Thursday, March 24, 2016
****SPAM**** [DMANET] Deadline March 31: GreeNets 2016, June 27-29, 2016 - Valencia, Spain
3rd EAI International Conference on Green Communications and Networking - GreeNets 2016
June 27-29, 2016
Valencia, Spain
http://greenets.org/2016/show/home
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2016
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CALL FOR PAPERS
[Scope]
Global warming and climate change have been a growing worldwide concern. Six sources, i.e., transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreeNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse f!
ields including green mobile networ
ks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets.
[Topics]
The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Communications and Networking:
Communication techniques and protocols for GreeNets
Energy-efficient transmission technologies based on the cooperation communication
Scalable and flexible energy efficiency mobile network architectures, deployments, and applications
- Energy-efficient network architecture & protocols:
Scalability and mobility issues in energy efficiency cross-layer design
MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for mobile networks
- Systems and Technology:
Transactions and workflows in green mobile networks
Adaptability and stability of green mobile networks
Mobile and multimedia supported green mobile networks
Experimental and test bed studies for energy efficiency mobile networks, simulation tools
- Energy-efficient management:
Energy-efficient traffic balance, cooperation and management
Distributed energy efficiency resource management techniques
Protocols for cooperative management and control
[Publications]
- All accepted papers will be submitted for publication in Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.
- Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).
- Selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue on Green Communications and Networking 2016 in: International Journal ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET): http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036
- Selected papers will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web and in the special issue of EAI Transactions on Intelligent Communication Protocols and Algorithms (http://eai.eu/transaction/intelligent-communication-protocols-and-algorithms).
[Paper submission]
- Papers should be in English.
- Regular papers should be up to 8 pages in length.
- Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.
- The paper submissions must follow the SPRINGER formatting guidelines: http://greenets.org/2016/show/authors-kit
- All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at: http://greenets.org/2016/show/initial-submission
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GreeNets 2016 also seeks proposals for posters and live demonstrations describing novel work on green mobile networks, system architectures, networking and communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets. Posters and demonstrations will be presented during a reception at the conference. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new and ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Posters sessions provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress that can generate discussion or promising new ideas from experts. On the other hand, live demos session will offer a unique opportunity to showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference attendees.
The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same as for full research papers.
[Demo/Poster submission]
- Demo and poster abstracts must not exceed 3 pages. Titles should start with "Poster: ..." or "Demo: ..." depending on the case. The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Submissions may not be anonymous.
- Please use the main GreeNets conference paper style (http://greenets.org/2016/show/authors-kit) and submission guidelines.
- Poster and demo abstracts will be reviewed by at least three members of the poster/demo committee to ensure quality and matching to the goals of the poster/demo session as well as to the conference?s topics. Accepted poster and demo abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.
Demo and poster proposals should include the following:
- The purpose and goals of the work.
- Any background and motivation needed to understand the work.
- Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work.
- A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them.
- The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters.
- Where to find additional information (a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information)
If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the GreeNets conference.
[Presentation at the conference]
In addition to space given to every accepted abstract during the poster/demo session, one author of the abstract will be given a slot in a further "10-minute madness" session within the main program. In this session, authors will have the opportunity to describe their work to the entire conference audience with a single slide and a 10-minute speech.
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[Important dates]
Full Paper Deadline: March 31, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2016
Camera-ready Deadline: May 22, 2016
Conference dates: 27th - 29th June 2016
[Conference organising committees]
General Chair:
Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
TPC Chair:
Elsa Macias-L�pez, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain
Publicity and Social Media Chair / Co-Chairs:
Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Koya University, Iraq
Workshops Chair:
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management- Kerala (IIITM-K), India
Sponsorship & Exhibits Chair:
Raquel Lacuesta, University of Zaragoza
Publications Chair:
Jose Miguel Jimenez, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain
Lorena Parra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain
Panels Chair:
Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University,Belgrade, Serbia
Tutorials Chair:
Jose Maria Alcaraz, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland,UK
Demos, Posters and PhD Track Chair:
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain
Local Chair:
Sandra Sendra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain
Web Chair:
Alejandro Canovas, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia,Spain
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[DMANET] Scottish Combinatorics Meeting: Registration Deadline Approaching
Combinatorics Meeting (Glasgow, 26th-27th April 2016) is approaching:
please register by 30th March if you intend to attend any part of this
event - see below for more details. There are also still some slots
available for research students to give short presentations on their work
(and some limited funds for student speakers' travel costs) - please
contact Kitty Meeks as soon as possible if you are interested!
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The Second Scottish Combinatorics Meeting will take place at the
University of Glasgow on Tuesday 26th and Wednesday 27th April 2016.
Everyone with an
interest in combinatorics and its applications is warmly invited to
attend this meeting.
Attendance at the meeting is free, but for catering purposes
participants are asked to register (at
http://scm2016.eventbrite.co.uk) by 30th March.
The exact schedule is still to be confirmed, but talks will not start
before 10:30am and will finish by 5pm, hopefully allowing many
participants
to attend as a day trip.
The invited speakers are:
Marthe Bonamy (LaBRI Bordeaux)
Mark Dukes (Strathclyde)
Jessica Enright (Stirling)
Michael Fellows (Bergen)
Jennie Hansen (Heriot Watt)
Sophie Huczynska (St Andrews)
Colin McDiarmid (Oxford)
Frances Rosamond (Department of Informatics, University of Bergen)
There will also be an opportunity for research students to give short
(15 minute) presentations on their work, and limited funds are
available to
assist with the travel expenses of students presenting their work.
Please contact Kitty Meeks for more information.
