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CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION - 25 November
EvoMUSART 2015
http://www.evostar.org/2015/cfp_evomusart.php

4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design

April 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark
Part of evo* 2015
evo*: http://www.evostar.org

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NEW THIS YEAR: LEONARDO Gallery
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The journal LEONARDO will be publishing a Gallery Section (online and in the
print edition) associated with the conference. This will consist of a number
of visual artworks based on ideas and techniques presented at the conference.
A separate call for this will be issued after papers have been selected for
the conference.

http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/

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Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of
evolutionary and biologically inspired (artificial neural network, swarm,
alife) music, sound, art and design, evomusart has become an evo* conference
with independent proceedings since 2012. Thus, evomusart 2015 is the
fourth International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design.

The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic
systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a
growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such
as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound
synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks.

The main goal of evomusart 2015 is to bring together researchers who are
using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing
the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

The event will be held in April, 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark,
as part of the Evo* event.

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Submissions will be rigorously reviewed for scientific and artistic merit.
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.
The acceptance rate at evomusart 2014 was 26.7% for papers accepted for oral
presentation, or 36.7% for oral and poster presentation combined.

Submitters are strongly encouraged to provide in all papers a link for
download of media demonstrating their results, whether music, images, video,
or other media types. Links should be anonymised for double-blind review,
e.g. using a URL shortening service.

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Topics of interest
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Submissions should concern the use of biologically inspired computer
techniques -- e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life,
Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial
intelligence techniques -- in the generation, analysis and
interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic
fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-- Generation
- Biologically Inspired Design and Art -- Systems that create
drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs,
webpages, buildings, etc.;
- Biologically Inspired Sound and Music -- Systems that create
musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound
analysis, etc.;
- Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
- Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in
the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.;

-- Theory
- Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional
Response, Surprise, Novelty;
- Representation techniques;
- Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification
of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification;
- Validation methodologies;
- Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas;
- New models designed to promote the creative potential of
biologically inspired computation;

-- Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity
- Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to
promote the creativity of a human user;
- New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;
- Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically
inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these
approaches; the resulting artefacts;
- Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;

-- Automation
- Techniques for automatic fitness assignment;
- Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is
used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce
novel objects;
- Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform
the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of
artistic object.

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Important Dates (to be confirmed)
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Submission (UPDATED): 25 November 2014
Notification to authors: 07 January 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 21 January 2015
Evo*: 8-10 April 2015

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Additional information and submission details
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Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format
(instructions downloadable from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) no later than
November 15th, 2014.

Page limit: 12 pages

The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about
the authors in the submitted paper.

Submission page: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart15/

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Programme committee
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Adrián Carballal, University of A Coruna, Spain
Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA
Andrew Brown, Griffith University, Australia
Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Antonios Liapis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Benjamin Schroeder, Ohio State University, USA
Benjamin Smith, Indianapolis University, Purdue University,Indianapolis, USA
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carlos Grilo, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada
Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University, USA
Daniel Jones, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Daniel Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Douglas Repetto, Columbia University, USA
Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK
Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
Jonathan E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK
Jane Prophet, City University of Hong Kong, China
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
Jonathan Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jonathan Eisenmann, Ohio State University, USA
José Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Kate Reed, Imperial College, UK
Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France
Marcos Nadal, University of Vienna, Austria
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, University of Patras, Greece
Michael O'Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Nicolas Monmarché, University of Tours, France
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Palle Dahlstedt, Göteborg University, Sweden
Patrick Janssen, National University of Singapure, Singapure
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Pedro Abreu, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Pedro Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London, UK
Peter Cariani, University of Binghamton, USA
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Roger Malina, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, USA
Roisin Loughran, University College Dublin, Ireland
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Brunei Institute of Technology, Malaysia
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia
Yang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China


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Conference chairs
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Colin Johnson
University of Kent, UK
c.g.johnson(at)kent.ac.uk

Adrián Carballal
University of A Coruña, Spain
adriancarballal(at)gmail.com

Publication chair
João Correia, University of Coimbra
jncor(at)dei.uc.pt

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[DMANET] BB5 2015 Call for Papers

8th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer
Science (BBC 2015)
http://bbc2015.wordpress.com/
Reykjavík, Iceland, 1-3 June, 2015

held in conjunction with
International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2015)
http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2015/

CALL FOR PAPERS

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IMPORTANT DATES
Papers submission: December 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2015
Camera-ready papers: March 2, 2015

AIMS & SCOPE
Emerging technologies in genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics and
other life science areas are generating an increasing amount of
complex data and information.
In order to tackle the growing complexity associated with emerging and
future life science challenges, bioinformatics and computational
biology researchers and developers
need to explore, develop and apply novel computational concepts,
methods, tools and systems. Many of these new approaches are likely to
involve advanced and large-scale
computing techniques, computational approaches, technologies and
infrastructures such as:
* High-performance architectures and systems (e.g., multicore, GPU);
* Distributed computing (e.g. grid, cloud, peer-to-peer, Web services,
e-infrastructures);
* Computational simulation (mechanistic, stochastic, multi-model);
* Algorithms (theoretical and experimental aspects);
* Applied bioinformatics (analysis pipelines, tools, applications);
* Artificial and computational intelligence (machine learning, agents,
evolutionary techniques, bio-inspired methods).

The aim of this workshop is to bring together computer and life
scientists to discuss emerging and future directions in these areas.
The workshop is seeking original research contributions presenting
innovative bioinformatics and computational biology concepts and
solutions in the areas outline above.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

Computer Science
* Dedicated hardware & architectures
* High performance & distributed computing
* Parallelisation techniques
* Grid/cloud computing
* Service-orientation
* Volunteer computing
* Peer-to-peer computing
* (Distributed) workflows
* E-infrastructures
* Algorithms

Bioinformatics
* Biological sequence & structure analysis
* Genomics, transcriptomics, metagenomics, metabolomics, etc.
* Analysis of biological networks
* Biomedical image analysis
* Neuroimaging
* Data visualization
* Data mining & knowledge discovery

Computational Biology
* Simulation of biological systems/processes
* Multi-model approaches
* Systems biology
* Knowledge-based techniques
* Knowledge management
* Artificial / computational intelligence techniques
* Executable theories and models
* Analysis tools


PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
The manuscripts of up to 10 pages (using the Procedia format), written
in English and formatted according to the EasyChair templates, should
be submitted electronically.
Papers must be based on unpublished original work and must be
submitted to ICCS only. Submission implies the willingness of at least
one of the authors to register and present the paper.
Copyright forms are only needed after the paper has been accepted for
publication in the proceedings.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Easychair
submission system choosing the workshop titled:
8th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges for Computer
Science (BBC 2015).
All accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings
published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer
Science and indexed by Scopus,
ScienceDirect, Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (former
ISI Proceedings) -an integrated index within Web of Science. The
papers will contain linked references,
XML versions and citable DOI numbers.
ICCS is an ERA 2010 A-ranked conference series.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
After the workshop, selected papers may be invited for a special issue
of the Journal of Computational Science. Selected papers (extended and
revised version)
accepted on the 1st edition of this workshop have been published on a
special section of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier.


WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS
Stefano Beretta, CNR - Istituto di Tecnologie Biomediche (ITB), Italy
Mauro Castelli, ISEGI - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro, Italy (Chair)
Riccardo Dondi, University of Bergamo, Italy
Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil

MORE INFORMATION:
For further information, please check Website: http://bbc2015.wordpress.com/

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[DMANET] Joint Postdoc position available at TU Berlin (Germany) and Ben-Gurion university (Israel)

Joint Postdoc position available at TU Berlin (Germany) and Ben-Gurion
university (Israel)

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We are looking for a highly motivated researcher with interests in
networking, distributed systems and theory (algorithms, discrete
mathematics) to join a GIF (German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific
Research and Development) project on "Self-Adjusting Virtual
Infrastructures".



Applicants are required to demonstrate strong background and understanding
in at least one of the topics above. The postdoc is expected to perform
independent research, collaborate with team members, and supervise PhD and
MSc students as appropriate.



The project is led by Dr. Chen Avin (BGU) and Dr. Stefan Schmid (TU Berlin &
T-Labs), so the postdoc may spend time both in Israel and Germany (with the
group led by Prof. Dr. Anja Feldmann). The salary will be as usual for a
Postdoc in the corresponding country. (Two separate contracts will be made,
one for Israel and one for Germany.)



To apply, applications can be submitted in PDF format by email to
<mailto:avin@cse.bgu.ac.il> avin@cse.bgu.ac.il and
<mailto:schmiste@gmail.com> schmiste@gmail.com. The position will remain
open until

filled. The target starting date is January 1, 2015. Duration is one year
with possible extension up to another two years.



The application should include the following items:



. CV (including names and contact details of at least 2 references)

. List of publications

. Research abstract






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[DMANET] Call for papers for ODYSSEUS 2015 - Ajaccio, France - New submission deadline : November, 16th

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Call for papers for ODYSSEUS 2015 - Ajaccio, France - New submission deadline : November, 16th
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***** CALL FOR PAPERS *****
Sixth International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics June 1-5 2015, Ajaccio, Corsica, France
url: http://odysseus2015.sciencesconf.org
contact: odysseus2015_at_laas.fr

***** Deadline for extended abstract submission: November, 16th, 2014 *****
***** Submission is now open. New deadline. *****

Scope of workshop:
This international scientific workshop, 6th in the series of ODYSSEUS meetings, follows in the footsteps of its predecessors (Crete 2000, Sicily 2003, Altea 2006, Çeşme 2009, Mykonos 2012)
in bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field of freight transportation and logistics to discuss recent experiences, exchange ideas, disseminate research results, and present
advanced applications and technologies. It provides a high quality forum for recent developments, trends and advances in the theory, practice and application of mathematical models, methodologies
and decision support systems in the field of freight transportation and logistics.
Topics of interest cover a broad spectrum and include but are not limited to:
• Vehicle Routing
• Fleet and Crew Management
• Modal/Intermodal Transportation
• Terminal Management
• Supply Chain Logistics
• Network Design and Planning
• City Logistics
• Facility Logistics
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Humanitarian Logistics
Conference Location and Venue:
The workshop will take place in the city of Ajaccio in Corsica, the island of beauty. Hometown of Napoleon Bonapartes, Ajaccio is called the Imperial City. The city is located between the Mediterranean
sea and the mountains of Corsica. The city is charged with history, culture, and gastronomy. The meeting will be held in the Palais des congrès situated on the harbor of Ajaccio in the old Genoese town.
Important dates:
Deadline for extended abstract submission: October 17, 2014

Extended Abstract Preparation & Submission Guidelines:
Submitted extended abstracts should be up to 4 pages in length, written in English and typeset using either the LaTeX or the Word template provided at http://odysseus2015.sciencesconf.org under the *Submission* section.
Extended abstracts will be peer-reviewed and acceptance of the contributions will be based on originality of the work, suitability regarding the main topic of the workshop, and overall quality of the submission.
A single presentation per full registration policy will be enforced.

Organizing Committee:
• Luce Brotcorne (INRIA Lille Nord Europe)
• Dominique Feillet (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne)
• Nicolas Jozefowiez (LAAS-CNRS / INSA de Toulouse)
• Dominique Quadri (Université Paris Sud XI)
• Frédéric Semet (Ecole Centrale de Lille)
• Christèle Mouclier (LAAS-CNRS)
Looking forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Ajaccio!


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[DMANET] MISTA 2015 - Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory & Applications - First Call for Papers

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MISTA 2015: Call for Papers
Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory & Applications

25-28 August 2015,
Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.schedulingconference.org/
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MISTA 2015 is the seventh in the conference series. The conference serves as
a forum for an international community of researchers, practitioners and
vendors on all aspects of multi-disciplinary scheduling.
There is a special issue of the Journal of Scheduling associated with this
conference. If you present a paper or abstract at the conference, you will
be invited to submit a paper to this special issue. More details can be
found on the web site (http://www.schedulingconference.org/).

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The conference will cover, but not be limited to, the following disciplines:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Management
- Manufacturing
- Mathematics
- Operational Research

The aim is to bring together scheduling researchers and practitioners from
all the disciplines that engage with scheduling research. The scope of the
conference includes (but is not limited to):
- Agent Based Scheduling
- Algorithmics
- Applications
- Automated Reasoning
- Batch Scheduling
- Commercial Packages
- Complexity of Scheduling Problems
- Constraint Logic Programming
- Delivery Scheduling
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Heuristic Search
- Knowledge-Based Systems
- Large Scale Scheduling
- Local Search
- Machine Scheduling
- Meta-heuristic Search
- Multi-processor Scheduling
- Process Scheduling
- Production Scheduling
- Real World Scheduling
- Real-Time Scheduling
- Rostering
- Rule-Based Expert Systems
- Shop-Floor Scheduling
- Sports Scheduling
- Theoretical Scheduling
- Timetabling
- Transport Scheduling
- Vehicle Routing

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Important Dates

29th Jan 2015: Deadline submission (full paper/abstract)
17th Apr 2015: Decision to authors
19th Jun 2015: Early registration due
25th - 28th Aug 2015: Conference
28th Aug 2015: This day will be a Social Day

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Conference Chairs
Zdenek Hanzalek, Czech Technical University in Prague
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham, UK
Barry McCollum, Queens University Belfast, UK
Premysl Sucha, Czech Technical University in Prague

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Premysl Sucha

Department of Control Engineering,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Karlovo namesti 13, 121 35 Prague 2,
Czech Republic
Phone: + 420 2 2435 5714
Web: http://dce.fel.cvut.cz/suchap


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[DMANET] CFP (IndiaCom 2015 special session) -- Extended Deadline December 1

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Dear colleagues,


The IndiaCom 2015 special session paper submission deadline of November 10 has been extended to December 1. Please be sure to submit on time.


Please, find the details below.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

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We invite you to contribute to the special session of the Indiacom 2015 conference. Please, find the details below.

