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[DMANET] Call for IJCAI 2024 Demonstrations (Demos)

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Call for IJCAI 2024 Demonstrations (Demos)
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The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024) will be held in Jeju Island, South Korea, from August 3rd to August 9th, 2024. The technical program committee invites the submission of demos.

The two primary goals of the Demonstration (Demo) Track are to

(1) provide a platform for exchanging inspiring ideas between theory and practice, and
(2) showcase the applicability of different AI systems to real-world problems.

Accepted demo papers will be included in the IJCAI proceedings. In addition, an Innovation Award will be given to an outstanding demonstration with the most original and significant research methodologies.

Topics

As the premier general conference on AI, IJCAI 2024 welcomes submissions across all areas of AI. The Demonstration Track of IJCAI 2024 follows this principle, though with an emphasis on the applicability of AI to practice. Moreover, the track scope includes (but is not limited to) the following subfields of AI:

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AI and Social Good
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Arts and Creativity
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Computer Vision
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Constraint Programming
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Game Playing
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Heuristic Search
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Human-Computer Interactive Systems
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Machine Learning
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Multi-agent Systems
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Natural Language Processing
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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Planning and Scheduling
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Recommender Systems
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Speech Processing
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Uncertainty in AI

We encourage all submissions that describe innovative, high-quality AI research addressing real-world problems. Demos are expected to show the applicability of different AI, emphasizing the issues that must be addressed to put them into practice.

We welcome all demo submissions. However, if the demo has a strong focus on robotics, then we would suggest that the Robot Exhibition might be a better fit.
Authors of papers that are submitted to other IJCAI tracks are welcome to also submit to the Demonstration Track so as to showcase their AI systems. Note that the conference tracks are run separately and there is no explicit coordination offered. Any work submitted to the Demonstration Track is required to follow the requirements and formatting for the track (see Submission Details and Review Process).

The organizers of competitions and challenges in IJCAI 2023 are encouraged to submit a demo paper at IJCAI 2024 following the same demo submission requirements (see Submission Details and Review Process), additionally summarizing their experience at the 2023 conference and results/findings.

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: February 19, 2024

Notification Deadline: April 18, 2024

Camera Ready Deadline: TBD

Note: All deadlines are Anywhere On Earth, UTC-12.

Modes of Demo Presentation

IJCAI 2024 will offer two modes of presenting demos:

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The traditional demo mode, where the demonstration is presented in a booth during the demonstration session.
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A demonstration talk mode, where Demo authors have ten minutes to present their demos in a "frontal" slide/video presentation.

Submission Process

Formatting Guidelines: The updated LaTeX Styles and Word Template are available at https://www.ijcai.org/authors_kit.

Submission Site: The Demonstration Track will share the same CMT installation as most of the other IJCAI 2024 tracks, and authors will go to the IJCAI submission site and choose "Demos" from the drop-down menu.

Keywords: When submitting their paper, authors must choose content area keywords. General categories should only be used if specific categories do not apply or do not accurately reflect the main contributions. The full list of keywords will be available on the submission site.

Submission Requirements

Submissions to the Demonstration Track should describe the system to be demonstrated, the application domain, the problem scenario, the technology used, the AI techniques involved, the original contribution and innovations of the system, live and interactive aspects, etc. Indicate links to any supplementary materials.

In addition, the submitted document has to provide a URL linking to a demonstration video no more than 10 minutes in length. This demo video may be a mixture or combination of an actual demo and voice-over (Powerpoint, PDF slides, etc.) and screencast presentations showing and explaining what happens. Other formats are also possible if they can more clearly illustrate the demo. The essential objective of the demo talk is to give a precise idea of what the demo will look like.

Paper Format: Papers must be formatted according to the IJCAI 2024 guidelines (link above). The submitted document must be a single PDF. Submissions that violate the IJCAI 2024 style (e.g., by decreasing margins or font sizes) will be rejected without review.

Paper Length: The page limit is 5 pages: 3 pages for the main text (including all figures/tables) and up to two additional pages for references. Over-length papers will be rejected without review. For accepted papers, acknowledgments and a contribution statement of each co-author to the paper can be optionally included in the two reference pages.

Anonymity: Submissions are NOT anonymous.

Ethics Statement: Authors may include a statement of the potential broader impact of their work, including its ethical aspects and future societal consequences. This part can be put in either the main body of the paper or on the reference pages. It is optional but is highly recommended for papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks. For additional information, please refer to the "Ethics policy and ethics statement" section of the IJCAI submission guidelines (https://ijcai24.org/call-for-papers/).

Usages of Generative AI: Generative AI models, including Chat-GPT, BARD, LLaMA, or similar LLMs, do not satisfy the criteria for authorship of papers published in IJCAI 2024. If authors use an LLM in any part of the paper-writing process they assume full responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and correctness of all text. We encourage papers that describe research on or involving LLMs. Text generated by an LLM as part of the paper's methodology or experimental analysis is allowed but needs to be properly documented and described in the paper.

Review Process

Papers will be peer-reviewed by program committee members. Selection criteria include originality, innovation, applicability, and potential benefits of the resulting system. Note that there will be no rebuttal phase.

Participation: At least one author of each accepted demo is required to participate and present the work. We are looking forward to the community meeting in person.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All people involved in the IJCAI 2024 review process adhere to the IJCAI conflict of interest policy. Details can be found at: https://www.ijcai.org/IJCAI_Conflict_of_Interest_Policy.pdf. Authors and reviewers acknowledge that IJCAI may take action against individuals in breach of the conflict of interest policy, including but not limited to rejecting their submissions without further review and banning individuals from submitting their work to a limited number of IJCAI conferences in the future.

Confidentiality Policy: All submissions will be treated in strict confidence until the publication date.

Enquiries

Please send all enquiries about the Demonstration Track to the IJCAI 2024 Demonstration Track Co-Chairs:

Hau Chan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Long Tran-Thanh, University of Warwick, UK

via the following address: demos@ijcai24.org<mailto:demos@ijcai24.org>

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[DMANET] DeepLearn 2024: early registration January 30

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11th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
(and the Future of Artificial Intelligence)

DeepLearn 2024

Porto – Maia, Portugal

July 15-19, 2024

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2024/

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Co-organized by:

University of Maia

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA
Brussels/London

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Early registration: January 30, 2024

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SCOPE:

DeepLearn 2024 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, etc. etc.

The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, and important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion.

Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a few hackathon-type competitions among students, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well.

Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses.

Overall, DeepLearn 2024 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.

VENUE:

DeepLearn 2024 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be:

University of Maia
Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia
4475-690 Maia
Porto, Portugal

https://www.umaia.pt/en

STRUCTURE:

3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another.

All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event.

An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes.

This year's edition of the school will schedule hands-on activities including mini-hackathons, where participants will work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges.

Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jiawei Han (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), How Can Large Language Models Contribute to Effective Text Mining?

Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University), Effective Multi Agent Teaming

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

Luca Benini (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), [intermediate/advanced] Open Hardware Platforms for Edge Machine Learning

Gustau Camps-Valls (University of València), [intermediate] AI for Earth, Climate, and Sustainability

Nitesh Chawla (University of Notre Dame), [introductory/intermediate] Introduction to Representation Learning on Graphs

Daniel Cremers (Technical University of Munich), [introductory/advanced] Deep Networks for 3D Computer Vision

Peng Cui (Tsinghua University), [intermediate/advanced] Stable Learning for Out-of-Distribution Generalization: Invariance, Causality and Heterogeneity

Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-End Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware

Yulan He (King's College London), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Reading Comprehension with Large Language Models

Frank Hutter (University of Freiburg), [intermediate/advanced] AutoML

George Karypis (University of Minnesota), [intermediate] Deep Learning Models and Systems for Real-World Graph Machine Learning

Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University / AppTek), [intermediate/advanced] Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Speech & Language Technology: A Probabilistic Perspective

Massimiliano Pontil (Italian Institute of Technology), [intermediate/advanced] Operator Learning for Dynamical Systems

Elisa Ricci (University of Trento), [intermediate] Continual and Adaptive Learning in Computer Vision

Xinghua Mindy Shi (Temple University), [intermediate] Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Health and Medicine

Michalis Vazirgiannis (École Polytechnique), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Machine Learning and Multimodal Graph Generative AI

James Zou (Stanford University), [introductory/intermediate] Large Language Models and Biomedical Applications

OPEN SESSION:

An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary presentations of work in progress by participants.

They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 7, 2024.

INDUSTRIAL SESSION:

A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry.

Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event.

Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 7, 2024.

HACKATHONS:

Hackathons will take place, where participants will work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer. The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced on the final day. The winning teams will receive a small prize and the runners-up will get a certificate.

EMPLOYERS:

Organizations searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will be provided a space for one-to-one contacts.

It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the organization and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event.

Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 7, 2024.

SPONSORS:

Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2024/sponsoring/

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
José Luís Reis (Maia)
Luís Paulo Reis (Porto)
David Silva (London, organization chair)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2024/registration/

The selection of 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.

FEES:

Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches.

There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.

The fees for on site and for online participation are the same.

ACCOMMODATION:

Accommodation suggestions will be available at

https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2024/accommodation/

CERTIFICATE:

A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

david@irdta.eu

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Universidade da Maia

Universidade do Porto

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
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Friday, January 5, 2024

[DMANET] Tenure Track Position "Discrete Geometry" TU Graz

Graz university of technology is offering a tenure-track position in the
field of Discrete Geometry. We are looking for candidates who have an
outstanding qualification in a current area of Discrete Geometry (e.g.
polytope theory) with links to other areas such as algebra and
combinatorics. Please apply before Jan 31, 2024 at jobs.tugraz.at
(https://jobs.tugraz.at/en/jobs/14f583ff-7061-3477-45a7-65782031db68)

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[DMANET] MCU 2024: first call for papers

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MCU 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS
10th Conference on Machines, Computations and Universality

MCU 2024, June 5 - June 7, 2024, Nice, France

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NEWS: Co-located workshop - CMC 2024, June 3-5

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The International conference MCU series traces its roots back to the mid
90's, and has always been concerned with gaining a deeper understanding
of computation and universality through the study of models of general
purpose computation. The MCU conference series was initiated in Paris
(1995). Following editions were held in Metz (1998), Chisinau (2001),
St. Petersburg (2004), Orleans (2007), Zurich (2013), Famagusta (2015),
and Fontainebleau, (2018). The 2020 edition was supposed to be held in
Wien, Austria but was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic.

The 9th edition of MCU took place at the University of Debrecen in
Hungary, it is co-located with DCFS 2022 (24th International Conference
on the Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems, August 29-31) and
NCMA 2022 (12th International Workshop on Non-Classical Models of
Automata and Applications, August 26-27).

The 10th edition will take place at the Université Côte d'Azur in Nice, France
on an hybrid form (both in person and online). The conference is co-located
with CMC 2024 (Conference on Membrane Computing) which will took
from June 3rd to June 5th, 2024.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Submission deadline: March 22, 2024,
* Notification of acceptance: April 22, 2024,
* Camera ready due: May 6, 2024.

SCOPE
The scope of the conference topics includes, but is not limited to,
computation in the setting of various discrete models (Turing machines,
register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems, rewriting
systems, molecular computing models, neural models...) and analog and
hybrid models (BSS machines, infinite time cellular automata, real
machines, quantum computing...) and the meaning and implantation of
universality in these contexts. Particular emphasis is given towards
search for frontiers between decidability and undecidability in the
various models, search for the simplest universal models, computational
complexity of predicting the evolution of computations in the various
models. Parallel computing models and their connections to
decidability, complexity and universality.

TOPICS ADDRESSED

MCU 2022 conference topics include, but not exclusively:

* Analog computation
* Automata theory
* Cellular automata
* Classical computability and degree structures
* Computability theoretic aspects of programs
* Computable analysis and real computation
* Computable structures and models
* Continuous computing
* Decidability of theories
* DNA computing, self-assembly and tiling
* Dynamical systems and computational models
* Emerging and non-standard models of computation
* Finite model theory
* Generalized recursion theory
* Higher type computability
* Hyper-computational models
* Infinite time Turing machines
* Membrane computing
* Molecular computation
* Morphogenesis and developmental biology
* Multi-agent systems
* Natural computation and Hybrid systems
* Neural nets and connectionist models
* Physics and computability
* Proof theory and computability
* Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity
* Relativistic computation
* Swarm intelligence and self-organisation
* Theory of Petri nets
* Turing, Counter, Register, Signal machines
* Universality of systems

AUTHOR GUIDELINES

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their results at the
conference. Submitted papers must describe work not previously
published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a
journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings. Authors are
required to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF using the
LNCS style. Authors using LaTeX can download the needed macros at
Springer-Verlag site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages; full proofs may
appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at the
reviewers' discretion.

The submission process is managed by EasyChair and will open in February 2024.
The proceedings will be available after the conference as post-proceedings in
the LNCS series by Springer Verlag (to be confirmed).

A selection of papers will be invited to submit extended versions for
publication in a special issue of an international journal (contacts in
progress).

CONTACT

Jérôme Durand-Lose - jerome.durand-lose (at) univ-orleans (dot) fr
Enrico Formenti - enrico.formenti (at) univ-cotedazur (dot) fr

WEBSITE
https://webusers.i3s.unice.fr/MCU2024
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[DMANET] Faculty, postdoc, and PhD opportunities in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization in Copenhagen and Lund

We would like to advertise a range of exciting openings in Copenhagen and Lund in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization at faculty, postdoc, and PhD level. The positions below are sorted in order of deadline dates.

