Thursday, November 8, 2012

[DMANET] Last Mile: ICAS 2013 || March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal

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 ICAS
2013.

The submission deadline is extended to November 18, 2012.

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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============== ICAS 2013 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2013, The Ninth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

March 24 - 29, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/ICAS13.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/CfPICAS13.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2013/SubmitICAS13.html


Submission deadline: November 18, 2012

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org


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

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.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unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal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 conform with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


ICAS 2013 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating
of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear
optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization;
Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation
loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant
systems
AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and
architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for
autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for
autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and
real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous
systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and
interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in
autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring
and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems;
Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of
autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and
Applications

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 and design techniques for interfaces and
systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying
context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks
and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management
mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization
and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for
designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic
computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and
methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences
with autonomic computing systems
CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions];
Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and
application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud
computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues;
Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud
computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and
pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing
applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and
service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can
run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple
computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open
virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and
Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their
applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility
computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their
developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous
systems, GRID middleware
CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems;
Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed,
and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic
code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in
nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an
a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and
mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile
networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools
for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic
techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case
studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

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

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability,
self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for
self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture /
Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for
self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages
to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing
systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for
self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and
self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented
approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency;
Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations
and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance
evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalability of self-adaptable
context-aware systems
KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic
systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support
for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user
interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for
knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior;
Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface
for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based
user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user
interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user
interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge
user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in
the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the
visually, aurally, or mobility impaired; Interfacing with ambient intelligence
systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e.
MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource
allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms;
Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs
NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing,
bandwidth allocation...); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic,
machine learning, etc.)

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

[DMANET] ICALP 2013 - Call for workshop proposals

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ICALP 2013 Call for Workshop Proposals
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ICALP 2013
40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming

8-12 July 2013, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Supported by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS)

http://www.icalp2013.lu.lv/

The 40th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and
Programming (ICALP 2012), the main conference and annual meeting of
the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS),
will take place on 8-12 July 2012 at the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.

The main conference will be preceded by a series of Workshops, taking
place on Sunday 7 July 2012 (i.e., one day before ICALP).

Workshop proposals are invited for workshops on topics related to all
aspects of theoretical computer science. (A workshop may relate to any
of the three tracks of ICALP, but workshop proposals related to other
aspects of theoretical computer science will be considered as well.)
Typically, ICALP workshops feature a number of invited speakers and a
number of contributed presentations. ICALP workshops do not
necessarily produce formal proceedings. However, in the past there
have been, e.g., LNCS proceedings or special issues of journals based
in part on some ICALP workshops. Workshop proposals should be no
longer than two pages and should include:

* Title of the workshop

* Person responsible for the workshop (name + email address)

* A short scientific summary and justification of the proposed topic.
This should include a discussion of the particular benefits of the
topic to the ICALP community.

* A discussion of the proposed format and agenda

* The proposed duration (how many hours of program)

* Procedures for selecting participants and papers

* Expected number of participants

* If the workshop has taken place before, please provide the
following information:

- How often the workshop has taken place so far
- Which conference(s) the workshop has been collocated with so far
- The web address of the last workshop, if available
- How many participants took part in the last workshop

* Potential invited speakers

* Plans for dissemination (for example, journal special issues)

Proposals are due on 20 December 2012, and should be submitted by email
to the Workshops Chair at <icalp2013workshops@gmail.com>.
Notifications will be sent by 10 January 2013.

Further information:
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In accordance with the EATCS policies, any workshop collocated with
ICALP is expected to be financially independent. However, the
registration fee should be as low as possible.

We provide the following aspects of the workshop organisation:
- registration
- wireless network, conference rooms, etc. (as for ICALP)
- a link to the web page of the workshop
- on request: organization of coffee breaks
- on request: organization of lunches

We do NOT provide:
- management of any scientific aspects of the workshop program
(the workshop organizers are responsible for call for papers, call
for participation, notification, program, workshop webpage,
publication of workshop proceedings or journal special issues, etc.)
- publicity for the workshop

ICALP 2013 is organised by the Faculty of Computing, University of
Latvia, Riga, Latvia
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Contacts: icalp2013 -at- gmail.com
Homepage: http://www.icalp2013.lu.lv/
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[DMANET] two PostDoc/PhD positions in Bioinformatics/Parameterized Algorithms at FSU Jena

Deutsche Ausschreibung siehe unten.

The Chair for Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science at the
Friedrich-Schiller University Jena offers the following positions:

Two PostDocs/PhD students as research associates (Wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter)

The positions are part of the project "Parameterized Algorithmics for
Bioinformatic", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Scope of
this project is to develop efficient algorithms for NP-hard
bioinformatics problems, in particular using parameterized algorithmics.
Focus of research is, besides developing such algorithms, also their
implementation, evaluation, algorithm engineering, and biological case
studies. Other methods for solving NP-hard optimization problems, such
as Integer Linear Programming, will also be considered.

Requirements for PhD students: Applicants for this project must have or
be about to obtain a Master's degree or a qualification equivalent to
the German Diploma in bioinformatics, computer science, or mathematics.
The applicant should have an very good background in algorithmics.
Introductory course level knowledge or better in biology and molecular
biology is required. Good programming skills are required, and
experience in software design would be helpful.

Requirements for Postdocs: Applicants for this project must have a PhD
in bioinformatics, computer science, or mathematics. It is required that
the applicant has research experience in developing paramterized
algorithms, preferably for bioinformatics problems, documented by
publications in scientific journals or conference proceedings.

Salary is according to Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, either a full position
(for PostDocs) or 3/4 position (for PhD students). These positions are
temporary appointments.

Handicapped applicants will be given preference in case of equal
qualifications.

Please send your application with the usual documents (CV, list of
publications, copies of certificates, preferred via email) until
December 7th 2012 to:

Kathrin Schowtka

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
07743 Jena, Germany


Am Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik, Institut für Informatik der
Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt
die Stellen zweier

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Post-Doktorand oder Doktorand)

zu besetzen. Die Stellen sind Teil des von der DFG geförderten Projekts
Parametrisierte Algorithmik bioinformatischer Probleme. Im Rahmen dieses
Projektes sollen effiziente Algorithmen, insbesondere aus dem Bereich
der parametrischen Algorithmik, für NP-schwere Probleme der
Bioinformatik entwickelt werden. Fokus der Forschung sind, neben der
Entwicklung solcher Algorithmen, auch ihre Implementierung, Evaluierung,
Algorithm Engineering und biologische Fallstudien. Im Projekt sollen, wo
dies möglich ist, auch andere informatische Methoden zu lösen
NP-schwerer Optimierungsprobleme zum Einsatz kommen (beispielsweise
Integer Linear Programming).

Anforderungen für Doktoranden. Bewerber müssen über ein abgeschlossenes
Diplom- oder Master-Studium in den Bereichen Bioinformatik, Informatik
oder Mathematik verfügen, oder ein solches Studium in naher Zukunft
abschließen. Notwendig sind sehr gute Kenntnisse in Bereich Algorithmik
sowie Grundkenntnisse in den Bereichen Biologie und Molekularbiologie.
Die Projektarbeit erfordert gute Programmierkenntnisse, Erfahrung im
Bereich Software Design ist wünschenswert.

Anforderungen für Post-Doktoranden. Bewerber müssen über eine
abgeschlossene Promotion in den Bereichen Bioinformatik, Informatik oder
Mathematik verfügen, oder ihre Dissertation bereits eingereicht haben.
Für Post-Doktoranden zwingend erforderlich sind Vorarbeiten im
Forschungsbereich parameterisierter Algorithmen, vorzugsweise für
bioinformatische Probleme, nachgewiesen durch Publikationen in
Fachzeitschriften oder Konferenz-Proceedings.

