Tuesday, March 28, 2023

[DMANET] [Deadline Extension and Last Call for Nominations] VCLA International Student Awards 2023

The deadline for the submission of self-nominations for the VCLA International Student Awards 2023 has been extended to the 11th of April 2023. Please find the revised call for nominations below.

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The Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien calls for the nomination of authors of outstanding theses and scientific works in the field of Logic and Computer Science, in the following two categories:

- Outstanding Master Thesis Award*
- Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award (Bachelor thesis or equivalent, 1st cycle of the Bologna process)*

*The degree must have been awarded between January 1st, 2021 and December 31st, 2022 (inclusive).

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The main areas of interest are:
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- Computational Logic, covering theoretical and mathematical foundations such as proof theory, model theory, computability theory, Boolean satisfiability (SAT), QBF, constraint satisfaction, satisfiability modulo theories, automated deduction (resolution, refutation, theorem proving), non-classical logics (substructural logics, multi-valued logics, deontic logics, modal and temporal logics).
- Algorithms and Computational Complexity, including design and analysis of discrete algorithms, complexity analysis, algorithmic lower bounds, parameterized and exact algorithms, decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, algorithm engineering, as well as algorithmic game theory, computational social choice, parallel algorithms, graph drawing algorithms, and distributed algorithms.
- Databases and Artificial Intelligence, concerned with logical methods for modeling, storing, and drawing inferences from data and knowledge. This includes subjects like query languages based on logical concepts (Datalog, variants of SQL, XML, and SPARQL), novel database-theoretical methods (schema mappings, information extraction and integration), logic programming, knowledge representation and reasoning (ontologies, answer-set programming, belief change, inconsistency handling, argumentation, planning).
- Verification, concerned with logical methods and automated tools for reasoning about the behavior and correctness of complex state-based systems such as software and hardware designs as well as hybrid systems. This ranges from model checking, program analysis and abstraction to new interdisciplinary areas such as fault localization, program repair, program synthesis, and the analysis of biological systems.

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Awards
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- The Outstanding Master Thesis Award: 1200 EUR.
- The Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award: 800 EUR.
- The winners will be invited to present their work at an award ceremony in Vienna, if the situation allows.

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Eligibility
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- The degree must have been awarded between January 1st, 2021 and December 31st, 2022 (inclusive).
- Students who obtained their degree at TU Wien are not eligible.

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Nomination Requirements
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Nominations must include:
- A cover page that contains the name and contact details of the nominated person, the title of the work for which the person is being nominated, award category, the date on which the degree was awarded, and the name of the university.
- An English summary of the thesis of maximum 3 pages, excluding references (A4 or letter page size, 11pt font min). The summary must clearly state the main contribution of the work, its novelty, and its relevance to some of the aforementioned areas of interest.
- The CV of the nominated person, including publication list (if applicable).
- An endorsement letter from a supervisor or another proposing person. The letter must clearly state the independent and novel contribution of the student, and why the proposer believes the student deserves the award. The endorsement letter may be provided after the submission deadline, and emailed directly to award (AT) logic-cs.at.
- The full thesis.

All documents should be in English, with the exception of the thesis. In case the thesis is in a different language, it must be accompanied by a research report in English of at least 10 pages that should be sufficient for the committee to evaluate the merit and quality of the submitted work.

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Instructions for submitting self-nominations
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- Nominations should be submitted electronically by the applicants using the following link to EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vclaawards2023.
- Submissions consist of two pdf files. The first is a single pdf file containing all documents for the nomination except the full thesis; the documents should appear in the order they are listed above. The second pdf file is the full thesis.
- The endorsement letter may optionally be sent by email by the endorser and omitted from the Easychair submission. In this case, please email the letter as a pdf file, including the name of the nominated person in the subject, to award (AT) logic-cs DOT at.
- The submission must be accompanied by a plain text electronic abstract of the thesis of at most 400 words, and three keywords.
- The nominated student must be listed as the only author in the submission form.

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Important dates
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- Submission deadline (updated): April 11th, 2023 (anywhere on Earth)
- Notification of decision: After June 30th, 2023

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Contact
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Please send all inquiries to award@logic-cs.at<mailto:award@logic-cs.at>.

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VCLA Award Committee 2023
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- Shqiponja Ahmetaj
- Michele Chiari
- Jan Dreier
- Robert Ganian (chair)
- Anela Lolic
- Jan Maly
- Johannes Oetsch
- Xavier Parent
- Anna Rapberger
- Michael Rawson
- Emanuel Sallinger
- Zeynep G. Saribatur
- Stefan Schupp
- Sebastian Skritek
- Friedrich Slivovsky
- Manuel Sorge
- Jules Wulms (co-chair)
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Websites with information on the award and the previous awardees
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http://www.vcla.at/2023/01/call-for-nominations-vcla-international-student-awards/
https://logic-cs.at/vcla-international-student-awards-2023/


Andrea Hackl, MA
Project Manager
Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms

Technische Universität Wien
Favoritenstraße 9-11, Stiege 3, 3. Stock, 1040 Wien
andrea.hackl@tuwien.ac.at<mailto:andrea.hackl@tuwien.ac.at>
www.vcla.at<http://www.vcla.at>


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[DMANET] Virtual seminar this Monday about small RNAs in bacteria (Cynthia Sharma)

Dear colleagues,

In the framework of the small non-coding RNA bioinformatics club (https://smallrna-bioinformatics.eu/), we are reprogramming the virtual seminars of Cynthia Sharma and Fabian König about *small RNAs in bacteria*.

*Monday the 3rd of April at 4pm (Berlin/Paris time)*
Links to connect (you can choose zoom, which enables questions, or YouTube):
https://smallrna-bioinformatics.eu/Pages/Seminars/S22_07.aspx

The club proposes seminars every two months. Stay tuned and inscribe to the mailing list (rare emails): https://smallrna-bioinformatics.eu/Pages/_PAGES/Mailing-List.aspx

See you virtually very soon!
Laurent Guyon

PS: tweet for easy retransmission: https://twitter.com/Laurent_Guyon/status/1640638028916899843

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Laurent GUYON, PhD, HDR - Bioinformatics
CEA IRIG (Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble)
BioHealth laboratory<https://biosante-lab.fr/en>
UMR 1292 CEA/Inserm/Université Grenoble Alpes

CEA Grenoble - Bât C3 - Bureau 304c
17 rue des Martyrs - 38054 GRENOBLE Cedex 9 - France

Tél : (+33)4.38.78.36.91 - Fax : (+33)4 38 78 50 58
Email : laurent.guyon@cea.fr<mailto:laurent.guyon@cea.fr> - http://laurent.guyon.phd.free.fr/

Interested by small non-coding RNA bioinformatics? Join the club! https://smallrna-bioinformatics.eu/

**Post-doc position available in 2023** for a project in bioinformatics related to microRNA in cancer at the single cell level. Feel free to contact me for more information.

