Theory Announcements

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

[DMANET] Become a Member of the Bilevel Optimization Society

Dear All,

----- Apologies for any cross posting -----

(Become a Member of the Bilevel Optimization Society by filling the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/xa7m37UDcJ).

As you would remember, about a year ago, many of you signed up to support the initiative to create a Bilevel Optimization Society (BOS). The good news is that this process has now completed, and we are delighted to inform you that the BOS has now been approved as a technical section of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS). We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported this initiative in various ways, and in particular by signing up to be a proposer for the MOS application.

Recall that the goal of the BOS is to create and maintain a community of researchers that recognize their work as related to bilevel optimization, while at the same time expanding its basis and promoting its outreach within and outside academia. This will be achieved through the organization of (i) the International Conference on Bilevel Optimization (ICBO) series and (ii) the dissemination and promotion of research and information related to bilevel optimization. The bylaws of the BOS and some more information about it can be found on the Society's website: https://bileveloptimization.org/.

Purpose of this call: The aim of this message is first to announce the good news above, and secondly to ask you to now register to become a member of the BOS by filling the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/xa7m37UDcJ. If you fill and submit this form, you will automatically become a member of the BOS if you do not hear from us within a week from your submission. Additionally, note that as a member of the BOS, you will receive regular email updates on the activities of the Society. You will be expected to engage with as many of those activities as possible in order to help the BOS to grow and thrive in the coming years.

Election of the first COBOS: The activities of the BOS will officially start in January 2025. For this to be possible, the first Committee of the Bilevel Optimization Society (COBOS) (i.e., the Chair, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Webmaster) needs to be elected by the end of this calendar year (precisely, the elections will take place from 7 to 21 December 2024). For more information on the duties of each of these roles, see the bylaws of the Society, which are available via a link on its website: https://bileveloptimization.org/. As part of filling this form, you can nominate someone to stand for elections for each of the aforementioned positions; see more details in item 11 of the registration form.

Deadline to sign up to become a BOS member: There is no deadline to sign up to become a member of the BOS. However, to take part in the election process for the first COBOS, please sign up by 6 December 2024. If you do not sign by this date, you will not be able to nominate someone for the different positions or stand for the elections. But of course, you will still be able to vote if you sign up to become a member of the BOS by 21 December 2024.

With best wishes from the BOS founding committee
(Luce Brotcorne, Victor Bucarey-Lopez, Margarida Carvalho, Ted Ralphs, Martin Schmidt, Alain Zemkoho, and Jin Zhang)

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[DMANET] Workshop On Randomness and Discrete Structures (Groningen, April 7-9, 2025)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the
Workshop On Randomness and Discrete Structures (WORDS 2025)
7-9 April 2025
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
The workshop will explore various topics related to discrete structures and
randomness, including but not limited to percolation, random graphs, and
stochastic geometry. The program will feature presentations from the 9
keynote speakers below, as well as contributed talks.

- Timothy Budd (Radboud University)
- Nicolas Curien (Université Paris-Sud)
- Daniel Dadush (Utrecht University)
- Zakhar Kabluchko (University of Münster)
- Júlia Komjáthy (Delft University of Technology)
- Irène Marcovici (Université de Rouen Normandie)
- Giovanni Peccati (University of Luxembourg)
- Wioletta Ruszel (Utrecht University)
- Clara Stegehuis (Twente University)

For more information and registration, please visit our website:
https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/words2025/home

The registration deadline is February 28, 2025. We encourage junior
researchers to propose a contributed talk.

We look forward to seeing you in Groningen!

Best regards,
Tobias Müller, Réka Szabó and Gilles Bonnet

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[DMANET] [CFP] CPAIOR 2025 — Approaching Deadline

The 22nd International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research <https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2025/home> will be held in Melbourne, Australia from November 10 to November 13, 2025. The conference will be co-located with ICAPS 2025 <https://icaps25.icaps-conference.org/home/>.

While the conference will take place later in the year than usual, papers are still due in December 2024, to not interfere with the usual sequence of conference deadlines.

The aim of the conference is to promote a space where researchers from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) present innovative techniques, new applications, and original cutting-edge ideas, thereby encouraging researchers from one area to learn from the others. Of particular interest to the conference are papers that integrate concepts and methodologies from these different fields, either proposing interesting new techniques for complex/practical problems or expanding our theoretical insights and cross-field understanding. However, high-quality original papers from a single area are welcome when also relevant to the other communities involved. The conference also strongly encourages regular papers or experience reports showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on challenging real-world applications.
The program committee invites submissions that include, but are far from limited to, the following topics:
New methodologies in the interface between predictive and prescriptive pipelines, such as machine learning techniques applied to tackle optimization problems and, conversely, CP/OR techniques to address AI and machine learning tasks.
Novel relaxation and inference methods based on constraint propagation, polyhedral techniques/cutting planes, convex/second-order conic optimization, graph-based algorithms, dynamic programming, and decision diagrams for optimization.
New search perspectives involving enumeration/branch-and-bound strategies, innovative decomposition techniques (e.g., based on column generation/Benders), intelligent backtracking, incomplete search, and learning-based heuristics.
Advanced integrated methods that expose new model transformations, communication strategies across MIP/CP/SAT solvers, distributed solution techniques, and solver selection (e.g., portfolio approaches).
Innovative models and applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.
Implementation or evaluation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems.
Submissions are of two types: regular papers (submitted for publication and presentation) and extended abstracts (submitted for presentation only).
The conference will recognize a distinguished paper award and a student paper award.
Instructions for Regular Papers
Regular papers present original unpublished work and can be of two types:
long papers (at most 15 pages plus references)
short papers (at most 8 pages plus references)
Both long and short papers will undergo rigorous review and are subject to the same criteria of quality. Both types are also eligible for the distinguished paper or student paper award. Short papers are particularly encouraged for interesting and novel work in progress, for which the practical or theoretical relevance is not yet fully identified.
The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series <http://www.springer.com/lncs>. All regular papers should be prepared in the format used for that series (LNCS instructions <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?referer=www.springer.de&countryChanged=true>).
Submission schedule for regular papers (both long and short):
Abstracts: December 8, 2024 (AoE: anywhere on Earth)
Full papers: December 15, 2024 (AoE, no extension possible)
Rebuttal Phase: January 26-29, 2025 (AoE)
Notification: February 10, 2025
Camera ready: TBA

Papers submitted to CPAIOR must not be under review at a different venue at the same time during the reviewing period. Abstracts can be submitted if the paper is still under review elsewhere, but the paper will have to be withdrawn by the full paper submission deadline from CPAIOR or the other venue.
Instructions for Extended Abstracts
Extended abstracts should be one or two pages in length and may present preliminary work or work already published in other outlets. The extended abstracts are submitted for presentation only (if accepted), and will not be formally published in the LNCS conference volume. A collection of the accepted extended abstracts will be published on the conference website. A submission representing work submitted or published in another outlet should state that outlet. Extended abstracts will be reviewed to ensure appropriateness for the conference.
Submission schedule for extended abstracts:
Abstract: August 2025 (TBA)
Notification: September 2025 (TBA)
Submission Process
Submissions to CPAIOR are single blind. In a single blind review process, the author names are not hidden for the reviewers, but the reviewer names are hidden for the authors.

