Sunday, February 7, 2016

[DMANET] CFP: COCOON16: International Computing and Combinatorics Conference 2016

COCOON'16: The 22nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference
August 2-4th, 2016, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.
Submission deadline: Feb. 21, 2016
Web: http://optnetsci.cise.ufl.edu/cocoon16/index.html


The 22nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON'16) will be held in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam during Aug. 2-4, 2016. Original research papers in the areas of algorithms, theory of computation, computational complexity, and combinatorics related to computing are solicited. In addition to theoretical results, we are particularly interested in submissions that report on experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest. Special consideration will be given to research that is motivated by real-world problems. Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical setting.
All the papers will be published to the symposium in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes.
Papers of high quality will be invited to special issues of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), respectively.

THE TOPICS Of INTEREST (include but are not limited to):
Algorithms and Data Structures
Algorithmic Game Theory
Approximation Algorithms and Online Algorithms
Automata, Languages, Logic, and Computability
Complexity Theory
Computational Learning Theory and Knowledge Discovery
Cryptography, Reliability and Security, and Database Theory
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational Algebra, Geometry, and Number Theory
Graph Drawing and Information Visualization
Graph Theory, Communication Networks, and Optimization
Parallel and Distributed Computing

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission due: Feb. 21, 2016 (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification of Acceptance: Apr. 18, 2015
Camera-ready and Registration: May 01, 2016
Conference Dates: Aug. 2-4, 2016

PC Co-Chairs
My T. Thai, University of Florida
Thang N. Dinh, Virginia Commonwealth University


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Saturday, February 6, 2016

[DMANET] GreeNets 2016: June 27-29, 2016 - Valencia, Spain - Deadline: Feb. 15

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3rd EAI International Conference on Green Communications and Networking - GreeNets 2016
June 27-29, 2016
Valencia, Spain
http://greenets.org/2016/show/home
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HIGHLIGHTS

- The event is endorsed by the European Alliance for Innovation, a leading community-based organisation devoted to the advancement of innovation in the field of ICT.
- The proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: Elsevier (EI), Thomson Scientific (ISI), Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, DBLP.
- Selected papers may be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web
- All accepted papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries

CALL FOR PAPERS

[Scope]

Global warming and climate change have been a growing worldwide concern. Six sources, i.e., transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreeNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse f!
ields including green mobile networ
ks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets.

[Topics]

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Communications and Networking:
Communication techniques and protocols for GreeNets
Energy-efficient transmission technologies based on the cooperation communication
Scalable and flexible energy efficiency mobile network architectures, deployments, and applications

- Energy-efficient network architecture & protocols:
Scalability and mobility issues in energy efficiency cross-layer design
MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for mobile networks

- Systems and Technology:
Transactions and workflows in green mobile networks
Adaptability and stability of green mobile networks
Mobile and multimedia supported green mobile networks
Experimental and test bed studies for energy efficiency mobile networks, simulation tools

- Energy-efficient management:
Energy-efficient traffic balance, cooperation and management
Distributed energy efficiency resource management techniques
Protocols for cooperative management and control

[Publications]

Accepted papers will be published in Springer's LNICST series and will appear in the SpringerLink, one of the largest digital libraries online that covers a variety of scientific disciplines, as well as in the ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue on Green Communications and Networking 2016 of the International Journal ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET):
http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036

[Paper submission]

All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at:
http://greenets.org/2016/show/initial-submission

[Important dates]

Full Paper Deadline: February 15, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: March 4, 2016
Camera-ready Deadline: March 20, 2016
Conference dates: 27th - 29th June 2016

[Conference organising committees]

General Chair:
Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

TPC Chair:
Javier Aguiar, University of Valladolid, Spain

Publicity and Social Media Chair / Co-Chairs:
Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Koya University, Iraq

Workshops Chair:
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management- Kerala (IIITM-K), India

Sponsorship & Exhibits Chair:
Raquel Lacuesta, University of Zaragoza

Publications Chair:
Jose Miguel Jimenez, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain
Lorena Parra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain

Panels Chair:
Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University,Belgrade, Serbia

Tutorials Chair:
Jose Maria Alcaraz, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland,UK

Demos, Posters and PhD Track Chair:
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

Local Chair:
Sandra Sendra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain

Web Chair:
Alejandro Canovas, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia,Spain


ABOUT EAI
The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society. EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI, organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find organizations for their ingenuity and craft. Join the innovation community at www.eai.eu

Friday, February 5, 2016

[DMANET] CCA 2016 (Computability and Complexity in Analysis) Call for abstracts

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Second Call for Papers
Thirteenth International Conference on

Computability and Complexity in Analysis (CCA 2016)
http://cca-net.de/cca2016/

June 15-17, 2016, Faro, Portugal

Submission deadline: March 14, 2016
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Topics

* Computable analysis
* Complexity on real numbers
* Constructive analysis
* Domain theory and analysis
* Theory of representations
* Computable numbers, subsets and functions
* Randomness and computable measure theory
* Models of computability on real numbers
* Realizability theory and analysis
* Reverse analysis
* Real number algorithms
* Implementation of exact real number arithmetic


Invited Speakers

* Andrej Bauer (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
* Toby Cubitt (UCL, London, UK)
* Gilda Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
* Vassilis Gregoriades (Darmstadt, Germany)
* Kenshi Miyabe (Kawasaki, Japan)
* Norbert Müller (Trier, Germany)


Scientific Programme Committee

* Matthew de Brecht (Osaka, Japan)
* Fernando Ferreira (Lisbon, Portugal)
* Sicun Gao (Cambridge, USA)
* Mathieu Hoyrup (Nancy, France)
* Akitoshi Kawamura, chair (Tokyo, Japan)
* Bob Lubarsky (Boca Raton, USA)
* Elvira Mayordomo (Zaragoza, Spain)
* Robert Rettinger (Dortmund, Germany)
* Ning Zhong (Cincinnati, USA)


Organising Committee

* Daniel Graça, chair (Faro, Portugal)
* Rui Marreiros (Faro, Portugal)


Submissions

Authors are invited to submit 1-2 pages abstracts in PDF format,
including references via the following web page:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cca2016

If full versions of papers are already available as technical report
or arXiv version, then corresponding links should be added to the
reference list. Final versions of abstracts might be distributed to
participants in hardcopy and/or in electronic form.


Dates

* Submission deadline: March 14, 2016
* Notification of authors: April 16, 2016
* Final version: April 30, 2016


Conference Web Page

http://cca-net.de/cca2016/

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[DMANET] CfP: Matheuristics 2016

Matheuristics 2016
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Sixth International Workshop on Model-based Metaheuristics


4-7 September, 2016. Brussels, Belgium

More details and up-to-date information at
iridia.ulb.ac.be/matheuristics2016


Scope of the Workshop
======================


The Matheuristics workshop series is proposed as a primary forum for
researchers working on exploiting mathematical programming techniques
in a (meta)heuristic framework, granting to mathematical programming
approaches the problem robustness and time effectiveness that
characterize heuristics, or exploiting the mathematical programming
model formulation in the customization of a heuristic for specific or
general problems.

