Theory Announcements: 2024

Friday, September 13, 2024

[DMANET] Highlights 2024 next week. Possibility of online participation

Dear all,

The conferences Highlights of Logic, Games, and Automata
<https://highlights-conference.org/2024/cfp> and Jewels of Automata Theory
2024 <https://highlights-conference.org/2024/jewels>will take place next
week, from Monday, September 16 to Friday, September 20, in Bordeaux,
France. Registration for in-person attendance is already closed, but for
those interested, the talks will be broadcast via Zoom.

If you wish to watch the talks online, you can request the Zoom link by
registering here:
https://framaforms.org/highlights-and-jewels-of-automata-theory-2024-1715936947

The conference program is available here:
https://highlights-conference.org/2024/program

Best regards,
The Highlights Organizing Team

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[DMANET] DeepLearn 2025

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12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
(with special focus on Large Language Models, Foundation Models and Generative AI)

DeepLearn 2025

Porto – Maia, Portugal

July 21-25, 2025

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/

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Co-organized by:

University of Maia

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

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Early registration: September 29, 2024

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SCOPE:

DeepLearn 2025 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 deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Porto.

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, etc. etc.

The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion.

Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. 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.

DeepLearn 2025 will place special emphasis on large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence.

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, DeepLearn 2025 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:

DeepLearn 2025 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be:

University of Maia
Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia
4475-690 Maia
Porto, Portugal

https://www.umaia.pt/en

STRUCTURE:

3 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.

All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.

An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes.

The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges.

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: (to be completed)

Manuela Veloso (JPMorganChase), AI, Humans, and Robots for Task Solving

PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)

Sean Benson (Amsterdam University Medical Center), [intermediate] Digital Twins and Generative AI for Personalised Medicine

Mark Derdzinski (Dexcom), [introductory] From Prototype to Production: Evaluation Strategies for Agentic Applications

Elena Giusarma (Michigan Technological University), tba

Hayit Greenspan (Tel Aviv University), tba

Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer (University of Colorado), [introductory/intermediate] Multimodal AI for Healthcare

Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers

Evan Shelhamer (DeepMind), tba

Atlas Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate] Low Rank Strikes Back in the Era of Large Language Models

Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), [advanced] Large Language Models for User Behavior Modeling: Cross-Modal Interpretation, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Simulation

Rex Ying (Yale University), [intermediate/advanced] Multimodal Foundation Models for Graph-Structured Data: Framework and Scientific Applications

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral 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 13, 2025.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning 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 13, 2025.

HACKATHON:

A hackathon will take place, where participants can work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by August 25, 2025. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate.

SPONSORS:

Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/sponsoring/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair)
José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
José Luís Reis (Maia)
Luís Paulo Reis (Porto)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/registration/

The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.

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 program activities 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://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Universidade da Maia

Universidade do Porto

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
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[DMANET] metaheuristics for optimization problems

Dear Colleague,

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

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

Topics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Special session organizers
Prof. Stefka Fidanova
Prof. Gabriel Luque

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Prof. Stefka Fidanova
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Ph. +359-2-9796642

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

Dear Colleagues,

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

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

Relevant topics include but are not limited to:

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

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

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

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

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

*Important Dates*:

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

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

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

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

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[DMANET] Final Call for Participation: ADT 2024 -- The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory

All

[Apologies for multiple postings]

The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2024;
https://preflib.github.io/adt2024/) will take place October 14 - 16, at the
Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
at Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ.

*Registration:* A link to the registration portal is available at the
conference website: https://preflib.github.io/adt2024/attending/. The early
registration deadline is September 13, after which fees will increase.

*Aims and Scope:* The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision
Theory (ADT 2024) focuses on algorithmic decision theory broadly defined,
seeking to bring together researchers and practitioners coming from diverse
areas of Computer Science, Economics, and Operations Research in order to
improve the theory and practice of modern decision support. The conference
topics include research in: preference modeling and elicitation, voting,
preference aggregation, fair division and resource allocation, coalition
formation, game theory, and matching.

*Invited Talks: *We have three great invited speakers lined up - Tracy Liu,
Jenn Wortman Vaughan, and Hervé Moulin.

*Program: *A schedule overview is available at the conference website:
https://preflib.github.io/adt2024/program/. A detailed program will be
available soon.

*Call for Posters: *ADT 2024 will hold a poster session on the evening of
October 14th, along with the welcome reception for the conference. To
submit a poster, please complete the following short form by September 13th
: https://forms.gle/3aq7E5VS4oPKHzXD7.

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[DMANET] Call for Papers. Special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics (associated to ISCO 2024) [[2nd announcement]]

CALL FOR PAPERS

In connection with the 8th International Symposium on Combinatorial
Optimization

Special Issue in Discrete Applied Mathematics

We are preparing a special issue of the journal Discrete Applied
Mathematics devoted to the
8th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2024) that
was held in
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 22-24 May 2024.

All interested researchers are invited to contribute their novel research
articles to this
special issue. Contributions arising from papers given at the symposium
should be
substantially extended, and should cite the conference paper where
appropriate.
Submissions of contributions not presented at the workshop are also welcome.

The topics should relate to the themes of the biennial ISCO series, for
example:

- combinatorial optimization
- approximation algorithms
- cutting-planes algorithms
- polyhedral combinatorics
- computational complexity
- graph and network algorithms
- linear and nonlinear (mixed-)integer programming

All submissions will be thoroughly refereed according to the high standards
of
Discrete Applied Mathematics.