Happy to share miRViz (free to use website to analyze your microRNA datasets): http://mirviz.prabi.fr/
Article: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa259
Messages of the paper: https://twitter.com/Laurent_Guyon/status/1255487510563651586


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Monday, March 27, 2023

[DMANET] Postdoc Position on Parameterized Complexity in Graph Drawing at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

The position is part of the project "Parameterized Graph Drawing" and
is hosted by the Algorithms and Complexity Group at TU Wien (the
Vienna University of Technology). The position will be jointly
supervised by Robert Ganian and Martin Nöllenburg.

We offer the possibility of working on exciting research projects in
an international research group, with ample travel funding, and the
option of collaborating not only within the project but also with
other members of the Algorithms and Complexity Group
(https://www.ac.tuwien.ac.at/). There are essentially no teaching
obligations associated with the position and the working language in
the group is English. The starting date is flexible and the position
is offered for 2 years, with a possibility for extension. The salary
will follow the FWF's salary tables for Postdocs (see
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/research-funding/personnel-costs/) and
includes standard bonuses in the form of a 13th and 14h salary,
altogether allowing for a convenient life in Vienna close to the city
center.

Applicants are required to have a PhD in Computer Science (or a
related field) and are expected to have a strong research record in
parameterized complexity or graph drawing, and a willingness to work
in the intersection of these two fields.

The application should include the candidate's CV, a list of
publications, a short motivation letter, and two letters of
recommendation (all in a single pdf file; alternatively, letters of
recommendation may be sent directly by their authors). The application
should also mention possible starting dates and should be sent to
pgd@ac.tuwien.ac.at by Wednesday the 3rd of May 2023.

Informal enquiries and questions about the position are very welcome
and should also be sent to pgd@ac.tuwien.ac.at.

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[DMANET] Junior Professor Chair (CPJ) at UCA, LIMOS : Models and Algorithms for AI

The University Clermont Auvergne (UCA) in Clermont-Ferrand, France is offering a CPJ position (Junior Professor Chair) that will be available by September 2023.

Junior Professor Chairs (JPC) correspond to a new program in France that offers highly qualified young researchers an opportunity to conduct quality research through the creation of a dedicated environment (material and financial). They provide a real professional leverage that can lead to a permanent position as a full professor within 5 years, while also promoting the establishment of a genuine international synergy with the stakeholders involved.

The selected candidate will be involved in research activities as part of the LIMOS (limos.fr), a CNRS laboratory, and will also be in charge of teaching at the engineering school ISIMA of Clermont Auvergne INP (https://www.isima.fr, https://www.clermont-auvergne-inp.fr).

This chair aims to develop a research activity around models and algorithms for AI by placing it within a data-knowledge continuum. At the heart of AI lies the algorithmics of learning. Beyond the design of new methods, particularly in a weakly supervised context, several research directions are being explored, such as explainability. Defining effective learning methods based on optimization techniques and game theory is also a promising research target. Finally, the question of the formal representation of knowledge opens the way to research on interactions between symbolic AI approaches and learning from data.
This ambitious and unifying project lies at the intersection of several themes of the LIMOS and connects with those of other laboratories in the area. The research questions are anchored in the "Data" cross-cutting program of the ISite CAP2025 and will draw on the application domains of the ISite's International Research Centers.

The teaching service will be 64 hours per year and will focus on the algorithmics of Artificial Intelligence and its applications.

For this specific position at UCA, the first phase of the contract is for five years during which the successful candidate will receive funding of 200,000 euros for their research activities, including the recruitment of a doctoral and postdoctoral student. The salary during this period will be 3,443.50 euros per month (before deductions for taxes) which makes it around 2,600 euros per month (after taxes).
At the end of the five-year period, and after a successful evaluation by a tenure commission, the CPJ can lead to a permanent position as a full professor.


Additional informations regarding the application procedure and schedule will be communicated later.

Person to contact:

Research part: Mourad Baïou (mourad.baiou@uca.fr ; mourad.baiou@cnrs.fr)
Teaching part: Farouk Toumani(farouk.toumani@uca.fr)

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[DMANET] Save the Date - IWOBIP 2024

Save the Date - IWOBIP 2024


The International Workshop on Bilevel Optimization will be held at
Universidad de O'Higgins, Rancagua, Chile, between the 22nd and 26th of
January 2024. IWOBIP'24 aims to bring together a group of academics,
practitioners, and students working on bilevel optimization. It is also
meant to attract young researchers and graduated students (master's and
Ph.D. students) who specialize in Bilevel Programming.

Bilevel Programming is a branch of optimization that deals with programs
whose constraints embed an auxiliary optimization problem. Bilevel programs
are pervasive and are commonly found in several real-world problems. This
includes problems in transportation, energy, economics, decision science,
environmental economics, etc.


IWOBIP'24 will consist of plenary lectures and mini-courses given by
world-renowned researchers. The mini-courses will be given by Margarida
Carvalho and Martin Schmidt. The confirmed plenary speakers will be Ted
Ralphs, Alain Jean-Marie, and Claudia D'Ambrossio.


The topics of interest of the IWOBIP' 24 are theory, exact methods,
heuristic algorithms, and interesting applications modeled as bilevel
programming problems. A CFP will be released in May.

See you in Chile!


Victor Bucarey, Fernando Ordonez, Vladimir Marianov

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[DMANET] Open PhD Position in Computer Science at Jönköping University

Jönköping University advertises one (1) position as PhD student in Computer Science, in collaboration with the laboratory of theoretical computer science, Linköping university. The PhD student will join a research project situated at the intersection of artificial intelligence, complexity theory, and universal algebra, directed by Johannes Schmidt (Jönköping university) and Victor Lagerkvist (Linköping university). In short, the task is to study fine-grained complexity of NP-hard problems of interest in nonmonotonic reasoning, by constructing fast (but likely superpolynomial) algorithms, proving lower bounds under reasonable conjectures in complexity theory, and adapt and develop the influential algebraic approach based on the existence of (partial) symmetries of relations.

The application deadline is April 17. For further information visit https://ju.varbi.com/se/what:job/jobID:601050/where:4/
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[DMANET] SAGT 2023 - Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

The 16th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) will take place at Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK, September 4th-7th, 2023.

