CALL FOR PAPERS
ADHOC-NOW 2014 : Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks
June 22 - 27, 2014, Benidorm, Spain
Link: www.adhocnow.net/
Link for Submissions Guidelines and Electronic Submissions:
http://www.adhocnow.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=88
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IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract Submission: January 15, 2014
- Submission Deadline: January 24, 2014
- Author Notification: March 7th, 2014
- Camera ready: March 28, 2014
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) has become a well-established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The thirteenth edition of ADHOC-NOW will for the first time be organized in Benidorm, Spain, from the 22nd to the 27th of June, 2014.
We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas:
-Access Control
-Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
-Algorithmic Issues
-Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation
-Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures
-Delay-Tolerant Networking
-Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks
-Energy Efficiency
-Geometric Graphs
-Location Discovery and Management
-Mobility Handling and Utilization
-Wireless Mesh Networks
-Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms
-Systems and Testbeds
-Mobile Social Networking
-Quality-of-Service
-Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.)
-Secure Services and Protocols
-Sensor Networks
-Self-Configuration
-Service Discovery
-Timing Synchronization
-Vehicular Networks
-Wireless Internet.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors are invited to submit either regular papers or short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 14 pages in LNCS format. Short papers must be limited to up to 4 pages in LNCS format. The paper should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance. Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference.
High-quality articles will be invited for submission to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks and the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.
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GENERAL CHAIRS
-Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
-Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
STEERING COMMITTEE
-Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
-S. S. Ravi, SUNY University, Albany, USA
-Violet Sirotiuk, Arizona State University, Temple, USA
-Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
-Song Guo, University of Aizu, Japan
-Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
-Paul Yongli, Deakin University, Australia
-Gongjun Yan, Indiana University, USA
-Sandra Sendra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
-Stefan Ruehrup, FTW - Viena, Austria
SUBMISSIONS CHAIRS
-Miguel Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
-Zhen Huang, University of Ottawa, Canada
WEB CHAIR
-Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- The list of members of the Program Committee will be published soon on the web page of the conference.
- Visit Benidorm: see the page http://en.visitbenidorm.es/
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
[DMANET] CfP SIGCOMM Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing
Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC)
https://sites.google.com/site/dcc2014workshop/
co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago, USA, August 2014
DATES
Submissions due: 1 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2014
Camera-ready papers due: 15 May 2014
Workshop: 22 August 2014
WORKSHOP GOAL
The DCC workshop is interdisciplinary and touches both distributed systems
and networking aspects
as well as cloud computing. We want to attract both industry relevant papers
as well as papers
from academic researchers working on the foundations of the distributed
cloud.
DCC 2014 accepts high-quality papers related to the distributed cloud which
fall into at least one of the following categories:
- Novel ideas on how to design and operate/manage the distributed cloud
- Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing
- Optimization and algorithms
- Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications
- Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization,
software-defined networking)
- Experience with existing deployments and measurements (public, private,
hybrid, federated environments)
- Service and resource specification, languages, and formal verification
- Economics and pricing
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Submissions are single-blind and should not exceed 6 pages in length (in ACM
format).
For an accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop.
CHAIRS
Yvonne Coady, Uni Victoria, Canada
James Kempf, Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, USA
Rick McGeer, HP Enterprise Services and US IGNITE, USA
Stefan Schmid, Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) & TU Berlin, Germany
TPC
Thais Batista, UFRN, Brazil
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Andre Brinkmann, University of Mainz, Germany
Marco Canini, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Justin Cappos, New York University, USA
Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, FORTH and ETH Zurich, Greece and Switzerland
Erik Elmroth, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin, Germany
Nate Foster, Cornell University, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Chairman ISC Cloud and Co-Founder of The UberCloud,
Germany
Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom ParisTech, France
Bob Melander, CISCO, USA
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, USA
Gabriel Mateescu, EURAC Research, Italy
Christine Morin, INRIA, France
Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Seffi Naor, Technion, Israel
Akihiro Nakao, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Max Ott, NICTA, Australia
Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
Robert Ricci, University of Utah, USA
Djamel Sadok, UFPE, Brazil
Srini Seetharaman, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Center, USA
Upendra Sharma, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Randy Sobie, University of Victoria, Canada
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA
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co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2014 in Chicago, USA, August 2014
DATES
Submissions due: 1 March 2014
Notification of acceptance: 15 April 2014
Camera-ready papers due: 15 May 2014
Workshop: 22 August 2014
WORKSHOP GOAL
The DCC workshop is interdisciplinary and touches both distributed systems
and networking aspects
as well as cloud computing. We want to attract both industry relevant papers
as well as papers
from academic researchers working on the foundations of the distributed
cloud.
DCC 2014 accepts high-quality papers related to the distributed cloud which
fall into at least one of the following categories:
- Novel ideas on how to design and operate/manage the distributed cloud
- Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing
- Optimization and algorithms
- Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications
- Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization,
software-defined networking)
- Experience with existing deployments and measurements (public, private,
hybrid, federated environments)
- Service and resource specification, languages, and formal verification
- Economics and pricing
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Submissions are single-blind and should not exceed 6 pages in length (in ACM
format).
For an accepted paper, at least one author must attend the workshop.
CHAIRS
Yvonne Coady, Uni Victoria, Canada
James Kempf, Ericsson Research, Silicon Valley, USA
Rick McGeer, HP Enterprise Services and US IGNITE, USA
Stefan Schmid, Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-Labs) & TU Berlin, Germany
TPC
Thais Batista, UFRN, Brazil
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Andre Brinkmann, University of Mainz, Germany
Marco Canini, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Justin Cappos, New York University, USA
Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK
Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, FORTH and ETH Zurich, Greece and Switzerland
Erik Elmroth, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden
Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin, Germany
Nate Foster, Cornell University, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Chairman ISC Cloud and Co-Founder of The UberCloud,
Germany
Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Aman Kansal, Microsoft Research, USA
Holger Karl, University of Paderborn, Germany
Petr Kuznetsov, Telecom ParisTech, France
Bob Melander, CISCO, USA
Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, USA
Gabriel Mateescu, EURAC Research, Italy
Christine Morin, INRIA, France
Paul Müller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Seffi Naor, Technion, Israel
Akihiro Nakao, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Max Ott, NICTA, Australia
Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
Robert Ricci, University of Utah, USA
Djamel Sadok, UFPE, Brazil
Srini Seetharaman, Deutsche Telekom Innovation Center, USA
Upendra Sharma, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
Randy Sobie, University of Victoria, Canada
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
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[DMANET] CFP - IEEE WoWMoM workshop on Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications (SmartVehicles 2014) - paper registration February 1, 2014
Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications
(SmartVehicles 2014)
June 16-19, 2019, Sydney, Australia
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
**** Paper Registration Deadline --- February 1, 2014 ****
**** Paper Submission Deadline --- February 7, 2014 ****
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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The development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication netw!
orks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.
Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to:
+ Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network;
+ V2V, V2I and V2X communications
+ Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies
+ Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination)
+ Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks
+ Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet
+ Big data analytics for ITS applications
+ Security and privacy in ITS applications
+ Multimedia applications, infotainment
+ Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles
+ Traffic management and efficiency applications
+ Electrification of transportation systems
+ Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests
+ Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems
+ Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration Deadline: February 1, 2014 (mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: February 7, 2014
Notification Deadline: March 7, 2014
Camera Ready Due: April 15, 2014
Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia
John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Publicity Chair
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy
Program Committee
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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
The 1st IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications
(SmartVehicles 2014)
June 16-19, 2019, Sydney, Australia
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
**** Paper Registration Deadline --- February 1, 2014 ****
**** Paper Submission Deadline --- February 7, 2014 ****
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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
--------------------------------
The development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication netw!
orks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.
Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.
Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2014 include, but are not limited to:
+ Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network;
+ V2V, V2I and V2X communications
+ Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies
+ Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination)
+ Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks
+ Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet
+ Big data analytics for ITS applications
+ Security and privacy in ITS applications
+ Multimedia applications, infotainment
+ Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles
+ Traffic management and efficiency applications
+ Electrification of transportation systems
+ Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests
+ Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems
+ Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
--------------------------------
Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2014
Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration Deadline: February 1, 2014 (mandatory)
Paper Submission Deadline: February 7, 2014
Notification Deadline: March 7, 2014
Camera Ready Due: April 15, 2014
Workshop Date: June 16-19, 2014
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia
John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Publicity Chair
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy
Program Committee
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[DMANET] Postdoc position in complexity at Charles University in Prague
A postdoc position is available at the Computer Science Institute of
Charles University in Prague. The position is supported by the European
Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant LBCAD: "Lower bounds for
combinatorial algorithms and dynamic problems" held by Michal Koucky. The
goal of the project is to provide lower bounds on the complexity of
algorithmic problems in various settings.
The candidates should have strong background in computational complexity,
algorithms or data structures, and should have completed their Ph.D.
degree in theoretical computer science or mathematics within the last 4
years or will complete their Ph.D. degree by Fall 2014.
Application deadline is January 31, 2014. Starting date is in Fall 2014,
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Charles University in Prague. The position is supported by the European
Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant LBCAD: "Lower bounds for
combinatorial algorithms and dynamic problems" held by Michal Koucky. The
goal of the project is to provide lower bounds on the complexity of
algorithmic problems in various settings.
The candidates should have strong background in computational complexity,
algorithms or data structures, and should have completed their Ph.D.
degree in theoretical computer science or mathematics within the last 4
years or will complete their Ph.D. degree by Fall 2014.
Application deadline is January 31, 2014. Starting date is in Fall 2014,
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[DMANET] TCS 2014 cfp
TCS 2014
8th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
September 1-3, 2014 Rome, Italy
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
Held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2014)
We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.
AIM AND SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE:
Under the patronage of the International Federation of Information
Processing (IFIP), since year 2000 the IFIP Technical Committee 1
(Foundations of Computer Science) has organized a series of biannual
international conferences in Theoretical Computer Science. After
Sendai (2000), Montreal (2002), Toulouse (2004), Santiago (2006),
Milano (2008), Brisbane (2010), and Amsterdam (2012), the 8th edition
will be held in Rome in September 2014, in cooperation with the IFIP
Working Group 2.2 (Formal Description of Programming Concepts) and in
conjunction with the 25th Conference on Concurrency Theory. We call
for papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science: they will be
evaluated by two committees:
Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation
Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification
TOPICS:
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
Track A - analysis and design of algorithms; automata and formal
languages; cellular automata and systems; combinatorial, graph and
optimization algorithms; computational learning theory; computational
complexity; computational geometry; cryptography; descriptive
complexity; evolutionary and genetic computing; experimental
algorithms; mobile computing; molecular computing and algorithmic
aspects of bioinformatics; network computing; neural computing;
parallel and distributed algorithms; probabilistic and randomized
algorithms; quantum computing; structural information and
communication complexity.
Track B - automata theory; automated deduction; constructive and
non-standard logics in computer science; concurrency theory and
foundations of distributed and mobile computing; database theory;
finite model theory; formal aspects of program analysis, foundations
of hybrid and real-time systems; lambda and combinatory calculi;
logical aspects of computational complexity; modal and temporal
logics; model checking and verification; probabilistic systems; logics
and semantics of programs; foundations of security; term rewriting;
specifications; type, proof and category theory in computer science.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 15 pages
(LNCS style with at least 11-point font size) to arrive before April
27, 2014. If more space is needed, a clearly marked appendix, to be
read at the discretion of the program committee, may be included if
desired. Submission will be handled by EasyChair. Further information
and submission details can be found on the Conference web page.
Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published
proceedings are not allowed.
PROCEEDINGS:
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers from
TCS 2014 will be invited to a special issue of the Journal Theoretical
Computer Science.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014.
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2014.
Final manuscript due: July 6, 2014.
Conference: September 1-3, 2014.
STEERING COMMITTEE:
- Giorgio Ausiello, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Jos Baeten, CWI Amsterdam
- Jacques Sakarovitch, CNRS/T el ecom ParisTech
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
- Daniele Gorla, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Rossella Petreschi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
PROGRAM COMMITTEES:
Track A
- Cristian Calude, University of Auckland
- Josep Diaz (Chair), UPC Barcelona
- Irene Finocchi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa
- Aristides Gionis, Aalto University Helsinki
- Mordecai Golin, Hong Kong University of Tech.
- Juhani Karhum aki, Turku University
- Massimo Melucci, Univ. di Padova
- Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza
- Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Univ. of Paderborn
- Pekka Orponen, Aalto University Helsinki
- Giuseppe Persiano, Univ. di Salerno
- G eraud S enizergues, Universit e Bordeaux 1
- Olivier Serre, CNRS / Universit e Paris 7
- Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool
- Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Inst. of Technology
- Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich
Track B
- Jos Baeten, CWI Amsterdam
- Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University
- Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University
- James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
- Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. di Bologna
- Josee Desharnais, Universit e Laval
- Jorg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Jerome Feret, ENS Paris
- Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge
- Silvio Ghilardi, Univ. di Milano
- Benjamin Gr egoire, INRIA Sophia
- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo
- Marieke Huisman, University of Twente
- Jean Krivine, CNRS / Universit e Paris 7
- Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, Chicago
- Ivan Lanese, Univ. di Bologna
- Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at U-C
- Davide Sangiorgi (Chair), Univ. di Bologna
- Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton
- Igor Walukiewicz, CNRS / Universit e Bordeaux 1
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8th IFIP International Conference on Theoretical Computer Science
September 1-3, 2014 Rome, Italy
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/tcs2014/
Held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2014)
We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message.
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Processing (IFIP), since year 2000 the IFIP Technical Committee 1
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international conferences in Theoretical Computer Science. After
Sendai (2000), Montreal (2002), Toulouse (2004), Santiago (2006),
Milano (2008), Brisbane (2010), and Amsterdam (2012), the 8th edition
will be held in Rome in September 2014, in cooperation with the IFIP
Working Group 2.2 (Formal Description of Programming Concepts) and in
conjunction with the 25th Conference on Concurrency Theory. We call
for papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science: they will be
evaluated by two committees:
Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Models of Computation
Track B: Logic, Semantics, Specification and Verification
TOPICS:
Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
Track A - analysis and design of algorithms; automata and formal
languages; cellular automata and systems; combinatorial, graph and
optimization algorithms; computational learning theory; computational
complexity; computational geometry; cryptography; descriptive
complexity; evolutionary and genetic computing; experimental
algorithms; mobile computing; molecular computing and algorithmic
aspects of bioinformatics; network computing; neural computing;
parallel and distributed algorithms; probabilistic and randomized
algorithms; quantum computing; structural information and
communication complexity.
Track B - automata theory; automated deduction; constructive and
non-standard logics in computer science; concurrency theory and
foundations of distributed and mobile computing; database theory;
finite model theory; formal aspects of program analysis, foundations
of hybrid and real-time systems; lambda and combinatory calculi;
logical aspects of computational complexity; modal and temporal
logics; model checking and verification; probabilistic systems; logics
and semantics of programs; foundations of security; term rewriting;
specifications; type, proof and category theory in computer science.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 15 pages
(LNCS style with at least 11-point font size) to arrive before April
27, 2014. If more space is needed, a clearly marked appendix, to be
read at the discretion of the program committee, may be included if
desired. Submission will be handled by EasyChair. Further information
and submission details can be found on the Conference web page.
Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published
proceedings are not allowed.
PROCEEDINGS:
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers from
TCS 2014 will be invited to a special issue of the Journal Theoretical
Computer Science.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission: April 27, 2014.
Notification of acceptance: June 25, 2014.
Final manuscript due: July 6, 2014.
Conference: September 1-3, 2014.