Deadline Jan 10: Postdoc positions at the University of Copenhagen in theoretical computer science (http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/Postdoc-UCPH-240110.html)

Deadline Jan 10: PhD positions at the University of Copenhagen in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization (http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/PhD-UCPH-240110.html)

Deadline Jan 15: Postdoc position at the IT University of Copenhagen in parameterized algorithms (https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181653)

Deadline Jan 26: Tenure-track assistant professorship at Lund University in the foundations of computer science, with a focus on logic and automated reasoning (http://www.jakobnordstrom.se/openings/AsstProf-Lund-240126.html)

Deadline Jan 31: Postdoc position at Lund University in theoretical computer science (https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:687553/)

Deadline Jan 31: PhD positions at Lund University in theoretical computer science (https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:687133/)

Informal enquiries about these positions are warmly welcome --- please see the respective announcements for contact details.

[DMANET] [CFP] Wi-DroIT 2024 - 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things

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**CALL FOR PAPERS**

Dear Researchers/Authors,

You are invited to submit your high-quality research findings to the 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in the Internet of Things (Wi-DroIT 2024)

Date: April 29 - May 1, 2024

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Wi-DroIT co-located with DCOSS 2024

Website: https://widroit2024.github.io

Submission link: TBA

**SCOPE**
Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Additionally, one or more UAVs can collaborate to provide services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints need to be considered.

For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel, and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image, and sound processing.

**TOPICS OF INTEREST**
- Autonomous sensing via UAVs
- Topology monitoring with UAVs
- Remote sensing networks via UAVs
- Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT
- Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT
- Precision agriculture and UAVs
- Crops monitoring in agriculture
- Bugs monitoring in agriculture
- UAVs for environmental monitoring
- Autopilot and UAS autonomy
- UAVs path planning and scheduling
- Parcel delivery using UAVs
- Cellular networks and UAVs
- Constrained and multi-objectives problems
- Sensors localization with UAVs
- UAVs tracking techniques
- Cooperative control of multiple UAVs
- Cyber-security communications and UAVs
- Optimal UAV deployment strategies
- Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs
- Single UAV applications
- Multi-UAV applications
- Energy-efficient UAV communications
- Machine learning for UAV communications

**IMPORTANT DATES**
Paper Submission: February 16, 2024
Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2024
Camera Ready Deadline: March 29, 2024

We look forward to seeing you at the 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in the Internet of Things.

Sincerely,

Lorenzo Palazzetti
PhD Student
Computer Science
University of Florence, Italy

[DMANET] AAMAS 2024: Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium (Abstract deadline: Jan 8)

Dear all,

We invite Ph.D. students working in the broad research areas served by the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024) to take part in the Doctoral Consortium.

The Doctoral Consortium is a great opportunity to receive feedback and interact closely with established researchers in the field. Please find below the complete Call for Contributions.

We look forward to seeing you in Auckland!

Reyhan Aydogan and Andrei Ciortea
Publicity Chairs
On behalf of the AAMAS 2024 Organizing Committee

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Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium
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AAMAS 2024 – The 23rd Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Date: 6-10 May 2024
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
See this call on the AAMAS 2024 website:
https://www.aamas2024-conference.auckland.ac.nz/calls/call-for-doctoral-consortium/

We invite PhD students working in the broad research areas served by AAMAS to take part in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) of AAMAS-2024. The DC is an opportunity to interact closely with established researchers in your field as well as other students, to receive feedback on your work, and to get advice on managing your career.

Each accepted student will be matched with an established researcher from the community who will act as the student's mentor. The mentor will interact closely with the student, will provide feedback on research and career management questions, and help foster new contacts. Each accepted student also will have the opportunity to present their work to their peers and senior members of the community attending. The programme will be completed with an informal lunch for participating students and mentors as well as a panel discussion focusing on questions of career management.

The DC is specifically intended for PhD students who already have a concrete research proposal and preliminary results, but who still have sufficient time before the completion of their dissertation so as to be able to benefit from the DC experience. Preference will be given to students satisfying these criteria, but well-motivated applications from students who are at earlier or later stages of their doctoral studies will also be considered.

== Important Dates ==

* Submission Opens: Monday, 13 November 2023
* Abstract Deadline: Monday, 8 January 2024
* Submission Deadline: Friday, 12 January 2024
* Author Notification: Monday, 12 February 2024
* Camera-Ready Deadline: Monday 26 February 2024

All deadlines are at the end of the specified day, anywhere on Earth (UTC-12).

== Submission ==

1. Application package: A complete application package to the DC should be submitted as a single PDF and should have the following components (in this order):

* Cover page (1 page), with the following information: name, university, homepage, preferred personal pronouns, citizenship, PhD start date, expected graduation date, and name(s) of PhD supervisor(s).
* Extended abstract (2 pages + 1 page of references) motivating and describing your PhD topic and outlining some of the results obtained so far as well as your plans for continuing the work.
* Personal statement (1 page) with citations and brief discussions of up to five papers that have inspired your own research.
* Curriculum vitae (at most 2 pages), including your list of publications.

The extended abstract must be formatted using the official AAMAS-2024 submission format, including abstract and keywords. Look at the proceedings of past editions of AAMAS for inspiration for how to write such a document.

In addition, you will need to provide:

2. Letter of support: A 1-page letter (PDF) by your supervisor (signed and on official letterhead), in which they confirm that they support your application to the DC and explain why they believe that this is the right moment for you to attend the DC. A detailed letter of recommendation is neither required nor expected.

3. Mentor suggestions: The names and affiliations of three or more individuals you would hope might get assigned to you as a mentor during the DC. These should be established members of the AAMAS research community who would typically attend the conference. For inspiration, look at the listings of PC and SPC members of recent editions of the conference and ask your supervisor for advice.

If your application is accepted, your extended abstract (and none of the other components of your application package) will get published in the official AAMAS-2024 conference proceedings.

Submissions should be made through the AAMAS 2024 submission system (AAMAS-2024 EasyChair Site) by selecting "Track: Doctoral Consortium": https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=aamas2024

Note that you will need to register an abstract (outlining your research topic in a few lines) several days before the final submission deadline. You can update your submission as often as you like before that final deadline, and you are advised to make use of this opportunity.

You are welcome to also apply for a scholarship, but please note that this is a separate process. While acceptance to the DC may play a role in scholarship decisions, those decisions are made by the scholarship chairs and are subject to available funding.

== Questions? ==

For any questions, please contact the DC chairs (aamas24-dc@easychair.org<mailto:aamas24-dc@easychair.org>), or directly: Bahar Rastegari (University of Southampton, b.rastegari@soton.ac.uk<mailto:b.rastegari@soton.ac.uk>) and Serena Villata (Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Inria, I3S villata@i3s.unice.fr<mailto:villata@i3s.unice.fr>).

