[DMANET] 2nd CfP: COLLA 2012 || June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION

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Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COLLA 2012.

The submission deadline is set to February 5, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== COLLA 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

COLLA 2012, The Second International Conference on Advanced Collaborative Networks, Systems and Applications
June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/COLLA12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPCOLLA12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitCOLLA12.html

Submission deadline: February 5, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please, note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

COLLA 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Cooperation and collaboration mechanisms
Collaborative computing; Cooperation as interface sharing; Collaboration as knowledge sharing; Ethics and trust in collaborative cross-domains; Cooperative emotion; Planning and managing collaborative applications and projects; Semantic and ontology challenges in collaborative environments; Cooperation and collaboration pitfalls; Groupware supporting single-display collaboration; Sharing data and decisions; Coalitions and negotiations in cooperative environments; Adaptive collaboration; Integrating cross-organizational applications; Cooperative data extraction and data integration; Secure collaboration; Dynamic cooperative environments; Visualization of cooperative processes

Collaborative architectures and mechanisms
Fundamental theoretical aspects of distributed collaboration; Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Frameworks for human-centric based group collaboration; Distributed collaborative workflows; Architectures, protocols, and technologies for collaborative networks and systems; Collaboration and negotiation protocols; Quality of collaboration in collaborative networks, systems, and applications; Modeling for collaboration; Cloud-based collaboration; Agent-based collaborative environments; Collaboration techniques in resource intensive environments; Security, privacy and trust in collaborative networks, systems, and applications

Collaborative applications
Collaboration in pervasive computing applications; Collaborative e-education, e-learning, and collaborative computing in digital libraries; Models and mechanisms for real-time collaborative applications; Distributed technologies for group collaboration; Collaborative games; Web-based communities; New data distribution models to facilitate group collaboration; Social computing and inter-cultural collaboration;

Collaborative infrastructures
Collaborative, context-aware infrastructure; Collaborative mobile networks and infrastructures; Collaborative, location-aware mobile systems/applications; Collaborative sensor networks, unmanned air and ground vehicle networks and applications; ; Peer-to-peer and overlay networks, systems, and applications;

Collaborative services
Collaborative technologies for fast creation and deployment of new mobile services; Web services technologies and collaboration; Service-oriented architectures for collaborative networking and applications; Trusted collaborative services; Collaborative entertainment systems and services; Computer supported cooperative design; Adaptive content distribution

Collaborative users
Human/robot collaboration; Collaborative social networks and web-based collaboration; Computer supported collaborative work with distributed systems; Human-centric ubiquitous collaboration; Social networks and community discovery; Markets, auctions, exchanges, and coalitions

Tools and benchmarking
Methodologies and tools for design and analysis of collaborative user applications; Simulation, performance evaluation, experiments, and case studies of collaborative networks and applications; Dedicated hardware and software enabling collaboration; Technologies for creating dynamic social networks; P2P platforms for supporting collaboration; Energy management for collaborative networks; Tools for collaborative decision making processes; Trustworthy collaborative business processing in groupware organizations; Visualization techniques and interaction devices; Visual languages for collaborative networks and applications; Workflow management for collaborative networks/systems

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[DMANET] CFP CEC2012: Special Session on Evolutionary Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications

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Special Session on
Evolutionary Based Hyper-heuristics and Their Applications
2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2012) at WCCI'2012
June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia

Paper submission deadline: Dec 19, 2011
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/CEC2012EHyperheurstics.html
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Hyper-heuristics have recently attracted an increasing research
attention in a wide range of disciplines including artificial
intelligence, operations research, engineering and computer science.
Researchers in hyper-heuristics aim to design and develop general
solvers for a range of problems rather than concerning dedicated
algorithms for specific problems or problem instances. Due to its
efficiency and generality in providing good enough, fast enough
solutions in solving various problems with less amount of tuning effort,
hyper-heuristics have been applied to a range of domains including
optimization functions, combinatorial optimization, as well as
scheduling, timetabling and planning.

This special session is being organized as an activity of the
Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee of the
Computational Intelligence Society at IEEE, and aims to bring together
advanced developments in both research and practice of hyper-heuristics
and widen the existing applications on various problems in education,
industry, engineering, management and business, etc. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

Applications:
- Bin packing
- Combinatorial optimization
- Engineering design
- Resource management
- Hybrid methods for scheduling problems
- Routing
- Scheduling, timetabling, planning
- Other real world problems

Theory:
- Theoretical or empirical analysis of hyper-heuristics
- Cooperative hyper-heuristics
- Multi-objective hyper-heuristics
- Hyper-heuristics in dynamic environments
- Parallel hyper-heuristics
- Benchmark problems and performance metrics in evaluation of -
hyper-heuristic
- Hybrid methods between hyper-heuristics and other computational
intelligence techniques
- Comparative studies of hyper-heuristics and other computational
intelligence techniques

Important dates and details of how to make submissions are available at
the CEC'2012 web site at WCCI'2012 http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

Special Session Chairs:
Dr Rong Qu, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, UK; e-mail: rxq@cs.nott.ac.uk
Dr A. Sima Uyar, Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering
Department, Istanbul, TURKEY; e-mail: etaner@itu.edu.tr

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School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG8 1BB
tel: ++44 115 8466503
fax: ++44 115 8467877
URL: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/

Call For Papers:

* Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling, &
* Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling
2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012)
June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia

*Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Submission deadline: 15 June 2011

* 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
(CISched'13)
Singapore, 15-19 April, 2013
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Simons Foundation Postdoc Fellowship at NYU

The Simons Foundation has awarded New York University a Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science for a two-year period starting
in
the summer or fall of 2012. Applicants in all areas of theory are
encouraged to apply; current areas of activity include approximation
algorithms, complexity theory, cryptography, data structures, algebra and

geometry, probabilistic methods, and algorithmic game theory. Postdoctora
l
Fellows will have the opportunity to work with all members of the theory
group at NYU.

Eligibility: Candidates must receive their PhD during the academic year
immediately preceding that in which the fellowship would begin (i.e.
2011-2012). There are no other restrictions.

The fellowship stipend is intended to attract the highest caliber of
applicants. In addition, fellows will receive a $7,000/year research budg
et,
for expenses such as travel and equipment.

Applications (CV and research statement) should be submitted online at
https://cs.nyu.edu/webapps/postdoc/simons2011/register
Inquiries can be sent to jobs@cs.nyu.edu.

For full consideration, applications should be received by December 10,
2011. However, this is not a hard deadline, as all candidates will be
considered to the full extent feasible, until the position is filled.

