Friday, July 23, 2010

[DMANET] PhD Research Studentship in Operational Research/Management Science

PhD Research Studentship in Operational Research/ Management Science

School of Mathematics/School of Management, University of Southampton


The LANCS Initiative
(see http://www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk<http://www.lancs-initiative.ac.uk/>)
is a GBP 13 million project to expand UK research capacity in the foundations
of Operational Research (OR). LANCS is a collaboration between four of the
leading OR research groups in the UK (Lancaster, Cardiff and Nottingham
are joined with Southampton in the Initiative).

Applications are invited for a PhD Research Studentship that is funded
under the LANCS Initiative. The research project should fall within one
of the research clusters of the LANCS Initiative, which are

- Transport and Logistics

- Healthcare

- Optimization

- Heuristic Understanding

- Systems to Build Systems

Registration will either be in the School of Mathematics or in the School
of Management.

The studentship is for three years. It covers University tuition fees and
provides a tax-free stipend of over GBP 13,000 per year.

Candidates should have a First or Upper Second Class degree in a
quantitative discipline, and preferably an MSc degree in Operational
Research, Management Science, or a related discipline. Also, evidence
of English language proficiency is required for candidates not having
English as a first language.


For further information, please contact either Professor Chris Potts
(School of Mathematics), E-mail: C.N.Potts@soton.ac.uk; Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 3651;
or Dr Tolga Bektas (School of Management), E-mail: S.C.Brailsford@soton.ac.uk;
Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 8969.

Application forms must be submitted online by 12 August, 2010. Guidance for
applications and the online form can be obtained at
http://www.soton.ac.uk/postgraduate/pgstudy/howdoiapplypg.html.
Please apply initially to the School of Mathematics: if necessary,
the application can be subsequently transferred to the School of Management.
Under the Area of Research section of the form, please indicate which of the
five research clusters is most appropriate for your proposed research project.
A transcript should be uploaded at the initial application stage, together
with any other documents in support of your application.
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

[DMANET] PhD position at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne / Vehicle routing for city logistics

A PhD position is available at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
(France) within the research project

" Mutualization and Optimization of Urban Freights Distribution "

funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR).

The research pursued by the PhD student will concern the development of
new models and original solution methods for the optimization of
distribution routes in the context of city logistics.

The PhD student will be located in Gardanne (south of France, near
Marseille) in the research group "Manufacturing Sciences and Logistics"
of the Georges Charpak Microelectronics Centre of Provence (Ecole des
Mines de Saint-Etienne).

The position is for three years starting October 1, 2010 (exact date is
negotiable).

Applicants must have a Master Degree (or equivalent) in Computer
Sciences, Applied Mathematics or any related discipline. Applicants
should demonstrate good programming skills and a deep knowledge in
combinatorial optimization and integer programming. Experience on the
development of solution methods for vehicle routing problems would be
appreciated.

Please send your application electronically (preferably as a single pdf
file) including a detailed curriculum vitae and examination results,
plus, if available, a list of reference letters and copies of diploma, to:

Professor Dominique Feillet, feillet@emse.fr, before July 31, 2010

Assistant Professor Nabil Absi, absi@emse.fr, after August 1, 2010

The deadline for application is August 27, 2010.

For further questions regarding the position or details on the research
project, please contact Dominique Feillet or Nabil Absi.

--
Dominique Feillet
Professor
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
CMP Georges Charpak
880 avenue de Mimet
F-13541 GARDANNE
FRANCE

Tel: +33 (0)4 42 61 66 66
Fax: +33 (0)4 42 61 65 91
E-mail: feillet@emse.fr
URL: http://www.emse.fr

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

[DMANET] Book Announcement: Dynamics of Information Systems - Theory and Applications

== Book Announcement ==

Title: Dynamics of Information Systems - Theory and Applications

Editors: Michael J. Hirsch, Panos M. Pardalos, and Robert Murphey

Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications

Volume: 40

Publisher: Springer

Year: 2010

Pages: 367

ISBN: 978-1-4419-5688-0

Online information: http://springer.com/978-1-4419-5688-0

== About the Book ==

"Dynamics of Information Systems" presents state-of-the-art research
explaining the importance of information in the evolution of a distributed
or networked system. This book presents techniques for measuring the value
or significance of information within the context of a system. Each chapter
reveals a unique topic or perspective from experts in this exciting area of
research.