Thursday, January 4, 2024

[DMANET] Call for papers: 22nd Combinatorial Optimization conference, Southampton, July 2024

The 22nd Combinatorial Optimization conference (CO2024) will take place in Southampton, 25th-28th June 2024. The scope of the conference covers all areas of Combinatorial Optimization, including theory, applications, exact algorithms and heuristic methods.

Confirmed keynote speakers to date include Professor Maria Grazia Speranza, Dr Thomas Stützle, and Emeritus Professor Chris Potts.

For further details and to submit an abstract, please see the website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/wbs/conf/co/past/

Adam Letchford, Lancaster University, UK

[DMANET] Reminder: A.W. Tucker Prize, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) 2024

This is a reminder of the upcoming nomination deadline for the A.W. Tucker
Prize. Please see below.

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Dear Colleagues,

The Mathematical Optimization Society invites nominations for the 2024 A.W.
Tucker Prize to be awarded at the International Symposium on Mathematical
Programming (ISMP) in Montreal, Canada (July 21 - 26, 2024). The prize is
awarded to an outstanding doctoral dissertation defended (and degree
awarded) between January 1, 2021 and January 1, 2024.

The deadline for nominations is January 15, 2024. The nominator must be a
faculty member at the institution that awarded the nominee's doctoral
degree or a member of the nominee's dissertation committee. Applications
should consist of the following four files, each of which should be
submitted as a single, separate PDF file:

- a letter of nomination,
- the nominee's dissertation,
- a summary of the dissertation's contributions, written by the nominee,
that is no more than five (5) pages in length, and
- a brief biographical sketch of the nominee.

Nominations and the accompanying documentation must be written in English.
The nomination should be e-mailed to Frank E. Curtis,
frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu

The call for nominations is also announced on the MOS website:
http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=tucker_call

Nominations will be evaluated by the 2024 A.W. Tucker Prize Committee with
at most three finalists chosen for the prize. The finalists will be
invited to give oral presentations of their work at a special session of
ISMP 2024. The winner will be announced during the symposium.

More details about the prize can be found on the MOS website:
http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=tucker

Best,

Frank
on behalf of the 2024 A.W. Tucker Prize Committee (Frank E. Curtis, Shipra
Agrawal, Afonso Bandeira, Francesca Maggioni, and Laura Sanita)

[DMANET] DCOSS-IoT 2024 (Abu Dhabi, April 29 to May 1) - Final Call for Papers

* Please accept our apologies if you have received multiple copies.*

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* The 20th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024)

Abu Dhabi, UAE - April 29 to May 1, 2024

* The DCOSS-IoT series of events are always technically co-sponsored by IEEE, and Proceedings are published by IEEE Xplore.

The 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024) will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The conference is always co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP).

The conference was previously known as DCOSS. Starting in 2023, the event is broadening its scope beyond sensor networks to include smart systems in general and the Internet of Things (IoT). The updated name is "Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things" (DCOSS-IoT).

In the last few years, we have witnessed significant growth in the use of IoT and distributed sensor systems in several application areas, including smart transportation, smart energy systems, smart homes and buildings, smart healthcare, and environmental monitoring. For smart sensor systems to truly become useful and pervasive, we need to address several research challenges, including the tight integration of sensing and machine intelligence, reliable and efficient networking, interoperability and scalability, the need for dependable autonomy, interaction with humans, and important aspects of security, privacy and trust. DCOSS-IoT focuses on issues arising in the entire IoT and networked sensor systems stack, covering aspects of high-level abstractions, models and languages, communication technologies, novel algorithms and applications, system design approaches and architectures, and tools for simulated and real deployments. Potential authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating recent advances in theoretical and experimental research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
* Artificial Intelligence for IoT
* Machine learning and data mining for IoT and Smart Systems
* Smart healthcare to combat epidemics
* Edge and fog computing: distributed computing models from sensor to cloud
* Machine intelligence in distributed sensor systems and real-time analytics
* Novel communication paradigms (e.g., 5G/6G, VLC, DSA) for IoT and Smart Systems
* Cyber-Physical Systems
* IoT and Smart Systems for Smart and Connected Communities
* Autonomous systems: closing the loop between sensing and actuation
* Time and location management
* Robustness, resilience, and dependability of IoT and smart systems
* Security and privacy in IoT and Smart Systems
* Performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
* Mobile and human-centric sensing
* IoT and Smart Systems for social computing
* Interoperability, heterogeneity and scalability
* Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based sensing/communications/networking
* Social sensing and crowd sensing techniques, applications, and systems
* Complex systems comprising wearable, robotic and/or fixed sensor systems
* IoT and Smart Systems for emerging and developing economies
* Green and environmentally friendly IoT (low-power, harvesting, energy management)
* Sensors and Robots for Internet of Intelligent Things
* Design and implementation of real-world applications and systems
* Approaches, tools, and experience of deployment and operation
* Interdisciplinary applications of IoT and Smart Systems
* Smart healthcare and digital epidemiology
* Smart agriculture
* Smart infrastructures
* Smart cities
* Smart energy, transportation, and water distribution systems
* Smart factories
* Smart workspace

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts demonstrating current research on distributed smart systems and IoT related to the aforementioned topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 X 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

All submissions should be written in English and have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages, including figures and references. Two (2) additional pages at 100$/page for supplementary material only (such as theorems, proofs, implementation details) are allowed. Starting last year, DCOSS-IoT will follow a double-blind review process. As a result, authors must make a good faith effort to anonymize their submissions. Although submission is double-blind, the existence or availability of non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv or other preprint servers) will not lead to your paper being rejected. Reviewers will be instructed not to look for such preprints actively but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Papers that do not meet the size, formatting, and anonymization requirements will not be reviewed. We require each paper to be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the HotCRP submission system.

*** Special Issue and Best Paper Awards ***
DCOSS-IoT 2024 will announce a best paper award and a best poster/demo award.

Extended versions of selected best papers from DCOSS-IoT 2024 will be included in a Special Issue of the Computer Networks (COMNET) Journal.

*** Important dates ***
* Abstract Registration Deadline: January 8, 2024
* Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2024
* Acceptance Notification: March 8, 2024
* Camera Ready Deadline: March 18, 2024

*** Key Organizers ***
- Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs:
* Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
* Nathalie Mitton (Inria Lille - Nord Europe)
* Enrico Natalizio (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE)

- Steering Committee Chair:
* Sotiris Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece

- Local Chairs
* Jennifer Simonjan (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE)
* Michael Baddeley (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE)
* Lina Bariah (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE)
* Andrew Chopra (Technology Innovation Institute - TII, UAE)

Please visit the DCOSS-IoT 2024 website for more information: https://dcoss.org/

Aris Leivadeas | Associate Professor
Department of Software and IT Engineering
École de technologie supérieure | University of Quebec
1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest, office A-3415
Montréal (Québec) H3C 1K3
Tel. 514 396-8860 | etsmtl.ca<http://etsmtl.ca/>
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[DMANET] Postdoc position at University of Perugia

The Department of Engineering at the University of Perugia invites applications for a postdoctoral position funded by the PRIN Project (Research Projects of National Interest) "NextGRAAL-Next-generation algorithms for constrained GRAPH visuALization."