New York University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

Open position: Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing  The School of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, seeks an Assistant Professor in Cloud Computing KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. Education and research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, as well as architecture, industrial economics, urban planning, and environmental technology. There are some 13,000 undergraduate students, 1,300 postgraduate students and 3,900 employees at KTH.  Subject area Cloud Computing  Subject description The field comprises theory and principles for analysis, design and evaluation of computing and communication systems in the area of cloud computing. The field requires a combination of disciplinary research and systems research. Job duties The position involves teaching and research, through own individual efforts, in collaboration with others and via supervision of doctoral students and postdocs. The position also involves administration and coordination of activities.  Eligibility requirements Eligible for the post is a scholar with a doctoral degree, or an international degree that is judged to equal a doctoral degree. Primarily those candidates having obtained a PhD degree not more than five years before the application deadline will be considered. Applicants who have obtained degrees earlier may be considered,, if there are special reasons, e.g. parental leave.  Assessment criteria The Applicant must have documented scientific, engineering and pedagogical skills in the field. The scientific skills are demonstrated through publications in internationally recognized conferences and journals. Relevant background for a candidate includes one or more (a) foundational disciplines, such as algorithms, formal analysis and design, and machine learning, and (b) applied disciplines, such as distributed systems, service engineering, and systems management. Particular attention is given on candidates' ability to independently initiate and conduct research of high scientific quality, the ability to develop collaborations in research and education and the ability to teach the subject at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.  Employment Form of employment: Time limited Start time: According to agreement The successful candidate will join the KTH Tenure-Track System and will be provided with dedicated career support. Assessment criteria for promotion to associate professor For the promotion from assistant to associate professor important criteria include the applicant's ability to independently initiate and pursue research of high scientific quality, published in international publications, and the applicant's ability to obtain external funding. The applicant's ability to independently establish new collaborations and research directions, as well develop new educational initiatives are also considered.  Application procedure Latest day of application: Monday 19 December 2011  Number of reference: E-2011-0491 The application should be sent in hard copy to: KTH School of Electrical Engineering Osquldas vag 10 S-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden  Applications must be received by the last day of application, 19 December 2011. The application must include: 1. Full CV with list of publications. The publication list should be marked with the publications that the applicant wishes to submit. 2. Brief summary of scientific, educational and administrative activities. 3. The publications submitted by the applicant (maximum 10). 4. Applications should be written in English.  For more information about the application procedure, please see the instructions which should be followed as closely as possible, CV template concerning the application for employment as and promotion to professor/associate professor: www.kth.se/aktuellt/2.22661/cv-mall-avseende-ansokan-om-anstallning-som-och-befordrantill-professor-lektor-1.2112?l=en_UK   All documents, including referred publications, should be filed in 3 copies each. These are to be packed in 3 identical parcels. All 3 copies must be marked with the reference number of the position: E-2011-0491  General information about KTH can be found at www.kth.se . Contact Enquires about the position should be directed to: Rolf Stadler, professor Tfn: +46 8 790 4250 E-mail: stadler@ee.kth.se Trade union representatives: Ann Fylkner, chairman SACO Tfn: +46 8 790 7386 E-mail: fylkner@kth.se Inger Bergman, chairman ST Tfn: +46 8 790 9213 E-mail: ingerb@admin.kth.se 

IJAHUC Special Issue on "Localization, Positioning and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks"

Call for Papers

Special Issue on "Localization, Positioning and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks"

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC)

Journal Impact Factor: 0.435 (2010)

http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1741

In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) deployments, wireless sensor nodes should be strategically placed in order to maximize the sensed area while minimizing the number of nodes to be placed in the field. Moreover, wireless radio coverage distances should be taken into account in order to cover large areas. Wireless sensors may be located quite far from each other, allowing lower deployment costs, but it may increase the wireless sensor node power consumption due to the energy needed to reach large distances. Although many factors may affect the position of each wireless sensor node inside the WSN, there are two main ones: the radio coverage area, which allows the sensors to communicate, and, the sensing coverage area, which gives the sensing region. Both types of coverage areas could be affected by the field where the WSN is deployed, but different factors affect each type of coverage. The goal is to maximize the coverage percentage, while coverage holes should be minimized.

This special issue is focused on sensor node location and positioning techniques taking into account the aforementioned constraints.

Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

- WSN radio coverage.
- WSN sensing field.
- WSN deployment zones.
- Isotropic and sectorial sensing nodes.
- Positioning systems.
- Node location techniques.
- Analytical node placement systems.
- 2D and 3D Regions of Interest in WSNs.
- Theoretical systems and analytical methods to maximize the radio and sensing coverage.
- Sensing gain and power gain systems.
- Sleep scheduling techniques for enhancing WSN coverage.
- Self-organization Strategies.

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31).

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 30 November, 2012
Notification of acceptance: 29 February, 2013
Camera Ready Papers: 30 April, 2013

Guest Editors:
Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Dr. Lei Shu, Osaka University, Japan
Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala State, India
Dr. Javier M. Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain

Editors and Notes
All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please go to Online Submissions of Papers (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=35&jid=145). If you experience any problems submitting your paper online, please contact submissions@inderscience.com, describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editors.

Please contact Assoc. Prof. Jaime Lloret Mauri (jlloret@dcom.upv.es) with any queries concerning this special issue.

European Master's Program in Computational Logic

Please help to spread this information as wide as possible.

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The European Master's Program in Computational Logic

We are glad to announce the possibility to join our European
Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered
jointly at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the
Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de
Lisboa in Portugal and the Technische Universität Wien in
Austria. Within this program you have the choice to study at two
/three of the four European universities. In addition, you can do your
project work at the National ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will
graduate with a MSc in Computer Science and obtain a joint
degree. Information on the universities and the program including the
application procedure is provided here:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html

Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for
non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year.

We would like to draw your attention to the ERASMUS-MUNDUS scholarship
program. The ERASMUS-MUNDUS consortium offers 2-year scholarships up
to 48.000 EUR for non-EU students and up to 23.000 EUR for EU
students of our European Master's Program in Computational Logic.

More information on the scholarship program is available from:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/ma_em_grant.html

Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions.

Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler
International Center for Computational Logic
Technische Universität Dresden
01062 Dresden, Germany

phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40
fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42
email: sh@iccl.tu-dresden.de

[DMANET] 2nd CfP: ICCGI 2012 || June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION:

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Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICCGI 2012.

The submission deadline is set to February 5, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== ICCGI 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICCGI 2012, The Seventh International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology
June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICCGI12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICCGI12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICCGI12.html

Submission deadline: February 5, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICCGI 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Industrial systems
Control theory and systems; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Data engineering; Enterprise computing and evaluation; Electrical and electronics engineering; Economic decisions and information systems; Advanced robotics; Virtual reality systems; Industrial systems and applications; Industrial and financial systems; Industrial control electronics; Industrial IT solutions

Evolutionary computation
Algorithms, procedures, mechanisms and applications; Computer architecture and systems; Computational sciences; Computation in complex systems; Computer and communication systems; Computer networks; Computer science theory; Computation and computer security; Computer simulation; Digital telecommunications; Distributed and parallel computing; Computation in embedded and real-time systems; Soft computing; User-centric computation

Autonomic and autonomous systems
Automation and autonomous systems; Theory of Computing; Autonomic computing; Autonomic networking; Network computing; Protecting computing; Theories of agency and autonomy; Multi-agent evolution, adaptation and learning; Adjustable and self-adjustable autonomy; Pervasive systems and computation; Computing with locality principles; GRID networking and services; Pervasive computing; Cluster computing and performance; Artificial intelligence Computational linguistics; Cognitive technologies; Decision making; Evolutionary computation; Expert systems; Computational biology

Bio-technologies

Models and techniques for biometric technologies; Bioinformatics; Biometric security; Computer graphics and visualization; Computer vision and image processing; Computational biochemistry; Finger, facial, iris, voice, and skin biometrics; Signature recognition; Multimodal biometrics; Verification and identification techniques; Accuracy of biometric technologies; Authentication smart cards and biometric metrics; Performance and assurance testing; Limitations of biometric technologies; Biometric card technologies; Biometric wireless technologies; Biometric software and hardware; Biometric standards

Knowledge data systems
Data mining and Web mining; Knowledge databases and systems; Data warehouse and applications; Data warehousing and information systems; Database performance evaluation; Semantic and temporal databases; Database systems Databases and information retrieval; Digital library design; Meta-data modeling

Mobile and distance education
Human computer interaction; Educational technologies; Computer in education; Distance learning; E-learning; Mobile learning Cognitive support for learning; Internet-based education; Impact of ICT on education and society; Group decision making and software; Habitual domain and information technology; Computer-mediated communications; Immersing authoring; Contextual and cultural challenges in user mobility