Die Vergütung erfolgt gemäß Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, es handelt sich um
volle Stellen (für Post-Doktoranden) bzw. 3/4 Stellen (für Doktoranden).
Die Möglichkeit zur wissenschaftlichen Qualifikation wird geboten. Die
Stellen sind befristet.

Beiträge zur Lehre der Studiengänge Bioinformatik (Diplom, B.Sc., M.Sc.)
werden in geringen Umfang erwartet.

Schwerbehinderte werden bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher
Qualifikation bevorzugt berücksichtigt.

Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen (Lebenslauf, Publikationsliste,
Zeugniskopien) sind vorzugsweise via EMail bis zum 7.12.2012
einzureichen bei:

Kathrin Schowtka

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
07743 Jena, Germany

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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Boecker, Lehrstuhl fuer Bioinformatik
Institut fuer Informatik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany
Office 3405, Phone +49 (0)3641 9-46451, Fax +49 (0)3641 9-46452
http://bio.informatik.uni-jena.de/
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[DMANET] PhD studentships in extremal combinatorics at Warwick

Two 4-year PhD studentships starting in October 2013 or earlier are
available in connection with the ERC funded project "Extremal
Combinatorics" at the University of Warwick.

These studentships are suitable for candidates with an interest in
combinatorics and graph theory. One aspect of this broad project is to
apply tools from analysis, algebra, convex optimisation and
probability theory to problems of discrete mathematics; in particular,
candidates with a strong background in one of these areas are also
encouraged to apply.

For more information, please refer to:
http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/staff/O.Pikhurko/studentship.html

Oleg Pikhurko
Mathematics Institute
University of Warwick
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[DMANET] PODC 2013 call for workshop proposals

(Apologies for multiple copies.)

We invite proposals for up to 2 day workshops connected to PODC 2013, which
will be collocated with SPAA. The deadline is November 30, but we would like
to encourage submission at your earliest convenience. Details follow below.

Thank you,
Mark R. Tuttle and Christoph Lenzen
publicity chairs


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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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32nd Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium
on the Principles of Distributed Computing - PODC 2013

Montreal, Canada, July 22-24, 2013
http://www.podc.org/

The 32nd Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed
Computing (PODC 2013),
which will be held in Montreal, Canada on July 22-24, 2013, invites
proposals for up to 2 day workshops
that are closely related to the scope of the conference, i.e. on topics
related to the theory, design, analysis,
implementation, or applications of distributed systems and networks.
Workshops will be held in conjunction
with PODC (and SPAA which is co-located this year) on the days immediately
preceding (or following)
the conference program. Interested members of the community are invited to
send proposals for workshops
by email to the general chair (faturu AT csd DOT uoc DOT gr).

The following are required in a workshop proposal:

- Title of the workshop.

- An abstract describing the main focus of the workshop and why it would be
of interest to the PODC
community.

- Names and contact information of the organizers.

- Estimated number of submitted and accepted papers, duration of the
workshop, and a brief description
of the review process.

Although PODC will provide organizational and administrative support for the
workshops,
the workshops must bear their own expenses (e.g., those associated with the
meeting rooms and catering).
The budget of PODC and the workshops, in principle, could be integrated, but
the details
will need to be worked out. The proposals should be submitted to the general
chair as soon as possible,
but no later than November 30, 2012. Notification of acceptance will be sent
shortly after the deadline.

Contact:
- Panagiota Fatourou (general chair), e-mail: faturu AT csd DOT uoc DOT gr
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

[DMANET] Post-doctoral research positions at the Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer Science

Call for post-doctoral research positions at the Warsaw Center of
Mathematics and Computer Science.

Warsaw Center of Mathematics and Computer Science (WCMCS) is a joint
project of two scientific units: the Faculty of Mathematics,
Informatics and Mechanics of the University of Warsaw (MIMUW), and the
Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN).
The Center is built on the long-standing cooperation between the two
units, in both teaching and research. The Center was designated as a
Leading National Research Center (Krajowy Naukowy Osrodek Wiodacy,
KNOW) by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education in July
2012. The award comes with a substantial grant which will provide
financing of the Center for the next five years. The grant will be
used for enhancing the research potential of both participating
institutions; this includes financing post-doctoral positions.

The post-doctoral research positions at the WCMCS are aimed at young
researchers who have just received their PhD. Successful candidates
will be employed as an adiunkt (assistant professor) at one of the
following institutions, as indicated in the candidate's application:
* the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the
University of Warsaw, http://www.mimuw.edu.pl; or
* the Warsaw branch of the Mathematical Institute of the Polish
Academy of Sciences, http://www.impan.pl

The positions are for 6-12 months, with a possible extension to at
most 18 months, altogether. The salary will be 7000 PLN per month,
before taxes. In addition, the holder of the position will be eligible
for financial support to participate in scientific meetings.

The position comes with a teaching load of up to 60 hours per
semester. At least 3/4 of the position's duration should be between
October 1 and June 30.

The applicant should have defended their PhD not earlier than 4 years
before the planned beginning of the position. This period can be
prolonged by the parental leave.

The candidate applying for a post-doc position at the WCMCS should
submit the following documents:
* a cover letter of application addressed to the Board of WCMCS,
indicating the institution (MIMUW or IMPAN) and the period of his/her
employment,
* a CV including a list of publications, and copies of 5 best papers, at most,
* a document that confirms holding the PhD Degree or information about
the expected date of obtaining such a degree,
* a research plan including a collaboration scheme with researchers
from MIMUW or IMPAN.

All documents should be sent as pdf files to the following e-mail
address: wcmcs.postdoc@mimuw.edu.pl In addition, the applicant should
ask at most two senior researchers to send their letters of support to
the same e-mail address. The deadline for application is December 10,
2012.

A successful candidate can take his or her job immediately after the
announcement of the results of the selection and not later than 8
months after that moment. If the candidate has no PhD degree while
submitting, before starting the work he or she should present a
document that confirms holding the degree.

More information about WCMCS at http://www.wcmcs.edu.pl
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Monday, November 5, 2012

[DMANET] SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH

Dear colleagues, could you please distribute through the mailing list?

Thanks,

Emilio Carrizosa

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON VARIABLE NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH

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JOURNAL OF GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION

www.springer.com/10898

2011 Impact Factor 1.196

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Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) is a metaheuristic which has shown
to be very successful for solving hard combinatorial and global
optimization problems.

During the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS took place in Herceg Novi,
Montenegro, October 4th-7th 2012, researchers all around the world
presented their most recent findings on VNS, either from a
methodological viewpoint or as applications to real world problems.

Authors of papers presented at the EURO Mini-Conference on VNS are
especially encouraged to submit their work to this special issue in the
Journal of Global Optimization. However, the issue is open to all
researchers who can contribute to a better knowledge of VNS. Potential
topics include, but are not limited to:

Theory and Methodology:
* Theoretical or empirical analysis of VNS
* New variants of deterministic and stochastic VNS
* Continuous global VNS
* Mat-heuristics and VNS
* Formulation space VNS
* Multi-objective VNS
* Parallel VNS
* VNS hybrids

Applications:

* Mixed integer programming
* Graphs, communication networks
* Clustering, data mining, location
* Inventory, routing, supply chains
* Packing and covering
* Discovery sciences
* Other real world problems

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journals
Author Guidelines. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy
of their complete manuscript through the journal's editorial manager
http://jogo.edmgr.com/ and specifying that their paper is for the
special issue "SI: VNS 2012". Manuscript deadline: 31st December 2012.