Metaheuristics such as tabu search, simulated annealing, GRASP, VNS,
genetic algorithms and ant colonies, have been originally proposed and
developed when the available Mixed Integer Programming (MIP)
algorithms and software or Constraint Programming methods were not an
efficient or even feasible alternative for solving real-world problem
instances, or significant subproblems thereof.

However, research on mathematical programming, and in particular on
discrete optimization, has led to a state of the art where MIP solvers
or customized MIP codes can be effective even in a heuristic context,
both as primary solvers or as subprocedures.

Matheuristics 2016 aims at collecting contributions that define the
state of the art for the computational effectiveness and efficiency or
the theoretical properties of matheuristics, which are algorithms
and codes that integrate metaheuristics and MIP strategies and
software. The workshop will be entirely devoted to this subject of
research and its applications. The conference program will consist of
plenary presentations, enriched by a couple of keynote or tutorial
lectures. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Model-based metaheuristics,
- Hybridizing (meta)heuristics and exact methods,
- MIP techniques used for defining heuristic solvers (such as local branching and RINS),
- Problem relaxations to guide (heuristic) search,
- Information from exact algorithms to develop heuristics,
- Decompositions and lower/upper bounds in matheuristic codes,
- Stochastic programming and heuristic search,
- Metaheuristics for stochastic problems,
- Design and configuration of matheuristic algorithms,
- Experimental analysis and modeling of algorithms,
- Real world case histories of matheuristic applications, and
- Automatic configuration of matheuristics and algorithm selection among others.

Although we do not discard their importance, Matheuristics 2016 is not
interested in heuristics tailored to a specific problem that have no
element which can be generalized to other problems (no matter how
mathematically sophisticated they are) nor in metaheuristics variants
or implementations that are not justified by a mathematical model.


Submission Instructions
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Submissions to Matheuristics 2016 should be comprehensive and self-contained,
and relevant to the topic of the workshop.

Submissions can be done in one of two categories:

* Contributed article of up to 12 pages. These will be distributed in
informal proceedings for the workshop.
* Work that has recently been published or submitted elsewhere (journal or
high-quality conferences) and is relevant for the workshop for oral
presentation only (free format).

The submission site is open and submissions can be done at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=matheuristics2016


Publication Details
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The workshop will have informal proceedings that are distributed
through the Matheuristics 2016 webpage. The post-conference
publication will happen through a special issue in the journal
International Transactions in Operational Research (ITOR).


Further Information
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Up-to-date information will be published on the web site
iridia.ulb.ac.be/matheuristics2016. For information about local
arrangements, registration forms, etc., please refer to the
above-mentioned web site or contact the local organizers at the
address below.

Matheuristics 2016 will be organized back-to-back with ANTS 2016,
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/ants2016/ and the two conferences will
share an invited talk and coffee breaks.


Workshop Address
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Matheuristics WORKSHOP
IRIDIA, CP 194/6 Tel +32-2-6502729
Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Fax +32-2-6502715
Av. F. D. Roosevelt 50 iridia.ulb.ac.be/matheuristics2016
1050 Bruxelles, Belgium email: matheuristics@iridia.ulb.ac.be


Workshop Location
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Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.


Important Dates
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Tentative Submission deadline April 15, 2016
Notification of acceptance June 12, 2016
Camera ready copy June 30, 2016
Early registration June 30, 2016
Workshop September 4-7, 2016

The submission deadline for the ITOR special issue is October 15, 2016.


Matheuristics Committee
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General Chair

Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

Programme Chairs

Thomas Stuetzle, IRIDIA, CoDE, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Vittorio Maniezzo, Universita di Bologna, Italy

Organisation Committee

Alberto Franzin, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Federico Pagnozzi, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
Leslie Perez Caceres, IRIDIA, ULB, Brussels, Belgium

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[DMANET] International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

The 17th International Conference on

Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications

AIMSA 2016

- AI in the Data Driven World -

Varna, Bulgaria, 7-9th September, 2016

http://www.aimsaconference.org

**** Submission deadline: April 30th, 2016 ****

**** Proceedings published by Springer/LNCS ****

Initiated in 1984, the biennial Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,
Systems, Applications

(AIMSA) conference is a premier forum for exchanging information and
research results on AI

theory and principles along with applications of intelligent system
technology. The conference

traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from
all areas of AI to share

their ideas and experiences and learn about the research in
contemporary AI. Under the

general theme of "AI in the Data Driven World", the 17th edition of
AIMSA will be held in the

beautiful Varna area, Bulgaria. With excellent opportunities for
outdoor activities, water

sports and gastronomy, Varna promises to be a wonderful venue for a memorable

conference.

TOPICS

The conference welcomes submissions of original, high quality papers
in all areas of Artificial

Intelligence as well as novel crosscutting work in related areas
including but not limited to:

* AI in education

* AI applications in business, industry and entertainment

* Ambient intelligence

* Automated reasoning

* Cognitive Modelling and Cognitive Architectures

* Data mining and data analysis

* Dialogue management and argumentation

* Distributed AI

* Evolutionary Algorithms

* Human-computer interaction and AI

* Information retrieval

* Intelligent decision support

* Intelligent user interfaces

* Knowledge discovery in Big Data

* Knowledge engineering

* Knowledge representation and reasoning

* Large scale knowledge management

* Logic and constraint programming

* Machine learning

* Multi-agent systems

* Multimedia systems

* Natural language processing

* Neural networks

* Ontologies (creating, linking, merging, reconciliation)

* Perception and Vision

* Planning and Scheduling

* Reasoning under Uncertainty

* Robotics

* Search & Retrieval

* Semantic interoperability

* Semantic web for e-business and e-learning

* Social network analysis

* Swarm Intelligence

* Tools and methodologies for multi-agent software systems

* Trust, privacy, and security on the web

* Visualization and modelling and AI

* Web-based technology and AI

We especially welcome papers and posters demonstrating successful AI
applications in the

Real World, as well as papers that bring useful computational
technologies from other areas

of computer science into AI.

All submissions will be subject to academic peer review by at least
two members of the

program committee. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality
of ideas, clarity and

significance of results, and quality of presentation.

For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to attend the
conference to present

the paper.

The best paper of the conference will receive the Best Paper Award
during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 30, 2016

Notification of acceptance: June 01, 2016

Deadline for camera-ready: June 24, 2016

Conference: September 7-9, 2016

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Papers have to be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the
submission system to the

address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aimsa2016

Papers should be written in English and should be no more than 10
pages, font Times 11pt.

Authors are requested to follow the LNCS Style. The first page should
contain the title of the

paper, names and addresses of all authors (including e-mail), an
abstract (100-150 words)

and a list of keywords.

Submissions should describe original research. Papers accepted for
presentation at AIMSA

2016 cannot be presented or have been presented at another meeting
with publicly available

published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other
conferences must indicate

this on the title page, as must papers that contain significant
overlap with previously

published work.

Over lengthy or late submissions will be rejected without review.
Notification of receipt and

acceptance of papers will be sent to the first author.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence

subline of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.

LOCATION

It is a modern resort with traditions, and history going back 50
years. A unique blend of

lovely nature park, warm sea, and fine golden sand! Golden Sands is
the winner of a "Blue

Flag" - a prestigious international award for environmentally clean resorts.

The resort offers accommodation in 69 hotels of different category,
excellent possibilities for

recreation, entertainment, business and health.

