Friday, February 12, 2016

[DMANET] Postdoctoral Position in Algorithms

Postdoctoral Position in Algorithms
University of Bonn

A postdoctoral position is available in the Algorithms Group at the
Department of Computer Science at the University of Bonn, Germany. The
group consists currently of five faculty members (Norbert Blum, Marek
Karpinski, Rolf Klein, Stefan Kratsch, Heiko Röglin), several postdocs
and PhD students.

The position will be for one year initially with the possibility of
extension. It comes with a competitive salary, generous travel support,
and low teaching load. The postdoc may pursue his/her own line of
research but a focus related to the existing research areas of the group
is very welcome.

The successful candidate should have a PhD degree in computer science or
mathematics and should have a strong publication record in Theoretical
Computer Science.

Applications will be reviewed starting from March 1, 2016 until the
position is filled. The envisioned starting date is summer 2016, but
other starting dates may be negotiable.

Please send your application (including a cover letter, a curriculum
vitae, a list of publications, and the names and contact information of
at least two references) to the address below. Electronic submissions
are highly encouraged (please attach relevant documents as pdf).

Heiko Röglin
Universität Bonn
Institut für Informatik
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144
53113 Bonn, Germany
Email: roeglin@cs.uni-bonn.de
Phone: +49 228 73 4326
http://www.roeglin.org
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[DMANET] EURO 2016 - session "VeRoLog: Multi-trip Vehicle Routing Problems" - submission deadline March 1st, 2016

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28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2016)
Invitation to submit a paper for the session VeRoLog: Multi-trip Vehicle Routing Problems

Abstract submission deadline: March 1st, 2016
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Dear Colleagues,

this is to kindly invite you to submit an abstract to the session


VeRoLog: Multi-trip Vehicle Routing Problems


a part of the stream: Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (area: Routing, Location, Logistics and Transportation) of the


28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2016)


which will be held on July 3-6, 2016 at the University of Technology of Poznań, Poland (https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro28).

In order to submit your abstract, please follow these steps:

* visit https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro28
* log in with your username and password. If you do not have a euro-online.org account, you will find a link to help you create one
* click on Abstract Submission on the left
* choose the option Abstract in an organized session, specify the submission code ceca321d and click Submit invited abstract

Please keep in mind that:

* the abstract must be a plain text one (no mathematical notations nor formulas) of no more than 1500 characters and written in English
* the submission deadline is March 1st, 2016

You can find more details by visiting http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/abstract-submission/ .
Please do not hesitate to contact me for whichever question.

Kindest regards,
Paolo Gianessi (paolo.gianessi_at_emse.fr)

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

[DMANET] CFP: BIGCOM 2016

*** Abstract Submission deadline: Feb 15, 2016, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard
Time***

** Full Paper Submission deadline: Feb 25, 2016, 11:59 PM Pacific Standard
Time **

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The 2nd International Conference on Big Data Computing and Communication
(BIGCOM 2016)

July 29-31, 2016, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

http://conf.neu.edu.cn/bigcom2016/

Big Data promises to reshape tomorrow's knowledge, society and economy. The
technologies that are used to generate, collect, process, compute and
communicate Big Data have made significant progresses in the past few
years. Such a disruptive technology inevitably poses a number of
significant challenges on the underlying system design. The International
Conference on Big Data Computing and Communications (BigCom 2016), which is
to be held on July 29-31, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, aims to address these
challenges. The conference is targeted to attract researchers and
practitioners who are interested in Big Data analytics, management,
security and privacy, communication and high performance computing in its
broadest sense. We welcome original, unpublished research papers that
emphasize theoretical foundations, modeling, algorithmic methodologies, and
data-driven applications. We also welcome visionary papers on new and
emerging topics. The related topics include but not limited to the
following:

Computing

· Data-intensive Parallel and Distributed Computing (Clouds, Clusters,
Grids, P2P)

· Sampling and Pre-processing for Big Data

· Data Streams Computing Techniques

· Heterogeneous Source Computing

· Scalability and Elasticity in Big Data Environments

· Performance Analysis of Big Data Tools and Applications

· Computing on Network Edge

Mining

· Modeling and Algorithms for Big Data Analytics and Data Mining

· Knowledge Mining from Big data

· Network and Graph Mining

· High Dimensional Data Mining

· Data Mining Techniques for Sensor Data

· Data Mining Techniques for Social Networks

Communication

· Next Generation Mobile Network

· Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

· Pervasive/Ubiquitous Networks

· Cooperative and Cognitive Networks

· Communications Patterns and User Experiences Analysis

· Big Data Analytics for Communication Service Providers

· Fault-tolerance and Reliability in Big Data Environments

Security

· Security and Legal Issue in Mobile Applications/Apps

· Privacy of Open Data

· Access Control and Authentication

· Pricing modeling and policy

· Reliability and Security of Content and Data

· Usability of Security Technologies and Services

· Trust and Privacy Issues in Mobile Commerce Environment

· Cryptographic Protocols

Management

· Big Data Storage, Indexing, Searching and Querying

· Big Data Quality Management

· Heterogeneous Data Management

· Knowledge Management and Ontology Engineering

· Unstructured Data Modeling

· Scheduling and Resource Management in Big Data Environments

· Spatial, Temporal, Multimedia and Scientific Databases

· Database and Data Warehouse Technologies for Big data

Applications

· Infrastructures and Frameworks of Data- driven Applications

· Mobile Device Apps based on Big Data

· Big Data for Crowd-sourcing

· Big Data for Advanced Manufacturing

· Big Data for Open Government

· Big Data for Healthcare

· Big Data for Bioinformatics

· Big Data for Intelligence Transportation

· Big Data for Smart City

· Big Data for Business Intelligence

· Big Data for Geo Intelligence

· Big Data for Logistics

· Big Data for Virtual Metrology

Paper Submission

All paper submissions will be handled electronically via easychair at the
submission site (http://conf.neu.edu.cn/bigcom2016/CFP.html). Submitted
papers must be original work, and it must neither be already published nor
be currently under review for publication in any other venue. Any papers
that do not adhere to the following guidelines will be immediately rejected:

· Submitted in PDF format

· Maximum of 10 pages

· Font size no smaller than 10 points

· Fit properly on US letter-sized paper (8.5 inches x 11 inches)

The conference proceeding will be published by Springer and indexed by EI.
Selected papers will be recommended to publish at Special Issues of
*SCI-indexed
journals*, including Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (Springer),
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Sensors (MDPI) and
Tsinghua Science and Technology.

Keynote Speakers

The conference features two keynote speakers: Lixin Gao (University of
Massachusetts, USA) and Jianzhong Li (Harbin Institute of Technology,
China), who will highlight the recent advances in big data computing and
communications.

Best Paper Award

All papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. The program
committee will select a number of candidates for the award among accepted
papers. The winner will be selected at the conference.

Important Dates

· All deadlines are at 11:59 PM Pacific Standard Time.