Intelligent techniques, logics, and systems
Intelligent agent technologies; Intelligent and fuzzy information processing; Intelligent computing and knowledge management; Intelligent systems and robotics; Fault-tolerance and reliability; Fuzzy logic & systems; Genetic algorithms; Haptic phenomena; Graphic recognition; Neural networks; Symbolic and algebraic computation; Modeling, simulation and analysis of business processes and systems

Knowledge processing
Knowledge representation models; Knowledge languages; Cognitive science; Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge processing under uncertainty; Machine intelligence; Machine learning; Making decision through Internet; Networking knowledge plan

Information technologies
Information technology and organizational behavior; Agents, data mining and ontologies; Information retrieval systems; Information and network security; Information ethics and legal evaluations; Optimization and information technology; Organizational information systems; Information fusion; Information management systems; Information overload; Information policy making; Information security; Information systems; Information discovery

Internet and web technologies
Internet and WWW-based computing; Web and Grid computing; Internet service and training; IT and society; IT in education and health; Management information systems; Visualization and group decision making; Web based language development; Web search and decision making; Web service ontologies; Scientific web intelligence; Online business and decision making; Business rule language; E-Business; E-Commerce; Online and collaborative work; Social eco-systems and social networking; Social decisions on Internet; Computer ethics

Digital information processing
Mechatronics; Natural language processing; Medical imaging; Image processing; Signal processing; Speech processing; Video processing; Pattern recognition; Pattern recognition models; Graphics & computer vision; Medical systems and computing

Cognitive science and knowledge agent-based systems
Cognitive support for e-learning and mobile learning; Agents and cognitive models; Agents & complex systems; computational ecosystems; Agent architectures, perception, action & planning in agents; Agent communication: languages, semantics, pragmatics & protocols; Agent-based electronic commerce and trading systems Multi-agent constraint satisfaction; Agent programming languages, development environments and testbeds; Computational complexity in autonomous agents; Multi-agent planning and cooperation; Logics and formal models of for agency verification; Nomadic agents; Negotiation, auctions, persuasion; Privacy and security issues in multi-agent systems

Mobility and multimedia systems
Mobile communications; Multimedia and visual programming; Multimedia and decision making; Multimedia systems; Mobile multimedia systems; User-centered mobile applications; Designing for the mobile devices; Contextual user mobility; Mobile strategies for global market; Interactive television and mobile commerce

Systems performance
Performance evaluation; Performance modeling; Performance of parallel computing; Reasoning under uncertainty; Reliability and fault-tolerance; Performance instrumentation; Performance monitoring and corrections; Performance in entity-dependable systems; Real-time performance and near-real time performance evaluation; Performance in software systems; Performance and hybrid systems; Measuring performance in embedded systems

Networking and telecommunications
Telecommunication and Networking; Telecommunication Systems and Evaluation; Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Information Technology; Network and Decision Making; Networks and Security; Communications protocols (SIP/H323/MPLS/IP); Specialized networks (GRID/P2P/Overlay/Ad hoc/Sensor); Advanced services (VoIP/IPTV/Video-on-Demand; Network and system monitoring and management; Feature interaction detection and resolution; Policy-based monitoring and managements systems; Traffic modeling and monitoring; Traffic engineering and management; Self-monitoring, self-healing and self-management systems; Man-in-the-loop management paradigm

Software development and deployment
Software requirements engineering; Software design, frameworks, and architectures; Software interactive design; Formal methods for software development, verification and validation; Neural networks and performance; Patterns/Anti-patterns/Artifacts/Frameworks; Agile/Generic/Agent-oriented programming; Empirical software evaluation metrics; Software vulnerabilities; Reverse engineering; Software reuse; Software security, reliability and safety; Software economics; Software testing and debugging; Tracking defects in the OO design; Distributed and parallel software; Programming languages; Declarative programming; Real-time and embedded software; Open source software development methodologies; Software tools and deployment environments; Software Intelligence; Software Performance and Evaluation

Knowledge virtualization
Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

Systems and networks on the chip
Microtechnology and nanotechnology; Real-time embedded systems; Programming embedded systems; Controlling embedded systems; High speed embedded systems; Designing methodologies for embedded systems; Performance on embedded systems; Updating embedded systems; Wireless/wired design of systems-on-the-chip; Testing embedded systems; Technologies for systems processors; Migration to single-chip systems

Context-aware systems
Context-aware autonomous entities; Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements Design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations

Networking technologies
Next generation networking; Network, control and service architectures; Network signalling, pricing and billing; Network middleware; Telecommunication networks architectures; On-demand networks, utility computing architectures; Next generation networks [NGN] principles; Storage area networks [SAN]; Access and home networks; High-speed networks; Optical networks; Peer-to-peer and overlay networking; Mobile networking and systems; MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks; GRID networks; Broadband networks

Security in network, systems, and applications
IT in national and global security; Formal aspects of security; Systems and network security; Security and cryptography; Applied cryptography; Cryptographic protocols; Key management; Access control; Anonymity and pseudonymity management; Security management; Trust management; Protection management; Certification and accreditation; Virii, worms, attacks, spam; Intrusion prevention and detection; Information hiding; Legal and regulatory issues

Knowledge for global defense
Business continuity and availability; Risk assessment; Aerospace computing technologies; Systems and networks vulnerabilities; Developing trust in Internet commerce; Performance in networks, systems, and applications; Disaster prevention and recovery; IT for anti-terrorist technology innovations (ATTI); Networks and applications emergency services; Privacy and trust in pervasive communications; Digital rights management; User safety and protection

Information Systems [IS]
Management Information Systems; Decision Support Systems; Innovation and IS; Enterprise Application Integration; Enterprise Resource Planning; Business Process Change; Design and Development Methodologies and Frameworks; Iterative and Incremental Methodologies; Agile Methodologies; IS Standards and Compliance Issues; Risk Management in IS Design and Development; Research Core Theories; Conceptualizations and Paradigms in IS; Research Ontological Assumptions in IS Research; IS Research Constraints, Limitations and Opportunities; IS vs Computer Science Research; IS vs Business Studies

IPv6 Today - Technology and deployment
IP Upgrade - An Engineering Exercise or a Necessity?; Worldwide IPv6 Adoption - Trends and Policies; IPv6 Programs, from Research to Knowledge Dissemination; IPv6 Technology - Practical Information; Advanced Topics and Latest Developments in IPv6; IPv6 Deployment Experiences and Case Studies; IPv6 Enabled Applications and Devices

Modeling
Continuous and Discrete Models; Optimal Models; Complex System Modeling; Individual-Based Models; Modeling Uncertainty; Compact Fuzzy Models; Modeling Languages; Real-time modeling; Performance modeling

Optimization
Multicriteria Optimization; Multilervel Optimization; Goal Programming; Optimization and Efficiency; Optimization-based decisions; Evolutionary Optimization; Self-Optimization; Extreme Optimization; Combinatorial Optimization; Discrete Optimization; Fuzzy Optimization; Lipschitzian Optimization; Non-Convex Optimization; Convexity; Continuous Optimization; Interior point methods; Semi-definite and Conic Programming

Complexity
Complexity Analysis; Computational Complexity; Complexity Reduction; Optimizing Model Complexity; Communication Complexity; Managing Complexity; Modeling Complexity in Social Systems; Low-complexity Global Optimization; Software Development for Modeling and Optimization; Industrial applications

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SAT 2012: Call for Papers

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15th International Conference on
THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF SATISFIABILITY TESTING
--- SAT 2012 ---

Trento, Italy, June 17-20th, 2012
http://sat2012.fbk.eu/
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AIM and SCOPE
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The International Conference on Theory and Applications of
Satisfiability Testing (SAT) is the primary annual meeting for
researchers studying the propositional satisfiability
problem. Importantly, here SAT is interpreted in a rather broad sense:
besides plain propositional satisfiability, it includes the domains of
MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints, Quantified Boolean
Formulae (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT), Constraints
Programming (CSP) techniques for word-level problems and their
propositional encoding.