STEERING COMMITTEE:
- Giorgio Ausiello, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Jos Baeten, CWI Amsterdam
- Jacques Sakarovitch, CNRS/T el ecom ParisTech
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS:
- Daniele Gorla, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Rossella Petreschi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
PROGRAM COMMITTEES:
Track A
- Cristian Calude, University of Auckland
- Josep Diaz (Chair), UPC Barcelona
- Irene Finocchi, Sapienza Univ. di Roma
- Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa
- Aristides Gionis, Aalto University Helsinki
- Mordecai Golin, Hong Kong University of Tech.
- Juhani Karhum aki, Turku University
- Massimo Melucci, Univ. di Padova
- Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza
- Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Univ. of Paderborn
- Pekka Orponen, Aalto University Helsinki
- Giuseppe Persiano, Univ. di Salerno
- G eraud S enizergues, Universit e Bordeaux 1
- Olivier Serre, CNRS / Universit e Paris 7
- Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool
- Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Inst. of Technology
- Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich
Track B
- Jos Baeten, CWI Amsterdam
- Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University
- Andrei Bulatov, Simon Fraser University
- James Cheney, University of Edinburgh
- Ugo Dal Lago, Univ. di Bologna
- Josee Desharnais, Universit e Laval
- Jorg Endrullis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Jerome Feret, ENS Paris
- Marcelo Fiore, University of Cambridge
- Silvio Ghilardi, Univ. di Milano
- Benjamin Gr egoire, INRIA Sophia
- Ichiro Hasuo, University of Tokyo
- Marieke Huisman, University of Twente
- Jean Krivine, CNRS / Universit e Paris 7
- Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University, Chicago
- Ivan Lanese, Univ. di Bologna
- Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at U-C
- Davide Sangiorgi (Chair), Univ. di Bologna
- Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton
- Igor Walukiewicz, CNRS / Universit e Bordeaux 1
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[DMANET] KR 2014 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Applications
Call for Applications
July 20-24, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://www.kr.org/KR2014/
The 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2014) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program.
1) AIMS AND SCOPE
The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar research interests. The aims of the consortium are:
* to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
* to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas;
* to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers.
The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience.
We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
A number of student grants will be available to support student participation.
2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials:
* Thesis summary: A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php).
* Curriculum Vitae: A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment).
* Letter of recommendation: A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC.
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https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014dc
3) IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 21, 2014 : Deadline for application
March 28, 2014 : Acceptance notification
July 20-24, 2014 : Doctoral Consortium
For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs:
Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (birte.glimm@uni-ulm.de)
Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne (adrianrp@unimelb.edu.au)
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July 20-24, 2014
Vienna, Austria
http://www.kr.org/KR2014/
The 14th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2014) invites PhD students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium program.
1) AIMS AND SCOPE
The Doctoral Consortium is a student mentoring program that introduces students to senior researchers with similar research interests. The aims of the consortium are:
* to provide a forum for students to present their current research, and receive feedback from other students and senior researchers;
* to promote contacts among PhD students working in similar areas;
* to support students with information and advice on academic, research and industrial careers.
The Doctoral Consortium is intended for students who have a specific research proposal and some preliminary results, but who have sufficient time prior to completing their dissertation to benefit from the consortium experience.
We encourage submissions from PhD students at any level, and from any topic area within Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
A number of student grants will be available to support student participation.
2) APPLICATION SUBMISSION
Applications must be submitted via our online submission site (see below). Each application must contain the following materials:
* Thesis summary: A description of the problem being addressed, your motivation for addressing the problem, proposed plan of research, the progress to date (what you have already achieved and what remains to be done), and related work. It must be four pages maximum in AAAI style (http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php).
* Curriculum Vitae: A description of your background and relevant experience (research, education, employment).
* Letter of recommendation: A letter from your thesis advisor that states that he/she supports your participation in the DC.
* (Optional) You can suggest 3-5 potential mentors with similar research interests as you, who could give you good advice on technical aspects of your work, and/or your career.
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https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=kr2014dc
3) IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 21, 2014 : Deadline for application
March 28, 2014 : Acceptance notification
July 20-24, 2014 : Doctoral Consortium
For further information, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs:
Birte Glimm, University of Ulm (birte.glimm@uni-ulm.de)
Adrian Pearce, University of Melbourne (adrianrp@unimelb.edu.au)
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[DMANET] Call for paper (Journal of Operational Research and Decision Science Studies)
Dear Professor\Colleagues\Authors
We would like to invite you to submit your research paper for possible
publication in Journal of Operational Research and Decision Science
Studies (JORDS). It is a peer-reviewed journal, published by Novel
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• Continuous Optimization, Computational Intelligence and Information
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JORDS seeks to provide a forum for debates on practical and policy
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It provides an academic platform for professionals and researchers to
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in both theoretical and practical aspects of management, applied
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JORDS is devoted to rapid dissemination of significant research and is
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published online immediately for free of publication fee.
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Journal of Operational Research and Decision Science Studies
We would like to invite you to submit your research paper for possible
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Management
• mathematical modeling
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• Discrete Optimization and Expert Systems
• Heuristics Mathematical Programming
• Case Studies, Applications in all Areas of Sciences, Engineering and
Industry
• Econometric and statistical method
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studies on solutions to improve corporate erformance towards
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[DMANET] ECCO-CO 2014 Munich, Invitation and Call for Papers
INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
ECCO-CO XXVII (European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization)
May 01 - 03, 2014
http://www.ecco2014.ma.tum.de/
Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2014
Venue: Technische Universität München
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TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to
- theory and applications of combinatorial optimization,
- exact solution algorithms, approximation algorithms, heuristics, and
meta-heuristics for combinatorial optimization problems,
- integer programming, global optimization, stochastic integer
programming, multi-objective programming, graph theory and network flows,
- application areas include logistics and supply chain optimization,
manufacturing, energy production and distribution, land consolidation,
telecommunications, bioinformatics, finance, discrete tomography, discrete
and hybrid dynamical systems, and other fields
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
Martin Grötschel, Technische Universität Berlin, ZIB
David S. Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Peter Gritzmann (Chairman), Technische Universität München
Jacek Blazewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences Poznán
Van-Dat Cung, Grenoble INP
Alain Hertz, École Polytechnique Montréal
Silvano Martello, University of Bologna
Chris Potts, University of Southhampton
Dolores Romero Morales, University of Oxford
Vitaly Strusevich, University of Greenwich
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Peter Gritzmann (Chairman), Technische Universität München
Steffen Borgwardt, Technische Universität München
René Brandenberg, Technische Universität München
Andreas Brieden, Universität der Bundeswehr München
Michael Ritter, Technische Universität München
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University
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[DMANET] Tenure-track position in TCS at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
The Theory Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology invites applications
for a tenure-track assistant professorship in theoretical computer
science.
KTH is the leading technical university in Sweden. The Theory Group at KTH
(http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/) offers a strong research environment covering
a wide range of research topics such as complexity theory and
approximation algorithms, computer and network security, cryptography,
formal methods and natural language processing. The group has a consistent
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attracted numerous international awards and grants in recent years. We are
now set to expand further, and this position is just one of several new
openings.
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instructions how to apply can be found at
http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/jobs/D-2013-0772.php . Informal enquiries are
welcome and may be sent to Mads Dam at mfd@kth.se or Johan Hastad at
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science.
KTH is the leading technical university in Sweden. The Theory Group at KTH
(http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/) offers a strong research environment covering
a wide range of research topics such as complexity theory and
approximation algorithms, computer and network security, cryptography,
formal methods and natural language processing. The group has a consistent
track record of publishing in the leading theoretical computer science
conferences and journals worldwide, and the research conducted here has
attracted numerous international awards and grants in recent years. We are
now set to expand further, and this position is just one of several new
openings.
The application deadline is February 23, 2014. More information and
instructions how to apply can be found at
http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/jobs/D-2013-0772.php . Informal enquiries are
welcome and may be sent to Mads Dam at mfd@kth.se or Johan Hastad at
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[DMANET] PhD Student Positions at the Department of Computer Science, University of Vienna
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
PhD STUDENT POSITIONS
PhD student positions are available in the research group "Theory and
Applications of Algorithms" lead by Professor Monika Henzinger. The
research areas are efficient algorithms and algorithmic game theory.