We will use OpenReview.net to manage the reviewing process. Please use the following link to submit your papers:

https://openreview.net/group?id=cpaior.org/CPAIOR/2025/Conference

Reviewing will follow the same process as in previous years: the process is single-blind, and all submissions, reviews, rebuttals, and comments will stay private throughout the entire review period as well as afterwards.

For any queries on the submission process, please contact the Program Chair Guido Tack at cpaior2025@gmail.com.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[DMANET] Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024 and allied workshops

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024
and allied workshops

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QUICK LINKS:

Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/
Local website: https://fsttcs.info/

Registration: https://fsttcs.info/registration/
Early-bird registration deadline: 24th November, AoE

Volunteer Program: https://fsttcs.info/volunteers/
Deadline to apply: 20th November, AoE

Social Events: https://fsttcs.info/social/
Virtual Participation: https://fsttcs.info/online/

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WORKSHOPS:

MM: Milestones and Motifs in the Theory of Proofs, Algebraic Computation,
and Lower Bounds
Dates: December 14 – 15, 2024
https://mmcomplexity.github.io/

RHPL: Research Highlights in Programming Languages
Dates: December 16 – 18, 2024
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/

WAGS: Workshop on Automata and Games for Synthesis
Dates: December 19, 2024
https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop

AMD: Workshop on Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Dates: December 19 – 20, 2024
http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~amd-24

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FSTTCS 2024 is the 44th conference on Foundations of Software Technology
and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS, the Indian
Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM
India. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational
aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. Within Track B, there
is a focus on soliciting submissions in the areas of Programming Languages
and Practical Verification, in addition to theoretical results.

FSTTCS 2024 will be held in IIT Gandhinagar during December 16–18, 2024.
The conference is being organized as an in-person event.

We also have several exciting workshops lined up! You can register for the
conference and any subset of the workshops, or just for one or more of the
workshops.

We are also on a social media network near you. Please follow us to keep up
with updates:

https://mathstodon.xyz/@fsttcs
https://bsky.app/profile/fsttcs.bsky.social
https://x.com/fsttcs
https://instagram.com/fst.tcs

We look forward to welcoming you at IIT Gandhinagar this December!

[DMANET] CFP: 15th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2025) in conjunction with 39th IEEE symposium IPDPS, Milano, Italy

Please, accept our apologies in case of multiple copies of this CFP.

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The 15th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed
Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2025)

https://pdco2025.sciencesconf.org/
held in conjunction with
the 39th IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2025)

June 3 - June 7, 2025

Milano, Italy
http://www.ipdps.org
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Scope:
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The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed combinatorics for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include for instance 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems, global optimization, scheduling problems and planning problems.

Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving difficult optimization problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. Applications combining parallel and distributed combinatorics and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence study, complexity, etc.) are welcome.

Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, robotics, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology.

Topics:
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Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming.
Exact methods, heuristics.
Parallel algorithms for combinatorial optimization.
Graph computing, combinatorial pattern matching.
Parallel metaheuristics.
Parallel and distributed computational intelligence methods, e.g. evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, ant colonies, cellular automata, DNA and molecular computing) for problem solving environments.
Parallel and distributed metaheuristics for optimization (algorithms, technologies and tools).
Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity).
Distributed optimization algorithms.
GPU computing and optimization.
Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing.
Hybrid computing and the solution of optimization problems.
Peer-to peer computing and optimization problems.
Applications: cloud computing, machine learning, planning, manufacturing, logistics, finance, telecommunications.

Steering Committee:
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Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair)
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair)
El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France
Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia

General Chairs:
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Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France

Program Chairs:
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Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Publicity Chairs:
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Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada

Program Committee (to be confirmed):
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M. Alswaitti, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria
J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China 
J. J. Durillo, Leibniz Supercomputer Center, Munich, Germany 
S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan 
M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
J.L. Jimenez-Laredo, University of Granada, Spain 
K. Li, State University of New York, USA
G. Maudet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 
N. Melab, University of Lille, France 
M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
J. Musial, Poznań University of Technology, Poland 
A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France 
S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay 
S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece 
C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA 
B. Plazolles, GET, France
A. Roy, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India 
T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France 
M. Seredynski, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 
G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
D.H. Stolfi, LIST, Luxembourg 
G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy 
A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico 
F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain 
L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada 

Submission :
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Papers in the Proceedings of the workshops will be indexed in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference.
Prospective authors should submit their papers through the Workshop PDCO 2025 submission system<https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?args=Aprcnt3DxGsprcnt3DyCH0IQ3THf40XfQbGCrxrz9M9pTz0Cx0zfsG9hchDTHQP0Aprcnt3DxfGzb0sprcnt3Dyprcnt3DUI0HQP0Aprcnt3DxfTtUbb0XfQbGCrxrz9M9pTzYprcnt3D40bprcnt3DQxGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40QHHGdbUfTzYprcnt3D40Iprcnt3Dxprcnt3DGdbUfTrAprcnt3DxGsprcnt3DyCH0IQ3TrJUHtGsprcnt3Dyprcnt3DUITEGDhhM_>.

In order to submit a paper, please choose PDCO Workshop

Abstract and paper can be uploaded until January 17, 2025. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available on IPDPS website<http://www.ipdps.org/>.

Important Dates:
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- Submission deadline: January 17, 2025;
- Author notification: February 21, 2025;
- Camera-Ready papers due: March 6, 2025;
- Workshop: June 3, 2025.

