Friday, February 11, 2022

[DMANET] LPNMR 2022 - second call for workshops

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                            CALL FOR WORKSHOPS

                       16th International Conference on
                Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning

                               LPNMR 2022

https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022

                             Genova, Italy

                          September 5-8, 2022


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The 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic
Reasoning (LPNMR 2022) will be held in Genova, Italy.

The objective of the LPNMR workshop program is to stimulate the discussion
and the exchange of ideas on topics related, but not limited, to declarative
logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. We
aim at creating a forum where researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines
may interact and have an opportunity to promote collaboration and identify
directions for joint future research. Accordingly, we solicit workshop
proposals on theoretical and applied research topics.

Workshop proposals should explain and motivate the topic of the workshop, and
discuss the format of presentation of the contributes. Workshops will likely
be half-day or one-day in duration, but we may consider longer programs.


DATES

   * Workshop proposals submissions: February 25th, 2022
   * Workshop proposals notifications: March 7th, 2022
   * Workshop program: September 5th, 2022 (tentative date)


SUBMISSION

 Proposals must be submitted via EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lpnmrws2022


 Proposals should clearly specify the following:

   * Workshop title and acronym
   * A brief description, emphasizing why this workshop would appeal to
     audiences from LPNMR
   * A list of organizers with email addresses, web page URLs, and a short
     description of their experience in organizing events
   * A short description of the format of planned activities (talks, posters,
     panels, invited speakers if any, etc.)
   * The proposed duration (half day, one day, etc.)
   * A description of the history of the workshop (if any)
   * Expected number of participants


VENUE

Workshops are planned to be held at the University, which is in the city
center of Genova.

Genova is the capital of Liguria, stretching along the bay of Genova
from Nervi to the east as far as Voltri to the west. Its old town district
is one of the largest in Europe, and hosts some remarkable artistic and
architectural treasures, including the Palazzi dei Rolli, fifty or so
homes of the aristocracy entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In
addition to offering a wealth of cultural attractions, Genova is a
fascinating destination for tourists, with its scenic vantage points,
sea promenades, aristocratic villas and of course the Riviera to the
east and west, both easy to reach: Portovenere and Le Cinque Terre (also
UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Portofino and Camogli to the east and
Alassio, Sanremo, Bordighera to the west.

The main conference will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the
Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/, information
available only in Italian on this link), which is a college directly
situated on the sea. Nervi is a former fishing village, now a suburb of
Genoa. Nervi is 7 km east of central Genova.

Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order
to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person
event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely
on-line.


GENERAL CHAIR

 Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK


PROGRAM CHAIRS

 Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA
 Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy


PUBLICITY CHAIR

 Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria, Italy


WORKSHOPS CHAIR

 Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy


DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR

 Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria


LOCAL ORGANIZATION

 Matteo Cardellini, University of Genova, Italy
 Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova, Italy (Chair)
 Marco Mochi, University of Genova, Italy


CONTACT

 For any details on workshops, please contact the Workshop Chair:
viviana.mascardi@unige.it


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Thursday, February 10, 2022

[DMANET] 2nd Student Design Competition on Networked Computing on the Edge (CPS-IoT Week 2022)

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION – Second Student Design Competition on Networked
Computing on the Edge

Co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2022 <https://cpsiotweek.neslab.it/index.php>

Milan, Italy May 3-6, 2022


Competition Website: https://smile-sdsu.github.io/cps_iot22/


*What is this Competition?*

The 2nd student design competition on Networked Computing on the Edge
<https://smile-sdsu.github.io/cps_iot22/> will be held at the CPS-IoT Week
<https://cpsiotweek.neslab.it/index.php> in May 2022. This competition
invites student teams of all levels to develop and demonstrate innovative
projects on the topic of networked computing for edge applications.
Projects of integrated computing, control, and communication components on
the ground, underwater or air mobile platforms are welcomed. Topics of
interest include but are not limited to unmanned aerial vehicle networks,
urban aerial mobility, autonomous driving, edge computing, and
human-machine interfaces.

*Requirements*

Teams must develop solutions using embedded platforms of advanced computing
capabilities. Each team should consist of no more than five members
including faculty mentors. The organizers can provide embedded hardware
solutions built on Jetson TX2 and related hardware and software technical
support to participating teams.

*Submission Guidelines:*

· Teams are required to submit a project proposal including project
title, abstract, team members and advisor(s) to CPSIoTCompetition@unt.edu to
register for the competition. The abstract should state the objective,
approach, novelty and impact, and is limited to 300 words. The registration
deadline is *February 24, 2022*.

· The registered teams will submit the final product by *April 17,
2022* including
a poster and a pre-recorded video of their presentation.

· At the conference, each team will make a live presentation or play
the recorded video, followed by Q&A.

*Evaluation criteria:*

The evaluation committee will select winners and honorable mentions based
on the following criteria:

· Quality of the design (relevance, completeness, novelty, and
performance) – 50%

· Quality of the presentation (poster, video/live presentation, and
Q&A) – 40%

· Impact of application (societal or economical values) – 10%

*Organizers:*

Shengli Fu, University of Texas at Arlington (Email: shengli.fu@unt.edu)

Junfei Xie, San Diego State University (Email: jxie4@sdsu.edu)

Roberto Valenti, MathWorks (Email: rvalenti@mathworks.com)

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[DMANET] The 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT 2022)- Co-located with NOMS2022 [DEADLINE APPROACHING]

The 5th International Workshop on *Intelligent Transportation and
Autonomous Vehicles Technologies- ITAVT 2022*

(https://icnetlab.org/ITAVT2022/)

in conjunction with

IEEE/IFIP *Network Operations and Management Symposium- NOMS2022*

25-29 April 2022 // Budapest, Hungary

(https://noms2022.ieee-noms.org/)

*Scope and topics of the workshop:*

Designing a smart autonomous transportation system is one of the key
factors of building safe and sustainable smart cities. In the age of
softwarization and artificial intelligence, introducing intelligent
transportation solutions to our cities offers various range of benefits
including reliable and efficient traffic management in safer streets. Such
transportation systems combined with cutting-edge vehicular and wireless
network technologies face several unprecedented challenges. These include
adapting vehicular cloud and network services to the dynamic user
requirements, managing available cloud computing resources, big data
analytics, connected vehicle network security issues, service composition,
and power management. The aim of the Fifth International Workshop on
*Intelligent
Transportation and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies (ITAVT) *is to bring
together engineers, researchers and practitioners interested in the
intelligent transportation and vehicle technology advances. Participants
are invited to present and discuss recent developments and challenges in
intelligent transportation systems. This workshop focuses on innovative
applications, software, tools, and frameworks in all technology areas
related to connected vehicles in the context of networking, service
management, Artificial intelligence, and cloud systems. Papers describing
original novel work and advanced prototypes, systems, and tools are
encouraged.

Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all
major areas, which include, but not limited to:


* Management and Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Vehicles

* 5G/6G technology for Autonomous Vehicles

* Vehicular cloud management

* SDN Autonomous Vehicles and Automated Driving

* Intelligent Infrastructure and Guidance Systems

* Security and privacy for Autonomous Vehicles

* Connected Services and Mobility management

* Green Vehicular Communication and Services

* Services Virtual Networking for Autonomous Vehicles

* Advanced driver assistance systems

* Big Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation

* Autonomous and Connected Aerial Networks

* Blockchain Systems for Autonomous Vehicles

* Communications and networking for Automated and semi-automated vehicles

* Cyber threat-free driving environment

* Congestion and awareness control in Autonomous Vehicles

* In-Vehicle Networks and Communications

* Next Generation Traffic Management Systems

* Cooperative Driving for Autonomous Vehicles

* Networking with Other Road Users

*General Co-Chairs:*

Moayad Aloqaily, xAnalytics Inc., Canada

Öznur Özkasap, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

*Technical Program Co-Chairs:*

Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE

Müge Erel-Özçevik, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Turkey

*Important Dates:*

-Paper submission deadline: January 23, 2022* February 13, 2022*

-Paper acceptance notification: February 27, 2022 March 13, 2022

-Camera-ready version due: March 27, 2022

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[DMANET] 7 PhD projects within the Operational Research Group at the University of Southampton

Applications are invited for 7 PhD projects within the Operational Research Group, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton:

Data Driven Modelling to Support Health Care
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/data-driven-modelling-to-support-health-care/?p138409

Optimization based design assistance for chemical propulsion systems
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/optimization-based-design-assistance-for-chemical-propulsion-systems/?p138420

Efficient methods for solving clustering-with-hyperplane problems
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/efficient-methods-for-solving-clustering-with-hyperplane-problems/?p138411

Matrix Optimization in Machine Learning
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/matrix-optimization-in-machine-learning/?p138410

Dynamical system approaches for solving variational inequalities
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/dynamical-system-approaches-for-solving-variational-inequalities/?p138413

Optimal Design of Experiments for Discrete Choice Models
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/optimal-design-of-experiments-for-discrete-choice-models/?p138421

Dynamic Pricing and Learning
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/dynamic-pricing-and-learning/?p138416


The deadline is 30th of April, but priority will be given to applications that are submitted as soon as possible. For informal enquiries on any of the projects, please contact the corresponding supervisor (an email window can be found by following the given link above) or contact me at a.b.zemkoho@soton.ac.uk

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Dr Alain Zemkoho
Associate Professor
School of Mathematical Sciences
University of Southampton
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~abz1e14/


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Re: [DMANET] PhD thesis and Master intership position in Clermont-Ferrand (FRANCE) on dynamic graphs

Dear all,

We are looking for a good candidate for a PhD thesis on topics at the interface of Graph Theory, Database, and Logic. The thesis will be supervised by Mamadou M. KANTÉ and Bruno GUILLON, at LIMOS - CNRS, University of Clermont Auvergne (FRANCE). The project aims to study dynamic aspects of graphs, and, in particular, maintenance of graph decompositions — more details can be found in the below-linked document. Please feel free to contact us for details. The PhD may be preceded by an internship, starting as soon as possible, and possibly done remotely. In order to apply, candidates should send a CV as well two reference names by email to both Mamadou M. KANTÉ and Bruno GUILLON (see contact data below).

contact: <Mamadou.KANTE@uca.fr> and <Bruno.GUILLON@uca.fr>
detailed subject: https://drive.uca.fr/f/d4cf83eb9a7e495fbb95/
keywords: logic; dynamic algorithm; Dyn-FO; MSO; database; graph
application deadline: 15th of March, 2022
requirements: strong mathematical background, interest in the subject, basic knowledge in graph theory

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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

[DMANET] MOBROB2022 - Summer School on Autonomous Mobile Robotics in the framework of Industry 4.0

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MOBROB2022 - Summer School on Autonomous Mobile Robotics in the framework of Industry 4.0

Lecce, Italy
Dates: June 13, 2022 – June 18, 2022
Venue: Conference Room of the "Rettorato" Building, Piazza Tancredi 7, Lecce (Italy)

The "Summer School on Autonomous Mobile Robotics in the framework of Industry 4.0" aims to provide the participants an updated state of the art of the main issues in the context of mobile robotics, with a particular emphasis on the Industry 4.0 framework. This goal will be obtained with methodological tutorials from internationally recognized academic researchers, technical sessions with practical experiences and demos from industrial experts, and a final test.

Organizers: Daniela De Palma, Gianpaolo Ghiani, Giovanni Indiveri, Emanuele Manni, Gianfranco Parlangeli, Riccardo Tornese

Confirmed lecturers:
- Giovanni Indiveri (University of Genova), An introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robotics
- Gianluca Antonelli (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio), Robotic manipulation
- Enrico Simetti (University of Genova), Architectures and languages for mobile robotics
- Giuseppe Oriolo (Sapienza University of Rome), Navigation, guidance and control
- Federica Pascucci (Roma Tre University), Distributed Cooperative Localization/Autonomous Navigation
- Lucia Pallottino (University of Pisa), Coordination of fleets of mobile robots
- Elettric80 Spa, Path planning and coordination of fleets of laser-guided mobile vehicles
- Davide Mannone - Rocco Nicola Lombardi (Code Architects), Challenges in the design of mobile robots for intralogistics
- Gianpaolo Ghiani (University of Salento), Optimization, planning, scheduling, routing (part 1)
- Emanuele Manni (University of Salento), Optimization, planning, scheduling, routing (part 2)
- Alessandro Deodati (Niteko Robotics), Design and integration of navigation and mapping algorithms
- Marlin Ulmer (University of Magdeburg), Reinforcement learning
- Cosimo Distante (National Research Council of Italy), Artificial vision
- Riccardo Tornese (Tactile Robotics), ROS and ROS2: an introduction with demonstrations on real mobile robots

The summer school will accept a maximum of 30 participants.
No prior experience or knowledge in robotics is required, but a strong background in scientific disciplines is a plus.
Applications from Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers in scientific-related disciplines will receive preference. Master students, Bachelor students, and graduates in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering are welcome to apply, but may be given lower priority, if the number of applications exceeds the threshold.

Currently, the summer school is expected to be held in presence.

The participation to the "Summer School on Autonomous Mobile Robotics in the framework of Industry 4.0" is free of charge. However, for organizational reasons, it is necessary that the accepted participants are registered by May 15, 2022.

The registration for the participants includes:
• Lunches and coffee breaks during the summer school (Monday to Saturday)
• Summer school material
Further information including the application form and instructions can be found on the website:
http://conference.unisalento.it/ocs/index.php/mobrob2022/

ECTS credits for PhD students:
The School is a 5-day intensive course in the area of Autonomous Mobile Robotics in the framework of Industry 4.0: there are 28 hours (planned) of lecturing activities and 16 hours (planned) of project activities with the possibility of a final exam (assessment test and final project) upon request of the participants. A participation certificate will be issued to all attendees specifying the duration of the course. Participants requesting a final exam will be also given an exam outcome letter. Students that have passed the final exam will be able to request ECTS credits at their own institution. The Summer School Organizers estimate that the students successfully passing the final exam should be awarded at least 3 ECTS.

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[DMANET] Tenured research scientist position in sequence processing in Toulouse

Dear everyone,

We would like to inform you about a new job opportunity offered by INRAE (France's National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) for a (tenured) research scientist in Toulouse, working on string processing.

All the information is available on: https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scientists-job-profiles-crcn/cr-2022-mathnum-4
A virtual conference presenting the job will be held on February, 15, at 3PM CET on https://inrae-fr.zoom.us/j/97653345866

Best regards,

Matthias Zytnicki.