See
http://informatik.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsgruppen/theory-and-applications-of-algorithms/
for more information on the research group.
The positions are available immediately, PhD students will be university
employees and will receive a salary of at least 27380 Euros per year.
Applicants should have or expect shortly to obtain a MSc degree in
computer science or some other relevant discipline The students are
expected to perform research and write their PhD thesis in the area of
efficient algorithms or algorithmic game theory. Prior experience in these
areas is a plus.
To apply, please send your CV, copies of your official transcripts of your
Bachelor and Master studies and if possible, copies of your Bachelor or
Master thesis, and a letter of motivation, to
monika.henzinger@univie.ac.at.
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[DMANET] Call for Papers for the session “Electric Vehicles” within the "Green Logistics" stream for IFORS 2014
Call for Papers for the session "Electric Vehicles" within the "Green Logistics" stream for IFORS 2014
IFORS 2014. Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18 2014 www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org
Dear colleague,
you are kindly invited to submit a paper to the session entitled Electric Vehicles within the Green Logistics stream for the forthcoming IFORS 2014 Triennial Conference which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on July 13-18, 2014.
This special session welcomes submissions that explicitly address the use of electric vehicles in logistics applications. For example the use of OR to optimize electric vehicle operations and operations of fleets consisting of multiple vehicle classes (conventional, hybrid, electric). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Electric vehicle routing and scheduling
+ Electric vehicles in innovative (urban) logistics operations
+ Modelling and optimizing energy consumption in electric vehicle routing
+ Long-term management of electric (or mixed) vehicle fleets
Contributors are requested to contact the session organizer for an invitation code and then submit their abstracts (maximum 600 characters) via the Conference web page ( http://ifors2014.upc.edu/abstract) by 31 January 2014.
Session organizer:
Jakob Puchinger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
Jakob.Puchinger@ait.ac.at
*Important dates*
Abstract submissions open: 1 November 2013
Abstract submissions close: 31 January 2014
Early Registration: 1 November 2013- 28 February 2014
Regular Registration: 1 March - 30 April 2014
Late and on-site registration:1 May - 13 July 2014
For information about fees, submissions and logistics, please visit the Conference's website: www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org
Best Regards,
Jakob Puchinger
Jakob Puchinger
Senior Scientist
Mobility Department
Dynamic Transportation Systems
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 2 | 1210 Vienna | Austria
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IFORS 2014. Barcelona, Spain, July 13-18 2014 www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org
Dear colleague,
you are kindly invited to submit a paper to the session entitled Electric Vehicles within the Green Logistics stream for the forthcoming IFORS 2014 Triennial Conference which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on July 13-18, 2014.
This special session welcomes submissions that explicitly address the use of electric vehicles in logistics applications. For example the use of OR to optimize electric vehicle operations and operations of fleets consisting of multiple vehicle classes (conventional, hybrid, electric). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
+ Electric vehicle routing and scheduling
+ Electric vehicles in innovative (urban) logistics operations
+ Modelling and optimizing energy consumption in electric vehicle routing
+ Long-term management of electric (or mixed) vehicle fleets
Contributors are requested to contact the session organizer for an invitation code and then submit their abstracts (maximum 600 characters) via the Conference web page ( http://ifors2014.upc.edu/abstract) by 31 January 2014.
Session organizer:
Jakob Puchinger (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
Jakob.Puchinger@ait.ac.at
*Important dates*
Abstract submissions open: 1 November 2013
Abstract submissions close: 31 January 2014
Early Registration: 1 November 2013- 28 February 2014
Regular Registration: 1 March - 30 April 2014
Late and on-site registration:1 May - 13 July 2014
For information about fees, submissions and logistics, please visit the Conference's website: www.ifors2014.org<http://www.ifors2014.org
Best Regards,
Jakob Puchinger
Jakob Puchinger
Senior Scientist
Mobility Department
Dynamic Transportation Systems
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 2 | 1210 Vienna | Austria
T +43 50550-6461 | M +43 664 210 65 09 | F +43 50550-6439
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[DMANET] Cordial Invitation: 2nd CfP --- IFORS 2014
Second Call for Papers
We invite you to participate in the IFORS 2014 Conference
With half a year left for the Barcelona IFORS 2014 Conference
(www.IFORS2014.com) there are still 6 more weeks before the deadline
for abstract submission. Do not miss the opportunity to participate in
the IFORS 2014 Conference, which will bring operational researchers
from around the globe to the dynamic and inviting city of Barcelona.
Submit your abstract today at
http://ifors2014.upc.edu/abstract
The Program Committee is preparing a high quality and attractive
scientific program. There are already nearly 200 streams distributed
in 25 areas.
Find the most appropriate stream for your presentations at
http://ifors2014.com/program/main-areas.
All attendees, including speakers and session chairs, must register
and pay the registration fee. These fees have been announced at €500
for early bird (until February 28) and €300 for students.
Register now at
http://ifors2014.com/registration
Organize a session, give a talk and experience this great city!
Find more at www.IFORS2014.com
Elena Fernández, Organizing Committee Chair
Stefan Nickel, Program Committee Chair
Important dates
Abstract submission: 1 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Notification of acceptance: 25 February
Early Registration: 1 November 2013 - 28 February 2014
Regular Registration: 1 March - 30 April 2014
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We invite you to participate in the IFORS 2014 Conference
With half a year left for the Barcelona IFORS 2014 Conference
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for abstract submission. Do not miss the opportunity to participate in
the IFORS 2014 Conference, which will bring operational researchers
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in 25 areas.
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and pay the registration fee. These fees have been announced at €500
for early bird (until February 28) and €300 for students.
Register now at
http://ifors2014.com/registration
Organize a session, give a talk and experience this great city!
Find more at www.IFORS2014.com
Elena Fernández, Organizing Committee Chair
Stefan Nickel, Program Committee Chair
Important dates
Abstract submission: 1 November 2013 - 31 January 2014
Notification of acceptance: 25 February
Early Registration: 1 November 2013 - 28 February 2014
Regular Registration: 1 March - 30 April 2014
Late and on-site registration: 1 May - 13 July 2014
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[DMANET] Postdoc position in semidefinite programming at the University of São Paulo (REMINDER)
The deadline is approaching!
The Combinatorics and Optimization group at the Institute of
Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo invites
applications for a postdoc fellowship in the context of the project
"Optimization Methods for Extremal Geometry", which is a part of
FAPESP project 13/03447-6 "Combinatorial structures, optimization, and
algorithms in theoretical Computer Science".
While the main direction of the project lies in applications of
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semidefinite programming, to geometrical problems (like the sphere
packing problem, or the kissing number problem), previous experience
in these areas is not required. We will be looking instead at the
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functional analysis, discrete geometry, and combinatorics. Familiarity
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involved.
The salary is BRL 5,908.80/month, tax-free. For those living outside
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given for moving costs. There is also an allowance of BRL 10,634.40
per year for travel and other costs related to the project. The
fellowship is granted for a period of 12 months, which can be extended
for a further 12 months based on performance.
The start date is February 1st, 2014 (negotiable).
Deadline for application: January 5th, 2014.
Applications should consist of (1) a Curriculum Vitae including a
publications list; (2) a research statement (max. 5 pages) detailing
past research and including future research directions; (3) names and
emails of 3 references. The application should be sent AS A SINGLE PDF
FILE to
fmario+apply@gmail.com
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Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Universidade de São Paulo
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The Combinatorics and Optimization group at the Institute of
Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo invites
applications for a postdoc fellowship in the context of the project
"Optimization Methods for Extremal Geometry", which is a part of
FAPESP project 13/03447-6 "Combinatorial structures, optimization, and
algorithms in theoretical Computer Science".
