[DMANET] [PPSN XVI] Call for Papers, DL April 8, 2020

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we invite you to submit your recent research results to PPSN 2020:

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PPSN 2020
September 5-9, 2020
Leiden, The Netherlands
https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl
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ABOUT PPSN
The Sixteenth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN 2020) will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands on September 5-9, 2020.

PPSN was originally designed to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Natural Computing, the study of computing approaches which are gleaned from natural models. Today, the conference series has evolved and welcomes works on all types of iterative optimization heuristics. Notably, we also welcome submissions on connections between search heuristics and machine learning or other artificial intelligence approaches.

Submissions covering the entire spectrum of work, ranging from rigorously derived mathematical results to carefully crafted experimental studies, are invited.

Following PPSN's unique tradition, all accepted papers will be presented during poster sessions and will be included in the proceedings. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.

BEST PAPER AWARD
The best paper presented at PPSN 2020 will be distinguished with a €1000 Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
We are very happy to announce two confirmed keynote speakers:
Eric Postma (https://ericpostma.nl/) and Carme Torras (http://www.iri.upc.edu/people/torras/)

PPSN Program
Following PPSN tradition, the technical program is preceded by two days of workshops and tutorials. Detailed information:
tutorials: https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/tutorials/
workshops: https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/workshops/
competitions: https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/competitions/
student workshop: https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/student-workshop/

IMPORTANT DATES
• Abstract submission: 1 April 2020
• Paper submission: 8 April 2020
• Author notification: 28 May 2020
• Camera ready: 22 June 2020
• Tutorials/Workshops/Competitions/Student Workshop: 5 – 6 September 2020
• Main Conference: 7 – 9 September 2020

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
• All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
• PPSN 2020 proceedings will be published in by Springer LNCS; page limit is 12 pages excluding references via EasyChair.
• The LNCS template can be downloaded from https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
• Authors' names need not be blinded for the reviewing process.

PRE-PRINT POLICY
Prior versions of the Contribution published on non-commercial pre-print servers like ArXiv/CoRR and HAL can remain on these servers and/or can be updated with Author's accepted version. The final published version (in pdf or html/xml format) cannot be used for this purpose. Acknowledgment needs to be given to the final publication and a link must be inserted to the published Contribution on the Publisher's website, by inserting the DOI number of the article in the following sentence: "The final authenticated publication is available online at https://doi.org/[insert DOI]". More information about the Conference Proceedings Guidelines is available at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Should you have any questions about submissions to PPSN 2020, please do not hesitate to get in touch with the program chairs:
Carola Doerr, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Paris, France
Michael Emmerich, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Heike Trautmann, University of Münster, Germany
PPSN program committee: https://ppsn2020.liacs.leidenuniv.nl/program-committee/
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[DMANET] Research positions in Mexico City

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Dear colleagues,

The Computer Science Department (https://www.cs.cinvestav.mx) at Centro de
Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (http://www.cinvestav.mx ) in Mexico
City, Mexico, is looking for junior and senior researchers. The positions
are expected to be filled by September, 2020. Candidates from all areas of
Computer Science are welcome to apply.

For more information and details please visit:
https://www.cs.cinvestav.mx/BolsaTrabajo/VacanteResearcher2020

Thank you,

Dra. Dolores Lara.

Cinvestav-CS Deparment.

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[DMANET] DCOSS 2020 Call for Posters and Demos - deadline March 20 - Los Angeles - Marina del Rey

Submission deadline: 20 March 2020
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcoss2020

DCOSS 2020 will feature a poster session and a demo session that provide
opportunities for researchers and developers from academia, industry,
and government to interact with and explore the latest research results.
The presentations will provide authors with early feedback on their
research work and enable them to exchange ideas with DCOSS participants.
Besides presentations in the respective poster and demo sessions, DCOSS
will host a dedicated session where poster and demo authors will give a
short oral presentation of their work, during the main conference
program. Also, a best poster/demo award will be announced.

Posters and demos should present recent original results or ongoing
research in all aspects of sensor networks, including algorithms,
protocols, systems and applications. All submissions will be reviewed
and judged based on originality, technical contribution and,
particularly, potential to generate interesting and interactive
exchanges of ideas. Poster and Demo abstracts will be included in the
Conference Proceedings (same volume with main event papers).

Accepted posters/demos must be presented at the Conference and at least
one author for each poster/demo must be registered for the conference.

Requirements for Posters:
Poster dimension: A1 (594 x 841 mm) vertically oriented.
Poster paper: Poster papers will be included in the Proceedings of the
Conference and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Each poster
paper is limited to three (3) pages in standard IEEE Transactions
format.
Authors should highlight the leading ideas of the on-going research and
its expected outcome and impact. Poster papers should present a summary
of the research work and ideas that will be presented during the poster
session and the oral presentation.

Requirements for Demos:
Demo presentation: Research prototypes and testbeds are welcomed. The
authors will be allowed to display one A1 (594 x 841 mm) vertically
oriented poster explaining the demonstration or/and will be provided
with space to showcase their demos on their laptops/tablets, if they
wish.
Demo abstract: Demonstration abstracts are limited to 3 pages in
standard IEEE Transactions format and should highlight the leading ideas
of the on-going research and its expected outcome and impact.
All accepted abstracts will appear in hardcopy. Demonstration abstracts
should describe the demonstration activity, and, in particular, describe
special requirements for space and dedicated frequency channels, if any.

Oral presentation for Posters and Demos:
All accepted posters and demos will be allocated three (3) minutes for
oral presentation during a dedicated poster and demo session. This will
be part of the main conference. All attending authors for posters and
demos should prepare a small presentation (2-4 slides)

Submission Instructions:
Poster papers and demo abstracts should be submitted through the
EasyChair paper submission system with the indication (POSTER) or (DEMO)
in front of the Title of the Paper.
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[DMANET] correction to: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES

Apologies for reposting -- there was a typo in the previous announcement.


* CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES*
The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS
annual meeting: the Khachiyan Prize, the Farkas Prize, the Prize for Young
Researchers and the Student Paper Prize.

We seek nominations for each of the prizes, due by May 1st, 2020. Each of
the four awards includes a cash amount of US$3,000 and a citation
certificate. See https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes for
more information, including detailed eligibility requirements.


*For each award, nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via
email to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.*
*Khachiyan* Prize committee: Oktay Gunluk, Tamara Kolda, Jorge Nocedal
(chair: j-nocedal@northwestern.edu) and Alex Shapiro.

*Farkas* Prize committee: Kurt Anstreicher (chair:
kurt-anstreicher@uiowa.edu), Dick den Hertog, Rekha Thomas and Robert
Weismantel.