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Tuesday, February 8, 2022

[DMANET] NetworKit Day 2022 on March 3rd

Dear (prospective and current) NetworKit users and developers,

We invite you to NetworKit Day 2022, which takes place on March 3rd from
1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (CET) online via Zoom. Registration is mandatory, but
free of charge.

NetworKit is an open-source toolkit written in C++ and Python with many
graph algorithms for network analysis. This event is - as the previous
ones - about interacting with the community. We share our latest
updates, give insights for new users and also offer two workshops: one
for beginners and one for advanced users. If you want to attend one or
more workshops, better be prepared with a notebook and a modern
webbrowser (although it is only for convenience, not a requirement). We
also intend to discuss future development directions and receive
feedback on the current status of NetworKit.

NetworKit Day will also feature one scientific talk by Rob Kooij from TU
Delft (Netherlands) about "Robustness of Complex Networks".

The program of the event can be found on the NetworKit website:
https://networkit.github.io/networkit-day.html

Link for registration:
https://www.eventbrite.de/e/networkit-day-2022-nd22-registration-261084148717

Looking forward to seeing you on March 3rd!

The NetworKit team
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[DMANET] Call for Papers: SWAT 2022 (Faroe Islands, June 27-29, 2022)

Call for Papers: SWAT 2022
18th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory
June 27 - 29, 2022, Torshavn, Faroe Islands
URL: https://www.setur.fo/en/education/swat-2022/

Paper submission deadline:
    February 14, 2022 (AoE, anywhere on earth)
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat2022

SWAT (Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory), which
alternates with the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS), is
a forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms
and data structures.

We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on
algorithms and data structures. Though we welcome experiments, the
theoretical results in the articles will be the main measure for
evaluating their merits.

Algorithmic approaches of interest include, but are not limited to:
approximation algorithms, parametrized algorithms, distributed
algorithms, parallel algorithms, external-memory algorithms, data
structures, exponential time algorithms, online algorithms, randomized
algorithms, streaming algorithms, sub-linear algorithms. The algorithmic
problems considered may be motivated by applications, e.g. in
optimization, geometry and topology, graph analysis, bioinformatics,
visualization, string processing, information retrieval, machine
learning, algorithmic game theory, or mechanism design.

Contributors must submit their papers using the Easychair system
Submissions should be in LIPIcs format (without font size, margin, or
line spacing changes), and not exceed 15 pages including front page and
references. See
www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren for
instructions. Additionally, if full details of proofs do not fit into
the page limit, a clearly marked appendix containing the remaining
details must be included; this appendix will not be regarded as part of
the submission and will be considered only at the discretion of the
program committee. Submissions deviating substantially from this format
risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously
unpublished work. At the time the paper is submitted to the symposium,
and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the same
paper) must not be under review by any other conference with published
proceedings or by a scientific journal. However, we encourage authors to
make a preprint of their paper available at a public repository such as
arXiv. At least one author of every accepted paper is expected to
register and present the paper at the symposium. Symposium proceedings
will be published in the "Leibniz International Proceedings in
Informatics" (LIPIcs) series. A prize will be awarded to the author(s)
of the best student-authored paper. A paper is eligible if all of its
authors are full-time students at the time of submission. This must be
indicated in the paper in the submission process.

Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: February 14, 2022 (AoE, anywhere on earth)
Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2022

Program Committee Chair: Artur Czumaj, University of Warwick
Conference Chair: Qin Xin, University of the Faroe Islands

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC chair:
    Artur Czumaj <A.Czumaj@warwick.ac.uk>
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[DMANET] CFP: The 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS 2022)

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C a l l F o r P a p e r s

The 24th International Conference on Information and Communications
Security (ICICS 2022)

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK -- September 5-8, 2022

WWW: https://icics2022.cyber.kent.ac.uk/index.php

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Overview
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The 24th International Conference on Information and Communications
Security (ICICS 2022) is the next event in a series of highly successful
international conference on information and communications security since
1997. Previous editions of ICICS were held in China
(1997,2001,2003,2005,2007,2009,2011-2015,2017,2019,2021); Denmark (2020);
France (2018); Singapore (2002,2016); Spain (2004,2010); UK (2008); USA
(2006); and Australia (1999).

Important Dates
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* Submission deadline: March 21 (23:59 AOE)
* Notification: June 6
* Camera-ready due: June 20

Topics of Interest
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* Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Access control and authorization
* AI-based security and privacy
* Anonymity
* Applied cryptography
* Threat scenarios, attack models and security analysis
* Attestation
* Authentication
* Biometrics security and privacy
* Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
* Cloud computing and virtualization security
* Cybercrime and online harms
* Cyber deception and fraud
* Cyber incident response and recovery
* Critical infrastructure protection
* Cyber physical systems security
* Cyber resilience
* Cyber security education, games and awareness
* Cyber threat intelligence
* Data security and privacy
* Digital forensics
* Digital rights management
* Digital watermarking
* Distributed systems security
* Economics of security and privacy
* Edge and fog computing security
* Embedded systems security
* Emergency response and recovery
* Hardware security
* Identity management
* Information security management
* Internet censorship and defence
* Intrusion detection and prevention
* Malware and unwanted software
* Misinformation, disinformation and fake news
* Mobile security and privacy
* Online safety and child protection
* Online social media security, privacy and trust
* Operating systems security
* Network security
* Privacy enhancing technologies and mechanisms
* Security of communication protocols
* Secure information flow
* Security and privacy for (Industrial) Internet of Things
* Security and privacy of AI (e.g., adversarial machine learning and
federated learning)
* Security and privacy metrics and policies
* Security operations and incident management
* Security visualization
* Secure systems design and architectures
* Side channel attacks
* Software and application security
* Steganography and steganalysis
* Trusted computing
* Trust management and reputation
* Usable security and privacy
* Web security and privacy

Paper Submission Guidelines
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Submissions must be made through EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icics2022
Papers must be received by the aforementioned dates 23:59 (AOE).

Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously published nor
submitted in parallel for publication to any other conference, workshop or
journal. All submitted papers must be anonymous, with no author names,
affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references, for double blind
reviews.

Accepted papers will be presented at ICICS 2022 and included in the
conference's proceeding published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. Please note that at least one author of
each accepted paper should register with full rate to the conference and
give a presentation at the conference. Failure to register or absence from
the presentation will eventually make your paper NOT being included in the
conference proceedings.

Submissions should be in English, as a PDF file with all fonts embedded, in
the Springer LNCS format (details can be found at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0), typeset with
10pt font, and using reasonable spacing and margins. Papers should not
exceed 16 pages in LNCS style including the bibliography, but excluding
well-marked appendices (no more than 18 pages in total). Note that papers
should be intelligible without all appendices, since committee members are
not required to read them. Submitted papers may risk being rejected
directly without consideration of their merits if they do not follow all
the above submission instructions.