The Conference itself will take place in the 4-star Lilia Hotel. The
hotel disposes of seminar

and conference halls, suitable for different kinds of events. The
hotel offers advertising and

presentation spaces close to the halls and in the hotel's foyer,
various business services –

telephone, fax, copier, laminating, as well as proper technical
appliances for the successful

flow of the meetings.

Wi-Fi Internet is available in/around the working hall and in the
hotel lobby, while in the

rooms and suites it is subject to individual payment.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR

Christo Dichev

Winston-Salem State University, NC, USA

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Gennady Agre

Institute of Information Technologies

Bulgarian Academy of Science

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Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

[DMANET] PhD Position in Random Graphs and Probabilistic Combinatorics at TU Graz, Austria

One PhD Position in Random Graphs and Probabilistic Combinatorics is
available at TU Graz, Austria.

We are seeking outstanding PhD candidates with interest and experience
in random graphs, random hypergraphs, random graphs on surfaces, and
probabilistic combinatorics. The successful PhD candidate will pursue
her/his PhD degree under the supervision of Univ.-Prof. Mihyun Kang
within the Doctoral Program Discrete Mathematics. The preferred starting
date is between 1 May and 1 October 2016.

Qualifications and condition of employment:
- Strong track record of mathematical studies
- Master's degree in mathematics or theoretical computer science is
required to be employed, but does not necessarily have to be awarded at
the time of application

Length and Salary:
- PhD position is for up to 4 years
- There is additional funding for extended research stays abroad and
attendance of conferences

Application documents:
- Letter of application, which describes the candidate's academic
qualifications, academic experience, and scientific interests and
specifies the candidate's earliest possible starting date
- Curriculum Vitae
- Transcript of courses and grades, scanned copy of Master's
degree
- Master thesis if available

The application documents (in one PDF file) should be submitted by email to

discrete@tugraz.at
Johannes Cuno and Dijana Kreso
(coordinators of the DK Discrete Mathematics)
Graz University of Technology
Steyrergasse 30/III
8010 Graz, Austria

One or two confidential letters of recommendation should directly be
sent to discrete@tugraz.at.

The deadline for applications is 18 February 2016, and interviews of
short-listed applicants are expected to take place in mid-March 2016.

http://www.math.tugraz.at/comb/index.php?link=jobs

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[DMANET] Welcome to EUROPT2016 in Warsaw, Poland

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 14th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in
Continuous Optimization organized by Institute of Control and
Computation Engineering at Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.,
July 1-2, 2016 Warsaw
http://www.europt2016.ia.pw.edu.pl/.

EUROPT2016 is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization
working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational
Research Societies). This is the 14th such workshop and is held in
collaboration with the 28th annual EURO conference to be held in
Poznan on July 3-6, 2016.

Talks should be related to continuous optimization theory, algorithms,
software or applications.


Plenary speakers confirmed:

Andreas Griewank, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Jiri Outrata, Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech
Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

Anatoly Zhigljavsky, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK


Call for Abstracts (max two pages):

Abstracts submission is opened since February 1, 2016. Please sign up
at https://www.euro-online.org/conf/europt2016/ to create your EURO
account and submit your abstract. All accepted abstracts will be
included in the Book of Abstracts. Please be reminded that the that
the Deadline for Abstracts Submission is March 15, 2016.

Selected papers presented at EUROPT2016 will be considered for
peer-reviewed publication in a special issue of Mathematical Methods
of Operations Research.

Registration will open in due course, with the fees having been set as
EUR 200 (Standard) and EUR 150 (PhD students) before May 15 2016.
Afterwards the respective fees will be EUR 270 and EUR 200.

We hope you will want to take this opportunity to visit Warsaw and
contribute to advances in continuous optimization.


Andrzej Stachurski and Wlodzimierz Ogryczak

Chairs of the Organising and Programme Committees for EUROPT2016

astachur@elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl, wogrycza@elka.pw.edu.pl


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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

[DMANET] 7th International Conference on Computaional Logistics (ICCL2016)

7th International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'16)
"Road to logistics excellence"
September 7-9, 2016 in Lisbon, Portugal
http://iccl2016.widescope.pt<http://iccl2016.widescope.pt/>

The 7th International Conference on Computa­tional Logistics will be held at the Faculty of Sci­ences, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. This stream of conferences provides an opportunity for aca­demia, industry, and governmental agencies to share solutions, address new challenges, and discuss future research directions on the applica­tion of information, communication, optimiza­tion and control technologies to logistic activities.
The conference will feature keynote lectures, technical sessions, tutorials, on-site compu­tational logistics experience and a social program, in an informal and inspiring setting.

Keynote Speakers:
Tolga Bektas (University of Southampton)
Filipe Carvalho (Wide Scope)
Ricardo Saldanha (Siscog)

Call for papers:
High quality papers in the field of logistics management, operations, control, and infor­mation systems are welcomed. Of particular interest are papers on heuristic and formal ap­proaches as well as on innovative ICT tools for de­cision support and control for improving coordi­nation in logistic systems at the operational level. We consider all varieties of logistics activities, taking into account any mode of transportation or manner of cargo storage, respectively. Special emphasis will be put on studies about real-world cases providing practical experiences and insights of the odds and challenges to balance both (individual) economic interests and the requirements of public welfare.
Extended abstracts are also accepted for presentation only.

Conference Proceedings:
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Dealines:
Full papers (presentation & proceedings).................. April 1, 2016
Abstracts (presentation only)..................................... May 15, 2016
Acceptance/rejection notification.............................. June 1, 2016
Camera-ready papers................................................. June 15, 2016
Early Registration until.............................................. June 30, 2016
Registration for inclusion in the proceedings............ June 30, 2016

Registration fees:
Before June 30, 2016 After June 30, 2016*
Regular EUR 360 EUR 410
Student EUR 260 EUR 310
* The access to all availabilities is only guaranteed for registrations done before July 15, 2016.

Contact email: ICCL2016@fc.ul.pt<mailto:ICCL2016@fc.ul.pt>.

Looking forward to seeing you in Lisbon,
Ana Paias, Ana Sofia Pereira, Mario Ruthmair and Stefan Voss
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[DMANET] Postdoctoral Position at Universidad de Chile

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION
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A postdoctoral fellowship will be available at Universidad de Chile
(Santiago)
starting in August 2016, or by mutual agreement at any date thereafter.
We are looking for applicants with interests in the broad areas of Discrete
Mathematics, Optimization, Game Theory, and Algorithms.

The selected candidate will work within a team of researchers gathered
in the Núcleo Milenio project "Information and Coordination in Networks"
(see http://acgo.dii.uchile.cl), and is expected to devote fully to
research.
The appointment will be for a period of 12 months, renewable by mutual
agreement, with a gross monthly salary of 1.800.000 CLP (approx. US$2.500).
Shorter periods may also be considered. Travel support is available.

Applicants must hold a recent PhD or be close to finishing their thesis.
Applications including curriculum vitae, list of publications, research plan
(1 or 2 pages), and names of references with their e-mail addresses,
should be sent electronically to Jose Correa correa@u.uchile.cl
<mailto:correa@u.uchile.cl> . To ensure
full consideration the application should be sent before the deadline of
March 1st, 2016. Late applications might be considered on a case by
case basis.