Prize for *Young Researchers *committee: Hande Benson, Sam Burer (chair:
samuel-burer@uiowa.edu), Santanu Dey and Siqian Shen.

*Student Paper* Prize committee: Maryam Fazel, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (char:
fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu), Daniel Kuhn and Andrea Lodi.
www.columbia.edu/~dano

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[DMANET] ACO@CMU Workshop (Pittsburgh, June 1-3)

Hello,

We are excited to announce a three-day scientific workshop themed around
the Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization program initiated at
Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1990s by Gérard Cornuéjols, Alan
Frieze and Ravi Kannan. In particular, we will honor the contributions of
Gérard Cornuéjols to ACO on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

The details of the event are as follows:

Title: ACO@CMU Workshop
Location: Pittsburgh, USA
Dates: June 1-3 (Mon/Tue/Wed), 2020

For information about registration, accommodation, and travel support,
please visit our website at

ACO@CMU Workshop Website <https://sites.google.com/view/acocmu/home>

We look forward to seeing you there!

Best,

Ahmad Abdi (LSE)
Amitabh Basu (Johns Hopkins)
Giacomo Nannicini (IBM)
Willem-Jan van Hoeve (CMU)
Kristina Vuskovic (Leeds)

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[DMANET] Call for nominations: Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2021

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2021

Awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication
Complexity <http://sirocco.hiit.fi/> (SIROCCO).
Call for Prize Nominations

Deadline for nominations: *April 30, 2020*.

Nominations are requested for the *Prize for Innovation In Distributed
Computing*. This prize was established to recognize individuals whose
research contributions expanded the collective investigative horizon in
SIROCCO <http://sirocco.hiit.fi/>'s area of interest. That is, they
formulated new problems, or identified new research areas, that were at the
time of their introduction, unorthodox and outside the mainstream, but
later attracted the interest of the SIROCCO community.

This community is interested in the relationships between information and
efficiency in decentralized computing. The prize recognizes originality,
innovation, and creativity – the qualities that reflect the spirit of the
SIROCCO conference.

The winner of the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2021 is
expected to give an invited talk at SIROCCO 2021. The winner of the 2020
edition of the prize (Amos Korman) will give a talk at *SIROCCO *2020
<https://sirocco2020.cs.uni-paderborn.de/> which is going to be held in
June 29 – July 1 in Paderborn, Germany.

Past prize winners are Nicola Santoro, Jean-Claude Bermond, David Peleg,
Roger Wattenhofer, Andrzej Pelc, Pierre Fraigniaud, Michel Raynal, Masafumi
Yamashita, Shmuel Zaks, Zvi Lotker, Paola Flocchini, and Amos Korman.

The prize may not necessarily be awarded every year.

*Eligibility*

The following conditions must be met by the nominees to be eligible for the
prize. It is requested that a nomination letter explains and demonstrates
how the nominee matches these conditions.

(1) The original innovative contribution was introduced by the nominee(s)
for the first time in a publication at least five years before the
nomination deadline, and the publication must have appeared in a conference
proceedings or a scientific journal.

(2) At least one paper (co)authored by the nominee(s), either the original
paper, or a paper closely related to the innovative contribution, must have
appeared in a SIROCCO proceedings.

A nomination letter should identify the paper(s) that make(s) the nominee
eligible according to conditions (1) and (2) above, as well as explain the
contribution, its originality, and its significance.

Past SIROCCO papers and authors can be found at indexing sites, e.g. Google
Scholar or DBLP
<http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sirocco/index.html>.

*Selection process*

The prize winners are selected by the Award Committee composed of the
current Steering Committee (SC) Chair of the SIROCCO conference, the PC
chairs, including co-chairs, of the three SIROCCO conferences immediately
preceding the nominations deadline, plus one additional member of the
Advisory Board, or one past winner, selected by the Steering Committee for
the current year.

The Award Committee of the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing
2020 consists of: Shantanu Das (Aix-Marseille Université), Keren
Censor-Hillel (Technion), Michele Flammini (University of L'Aquila), Magnus
M. Halldorsson - chair (Reykjavik University), Zvi Lotker (Ben Gurion
University of the Negev), Boaz Patt-Shamir (Tel Aviv University), Andrea
Richa (University of Arizona), Christian Scheideler (Paderborn University),
and Sébastien Tixeuil (Sorbonne Université).

Nominations can be made by any member of the scientific community.

*The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2020.*

Please send the nomination to the prize committee chair, Magnus M.
Halldorsson, by e-mail magnusmh@gmail.com. Please write "SIROCCO Prize
Nomination" *in the subject line*.

Please help in recognizing the contributions of members of our community.

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[DMANET] Call for Papers - ICPR2020 workshop on "Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition" (FAPER2020)

                     Call for Papers -- FAPER2020

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 International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition
                          F A P E R   2 0 2 0

                    workshop in conjunction with the
    25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020)
                  Milan, Italy, September 13-18, 2020

         >>> https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/ <<<

              *** Submission deadline: June 15, 2020 ***

- Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faper2020 -
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=== Aim & Scope ===

Cultural heritage, in particular fine art, has invaluable importance for
the cultural, historic, and economic growth of our societies. Fine art
is developed primarily for aesthetic purposes, and it is mainly
concerned with paintings, sculptures, and architectures. In the last few
years, due to technology improvements and drastically declining costs, a
large-scale digitization effort has been made, leading to a growing
availability of large digitized fine art collections. This availability,
along with the recent advancements in pattern recognition and computer
vision, has opened new opportunities for computer science researchers to
assist the art community with automatic tools to analyse and further
understand fine arts. Among the other benefits, a deeper understanding
of fine arts has the potential to make them more accessible to a wider
population, both in terms of fruition and creation, thus supporting the
spread of culture.

The ability to recognize meaningful patterns in fine art inherently
falls within the domain of human perception, and this perception can be
extremely hard to conceptualize. Thus, visual-related features, such as
those automatically learned by deep learning models, can be the key to
tackling problems of extracting useful representations from low-level
colour and texture features. These representations can assist in various
art-related tasks, ranging from object detection in paintings to
artistic style categorization, useful for examples in museum and art
gallery websites.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an international forum for those
who wish to present advancements in the state of the art, innovative
research, ongoing projects, and academic and industrial reports on the
application of visual pattern extraction and recognition for the better
understanding and fruition of fine arts. The workshop solicits
contributions from diverse areas such as pattern recognition, computer
vision, artificial intelligence and image processing.