Contact:
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For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers at: pdco2025@sciencesconf.org

Monday, November 18, 2024

[DMANET] Multiple tenure-track and non-tenure positions at DePaul University, Chicago

Colleagues,

The School of Computing at DePaul University, Chicago, USA, invites
applications for multiple tenure-track positions at the level of
assistant or associate professor. We are particularly interested in
candidates in:
- Cybersecurity,
- Systems,
- HCI,
- AI (including AI applications to healthcare and biomedical engineering)

We also encourage applications from candidates in other core areas of
Computer Science.

The School of Computing includes over 70 full-time faculty and more
than 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students. We offer a PhD
program, 12 master's degrees, and 10 bachelor's degrees as well as a
growing number of multidisciplinary CS X degrees. The School of
Computing is committed to providing a flexible and supportive
environment for its faculty, promoting a rewarding academic career
with a balance between teaching and research. Located in the heart of
Chicago's vibrant downtown, it offers vast opportunities to forge
relationships with industry, national laboratories, universities, and
other organizations in the Chicago area.

Full ad & application link for these positions:
https://apply.interfolio.com/149107

We also invite applications for a full-time non-tenure-track faculty
position in Computer Science. The faculty appointment is with full
benefits and renewable contingent upon satisfactory performance. We
seek candidates with a commitment to high-quality teaching. The
candidate will have additional responsibilities including curriculum
development and other service to the School.

Full ad & application link for this position:
https://apply.interfolio.com/149096

[DMANET] CG 2024 - Registration open (free of charge)

The Computers and Games conference (CG 2024) will be held online this year November 25-28 2024. CG is an internationally renowned conference that publishes computer-based studies of games. It originated in Japan and is now organized by the International Computer Games Association (ICGA). Further information on the conference and the ICGA can be found here:

https://icga.org/?page_id=3907

The conference will be held over three days, with the first day presentations at a time that is convenient for American attendees, the second day well timed for Eastern Asia, and the third day accommodates African and European participants. The schedule can be found following this link:

https://jstorage.app.box.com/s/gs9n9mwjyev6jdrzco4pk3b75gncevd1

Among the presentations on peer-reviewed paper we have four excellent keynote speakers:

- Craig Sherstan (Sony AI)

- Hiroki Takizawa (Preferred Networks, Inc)

- I-Chen Wu (National Chiao Tung University)

- Jaap van den Herik (Leiden University)

Conference attendance to view all talks will be free of charge. You can register for the conference using the following link:

https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iWk07JQoTNCpKO5bEx8oeg

Program Co-Chairs

- Michael Hartisch, University of Passau, Germany

- Chu-Hsuan Hsueh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Advisory Committee

- Cameron Browne, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

- Akihiro Kishimoto, IBM Research, Tokyo, Japan

- Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta, Canada

[DMANET] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IEEE HONET 2024

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IEEE HONET 2024: 2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life using AI, Robotics and IoT (HONET)
December 03-04, 2024
University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar

We invite you to participate in the main track of IEEE HONET 2024, a premier conference focusing on innovative technologies for smart communities. Join us to explore leading-edge research and applications in AI, IoT, Robotics, and more. You can register for the conference here: https://honet-ict.org/registration.html

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Dr. Gordon Cheng: Fellow IEEE, Professor and Coordinator Center of Competence Neuro-Engineering in ECE Department, Technical University Munich, Germany
- Dr. James Won-Ki Hong: Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Dir. Distributed Processing & Networks Management Lab, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea
- Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour: Fellow IEEE, Bodine Chair Professor and Director, Galvin Center for Electricity Innovation, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Ms. Duha Al Buhendi, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, State of Qatar
- Mr. Raghav Thalabhakthula, CISCO

Workshop/Symposium speakers: https://honet-ict.org/workshop-symposium-speakers.html

PARTICIPATE IN KEY EVENTS:

Main Conference
Symposium on Smart Sensing for e-Healthcare Applications: https://honet-ict.org/symp-smart-ehealth.html
Symposium on Smart City and IoT Applications to Urban Mobility (SCIAUM'24): https://honet-ict.org/symp-smart-city.html
Workshop on Secure and Efficient AI on the Edge: https://honet-ict.org/wksp-secure-ai.html
Tutorial on Soft Robotics: https://honet-ict.org/tut-soft-robotics.html

REGISTRATION:
Register for the conference here: https://honet-ict.org/registration.html

CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
Download the full conference program here: https://honet-ict.org/downloads/ieee-honet24-program.pdf

SPONSORS:
- University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
- Center for Opto-electronics and Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, Charlotte NC 28223, USA
- IEEE Qatar Section
- IEEE North Carolina Council

TOPICS of the main conference:
Researchers and Authors are invited to submit R&D and concept papers presenting original research work related to the practices and theory related to the theme and scope of HONET. The topics of interest include (but are not limited):

1. AI & IoT
a. Enhancing the capabilities of Smart Communities using AI
b. Machine Learning models for Smart Cities (LSTM, Deep Learning, Transformers)
c. Realizing Smart Localities using IoT
2. Robotics
a. Robotics & Automation
b. Autonomous Vehicles and Charging Technologies
c. Computer Vision
3. Computer and Communication Networks and Network Security
a. Wireless Networks
b. Photonic Networks
c. 5G Communication and beyond
d. Software Defined Networks (SDN)
e. Network Security and Forensic Analysis
4. Energy and Power Technologies
a. Renewable Energy Sources
b. Smart-Grids and Robust Infrastructure
c. Smart Storage and Demand & Response
d. Micro Grid Analytics and Management
e. Smart Grid and Smart Cities
5. Photonics
a. LEDs, Lasers and Solar Cells and Panels
b. Packaging

STEERING COMMITTEE
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Senior Member IEEE, Optica and Fellow SPIE, Prof. Phys. & Optical Science,
Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA
Rachid Benlamri, Prof. & VP Academics, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Glenn D. Boreman, Prof. and Chair Physics & Optical Science, Fellow IEEE, SPIE and Optica,
Dir. Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, USA
M. Iqbal Choudhary, Prof., Coordinator General COMSATS, Islamabad, Pakistan

GENERAL CHAIRS
Rachid Benlamri, Prof. & VP Academics, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
M. Yasin Akhtar Raja, Senior Member IEEE, Optica and Fellow SPIE, Prof. Physics & Optical Science,
Optoelectronics & Optical Communication, UNC Charlotte, NC, USA

