[DMANET] Beluga Airbus Competition

Dear sequential decision-making lovers, Still a little more than 1 month to go! This is a reminder that the Beluga™ Airbus Competition has officially begun and is waiting for your submissions for advancing trustworthy AI in real-world industrial applications. This unique opportunity allows you to develop and test solutions that address real-world challenges in the Beluga™ cargo system, focusing on optimizing loading and unloading management processes. Here's what you'll tackle: 1. Scalability (Deterministic) - Ensure solutions scale efficiently. 2. Scalability (Probabilistic) - Account for stochastic events. 3. Explainability - Make decisions transparent and understandable. Competition Timeline

* November 18th - January 19th: Preparation period: Register, collect data and requirements, and start developing your solution. The Q&A section on our portal is open for any questions you might have!
* January 20-March 30: Submission period: Submit your models and solutions for one or more of the challenges.
* March 31-April 30: Evaluation and winner announcement
* TUPLES Final Event (September-October 2025): Award Ceremony

Ready to join? Head to https://tuples.re2n.app/oi to register and find all the details on how to participate. We're excited to see what you'll create. Welcome aboard! The TUPLES AI Trustworthy competition team. https://tuples.ai/competition-challenge/
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[DMANET] 2nd call: 6-year postdoc position in Probabilistic Combinatorics, TU Graz, Austria

The Graz University of Technology is advertising a 6-year postdoc
position (University Assistant) in Probabilistic Combinatorics within
the Combinatorics Group (https://www.math.tugraz.at/comb/).

*Application Deadline: 16 March 2025*
Earliest possible starting date of employment: 1 October 2025
Contract duration: 72 months
Annual gross salary: at least € 69,060.60
Teaching: 4 semester hours per week
(Virtual or in-person) Interviews: early May 2025

Each applicant should make sure that at least one of the applicant's
referees is ready to provide a reference letter at any time during the
selection process.

We encourage potentially interested candidates to consult the official
announcement of the position
(https://jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/246d31fa-2e95-636c-797a-675abd5a2ad7)
which contains additional details about the position and instructions
for application.

Best regards
Mihyun Kang
(Head of the Combinatorics Group)
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[DMANET] Abstract Submission Deadline for EURO 2025 – 7 days to go

Submission Deadline for EURO 2025 – 7 days to go

Dear OR community,

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for submitting abstracts to EURO 2025 is rapidly approaching — March 8 , 2025. If you haven't submitted yet, now is the time to optimise — think of it like finding the best solution to your own personal "traveling salesman" problem (minus the detours). Please visit https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/ for abstract submission.

As we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of EURO, it's the perfect opportunity to join us for an unforgettable scientific experience. We can't wait to see your innovative ideas and solutions come together—just like a well-optimized model.

The conference will take place in the beautiful city of Leeds, UK, from June 22 –25, 2025, in the heart of Yorkshire — a region famous for its rolling hills, historic charm, and a food scene that will delight your taste buds at every turn. The local Yorkshire tea will give you the energy you need to power through your presentations and discussions! Beyond the stunning landscapes, Leeds offers a vibrant arts scene, rich history, and a welcoming atmosphere—perfect for networking with fellow OR enthusiasts. And, of course, no trip to Yorkshire would be complete without sampling some proper fish and chips (you'll find no optimal alternative here!).

Please note that by April 2025 , all visitors who do not need a visa will need an electronic travel authorisation (ETA) to travel to or transit through the UK. Please see https://euro2025leeds.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Electronic-Travel-Authorisation-Information.pdf the information sheet from Visit Britain

Looking forward to your abstract submission, and to welcoming you to Leeds for a conference that promises both intellectual and cultural enrichment.

Best regards,

Rita, Julia and Sajid

Chairs of the EURO2025 Conference

https://euro2025leeds.uk/

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[DMANET] [CFP] 7th CVPR Workshop on Image Matching: Local Features and Beyond 2025 *DEADLINE INCOMING*

apologies for multiple posting, please distribute among interested parties

Call for Papers

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*Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond*
*CVPR 2025 Workshop*

*submission deadline*: March 11, 2025
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Workshop: https://image-matching-workshop.github.io
CMT website for paper submission:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2025

___*Overview* ___

We're happy to announce the seventh (!) edition of the Image Matching
Workshop, co-located as every year with CVPR 2025. Our goal is to
encourage and highlight novel strategies for image matching that deviate
from and advance traditional formulations, with a focus on large-scale,
wide-baseline matching for 3D reconstruction and pose estimation.