GUEST EDITORS
Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, ecarrizosa@us.es

Pierre Hansen, GERAD and École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Canada,
pierre.hansen@gerad.ca

José A. Moreno, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, jamoreno@ull.es


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[DMANET] IQ2S 2013 2nd Deadline Extension - Workshop on Information Quality in conjunction with IEEE PERCOM 2013

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[The submission deadline has been extended to November 15, 2012]

CALL FOR PAPERS

IQ2S 2013: The 5th International Workshop on
Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing

in conjunction with

IEEE PERCOM 2013
San Diego, California, March 18-22, 2013

Workshop website: http://www.iq2s.org

Pervasive computing enables computers to interact with the real world
in a ubiquitous and natural manner. Quality of service (QoS), related
to transmission delay, bandwidth, or packet loss, has been studied in
various building blocks in pervasive computing, e.g., different QoS
mechanisms are presented for wireless or wired networks; and the
notion of computational QoS is used for parallel processing. Emerging
pervasive computing systems, however, are application-driven and
mission-critical and the existing QoS notions to do not really match
their needs. Quality of Information (QoI) or Information Quality (IQ)
of sensor-originated information relates to the fitness of the
information for a sensor-enabled application. Harnessing and
optimizing QoI of information derived from sensor networks will be key
to bringing together information acquisition and processing systems
that support the on-demand information needs of a broad spectrum of
smart, sensor-enabled applications such as remote real-time habitat
monitoring, utility grid monitoring, environmental control,
supply-chain management, health care, machinery control, intelligent
highways, military intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance
(ISR), border control, and hazardous material monitoring, just to
mention a few.

QoI touches every part of the end-to-end flow of sensor-derived
information, from the sensors themselves and the observation data they
produce to the various fusion layers that process these data and
eventually to the applications (and their users) that use them. For
example, sensor-generated information is used as the basis for
determining context at varying levels of accuracy and fidelity, in a
hierarchical fashion, with lower-layer context effectively serving as
a virtual sensor stream for higher-layer context determination. The
effectiveness of actions taken by the applications using this
information serves as the ultimate assessor of the quality and
value-add provided by the entire sensor-enabled application. For
example, an action may be highly effective achieving all its
anticipated goals, partially effective, or entirely ineffective.
Complementing traditional provisioning of QoS with QoI for pervasive
computing is challenging and difficult due to the
resource-constrained, dynamic and distributed nature of the system,
vulnerabilities under security attacks, and the lack of a design
approach that takes into account the different types of resources and
their inter-dependencies. Novel mechanisms are required in pervasive
computing which should integrate QoI, network QoS, computational QoS,
security, and a user's Quality of Experience (QoE), which will be
influenced by the application goals and the pervasive environment in
which the application is utilized.

The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum to exchange
ideas, present results, share experiences, and enhance collaborations
among researchers, professionals, and application developers in
various aspects of QoI and QoS in wireless sensor networks used for
pervasive computing.

Original papers addressing both theoretical and practical aspects of
QoI and QoS provisioning in pervasive computing are solicited. Papers
describing experience on real prototype implementations are
particularly welcome. Topics of interest addressing the challenging
joint aspects of QoI and QoS include:

* Joint QoI- & QoS-driven system design and architectural principles

* Network services (time sync, QoS) for target/event detection,
localization, tracking and classification

* QoI-aware wireless sensor networking

* Energy-efficient data fusion, sensor fault analysis, sensor data
cleansing

* QoS for task mapping and scheduling

* Coordinated QoS for cross-layer, cross-application, and cross-node
integration (including QoI-QoS integration)

* Query optimization for event processing in pervasive environments

* Data and query models for QoI-aware event processing

* Adaptive QoI and QoS under dynamic environments

* Trust, security, privacy, and data provenance issues in QoI and QoS

* QoI characterization, representation, performance metrics, and
evaluation

* QoI and QoS for emerging pervasive computing applications

* Models of semantics and context in QoI-aware applications

* Market-based mechanisms to influence QoI

* Quality of Experience (QoE) issues for pervasive applications

* Value of information (VoI) and quality of action for sensor/actuator
networks

* Prototype test-bed design, implementation, and field trials

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The submitted paper should be in the IEEE conference format and should
be no more than 6 pages in length. The paper should not be previously
published or currently under review elsewhere. All submissions will be
peer-reviewed and selected based on their originality, merit, and
relevance to the workshop. Accepted papers will be published by the
IEEE Computer Society Press in the combined PerCom 2013 workshops
proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must register
and attend the workshop to present the paper. Selected papers with
high qualities will be invited to submit to a Journal special session.
For example, selected papers from IQ2S 2012 are currently being fast
tracked for publication in the PMC journal.

Paper submission link: http://edas.info/N13021
Formatting guidelines: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Sajal K. Das, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Prithwish Basu, Raytheon BBN, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Amotz Bar-Noy, City University of New York
Chatschik Bisdikian, IBM
Joel Branch, IBM
Eyuphan Bulut, Cisco
Ahmet Camtepe, Technical University Berlin
Mike Dean, Raytheon BBN
Ramesh Govindan, USC
Koushik Kar, RPI
Juong-Sik Lee, Nokia Research Lab
Ananthram Swami, US Army Research Lab
Ewa Niewiadomska Szynkiewicz, Warsaw Polytechnic
Zijian Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Aylin Yener, Penn State University

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Buster Holzbauer, RPI

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: October 30, 2012 (Extended)
Author notification: December 21, 2012
Camera-ready version due: Late January, 2013
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[DMANET] [ICUFN2013-IAC-SC-OC] CFP for ICUFN 2013

[CFP] ICUFN 2013 (SCIE Journals, SCOPUS, EI, IEEE Xplore), @ Da Nang,
Vietnam, July 2-5, 2013

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Call For Papers for the ICUFN 2013
Paper submissions deadline: Feb. 15, 2013

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*** Extended versions of selected papers will be also published in the
following
*** international journals (SCIE-indexed) ***
*** - Wireless Personal Communications ***
*** - INFORMATION - An International Interdisciplinary Journal ***
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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICUFN 2013
The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks
July 2 (Tue) ~ July 5 (Fri), 2013, Da Nang, Vietnam
http://www.icufn.org

GENERAL INFORMATION:
During the last decade, we have witnessed fast developments of various
networking
technologies, and many forms of networking are becoming core parts of
our daily lives.
With the proliferation of future wireless technologies and electronic
devices,
there is a fast growing interest in ubiquitous and future networks.
In the days to come, we expect that the ubiquitous communication and
networking
technologies will become ubiquitous along with the emergence of many future
networking technologies. The ubiquitous and future network will offer
multiservice,
multimedia services convergence, mobility, service ubiquity and context
awareness,
fixed-mobile convergence, quality of service, variable connectivity,
spontaneous
networking, autonomic networking and other capabilities as the norm.
Building on the success of the last four years, the Fifth International
Conference on
Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN 2013) aims at addressing advances
in research
on ubiquitous and future networks, covering topics ranging from
technology issues
to emerging applications and test-bed developments. ICUFN 2013 solicits
original,
unpublished contributions in all aspects of ubiquitous and future
networking.
Submitted articles must not be concurrently considered elsewhere for
publication.
The conference is organized by KICS with the technical co-sponsorship of
IEEE Communications Society. All accepted papers will be published in the
proceedings with assigned IEEE ISBN number will also be included in the
IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The proceedings will be indexed by SCOPUS and
EI Compendex.