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Zakaria Maamar, Prof., University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Mohammad Ilyas, SMIEEE, Prof., College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University, USA

TPC co-chairs
Syed A. Haider, CIS, SUNY Fredonia, NY, USA
Abdulhalim Dandoush, University of Doha for Science & Technology, Doha, Qatar
Charles Lord, Chair, IEEE North Carolina Council, NC, USA

[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Philippe Laborie (Hexaly) | November 20 | Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Philippe Laborie (Hexaly).
The title is " Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling ". The seminar will take
place on Zoom on Wednesday, November 20 at 14:00 UTC.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/99723070697?pwd=UpfVCqZTGBxoCQMoJ7czR8p490QSyc.1
Meeting ID: 997 2307 0697
Passcode: 433986
You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as
well:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.
Hexaly Optimizer is a model-and-run mathematical optimization solver
that addresses a broad range of industrial optimization problems in the
areas of supply chain and workforce management, such as routing,
scheduling, packing, clustering, matching, assignment, or facility
location. Its mathematical formalism extends classical Mixed-Integer
Linear Programming with set, permutation and interval variables on which
any usual algebraic operator (arithmetic, logic, relational, etc.) can
be applied. Hexaly Optimizer is widely used in industry today, has
performances often comparable to the best dedicated algorithms, allows
compact modeling, scales well (with problem size and complexity) and is
constantly improving. This seminar focuses on the use of Hexaly
Optimizer to model and solve industrial scheduling problems. We show how
to exploit the mathematical concepts of the input formalism to model
several classic scheduling problems in an elegant and compact manner and
give an idea of the solver's performance compared to the state of the
art. Next, we outline the various techniques employed under the hood to
produce good-quality primal and dual solutions like constraint
propagation, local search, large neighborhood search, linear
relaxations, scheduling heuristics, or exact scheduling algorithms on
particular sub-problems.

The next talk in our series will be:
Norbert Trautmann (University of Bern) | December 4 | Mixed-integer
linear programming for project scheduling with resource-unit related
constraints
For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek Hanzalek, Michael Pinedo and Guohua Wan

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Zdenek Hanzalek
Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/

Sunday, November 17, 2024

[DMANET] Deadline Extended: *LESS'25 Workshop @PerCom (March 17 – 21, 2025, Washington DC)

*LESS'25 – 4th Workshop on Serverless Computing for Pervasive Cloud-Edge-Deivce Systems and Services

co-located with IEEE PerCom 2025, March 17–21, 2025 in Washington DC, USA
tl;dr:

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Paper submissions due: December 01, 2024 (AoE)
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Notification of acceptance: January 08, 2025
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Website: https://starless.iit.cnr.it/cfp/
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Email: starless.inf@lists.uni-hamburg.de

Call for Papers
*LESS is an ongoing workshop series on serverless computing for pervasive cloud-edge-device systems and services. The edge-to-cloud continuum presents a promising approach for deploying pervasive applications and services. Although serverless computing has gained traction for mobile applications, its transformative potential within the context of pervasive applications remains under-explored. To address this gap, *LESS aims to investigate how the edge-to-cloud continuum can unlock new opportunities tailored to the unique requirements and structures of pervasive applications and services.
Topics of Interest
*LESS offers a unique platform to challenge and advance serverless computing in decentralized and pervasive contexts. The workshop aims to raise awareness for serverless and FaaS in the PerCom community and foster collaboration with experts from the networking, virtualization, and cloud computing scientific fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

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Architectures & Deployment:
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Edge, fog, and cloud serverless computing
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Serverless on the edge-to-cloud continuum
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Orchestration & Management:
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Intent-based and context-aware serverless application orchestration
*
Applications & Services:
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Serverless computing for pervasive systems and services
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Function-as-a-service (FaaS) for pervasive applications
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) with/for serverless computing
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Technologies & Protocols:
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Distributed serverless computing protocols
*
Serverless computing in emerging communication patterns (e.g., 6G)
*
Evaluation & Analysis:
*
Performance evaluation in pervasive scenarios
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Modelling, analysis, and simulation using serverless computing
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Experimentation & Business Cases:
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Prototypes and real-life experiments involving pervasive systems
*
Technical-economic analysis of serverless/FaaS for pervasive computing
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Emerging Areas:
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Serverless quantum computing
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Sustainability and energy-awareness in edge serverless systems

Submission Guidelines
Submissions of papers are due by December 01, 2024 (AoE).
All papers must be in PDF format with at most 6 pages, including references. Papers should contain names and affiliations of the authors (not blinded). All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE Computer Society website<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>.
Paper submission must be done through EasyChair, just like with the main PerCom conference:

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Register for a free account<https://easychair.org/account2/create> on EasyChair
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Follow the direct submission link for PerCom 2025<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025> to create a new submission
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Select the *LESS Track on the second page

*LESS will be held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom'25<http://www.percom.org/>. All accepted papers will be included in the PerCom 2025 Workshops proceedings and included and indexed in the IEEE digital library Xplore. At least one author will be required to have a full registration in the PerCom 2025 conference and present the paper during the workshop.
Organising & Steering Commitee

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Adel N. Toosi – The University of Melbourne, Australia (Homepage<https://adelnadjarantoosi.info/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/adel-n-toosi/>)
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Gabriele R. Russo – Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy (Homepage<https://grussorusso.github.io/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriele-russo-russo>)
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Janick Edinger – Universität Hamburg, Germany (Homepage<https://www.inf.uni-hamburg.de/en/inst/ab/dos/people/members/edinger.html>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/janick-edinger>)
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Claudio Cicconetti – IIT-CNR, Italy (Homepage<https://ccicconetti.github.io/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/cicconetti/>)
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Pablo Serrano – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (Homepage<https://www.it.uc3m.es/pablo/>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloserrano/>)
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Christian Becker – University of Stuttgart, Germany (Homepage<https://www.ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de/institute/team/Becker-00039/>)

Saturday, November 16, 2024

[DMANET] PhD Student Openings in the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Augusta University

I am looking for highly self-motivated students with a strong background in Mathematics and/or algorithms to pursue PhD in the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Augusta University. Financial support is expected to be in the form of a research/teaching assistantship.