More information about the event is available
at:http://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~kmeeks/scm/
This event is supported by the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust, the
British Combinatorial Committee, the Scottish Informatics and Computer
Science Alliance and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
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Professorship in Computer Science:
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[DMANET] CFP 4th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations (PADABS2016)
4th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations
http://www.padabs.org
August 22nd or 23th, 2016, Grenoble (France), jointly with Euro-Par 2016,
August 22-26th,
https://europar2016.inria.fr
Important Dates
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- Workshop papers due: May 6, 2016
- Workshop author notification: June 17, 2016
- Workshop: August 22/23, 2016
- Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2016
Organizers
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- Vittorio Scarano (Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy), chair
- Gennaro Cordasco (Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy)
- Paul Richmond (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Carmine Spagnuolo (Universita' degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Program Committee (tentative)
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- Maria Chli (Aston University, United Kingdom)
- Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
- Biagio Cosenza (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- Nick Collier (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)
- Andrew Evans, (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
- Bernardino Frola (The MathWorks, Cambridge, UK)
- Joanna Kolodziej (Cracow University of Technology and AGH University of
Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
- Nicola Lettieri (Universita' del Sannio e ISFOL, Italy)
- Sean Luke (George Mason University, USA)
- Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
- Mario Paolucci (CNR, Italy)
- Paul Richmond (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
- Arnold Rosenberg (Northeastern University, USA)
- Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
- Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)
Objectives of the Workshop
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Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research
and
management in many fields such as ecology, economics, sociology, etc..
In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a
key instrument to the generative approach, essential for understanding
complex social
phenomena.
But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of
mobile robots and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based
Simulation Models is recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms
that can help the development and testing of new models in each specific
field by
providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed up and make massive
simulations possible.The key objective of this Third Workshop on
Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based Simulations is to bring together the researchers that are
interested
in getting more performances from their simulations, by using synchronized,
many-core
simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI)
and
loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous
setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this
field.
They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to Distributed
simulation environments. In the first category, you can find FLAME GPU, that
allows also non GPU specialists to harness the GPUs performance for real
time simulation and visualization. For tightly-coupled, large computing
clusters and supercomputers
a very popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing
(REPAST-HPC),
a C++ based modeling system. On the distributed side, recent work on
Distributed Mason, allows non specialists to use heterogeneous hardware and
software in local area networks for enlarging the size and speeding up the
simulation of complex Agent-Based models.
Topics of interest
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- Frameworks for parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Case studies of ABSs in parallel/distributed settings, with an emphasis
on the technical implementation, architectural choices and their impact on
performances.
- Benchmark parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Open benchmark models contributing towards OpenAB initiative (
www.openab.org).
- Debugging parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Formal methods and algorithms for ABSs in parallel/distributed models.
- Load Balancing algorithms, techniques and frameworks.
- Management and deployment of parallel/distributed ABSs.
- Visualization of parallel/distributed ABSs.
Paper submission
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The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format)
and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 3 reviewers of the Program
Committee.
Acceptance will depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to
the Workshop theme. Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by
Springer in the Lecture
Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops. Submissions and
reviewing will be through EasyChair via https://europar2016.inria.fr.
Workshop Co-Chairs
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- Vittorio Scarano: vitsca@dia.unisa.it
- Gennaro Cordasco: gennaro.cordasco@unina2.it
- Paul Richmond: p.richmond@sheffield.ac.uk
- Carmine Spagnuolo: cspagnuolo@unisa.it
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
[DMANET] CFP (MCDMT 2016) - 2nd Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation (in conjuction with IISA 2016)
2nd Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation (MCDMT 2016), July 13, 2016, Chalkidiki, Greece
in association with the
7th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and
Applications ( IISA 2016 )
(http://iisa2016.unipi.gr/mcdmt/)
Workshop Chairs: Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus,
Greece), Grammati Pantziou (Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of
Athens, Greece), Stavros Perantonis (National Center for Scientific Research
"Dimokritos")
The Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation (MCDMT 2016) is going to take place in Chalkidiki, Greece, on
July 13, 2016, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on
Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2016). Nowadays,
advancements on Marine Transportation require the synergy of both computer
science and maritime science and the technical focus of the workshop is upon
the latest developments on Computing Methodologies for Marine
Transportation.
Papers with novel theoretical as well as applied research are welcome for
submission. We would like to invite papers addressing research efforts that
aim at making sea transportation more effective and safer, targeting complex
and large-scale optimization problems with conflicting criteria, requiring
innovative solution techniques and ideas from mathematical optimization,
theoretical computer science, massive data analysis and operations research.
Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Graph and Network algorithms for Marine Transportation
- Combinatorial optimization techniques for Marine Transportation
- Weather Routing
- Environmentally Safe Shipping
- Safety and Security of Maritime Shipping
- Risk and Safety Analysis, Assessment and Prediction
- Piracy Protection
- GIS in Maritime Applications
- Spatiotemporal and Marine Data Handling
- Route Planning and Monitoring
- Maritime Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications: surveillance,
maritime traffic control, anomaly detection, emergency management, situation
recognition, etc.
- Decision Support Tools for Marine Transportation
- Integration of Heterogeneous Marine Data Sources
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: April 11, 2016
Paper Acceptance Notification: May 16, 2016
Camera Ready Papers: June 6, 2016
Workshop Program Committee
Eleni Charou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos", Greece
Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy
Shahin Gelareh, Universit? d'Artois, France
Ignacy Kaliszewski, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland
Zoe Nivolianitou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos",
Greece
Meng Qiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Joanna Szlapczynska, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Zaili Yang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece
Jin Wang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Instructions for Authors
Submitted papers should include original work not previously published or
being under consideration in any journal, conference or other workshop.
Papers should be submitted as a pdf file and follow the IEEE CPS format,
according to the general Instructions for Authors of IISA 2016. See the
IISA2016 Instructions for Authors page for appropriate templates for both
Latex and MS Word. Papers for MCDMT 2016 should be submitted through the
general IISA2016 paper submission system (EasyChair).
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Proceedings of IISA2016 and
will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that
their paper will be presented at the workshop.
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[DMANET] PPSN 2016 – Extended Deadline 18th April
###Extended Paper Submission Deadline 18th April 2016###
Researchers are invited to submit their original work in the field of Natural Computing to the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature.