=== Topics ===

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Application of machine learning and deep learning to cultural heritage
- Computer vision and multimedia data
- Generative adversarial networks for artistic data
- Augmented and virtual reality for cultural heritage
- 3D reconstruction of historical artifacts
- Historical document analysis
- Content-based retrieval in the art domain
- Speech, audio and music analysis from historical archives
- Digitally enriched museum visits
- Smart interactive experiences in cultural sites
- Projects, products or prototypes for cultural heritage restoration,
preservation and fruition


=== Submission guidelines ===

Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the Springer's Computer
Science Proceedings guidelines. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers (12-15 pages, including references)
- Short papers (6-8 pages, including references)

Accepted manuscripts will be included in the ICPR 2020 Workshop
Proceedings Springer volume. Once accepted, at least one author is
expected to attend the event and orally present the paper. Authors of
selected papers will be invited to extend and improve their
contributions for a Special Issue of the Journal of Imaging (MDPI).


=== Important Dates ===

-  June 15th 2020 - workshop submission deadline
-  July 15th 2020 - author notification
-  July 30th 2020 - camera-ready submission
-  Aug. 15th 2020 - finalized workshop program
- Sept. 18th 2020 - workshop day


=== Organizing committee ===

Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)
Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)
Fabio Bellavia (University of Palermo, Italy)


=== Venue ===

The workshop will be hosted at Milan Congress Center (Mi.Co.), which is
located in Piazzale Carlo Magno 1, Milan, Italy.

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 Contacts: gennaro.vessio@uniba.it
           giovanna.castellano@uniba.it
           fabio.bellavia@unipa.it

 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/faper-workshop/
 ICPR2020: https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/





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[DMANET] VISMAC 2020 PhD Summer School

              Call for Participation - VISMAC2020

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             V I S M A C (VISione delle MACchine)
                [in English, "Machine Vision"]

                 international summer school
         September 29th - 2nd October, Palermo, Italy

          >>> https://math.unipa.it/~vismac2020/ <<<
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=== Aim & Scope ===

The international summer school VISMAC "VISione delle MACchine" (in
English, "Machine Vision") is organized every two years by the
"Associazione Italiana per la ricerca in Computer Vision, Pattern
recognition e machine Learning" (CVPL - ex-GIRPR) affiliated to
International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). It represents
a stimulating opportunity for doctoral students, young researchers from
universities, research institutions and industry. The primary objective
of the Summer School is to provide a common scientific and cultural
background on the subjects of computer vision and pattern recognition.

This edition of VISMAC will mainly focus on four renowned research
topics: Bio-imaging, Automotive, Culture Heritage, Image forensics.

=== List of Speakers ===

Bio-imaging
- Carlo Sansone, UNINA Federico II
- Elena Casiraghi, UNIMI
- Paolo Soda, UCBM
- Francesco Tortorella, UNISA

Automotive
- Alberto Broggi, UNIPR
- Sergio Saponara, UNIPI
- Roberto Vezzani, UNIMORE
- Alessandro Rizzi, UNIMI

Culture Heritage
- Gabriele Guidi, POLIMI
- Carlo Colombo, UNIFI
- Andrea Fusiello, UNIUD
- Francesca Odone, UNIGE

Image forensics
- Francesco De Natale, UNITN
- Gian Luca Marcialis, UNICA
- Luisa Verdoliva, UNINA Federico II
- Jerian Martino, Amped Software

=== Registration ===

Early registration fee (by May 31, 2020):
- CVPL members: 500 euros
- non CVPL members: 550 euros

Late registration fee:
- CVPL members: 600 euros
- non CVPL members: 650 euros

The fee includes:
- accommodation in double or triple rooms (possible supplement for
single rooms).
- social dinner
- coffee breaks
- learning materials

School registrations are limited to forty participants, on a FIFS basis.
Registration instructions will come soon.

Accepted students can submit a poster to present their research
activity. The best poster selected by the school committee will receive
a prize sponsored by CVPL. Poster guidelines will be available soon.

=== Scientific Committee ===

Domenico Tegolo, UNIPA
 Cesare Valenti, UNIPA
Roberto Pirrone, UNIPA
 Filippo Stanco, UNICT

=== Local Committee ===

Marco E. Tabacchi, UNIPA
   Fabio Bellavia, UNIPA

=== Sponsors ===

- CVPL - Associazione Italiana per la ricerca in Computer Vision,
Pattern recognition e machine Learning (CVPL - ex-GIRPR)
- Universita' degli Studi di Palermo
- Universita' degli Studi di Catania
- CTC - Centro Interdipartimentale di Tecnologie della Conoscenza,
Universita' degli Studi di Palermo
- DMI - Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita' degli
Studi di Palermo
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 Contacts
  https://math.unipa.it/~vismac2020
  vismac2020@gmail.com

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[DMANET] Advances in Combinatorics - submissions welcome

Dear colleagues,

Advances in Combinatorics is a new arXiv overlay journal (the journal
published first articles in October 2019), which welcomes high-quality
articles about combinatorial structures such as graphs, hypergraphs, set
systems, matroids, geometrical configurations, and sets of integers,
including their algorithmic aspects. To illustrate the covered topics, I
enclose the list of articles published this year (additional three articles
are to be published during March). The average time between submission and
acceptance is currently about 8 months.

https://www.advancesincombinatorics.com/articles

* D. Mubayi, Z. Füredi, J. Verstraëte, A . Kostochka and T. Jiang: Tight
paths in convex geometric hypergraphs, Advances in Combinatorics, 2020:1,
14pp.
* R. Aharoni, M. DeVos, S. G. Hermosillo de la Maza, A. Montejano and R.
Šámal: A rainbow version of Mantel's Theorem, Advances in Combinatorics,
2020:2, 12pp.

* W. T. Gowers and O. Janzer: Improved bounds for the Erdős-Rogers
function, Advances in Combinatorics, 2020:3, 27pp.

* J. Fox and L. Sauermann: A completion of the proof of the Edge-statistics
Conjecture, Advances in Combinatorics, 2020:4, 52pp.

The aim of the journal is to become a top-level specialist journal in
combinatorics. The journal follows a model established by the journal
"Discrete Analysis" for diamond open access, i.e., it has no printed
copies; instead, the journal provides links to the published versions of
the articles on arXiv.

Editorial board: Béla Bollobás (Cambridge), Reinhard Diestel (Hamburg),
Timothy Gowers (Cambridge), Dan Kráľ (Masaryk Uni and Warwick), Daniela
Kühn (Birmingham), James Oxley (LSU), Bruce Reed (McGill), Gábor Sárközy
(WPI), Asaf Shapira (Tel Aviv), Robin Thomas (Georgia Tech)

The financial and administrative support for the journal is provided by the
Library of Queen's University in Kingston, ON.

