Thursday, July 17, 2025

[DMANET] Doctoral / Post-Doctoral Position at University of Konstanz

The Chair for Software and Systems Engineering (Prof. Stefan Leue) of
the University of Konstanz (Germany) has the opening of a full-time

Doctoral / Post-Doctoral Position (reference no. 2025/152).

The start date is October 1st, 2025 (or a mutually agreeable later date,
but no later than April 1st, 2026). The position is initially available
for two years with the possibility of extension.

The position is expected to contribute to the goals of the DFG-funded
research project "SCADNet". In this context, research interests in
formal guarantees for Deep Neural Networks, foundations and models of
causality, automated repair of real-time systems, system safety, formal
techniques in legal tech, and generally formal methods and verification
are welcome.

The working language is English. Proficiency in German is not a
prerequisite.

Renumeration is according to the TV-L labor agreement in the EG 13
payscale, amounting to at least € 57.000,00 p.a.

Application deadline: August 30th, 2025.

For the official advertising and access to the online application portal
(at the bottom of the page) please see

https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/09f445de88a811767c47d80dfebd48c49bbef89b0

I will be happy to answer further questions, and look forward to your
application for this exciting research opportunity!

Stefan Leue

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Prof. Dr. Stefan Leue

Chair for Software and Systems Engineering
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Konstanz, Box 67
D-78457 Konstanz, Germany

Office: PZ902

Phone: +49 (0)7531 88 2893, ~4631 (secretary)
Home: +49 (0)7533 949 2182
Email: Stefan.Leue@uni-konstanz.de
WWW: http://sen.uni-konstanz.de

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

[DMANET] [Cryptography] Advances in Privacy, Security, and Trust: Cryptographic Perspectives from PST2025 - Call for Paper

The Special Issue "Advances in Privacy, Security, and Trust:
Cryptographic Perspectives from PST2025" of journal /Cryptography/
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/Cryptography) will comprise mainly
extended versions of papers presented at the 22nd Annual International
Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2025, 26-28 August 2025,
Fredericton, Canada).

https://pstnet.ca/pst2025/

The submission deadline of special issue is 31 December 2025 and papers
may be submitted immediately or at any point till the date, as papers
will be published on an ongoing basis. For more information, please see:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/M81T8HF4DD

Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Privacy Preserving/Enhancing Technologies;
Critical Infrastructure Protection;
Network and Wireless Security;
Cloud Security, Web Security and Privacy;
Internet of Things (IoT) Security and Privacy;
Security Analytics and Data Mining;
Cryptographic Technologies;
Zero-Day Vulnerabilities, Continuous Authentication;
Security and Privacy Challenges in Blockchain;
Identity and Trust Management;
Privacy, Traceability, and Anonymity;
Anonymity and Privacy vs. Accountability;
Access Control and Capability Delegation;
Generative AI security, privacy, and trust;
Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Protocols;
Post-quantum cryptography

Guest editors:
Prof. Dr. Rongxing Lu
Prof. Dr. Ali Ghorbani

Cryptography is a scientific peer-reviewed open access journal of
cryptography published quarterly online by MDPI. It is covered by Scopus
(Elsevier), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI-Web of Science), etc.
It received an Impact Factor for 2024 of 2.1 (ranking in Q2 in "Computer
Science, Theory & Methods"), and a CiteScore of 5.0 (ranking in Q1 in
"Applied Mathematics").

Best regards,
Xue Cheng
Managing Editor
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MDPI Branch Office, Wuhan
Cryptography Editorial Office
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography
MDPI, Grosspeteranlage 5, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

Recommended Papers:
Divisions and Square Roots with Tight Error Analysis from Newton-Raphson
Iteration in Secure Fixed-Point Arithmetic
https://www.mdpi.com/2410-387X/7/3/43

Matrix Encryption Walks for Lightweight Cryptography
https://www.mdpi.com/2410-387X/7/3/41

Twitter: @Cryptogr_MDPI https://twitter.com/Cryptogr_MDPI
LinkedIn: Cryptography-MDPI
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[DMANET] [Call for Papers] Deadline Extended – SMARTTECH 2025

SmartTech 2025

International Conference on Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies

December 25–27, 2025 *• *ALECSO Headquarters, Tunis, Tunisia

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


Conference Overview

The International Conference on Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies
(SmartTech 2025) is a premier global platform advancing cutting-edge
research and applications in AI, Quantum Computing, Cybersecurity,
Autonomous Systems, and Smart Cities. Co-organized by MUST University and
the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization
(ALECSO), this
prestigious conference brings together world-renowned experts, researchers,
industry lead- ers, and innovators to shape the future of emerging
technologies.

The conference aims to foster knowledge exchange, collaboration, and
innovation through thought-provoking keynotes, technical sessions,
workshops, and networking opportunities. Smart- Tech 2025 invites
researchers, practitioners, and innovators to contribute high-quality
book papers
for publication in the conference proceedings.


Topics of Interest

We invite high-quality papers addressing, but not limited to, the following
tracks:

• *AI **Frontiers & Generative Intelligence*: Breakthroughs in generative
AI, foundation models, multimodal systems, ethical AI frameworks, machine
learning algorithms, natural language processing, computer vision, AI in
healthcare, educational AI applications, and innovative AI solutions

• *Quantum & Immersive Technologies*: Quantum computing advances, quantum
algo- rithms, quantum networking, quantum sensing, VR/AR applications,
extended reality (XR), digital twins, metaverse developments, quantum-safe
cryptography, and simulation technolo- gies

• *Autonomous & Intelligent Systems*: Self-governing AI, intelligent
robotics, drone tech- nologies, autonomous vehicles, swarm intelligence,
human-robot interaction, industrial au- tomation, precision agriculture,
intelligent manufacturing, and adaptive control systems

• *Smart, Sustainable & Secure Cities*: AI-powered urban solutions,
IoT infrastructure,
smart grids, intelligent transportation systems, climate-responsive
systems, urban sustain- ability metrics, smart governance, energy
optimization, water management systems, and digital public services

• *Cybersecurity & AI-Enhanced Digital Trust*: Advanced threat detection,
zero-day vul- nerability analysis, blockchain applications, distributed
ledger technologies, privacy-preserving AI, zero-trust architectures,
cyber-physical system security, biometric authentication, and critical
infrastructure protection

Submission Guidelines

*Paper Format: *All submissions must be original and unpublished work,
formatted according to the conference template (IEEE format). Papers should
include an abstract (150-200 words), keywords (5-7), and follow the
structure: Introduction, Related Work, Methodology, Results, Discussion,
Conclusion, and References.

*Length: *10-15 pages including figures, tables, and references. Each figure
and table should have a descriptive caption and be referenced in the text.

*Language: *All submissions must be in English with careful attention to
grammar and clarity.

*Review Process: *All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review
by the Scientific
Committee. Each paper will receive at least two independent reviews.

*Submission: *All papers must be submitted in PDF format via the conference
website: https://smarttech-conference.org/


Important Dates

*Full Paper Submission:* July 15, 2025 *August 1st, 2025*

*Review* *Notification:* September 15, 2025

*Camera-Ready* *Submission:* October 15, 2025

*Conference* *Dates:* December 25–27, 2025


Publication and Presentation

*Proceedings: *Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and indexed in major academic databases, including IEEE Xplore,
Scopus, and Web of Science.