Session Title:
Wireless Sensor Networks for sustainable development
>From low layer communications to Software Oriented Architecture

Special Issue at IndiaCom 2015 ( http://www.bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/ )

With the recent advances in many fields of technologies, wireless sensor networks have gained in attention and are more and more envisioned for a large set of purposes ranging from environment monitoring to rescue operation ranging from health assistance or factory monitoring. For many of these applications, the use of this new technology allows more energy saving and sustainability.
The main focus of this special session 'Wireless Sensor Networks for sustainable development – From low layer communications to Software Oriented Architecture' in IndiaCom 2015 is to review and assess all the research done in the wireless sensor network area for sustainability.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- WSN-based paradigms and architectures for sustainable applications and technologies
- WSN Software oriented architectures
- Tools for developing sustainable WSN applications
- WSN cloud vs distributed computing
- Security and privacy control mechanisms
- Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc)
- PHY layer, Spectrum management for energy-efficiency
- MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for energy-efficiency
- Mobility management
- Object, device and service management
- Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
- Test-beds and field trials
- Standardization and regulatory issues…

General chairs:
- Dr Nathalie Mitton, Inria, France
- Prof.Dr.O.P.Vyas, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allaha, India

Program committee members (tentative):
- Dr Milan Erdelj, UTC, France
- Dr Ibrahim Amadou, Université de Valenciennes, France
- Dr Nicola Zema, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, Italy
- Dr. D.S.Kushwaha , Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (UP), India
- Akhilendra Pratap Singh, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Meghalaya, India
- Anuj Kumar Dwivedi, School of Computer Science & I.T., Pt.R.S.University Raipur (CG), India

Publicity chairs:
- Viktor Toldov, Université Lille 1, Inria, France
- Anuj Dwivedi, Indian Institute of Information Technology Allaha, India

Submission guidelines :
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts by using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=indiacom15sustainabl
Papers should demonstrate current research. Paper submissions should be no longer than 6 pages with a font size of 10 using the IEEE conference template. Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF files. All submitted papers will be subject to peer reviews by Technical Program Committee members and other experts in the field. Please, note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register and attend the workshop to present the paper. Failure to present the paper at the workshop will result in the withdrawal of the paper from the Proceedings.

Important dates :
Extended Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014
Acceptance Notification: January 12, 2015
Camera Ready Due: January 22, 2015
Registration deadline : January 22, 2015
Conference Dates: March 11-13, 2015

All information about the special issue :
http://www.bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/splSessionDetails.asp?sessionRequestID=18
All information about IndiaCom:
http://www.bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/

Contacts:
Nathalie.mitton@inria.fr
dropvyas@gmail.com

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Sunday, November 9, 2014

[DMANET] UCC 2014 London UK-- Conference Programme is now available

Dear All,

The conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at:

http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/

We have some very interesting keynote speakers this year. The notable names and their talks include the following:

1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft
2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun)
3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google
4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft
5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware
6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London
7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche

Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds?

Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF)
Joe Baguley; VMWare
John Wilken; Google
Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU)
Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UCC 2014 Tutorials
1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda
2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna
3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein
4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller,
5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K,
6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli
6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda
7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana
8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop
9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson

UCC 2014 Workshops
1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014
2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6
3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014
4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014
5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014
6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014
7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014
8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014
9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014
10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014
11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014
12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014
13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014
14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014
15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop
16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA
17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop
18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014
19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop
20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event

UCC 2014 Registration

To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/

Best regards
Ashiq Anjum


Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/

Dr. Ashiq Anjum
Reader in Distributed Computing
Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre
School of Computing and Mathematics
University of Derby
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[DMANET] Multiple Postdoctoral Programs at the Israeli center of research excellence in Algorithms

Multiple Postdoctoral Programs at the Israeli center of research
excellence in Algorithms
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We are seeking excellent candidates for three postdoctoral programs:


1. I-CORE in Algorithms postdoctoral program


2. I-CORE in Algorithms and the Simons Institute for the Theory of
Computing in Berkeley - a joint postdoctoral program


3. Leonardo Fibonacci fellowships - a joint postdoctoral program of
I-CORE Algo, CNR and ENEA

Details:
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1. I-CORE in Algorithms postdoctoral program
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We are seeking excellent candidates for postdoctoral positions at the
I-CORE ALGO (Israeli center of research excellence in algorithms)
institutes. The positions are supported by the Israeli Science
Foundation (ISF).
The Israeli Center of Research Excellence in Algorithms is part of the
I-CORE program, initiated by the Government of Israel and adopted by
Israel's Council of Higher Education, in order to reinforce Israel's
intellectual capacities and promote synergy among Israel's leading
research centers. The institutes participating in the center are:

* The Blavatnik School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
* The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and
Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
* Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): all variety of
algorithms (optimization, online, streaming, approximation,
randomized, geometric and more), cryptography, security and privacy,
algorithmic game theory, quantum computing, networking and distributed
computing, databases, machine learning and computer vision.

To apply please send the following to icorealgo@cs.tau.ac.il
(deadline: 15/12/14)

* A CV of the applicant including the list of publications.
* A short research statement.
* The preferable I-CORE ALGO fellow to work with (if already known)
and institution in I-CORE ALGO. (There is a possibility of more than
one fellow and/or institution.)

In addition, all applicants should ensure that their recommenders
email their letters (as pdf files) to the email address above, with
the subject line "<candidate_name>: recommendation". (It is the
applicant's
responsibility to ensure that the letters are sent; the Institute will
not solicit letters directly.)

The deadline is 15th December 2014, 24:00 (at GMT+1)

***

2. I-CORE in Algorithms and the Simons Institute for the Theory of
Computing in Berkeley - a joint postdoctoral program
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I-CORE Algo – Israeli Center of Research Excellence in algorithms, and
the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing are seeking excellent
candidates for a joint postdoctoral program starting in the academic
year 2015-2016.


The Israeli Center of Research Excellence in Algorithms is part of the
I-CORE program, initiated by the Government of Israel and adopted by
Israel's Council of Higher Education, in order to reinforce Israel's
intellectual capacities and promote synergy among Israel's leading
research centers. The members of the center are some of Israel's most
exceptional computer scientists, from The Blavatnik School of Computer
Science in Tel Aviv University, The Rachel and Selim Benin School of
Computer Science and Engineering in The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in
Weizmann Institute of Science.


The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing is an exciting new
venue for collaborative research in theoretical computer science and
related fields. The Institute is housed in a dedicated building on the
UC Berkeley campus, and acts as a vibrant and welcoming environment
for visiting researchers. In each academic semester the activities of
the Institute are largely focused on specific research programs, each
of which attracts thirty to forty participants ranging from senior
scientists to graduate students. The Simons Institute for the Theory
of Computing was created in 2012 through a ten-year grant from the
Simons Foundation (more information can be found at:
http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2015).

The joint postdoctoral position would start in Fall 2015. The joint
post-doctoral fellow will first spend a semester (Fall 2015) at the
Simons Institute, and then will continue at the I-Core in Algorithms
for the remainder of the academic year. The topics of the research
programs for Fall 2015 in the Simons Institute are Algorithmic
Challenges in Genomics" and "Counting Complexity and Phase
Transitions".) The topics of research in I-CORE in Algorithms include
(but are not limited to): all variety of algorithms (optimization,
online, streaming, approximation, randomized, geometric and more),
cryptography, security and privacy, algorithmic game theory, quantum
computing, networking and distributed computing, databases, machine
learning and computer vision. The research interests of potential
candidates should match the research interests of both institutions.