For further information please feel free to contact any of the group
members.


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Roberto Cominetti
Facultad de Ingenier�a y Ciencias
Universidad Adolfo Ib��ez
Tel. (56 2) 23311817

[DMANET] ECCO 2016 - Call for papers and announcement of publication possibility

Dear All,

This is a reminder for the forthcoming ECCO XXIX conference.
An important news is that a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics will be dedicated to ECCO XXIX.
The issue will be based on contributions presented at the confernece.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 29th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization
ECCO XXIX 2016
http://ecco2016.euro-online.org/
May 26-28, 2016.

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1st, 2016.

The 29th Conference of the European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization will be jointly organized by the Institute of Computer Science and Control of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary on May 26 - 28, 2016. ECCO (European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization) is a working group of EURO (Association of European Operational Research Societies) that provides an excellent opportunity to discuss recent and important issues in Combinatorial Optimization and its applications.

The ECCO annual meetings aim to bring together researchers in the field of Combinatorial Optimization to present their work, share experiences, and discuss recent advances in theory and applications. The primary objectives are:
*exchanging results and experiences in solving real-world combinatorial optimization problems
*reporting on development and implementation of appropriate models and efficient solution methods for combinatorial optimization problems
*establishing networking contacts between individuals and research groups working on related topics
*promoting the work on combinatorial optimization (theory and applications) to the broader scientific community
*identifying challenging research problems for the field, as well as promising research outlets (both in theory and applications)
*promoting interactions with researchers in other related fields

We seek submissions in all areas of combinatorial optimization from theory through applications.

The submission is limited to a half to one page abstract.

A special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics will be dedicated to ECCO XXIX.
The issue will be based on contributions presented at the confernece.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

András Frank, Eötvös University, Hungary.
David Pisinger, Technical University of Denmark.
Leo Liberti, CNRS LIX, École Polytechnique, France.
Andrej Brodnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.


Program committee

Jacek Blazewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences Poznán, Poland.
Van-Dat Cung, Grenoble INP, France.
János Csirik, University of Szeged, Hungary,
Gábor Galambos, University of Szeged, Hungary.
Alain Hertz, École Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.
Tibor Jordán, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.
Tamás Kis, Institute for Computer Science and Control, Hungary (Chairperson).
Silvano Martello, University of Bologna, Italy.
Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy.

Important Dates

December 1st, 2015: abstract submission starts
March 1st, 2016: deadline for abstract submission
March 17th, 2016: notification of acceptance
April 1st, 2016: deadline for early registration
May 26th-28th, 2016: ECCO XXIX 2016 Conference in Budapest

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[DMANET] WG 2016 - final CFP

WG 2016: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

42nd International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
June 22-24, Istanbul, Turkey
Submission Deadline: Feb 27, 2016
http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/~wg2016/

LOCATION
The WG 2016 conference is the 42nd edition of the WG series. It will
take place on the campus of Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. The
conference will be from Wednesday June 22 to Friday June 24, 2016.
Participants expected to arrive in Istanbul on Tuesday June 21, where we
will have a welcome reception in the evening. Cheap/student
accommodation will be available close to campus, and we will otherwise
suggest hotels in the popular Taksim area, with a metro connection to
the campus.

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

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

SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 12
pages Springer LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs) including title,
abstract and references. Proofs omitted due to space restrictions must
be placed in an appendix, to be read by program committee members at
their discretion. Simultaneous submission of papers to any other
conference with proceedings published or made publicly available, or
submitting papers previously accepted for journal publication is not
allowed. Invited papers and accepted contributions will be published in
the conference post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(ARCoSS/LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag. Please submit a pdf file
containing your extended abstract via EasyChair at the following address:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wg2016

BEST PAPER AWARD
Thanks to a generous donation by Springer Verlag, WG 2016 is able to
offer an EUR 1000 best paper award, to be decided by the program committee.

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD
WG 2016 offers also an award for the best student paper. The main work
in a paper that is a candidate for this award must be done by co-authors
that were students at the time of submission, and the award can be
received only by such co-authors. It must be indicated at the time of
submission whether a paper is candidate for this award.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of papers: February 27, 2016
Acceptance notification: April 24, 2016
Conference: June 22-24, 2016
Final version: July 31, 2016

INVITED SPEAKERS
Saket Saurabh (Bergen, Norway)
Kavitha Telikepalli (Mumbai, India)
Dominique de Werra (Lausanne, Switzerland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Isolde Adler, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Manu Basavaraju, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India
Cristina Bazgan, Université Paris Dauphine, France
Hans Bodlaender, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Christophe Crespelle, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Tinaz Ekim, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Celina de Figueiredo, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Petr Golovach, University of Bergen, Norway
Gregory Gutin, Royal Holloway, London, UK
Pinar Heggernes (Chair), University of Bergen, Norway
Mamadou Kanté, Université Blaise Pascal, Aubiere, France
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Erik Jan van Leeuwen, MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Martin Milanic, University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia
Rolf Niedermeier, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Naomi Nishimura, University of Waterloo, Canada
Yota Otachi, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daniel Paulusma, Durham University, UK
Michał Pilipczuk, University of Warsaw, Poland
Hadas Shachnai, Technion, Haifa, Israel

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Arman Boyaci, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Cemil Dibek, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Tinaz Ekim, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Pinar Heggernes, University of Bergen, Norway
Caner Taskin, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

CONTACT INFORMATION
wg2016@easychair.org
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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

[DMANET] BCTCS 2016, March 22-24, Queen's University Belfast (second announcement)

Support for graduate students willing to travel to BCTCS is still
available.


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British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science
Queen's University Belfast
22nd-24th March 2016

https://sites.google.com/a/monoid.at/bctcs-2016/

The 32th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science (BCTCS)
will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science, Queen's University
of Belfast, from 22nd to 24th March, 2016.

The purpose of BCTCS is to provide a forum in which researchers in
theoretical computer science can meet, present research findings, and
discuss developments in the field. It also aims to provide an
environment in which PhD students can gain experience in presenting
their work, and benefit from contact with established researchers.

The scope of the colloquium includes all aspects of theoretical computer
science, including automata theory, algorithms, complexity theory,
semantics, formal methods, concurrency, types, languages and logics.
Both computer scientists and mathematicians are welcome to attend, as
are participants from outside of the UK.

The colloquium features both invited and contributed talks. This year
the invited speakers are as follows:

- Michael J Butler, University of Southampton

- Rob Gilles, Queen's University Belfast

- Magnús Halldórsson, Reykjavik University

- Matthew Hennessy, Trinity College Dublin

- Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
(The LMS Keynote Speaker in Discrete Maths)

We are grateful for support from the Heilbronn Institute for
Mathematical Research which will provide bursaries for 5 students to
cover registration fees and accommodation. If you wish to apply for a
bursary, please email bctcs@qub.ac.uk as soon as possible, indicating
that you would be willing to give a contributed talk and stating the
name of your supervisor. Subsequently, a title and abstract should be
provided. The supervisor should write a letter of support to the same
email address, confirming that the student will attend BCTCS'16.