The full papers must be submitted through the Editorial System of the
journal:
https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/dam/default2.aspx

To ensure that your manuscript is correctly identified for inclusion into
the special issue,
it is imperative to select 'VSI: DAM_ISCO2024' when you reach the "Article
Type" step in the
submission process. Please see the author instructions on the site for any
additional information.

The deadline for submission is 30 November 2024.

Accepted papers will be published online individually, before print
publication.

Additional information about the special issue can be obtained from the
Guest Editors.
We are looking forward to receiving your contribution.

The Guest Editors,

Amitabh Basu abasu9@jhu.edu
Marcia Fampa fampa@cos.ufrj.br
Jon Lee (Managing Co-editor) jonxlee@umich.edu
Ali Ridha Mahjoub ridha.mahjoub@lamsade.dauphine.fr

[DMANET] Call for Papers - EvoMusArt 2025 - 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (23–25 April 2025)

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Call for papers for the 14th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) · Please
distribute · Apologies for cross-posting
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The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music,
Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) will take place on 23-25 April 2025, as
part of the evo* event.

*EvoMUSART webpage: *www.evostar.org/2025/evomusart/
*Submission deadline: *1 November 2024
*Conference: *23-25 April 2024

EvoMUSART is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together
researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Neural
Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata,
Alife, and other Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and
artistic fields such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital
Games, Poetry, or Design. This conference gives researchers in the field
the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

Submissions must be at most 14 pages long, excluding references, in
Springer LNCS format. Each submission must be anonymized for a double-blind
review process.

Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and
included in the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Nature in a
dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Indicative topics include but are not limited to:

- Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry,
text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;
- Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound
effects, sound analysis, etc.;
- Systems that create artefacts such as game content, architecture,
furniture, based on aesthetic and functional criteria;
- Robotic-based Evolutionary Art and Music;
- Other related artificial or generative techniques in the fields of
Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.
- Techniques for automatic fitness assignment;
- Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is used
in conjunction with artificial intelligence techniques to produce novel
objects;
- Systems that resort to artificial intelligence approaches to perform
the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of
artistic object or resource.
- Systems in which artificial intelligence is used to promote the
creativity of a human user;
- New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;
- Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically
inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these
approaches; the resulting artefacts;
- Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;
- Contextualisation of creative AI in cultural, economic, social,
political or ecological discourse;
- Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional Response,
Surprise, Novelty;
- Representation techniques;
- Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification of
weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification;
- Validation methodologies;
- Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas;
- New models designed to promote the creative potential of biologically
inspired computation.

More information on the submission process and the topics of EvoMUSART:
www.evostar.org/2025/evomusart/

*Flyer of EvoMUSART 2025: *http://www.evostar.org/2025/flyers/evomusart

We look forward to seeing you in EvoMUSART 2025!

The EvoMUSART 2025 organisers
Penousal Machado
Colin Johnson
Iria Santos (publication chair)

[DMANET] Dutch Days of Combinatorics, Delft 25-26 March 2025. Save the date! (Dion Gijswijt)

We are happy to announce that the 2025 edition of the Dutch Days of Combinatorics will take place on 25 and 26 March on the campus of TU Delft.

We are excited to showcase some of the depth and breadth of Dutch combinatorics through talks by the following speakers:
Jop Briët (CWI),
Thekla Hamm (TU/e),
Monique Laurent (CWI/TiU), and
Tobias Müller (RUG).

Link to the website: https://sites.google.com/view/ddoc2025/

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Delft!

On behalf of the organizers,
Yuki Murakami, Dion Gijswijt.

[DMANET] Post-doc in algorithms on strings at University of Wroclaw

Hi,

I am looking for a post-doc in my project about (broadly understood)
algorithms on strings at University of Wroclaw (in Poland). The position is
intended for 12 months, starting in November 2024 (flexible).

Here are more details:
https://ii.uni.wroc.pl/media/uploads/2024/08/08/postdoc-2024docx.pdf

For full consideration, please apply until September 30, 2024. If you have
any questions, please contact me directly.

best regards,
Pawel
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[DMANET] ICDCN 2025 - Call for Posters and Demonstrations

Hi everyone,

Please find below the call for posters and demonstrations for ICDCN 2025,
with a submission deadline on the 23rd of September.

Best regards,
Fabien Dufoulon

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ICDCN 2025, the 26th International Conference on Distributed Computing and
Networking, welcomes exciting posters and demos showing promising early
research works on novel distributed computing and networking technologies
and applications. We seek participation from both industry and academia.
Selection of the posters and demos will be based on a short abstract,
evaluated based on technical merit and innovation as well as the potential
to stimulate interesting discussions and exchange of ideas at the
conference. The poster session is meant to introduce new or ongoing work
and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with
attendees. Selected
posters and demos must be presented in person and there will be no remote
presentation available.
Topics of Interest

We welcome all topics that align with the ICDCN main conference topics of
interest. See: https://cse.iith.ac.in/icdcn-2025/call_for_paper.html
Poster and demo Abstract

Poster and demo abstracts should report on research work where at least
some preliminary results are available, but they need not necessarily
describe completed work. An easel will be provided for all posters. All
poster abstract submissions must strictly adhere to the formatting
guidelines specified below.
Submission and Formatting Instructions

Poster submissions should be no more than 2 pages and must follow a
double-column format. For more details, refer to the webpage
<https://cse.iith.ac.in/icdcn-2025/call_for_poster.html>.
Acceptance and Presentation Information

At least one author of each accepted poster must register for the
conference designated rates and present the poster in person.
Important Dates and Submission Link

At least one author of each accepted poster must register for the
conference designated rates and present the poster in person.