· Abstracts submission: Feb 15, 2016

· Paper submission: Feb 25, 2016

· Paper notification: May 1, 2016

· Camera Ready Submission: May 15, 2016

· Conference date: July 29-31, 2016

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair: Jinkuan Wang (Northeastern University, China)

General Co-Chairs: Ge Yu (Northeastern University, China), Yu Wang
(University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)

TPC Co-Chairs: Yanyong Zhang (Rutgers University, USA), Zhu Han
(University of Houston, USA), Guoren Wang (Northeastern University, China)

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact: bigcom2016@mail.neu.edu.cn

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[DMANET] Deadline Extension: ISCO 2016 - 4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization

The submission deadline has been extended to February 22, 2016.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization
(ISCO 2016) May 16-18, 2016

SPRING SCHOOL ON:
"Extended formulations for Combinatorial Optimization"
May 19-20, 2016

Vietri sul Mare (Salerno), Italy
www.isco2016.it

ISCO is a biennial symposium with its first issue held in Hammamet,
Tunisia in March 2010, its second one in Athens, Greece in April 2012
and its third one in Lisbon, Portugal in March 2014. ISCO 2016 symposium
aims to bring together researchers from communities related to
combinatorial optimization, including algorithms and complexity,
mathematical programming and operations research. It is intended to be a
forum for presenting original research in these areas and especially in
their intersections. Quality papers on all aspects of combinatorial
optimization, from mathematical foundations and theory of algorithms, to
computational studies and practical applications, are solicited.

CONFIRMED CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Volker Kaibel (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)
Adam Letchford (Lancaster University)
Ramamoorthi Ravi (Carnegie Mellon University)

SPRING SCHOOL
ISCO 2016 will be followed by a spring school on "Extended Formulations
for Combinatorial Optimization". Volker Kaibel and Samuel Fiorini will
give 16 hours of lectures on May 19 and 20, 2016.

CONFERENCE IMPORTANT DATES
Extended Submissions deadline: February 22, 2016
Notification to authors: March 20, 2016
Early registration deadline: April 5, 2016

Conference Days: May 16-18, 2016

SPRING SCHOOL IMPORTANT DATES
Early registration deadline for Spring School: April 5, 2016
Spring School Days: May 19-20, 2016


TOPICS OF INTEREST
Papers presenting original unpublished results in all areas of
combinatorial optimization and its applications are welcome. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Approximation algorithms
- Branch-and-bound algorithms
- Branch-and-cut-and-price algorithms
- Computational biology
- Computational complexity
- Computational geometry
- Constraint Programming
- Cutting plane algorithms
- Exact and parameterized algorithms
- Graph and network algorithms
- Interior point methods
- Linear and nonlinear integer programming
- Local search algorithms
- Metaheuristics
- On-line algorithms
- Polyhedral combinatorics
- Randomized algorithms
- Scheduling algorithms
- Game theory
- Multiobjective optimization

The submission deadline is February 15, 2016. Simultaneous submissions
to other conferences with published proceedings or journals are not
allowed. Paper submission and reviewing will be handled only via
Easychair. More information about the submission procedure is available
on the web site.

TYPE OF SUBMISSIONS
There will be two types of submissions:

a) Regular papers

Regular papers cannot exceed 12 pages (including front matter and
bibliography). The post-conference proceedings will be published in a
special Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume. For an accepted
paper to be included in the post-conference proceedings, it should be
presented at the conference by one of the authors. The authors of
accepted regular papers will have to prepare their camera-ready version
two weeks after the end of ISCO 2016.

b) Short papers
Short papers cannot exceed one page (maximum 3000 characters, including
spaces). Accepted short papers will be in the abstracts booklet which
will be distributed during the conference.

SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of accepted papers (both regular and short papers) for
presentation at ISCO 2016 will be invited to submit their work for
possible publication on a special issue of Networks and of Journal of
Combinatorial Optimization.
Details about the submission process to these special issues will be
published on the conference web site soon.

COMMITTEES

CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Raffaele Cerulli (University of Salerno, Italy)
Satoru Fujishige (RIMS, Kyoto University, Japan)
Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, France)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Mourad Baïou (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France)
Pierre Fouilhoux (University Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France)
Luis Gouveia (CIO, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Nelson Maculan (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France)
Vangelis Paschos (University Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France)
Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI, Rome, Italy)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.isco2016.it/committees

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Raffaele Cerulli (University of Salerno, Italy)
Francesco Carrabs (University of Salerno, Italy)
Monica Gentili (University of Salerno, Italy)
Andrea Raiconi (University of Salerno, Italy)
Carmine Cerrone (University of Salerno, Italy)
Ciriaco D'Ambrosio (University of Salerno, Italy)
Rosa Pentangelo (University of Salerno, Italy)
Selene Silvestri (University of Salerno, Italy)


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[DMANET] ETAPS 2016 call for participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ETAPS 2016

19th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software

Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 2-8 April 2016

http://www.etaps.org/2016

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-- ABOUT ETAPS --

The European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software
(ETAPS) is the primary European forum for academic and industrial
researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS,
established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual
conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2016 is already
the nineteenth event in the series.


-- MAIN CONFERENCES (4-7 April) --

* ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
* FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
* FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
* POST: Principles of Security and Trust
* TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of
Systems


-- INVITED TALKS --

Unifying speakers:

Andrew D Gordon (MSR Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, UK)
Rupak Majumdar (MPI Kaiserslautern, Germany)

ESOP invited speaker:

Cristina Lopes (University of California at Irvine, USA)

FASE invited speaker:

Oscar Nierrstrasz (Universität Bern, Switzerland)

POST invited speaker:

Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Tech, USA)


-- TUTORIALS

Peter Ryan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)


-- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS --

See the accepted paper lists and the programme of the main conferences
at the conference website.

http://www.etaps.org/2016/programme


-- SATELLITE EVENTS (2-3 and 8 April) --

22 satellite workshops will take place before or after ETAPS 2016.

CASSTING, CMCS, DICE, GaLoP, GaM, QAPL, WRLA (2-3 April)

RAC, VerifyThis, VPT, VSSE (2 April)
FESCA, FMSPLE, HCVS, HotSpot, SENSATION, SynCop (3 April)

BX, CREST, MSFP, PLACES, TermGraph (8 April)


-- REGISTRATION --

Early registration is until Tuesday, 1 March 2016 (23:59 GMT+1).

Normal-rate registration is until Thursday, 31 March 2016 (23:59 GMT+1).

http://www.etaps.org/2016/registration


-- ACCOMMODATION --

We request that participants arrange their accommodation on their own.
See our recommendations on the conference website.


-- HOST CITY --

Eindhoven is located in the province of North Brabant in the south of
the Netherlands. It is the fifth-largest city of the Netherlands. The
city is well known for modern art, design and technology. The main
airport of the Netherlands is the Amsterdam Airport, Schiphol. All
major airlines fly to Schiphol, and Schiphol has a direct and very
frequent train connection to Eindhoven. Eindhoven also has a small
international airport, Eindhoven Airport, with direct connections to
more than thirty destinations in Europe.


-- ORGANIZERS --

General chair: Jan Friso Groote

Workshop chairs: Erik de Vink and Julien Schmaltz

Publicity chair: Anton Wijs


--- HOST INSTITUTION --

ETAPS 2016 is hosted by Faculteit Wiskunde en Informatica, Technische
Universiteit Eindhoven.


-- FURTHER INFORMATION --

Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at
j.f.groote@tue.nl, a.j.wijs@tue.nl.

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[DMANET] PhD positions in Utrecht

VACANCY: PhD positions in Random Graphs and Percolation.