Participants wishing to give a 30 minute contributed talk on any topic
in the scope of the colloquium are invited to email a title and abstract
to bctcs@qub.ac.uk. Presentations from research students and early
career researchers are particularly encouraged. The titles and abstracts
of invited and contributed talks will appear in the Bulletin of the EATCS.

To register for the colloquium, go to the Colloquium web page at

https://sites.google.com/a/monoid.at/bctcs-2016/

The early registration deadline is 15 February 2016, before which the
fee for the colloquium is £160, which includes lunches/coffee/tea on all
days and a drinks reception and conference dinner on Wednesday 23 March.
After this date, a late registration fee will apply.

For any queries, please contact bctcs@qub.ac.uk.
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[DMANET] BDA 2016 --- call for presentations

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The 4th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms (BDA 2016)
Co-located with PODC 2016. July 25, 2016 in Chicago, IL USA
http://www.snl.salk.edu/~navlakha/BDA2016/
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We are excited to announce the 4th workshop on Biological Distributed
Algorithms (BDA). The aim of the workshop is to foster collaborative research
between biologists and distributed computing theory researchers, with the hope
of producing better understanding of the behavior of distributed biological
systems, as well as new ideas for design of algorithms for engineered or
computational networks.

BDA 2016 will include presentations on distributed algorithms related to a
variety of biological systems, with special attention to communication and
coordination in insect colonies (e.g. foraging, navigation, task allocation,
construction) and networks in the brain (e.g. learning, decision-making,
attention).

This is a one-day workshop.

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SUBMISSIONS
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We solicit submissions of extended abstracts describing recent results
relevant to biological distributed computing. We especially welcome extended
abstracts describing new insights and / or case studies regarding the
relationship between distributed computing and biological systems even if
these are not fully formed. Since a major goal of the workshop is to explore
new directions and approaches, we especially encourage the submission of
ongoing work. Selected contributors would be asked to present, discuss and
defend their work at the workshop. Submissions should be in PDF and include
title, author information, and a 4-page extended abstract.

Please use the following EasyChair submission link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bda20160

Note: The workshop will not include published proceedings. In particular, we
welcome submissions of papers describing work that has appeared or is expected
to appear in other venues.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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April 25, 2016 – Extended abstract submission deadline
May 25, 2016 – Decision notifications
July 25, 2016 – Workshop

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INVITED SPEAKERS [PRELIMINARY; MORE TO COME!]
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Bernard Chazelle - Princeton
Melanie Moses - UNM

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ziv Bar-Joseph - CMU
Anna Dornhaus - University of Arizona
Yuval Emek - Technion (co-chair)
Amos Korman - CNRS and University of Paris Diderot
Nancy Lynch - MIT
Saket Navlakha - Salk Institute (co-chair)

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Yuval Emek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
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[DMANET] internship in optimization and bioinformatics

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Bioinformatics internship
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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The Information Sciences group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory has
an opening for a graduate level student to work at Los Alamos for a limited
period of time, usually 3-4 months. The starting date is negotiable. The
research will involve elements of mathematical optimization, algorithm design,
and software engineering. It will be a part of a multi-year project on
developing optimization techniques and tools for protein structure prediction.

Qualifications:

(1) Research-level expertise in at least one of the following: bioinformatics,
global optimization, combinatorial algorithm design, parallel computing;

(2) Very strong programming skills;

(3) Demonstrated ability to publish research in peer-reviewed journals or conference
proceedings.

Interested candidates should send their resumes including a brief description of their
research interests to Hristo Djidjev, djidjev@lanl.gov. Applications received no later
than March 15, 2016, will receive full consideration.

US citizenship is NOT required for this position.


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[DMANET] PhD position at Graz University of Technology

The Department of Analysis and Number Theory at the Graz University of
Technology announces an

Assistant position without PhD

The contract is for five years with starting date 01.05.2016 and for 40
hours a week.

Requirements:
University degree in mathematics with master degree.
Additional Qualifications:
Excellent knowledge in analysis, probability theory and number theory.
Willingness to prepare a doctoral dissertation in one of the above subjects.
Experiences in the scientific work in the above field and teaching
experiences in
mathematics for engineers.
Participation in the administration of the institute.
Knowledge of foreign languages.

Graz University of Technology wants to increase the number of female
employees and therefore invites women to apply for the above position.

Deadline for application: 03.03.2015

Please send your application (including a curriculum vitae) to:
Dean of the Faculty of mathematics, physics and geodesy
O. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Ernst
Petersgasse 16
A-8010 Graz

Either per usual mail or per email to:
bewerbungen.mpug@tugraz.at

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Institut für Analysis und Zahlentheorie
Technische Universität Graz
Steyrergasse 30/II
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Austria
Tel: +43 316 873 7124
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[DMANET] CFP: Graphical Models for Security (GraMSec'16)

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GraMSec'16
The Third International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security
Co-located with CSF 2016

Lisbon, Portugal - June 27, 2016
http://gramsec.uni.lu/
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Graphical security models provide an intuitive but systematic approach to
analyze security weaknesses of systems and to evaluate potential protection
measures. Formal methods and cyber security researchers, as well as
security
professionals from industry and government, have proposed various graphical
security modeling schemes. Such models are used to capture different
security
facets (digital, physical, and social) and address a range of challenges
including vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, defense analysis,
automated defensing, secure services composition, policy validation and
verification. The objective of the GraMSec workshop is to contribute to the
development of well-founded graphical security models, efficient algorithms
for their analysis, as well as methodologies for their practical usage.

The workshop seeks submissions from academia, industry, and government
presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of
graphical models for security. The topics of the workshop include, but are
not limited to:
- Graphical models for threat modeling and analysis
- Graphical models for risk analysis and management
- Graphical models for requirements analysis and management
- Textual and graphical representation for system, organizational, and
business security
- Visual security modeling and analysis of socio-technical and
cyber-physical systems
- Graphical security modeling for cyber situational awareness
- Graphical models supporting the security by design paradigm
- Methods for quantitative and qualitative analysis of graphical
security models
- Formal semantics and verification of graphical security models
- Methods for (semi-)automatic generation of graphical security models
- Enhancement and/or optimization of existing graphical security models
- Scalable evaluation of graphical security models
- Evaluation algorithms for graphical security models
- Dynamic update of graphical security models
- Game theoretical approaches to graphical security modeling
- Attack trees, attack graphs and their variants
- Stochastic Petri nets, Markov chains, and Bayesian networks for security
- UML-based models and other graphical modeling approaches for security
- Software tools for graphical security modeling and analysis
- Case studies and experience reports on the use of graphical security
modeling paradigm.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: April 18, 2016
Acceptance notification: May 20, 2016
Camera ready version: June 3, 2016
GraMSec'16 workshop: June 27, 2016

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We solicit two types of submissions:
- Regular papers (up to 15 pages) describing original and unpublished work
within the scope of the workshop.
- Short papers (up to 7 pages) describing original and unpublished work in
progress.

All submissions must be prepared using the LNCS style.

Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. All accepted (regular
and
short) papers will be included in the workshop's post-proceedings. As last
year, we plan to publish the GraMSec'16 post-proceedings in the Lecture
Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series of Springer (confirmation pending).
Submissions should be made using the GraMSec'16 EasyChair web site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gramsec16.