*Journal Publication: *Outstanding papers may be invited for extension
and publication
in special issues of prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on
Smart Systems and Springer's Journal of Intelligent Smart Technologies.

*Presentation: *Authors of accepted papers must register for the conference
and present their work either in-person or virtually. Each presentation
will be allocated 15-20 minutes, including Q&A.

*Best Paper Awards: *Exceptional papers will be recognized with "Best
Paper Awards"
in various categories with certificates and prizes.

*Scientific Committee Chairs:*

Dr. Omar Cheikhrouhou, University of Sfax, Tunisia

Dr. Yassine Bouteraa, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi
Arabia

Dr. Hanene Ben Abdallah, University of Aldhaid, UAE
Publication Chairs:

Adnan Ahmed Abisen, University of Prince Mugrin, Saudi Arabia

* General Chairs:*

Dr. Mohamed Jemni (ALECSO, Tunisia), Dr. Khalil Amiri (MUST
University, Tunisia), Dr. Mohammad Anan (Alfaisal University, Saudi
Arabia), Dr. Adel Ben Mnaouer (University of Prince Mugrin, Saudi Arabia)

*Contact Information: *

ALECSO Headquarters Tunis, Tunisia

Email: info@smarttech2025.org

Website: www.smarttech2025.org

Co-organized by MUST University & ALECSO *• *www.smarttech2025.org


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*Dr. Maroua Abdelhafidh*
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*Enseignant Chercheur*
*Maître Assistante en Informatique*
Institut Supérieur d'Informatique de Mahdia (ISIMA)
Université de Monastir, Tunisia

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[DMANET] Call for Participation: NeurIPS Workshop on GPUs and Optimization

Hello everyone,

We are organizing a workshop at NeurIPS on optimization algorithms and GPU
acceleration. We are accepting contributions! Details below.

Best regards,
Tobia Marcucci

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*TLDR: Contribute to a NeurIPS workshop on the use of GPUs and Learning for
Optimization.*
Website: https://www.cvxgrp.org/scaleopt/
Important Dates:
* Submissions Opens: July 25, 2025
* Submission Deadline: August 22, 2025
Organizers: Parth Nobel, Fangzhao Zhang, Maximilian Schaller, Alexandre
Amice, Tobia Marcucci, Tetiana Parshakova, Stephen Boyd

*Overview*
Recent advancements in GPU-based large-scale optimization have been
remarkable. Recognizing the revolution in optimizing neural network weights
via large-scale GPU-accelerated algorithms, the optimization community has
been interested in developing general purpose GPU-accelerated optimizers
for various families of classic optimization problems, including linear
programming, general conic optimization, combinatorial optimization, and
more specific problem families such as flow optimization and optimal
transport. This workshop welcomes submissions explaining how to deploy GPUs
for optimization; relevant works could span theoretical work—designing
novel highly-parallel optimization algorithms suitable for modern GPU
implementation—to impressive engineering work—designing specialized
implementations with custom CUDA kernels to accelerate the numerical
computations.

Beyond deploying GPUs directly at classical problems, current frontier AI
tools—including large language models (LLMs)—are being deployed to solve
optimization problems. Specifically, researchers have used LLMs to solve
linear programs and in combinatorial optimization. Various works have used
neural networks to solve mixed integer problems, linear or quadratic
programs, general combinatorial optimization problems, and more specific
optimization problems such as LASSO and robust PCA. This workshop welcomes
works related to Learning to Optimize (L2O)—using neural networks to learn
to solve classic optimization problems—and other forms of modern techniques
being deployed to solve classic optimization problems.

In this workshop, we aim to provide a platform for interested researchers
to engage with each other on recent breakthroughs and current bottlenecks
in designing large-scale GPU-based optimizers and synergizing AI systems
with solving optimization problems.


*Keywords*We welcome submissions in, but not limited to, the following
areas:
Parallel algorithms
Learning to optimize
Optimization software package development
Accelerated optimization methods
Advancements in GPU-based optimization
Large-scale distributed optimization
Robust and adaptive optimization
Randomized numerical linear algebra for optimization

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[DMANET] IEEE CSF 2026: CFP Summer Cycle - Deadline July 24, 2025, AoE

IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) 2026
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https://csf2026.ieee-security.org/

Call for Papers - Summer Cycle (Deadline July 24, 2025, AoE)

The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual
conference for researchers in computer security. CSF seeks papers on
foundational aspects of computer security, such as formal security
models, relationships between security properties and defenses,
principled techniques and tools for design and rigorous analysis of
security mechanisms, as well as their application to practice. While CSF
welcomes submissions beyond the topics listed below, the main focus of
CSF is foundational security and privacy. Papers lacking foundational
aspects risk desk rejection without further evaluation of their merits;
contact the PC chairs when in doubt.

CSF was created in 1988 as a workshop of the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, in response to a 1986 essay
by Don Good entitled "The Foundations of Computer Security—We Need
Some." The meeting became a "symposium" in 2007, along with a policy for
open, increased attendance. Over the past two decades, many seminal
papers and techniques have been presented first at CSF. For more details
on the history of the symposium, visit CSF's home.

Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and
will be available at the symposium. Some small number of papers will be
selected by the Program Committee as "Distinguished Papers".

Important Dates AoE (UTC-12h)
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Summer cycle paper submission July 24, 2025
Summer cycle author notification September 25, 2025
Fall cycle paper submission October 9, 2025
Fall cycle author notification December 11, 2025
Winter cycle paper submission January 29, 2026
Winter cycle author notification April 1, 2026
CSF Symposium July 26-29, 2026


Topics
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New results in security and privacy are welcome. We also encourage
challenge/vision papers, which may describe open questions and raise
fundamental concerns about security and privacy. Possible topics for all
papers include, but are not limited to:

access control
accountability
anonymity
attack models
authentication
blockchains and smart contracts
cloud security
cryptography
data provenance
data and system integrity
database security
decidability and complexity
decision theory
distributed systems security
electronic voting
embedded systems security
forensics
formal methods and verification
hardware-based security
information flow control
intrusion detection
language-based security
mobile security
network security
privacy
security and privacy aspects of machine learning
security and privacy for the Internet of Things
security architecture
security metrics
security policies
security protocols
software security
socio-technical security
trust management
usable security
web security

Full information, including paper formatting instructions, is available
online: https://csf2026.ieee-security.org/cfp.html
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[DMANET] [Extended Deadline] - CFP: Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications, Multimedia, and Games, within IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 9–12 January 2026 Las Vegas, USA

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Call for Papers

Track 2 - Networking Solutions for Metaverse, Social Applications,
Multimedia, and Games

*Track Chairs*:

Ombretta Gaggi, University of Padua, Italy (email: gaggi@math.unipd.it
<mailto:gaggi@math.unipd.it>)

Manuela Montangero, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
(email: manuela.montangero@unimore.it
<mailto:manuela.montangero@unimore.it>)

*IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
9–12 January 2026
Las Vegas, NV, USA*

https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-technical-papers

*IMPORTANT DATES*

Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026
Technical Papers due: August 1, 2025
Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2025

*Summit at*: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130953


*SCOPE and MOTIVATION *
Social applications, multimedia, and games play a substantial role in
shaping Internet traffic and have emerged as dominant mode of social
interaction online. This recent trend has sparked significant research
interests, both at the network level and in terms of application and
service development. Moreover, with the advent of the metaverse,
research focus within these domains has expanded to encompass virtual
worlds, immersive experiences, and social interactions in virtual
environments. Given their increasing prevalence and interdisciplinary
nature, social applications, multimedia, and games have also garnered
research attention across diverse fields, including big data analytics,
cloud computing, artificial intelligence, data sensing, information
security, and privacy protection.