Kind regards,

Dan Kral

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[DMANET] CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES

*CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: INFORMS OPTIMIZATION SOCIETY PRIZES*
The INFORMS Optimization Society awards four prizes annually at the INFORMS
annual meeting: the Khachiyan Prize, the Farkas Prize, the Prize for Young
Researchers and the Student Paper Prize.

We seek nominations for each of the prizes, due by May 1st, 2020. Each of
the four awards includes a cash amount of US$3,000 and a citation
certificate. See https://connect.informs.org/optimizationsociety/prizes for
more information, including detailed eligibility requirements.

For each award, nominations and inquiries should be sent directly via email
to the chair of the corresponding prize committee.

Khachiyan Prize committee: Oktay Gunluk, Tamara Kolda, Jorge Nocedal
(chair: j-nocedal@northwestern.edu) and Alex Shapiro.

Farkas Prize committee: Kurt Anstreicher (chair: kurt-anstreicher@uiowa.edu),
Dick den Hertog, Rekha Thomas and Robert Weismantel.

Prize for Young Researchers committee: Hande Benson, Sam Burer (chair:
samuel-burer@uiowa.edu), Santanu Dey and Siqian Ma.

Student Paper Prize committee: Maryam Fazel, Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (char:
fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu), Daniel Kuhn and Andrea Lodi.

Daniel Bienstock
www.columbia.edu/~dano

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[DMANET] IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020 (Call for Papers)

IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2020
38th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling,
Measurement and Evaluation
November 2nd-6th, 2020, Milan, Italyhttps://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/

The 38th International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling,
Measurement and Evaluation 2020 will be held in Milan, Italy, from 2nd
November to 6th November 2020.

The IFIP Performance conference aims to bring together researchers
interested in understanding and improving the performance of computing
and communication systems by means of state-of-the-art quantitative
models and solution techniques.
Research papers on the design of algorithms, mathematical analysis and
modeling, simulation and measurement techniques for computer systems
or communication networks are solicited.

Topics of interest include the following.

Performance-oriented methodologies including:

- Stochastic modelling, statistical analysis and simulation
- Capacity planning, resource allocation, routing, scheduling and
Quality of Service
- Energy-efficient computing and networking
- Computer architectures and operating systems
- Network architectures, protocols and congestion control
- Storage systems and datacenters

Evaluation techniques, and algorithms for:

- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Blockchains and crypto-currency
- Cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, fog computing
- Data centers, content delivery, cloud computing and virtualization
- Internet and web services
- Network economics and markets
- Security systems
- Social networks, multimedia systems and smart grid
- Wireless, ad-hoc and cellular networks

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: May 10th, 2020
Full paper submission: May 17th, 2020
Notification to authors: July 19th, 2020

PAPER SUBMISSION

Performance 2020 accepts submissions in two categories:
- Regular papers: 12 pages
- Short papers: 6 pages

Regular papers should not exceed 12 pages double-column and
single-spaced including figures, tables and references in standard ACM
format. Short papers are limited to 6 pages. In addition (both for
regular and short paper submissions), a 2-page appendix is permitted,
which is not included in the page-count. Papers must be submitted
electronically in printable pdf form. Templates for the standard ACM
format can be found at
https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Both the strict
and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to
margins, spacing or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the
style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be
returned without review.

Papers can be submitted at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=performance2020.

Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the
same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal
concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be rejected
immediately from all conferences/journals involved.

Accepted short papers (limited to 6 pages ) and abstracts of accepted
regular papers will be published in a special issue of the ACM
Performance Evaluation Review (PER).

SPECIAL ISSUES

Regular papers will be published in a special issue of the Elsevier
journal Performance Evaluation (PEVA).

Alternatively (to be confirmed), authors may opt-out in favor of
submission to other special issues in one of:
- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing
Systems (TOMPECS)
- Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications (QUESTA)
- Stochastic Systems

Authors need to make sure that their work falls within the scope of
the respective journal. All papers will be reviewed according to the
standards of the journal.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair: Danilo Ardagna (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Jim Dai (CUHK, Shenzhen, China and Cornell University, USA)
Peter Harrison (Imperial College London, UK)
Nidhi Hegde (University of Alberta, Canada)

Steering Committee:
Sem Borst , Vice-Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, TU Eindhoven and Bell Labs NOKIA
Mark S. Squillante, Chair, IFIP WG 7.3, IBM Research
Benny Van Houdt, Secretary, IFIP WG 7.3, University of Antwerp

Publication Chair
Zhenhua Liu, Stony Brook University, USA

Workshop Chair
TBA

Tutorial Chairs
Michela Meo, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Marco Mellia, Politecnico Torino, Italy

Travel grant Chairs
Marco Gribaudo, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Riccardo Lancellotti, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Publicity Chairs
Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California, USA
Cristina Rottondi, Politecnico Torino, Italy
Daniel Sadoc Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Weina Wang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Technical Program Committee:

TPC members will be forthcoming soon on the Performance 2020 web site
at https://www.performance2020.deib.polimi.it/?page_id=89.

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[DMANET] Algorithms: Special issue on "Algorithms for Shortest Paths in Dynamic and Evolving Networks" - call for contributions

Call for Contributions

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Journal: Algorithms (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms)

Special issue on "Algorithms for Shortest Paths in Dynamic and Evolving Networks"
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/Algorithms_Shortest_Paths_Networks

Guest Editors: Daniel Delling and Christos Zaroliagis

Submission deadline: 31 August 2020
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Contemporary technological infrastructures are dominated by a multitude of networks
(transportation networks, social networks, communication networks, e-commerce networks,
power networks, etc.) that are typically of a very large scale and impose as a routine
task the computation of min-cost paths, while their characteristics usually evolve with
time. The dynamicity and temporality of the network characteristics is often depicted by
some kind of predetermined dependence of the metric on the actual time that each resource
is used (e.g., traversal time of individual segments in road networks, packet-loss rate
in IT networks, arc availability in social networks, etc.).

The aim of this Special Issue is to seek new algorithmic approaches for computing shortest
paths in networks that change over time for several reasons. A typical (but nonexhaustive)
list includes network changes either due to the nature of an underlying metric (time-dependent
networks), or the insertion/deletion of nodes and arcs (dynamic networks), or the availability
of arcs at specific time slots (temporal networks), or the uncertainty of arc costs (stochastic
networks), or the fact that each arc is equipped with more than one arc-cost vector (parametric
networks).