Salaries and benefits are competitive and assistance with visas and
housing will be provided.
We particularly encourage applications from outstanding women and
minority candidates. In addition, the I-CORE in Algorithms would
provide some support to travel to and from Israel.
In some circumstances, the fellowship maybe be awarded for more than
one year, up to a maximum of two years.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Each applicant should submit the following documents (as pdf files) in
a single email to icorealgo@cs.tau.ac.il.

- cover letter, including current institution and employment status,
(expected) date of PhD, and a statement indicating the Simons
Institute program (or programs) in which you wish to participate, and
why. For the I-CORE Algo please indicate which institute you would
like to perform the research at (can be more than one);
- curriculum vitae, including full list of publications;
- research statement;
- names and email addresses of at least three recommenders.

In addition, all applicants should ensure that their recommenders
email their letters (as pdf files) to the email address above, with
the subject line "<candidate_name>: recommendation". (It is the
applicant's responsibility to ensure that the letters are sent; I-CORE
will not solicit letters directly.)

The deadline for receipt of all application materials, including
letters, is December 15, 2014.

***

3. Leonardo Fibonacci fellowships - a joint postdoctoral program of
I-CORE Algo, CNR and ENEA
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I-CORE Algo – the Israeli Center of Research Excellence in algorithms,
CNR – the National Research Council of Italy and ENEA – the Italian
National agency for new technologies, Energy and sustainable economic
development are seeking excellent candidates for postdoctoral
fellowships.

The joint program is supported by the Italian Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and one of its objectives is strengthening the bi-national
cooperation in science and technology between Italy and Israel, under
the auspices of the Italian-Israeli Agreement on Industrial,
Scientific and Technological Cooperation. CNR and ENEA participate in
the program to help open new paths towards excellence for young
researchers, some of whom will eventually join the Italian research
system.

The Leonardo Fibonacci fellowships are named after the Italian
mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, arguably the greatest European
mathematician of the middle ages.

I-CORE Algo is part of the I-CORE program, initiated by the Government
of Israel and adopted by Israel's Council of Higher Education in order
to reinforce Israel's intellectual capacities and promote synergy
among Israel's leading research centers. The members of the center are
some of Israel's most exceptional computer scientists, from The
Blavatnik School of Computer Science in Tel Aviv University, The
Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering in
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Faculty of Mathematics and
Computer Science in Weizmann Institute of Science.


SELECTION PROCESS
Researches of any nationality can apply to the program, given that
they obtained their PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) from an institution in
Italy no longer than 2 years before the date of the application, or
will obtain it within 3 months after the application. EU nationals can
apply independently of where they have obtained their degree, within
the same temporal frame. Equal opportunity is a principle underlying
the whole selection process.

Key criteria for the selection will be

1. the scientific potential of the candidates, as assessed by their
academic record and thesis, by publications, if any, by previous
research experience and by any previous awards and honors.

2. the expected benefits of the fellowship for the trainees, as
indicated also by a short research statement (or tentative project)
submitted with the application.

Reference letters are requested from at least three recommenders and
will contribute to assess both criteria.

The Fellowships will be awarded initially for a period of up to twelve
months, and they may be prolonged, after consideration, within the
same program or other programs of the I-CORE center.
The Leonardo Fibonacci fellows will perform their postdoctoral
research in one of the I-CORE in Algorithms institutions. Salaries and
benefits are competitive and assistance with visas and housing will be
provided.

The selection Committee (3 members, from the CNR, the I-CORE in
Algorithms and the Embassy of Italy in Israel) will choose between
applicants, on the basis of the above criteria.

The selected candidates will submit a brief activity report to the
Committee every three months.


RESEARCH SCOPE

The topics of research in I-CORE in Algorithms include (but are not
limited to): all variety of algorithms (optimization, online,
streaming, approximation, randomized, geometric and more),
cryptography, security and privacy, algorithmic game theory, quantum
computing, networking and distributed computing, databases, machine
learning and computer vision.

The selected candidates will be able to choose which of the center
members will be their advisor.


APPLICATION PROCEDURE
To apply, please send the attached form (as .pdf) by e-mail to both

icorealgo@cs.tau.ac.il and lucilla.alagna @esteri.it

In addition, applicants should ensure that their recommenders email
their letters (as pdf files) to the email addresses above, with the
subject line "<candidate_name>: recommendation". (It is the
applicant's responsibility to ensure that the letters are sent;
letters will not be solicited directly.)

The deadline is 15th December 2014, 24:00 (at GMT+1)

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

[DMANET] AlCoB 2015: 1st call for papers

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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ALGORITHMS FOR COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

AlCoB 2015

Mexico City, Mexico

August 4-6, 2015

Organized by:

Centre for Complexity Sciences (C3)
School of Sciences
Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics and Systems (IIMAS)
Graduate Program in Computing Science and Engineering
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/

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AIMS:

AlCoB aims at promoting and displaying excellent research using string and
graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in
biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and
structure prediction.

The conference will address several of the current challenges in
computational biology by investigating algorithms aimed at: 1) assembling
sequence reads into a complete genome, 2) identifying gene structures in the
genome, 3) recognizing regulatory motifs, 4) aligning nucleotides and
comparing genomes, 5) reconstructing regulatory networks of genes, and 6)
inferring the evolutionary phylogeny of species.

Particular focus will be put on methodology and significant room will be
reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career.

VENUE:

AlCoB 2015 will take place in Mexico City, the oldest capital city in the
Americas and the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. The venue will
be the main campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

SCOPE:

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

Exact sequence analysis
Approximate sequence analysis
Pairwise sequence alignment
Multiple sequence alignment
Sequence assembly
Genome rearrangement
Regulatory motif finding
Phylogeny reconstruction
Phylogeny comparison
Structure prediction
Compressive genomics
Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks ...
Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification,
differential analysis …
Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics,
metatranscriptomics ...
Microbiome analysis
Systems biology

STRUCTURE:

AlCoB 2015 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

to be announced

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Stephen Altschul (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda,
USA)
Yurii Aulchenko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Daniel G. Brown (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Yuehui Chen (University of Jinan, China)
Keith A. Crandall (George Washington University, Washington, USA)
Joseph Felsenstein (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
Michael Galperin (National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda,
USA)
Susumu Goto (Kyoto University, Japan)
Igor Grigoriev (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yike Guo (Imperial College, London, UK)
Javier Herrero (University College London, UK)
Karsten Hokamp (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Hsuan-Cheng Huang (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)
Ian Korf (University of California, Davis, USA)
Nikos Kyrpides (DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, USA)
Yun Li (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
Jun Liu (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
Mingyao Li (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
Rodrigo López (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK)
Andrei N. Lupas (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen,
Germany)
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Carlos Martín-Vide (chair, Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
Tarjei Mikkelsen (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Henrik Nielsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
Modesto Orozco (Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain)
Christos A. Ouzounis (Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki,
Greece)
Manuel Peitsch (Philip Morris International R&D, Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
David A. Rosenblueth (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City,
Mexico)
Julio Rozas (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Alessandro Sette (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA)
Peter F. Stadler (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Guy Theraulaz (Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, France)
Alfonso Valencia (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain)
Kai Wang (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Zidong Wang (Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK)
Harel Weinstein (Cornell University, New York, USA)
Jennifer Wortman (Broad Institute, Cambridge, USA)
Jun Yu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Mohammed J. Zaki (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA)
Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Hongyu Zhao (Yale University, New Haven, USA)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Francisco Hernández-Quiroz (Mexico City)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
David A. Rosenblueth (Mexico City, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting
original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced
pages (including eventual appendices, references, proofs, etc.) and should
be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS
series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alcob2015

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS/LNBI series will
be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers
contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/alcob2015/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: March 2, 2015 (23:59 CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: April 10, 2015
Final version of the paper for the LNCS/LNBI proceedings: April 19, 2015
Early registration: April 19, 2015
Late registration: July 21, 2015
Submission to the journal special issue: November 6, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

AlCoB 2015
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

National Autonomous University of Mexico
Rovira i Virgili University


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Friday, November 7, 2014

[DMANET] SPAA 2015 - call for papers

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SPAA 2015 Call for Papers
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27th ACM Symposium on
Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2015)
June 13-15, 2015
Portland, Oregon, USA
http://www.spaa-conference.org

This year, SPAA will be part of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC)
General FCRC information is available at http://fcrc.acm.org

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Important Dates:

Submission deadlines:
- Abstract: January 14, 11:59pm EST
- Full versions: January 16, 11:59pm EST

Rebuttal period: March 4-5
Notification: March 23

Camera-ready: April 21

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Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and
architectures, encompassing any computation system that can perform multiple
operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- parallel and distributed algorithms
- parallel and distributed data structures
- green computing & power-efficient architectures
- management of massive data sets
- parallel complexity theory
- parallel and distributed architectures
- multi-core architectures
- instruction level parallelism and VLSI
- compilers and tools for concurrent programming
- supercomputing architecture and computing
- transactional memory hardware and software
- game theory and collaborative learning
- routing and information dissemination
- resource management and awareness
- peer-to-peer systems
- mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
- robustness, self-stabilization, and security
- synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming, and architecture

Conference presentations will have two formats:

Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10
pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions
reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference.

Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page
abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief
communications, which may be published later in other conferences.

Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program
committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among
multiple papers.

Submission:

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript
electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org
for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable
to submit electronically should contact the program chair Kunal Agrawal at
kunal@wustl.edu to receive instructions on how to proceed.

Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction
understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and
a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not
exceed 10 double-column pages in 9-point font, including figures, tables, and
references. More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to
be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief
announcements should be no longer than two double-column pages in 9-point
font.

Rebuttal Period:

There will be a rebuttal period in which the authors can point out
misunderstandings or comment on critical questions that PC members may have.
The rebuttal period will take place on March 4-5.

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Program Committee:

Umut Acar, Carnegie Mellon University
Grey Ballard, Sandia National Labs
Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fraser University
Dave Dice, Oracle Labs
Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University
Pierre Fraigniaud, University of Paris 7
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi, University of Maryland
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
Martin Hoefer, MPI Saarbruecken
Peter Kling, University of Pittsburgh
Bradley Kuzsmaul, MIT
Angelina Lee, Washington University in St. Louis
Ryan Newton, Indiana University
Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston
Michael Spear, Lehigh University
Cliff Stein, Columbia University
Kanat Tangwongsan, Mahidol University
Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University
Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland


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Conference Committee:

Program Chair
Kunal Agrawal, Washington University in St. Louis

General Chair
Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University

Secretary
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn

Treasurer
David Bunde, Knox College

Publicity Chair
Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University
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[DMANET] PODC 2015 Call for Workshop Proposals

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PODC 2015 Call for Workshop Proposals
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34th Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
July 21-23, 2015
Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
http://www.podc.org/

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The 34th Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of
Distributed Computing (PODC 2015) invites proposals for up to 1.5 day
workshops that are closely related to the current scope of the
conference or are new emerging research fields complementing or
extending it, including but not restricted to:

- algorithms for distributed systems and their complexity
- cluster, cloud, grid and high-performance computing
- communication networks: protocols, architectures, services,
applications
- sensor, mobile, ad-hoc, robot and peer-to-peer networks
- concurrent programming, synchronization, shared and transactional
memory
- cryptographic protocols and system security
- distributed operating systems, databases and programming languages
- dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms
- self-stabilizing, self-organizing and autonomic systems
- formal methods, semantics and verification of concurrent systems
- fault tolerance, reliability, availability of distributed systems
- game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- information theory, codes and reliable communication
- Internet applications, social networks and complex networks
- multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
- nanonetworks and biological distributed algorithms
- quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
- energy issues of parallel and distributed algorithms

Workshops will be held in conjunction with PODC on Monday 20 July 2015,
or, in exceptional cases, after the main PODC conference program.
Interested members of the community are invited to send proposals for
workshops by email to the workshop chair:

Elad Michael Schiller <elad@chalmers.se>

The following are required in a workshop proposal:

- Title of the workshop;

- An abstract describing the main focus of the workshop and why it
would be of interest to the PODC community;

- Names and contact information of the organizers;

- Estimated number of submitted and accepted papers, duration of the
workshop, and a brief description of the review process.

Although PODC will provide organizational and administrative support
for the co-located workshops, they must be prepared to bear their own
expenses (e.g., those associated with the meeting rooms and catering).
The budget of PODC and the workshops could be integrated in case of
ACM-based workshops, but the details will need to be worked out.

The proposals should be submitted to the workshop chair as soon as
possible, but no later than

January 6, 2015.

Notification of acceptance will be sent shortly after the deadline.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

[DMANET] Two Research Fellowships in Graph Theory at the University of Birmingham

Two Research Fellowships in Graph Theory at the University of Birmingham (UK)

Applications are invited for two Research Fellow positions in Extremal and Probabilistic Graph Theory.

One position is funded by the ERC project APgraph (PI: D Osthus) and the other is funded by an EPSRC project (PI: D Kühn, co-I: D Osthus). The posts are available for a period of 2 years from 1st March 2015 or later by mutual agreement.

The successful candidate will join the Combinatorics Group in the School of Mathematics at the University of Birmingham. This will soon consist of eight permanent staff members, and about 20 researchers altogether. The profile and research interests of this group may be found at:

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/mathematics/pure-maths/combinatorics.aspx

Informal enquiries about applications are very welcome and can be made to:

Daniela Kuhn (d.kuhn@bham.ac.uk) and Deryk Osthus (d.osthus@bham.ac.uk).