Fully funded PhD positions are available at the Department of
Mathematics of the University of Utrecht, to work on random graphs and
percolation theory under the direction of Dr. Tobias Müller. The
positions are funded by an NWO VIDI project on geometric random graphs
and related percolation models.

The positions are for four years and offer competitive salary and
benefits. They carry a modest teaching load which, in the case of
foreign applicants, can be performed in English. One position is
available immediately, but starting dates are negotiable as long as
they are within the next calender year.

Utrecht is a lively, picturesque city in the center of the
Netherlands, with excellent train connections to the rest of the
country and to Europe (train trips to Amsterdam take 20 minutes and 25
minutes to Schiphol Airport).

REQUIREMENTS: Candidates should have completed a Masters degree in
Mathematics or a related discipline by the time they start the
position. A strong background in probability theory and discrete
mathematics is advantageous, but mathematical maturity and motivation
are more important.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: For full consideration, please apply on or
before 9 March 2016. Reviewing of applications will commence on 9
March 2016, but we accept applications until all positions are filled.

HOW TO APPLY: Please send the following material to t.muller@uu.nl:

1. A cover letter including an explanation why you consider pursuing a
Ph.D. in the area of random graph theory and percolation theory;
2. An up-to-date curriculum vitae;
3. A list of all courses taken for your bachelor's and master's
degrees together with grades and explanations of the grades;
4. If available, a copy of the Bachelor thesis and Master thesis;
5. The names and contact details of two academic referees, one of
which should you be your master thesis supervisor. Please make sure
that they also send their confidential reference letters directly to
t.muller@uu.nl to arrive by the deadline.

GENERAL INFORMATION: You will be offered a full-time position for four
years. The gross monthly salary will amount to EUR 2.146,- in the
first year to EUR 2.744,- in the fourth year (P-scale of the
Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities). It is supplemented
with a holiday bonus of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8,3% per year.
In addition Utrecht University offers a pension scheme and a partially
paid parental leave.

INQUIRIES: If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to Tobias
Müller, t.muller@uu.nl.

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[DMANET] AUTOMATA 2016: extension of submission deadline

The deadline for submissions to AUTOMATA 2016 has been extended to
February 17, 2016.

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AUTOMATA 2016 Call for Papers


The 22nd International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete
Complex Systems (AUTOMATA 2016) will be hosted at the University of
Zurich, Switzerland, June 15-17, 2016.

Submission deadline: February 17, 2016

http://automata2016.ini.uzh.ch


Scope

Papers presenting original and unpublished research on all fundamental
aspects of cellular automata and related discrete complex systems are
sought. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): dynamics,
topological, ergodic and algebraic aspects, algorithmic and complexity
issues, emergent properties, formal language processing, symbolic
dynamics, models of parallelism and distributed systems, timing
schemes, phenomenological descriptions, scientific modeling and
practical applications.


Important dates

Submission deadline: February 17, 2016
Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2016
Final versions: March 30, 2016
Submission deadline for exploratory papers: May 1, 2016
Notification of acceptance for exploratory papers: May 10, 2016
AUTOMATA 2016: June 15-17


Invited speakers

Klaus Sutner (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Guillaume Theyssier (CNRS and Aix Marseille Université, France)
Tommaso Toffoli (Boston University, USA)
Andrew Winslow (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)


Program committee

Matthew Cook (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Nazim Fatès (Inria Nancy, France)
Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Enrico Formenti (Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France)
Anahı́ Gajardo (University of Concepción, Chile)
Eric Goles (Adolfo Ibáñez University, Chile)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
Martin Kutrib (Universität Gießen, Germany)
Andreas Malcher (Universität Gießen, Germany)
Genaro Martı́nez (University of West England, UK)
Kenichi Morita (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Turlough Neary (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Pedro de Oliveira (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil)
Nicolas Ollinger (Université d'Orléans, France)
Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)
Ivan Rapaport (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
Hiroshi Umeo (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
Damien Woods (Caltech, USA)
Thomas Worsch (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany)


Organizing committee

Matthew Cook
Turlough Neary


Paper categories

There are two categories of submission – full papers and exploratory
papers. Full papers should report more complete and denser research,
while the later submission deadline for exploratory papers allows quick
reporting of recent discoveries, work-in-progress and/or partial
results. Submissions in the full paper category are refereed and
selected by the program committee. Papers in the exploratory category
go through a less rigorous evaluation process.


Submission

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of no more than 14
pages (for full papers) or 8 pages (for exploratory papers) via the
EasyChair system at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=automata2016


Submissions should contain original research that has not previously
been published. Concurrent submissions to other conferences/journals is
not permitted. Supplementary material that exceeds the above mentioned
page limits may be included as an appendix and will be considered at
the committee's discretion (note that appendices will not be published
in the proceedings). Submission must be formatted in LaTeX using the
LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors)
and submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF). Papers authored or co
-authored by PC members are also welcome and will follow a specific
evaluation process.


Proceedings

Accepted full papers will appear in the proceedings published by
Springer in the LNCS series and will be available at the conference.
Exploratory papers will not be included in the LNCS proceedings;
however, they will be printed locally and given to conference
participants.
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

[DMANET] Open positions in the Links research team

The Links project (at Inria Lille and the CRIStAL lab) is working on
foundations and applications for querying Web databases based
on logics and automata. Links' general objective is to develop
novel techniques for querying heterogeneous collections of linked
Web databases as if they were integrated into a single homogeneous
database. Beside other challenges, this requires to develop novel
algorithms that enable the management of dynamic networks of
linked and distributed data in a real time.

Links is regularly opening research positions on different
levels, offered by Inria, CNRS, the University of Lile 1,
and the University of Lille 3.

- Permanent researcher positions at Inria or CNRS for excellent
junior or senior researchers wanting to join in the Links' project.
This year, Inria Lille has 3 openings for junior researchers and
1 opening for senior researchers in the national competition. The
application deadlines are mid of February.

- Professor position at the University of Lille 1. One position
that targets towards Links' research topics is currently open. The
submission deadline is begin of March (beware, deadline is earlier
than the synchronised session of French universities).

- Assistant professor (MdC) position at the University of Lille3. The
profile of that position includes the Links' research topics. The
application deadline is end of March.

- PhD student positions, possibly preceded by a masters project. Currently,
we have 3 openings, that will remain open until we find the right
candidate:

Linked data integration (open, contact: Iovka Boneva <iovka.boneva@univ-lille1.fr>)

Streaming for NoSQL Databases (open, contact: Joachim Niehren <joachim.niehren@inria.fr>)

Database queries for the social Web (open, contact: Pierre Bourhis <pierre.bourhis@inria.fr>)

- Postdoc at Inria. We regularly search promising students for the
competitive offers at Inria Lille.

Tree transducers for verifying the correctness of Linux
installation scripts.

For more information about integration in the Links team,
please visit https://team.inria.fr/links/job-offers/
or send an email to links-apply@lists.gforge.inria.fr

Pr. Sophie Tison
Université de Lille -Sciences et Technologies
Vice-Présidente Partenariats, Innovation, Valorisation
Cité Scientifique
Bâtiment M3
59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex
www.lifl.fr/~tison
sophie.tison@univ-lille1.fr
Phone: (33 | 0)3 28 77 85 42 (M3)
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[DMANET] TAMC 2016 - Call for papers

*** Apologies for multiple messages ***

FIRST CALL FOR PAPER

The 13th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
http://cs.xidian.edu.cn/tamc2016/
Xi'an, China
July 20-22, 2016

Welcome to The 13th annual conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC), which will take place at Xi'an, China from 20th to 22nd, July, 2016. The event is supported by School of Computer Science and Technology and School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University.