Organisation Committee
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General Co-Chairs:
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- Shujun Li, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
- Pierangela Samarati, Universita` degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Program Committee Co-Chairs:
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- Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
- Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
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Budi Arief, University of Kent, UK
Sanjay Bhattacherjee, University of Kent, UK

Publicity Co-Chairs:
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- Kalikinkar Mandal, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Ding Wang, Nankai University, China

Web Chair:
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- Ali Raza, University of Kent, UK

Steering Committee:
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Chair

- Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Members

- Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
- Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain
- Qingni Shen, Peking University, China
- Zhen Xu, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China

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Monday, February 7, 2022

[DMANET] [CFP] ICCCN - Social Networks and Computing (SNC)

Description:
In recent years, social network research has advanced rapidly in various
capacities, owing to explosive mobile smart devices and diverse
applications. Social network computing is being combined with artificial
intelligence, mobile big data, edge computing, crowdsourcing, blockchain,
complex network analysis, etc. This year, at ICCCN, we will continue with
the track on Social Networks and Computing and look to bring together
researchers in the area of applying computing to social networks. Our scope
will include mobile and socially-aware networks, sensing as part of social
networks, big data on social networks, cloud integration of social
networks, machine learning solutions for social networks, crowdsourcing
applications for social networks, social Internet of vehicles, security,
privacy and trust in social networks, social-based routing protocols, novel
architectures for social networks, information diffusion in online social
networks, mobile edge caching in social networks, and any other relevant
areas related to social networking and computing. This track seeks original
ideas and submissions and will follow the policies as per the main ICCCN
conference policies.
Track Topics:

- Contact tracing, epidemic modeling, and prediction for COVID-19
- Mobile and opportunistic social networks
- Social-based energy harvesting, resource identification, discovery,
and profiling
- Social-based scheduling and routing algorithms, protocols, and
architectures
- Social Internet of Things (SIoT)
- Social Internet of Vehicles (SIoV)
- Social-based fog, edge, and cloud computing
- Blockchain for social information networks
- Big data analytics and machine/deep learning for social networks and
graph data
- Community detection and social-based collaborative computing and
crowdsourcing
- Security, privacy, trust, fairness, transparency, and reputation
management in social networks
- Malware, misinformation, anomaly detection and control in online
social networks
- Social media analysis and recommendation with sentiment analysis and
opinion mining
- Game-theoretic and economic aspects in social networks
- Social support for mental health and well-being

Instructions for Authors:
Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2022) as PDF files (formatted
for 8.5 11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 10 pages.
Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under
consideration for publication in another conference or journal.

ICCCN'22 will select the Best Paper Award to recognize the research quality
and excellence. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the
conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Important Dates: All times below are 11:59 pm (New York, USA)
Conference Paper Submission Due: February 20, 2022
Acceptance Notification: April 18, 2022
Camera-Ready Due: May 4, 2022

Paper Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icccn2022

Detailed Information:
http://www.icccn.org/icccn22/index.html

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[DMANET] PhD Position in Parameterized Algorithms at the University of Leeds

The Algorithms group at the University of Leeds (UK) is offering a fully
funded 3 year PhD studentship on the development of Parameterized
Algorithms for Problems in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Parameterized Complexity is a vastly growing area within theoretical
computer science that allows for the development of exact algorithms for
computational hard problems that exploit the structuredness of real-world
instances. The goal of this project is to develop more efficient
parameterized algorithms for a wide range of problems in computer science
such as satisfiability of propositional formulas, constraint satisfaction,
integer linear programming, as well as problems from graph theory and
machine learning with the help of sophisticated algorithmic techniques such
as meta-theorems, dynamic programming, decompositions, and backdoor sets.

The candidate will be supervised by Dr. Sebastian Ordyniak.

Requirements:

Applicants should have at least a first class or an upper second class
British Bachelors Honours degree (or equivalent) in an appropriate
discipline, i.e., computer science or mathematics. Applicants are expected
to have excellent mathematical skills as well as an interest in discrete
algorithms.

Funding Notes:

A highly competitive School of Computing studentship consisting of Academic
Fees and Maintenance matching standard Research Council rate of £15,609 per
year, currently for 2021/22.

This opportunity is open to international applicants. All candidates will
be placed into the School of Computing Studentship Competition and
selection is based on academic merit.

How to apply:

Formal applications for research degree study should be made online through
the University's website. Please state clearly in the research information
section that the research degree you wish to be considered for is
Parameterized Algorithms for Problems in AI and ML as well as Dr Sebastian
Ordyniak as your proposed supervisor.

Contact details:

For further information regarding your application, please contact Doctoral
College Admissions
e: phd@engineering.leeds.ac.uk, t: +44 (0)113 343 5057.

For further information regarding the project, please contact Dr Sebastian
Ordyniak
e: S.Ordyniak@leeds.ac.uk

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[DMANET] Second CFP: EUMAS-2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany

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19th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (EUMAS-2022)
September 14 - 16, 2022, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/
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IMPORTANT DATES
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- Deadline for paper submission: May 6, 2022
- Notification of authors: July 15, 2022
- Camera-ready papers due: August 12, 2022
- Conference: September 14 - 16, 2022

All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12, i.e., while it is still the
respective date anywhere on earth.

Submission instructions:
https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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In the past two decades, we have seen an enormous increase of interest
in agent-based computing and multi-agent systems (MAS). This field is
set to become one of the key intelligent systems technologies in the
21st century. The EUMAS conference series aims to provide the main forum

for academics and practitioners in Europe to discuss current MAS
research and applications.

EUMAS-2022, the 19th installment of the conference series, follows the
tradition of previous editions (Oxford 2003, Barcelona 2004, Brussels
2005, Lisbon 2006, Hammamet 2007, Bath 2008, Agia Napa 2009, Paris 2010,

Maastricht 2011, Dublin 2012, Toulouse 2013, Prague 2014, Athens 2015,
Valencia 2016, Evry 2017, Bergen 2018, Thessaloniki 2019, Virtual 2020),

and encourages and supports activity in the research and development of
multi-agent systems, in academic and industrial efforts.

The conference aspires to be the primary European forum for researchers
interested in the theory and practice of autonomous agents and
multi-agent systems. EUMAS enables researchers to meet, present
challenges, preliminary and mature research results in an open and
informal environment. To attract students as well as experienced
researchers, preliminary as well as mature work, EUMAS 2021 offers three

submission types and formal proceedings. Also, we will be working hard
to arrange for the post-publication of selected papers in the form of a
special issue of a high-quality journal in the area.

EUMAS-2022 is a designated event of the European Association of
Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS): http://www.euramas.org
<http://www.euramas.org/>

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Action and Planning
- Adaptation and Learning
- Agent Architectures
- Agent Programming Languages
- Agent Development Methodologies and Tools
- Agent-Based Simulations and Modeling
- Agent Organizations and Institutions
- Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
- Agents and Complex Systems
- Applications of Multi-Agent Systems
- Argumentation
- Automated Negotiation
- Biologically Inspired Approaches
- Cognitive Models
- Collective and Swarm Intelligence
- Collective Intentionality
- Communication, Cooperation, and Coordination
- Deep Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent Domains
- Economic Models
- Electronic Commerce
- Ethical Behaviour of Multi-Agent Systems
- Formal Modeling
- Game-Theoretic Methods
- Logics for Multi-Agent Systems
- Logics for Strategic Reasoning
- Machine Learning for Multi-Agent Systems
- Multi-Agent Learning
- Multi-Robot Systems
- Negotiation
- Self-Organization
- Semantic Web Agents
- Socio-Technical Systems
- Theories of Agency
- Trust and Reputation
- Verification
- Virtual Agents
- Voting and Judgment Aggregation Models for Multi-Agent Systems
- Computational Social Choice
- Social Networks
- Human-Agent Interaction

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SUBMISSIONS
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EUMAS-2022 welcomes original, unpublished papers. Papers submitted shall

describe original work that has not been published or accepted for
publication, nor is currently under review by another conference or
journal (it might be on arXiv or a similar preprint server, though).