Website: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/computer-science/sagt-2023

The program of SAGT 2023 will include invited talks and presentations of peer-reviewed submissions. Foundational work is solicited on topics including but not limited to:

Auctions and pricing

Contract theory

Cooperative game theory

Cost-sharing algorithms and analysis

Decision theory

Efficiency of equilibria and Price of Anarchy

Equilibria, learning, and dynamics in games

Equilibrium computation and complexity

Fair division

Internet Economics

Incentives in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

Market design & matching markets

Mechanism design

Network games and graph-theoretic aspects of social networks

Reputation, recommendation and trust systems

Social choice and voting

Solution concepts in game theory

The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer in its LNCS/ARCoSS series. Accepted papers will be allocated at most 18 pages in the proceedings. Alternatively, authors of accepted papers can choose to publish a one-page abstract in the proceedings, along with a URL pointing to the full paper.

There will be a SAGT 2023 Best Paper Award, accompanied by a prize of 1,000 EURO offered by Springer.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: 4 May 2023, 23:59 AOE

Notification: 1 July 2023

Camera ready: 15 July 2023

Conference Dates: 4-7 September 2023

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must be in single-column format, with 11-point or larger fonts, using single-spacing between lines and 1-inch margins all around. For example, authors may want to use the LNCS style <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>, with the fullpage package enabled (in LaTeX). Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines may be rejected without review.

This year, there will be no strict page limit for submissions, and authors are encouraged to submit the full versions of their papers. Still, the details of long papers will be read at the discretion of the program committee, so the authors are strongly encouraged to structure their paper in a way that includes a clear presentation of the merits of the paper and a discussion of the importance of the results, as well as an exposition of the key conceptual and technical ideas of the paper within the first 15 pages. Submissions shorter that 15 pages are also very much welcome.

Results previously published or presented at another archival conference prior to SAGT, or published (or accepted for publication) at a journal prior to the submission deadline, will not be considered for publication as regular papers. Simultaneous submission of regular papers to another conference with published proceedings is not allowed.

Simultaneous submission of results to a journal is allowed only if the authors intend to publish the paper as a one page abstract in SAGT 2023.

SUBMISSION SERVER

This year, the submissions will be via OpenReview <https://openreview.net/>.

Submission link: OpenReview Server <https://openreview.net/group?id=SAGT/2023/Symposium&referrer=%5BHomepage%5D(%2F)>
It is expected that every accepted paper will be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

The SAGT 2023 PC Chairs,

Argyrios Deligkas and Aris Filos-Ratsikas
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[DMANET] [LAGOS 2023] Submission deadline approaching!

We kindly invite you to submit your work to LAGOS 2023
and to spread this invitation among your peers.
The deadline is approaching: *April 1st. *
Check the list of invited speakers and all the information below.

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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

LAGOS 2023

The XII Latin and American Algorithms, Graphs and Optimization Symposium
September 18 to 22, 2023 --- Huatulco, Mexico

https://www.matem-juriquilla.unam.mx/XII-Symposium-LAGOS-2023

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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
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LAGOS 2023 will be held in Huatulco, Mexico.

The previous editions were held in Fortaleza, Brazil (GRACO 2001),
Santiago, Chile (LACGA 2004), Angra dos Reis, Brazil (GRACO 2005),
Puerto Varas, Chile (LAGOS 2007), Gramado, Brazil (LAGOS 2009),
Bariloche, Argentina (LAGOS 2011), Playa del Carmen, Mexico (LAGOS
2013), Fortaleza, Brazil (LAGOS 2015), Marseille, France (LAGOS 2017),
Belo Horizonte, Brazil (LAGOS 2019), and São Paulo, Brazil (LAGOS
2021).

As in previous editions, the conference proceedings will be published
in a selected journal, Procedia Computer Science, and a special
edition of Discrete Applied Mathematics will be devoted to selected
full papers after the conference.

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SCOPE AND TOPICS
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LAGOS conference themes include, but are not limited to:

Algorithms and complexity:
Algorithms and computational complexity; Approximation algorithms;
Parallel and distributed algorithms; Randomized algorithms;
Computational geometry; Parameterized complexity.

Operations research and mathematical programming:
Combinatorial optimization; Integer programming; Polyhedral
combinatorics; Operations research; Management science.

Graph theory:
Cliques, dominating and independent sets; Colorings; Covering and
packing, factorization, matching; Digraphs, tournaments; Graph
algorithms; Graphs and matrices; Hypergraphs; Perfect graphs; Random
graphs; Structural characterization of graph classes.

Applications to real-world problems:
Mathematical programming; Combinatorial optimization; Continuous
optimization; Heuristics and metaheuristics.

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CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
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Federico Ardila, San Francisco State University, USA
Maria Axenovich, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Jesús de Loera, University of California Davis, USA
Ruy Fabila, Cinvestav Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Celina Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Deborah Oliveros, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Maya Stein, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission: April 1st, 2023
Notification: June 1st, 2023
Early bird registration deadline: August 15, 2023
Conference: September 18 to 22, 2023
All deadlines are AOE timezone.

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PROCEEDINGS
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As in the last edition, the proceedings of LAGOS 2023 will be
published by Procedia Computer Science (Elsevier).

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SUBMISSION
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions in English with
eight (8) single-column letter-size pages in the Procedia format.

The submissions are expected to be fully self-contained (including
references). In the case that the 8-page format is insufficient for
the whole submission, authors are encouraged to place some of the
material in an optional appendix. This appendix will not be published
in the proceedings and hence should not be referenced within the body
of the 8-page paper, but it will be used to evaluate the submission.
Please also check the Guide for authors of Procedia Computer Science.

Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference with
published proceedings, as well as the submission of previously
published papers, is not allowed.

The submission process must be completed electronically through
EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lagos2023).

At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the
conference to be included in the program.

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Adriana Hansberg, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Amanda Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Luis Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Miguel Ángel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Cristina Fernandes, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (chair)
Sergio Rajsbaum, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico (chair)

Carlos Alfaro, BANXICO, Mexico
Flávia Bonomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ralf Borndörfer, Zuse-Institute Berlin, Germany
Julia Böttcher, The London School of Economics and Political Science,
United Kingdom
Jarosław Byrka, Uniwersytet Wroławski, Poland
Marcelo H. de Carvalho, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University, USA
Jose Correa, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Laura Eslava, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Silvia Fernández-Merchant, California State University, USA
Luciano Grippo, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina
Frédéric Havet, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Carlos Hoppen, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Giuseppe Italiano, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi
Sociali Guido Carli, Italy
Dolores Lara, CINVESTAV, Mexico
Andrea Jiménez, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
Sulamita Klein, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dolores Lara, CINVESTAV, Mexico
Paloma Lima, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Carla Lintzmayer, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Martin Loebl, Unverzita Karlova, Czech Republic
Lucia Moura, University of Ottawa, Canada
Graciela Nasini, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Nicolas Nisse, Inria Sophia Antipolis and Université Côte d'Azur, France
Michal Parnas, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Lehilton L. C. Pedrosa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Fabio Protti, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Martín D. Safe, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina
Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico
Vinicius F. dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ana Silva, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Roberto Solis-Oba, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
Maya J. Stein, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Nicolás Stier-Moses, Core Data Science, Meta, USA
Jorge Urrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Carlos Valencia, CINVESTAV, Mexico
José Verschae, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Alfredo Viola, Universidad de la República de Uruguay, Uruguay
Kristina Vušković, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Annegret Wagler, Université Clermont Auvergne, France
Renato Werneck, Amazon, USA
José Zamora, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
Rita Zuazua, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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Adriana Hansberg, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (chair)
Amanda Montejano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (chair)