*MAIN TOPIC OF INTEREST*
The Networking solutions for social applications, multimedia, and games
track seeks original contributions in the following areas, as well as
others that are not explicitly listed but are closely related:

- Artificial Intelligence for social applications, multimedia, and games.
- Architectures, Platforms, and Protocols.
- Business models for social applications, multimedia, and games.
- Communication security for social applications, multimedia, and games.
- Data Sensing.
- Distributed games engines.
- Ethical considerations in social applications, multimedia, and games.
- Gamification and game-based learning in applications.
- Human-Computer Interfaces and Human-Machine Interfaces.
- Immersive storytelling and narrative techniques in multimedia and games.
- Knowledge discovery for social applications, multimedia, and games.
- Metaverse, virtual worlds, immersive experiences.
- Naming and routing of media streams.
- New paradigms of future communications networks.
- Non-visual Interfaces for accessibility and/or Virtual Reality.
- Novel applications for the social, multimedia, and games scenario.
- Smart moving and smart objects.
- Social computing and collective intelligence.
- Social influence and persuasion in multimedia and games.
- Social interactions in communication networks.
- Recommender algorithms.
- Rumor source localization in large-scale, real-world networking
solutions.
- User profiling and behavior analysis.
- User engagement and retention strategies in social applications and
games.
- Virtual reality and augmented reality applications.


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[DMANET] [Extended Deadline] Call for Papers – RuleML+RR 2025 Doctoral Consortium

Call for Participation
9th RuleML+RR Doctoral Consortium
September 25-28, 2025, Istanbul, Turkey

https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium
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The RuleML+RR 9th Doctoral Consortium 2025 (DC) is an initiative of the
RuleML+RR community to attract and promote student research in
Artificial Intelligence, especially research on rule-based formalisms
and reasoning in such formalisms. It offers students a close contact
with leading experts in the field, as well as the opportunity to present
and discuss their ideas in a dynamic and friendly setting.

We invite PhD students at an early or intermediate stage of their PhD
studies, as well as exceptional master's students who are interested in
pursuing a PhD, to submit papers describing their research on any of the
topics of RuleML+RR 2025.

RuleML+RR DC papers range between 8 and 15 pages, are written in
English, will be published as part of CEUR proceedings, and should
follow the CEUR-WS.org style template CEURART (1-column variant). They
are submitted electronically in PDF together with a maximum 2 page-long
CV (the paper and the CV should be submitted together as one PDF file,
but the CV is not counted within the 15 pages limit and is not published
in the proceedings if the paper is accepted).

The submission should cover the following aspects:
* The identification of a significant problem in a research field
relevant to RuleML+RR 2025.
* An outline of the current knowledge in the problem's domain, as well
as an overview of existing solutions.
* A clear formulation of the research question and motivation.
* A presentation of (possibly preliminary) ideas, the proposed
approach, and the results achieved so far.
* A sketch of the applied research methodology and its positioning in
the field.
* A description of the student's contribution to the research.
* A discussion of how the suggested solution is different, new, or
better as compared to the state of the art.
* A research plan and the potential achievements.

Please submit your paper via:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rulemlrr2025

to the Doctoral Consortium track.


Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: July 10, 2025 July 31, 2025 (23:59 AOE)
Notification deadline: July 31, 2025 August 16, 2025 (23:59 AOE)

Doctoral Consortium Chairs:

Shqiponja Ahmetaj, TU Wien, Austria
Riccardo Tommasini, INSA Lyon, France


Program Committee:

Adrian Paschke, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Alexandra Rogova, Université Paris Cité, France
Alisa Kovtunova, TU Dresden, Germany
Cogan Shimizu, Wright State University, United States
David Carral, University of Montpellier, France
Davide Lanti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Fajar J. Ekaputra, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Ioana Georgiana Ciuciu, BabeČ™-Bolyai University, Romania
Lorena Etcheverry, Universidad de la República, Uruguay
Patrik Schneider, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Stefania Dumbrava, ENSIIE Paris-Evry, France

Further information can be found on the Doctoral Consortium website:

https://2025.declarativeai.net/events/ruleml-rr/doctoral-consortium
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[DMANET] Call for papers for IEEE SISDL 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second International Workshop on
Scalability, Interoperability, and Sustainability of Distributed Ledgers
for Networks of the Future (SISDL 2025)

In Conjunction with

IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications

(IEEE BCCA 2025)

October 14-17, 2025, Dubrovnik, Croatia

https://bcca-conference.org/2025/Workshops/SISDL.php

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) are poised to transform various
industries, but challenges in scalability, interoperability, and
sustainability must be addressed to unlock their full potential. This
workshop brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts
to explore solutions and shape the future of DLTs within evolving network
environments. While DLTs offer decentralization and immutability, key
barriers, such as achieving scalability for widespread adoption, enabling
seamless cross-network interoperability, and ensuring environmentally
sustainable solutions, remain. This workshop aims to tackle these issues
and accelerate DLT development and adoption.

The workshop welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics related to
distributed ledgers' scalability, interoperability, and sustainability for
the next generation networks. This includes original research ideas,
innovative solutions, fundamental methodological studies, and use
cases/application demonstrations, including but not limited to:

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Scalability Challenges
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Interoperability Solutions
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Sustainability in Distributed Ledgers
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Novel consensus mechanisms for scalable and secure distributed ledgers
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Cross-chain communication protocols and interoperability standards
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Energy-efficient and sustainable blockchain architectures
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Impact of blockchain technologies on next-generation networks
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Decentralized applications (DApps) and their implications on network
structures
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Security and privacy considerations in scalable and interoperable
blockchain systems
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Governance models for sustainable and inclusive blockchain ecosystems
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Real-world use cases and case studies demonstrating scalable and
interoperable DLT implementations


Organizers

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Murat Karakus, mrtkarakus@ankara.edu.tr, Ankara University, Ankara,
Türkiye
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Evrim Guler, evrimguler@bartin.edu.tr, Bartin University, Bartin, Türkiye
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Suleyman Uludag, uludag@umich.edu, University of Michigan - Flint,
Flint, MI, USA
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Öznur Özkasap, oozkasap@ku.edu.tr, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye


Publicity Chairs

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Vahideh Hayyolalam, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye (
vhayyolalam20@ku.edu.tr)
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Abdulrezzak Zekiye, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye (
azakieh22@ku.edu.tr)


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 30 July 2025

Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2025

Camera Ready: 15 September 2025

Submission:

Prospective authors are invited to submit a long paper (8 pages) and a
short paper (4 pages) including references in the standard IEEE two-column
conference format.

Papers should be submitted via the submission link: https://edas.info/N33458
.


Publication:

All accepted papers in the workshops co-located with BCCA 2025 will be
submitted to IEEE Xplore for possible publication.

Best regards,

Vahideh Hayyolalam

PhD Candidate

Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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[DMANET] GAP Days workshop, Koper, Slovenia, August 25-29

We invite all people interested in Computer Algebra, and in particular in
Groups, Algorithms and Programming (GAP) to join the workshop

GAP Days Summer 2025
25-29 August 2025
University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
<https://www.gapdays.de/gapdays2025-summer/>

GAP Days are meetings where developers and users with or without GAP
programming experience are invited to discuss, learn, and contribute to the
future development of GAP.