Ideal candidates should meet the following qualifications:

* B.S. or M.S. in either Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
* Strong interest in algorithms
* Additional PhD admission criteria for the PhD program can be found at https://www.augusta.edu/ccs/phd-ccs.php.
The positions will remain open until filled with applications being processed in the order in which they are received. If you are interested, please email your CV and academic transcripts to Dr. Ming Ming Tan (mtan@augusta.edu)

[DMANET] Stream "Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science" - EURO 2025 Leeds

34 th Conference EURO Leeds, UK, 22-25 June 2025,

Stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science "

Dear colleague,

We would like to warmly welcome you to the 34 th Conference of the Association of European Operational Research Societies ( EURO ) in Leeds, UK, 22-25 June 2025 ( https://euro2024cph.dk/ ), in the stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science " .

The 3 sessions of the Stream " Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science " (EURO 34 Leeds 2025) are:

Stream

Session Name

Code

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 1

995553e1

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 2

b957b445

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics,

Machine Learning and Data Science 3

5baf8aab

Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science 1, 2, 3

Session Organizer: Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (gerhard-wilhelm.weber@put.poznan.pl)

Codes 995553e1 b957b445 5baf8aab

Submission deadline for abstracts is 8 March 2025 .

The link to the Abstract Submission System is https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/ .

You may submit an abstract in one of the organized sessions by inserting the corresponding Session Code and then putting in your abstract (max. 1500 characters).

Key dates and Deadlines
Abstract submission opens – 30 October 2024
Registration opens – 6 November 2024
Abstract submission closes – 8 March 2025
Notification of abstract acceptance – From submission to Sunday 23 March 2025
Early registration closes – 30 March 2025
Author registration and payment deadline – 20 April 2025
Conference registration closes – 25 May 2025

I look forward to seeing you at EURO 2025 in Leeds !

Friday, November 15, 2024

[DMANET] metaheuristics for optimization

Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in the
special session (workshop) on
"APPLICATIONS OF METAHEURISTICS TO LARGE-SCALE PROBLEMS" at the 15th
International Conference on
Large Scale Scientific Computation - LSSC'25, June 16 - 20, 2025, Sozopol,
Bulgaria,
with arrival: June 15 and departure: noon June 20.

The session is organized by:
Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka.fidanova@gmail.com)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

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

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

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

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2025
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the submitted
abstract
January 31, 2025
Deadline for registration
March 01, 2025
Deadline for submission of full papers
March 01, 2025
Notification of acceptance of full papers
April 15, 2025

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

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

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation,
registration form and conference location you can find at the conference
web page http://parallel.bas.bg/Conferences/SciCom25/

Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Prof. Gabriel Luque

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IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

[DMANET] Computational Optimization

Call for Papers

18th International Thematic Track/Workshop on Computational Optimization
(CO25)
Krakow, Poland, September 14-17, 2025

organized in the framework of CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2024

IEEE CS is a technical co-sponsor of FedCSIS 2025

https://2025.fedcsis.org/thematic/co
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We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and practical
aspects of optimization methods. The list of topics includes, but is not
limited to:

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

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

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

The best CO25 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2025.
The best paper will be selected by CO25 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the quality
of the given oral presentation.

===============================

Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers in PDF format.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages for regular paper
and 6 pages for short papers (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are
available at http://2025.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the trakc.
* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database and submitted for
different indexations (Communication and Position papers will only appear
in the conference proceedings).
* Extended versions of selected papers presented at CO25 will be published
in edited book of the series "Studies of Computational Intelligence",
Springer with SJR 0.237.

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Important dates:

+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 28, 2025, 23:59:59 pm HST (there
will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 02, 2025
+ Author notification: June 18, 2025
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 9, 2025
+ Conference date: September 14-17, 2025

===============================================================================
Organizing Committee

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

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

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IICT-BAS
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1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

[DMANET] Postdoc in Quantum Computing at LaBRI (France)

A postdoctoral position is available in the Quantum Information and
Computation group (https://quantique.labri.fr) at the CS department of the
University of Bordeaux (France). Applications should be submitted by
*January 15* for full consideration.

We are seeking candidates with an interest in research on quantum
information, quantum algorithms, and complexity theory. Specific topics
they can expect to work on include:
* Quantum Algorithms and Computational Speedups (optimization and Monte
Carlo methods, combinatorial algorithms, distributed algorithms, quantum
walks, quantum simulation)
* Information and Complexity Theory (query complexity, limitations of
near-term quantum computers, simulation of quantum circuits, quantum graphs)
* Quantum Computing and Fundamental Physics (simulation of fermionic
systems, quantum field theory, holographic complexity)

Candidates should have training or experience in at least one of the
following areas: quantum information and computation, algorithmic theory,
or complexity theory.

The recruited candidate is expected to start in Fall 2025 (or earlier). The
position is for a duration of 24 months, with a net income ranging between
2100€ and 2500€, depending on the candidate's experience. The position
includes French social security coverage and employee benefits (health
insurance, public transport expenses, paid leave, etc.). We welcome
applicants from all backgrounds and promote a friendly, safe, and
supportive team environment.

Interested applicants should contact Yassine Hamoudi (
yassine.hamoudi@labri.fr) with the following materials: a CV (including a
list of publications), a brief cover letter or research statement, and the
names and email addresses of one or two referees.

[DMANET] Deadline Approaching: PhD Position in Robust, Bilevel, and Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)

PhD Position in Robust, Bilevel, and Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) (Johannes Thürauf)

The University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) is currently offering an opening for a doctoral research opportunity in the field of robust, bilevel, and discrete optimization at the Discrete Optimization Lab by Johannes Thürauf.

- Potential research topics are flexible and can be in the fields of robust, bilevel, discrete, and/or mixed-integer nonlinear optimization.
- The doctoral research opportunity is fully funded (100% position – TVL E13) and supervised by Johannes Thürauf.
- Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. To receive full consideration, please apply until 24.11.2024. Applications received after that date might still be considered.

For more details about the position and the application process, please see the official advertisement here:

https://www.utn.de/en/career/opportunities-for-doctoral-researchers/#disc-opt

To learn more about the ongoing research in the lab, please visit my personal website https://www.johannesthuerauf.com/ and the Discrete Optimization Lab website https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-liberal-arts-and-sciences/discrete-optimization-lab/

Please feel free to share this announcement to any student who may be interested.
If you have any question regarding the position, please do not hesitate to contact me at johannes.thuerauf@utn.de

[DMANET] Job - Senior Computer Science Professorship at Oxford

Oxford University's Computer Science Department (together with St John's College at Oxford) is hiring a senior Professor in Computer Science. We are looking for somebody with a world-leading research reputation with broad academic leadership. For more information, see:
https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=173846

Thanks
Jo

Jo Francis (she/her)
HR Manager, Chartered MCIPD, PGC Coaching & Mentoring
Mental Health First Aider - MHFA England.