The page limit is 10 pages, and papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS style through the conference web page at [http://www.ppsn2016.org/conference/paper-submission](http://www.ppsn2016.org/conference/paper-submission). The Extended deadline of 18th April is final and no submissions will be accepted after this date.
### Important Dates ###
* Extended Paper submission April 18, 2016
* Camera-ready paper submission June 6, 2016
* Early registration June 13, 2016
* Conference dates September 17-21, 2016
### 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature ###
17-21 September 2016
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
[http://ppsn2016.org/conference/](http://ppsn2016.org/conference/ "PPSN 2016")
The 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature
(PPSN 2016) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 17-21 September 2016.
This biennial meeting brings together researchers and practitioners in the field of Natural Computing: the study of computational systems inspired by nature, including biological, ecological, physical, chemical, and social systems. This is a fast-growing interdisciplinary field, featuring a range of techniques and methods for dealing with large, complex, and dynamic problems with various sources of potential uncertainties.
PPSN 2016 will showcase a wide range of topics in Natural Computing including, but not restricted to: Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Neural Networks, Artificial Life, Swarm Intelligence, Artificial Immune Systems, Self-Organising Systems, Emergent Behaviours, Molecular Computing, Evolutionary Robotics, Evolvable Hardware and Applications to Real-World Problems. PPSN 2016 will also feature workshops and tutorials covering advanced and fundamental topics in the field of Natural Computing.
### Paper Presentation###
Following the well-established PPSN tradition, all accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions of about 16 papers. Each session will contain papers from a variety of topics, and will begin with a brief plenary overview by a distinguished researcher in the field. All accepted papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.
### Extended Paper Submission Deadline 18th April 2016###
Researchers are invited to submit their original work in the field of Natural Computing. The page limit is 10 pages, and papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS style through the conference web page at [http://www.ppsn2016.org/conference/paper-submission](http://www.ppsn2016.org/conference/paper-submission).
Should you need any information, or in case of any question or problem concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact the PPSN 2016 organizers by e-mail to <ppsn2016@gmail.com>
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[DMANET] CFP MDAI 2016: Deadline extension April 11th
DEADLINE EXTENDED: ** April, 11th **
CFP MDAI 2016
13th International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial
Intelligence Sant Julia de Loria, Andorra
September 19-21, 2016
http://www.mdai.cat/mdai2016
* Important Dates
Submission deadline April 11th, 2016
Acceptance notification June 6th, 2016
Final version June 22nd, 2016
Conference September 19-21, 2016
* Aims and goals
The aim of the MDAI conference series is to provide a forum for
researchers to discuss models for decision and information fusion
(aggregation operators) and their applications to AI.
In MDAI 2016, we encourage the submission of papers on decision making,
information fusion, social networks, data mining, and related topics.
Applications to data science and privacy technologies as real world
problems are welcome.
MDAI 2016 is the 13th MDAI conference. Previous conferences were
celebrated in Barcelona (2004), Tsukuba (2005), Tarragona (2006),
Kitakyushu (2007), Sabadell (2008), Awaji Island (2009), PerpinyÃ
(2010), Changsha (2011), Girona (2012), Barcelona (2013), Tokyo (2014),
Skövde (2015).
MDAI is rated as a CORE B conference by the Computing Research and
Education Association of Australasia - CORE.
A) Methods and Tools:
- Information fusion
- Aggregation operators
- Utility and decision theory
- Model and operator selection
- Learning methods for parameter determination
- Machine learning and statistical learning
- Soft computing
- Optimization methods in AI and decision modeling
- Non-additive measures and integrals
- Clustering
B) Applications:
- Data privacy
- Multiagent systems
- Social networks
- Data mining
- Bibliometry
- Autonomous robots
- Entertainment computing
- Evaluation methods
- Bioinformatics
- Information access
* Submission and Publication
Original technical contributions are sought. Contributions will be
selected on
the basis of their quality. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in total
(using
LNCS/LNAI style). Proceedings with accepted papers will be published in
the LNAI/LNCS series (Springer-Verlag) and distributed at the
conference. Besides, papers, that according to the evaluation of the
referees, are not suitable for the LNAI but that have some merits will
be published in a USB proceedings (with ISBN) and scheduled in the MDAI
program.
* Contact
General chair:
Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Cristina Yanez (Universitat d'Andorra)
Program co-chairs:
Vicenc Torra (University of Skovde, Sweden)
Yasuo Narukawa (Toho Gakuen, Japan)
Advisory Board:
D. Dubois, L. Godo, K. Hirota, J. Kacprzyk, S. Miyamoto, M. Sugeno, R.
R. Yager
Program Committee:
Eva Armengol, Edurne Barrenechea, Gleb Beliakov, Gloria Bordogna,
Humberto Bustince, Francisco Chiclana, Anders Dahlbom, Susana Diaz,
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Jozo Dujmovic, Yasunori Endo, Zoe Falomir,
Katsushige Fujimoto, Michel Grabisch, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Aoi Honda,
Masahiro Inuiguchi, Yuchi Kanzawa, Petr Krajca, Marie-Jeanne Lesot,
Xinwang Liu, Jun Long, Jean-Luc Marichal, Radko Mesiar, Andrea
Mesiarova-Zemankova, Tetsuya Murai, Toshiaki Murofushi, Guillermo
Navarro-Arribas, Gabriella Pasi, Susanne Saminger-Platz, Sandra Sandri,
Laszlo Szilagyi, Aida Valls, Vilem Vychodil, Zeshui Xu, Yuji Yoshida
Organization chairs:
Cristina Yanez (Universitat d'Andorra)
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[DMANET] PhD position in computational geometry at Utrecht University
currently has a vacancy for one PhD student in the Virtual Worlds group,
starting in September 2016.
SHORT DESCRIPTION
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The candidate will study the interplay of three key challenges (location
uncertainty, unpredictable motion, and real-time computation) in
computational geometry, under the guidance of dr. Maarten Löffler. The
advance of modern location-aware technology challenges the traditional
model of computation used in the rich computational geometry literature.