Isaac Arelio, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Juan Carlos Díaz Patiño, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Laura Eslava, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Paulina Figueroa, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
César Hernández-Cruz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Jesús Leaños, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Gelasio Salazar, Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
David Suárez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Antonio Torres, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Denae Ventura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

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LAGOS STEERING COMMITTEE
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Flavia Bonomo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Manoel Campêlo, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Guillermo Durán, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Celina Herrera de Figueiredo, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Martín Matamala, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Miguel Ángel Pizaña, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico

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Thomas Liebling, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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[DMANET] CFP: Special Issue - Mathematics MDPI : On the Security of the Blockchain Technology

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Special Issue "On the Security of the Blockchain Technology »
Journal: MDPI Mathematics
Submission deadline: December 20th, 2023
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Aim and Scope
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Blockchain technology was designed to enable decentralized and secure crypto-currency.

Numerous studies have explored the features of blockchains, such as scalability, resiliency, decentralization, reliability, and immutability in different use cases. Hence, blockchains are becoming a cornerstone for the development and deployment of other technologies such as decentralized applications (Dapp), the Internet of Things (IoT), digital supply chains (DSCs), cooperative intelligent transportation systems (C-ITSs), federated learning (FL), and many others.

Blockchain is still a growing technology, and it has the potential to disrupt numerous technologies in the future. However, as an evolving technology, it is suffering from many setbacks; the most severe are from the security perspective.

This Special Issue calls for research contributions on how blockchains can ensure the security of systems and environments, and the different security issues related to blockchain-based technologies and architectures. More precisely, the topics of interests in this

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Topics of interest
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The special Issue include, but are not limited to:

Blockchain-based approaches for the security of IT systems;
Blockchain-based approaches for intrusion detection;
Blockchain issues and trends;
Blockchain privacy;
Blockchain new design;
Cryptocurrency fraud;
Cryptocurrency fraud detection;
Smart contracts for the security of IT systems;
Smart contracts privacy and security issues.

You can find details here:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/WV2TX58WF7 <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/WV2TX58WF7>

Badis Hammi
Guest Editor
Associate professor, EPITA Engineering School, France
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[DMANET] CfP: GPEM Special Issue on the Tenth Anniversary of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming

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*CFP: **Tenth Anniversary of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming*

SpecialIssue of /Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines/

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_Guest Editors

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Alberto Moraglio, University of Exeter, UK, a.moraglio@exeter.ac.uk
Krzysztof Krawiec, Poznan University of Technology, Poland,
krzysztof.krawiec@cs.put.poznan.pl
Colin Johnson, University of Nottingham, UK, Colin.Johnson@nottingham.ac.uk

_About this Issue_


Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a form of Genetic
Programming which is guaranteed to see a simple unimodal fitness
landscape with constant slope for any supervised machine learning task.
It was derived using a rigorous geometric theory of representations and
search operators combined with the notion of semantics of programs. In
GSGP, crossover and mutation have special semantic properties: offspring
programs are guaranteed to have behaviour intermediate to their
parents', and mutant programs' behaviour is guaranteed to be similar to
that of the original program. The theory of GSGP reveals a simple
genotype-phenotype map between syntax and semantics of programs, leads
to simple syntactic implementations of these semantic search operators,
and provides a rigorous explanatory framework for its superior runtime
performance.

Since its inception in 2012 [1], GSGP has been rapidly and widely
adopted by the Genetic Programming community at large: it has been
studied, both theoretically and empirically, successfully adopted in
many real-world application domains, improved and extended in many ways,
and led to a plethora of research publications by many research groups
worldwide.

We aim to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GSGP with a special issue
that consolidates and organises the ten years of work on GSGP by the
research community, and fosters further growth of this research area. We
envision that the special issue will cover a historical development of
the field and related areas, report on latest research as well as
identify challenges and reflections about future directions.

_References_


[1] Moraglio A., Krawiec K., Johnson C.G. (2012) Geometric Semantic
Genetic Programming. In: Coello C.A.C., Cutello V., Deb K., Forrest S.,
Nicosia G., Pavone M. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN
XII. PPSN 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7491. Springer,
Berlin, Heidelberg

_Topics of Interest_


We would like to have three main types of submissions that help us, in
various ways, to recount the past, present and future of GSGP: papers
covering the past 10 years (surveys), papers covering the present
(research papers), and papers covering the future (white papers
outlining challenges and opportunities). Topics of interest may include
but are not limited to:

●    Program domains (e.g., Boolean, Classification, Arithmetic,
Programs, Neural Networks)
●    Improved semantic operators, new semantic operators, approximate
semantic operators, self-adaptive semantic operators
●    Efficient implementations, parallel implementations,
implementations on dedicated hardware
●    Mathematical analysis and runtime analysis
●    Studies on generalisation and effect of noise
●    Real world applications and experimental benchmarking
●    Algorithmic extensions (e.g., hybridisation with local search,
multi-objective, diversity mechanisms)
●    New methods derived or inspired by GSGP


_Important Dates_

Submission deadline: 1 May 2023
Initial reviews: 15 June 2023
Resubmissions: 15 July 2023
Final notifications: 1 September 2023


_Submissions and Review Procedures_

Special Issues are handled in the normal way via the online Editorial
Manager system found athttps://genp.edmgr.com <https://genp.edmgr.com/>.
When uploading your manuscript, select "Special Issue for the Tenth
Anniversary of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming" in the Collection
menu under the Details tab. Special Issue articles should fulfil all the
standard requirements of any GPEM article. Authors should note that the
same criteria apply to articles in Special Issues as to regular
articles.  All papers will undergo the same rigorous GPEM review
process. Please refer to the GPEM website for detailed instructions on
paper submission:http://www.springer.com/10710
<http://www.springer.com/10710>
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Sunday, March 26, 2023

[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc Position on Parameterized Complexity of Network Dynamics at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Dear colleagues,

Please redistribute this message to your students:

The Algorithms, Dynamics, and Information Flow in Networks (ADYN) research unit at Goethe University Frankfurt is seeking applications for a fully-funded PhD or Postdoc position in "Parameterized Complexity of Network Dynamics" to be carried out under the supervision of Prof. Holger Dell. The 3-year research project at the intersection of parameterized complexity, statistical physics, and graph theory involves the rigorous analysis of dynamic processes on graphs, such as virus or fake news spreading through a social network.