- Submission Deadline: *September 23, 2024, 11:59:59pm AoE*
- Notification of acceptance:* October 07, 2024, 11:59:59pm AoE*
- Camera-ready Submission:* October 21, 2024, 11:59:59pm AoE*
- Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icdcn2025

If you have any questions, please contact the poster and demo chairs: Suchetana
Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India.
suchetana@iitj.ac.in and Shantanu Pal, Deakin University, Melbourne,
Australia. shantanu.pal@deakin.edu.au

[DMANET] Call for Paper "Artificial Intelligence for Finance Domain"

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The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2025) -

Artificial Intelligence for Financial Domain (AIFD)

March 31 - April 4, 2025 in Sicily, Italy

https://acm-sac-aifd.dieti.unina.it/

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Overview
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In the last decade, the increasing amount of data produced in the financial sector has focused the attention of scholars and practitioners on their application, using Big Data Analytics techniques and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to address interesting economic questions. These analyses are increasingly used in the finance sector to deal with, but are not limited to, the following issues: (i) the actual economic problem involves lots of variables; (ii) the impact of the variables is highly nonlinear or involves interaction terms among the variables (high dimensionality of function class); and (iii) forecasting is economically more important than statistical inference.

To address several open research issues regarding the analysis of the financial domain, this track aims at soliciting contributions highlighting challenges, state-of-the-art, and solutions to a set of currently unresolved key questions to model complex interactions and relations, and their dynamics and impact on big financial data analytics and complex financial behaviors across financial markets, regulation, and risk management.

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Topics of interest

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Topics of interest for ACM SAC2025 - AFID include but are not limited to:

- Graph representation learning, mining learning on graph structures from financial data;

- Social Network Analysis for supporting financial applications (e.g., Stock Forecasting, Credit Score, Portfolio Optimization, Robot Advisor, Trading);

- Application of Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze unstructured information for supporting financial applications (e.g., Stock Forecasting, Credit Score, Portfolio Optimization, Robot Advisor, Trading);

- Multi-modal models for supporting financial applications (e.g., Stock Forecasting, Credit Score, Portfolio Optimization, Robot Advisor, Trading);

- Modeling natural, online, social, economic, cultural, and political factors in finance;

- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) event discovery, evaluation, and impact assessment;

- Anomaly Detection in financial data to support different applications;

- Representation learning, natural language processing, and time series prediction in financial domain;

- Multi-agent systems and game-theoretic analysis of financial domain;

- Security, and privacy of AI & ML systems in the financial domain;

- eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) methodologies in the financial domain.

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Important Dates

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- Paper submission deadline: September 20, 2024

- Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024

- Camera-ready submission: November 29, 2024

- Registration Deadline: December 6, 2024

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Submission Guidelines
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Authors are invited to submit English-language research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. Papers must be submitted as a single PDF document, via the Easychair system.

Submissions must conform to ACM format and should not exceed 8 pages with the option for up to 2 additional pages. Each paper will be double-blindly reviewed by at least three reviewers; this is an ACM requirement as SAC is a "Refereed Conference". Please adhere to this requirement when you prepare for your paper. Double-blindly means that the author of a paper does not know the reviewers of his/her paper and reviewers do not know the authors of the papers they reviewed.

One author of an accepted paper must register to SAC 2025 to have the paper published. Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

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Track Chairs
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Giancarlo Sperlì, University of Federico II Napoli, Italy

Fabio Mercorio, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi), India

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Giancarlo Sperlì, Ph.D.
Tenured Assistant Professor (RTD-B),
University of Naples "Federico II",
Room 3.21 Building 3/A,
Via Claudio 21,
80125 Napoli
Phone: (+39) 081-7683849
Mail: giancarlo.sperli@unina.it <mailto:giancarlo.sperli@unina.it>
Mail: giancarlo.sperli@consorzio-cini.it <mailto:giancarlo.sperli@consorzio-cini.it>
WWW: http://wpage.unina.it/giancarlo.sperli/
PICUSLab: https://picuslab.dieti.unina.it/
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[DMANET] Final call: Kolkom 2024 in Heidelberg

The 41st Colloquium on Combinatorics in held in Heidelberg on 11th and
12th October 2024.

Conference webpage: https://web.ifi.uni-heidelberg.de/kolkom24

Invited plenary speakers:
Julia Böttcher, LSE
Zdenek Dvorak, Charles University Prague
Torsten Mütze, University of Kassel
Konstantinos Panagiotou, LMU Munich

We welcome contributed 20 minutes talks. Abstract submission deadline:
24th September 2024

Registration deadline: 22nd September 2024
Abstract submission deadline 29th September 2024

Conference fee: 100€
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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

[DMANET] CO@Work2024 online: starting next week

Dear colleagues,

The free online version of the CO@Work summer school will start in a few days. From September 16 to 27, around 30 experts from various countries and industries will give Zoom lectures (~3h per day) on the computational aspects of Optimization and ML in industry practice. You are cordially invited to join the whole conference or selected presentations.

Register now: https://fico.zoom.us/webinar/register/6717167212065/WN_fS08JjOERP2uTd6H9_aMKA or find more information at https://co-at-work.zib.de/
See you online,
Timo

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[DMANET] Two PhD Positions in Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

The Computer Science Department of Aalborg University offers two
prestigious PhD scholarships in the field of quantum computing, funded
by DeiC and Villum Foundation.