We seek a highly motivated individual with a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Engineering, possessing a good background in algorithms and theoretical computer science. An interest in graph drawing is preferred.

The successful candidate will embark on a one-year, full-time research appointment, commencing around March 2024, with the possibility of renewal.
This position is open to candidates of any nationality, knowledge of the Italian language is not required. Ample travel funding will be provided.

The call can be found here:

https://www.unipg.it/ateneo/concorsi/assegni-di-ricerca/bandi-e-procedure?view=elenco&stato=A&pagina=4&layout=concorso&idConcorso=44463

I will be happy to help candidates (in particular those from abroad Italy) to fill the application. For any information do not hesitate to contact me: fabrizio.montecchiani@unipg.it<mailto:fabrizio.montecchiani@unipg.it>

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Fabrizio Montecchiani
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Dipartimento di Ingegneria
Dipartimento di Eccellenza 2023-2027
Via G. Duranti 93 - 06125 Perugia (Italy)
Tel. +39 075 5853794
http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/montecchiani
http://bigdata.unipg.it/

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

[DMANET] Research positions on Algorithms for (Temporal) Graphs at University of Florence, Italy

At DISIA (Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni) of
University of Florence, we offer two positions, a fellowship and a postdoc
position on Algorithms for (Temporal) Graphs under the supervision of
Andrea Marino (to be contacted for more info: andrea dot marino at unifi
dot it). Candidates with skills in any subset of the following research
topics are welcome: Algorithms and data structures, graph algorithms,
Java/Python programming.

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Title: Algorithms for Exploratory Analysis of (Temporal) Graphs

Description: Research within the field of algorithm design for the analysis
of large real-world networks, with particular focus on transportation
networks. Such networks can be effectively modeled using graphs,
representing mobility and points of interest (POIs), while neglecting
specific uninteresting aspects. Hence, discovering the most
important POIs (centrality), measuring the efficiency of the network
(flow), making the network more robust (network design) can be translated
into problems on graphs. Also, studying indexes and finding clusters, i.e.
well-connected POIs, can help to better visualize the network together with
its constraints. We plan to design efficient
(listing) algorithms to find relevant structures able to guide the
exploration of transportation networks. We will also take into
consideration the dynamic nature of the networks using temporal graphs.
Indeed, in public transportation network connections are available only at
prescribed times, in the same way as in public transportation systems buses
and trains follow a time schedule, meaning that paths are valid only if the
connections are time consistent. In this scenario, classical notions of
graph theory must be rethought taking into account these additional temporal
constraints. The design of new graph algorithms will possibly be integrated
with implementations and practical experiments on real world transportation
networks.

Duration of Contract: 12 months, approximately starting: April 2024

Requirement: PhD

Application Link: look for DISIA and click the title "Algoritmi per
l'Analisi Esplorativa di Grafi (Temporali)" at the following link:
https://stlabtest.dinfo.unifi.it/beta/akademia-candidature/announcements-search
Deadline for application: 7th February 2024 (Italian Time)
The interview will be held on 26th February 2024 at 14:00 on-line.

Project: PRIN MUR 2022ME9Z78 "NextGRAAL: Next-generation algorithms for
constrained GRAph visuALization"

Call:
https://titulus.unifi.it/albo/viewer?view=files%2F005336909-UNFICLE-10ad8425-4c37-4341-b963-398f20f3144e-001.pdf

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Title: Algorithms for Graph Based Analysis of DLT Systems

Description: Most modern decentralized systems, as cryptocurrency systems
like Bitcoin and Ethereum, rely on Distributed Ledger Technology to manage
data in a decentralized fashion. By design, data is publicly available and
can be gathered in an automatic way. Ledgers typically store timed
relations among the entities involved, endowed with additional information.
These relations can be formally represented as labeled temporal graphs,
which can be heterogeneous depending on the roles of the entities involved.
The objective is to provide efficient algorithms and tools to analyse such
graphs. This objective includes: (i) The design of a unified theoretical
graph model of ledgers under a common format representation. (ii) The
design of an efficient algorithm for storing compact representations of
graphs according to the defined graph model exploiting temporal locality
and similarity in the data. (iii) The
design of efficient data retrieval algorithms for a graph in the defined
graph model. (iv) The design of anomaly detection algorithms that can
benefit from local or global statistics which can help to highlight
peculiar structures, e.g. using (temporal) centrality indexes or analyzing
(temporal) distances statistics between nodes.

Duration of Contract: 20 months, starting: April 2024

Requirement: Master Degree

Application Link: look for DISIA and click the title "Algoritmi per
l'Analisi dei Grafi di Sistemi DLT" at the following link:
https://stlabtest.dinfo.unifi.it/beta/akademia-candidature/announcements-search
Deadline for application: 7th February 2024 (Italian Time)
The interview will be held on 26th February 2024 at 14:00 on-line.

Project: PRIN MUR P2022NZPJA "DLT-FRUIT: A user centered framework for
facilitating DLTs FRUITion"

Call:
https://titulus.unifi.it/albo/viewer?view=files%2F005336948-UNFICLE-7baabfd0-595a-4b6c-b930-e4177561eae3-000.pdf

[DMANET] 2nd Announcement and CfA --- EURO 2024 --- Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024

EURO 2024

33 rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 33 rd )

Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024

http://www.euro2024cph.dk/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/euroKconference

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

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We have the great pleasure of inviting you to take part in the 33 rd EURO Conference to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from June 30 to July 3, 2024.

The Programme and Organising Committees, chaired by Marta Szachniuk and Dario Pacino, along with Jesper Larsen, are crafting a conference for an unforgettable scientific experience.

EURO 33 rd Conference will be an excellent opportunity for the OR community to reunite in a delightful setting. We are looking forward to meeting you in Copenhagen!

PLENARY, KEYNOTE & SPECIAL SESSIONS

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The scientific program will include outstanding plenary and keynote talks. Additionally, special round table sessions will be dedicated to the EURO Forums: WISDOM, EURO Young, and Practice of OR.

PLENARY Speakers

Berit Brouer (A.P. Møller – Mærsk, Denmark)

Charles Corbett (UCLA, USA) - IFORS Distinguished Lecturer

Pascal van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech, USA)

KEYNOTE Speakers

Javier Alonso-Mora (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)

Pedro Armorim (University of Porto, Portugal)

Maria Besiou (Kühne Logistics University, Germany)

Péter Bíró (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

Immanuel M. Bomze (University of Vienna, Austria)

Emma Frejinger (University of Montréal, Canada)

Bahar Yetiş Kara (Bilkent University, Turkey)

Miloš Kopa (Charles University, Czechia)

Veronica Piccialli (Sapienza University, Italy)

Graham Rand (Lancaster University, UK)

Rubén Ruiz (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)

Pascale Zarate (Toulouse Capitole University, France)

Please follow the Conference website http://www.euro2024cph.dk/ for more detailed information.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND SESSIONS

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Researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in any branch of Operational Research, mathematical modelling or economic analysis are invited to submit abstracts or organize sessions.