Further details of the post, together with information on application procedures, can be found via:

http://www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs


Closing date: 4th December 2014, Reference: 52585

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from Ugo de'Liguoro: Workshop on Continuations

CALL FOR PAPERS
WoC'15
Workshop on Continuations
12th April 2015, London, UK
Affiliated to ETAPS
http://woc2015.di.unito.it/


The notion of continuation is ubiquitous in many different areas of
computer science, including systems programming, programming languages,
algorithmics, semantics, logic, and constructive mathematics. In fact the concept
of continuation nicely realizes sophisticated control mechanisms, which are
widely used in a variety of applications. Since we cannot escape control features,
it becomes a challenge to provide them with sound reasoning principles. Indeed
there is much research activity on understanding, representing, and reasoning
about elaborated non-local control structures, in particular in declarative programming
languages such as functional and logic languages.

WoC 2015 is a new venue, continuing and broadening the scope of COS'13, held in
Eindhoven. WoC 2015 offers a forum for the presentation and discussion of
continuation-based constructs in programming languages, whether in the style of Curry
(terms first, types later (maybe)) or in the style of Church (types first, typed terms later).
We specifically welcome the presentation of elegant motivating examples.

** Topics of Interest **

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* continuations and delimited continuations
* continuation based programming language constructs
* categorical and algebraic models of continuations
* compositionality and modularity of continuations
* denotational semantics of control, event structures and causality
* operational semantics and abstract machines
* type systems for continuation-based constructs
* game semantics of programming languages and of logical proofs
* usage of continuations in proof search and proof mining
* semantics of control operators in logic programming
* continuations in web-services


** Submission Guidelines **

Paper submission is in two steps. Authors are expected
to submit an abstract of up to 10 pages in pdf format generated by
means of latex and EPTCS style, for inclusion in informal pre-proceedings
available at the workshop, and in the workshop program.
After the workshop, a longer version of 15 pages at most will be submitted for
publication in the post-proceedings, and will undergo to a new reviewing process.
Accepted papers will be published in EPTCS.

Submissions are expected by 22th January using the EasyChair url:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=woc2015


** Important Dates **

Submission through EasyChair: 22th January, 2015
Notification: 14th February, 2015
Pre-proceedings version due: 1th March, 2015

Workshop date: 12th April, 2015

Submission to post-reviewed proceedings in EPTCS: 23th May, 2015.
Post proceedings notification: 20th July, 2015.
Final version due: 30th June, 2015.


** Programme Committee **

Program Committee:
Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, USA
Dariusz Biernacki, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Olivier Danvy, Aarhus University, Denmark (chair)
Mayer Goldberg, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Tadeusz Litak, FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Jay McCarthy, Vassar College, USA
Christian Queinnec, Universié Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Tiark Rompf, Purdue University, USA
Alexis Saurin, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot -- Paris 7, France
Hayo Thielecke University of Birmingham, UK


** Organiser **

Ugo de'Liguoro, University of Turin
ugo.deliguoro@unito.it

2015-2016 Goldstine Fellowship

The Mathematical Sciences department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center invites applications for its 2015-2016 Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in the mathematical and computer sciences. The fellowship provides scientists of outstanding ability an opportunity to advance their scholarship as resident department members at the Research Center.

Areas of research include algorithms, complex systems, data mining, dynamical systems, high-performance computing, inverse problems, numerical analysis, optimization, probability theory, statistics, simulation, and operations management.

More details can be found at http://www.research.ibm.com/goldstine/

[DMANET] IFIP/IEEE SustainIT 2015: Paper registration deadline in 4 weeks

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CALL FOR PAPERS

SustainIT 2015

The Fourth IFIP Conference on
Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability

http://www.networks.imdea.org/sustainit2015

April 14-15, 2015
Madrid, Spain

Sponsored by the IFIP TC6 WG 6.3, Performance of Communication Systems

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)

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**** Paper Registration Deadline --- DECEMBER 05, 2014 ****

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All papers presented at SustainIT 2015 will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library. The best paper presented at the conference will receive a Best Paper Award.

Authors of papers of particular merit will be invited to submit an extended version of
their work to the Elsevier Computer Communications Journal (COMCOM).

SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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The evolving information and communications (ICT) technologies present a unique
opportunity to effect the transformation needed to move us towards the goal of
sustainability by helping to reduce our carbon footprint, mitigate and adapt ill effects
of climate change, reduce and repair environmental damage, provide effective disaster
response and recovery, creatively manage overstressed infrastructures in crowded
urban systems, and enhance use of planet friendly materials and technologies. ICT
is already being integrated into many areas of our lives, such as smart management
of city services, transportation, energy distribution and management, health care, etc.,
and this integration is expected to expand deeper and wider in the coming years and
decades. Unfortunately, this ICT proliferation brings in its own challenges of increased
carbon footprint, accelerating obsolescence of electronic equipment and its disposal
issues, increased use of precious natural resources such as water and materials, etc.
These twin problems of reducing the environmental impact of ICT and exploiting ICT
for a more sustainable world form the underlying theme for SustainIT since its
inception in 2010.

This year's SustainIT continues this theme by focusing on inter-disciplinary scientific
challenges of enhancing the sustainability of ICT and via ICT. The goal of this
conference is to bring together people from different research areas, and provide a
forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences among
researchers, professionals, and application developers from both industry and academia.

Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of sustainability
of ICT (including smart energy management) and innovative use of ICT to enhance
human and societal sustainability are solicited.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

1) Sustainable communication substrates:
- Energy-efficient networking technologies and architectures
- Energy-efficient wired and wireless communications protocols
- Cross-layer optimizations for sustainable networking
- Novel standards and metrics for green communications
2) Energy-efficient operation of computing infrastructure:
- Energy-efficient management of computing, storage, and network resources
- Managing carbon footprint of data centers and increasing its energy efficiency
- Trade-offs between energy efficiency, Quality of Service, and reliability
- Adaptation of computing and communications infrastructure to variable renewable
energy supply
- Emerging computing/storage technologies for energy efficient operation
3) Achieving sustainability through the application of ICT:
- Application of ICT to increase the energy efficiency of smart homes, smart
buildings, and smart cities
- ICT for sustainable mobility, transport, and logistics
- ICT for energy-efficient industrial environments and processes
- ICT for smart power grids and novel data processing in smart energy systems
- ICT for water distribution systems including leaks, theft, contamination, and attacks.
- ICT for agriculture, food distribution/logistics, waste reduction, tracking/provenance, etc.
- ICT for healthcare (health monitoring & healthy lifestyle support systems, disease
detection/monitoring, assistive technologies, health care information systems, etc.)
- ICT for underwater (e.g., oceanic) monitoring and communications
- ICT for waste water and waste monitoring, handling and reduction
- ICT in disaster monitoring, rescue and recovery, including emergency networking
and exploitation of social media
- ICT for monitoring and conservation of biodiversity
- ICT for geohazard monitoring (e.g., landslides, earthquakes, etc.)
- Crowdsourcing solutions for sustainability
- Urban Sustainability
4) Practical issues in sustainable communication systems
- Security and privacy in ICT applications for sustainability
- Energy consumption measurements, models, and monitoring tools
- Measurement and evaluation of the Internet's sustainability
- Test-bed and prototype implementations of sustainable ICT systems
5) Science of Sustainability
- Metrics for sustainability and their evaluation
- Modeling of human behavior regarding sustainability choices (e.g., reduction in
energy consumption, engagement of power management features, etc.)
- Ecosystem modeling (perturbations and equilibria)


PAPER SUBMISSION
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All submissions must describe original research, not published or currently under
review for another workshop, conference, or journal.

