 38th International Symposium on
Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation 2020
will be held online from November 2nd to November 6th, 2020.

The conference aims to bring together researchers interested in
understanding and improving the performance of computing and
communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative models
and solution techniques.

The program is available at:
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/accepted-papers/

Registration information is available at:
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/registration-information/

The registration provides access to all conference tracks, including
workshops and tutorials.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair: Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Jim Dai (CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA)
Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK)
Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Canada)

Steering Committee:
Sem Borst, Vice-Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, TU Eindhoven and Bell Labs NOKIA
Mark S. Squillante, Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, IBM Research
Benny Van Houdt, Secretary, IFIP WG 7.3, University of Antwerp

Publication Chair
Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University, USA

Workshop Chair
Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA
Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Michela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Marco Mellia, Politecnico Torino, Italy

Travel Grant Chairs
Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Riccardo Lancellotti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Publicity Chairs
Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Weina Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TPC available on the Performance 2020 web site at
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/?page_id=89

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[DMANET] Call for participation: IFIP PERFORMANCE 2020 (Program Available)

IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020
38th International Symposium on
Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation

November 2-6, 2020, Milan, Italy
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/


NEWS AND UPDATES

** Early registration deadline has been extended to October, 14th **

** Keynote Speakers **

Keynote 1 - November 3, 10.00 NYC, 16.00 Milan
Enterprise Data Trends for Hybrid Multi-clouds
Dr. Naresh M. Patel, Senior Technical Director
Storage Media Architect NetApp Inc, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Keynote 2 - November 5, 10.00 NYC, 16.00 Milan
Scheduling Impatient Customers in a Multiclass Many Server Queue
Prof. Amy R. Ward
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, IL, USA

** Meet the Star Event **
November 6, 11.00 NYC, 17.00 Milan

PhD students can discuss their work with the keynote speakers,
Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter and Prof. Don Towsley, reserve your slot.


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

The 38th International Symposium on
Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurement and Evaluation 2020
will be held online from November 2nd to November 6th, 2020.

The conference aims to bring together researchers interested in
understanding and improving the performance of computing and
communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative models
and solution techniques.

The program is available at:
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/accepted-papers/

Registration information is available at:
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/registration-information/

The registration provides access to all conference tracks, including
workshops and tutorials.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair: Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Jim Dai (CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA)
Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK)
Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Canada)

Steering Committee:
Sem Borst, Vice-Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, TU Eindhoven and Bell Labs NOKIA
Mark S. Squillante, Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, IBM Research
Benny Van Houdt, Secretary, IFIP WG 7.3, University of Antwerp

Publication Chair
Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University, USA

Workshop Chair
Leana Golubchik, University of Southern California, USA
Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA

Tutorial Chairs
Michela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Marco Mellia, Politecnico Torino, Italy

Travel Grant Chairs
Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Riccardo Lancellotti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Publicity Chairs
Manjesh Kumar Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Weina Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TPC available on the Performance 2020 web site at
https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/?page_id=89

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Saturday, October 10, 2020

[DMANET] XVI Summer School in Discrete Mathematics (Victor Verdugo)

XVI Summer School in Discrete Mathematics (Online)
(XVI Escuela de Verano en Matemáticas Discretas)

http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2021/ <http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2021/>

Dates: January 18-23, 2021.

Application deadline: November 15, 2020

For the first time and due to the current COVID-19 pandemic,
the school will be held fully online. Previous versions of the school
were based in Valparaíso, Chile.

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TARGET AUDIENCE
The school is aimed at mathematics, computer science and engineering
advanced undergraduate or graduate students interested in algorithms,
theory of computing, combinatorics, optimization, game theory, and their
applications.

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COURSES
"Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization"
Anupam Gupta
Carnegie Melon University, USA

"Introduction to Differential Privacy"
Katrina Ligett
Hebrew University, Israel

"The method of hypergraph containers"
Rob Morris
IMPA, Brazil

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APPLICATIONS:
For more information and access to the application form for students see:

http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2021/postulaciones/ <http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2021/postulaciones/>

Application period: October 1 - November 15, 2020
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[DMANET] Ph.D. positions - Vienna School of Mathematics

The Vienna School of Mathematics (VSM - Universit\"at Wien and
TU Wien) offers several Ph.D. positions, among them positions
in Enumerative Combinatorics, Algebraic Combinatorics, Probabilistic
Combinatorics, and Discrete Geometry.

See the website

https://www.vsmath.at/application/

Application deadline is October 20.
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[DMANET] Senior Assistant Position in Applied Combinatorial Optimization at ETH Zurich

The Combinatorial Optimization Group at ETH Zurich, headed by Prof. Rico
Zenklusen, has an opening for a Senior Assistant in Applied Combinatorial
Optimization.