Original contributions are solicited on new shortest-path algorithms on dynamic and evolving
networks, which can belong to the broad spectrum of design, analysis, and engineering of
algorithms, and include theoretical design and analysis, extensive experimentation and algorithm
engineering, and heuristics. Moreover, high-quality survey contributions will also be considered.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Approximate shortest-path algorithms;
- Algorithm engineering;
- Multimodal route planning;
- Uni- and multicriteria route planning;
- Parametric shortest-path algorithms;
- Shortest paths in dynamic networks;
- Shortest-path heuristics;
- Shortest paths in time-dependent networks;
- Shortest-path oracles;
- Shortest paths in temporal networks;
- Shortest paths in social networks;
- Centrality assessment in social networks;
- Stochastic shortest paths


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Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering (www.mdpi.com/register)
and logging in (www.mdpi.com/login) to this website. Once you are registered, click here
(https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/?journal=algorithms) to go to the submission form.

Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers
will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on
the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are
invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the
Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for
publication elsewhere, except conference proceedings papers. In the latter case (of conference
proceedings papers), the submitted manuscript should provide at least 40% new content.

All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for
authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions
for Authors page (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions). Algorithms is an international
peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/instructions)
before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC - https://www.mdpi.com/about/apc)
for publication in this open access (https://www.mdpi.com/about/openaccess) journal is 1000 CHF
(Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use
MDPI's English editing service (https://www.mdpi.com/authors/english) prior to publication or
during author revisions.

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[DMANET] PhD position at the department of Quantitative Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

PhD position at the department of Quantitative Economics, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University
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Are you recently graduated, or about to graduate, from a 2-year master program with emphasis on quantitative techniques? And do you want to learn how mathematical and statistical methods can be used to solve problems in economics and business? Then we have a job for you!
The Department of Quantitative Economics (QE) of the School of Business and Economics (SBE) has a vacancy for a 4-year PhD position. As a PhD you are expected to write a PhD thesis in one of the fields of expertise of the department. Topics include econometrics, operations research, actuarial sciences, and economic theory, with a strong focus on quantitative and analytical methods. Both fundamental research as well as applied topics are possible, depending on your interests.

You will contribute to research by publishing in international top journals in one or more of the fields of interest to the QE department. You also have a light task in teaching (maximally 20% of the position), in which you are expected to contribute to education by tutoring courses in, depending on your area of expertise, mathematics, statistics, or operations research. You will also be part of the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) that coordinates SBE's PhD programme.

Profile of the candidate:
• has (or is close to completion of) a 2-year MSc degree in Econometrics, Operations Research, Mathematical Economics, or a related field;
• has an interest in doing research;
• is an enthusiastic and cooperative colleague, who is willing to collaborate with the colleagues in the QE department;
• has excellent command of English (oral and writing), in particular since all teaching is in English;

Conditions of employment

The appointment concerns a fixed-term 4-year contract. Remuneration will be according to standard salary levels for PhD students starting with a salary of €2.325,00 with a yearly growth to € 2.972,00 gross a month (based on a full-time appointment). Each year the standard salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% of the yearly gross income.
You have to be willing to move to (the vicinity of) Maastricht. If you do not already live in Maastricht (or its direct surroundings), you will be eligible for an allowance for moving costs. Secondary employment conditions might apply such as a pension scheme, a corporate fitness plan, a bicycle scheme, 232 hours of yearly leave hours, and partially paid parental leave.
The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website: http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > Support > UM employees

Department of Quantitative Economics

The QE department has a strong research record in econometrics, operations research, economic theory and actuarial science. It is largely responsible for the bachelor and master programs in Econometrics and Operations Research, including Mathematical Economics, Data Science, and Actuarial Science, with yearly enrollment of around 90 bachelor and 35 master students. For more information about the department, see https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/department-quantitative-economics.

Employer
http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/

Additional information

Interested applicants should submit before the deadline of May 1, 2020 to: recruitment-sbe@maastrichtuniversity.nl.

Don't forget to mention Academic Transfer and the job number in your letter.

- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Motivation letter, including the names of the referees we might contact
- A short research statement (2 pages) in which you explain how you envision the research in the field
- Diplomas/degrees including a grade transcript of previous education at Research Master level or equivalent
- TOEFL/IELTS/Cambridge Proficiency Exam
- GMAT/GRE test score
Check https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/research/institutes/gsbe/gsbe-education for more details and possibilities for exemptions.

Inquiries may be directed to prof.dr. Dries Vermeulen (d.vermeulen@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
The successful candidate should start September 1, 2020.

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[DMANET] Scottish Combinatorics Meeting 2020 (30th April & 1st May, University of Glasgow, UK)

The 6th annual Scottish Combinatorics Meeting will be held at the University of Glasgow on Thursday 30th April and Friday 1st May 2020. For more details and a provisional programme, visit http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~kitty/scm/.

Attendance at the meeting is free of charge, but for catering purposes we ask participants to register by 5th April 2020 (via the website). We have limited funding available to support expenses incurred by UK-based research students attending the meeting; please get in touch for further details.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the London Mathematical Society, the Glasgow Mathematical Journal Learning and Research Support Fund, and the Edinburgh Mathematical Society.

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School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow

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[DMANET] Seymour is Seventy, Lyon, June 15-19. Poster submission is now open

Poster submission for Seymour is Seventy is now open, see below.
(And the registration is still open)

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Seymour is Seventy

A conference honouring the seventieth birthday of Paul Seymour
At ENS de Lyon, France
From June 15th to June 19th

https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/seymour70/

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Registration

Deadline for early bird registration : 2020, April 12
Registration fees : 250 euros (includes coffee breaks, lunches, and the banquet)
For accompanying persons, it is possible to register only for the banquet for 70 euros
Late registration fees : 300 euros
To register, follow the link from the website

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Posters

To submit a poster, please follow the instructions on the webpage.
Submit a pdf of the poster, or a paper on which the poster will be based
Deadline : March 31
Notification of acceptance : April 3

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Invited speakers

Noga Alon, Princeton University / Tel Aviv University
Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University
Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Gérard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon University
Matt DeVos, Simon Fraser University
Guoli Ding, Louisiana State University
Jacob Fox, Stanford University
András Gyárfás, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Alexandr V. Kostochka, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chun-Hung Liu, Texas A&M University
Sergey Norin, McGill University
Sang-il Oum, IBS Discrete Mathematics Group / KAIST
Bruce Reed, McGill University
Alexander Schrijver, University of Amsterdam / CWI Amsterdam
Alex Scott, University of Oxford
Sophie Spirkl, Princeton University
Benny Sudakov, ETH Zurich
Stéphan Thomassé, ENS de Lyon
Carsten Thomassen, Technical University of Denmark
Kristina Vušković, University of Leeds
Paul Wollan, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

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Organizers

Maria Chudnovsky
Sang-Il Oum
Nicolas Trotignon

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Nicolas Trotignon
CNRS, LIP, ENS de Lyon, Département d'informatique
http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/nicolas.trotignon/index.html

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[DMANET] SGT'20 (School on Graph Theory), June 7-12 2020, France

Dear all,

A Summer School in Graph Theory (SGT'20) will take place on June 7-12 2020 near Clermont-Ferrand (in Murol, France).