Manuscripts must be limited to 8 pages and must strictly adhere to the IEEE conference
publication format (e.g., 10pt font, single spacing, double column) in US Letter size with
all fonts embedded. Detailed instructions for manuscript preparation and submission
are available on the conference website:
http://www.networks.imdea.org/sustainit2015/submission.html

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS at
http://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18809&track=66807

Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register and attend
the conference to present the paper. The organizers reserve the right to exclude
a paper from distribution after the conference if the paper is not presented
at the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper registration deadline: December 05, 2014
- Paper submission deadline: December 12, 2014
- Acceptance notification: February 27, 2015
- Camera-ready version due: March 15, 2015
- SustainIT 2015 conference: April 14-15, 2015

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA
Domenico Giustiniano, IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy
Andreas Reinhardt, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany

STEERING COMMITTEE
Marco Conti (Chair), IIT-CNR, Italy
Giuseppe Anastasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge, UK
Thierry Klein, Bell Labs, USA

PHD FORUM & DEMO CHAIRS
Karin Anna Hummel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland

PANEL CHAIR
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy and IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Malisa Vucinic, Grenoble Informatics Laboratory & STMicroelectronics, France
Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

PUBLICATION CHAIR
Christian Renner, University of Luebeck, Germany

FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR
Nicola Bui - IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Pablo Caballero - IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Luca Cominardi - IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

WEBMANAGER
Qing Wang - IMDEA Networks Institute & University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (further nominations are pending)
Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino
Lachlan Andrew, Monash University
Raffaele Bruno, IIT-CNR
Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic Uni
Antonio Capone, Politecnico di Milano
Ken Christensen, University of South Florida
Franco Davoli, University of Genoa
Jose de Souza, Federal University of Ceara
Andres Garcia-Saavedra, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Rune Gustavsson, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Saman Halgamuge, The University of Melbourne
Karin Hummel, ETH Zurich
David Hutchison, Lancaster University
Salil Kanhere, The University of New South Wales
Sonja Klingert, University of Mannheim
Bart Lannoo, Ghent University - iMinds
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA
Sebastian Lehnhoff, University of Oldenburg
Francesco Marcelloni, University of Pisa
Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino
Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net
Sandor Molnar, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Bruce Nordman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Marco Ortolani, University of Palermo
Oliver Parson, University of Southampton
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR
Deva Seetharam, Independent
Pablo Serrano, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University
Jay Taneja, IBM Research, Africa
Luca Valcarenghi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Moshe Zukerman, City University of Hong Kong
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[DMANET] Faculty positions in Math Sciences at Clemson University

Dear colleagues,

Apologies for multiple postings.

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University
anticipates tenure-track faculty positions starting Fall 2015 in our
Operations Research group. The job advertisement (as posted on MathJobs)
is included below. Several faculty members of the OR group will be
attending the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco next week and can
be contacted via email or the message board.

————————— Faculty Position at Clemson University, Clemson, SC The
Department of Mathematical Sciences (www.math.clemson.edu) anticipates
tenure-track faculty positions beginning August 2015. Position
Description The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Clemson
University invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions
starting with the Fall 2015 semester. Targeted recruiting is for the
assistant or associate professor rank with areas of specialization
including operations research and statistics/applied statistics.
Applicants at all ranks will be considered; however, all positions are
subject to funding availability. Desirable attributes for candidates
include an interdisciplinary research orientation in the mathematical
sciences; post-doctoral, industrial, or practical experience;
collaborative possibilities with faculty members in the Department and
related disciplines; and an interest in innovative applications.
Candidates should have strong potential or demonstrated capability for
effective research and teaching in the mathematical sciences. The
Department includes the areas of algebra and discrete mathematics;
operations research; analysis; bioinformatics, computational
mathematics; mathematical statistics and probability; and applied
statistics. For further information regarding the department and its
programs, please visit the web site http://www.math.clemson.edu. An
earned doctorate or equivalent is required for the tenure track
positions. Review of applications will begin on October 10 and will
continue until the positions are filled. Full consideration will be
given to applications submitted by November 15, 2014. Applicants should
indicate their research specialties and interests in their cover letter.
Vita, statements on teaching and research, and three reference letters
should be electronically filed at http://www.mathjobs.org. Clemson
University is an AA/EEO employer and does not discriminate against any
person or group on the basis of age, color, disability, gender,
pregnancy, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran
status or genetic information. Clemson University is building a
culturally diverse faculty committed to working in a multicultural
environment and encourages applications from minorities and women.
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Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu

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[DMANET] LAGOS-2015 Call for papers (Deadline extended to 23-Nov-2014)

*CALL FOR PAPERS LAGOS'15 - VIII Latin-American Algorithms, Graphs and
Optimization Symposium*


* Praia das Fontes, Beberibe, Brazil May 11-15, 2015 *

http://www.lia.ufc.br/lagos2015 - lagos2015@lia.ufc.br
<http://www.lia.ufc.br/lagos2015/lagos2015@lia.ufc.br>


*Important dates*

- Submissions deadline: *November 23, 2014 (Deadline Extended)*
- Notification of acceptance/rejection: *February 03, 2015*
- Registration openning: *February 06, 2015*
- Conference dates: *May 11-15, 2015*

*About the conference*

LAGOS (the Latin-American Algorithms, Graphs, and Optimization Symposium),
is the merging of two Latin-American Conferences on these subjects: GRACO
(Brazilian Symposium on Graphs, Algorithms, and Combinatorics) and LACGA
(Latin-American Conference on Combinatorics, Graphs, and Applications). The
previous editions were held in Fortaleza, Brazil (GRACO 2001
<http://www.lia.ufc.br/symp2001/>), Santiago, Chile (LAGCA 2004
<http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~lacga04/>), Angra dos Reis, Brazil (GRACO 2005
<http://www.ime.usp.br/graco2005/>), Puerto Varas, Chile (LAGOS 2007
<http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~lagos07/>), Gramado, Brazil (LAGOS 2009
<http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/lagos09/>), Bariloche, Argentina (LAGOS 2011
<http://www-2.dc.uba.ar/lagos2011/>), and Playa del Carmen, Mexico (LAGOS
2013 <http://xamanek.izt.uam.mx/LAGOS2013>).

*Conference themes*

Themes include, but are not limited to, the following AMS classifications:

*Algorithms:* analysis of algorithms; approximation algorithms; randomized
algorithms; computational geometry.
*Operations Research and Mathematical Programming:* combinatorial
optimization; integer programming; polyhedral combinatorics; operations
research and management science.
*Graph Theory:* cliques, dominating and independent sets; coloring of
graphs and hypergraphs; covering and packing, factorization, matching;
digraphs, tournaments; graph algorithms; graphs and matrices; hypergraphs;
perfect graphs; random graphs; structural characterization of types of
graphs.
*Applications:* mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization,
continuous optimization, heuristics, and metaheuristics, applied to
real-world problems.