The workshop is also aimed at undergraduate students, PhD students,
post-docs, and more experienced mathematicians. You will be able to meet
each other, and learn about GAP development and algorithmic group theory in
a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

In order to participate in this meeting, even if you only wish to join for
parts of the meeting, please register using the following link:
<https://www.gapdays.de/gapdays2025-summer/registration/>.

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[DMANET] Call for Nominations: Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2026

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing 2026
Awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO)

Nominations are due by September 9, 2025.

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Call for Prize Nominations
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Nominations are requested for the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing, awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO).

This prize was established to recognize individuals whose research contributions expanded the collective investigative horizon in SIROCCO'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 2026 is expected to give an invited talk at SIROCCO 2026, scheduled to take place on June 9-11 in Durham, UK.

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, Amos Korman, Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Christian Scheideler, Boaz Patt-Shamir, Shay Kutten, and Sergio Rajsbaum.

The prize may not necessarily be awarded every year.

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Eligibility
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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 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.

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Selection process
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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 2026 consists of:
Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion (chair)
Yuval Emek, Technion
Andrzej Pelc, University of Quebec
Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM
Ulrich Schmid, TU Wien

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

Please send the nomination to the prize committee chair, Keren Censor-Hillel, by e-mail: ckeren@cs.technion.ac.il. Please write "SIROCCO Prize Nomination" in the subject line.

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

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

[DMANET] Networks Special Issue: "Innovative Approaches in Network Optimization"- EURO 2025

This special issue of Networks invites high-quality and innovative
submissions that focus on network optimization methods arising in
different applications, like (but not restricted to) telecommunication,
logistics, network analysis.All contributions will be peer reviewed
according to the usual standards of the journal.

This special issue celebrates the 34th European Conference on
Operational Research (EURO) 2025 in Leeds, UK; participants of EURO 2025
are encouraged to submit relevant work to this special issue. This call
for papers is also open to the entire community of academics and
practitioners working in the field of Network Optimization Methods.

*Deadline for submission: December 31st, 2025.*

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*Expected publication date:June 2026.*

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*Guest editors: Claudia Archetti (claudia.archetti@unibs.edu) and Luis
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[DMANET] 【CFP】IWAE 2025 Submission Deadline Extended to 31 July 2025

The 2025 International Workshop on Algorithms in Engineering in conjunction
with 2025 IET International Conference of Engineering Technologies and
Applications will be held at National Taipei University of Business,
Taoyuan, Taiwan, on October 24-26, 2025. The conference proceedings will be
published by the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), included
in the IET Digital Library, indexed in EI Compendex, and currently under
application for indexing in DBLP. A Special Issue in a leading journal in
Theoretical Computer Science is currently being planned.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Ad Hoc, Dynamic and Evolving Networks
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Algorithmic Game Theory
- Approximation Algorithms and Online Algorithms
- Automata, Languages, Logic, and Computability
- Complexity Theory
- Computational Learning Theory and Knowledge Discovery
- Cryptography, Reliability and Security, and Database Theory
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Computational Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory
- Experimental Algorithms and Applications
- Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms
- Fault Tolerant Computing and Fault Diagnosis
- Foundations of Cloud Computing
- Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
- Graph Theory, Communication Networks, and Optimization
- Intelligent Algorithms and Applications
- Mobile Agents
- Online Algorithms
- Parallel and Distributed Computing
- Parameterized and Exact Algorithms
- Streaming Algorithms

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Important Dates
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Full paper submission: July 31, 2025 (AoE)
Paper notification: September 1, 2025
Camera-ready paper due date: September 8, 2025
Conference Dates: October 24-26, 2025

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Submission instructions:
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Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts presenting original,
unpublished research related to the symposium's topics. Submissions must
not be under consideration for publication at any other conference or
workshop with published proceedings. Each accepted paper must be presented
at the conference by one of its authors.
Authors should note that the abstract is a concise summary (80–200 words)
of their full 2-page paper.
Submission Guidelines:
Submissions must be in PDF format, prepared using the official templates
available at: https://iceta2025.ntub.edu.tw/call-for-papers/
The main paper should not exceed 2 pages, including the title page and
references.
An optional appendix may be included for additional details, clearly marked
as such, and will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee.
Any figures related to the main content must be incorporated within the
2-page limit.
For further details, please refer to the conference website.

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Awards:
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Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be
eligible for the best student paper award, at least one of the paper
authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the
student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper. The
program committee may decline to make these awards or may split them.


Conference website: https://iceta2025.ntub.edu.tw/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieticeta2025

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Program Chairs
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Ling-Ju Hung, National Taipei University of Business, Taiwan
Ralf Klasing, CNRS and Bordeaux University, France

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Program Committee
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Matthias Bentert, TU Berlin, Germany
Hans-Joachim Böckenhauer, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Arnaud Casteigts, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Li-Hsuan Chen, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Po-An Chen, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Eddie Cheng, Oakland University, USA
Romaric Duvignau, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Thomas Erlebach, Durham University, UK
Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany
Florent Foucaud, LIMOS – Université Clermont Auvergne, France
Leszek Gasieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Sun-Yuan Hsieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Shang-En Huang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Tomasz Jurdziński, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Sanpawat Kantabutra, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen, France
Chia-Wei Lee, University of Taipei, Taiwan
Chung-Shou Liao, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Leo Liberti, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Cheng-Kuan Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Yaping Mao, Qinghai Normal University, China
Tobias Mömke, University of Augsburg, Germany
Nils Morawietz, University of Jena, Germany
Nicolas Nisse, INRIA – Université Côte d'Azur, France
Kung-Jui Pai, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan
Tomasz Radzik, King's College London, UK
Mikhail Raskin, University of Bordeaux, France
Peter Rossmanith, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Meng-Tsung Tsai, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hung-Lung Wang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Tomoyuki Yamakami, University of Fukui, Japan
Shuming Zhou, Fujian Normal University, China

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[DMANET] SSS 2025 - Deadline extension until July 22nd

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SSS 2025 3rd Call for Papers (Deadline Extension until July 22nd, 2025)
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27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of
Distributed Systems
October 9-11, 2025
Kathmandu, Nepal
https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr<https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr/>
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Co-located event MAC 2025 (October 12-13, 2025) https://gokarnasharma.github.io/mac25


[Important Dates]
1st Paper Submission Deadline: March 21, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
1st Acceptance Notification: April 30, 2025
1st Camera-Ready Copy Due: May 10, 2025
2nd Paper Submission Deadline: May 15, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
2nd Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2025
2nd Camera-Ready Copy Due: July 15, 2025
3rd Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2025 July 22, 2025 (11:59 PM AoE)
3rd Acceptance Notification: August 30, 2025
3rd Camera-Ready Copy Due: September 10, 2025
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The 27th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2025) will be held at Kathmandu, Nepal on October 9-11, 2025.
https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr<https://sss2025.conf.lip6.fr/>
SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment. The symposium encourages submissions of original contributions on both fundamental research and practical applications concerning topics in the symposium tracks:
Track A. Stabilization and Locality in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Peter Robinson, Augusta University, USA)