Lectures will be given by:
- Paul Seymour (Princeton University) : Excluding induced subgraphs
- Piotr Micek (Jagiellonian University, Kraków): Coloring geometric graphs
- Paul Wollan (University of Rome) : Graphs minors, structure and algorithms (initially planned to be shared with Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo - canceled)

Registration is now open: https://sgt2020.limos.fr/
Please note that the overall capacity is limited, so we advise to pre-register soon!

This summer school is part of a series, organized by members of the French Graph Theory community. Former editions were SGT'13 on the Oléron island, SGT'15 on the Porquerolles island, and SGT'18 in Sète.

Best wishes,

Aurélie Lagoutte
For the organizing committee

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[DMANET] PhD in Mathematics studentship/project at Cardiff University

*UK/EU applicants only. UK Research Council eligibility conditions apply.*


Applications are invited for an EPSRC funded PhD project and studentship in Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimisation, and Algorithms design/engineering at Cardiff University:

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/epsrc-dtp-studentship-in-combinatorial-models-for-optimisation-of-placement-of-refuelling-stations-and-routing-for-alternative-fuel-vehicles-in-road-network/?p80103<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flinkprotect.cudasvc.com%2Furl%3Fa%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fwww.findaphd.com%252fphds%252fproject%252fepsrc-dtp-studentship-in-combinatorial-models-for-optimisation-of-placement-of-refuelling-stations-and-routing-for-alternative-fuel-vehicles-in-road-network%252f%253fp80103%26c%3DE%2C1%2CdftZn1irgrMVt9jKcP2r1xBM0qf-YY5-XpsnxHVYVirR9bGwgz_CahQx71C9kg1ZC_VD1kYWsW54pXyX0xqQMA-HVBTI5EprHKt_2vT6bP5F%26typo%3D1&data=01%7C01%7Cgagarina%40cardiff.ac.uk%7Cc38f236fc69c40c52b8508d7b94eeff4%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1&sdata=RmfyTcld5R%2FBMTz%2Fuh1M63y68%2FxZx4hUOgKAoRA%2FWwM%3D&reserved=0>


Funding is for 4 years. The project is supervised by Andrei Gagarin, Padraig Corcoran and Rhyd Lewis.

Closing date: 16 March 2020.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend an interview in April.

Administrative enquiries:
PGR Office Mathematics: maths-pgr@cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:maths-pgr@cardiff.ac.uk>


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[DMANET] 3rd CfP: 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence

Third Call for Papers: 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
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ANTS 2020
12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence
October 26-28, 2020. Barcelona
Up-to-date information at http://www.swarm-intelligence.eu/ants2020/
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Scope of the Conference
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Swarm intelligence is the discipline that deals with the study of
self-organizing processes both in nature and in artificial systems.
Researchers in ethology and animal behavior have proposed a number of
models to explain interesting aspects of collective behaviors such as
movement coordination, shape-formation or decision making. Recently,
algorithms and methods inspired by these models have been proposed to
solve difficult problems in many domains. Among these, it is worth
mentioning ant colony optimization (ACO) and particle swarm optimization
(PSO), focusing respectively on discrete and continuous optimisation
problems. Also, Swarm robotics represents another field of techniques
derived from swarm intelligence for the design of collaborative
multi-robot systems featuring enhanced efficiency, robustness and
scalability. ANTS 2020 aims to give researchers in swarm intelligence
the opportunity to meet, to present their latest research, and to
discuss current developments and applications. The three-day conference
will be held for the first time in Barcelona, on October 26–28, 2020.

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Relevant Research Areas
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ANTS 2020 solicits contributions dealing with any aspect of swarm
intelligence.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest are:
- Behavioral models of social insects or other animal societies that can
stimulate new algorithmic approaches.
- Theoretical and empirical and research in swarm intelligence.
- Application of swarm intelligence methods (e.g., ant colony
optimisation or particle swarm optimisation) to real-world problems.
- Theoretical and experimental research in swarm robotics systems.

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Important Dates
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Submission deadline:        April 17, 2020
Notification of acceptance:    June 19, 2020
Camera ready copy:        July 3, 2020
Conference:            October 26–28, 2020

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Publication Details
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Accepted papers will be published in the LNCS conference proceedings
(Springer). The journal Swarm Intelligence will publish a special issue
dedicated to ANTS 2020 that will contain extended versions of the best
research works presented at the conference. Further details will soon be
published on the web site.

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Conference Location
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Residencia d'Investigadors
Carrer de l'Hospital, 64
08001 Barcelona

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Best Paper Award
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A best paper award will be presented at the conference. Continuing the
tradition of the ANTS Conference Series, the prize winner will receive a
sculpture of an ant expressly created for the ANTS Conference by the
Italian sculptor Matteo Pugliese.

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ANTS 2020 Organizing Committee
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++ General chair ++
Marco Dorigo and Thomas Stützle - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

++ Local organisation and publicity chair ++
Maria J. Blesa - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona
Christian Blum - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC),
Barcelona

++ Technical program chairs ++
Christian Blum - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC),
Barcelona
Heiko Hamann, University of Lübeck, Lübeck

++ Publication chair ++
Mary Katherine Heinrich, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

++ Paper submission chair ++
Volker Strobel - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels

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Further Information
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Up-to-date information will be published at the following address:
http://www.swarm-intelligence.eu/ants2020/

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[DMANET] Open position in algebra/geometry at KIT

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, invites applications for a
Professorship in Algebra / Geometry (W3) at the Institute of Algebra and Geometry.

http://www.pse.kit.edu/downloads/stellenangebote/W3-Algebra_Geometrie-20-04-20-engl.pdf




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[DMANET] ICSOC 2020 - 2nd Call For Papers

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The 18th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing
- ICSOC 2020 -
November 9-12, 2020
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://icsoc2020.connect.rs/


ICSOC, the International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, is the premier international forum for academics, industry researchers, developers, and practitioners to report and share groundbreaking work in service-oriented computing. ICSOC fosters cross-community scientific excellence by gathering experts from various disciplines, such as business-process management, distributed systems, computer networks, wireless and mobile computing, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, networking, scientific workflows, services science, data science, management science, and software engineering.

ICSOC provides a high-quality forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further our knowledge and understanding of the various aspects (e.g. application and system aspects) related to Service Computing applied to new application areas and gain insights into a variety of computing, networked, and cyber-physical systems ranging from mobile devices and Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications to large-scale cloud computing systems and the smart grid.