INVITED SPEAKER
The invited lecture of GraMSec'16 will be given by Xinming Ou, associate
professor at Computer Science and Engineering, University of South
Florida, USA

GENERAL CHAIR
Barbara Kordy, INSA Rennes, IRISA, France

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS
Mathias Ekstedt, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Dong Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Mathieu Acher, IRISA, FR
- Massimiliano Albanese, George Mason University, USA
- Ludovic Apvrille, Télécom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, FR
- Thomas Bauereiss, DFKI GmbH, DE
- Giampaolo Bella, University of Catania, IT
- Stefano Bistarelli, University of Perugia, IT
- Frédéric Cuppens, Télécom Bretagne, FR
- Nora Cuppens-Boulahia, Télécom Bretagne, FR
- Binbin Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, SG
- Jason Crampton, RHUL, UK
- Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, FR
- Giovanna Dondossola, RSE, IT
- Ulrik Franke, SICS, SE
- Frank Fransen, TNO, NL
- Olga Gadyatskaya, University of Luxembourg, LU
- Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, IT
- Erlend Andreas Gjare, SINTEF, NO
- Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg, DE
- Olivier Heen, Technicolor, FR
- Hannes Holm, Swedish Defence Research Agency, SE
- Siv Hilde Houmb, Secure-NOK AS, NO
- René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, DK
- Ravi Jhawar, University of Luxembourg, LU
- Henk Jonkers, BiZZdesign, NL
- Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, USA
- Florian Kammueller, Middlesex University London, UK
- Nima Khakzad, TU Delft, NL
- Pascal Lafourcade, University of Auvergne, FR
- Jean-Louis Lanet, INRIA, FR
- Jean Leneutre, Télécom ParisTech, FR
- David Lubicz, DGA, FR
- Sjouke Mauw, University of Luxembourg, LU
- Per Hakon Meland, SINTEF, NO
- Jogesh Muppala, HKUST, HK
- Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, Linköping University, SE
- Steven Noel, MITRE, USA
- Andreas L. Opdahl, University of Bergen, NO
- Xinming Ou, University of South Florida, USA
- Stéphane Paul, Thales Research & Technology, FR
- Ludovic Piètre-Cambacédès, EDF, FR
- Sophie Pinchinat, University Rennes 1, IRISA, FR
- Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, IT
- Marc Pouly, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, CH
- Cristian Prisacariu, University of Oslo, NO
- Nicolas Prigent, Supélec, FR
- Christian W. Probst, TU Denmark, DK
- David Pym, University College London, UK
- Sasa Radomirovic, ETH Zurich, CH
- Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA
- Arend Rensink, University of Twente, NL
- Yves Roudier, EURECOM, FR
- Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, IT
- Guttorm Sindre, NUST, NO
- Ketil Stolen, Sintef, NO
- Mariëlle Stoelinga, University of Twente, NL
- Axel Tanner, IBM Research Zürich, CH
- Kishor S. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
- Alexandre Vernotte, KTH, SE
- Luca Vigano, King's College London, GB
- Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, CA
- Jan Willemson, Cybernetica, EE

This call for papers and additional information about the workshop
can be found at http://gramsec.uni.lu/
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[DMANET] Full-time Assistant Professor. Ecole Polytechnique. France

Full-time Assistant Professor


Submission Deadline: 07 Mar 2016 midnight Paris time (GMT+1)

Position Start Date: 01 Sep 2016


The computer science department of the École Polytechnique plans to hire a "Maître de conférences" (assistant processor, full-time, permanent position). The successful candidate will teach at the undergraduate level (first and second year of the "cycle polytechnicien") and at the Master level. The successful candidate will become a member of the "laboratoire d'informatique de l'École" (LIX), so the application should make clear how the candidate's research activities would integrate into the research themes of the LIX. A good fit with the scientific goals of the lab, for example, by strengthening one of the priority research areas, is an advantage. Obvious decisive criteria are the candidate's research strength, recognition, and visibility (also on the international level) as well as his or her communication and teaching skills. Knowledge of the French language is an advantage, but not required.

Contacts :
Olivier Bournez, olivier.bournez@polytechnique.edu <mailto:olivier.bournez@polytechnique.edu>
Benjamin Werner, Président du Département d'informatique benjamin.werner@polytechnique.edu <mailto:benjamin.werner@polytechnique.edu>.


Applications management web site:

https://de.polytechnique.fr/candidatures/OffreView.cfm?ID=373&Language=EN <https://de.polytechnique.fr/candidatures/OffreView.cfm?ID=373&Language=EN>


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[DMANET] ALEA in Europe Meeting -- 22-26 February 2016 -- Munich - Final announcement

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ALEA in Europe Meeting

Munich, 22-26 February 2016

<http://www.alea-in-europe.com/> http://www.alea-in-europe.com/

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(apologies for multiple copies)

We are pleased to announce the second ALEA in Europe meeting, to be held in
Munich 22-26 February 2016.

This five day meeting and school is an activity in the context of the
<http://aleanetwork.net/index.php> ALEA network and aims at bringing together
researchers working on Random Discrete Structures in Computer Science,
Probability and Statistical Physics. The goal is to provide postdocs and
students the unique opportunity to learn from leading experts the state of the
art results and methods and to meet fellow colleagues.

The meeting will feature three distinguished series consisting of three lectures
each, five invited seminars, and a number of shorter talks by some of the
participants.

Topics of interest include: discrete random structures, combinatorics,
probability theory, bio inspired computation, statistical physics.

Participation is free of charge. However, please register until February 7,
2016.

Main speakers:

Marc Noy (UPC Barcelona)

Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford)

Benjamin Doerr (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)

Invited Seminars:

Mihyun Kang (TU Graz)

Carola Doerr (Université Pierre et Marie Curie)

Mathias Schacht (University of Hamburg)

Johannes Lengler (ETH Zurich)

Benedikt Stufler (University of Munich)

Organization:

Konstantinos Panagiotou (University of Munich)


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[DMANET] postdoc position algorithmic graph theory and phylogenetics

This postdoc position, for a minimum of 2 years, seeks to explore the interface between algorithmic graph theory and phylogenetics. Phylogenetics is the science of inferring evolutionary trees and networks; a phylogenetic tree (network) is simply a tree (directed acyclic graph) in which the leaves are labelled by a set of species X.

The postdoc will be based at the Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, where the research will be embedded within the Networks and Strategic Optimization (NSO) research cluster of DKE. The main coordinator of the project is Dr. Steven Kelk. The project is made possible by an NWO TOP grant.

A completed PhD in a relevant field is required. Relevant keywords are phylogenetics, fixed parameter tractability, width parameters (particularly treewidth), (algorithmic) graph theory, combinatorial optimization and computational complexity. Candidates with expertise in any or all of these topics are encouraged to apply.

Experience with or knowledge of biology is not necessary. A willingness to work on the kind of NP-hard discrete optimization problems that arise in the area of phylogenetics is, however, essential.

One example of such a problem is that of constructing a Maximum Agreement Forest (MAF) of two phylogenetic trees. Informally, this is the problem of making as few edge deletions as possible in the two trees, such that the resulting subtrees are (essentially) isomorphic (see also Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity by Downey and Fellows 2013, Chapter 4).