The PhD projects propose to combine formal methods with machine learning
techniques to verify existent and synthesize novel quantum circuits.
Potential applications will include quantum chemistry and quantum
optimization.

The candidates should have a strong background in at least one of the
following areas: quantum computing, machine learning, formal methods.
Proficiency in Python is desired, ideally Qiskit or PyTorch/TensorFlow.

Applications should be submitted by the 10th of October:

https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/1219217

Interested applicants are welcome to contact
Kim Guldstrand Larsen <kgl@cs.aau.dk>
Max Tschaikowski <tschaikowski@cs.aau.dk>
Christian Schilling <christianms@cs.aau.dk>

The selected candidates will be part of the internationally renowned
DEIS group, headed by Kim Guldstrand Larsen, holder of a Villum
Investigator Grant and former recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant.
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[DMANET] 13th GameNets 2025: Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

the 13th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets)
will be held at Magdalene College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, March 17-18, 2025.

Foundational work is solicited on topics including but not limited to:

– Game theory for networks, including wireless and vehicular networks
– Congestion analysis and network design
– Traffic networks and equilibria
– Mechanism Design for Networks
– Game theory for social and biological networks
– Network pricing and resource allocation
– Game theory as applied to e-commerce and economic networks
– Game theory for emerging technologies
– Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
– Fairness in Resource Allocation
– Cooperative and Coalition games
– Collusion detection approaches
– Game theory for network security/resilience
– Approaches for Multi-agent games (e.g., Diplomacy)

SUBMISSION SERVER AND DEADLINE

Paper submissions will be handled through EasyChair. Please use the following link to submit your paper:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gamenets2025

Full Paper Submission deadline: 15th October, 2024.
Notification deadline: 15th December, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: 15th January, 2025.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:
1. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation: https://dl.acm.org/journal/teac
2. ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems: https://dl.acm.org/journal/jats

Further details on the call for papers, including the program committee members and invited speakers can be found on the website at https://gamenets.eai-conferences.org/2025/submission/.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us: gamenets2025@easychair.org

Best regards,
Vaneet Aggarwal, Tobias Harks and Sanjiv Kapoor
GAMENETS 2025 PC Co-Chairs and General Chair
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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

[DMANET] CSoNet 2024 - CFP

CSoNet 2024: The 13th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks

Website: https://csonet-conf.github.io/csonet24/index.html
Time: Dec 16, 2023 - Dec 18, 2024
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Paper Submission: September 19, 2024

CSoNet 2024 provides a premier interdisciplinary forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from all fields of big data networks, such as billion-scale network computing, data network analysis, mining, security and privacy, and deep learning. CSoNet 2024 seeks to address emerging yet important computational problems, with a focus on the fundamental background, theoretical technology development, and real-world applications associated with big data network analysis, modeling, and deep learning. The conference solicits theoretical, methodological, empirical, and experimental research reporting original and unpublished results on computational big data networks.

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and indexed by ISI (CPCI-S, included in ISI Web of Science), EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, MathSciNet, etc. Also, extended versions of selected best papers will be invited for publication in Journal of Combinatorial Optimization and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

**Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Real-world Complex Networks Analysis
• Representation Learning on Networks
• Big Data Analysis
• Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Real-world Networks
• Network Structure Analysis and Dynamics Optimization
• Data Network Design and Architecture
• Information Diffusion Models and Techniques
• Security and Privacy in Data Networks
• Efficient Algorithms for Large-scale Data Networks Computing
• Reputation and Trust in Social Media
• Energy Efficiency in Mobile Data Networks
• Natural Language Understanding for Network Analysis
• E-commerce and Social Media Marketing
• Deep Learning on Graphs and its Application
• Stock Market Prediction and Stock Recommendation
• Multidimensional graph analysis
• Algorithmic fairness in network analysis and graph mining

**Important Dates:
Paper Submission: September 19, 2024
Acceptance Notification: November 5, 2024
Camera Ready & Registration: November 15, 2024
Conference Dates: December 16-18, 2024

**Submission Guidelines
Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines:
Papers must be formatted using the LNCS format (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip) without altering margins or the font point. The maximum length of a regular paper (including references) is 12 pages; 6 pages for a short paper; and 2 pages for an extended abstract.

**Organizations
General Co-chairs
Sabrina Gaito<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vUmucpoAAAAJ&hl=en> – University of Milan, Italy
Sanya Mitaim<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KhTCPuEAAAAJ&hl=en> – Thammasat University, Thailand

TPC Co-Chairs
Janos Kertesz<https://people.ceu.edu/janos_kertesz> – Central European University
Bo Li<https://www4.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~bo2li/> – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Thepchai Supnithi<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jnkl-MUAAAAJ&hl=en> – National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand

Special Track Program Co-Chairs
Phisan Kaewprapha<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MQLWEjYAAAAJ&hl=th> – Thammasat University, Thailand
Akkharawoot Takhom<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=u1OHW6cAAAAJ&hl=en> – Thammasat University, Thailand

Publicity Co-Chairs
Teeradaj Racharak<https://sites.google.com/view/teeradaj> – Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Kwanrutai Saclim – Yala Rajabhat University, Thailand

Steering Committee
My T. Thai (Chair) – University of Florida
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo – University of Texas at San Antonio
Zhi-Li Zhang – University of Minnesota
Weili Wu – University of Texas, Dallas

[DMANET] Joint CFP for Workshop Papers at ACM/IFIP Middleware 2024

Dear Middleware researchers,

We invite submissions for four workshops to be held alongside the ACM Middleware 2024 conference, taking place from December 2 to 6 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. The workshops will explore cutting-edge topics in middleware technology, including container management, digital twins, computing continuum, and serverless computing. We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners presenting novel ideas, tools, techniques, and experiences.