Jo.francis@cs.ox.ac.uk<mailto:Jo.francis@cs.ox.ac.uk> | +44 (0)1865 273820

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Room 224
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, 7 Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QG
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/ | @ CompSciOxford

My core working hours are 08:00 - 16:00 Monday to Friday.
On site Tue/Wed/Thur.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the Christmas season we will not be advertising any new roles after the 9th December 2024 and unless already advertised or agreed with HR the closing date will be after the 13th January 2025.

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[DMANET] [DEADLINE EXTENSION] HCCS PerCom 2025

*Deadline for paper submission has bee extended to December 1st*

* Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies*

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Call for Papers

Fifth Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25)
co-located with the IEEE PerCom 2025, March 17-21, 2025 -
Washington DC, USA.
https://sites.google.com/view/hccs25/home

The fifth edition of the Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25) workshop aims to advance and promote research on how unobtrusive observations of human cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and contextual data are increasingly enabling innovative computing experiences. The workshop will also foster discussions about the societal implications of computational sensing. Traditionally, sensors have been understood narrowly as devices that capture physiological measurements, often through wearables. This workshop adopts a broader, human-centric perspective, envisioning sensing as time-evolving measurable data directly linked to individuals and their communities. With this approach, sensing encompasses human reactions and interactions observed through spoken, written, or signed language, eye gaze, facial and bodily expressions, social networks, geospatial patterns, and other forms of human-generated data. Advances in multimodal human data acquisition and fusion have the potential to significantly impact all areas of human life, including productivity, health and well-being, training and education, human-computer interaction, accessibility, safety and security, as well as gaming, sports, and entertainment.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
* Context-Aware Sensing for Adaptive Learning Environments
* Emotion Recognition through Physiological and Behavioral Signals
* Personalized Well-being Applications using Continuous Sensing
* Smart Workplaces through Behavioral Sensing
* Human Activity Recognition in Unstructured Environments
* Emotion-Adaptive Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction
* Geospatial Behavior Analysis for Urban Planning
* Fusion of multifaceted, heterogeneous, and/or incommensurable human sensing data
* Localization and proximity-detection systems
* AI-empowered mobile sensing systems
* Generative AI for synthetic sensor data generation and evaluation
* User acceptance, quality of experience, and social impact studies
* Accessibility of human sensing technologies
* New interventions acting on human-centered computational sensing
* Experimental analysis with human sensing data from real-world applications
* Human-centered sensing for healthcare, industry, social goods and all possible application domains
* Experiences and lessons learned from research projects focused on human-centered computational sensing
* Privacy and ethical considerations for human-centered computational sensing, including gender equality.

Organizers will consider the possibility of inviting authors of selected papers accepted to HCCS'25 to submit an extended work to a Special Issue of an international journal.

Submission and Registration:
Authors are invited to submit technical or theoretical papers for presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the workshop.
Accepted workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore).
Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Authors can purchase one additional page for the camera-ready version. Papers in excess of the page limits will not be considered for review or publication. All papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE website.

Submission instructions will be available soon on the workshop and conference websites.

It is a requirement that all the authors listed in the submitted paper are also listed in the submission system. Each accepted workshop paper requires a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops only). Papers that are not presented in presence at the workshop will not be published in the proceedings.

Please submit papers using this link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025

After login, select the track "HCCS (5th Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing 2025)" and proceed with your submission.

Important Dates:
* Paper submission deadline: December 1st 2024
* Paper notification: January 8th, 2025
* Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2025

Organizers:

Workshop co-chairs
* Franca Delmastro (IIT-CNR)
* Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR)
* Marco Levorato (Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences)

Publicity co-chairs
* Flavio Di Martino (IIT-CNR)
* Rajesh Titung (Rochester Institute of Technology)
* Viet Dung Nguyen (Rochester Institute of Technology)

Steering Committee
* Cecilia O. Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology)
* Reynold Bailey (Rochester Institute of Technology)

For any further information please contact: hccs2025@iit.cnr.it
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[DMANET] 44th JFRO - Black Box Optimization - November 26, 2024

Dear all,
We are pleased to remind you that the *44th Greater Paris Operations
Research Day (JFRO)* will take place on *Tuesday, November 26, 2024*, with
the theme:
*Black Box Optimization*
The event will be held at:
*Sorbonne Université*
4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris
*LIP6, Room 25–26-105*
*Program of the day*

- *09:00-09:30* : Reception
- *09:30-10:30* : *Tutorial: Black-box optimization in theory and
practice* — *Carola Doerr (LIP6)*
- *10:30-11:00* : Coffee break
- *11:00-11:30* : *Bayesian Quality Diversity approaches for constrained
optimization problems with mixed variables* — *Loïc Brevault (ONERA)*
- *11:30-12:00* : *Black-box optimization with hidden constraints*
— *Delphine
Sinoquet (IFPEN)*
- *12:00-14:00* : Lunch break
- *14:00-14:30* : *Random subspace approaches in derivative-free
optimization* — *Clément Royer (LAMSADE)*
- *14:30-15:00* : *Black Box Optimization problems in automotive design*
— *Laurent Genest (Stellantis)*
- *15:00-15:30* : *A trust-region framework for derivative-free
mixed-integer optimization* — *Juan José Torres Figueroa (Saint-Gobain
Recherche)*
- *15:30-16:00* : Coffee break
- *16:00-16:30* : *Optimisation de fonctions boîtes noires avec Hexaly*
— *Emeline Tenaud (Hexaly)*
- *16:30-17:00* : *How can I use Artelys Knitro, a derivative-based
nonlinear optimization solver, to efficiently solve black-box
models?* — *Maxime
Dufour (Artelys)*

A detailed program is available here: *Full Program JFRO
<https://roadef.org/jfro/seminarday.php?id=51>*
*Participation*
Participation is *free* and open to everyone, but registration is mandatory.
*Important Note:* Due to a technical issue, confirmation emails are not
being sent automatically. If you have filled out the registration form,
rest assured that your registration has been recorded.
If you have any questions about the event, feel free to contact us at:
*jfro@framalistes.org
<jfro@framalistes.org>*
Best regards,
*The JFRO Organizing Committee*

- *Nawal Benabbou* (LIP6)
- *Alessandro Maddaloni* (SAMOVAR)
- *Diego Delle Donne* (ESSEC Business School)
- *Emiliano Lancini* (LAMSADE)

[DMANET] PhD position in Optimization

Hi all,

I am searching for a new PhD student to work on developing optimization algorithms with important applications in planning, signal processing, AI, and machine learning. The PhD position is fully funded.

https://www.kth.se/lediga-jobb/767669?l=en

The position is in the Department of Mathematics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, in Optimization and Systems Theory.