Venue
Tangcheng Hotel
South Hanguang Road #229
Xi'an, China

All major events take place in this building. There is a fully equipped lecture hall with a capacity for 200 attendees as well as a series of lecture rooms, each of which can support 50 attendees. Of course, all participants of TAMC-16 will have free internet access during the conference.

Contact
Email:tamc@xidian.edu.cn

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 11:59 pm EST March 6, 2016
Notification of authors: May 6, 2016
Final versions deadline: May 22, 2016

Post Conference Publications

Special issues of the journals Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Science devoted to a selected set of accepted papers of the conference are planned.

Submission of Papers
Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper).
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work.
The length of the extended abstract should not exceed ten (10) letter-sized pages (not including bibliography and appendices.)
Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings. Each PC member is allowed to submit at most one paper. Research that is already submitted to a journal may be submitted to TAMC16, provided that (a) the PC chair is notified in advance that this is the case, and (b) it is not scheduled for journal publication before the conference.
The submission server is now available at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tamc2016.

Conference Chair
Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University)
Zhiyong Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Programme Committee Chair
Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin)

Programme CommitteeCo-Chairs
Jiangtao Cui (Xidian University)
Xiaoming Sun (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Steering Committee
Manindra Agrawal
Jin-Yi Cai
Barry Cooper
John Hopcroft
Angsheng Li
Zhiyong Liu

Local Organising Committee
Jianfeng Ma http://web.xidian.edu.cn/jfma/
Jiangtao Cui http://web.xidian.edu.cn/cuijt/
Hui Li http://web.xidian.edu.cn/hli/

Aims and Scope
TAMC 2016 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interests in computational theory and applications. The main themes of the conference are computability, complexity, algorithms, models of computation and systems theory.Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:

Algebraic computation
Algorithmic coding theory
Algorithmic number theory
Approximation algorithms
Automata theory
Circuit complexity
Combinatorial algorithms computability
Computational biology, and biological computing
Computational complexity [including circuits, communication, derandomization, PCPs, proof complexity, structural complexity]
Computational game theory
Computational logic
Computational geometry
Continuous and real computation
Cryptography
Data structures
Design and analysis of algorithms
Distributed algorithms
Domain models[Assets, Price of Abstraction, frameworks]
Fixed parameter tractability
Geometric algorithms
Graph algorithms
Information and communication complexity
Learning theory
Memory hierarchytradeoffs
Model theory for computing [modal and temporal logics, specification, verification, synthesis or automated software construction, aesthetics, software behavior, transformation of models]
Natural computation
Nature inspired computing
Networks in nature and society
Network algorithms optimization
Online algorithms
Parallel algorithms
Philosophy of computing [emerging paradigms, morality, intentionality]
Privacy and security
Property testing
Proof complexity
Process models [for software construction, validating software under construction, supply-chain]
Quantum computing
Randomness pseudorandomness
Randomized algorithms
Space-time tradeoffs
Streaming algorithms
Systems theory [Concurrent, Timed, Hybrid and Secure systems]
VLSI Models of Computation [Models for Hardware-Software Co-design]


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[DMANET] Workshop on Longest Paths and Longest Cycles

GHENT GRAPH THEORY WORKSHOP
on
LONGEST PATHS and LONGEST CYCLES

You are cordially invited to attend the Ghent Graph Theory Workshop on
Longest Paths and Longest Cycles, to be held on Monday and Tuesday, 1-2
August 2016 at Ghent University, Belgium. Speakers include:

Jochen Harant
František Kardoš
Kenta Ozeki
Eckhard Steffen
Carsten Thomassen
Nico Van Cleemput
Gábor Wiener

The website of the workshop is: http://caagt.ugent.be/LPLC/
If you wish to attend or give a talk, please e-mail Carol Zamfirescu:
Carol.Zamfirescu@UGent.be
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[DMANET] Final CFP - SecMAS@AAMAS 2016 - Deadline Febr 15, 2016

FYI: Final Call for Papers - SecMAS workshop on Security and Multi-agent Systems

Deadline: Febr 15, 2016

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SecMAS 2016: Security and Multi-agent Systems Workshop
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~dkar/SecMAS2016/
Co-located
with AAMAS 2016 (http://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016)
May 9-13, 2016, Singapore
(Workshop will be held either May 9 or May 10)
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The importance of research and applications related to security and multi-agent systems continues to increase in a broad variety of disciplines, including computer science, electrical engineering, economics, biology, political science, business, law, public policy, and many others. The focus of this workshop is to bring together the broad community working on Security and Multi-Agent Systems motivated by any of these domains.

Many large-scale real-world security problems have been successfully modeled as multi-agent security games, and highly scalable algorithmic solutions with software assistants implementing these have been developed and deployed. Perhaps the greatest advances have been in the domain of physical security, with examples including patrolling of seaports and airports, scheduling air marshals, ticket audit in transit systems. Remarkably, there have been a number of more recent developments that significantly broaden the applicability of security game approaches. For example, similar techniques have been used in important sustainability applications, such as fishery protection and prevention of illegal poaching. Moreover, game theoretic models have increasing applicability in cyber, as well as cyber-physical system (CPS) security, such as adversarial machine learning methods (for use, for example, in intrusion detection systems), resilient sensor placement and monitoring strategies, and privacy preserving data publishing and auditing systems.

While there has been significant progress, there still exist many major challenges facing the design of effective approaches to deal with the difficulties in real-world domains. These include building predictive behavioral models for the players, dealing with uncertainties in games, scaling up for large games, and applications of machine learning and multi-agent learning to security, particularly in the context of repeated or stochastic games. This workshop is structured to encourage a lively exchange of ideas to address the above challenges.

We invite full length research submissions from a broad range of researchers and practitioners, including (1) computer scientists applying their AI/MAS research to real-world security problems, (2) interdisciplinary researchers combining AI/MAS with various disciplines (e.g., game theory, operations research, social science, and psychology), and (3) engineers and scientists from private companies and public organizations performing security related research and development, as well as building real adversarial reasoning systems. We encourage all researchers working towards applying security and multi-agent systems concepts for real-world problems to submit to the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Real-world applications of game theory for security
Cybersecurity
Security applications of machine learning
Foundations of game theory for security
Adversarial/robust learning
Online learning
Learning in games
Algorithms for scaling to very large games
Economics of security
Behavioral game theory
Decision making under uncertainty
Agent/human interaction for preference elicitation and optimization
Protection against environmental crime
Risk analysis and modeling
Security applications of AI methods
Evaluation/lessons learned of deployed systems

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline Extended : February 15, 2016
Notification: March 7, 2016
Camera-ready deadline: March 10, 2016

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Organizing Committee

Debarun Kar, University of Southern California, USA
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Vanderbilt University, USA
Long Tran-Thanh, University of Southampton, UK

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Program Committee

Michael Wellman, University of Michigan, MI, USA.
Christopher Kiekintveld, University of Texas at El Paso, TX, USA
Arunesh Sinha, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Branislav Bosansky, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Martin Short, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA
Matthew Brown, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Zinovi Rabinovich, Mobileye
Paulo Shakarian, Arizona State University, AZ, USA
Fei Fang, University of Southern California, CA, USA
Aron Laszka, University of California Berkeley, CA, USA
Bo An, Nanyang technical University, Singapore
Praveen Paruchuri, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Georgios Piliouras, Singapore University of Technology, Singapore
Jose M. Such, Security lancaster, Lancaster University, UK
Vinh-Thong Ta, University of Central lancashire, UK
Francesco Maria Delle Fave, Disney Research, Boston, USA

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Submission and Publication

Authors should submit original papers (maximum length 8 double-columned pages in AAMAS format)
in PDF through the Confmaster system:
https://secmas2016.confmaster.net

The most "visionary paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book
will be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop.