*LAGOS Steering Committee*

- Guilermo Durán (UBA, Argentina)
- Celina Herrera de Figueiredo (UFRJ, Brazil)
- Thomas Liebling (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter (UFRJ, Brazil)


*Invited speakers*

- Béla Bollobás (Cambridge Univertsity, England, and Memphis University,
USA)
- Gerard Cornuejols (Carnegie Mellon, USA)
- Frédéric Havet (CNRS, INRIA, France)
- Sulamita Klein (UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Frédéric Maffray (G-SCOP, France)
- Miguel Pizaña (UAM, Mexico)
- Bruce Reed (McGill University, Canada)
- Ola Svensson (EPFL, Switzerland)

*Instructions for Submissions*

*Extended abstracts.* Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract in
English (up to 6 pages), containing original research results. The authors
are fully responsible of convincing the referees of the correctness and
interest of their results using only those six pages. Authors can add an
optional appendix with proofs, sketches of proofs, or additional material.
If included, the appendix will be read at the discretion of the Scientific
Committee and it is expected that it will only be used to reach a decision
for very unusual cases. The appendix has no page limit, and since it will
not be published, it cannot be referenced in the extended abstract.
Submission of a paper implies that the work described has not been
previously published (except in the form of a short abstract or as part of
a lecture or academic thesis), that it is not simultaneously submitted
elsewhere, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the
same form. A special volume of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
(ENDM) will be dedicated to accepted extended abstracts. The extended
abstracts must comply with the ENDM LaTeX style and are limited to 6 pages,
including the front matter, text, and references. Instructions for
submission preparation may be obtained in the ENDM web page (
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/endm). Once prepared, the paper should be
submitted by means of the Easy Chair system (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lagos2015).

*Posters.* Submissions of posters on all areas related to the symposium are
also solicited. Posters must also be submitted for review in the form of an
extended abstract formatted in the ENDM style (
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/endm), and must not exceed 2 pages in
length. Posters should also be submitted via the Easy Chair System (
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lagos2015). Accepted posters
will NOT appear in the ENDM special volume, but they will appear in the
symposium's booklet. Posters will be presented at the symposium in a
separate session.

Following the tradition of LAGOS, a special issue of Discrete Applied
Mathematics will be prepared after LAGOS'15. All authors of accepted papers
at the symposium are invited to contribute to this special volume. The
topics should relate to the central themes of the symposium, but are not
necessarily restricted to the presentations at LAGOS'15. All articles will
be refereed according to the standards of Discrete Applied Mathematics.

*Scientific Committee*

- Flavia Bonomo (UBA, Argentina)
- Luciana Buriol (UFRGS, Brazil)
- Manoel Campêlo (UFC, Brazil) (*co-chair*)
- Ricardo Corrêa (UFC, Brazil) (*co-chair*)
- Mitre Dourado (UFRJ, Brazil)
- Daniel Espinoza (Univ. Chile, Chile)
- Luérbio Faria (UERJ, Brazil)
- Carlos Ferreira (USP, Brazil)
- Sylvain Gravier (Univ. Joseph Fourier, France)
- Marisa Gutiérrez (UNLP, Argentina)
- Carlos Hoppen (UFRGS, Brazil)
- Marcos Kiwi (Univ. Chile, Chile)
- Yoshiharu Kohayakawa (USP, Brazil)
- Min Chih Lin (UBA, Argentina)
- Vadim Lozin (Univ. Warwick, England)
- Javier Marenco (UNGS, Argentina)
- Daniel Martin (UFABC, Brazil)
- Martín Matamala (Univ. Chile, Chile)
- Ross McConnell (Colorado State Univ., USA)
- Rob Morris (IMPA, Brazil)
- Nicolas Nisse (CNRS/INRIA, France)
- Daniel Panario (Carleton Univ. Canada)
- Fábio Protti (UFF, Brazil)
- Ivan Rapaport (Univ. Chile, Chile)
- Dieter Rautenbach (Universität Ulm, Germany)
- Cláudia Sales (UFC, Brazil) (*co-chair*)
- Rudini Sampaio (UFC, Brazil) (*co-chair*)
- Mario Valencia-Pabon (Univ. Paris 13, France)
- Alfredo Viola (Univ. Republica, Uruguay)
- Annegret Wagler (Université Blaise Pascal, France)
- Yoshiko Wakabayashi (USP, Brazil)

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Departamento de Matemática, UFC
http://www.lia.ufc.br/~anasilva/

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

[DMANET] Postdoc positions at CoMiCS, Ural Federal University

Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia) launches a postdoc
program. Among 20 postdoc positions to be filled at least two are
planned to be associated with CoMiCS (the Center of Mathematics
in Computer Science) at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer
Science.

Ural Federal University is the largest Russian university outside
Moscow. It is located in the downtown of Ekaterinburg, the capital
of the Urals and the fourth-largest city in Russia. The Center of
Mathematics in Computer Science is a recently created Center
of Excellence that is led jointly by Professor Mikhail Volkov
(http://csseminar.imkn.urfu.ru/volkov/ ) and Professor Arseny
Shur (http://kadm.imkn.urfu.ru/pages.php?id=shureng ) and
involves several active younger scientists. Currently, the main
topics of CoMiCS are automata, combinatorics on words and
formal languages but we are especially interested in applicants
whose expertise might broaden the research spectrum of the
center within other areas of Theoretical Computer Science.

The appointment is for one year (with possible extension depending
on funding) and starting date in yearly 2015 is negotiable. The starting
salary is roughly 20.000 Euro per year (before tax); in addition, the
university provides free housing and some travel support. There are
no obligatory teaching duties but those who will want to give a lecture
course on her/his favorite topic (in English), will be very welcome to do
so.

An ideal candidate should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science or in
Discrete Mathematics obtained after 2007, and should have a strong
publication record in top journals and conferences. Applicants should
provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and at least two letters of
recommendation. Applicants should apply no later than Dec 1, 2014,
and the positions will remain open until filled. Application material
and reference letters will be submitted by e-mail to Mrs Ekaterina
Neznakhina at eneznakhina@yandex.ru.

We appreciate all replies to this advertisement, but only applicants
under consideration will be contacted.
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[DMANET] 2015-2016 IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences

2015-2016 IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship in
Mathematical Sciences

The Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research
Center invites applications for its 2015-2016 Herman Goldstine Memorial
Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in mathematical and computer
sciences. Areas of active research in the department include: algorithms,
complex systems, data mining, dynamical systems, high-performance
computing, inverse problems, numerical analysis, optimization, probability
theory, statistics, simulation and operations management.

Candidates must have received a Ph.D. after September 2010, or should
expect to receive one before the fellowship commences in the second half
of 2015 (usually in September). Up to two fellowships will be awarded
with a stipend between $95,000 and $120,000 (depending on experience).

Applications must be received between November 10, 2014 and January 16,
2015.
Complete details are available at http://www.research.ibm.com/goldstine/

IBM is committed to work-place diversity, and is proud to be an
equal-opportunity employer.


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