Research stays at the University of Glasgow, TU Dortmund, and Uni Hamburg are planned. The research unit offers individual guidance, summer schools, retreats, a mentorship program, and flexible working hours. Part-time and family-friendly arrangements are possible.

If you're interested, please apply before the June 16, 2023 deadline.

For details, see: https://tcs.uni-frankfurt.de/positions/

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[DMANET] [Deadline Extended] ISNCC 2023: IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications

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The 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Networks, Computers and
Communications (ISNCC 2023)

23-26 October 2023, Doha - Qatar (Hybrid)

http://www.isncc-conf.org

Paper submission (Extended): April 23, 2023

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions (Full
Papers/Short Papers/Posters/Demos/Use-Cases) to ISNCC 2023, which will be
held at Doha, the best performing city in Qatar.

The conference will be held from October 23rd-26th 2023 (www.isncc-conf.org),
and organized by the College of Science & Engineering - Hamad Bin Khalifa
University.

ISNCC is a consolidated international scientific event that this year
celebrates the 10th anniversary.

Sponsored by IEEE, NASA, ESA, it offers distinguished keynote speakers and
15 technical tracks.
All accepted papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore, DBLP
and Thomson Reuters.

This year, the multi-thematic program of ISNCC 2023 focuses on the major
future scientific issues divided into the following main tracks:

- Metaverse and the Future of Internet

- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

- Data Science and Big Data Systems Engineering

- Industry 4.0 and the Factory of the Future

- Satellite Communications and Space Internet

- Deep Space Exploration and Long-Distance Communication

- 6G Vision and Potential Key Technologies

- Internet of Everything and Sensor Networks

- Next Generation Networking and Internet

- Trust, Security and Privacy

- Cloud, Computing, Networking and Storage

- Wireless and Mobile Networks

- Green Communication Systems and Networks

- Antenna Systems, Propagation and RF Design

- Signal Processing and Communication System Theory

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IMPORTANT DATES :

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· Paper submissions (Extended): April 23, 2023

· Notification date: August 13, 2023

· Regular Registration: September 10, 2023

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (so far confirmed) :

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The following eminent keynote speakers have confirmed their participation:

- Prof. Sami Erol Gelenbe: *Polish Academy of Sciences - Poland
(**https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erol_Gelenbe)*

- Prof. Merouane Debbah: *CentraleSupelec - France
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mérouane_Debbah)*

- Prof. Mohamed-Slim Alouini: KAUST - KSA
*(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed-Slim_Alouini)*

- Dr. Mohamed Abid: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) - USA *(**https://mars.nasa.gov/people/profile/index.cfm?id=23057)*

- Dr. Giancarlo Varacalli: Italian Space Agency (ASI) - Italy

- Dr. David Fernandez Pinas: The European Space Agency (ESA) - The
Netherlands

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SUBMISSION:

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Full papers should describe novel research contributions with evaluation
results and are limited to eight (8) printed pages (including two
additional extra pages).

Short papers, limited in length to four (4) pages, should be more
visionary in nature and are meant to discuss new challenges and visions,
showcase early research results, and explore novel research directions.

Submission link: https://edas.info/N30109

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

IEEE-ISNCC 2023 Conference Chairs

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[DMANET] JRF recruitment in a DST-SERB funded project

Department of CSE, NIT Durgapur invites applications for the
JRF recruitment in a SERB (DST) funded project in the broad area of
Algorithms, Computational Geometry, and Complexity. with focus on Geometric
facility location problems and Imprecise models of computations. More about
the project can be found at https://nitdgp.ac.in/uploads/ADV_SERB_JRF_AA.pdf.
The positions can be for up to two
years. It comes with a competitive salary, and other support as per
Institute norms. To apply, one needs to submit an application with all
necessary documents which can be found from the weblink.

Application deadline: April 15, 2023.

Website: https://nitdgp.ac.in/p/careers
Email for queries: ankush.acharyya@cse.nitdgp.ac.in

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[DMANET] BigDat 2023 Summer: early registration April 2

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7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA

BigDat 2023 Summer

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

July 17-21, 2023

https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su

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Co-organized by:

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA
Brussels/London

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Early registration: April 2, 2023

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FRAMEWORK:

BigDat 2023 Summer is part of a multi-event called Deep&Big 2023 consisting also of DeepLearn 2023 Summer. BigDat 2023 Summer participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures in the program of DeepLearn 2023 Summer as well if they are interested.

SCOPE:

BigDat 2023 Summer will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timisoara, Cambridge and Ancona.

Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, health, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.

Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, analytics, security and privacy, as well as applications to biology and medicine, business, finance, transportation, online social networks, etc. Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 14 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.

An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and employment profiles.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2023 Summer is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

BigDat 2023 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be:

Institución Ferial de Canarias
Avenida de la Feria, 1
35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

https://www.infecar.es/

STRUCTURE:

2 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

Also, if interested, participants will be able to attend courses developed in DeepLearn 2023 Summer, which will be held in parallel and at the same venue.

Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Valerie Daggett (University of Washington), Dynameomics: From Atomistic Simulations of All Protein Folds to the Discovery of a New Protein Structure to the Design of a Diagnostic Test for Alzheimer's Disease

Sander Klous (University of Amsterdam), How to Audit an Analysis on a Federative Data Exchange

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Paolo Addesso (University of Salerno), [introductory/intermediate] Data Fusion for Remotely Sensed Data

Marcelo Bertalmío (Spanish National Research Council), [introductory] The Standard Model of Vision and Its Limitations: Implications for Imaging, Vision Science and Artificial Neural Networks

Gianluca Bontempi (Université Libre de Bruxelles), [intermediate/advanced] Big Data Analytics in Fraud Detection and Churn Prevention: from Prediction to Causal Inference

Altan Çakir (Istanbul Technical University), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark

Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] Setting Up a Facility for Data Intensive Science Analysis

Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Differential Privacy

Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences

José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing and Geometric Learning

Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Data Analytics for Massive Networks

Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-Based Health Analytics

Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning

Mayte Suarez-Farinas (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), [intermediate] Meta-Analysis Methods for High-Dimensional Data

Ana Trisovic (Harvard University), [introductory/advanced] Principles, Statistical and Computational Tools for Reproducible Data Science

Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 9, 2023.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 9, 2023.