ICSOC 2020, the 18th event in this series, will take place in Dubai, UAE from November 9 to November 12, 2020. Following on the ICSOC tradition, it will feature visionary keynote presentations, research and industry presentations, a vision track, workshops, tool demonstrations, tutorials, and a Ph.D. track. We invite interested researchers, students, practitioners, and professionals to submit their original contributions to the research and industry tracks of ICSOC 2020.



Important Dates

n Abstract submission: May 3, 2020

n Full Paper submission: May 10, 2020

n Notification to authors: July 13, 2020

n Camera-ready papers due: August 17, 2020

n Authors registration due: August 17, 2020

n Early registration due: October 11, 2020

n Conference: November 9-12.2020

Areas of interest

ICSOC 2020 will be divided into three main tracks, the research track, the industry track, and the vision track. The research/industry tracks will focus on the following four main areas.

Focus Area-1: Service Oriented Technology Trends

This focus area targets outstanding, original contributions, including theoretical and empirical evaluations, as well as practical and industrial experiences, with emphasis on results that solve open research problems and have significant impact on the field of digital services and service-oriented computing.

Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:

* Service-oriented Engineering
* Service design, specification, discovery, customization, composition, and deployment
* Service validation and test
* Service change management
* Intelligent context-aware interfaces
* Theoretical foundations of Service Engineering
* Transformation of monolithic applications to microservices
* Run-time Service Operations and Management
* Service execution middleware
* Service monitoring and adaptive management
* Workload compliance management
* Microservices deployment and management
* Security, privacy and trust for services
* Secure service lifecycle development
* Privacy management aspects for services
* Contract based security approaches
* Secure service composition
* Trust management for services
* Services and Data
* Services for big data
* Service mining and analytics
* Data-provisioning services
* Services related linked open data
* Services on the Cloud
* Cloud service management
* Cloud workflow management
* Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers
* XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
* Workload partitioning, balancing, and transformation
* Services at the Edge
* Cloud and fog computing
* Edge service orchestration
* Lightweight service deployment and management
* Quality of Service (QoS) in edge services
* Security, privacy, and trust of edge services
* Services in the Internet of Things (IoT)/Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
* Embedded and real-time services
* RFID, sensor data, and services related to the IoT/CPS
* Services for IoT/CPS platforms and applications
* Service oriented protocols for IoT/CPS applications
* Services in Organizations, Business, and Society
* Social networks and services
* Cost and pricing of services
* Service marketplaces and ecosystems
* Innovative service business models

Focus Area-2: Industry 4.0 Technologies

Industry 4.0 (or smart manufacturing) sets the foundations for completely connected factories that are characterized by the digitization and interconnection of supply chains, production equipment and production lines, and the application of the latest advanced digital information technologies to manufacturing activities. The manufacturing paradigm championed by the Industry 4.0 brings together processes, software services and systems, machines, devices, IoT, sensors, valves, actuators, manufacturing systems, and connected digital factories. All these computer-driven systems create a virtual copy of the physical world and help make decentralized decisions with much higher degree of accuracy.

Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:

* Digital twins and digital threads
* Digital product management
* Digital manufacturing
* Digital transformation
* Digital reality
* Embedded systems
* Internet of Things in Industry 4.0
* 3D printing/additive manufacturing techniques
* Machine-To-Machine communication for smart manufacturing
* Smarter analytics
* Manufacturing Intelligence
* Smart factories
* Smart asset management
* Smart Cyber-Security in Industry 4.0
* Blockchain in Industry 4.0

Focus Area-3: Smart services, Smart data and Smart applications

Smart data systems and services support the processing and integration of data and services into a meaningful unified view to enable more effective decision making and problem solving. The decisive criterion here is not necessarily the amount of data or services available, but smart content techniques that promote not only the collection and accumulation of related data and services, but also its context, and understanding. This requires finding useful insights and discovering patterns and trends within the data and services to reveal a wider picture that is more relevant to the problem in hand and react to them.

Smart applications are context aware, intelligent and autonomous industrial strength applications that incorporate data-driven, actionable contextual insights into the user experience to enable users to more efficiently complete a desired task usually taking the form of recommendations, estimates, and suggested next course of actions in context.

Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:

* Smart Big Data
* Predictive Modeling
* Visualization & Augmented Reality
* Smarter Analytics
* Machine Learning
* Multidimensional Data
* Sensor Networks
* Smart cities
* Smart applications for the construction industry
* Smart transportation systems
* Smart logistics & distribution
* Smart agriculture and food chains
* Smart government
* Smart sensors & IoT for large scale industrial applications
* Traceability and Tracking
* Detection of data and key performance metrics to improve application efficiency
* Conceptual structures and knowledge architectures for smart applications
* Agile & DevOps methodologies for smart applications

Focus Area-4: Blockchain Technologies

A blockchain is a decentralized distributed ledger that records and stores transactions among a number of interacting parties in a network. Each transaction must be validated via a consensus mechanism executed by the network participants before being permanently added as a new "block" at the end of the "chain." Disruptive technologies such as blockchain, AI, services, and cloud enable companies and administrations to provide decentralized, trusted, transparent and user-centric digital services while enhancing user/consumer experience. These technologies have the ability to transform the way we use the internet and digital services globally. Topics that are part of this focus area may include but are not limited to:

* Blockchain in digital services
* Block chain and smart business transactions
* Block chain and smart contracts
* Blockchain in the Internet of things (IoT)
* Blockchain in cyber physical systems
* Blockchain in edge and cloud computing
* Disintermediation and collaboration mechanisms in block chains
* Peer-to-peer networks
* Block chain platforms
* Blockchain in supply chain management
* Trust and security services in block chains
* Cutting edge cipher algorithms

Paper Submission
The conference solicits outstanding original research, industry, and short (vision) papers on all aspects of service-oriented computing. Papers should clearly demonstrate the research/practical contribution(s) or a solid vision, the relevance to the field, and the relationship to prior work. Submitted papers to the research and industry tracks will be evaluated according to their rigor, significance, originality, maturity, technical quality, exposition, in addition to the practical/industrial value of the contribution (for the industry track).
The vision track solicits short papers that present new research ideas that are interesting, challenging, disruptive and have a promising technical validity but have not yet reached the maturity for the research/industry track. Papers submitted to the vision track will be evaluated based on innovation, novelty, significance, impact/far-reaching of research ideas, breakthrough, and introduction of a new research directions. All papers will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program.
Research/Industry papers should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Formatting Guidelines<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors?SGWID=0-40209-0-0-0>. Submissions must be in English. The limit length of accepted papers should be 15 pages for the Research/Industry track and 8 pages for the Vision (short paper) track (including abstract, figures and references) with a maximum of 2 extra paid pages (90EUR per extra page). All papers must be submitted electronically to the Conference Submission System<https://www.conftool.com/icsoc2019/index.php?page=index>. The final submission should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS Camera ready instructions.