While the main direction of the project lies in applications of
optimization techniques, namely combinatorial optimization methods and
semidefinite programming, to geometrical problems (like the sphere
packing problem, or the kissing number problem), previous experience
in these areas is not required. We will be looking instead at the
depth of the applicant's research and his/her proficiency in applying
optimization methods and in areas such as harmonic analysis,
functional analysis, discrete geometry, and combinatorics. Familiarity
with semidefinite programming is however an asset. No teaching is
involved.
The salary is BRL 5,908.80/month, tax-free. For those living outside
of São Paulo, the flight will be reimbursed, and a further salary is
given for moving costs. There is also an allowance of BRL 10,634.40
per year for travel and other costs related to the project. The
fellowship is granted for a period of 12 months, which can be extended
for a further 12 months based on performance.
The start date is February 1st, 2014 (negotiable).
Deadline for application: January 5th, 2014.
Applications should consist of (1) a Curriculum Vitae including a
publications list; (2) a research statement (max. 5 pages) detailing
past research and including future research directions; (3) names and
emails of 3 references. The application should be sent AS A SINGLE PDF
FILE to
fmario+apply@gmail.com
Informal inquiries about the position can be sent to
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Instituto de Matemática e Estatística
Universidade de São Paulo
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[DMANET] Doctoral Studentships at the University of Oxford
The Department of Computer Science invites applications from prospective students for DPhil (Doctor of Philosophy) to commence in October 2014; note the deadline of 10 January 2014 for applications.
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[DMANET] FSTTCS'13 Proceedings published open access (LIPIcs, Vol.24)
= Book Announcement =
Title: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and
Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS'13)
Editors: Anil Seth and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
Series: LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics)
Volume: 24
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-939897-64-4
== Access ==
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http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-939897-64-4
http://www.dblp.org/db/conf/fsttcs/fsttcs2013.html
== About the Proceedings ==
The 33rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013) was held at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Guwahati, from December 12 to December 14, 2013.
The program consisted of 5 invited talks and 40 contributed papers. This
proceedings volume contains the contributed papers and abstracts of
invited talks presented at the conference. The proceedings of FSTTCS
2013 is published as a volume in the LIPIcs series under a Creative
Commons license, with free online access to all, and with authors
retaining rights over their contributions.
The 40 contributed papers were selected from a total of 111 submissions.
We wish to thank the program committee for its efforts in carefully
evaluating and making these selections.
We are particularly grateful to the invited speakers: Venkatesan
Guruswami (CMU), Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich), Subhash Khot (NYU),
Stephan Kreutzer (TU Berlin) and Kazushige Terui (Kyoto, Japan), who
readily accepted our invitation to speak at the conference.
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* Frontmatter incl. table of contents and preface:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.i
* Complete proceedings volume (PDF, 20MB):
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/lipics-complete/lipics-vol24-fsttcs2013-complete.pdf
== About the FSTTCS Conference ==
FSTTCS is the annual conference run by IARCS, the Indian Association for
Research in Computing Science, and is the longest running conference in
computer science in India (founded in 1981). FSTTCS is a forum for
presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science
and Software Technology.
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* http://www.iarcs.org.in
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Title: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and
Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS'13)
Editors: Anil Seth and Nisheeth K. Vishnoi
Series: LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics)
Volume: 24
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-939897-64-4
== Access ==
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http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-939897-64-4
http://www.dblp.org/db/conf/fsttcs/fsttcs2013.html
== About the Proceedings ==
The 33rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013) was held at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Guwahati, from December 12 to December 14, 2013.
The program consisted of 5 invited talks and 40 contributed papers. This
proceedings volume contains the contributed papers and abstracts of
invited talks presented at the conference. The proceedings of FSTTCS
2013 is published as a volume in the LIPIcs series under a Creative
Commons license, with free online access to all, and with authors
retaining rights over their contributions.
The 40 contributed papers were selected from a total of 111 submissions.
We wish to thank the program committee for its efforts in carefully
evaluating and making these selections.
We are particularly grateful to the invited speakers: Venkatesan
Guruswami (CMU), Martin Hofmann (LMU Munich), Subhash Khot (NYU),
Stephan Kreutzer (TU Berlin) and Kazushige Terui (Kyoto, Japan), who
readily accepted our invitation to speak at the conference.
See also:
* Frontmatter incl. table of contents and preface:
http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.i
* Complete proceedings volume (PDF, 20MB):
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/lipics-complete/lipics-vol24-fsttcs2013-complete.pdf
== About the FSTTCS Conference ==
FSTTCS is the annual conference run by IARCS, the Indian Association for
Research in Computing Science, and is the longest running conference in
computer science in India (founded in 1981). FSTTCS is a forum for
presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science
and Software Technology.
See also:
* http://www.fsttcs.org
* http://www.iarcs.org.in
== About the LIPIcs Series ==
"LIPIcs -- Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics" is a series
of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics
established in cooperation with "Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz Center of
Informatics". LIPIcs volumes are published according to the principle
of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available online and free of charge.
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[DMANET] +++ EXTENDED DEADLINE +++ CfP: ITOR special issue on "Hybrid Metaheuristics and their Applications"
++++ EXTENDED DEADLINE ++++
Submission deadline: January 15, 2014
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The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will
publish a Special Issue dedicated to "Hybrid Metaheuristics and their
Applications". Pure metaheuristics, such as GRASP, VNS, simulated
annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony
optimization, scatter search, and iterated local search, are considered
state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In recent years, however, it
has become evident that the concentration on a sole metaheuristic is
rather restrictive. A skilled combination of concepts from different
optimization techniques can provide more efficient algorithms and higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale problems.
Hybrid Metaheuristics are therefore techniques for optimization that
combine different metaheuristics or integrate AI/OR techniques into
metaheuristics.
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics, including but not
limited to:
- Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics
- Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques
- Low-level hybridization
- High-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems
- Cooperative search
- Automated parameter tuning
- Empirical and statistical comparison
- Theoretical aspects of hybridization
- Parallelization
- Software libraries
Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at the
8th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2013) that took
place in Ischia (Napoli), Italy, from May 23 to 25, 2013, this Call for
Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners.
All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of
ITOR (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505725/home),
published by the International Federation of Operational Research
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currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be
prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found in
the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contributions using
the submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itor, indicating in
their cover letter that the paper is intended for this special issue.
The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Other inquiries
should be sent directly to any of the Guest Editors in charge of this
issue: Paola Festa (paola.festa@unina.it), Mauricio G.C. Resende
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The International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR) will
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Applications". Pure metaheuristics, such as GRASP, VNS, simulated
annealing, evolutionary algorithms, tabu search, ant colony
optimization, scatter search, and iterated local search, are considered
state-of-the-art methods for many problems. In recent years, however, it
has become evident that the concentration on a sole metaheuristic is
rather restrictive. A skilled combination of concepts from different
optimization techniques can provide more efficient algorithms and higher
flexibility when dealing with real-world and large-scale problems.
Hybrid Metaheuristics are therefore techniques for optimization that
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metaheuristics.
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics, including but not
limited to:
- Novel combinations of components from different metaheuristics
- Hybridization of metaheuristics and AI/OR techniques
- Low-level hybridization
- High-level hybridization, portfolio techniques, expert systems
- Cooperative search
- Automated parameter tuning
- Empirical and statistical comparison
- Theoretical aspects of hybridization
- Parallelization
- Software libraries
Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at the
8th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics (HM 2013) that took
place in Ischia (Napoli), Italy, from May 23 to 25, 2013, this Call for
Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners.
All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of
ITOR (http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118505725/home),
published by the International Federation of Operational Research
Societies (IFORS). Papers should be original, unpublished, and not
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The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2014. Other inquiries
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issue: Paola Festa (paola.festa@unina.it), Mauricio G.C. Resende
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[DMANET] Last Days, December 25 || ICNS 2014 || April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
INVITATION:
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICNS 2014.