* Stabilizing Systems
* Proof labelling schemes
* Graph Algorithms
* Graph-theoretic concepts for communication networks
* Social and Peer-to-Peer Networks
* LOCAL/CONGEST models
* Communication complexity
* Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
* Dynamic networks, time-varying graphs, evolving graphs

Track B. Time, Safety, and Security in Distributed Computing (Track Chair: Silvia Bonomi, Sapienza University, Italy)

* Concurrent and fault-tolerant algorithms
* Synchronization protocols
* Shared and transactional memory
* Blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies
* Formal methods, semantics and verification of distributed systems
* Secure multi-party computation and cryptographic distributed protocols
* Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity
* Post-quantum and information theoretic cryptography and security

Track C. Moving and Computing (Track Chair: Partha Sarathi Mandal, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

* Mobile agents
* Autonomous mobile robots
* Mobile sensor networks
* Mobile ad-hoc networks
* Population protocols
* Nature-inspired computing
* Programmable particles, nanoscale robots, biological systems, and related new models

[New Conference Model]
We experiment with a new conference model. There will be THREE non-overlapping deadlines, and thus three submission rounds. Papers that are rejected at an early round (1 or 2) may be reworked, corrected, enhanced, and resubmitted at a later round (2 or 3), if wished by the authors. Of course, accepted papers at an early round are definitely accepted and should not be submitted again at a later round. In case of resubmission, reviews from the previously submitted round will be transmitted to the reviewers of the resubmission round.
[Paper Submission]
Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2024> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sss2025
All submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS series (see
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines> https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Each submission must be an original work written in English, in PDF format.
[Double-blind Review]
All submissions must be anonymous. We use a somewhat relaxed implementation of double-blind peer review: you are free to disseminate your work through arXiv and other online repositories and give presentations on your work as usual. However, please make sure you do not mention your own name or affiliation in the submission, and please do not include obvious references in the text that reveal your identity. A reviewer who has not previously seen the paper should be able to read it without accidentally learning the identities of the authors. Please feel free to ask the general co-chairs if you have any questions about the double-blind policy of SSS 2025.
[Submissions]
There are two types of submissions: regular papers and brief announcements.

* A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, abstract, figures, and excluding references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify the main claims of the submission may be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed.
* A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages including everything.

Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merits. It is recommended that a regular submission begins with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected without review. For the third round only, if requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.
[Publication]
Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings. Conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS conference series.
[Special Issue]
Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier).
[Paper Award]
Prizes will be given to the best regular paper and best student regular paper. A regular paper is eligible for the best student regular paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. Authors should clearly indicate whether their submission is eligible to be considered for the best student regular paper award (e.g., using a \thanks in the title). The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.
[Organization]
General Co-Chairs

* Gokarna Sharma (Kent State University, USA)
* Sébastien Tixeuil (Sorbonne University, France)

Local Organization Committee

* Shree Bhadra Wagle (Chair) (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Keshar Prasain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Rabindra Khati (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Prahlad Chapagain (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Sahadeep Thapa (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Saroj Sharma (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)
* Suman Shrestha (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Treasurer

* Kamal Khadga (Kantipur Engineering College, Nepal)

Proceedings Chair

* Pavan Poudel (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)

Registration Chair

* Ramesh Adhikari (Augusta University, USA)

Track Chairs

* Track A: Peter Robinson (Augusta University, USA)
* Track B: Silvia Bonomi (Sapienza University, Italy)
* Track C: Partha Sarathi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)

Steering Committee

* Anish Arora (Ohio State University, USA)
* Shlomi Dolev (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
* Sayaka Kamei (Hiroshima University, Japan)
* Sandeep Kulkarni (Michigan State University, USA)
* Toshimitsu Masuzawa (The University of Osaka, Japan)
* Franck Petit (Sorbonne Université, France)
* Elad Michael Schiller (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
* Sébastien Tixeuil (Chair) (Sorbonne Université, France)

Advisory Committee

* Sukumar Ghosh (University of Iowa, USA)
* Ted Herman (University of Iowa, USA)


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Gokarna Sharma, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Assistant Chair

Office: 268 Mathematical Sciences Building

Department of Computer Science
Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA

http://www.cs.kent.edu/~sharma/

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[DMANET] 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2026)

Call for Papers and Workshop Proposals


27th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2026)


January 6-9, 2026 Nara, Japan


http://icdcn.org/


*** paper submission deadline: July 25, 2025 ***


The International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Distributed Computing and Communication Networks. The 27th edition of this conference will be held at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, located in a historical city, Nara, Japan. Nara is the most historic and spiritual center of Japan, where the first capital city was built over 1300 years ago. Close to Kyoto and Osaka and quickly accessible by train, Nara has World Heritage sites and well-preserved temples and shrines. ICDCN 2026 will consist of a highly selective technical program consisting of refereed papers, distinguished keynotes, an industrial track, workshops, tutorials, posters and demos, and a doctoral symposium on emerging topics about distributed computing and networking.
The proceedings of ICDCN 2026, including all satellite events such as posters, demos, and workshops, will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (ICPS). Additionally, extended versions of selected papers will be invited for fast-track publications in the Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) Journal or in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal.


** Call for Papers

Regular Papers should not exceed 10 pages double-column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. Regular papers may include a clearly marked Appendix with all the additional details required to validate the results (including technical proofs and experimental results that did not fit into the first 10 pages). Short Papers must not exceed 5 pages double-column including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. All papers must be submitted through the EasyChair portal. For more details, visit the conference web site.
Papers describing original research work and practical experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following.


* Distributed Computing Topics of Interest
- Cloud Computing and Big Data Processing
- Concurrency, Synchronization, and Persistence
- Distributed Algorithms: Design, Analysis, and Complexity
- Distributed Computing Aspects of Blockchains
- Distributed Graph Algorithms
- Distributed Embedded Systems
- Distributed Operating Systems, Storage and Database Systems
- Distributed Quantum Computing
- Edge Computing and Mobile Offloading
- Fault-tolerance, Reliability, and Availability of Distributed Systems
- Formal Methods for Distributed Systems
- High performance Computing and Grid Computing
- Machine Learning in Distributed Computing and Networking
- Pervasive and Mobile Computing
- Scalable Distributed Systems
- Secure Multi-Party Computation
- Security, Privacy and Game Theory in Distributed Computing and Networking
- Self-organization, Self-stabilization, and Autonomic Computing
- Social Networks


* Networking Topics of Interest
- AI and ML in Communication and Computer Networks
- O-RAN and spectrum sensing/sharing
- D2D, Sensor, PAN and Mesh Networks
- Mobile Wireless Networks (5G/6G)
- Cloud, Edge, and Fog Networking
- Emerging Topics in Networks
- Emerging Network Applications
- Energy-efficient and Green Networking
- Information-centric and Content-based Networking
- Intent-based Networking and Zero-configuration Networks
- Interdisciplinary Approaches in Networking
- Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
- Internetworking Protocols & Internet Applications
- Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networking
- Networking and Computing for Sustainability, Society, and Development
- Censorship circumvention and net neutrality
- Datacenter networking
- Extremely high-frequency communications (mmWave, THz)
- Network support for VR/AR
- Tactile Internet
- Next-generation Networks and Services
- Pervasive Networking and Sensing
- Pricing and Network Economics
- Public Safety Computing Systems
- Quantum Network Protocols
- Security, Privacy, Trust, and Game Theory in Networking
- AI for Network Security
- Social Networks
- UAV Networks and Mobile Robots
- Vehicular Networks, Smart Grids, and Smart City Applications
- Backscatter and Ultra-low Power Networks
- Challenging Network Environments (underwater, underground)
- Visible light communications (VLC)
- Testbeds, experimentations, and networked experimental platforms