For each accepted paper for any track, at least one author must attend the conference and present the paper. The deadline for identifying and registering this individual author will be at the time when the camera-ready version is submitted.

Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award, sponsored by Springer, will be given to the paper that the Program Committee judges to be the best in quality, execution, and impact among all the accepted papers in the research/industry tracks.
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS<http://www.springer.com/lncs>) series.

General Chairs
Hakim Hacid, Zayed University (ZU) Athman Bouguettaya, University of Sydney (USYD)
Program Co-chairs
Eleanna Kafeza (ZU) Boualem Benatallah (UNSW) Fabio Martinelli (IIT-CNR)



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[DMANET] Conference Announcement: Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics

Dear Colleagues,

We are thrilled to announce the first-ever conference for LGBTQ+ mathematicians in combinatorics!

The inaugural Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics Conference (QTMC) will be held at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada from June 12-14, 2020. We anticipate an exciting program featuring both invited talks by LGBTQ+ mathematicians, and a variety of contributed talks in combinatorics and related areas.

QTMC aims to address the underrepresentation and invisibility of LGBTQ+ people in the world of research mathematics. The conference will give queer and trans mathematicians a chance to network, learn, and form collaborations, in an affirming and supportive environment. Allies are welcome to attend.

To learn more, register, or submit an abstract, please visit our website<http://www.queertransmath.com>. We especially welcome paper submissions from LGBTQ+ mathematicians who are marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, or gender.

We hope to see many of you there!

Sincerely,

Rachelle Bouchat
Aram Dermenjian
Ray Karpman
Mike Zabrocki


Ray D. Karpman (Rachel Karpman)
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
pronouns: they/them or she/her
Office: Towers Hall 136
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[DMANET] PMS 2020 in Toulouse: Call for Participation & List of accepted papers

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PMS 2020
17th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling
April 15-17, 2020
Toulouse - France
https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/ <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/>

List of Accepted papers
https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13>

Registration Early bird ends March 2, 2020
https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5>

List of hotels
https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12>

Confirmed plenary speakers (abstracts available on the web site):
** Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne) - Modeling and solving complex job-shop scheduling problems
** Marjan van den Akker (Utrecht University) - Robustness in Scheduling
** Mario Vanhoucke (Ghent University) - Data Driven Project Management

Confirmed industrial plenary talk (abstract available on the web site)
** Philippe Laborie (IBM) - Industrial project and machine scheduling with Constraint Programming

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PMS is an international Workshop series initialized by the EURO PMS Working Group, devoted to project management and scheduling (https://www.euro-online.org/websites/pms/ <https://www.euro-online.org/websites/pms/>). The Workshop is held every two years in different locations around Europe. This event brings together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines of Computer Science, Operational Research, Optimisation Engineering, Mathematical Programming and Industrial Engineering. The Workshop covers theoretical results and algorithmic developments in the fields of Project Management and Scheduling, including project management and scheduling practice and applications to real-life situations.

PMS 2020 (17th International Workshop on Project Management and Scheduling) will be held in Toulouse - France - on April, 15-17, 2020 at Toulouse Business School, located in the heart of the City famous for its unique architecture which earned it the nickname la Ville Rose ("the Pink City") and counts two UNESCO World heritage sites : the Canal du Midi and and the Basilica of St. Sernin, the largest remaining Romanesque building in Europe (https://www.toulouse-visit.com/ <https://www.toulouse-visit.com/>), not to mention its famous South West French cooking and vibrating nightlife.

The Workshop website is https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/ <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/>

The Workshop will cover the following but non exhaustive list of project management and scheduling areas:
- Project Management: Network modeling, Project scheduling, Resource management, Due-date management, Project risk management, Project scheduling under uncertainty, Proactive/reactive project scheduling, Multicriteria project scheduling, Applications, Software
- Machine Scheduling: Shop scheduling, Scheduling with additional constraints, Machine assignment and scheduling, Flexible/robust scheduling, Grid scheduling, Multicriteria scheduling, Applications, Software.

The list of accepted papers is available here: https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/13>

The early bird registration ends March 2, 2020 : https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/5>

A list of hotels is available here: https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12 <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12>

For detailed information about the Workshop and the venue, please, visit the Workshop website: https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org <https://pms2020.sciencesconf.org/> or send an email to pms2020@sciencesconf.org <mailto:pms2020@sciencesconf.org>

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse !

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Christian Artigues (Workshop Chair)
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[DMANET] Call for Papers - ICPR2020 workshop on "Machine Learning Advances Environmental Science (MAES)"

             Call for Papers - MAES@ICPR2020

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 Machine Learning Advances Environmental Science (MAES@ICPR2020)

   workshop at the
 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020)
             Milan, Italy, September 13-18, 2020

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 === Important Dates ===

   June 15th 2020 - workshop submission deadline
   July 15th 2020 - author notification
   July 30th 2020 - camera-ready submission
 August 15th 2020 - finalized workshop program


 === Aim & Scope ===

Environmental data are growing steadily in volume, complexity and
diversity to Big Data mainly driven by advanced sensor technology.
Machine learning can offer superior techniques for unravelling
complexity, knowledge discovery and predictability of Big Data
environmental science.

The aim of the workshop is to provide a state-of-the-art survey of
environmental research topics that can benefit from Machine Learning
methods and techniques. To this purpose the workshop welcomes papers on
successful environmental applications of machine learning and pattern
recognition techniques to  diverse domains of Environmental Research,
for instance, recognition of biodiversity in thermal, photo and acoustic
images, natural hazards analysis and prediction, environmental remote
sensing, estimation of environmental risks, prediction of the
concentrations of pollutants in geographical areas, environmental
threshold analysis and predictive modelling, estimation of Genetical
Modified Organisms (GMO) effects on non-target species.

The workshop will be the place to make an analysis of the advances of
Machine Learning for the Environmental Science and should indicate the
open problems in environmental research that still have not properly
benefited from Machine Learning.

Extended papers of this workshop will be published as a special issue in
the journal of Environmental Modelling and Software, Elsevier.


 === Organizers ===

  Francesco Camastra, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy
 Friedrich Recknagel, University of Adelaide, Australia
    Antonino Staiano, Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Italy

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 Contacts: antonino.staiano@uniparthenope.it
francesco.camastra@uniparthenope.it

 Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/maes-icpr2020/
 ICPR2020: https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/


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