NEW! Papers rejected from AAMAS, AAAI, or IJCAI will be fast-tracked
given that their original reviews and an authors' cover letter
(indicating all changes made) will be submitted. Extended abstracts from

AAMAS also qualify for this fast track.

Each submission will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind fashion. All
submissions should be formatted according to Springer's LNCS format and
contain at least 12 and at most 16 pages, plus any number of additional
pages for bibliography and, if needed, a clearly marked appendix. For
templates and instructions for authors, see
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors must submit their

abstracts and papers through the EUMAS-2022 Easychair submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eumas2022.

EUMAS-2022 accepted papers will be published by Springer in an LNCS/LNAI

volume. As such, they will be made available to several indexing
services (including Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, CPCI, EI Engineering
Index, and more).
Authors should consult Springer's author guidelines and use their
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (preferred) or for Word (if need

be), for the preparation of their papers.

Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. We
urge the authors to follow these guidelines from the submission stage
already.
Additional guidelines will be communicated after the conference to the
authors of accepted papers for the preparation of the final versions to
be included in the post-proceedings.

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Opportunity for a JAAMAS publication
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This year, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
(JAAMAS) will provide the opportunity for revised and extended versions
of the EUMAS-2022 best paper award winner (see below) and the EUMAS-2022

best paper award runner-up to be fast-tracked for the journal.

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Opportunity to publish revised and extended papers in SN CS
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A selection of EUMAS-2022 papers will be invited to submit revised and
extended versions for publication in a special issue of the Springer
Nature Computer Science journal.

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Best Paper Award
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A Best Paper Award will be presented at the conference.

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Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Marija Slavkovik (University of Bergen)
Prof. Carles Sierra (Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of the
Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona)

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DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
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There will be a doctoral consortium day prior to the conference where
PhD students can present the topics related to MAS they are currently
working on.

Keynote Speaker for the PhD Day (September 14, 2022):
Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University of Science and Technology Kraków)

Organizers of the PhD Day:
Linus Boes (HHU Düsseldorf)
Christian Laußmann (HHU Düsseldorf)

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS
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Dorothea Baumeister (HHU Düsseldorf)
Jörg Rothe (HHU Düsseldorf)

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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https://ccc.cs.hhu.de/eumas2022/

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CONTACT DETAILS
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EUMAS-2022 Organizing Committee: eumas2022@cs.hhu.de

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[DMANET] Last Call for Contributions for WG2022 (Deadline Feb.14 is approaching)

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Call for Contributions
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We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of
theoretical or practical significance to the 48th International Workshop on
Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG2022). The WG2022 conference
is the 48th edition of the WG series and will take place from Wednesday
22nd June to Friday 24th June 2022 in Tuebingen, Germany.

https://algo.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/wg2022/

Given the current status of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, we currently
aim at having an in-person workshop. The meeting will be held in accordance
with all the local regulations and recommendations that will be in place at
that time. There might be an upper bound on the number of accepted
in-person participants, and in such a case priority will be given to paper
authors and presenters. As we understand that it might still be difficult
for some authors to travel due to various restrictions, we will guarantee
the possibility of giving an online talk and all talks will be streamed.
Any update or change in the workshop format will be published on the
conference website and promptly announced.

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Aims and Scope
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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 modelling,
- graph drawing and layouts,
- computational geometry,
- computational biology,
- random graphs and models of the web and scale-free networks, and support
of these concepts by suitable implementations and applications.

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Submissions And Proceedings
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Contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract of at most 12 pages
Springer LNCS format (www.springer.com/lncs) including title and abstract,
but excluding references. Proofs omitted due to space restrictions must be
placed in an appendix, to be read by program committee members at their
discretion. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to
another journal or conference. Accepted contributions will be published in
the conference post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(ARCoSS/LNCS) series of Springer-Verlag.

The submission server is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wg2022

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Awards
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WG 2022 will offer awards for the best paper and the best student paper.
The awards will be decided by the program committee. The committee can
decide to split the awards over multiple papers, or not to offer an
award. Papers eligible for the best student paper can have non-student
co-authors, but the main work in a paper that is a candidate for the best
student paper 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 a
candidate for this award.

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Important dates
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- Abstract submission deadline: February 14, 2022
- Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2022
- Notification of paper acceptance: April 22, 2022
- Symposium: June 22-24, 2022
- Final versions due: July 11, 2022

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Program Committee
=============

- Cristina Bazgan, Universite Paris-Dauphine, France.
- Michael Bekos, Universität Tübingen, Germany / University of Ioannina,
Greece (co-chair).
- Fedor Fomin, University of Bergen, Norway.
- Cyril Gavoille, University of Bordeaux, France.
- Carla Groenland, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
- Michael Hoffmann, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
- Michael Kaufmann, Universität Tübingen, Germany (co-chair).
- Philipp Kindermann, Universität Trier, Germany.
- Linda Kleist, TU Braunschweig, Gernamy.
- Tereza Klimošová, Charles University, Czech Republic.
- Piotr Micek, Jagiellonian University, Poland.
- Martin Milanič, University of Primorska, Slovenia.
- Debajyoti Mondal, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
- Fabrizio Montecchiani, University of Perugia, Italy.
- Rolf Niedermeier, TU Berlin, Germany.
- Yota Otachi, Nagoya University, Japan.
- Sang-il Oum, Institute for Basic Science (IBS) / KAIST, South Korea.
- Charis Papadopoulos, University of Ioannina, Greece.
- Dömötör Pálvölgyi, ELTE, Hungary.
- Dieter Rautenbach, University of Ulm, Germany.
- Bernard Ries, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Ignasi Sau, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, France.
- Lena Schlipf, Universität Tübingen, Germany.
- Melanie Schmidt, Universität zu Köln, Germany.
- Dimitrios Thilikos, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, France.
- Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

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Invited Speakers
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- Bettina Speckmann, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
- Torsten Ueckerdt, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany.