___*Challenge* ___

The workshop will once again feature an open challenge, which we expect
to announce soon.

___*Topics* ___

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
- Formulations of keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep
networks.
- Application of geometric constraints into the training of deep networks.
- Leveraging additional cues such as semantics and mono-depth estimates.
- Methods addressing adversarial conditions where current methods fail
(weather changes, day versus night, etc.).
- Attention mechanisms to match salient image regions.
- Integration of differentiable components into 3D reconstruction
frameworks.
- Connecting local descriptors/image matching with global
descriptors/image retrieval.
- Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground.
- Large-scale evaluation of classical and modern methods for image
matching, by means of our open challenge.
- New perception devices such as event-based cameras.
- Other topics related to image matching, structure from motion,
mapping, and relocalization, such as privacy-preserving representations.

___*Invited speakers* ___

- Johannes Schoenberger, Meta
- Jonáš Kulhánek, CTU Prague

___*Paper submission* ___

We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and
acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template (reviews are
double-blind, so please hide author data in the pdf) and be submitted to
the CMT site (linked above). Submissions must contain novel work and
will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two
double-blind reviews.

We welcome PC self-nominations. If you're willing to review for the
workshop, please reach out at image-matching@googlegroups.com.

___*Important dates* ___

- Paper submission deadline: March 11, 2025
- Notification to authors: April 1, 2025
- Camera-ready deadline: April 4, 2025 (hard deadline on April 7)
- Workshop date: TBC (June 11 or 12, 2025)

___*Organizers* ___

- Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo
- Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague
- Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University in Prague/HOVER Inc.
- Luca Morelli, University of Trento/Bruno Kessler Foundation
- Fabio Remondino, Bruno Kessler Foundation
- Amy Tabb, USDA-ARS-AFRS
- Eduard Trulls, Google
- Kwang Moo Yi, University of British Columbia

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[DMANET] Session on Multiobjective Discrete Optimization at EURO 2025 in Leeds (22-25 June)

Dear colleagues,

I'm organizing a session on the topic "Multiobjective Discrete Optimization" within the Multiobjective and Vector Optimization Stream at this year's EURO conference in Leeds (UK, 22-25 June). Both theory-oriented and applied topics are warmly welcome.

Submissions for the session can be uploaded to the EURO Conference tool at https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro34/ using the following invitation code: ac503f46

The submission deadline is 08 March. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Best regards,
Clemens Thielen
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Professorship of Optimization and Sustainable Decision Making
TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability
Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Am Essigberg 3 | 94315 Straubing | Germany
Phone: +49 9421 187 175
Web: http://odm.cs.tum.de

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[DMANET] =?Windows-1252?Q?[CFP]_Submission_Deadline:_April_4, _2025_=96_IEEE_Intern?= ational Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2025 | Lillie, France

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You are cordially invited to submit your latest research results to the IEEE LANMAN 2025.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 31st IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks
(IEEE LANMAN 2025)
July 7-8, 2025 | Lillie, France
Website: https://lanman2025.ieee-lanman.org/
IEEE LANMAN has an established tradition as a forum for presenting and discussing the latest technical advances in local and metropolitan area networking. Cutting-edge papers spanning both theory and experimentation are solicited in all areas of networking. In keeping with the heritage of the symposium, there will be a central theme, and in 2025 the theme is "Networking and Computing under AI." The Internet continues to evolve at an extraordinary pace, driven by an explosive growth in devices, users, and data-intensive applications. Today's landscape demands networks that deliver ultra-low latency and high throughput to support transformative applications like immersive Virtual Reality, cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence, autonomous driving, and advanced IoT systems. This rapid evolution introduces complex challenges for network design and management, particularly in ensuring seamless communication under stringent performance requirements. Recent developments in local and metropolitan area networking present exciting opportunities to address these challenges. Advances in wireless technologies leveraging millimetre-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) frequencies, coupled with innovative paradigms like Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS), Massive-MIMO architectures, and Cell-Free networks, are reshaping the wireless and wired connectivity. These technologies enable highly adaptive, energy-efficient, and capacity-rich solutions. Moreover, the integration of AI-driven network orchestration and edge computing further enhances the ability to meet the growing demand for real-time responsiveness and expansive bandwidth, and they ensure that the next generation of applications can operate reliably and efficiently in increasingly dynamic and dense network environments. The intimate single-track format of the symposium encourages stimulating exchanges between researchers. The event is expected to be a forum for discussion of new and interdisciplinary ideas on network access protocols, network management and control, services and applications.
Papers are solicited on any topic in networking, including, but not limited to:

* 5G and 6G cellular data networking
* AI and machine learning for local and metropolitan area networking
* AI and machine learning for network measurement and traffic analysis
* Cloud, edge, and fog computing integration
* Co-existence and heterogeneity support at the edge (HetNets)
* Datacenter networks
* Energy efficiency for local and metropolitan area networking
* Information-centric networking in local and metropolitan areas
* Information security for local and metropolitan area networking
* Intelligent routing, forwarding, and scheduling
* Machine-to-machine communication
* Networking designs for AI and ML
* Networking for online education and entertainment
* Networking protocols and architectures for the IoTs
* Network and transport mechanisms for latency reduction
* Network virtualization in local and metropolitan areas
* Network Digital Twins (NDTs) and AI/ML
* Network verification using AI/ML
* NetOps and AI/ML
* Network security and AI/ML
* Performance and reliability of local and metropolitan area networks
* Public safety networks
* Self-learning network architectures
* Software-defined networking in local and metropolitan areas
* Wireless access technologies
* Satellite networks and their integration with terrestrial network infrastructure
* Network protocols and architectures

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Submission
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IEEE LANMAN 2025 solicits paper submissions of papers up to 6 pages. Short papers up to 2 pages are also solicited on work-in-progress ideas. Some regular paper submissions may be accepted as short papers (2 pages) by the TPC. The page limits include all figures, tables, and references. All papers must be electronically submitted in PDF according to the guidelines in the symposium website http://www.ieee-lanman.org.
The proceedings will be published in IEEE Xplore and will include both short and regular papers presented at the symposium.
A best paper award will be awarded.
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Important Dates
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Submission Deadline: April 4, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: May 4, 2025
Camera Ready Submission: May 30, 2025
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Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chairs
- Valeria Loscri (Inria, France)
- Chen Qian (University of California Santa Cruz, US)
TPC Co-Chairs
- Wenfei Wu (Peking University, China)
- Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou (Arizona State University, US)
Publication Chair
- Filippo Malandra (University of Buffalo, US)
Web Chair
- Xiaoxue Zhang (University of Nevada Reno, US)
Posters, Demos, PhD Forum Chair
- Aris Leivadeas (ETS Montreal, CA)
Tutorials Chair
- Valeria Loscri (Inria, France), US)
Publicity Chairs
- Maria Diamanti (National Technical University of Athens, GR)
- Yagmur Yigit (Edinburgh Napier University, UK)

Regards,
Yagmur Yigit
PhD Student, Edinburgh Napier University

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[DMANET] Online Resources for DCs (IFORS)

As our material progresses, this is just a reminder every now and then.
To access information regarding IFORS Developing Countries resources, its regular updates – and to submit your possible "free" (not copyright protected) material, you may occasionally visit the link:

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page .

With this open online resources page we aim to provide a platform to make research and applications of OR widely accessible to the entire OR community including researchers, academicians and scholars in the Developing Countries (DCs).

For this purpose we invite scholarly contributions spanning across all areas and sectors ranging from arts and science, to communication and education.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (https://www.ifors.org) is a 65-year-old organization which is currently composed of 54 national societies. Regional Groups of are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). conferences are held every three years. The conference 2023 was held very successfully in Santiago, Chile; the next exciting IFORS conference will be celebrated in 2026 in Vienna. Please visit the following link for details regarding the same: https://www.ifors2026.at/home/.

Thank you very much for your attention. We look forward to your enthusiastic participation and scholarly contributions.

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