The topics include, but are not limited to:
- Wireless and Communication Network
- Cognitive Radio Network
- 5G/4G, LTE, WiMAX, WLAN, WPAN
- Ad-hoc and Relay Network
- e-Health and Body Area Network
- Future Internet and Network
- Femtocell Networks
- Cooperative Communication
- Cross-Layer Optimization
- QoS/QoE Resource Management
- Wireless Sensor Networks, RFID and Cyber-Physical system (CPS)
- Network Security
- Network Management
- Network Software and Services
- Network Theory
- Network Science
- Social Network
- Vehicular Networks and Car-to-Car Communications
- Optical and LED Communication Network
- Multimedia Network
- Energy and Smart Grid
- Internet of things (IoTs) and M2M
- Cloud Computing
- Content Delivery Networks
- LBS and Localization
- Multi Screen and Digital Signage

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
All papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format, and uploaded
on EDAS.
The direct link for paper submission ishttp://edas.info/N13241.
There are two options for the submissions, either a full paper or a
short paper.
We decided to allow the submission of short papers in order to accommodate
the most recent research outcomes.
The submissions should be formatted with single-spaced, double-column pages
using at least 10 pt (or higher) size fonts on A4 or letter pages in
IEEE style format.
The maximum number of pages is 6 for full papers and 2 for short papers.
Detailed formatting and submission instructions will be available on the
conference web
site (http://www.icufn.org).

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS:
Proposals are invited for half- or full-day workshops in communication
and networking
topics. Please contact workshop co-chairs, Ki-Hyung Kim and Sungrae Cho
atkkim86@gmail.com andsrcho@uclab.re.kr.

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATION:
All accepted papers will appear in the IEEE Xplore Digital library and
will be indexed
by SCOPUS and EI Compendex provided that at least one of the authors
attends to present
the paper. Also, extended versions of selected papers will be published
in the following
international journals (SCIE-indexed) as a special section for ICUFN 2013.
- Wireless Personal Communications
(http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11277)
- INFORMATION-An International Interdisciplinary Journal
(http://www.information-iii.org)

BEST PAPER AWARDS:
Best papers will be selected by the technical program committee members
among regular papers presented at ICUFN 2013.

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Submission Deadline (6-page Full Paper or 2-page Short Paper): Feb.
15, 2013
- Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2013
- Camera-Ready Paper (6-page Full Paper or 2-page Short Paper): May 1, 2013

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COMMITTEE MEMBERS:

International Advisory Committee
- Byeong Gi Lee, Seoul National Univ., Korea
- Nim Cheung, ASTRI, China
- Chul Hee Kang, Korea Univ., Korea
- Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell Univ., USA
- Kyung Sup Kwak, Inha Univ., Korea
- Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
- Chuwhan Yim, Korea Univ., Korea
- Wu Hequan, Chinese Academy of Eng., China
- Bijan Jabbari, George Mason Univ., USA
- Iwao Sasase, Keio Univ., Japan
- Bob Li, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
- Jinwoo Park, Korea Univ., Korea
- Russell Hsing, Telcordia, USA
- Yong-Jin Park, Waseda Univ., Japan

Steering Committee
- Jaeyong Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea
- Naohisa Ohta, Keio Univ., Japan
- Pascal LORENZ, Univ. of Haute Alsace, France
- Dong Ho Cho, KAIST, Korea
- Ilyoung Chong, HUFS, Korea
- Yeong Min Jang, Kookmin Univ., Korea
- Sungchang Lee, Korea Aerospace Univ., Korea
- Jiandong Li, Xidian Univ., China
- Ho-Jin Lee, ETRI, Korea
- C. K. Toh, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
- Seong-Ho Jeong, HUFS, Korea
- Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua Univ., China
- Hyong S. Kim, CMU, USA
- Zary Segall, KTH, Sweden
- Myunghyun Yoon, KEIT, Korea
- Seung Hyong Rhee, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea
- Xin Wang, Fudan Univ., China
- Jian Song, Tsinghua Univ., China
- Sang-Jo Yoo, Inha Univ., Korea
- Honggang Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., China
- Nguyen Huu Thanh, HUST, Vietnam
- Youze Cho, Kyungpook National Univ., Korea
- Joel Rodrigues, IT, Univ. of Beira Interior, Portugal

Organizing Committee

Honorary Conference Co-chairs
- Kyung Sup Kwak, Inha Univ., Korea
- Iwao Sasase, Keio Univ., Japan

Organizing Co-Chairs
- Yeong Min Jang, Kookmin Univ., Korea
- C. K. Toh, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
- Naohisa Ohta, Keio Univ., Japan
- Zhisheng Niu, Tsinghua Univ., China

Publication Co-Chairs
- Jaewoo So, Sogang Univ., Korea
- Hwangnam Kim, Korea Univ., Korea

Publicity Co-Chairs
- Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National Univ., Korea
- Takeo Fujii, The Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
- Jangwon Lee, Yonsei Univ., Korea
- Xin WANG, Fudan Univ., China
- Xuejun Sha, Harbin Institute of Tech., China
- Timo Sukuvaara, FMI, Finland
- Jyh-Cheng Chen, National Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan
- Carlos T. Calafate, Technical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
- Sangheon Pack, Korea Univ., Korea

International Liaison Chairs
- Sangwhan Lee, Kookmin Univ., Korea
- Seong-Lyun Kim, Yonsei Univ., Korea

Registration Co-Chairs
- Sunwoong Choi, Kookmin Univ., Korea
- Yung Yi, KAIST, Korea

Finance Co-Chairs
- Won Ryu, ETRI, Korea
- Daeyoung Kim, KAIST, Korea

Local Arragement Co-Chairs
- Sang-Chul Kim, Kookmin Univ., Korea
- Kyung-Joon Park, DGIST, Korea

Web Co-Chairs
- Yonghoon Choi, Kwangwoon Univ., Korea
- Young-June Choi, Ajou Univ., Korea

Coordinators
- Dongkyun Kim, Kyungpook National Univ., Korea
- Jiman Hong, Soongsil Univ., Korea

Workshop Co-Chairs
- Ki-Hyung Kim, Ajou Univ., Korea
- Sungrae Cho, Chung-Ang Univ., Korea

Technical Program Committee

TPC Co-Chairs
- Myungsik Yoo, Soongsil Univ., Korea
- Zhaoyang Zhang, Zhejiang Univ., China
- Pietro Manzoni, Tech. Univ. of Valencia, Spain
- Mike Lyu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong

TPC Vice Co-Chairs
- Linyang Song, PEKING Univ., China
- Jaesung Park, Suwon Univ., Korea
- Kazunori Sugiura, Keio University, Japan
- Youn-Hee Han, Korea Univ. of Technology and Education, Korea
- Francisco Martinez, Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain
- Jung-Chun Kao, Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan

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Subdirector de Investigación
Departamento de Informática de Sistemas y Computadores (DISCA)
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain)
web: http://www.grc.upv.es/calafate/
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[DMANET] CIAC 2013: Deadline extended to November 9th

The paper submission deadline for the CIAC 2013 conference has been
extended to

** November 9, 2012 **

Please note that there will be NO further deadline extensions.


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*** Call for papers ****

8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity (CIAC 2013)
May 22-24, 2013 Barcelona, Spain


Aim and Scope

The 8th International Conference on Algorithms and Complexity is
intended to provide a forum for researchers working in all aspects of
computational complexity and the use, design, analysis and
experimentation of efficient algorithms and data structures.

Topics

Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms and
complexity are sought, including (but not limited to):

· sequential, parallel and distributed algorithms and data structures;
· approximation and randomized algorithms;
· graph algorithms and graph drawing;
· on-line and streaming algorithms;
· analysis of algorithms and computational complexity;
· algorithm engineering;
· web algorithms;
· algorithmic game theory;
· computational biology;
· communication networks;
· computational geometry;
· cryptography;
· discrete optimization.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 12 pages
(LNCS style) to arrive before November 5, 2012. Submission is handled
by EasyChair at the following web page:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ciac2013

Further information and submission details can be found on the
Conference web page.
http://albcom.lsi.upc.edu/ciac2013

Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings
are not allowed.

Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission Extended to: November 9, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 20, 2012 .
Final manuscript due: January 20, 2013.
Conference: May 22-24, 2013.


Program Committee

Paul G Spirakis (Chair) (Patras U and CTI)
Helmut Alt (Free Univ Berlin)
Tiziana Calamoneri (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (Patras U and CTI)
Shlomi Dolev (Ben Gurion)
Sandor Fekete (Braunschweig U of Technology)
Dimitris Fotakis (NTUA Athens)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto U)
Christos Kaklamanis (U Patras and CTI)
Rajgopal Kannan (Louisiana State U)
Alexis Kaporis (U Aegean)
Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)
George Mertzios (Durham U)
Othon Michail (CTI)
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide (U Paderborn and Heinz-Nixdorf Inst)
Sotiris Nikoletseas (Patras U and CTI)
Vangelis Paschos (U Paris - Dauphine)
Giuseppe Persiano (U Salerno)
Jose Rolim (U Geneva)
Branislav Rovan (Comenius U)
Maria Serna (co-Chair) (TU Catalonia)
Emo Welzl (ETH)


Steering Committee

Giorgio Ausiello (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)
Josep Díaz (TU Catalonia)
Rossella Petreschi (Sapienza Univ. of Rome)

Organizing Committee

Maria Serna (Chair) (TU Catalonia)
Carme Àlvarez (TU Catalonia)
Maria Blesa (TU Catalonia)




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[DMANET] TU Graz : Postdoctoral Position in Discrete Mathematics (max. 6 years)

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TU Graz: One Postdoctoral Position in Discrete Mathematics (max. 6 years)
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We are seeking outstanding candidates with strong background in Discrete
Mathematics, in particular, probabilistic combinatorics, random graphs,
and (algorithmic) graph theory.

The successful candidate will be employed as a Universitaetsassistent/in
mit Doktorat for up to six years (a fulltime research and teaching
postdoctoral position) at the Institute of Optimisation and Discrete
Mathematics at Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria. The standard
teaching load is 6 credit hours per semester (1 credit hour = 45 min).
The ability to teach in German would be desirable but not necessary. The
preferred starting date is 1 January 2013 or 1 February 2013 .

The basic salary is specified in the Kollektivvertrag
http://ug02.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/kollektivvertrag-text-jan-2011-gc3b6d.pdf.
The salary group for Universitaetsassistent/in mit Doktorat is B1
(Paragraph 49). There are extra salary payments, the so-called the 13th-
and 14th-month salaries which are favourably taxed.

Technische Universitaet Graz hosts a mathematical doctoral school (DK
plus program funded by FWF) "Discrete Mathematics"
https://www.math.tugraz.at/discrete/. The institute of Optimization and
Discrete Mathematics takes an active part in it.

Condition of employment:
- Qualified candidates must hold a PhD degree in mathematics or
theoretical computer science before the time of appointment

Application documents:
- Letter of application
- Curriculum vitae including the list of publications
- A short statement of research interests
- A list of references

All application documents with reference number 5020/12/012 (Kennzahl:
5020/12/012) should be electronically submitted in a PDF file by 14
November 2012 to

Technische Universitaet Graz
Dekan der Fakultaet fuer Technische Mathematik und Technische Physik
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.nat. Wolfgang Ernst
Petersgasse 16a
A-8010 Graz, Austria
E-Mail: bewerbungen.tmtph@TUGraz.at.


For further information please contact

Univ.-Prof. Mihyun Kang
Technische Universitaet Graz
Institut fuer Optimierung und Diskrete Mathematik (Math B)
Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz, Austria

E-Mail: kang@math.tugraz.at
http://www.math.tugraz.at/~kang/
http://www.math.tugraz.at/mathb/
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[DMANET] 1st CfP --- XXVI EURO - INFORMS July 1-4, 2013 Rome, Italy

XXVI EURO – EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference
July 1-4, 2013
Rome, ITALY

http://euro2013.org

euro2013@ega.it

Following the success of previous EURO Conferences, we announce the
XXVI EURO – INFORMS Joint International Conference: "All roads lead to
OR" which will be held in Rome on July 1-4, 2013. The Program
Committee chaired by Marc Sevaux (EURO) and David Simchi Levi
(INFORMS) and the Organizing Committee chaired by Paolo Dell'Olmo
(AIRO), are preparing a high quality scientific program and an
exciting social program for the conference. We are confident that the
XXVI EURO – INFORMS Joint International Conference will be an
extraordinary opportunity for the OR community to get together again
in a unique location, and we are looking forward to meeting you in
Rome in 2013. Please visit the Conference website (www.euro2013.org)
for more information.

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2013
Notification of Authors: March 15, 2013


Deadline early registration (and inclusion in the program) – April 15, 2013

Registration and Welcome Cocktail: June 30, 2013

Conference date: July 1-4, 2013



We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as
students interested in any branch of Operational Research,
Mathematical modeling or economic analysis to participate at the
conference and to present their research. Invited and contributed
papers will be organized in parallel sessions. No participant can
present more than one paper at the conference. Abstract submission and
registration are done online, via the conference web page
(www.euro2013.org).


Abstracts: max. 600 characters; submission deadline: March 1, 2013.

Researchers who want to organize a stream (a collection of sessions
around one topic) or a session or contribute with a paper within an
invited session should contact the PC member of the corresponding
area. We invite submissions on - but not limited to the following
areas:

- Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy systems

- Computing

- Continuous Optimization

- Control Theory & System Dynamics

- Data science, Business analytics, Data mining

- Decision Analysis, Decision Support Systems, DEA and Performance Measurement

- Discrete Optimization, Geometry & Graphs

- Emerging applications of OR

- Energy, Environment and Climate

- Financial Modeling, Risk Management, Managerial Accounting

- Game theory, Mathematical Economics

- Location, Logistics, Transportation

- Metaheuristics

- Multiple Criteria Decision Making and Optimization

- OR Education, History, Ethics

- OR for Developing Countries, Humanitarian applications

- OR in Health & Life Sciences

- OR in industry and software for OR

- OR in Natural Resources

- Production Management & Supply Chain Management

- Revenue Management

- Scheduling, Time Tabling & Project Management

- Service systems

- Simulation, Stochastic Programming and Modeling

- Soft OR and Problem Structuring Methods

- Telecommunication, Networks and Social Networks


PROGRAM COMMITTEE – EURO - INFORMS

- Marc Sevaux, France (Chair)

- David Simchi-Levi, USA (Chair)

- Sally Brailsford, UK (EURO VP1)

- Maria Antónia Carravilla, Portugal

- Marielle Christiansen, Norway

- Guillermo Gallego, USA

- Jérémie Gallien, UK

- Michel Gendreau, Canada

- Diego Klabjan, USA

- Ana Meca Martínez, Spain

- Rolf Möhring, Germany

- Mike Pinedo, NYU

- Christian Prins, France

- Abraham Seidmann, USA

- Kenneth Sörensen, Belgium

- Ariela Sofer, USA

- Fabio Tardella, Italy

- Tamas Terlaky, USA

- Mike Trick, USA

- Steef van de Velde, The Netherlands

- Christos Vasilakis, UK

- Gerhard Wilhelm Weber, Turkey (EURO-k organizer)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

- Paolo Dell'Olmo (Chair), University of Rome

- Renato De Leone, University of Camerino

- Giovanni Felici, Italian National Research Council - IASI Rome

- Paola Festa, University of Naples

- Stefano Giordani, Tor Vergata - University of Rome II

- Francesca Guerriero, University of Calabria

- Silvano Martello, University of Bologna

- Gaia Nicosia, University of Rome III

- Laura Palagi, Sapienza - University of Rome

- Fabio Schoen, University of Florence

- Anna Sciomachen, University of Genova

- Roberto Tadei, University of Torino

- Walter Ukovich, University of Trieste


The following registration fees apply:

- Regular: 350 Euro (early); 470 Euro (late),
- Student: 190 Euro (early); 290 Euro (late),
- Accompanying persons: 80 Euro.