To this extent, many hard combinatorial problems can be encoded as SAT
instances, in the broad sense mentioned above, including problems that
arise in hardware and software verification, AI planning and
scheduling, OR resource allocation, etc. The theoretical and practical
advances in SAT research over the past twenty years have contributed
to making SAT technology an indispensable tool in these domains.

SAT 2012 will take place in Trento, Italy, a cosmopolitan city set in
a spectacular mountain scenery, and home to a world-class university
and research centres.

RELEVANT TOPICS
===============

The topics of the conference span practical and theoretical research
on SAT (in the broader sense above) and its applications, and include,
but are not limited to:

* Theoretical issues
- Combinatorial Theory of SAT
- Proof Systems and Proof Complexity in SAT
- Analysis of SAT Algorithms
* Solving:
- Improvements of current solving procedures
- Novel solving procedures, techniques and heuristics
- Incremental solving
* Beyond solving:
- Functionalities (e.g., proofs, unsat-cores, interpolants,...)
- Optimization
* Applications
- SAT techniques for other domains
- Novel Problem Encodings
- Novel Industrial Applications of SAT

A more detailed description can be found on the web site.

INVITED SPEAKERS
================

We are honored to announce the following invited speakers at SAT'12:

* Aaron Bradley, Boulder, USA.
"SAT-based Verification with IC3: Foundations and Demands"

* Donald Knuth, Stanford, USA.
"Satisfiability and The Art of Computer Programming"

The presence of both speakers has been confirmed, although the titles
of the talks may be provisional.

PAPER SUBMISSION
================

Papers must be edited in LATEX using the LNCS format and
be submitted electronically as PDF files via EasyChair.
We envisage three categories of submissions:

REGULAR PAPERS. Submissions, not exceeding fourteen (14) pages, should
contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the
merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting
experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their
data available with their submission. Submissions reporting on case
studies in an industrial context are strongly invited, and should
describe details, weaknesses and strength in sufficient
depth. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings
or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere
is not allowed.

TOOL PRESENTATIONS. Submissions, not exceeding four (4) pages, should
describe the implemented tool and its novel features. A
demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers
describing tools that have already been presented in other
conferences before will be accepted only if significant and clear
enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS/POSTERS. Submissions, not exceeding two (2) pages,
briefly introducing work in progress, student work, or preliminary
results. These papers are expected to be presented as posters at the
conference.

Further information about paper submission, including a more detailed
description of the scope and specification of the three submission
categories, will be made available at SAT'12 web page. The review
process will be subject to a rebuttal phase.

IMPORTANT DATES:
================
Abstract Submission: 05/02/2012
Paper Submission: 12/02/2012
Rebuttal phase: 28-30/03/2012
Final Notification: 12/04/2012
Final Version Due: 04/05/2012
Conference: 17-20/06/2012

PROCEEDINGS
===========

The proceedings of SAT'12 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series.

PROGRAM CHAIRS
==============

Alessandro Cimatti -- FBK-Irst, Trento, Italy
Roberto Sebastiani -- DISI, University of Trento, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
=================

Dimitris Achlioptas -- UC Santa Cruz, USA
Fahiem Bacchus -- University of Toronto, Canada
Paul Beame -- University of Washington, USA
Armin Biere -- Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Randal Bryant -- Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Uwe Bubeck -- University of Paderborn, Germany
Nadia Creignou -- LIF Marseille, France}
Leonardo DeMoura -- Microsoft Research, USA
John Franco -- University of Cincinnati, USA
Malay Ganai -- NEC, USA
Enrico Giunchiglia -- Università di Genova, Italy
Yussef Hamadi -- Microsoft Research, UK
Zyiad Hanna -- Jasper, USA
Holger Hoos -- University of British Columbia, Canada
Marijn Heule -- Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Kazuo Iwama -- Kyoto University, Japan
Oliver Kullmann -- University of Wales Swansea, UK
Daniel Le Berre -- Université d'Artois, France
Ines Lynce -- Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Panagiotis Manolios -- Northeastern University, USA
Joao Marques-Silva -- University College Dublin, Ireland
David Mitchell -- Simon Fraser University, Canada
Alexander Nadel -- Intel, Israel
Jussi Rintanen -- The Austrailan National University, Australia
Lakhdar Sais -- Université d'Artois, France
Karem Sakallah -- University of Michigan, USA
Bart Selman -- Cornell University, USA
Laurent Simon -- Université Paris 11, France
Carsten Sinz -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Niklas Sorensson -- Chalmers University, Sweden
Ofer Strichman -- Technion, Israel
Stefan Szeider -- Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Allen Van Gelder -- University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Toby Walsh -- University of New South Wales, Australia
Xishun Zhao -- Sun Yat-Sen University, China

SOFSEM 2012 - CALL for POSTERS

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CALL for POSTERS

SOFSEM 2012

38th International Conference on Current Trends
in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
January 21-27, 2012
Orea Hotel HORAL (Spindleruv Mlyn)
Czech Republic
http://www.sofsem.cz/

Dear Sofsemists,
dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit a POSTER for any topic
of the four SOFSEM 2012 tracks:

* FOUNDATIONS of COMPUTER SCIENCE,
* SOFTWARE and WEB ENGINEERING,
* CRYPTOGRAPHY, SECURITY and VERIFICATION,
* ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

All accepted posters (after registration and payment) will be included
and published in SOFSEM 2012 local proceedings.

We would especially like to attract your attention to the

SPECIAL EVENT: SESSION on TURING MACHINES.

In memory of Alan Turing, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated in 2012,
SOSFEM 2012 will host a session on Turing machines.
The session will consist of invited and contributed talks on Turing machines
as the basic model of computability and complexity.
SOFSEM 2012 is among the official Centenary Events of The Alan Turing Year
(for more details see http://www.turingcentenary.eu/)

We hope that you find the SOFSEM 2012 tracks and topics - for details see

http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=call

interesting,
and that by submitting your poster to the SOFSEM 2012 conference you will
help to contribute to yet another succesfull SOFSEM.

Instructions for poster submission are at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=posters.

Important dates:
Deadline: November 21, 2011
Acceptance notification: November 30, 2011
Camera-ready posters: December 6, 2011
Conference: January 21-27, 2012

*******************

As usual at SOFSEM, a very distinguished feature of the SOFSEM 2012
will be the higher number of Invited Speakers.
The list of SOFSEM 2012 invited speakers:

* Foundations of Computer Science Track:

- Yuri Gurevich (University of Michigan and Microsoft Research, USA)
What's an Algorithm?

- Giuseppe F. Italiano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
[Title to be announced]

SESSION ON TURING MACHINES.

- Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong )
The Legacy of Turing in Numerical Analysis

- Peter van Emde Boas (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands )
Turing Machines for Dummies

- Jiri Wiedermann (Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences,
Czech Republic )
Towards Computational Models of Artificial Cognitive Systems that Can,
in Principle, Pass the Turing Test

* Software & Web Engineering Track:

- Paul De Bra (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
A Fully Generic Approach for Realizing the Adaptive Web

- Pavel Zezula (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Multi Feature Indexing Network (MUFIN) - Similarity Search Platform
for many Applications

* Cryptography, Security, and Verification Track:

- Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)
Recent Challenges and Ideas in Temporal Synthesis

- Krzysztof Pietrzak (Cryptology Research Group, CWI Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
Efficient Cryptography from Hard Learning Problems

* Artificial Intelligence

SPECIAL EVENT: SESSION ON TURING MACHINES

- Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy )
Don't Take Shortcuts! Computational Lexical Semantics and the Turing Test

- Kevin Warwick (University of Reading, United Kingdom )
Not Another Look at the Turing Test!