For further details, please visit the following page:
https://sites.google.com/view/icdcn2026/submissions/call-for-paper

** Call for Workshops


ICDCN2026 plans to host several workshops. The Organizing Committee invites proposals for one-day or half-day workshops affiliated with the conference.
The detailed information can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/view/icdcn2026/submissions/call-for-workshops

** Important Dates


- Wokrshop proposal July 10, 2025
- Paper submission: July 25, 2025
- Notifications: September 26, 2025
- Camera Ready Papers: TBA
- Conference Dates: January 6-9, 2026

** Organizing Committee


General Co-Chairs
Keiichi Yasumoto (NAIST, Japan)
Idit Keidar (Technion, Israel)
General Vice Chair
Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
TPC Co-Chairs
Simone Silvestri (Univ of Kentucky, USA)
Vincent Gramoli (Univ of Sydney, Australia)
Workshop Co-Chairs
Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama Univ, Japan)
Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Finance Co-Chairs
Akira Uchiyama (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Hirohiko Suwa (NAIST, Japan)
Publication Chair
Soumyajit Chatterjee (Nokia Bell Labs Cambridge, UK)
Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)
Keynote and Panel Chair
Valerie King (Univ. of British Columbia)
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Nirmalya Roy (Univ of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
Taisuke Izumi (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Poster and Demo Chair
Shantanu Pal (Deakin Univ, Australia)
Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs
Viviana Arrigoni (University of Rome, Italy)
Industry Track Co-Chairs
Atsushi Tagami (KDDI Research Inc., Japan)
Local Arrangements Co-Chairs
Tomokazu Matsui (NAIST, Japan)
Tatsuya Amano (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Publicity Co-Chairs
Eirini Tsiropoulou (Arizona State Univ., USA)
Mukulika Maity (IIIT Delhi, India)
Debasree Das (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Web Chair
Ayumi Ohnishi (Kobe Univ., Japan)
Social Media Chair
Bishakh Ghosh (EasyAuth, India)
Steering Committee Chair
Sajal K. Das, (Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA)

** Contact
http://icdcn.org/
Email: icdcn2026.contact@gmail.com<mailto:icdcn2026.contact@gmail.com> (Conference Organizers)
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Thanks & Regards,
Debasree Das

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Chair of Mobile Systems
University of Bamberg
Webpage: https://debasree08.github.io/debasree/
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[DMANET] [Late Track& Workshops] IEEE iMETA 2025: The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies & Applications, Dubrovnik, Croatia [Hybrid Conference]

*The 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies &
Applications (iMETA 2025)*

14-17 October 2025 | Dubrovnik, Croatia

*Hybrid Conference*

*Technically sponsored by IEEE Croatia section*

*https://imeta-conference.org/*

The International Conference on Intelligent Metaverse Technologies &
Applications (iMETA) is to bring together leading researchers, academics,
and industry experts to explore the various aspects of the distributive
metaverse, including its technologies, applications, and implications for
various industries. Attendees can expect to participate in exciting keynote
speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on cutting-edge research
field.

Throughout the conference, there will be ample opportunities for attendees
to network, share their knowledge, and collaborate on future initiatives
that will drive the development of the metaverse forward. We are confident
that iMETA conference will inspire new ideas, foster innovation, and spark
collaborations that will push the boundaries of the metaverse and its
potential to change the world as we know it.

Overall, the iMETA conference aims to provide attendees with a
comprehensive understanding of the communication, computing, and system
requirements of the metaverse. Through keynote speeches, panel discussions,
and presentations, attendees will have the opportunity to engage with
leading experts and learn about the latest developments and future trends
in the field. The conference will also provide ample opportunities for
networking, sharing knowledge, and collaborating with others in the
metaverse community.
List of Tracks:

- Track 1: Large Language Models (LLMs) in the Metaverse
- Track 2: Native AI for Metaverse Technologies
- Track 3: Security and Privacy
- Track 4: Networking and Communications
- Track 5: Systems and Computing
- Track 6: Multimedia and Computer Vision
- Track 7: Immersive Technologies and Services
- Track 8: Storage and Processing

List of Workshops:

- 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Digital Twins for Smart
Cities in the Metaverse (IDTSC)
<https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS1>
- 1st International Workshop on BCI Interfaces & Cognitive Engineering
in the Metaverse (BCIME)
<https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS2>
- 1st International Workshop on Ethical AI & Secure Metaverse Ecosystems
(EASME) <https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS3>
- 1st International Workshop on Generative AI for Immersive Experience
Design (GAIXR) <https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS4>
- 1st International Workshop on AI-Enhanced Learning Worlds (MetaLearn)
<https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS5>
- 1st International Workshop on Standards, Protocols, and AI Agents for
a Unified Metaverse (SPAAUM)
<https://imeta-conference.org/2025/workshops#WS6>

*Publication*

*IEEE is a technical sponsor of iMETA 2025*. All accepted papers in iMETA
2025 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore,
dblp and Scopus for inclusion.

*Important Dates:*

*Late Track Submission*

- Papers due: *July 30, 2025*
- Acceptance notification: August 20, 2025
- Camera-ready paper due: August 31, 2025

*Workshop Papers*

- Papers due: *July 30, 2025*
- Acceptance notification: August 30, 2025
- Camera-ready paper due: September 10, 2025

*Submission Guidelines:*

Manuscripts must be original, not previously published, or under review by
another conference or journal. Submissions should adhere to the IEEE
Conference Proceedings Format, using a double-column layout, 10-point font,
and letter-sized paper. Manuscripts must be submitted in PDF format and
should not exceed 6 pages for the review process. Accepted papers may
extend to a maximum of 8 pages for the camera-ready version, subject to an
overlength page fee.

*Submission Link: **https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imeta2025*

--Regards,

*IEEE iMETA 2025 Organizing Committee*

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[DMANET] Nineteenth International Tbilisi Summer School in Logic and Language

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Nineteenth International Tbilisi Summer School in Logic and Language
Kutaisi International University, Kutaisi, Georgia
September 4th-7th 2025 (https://www.logic.at/tbilisi25/)

co-located events: JELIA 2025 (https://viam.science.tsu.ge/jelia2025/)
TbiLLC 2025 (
https://events.illc.uva.nl/Tbilisi/Tbilisi2025/)

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Lecturers & Topics

M. Baaz & M. Gamsakhurdia - Gödel Logics
S. Ghilardi - Categorical Logic: A Gentle Introduction
M. Jibladze - TBA
V. Marra - TBA
F. Honsell - Constructive Type Theories and Logical Frameworks


Excursion & Dinner
Free for all registered participants of JELIA 2025. Others have to pay 60
Euros

Registration & Inquiries
Registration is free. For any questions, please contact mariami@logic.at

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[DMANET] Research Associate/Senior Research Associate at UNSW Sydney

Applications are invited for a Research Associate (Level A)/Senior Research Associate (Level B) at UNSW Sydney, funded by the ARC Discovery Project "Probabilistic methods for complex discrete structures". The Research Associate/Senior Research Associate will perform research in collaboration with Prof. Catherine Greenhill (UNSW), Dr Mikhail Isaev (UNSW), A/Prof. Anita Liebenau (UNSW), Prof. Brendan McKay (ANU) and Prof. Ian Wanless (Monash), guided by Prof. Greenhill.