EMPLOYER SESSION:

Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the organization and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 9, 2023.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su/registration/

The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish as well as eventually courses in DeepLearn 2023 Summer.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.

The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at

https://bigdat.irdta.eu/2023su/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.

Participants will be recognized 2 ECTS credits by University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Cabildo de Gran Canaria

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Fundación Parque Científico Tecnológico

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
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Saturday, March 25, 2023

[DMANET] 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Second Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals

*** Second Call for Papers and Special Session Proposals ***

10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023)

October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus

http://besc-conf.org/2023/


The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major
international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from
artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business
and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research
efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC,
exchange new ideas and identify future research directions.

The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and
Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the
proceedings are published by IEEE

BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing
cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The
conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to
share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and
opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications
• Computational models of social phenomena
• Social behaviour
• Social network analysis
• Semantic web
• Collective intelligence
• Security, privacy, trust in social contexts
• Social recommendation
• Social influence and social contagions
• Quantifying offline phenomena through online data
• Forecasting of social phenomena
• Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science
• Social media and health behaviours
• Social psychology and personality
• New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science

Digital Humanities
• Digital media
• Digital humanities
• Digital games and learning
• Digital footprints and privacy
• Crowd dynamics
• Digital arts
• Digital healthcare
• Activity streams and experience design
• Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.)

Information Management and Information Systems (IS)
• Decision analytics
• E-Business
• Decision analytics
• Computational finance
• Societal impacts of IS
• Human behaviour and IS
• IS in healthcare
• IS security and privacy
• IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts
• Service science and IS

Natural Language Processing
• Web mining and its social interpretations
• Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining
• Opinion mining and social media analytics
• Credibility of online content
• Computational Linguistics
• Mining big social data
• Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics

Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics
• Behaviour change
• Positive technology
• Personalization for individuals, groups and populations
• Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation
• Web dynamics and personalization
• Privacy, perceived security and trust
• Technology and Wellbeing
• Ethics of computational research on human behaviour

Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
• E-Learning and M-Learning
• Open and Distance Learning
• User modeling and personalization in TEL
• TEL in secondary and in higher education
• New tools for TEL


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 .

All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality,
relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity.

Please note:
• All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
• All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF
format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages)
and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages).
• The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices).
• Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be
desk-rejected without review.
• Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or
that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings.
• Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation.
• Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be
accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the
work.
• All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers
after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several
special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web
Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric
Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing).


SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS

The Organizing Committee invites proposals for Special Sessions that cover any topic related
to BESC. Special Sessions can also cover any other area focusing on challenging open problems
of relevance in applications on Behavioural, Economic, and Socio-Cultural Computing.

Papers accepted in the Special Sessions will be included in the same conference volume with
those accepted in the main track and will be candidates for being invited to the journal special
issues that will be organised for BESC 2023.

The proposals for organising Special Sessions should be submitted to the Special Sessions
Chairs by the indicated deadline. A proposal should be submitted in PDF, be no longer than 2
pages in length, and contain the following:
(i) Title of the proposed Special Session.
(ii) Names, affiliations and contact information of the proposers.
(iii) Names and affiliations of the Program Committee of the proposed Special Session.
(iv) Description of the proposed Special Session, including the covered topics and the rationale
as to why it fits into the themes of BESC.
(v) A dissemination plan of the CFP for the proposed Special Session that the proposers will
undertake, if their proposal is accepted.

E-mails for submission of Special Session Proposals:
taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au / yuting AT zhejianglab.com


IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission of Special Session proposals:  10 April 2023
• Acceptance notification for Special Session proposals: 15 April 2023

• Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023
• Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023

• Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023
• Author Registration: 1 October 2023


ORGANISATION

Steering Committee Chair
• Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

General Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia

Special Session Chairs
• Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au)
• Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com)

Doctoral Symposium Chair
• Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy

Panel and Tutorial Chair
• Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China

Proceedings Chair
• Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chairs
• Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore
• Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India

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[DMANET] The many aspects of machine learning explainability in medical imaging @ CIBB 2023

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Dear colleagues,

I find this special session could be of interest for the community:

Special Session "The many aspects
of machine learning explainability in medical imaging" at the 18th
International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB 2023).

· Conference dates: 6-8 September 2022

· Location: Padova (Italy)

· Submission format: short paper (4-6 pages)

· Deadline: 30 April 2023

Submitted contributions will undergo peer review before acceptance.
The authors of all the accepted short papers presented at the
conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their
manuscripts to the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), or to a supplement in a journal such
as BMC Bioinformatics or BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

You are invited to submit a short paper (4-6 pages) describing their
original contributions in the fields of medical imaging, focusing on
explainable machine learning, visual analytics for explainable machine
learning, interpretable features, decision-making support in
healthcare, and explainable predictive models.

Please find the call for papers and all the submission details on the
conference website https://cibb2023.dei.unipd.it/

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
Best regards,

The Special Session Organizers

Salvatore Calderaro, Carmelo Militello, Francesco Prinzi, Filippo Vella


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Friday, March 24, 2023

[DMANET] [GECCO 2023] CFP for Workshop on Strict Box-Constraint Optimization Studies (SBOX-COST)

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GECCO 2023 Workshop on

Strict Box-Constraint Optimization Studies (SBOX-COST)

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2023)

July 15-19, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.

Webpage: https://sbox-cost.github.io

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## About the workshop

Benchmarking plays a critical role in the design and development of
optimization algorithms. The way in which benchmark suites are set up thus
influences the set of algorithms recommended to practitioners and biases the
goals of algorithm designers. The focus of this workshop is on benchmarking
algorithms on problems with box constraints (i.e. upper and lower limits on
the input variables defining the domain of the search space). In practical
applications, evaluating points outside of the domain is often impossible,
or not sensible, and as such, should be avoided. However, in benchmarking as
practiced today, problems are well-defined even outside of the stated
parameter ranges, which translates to the algorithms being able to safely
ignore these ranges and operate on infeasible solutions.

Setting up box constraints represents the simplest type of constraints and
gives rise to the so-called box-constrained problems. In this workshop, we
will discuss in more detail how the presence of box-constraints impacts the
performance of optimization algorithms and provide participants with a new
variant of the BBOB suite called SBOX-COST for continuous, single-objective,
noiseless optimization.