Invited and contributed talks will be organized in parallel sessions. The sessions are part of conference streams, a list of which will be available in the abstract submission system.

The abstract submission system is available online via the Conference website http://www.euro2024cph.dk/ .

Abstracts (max. 1500 characters) should be submitted until March 3, 2024 .

Each participant can present at most one paper at the Conference.

Researchers who wish to organize a stream or an invited session should contact the EURO 2024 Conference Secretariat ( euro2024cph@discongress.com ).

IMPORTANT DATES

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Abstract submission closes: Sunday , March 3, 2024

Early registration closes: Sunday, March 24, 2024

Author registration deadline: Sunday, April 21, 2024

REGISTRATION FEES

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Regular: €400.00 (early); €500.00 (late),

Student/Retired: €200.00 (early); €300.00 (late),

Accompanying persons: €120.00.

The regular/student registration fee includes:

Admission to all sessions and the exhibition

Conference materials

Tea, coffee and lunches throughout the conference

Admission to the Welcome Reception on Sunday and to the Farewell Party on Wednesday

The registration fee for an accompanying person covers the same except the admission to sessions and conference materials.

Please note that the Conference Gala Dinner on Tuesday is not included in the registration fee.

CALL FOR EXHIBITORS

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Parties interested in having a booth or exhibition area during the Conference are kindly requested to contact the EURO 2024 Conference Secretariat ( euro2024cph@discongress.com ).

We look forward to welcoming you to our great conference in Copenhagen!

Marta Szachniuk

Dario Pacino, Jesper Larsen

For any further information, contact the EURO 2024 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:

DIS Congress Service

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· Phone: (+45) 4492 4492

· Email: euro2024cph@discongress.com

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

[DMANET] GIAN Course on Advances in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization -- IIT Bombay

This course is part of the Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) program.

Venue: Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay

Dates: 15-25th January, 2024

Many design, planning and decision problems arising in engineering, sciences, finance, and statistics can be mathematically modeled as Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization (MINLO) problems. The last two decades have seen a phenomenal growth in the development of theory, algorithms and computational tools for MINLO. Riding on this growth, MINLO has found many applications, and is being used to solve practical problems in various domains.

The 10-day (about 50 hours) course will start with a gentle introduction to MINLO models and motivating practical applications. The next part of the course covers the branch-and-cut paradigm which is central to solving these problems followed by methods for convex MINLOs and nonconvex MINLOs. Heuristic search, cutting plane techniques, reformulation and presolving methods will be covered. The course concludes with discussions on the future trends of MINLO. Tutorials for practice problems and exercises will be conducted each day. Hands-on computational exercises on modeling and using state-of-the-art software will help participants understand practical ways of solving MINLOs.

Industry practitioners have the option of registering for a shorter module spanning six days (15-20 January). It will focus on introduction to MINLO, modeling, software and methods for convex MINLO.

Faculty:
Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Lab, Chicago
Pietro Belotti, Politecnico di Milano
Ashutosh Mahajan, IEOR, IIT Bombay

More information at https://www.ieor.iitb.ac.in/minlo23

[DMANET] PhD position in string algorithms at Stony Brook University (New York, USA)

A funded PhD position in the area of string algorithms is available in the
Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University (New York, USA).
Candidates should have a good background in algorithms and discrete
mathematics. The position will start in the Fall of 2024. For more details
about the topics, see [1]. For application details, please have a look at
[2]. Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out by e-mail (see [1]).

Application deadline: Jan 15, 2024.

Links:
[1] https://sites.google.com/view/dkempa
[2] https://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/students/Graduate-Programs

[DMANET] UCNC 2024 - call for papers

[Apologies for multiple postings]

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UCNC 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS

UNCONVENTIONAL COMPUTATION AND NATURAL COMPUTATION 2024

UCNC 2024, June 17-21, 2024, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ucnc-2024

* Full paper

Submission deadline February 28, 2024,

Notification of acceptance March 28, 2024,

Final version for proceedings April 10, 2024.

* SUBMISSIONS for full paper: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2024

* Poster
Submission deadline for poster May 1, 2024,
Notification of acceptance May 15, 2024.

* SUBMISSIONS for poster: ucnc2024@gmail.com <mailto:ucnc2024@gmail.com>

The one-page abstract for poster should be submitted via email (ucnc2024@gmail.com <mailto:ucnc2024@gmail.com>). All paper submissions should be in PDF format.

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BACKGROUND
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The International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) series is a forum bringing together scientists from many different backgrounds who are united in their interest in novel forms of computation, human-designed computation inspired by nature, and computational aspects of natural processes. UCNC provides a forum for such scientists to meet and discuss their work. The 21st International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC 2024) will be held at the Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Republic of Korea on June 17-21, 2024 and will continue the tradition of focusing on current important theoretical and experimental results and their critical evaluation.

AUTHOR GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit original research papers (of, at most, 15 pages in LNCS format) through the conference EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucnc2024

Papers must be submitted in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series, and authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in a special issue of Natural Computing.

Papers must not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference with published proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference.

Please note that these guidelines apply only to the main conference track; satellite workshops have their own submission procedures and publication arrangements.

INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Paola Flocchini (University of Ottawa, Canada)
* Nikola Kassabov (Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand)
* Sung Ha Park (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)

* Friedrich Simmel (Technical University Munich, Germany)
* Winner of Rozenberg Natural Computing Award

WORKSHOPS
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* Cellular Automata (Organizer: to be updated )
* Theoretical and Experimental Material Computing (Organizer: Susan Stepney, University of York, UK)

UCNC Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):

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* Molecular computing

* Quantum computing

* Optical computing

* Chaos computing

* Physarum computing

* Collision-based computing

* Self-assembling and self-organizing systems

* Super-Turing computation

* Cellular automata

* Neural computation

* Evolutionary computation

* Swarm intelligence

* Ant algorithms

* Artificial immune systems

* Artificial life

* Membrane computing

* Amorphous computing

* Computational systems biology

* Computational neuroscience

* Synthetic biology

* Cellular (in-vivo) computing

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (UCNC)

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* Daniela Besozzi (University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy)
* Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

* Matteo Cavaliere (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
* Ho-Lin Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
* Da-Jung Cho (Ajou University, Republic of Korea, Co-chair)

* Benjamin Doerr (École Polytechnique, France)
* David Doty (University of California Davis, USA)
* Jérôme Durand-Lose (Université d'Orléans, France)
* Matthias Fugger (ENS Paris-Saclay, France)
* Cody Geary (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* Daniela Genova (University of North Florida, USA)
* Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
* Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)

* Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, Finland)
* Lila Kari (University of Waterloo, Canada)

* Jongmin Kim (POSTECH, Republic of Korea, Co-chair)
* Andreas Malcher (University of Giessen, Germany)
* Luca Mariot (University of Twente, Netherlands)
* Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

* Pekka Orponen (Aalto University, Finland)

* Matthew Patitz (University of Arkansas, USA)

* Christian Scheideler (Paderborn University, Germany)
* Susan Stepney (University of York, UK)
* Damien Woods (Maynooth University, Ireland)
* Abuzer Yakaryilmaz (University of Latvia, Latvia)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (UCNC 2024)
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* Da-Jung Cho (Ajou University, Republic of Korea)
* Yunjeong Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Seongho Hong (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Jongmin Kim (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
* Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

FURTHER INFORMATION (UCNC)
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Jongmin Kim (Co-chair)

Department of Life Sciences

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Pohang, Republic of Korea

Email: ucnc2024@gmail.com <mailto:ucnc2024@gmail.com>

Da-Jung Cho (Co-chair)

Department of Software and Computer Engineering

Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

Email: ucnc2024@gmail.com <mailto:ucnc2024@gmail.com>

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[DMANET] [jobs] PhD position in Collective Robotics, Konstanz, Germany

Excellent opportunity for a *PhD in Collective Robotics* at the *Centre for
the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour* (CASCB), one of the German
Clusters of Excellence, a cooperation between the *University of Konstanz* and
the *Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior*.

The successful applicant will join an interdisciplinary environment for the
study of *collective behaviour in animals and robots* that is unique
worldwide as it combines researchers from several disciplines, including
biology, physics, computer science, neuroscience, and psychology. For more
information on the CASCB Cluster and its community, please visit:
https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/

As part of the research group led by Dr Andreagiovanni Reina (
https://giovannireina.com), the PhD student will employ mathematical
modelling, multiagent simulations, and collective robotics experiments
to *design
and implement algorithms of collective behaviour for large-scale robotics
systems* that operate without a central leader, such as robot swarms.

We welcome applicants with an MSc degree in Computer Science, Robotics,
Physics, or a field relevant to the project. We expect good programming
skills, interest in working on an interdisciplinary project on collective
behaviour, and strong motivation. The working language is English.

Find more details in the job announcement:
https://giovannireina.com/phd24.pdf

[DMANET] CFP Computational o ptimization

Call for Papers

17th International Thematic Track/Workshop on Computational Optimization
(CO23)
Belgrade, Serbia, September 08-11, 2024

organized in the framework of CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2024

IEEE CS is a technical co-sponsor of FedCSIS 2024

https://2024.fedcsis.org/thematic/co
===============================

We invite original contributions related to both theoretical and practical
aspects of optimization methods. The list of topics includes, but is not
limited to:

* combinatorial and continuous global optimization
* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* multiobjective and robust optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* optimization on graphs
* large-scale optimization, in parallel and distributed computational
environments
* meta-heuristics for optimization, nature-inspired approaches and any
other derivative-free methods
* exact/heuristic hybrid methods, involving natural computing techniques
and other global and local optimization methods
*numerical and heuristic methods for modeling

The applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not
limited to:

* classical operational research problems (knapsack, traveling salesman,
etc)
* computational biology and distance geometry
* data mining and knowledge discovery
* human motion simulations; crowd simulations
* industrial applications
* optimization in statistics, econometrics, finance, physics, chemistry,
biology, medicine, and engineering.
*environment modeling and optimization
===============================

Best paper award

The best CO24 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2024.
The best paper will be selected by CO24 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the quality
of the given oral presentation.

===============================

Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers in PDF format.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages for regular paper
and 6 pages for short papers (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are
available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the trakc.
* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database and submitted for
different indexations (Communication and Position papers will only appear
in the conference proceedings).
* Extended versions of selected papers presented at CO24 will be published
in edited book of the series "Studies of Computational Intelligence",
Springer with SJR 237.

===============================

Important dates:

+ Paper submission (strict deadline): May 14, 2024, 23:59:59 pm HST (there
will be no extension)
+ Position paper submission: June 02, 2024
+ Author notification: June 18, 2024
+ Final paper submission and registration: July 9, 2024
+ Conference date: September 8-11, 2024

===============================================================================
Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Antonio Mucherino, IRISA, University of Rennes 1, France
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania

If you have any question do not hesitate to send an email to :
wco@fedcsis.org

===============================

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

[DMANET] CFP Envirorisks

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the *International Conference EnviroRisks*
will be held in the period *0**4**-0**6** June 202**4**, Sofia**, Bulgaria*.
The conference will provide an excellent international forum for
dissemination of original research results, new ideas and practical
development experiences which concentrate on both theory and practices of
the academics, researchers, engineers and also industry professionals.

*All accepted and presented papers will be submitted* *for publication** to
the SPRINGER **Series* *"Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems"**.*

*Please**, **visit the conference web page for more details:
**https://envirorisks.cmdrcoe.org/*

*Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:*

*1. Disaster Management, Natural Hazards, Risk reduction and Building
Resilience*

*2. Climate Change Challenges and Security Implications*

*3**. **Resilience and Business Continuity Management*

*4. **High Performance Computing, Modeling & Simulations, GIS for
environmental monitoring and Artificial Intelligent *

Please, save the dates and feel free to circulate this message among your
friends.

*Important dates:*

*Abstract** Submission D**ate**: **01** of **February**, 202**4*

*Notification of Abstract Acceptance: **29 February, 2024*

*Full **Paper Submission D**ate**: **3**1 of Ma**rch**, 202**4*
* Notification** for Paper Acceptance**: **01 **of **May**, 202**4*
*Conference fee**: **20** of May**, 202**4*
*Conference Dates: **0**4**-**06** of **June**, 202**4*

*Best regards, **EnviroRISKs*
* Organizing Team E-mail: **envirorisks@gmail.com*

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

Monday, January 1, 2024

[DMANET] Multiple Openings at Durham University Computer Science, UK

Durham University Computer Science are expanding again.