Additionally, the "best paper" will be published by Springer in a book under the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop. Authors of the selected most visionary paper and the best paper are expected to provide their latex files promptly upon request.

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Long Tran-Thanh
Lecturer
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Agents, Interaction, and Complexity Group,
Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ
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[DMANET] AAIM 2016 - Second Call for Papers

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AAIM 2016 Call for Papers
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AAIM 2016 Conference July 18-20, 2016
Bergamo University, Bergamo, Italy
http://aaim2016.wordpress.com/


The Eleventh International Conference on Algorithmic Aspects of
Information and Management will be hosted by University of Bergamo.
The conference will provide a forum on current trends of research on
algorithms, data structures, operation research, combinatorial
optimization and their applications.
AAIM will bring together international experts at the research
frontiers in these areas to exchange ideas and to present significant
new results.
Interesting new results in all areas of algorithm design, operation
research and combinatorial optimization and their applications are
welcome. Both theoretical and experimental/applied works of general
algorithmic interest are sought. Special considerations will be given
to algorithmic research that is motivated by real-world applications.
Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the
usefulness and efficiency of the target algorithms in practical
settings.

Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:

Algorithms and data structures;
Algorithmic game theory and incentive analysis;
Approximation algorithms and online algorithms;
Automata, languages, logic, and computability;
Bioinformatics, computational biology and medicine, and biomedical
applications;
Biomedical imaging algorithms;
Combinatorial optimization;
Combinatorics and discrete structures related to algorithms and complexity;
Communication networks and optimization;
Complexity theory;
Computational algebra, geometry, number theory, and statistics;
Computational learning theory, knowledge discovery, and data mining;
Cryptography, reliability, and security;
Database theory, large databases, and natural language processing;
Experimental algorithmic methodologies;
Geometric information processing and communication;
Graph algorithms and theory;
Graph drawing and information visualization;
Internet algorithms and protocols;
Large graph algorithms and social network analysis;
Optimization algorithms in economic and operations research;
Parallel and distributed computing and multicore algorithms;
Parameterized algorithms, heuristics, and analysis;
Pattern recognition algorithms;
Trustworthy algorithms and trustworthy software.


Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: February 19, 2016 (anywhere on Earth)
Author Notification: April 7, 2016
Final Manuscript Due: April 22, 2016
Conference: July 18-20, 2016

Submissions:
The submission deadline is February 19, 2016 (anywhere on Earth). AAIM
2016 will only accept electronic (PS or PDF) submissions via
easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aaim2016

E-mails will be sent to the authors to confirm the receipt of their
submissions within 24 hours. For any problem or question on
submissions, please send e-mails to aaim2016@easychair.org

Only previously unpublished new results will be considered for
publication. Papers that have already been published or simultaneously
submitted at another journal or conference (with published
proceedings) will not be considered.

A submission should start with the title of the paper, each author's
name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of
the results. This should be followed by a scholarly exposition of the
ideas, techniques, and a full description of the results achieved. A
clear indication of the motivation and comparison with prior or
related work should be presented. The paper should not exceed 12
pages, including bibliography, formatted for letter-size paper using
11 point or larger font, with at least one inch margins around.
Additional details can be included in a clearly marked appendix, to be
consulted at the discretion of program committee members. The appendix
is not included in the page limit, and will not be published in the
conference proceedings.

Submissions that deviate significantly from these guidelines or are
unprintable risk rejection without consideration of their merit.

At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the
paper at the conference as a registered participant.

The Proceedings of the Conference will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available
for distribution at the conference.

Special Issues:
Selected high quality papers will be invited to a special issue of
Theoretical Computer Science. The invited papers will go through the
normal reviewing process.


Invited Speakers:

Roberto Grossi, Università di Pisa
Stéphane Vialette, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Program Committee

Francine Blanchet-Sadri (University of North Carolina)
Laurent Bulteau (University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)
Cedric Chauve (Simon Fraser University)
Zhi-Zhong Chen (Tokyo Denki University)
Marek Chrobak (University of California, Riverside)
Ferdinando Cicalese (University of Verona)
Pierluigi Crescenzi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)
Peter Damaschke (Chalmers University of Technology)
Bhaskar Dasgupta (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Riccardo Dondi (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) co-chair
Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal)
Michael R. Fellows (Charles Darwin University)
Guillaume Fertin (University of Nantes) co-chair
Irene Finocchi (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Pawel Gorecki (University of Warsaw)
Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark)
Frederic Havet (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
Danny Hermelin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Jesper Jansson (Kyoto University)
Minghui Jiang (Utah State University)
Christian Komusiewicz (TU Berlin)
Moshe Lewenstein (Bar Ilan University)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca) co-chair
Martin Milanic (University of Primorska)
Rolf Niedermeier (TU Berlin)
Daniel Paulusma (Durham University)
David Peleg (The Weizmann Institute)
Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw)
Romeo Rizzi (University of Verona)
Marie-France Sagot (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Université de Lyon 1)
Saket Saurabh (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Marinella Sciortino (University of Palermo)
Florian Sikora (University of Paris-Dauphine)
Ioan Todinca (Université d'Orléans)
Leo van Iersel (Delft University of Technology)
Rossano Venturini (Università di Pisa)
Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
Binhai Zhu (Montana State University)

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Tuesday, February 9, 2016

[DMANET] SIROCCO 2016 call for papers

SIROCCO 2016
23rd International Colloquium on Structural Information and
Communication Complexity
19-21 July 2016, Helsinki, Finland
http://sirocco2016.hiit.fi/


CALL FOR PAPERS


DATES

- Submission deadline: 6 May 2016 (Friday), at 23:59, anywhere on earth

- Notification of acceptance: 9 June 2016 (Thursday)

- Conference: 19-21 July 2016 (Tuesday-Thursday)


THEME

SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between communication
and knowledge in multi-processor systems from both the qualitative and
quantitative viewpoints. Special emphasis is given to innovative
approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to efforts to
optimize current designs.

SIROCCO has a tradition of interesting and productive scientific
meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting leading
researchers in a variety of fields in which communication and knowledge
play a significant role.


SCOPE

Original papers are solicited from all areas of study of local
structural knowledge and global communication and computational
complexities. Among the typical areas are distributed computing,
communication networks, game theory, parallel computing, social
networks, mobile computing (including autonomous robots), peer to peer
systems, and communication complexity. Keeping with the tradition of
SIROCCO, new areas are always welcome.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sirocco2016

Authors are invited to submit their work in one of the three acceptable
formats: novel research contributions, position papers, and surveys.
Original research papers must contain results that have not previously
appeared and have not been concurrently submitted to a journal or
conference with published proceedings. In all cases, any partial overlap
with any published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly
indicated.