These newly developed techniques have numerous applications including: the
detection of terrorist networks, the design of highly functioning businesses
and computer systems, modeling the distributed sensory and control
physiology of animals, quantum entanglement and genome modeling,
multi-robotic systems design, as well as industrial and manufacturing
safety.

This volume is intended for graduate students and researchers interested in
the most recent developments in information theory and dynamical systems, as
well as scientists in other fields interested in the application of these
principles to their own area of study.

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Dr. Michael J. Hirsch

727 510 8497 (cell)

mjh8787@ufl.edu
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[DMANET] Journees Montoises - Mons Days 2010: Call for Participation

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers/
call for participation. Please distribute.

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Call for Participation

Journees Montoises 2010
13th Mons Days of Theoretical Computer Science

http://mis.u-picardie.fr/JM2010
Amiens, France
September 6-10, 2010

Deadline for registration: August 22
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Cher(e) collegue, (for English version see below)

Les treiziemes "Journees Montoises d'Informatique Theorique"

se derouleront a Amiens du 6 au 10 septembre 2010.

Le programme est disponible sur
http://mis.u-picardie.fr/JM2010/prog.html

Les themes de cette conference en mathematiques discretes et
informatique theorique sont :

- la combinatoire et l'algorithmique sur les mots,
- la theorie des automates et des langages formels,
- les systemes dynamiques discrets,
- la geometrie discrete,
- et leurs liens avec d'autres domaines (theorie des nombres,
verification, logique, theorie des semigroupes, theorie des jeux,
pavages, ... )

N'hesitez pas a faire circuler l'information et a faire suivre ce
message aupres de vos collegues.

En esperant vous rencontrer nombreux lors de ces journees, recevez
cher(e) collegue, nos salutations amicales.
Le comite d'organisation.

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Dear Colleague,

The 13th "Journees Montoises d'Informatique Theorique" (Mons Theoretical
Computer Science Days)

will be held at Amiens (France) from September 6th to September 10th
2010.

The program is available at http://mis.u-picardie.fr/JM2010/prog-en.html

The main topics of this conference on discrete mathematics and
theoretical computer science are:

- Combinatorics and algorithmics on words,
- Automata theory and formal languages theory,
- Discrete dynamical systems,
- Discrete geometry,
- and their relationship with other topics (number theory,
model-checking, logical aspects, theory of semigroups, game theory,
tilings, ...)

Please circulate this information by forwarding this message to your
colleagues.

We hope to see you soon in Amiens. With best regards,
The organizing committee.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for participation: August 22, 2010
Conference: September 6-10, 2010

INVITED SPEAKERS

Juhani Karhumaki (University of Turku, Finland)
Thierry Lecroq (Universite de Rouen, France)
Alejandro Maas (Santiago, Chile)
Franck Petit (Universite Paris VI, France)
Jean-Eric Pin (CNRS Paris, France)
Narad Rampersad (University of Liege, Belgium)
Mathieu Sablik (Universite de Provence, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Boris Adamczewski (Lyon, France)
Valerie Berthe (CNRS, LIRMM Montpellier, France)
Veronique Bruyere (Mons, Belgium)
Fabien Durand (Amiens, France)
Petr Kurka (Prague, Republique tcheque)
Thierry Lecroq (Rouen, France)
Jean Mairesse (CNRS Paris, France)
Antonio Restivo (Palerme, Italie)
Gwenael Richomme (Montpellier, France)
Michel Rigo (Liege, Belgique)
Patrice Seebold (Montpellier, France)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Fabien Durand (Amiens, France)
Richard Groult (Amiens, France)
Julien Leroy (Amiens, France)
Florence Leve (Amiens, France)
Samuel Petite (Amiens, France)
Gwenael Richomme (Montpellier, France)
Michel Rigo (Liege, Belgique)

CONTACT ADDRESSES:

For further information see:
http://www.mis.u-picardie.fr/JM2010/
or contact jm2010@u-picardie.fr
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[DMANET] Junior Professorship

A "Junior Professorship" (six years, no tenure track, W1 salary)

"DISCRETE GEOMETRIC MODELS"

is now available in the framework of the ERC ADVANCED GRANT project
"SDModels: Structured Discrete Models as a basis for studies
in Geometry, Numerical Analysis, Topology, and Visualization"
at the Technische Universität Berlin.