This is a full-time fixed-term position for 2 years. The start date is 1 December 2025 or a mutually-agreed alternative. The project budget includes some funding for research travel for the Research Associate/Senior Research Associate.

The successful candidate will hold a PhD in mathematics or theoretical computer science by the start of the appointment, and will have experience in asymptotic, algorithmic or probabilistic combinatorics, or a closely-related area. Applicants should also be active researchers with good written and oral communication skills, and the ability to work effectively both independently and in a team.

Applicants should systematically address the selection criteria ("Skills and Experience") in their application and should nominate two referees. Further information on how to apply can be found at the link below. UNSW Sydney is an equal opportunity employer.

For more information, please contact Prof. Catherine Greenhill by email: c.greenhill@unsw.edu.au

Applications close: 31 August 2025

https://external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/533626/senior-research-associate-pure-mathematics

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[DMANET] First Workshop on Logic Statistical and Neural AI (LoStaN), co-located with JELIA 2025 on September 2-3, 2025 Kutaisi, Georgia.

First Workshop on Logic Statistical and Neural AI (LoStaN), co-located with
JELIA 2025 on September 2-3, 2025 Kutaisi, Georgia.
website: https://lostan-workshop.github.io/2025/

Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: July 11th 20th, 2025, AoE
- Author Notification: July 25th 30th, 2025, AoE
- Workshop Date: September 2-3, 2025,

Topics of Interest:
We welcome contributions on theoretical foundations, practical
applications, and interdisciplinary approaches combining symbolic,
statistical, and neural methods in AI. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

- Integration of logic and statistics into machine learning models
- Explainable AI (XAI) and interpretable machine learning via symbolic
methods
- Symbolic knoweldge extraction and injection from/into machine learning
models
- Neuro-symbolig approaches to AI
- Statistical relational learning and probabilistic logic
- Learning symbolic representations from data
- Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) and relational learning
- Causal reasoning and logic-based causal discovery
- Neuro-symbolic integration and hybrid AI systems
- Fairness, accountability, and transparency in hybrid AI systems
- Logic and learning for multi-agent systems
- Human-centric AI: reasoning, learning, and interaction
- Deep learning and knowledge extraction
- Formal methods for the verification of neural networks
- Benchmarking and evaluation of hybrid AI systems
- Applications in robotics, natural language understanding, bioinformatics,
etc.
- Toolkits and platforms for integrating logic, statistics, and neural
networks

Call for paper:
We invite the following types of contribution:
Full or short papers about approaches involving logic, statistical and
neural models, and their combination/integration.Full papers should be
limited to 14 pages, while short papers should be limited to 7 pages
(excluding references).
Position papers concerning the application of logic, statistical and
neural models in specific fields. Position papers should be limited to 7
pages(excluding references).
Survey papers, concerning any of the above. Survey papers should be limited
to 14 pages (excluding references).
Preliminary or already-published work can be submitted, provided that the
submission is clearly marked as such.
Authors are invited to submit original papers in PDF format here.

Organizers:
- Elena Umili, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Federico Sabbatini, University of Urbino, Italy
- Giovanni Ciatto, University of Bologna, Italy
- Matteo Magnini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Yves Lesperance, York University, Canada
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[DMANET] [CFP] Extended Deadline: 7 August 2025 (FIRM) – The 3rd International Workshop on TwinNetApp in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third International Workshop on Data Driven and AI-Enabled Digital Twin Networks and Applications (TwinNetApp) in conjunction with IEEE GLOBECOM 2025 | Taipei, Taiwan
Workshop Website: https://globecom25-twinnetapp.bcrg.uk/
Conference Website: https://globecom2025.ieee-globecom.org/

The next generation of technologies is envisioned to connect the physical and digital worlds. In this regard, Digital Twins (DT) is an emerging technology that has taken the world by storm due to its multiple benefits and deployment in interdisciplinary applications ranging from real-time remote monitoring to healthcare, industrial control systems and predictive maintenance in aerospace. DT connects the physical and digital worlds by building an accurate virtual replica of system objects in real-time. Real-time network monitoring, performance testing, optimization, and fast simulation are some examples that exploit DT advantages in the communication domain and beyond. DT delivers a new generation platform to analyze and test complex systems that is not currently available in traditional simulations and evaluations. Therefore, the use of DT is required in communication systems. Further, DT can deliver seamless analysis, monitoring, and predictions between digital and virtual counterparts of real-world systems, when it is used together with next-generation mobile communications (5G/6G), Virtual Reality (VR), Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Transfer Learning (TL), 3D models, Augmented Reality (AR), distributed computing and intelligent health applications. The workshop will invite authors to submit papers presenting new research on all aspects of DT networks, systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Data-driven and IoT-based DT networks for real-time communication systems
• Real-time communication protocols for DT networks
• DT-enabled health applications
• Wireless communications for cyber-physical DT applications
• Security and privacy concepts in DT
• Trustworthy AI enabled DT applications
• DT-assisted AI applications for smart cities
• Communications protocols for enabling DT deployment in real-world applications
• AI applications of DT systems
• DT in Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing
• DT for enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), and Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) applications
• DT for resource management and network optimization
• Connected networking systems for environmental sensing
• DT for precision agriculture, smart city and industry 4.0 applications
• Real-world DT simulations, prototypes, and testbed demonstrations


General Chairs
• Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (B.Canberk@napier.ac.uk)
• Octavia Dobre, Memorial University, Canada (odobre@mun.ca) (IEEE Fellow)
• Marco Di Renzo, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, CentraleSupélec, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systémes, France (marco.di-renzo@universite-paris-saclay.fr) (IEEE Fellow)

Industrial Chair
• Gökhan Yurdakul, GM of BTS Group (yurdakulg@btsgrp.com)

Important Dates
• Paper Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025 7 August 2025 (FIRM)
• Paper Acceptance Notification: 1 September 2025
• Camera Ready: 1 October 2025

Submission
The page length limit for all initial submissions for review is SIX (6) printed pages (10-point font) and must be written in English. Initial submissions longer than SIX (6) pages will be rejected without review.
Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33991&track=132200

Best Paper Award
The workshop will feature a Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 800 Dollars, sponsored by BTS Labs (https://btslabs.ai/).

Sincerely,
Yagmur
PhD Student, Edinburgh Napier University


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[DMANET] AMSI-MATRIX Winter School 2025 - travel and accomodation support available

Good day!

Have you got postgraduate students (or know of anybody) who would be interested in participating in the upcoming AMSI-MATRIX Winter School 2025<https://ws.amsi.org.au/> on mathematics for action: supporting decision-making for a better future hosted at MATRIX Creswick (Victoria, Australia) from 1-12 September?

We have two international travel and accommodation grants available to assist students from universities in the Asia-Pacific region attend the Winter School in person.

Participants will explore real-world applications of mathematical models, algorithms, and machine learning in fields such as healthcare, logistics and resource management, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goals.


* The two-week event is designed for postgraduate students, early-career researchers and industry professionals in the mathematical sciences and related disciplines.
* Prerequisite: It is expected that participants will have sufficient basic background in statistics, linear algebra, differential equations, optimisation, and coding.