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Organizing Committee
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- Michael A. Bekos (co-chair), Universität Tübingen
- Henry Förster, Universität Tübingen
- Renate Hallmayer, Universität Tübingen
- Michael Kaufmann (co-chair), Universität Tübingen
- Axel Kuckuk, Universität Tübingen
- Maximilian Pfister, Universität Tübingen
- Lena Schlipf, Universität Tübingen

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[DMANET] [CFP] 4th International workshop in Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Internet-of-Things Security (AIoTS)

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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4th International workshop in Artificial Intelligence and Industrial
Internet-of-Things Security (AIoTS)

Co-located with ACNS2022 (June 20-23), Rome, Italy.
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Workshop description:
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In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has got a lot of
attention, especially, for the success of deep learning to address
problems that were considered hard before. Big players such as Google,
Amazon and Baidu are exploring the application of AI in different
markets like healthcare, FinTech and autonomous vehicles. Along with AI,
other technologies such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) have boosted other
areas like the case of Industry 4.0, where through the adoption of
Industrial-IoT (IIoT) into the production chain companies want to have a
smarter manufacture that can be adapted to their customers' needs. The
accelerating adoption of new technologies brings new challenges
especially associated with the cybersecurity of the applications, where
confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are important.
Security incident in IIoT impacts the safety properties since
applications interact physically with people or other assets. The
intersection of AI and cybersecurity can be seen as a two-fold
relationship. On the one hand, AI techniques can be adopted to improve
the state-of-the-art of security solutions, while on the other hand,
cybersecurity can contribute to improve the study of the security of AI
algorithms through the exploration of adversarial machine learning. This
workshop aims to open a space where new research ideas from different
areas converge into the intersection of AI, IIoT, Cyber-Physical Systems
(CPS) and cybersecurity. We encourage researchers and experts in the
fields of AI, embedded systems, CPS and cybersecurity to take the
opportunity to use this workshop for sharing their work and open the
discussion of new ideas in this always-evolving topic.

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Topics:
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AIoTS aims to cover various fields of application in the area of
security and privacy within the fields of artificial intelligence and
industrial IoT. Thus, suggested topics include, but are not limited to,
the following points:

- Formal security and resilience analysis on AI and IIoT/CPS
- Risk management and governance for AI and IIoT-based Application
- AI-Assisted Critical Infrastructure Security
- (Federated) Adversarial Machine Learning
- AI for Detection, Prevention, Response and Recovery against Potential
Threats
- AI for Wide-Area Situational Awareness and Traceability
- Applied Cryptography for AI and IIoT
- Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems and/or IIoT
- Applications of Formal Methods to IIoT Security
- Blockchain for Trustworthy IIoT/CPS-based applications
- Embedded Systems Security
- Cyber Threat Intelligence for AI and IIoT/CPS
- Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning

For more details on submission, please have a look at the AIoTS2022
website: https://mujeebch.github.io/aiots2022/

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IMPORTANT DATES:
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Paper Submission Deadline: March 4, 2022

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: April 15, 2022

Submission of camera-ready papers for pre-proceedings: May 1, 2022

Workshop date: one day between June 20 and June 23, 2022

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Workshop PC Chairs:
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- Sridhar Adepu, University of Bristol, UK
- Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

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Publicity Chair:
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- Sergio Gonzalez, University of Malaga, Spain

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Web Chair:
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- Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, University of Strathclyde, UK

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Technical Program Committee:
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- Magnus Almgren, Chalmers University, Sweden
- Luis Garcia, University of Southern California, USA
- Nandha Kumar KANDASAMY, SUTD, Singapore
- Qin Lin, CMU, USA
- Subhash Lakshminarayana, University of Warwick, UK
- Eleonora Losiouk, University of Padua, Italy
- Rajib Ranjan Maiti, BITS, India
- Daisuke Mashima, ADSC, Singapore
- Weizhi Meng, Technical Universtiy of Denmark, Denmark
- Chris Poskitt, SMU, USA
- Federica Pascucci, Roma Tre University, Italy
- Zheng Yang, Southwest University, China


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[DMANET] Second Call for Papers - JGAA special issue on Parameterized and Approximation Algorithms in Graph Drawing

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue on Parameterized and Approximation Algorithms in Graph Drawing
of
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA)

Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue
of Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA) on "Parameterized
and Approximation Algorithms in Graph Drawing".

In the course of a few decades, the fields of parameterized complexity and
approximation algorithms have emerged as distinguished research areas
providing an impressive collection of broadly usable methodologies and
remarkable theoretical and practical contributions. These branches of
complexity theory provide a framework of powerful techniques that allow us
to tackle hard (often NP-hard) problems, by either considering restricted
graph classes or by seeking solutions "close" to the optimal ones.
Moreover, in recent years, the research efforts in these two fields have
converged into the study of the unified notion of parameterized
approximation algorithms.

CFP on the journal's page: https://jgaa.info/docs/cfp-param-algo.pdf

Submission Deadline: *February 28, 2022.*


Topics
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The emphasis of this special issue is on original results in the areas of
fixed-parameter tractable and approximation algorithms in graph drawing and
network visualization. This includes, but is not limited to, theoretical
and combinatorial aspects that arise at the interface of graph drawing with
computational and discrete geometry, combinatorial optimization, visual
computing, VLSI and computer-aided design, computer graphics, and
information visualization. The range of topics includes:

- fixed-parameter tractable and approximation algorithms
- (parameterized) inapproximability
- W[k]-hardness
- parameterized approximations
- (lossy) kernelization
- fine-grained complexity of approximations
- subexponential-time approximations

Other topics that are not listed but that might be of interest for the
study of parameterized and approximation algorithms in graph drawing will
also be evaluated. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, we
welcome contributions dealing with techniques and data structures to obtain
efficient parameterized and approximation algorithms to tackle
graph-visualization problems as well as implementations, experimental
evaluations, and algorithm engineering issues of approximation,
parameterized, and kernelization algorithms that emerge in practice.


Paper Submission
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We invite authors to submit papers describing original research of
theoretical or practical significance concerned with parameterized and
approximation algorithms in graph drawing and network visualization until
February 28, 2022. We aim for a fast reviewing process in order to have
this special issue available at the end of 2022. Papers should be submitted
to the editors of the special issue in PDF format. All communications
between the editors, authors, and reviewers will be done by email unless
otherwise requested by the author or reviewer. All submissions must be
formatted using the LaTeX style file of Journal of Graph Algorithms and
Applications (http://jgaa.info/authors.jsp). The default margins and fonts
must not be modified. The submission should contain a scholarly exposition
of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear
comparison with related work. The claims of the paper should be fully
substantiated, including full proofs or appropriate experimental data.
Papers of good quality that do not fit within the scope of this special
issue might be handled as regular JGAA submissions.


Guest Editors
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Giordano Da Lozzo, Roma Tre University; giordano.dalozzo@uniroma3.it
Philipp Kindermann, Universität Trier; kindermann@uni-trier.de

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Sunday, February 6, 2022

[DMANET] [CFP - IEEE TII] Special Section on Digital Twin for Industrial Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***

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* IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics *
* Special Section on Digital Twin for Industrial Internet of Things *


Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit your latest research results to our
Special Section on Digital Twin for Industrial Internet of Things at
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

Link:
http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2022/Digital_Twin_for_Industrial_Internet_of_Things_2022-1-22.pdf?v=2

Industrial IoT can revolutionize industrial operation by interconnecting
numerous machines, analytics sectors, and people at work. Through a deep
cooperation of these components, industrial IoT brings new business
opportunities and incredible productivity to applications such as smart
robotics, future factories, and automotive manufacturing. The success of
industrial IoT relies on the dynamic perception and intelligent
decision-making, which is difficult to conceive due to the heterogeneous
industrial devices, the complex industrial environment, and the
sophisticated business operation strategy. Digital twin, as an emerging
digitalization technology, provides a feasible solution to capture the
complex industrial environment and make predictive strategies. It builds
a virtual representation of industrial entities and manufacturing
process, updated with the physical entities at a specified fidelity and
frequency. For example, for industrial manufacturers, digital twins can
create digital models of substantial machines, to help us make holistic
understanding of how these machines work, make possible modification or
predictive maintenance, and take effective actions before devoting much
resources and expenditure.