MAF and related problems are gaining an increasing amount of attention from the traditional algorithms community. The goal of this project is to consolidate and deepen the embedding of phylogenetics problems in the algorithmic literature, and a corresponding level of ambition is expected of the candidate.

Candidates should have an excellent command of English, both in terms of speaking and writing.

Please include a letter of motivation, a CV an two references, and indicate how soon you could begin (sooner is preferred). The application itself should be submitted through the following Academic Transfer page, which also includes salary information:

https://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UM/vacancy/31782/lang/en/

The deadline for applications is 23 February 2016.

For more information please contact Dr. Steven Kelk (steven.kelk@maastrichtuniversity.nl or +31 (0)43 3882019). See also the webpage http://skelk.sdf-eu.org.
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Monday, February 1, 2016

[DMANET] [Deadline Extension and Invited Speaker] CFP: EXPLORE @ AAMAS 2016: The 3rd Workshop on Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice

*CFP: EXPLORE 2016 @ AAMAS 2016: The 3rd Workshop on Exploring Beyond the
Worst Case in Computational Social Choice*

To be held at the 15th Conference for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent
Systems, AAMAS 2016

*10 May 2016*

*Singapore*

http://www.explore-2016.preflib.org/


*We are excited to announce that Tuomas Sandholm will be giving an invited
talk at EXPLORE-2016.*

Computational Social Choice (ComSoc) is a rapidly developing field at the
intersection of computer science, economics, social choice, and political
science. Many, often disjoint, groups of researchers both outside and
within computer science study group decision making and preference
aggregation. The computer science view of social choice focuses on
computational aspects of social choice and importing ideas from social
choice into computer science, broadly. While the surge of research in this
area has created dramatic benefits in the areas of market matchings,
recommendation systems, and preference aggregation, much of the ComSoc
community remains focused on worst case assumptions.

As ComSoc evolves there is an increased need to relax or revise some of the
more common assumptions in the field: worst case complexity, complete
information, and overly-restricted domains, among others. This means going
beyond traditional algorithmic and complexity results and providing a more
nuanced look, using real data, parameterized algorithms, and human and
agent experimentation to provide a fresh and impactful view of group
decision making. This goes hand in hand with highlighting the practical
applications of much of the theoretical research — as much of the most
impactful work in ComSoc does. It also involves looking at more complex
preference aggregation settings that help model real world requirements.

We encourage research related to:


* Algorithms

* Empirical Studies

* Average case analysis

* Identification of tractable sub-cases

* Fixed parameter complexity analysis

* Benchmarking and analysis from the preference handling and recommendation
systems

* Studies of matching and auction mechanisms

* Crowd-sourcing and other real-world data aggregation domains.

Many of these tools, techniques, and studies are concentrated in a
particular sub-field and researchers in other areas of ComSoc and related
communities may be keen to import some of the tools and techniques
developed in other areas.

Program Notes

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The workshop is currently scheduled for a full day. We are excited to
announce that Tuomas Sandholm will be giving an invited talk at
EXPLORE-2016.

Important Dates

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Paper Submission Deadline: 7 February 2016

Author Notification: 1 March 2016

Conference and Workshop: 10 May 2016

Organization Committee

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Haris Aziz, Data61 and UNSW

Felix Brandt, Technische Universität München

David Manlove, University of Glasgow

Nicholas Mattei, Data61 and UNSW


Program Committee
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Peter Biro, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional
Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Markus Brill, Oxford University
John P. Dickerson, Carnegie Mellon University
Edith Elkind, University of Oxford
Gabor Erdelyi, University of Siegen
Piotr Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology
Rupert Freeman, Duke University
Serge Gaspers, UNSW Australia and Data61
Umberto Grandi, University Toulouse 1 Capitole
Jerome Lang, LAMSADE
Kate Larson, University of Waterloo
Omer Lev, University of Toronto
Reshef Meir, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Nina Narodytska, Samsung Research America
Maria Silvia Pini, University of Padova
Mark Wilson, University of Auckland
Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
K. Brent Venable, Tulane University and IHMC

Submission Instructions

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Submissions will be handled by EasyChair, the site is available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=explore2016.

Papers should be in AAMAS format, allowing 8 pages of text plus 1 page for
references.

Travel and Attendance Information

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The workshop will be held in conjunction with AAMAS 2016 in Singapore.
Please see the AAMAS website for more information regarding registration,
travel, and accommodations: http://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016.

We hope to see you there.

--Haris, Felix, David, and Nicholas

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*Nicholas Mattei*

Senior Researcher | Optimisation / Algorithmic Decision Theory

Lecturer | University of New South Wales (UNSW)

*DATA61 | CSIRO*

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Neville Roach Laboratory (UNSW Campus), Locked Bag 6016, Sydney NSW 1466,
Australia

www.data61.csiro.au


CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA have joined forces to
create digital powerhouse Data61

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[DMANET] Chair in Operational Research at Cardiff University

Dear Colleagues,

Cardiff University School of Mathematics is seeking to appoint a Chair in Operational Research:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMV617/chair-in-operational-research/

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Chair in Operational Research at Cardiff University<http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMV617/chair-in-operational-research/>
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View details for this Chair in Operational Research job vacancy at Cardiff University in Wales. Apply now on jobs.ac.uk #jobsacuk

Deadline 19th February

Best regards,


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[DMANET] Call for CO2016 (Kent, September)

INVITATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS

CO2016
1-3 September 2016
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

CO2016 is an International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization. It is the next in a series of
biennial conferences where it is jointly organised with ECCO every other two years.

Previous CO meetings were held in Münich (2014), Oxford (2012), Malaga (2010), Warwick (2008),
Porto(2006), Lancaster (2004), Paris (2002), Greenwich (2000), Brussels (1998), and London (1996).

CO2016 is a primary forum for researchers in combinatorial optimisation, ranging from theoretical perspectives to its vast spectrum of applications.
More details and up-to-date information regarding registration, fees, accommodation and events can be found in the following CO2016 website
                                                 http://www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/co2016/index.html
Contact for information
Said Salhi (Chair)
Kent Business School
www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/profiles/staff/salhi_said.html
www.kent.ac.uk/kbs/research/research-centres/clho/

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[DMANET] PODC 2016 Call for Papers - submission deadline February 12

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PODC 2016 Third Call for Papers
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The 35th ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
(PODC 2016)
July 25-28, 2016
Chicago, Illinois, USA
http://www.podc.org/
Twitter: @podc_conference

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Deadlines:

Submission: February 12, 2016
Notification: April 29, 2016
Camera-ready: May 23, 2016

All deadlines are 23:59 HAST time zone and firm.

The submission site is now open.

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PODC solicits papers in all areas of distributed computing. Papers from
all viewpoints, including theory, practice, and experimentation, are
welcome. The common goal of the conference is to improve understanding
of the principles underlying distributed computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following subjects:

- distributed algorithms: design, analysis, and complexity
- communication networks: algorithms, architectures, services,
protocols, applications
- multiprocessor and multi-core architectures and algorithms
- shared and transactional memory, synchronization protocols, concurrent
programming
- fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, self-organization,
self-stabilization
- codes and reliable communication
- Internet applications, social networks, recommendation systems
- dynamic, adaptive and machine learning based distributed algorithms
- distributed operating systems, middleware platforms, databases
- game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- distributed mechanisms design
- peer-to-peer systems, overlay networks, distributed data management
- high-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
- wireless networks, mobile computing, autonomous agents and robots
- context-aware distributed systems
- security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- distributed cryptocurrencies and blockchain protocols
- quantum and optics based distributed algorithms
- nanonetworks
- biological distributed algorithms
- sensor, mesh, and ad hoc networks
- specification, semantics, verification of concurrent systems

Submission: Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair, at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=podc2016

following the guidelines available on the conference web page
(http://www.podc.org/). All submissions must be in English, in pdf
format. Note that the deadline is firm.