We are sure each SOFSEM 2012 Invited Speaker will deliver a wonderfull
Invited Talk the SOFSEM 2012 participants will fully enjoy similarly to the
43 accepted papers (from the 121 submitted: ~ 36 % acceptance rate -
the complete list is at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=accepted).

*****************

Location, venue and leisure activities of SOFSEM 2012 are presented at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=location
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=leisure

We are looking forward to your submissions.

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions.

On behalf of all SOFSEM 2012 organizers,

Georg Gottlob (Program Committee Chair)
Julius Stuller (Steering Committee Chair)

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SOFSEM 2012 - CALL for POSTERS

[This information is being posted to multiple lists
- we apologise if you get it several times.
Please, pass the information to whom it may benefit.
Thank you for understanding and cooperation.
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CALL for POSTERS

SOFSEM 2012

38th International Conference on Current Trends
in Theory and Practice of Computer Science
January 21-27, 2012
Orea Hotel HORAL (Spindleruv Mlyn)
Czech Republic
http://www.sofsem.cz/

Dear Sofsemists,
dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit a POSTER for any topic
of the four SOFSEM 2012 tracks:

* FOUNDATIONS of COMPUTER SCIENCE,
* SOFTWARE and WEB ENGINEERING,
* CRYPTOGRAPHY, SECURITY and VERIFICATION,
* ARTICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

All accepted posters (after registration and payment) will be included
and published in SOFSEM 2012 local proceedings.

We would especially like to attract your attention to the

SPECIAL EVENT: SESSION on TURING MACHINES.

In memory of Alan Turing, whose 100th anniversary is celebrated in 2012,
SOSFEM 2012 will host a session on Turing machines.
The session will consist of invited and contributed talks on Turing machines
as the basic model of computability and complexity.
SOFSEM 2012 is among the official Centenary Events of The Alan Turing Year
(for more details see http://www.turingcentenary.eu/)

We hope that you find the SOFSEM 2012 tracks and topics - for details see

http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=call

interesting,
and that by submitting your poster to the SOFSEM 2012 conference you will
help to contribute to yet another succesfull SOFSEM.

Instructions for poster submission are at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=posters.

Important dates:
Deadline: November 21, 2011
Acceptance notification: November 30, 2011
Camera-ready posters: December 6, 2011
Conference: January 21-27, 2012

*******************

As usual at SOFSEM, a very distinguished feature of the SOFSEM 2012
will be the higher number of Invited Speakers.
The list of SOFSEM 2012 invited speakers:

* Foundations of Computer Science Track:

- Yuri Gurevich (University of Michigan and Microsoft Research, USA)
What's an Algorithm?

- Giuseppe F. Italiano (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
[Title to be announced]

SESSION ON TURING MACHINES.

- Felipe Cucker (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong )
The Legacy of Turing in Numerical Analysis

- Peter van Emde Boas (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands )
Turing Machines for Dummies

- Jiri Wiedermann (Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences,
Czech Republic )
Towards Computational Models of Artificial Cognitive Systems that Can,
in Principle, Pass the Turing Test

* Software & Web Engineering Track:

- Paul De Bra (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
A Fully Generic Approach for Realizing the Adaptive Web

- Pavel Zezula (Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic)
Multi Feature Indexing Network (MUFIN) - Similarity Search Platform
for many Applications

* Cryptography, Security, and Verification Track:

- Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel)
Recent Challenges and Ideas in Temporal Synthesis

- Krzysztof Pietrzak (Cryptology Research Group, CWI Amsterdam,
The Netherlands)
Efficient Cryptography from Hard Learning Problems

* Artificial Intelligence

SPECIAL EVENT: SESSION ON TURING MACHINES

- Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy )
Don't Take Shortcuts! Computational Lexical Semantics and the Turing Test

- Kevin Warwick (University of Reading, United Kingdom )
Not Another Look at the Turing Test!

We are sure each SOFSEM 2012 Invited Speaker will deliver a wonderfull
Invited Talk the SOFSEM 2012 participants will fully enjoy similarly to the
43 accepted papers (from the 121 submitted: ~ 36 % acceptance rate -
the complete list is at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=accepted).

*****************

Location, venue and leisure activities of SOFSEM 2012 are presented at:
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=location
http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php?page=leisure

We are looking forward to your submissions.

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions.

On behalf of all SOFSEM 2012 organizers,

Georg Gottlob (Program Committee Chair)
Julius Stuller (Steering Committee Chair)

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IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM

Thomas J. Watson Research Center invites applications for its 2012-2013

Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in
mathematical and computer sciences. Areas of active research in the
department include: algorithms, data mining, dynamical systems and
differential equations, high-performance computing, machine learning,
numerical analysis, optimization, probability theory, statistics, and
supply-chain and operations management.

Candidates must have received a Ph.D. or receive one between September

2007 and August 2012. Up to two fellowships will be awarded with a stipen
d
between $95,000 and $115,000 (depending on length of experience).

Applications must be received between October 31, 2011 and January 8,
2012. Complete details are available at:
http://www.research.ibm.com/goldstine

[DMANET] Postdoc Position in Berlin

The Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)

METHODS FOR DISCRETE STRUCTURES
www3.math.tu-berlin.de/MDS/

funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the three Berlin Universities will in 2012 offer

one POSTDOC POSITION (E13 TV-L)

starting August 2012 or later, for one year (possibly extendible). We will review applications after the application deadline which is January 15, 2012.

The salary for this position on the official German TV-L Berliner Hochschulen salary scale depends on age, marital status, children, etc.

The scientific program of the MDS program treats combinatorics and discrete mathematics broadly, with an emphasis on diverse mathematical methods, such as

Geometric Methods
Approximation and Online Methods
Graph Methods
Topological and Algebraic Methods
Enumeration Methods
Probabilistic Methods and Extremal Combinatorics

The MDS program is a joint initiative of scientists at the three major Berlin universities,

Freie Universität Berlin (FU),
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), and
Technische Universität Berlin (TU).

Its faculty consists of

Prof. Susanne Albers (HU)
Prof. Helmut Alt (FU)
Prof. Stefan Felsner (TU)
Prof. Martin Grötschel (TU/ZIB)
Prof. Martin Grohe (HU)
Prof. Rolf H. Möhring (TU)
Prof. Günter Rote (FU)
Prof. Tibor Szabo (FU)
Prof. Martin Skutella (TU, coordinator)
Prof. Günter M. Ziegler (FU)

as well as adjoint and junior faculty.

The MDS course program consists of the Monday Afternoon Colloquium lectures, block courses, summer schools, regular predoc programs, etc. - all this in a very lively Berlin discrete mathematics context, which also includes the DFG Research Center MATHEON (http://www.matheon.de).

The RTG "Methods for Discrete Structures" is also a registered unit for the "Phase II" part of BERLIN MATHEMATICAL SCHOOL (www.math-berlin.de), the joint international graduate program of the three major Berlin universities.

Applications, consisting of

- letter of application
- curriculum vitae
- Ph.D. thesis (preliminary version, if not finished)
- research proposal
- letter of reference by thesis advisor, and possibly an additional letter
(to be sent directly to us)

should be directed to

Prof. Martin Skutella, Coordinator
RTG "Methods for Discrete Structures"
Inst. Mathematics, MA 5-2
TU Berlin
Str. des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin, Germany

email: martin.skutella@tu-berlin.de
www.coga.tu-berlin.de/v-menue/mitarbeiter/prof_dr_martin_skutella/
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 314-78654
Fax: +49 - 30 - 314-25191

Applications by email are welcome!