The submission deadline is December 25, 2013.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICNS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICNS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Networking and Services
April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICNS14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICNS14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICNS14.html
Submission deadline: December 25, 2013
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICNS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
Access and home networks; Ad hoc networks; Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs); Autonomic Networks; Delay-tolerant Networking; Distributed communications systems & applications; Energy-efficient networking; High-speed & optical networks; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN & IPSec-VPN networks; Multimedia and multicast communications; Networking Communication theory; Network modeling & simulation; Network monitoring techniques; Network security; Next Generation Networks (NGN); Overlay networks; Peer-to-peer networking; Programmable and Active Networks; Sensor networks; Switching and routing; Wireless and Satellite Networks
COMAN: Network Control and Management
Network, control and service architectures; Network signaling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Network management, monitoring and control; Network resource scheduling; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
Service-oriented architectures; Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment; Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction; Service orchestration and federation; Inter-provider service dependency; Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction; Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs); Service open architecture (SOA); Profiling and service adaptation; Service privacy and security; Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Service agreement violations; Mobile services and service migration; Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]; Service performance metrics; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; IP Multimedia services; Real-time/not-real-rime services; real-time services over IP/IPv6; Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services; NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services; NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts; NGN technologies and mechanisms; QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN; NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations; NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks; 3G and 4G Mobile networks; Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking; Services and service differentiation over NGN; Managing ubiquitous services in NGN; NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration; Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities; NGN device instrumentation; NGN policy-based control; Next Generation Internet
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement; QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks; Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery; Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments; Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management; Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing; Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks; Security issues in multi-service provider networks; Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints; Standards and fora activities
GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications; Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID; Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks; Recovery by disruption resource procedures; Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery; Networks resiliency methods; Formal methods for safety-critical systems; Networks emergency services; Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications; Response to the networks emergency services; Disaster prevention and recovery; Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications; Notifications and recovery in various network technologies; Customer protection and serviceability perception; Cost models and business impact; Cultural and legal aspects; Future advanced network development and evolution; Standards and guidelines; Lawful interception and defense strategies;
IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; National Strategies in Stimulating IPv6 Adoption; IPv6 in Government Infrastructures - Specific Requirements; IPv6 Infrastructures for Emergency Response and Law Enforcement - MetroNet6; Communications Equipment Certification for IPv6 Support; IPv6 in Broadband Networks; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices
IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.); Measurement and estimation of network characteristics; Tools, metrics and benchmarks; End-to-end packet dynamics; Timing aspects in packet dynamics; Impact of load balancing, parallelism within nodes, etc. on packet dynamics; QoS mechanisms and their impact on packet dynamics; Models (e.g., relating protocols, resources and architectures to packet dynamics); Mitigation of adverse effects of reordering, jitter, etc.; Traffic engineering; Impact of packet dynamics on application performance
GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks
Terabit burst switching; Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks; Optical network infrastructure for Grid; Synchronous stream optical burst switching; Optical burst switching based GRID architecture; Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks; Throughput for Grid optical burst switching Grid networks; Resiliency paths over the optical Grid networks; Consumer oriented Grids using optical burst switching; Protocols for optical burst switched Grid networks; Hybrid optical switching for data-intensive media Grid; Anycast routing in optical burst switched Grid networks; Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM; Customizable Grid-to-optical network; Ultra high capacity optical networks; Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for Grid-enabled optical networks; Job scheduling in optical burst switching Grid networks; Architecture and middleware for Grid-Over-OBS
LEARN: Learning Methodologies and Platforms
New learning methodologies; Blended learning; Accessibility in Learning; Online laboratories; Virtual laboratories; Remote laboratories; Learning strategies to enhance online courses; Learning Content adaptation for blended learning; Learning platforms and their compatibility with cisco.netacad.net
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICNS14.html
ICNS Advisory Chairs
Pedro Andr�s Aranda Guti�rrez, Telef�nica I+D - Madrid, Spain
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Eugen Borcoci, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, Romania
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA
Emmanuel Bertin, Orange Labs, France
Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany
Rui L.A. Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Iain Murray, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Khondkar Islam, George Mason University - Fairfax, USA
ICNS Industry/Research Relation Chairs
Eunsoo Shim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Tao Zheng, Orange Labs Beijing, China
Bruno Chatras, Orange Labs, France
Jun Kyun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Michael Galetzka, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits - Dresden, Germany
Mikael Gidlund, ABB, Sweden
Juraj Giertl, T-Systems, Slovakia
Sinan Hanay, NICT, Japan
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=================
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICNS 2014.
The submission deadline is December 25, 2013.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
=================
============== ICNS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICNS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Networking and Services
April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICNS14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICNS14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICNS14.html
Submission deadline: December 25, 2013
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICNS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
ENCOT: Emerging Network Communications and Technologies
Access and home networks; Ad hoc networks; Application-specific networks (e.g. SANs); Autonomic Networks; Delay-tolerant Networking; Distributed communications systems & applications; Energy-efficient networking; High-speed & optical networks; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN & IPSec-VPN networks; Multimedia and multicast communications; Networking Communication theory; Network modeling & simulation; Network monitoring techniques; Network security; Next Generation Networks (NGN); Overlay networks; Peer-to-peer networking; Programmable and Active Networks; Sensor networks; Switching and routing; Wireless and Satellite Networks
COMAN: Network Control and Management
Network, control and service architectures; Network signaling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Network management, monitoring and control; Network resource scheduling; Networks policy-based management; Management of autonomic networks and systems; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Applications and case studies
SERVI: Multi-technology service deployment and assurance
Service-oriented architectures; Service definition, creation, bundling, deployment; Service reuse, composition and service feature interaction; Service orchestration and federation; Inter-provider service dependency; Intra-provider service dependency and service interaction; Service middleware and service development platforms (SDPs); Service open architecture (SOA); Profiling and service adaptation; Service privacy and security; Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA]; Service agreement violations; Mobile services and service migration; Reliability, availability, serviceability [RAS]; Service performance metrics; Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring; Voice over IP services; IP Multimedia services; Real-time/not-real-rime services; real-time services over IP/IPv6; Service performance evaluation, tools, simulation
NGNUS: Next Generation Networks and Ubiquitous Services
Methodologies, development support, and tools for NGN and converging services; NGN and convergence of ubiquitous services; NGN frameworks, architectures, and concepts; NGN technologies and mechanisms; QoS/SLA, traffic in NGN; NGN transport/service layered capabilities and operations; NGN concepts for active, ad hoc, mobile, and wireless networks; 3G and 4G Mobile networks; Fixed/mobile networks integration and internetworking; Services and service differentiation over NGN; Managing ubiquitous services in NGN; NGN interworking, non-NGN interoperability, migration; Regulatory services in NGN and standard activities; NGN device instrumentation; NGN policy-based control; Next Generation Internet
MPQSI: Multi Provider QoS/SLA Internetworking
Architectures, frameworks, mechanisms for admission control and measurement; QoS in multi-provider and multi-technology networks; Service classes and multi-provider service class discovery; Service level agreement and service assurance in multi-provider environments; Carrier-class end-to-end SLA and QoS monitoring and management; Multi provider accounting/billing/cost sharing; Management, monitoring, and measurements in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA advanced network services in multi-provider networks; End-to-end QoS/SLA for multimedia applications and services in multi-provider networks; Security issues in multi-service provider networks; Business models for multi-providers under QoS/SLA constraints; Standards and fora activities