Early registration ends April 15, 2013.

Rome receives more than 7 million tourists a year and since July is
high tourist season, to enjoy the conference in the most convenient
way, we strongly recommend to book as early as possible:

1. accommodation in Rome through the Conference webpage

2. air tickets as early as possible



The Conference Secretariat has reserved a large number of rooms in a
number of hotels in Rome, as close as possible to the conference site
(the Campus of Sapienza University of Rome, located in Rome central
area). Please keep in mind that in the Conference period Rome is very
busy with tourists and being late in booking hotels rooms would be a
real problem. For more details, consult the conference site,
www.euro2013.org where all relevant information will be progressively
included.

EURO 2013 will be hosted by Sapienza Università di Roma. It is
sponsored by the following organizations:

The Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO),
The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO),
The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)


For any further information please contact:

Studio Ega Srl – EURO-INFORMS Conference Secretariat

Viale Tiziano, 19 - 00196 Rome, Italy

E-mail: euro2013@ega.it

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

[DMANET] SIGMETRICS: Paper Registration/Submission Deadline Extended!

Due to the disruption to the East Coast of the United States from
Hurricane Sandy, the deadlines for abstract registration and paper
submission have been extended. The new registration deadline is November
7, 2012, 11:59pm EST. The new submission deadline is November 14, 2012,
11:59pm EST. Please note that the time zone for these deadlines is EST.

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Call For Papers
ACM SIGMETRICS 2013 -- International Conference on Measurement and
Modeling of Computer Systems
June 17-21, 2013
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
http://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2013/
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ACM SIGMETRICS 2013 solicits papers on the development and application
of state-of-the-art, broadly applicable analytic, simulation and
measurement-based performance evaluation techniques. Of particular
interest is work that presents new performance evaluation methods or
that creatively applies previously developed methods to make predictions
about, or gain insights into key design trade-offs in, computer and
networked systems. The main conference will be held from June 18-20,
2013. There will be workshops and tutorials on June 17, 2013. There
will also be workshops on June 21, 2013. Submission details will be
published shortly on this Web site. A rebuttal process will be piloted this
year to provide authors with the opportunity to clarify
misunderstandings perceived in the first round reviews.

The notion of performance is broadly construed -- including
considerations of speed and scalability as well as reliability,
availability,
sustainability and manageability of systems. We encourage both
theoretical contributions and also submissions relating to real world
empirical studies or focusing on implementation and experimental issues.

Quantitative design and evaluation studies of:

* Computer and communication networks, protocols and algorithms
* Wireless, mobile, ad-hoc and sensor networks
* Computer architectures, multi-core processors, memory systems and
storage networks
* Operating systems, file systems and databases
* Virtualization and data centers
* Distributed and cloud computing
* Energy-efficient computing systems
* Real-time and fault-tolerant systems
* Mobile and personal computing systems
* Large-scale operational systems
* Software systems and enterprise applications
* Smart power grids
* Social networks, multimedia systems, service-oriented architectures
and Web services
* Emerging technologies

Methodologies, formalisms, solution techniques and algorithms for:

* Performance, scalability, power and reliability analysis
* Sustainability analysis and power management
* Capacity planning, resource allocation, run time management and scheduling
* Anomaly detection
* Analytical modeling techniques and model validation
* System measurement, monitoring and forecasting
* Workload characterization and benchmarking
* Quality of service, total cost of ownership and pricing
* Experimental design, statistical analysis, simulation
* Performance-oriented applications of game theory, economics, machine
learning, control theory, and signal processing

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair: Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
PC Co-Chairs: John Douceur, Microsoft Research
Jun Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Workshop Chair: Cathy Xia, The Ohio State University
Tutorials Chair: Eno Thereska, Microsoft Research
Publicity Co-Chairs: Jia Wang, AT&T Labs - Research
Marc Lelarge, INRIA
Finance Chair: Alma Riska, EMC Corporation
Student Activity Chair: Urtzi Ayesta, CNRS
Publications Chair: Ton Dieker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Registrations Chair: Patrick Loiseau, Eurecom
Local Arrangements Chair: Nicole Stenger, Carnegie Mellon University
Webmaster: Anshul Gandhi, Carnegie Mellon University

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts due: November 7, 2012 (11:59PM EDT)
Full papers due: November 14, 2012 (11:59PM EST)
First-round reviews available: December 26, 2012
Rebuttals to reviews: January 4, 2013 (11:59PM EST)
Notification: February 11, 2013


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tarek Abdelzaher, UIUC
Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin
Urtzi Ayesta, LAAS-CNRS
Sem Borst, Bell Labs, TU/e, CWI
Niklas Carlsson, Link?ping University
Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London
Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs
Florin Ciucu, TU Berlin, Deutsche Telekom Labs
John Douceur, Microsoft Research
Ton Dieker, Georgia Tech
Do Young Eun, North Carolina State University
Zihui Ge, AT&T Labs
Garth Gibson, CMU
Leana Golubchik, USC
Ajay Gulati, VMware
Varun Gupta, University of Chicago
Charlie Hu, Purdue University
Canturk Isci, IBM T J Watson Research Center
Alain Jean-Marie, INRIA
Mike Kozuch, Intel Research Pittsburgh
Marc Lelarge, INRIA
Baochun Li, University of Toronto
Bill Lin, UCSD
Alex Liu, Michigan State University
John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Qin Lv, University of Colorado at Boulder
Richard Ma, National University of Singapore
Ishai Menache, Microsoft Research
Arif Merchant, Google
Vishal Mishra, Columbia University
Jason Nieh, Columbia University
Ana Radovanovic, Google
Rhonda Righter, UC Berkeley
Alma Riska, EMC Corporation
Philippe Robert, INRIA
Dan Rubenstein, Columbia University
Sujay Sanghavi, UT Austin
Saswati Sarkar, University of Pennsylvania
Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech
Jiri Schindler, NetApp
Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Eurecom
Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University
Y. C. Tay, National University of Singapore
Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State University
Darryl Veitch, University of Melbourne
Milan Vojnovic, Microsoft Research
Jia Wang, AT&T Labs
Tom Wenisch, University of Michigan
Adam Wierman, CalTech
Carey Williamson, University of Calgary
Cathy Xia, Ohio State University
Jun Xu, Georgia Tech
Li Zhang, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota
Gil Zussman, Columbia University
Bert Zwart, VU University Amsterdam
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Friday, November 2, 2012

[DMANET] CfP DEBS 2013

DEBS 2013: 7th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based
Systems
Arlington, Texas, USA, June 29 - July 3, 2013

http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/

The annual ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based
Systems (DEBS) provides a forum dedicated to the dissemination of
original research, the discussion of new practical insights, and the
reporting of relevant experience relating to event-based computing.
Event-based systems are rapidly gaining importance in many application
domains, ranging from real-time data processing in web environments,
logistics and networking, to complex event processing in finance and
security. The DEBS conference brings together researchers and
practitioners from these various communities to share their views and
reach a common understanding of current research work and open
challenges. The conference also provides a forum for facilitating the
exchange of ideas between academia and industry.