In recent years, significant but isolated efforts have been made to adapt
and transfer traditional results to this new setting. The candidate will
advance the underlying theory and collect and organise these efforts to
identify common ground. Relevant prior work includes:
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~loffl001/publications/html/Competitive_Query_Strategies_for_Minimising_the_Ply_of_the_Potential_Locations_of_Moving_Points
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~loffl001/publications/html/Dynamic_Planar_Point_Location_with_Sub-Logarithmic_Local_Updates
http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~loffl001/publications/html/Region-based_Approximation_Algorithms_for_Visibility_between_Imprecise_Locations
The candidate is expected to:
* complete and defend a PhD thesis within the nominal time-frame of four
years;
* regularly present intermediate research results at our internal
colloquium and at international workshops and conferences;
* collaborate with other researchers both locally and internationally;
* assist in teaching activities.
QUALIFICATIONS
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The ideal candidate has a keen interest and strong background in
theoretical computer science or discrete mathematics as evidenced by a
Masters degree or equivalent, and should have excellent academic
qualifications as well as good communication and collaboration skills. The
candidate preferably has experience in computational or combinatorial
geometry. Candidates with other relevant backgrounds will be considered.
Candidates without a Masters degree have until August 31st 2016 to
complete the final exam. Candidates are expected to be in the upper
segment of their class with respect to academic credentials and must show
interest in an academic career, including both research and
teaching/supervision activities. The purpose of the position is research
training leading to the successful completion of a PhD degree.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
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An appointment as assistent in opleiding (see overview).
Salary max € 2779 (level AIO, CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten, for a
fulltime job); the candidate is offered a full-time position for four
years, starting in September 2016 (starting time can be flexible).
Salary starts at € 2,174 and increases to € 2,779 gross per month
in the fourth year of the appointment. The salary is supplemented with a
holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year. In addition
we offer a pension scheme, a partially paid parental leave, flexible
employment conditions. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour
Agreement Dutch Universities. The research group will provide the
candidate with necessary support on all aspects of the project.
INFORMATION AND APPLYING
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For more information, please contact Maarten Löffler (m.loffler@uu.nl).
To apply, please visit the following website:
http://www.cs.uu.nl/vacatures/en/813859.html
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[DMANET] One week to Proposal Submission Deadline 30 March 2016 -- Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
"Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid
Communications"
Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim
To be published by: IGI Global, USA
URL1 :
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020
URL2 : https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/
Editorial Advisory Board
Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University,
Aalborg, Denmark
Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in
Madinah, KSA
Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria
Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México
Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria
Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia
Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India
Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA
Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan
P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India
Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy
Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand
Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran
Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA
Introduction
Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The
consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning,
audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year
due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the
appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this
increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and
demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea
of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has
appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide
electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers.
In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change
in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with
the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a
local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart
grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and
digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are
interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between
various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there.
Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different
types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs
(Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs
(Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the
WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of
cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical
control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is
not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability
and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks
in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy
(e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack,
Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary
Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security
requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity,
non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more
attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will
cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the
theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and
applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place.
Objective
This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential
reference source, building on the available literature in the field of
smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further
research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text
will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology
developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in
developing nations across the globe.
Target Audience
Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students,
technology developers, and government officials will find this book
useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in
smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research
efforts in this field.
Recommended Topics
This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following
topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are
also welcome :
- Game theoretical models of smart grid security
- SCADA and legacy system security
- Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing
- Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- Machine learning for security
- Computer security visualization techniques
- Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques
- Online money laundering and underground economy
- Hardware vulnerabilities
- Binary analysis and reverse engineering
- Security risk assessment, measurement and management
- Network exfiltration
- Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks
(WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.)
- Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless
Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.)
- Hardware security
- Quantum cryptography
- Privacy-preserving systems
- New attacks against computers and networks
- Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Insider attack detection
- Formal models, analysis, and standards
- Deception systems and honeypots
- Vulnerability analysis
- Secure software development
- Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks
- Protocol security
- Network & active defenses
- Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation
- PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security
- Tamper-resistant device technologies
- Smartphone and other embedded systems security
- Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis
- Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control
- False data injection, detection and mitigation
- Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis
- Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment
plants, sewage systems, transit systems)
- Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management
- Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management
etc
- Electro-mobility
- Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations
- Distributed systems security
- Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection,
analysis and response
- DoS/DDoS resiliency
- Cloud security
- Embedded systems security
- Security design and verification tools
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March
30, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by April10, 2016 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve
as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are
welcome, even encouraged.
Propose a Chapter :
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea
Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly
Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference,"
"Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference"
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please
visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released
in 2016.
Important Dates
March 30, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended)
April 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission
July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned
September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission
Editors
Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.)
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science
Guelma University
BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria
Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53
E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag@gmail.com
Homepage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/
Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life
University of Larbi Tebessi,
Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria
Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65
E-mail: a.ahmim@gmail.com
Homepage: http://lrs-annaba.net/ahmim/
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Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Guelma University
BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria
Tel. : +213 796 961 453
E-mails: maferrag@outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag@gmail.com
maferrag@lrs-annaba.net
HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/
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[DMANET] Kiel University: Two PhD student / PostDoc positions for software verification
Kiel University is Germany's northernmost State University and a scientific
centre of northern Germany. It was founded in 1665, and today assembles
more than 24,000 students and about 2,000 scientists in eight faculties.
We are looking for talented research-oriented people who are interested in
research on software verification. A successful candidate should have or
be on track for a Master degree in Computer Science with a high degree. A
PhD in Computer Science is required for a PostDoc employment. A solid
knowledge in at least two of the following areas is expected: abstract
interpretation, model checking, constraint solving, parallel algorithms.
Experience in programming highly parallel machines would be of an
advantage, but is not mandatory. The positions are connected to projects
funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research for up to 3 years.