The integration of digital twins and the industrial IoT enables a
digital revolution of industrial automation. Researchers from industry
and academia have focused on the virtualization and digitalization of
industrial objects, while there are yet a number of challenges like
high-fidelity modularity of digital twins, synchronization between
digital and physical objects, interaction and networking among digital
twins, scalable and resilient design of digital twin for industrial IoT.
To fill the gap, this special section solicits high quality and
unpublished work on recent advances in Digital Twins for Industrial IoT.

- New computing architecture for digital twin in industrial IoT
- New communication mechanisms for digital twin in industrial IoT
- New scalable and resilient digital twin for industrial IoT
- Advanced AI/ML models for digital twins in industrial IoT
- Advanced data mapping-communication-computation architecture for
digital twins empowered industrial IoT
- Advanced softwarization and virtualization technologies for digital
twin in industrial IoT
- Advanced networking among digital twins for industrial IoT
- Fault tolerance for digital twin in industrial IoT
- Cross layer design for digital twin in industrial IoT
- QoS/QoE improvement for digital twins empowered industrial IoT
- Performance analysis of digital twins for industrial IoT
- Resource allocation/management for digital twins empowered industrial
IoT
- Applications and testbeds of digital twin for industrial IoT

Timeline:
Manuscript Submission: May 30, 2022
Expected Publication Date: October 2022

Guest Editors:
• Prof. Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway, yanzhang@ieee.org
• Prof. Wen Sun, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China,
sunwen@nwpu.edu.cn
• Prof. Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain, alcaraz@uma.e

Manuscript Preparation and Submission:
Follow the guidelines in "Information for Authors" in the IEEE
Transaction on Industrial Informatics
http://www.ieee-ies.org/pubs/transactions-on-industrial-informatics.
Please submit your manuscript in electronic form through Manuscript
Central web site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tii. On the
submitting page #1 in popup menu of manuscript type, select: SS on
Digital Twin for Industrial Internet of Things.

Submissions to this Special Section must represent original material
that has been neither submitted to, nor published in, any other journal.
Regular manuscript length is 8 pages.

Note: The recommended papers for the section are subject to final
approval by the Editor-in-Chief. Some papers may be published outside
the special section, at the EIC discretion
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[DMANET] Ph.D. Student/Postdoc in Algorithms at Hasso Plattner Institute Potsdam, Germany

The Algorithm Engineering group at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) currently hosts about thirty researchers and invites applications for two new

Ph.D. Students and/or Postdoctoral Researchers in Algorithms.

The research group uses methods from mathematics and computer science to approach a range of algorithmic areas including artificial intelligence, network theory and random structures. As part of the privately funded Faculty of Digital Engineering of the University of Potsdam, we engage both in teaching of outstanding and highly selected students as well as in internationally renowned research. The group and the institute is located at the beautiful Campus Griebnitzsee, at the border to Berlin, offering a vibrant scientific environment.

What we offer:
-- Inspiring research environment;
-- Close collaboration with other scientists;
-- Generous travel allowance and latest computing facilities;
-- Modern work space in Potsdam-Babelsberg;
-- Integration into an international group of researchers;
-- Exceptional students to work with

What we expect:
-- An excellent degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline;
-- Enthusiasm for mathematical problems and scientific work;
-- Enjoying teamwork and collaboration;
-- PhD student applicants should have a desire to obtain a PhD within 3-4 years;
-- Postdoctoral researchers should have developed their own research profile.

Application process:
-- Postdoctoral researchers from other fields of theoretical computer science and discrete mathematics may apply as well, but should provide a one-page motivation letter detailing how they fit in the research profile of the group.
-- All applications should include a detailed CV, a copy of the (Master or PhD) thesis; PhD-student applicants also a list of courses and grades.
-- Please also mention names and contact details of one or two references -- preferably one from your thesis adviser.
-- The starting date and particular research topic is flexible.
-- Interested candidates should direct their questions to friedrich@hpi.de
-- Applications must be sent via email, preferably as a single PDF, to jobs-friedrich@hpi.de by March 1, 2022.
-- Promising PhD-student applicants will be asked to work out a small algorithmic open-book test within a 24 hour time window (chosen by themselves).
-- All promising applicants will be interviewed (via video call) and at the same time get the chance to direct further questions to the chair.

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[DMANET] The Second EUROYoung Workshop

We are pleased to announce that the 2nd EUROYoung Workshop will take place in Porto, Portugal on June, 21-22 2022. The workshop is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and by INESC-TEC. Our invited plenary speakers will be Renata Mansini (University of Brescia) and Pedro Amorim (University of Porto).

Registration and more information at the website: https://euroyoung.eu/workshop22/
Contact email: workshop@euroyoung.eu

# Main features

Due to health regulations and to ensure an atmosphere of conviviality, we are only able to accept 45 participants. Registrations will be processed on a first-come first-serve basis, will be confirmed upon paying a small inscription fee of 50€, and include:

* Accommodation for two nights in shared rooms (occupancy of 2 or 3).
* Social activities (more info soon, but we expect good news for Port wine lovers).
* Social dinner in Porto city centre.
* Lunches at the university canteen.

The workshop takes place on a Tuesday (21/06) and Wednesday (22/06). On June, 23rd the famous São João festival starts in Porto, with plenty of activities (depending on the health situation, of course!).
All registered participants are offered free accommodation in shared rooms (15 double and 5 triple rooms). The offered accommodation covers the night of 20-21 June and that of 21-22 June. The host structure is Hotel Ibis Porto São João, a ten minute walk from INESC-TEC and FEUP.

# Call for contributions

To maintain an atmosphere of conviviality, foster fruitful discussion and keep the quality of the event high, all sessions at the workshop are plenary. For this reason, not all participants will have time to five a full-length talk (15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions).

This year we decided to use the following (experimental) approach for abstract evaluation. All participants are invited to send their abstract in one of the following forms:
* One slide briefly describing the content of the talk (recommended), or
* One paragraph of text briefly describing the content of the talk.
These submissions must be sent via email to workshop@euroyoung.eu between March, 15 and April, 15.

Starting from April, 16, we will share the submissions to all participants, who will be able to cast a vote for their favourite abstracts. On April, 30, when the voting period closes, the 15 highest-voted abstracts will be selected for a full-length talk. The remaining abstracts will be presented during our "pitch sessions": rapid-paced sessions in which each participant has 3 minutes available to pique the interest of the audience. In this way, we hope to give everyone a chance to present their research project while maintaining all sessions plenary.

# Important dates

* 07 February 2022: registration opens.
* 14 March 2022: registration closes (the registration fee must be paid by this date).
* 15 March 2022: abstract/pitch submission starts.
* 15 April 2022: abstract/pitch submission ends.
* 16 April 2022: pitch vote starts.
* 30 April 2022: pitch vote ends.
* 21-22 June 2022: workshop.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Porto,
Maria João Santos, Sara Martins, Alberto Santini

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[DMANET] Ten days left to the deadline for submissions of papers for IFAC MIM 2022 (June 22 - 24, 2022, Nantes, France)

Dear Colleague:

*Ten days left to the deadline*for submission of papers for MIM
conference 2022 in Nantes, France (June 22- 24, 2022).