There are multiple openings (with different deadlines). Please see below
for details:

- *Associate Professor in Computer Science (Networks):*
Details at https://nestid.webspace.durham.ac.uk/. Details at
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002222&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
*Application deadline: 28-Feb-2024.*

*- **Associate Professor in Visual Computing:*
Details at
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002221&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
*Application deadline: 28-Feb-2024.*

- *Assistant/Associate Professor in Scientific Computing and
High-Performance Computing:* Details at
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002141&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
*Application deadline: 09-Feb-2024.*

*-**Assistant/Associate Professor in **Artificial Intelligence and Human
Systems: *Details at
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002215&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
*Application deadline: 09-Feb-2024.*

*- **Assistant Professor in Computer Science (Education):*
Details at
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=23002216&tz=GMT%2B00%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
*Application deadline: 09-Feb-2024.*

——————————————
Dr. Amitabh Trehan
Associate Professor
Head, NESTiD Research Group
Computer Science
Durham University, UK
-------------------------------------------

--
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
-- John Anster, from a "very free translation" of Goethe's *Faust*

[DMANET] DCFS 2024: 2nd CFP

                           CALL FOR PAPERS
                              DCFS 2024
International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
                        Santa Clara University
                          June 25 - 27, 2024

https://sites.google.com/scu.edu/dcfs24
dcfs2024@gmail.com

               Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2024
                  Author notification: April 2, 2024
                Camera-ready deadline: April 11, 2024

The 26th edition of DCFS is organized by the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science of Santa Clara University, USA and by the IFIP
Working Group 1.02 "Descriptional Complexity".

TOPICS

Original research papers concerning the descriptional complexity of
formal systems and structures (and its applications) are sought. Topics
include, but are not limited to:

Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes
of operations and complexity measures.

Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena.

Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures.

Size complexity of formal systems.

Structural complexity of formal systems.

Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation.

Applications of formal systems -- for instance in software and
hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling or in
modeling natural languages -- and their complexity constraints.

Co-operating formal systems.

Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling natural
languages.

Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words.

Descriptional complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded
environments.

Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity.

Frontiers between decidability and undecidability.

Universality and reversibility.

Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional
models of computing.

Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Henning Bordihn (University of Potsdam, Germany), co-chair

Pascal Caron (University of Rouen, France)

Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)

Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)

Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

Stavros Konstantinidis (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany)

Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Timothy Ng (University of Chicago, USA)

Alexander Okhotin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milan, Italy)

Chris Pollett (San Jose State University, USA)

Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough University, UK)

Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma State University, USA)

Rogérior Reis (University of Porto, Portugal)

Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)

Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Howard Straubing (Boston College, USA)

Nicholas Tran (Santa Clara University, USA), co-chair

György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Program Committee

Henning Bordihn (University of Potsdam, Germany), co-chair

Pascal Caron (University of Rouen, France)

Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)

Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)

Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

Stavros Konstantinidis (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany)

Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Timothy Ng (University of Chicago, USA)

Alexander Okhotin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milan, Italy)

Chris Pollett (San Jose State University, USA)

Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough University, UK)

Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma State University, USA)

Rogérior Reis (University of Porto, Portugal)

Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Canada)

Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Howard Straubing (Boston College, USA)

Nicholas Tran (Santa Clara University, USA), co-chair

György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions to DCFS must not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag's
Lecture Notes style including bibliography. If the authors believe that
more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of
the program committee. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings or submitting previously published
papers is not allowed. Papers should be submitted electronically as a
PDF document to

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcfs24.

After logging in to your EasyChair account, select the "New Submission"
menu item on the top of the page. If you do not have an EasyChair
account, follow the instructions on the login page. The proceedings will
be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in Computer
Science. In addition, a special issue of Journal of Automata, Languages,
and Combinatorics will be devoted to revised and extended versions of
selected papers of the conference.

[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc positions at Chair of IT Security, Brandenburg University of Technology

The Young Investigator Group "COSYS - Control Systems and Cyber Security Lab" at the Chair of IT Security at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg has open PhD/Postdoc positions in the following areas:

- Privacy-enhancing technologies in cyber-physical systems.
- AI-based network attack detection and simulation.
- AI-enabled penetration testing.

The available positions are funded as 100% TV-L E13 tariff in Germany and limited until 31.07.2026, with possibility for extension.

Candidates must hold a Master's degree (PhD degree for Postdocs) or equivalent in Computer Science or related disciplines, or be close to completing it. If you are interested, please send your CV, transcript of records from your Master studies, and an electronic version of your Master's thesis (if possible), as a single pdf file. Applications will be reviewed until the positions are filled.

Contact: Ivan Pryvalov (ivan.pryvalov@b-tu.de)

[DMANET] IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

The aim of the Developing Countries On-Line Resources page is to provide the OR researcher with all publicly-available materials on the topic of Operations Research for Development. It also aims to provide a venue for people who are working in the area to share their completed or in-process work, learn from others, and stimulate comments and discussions on the work.

To access information regarding IFORS Developing Countries resources, its regular updates – and to submit your possible "free" (not copyright protected) material, you may occasionally visit the link:

http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page .

With this open online resources page we aim to provide a platform to make research and applications of OR widely accessible to the entire OR community including researchers, academicians and scholars in the Developing Countries (DCs).

For this purpose we invite scholarly contributions spanning across all areas and sectors ranging from arts and science, to communication and education.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) is an almost 60-year-old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). IFORS conferences are held every three years. The conference IFORS 2023 was just held successfully in Santiago, Chile, during July 10-14, 2023. Please visit the following link for details regarding the same:

https://ifors2023.com

Thank you very much for your attention. We look forward to your enthusiastic participation and scholarly contributions.

Theory Announcements

Saturday, January 6, 2024

[DMANET] Call for IJCAI 2024 Demonstrations (Demos)

[DMANET] DeepLearn 2024: early registration January 30

Friday, January 5, 2024

[DMANET] Tenure Track Position "Discrete Geometry" TU Graz

[DMANET] MCU 2024: first call for papers

[DMANET] Faculty, postdoc, and PhD opportunities in theoretical computer science and/or combinatorial optimization in Copenhagen and Lund

[DMANET] [CFP] Wi-DroIT 2024 - 6th International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things

[DMANET] AAMAS 2024: Call for Contributions to the Doctoral Consortium (Abstract deadline: Jan 8)

Thursday, January 4, 2024

[DMANET] Call for papers: 22nd Combinatorial Optimization conference, Southampton, July 2024

[DMANET] Reminder: A.W. Tucker Prize, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) 2024

[DMANET] DCOSS-IoT 2024 (Abu Dhabi, April 29 to May 1) - Final Call for Papers

[DMANET] Postdoc position at University of Perugia

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

[DMANET] Research positions on Algorithms for (Temporal) Graphs at University of Florence, Italy

[DMANET] 2nd Announcement and CfA --- EURO 2024 --- Copenhagen, Denmark, June 30 – July 3, 2024

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

[DMANET] GIAN Course on Advances in Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization -- IIT Bombay

[DMANET] PhD position in string algorithms at Stony Brook University (New York, USA)

[DMANET] UCNC 2024 - call for papers

[DMANET] [jobs] PhD position in Collective Robotics, Konstanz, Germany

[DMANET] CFP Computational o ptimization

[DMANET] CFP Envirorisks

Monday, January 1, 2024

[DMANET] Multiple Openings at Durham University Computer Science, UK

[DMANET] DCFS 2024: 2nd CFP

[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc positions at Chair of IT Security, Brandenburg University of Technology

[DMANET] IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

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