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[DMANET] Stellenausschreibung wiss. Mitarbeiter/in am Institut für Transportlogistik (TU Dortmund)

An der Technischen Universität Dortmund ist in der Fakultät Maschinenbau am Institut für Transportlogistik zum nächstmöglichen Termin die Stelle

einer / eines wissenschaftlich Beschäftigten

befristet bis zur Dauer von 3 Jahren zu besetzen.

Die Entgeltzahlung erfolgt entsprechend den tarifrechtlichen Regelungen nach Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L bzw. ggf. nach dem Übergangsrecht (TVÜ-L). Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Ganztagsstelle. Die Stelle ist grundsätzlich auch für Teilzeitkräfte geeignet.

Der Aufgabenschwerpunkt der Arbeit im Optimierungsteam des Instituts liegt in der Erforschung von Algorithmen zur Optimierung und Lösung von Güterflussproblemen. Ein Schwerpunkt bildet dabei die Optimierung von Transportwegen in logistischen Netzwerken unter Einbezug von Gateways. Das Vorhaben ist auf die vorgesehene Laufzeit des Förderprogramms von ca. 36 Monaten befristet. Es besteht die Option zur Weiterbeschäftigung am Institut. Hierzu suchen wir Bewerber/innen mit überdurchschnittlichem Abschluss in den Studiengängen Informatik, (Wirtschafts-)Mathematik oder (Wirtschafts-)Ingenieurwesen sowie fundierten Kenntnissen in mathematischer, insbesondere diskreter oder quadratischer Optimierung. Von Vorteil sind Kenntnisse in der Entwicklung von Metaheuristiken und Software. Die/der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/in sollte sich darüber hinaus für logistische Fragestellungen interessieren. Neben der Entwicklung von mathematischen Verfahren stehen der Kontakt zu Unternehmen, die Lösung logistischer Probleme sowie die Implementierung und Anwendung auf reale Praxisszenarien im Vordergrund.

Die Stelle erfordert die zielorientierte und selbständige Bearbeitung von wissenschaftlich anspruchsvollen Fragestellungen. Erwartet werden darüber hinaus teamorientiertes Arbeiten, gute kommunikative Fähigkeiten sowie ein hohes Maß an Engagement und Kooperationsbereitschaft. Zusätzlich sind gute Englischkenntnisse und Programmierkennt-nisse in einer objektorientierten Programmiersprache (z.B. Java oder C#) wünschenswert. Erfahrungen im Umgang mit einer Modellierungssprache (GAMS, Aimms, etc.) sind von weiterem Interesse.

Im Rahmen der Tätigkeit besteht die Möglichkeit zur Promotion.

Die Technische Universität Dortmund will den Anteil von Frauen in der Wissenschaft erhöhen und bittet daher insbesondere Frauen um ihre Bewerbung.

Es wird darauf hingewiesen, dass die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter erwünscht ist.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen senden Sie bitte unter Angabe der Referenznummer 112/11 innerhalb von vier Wochen nach Veröffentlichung an:

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Institut für Transportlogistik
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Leonhard-Euler-Str. 2
44227 Dortmund

Für Fragen steht zur Verfügung:
Herr Gerald Ebel
Tel.: +49 (0)231 755-7327
E-Mail: ebel@itl.tu-dortmund.de

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LUMS Lecturer in Management Science & Marketing Analytics

Dear Colleagues,
Could you please bring the following vacancy to the attention of potential candidates?
Best wishes, Sven F. Crone

==============================================================================
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer
(Assistant Professor / Associate Professor equivalent)

Management Science & Marketing Analytics
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Salary: £31,798 to £52,556
Closing Date: Monday 21 November 2011
Interview Date: See advert
Reference: A304
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You will ideally have interests in business and marketing analytics (the use of quantitative models to support marketing decisions) to strengthen the department's teaching and research. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to, dynamic issues of Marketing Engineering, such as dynamic market response models, modeling the impact of promotions and elasticities, stochastic consumer behavior models, adoption and diffusion modeling, marketing applications in the context of forecasting and time series analysis, or the use of analytical approaches to Market Research or Direct Marketing in general.

Candidates will join an existing group of four academic staff who research and teach this area of work and are responsible for the MSc in Management Science & Marketing Analytics. You should have a relevant PhD, a publication record that demonstrates the potential for international excellence and be comfortable teaching postgraduate students. Staff are expected to conduct internationally excellent academic research, as well as engaging with external organisations in applied industry projects using empirical data.

The department is based at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), a triple-accredited, world-ranked management school, consistently among the UK's top five. Lancaster is among the few leading business schools to combine excellence in research with a student-centred campus, and a full spectrum of undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes. Leadership programmes for multinational companies and outreach provision for SMEs are of equal importance to our mission.

The position is at the Department of Management Science, one of the longest established of its type in Europe, and with 35 members of staff and 50+ PhD students one of the UK's largest departments, which spans research on Operational Research, Operations Management, and Systems and Information Management. It is also host to the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, with frequent industry projects and executive training courses in forecasting, time series prediction and data mining.

A provisional interview date has been set for 7 December however this will be confirmed via email after the shortlisting has taken place.

Informal enquiries should be made to:
Professor Mike Pidd, Head of the Department of Management Science.
Phone +44 (0)1524 593870
email m.pidd@lancaster.ac.uk
Web http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/mansci/DeptProfile/

All official materials are available on the HR web-site: http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A304

For further details please follow these links:
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[DMANET] 2nd CfP: ICWMC 2012 || June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

INVITATION:

=================
Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish
original scientific results to ICWMC 2012.

The submission deadline is set to February 5, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals:
http://www.iariajournals.org
=================


============== ICWMC 2012 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICWMC 2012, The Eighth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications
June 24-29, 2012 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/ICWMC12.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/CfPICWMC12.html

- regular papers
- short papers (work in progress)
- posters
- ideas

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2012/SubmitICWMC12.html

Submission deadline: February 5, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards,
implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete
unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to,
topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICWMC 2012 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Wireless Communications Basics
Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Transform-domain
communication; Multiple access algorithms and schemes; Antenna and RF subsystems; Smart antennas, adaptive antennas, MIMO
and beam forming; MIMO and OFDM Based PHY Layer technologies; CDMA Systems

Radio Interfaces and Systems
Radio communications systems; Radio resource management; Radio transmission technologies; Power and interference control;
Interference Cancellation for Wireless Mobile Systems; Power management for small terminals; Energy map; Channel
Measurement and Characterization

Spectrum Allocation and Management
Spectrum efficiency analyses; Dynamic spectrum access networks; Spectrum management; Interference mitigation and
management techniques

Circuits for Wireless Communications
Wireless ASICs; Wireless technologies; RF Design issues

Wireless and Mobility
Mobility management; Location-based services and positioning; Micro and macro-mobility; Mobility, location and handoff
management; Mobile and wireless IP; Wireless broadband mobile access; Routing in multihop, ad hoc and sensor networks;
Wireless multicasting; Wireless mesh networks; Topology control in wireless

Protocols for wireless and mobility
Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Protocols for air interfaces and networks; Wireless MAC protocols:
Design and analysis; Transport layer issues in mobile and wireless networks; Middleware for handhelds and mobile services
nodes; Proxies and middleware for wireless networks

Traffic and congestion control, QoS, Resource Management
Traffic Modeling and Analysis; 3G/4G Bandwidth on Demand; QoS and mobility; End-to-end QoS; QoS profiling and pricing;
Traffic Engineering; Congestion and admission control