 I invite you to submit the best of your research (draft paper of 6
pages by Feb 15, 2022) and attend the conference (physically or virtually).

The conference will be hybrid with both face-to-face and virtual
presentations.

- *Exceptional keynote speakers* (Volodymyr Babich, Alain Bensoussan,
Gisela Lanza,Dimitris Mourtzis, Mike Pinedo, and David Simchi-Levi):
https://hub.imt-atlantique.fr/mim2022/keynote-speakers-2/
<https://hub.imt-atlantique.fr/mim2022/keynote-speakers-2/>

- Cutting edge research results on most hot topics,

- /Proceedings/ by Elsevier indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.

- Special issues of leading international journals for post-conference
publications:

https://hub.imt-atlantique.fr/mim2022/publications/
<https://hub.imt-atlantique.fr/mim2022/publications/>

 - Exciting cultural program and industrial visits.

- Very nice town of Nantes hosting the conference.

*The conference is dedicated to the 60th volume anniversary of the
International Journal of Production Research (IJPR).*

MIM 2002 is one of the worlwide largest conferences matching industrial
and manufacturing engineering, supply chain and operations management,
computer science, robotics and automation, artificial intelligence,
decision science and operations research,

See you at the MIM 2022 in June

Sincerely,

Alexandre Dolgui

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Alexandre Dolgui, Dr.habil., Ph.D., IISE Fellow,
Professor and Head

Automation, Production and Computer Sciences Dept.
IMT Atlantique, LS2N-CNRS
La Chantrerie, 4, rue Alfred Kastler - B.P. 20722
F-44307 NANTES Cedex 3, France
E-mails:alexandre.dolgui@imt-atlantique.fr
URL:www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexandre_Dolgui

Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Production Research
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tprs20/current

Last Book: Scheduling in industry 4.0 and cloud manufacturing
https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030431761#aboutAuthors

Invite you to celebrate the 60th Volume Anniversary of IJPR at
10th IFAC MIM conference, June 22 to 24, 2022, Nantes, France
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[DMANET] PostDoc position (about 4 years) in the interface of Geoscience, Data Science, and HPC

What: PostDoc position 13 TV-L (until December 2025, with the possibility of extension) at the
High Performance Computing & Analytics Lab (HPC/A-Lab) of University of Bonn (Germany)
in close cooperation with Forschungszentrum Jülich on Geosciences

Main tasks: Within the new DFG-funded project
"Collaborative Research Centre 1502: Regional Climate Change: Disentangling the Role of Land Use and Water Management"
you are part of project Z04. We are looking for a Postdoc researcher at University of Bonn enabling the
CRC through a variety of HPC-related tasks (ideally with the knowledge of algorithm engineering and
additional knowledge in Earth system modelling). You will work at the interface of Geoscience, Data Science, and HPC.

Description of Z04:
The key objects of the CRC rely heavily on numerical modeling, data processing, and analysis. Project Z04 will be responsible for: (i) Providing basic support for a multitude of HPC-related issues, (ii) helping with model development (iii) model simulation support (iv) training of early-career scientists at the interface of geoscience, HPC, and data science in collaboration with Z02 and Z03. Hence, Z04 will help the CRC to efficiently conduct its demanding numerical model and simulation experiments as well as processing and analysis tasks, in a big data context.

Your responsibility

Conducting and further developing an independent research project

Acquisition and application of scientific methods

Publications (e.g. of scientific results)

Acquisition of skills and experiences in project/research management


Your profile

• Qualified Master with subsequent PhD degree

• Excellent command of English language

• Flexible, team oriented player in an interdisciplinary and collaborative research network

We offer

• Integration and participation in a highly-motivated, interdisciplinary network

• flexible, employee-friendly working hours

• support for professional development and career management

• Institutional support for applicants with families and for women

• Depending on the applicant`s qualifications and the precise nature of the tasks salary scale E13 and social benefits in conformity with the provisions of the Collective Agreements for the Civil Service (TV- L at University of Bonn, TVöD at Forschungszentrum Jülich).

Application deadline: February 14, 2022

Please find the detailed descriptions of the projects and positions on

https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/universitaet/medien-universitaet/medien-arbeiten-an-der-uni/medien-personalmanagement/pdfs-stellenausschreibungen-wiss.ma/115-21-3-202.pdf <https://www.uni-bonn.de/de/universitaet/medien-universitaet/medien-arbeiten-an-der-uni/medien-personalmanagement/pdfs-stellenausschreibungen-wiss.ma/115-21-3-202.pdf>

and links thereof:

https://www.lf.uni-bonn.de/en/research/crc-detect/crc-structure/cluster-z
https://www.lf.uni-bonn.de/en/research/crc-detect/crc-structure/positions

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Professor Dr. Petra Mutzel
Lehrstuhl für Computational Analytics
Wiss. Leitung HPC/A-Lab am DiCe

Universität Bonn
Institut für Informatik
Abteilung I, R. 2.077
Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8
(umbenannt von: Endenicher Allee 19A)
53115 Bonn

https://ca.cs.uni-bonn.de

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Saturday, February 5, 2022

[DMANET] [GECCO CFP] CFP: EC+DM@GECCO-2022 - Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making

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Workshop on

Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (EC+DM)

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2021), July 9-13, 2022, Boston, USA. Please note that the conference will be held as a hybrid conference. More details will be provided soon.

Webpage: http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ecmcdm/

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About the workshop

Solving real-world optimisation problems typically involve an expert or decision-maker. Decision making tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g. health care, education, environment, transportation, business, and production. In recent years, there has also been growing interest in merging Evolutionary Computation (EC) and decision-making techniques for several applications. This workshop will showcase research that is both at the interface of EC and decision making.

The workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making to be held in GECCO 2022 aims to promote the research on theory and applications in the field. Topics of interest (but not limited to) include:

§ Interactive multiobjective optimization or decision-maker in the loop

§ Visualization

§ Aggregation/trade-off operators & algorithms

§ Fuzzy logic-based decision-making techniques

§ Bayesian and other decision-making techniques

§ Interactive multiobjective optimization for (computationally) expensive problems

§ Using surrogates (or metamodels) in decision making

§ Hybridization of EC and decision making

§ Scalability in EC and decision making

§ Decision making and machine learning

§ Decision making in Big data

§ Decision making in real-world applications

§ Use of psychological tools to aid the decision maker


Submission

We invite papers up to 8 pages relevant to the workshop and position papers of up to 2 pages showing preliminary results. We also welcome posters, demonstrations or presentations on ground-breaking theoretical and application results in the field.

For paper submission instructions and templates, please see: Paper submission instructions


Keynote talk

Prof. Julia Handl will be giving a keynote talk in the workshop.


Important (STRICT) deadline dates

Submission opening: February 11, 2022
Submission deadline: April 11, 2022
Notification: April 25, 2022
Camera-ready: May 2, 2022
Presenter mandatory registration: May 2, 2022


Workshop organizers

Tinkle Chugh (University of Exeter, UK), Richard Allmendinger (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK), Jussi Hakanen (Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland)

More information about the organizers can be found on the workshop webpage http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/ecmcdm/


Contact

Please feel free contact any of the special session organizers at t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:t.chugh@exeter.ac.uk>, richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk<mailto:richard.allmendinger@manchester.ac.uk>, jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi<mailto:jussi.hakanen@jyu.fi>

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