Important Dates:

* Workshop paper submission: September 25, 2024
* Workshop paper notification: October 20, 2024
* Workshop camera-ready submission: October 27, 2024

Papers should be no longer than six pages (including references) in the standard ACM format. One author of each accepted paper must register fully for the conference. Accepted papers will feature in the ACM Middleware companion proceedings and be accessible in the ACM Digital Library.

We look forward to receiving your submissions and engaging in vibrant discussions on the latest advancements in middleware technologies.

10th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC10)
This workshop invites contributions on Serverless Computing, focusing on integration with Kubernetes and exploration in hybrid cloud, edge, and IoT environments. Submissions may include research and experience papers, demonstrations, and live presentations. The workshop will address topics like serverless applications in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and the use of generative AI technologies such as Large Language Models. Held in a hybrid format, the event aims to discuss resource optimization, scaling, and other challenges in next-gen computing.
Details and submission: https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/wosc10/

10th International Workshop on Container Technologies and Container Clouds (WoC)
The workshop invites submissions focused on addressing the challenges and solutions associated with running containerized workloads in clustered environments. It solicits contributions from academia and industry that explore topics like scalability, performance, security, and high availability of container management systems. Specific areas of interest include container use cases in machine learning (MLOps), multi-host network architectures, orchestration models, migration of traditional workloads, as well as the of containers in HPC, Big Data, and IoT applications. Comparative studies with other virtualization technologies and innovative solutions to operational challenges are also welcomed.
Details and submission: https://sites.google.com/view/woc24

2nd International Workshop on Middleware for the Computing Continuum (Mid4CC-24)
This workshop emphasizes middleware that bridges the complexity between Computing Continuum infrastructures and user requirements, aiming to enhance integration and usability across diverse computing environments, including Cloud, Fog/Edge, IoT, mobile devices, and HPC. Key topics are resource management, service provisioning, data governance, security, and QoS management. Papers should present original work, possibly focusing on domains like Smart Cities and Health. Selected works may be demonstrated live. A "Best Paper Award" will be presented.
Details and submission: https://mid4cc.netsons.org/2024/

2nd International Workshop on Middleware for Digital Twins (Midd4DT)
The workshop invites submissions focused on middleware technologies for Digital Twin applications in IoT. Papers should explore cutting-edge tools, models, architectures, and algorithms that integrate middleware with DT in various IoT applications. Topics include advancements in DT-enabled middleware, middleware modernization, DT services and protocols, DT in 5G/6G environments, software engineering, standardization, ontology modeling, and DT applications in areas like smart cities and healthcare. Submissions on both theoretical advancements and practical implementations are welcome.
Details and submission: https://hakiri.github.io/MIDD4DT-24

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Janick Edinger

Middleware 2024 Workshop Chair

[DMANET] MIPLIB 2024 Submissions Now Open

MIPLIB, short for Mixed-Integer Programming Library, is the standard
test set used to compare mixed-integer solvers. It was first released in
1992 by Robert E. Bixby, E.A. Boyd, and R.R. Indovina. Naturally, as
mixed-integer solvers become more accessible, more industries integrated
mixed-integer solvers, and the size of instances increased, new
iterations of MIPLIB were required. Releases followed in 1996, 2003,
2010, and 2017, with these releases following an unofficial seven year
schedule. The customary seven years has now passed since the last
release, and a new iteration of MIPLIB, MIPLIB 2024, is being put together.

In its current state, MIPLIB 2017 serves as the standard benchmark set
for comparing the performance of different mixed-integer solvers. It was
compiled by a group of 21 interested researchers, including
representatives of the development teams of nine mixed-integer solvers,
with submissions derived from 66 unique submitters (including bulk
submissions from online optimization servers and optimization
competitions). Nevertheless, the mixed-integer landscape has changed in
seven years. New applications of mixed-integer solvers have arisen, and
an increasing amount of industries are now using mixed-integer solvers.
Therefore, we are advertising the now open submissions for MIPLIB 2024:
https://miplibsubmissions.zib.de/

To emphasize the importance of MIPLIB: It is the standard benchmark
library for mixed-integer solvers. Having one of your instances included
in this benchmark guarantees that mixed-integer solvers as a whole try
and improve solution time on the included instance. If the instance is
representative, then performance will at least partly generalize to
other similar instances that you might have. It also guarantees that
academics will regularly consider new solving techniques for your
instance. Having as many industries and applications represented as
possible is critical for MIPLIB 2024 to be an appropriate benchmark for
mixed-integer solvers. Please submit any and all instances you are
comfortable sharing to: https://miplibsubmissions.zib.de/

Deadline: 30.11.2024
Instance specifications: Anything that is classified as a mixed-integer
linear program (this includes binary and integer programs). Instances
containing indicator and SOS constraints are also welcome.