The positions will involve the cooperation with other groups both in
academic and industrial (mainly automotive) environments.
We expect the candidates to be fluent in English both in speaking and
writing. Good knowledge of German is preferable but not mandatory.
The Kiel University is an equal opportunity employer. The positions will be
associated to the Dependable Systems group in the Institute of Computer
Science; see zs.uni-kiel.de. We are an international, young, and expanding
group with research interests ranging from theoretical Computer Science to
the application of formal methods in industrial settings.
Applications in electronic form with the usual documents (certificates, CV,
publication list if applicable, etc.) are to be sent as PDF files to Prof.
Dr. Dirk Nowotka (dn@zs.uni-kiel.de).
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[DMANET] Research Fellow in Freight Logistics at the University of Southampton
Logistics in the Southampton Business School. The post holder will take
part in the EPSRC-funded research project ³Freight Traffic Control 2050:
Transforming the Energy Demands of Last-Mile Urban Freight Through
Collaborative Logistics². This is a collaborative multi-disciplinary
project led by the Transport Research Group in Civil Engineering at the
University of Southampton, and involving the Management Science Group in
the Southampton Business School, the Computing & Communications Department
in Lancaster University, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at
University College London and the Transport Studies Group at the
University of Westminster.
The successful candidate will hold a PhD or equivalent in Operational
Research, Management Science or a related area, with a track record that
uses optimisation techniques. Proficiency in computer programming is
required. Some experience in vehicle routing or game theory is desirable.
The successful candidate will be expected to take up the post on 01
September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. Interviews will be held
in April / May 2016. The position is on a full time, fixed term basis for
30 months.
For further details, please see
https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=699616TR
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[DMANET] META'2016 Special Session CfP
*Special Session Call for Papers*
*META'2016 Special Session on *
Optimization methods for the design of production systems
*International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired
Computing (META'2016)*
*27-31 Oct 2016 Marrakech, Morocco*
*SCOPE*
Getting the highest performances with the lowest costs while respecting
environmental constraints is one of the most important concerns of the
designers of production and assembly systems. In addition to that, numerous
sub-problems may be considered in the design procedure such as: buffers
sizing, equipment selection, line balancing, etc. The aim of this session
is to introduce heuristic and metaheuristic optimization methods developed
to get an efficient design of production systems. We will focus on studies
that propose approached optimization techniques to solve various design
problems. Regarding the optimization approaches, single criterion and multi
criteria optimization approaches could be presented.
The topics of this session, but are not limited to, are:
- Manufacturing systems design: buffers sizing, equipment selection,
line balancing, reliability, eco-design, etc
- New heuristic and metaheuristic approaches for manufacturing systems
- Single criterion and multi-criteria optimization methods.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
- *May 6, 2016*: Paper submission deadline
- *June 3, 2016*: Notification to the authors
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
This special session will be held as part of the META'16 conference. Please
submit your paper using the online submission system, as described in the
instructions for authors. During the submission process you should indicate
that the paper is for a special session, which is: '*Metaheuristics for
software engineering*'. Detailed instructions for submitting the papers are
provided on the conference home page at:
http://meta2016.sciencesconf.org/
*CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSIONS *
Several categories of submissions may be accepted:
- *S1*: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers
of a maximum of 3 pages
- *S2*: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages
- *S3*: High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the
last year, been submitted or accepted for journal publication
*CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS *
Accepted papers in categories *S1* and *S2* will be published in the
proceedings that will be available at the conference. In addition, a
post-conference Springer book and special issue of Journals is planned to
be published. Participants will be invited to submit extended versions of
their work for consideration.
*SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS:*
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- Dr. Taha Arbaoui (ICD-LOSI, University of Technology of Troyes, France.
taha.arbaoui@utt.fr)
- Prof. Farouk Yalaoui
(
ICD-LOSI,
University of Technology of Troyes,
France.
farouk.yalaoui@utt.fr <farouk.yalaoui@utt.fr%E2%80%8B>
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- Prof. Mustapha Nourelfath (
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
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mustapha.nourelfath@gmc.ulaval.ca
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
[DMANET] Call for Papers - ACM Workshop SecDef 2016
Call for Papers - ACM Workshop SecDef 2016
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Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce "SecDef", the third Workshop on Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security, and Risk Management. This
workshop will be part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (GECCO 2016), to be held July 20-24, 2016, in Denver, Colorado
USA.
With the constant appearance of new threats, research in the areas of
defense, security, and risk management has acquired increased importance
over the past few years. These new challenges often require innovative
solutions and Computational Intelligence techniques can play a significant
role in finding them. We invite papers describing completed or ongoing
work, with the aim to encourage communication between active researchers
and practitioners to better understand the current scope of efforts within
this domain. The ultimate goal is to understand, discuss, and help set
future directions for computational intelligence in security and defense
problems.
A detailed description of the workshop may be found at
http://kayacik.ddns.net/~secdefworkshop/
Please note that the submissions deadline is April 3, 2016.
Additional information regarding GECCO 2016, including workshop schedules,
is provided at http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/
If you have questions or require other assistance, please contact the
organizers at secdef2016@gmail.com
We look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you at the conference!
Best regards,
Frank Moore & Gunes Kayacik
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[DMANET] IPDPS 2016: deadline for advance registration at early bird fees
**************March 27, 2016
DEADLINE FOR ADVANCE REGISTRATION AT EARLY BIRD FEES
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_registration.html
**************March 27, 2016
DEADLINE FOR STUDENT TRAVEL APPLICATIONS
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_student_travel.html
**************April 1, 2016
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS TO ORGANIZE ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOP
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_workshops.html
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30th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
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May 23-27, 2016
Chicago Hyatt Regency
Chicago, Illinois USA
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IPDPS 2016 ADVANCE PROGRAM
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_advance_program.html
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WORKSHOPS: See programs for 11 on Monday and 12 on Friday
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_workshops.html
TECHNICAL SESSIONS: 28 + Best Papers (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_advance_program.html
PhD FORUM: 40 Research Projects-Dissertations (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_phd_forum.html
COMMUNITY SUMMIT: The Road Ahead for the IPDPS Community (Wednesday)
Details to be announced.