All submissions must be in English, in PDF format. You can use either of
the following layouts for your submissions:

- Cover page + 10 pages + references, letter or A4 paper, single column,
at least 11-point font, at least 1-inch margins, reasonable line spacing.

- 12 pages + references, LIPIcs or LNCS style.

Additional details may be included in an appendix, to be read at the
programme committee's discretion.


PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of SIROCCO 2016 will be published in Springer's LNCS series.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

- Leonid Barenboim, Open University of Israel, Israel
- Jeremie Chalopin, LIF, CNRS & Aix Marseille Universite, France
- Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel
- Paola Flocchini, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS & Universite Paris Diderot, France
- Janne H. Korhonen, Reykjavik University, Iceland
- Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Canada
- Christoph Lenzen, MPI for Informatics, Germany
- Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, Heinz Nixdorf Institute & University of
Paderborn, Germany
- Danupon Nanongkai, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- Calvin Newport, Georgetown University, USA
- Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston, USA
- Merav Parter, MIT, USA
- Peter Robinson, Queen's University Belfast, UK
- Thomas Sauerwald, University of Cambridge, UK
- Stefan Schmid, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland, chair
- Przemyslaw Uznanski, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

- Keynote speaker: Yoram Moses

- Invited speakers: Keren Censor-Hillel, Adrian Kosowski, Danupon
Nanongkai, Thomas Sauerwald

- Award lecture: Masafumi (Mark) Yamashita, the recipient of the 2016
SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in distributed computing


MORE INFORMATION

Please refer to the conference web page at http://sirocco2016.hiit.fi/
for more information on SIROCCO 2016.
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[DMANET] Call for participation - DRCN 2016

Just one month before DRCN 2016 - Register now at http://www.drcn2016.org/

The International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (=
DRCN) is a forum for presenting excellent results and new challenges facing=
the field of the reliability and availability of communication networks an=
d services. It brings together experts from industry, governments and acade=
mia, experienced in engineering, design and research. The conference has be=
en held since 1998, first bi-annually, and annually since 2011. Over the pa=
st eighteen years, DRCN has developed into a well-established conference co=
vering topics from equipment and technology for survivability to network ma=
nagement and public policy, through theory and techniques for the design, m=
anagement and operations of survivable and robust networks.

DRCN 2016, the 12th DRCN event, will be held on March 15-17, 2016 at Conser=
vatoire National des Arts et M=E9tiers (CNAM), in Paris, France.

Check details at http://www.drcn2016.org/

Each day, an introductory keynote will be given by well-known and recognize=
d Experts in the conference themes:

[*] "On the Design of Reliable Virtual Networks" by Raouf Boutaba, Wat=
erloo University, Canada

[*] "Resilience & 5G Slicing: Some Control and Liabilities Issues" by =
Emmanuel Dotaro, Thales Communications & Security, France

[*] "Coding and computation in distributed storage for dynamic network=
s" by Muriel Medard, MIT, USA

The technical program is organized around 6 plenary sessions and one poster=
session, and is complemented with:

[*] a Panel Session on "Network Disaster Management and Recovery", cha=
ired by Dominique Verch=E8re, Nokia Bell Labs, France that will feature int=
ernational experts in the topic.

[*] a Tutorial on "Resilience in SDN and NFV: How to divide state from=
stateless", given by Hagen Woesner, BISDN, Germany that will be provided f=
ree of charge to the participants.

Registration is open and early bird registration is valid until February 19=
, 2016.
You will find additional information, in particular on the program and on t=
he venue, on our web site at http://www.drcn2016.org/.

We are looking forward to meeting with you in Paris!

General Co-Chairs, DRCN 2016

Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France

Achille Pattavina, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


TPC Co-Chairs, DRCN 2016

Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs, France

Stefano Secci, UPMC, France

http://www.drcn2016.org/


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[DMANET] CTW 2016: submission deadline is approaching

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CTW 2016 - 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS
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14th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs & Combinatorial Optimization
Gargnano, Italy June 6-8, 2016.

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* Website: http://ctw16.di.unimi.it
* Deadline for submission: February 14, 2016
* Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2016
* Workshop dates: June 6-8, 2016
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The 14th CTW welcomes contributions on theory and applications of
discrete optimization algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in
a wide sense. Following a well established tradition, the 14th edition
of the workshop aims to disseminate scientific results, especially by
doctoral students and young researchers, in a friendly and interactive
atmosphere.

*** The Submission Deadline is approaching. ***

A limited number of rooms are also available, to stay at the workshop
venue. Therefore we encourage perspective participants to register as
soon as possible.

If you wish to submit a contribution, please prepare an extended
abstract of at most 4 pages by February 14, 2016 following the
guidelines on the workshop website at http://ctw16.di.unimi.it.

Workshop proceedings will be published as Electronic Notes in Discrete
Mathematics (ISSN: 1571-0653).

A special issue of an international journal, containing selected full
length papers, refereed according to high standards, is also planned.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Ali Fuat Alkaya (U Marmara)
Alberto Ceselli (U Milano)
Roberto Cordone (U Milano)
Ekrem Duman (U Ozyegin)
Ulrich Faigle (U Cologne)
Johann L. Hurink (U Twente)
Leo Liberti (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)
Bodo Manthey (U Twente)
Gaia Nicosia (U Roma Tre)
Andrea Pacifici (U Roma Tor Vergata)
Stefan Pickl (UBw Muenchen)
Giovanni Righini (U Milano)
Rainer Schrader (U Cologne)
Ruediger Schultz (U Duisburg-Essen)

LOCAL ORGANIZATION
Alberto Ceselli, Roberto Cordone, Marco Premoli, Giovanni Righini, Andrea Taverna

For further details, please contact: optlab@unimi.it

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Monday, February 8, 2016

[DMANET] DIMACS Workshop on Distance Geometry, 26-29 July 2016

DIMACS Workshop on
Distance Geometry: Theory and Applications
26-29 July 2016 at DIMACS, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Distance/
Call for posters and participation

Chairs:
Farid Alizadeh (Rutgers Univ.)
Leo Liberti (CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique, France)

Scientific advisory committee:
Amir Ali Ahmadi (Princeton)
Marcia Fampa (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro)
Bill Jackson (Queen Mary, Univ. London)
Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois Univ.)
Monique Laurent (CWI, The Netherlands)
Therese Malliavin (CNRS Institut Pasteur)
Michel Petitjean (Univ. of Paris 7)
Nicolas Rojas (Yale)
Amit Singer (Princeton)
Henry Wolkowicz (Univ. Waterloo)
Yinyu Ye (Stanford)

Organization: DIMACS (Tami Carpenter, Rebecca Wright)

Distance Geometry (DG) is a field of geometry which focuses on
defining and working with geometrical objects using distances between
points rather than the points themselves. From classical results such
as Heron's theorem, Euler's conjecture on the rigidity of polyhedra,
Maxwell's forces diagrams, and the link to positive semidefinite
matrices, DG has seen a veritable "engineering renaissance" in the XX
century. DG is used in architecture (rigidity of structures), spatial
conformation of molecules from inter-atomic distances, localization of
mobile sensors in communication networks, control of unmanned
underwater vehicles, control of robotic arms, solution of problems in
spatial logic, and more. One of the foremost problems in DG is that of
completing a partially specified matrix so that it is a Euclidean
distance matrix, either in a given dimension, or in any (unspecified)
dimension. Schoenberg's link means that DG is tightly linked to
Semidefinite Programming (SDP), which is one of the most popular tools
to solve DG problems, especially in the field of sensor networks.
Because so many diverse application fields appeal to DG, its
development has been somewhat fragmented, with very similar concepts
being introduced within separate communities with different names. The
aims of this conference are: (i) to attempt to reconcile some of this
fragmentation by inviting researchers from many different disciplines
to take part; (ii) to facilitate communications of technical knowledge
between the different application field communities working on DG;
(iii) to provide incentives for unifying the field of DG.