[DMANET] Postdoc position available at HEC Liège (Univeristy of Liège, Belgium)

A one year postdoc position on topics related with diversification in
portfolio optimization is currently available under my supervision at
HEC Liège (University of Liège, Belgium).
https://www.hec.uliege.be/cms/c_7098604/en/hec

Applicants should hold a PhD in Operations Research, Management Science,
Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field. A good experience in
stochastic/robust optimization and/or portfolio optimization would be
appreciated.

Candidates should send a letter of motivation and full CV to Bernard
Fortz <bernard.fortz@uliege.be> by September 30.

[DMANET] EJCO Special Issue: "Recent advances in using machine learning for optimization"

Call for Papers:

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special Issue: "Recent advances in using machine learning for optimization"

This special issue is on the occasion of EURO 2024 in Copenhagen, EJCO invites submission of high-quality and innovative papers focusing on the intersection and interplay of optimization and machine learning. This call for papers is open to the entire community of academics and practitioners. Both methodological contributions and innovative applications, typically validated through convincing computational experiments are equally welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Learning-based Optimization Algorithms
* End-to-End Learning and Optimization
* Machine learning for Decision-Making under Uncertainty
* Hybrid algorithms combining machine learning and traditional optimization techniques
* Large Language Models for OR Modelling
* Joint Models of Prediction and Optimization
* Machine learning targeting applications in logistics, transportation, finance, healthcare, energy, and other domains

All contributions will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of the EJCO journal.

Deadline for submission: Dec 15, 2024.

Guest editors: Bissan Ghaddar (bghaddar@ivey.ca<mailto:bghaddar@ivey.ca>) and Markus Leitner (m.leitner@vu.nl<mailto:m.leitner@vu.nl>)

Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro-journal-on-computational-optimization/about/call-for-papers#recent-advances-in-using-machine-learning-for-optimization

Additional information about the special issue can be obtained from the Guest Editors.

We look forward to receiving your contribution.

Bissan Ghaddar
Markus Leitner

[DMANET] EWSN'24: Calls for Posters & Demos

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EWSN'24: Calls for Posters & Demos
December 10-13, 2024 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
https://ewsn24.tii.ae/call-for-posters-demos.html
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The International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks
(EWSN) is a highly selective single-track international conference
that delves into the latest research on embedded systems and wireless
networking. These are key enablers for scenarios such as the Internet
of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems.

*** SCOPE ***

EWSN 2024 invites poster and demo submissions. The poster session will
serve as a forum for researchers to present ongoing work and receive
early feedback from peers, while the demo session will showcase real
prototypes and systems. The best paper/demo award will be granted with
€ 1,000 each.
Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to those of
the EWSN'24 Call for Papers (see
https://ewsn24.tii.ae/calls-submission.html#cfp).

*** SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ***

The poster and demo co-chairs will review and evaluate each submission
based on its quality and potential to stimulate lively discussions
during the conference.
- Format: Submit a 2-page abstract (plus one additional page for demos
describing the setup). Use the LaTeX template provided. Submissions
should be formatted to an 8.5x11 (letter) two-column layout with
10-point font.
- Title: The abstracts' title must be prepended with ''Poster: '' or
''Demo: '' as applicable.
- Anonymity: all submissions should not be anonymized, i.e., the
abstracts should include all authors' names, affiliations, and contact
details.

Posters and demo abstracts are submitted using HotCRP:
- Posters: https://ewsn2024posters.hotcrp.com/
- Demos: https://ewsn2024demos.hotcrp.com/
Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings and
indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

*** ON-SITE POSTERS AND DEMO SESSION PROCESS ***

The organization of the poster and demo session during the conference
embraces two major aspects:
- One-minute madness: The poster and demo displays will be preceded by
a quick introductory session. This is intended to pitch your
poster/demo and intrigue the audience to visit your stand.
- Digital presentation: Posters will be displayed on digital A1
displays, supporting multimedia elements (videos are allowed, but
there is no sound). There will be no poster stands or walls. The
display of all posters and demos is restricted to a dedicated poster
session.

*** IMPORTANT DATES & DEADLINES ***

- Submission Deadline: September 22, 2024 (AoE)
- Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2024
- Camera-ready Deadline: October 6, 2024
- Posters and Demos session at EWSN 2024: December 11, 2024

*** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ***

- Christian Renner (Hamburg University of Technology, Germany)
- Martin Andreoni (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE)
- Longfei Shanguan (University of Pittsburgh, United States)

This call encourages a wide range of contributions, particularly
welcoming early-stage work from students and supplementary materials
from authors of full papers (accepted or otherwise). EWSN 2024 will
also support several travel grants for students and women in science
(see https://ewsn24.tii.ae/grants.html). If you have any questions
about the suitability of your topic or submission, please contact the
poster and demo co-chairs.

We look forward to your innovative contributions and an exciting
exchange of ideas at EWSN. For more information on submission
guidelines and event details, please visit our website:
https://ewsn24.tii.ae/call-for-posters-demos.html.

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Monday, September 9, 2024

[DMANET] Postdoc position in Operations Research - UFSCar/Brazil

FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Production Engineering
(DEP) of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos / São
Paulo, Brazil

Topic: The Vehicle Allocation Problem with Uncertain Parameters: Robust
Optimization and Stochastic Programming Approaches

Supervisors: Prof. Reinaldo Morabito and Prof. Pedro Munari – DEP/UFSCar

The Operations Research Group at DEP/UFSCar is accepting applications for 1
postdoctoral position. The research project involves developing robust
optimization and stochastic programming models and methods for the vehicle
allocation problem.