Wireless and mobile technologies

Micro-mobility and macro-mobility; Wireless LANs; Home and Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth, ZigBeee, etc; Wireless
MANs:802.16, 802.20; Wireless WANs: 2G/3G/4G; Mobile ad hoc networks and multi-hop wireless; Sensor networks and
applications; Ultra-wideband and short-range networks; High altitude platforms and satellites; Emergency wireless
communications; Wireless real-time communications; RFID systems (including readers and transponders in LF, HF and UHF
bands)

Performance Evaluation, Simulation and Modeling of wireless networks and systems
Performance and QoS in wireless networks; Radio channel modeling (wave propagation and measurements); Mobile/wireless
networks modeling and simulation; Performance of end-to-end protocols over wireless networks

Management of wireless and mobile networks
Mobility and QoS management; Billing technologies and tools; Policy Based Management in wireless LANS and MANs; Wireless
and Mobile Network Planning; Mobile Database Access and Design

Security in wireless and mobile environment
Security and robustness in wireless networks; Privacy, Authentication Authorization and Accounting (AAA); Encryption and
Cryptography; Key Management Protocols; Digital Rights Management and Multimedia Protection

Networks convergence and integration
2G/3G/4G integration; Convergence of 3G wireless and Internet cross-layer design in wireless networks; WLAN/3G/4G
integration; Wireless-wireline convergence; Heterogeneous Networks (WAN, Wireless MAN, WLAN); IP Multimedia subsystems
(IMS); Next Generation Network Architecture- mobility issues; Coexistence of mobile radio networks; End to End QoS in
Heterogeneous environment; Signaling for integrated wireline/wireless networks

Applications and services based on wireless infrastructures
Mobile & Wireless applications & services; Service discovery: protocols and frameworks; Personalized services and
applications; Audio-visual and mobile multimedia applications; Media and content distribution over wireless networks

Standardization and regulations
Position on standards & fora on wireless and mobile networks; Wireless Networks Standards and Protocols; Communications
regulations; 802.11 WLAN Standards; 802.16 WMAN Standards; 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards; HSDPA Technology and Standards; Next
Generation Network standards

Design and implementation
Emerging wireless technologies; Cross-layer optimizations in wireless networks; Design and implementation of mobile
information systems; Software defined radio and re-configurability; Joint PHY/MAC design

Wireless and mobile network deployment
Business models on wireless networks; Market trends and regional developments; M-commerce; Lessons learnt for wireless
deployment in schools Lessons learnt for wireless deployment in special regions; Specialized wireless networks;
Heterogeneous wireless network deployment (e.g., combining 802.11, 802.16 and 3G networks)

Cooperative and Cognitive Vehicular Networks
Architectures and platforms of cognitive vehicular network; Distributed artificial intelligence techniques for cognitive
networks; Cognitive vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Reduced complexity cognitive networks; Physical
and MAC layer issues; Protocols design for cognitive vehicular networks; Cross-layer optimization in cognitive networks;
Security issues for vehicular and cognitive networks; Testbed experiment, applications and new advances; Cooperative
vehicular networks; QoS provisioning in heterogeneous networks ; Managing vertical handover; Multihoming; IPv6
GeoNetworking; Vehicular network architectures and protocols ; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks
and cognitive networks; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization and Development of vehicular networks

Convergence and social mobility
Convergence of mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Convergence on architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open
exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP); Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for
User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for
telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social
graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

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[DMANET] PhD studentships at the University of Nottingham

PhD studentships at the University of Nottingham

The Digital Economy promises to transform the ways in which we work,
shop, travel, learn, socialise and play. It is transforming many aspects
of society, particularly with regard to technology and provides research
challenges in both technical and social areas, including:

Ubiquitous Computing - where millions of computers are embedded in the
world around us;
Location-Aware Computing - taking advantage of knowing the
geographical position of these fixed or mobile computing and
communications devices.
Pervasive Data with a vast amount of data generated and captured on
processes, products and people, the potential for gathering information
from this data is huge but subject to the availability and development
of algorithms and infrastructure able to cope with such vast amounts of
often distributed data. Further, the processing of data is increasingly
subject to privacy-protecting policies and other restrictions such as
regional legislation, strengthening the need for tools which are not
only functional but satisfy requirements such as transparency, privacy
and personalisability.
Science in Society - considering the technological, social or legal
perspectives to the grand challenge associated with modelling users,
their environment and the interactions between the two.

We are interested in students from a wide variety of backgrounds
including computer science, engineering, human factors, psychology,
sociology, business, geography, social science and the arts, providing
that they have an excellent first degree and can demonstrate an
enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research.

Would you like to be at the heart of this revolution, researching across
the disciplines to explore new uses of ubiquitous and location-aware
computing, creating new technologies, or studying their impact on
peoples lives?

The Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Nottingham is
recruiting on to a unique PhD programme for the Digital Economy.
Supported by RCUK and over 30 industry partners, we are training a
community of over 70 PhD students to become the next generation of
research leaders in this field within industry or academia.

Our current industry partners include: Active Ingredient, Aerial, BBC,
Blast Theory, BT, EADS Astrium, EUROCONTROL, Fhios, Guidance Monitoring,
HP, HW Communications, IBM, innovITS, Leica Geosystems, Location and
Timing KTN, Logica, Microsoft, Network Rail, Nokia, Nottingham
Scientific, Ordnance Survey, PARC, Scott Wilson, SERCO, Sharp Labs
Europe, Thales, Trinity House, TRL Technology.

Our students will benefit from:
A fully-funded four-year PhD programme that integrates a leading-edge
research project with research training in interdisciplinary skills.
A personalised pathway through this programme that enables students to
gain a balance of skills across key technology areas, future
applications and human and societal issues.
Training in innovation and ingenuity to equip students for careers in
industry, from global companies to start-ups.
A three-month internship at one of our partners including BBC, BT,
EADS Astrium, HP, IBM, Logica, Microsoft, Network Rail, Nokia, Ordnance
Survey, PARC, Scott Wilson, Sharp Labs Europe and Thales (see list above)
Regular seminars and meetings with industry representatives to develop
contacts with future employers.
An enhanced stipend of 15,600 per annum as well as a personal laptop.
Supervision from international leaders in the associated disciplines.
Use of over 3m state-of-the-art facilities including positioning and
sensing testbeds and transport simulators.
Career guidance support tailored to individual needs.
Office and laboratory space on Nottinghams award-winning Jubilee Campus.

We have funding for ten UK/Home and two UK/Home/EU students. Places are
also available for those in receipt of four year independent
funding/scholarships. Please note we do not have any international
studentships available, so please do not enquire.

Further information can be found on the Horizon Doctoral Training Centre
website; www.horizon.ac.uk. Informal enquiries may be addressed to Miss
E Juggins, tel: 0115 823 2316 or Email: Emma.Juggins@Nottingham.ac.uk

Application forms are available from Miss E Juggins or downloadable from
http://horizon.mrl.nott.ac.uk/students/how-to-apply/opportunities.html
and should be returned by email with a detailed CV and a statement of
research interests to Emma.Juggins@Nottingham.ac.uk. Shortlisting date:
18 January 2012. Interview date: on 1 February 2012.
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[DMANET] Research fellow in Graph theory at the University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham invites applications for a Research fellow to work with Deryk Osthus and Daniela Kuhn on an EPSRC-funded project in Extremal and Probabilistic Graph Theory.

The post is available for a period of 2 years from 1st March 2012 or later by mutual agreement.

Applicants are expected to have a PhD in Discrete Mathematics (or about to complete a PhD).