GRIDNS: Grid Networks and Services
GRID theory, frameworks, methodologies, architecture, ontology; GRID infrastructure and technologies; GRID middleware; GRID protocols and networking; GRID computing, utility computing, autonomic computing, metacomputing; Programmable GRID; Data GRID; Context ontology and management in GRIDs; Distributed decisions in GRID networks; GRID services and applications; Virtualization, modeling, and metadata in GRID; Resource management, scheduling, and scalability in GRID; GRID monitoring, control, and management; Traffic and load balancing in GRID; User profiles and priorities in GRID; Performance and security in GRID systems; Fault tolerance, resilience, survivability, robustness in GRID; QoS/SLA in GRID networks; GRID fora, standards, development, evolution; GRID case studies, validation testbeds, prototypes, and lessons learned
EDNA: Emergency Services and Disaster Recovery of Networks and Applications
Theory on disaster-tolerant robust networks; Recovery by disruption resource procedures; Security issues with emergency services and disaster recovery; Networks resiliency methods; Formal methods for safety-critical systems; Networks emergency services; Public safety, reliable emergency communications, and applications; Response to the networks emergency services; Disaster prevention and recovery; Fighting mechanisms for disaster of networks and applications; Notifications and recovery in various network technologies; Customer protection and serviceability perception; Cost models and business impact; Cultural and legal aspects; Future advanced network development and evolution; Standards and guidelines; Lawful interception and defense strategies;
IPv6DFI: Deploying the Future Infrastructure
IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; National Strategies in Stimulating IPv6 Adoption; IPv6 in Government Infrastructures - Specific Requirements; IPv6 Infrastructures for Emergency Response and Law Enforcement - MetroNet6; Communications Equipment Certification for IPv6 Support; IPv6 in Broadband Networks; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices
IPDy: Internet Packet Dynamics
Measurement of stream characteristics (reordering, delay, losses, jitter, etc.); Measurement and estimation of network characteristics; Tools, metrics and benchmarks; End-to-end packet dynamics; Timing aspects in packet dynamics; Impact of load balancing, parallelism within nodes, etc. on packet dynamics; QoS mechanisms and their impact on packet dynamics; Models (e.g., relating protocols, resources and architectures to packet dynamics); Mitigation of adverse effects of reordering, jitter, etc.; Traffic engineering; Impact of packet dynamics on application performance
GOBS: GRID over Optical Burst Switching Networks
Terabit burst switching; Burst assembly for IP DiffServ over optical burst switching networks; Optical network infrastructure for Grid; Synchronous stream optical burst switching; Optical burst switching based GRID architecture; Reliable optical burst switching for next-generation Grid networks; Throughput for Grid optical burst switching Grid networks; Resiliency paths over the optical Grid networks; Consumer oriented Grids using optical burst switching; Protocols for optical burst switched Grid networks; Hybrid optical switching for data-intensive media Grid; Anycast routing in optical burst switched Grid networks; Optical burst switching for IP-over-WDM/DWDM; Customizable Grid-to-optical network; Ultra high capacity optical networks; Hybrid optical burst/circuit switched for Grid-enabled optical networks; Job scheduling in optical burst switching Grid networks; Architecture and middleware for Grid-Over-OBS
LEARN: Learning Methodologies and Platforms
New learning methodologies; Blended learning; Accessibility in Learning; Online laboratories; Virtual laboratories; Remote laboratories; Learning strategies to enhance online courses; Learning Content adaptation for blended learning; Learning platforms and their compatibility with cisco.netacad.net
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICNS14.html
ICNS Advisory Chairs
Pedro Andr�s Aranda Guti�rrez, Telef�nica I+D - Madrid, Spain
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Eugen Borcoci, University 'Politehnica' Bucharest, Romania
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Sathiamoorthy Manoharan, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Go Hasegawa, Osaka University, Japan
Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA
Emmanuel Bertin, Orange Labs, France
Steffen Fries, Siemens, Germany
Rui L.A. Aguiar, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Iain Murray, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Khondkar Islam, George Mason University - Fairfax, USA
ICNS Industry/Research Relation Chairs
Eunsoo Shim, Samsung Electronics, Korea
Tao Zheng, Orange Labs Beijing, China
Bruno Chatras, Orange Labs, France
Jun Kyun Choi, KAIST, Korea
Michael Galetzka, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits - Dresden, Germany
Mikael Gidlund, ABB, Sweden
Juraj Giertl, T-Systems, Slovakia
Sinan Hanay, NICT, Japan
================================================
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
[DMANET] CEC Competition at IEEE WCCI 2014 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
**** CEC Competition at IEEE WCCI 2014 1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ****
"Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
CEC Competition at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI
2014),
July 6 - 11, 2014, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014Comp/
** Introduction **
Real-world optimization problems often consist of several NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problems that interact with each other. Such
multi-component optimization problems are difficult to solve not only
because of the contained hard optimization problems, but in particular,
because of the interdependencies between the different components.
Interdependence complicates a decision making by forcing each sub-problem to
influence the quality and feasibility of solutions of the other
sub-problems. This influence might be even stronger when one sub-problem
changes the data used by another one through a solution construction
process. Examples of multi-component problems are vehicle routing problems
under loading constraints, the maximizing material utilization while
respecting a production schedule, and the relocation of containers in a port
while minimizing idle times of ships.
The goal of this competition in combination with its associated special
session is to provide a platform for researchers in computational
intelligence working on multi-component optimization problems. The main
focus of this competition is on the combination of TSP and Knapsack
problems. However, we plan to extend this competition format to more complex
combinations of problems (that have typically been dealt with individually
in the past decades) in the upcoming years.
** Technical Details **
The set of benchmarks used in this competition follows the idea of the
"Travelling Thief Problem" (Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, Zbigniew Michalewicz,
Luigi Barone: The travelling thief problem: The first step in the transition
from theoretical problems to realistic problems. IEEE Congress on
Evolutionary Computation 2013: 1037-1044). Eucledian 2D Traveling
Salesperson instances are combined with 0-1-Knapsack instances in such a way
that it reflects aspects of problems from the real-world; for example, the
total weight of the items in the knapsack influences the travel speed of a
traveller. This introduced interdependence sets our benchmarks apart from
capacitated vehicle routing problem instances, where this interdependence
does not exist.
A range of sample instances will be available soon for researchers to
experiment with before the final submission. The samples will include
instances with few/many cities, with uncorrelated/correlated profits and
weights, and instances with further characteristics.
In order to encourage researchers during the weeks before the submission
deadline, we invite them to submit solutions for the sample instances. These
results will be displayed online (without a reference to the authors) and
then will serve as performance indications for other researchers.
** Submission and Evaluation **
Participants will submit executable files via an online system. These files
will be run on our state of the art Linux servers. The evaluation criteria
are
- final solution quality after a fixed budget of fitness function
evaluations (to mimic "expensive" evaluations), and
- final solution quality after a fixed budget of computation time (to
mimic the importance of "deadlines").
The technical details will be published online in time.
** Association **
This competition is associated with the Special Session EC23 Heuristic
Methods for Multi-Component Optimization Problems.
http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014/
** Prize **
We are trying our best to secure money prizes from companies that apply
computational intelligence methods, such as SolveIT Software
(www.solveitsoftware.com), a leading provider of enterprise software for
integrated planning and optimisation.
** Conference Participation **
While we do not require this, we strongly encourage the participants to
register for WCCI 2014 due to the advantages.
** Instances and Additional Details **
To be announced shortly. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you
would like early access to the instances.
** Contacts **
Sergey Polyakovskiy (sergey.polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au)
Markus Wagner (markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au)
Mohammad Reza Bonyadi (mohammad.bonyadi@adelaide.edu.au)
Frank Neumann (frank.neumann@adelaide.edu.au)
Zbyszek Michalewicz (zbigniew.michalewicz@adelaide.edu.au)
********
This special session is organized as a part of the IEEE Task Force on
Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization
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"Optimisation of Problems with Multiple Interdependent Components"
CEC Competition at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI
2014),
July 6 - 11, 2014, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014Comp/
** Introduction **
Real-world optimization problems often consist of several NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problems that interact with each other. Such
multi-component optimization problems are difficult to solve not only
because of the contained hard optimization problems, but in particular,
because of the interdependencies between the different components.
Interdependence complicates a decision making by forcing each sub-problem to
influence the quality and feasibility of solutions of the other
sub-problems. This influence might be even stronger when one sub-problem
changes the data used by another one through a solution construction
process. Examples of multi-component problems are vehicle routing problems
under loading constraints, the maximizing material utilization while
respecting a production schedule, and the relocation of containers in a port
while minimizing idle times of ships.