The selection will be based on the candidates' curriculum vitae and their
potential contribution to this project, as well as to the associated FAPESP
Thematic Project: "Cutting, packing, lot-sizing, production scheduling,
routing, location problems, and their integration in industrial and
logistical contexts." Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. in areas
related to Operations Research. The full guidelines are available at
http://fapesp.br/bolsas/pd.

Interested applicants should submit a letter of recommendation, a letter of
interest, and a CV (for Brazilian applicants, the CV-Lattes). All
documentation must be sent by September 30, 2024, in a single PDF file to
both e-mail addresses: morabito@ufscar.br and munari@dep.ufscar.br.

The position is open to both Brazilian and foreign candidates. The selected
candidate will receive a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship with a monthly
stipend of R$ 12,000.00, plus reimbursement for social security
contributions (INSS), a Technical Reserve (www.fapesp.br/rt), and the
possibility of a Research Internship Abroad Scholarship (
www.fapesp.br/bolsas/bepe).

If the postdoctoral fellow resides in a location different and distant from
São Carlos/Brazil, they may also receive support from FAPESP for relocation
to São Carlos.

Project Summary: The Vehicle Allocation Problem (VAP) involves allocating a
fleet of vehicles to meet the estimated cargo transport demand between
terminals over a finite time horizon with multiple periods. The objective
is to maximize the profit generated by services performed with the own
fleet, considering demand forecasts. In some cases, the goal is to minimize
the cost of meeting all demand, potentially requiring the hiring of
additional third-party vehicles. The real-world instances faced by cargo
carriers are considerably large, making it difficult to obtain optimal
solutions within acceptable computational times. Thus, the literature has
focused on developing heuristic methods that provide good solutions within
practical computational tolerances. In some cases, customized exact methods
have also been developed and applied to handle deterministic versions of
the problem within reasonable computational times. This postdoctoral
research project aims to extend exact and heuristic approaches to account
for uncertainties in the problem parameters, particularly in customer
demands, vehicle availability, and vehicle travel times. Models and
approaches using stochastic programming and robust optimization for the
problem will be developed and tested to generate solutions more immune to
parameter uncertainties.

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Prof. Dr. Pedro Munari
Associate Professor, Operations Research Group
Production Engineering Department, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
http://www.dep.ufscar.br/munari/

[DMANET] Call for Proposals: Dagstuhl Seminars and Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshops (Deadline November 1, 2024)

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik is accepting proposals
for scientific seminars and workshops in all areas of computer science,
in particular also in connection with other fields.

If accepted, the event will be hosted in the seclusion of Dagstuhl's
well known, own, dedicated facilities in Wadern on the western fringe of
Germany. Moreover, the Dagstuhl office will assume most of the
organizational and administrative work, and the Dagstuhl scientific
staff will support the organizers in preparing, running, and documenting
the event. Thanks to subsidies, the costs are very low for participants.

Dagstuhl events are typically proposed by a group of three to four
outstanding researchers of different affiliations. This organizer team
should represent a range of research communities and reflect Dagstuhl's
international orientation. More information, in particular details about
event form and setup as well as the proposal form and the proposing
process, can be found on

https://www.dagstuhl.de/dsproposal

Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik is funded by the
German federal and state governments. It pursues a mission of furthering
world class research in computer science by facilitating communication
and interaction between researchers.

Important Dates:
* Proposal submission: October 15 to November 1, 2024
* Notification: February 2025
* Seminar dates: Between November 2025 and September 2026 (tentative)
All dates and deadlines can be found on the submission system homepage:

https://dosa.dagstuhl.de

If you can think of someone who should be proposing a Dagstuhl Seminar,
please let them know about this Call for Proposals.
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[DMANET] STACS 2025: Second Call for Papers

This is the second announcement of the Call for Papers for STACS 2025.
The submission deadline is September 26th!

=== STACS'25: Call for Papers ===

The 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer
Science is planned to take place from March 4th to March 7th in Jena,
Germany https://www.stacs2025.de/.

STACS 2025 will consist of two tracks, A and B. Track A focuses on
algorithms, data structures and complexity, while track B focuses on
automata, logic, semantics, and theory of programming.

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer science.
Topics covered by the tracks include, but are not limited to the
following:

Track A. Algorithms, Data Structures and Complexity

Design of parallel algorithms
Distributed algorithms
Approximation algorithms
Parameterized algorithms
Randomized algorithms
Analysis of algorithms
Combinatorics of data structures
Computational geometry
Cryptography
Algorithms for machine learning
Algorithmic game theory
Quantum algorithms
Computational and structural complexity theory
Parameterised complexity
Randomness in computation

Track B. Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming

Automata theory
Games and multi-agent systems
Algebraic and categorical methods
Models of computation
Concurrency
Timed systems
Finite model theory
Database theory
Semantics
Type systems
Program analysis
Specification and verification
Rewriting and deduction
Learning theory
Logical aspects of computability and complexity

== Important Dates ==

Submission deadline: 26 September 2024, 23:59 AoE
Rebuttal: 15-21 November 2024
Notification: 16 December 2024
Camera ready: mid-January 2025
Conference: 4-7 March 2025

== Submissions ==

Submissions should be made through EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2025

For more information on submission format, conflicts of interest,
rebuttal, etc., see https://www.stacs2025.de/ .
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[DMANET] CFP Track Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '25) - ACM SAC 2025

Track on Accessible Devices and Technologies (ADT '25)

Sicily, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025

Part of the 40thACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '25)

https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025
<https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025>

https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/ <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/>

Theme and Scope

Modern devices and technologies can represent a digital barrier for
users with disabilities, but they can be exploited to become enabling
tools for them. Accessibility of devices and technologies is a critical
topic to allow inclusion of all users, especially due to the European
laws that impose accessibility for new products and the definition of an
updated version of WCAG (Web Accessibility Guidelines). This track
invites scientists, engineers, and decision-makers from government,
industry, and academia to present technical papers on their research and
development results in areas of accessibility.