This year, DEBS is specifically encouraging submissions on the role,
importance and impact of events and event-based technologies in Big Data
systems and applications.

=== DEBS 2013 tracks:

- A Research Track featuring high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers.
- An Industry Track for systems and concepts and experience reports.
- A Tutorial Track geared towards both academia and industry.
- A Demonstration and Posters Track with practical demonstrations and
early work.
- A Grand Challenges Track to test research and commercial systems.
- A Doctoral Workshop.


=== DEBS 2013 Important Dates:

Grand Challenge Problem Description Posted:
January 21, 2013

Abstract submission for Research Papers, Industry Papers, and Industry
Experience Reports:
February 1, 2013

Research Paper, Industry Paper, and Industry Experience Report submission:
February 8, 2013

Tutorial Proposal submission:
March 15, 2013

Grand Challenge Solution with Paper submission:
April 12, 2013

Author notification for Research Papers, Industry Papers, Industry
Experience Reports, Grand Challenge Solutions, and Tutorials:
April 26, 2013

Poster, Demo, and Doctoral Workshop submission:
April 30, 2013

Author notification for Posters, Demos, and Doctoral Workshop:
May 8, 2013

Submission deadline for camera ready copies:
May 14, 2013

Conference:
June 29-July 3, 2013


=== Submissions

All submissions must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will
be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.

More information about the tracks and submission information can be
found on the DEBS 2013 website:

http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/

=== Scope of the Conference

The topics addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to):

*** Models, Architectures and Paradigms

- Event-driven architectures
- Big Data (event-processing in Big Data)
- Internet of Things (event-processing in M2M)
- Basic interaction models
- Event algebras, event schemas and type systems
- Languages for event correlation and patterns, streaming and continuous
queries, data fusion
- Models for static and dynamic environments
- Complex event processing
- Design and programming methodologies
- Event-based business process management and modeling
- Experimental methodologies
- Performance modeling and prediction based on analytic approaches
- Functional Reactive Programming

*** Middleware Infrastructures for Event-Based Computing

- Federated event-based systems
- Middleware for actuator and sensor networks
- Algorithms and protocols
- Optimization techniques for event-based (or streaming) systems
- Event dissemination based on p2p systems
- Context and location awareness
- Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and recovery
- Security issues
- (Self-)Management
- Mobility and resource constrained device support
- Streaming queries, transformations, or correlation engines
- Logic-based event processing
- Semantic event processing
- Business Process Management with events

*** Applications, Experiences, and Requirements

- Use cases and applications of event-based systems
- Real-world application deployments using event-based middleware
- Domain-specific deployments of event-based systems
- Real-world data characterizing event-based applications
- Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
- Application requirements for next-generation event-based solutions
- Relation to other architectures
- Enterprise application integration
- Event-driven business process management
- Information logistics
- Seamless integration of event-based mechanisms into middleware platforms

=== Organization:

General Co-Chairs:
Sharma Chakravarthy, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Susan D. Urban, Texas Tech University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:
Peter Pietzuch , Imperial College London, UK
Elke Rundensteiner, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

Proceedings Chair:
Suzanne W. Dietrich, Arizona State University. USA

Industry Co-Chairs:
Alex Alves, Oracle, USA
Brian Connell, West Global, Ireland

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Qingchun (Dustin) Jiang, Oracle, USA
Badrish Chandramouli, Microsoft Research, USA

Poster and Demo Co-Chairs:
Alexander Artikis, NCSR Demokritos, Greece
Raman Adaikkalavan, Indiana University South Bend, USA

Doctoral Workshop Co-Chairs:
TBD

Grand Challenge Co-Chairs:
Zbigniew Jerzak, SAP, Germany
Holger Ziekow, AGT International, Germany

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Ugur Cetintemel, Brown University, USA
David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand
Boris Koldehofe, University of Stuttgart, Germany

Industry Support Co-Chairs:
Nenad Stojanovic, FZI, Germany
Jonathan Goldstein, Microsoft Research, USA

Local Organization Co-Chairs:
Leonidas Fegaras, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

Web Chair:
Samujjwal Bhandari, Texas Tech University, USA

Research Track PC:
see http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/index.php?goto=pc

Industry Track PC:
see http://www.orgs.ttu.edu/debs2013/index.php?goto=ipc

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[DMANET] CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS, ECI 2013, Buenos Aires

CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS, ECI 2013

Deadline: November 30, 2012

You are kindly invited to submit a proposal of course for the Escuela de
Ciencias Informáticas ECI 2013, to be held at Departamento de Computación,
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Courses can be in English, Spanish or Portuguese. They comprise be a total
of 15 hours (5 days, 3 hours/day) and addressed to advanced undergraduate
or graduate students. They should include a final evaluation, which can be a
homework to be sent afterwards by e-mail to the Lecturer, or an exam to be
taken on the Saturday following the school.

Proposed topics should neither be part of the Computer Science regular
curricula at Departamento de Computación, nor have been covered during
recent editions of the ECI (http://www.dc.uba.ar/eci).

Proposals should be sent by e-mail to eci2013(a)dc.uba.ar
until November 30, 2012. The proposals must include:

1) Title of the course
2) Summary (max 1000 chars).
3) Brief index and bibliography.
4) Lecturer's CV.

All the proposals will be evaluated by the Program Committee of ECI 2013,
which is composed by:

- Diego Fernández Slezak (head of the computer science dept.)
- Santiago Figueira
- Diego Garbervetsky
- Min Chih Lin
- Javier Marenco
- Fernando Schapachnik
- Sergio Yovine

The School covers travel, hotel and local expenses of selected Lecturers.
No honoraries will be paid.


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ABOUT ECI (http://www.dc.uba.ar/eci)

The Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas (ECI) is held annually at
Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales,
Universidad de
Buenos Aires, since 1987.

The goal of ECI is to help Computer Science students of UBA and other
Universities and professionals to strengthen and enlarge their skills
through intensive, top-level, post-graduate courses about topics not
covered by the regular curricula.

These courses are taught by lecturers of other Universities from all over
the world. This offers participants the opportunity to establish links of
academic
cooperation, as well as promoting research and development activities.

Each year, between 400 to 800 people participate in ECI, taking one, two
or three courses each. Among them, there are numerous students and
lecturers from other universities in Argentina and neighbour countries.

The organization of ECI is possible thanks to the generous contribution of
prestigious professors and researchers from world-wide institutions, the
support of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, the collaboration of
authorities and staff, and the financial support of private and public
companies and institutions.

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For further information, please contact:

Escuela de Ciencias Informáticas - ECI 2013
Departamento de Computación, FCEN, UBA
Pabellón I - Ciudad Universitaria
1428, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

Tel./Fax: (+54) 11 4576-3359
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[DMANET] Call for Papers MAPSP 2013 (First announcement)

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Call for Papers
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MAPSP 2013

Eleventh Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning
and Scheduling Problems

June 23-28, 2013
Pont a Mousson, France

http://mapsp2013.loria.fr
liliana.cucu@inria.fr

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MAPSP is a biennial workshop dedicated to all theoretical and practical
aspects of scheduling, planning, and timetabling. Previous MAPSP meetings
have been held in Menaggio, Italy (1993), Wernigerode, Germany (1995),
Cambridge, UK (1997), Renesse, Netherlands (1999), Aussois, France (2001),
Aussois, France (2003), Siena, Italy (2005), Istanbul, Turkey (2007),
Kerkrade, Netherlands (2009), Nymbruk, Czech Repulic (2011).
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Submissions:

MAPSP submissions undergo a selection process based on a light refereeing
by the PC. MAPSP does not publish proceedings other than a conference booklet.
Hence, presenting your paper at MAPSP will not prevent you from submitting
it to journals or to other conferences. Similarly, it is acceptable to submit
a paper that was presented at an earlier conference.