The goal of this competition in combination with its associated special
session is to provide a platform for researchers in computational
intelligence working on multi-component optimization problems. The main
focus of this competition is on the combination of TSP and Knapsack
problems. However, we plan to extend this competition format to more complex
combinations of problems (that have typically been dealt with individually
in the past decades) in the upcoming years.
** Technical Details **
The set of benchmarks used in this competition follows the idea of the
"Travelling Thief Problem" (Mohammad Reza Bonyadi, Zbigniew Michalewicz,
Luigi Barone: The travelling thief problem: The first step in the transition
from theoretical problems to realistic problems. IEEE Congress on
Evolutionary Computation 2013: 1037-1044). Eucledian 2D Traveling
Salesperson instances are combined with 0-1-Knapsack instances in such a way
that it reflects aspects of problems from the real-world; for example, the
total weight of the items in the knapsack influences the travel speed of a
traveller. This introduced interdependence sets our benchmarks apart from
capacitated vehicle routing problem instances, where this interdependence
does not exist.
A range of sample instances will be available soon for researchers to
experiment with before the final submission. The samples will include
instances with few/many cities, with uncorrelated/correlated profits and
weights, and instances with further characteristics.
In order to encourage researchers during the weeks before the submission
deadline, we invite them to submit solutions for the sample instances. These
results will be displayed online (without a reference to the authors) and
then will serve as performance indications for other researchers.
** Submission and Evaluation **
Participants will submit executable files via an online system. These files
will be run on our state of the art Linux servers. The evaluation criteria
are
- final solution quality after a fixed budget of fitness function
evaluations (to mimic "expensive" evaluations), and
- final solution quality after a fixed budget of computation time (to
mimic the importance of "deadlines").
The technical details will be published online in time.
** Association **
This competition is associated with the Special Session EC23 Heuristic
Methods for Multi-Component Optimization Problems.
http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014/
** Prize **
We are trying our best to secure money prizes from companies that apply
computational intelligence methods, such as SolveIT Software
(www.solveitsoftware.com), a leading provider of enterprise software for
integrated planning and optimisation.
** Conference Participation **
While we do not require this, we strongly encourage the participants to
register for WCCI 2014 due to the advantages.
** Instances and Additional Details **
To be announced shortly. Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you
would like early access to the instances.
** Contacts **
Sergey Polyakovskiy (sergey.polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au)
Markus Wagner (markus.wagner@adelaide.edu.au)
Mohammad Reza Bonyadi (mohammad.bonyadi@adelaide.edu.au)
Frank Neumann (frank.neumann@adelaide.edu.au)
Zbyszek Michalewicz (zbigniew.michalewicz@adelaide.edu.au)
********
This special session is organized as a part of the IEEE Task Force on
Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
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* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
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[DMANET] PhD / Postdoc positions in distributed algorithms
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POSTDOC and PHD POSITIONS in DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS
UNIVERSITY of FREIBURG, GERMANY
===========================================================
Are you interested in solving mathematical problems? Are you
particularly attracted by algorithmic and/or combinatorial questions?
Are you also fascinated by the possibilities of future computer
applications that will be built on top of various forms of large-scale
networks and highly parallel systems?
There are open postdoctoral and PhD positions (salary: 100%, E13) in
the research group of Fabian Kuhn at the University of Freiburg,
Germany. Our research mostly focuses on questions regarding algorithms
and complexity of problems arising in the context of large,
decentralized networks. For more details, see the list of our
publications at http://ac.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications
Applicants need to have a strong background and interest in algorithms
and/or combinatorics. To apply for a PhD position, you ideally should
have an MSc degree in computer science with a focus on
algorithms/theory or an MSc degree in mathematics with a minor in
computer science. Candidates for a postdoc positions need to have a
PhD degree and a strong publication record in the general area of our
research.
In order to apply, please send an email with your application
documents to Fabian Kuhn (kuhn@cs.uni-freiburg.de). Your application
should include a detailed CV and a short cover letter where you
introduce yourself and your motivation to apply to our
group. Applicants for a PhD position should also include official
transcripts of your Bachelor and Master studies and possibly copies of
a Bachelor or Master thesis or a student project in the area of
algorithms/theory. Postdoc candidates should include names and email
addresses of at least two references. Additional material that shows
that you are suited for the job is also welcome.
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
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POSTDOC and PHD POSITIONS in DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS
UNIVERSITY of FREIBURG, GERMANY
===========================================================
Are you interested in solving mathematical problems? Are you
particularly attracted by algorithmic and/or combinatorial questions?
Are you also fascinated by the possibilities of future computer
applications that will be built on top of various forms of large-scale
networks and highly parallel systems?
There are open postdoctoral and PhD positions (salary: 100%, E13) in
the research group of Fabian Kuhn at the University of Freiburg,
Germany. Our research mostly focuses on questions regarding algorithms
and complexity of problems arising in the context of large,
decentralized networks. For more details, see the list of our
publications at http://ac.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/publications
Applicants need to have a strong background and interest in algorithms
and/or combinatorics. To apply for a PhD position, you ideally should
have an MSc degree in computer science with a focus on
algorithms/theory or an MSc degree in mathematics with a minor in
computer science. Candidates for a postdoc positions need to have a
PhD degree and a strong publication record in the general area of our
research.
In order to apply, please send an email with your application
documents to Fabian Kuhn (kuhn@cs.uni-freiburg.de). Your application
should include a detailed CV and a short cover letter where you
introduce yourself and your motivation to apply to our
group. Applicants for a PhD position should also include official
transcripts of your Bachelor and Master studies and possibly copies of
a Bachelor or Master thesis or a student project in the area of
algorithms/theory. Postdoc candidates should include names and email
addresses of at least two references. Additional material that shows
that you are suited for the job is also welcome.
**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
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[DMANET] Last Days, December 25 || ICAS 2014 || April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
INVITATION:
=================
Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICAS 2014.
The submission deadline is December 25, 2013.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
=================
============== ICAS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICAS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICAS14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICAS14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICAS14.html
Submission deadline: December 25, 2013
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICAS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
SYSAT: Advances in system automation
Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems
AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems
Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems
AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications
Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services
Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems
CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization
Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance
MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems
Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware
CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments
Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks
ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation
Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking
MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA
Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes
SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems
Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalabilit!
y of self-adaptable context-aware s
ystems
KUI: Knowledge-based user interface
Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobil!
ity impaired; Interfacing with ambi
ent intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems
AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility
QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICAS14.html
ICAS Advisory Chairs
Michael Bauer, The University of Western Ontario - London, Canada
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Bruno Dillenseger, Orange Labs, France
Mark J. Balas, University of Wyoming - Laramie, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jacques Malenfant, Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mark Perry, University of New England in Armidale, Australia
Wendy Powley, Queen's University - Kingston, Canada
Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICAS 2014.
The submission deadline is December 25, 2013.
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICAS 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
ICAS 2014, The Tenth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems
April 20 - 24, 2014 - Chamonix, France
General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICAS14.html
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICAS14.html
- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICAS14.html
Submission deadline: December 25, 2013
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
ICAS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
SYSAT: Advances in system automation
Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems
AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems
Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems
AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications
Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services
Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems
CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization
Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance
MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems
Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware
CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments
Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks
ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation
Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking
MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA
Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes
SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems
Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalabilit!
y of self-adaptable context-aware s
ystems
KUI: Knowledge-based user interface
Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobil!
ity impaired; Interfacing with ambi
ent intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems
AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility
QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)
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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICAS14.html
ICAS Advisory Chairs
Michael Bauer, The University of Western Ontario - London, Canada
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Bruno Dillenseger, Orange Labs, France
Mark J. Balas, University of Wyoming - Laramie, USA
Alex Galis, University College London, UK
Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Jacques Malenfant, Universit� Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Mark Perry, University of New England in Armidale, Australia
Wendy Powley, Queen's University - Kingston, Canada
Nikola Serbedzija, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
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