This track can interest many researchers since it would give the chance
to face a wide range of topics, i.e., web or mobile technologies, with
different points of view, taking into account specific technological
constraints and digital barriers. It is well-known that the so-called
"curb cut effect" can be applied to any technological and digital
context (in terms of devices, content, and services): technologies that
were originally meant to benefit people with disabilities can help any
other users. Moreover, the history and the evolution of several
technologies have been influenced and/or motivated by the special needs
of people with disabilities.

We welcome submission on a wide range of topics, including but not
limited to:

Accessible devices/assistive technologies: assistive technologies
refer to all the assistive, adaptive, and rehabilitative devices for
people with disabilities that enable users to perform tasks they
were formerly unable to accomplish. On the one hand, the widespread
diffusion of new devices and technologies stimulates researchers to
find and apply new solutions to make them accessible to anyone. On
the other hand, experiences in accessibility-related fields have
been exploited and have provided benefits to users equipped with
non-conventional devices when they emerged in the market.

Accessible solutions for e-learning, e-commerce, e-banking, etc:
e-services and content often require specific technologies, being
bounded by specific constraints when accessed by people with
disabilities equipped with assistive technologies. Specific
interaction modalities may affect interactive service access, while
richness and quantity of content may affect the users' ability to
process information.

Accessible content: e-books, accessible TV, accessible broadcasting,
etc.

Accessibility of games.

AI for Accessibility: AI can be exploited both for personalization
(i.e., integrating AI-based personalization to support specific and
special needs) and "enabler" (i.e., exploiting LLM to support the
creation of accessible applications).

Submission Guidelines

We would like to invite authors to submit papers on research on the
Accessibility area, with particular emphasis on assessing the current
state of the art and identifying future directions. Original papers
addressing any of the listed topics of interest (or related topics) will
be considered. Each submitted paper will be fully refereed and undergo a
double-blind review process by at least three referees. Accepted papers
will be included in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings and published in the
ACM digital library, being indexed by Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge and
Scopus.

The track accepts full papers (max 8 pages), posters (max 2 pages), and
SRC abstracts (max 2 pages). Submissions should be properly anonymized
to facilitate blind reviewing. Papers that will receive high reviews
(that is acceptable by reviewer standard) but will not be accepted due
to space limitations can be invited for poster session. Authors of
accepted papers must be prepared to sign a copyright statement and must
pay the registration fee and guarantee that their paper will be
presented at the conference. No-show of scheduled papers will result in
excluding the papers from the ACM Digital Library.

See the track website https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025
<https://sites.google.com/view/adt-sac-2025>for more details.

Important Dates

September 20, 2024, 11:59 PM (UTC+0.00): Submission of regular
papers and SRC research abstracts

October 30, 2024: Notification of papers, posters, and SRC research
abstracts

November 29, 2024: Camera-ready copies of accepted papers

December 6, 2024: Authors registration due

Organization

Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua

Silvia Mirri, University of Bologna

Mike Paciello, AudioEye, WebABLE

Catia Prandi, University of Bologna

Submission Portal

Please submit your contribution through our online submission portal
available at https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php
<https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission.php>(regular papers) and
https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php
<https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/submission_src.php>(SRC abstracts).

For any inquires regarding the call for papers, please contact
gaggi@math.unipd.it <mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>.

We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at the ACM SAC
2025 Conference!

Theory Announcements

Friday, September 13, 2024

[DMANET] Highlights 2024 next week. Possibility of online participation

[DMANET] DeepLearn 2025

[DMANET] metaheuristics for optimization problems

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

Thursday, September 12, 2024

[DMANET] Final Call for Participation: ADT 2024 -- The 8th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory

[DMANET] Call for Papers. Special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics (associated to ISCO 2024) [[2nd announcement]]

[DMANET] Call for Papers - EvoMusArt 2025 - 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (23–25 April 2025)

[DMANET] Dutch Days of Combinatorics, Delft 25-26 March 2025. Save the date! (Dion Gijswijt)

[DMANET] Post-doc in algorithms on strings at University of Wroclaw

[DMANET] ICDCN 2025 - Call for Posters and Demonstrations

[DMANET] Call for Paper "Artificial Intelligence for Finance Domain"

[DMANET] Final call: Kolkom 2024 in Heidelberg

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

[DMANET] CO@Work2024 online: starting next week

[DMANET] Two PhD Positions in Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

[DMANET] 13th GameNets 2025: Call for Papers

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

[DMANET] CSoNet 2024 - CFP

[DMANET] Joint CFP for Workshop Papers at ACM/IFIP Middleware 2024

[DMANET] MIPLIB 2024 Submissions Now Open

[DMANET] Postdoc position available at HEC Liège (Univeristy of Liège, Belgium)

[DMANET] EJCO Special Issue: "Recent advances in using machine learning for optimization"

[DMANET] EWSN'24: Calls for Posters & Demos

Monday, September 9, 2024

[DMANET] Postdoc position in Operations Research - UFSCar/Brazil

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