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IPDPS 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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***Tuesday, May 24th SPEAKER
Kai Li, Princeton University
TOPIC: Disruptive Research and Innovation
DETAILS: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_advance_program.html#li
***Wednesday, May 25th SPEAKER
Thomas Pawlowski, Micron
TOPIC: Memory, Storage and Processing in Future Parallel and Distributed
Processing Systems
DETAILS: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_advance_program.html#pawlowski
***Thursday, May 26th SPEAKER
Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory
TOPIC: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe with Supercomputers
DETAILS: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_advance_program.html#heitmann
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ROUNDTABLE WORKSHOPS: PROPOSALS DUE APRIL 1ST
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http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2016/2016_workshops.html
These condensed workshops, no more than ninety minutes, will be organized
and animated by a few people and will be held on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings to cover topics that will "round out" the areas covered by the
regular workshops. Proposals to organize a Roundtable are due April 1st.
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If your organization builds parallel or distributed software or systems,
please join us at the 30th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed
Processing Symposium. IPDPS, in its 30th year, attracts over 600+ attendees
from all over the world. To exhibit, register at Early Bird Fees by March
27th, 2016.
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IPDPS 2016 will be held in Chicago, the third largest metropolis in the
USA. It boasts a dual-hub airport system and 46 non-stop global flights
daily. Situated along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, downtown Chicago (aka
the Loop), where the Hyatt Regency is located, is an easy walk or cab ride
to the attractions the city offers, including parks, beaches, shopping,
museums, live entertainment, and the singular international cuisine of
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[DMANET] 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE)
SSBSE 2016
8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE)
October 8-10, 2016 - Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
http://ssbse.org/2016/
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SSBSE 2016
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We are pleased to announce SSBSE 2016, the eight edition of the annual symposium dedicated to Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE),
to be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE) is the application of meta-heuristic optimisation techniques to various software engineering problems,
ranging from requirements engineering to software testing and maintenance.
The symposium builds on the flourishing interest in SBSE and provides a welcoming forum for discussion and dissemination that will strengthen
the rapidly-growing international SBSE community.
We invite contributions of different forms in this call for papers as follows:
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RESEARCH PAPER TRACK
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We invite the submission of high quality papers describing novel and original work in all areas of Search-Based Software Engineering
including, but not limited to, applications of SBSE to novel problems, theoretical analyses of search algorithms for software engineering,
rigorous empirical evaluations of SBSE techniques, and reports of industrial experiences.
SSBSE welcomes not only applications from throughout the software engineering lifecycle but also a broad range of search methods
ranging from exact Operational Research techniques to nature-inspired algorithms and simulated annealing.
We particularly encourage papers that report on software engineering applications to which SBSE has not been applied before.
Research papers must have up to 15 pages in length, including all text, figures, references and appendices.
The SSBSE Research Paper Track performs double-blind review of all submissions
(i.e., authors will not be identified to reviewers and reviewers will not be identified to authors).
Please consult the submission information page to prepare your manuscript for double-blind process.
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SHORT PAPER TRACK
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We invite short papers presenting new ideas, tools, experience reports, or novel techniques and ideas, which will be included in the proceedings
and presented at the symposium. Papers submitted to this track should not exceed 6 pages in length using the regular symposium format.
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GRADUATE STUDENT TRACK
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We invite students to submit papers to a special Graduate Student track.
This track gives students the opportunity to showcase their SBSE research and receive feedback from senior members of the SBSE community.
Papers submitted to this track should not exceed 6 pages in length using the regular symposium format.
To be eligible, papers should be primarily the work of students currently registered on a doctoral or master program that have not yet completed their studies.
The paper may have co-authors who are not students but the student author is expected to present the paper at the symposium.
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SBSE CHALLENGE TRACK
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We challenge everyone interested in SBSE to apply tools, techniques, and algorithms to our selected problems. We want you to apply your SBSE expertise
to do interesting things to or with the software and uncover interesting things related to it. The best competition entries will be awarded special prizes.
Challenge papers should not exceed 6 pages in length using the regular symposium format.
More details about the challenge are available on the website (http://ssbse.org/2016/).
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FORMAT AND SUBMISSION
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Papers must not have been previously published, or be in consideration for, any journal, book, or other conference.
Papers will be evaluated by members of the program committee based on their originality, technical soundness and presentation quality.
Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
In addition to those instructions, please consider that SSBSE is performing double-blind review of all submissions, but those for the SBSE Challenge Track.
Further information on paper formatting and submission are available on the symposium website.
If a paper is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the symposium and to present the paper.
In case of a student paper, the first (student) author is expected to attend and present the paper.
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will be published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS).
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BEST PAPER AWARDS AND TRAVEL GRANTS
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Research and Student papers accepted for presentation at SSBSE 2016 will be considered for prizes.
More details about prizes and travel grants will be announced on the website (http://ssbse.org/2016/).
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SPECIAL ISSUE FOR BEST PAPERS
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The authors of best selected symposium papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for a special section
in the International Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST).
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IMPORTANT DATES
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RESEARCH PAPERS TRACK
Abstract submission April 13, 2016
Paper Submission April 20, 2015
Notification May 31, 2015
SHORT PAPER TRACK, GRADUATE STUDENT TRACK, SBSE CHALLENGE TRACK
Paper Submission May 16, 2016
Notification June 10, 2016
Camera Ready June 15, 2016
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CONTACT INFORMATION:
To contact the program chairs, please email: Federica Sarro <f.sarro@ucl.ac.uk<mailto:f.sarro@ucl.ac.uk>> and Kalyan Deb <kdeb@egr.msu.edu<mailto:kdeb@egr.msu.edu>>
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VENUE - RALEIGH, North Carolina, USA
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The event will be held at the Holiday Inn Raleigh Downtown, 320 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27603
(http://www.hiraleighdowntown.com)
SSBSE 2016 will be collocated with 32nd IEEE Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2016).