Two types of submissions will be accepted for this workshop:

1. Short papers (up to 4 pages) reporting results of new or existing
algorithms on the provided BBOB SBOX-COST suite of (box-constrained) test
functions. Please refer to the following link for the data and instructions
on how to use it: https://github.com/sbox-cost/Examples

2. Longer papers (up to 8 pages) discussing aspects related to the presence
of box-constraints.

Topics of interest (but not limited to) include:

. New insights of existing algorithms when applied to box-constrained
problems

. Performance analysis and visualization of algorithms on the provided BBOB
SBOX-COST suite of test functions

. Algorithm design for box-constrained problems

. Metrics for benchmarking algorithm performance on and complexity of
box-constrained problems

. Other aspects of box-constrained benchmarking optimization algorithms

## Submission

For paper submission instructions and templates, please see the submission
instructions https://gecco-2023.sigevo.org/Paper-Submission-Instructions

## Important (STRICT) deadline dates (preliminary)

Submission opening: February 13, 2023

Submission deadline: April 14, 2023

Notification to authors: May 3, 2023

Camera-ready papers: May 10, 2023

Author's mandatory registration: May 10, 2023

## Workshop organizers

Anna V. Kononova (Leiden University, NL), Olaf Mersmann (TH Koeln, GER),
Diederick Vermetten (Leiden University, NL), Manuel Lopez-Ibanez (The
University of Manchester, UK), Richard Allmendinger (The University of
Manchester, UK), Youngmin Kim (The University of Manchester, UK)

More information about the organizers can be found on the workshop webpage
https://sbox-cost.github.io

## Contact

Please feel free contact a.kononova@liacs.leidenuniv.nl
in case of questions.

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[DMANET] [GECCO CFP] EC+DM@GECCO 2023 - Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making

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Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (EC+DM) at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July 15-19, 2023,
Lisbon, Portugal. Please note that the conference will be held as a hybrid
conference.

Workshop webpage:
http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ecmcdm/

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About the workshop

Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or
decision-maker. Decision making tools have been found to be useful in
several such applications e.g., health care, education, environment,
transportation, business, and production. In recent years, there has also
been growing interest in merging Evolutionary Computation (EC) and
decision-making techniques for several applications. This has raised amongst
others the need to account for explainability, fairness, ethics and privacy
aspects in optimisation and decision-making. This workshop will showcase
research that is both at the interface of EC and decision making.

The workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (EC + DM) to be
held in GECCO 2023 aims to promote research on theory and applications in
the field. Topics of interest include:

* Interactive multiobjective optimisation or decision-maker in the
loop
* Visualisation to support DM in EC
* Aggregation/trade-off operators & algorithms to integrate decision
maker preferences
* Fuzzy logic-based DM techniques
* Bayesian and other DM techniques
* Interactive multiobjective optimisation for (computationally)
expensive problems
* Using surrogates (or metamodels) in DM
* Hybridisation of EC and DM
* Scalability in EC and DM
* DM and machine learning
* DM in a big data context
* DM in real-world applications
* Use of psychological tools to aid the decision-maker
* Fairness, ethics and societal considerations in EC and DM
* Explainability in EC and DM
* Accounting for trust and security in EC and DM

Submission:

We invite papers up to 8 pages relevant to the workshop and position papers
of up to 2 pages showing preliminary results. We also welcome posters,
demonstrations or presentations on ground-breaking theoretical and
application results in the field. For paper submission instructions and
templates, please see:

https://gecco-2023.sigevo.org/Paper-Submission-Instructions

Keynote talk:

Presenter:
https://titan.csit.rmit.edu.au/~e46507/
Professor Xiaodong Li (School of Computing Technologies,
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia)

Title: Decision Making in Evolutionary Optimization and Beyond

Important (STRICT) deadline dates:

* Submission opening: February 13, 2023

* Submission deadline: April 14, 2023

* Review deadline: April 28, 2023

* Workshop organizers' acceptance/rejection suggestions due: May 1,
2023

* Notification to authors: May 3, 2023

* Camera-ready papers: May 10, 2023

* Author's mandatory registration: May 10, 2023

We follow the double-blind review process. Please make your submission is
anonymous.

Contact

Please feel free to contact any of the special session organizers,
Tinkle Chugh t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk , Richard Allmendinger
richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk , Jussi Hakanen
jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi , Julia Handl julia.handl@manchester.ac.uk

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[DMANET] [CFP] 35th International Teletraffic Congress

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*35th International Teletraffic Congress*
*3-5 October, 2023, Turin*
*Website: https://itc35.itc-conference.org/*

/_*CALL FOR PAPERS*_/

/The International Teletraffic Congress (ITC) 35, to be held October
3-5, 2023 at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, is the 35th edition of this
international flagship congress in the field of networking science and
practice. ITC was founded back in 1955 by enthusiastic scientists and
engineers who were willing to deploy networks in a holistic way. Since
then, it has established a multi-decade tradition as the primary forum
for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in the broad
areas of teletraffic models, network systems, and measurements.
ITC 35 solicits cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and
experimentation in all areas of networking, ranging from traffic
engineering and control with application also to emerging
softwarized/virtualized network paradigms, up to innovative wireless
scenarios brought about by the emergence of B5G and IoT systems. ITC 35
especially encourages original contributions which bridge the gap
between performance modeling and real-life operational aspects,
including works which leverage measurement data to provide a better
understanding of the wired and wireless networks' operation under
realistic conditions. A selection of the best papers presented at the
conference will be fast tracked to Performance Evaluation and Computer
Networks journals after the conference.
ITC 35 will offer a number of _*student travel grants*_ to support
full-time students for attending._*

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/_*TOPICS*_/

*ITC 35* covers topics in the following areas:

* Performance Evaluation, Control and Optimization
* Network Measurements and Big Data
* Networking Architectures and Paradigms
* Wireless and Cellular Networks

/_*IMPORTANT DATES*_/

* *May 23, 2023:* Paper registration deadline
* *May 30, 2023:* Paper submission deadline
* *Jul. 17, 2023:* Notification date
* *Aug. 16, 2023:* Camera-ready paper and author registration deadline
* *Oct. 3-5, 2023:* Conference Date

Both full papers and short papers are welcome. Submission instructions
can be found at the conference website:
https://itc35.itc-conference.org/authors.html

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*General chairs:*

* *Markus Fiedler*, BTH, Sweden
* *Michela Meo*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

*TPC chairs:*

* *Zhiyuan Jiang*, China
* *Sara Alouf*, INRIA, France
* *Oliver Hohlfeld*, University of Kassel, Germany

*Local arrangement:*

* *Daniela Renga*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
* *Greta Vallero*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

*Publicity chairs:*

* *Martino Trevisan*, Università di Trieste, Italy
* *Yuxuan Sun*, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

*Web chair:*

* *Gianluca Perna*, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

For additional information visit *https://itc35.itc-conference.org/*
<https://itc35.itc-conference.org/>
For any questions do not hesitate to contact the conference organization
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/Best Regards,/
/*ITC 35 *//Organizing Team/

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[DMANET] PhD position

I am an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at West
Virginia University. I have a paid position available for a PhD student 
starting in August in the field of algorithms and complexity. Contact me
at pwojciec@mail.wvu.edu if you are interested.