The workshop will be based on a series of invited tutorials and
lectures. So far, the following people have accepted to speak. They
are listed in no particular order, and the list is subject to change.
Bon Connelly (Cornell), Bill Jackson (QM, Univ. London), Henry
Wolkowicz (Univ. Waterloo), Amit Singer (Princeton), Jon Lee (UMich),
Steven Gortler (Harvard), Therese Malliavin (Institut Pasteur, Paris),
Ileana Streinu (Smith College), Shin-Ichi Tanigawa (Kyoto Univ.), Abdo
Alfakih (UWindsor, Canada), Carlile Lavor (Univ. Campinas), Jayme
Swarczfiter (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro), Amir Ali Ahmadi (Princeton),
Man-Cho So (Chinese Univ. Hong Kong), Marcia Fampa (Univ. Fed. Rio de
Janeiro), Tibor Jordan (Eotvos Lorand Univ.), Georgina Hall
(Princeton), Frank Parmenter (MIT), Hamza Fawzi (MIT), Pablo Parrilo
(MIT), Antonios Varvitsiotis (Nat. Univ. Singapore), Nathan Krislock
(Northern Illinois Univ.), Onur Ozyesil (Princeton), Simon Billinge
(Columbia), Douglas Goncalves (Univ. Fed. Santa Catalina, Brazil),
Martin Vetterli (EPFL).

We are organizing a poster session, for which we are calling for
posters. Please write to Leo Liberti <liberti@lix.polytechnique.fr> if
you're interested in presenting a poster.

A special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics, dedicated to the
topic of this workshop, will be guest edited by the co-chairs.
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[DMANET] AAMAS-2016 Workshops, Demos & Doctoral Mentoring (2CP & INFO)

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AAMAS-2016 WORKSHOPS, DEMOS & DOCTORAL MENTORING (INFO & 2CP)
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AAMAS-2016 WORKSHOPS
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The goal of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops is to stimulate and facilitate discussion, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas related to specific topics, both theoretical and applied, in the general area of Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. The AAMAS-2016 workshops will provide an informal setting where participants will have the opportunity to discuss specific technical topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas.

LIST OF WORKSHOPS
W1. Seventh Workshop on Cooperative Games in Multiagent Systems (CoopMAS)
W2. Trust in Agent Societies (TRUST)
W3. Security and Multi-agent Systems (SecMAS)
W4. Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS)
W5. Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMAS)
W6. Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice (EXPLORE)
W7. Emergent Intelligence on Networked Agents (WEIN)
W8. Issues with Deployment of Emerging Agent-based Systems (IDEAS)
W9. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation (MABS)
W10. Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS)
W11. Adaptive and Learning Agents (ALA)
W12. Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems (COIN)
W13. Creative Agents (CREAS)
W14. Agent & Data Mining Interaction (ADMI)
W15. Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations (ACAN)
W16. Collaborative Online Organizations (COOS)
W17. Collaborative Agents Research & Development (CARE) - CARE for Digital Education
W18. Agent Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS)
W19. Logical Aspects of Multi-Agent Systems (LAMAS)
W20. TRANSportation applications of Equilibrium, incentives and game Theory (TRANSET)

IMPORTANT DATES
- Deadlines: Each workshop has its own deadline. Some of these deadlines are currently being extended, please visit the relevant workshop page for further details.
- Workshop days: May 9-10, 2016

POST_PROCEEDINGS
The most 'visionary paper' will be published by Springer in a book under the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) - Hot Topics series. The book will be a compilation of the most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop.
Additionally, the 'best paper' will be published by Springer in a book under the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. The book will be a compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where one paper will be selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Nardine Osman, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)
Carles Sierra, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC)

WORKSHOPS WEBSITE
http://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016?itemid=10961

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AAMAS-2016 DEMOS
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The goal of the AAMAS DEMOs track is to provide opportunities for participants from academia and/or industry to present their latest developments in agent-based software and/or robotic systems. Interactive systems, robotic systems and novel applications are particularly welcome. There will be a "Best Demo Award.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Submissions accepted for the demonstration session will be advertised on the AAMAS website. Each Demo submission must consist of a 2-page paper (excluding reference section) in which the authors describe the system to be demonstrated and video or PPT or other media explaining how the demo will look like. Accepted Demos will have their paper included in the AAMAS proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Submission deadline : February 20, 2016
- Notification of acceptance/rejection : March 5, 2016
- Camera-ready paper : March 11, 2016

Demo Chairs:

- Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Shih-Fen Cheng, Singapore Management University

Contact the Demos Chairs at aamas2016.demos@gmail.com

More information at AAMAS'16 website -> demos: http://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016?itemid=11256

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AAMAS 2016 DOCTORAL MENTORING PROGRAM
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The AAMAS 2016 doctoral mentoring program is intended for Ph.D. students in advanced stages of their research. This program will provide an opportunity for students to interact closely with established researchers in their fields, to receive feedback on their work and to get advice on managing their careers. Specifically, the goals of the program are:

1) To match each student with an established researcher in the community (who will act as a mentor). The mentor will interact closely with the student, provide feedback on research, and help the student form new contacts.
2) To allow students an opportunity to present their work to a friendly audience of other students as well as mentors.
3) To provide students with new contacts and professional networking opportunities.
The doctoral mentoring program will consist of opportunities for interactions between mentors and their mentees prior to the conference, as well as a one day doctoral symposium.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
We encourage submissions from Ph.D. students at advanced stages of their research within the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems field. Based on the submissions, the organizing committee will select a group of students that will be invited to participate in the program. Participants will be expected to take active part in all doctoral mentoring program activities.

Each submission should include a set of documents from the student and a recommendation letter from the advisor.

The submission package consists of:

1) A two-page extended abstract of the student's thesis (in the AAMAS submission format)
2) A personal statement (one page) in any single column format that includes: country and institute of study, citizenship and gender, area of study (provide 1-3 keywords), whether you have participated in the AAMAS DMC before, one or two names of suggested mentors,
3) A short (2-page) resume (CV)
4) A recommendation letter from the advisor.
Student submissions should be done through EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aamasdc2016

Advisor recommendation letters should be sent directly to aamasdmc16@gmail.com.