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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GENERAL CHAIR
Marouane Kessentini, University of Michigan, United States of America
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Kalyanmoy Deb, Michigan State University, United States of America
Federica Sarro, University College London, United Kingdom
GRADUATE STUDENT TRACK CHAIR
Thelma Elita Colanzi Lopes, State University of Maringa, Brazil
Ali Ouni, Osaka University, Japan
SBSE CHALLENGE TRACK CHAIR
Leandro L. Minku, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Tanja E.J. Vos, Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Yuanyuan Zhang, University College London, United Kingdom
WEB CHAIR
Wiem Mkaouer, University of Michigan, United States of America
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Alessandra Gorla, IMDEA Software Institute
Andrea Arcuri, Scienta – University of Luxembourg
Arilo Dias-Neto – Federal University of Amazonas
Chris Simon, University of the West of England
Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University
Dongsun Kim, University of Luxembourg
Francisco Chicano, University of Málaga
Gregory Gay, University of South Carolina
Giuliano Antoniol, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield
Houari A. Sahraoui, University of Montreal
Jerffeson Teixeira de Souza, State University of Ceara
Jerry Swan, University of York
John Clark, University of York
Juan Pablo Galeotti, University of Buenos Aires
Justyna Petke, University College London
Lars Grunske, University of Stuttgart
Marcio Barros , Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Mark Harman, University College London
Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde
Myra Cohen, University of Nebraska
Nadia Alshahwan, J.P. Morgan
Paolo Tonella, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Phil McMinn, University of Sheffield
Raluca Lefticaru, University of Bucharest
Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Laboratory
Shin Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Tim Menzies, NC State University
Yuanyaun Zhang, University College London
Zheng Li, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
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STEERING COMMITTEE
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Andrea Arcuri, Scienta, Norway, and University of Luxembourg (until 2018)
Claire Le Goues, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (until 2017)
David White, University of Glasgow, UK (until 2016)
Federica Sarro, University College London, UK (until 2018)
Gordon Fraser, University of Sheffield, UK (until 2018, second consecutive term)
Jerffeson Souza, University of the state of Ceara, Brazil (until 2017, second consecutive term)
Marcio de Oliveira Barros, Federal University of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (until 2017)
Mark Harman, University College London, UK (SC Chair) (until 2016, second consecutive term)
Shin Yoo, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea (until 2018)
Yuanyuan Zhang, University College London, UK (until 2016)
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[DMANET] Research Assistant in Theoretical Computer Science at Paderborn University
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The research group "Algorithms and Complexity" of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute and the Department of Computer Sciences of the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics is searching for a new member of the scientific staff. We
offer a position as a Research Assistant (the salary is according to TV-L 13).
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Design and Analysis of online algorithms for resource allocation is dynamic networks; teaching load of up to 4 hours per week
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preference to another applicant. Part-time employment is, in principle, possible.
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opportunities in accordance with the German social law SGB IX.
At the request of the applicant the corresponding staff council (WPR) will be involved in the hiring process.
Please send your application with the usual documents under the reference number 2529 by 8th of April 2016 to:
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Monday, March 21, 2016
[DMANET] First Announcement: "The Second Malta Conference in Graph Theory and Combinatorics"
2MCGTC 2017
Malta, 26-30 June 2017
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The Department of Mathematics, within the Faculty of Science, of the
University of Malta is pleased to announce "The Second Malta Conference in
Graph Theory and Combinatorics". This conference will commemorate the 75th
birthday of Professor Stanley Fiorini, who was the first to introduce graph
theory and combinatorics at the University of Malta.
It will be held in the seaside resort of Qawra in the north of the island,
and will run from Monday 26 to Friday 30 June 2017. The aim of this
conference is to bring together experts and researchers in all the areas of
graph theory and combinatorics from across the world to share their research
findings, and to enhance collaboration between researchers who are in
different stages of their career.
Plenary Speakers:
. Yair Caro (University of Haifa-Oranim, Israel)
. Peter Dankelmann (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
. Patrick W. Fowler, F.R.S. (University of Sheffield, United
Kingdom)
. Peter Frankl (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
. Chris Godsil (University of Waterloo, Canada)
. Wilfried Imrich (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria)
. Gyula O. H. Katona (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
. Sandi Klavžar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
. Mikhail Klin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
. Imre Leader (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
. Brendan McKay (Australian National University, Australia)
. Karen Meagher (University of Regina, Canada)
. Raffaele Scapellato (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
. Slobodan Simić (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia)
Contributed Talks:
A number of parallel sessions for talks delivered by participants will be
held. A special issue of "Discrete Applied Mathematics", containing selected
full length papers, refereed according to the high standards of the journal,
will be dedicated to the Conference.
Organising Committee:
. Peter Borg
. John Baptist Gauci
. Josef Lauri
. Irene Sciriha
Further information:
Website: www.um.edu.mt/events/2mcgtc2017/
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[DMANET] MSc Operational Research 50th Anniversary Scholarships (and more) at Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK)
Strathclyde Business School
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MSc Operational Research 50th Anniversary Scholarship
In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of starting our MSc Operational Research programme, Department of Management Science are delighted to offer 2 scholarships towards tuition fees for the MSc Operational Research 2016 entry (full-time only). Each of these scholarships will be worth £9500, and applications are open to all nationalities (UK, EU or international). Please note that this amount will cover the full tuition fee of a UK or EU student. The application deadline is 31 May 2016. Further details below.
MSc Business Analysis and Consulting Scholarship
The Department of Management Science are delighted to offer 2 scholarships of £7000 towards tuition fees for the MSc Business Analysis and Consulting for 2016 entry (full-time only). Applications are open to all nationalities (UK, EU or international). The application deadline is 31 May 2016. Further details below.