A submission for a regular presentation must report original research.
Papers submitted for regular presentations must contain results that
have not previously appeared, and have not been concurrently submitted
to a journal or conference with published proceedings. Any partial
overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be
clearly indicated. Papers for regular presentation must include:
(1) a cover page, stating the title of the paper, the authors' names and
affiliations, the corresponding author's e-mail, an abstract, and an
indication of whether the paper should be considered for the best
student paper award, and if so the name(s) of the student(s) recommended
for the award;
(2) an extended abstract of up to 10 pages (excluding the cover page and
references);
(3) references.
Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which
will be read at the discretion of the program committee. This appendix
may simply be the complete paper. A regular submission that is not
selected for regular presentation may be invited for a brief announcement.

A submission for a brief announcement must be no longer than 3
single-column pages on letter-size paper, including title, authors'
names and affiliations, and references. Such submissions may describe
work in progress or work presented elsewhere. The title of a brief
announcement must begin with the words "Brief Announcement:"

Formatting for both regular submissions and brief announcements:
letter-size (8 1/2 x 11 inch) paper, single-column format, using at
least 1 inch margins, 11-point font. Submissions deviating from these
guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Publication: Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in
the conference proceedings. Regular papers receive up to 10 pages, and
brief announcements receive up to 3 pages in the proceedings.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for
a special issue of the Distributed Computing journal. Two papers will be
considered for publication in JACM.

Awards: Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award.
Regular papers co-authored by full-time students may also be eligible
for the best student paper award. For a paper to be considered for this
award, the nominated authors should be full time students at the time of
submission and they should be principally responsible for the paper's
contributions. The program committee may decline to make these awards or
may split them.

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Keynote Speakers

Andrew A. Chien (University of Chicago)
Faith Ellen (University of Toronto)
Phillip B. Gibbons (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Program Committee

Ittai Abraham (VMware Research Group, USA)
Yehuda Afek (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Marcos K. Aguilera (VMware Research Group, USA)
Dan Alistarh (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK)
James Aspnes (Yale University, USA)
Leonid Barenboim (The Open University of Israel, Israel)
Shiri Chechik (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Colin Cooper (King's College London, UK)
Oksana Denysyuk (University of Calgary, Canada)
Ittay Eyal (Cornell University, USA)
Hugues Fauconnier (LIAFA, Paris Diderot, France)
Pascal Felber (Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Wojciech Golab (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bernhard Haeupler (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Anne-Marie Kermarrec (INRIA, Rennes, France)
Valerie King (University of Victoria, Canada)
Adrian Kosowski (LIAFA, Paris Diderot, France)
Shay Kutten (Technion, Israel)
Christoph Lenzen (MPI Saarbruecken, Germany)
Achour Mostefaoui (Universite de Nantes, France)
Calvin Newport (Georgetown University, USA)
Merav Parter (MIT, USA)
Andrzej Pelc (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada), PC chair
Sergio Rajsbaum (UNAM, Mexico)
Andrea Richa (Arizona State University, USA)
Liam Roditty (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Nicola Santoro (Carleton University, Canada)
Thomas Sauerwald University of Cambridge, UK)
Jukka Suomela (Aalto University, Finland)
Gadi Taubenfeld (IDC Herzliya, Israel)
Philipp Woelfel (University of Calgary, Canada)
Haifeng Yu (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Vassilis Zikas (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

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Conference Committee

Chen Avin (Workshop Coordinator) - Ben-Gurion University, Israel
George Giakkoupis (General Chair) - INRIA, France
Avery Miller (Communication Co-Chair) - Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Andrzej Pelc (PC Chair) - Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
Elad Schiller (Treasurer) - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Jukka Suomela (Communication Co-Chair) - Aalto University, Finland
Mark Tuttle (Publicity Chair) - Intel, USA
Nitin Vaidya (Organizing Chair) - University of Illinois, USA

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Steering Committee

Shlomi Dolev - Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Pierre Fraigniaud - CNRS, Universite Paris-Diderot, France
George Giakkoupis - INRIA, France
Andrzej Pelc - Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada
Elad Schiller - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Paul Spirakis - University of Liverpool, UK
Nitin Vaidya (Chair) - University of Illinois, USA

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[DMANET] DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB. 10 - 2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference


2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL., March 20-22, 2016.
https://sites.psu.edu/informstelecom2016/

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 10, 2016 ***

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS


The Thirteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March
20-22, 2016 at the Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL.

In the tradition of the previous conferences, the conference will focus
on the theory and application of operations research and management
science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on
new and emerging technologies.

The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on
Telecommunications (TST).

IMPORTANT DATES


- FEBRUARY 10, 2016: Session, tutorial and single abstract submission
deadline
- February 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance
- February 28, 2016: Early registration deadline
- March 20-22, 2016: 2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
- April 30, 2016: Full paper submission deadline.

CONFERENCE TOPICS


- Telecommunications modeling, policy and technology;
- Network economics;
- Network design;
- Traffic routing;
- Network optimization;
- Network algorithms;
- Sensor networks;
- Wireless and broadband networks;
- Vehicle and mobile computing;
- Semantic networks;
- Network survivability and reliability;
- Information security and privacy;
- Quality of service;
- Internet and multimedia;
- Data centers;
- Data mining applications in telecommunications networks;
- Big data business applications in telecommunications.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION


Submissions are welcome for:

- an organized session with 3 or 4 presentations;
- a tutorial presentation;
- a single presentation.

An abstract of a maximum of 2000 characters not containing formulas,
references or abbreviations is required for each presentation (single
presentation, tutorial or part of an organized session). All abstracts
should be submitted through the online submission system:
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/telecom2016/.

Proposals for organized sessions can be submitted directly to
telecom2016@euro-online.org.

PLENARY SPEAKERS


The following outstanding speakers have accepted to deliver a plenary
talk at the conference:

- Walid Ben-Ameur (TELECOM SudParis)
- S. Raghavan (University of Maryland)
- Rina Schneur (Verizon)

BEST PAPER AWARD


Applications for the TST Best Paper Award are now open. It will reward
an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of
telecommunications. The finalist four papers will be presented in a
special session in the Thirteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference.

Rules and submission guidelines:
https://sites.psu.edu/informstelecom2016/dissertation-award/.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS


Mike Bartolacci
Penn State University
MBartolacc@aol.com

Mauricio G. C. Resende
Amazon.com
resendem@amazon.com

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS


Bernard Fortz
Université Libre de Bruxelles
bernard.fortz@ulb.ac.be

Dimitri Papadimitriou
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
dimitri.papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.com

POST-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS


A post-conference proceedings volumes with full papers will be
published. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2016. A specific
call for papers will be issued soon.
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