IMPORTANT DATES
Feb 9, 2016: Submission package due
Mar 1, 2016: Acceptance notification
Mar 13, 2016: Camera-ready deadline
May 9 or 10, 2016: Doctoral mentoring symposium

For questions, please contact the doctoral mentoring co-chairs:

Maria Gini
University of Minnesota
gini@cs.umn.edu

Gita Sukthankar
University of Central Florida
gitars@eecs.ucf.edu

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[DMANET] EURO 2016: Stream "Scheduling in Health Care" -- deadline March 1, 2016

Stream "Scheduling in Healthcare" -- 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXVIII)
Abstracts: max. 1500 characters; submission deadline is March 1, 2016 -- Session code: d9880fd7


We would like to invite you to contribute to the stream "Scheduling in Healthcare" we are organizing
for the EURO 2016 conference that will be held in Poznan, Poland, (July 3-6, http://www.euro2016.poznan.pl/).

The stream aims at exploring state-of-the-art OR techniques and to provide an overview on new significant approaches
and methods in the large and complex field of scheduling health care activities, that is activity and people planning
and scheduling in Health Care, including, but not limited to:
- Operating room planning and scheduling
- Generic modelling of planning and scheduling problems for various types of examinations and treatment, for both in- and outpatients
- Integration of planning and scheduling (today, these are mostly kept separate due to complexity, at least for longer planning horizons)
- Planning and scheduling under uncertainty, with a focus on recourse actions involving rescheduling and maximizing plan stability and robustness
- Efficient re-scheduling, considering regular and non-regular objectives
- Nurse and doctor scheduling
- Workforce scheduling based on forecasted demand
- Home Health Care Scheduling
- Online and Flexible scheduling in health care

Your contribution could be an abstract for an oral presentation or a proposal for a session with a number of talks.
Either way, please get in touch by emailing us (see below) with your interest and, if relevant, the topic of the
proposed session. If you would like to submit your abstract directly, please use the following code: d9880fd7.

With our best regards,
Roberto, roberto.aringhieri@unito.it
Maria, mecaptivo@fc.ul.pt
Rosita, rosita.guido@unical.it
Atle, Atle.Riise@sintef.no
Patrick, patrick.soriano@hec.ca

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Dr Roberto Aringhieri, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, I-10149 Torino, Italy
Office: +39 011 6706755 - Mobile: +39 331 1239026
http://di.unito.it/aringhieri
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[DMANET] PhD position at LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse-France)

Dear All,

We are happy to announce an offer for a phd position for 3 years
available at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France), on "Branch-and-price
algorithm for multi-objective vehicle routing problems'.

Further details at:
https://www.laas.fr/boreal/web/en/user/these/voirUser/127

Please forward this announcement to possible interested candidates.

Sandra U. Ngueveu and Nicolas Jozefowiez

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Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor
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http://homepages.laas.fr/sungueve
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ngueveu@laas.fr
Equipe ROC (anciennement MOGISA)
LAAS-CNRS
7 avenue du Colonel Roche
31077 Toulouse Cedex 4 - France
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sandra.ngueveu@enseeiht.fr
Département GEA
INP-ENSEEIHT
2 rue Charles Camichel
31071 Toulouse - France

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Sunday, February 7, 2016

[DMANET] MSc Operational Research 50th Anniversary Scholarships (and more)

*Apologies for cross-posting*

Dept. of Management Science
Strathclyde Business School
Glasgow, UK
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MSc Operational Research 50th Anniversary Scholarship

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of starting our MSc Operational Research programme, Department of Management Science are delighted to offer 2 scholarships towards tuition fees for the MSc Operational Research 2016 entry (full-time only). Each of these scholarships will be worth £9500, and applications are open to all nationalities (UK, EU or international). Please note that this amount will cover the full tuition fee of a UK or EU student. The application deadline is 31 May 2016. Further details below.

MSc Business Analysis and Consulting Scholarship

The Department of Management Science are delighted to offer 2 scholarships of £7000 towards tuition fees for the MSc Business Analysis and Consulting for 2016 entry (full-time only). Applications are open to all nationalities (UK, EU or international). The application deadline is 31 May 2016. Further details below.


ELIGIBILITY

For either scholarship, the applicants are expected to have (or near completion of) a First Class Honours (undergraduate) degree, or equivalent (a minimum 3.5 GPA in a 4.0 GPA system, or a minimum 90% average, or a minimum average of A- in a letter system). Final year undergraduate students are eligible to apply.

Candidates interested in applying for these prestigious scholarships are required to demonstrate through their ideas, experience and achievements that they are an excellent team player, with a strong vision for the future. Overall quality of the application and financial need will also be considered. The award will be judged on a 1000 word statement which should clearly articulate how you meet the scholarship criteria and outline your reasons for applying for the scholarship.

Applicants must have an offer of a place on the programme.


MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY

For more information about the courses, please refer to:
MSc OR: http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/operationalresearch/
MSc BAC: http://www.strath.ac.uk/courses/postgraduatetaught/businessanalysisconsulting/

For scholarship applications, please visit the following page and click "How to Apply": http://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/scholarships/strathclydebusinessschoolscholarships/managementsciencescholarships/

For admissions into the programmes, please visit: http://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/

For further information or any questions, please contact: sbs.admissions@strath.ac.uk


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[DMANET] [Deadline Extension 14 Feb. 2016] CFP: EXPLORE @ AAMAS 2016: The 3rd Workshop on Exploring Beyond the Worst Case in Computational Social Choice

[Apologies for multiple postings.]

*In order to accommodate submissions from IJCAI, AAMAS, and AAAI we have
extended the deadline for EXPLORE by 1 week to Feb. 14th.*

*[Final Call] 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.

May 10th, 2016

Singapore

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

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 plan for the program
to include an invited talk from a local researcher and possibly a short
tutorial.

AAMAS-2016 is happy to announce that selected workshop papers will be
published by Springer under two books. The aim of these books is to
encourage innovative and visionary papers, even if their research work is
still at a preliminary stage. The first book will be a compilation of the
most visionary papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where one paper will be
selected from each AAMAS-2016 workshop. The second book will be a
compilation of the best papers of the AAMAS-2016 Workshops, where again one
paper (different from the selected visionary paper) will be selected from
each AAMAS-2016 workshop. These papers will be selected by the PC nominated
to the AAMAS workshop chairs.


Important Dates
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Paper Submission Deadline: February 14, 2016

Author Notification: March 5, 2016

Conference and Workshop: May 10, 2016


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.

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

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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Lecturer | University of New South Wales (UNSW)

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PhD (or postdoc) position in Database Theory or Logic in Computer Science at TU Dortmund (involves teaching in German)


At TU Dortmund University, we are looking for talented and motivated

                       PHD STUDENTS (or post-docs)

interested in

         Database Theory or Logic and Complexity.

The opening is in the working group of Thomas Schwentick and involves teaching in German language.

The official, complete job opening is available in German at
 https://service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18/2120797/wiss.+Beschäftigte+bzw.+wiss.+Beschäfigter+(Ref.-Nr.+w9-16)/ee088546-c46b-40fb-9ad9-235174c01b91?version=1.0.

Interested?  Please do not hesitate to contact us:

TU Dortmund, Dept. of Computer Science
Chair I - Logic in Computer Science
Thomas Schwentick
Otto-Hahn-Str. 12
D-44227 Dortmund

Tel.: +49 231-755 63 41
Fax: +49 231-755 65 55
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