* Two International student grants of up to AUD$1500 per student for travel are available. Grant recipients will also receive two weeks accommodation booked and paid for by AMSI-MATRIX. Please advise applicants of any additional funding they can access from their home departments to support their attendance.

* Applicants are strongly encouraged to attend in person at MATRIX Creswick, Victoria to maximise their experience, however, can opt to join online. Note: not all elements of the program are available remotely.

Courses:

* Mathematics of Bushfire Management
Professor Jason Sharples, UNSW Canberra
* Optimising for Impact: Tools and Techniques for Sustainable Decision-Making

Dr Marcella Papini, University of Newcastle

* Emerging Computational Methods for Sustainable Decision-Making

Professor Hoong Chuin Lau, Singapore Management University

* Discrete Applied Mathematics and Applications in Personalised Medicine and Data Science

Professor Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle


In addition to the above courses, the program includes participants talks, a careers session, networking activities and special lectures by Professor Craig T Simmons, Associate Professor Elham Mardaneh, Professor Kate-Smith Miles, and Professor Elena Prieto.


Could you please promote this opportunity to your postgraduate students and encourage them to apply by Friday 8 August.


Kind regards

P.

Pablo Moscato
Professor of Data Science
Research Strategy Coordinator
School of Information and Physical Sciences
The University of Newcastle,
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[DMANET] ICDT 2026 - Second Round - Call for Papers

** ICDT 2026 - Second Submission Round - Call for Papers **

ICDT is a series of international scientific conferences on research of
data management theory (https://databasetheory.org/icdt-pages). Since 2009,
it is annually and jointly held with EDBT (Extending DB Technology).

The 29th edition of ICDT <https://edbticdt2026.github.io/>, in 2026, will
take place in Tampere, Finland.


** Second Submission Cycle **

September 3, 2025: Abstract submission

September 10, 2025: Paper submission

December 1, 2025: Notification

Papers rejected in the first submission cycle cannot be submitted to the
second submission cycle unless explicitly permitted by the reviewers.

** Topics of Interest **

We welcome research papers on every topic related to the principles and
theory of data management, provided that there is a clear connection to
foundational aspects. This includes, for example, articles on "classical"
data management topics such as:

The theoretical investigation of various aspects of underlying data
management systems (e.g., Indexes, Concurrency and recovery, Distributed
and parallel databases, Cloud computing, Privacy and security, Graph
databases, Data streams and sketching, Data-centric (business) process
management and workflows, Data and knowledge integration and exchange, Data
provenance, Views, Data warehouses, Domain-specific databases - multimedia,
scientific, spatial, temporal, text data, ...),

The design and study of data models and query languages,

The development and analysis of algorithms for data management.

but also includes papers exploring existing or identifying new connections
between data management and other areas, such as the areas of:

knowledge representation, semantic web, web services,

information retrieval and data mining,

machine learning/AI,

distributed computing,

theoretical computer science.

In all of the above, a clear emphasis on foundational aspects is expected.
You may want to check https://dblp.org/db/conf/icdt/index.html to get an
overview of previous editions of ICDT.

The Program Committee reserves the right to desk reject a submission when
it is regarded to be out of scope.

** Program Committee **

** ICDT 2026 Program Committee Chair **

Balder ten Cate, ILLC, University of Amsterdam

** ICDT 2026 Program Committee Members **

Antonella Poggi, University of Rome Sapienza

Batya Kenig, Technion

Carsten Lutz, University of Leipzig

Cristina Sirangelo, CNRS, Université Paris Cité

Diego Figueira, CNRS, Univ Bordeaux

Dominik Freydenberger, Loughborough University

Emanuel Sallinger, TU Wien

Floris Geerts, University of Antwerp

Francesco Scarcello, Università della Calabria

Hubie Chen, King's College London

Jeff M. Phillips, University of Utah

Liat Peterfreund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Luc Segoufin, INRIA, ENS Ulm

Mahmoud Abo Khamis, RelationalAI

Marco Calautti, Università degli Studi di Milano

Markus Schmid, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Martin Grohe, RWTH Aachen University

Matthias Niewerth, Bayreuth University

Miika Hannula, University of Tartu

Sanjay Krishnan, University of Chicago

Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden

Stavros Sintos, University of Illinois Chicago

Stefan Mengel, CNRS, Université d'Artois

** Submission Instructions **

All submissions will be electronic via EasyChair. Link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt202
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdt2025>6

Papers must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow
the program committee to assess their merits. Papers must be submitted as
PDF documents, using the LIPIcs style (
http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors).

** Tracks **

1. ** Regular Research Papers (15 pages) **

The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication
elsewhere, including the proceedings of other symposia or workshops. Papers
must be at most 15 pages, excluding references. Additional details may be
included in a clearly marked appendix, which, however, will be read at the
discretion of the program committee (online appendices are not allowed).
Papers not conforming to these requirements may be rejected without further
consideration.

2. ** Database Theory in Action (4 pages) **

Continuing with the idea of broadening the scope of ICDT and showcase the
impact of database theory, ICDT 2026's "Database Theory in Action" track
calls for short papers illustrating interesting applications of database
theory in other domains or in solving real-world problems. These papers
will be 4 pages + references, and can be based on a previously published
paper at another venue.

In particular, we invite papers that demonstrate novel and important
connections between database theory and neighboring communities such as
Database Systems, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Machine
Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, Distributed
Computing, and Industry.

At the discretion of the program committee, there may be invited papers to
this track as well.

The title of the papers submitted to this track must start with "Database
Theory in Action:". These papers should also include clear pointers to all
relevant previous publications, websites, tools, repositories, etc.

The proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings in
Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees
that the proceedings will be available online and free of charge, while the
authors retain the rights over their work.

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register at the
conference and to present the paper.

** Anonymous Submission **

>From 2024, ICDT has adopted anonymous submission (only for regular track
papers, submissions should not be anonymous for the "database theory in
action" track), in line with other leading conferences in the database
community such as SIGMOD and PODS. The intent of anonymous submission is to
ensure that the identity of the authors is not presented to the reviewers
during the review process. Specifically, submitted papers must not list
authors or affiliations, and must not include acknowledgments to funding
sources, or other colleagues or collaborators. References to the authors'
own prior work must not be distinguished from other references. Where this
is not possible (for instance, when referring to a specific system to which
the authors have privileged access), anonymized citations are permissible.
For more background on the motivation for anonymous submissions, and the
mechanisms to achieve it, please consult [Snodgrass, 2007]
https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/pubs/TODS07.pdf

Simultaneously, the authors may make their submissions available to the
community via pre-print services such as ArXiv and through talks. We do
require that work is not labeled as "under submission at ICDT" or indicates
that it is under review, but otherwise place no restrictions on sharing
results. This does not conflict with the anonymous submission requirement.

**Awards**

An award will be given to the Best Paper. Also, an award will be given to
the Best Newcomer Paper written by newcomers to the field of database
theory. The latter award will preferentially be given to a paper written
only by students; in that case the award will be called Best Student-Paper
Award. The program committee reserves the following rights: not to give any
award; to split an award among several papers; and to define the notion of
a newcomer.

Following a recent decision by the ICDT council, papers authored or
co-authored by program committee members may be eligible for the best paper
award, in which case the programme committee will take care to follow a
selection procedure that avoids any conflicts of interest.

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