ELIGIBILITY
For either scholarship, the applicants are expected to have (or near completion of) a First Class Honours (undergraduate) degree, or equivalent (a minimum 3.5 GPA in a 4.0 GPA system, or a minimum 90% average, or a minimum average of A- in a letter system). Final year undergraduate students are eligible to apply.
Candidates interested in applying for these prestigious scholarships are required to demonstrate through their ideas, experience and achievements that they are an excellent team player, with a strong vision for the future. Overall quality of the application and financial need will also be considered. The award will be judged on a 1000 word statement which should clearly articulate how you meet the scholarship criteria and outline your reasons for applying for the scholarship.
Applicants must have an offer of a place on the programme.
MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY
For more information about the courses, please refer to:
MSc OR: http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/operationalresearch/
MSc BAC: http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/businessanalysisconsulting/
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[DMANET] Deadline extended--CFP: CoWPER In conjunction with SECON 2016
> Call For Papers
> CoWPER, Toward A City-Wide Pervasive EnviRonment
> 27 - 30 June 2016, LONDON - UK
> -------------------In conjunction with SECON 2016--------------------
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> Web link: www.ieee-secon.org/cowper <http://www.ieee-secon.org/cowper>
> EDAS submissions: https://edas.info/N22207 <https://edas.info/N22207>
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> Important dates
> Abstract Registration: March 20th, 2016 (extended to March 27th, 2016)
> Submission deadline: March 27th, 2016 (extended to April 3rd, 2016)
> Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 2016
> Camera Ready: May 11th, 2016
> Program: June 1st, 2016
> Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore
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> Scope
> The increasing availability of smart objects will radically change our cities. It is in fact a common opinion that, in the near future, our cities will be populated by a potentially higher number of devices that actively participate to the execution of pervasive and advanced services. Being massively distributed into the environment, such devices may generate, collect, exchange and process big data, provide distributed services, offer computational resources, and cooperate to perform some tasks locally, as well as to delegate the their execution to more powerful nodes in the infrastructure or at the network edge.
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> At the same time, end-user mobile devices are becoming more and more pervasive. In many countries, the number of mobile cellular subscriptions greatly overcomes the current population (even more than +150%). Furthermore today's smartphones/devices are provided with increasing sensing/communication/computation capabilities and they are capable to produce fine-grained context-information by properly analysing/mining the data produced by embedded sensors, such as accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, etc.
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> In this futuristic scenario the citizens with their smartphones, tablets and portable devices, will assume the very special role of information prosumers (PROducers and conSUMERS). In fact, they will be constantly connected with whatever surroundings them and they will be formidable information consumers. At the same time, citizens roaming around the city may be considered as mobile probes that, by making uses of cyber and physical data accessible by smartphones, will analyze the situation and will produce reports to the community. Furthermore the citizen's smartphones will actively contribute in creating the communication infrastructure by forwarding data coming from surrounding devices thus partially relieving the communication infrastructure from the heavy burden of the huge amount of data produced in the envisioned scenario.
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> All in all, cities are going to become a new complex ecosystem which has the potentiality to offer many amazing features and support innovative application. Unfortunately, fully exploiting, managing and accessing that ecosystem are still far to be fully viable and their fulfillment surely poses a formidable challenge.
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> The CoWPER workshop aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms, methodological studies and experimentations on how to enable the formerly described ecosystem. Specifically, on how devise a city-wide networking infrastructure capable to efficiently guarantee communication in the new envisaged ecosystem, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments.
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> In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
> • Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city
> • Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access;
> • Distributed Sensing and Control in Smart Cities;
> • Mobile-aware cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches for smart cities
> • Smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications in Smart City environments;
> • Smartphone and mobile systems and applications;
> • Cyber-physical interactions with smartphones;
> • Crowd sourcing in smart cities;
> • IoT architectures and middleware for smart cities;
> • Novel communication protocols for M2M Communications;
> • Device-2-Device Communications (D2D);
> • Dynamic trust management models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
> • Cooperation incentive models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
> • Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems;
> • Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing in smart cities ecosystems;
> • Testbed demonstrating the feasibility of Smartphone based networks and interaction with Cyber physical Systems;
> • Applications, Business, Standards, and Social Issue;
> • Cooperative Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability and Management
>
> All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
>
> Submission Instructions:
> Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the deadline of 27th March 2016. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS (https://edas.info/N22207 <https://edas.info/N22207>). All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures.
> For full details, please visit the following website: http:www.ieee-secon.org/cowper <http://www.ieee-secon.org/cowper>
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> TPC Co-Chairs
> Valeria LOSCRI', Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France
> Giuseppe RUGGERI, Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
> Zhengguo SHENG, University of Sussex, UK.
> Athanasios, VASILAKOS, Lulea University of Technology Sweden
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> (Potential) TPC Members:
> DavideAdami - CNIT-University of Pisa, Italy
> Jesus Alonso-Zarate - CTTC: Centre TecnològicTelecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain
> Luca Bedogni - Univesity of Bologna – Italy
> Orazio Briante - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
> Marcos FagundesCaetano - Universityof Brasilia, Brasil
> Claudia Campolo - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
> Marco Di Felice - University of Bologna,Italy
> Yaser P. Fallah - West Virginia University (WVU), USA
> HassanGhasemzadeh - Washington State University, USA
> Stefano Giordano - Universityof Pisa, Italy
> XipingHu - The university of British Columbia, Canada
> Antonio Iera - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
> Hao Liang - University of Alberta, Canada
> Annamaria Mandalari - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
> Pietro Manzoni - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
> Liang Ma - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
> NathalieMitton - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
> Antonella Molinaro - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
> Enrico Natalizio - Compiegne Technology University, France
> SemaOktug -Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
> Al-Sakib Khan Pathan -International Islamic University (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
> TahiryRazafindralambo - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
> Pratap Kumar Sahu - University of Montreal, Canada
> Anna Maria Vegni - Universityof Roma Tre, Italy
> RangaRaoVenkatesha Prasad - EWI – TUDelft, The Netherlands
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