Informal enquiries about this position are welcome and may be made to
Deryk Osthus via email: d.osthus at bham.ac.uk

Salary from £27,428 to £35,788 a year

Closing date: 15th December 2011, Reference: 43773

Further information about the Combinatorics group in Birmingham is available on http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/D.Osthus/bham.html

Further information about the Department is available on http://www.mat.bham.ac.uk

Further details of the post, together with information on application procedures, can be found via: http://www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs

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[DMANET] CFP - Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling, CEC'2012

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Special Session on
Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling
2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'2012) at WCCI'2012
June 10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia

Paper submission deadline: Dec 19, 2011
http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/CEC2012ECSched.html
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Due to the challenges of many real world applications in both research
and practice, scheduling problems have received a significant amount of
attention in a range of disciplines including artificial intelligence,
operations research, engineering and computer science. Problems range
from classic production scheduling to various applications in education,
industry and business sections. Different constraints, objectives as
well as problem characteristics have to be considered while developing
efficient and intelligent computational methods for these complex and
large-scale problems. Evolutionary computation has shown to be one of
the most effective intelligent algorithms for solving scheduling problems.

This special session is being organized as an activity of the Technical
Committee of Evolutionary Computation at IEEE, and aims to explore
recent research advances on all aspects of evolutionary computation on
scheduling problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Theoretical or empirical analysis of evolutionary algorithms for
scheduling problems
- Benchmark problems and performance metrics
- Dynamic scheduling problems
- Single and multi-objective scheduling
- Hybrid methods for scheduling problems
- Case-based planning/scheduling
- Evolutionary computation in various applications (educational
timetabling, network routing, personnel scheduling, production
scheduling, resource constrained project scheduling, sports scheduling,
self-organization of wireless networks, etc.)
- Experience of applying evolutionary computation in scheduling
- Comparative studies and case studies

Important dates and details of how to make submissions are available at
the CEC'2012 web site at WCCI'2012 http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

Special Session Chairs:
Dr Rong Qu; School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham,
Nottingham, NG8 1BB; e-mail: rxq@cs.nott.ac.uk
A/P Kay Chen Tan; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore; e-mail: eletankc@nus.edu.sg

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University of Nottingham
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fax: ++44 115 8467877
URL: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~rxq/

Call For Papers:

* Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling, &
* Special Session on Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling
2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2012) June
10-15, 2012, Brisbane, Australia

*Special Issue of Evolutionary Computation in Scheduling
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Submission deadline: 15 June 2011

* 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
(CISched'13)
Singapore, 15-19 April, 2013
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[DMANET] ORBEL26 - First announcement and Call for Papers

Dear colleagues,

Please find below the announcement of the next congress of the Belgian
Operations Research Society, ORBEL 26, which will take place in the
buildings of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Plaine campus) on
February 2 and 3, 2012.

The abstract template and abstract submission form are available on
the conference website http://www.orbel.be/orbel26

Abstract submission deadline: January 6, 2012.

Registration will be open on November 15.

Feel free to distribute this announcement among colleagues who might be
interested.

Best regards,
Bernard Fortz
Conference chair ORBEL 26

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ORBEL 26

26th Annual Conference of the Belgian Operations Research Society

Brussels, February 2-3, 2012

http://www.orbel.be/orbel26

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** ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

ORBEL is the annual conference of the SOGESCI-B.V.W.B., the Belgian
Operations Research (OR) Society, member of EURO, the association
of European OR Societies, and Belgian representative of IFORS
(International Federation of OR Societies).

The conference is intended as a meeting place for researchers,
users and potential users of operational research, statistics,
computer science and related fields. It will provide managers,
practitioners and researchers with a unique opportunity to exchange
information on quantitative techniques for decision making.

** CONFERENCE CHAIR
Bernard Fortz (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

** SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf (Universiteit Gent)
Raymond Bisdorff (University of Luxembourg)
Yves Crama (Université de Liège)
Patrick De Causmaecker (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk)
Yves De Smet (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Bernard Fortz (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
François Glineur (Université catholique de Louvain)
Gerrit Janssens (Universiteit Hasselt)
Pierre Kunsch (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Etienne Loute (Université catholique de Louvain)
Marc Pirlot (Université de Mons)
Frank Plastria (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Annick Sartenaer (FUNDP Namur)
Michaël Schyns (Université de Liège)
Kenneth Sörensen (Universiteit Antwerpen)
Frits Spieksma (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Thomas Stützle (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Filip Van Utterbeeck (RMA)
Greet Vanden Berghe (KaHo Sint-Lieven)
Pieter Vansteenwegen (Universiteit Gent)
Mathien Van Vyve (Université catholique de Louvain)
Sabine Wittevrongel (Universiteit Gent)

** ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Daniele Catanzaro (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Bernard Fortz (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Luciano Porretta (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Alessia Violin (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

** REGISTRATION

A registration form will be available on the conference website on
November 15. All payments should be made by bank transfer. Please
use the account information and communication provided during the
registration process.

** IMPORTANT DATES

ORBEL 26 February 2-3, 2012
End of Early Registration January 23, 2012
Acceptance Notification January 20, 2012
Abstract Submission Deadline January 6, 2012

** PLENARY SPEAKERS

Ángel Corberán (University of Valencia)
Luis Gouveia (University of Lisbon)
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[DMANET] Post-doctoral position at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

POST-DOCTORAL POSITION: www.mathstat.dal.ca/~janssen/PDF.html

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship position in Graph
Theory, in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Canada. The position is for the 2012-2013 academic
year, with possibilities of extension to 2014. The selected candidate will
work with Dr. Jeannette Janssen (www.mathstat.dal.ca/~janssen) and be
partially funded by AARMS (www.aarms.math.ca). Preference will be given to
candidates with a background in graph theory applied to complex networks,
geometric graphs, or probabilistic graph theory.

Salary: commensurate with NSERC guidelines (40-45K CAD/year).
Duties include teaching 1-2 courses per year.

Eligibility: Qualified candidates who will have recently completed a PhD
in Mathematics or Computer Science are encouraged to apply.

Deadline: December 10, 2011 although late applications may be considered.

Application Information: To apply, please send a CV, brief description of
thesis research, and the names and email addresses of three references to
Jeannette Janssen at janssen@mathstat.dal.ca. Strong applicants are
encouraged also to apply for a Killam PDF position, see
http://www.mscs.dal.ca/positions.html

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Diagrams 2012 Graduate Symposium

Call for papers: Diagrams 2012 Graduate Student Symposium

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Seventh International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/
diagrams2012@diagrams-conference.org

2 - 6 July 2012
Canterbury, Kent, UK

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We solicit papers for the Graduate Student Symposium to be held as part of Diagrams 2012. The symposium will be held during the main conference on the afternoons of July 3 and 4, 2012.

The goal of the Diagrams 2012 Graduate Student Symposium is twofold. Firstly, the symposium will provide senior graduate students and recent graduates with the opportunity to present their research and receive feedback from established researchers who will provide comments on each of the presentations. Secondly, the symposium will provide students with an opportunity to network with each other as future colleagues. There will be a faculty talk from the coordinator of the symposium on how to prepare for a successful academic career.

Graduate students who have papers accepted at the symposium will be asked to give a presentation. Students attending the symposium who have posters in the main conference will present the poster at the conference and will also be asked to give a presentation at the symposium. Students who present long or short papers in the main conference will not present at the symposium, however all students who receive student funding from Diagrams 2012 will be expected to attend the symposium.

Important dates
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Graduate symposium submission deadline: 29 March 2012
Notification for graduate symposium submissions: 19 April 2012
Camera ready copies of graduate submissions due: 3 May 2010

Instructions for submission can be found on the conference web site: http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/graduate-symposium

For further information please contact the Graduate Symposium Chair:
Lisa Best, lbest@unb.ca

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There are other events at Diagrams 2012. We also encourage submssion of papers for:

- the main conference
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012

In addition, we are soliciting proposals for:

- half-day or full-day workshops
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/content/workshops

- one or two hour tutorials
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2012/content/tutorials

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