 Dr. Piotr Wojciechowski
Assistant Professor,
LDCSEE,
West Virginia University
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[DMANET] PhD positions in discrete geometry and related areas, Charles University, Prague

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Three PhD positions in discrete geometry and related areas
are available at Charles University, Prague
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Besides the base scholarship provided by the university, the positions are
supported by a five year project "DiGeo: Fundamental Questions in Discrete
Geometry" (2023-2027) funded by the Science Foundation of the Czech Republic,
see
https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/digeo/

Expected starting date: October 1, 2023 (negotiable)

Monthly income: 11000 CZK (scholarship) + ca. 25000 CZK/month (salary)
(Health insurance paid, no tuition.)

The project is focused on problems in various areas of and related to
discrete geometry, including convexity questions for point sets,
visibility, graph drawing, crossing numbers of graphs, semialgebraic
hypergraphs, and Delauney graphs.

Possible advisors include Martin Balko, Vit Jelinek, Jan Kratochvil, Jan Kyncl,
Maria Saumell, and Pavel Valtr.

Teaching duties: max. 1 tutorial (90 minutes) per week during the semester.

Qualification requirements: Master's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant area
obtained before September 30, 2023.

When filling the positions, the gender balance in the team shall also be taken
into account.

IMPORTANT: Each successful candidate will have to apply to the standard
admission procedure at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles
University (firm application deadline April 30, 2023)
https://www.mff.cuni.cz/en/admissions/admission-procedure-in-phd-programmes/2023-2024

The application should indicate the area of interest and possible advisors and
contain:
- a short letter of motivation (research statement)
- CV
- 1-2 letters of recommendation
- transcripts of all courses and grades
- copies of academic certificates (Bc and MSc, if available),
- other optional materials, e.g., published or submitted papers, copies of
English language certificate if available, etc.
The application should be sent by an email to digeo@kam.mff.cuni.cz by
April 10, 2023.

Each applicant will be contacted by email within a few days after the deadline.

Additional information:
https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/digeo/positions.html

Informal inquires:
Pavel Valtr, valtr@kam.mff.cuni.cz, or a possible advisor
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[DMANET] PhD position in Algorithm Engineering at the University of Vienna, Austria

Are you passionate about algorithms, love to analyze them, translate them into
efficient source code, and experiment with them?

A PhD student position (University Assistant (prae doc)) at the University of
Vienna is available within the research group Theory and Applications of
Algorithms (TAA) under the supervision of Prof. Kathrin Hanauer. The successful
candidate will pursue research in the area of algorithm engineering and
efficient algorithms in the context of AI. At TAA, we offer a friendly and
inspiring working atmosphere in a young, dynamic, and diverse team and excellent
opportunities to grow both professionally and personally.

See here for further details about the position and how to apply:
https://docs.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_docs/04_Pooled_Call/_09_PC4_UniversityAssistant_Hanauer.pdf

Further information about the research group can be found here:
https://taa.cs.univie.ac.at/

Application deadline: April 4, 2023

Informal inquiries are welcome and may be sent to Kathrin Hanauer
(kathrin.hanauer@univie.ac.at).
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[DMANET] [DEADLINE APPROACHING] ACM SNTA’23 - The Sixth Workshop on Systems and Network Telemetry and Analytics

The Sixth Workshop on Systems and Network Telemetry and Analytics (ACM
SNTA'23)
in conjunction with ACM HPDC 2023 (http://www.hpdc.org/2023/)
Orlando, Florida, United States, June 16 - 23, 2023

Scope:

The tasks of systems and network telemetry are a key element for
effective operations and management of HPC and distributed computing
systems, by offering comprehensive measurement and analysis capabilities
to provide the visibility into what is occurring at any time. The tasks
will be significantly complicated with the greater complexity of
computing systems, increasing network speed, and the newly introduced
mobile and IoT devices. Such changes will render the existing telemetry
and analysis techniques outdated, and more scalable techniques may be in
place for data-driven and deeper data analysis. In addition to the
quantitative and qualitative challenges, data pressure in systems and
networks also comes from various sources such as sensors, computing
systems, networking and security devices, and other emerging computing
elements speaking with different syntax and semantics, which makes
organizing and incorporating the generated data difficult for extensive
analysis.

This workshop aims at bridging the systems and network measurement and
the latest advances in artificial intelligence and data science
technologies, to advance the performance and reliability of HPC and
distributed systems. New analysis techniques are needed in the modern
world, from the diverse angles of systems/network performance,
availability, and security. For example, real-time streaming analytics
algorithms and methods need to be explored for estimating network
performance and summarizing the traffic variables to capture the network
activities due to the network bandwidth increase. Multivariate analysis
of telemetric variables may be able to provide an intuitive,
comprehensive view of the systems and network dynamics. New logging
techniques are also needed in the future with the latest development in
the storage and archival technologies. In addition, many applications in
this area may need to address the application-specific requirements and
challenges. This workshop intends to share visions of investigating new
approaches and methods at the intersection of data sciences and
HPC/distributed computing systems.

Topic of interest (but not limited to):

- Systems and network measurement, analysis, and summarization
- Data-driven, multivariate, streaming-based data processing
- Distributed and federated machine learning
- Cybersecurity, forensics, privacy, and anonymization
- Smart instruments, edge/fog-systems, and IoTs
- Wireless, sensor, 5G/6G networks measurement and analysis
- Software/knowledge-defined-* technologies
- Advances in network and storage technologies
- Intelligent workflow, visualization, and applications
- Performance modeling, analysis, and engineering
- Design and evaluation of HPC and distributed systems
- Best practices and implementations tied to systems/network data analysis


Important dates:

Submission deadline: March 31, 2023
Author notification: April 14, 2023
Camera-ready deadline: May 2, 2023


Paper submission:

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another
journal or conference. Authors are invited to submit either a full (max
8 pages) paper or a short/work-in-progress (max 4 pages) paper. Papers
will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the
workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snta23


Organizing Committee

Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy
Eric Chan-Tin, Loyola University Chicago,  USA
Jerry Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Jinoh Kim, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA


Contact: SNTA.help@gmail.com


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Prof. Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining & Machine
Learning
Head of HPC Lab https://hpc-lab.unisalento.it
Director of Master in Applied Data Science

Department of Engineering for Innovation
University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Via per Monteroni
73100 Lecce, Italy

Voice/Fax  +39 0832 297371

Web   https://www.massimocafaro.it
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E-mail cafaro@ieee.org
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Roma

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