Best regards,
Jan Kronqvist

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Jan Kronqvist
Assistant Professor
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Department of Mathematics,
SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
jankr@kth.se<mailto:jankr@kth.se>

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[DMANET] [CFP] 5th workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS’25)

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Fifth Workshop on
Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25)
<https://sites.google.com/view/hccs25/home>, which will be co-located with
the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and
Communications (PerCom'25) <https://www.percom.org/>in Washington DC, USA,
from March 17-21, 2025.

The fifth edition of the Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS'25)
workshop aims to advance and promote research on how unobtrusive
observations of human cognitive, behavioral, physiological, and contextual
data are increasingly enabling innovative computing experiences. The
workshop will also foster discussions about the societal implications of
computational sensing. Traditionally, sensors have been understood narrowly
as devices that capture physiological measurements, often through
wearables. This workshop adopts a broader, human-centric perspective,
envisioning sensing as time-evolving measurable data directly linked to
individuals and their communities. With this approach, sensing encompasses
human reactions and interactions observed through spoken, written, or
signed language, eye gaze, facial and bodily expressions, social networks,
geospatial patterns, and other forms of human-generated data. Advances in
multimodal human data acquisition and fusion have the potential to
significantly impact all areas of human life, including productivity,
health and well-being, training and education, human-computer interaction,
accessibility, safety and security, as well as gaming, sports, and
entertainment.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

- Context-Aware Sensing for Adaptive Learning Environments
- Emotion Recognition through Physiological and Behavioral Signals
- Personalized Well-being Applications using Continuous Sensing
- Smart Workplaces through Behavioral Sensing
- Human Activity Recognition in Unstructured Environments
- Emotion-Adaptive Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction
- Geospatial Behavior Analysis for Urban Planning
- Fusion of multifaceted, heterogeneous, and/or incommensurable human
sensing data
- Localization and proximity-detection systems
- AI-empowered mobile sensing systems
- Generative AI for synthetic sensor data generation and evaluation
- User acceptance, quality of experience, and social impact studies
- Accessibility of human sensing technologies
- New interventions acting on human-centered computational sensing
- Experimental analysis with human sensing data from real-world
applications
- Human-centered sensing for healthcare, industry, social goods and all
possible application domains
- Experiences and lessons learned from research projects focused on
human-centered computational sensing
- Privacy and ethical considerations for human-centered computational
sensing, including gender equality.

*Organizers will consider the possibility of inviting authors of selected
papers accepted to HCCS'25 to submit an extended work to a Special Issue of
an international journal.*

*Submission and Registration*:
Authors are invited to submit technical or theoretical papers for
presentation at the workshop, describing original, previously unpublished
work, which is not currently under review by another workshop, conference,
or journal. Papers may be no more than 6 pages in length. Authors can
purchase one additional page for the camera-ready version. Papers in excess
of the page limits will not be considered for review or publication. All
papers must be typeset in double-column IEEE format using 10pt fonts on US
letter paper, with all fonts embedded. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word
templates, as well as related information, can be found at the IEEE website.

Submission instructions will be available soon on the workshop and
conference websites.

It is a requirement that all the authors listed in the submitted paper are
also listed in the submission system. Each accepted workshop paper requires
a full PerCom registration (no registration is available for workshops
only). Papers that are not presented in presence at the workshop will not
be published in the proceedings.

*"Please submit papers using this
link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=percom2025> **After login, select
the track "HCCS (5th Workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing
2025)" and proceed with your submission."*

*Important Dates*:

- Paper submission deadline: November 17th 2024
- Paper notification: January 8th, 2025
- Camera Ready Deadline: February 2nd, 2025

For more information, including the workshop's scope, submission
guidelines, and topics of interest, please visit the workshop website
<https://sites.google.com/view/hccs25/home> or find the attached Call for
Papers (CFP).

We look forward to your contributions and participation in HCCS'25. If you
have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,
Rajesh Titung
Rochester Institute of Technology
Email: rt7331@rit.edu

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Thursday, November 14, 2024

[DMANET] MMComplexity 2024: Call for Participation

** Apologies for cross-posting ** ===================

Call for participation

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Milestones and Motifs in the Theory of Proofs, Algebraic Computation, and
Lower Bounds (MMComplexity 2024) <https://mmcomplexity.github.io/>

IIT Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

December 14th, 15th, 2024. Co-located with the 44th IARCS Annual Conference
on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
(FSTTCS) 2024 <https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/>.

The goal of this workshop is to explore recent advancements in circuit
complexity, algebraic complexity, and proof complexity. We envisage this
event to be relevant for both Algorithms and Complexity as well as Logic
and Verification audiences.

We have a stellar list of speakers lined up for the event; a partial list
is given below:

V. Arvind, Visiting Professor at Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI),
India and Ex-Director of Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc),
India
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Olaf Beyersdorff, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at Friedrich
Schiller University Jena, Germany
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Supratik Chakraborty, Bajaj Group Chair Professor at Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay, India
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Susanna De Rezende, Assistant Professor at Lund University, Sweden
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Sumegha Garg, Assistant professor at Rutgers University, USA
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Jakob Nordström, Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Lund
University, Sweden
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Madhu Sudan, Gordon McKay Professor, Harvard University, USA

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Important dates and information

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Early Registration Deadline: November 24th 2024

Registration link:
https://events.iitgn.ac.in/apply/application_fsttcs.phpeventid=26092024
<https://events.iitgn.ac.in/apply/application_fsttcs.php?eventid=26092024>

Event: 14th and 15th December 2024

Webpage: https://mmcomplexity.github.io/

Registration Waiver: https://fsttcs.info/volunteers/

If you have any queries, please write to the organisers at mmcomplexity
@gmail.com

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Organisers

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S. Akshay (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)

Olaf Beyersdorff (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Nutan Limaye (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, IT University of
Copenhagen)

Prajakta Nimbhorkar (Chennai Mathematical Institute)

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[DMANET] [CFP] The 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025), August 4 - 7, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP
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CALL FOR PAPERS (ICCCN 2025)

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The 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
(ICCCN 2025)
August 4 - 7, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

http://www.icccn.org/index.html

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ICCCN 2025 is Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE and IEEE Communication
Society.