Abstracts of 2-3 pages must be submitted according to the guidelines
at http://mapsp2013.loria.fr . Most talks will have 20 minutes.
Some submissions will be selected for 30 minute plenary talks.

Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mapsp2013
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Important dates:

Submissions February 1, 2013
Notification March 8, 2013
Early registration April 5, 2013
Conference June 23-28, 2013
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Invited speakers:

Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
Magnus M. Halldorsson (Reykjavik Univeristy, Reykjavik)
Ola Svensson (EPFL, Lausanne)
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The program committee:

Nikhil Bansal (TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, chair)
Vincenzo Bonifaci (IASI-CNR, Rome)
Niv Buchbinder (Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv)
Jose Correa (Universidad de Chile, Santiago)
Liliana Cucu-Grosjean (INRIA, co-chair)
Amit Kumar (IIT Delhi, New Delhi)
Asaf Levin (Technion, Haifa)
Viswanath Nagarajan (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights)
Britta Peis (TU Berlin, Berlin)
Thomas Rothvoss (MIT, Cambridge)
Rene Sitters (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Rob van Stee (MPI, Saarbruecken)
Andreas Wiese (MPI, Saarbruecken)
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The organizing committee:

Anne-Lise Charbonnier
Adriana Gogonel
Dorin Maxim
Cristian Maxim
Liliana Cucu-Grosjean (chair)
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Detailed workshop information is available at http://mapsp2013.loria.fr
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[DMANET] ISGCI graph classes database now also in Sage

Dear colleagues,

the Information System on Graph Classes and their Inclusions (ISGCI) [1],
available at http://www.graphclasses.org lists over 1300 graph classes with
their definitions, references and computational complexity for 15 graph
theoretical problems. In ISGCI you can check the relation between graph
classes, create coloured class inclusion diagrams and export these as
Postscript, SVG graphics or GraphML file.

The database of ISGCI is now also available from within the Sage mathematics
system [2].

Sage is meant to become a free open-source alternative to proprietary
mathematics softwares like Magma, Maple, Mathematica or Matlab, and includes
a significant set of functions for the study of graph theory [3]. Its new
interface with ISGCI [4] is a first step toward using graph properties as a
way to improve the runtime of implemented algorithms. We also hope that it
will encourage contributions to the database itself, as well as the
development of recognition algorithms for more graph classes.

For questions or suggestions on ISGCI, please contact
hnridder@graphclasses.org
For questions or suggestions on sage.graphs.isgci, please contact
nathann.cohen@gmail.com
or write to the sage-support google group.

ISGCI originated at Rostock University, Dept. of Theoretical Computer
Science.

With kind regards,
Nathann Cohen (nathann.cohen@gmail.com)
Ernst de Ridder (hnridder@graphclasses.org)

[1] http://www.graphclasses.org
[2] http://sagemath.org/
[3] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/graphs.html
[4] http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/graphs/isgci.html

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Thursday, November 1, 2012

[DMANET] Junior Professorship in Discrete Mathematics at the Free University Berlin

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free
University Berlin
invites applications for a junior professorship (W1) in Discrete
Mathematics.
Particular areas of interests are graph theory, extremal and
probabilistic combinatorics,
additive combinatorics. Junior professors' employment is limited to
three years and, provided a
positive evaluation, a second term of three years' duration.
At the Free University Berlin many courses are taught in English, however a
non-German-speaking appointee will need to be able to teach in German
within a
reasonable time frame. The starting date of the position is flexible,
the teaching
load is 4 hours per week during the first three years.

Applicants should respond to this ad:
http://www.fu-berlin.de/en/service/_stellen/prof/index.html

Candidates are asked to submit a cover letter, detailed CV, list of
publications,
research statement, copies of degrees.
Applications quoting the reference ''GraphTheory'' must be received no
later than November 22, 2012 at

Freie Universität Berlin
Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik
Dekanat
Arnimallee 14
14195 Berlin
Germany

The Free University Berlin (with the motto "International Network
University") has been selected as one of the "elite universities" of
Germany. An English language graduate program, the Berlin
Mathematical School (http://www.math-berlin.de/), was established in
cooperation with the
other two research universities of Berlin and keeps attracting excellent
graduate students
from all over the world. Discrete Mathematics has a great tradition
in the city and enjoys a unique status with the Research Training Group
"Methods for Discrete Structures" (http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/MDS/) in
place.

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[DMANET] Call For Papers WG 2013

Call For Papers WG 2013

39th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer
Science, June 19-21, 2013, in Lübeck, Germany

Scope: WG conferences aim to connect theory and practice by
demonstrating how graph-theoretic concepts can be applied to
various areas of computer science and by extracting new problems
from applications. The goal is to present recent results and to
identify and explore directions of future research. Submitted
papers should describe original results in any aspects and areas
of graph theory related to computer science, including but not
restricted to

- structural graph theory with algorithmic or complexity
applications,
- design and analysis of sequential, parallel, randomized,
parameterized, and distributed graph and network algorithms,
- computational complexity of graph and network problems,
- computational geometry,
- graph grammars, graph rewriting systems, and graph modeling,
- graph drawing and layouts,
- random graphs and models of the web and scale-free networks,
and
- support of these concepts by suitable implementations and
applications.

Submissions: The submission must not exceed 12 pages in Springer-
Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX style. Proofs omitted due to space
constraints must be placed in an appendix to be read by the
program committee members at their discretion.
Simultaneous submission of papers to any other conference
with published proceedings or submitting papers previously
accepted for journal publication is not allowed. Only
electronic submissions in PostScript or Portable Document
Format (PDF) are accepted. Authors are encouraged to post full
versions of their submissions in a freely accessible repository
such as the arXiv or ECCC.

Proceedings: Invited papers and accepted contributions will be
published in the conference proceedings in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.

Plenary Speakers:
Feodor F. Dragan (Kent State University, USA)
Ola Svensson (EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland)
Berthold Vöcking (RWTH Aachen, Germany)

Program Committee:
Andreas Brandstädt (Rostock, Germany, co-chair)
Artur Czumaj (Warwick, United Kingdom)
Pinar Heggernes (Bergen, Norway)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zürich, Switzerland)
Klaus Jansen (Kiel, Germany, co-chair)
Jan Kratochvil (Praha, Czech Republic)
Van Bang Le (Rostock, Germany)
Bodo Manthey (Twente, Netherlands)
Daniel Marx (Budapest, Hungary)
Monaldo Mastrolilli (Lugano, Switzerland)
Ernst W. Mayr (München, Germany)
Haiko Müller (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, Germany)
Christophe Paul (Montpellier, France)
Dieter Rautenbach (Ulm, Germany)
Rüdiger Reischuk (Lübeck, Germany, co-chair)
Heiko Röglin (Bonn, Germany)
Christian Sohler (Dortmund, Germany)
Ioan Todinca (Orleans, France)
Dorothea Wagner (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Raphael Yuster (Haifa, Israel)

Important Dates:
Submission of papers March 1, 2013
Acceptance notification April 30, 2013
Early registration May 15, 2013
Final version due July 30, 2013

Local Organizers:
Andreas Brandstädt (Rostock, Germany)
Klaus Jansen (Kiel, Germany)
Rüdiger Reischuk (Lübeck, Germany)
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[DMANET] PhD positions in Bergen, Norway

Two PhD positions in informatics are available at the University of
Bergen, Norway, with application deadline November 11, 2012:
http://www.jobbnorge.no/job.aspx?jobid=87512

Candidates who are interested in working on graph algorithms should get
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Pinar Heggernes
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