We are looking for an outstanding candidate with a PhD in Mathematical
Optimization or a related field and strong interests in real-world
mathematical optimization challenges, teaching, student supervision,
knowledge transfer, and coding/software aspects related to modern applied
combinatorial optimization techniques. Apart from a teaching load of about
one course per semester and the supervision of student projects, the
candidate is expected to help strengthen and expand the applied profile of
the group, which complements a strong theoretical research thrust. The
position provides exciting opportunities to contribute and shape existing
applied projects and spawn new ones, typically in collaboration with
industrial partners.

The Combinatorial Optimization Group is part of the Institute for
Operations Research within the Mathematics Department of ETH Zurich. We are
a well-connected research group with strong international visibility. We
offer a very stimulating work environment with a highly competitive salary
and benefits, excellent working conditions and infrastructure in the center
of Zurich, and generous travel support. The position is initially for one
year with the possibility of extension for up to a total of three years.
The starting date is flexible within 2021.

Apart from a PhD in Mathematical Optimization or a related field and strong
interests in both applied mathematical optimization and teaching/mentoring,
we are seeking candidates with strong coding skills, excellent knowledge of
mathematical programming libraries and techniques (in particular for
integer, mixed-integer, and preferably also convex/nonlinear optimization),
a solid theoretical foundation in Mathematical Optimization, excellent
academic qualifications, and strong communication skills.

To apply, please upload your application documents, including a cover
letter, cv, list of publications, teaching statement, and names and contact
information of at least 3 references through our online application portal:
https://www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOPG_ethz_ZMA8tlttfCLBMuX820. To ensure
full consideration, please send your application before November 30, 2020.
Late applications may be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Further information about our research group, which is part of the
Institute for Operations Research, can be found on our website
https://math.ethz.ch/ifor.

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[DMANET] [jobs] Funded 3-year PhD-position (work contract) at IMT Lille Douai, France: Combinatorial optimization and MAS applied to the AMR fleet coordination

AGRIFLEETS: Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets


Context. The need for sustainable agriculture has led to the recent introduction of Agriculture Mobile Robots (AMRs) and Precision Agriculture (PA) that makes the practice of farming more accurate and efficient. The AMR research so far has focused on a single robot and its agriculture-specific capabilities. Very little work has been done in the domain of distributed, efficient, and scalable real-time agriculture vehicle fleet coordination in general and AMR fleet coordination in particular, considering the overall fleet performance as well as tactical and operational real-time vehicle, AMR, implement, and crop cultivating constraints. This topic is of utmost importance in the case of corporate agriculture where conglomerates with heterogeneous agriculture vehicle fleets operate large lands with precision farming.

The doctoral research position is open at the Department of Digital Systems at IMT Lille Douai, University of Lille in France within the Research Project "AGRIFLEETS: Distributed Route Guidance System for Autonomous Coordination of Agriculture Robot Fleets" funded by French National Research Agency (ANR) and including various national and European academic partners from Italy, Spain, and the UK.

The PhD student project is led by Prof. Marin Lujak (IMT Lille Douai) in close collaboration with Prof. Frederic Semet, Deputy Director of CRIStAL (Research center in Computer Science, Signal and Automatic Control of Lille) from the École Centrale de Lille. The expected outcome of the research is a PhD dissertation concerning the development of mathematical models and distributed and scalable multi-agent coordination algorithms for the agriculture fleet vehicle routing problem, a new dynamic and decentralized variant of the vehicle routing problem.

The work contract should start as soon as possible, preferably in November 2020 and should last for three years. The selected PhD student will receive an internationally competitive salary and will be exempt from post-graduate tuition fees.

Eligibility criteria

The candidate is expected to have a Master's Degree or an equivalent in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related field with a strong academic background in Combinatorial Optimization. Furthermore, good programming skills (preferably in IBM ILOG Cplex Studio, MATLAB, and Java) and a good knowledge of written and spoken English are requested.

How to apply

If you wish to apply for this work contract, you are kindly asked to send the following in the same order: 1) motivation letter with research interests and goals, 2) CV, 3) three recommendation letters with respective contacts, 4) copies of your diplomas and transcripts, 5) certificates, and 6) relevant publications (if any) in one PDF file at the following e-mail address: [ marin dot lujak at imt-lille-douai dot fr ] preferably by October 25th 2020. The applications are considered on a rolling basis.

Best regards,


Marin Lujak

Associate Professor

IMT Lille Douai

Phone: +33(0)3 27 71 25 86

http://marinlujak.eu


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