Paper Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2025
(for all Conference, Workshop, and Poster papers). The paper submission
site is NOT open yet (opens in late December 2024 or January 2025).

IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission due: February 13, 2025

ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel
ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and
networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and
practitioners with a common interest in improving computer communications
and networking through scientific and technological innovation.

Scope:

The primary focus of the ICCCN 2025 conference is on new and original
research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications
of computer communications and networks. ICCCN 2025 covers the following
technical Tracks (the detailed Track scope and descriptions are posted at
http://www.icccn.org/icccn25/committeesandtracks/technical-tracks/index.html
):

Track 1: Infrastructure Networking Technologies
Track Chairs: Noriaki Kamiyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Ke Xu, Tsinghua University, China
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

Track 2: Network Architecture, Algorithm, Protocol, and Evaluation
Track Chairs: Go Hasegawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Subhramoy Mohanti, Interdigital, USA
Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, U.K.

Track 3: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems
Track Chairs: Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
Yingshu Li, Georgia State University, USA
Enrico Natalizio, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE

Track 4: Edge and Cloud Computing
Track Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria
Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China

Track 5: Pervasive Communications, Networking and Sensing
Track Chairs: Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Osaka University, Japan
Sara Garcia Sanchez, IBM Research, USA
Jia Hu, University of Exeter, U.K.

Track 6: Social Networks, Extended Reality, and Metaverse
Track Chairs: Maria Gorlatova, Duke University, USA
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA
Bin Cao, University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Track 7: AI-Enabled Communications and Networks
Track Chairs: Hongjian Sun, University of Durham, U.K.
Tugba Erpek, Nexcepta, USA
Wei Bao, University of Sydney, Australia

Track 8: Security, Privacy, and Trust
Track Chairs: Rui Zhang, University of Delaware, USA
Abderrahim Benslimane, University of Avignon, France
Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Track 9: Emerging Topics in Networking
Track Chairs: Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, TU Delft, Netherlands
Richard Li, Southeast University, China
Rahman Doost-Mohammady, Rice University, USA

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2025; this site will accept
paper submissions soon in due time) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5×11-inch
paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 8 pages including all
figures/tables and references. Submitted papers should not be previously
published in or be under consideration for publication in another
conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed
and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted (and in the
camera-ready version if accepted). The Program Committee reserves the right
to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have
been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title,
abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail
addresses. Note: ICCCN'25 will select the Best Paper and a runner-up paper
to recognize the research quality and excellence.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Conference:
• Conference Paper submission due: February 13, 2025
• Poster Paper submission due: March 29, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2025
• Conference date: August 4 – 7, 2025

Workshop:
• Paper submission due: March 1, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2025
• Workshop date: August 7, 2025

All (conference/poster/workshops) Camera-Ready Papers Due: June 2, 2025
(Hard deadline)

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2025

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CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Executive Chair: Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA

General Chair: Akihiro Nakao, University of Tokyo, Japan

TPC Co-Chairs: Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan
Kaushik Chowdhury, Northeastern University, USA

Workshops Co-General Chair:
Kewei Sha, University of North Texas, USA
Zehui Xiong, Singapore Univ of Tech and Design

Poster Co-Chairs:
Neeraj Kumar, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Peng Li, Aizu University, Japan

Local Arrangement Chairs:
Kazuya Sakai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Taku Yamazaki, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Publications Chair:
Ning Zhang, University of Windsor, Canada

Publicity Co-Chairs:
(America) Mostafa Fouda, Idaho State University, ID, USA
(Europe) Zhengxin Yu, Lancaster University, U.K.
(Japan) Makoto Misumi, Fukuoka University, Japan
(Asia) Qiao Xiang, Xiamen University, China
(Oceania) Wei Xiang, La Trobe University, Australia

Publicity Chair for Workshops:
Guan Gui, Nanjing University of Post and Telecomm., China

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

[DMANET] Become a Member of the Bilevel Optimization Society

[DMANET] Workshop On Randomness and Discrete Structures (Groningen, April 7-9, 2025)

[DMANET] [CFP] CPAIOR 2025 — Approaching Deadline

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

[DMANET] Call for Participation: FSTTCS 2024 and allied workshops

[DMANET] CFP: 15th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2025) in conjunction with 39th IEEE symposium IPDPS, Milano, Italy

Monday, November 18, 2024

[DMANET] Multiple tenure-track and non-tenure positions at DePaul University, Chicago

[DMANET] CG 2024 - Registration open (free of charge)

[DMANET] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - IEEE HONET 2024

[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Philippe Laborie (Hexaly) | November 20 | Hexaly Optimizer for Scheduling

Sunday, November 17, 2024

[DMANET] Deadline Extended: *LESS'25 Workshop @PerCom (March 17 – 21, 2025, Washington DC)

Saturday, November 16, 2024

[DMANET] PhD Student Openings in the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences at Augusta University

[DMANET] Stream "Advancements of OR-Analytics in Statistics, Machine Learning and Data Science" - EURO 2025 Leeds

Friday, November 15, 2024

[DMANET] metaheuristics for optimization

[DMANET] Computational Optimization

[DMANET] Postdoc in Quantum Computing at LaBRI (France)

[DMANET] Deadline Approaching: PhD Position in Robust, Bilevel, and Discrete Optimization at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN)

[DMANET] Job - Senior Computer Science Professorship at Oxford

[DMANET] [DEADLINE EXTENSION] HCCS PerCom 2025

[DMANET] 44th JFRO - Black Box Optimization - November 26, 2024

[DMANET] PhD position in Optimization

[DMANET] [CFP] 5th workshop on Human-Centered Computational Sensing (HCCS’25)

Thursday, November 14, 2024

[DMANET] MMComplexity 2024: Call for Participation

[DMANET] [CFP] The 34th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2025), August 4 - 7, 2025, Tokyo, Japan

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