The successful candidate will be active in research in the broad
research framework of the "SDModels" ERC Advanced Grant awarded to
Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, and will contribute to teaching in the area
of discrete geometry and related fields.

The research group at TU Berlin provides an excellent environment for
both research and teaching. It offers rich possibilities to participate
in research and doctoral programs such as the application area
"Networks" at the DFG Research Center MATHEON, the DFG Research
Training Group "Methods for Discrete Structures", and the Berlin
Mathematical School (Graduate School in the framework of the German
Excellence Initiative).

Candidates must satisfy the requirements for junior professorship
appointments according to §102a of the Berliner Hochschulgesetz (BerlHG).

Reference number: II-927
Applications due by :August 12, 2010.

Please send applications (CV, list of publications, teaching experience,
research statement, copies of certificates) with the reference number
II-927 both in hardcopy to

The President
Technische Universität Berlin, Fakultät II
Institute of Mathematics, MA 4-1
Str. des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin
Germany

and electronically (PDF) to ziegler@math.tu-berlin.de.

For more information please contact
Prof. Günter M. Ziegler <ziegler@math.tu-berlin.de>.

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Prof. Günter M. Ziegler

Inst. Mathematics, MA 6-2
TU Berlin
D-10623 Berlin, Germany

email: ziegler@math.tu-berlin.de
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~ziegler
Tel.: +49 - 30 - 314-25730
FAX: +49 - 30 - 314-21269
skype: gmziegler

Sekretariat: Elke Pose Tel.: +49 - 30 - 314-23354
pose@math.tu-berlin.de
Medienbüro: Thomas Vogt Tel.: +49 - 30 - 314-78788
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

call for participation - ALT 2010

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ALT 2010

Dear colleagues,

Online registration for the 21st International Conference on
Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2010) is now open:
http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT10/regist.html

The early registration deadline is ** August 21, 2010. **

ALT 2010 will be held in Canberra, Australia, October 6-8, 2010.
ALT will be co-located with the 13th International Conference on
Discovery Science (DS).

The invited speakers for ALT and DS 2010 are
Peter L. Bartlett
Ivan Bratko
Alexander Clark
Rao Kotagiri
Manfred K. Warmuth

For more information see
http://www-alg.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/~thomas/ALT10/alt10.jhtml

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Dr. Sandra Zilles
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Regina
Canada

[DMANET] ICLP'10 Proceedings published open access (LIPIcs,Vol.7)

= Book Announcement =

Title: Technical Communications of ICLP'10 (26th International Conference on
Logic Programming)
Editors: Manuel Hermenegildo and Torsten Schaub
Series: LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics)
Volume: 7
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-939897-17-0

Access: Open Access (online and free of charge) at

http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-939897-17-0


== About the ICLP Conference ==

Since the first conference held in Marseilles in 1982, ICLP has been the premier
international conference for presenting research in logic programming. The
conference is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming.

See also:
* http://www.floc-conference.org/ICLP-home.html
* http://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/projects/ALP/Previous_ICLP/

== About the Proceedings ==

The Logic Programming (LP) community, through the Association for Logic
Programming (ALP) and its Executive Committee, decided to introduce for 2010
important changes in the way the main yearly results in LP and related areas are
published. Whereas such results have appeared to date in standalone volumes of
proceedings of the yearly International Conferences on Logic Pro- gramming
(ICLP), and this method--fully in the tradition of Computer Science (CS)--has
served the community well, it was felt that an effort needed to be made to
achieve a higher level of compatibility with the publishing mechanisms of other
fields outside CS.
In order to achieve this goal without giving up the traditional CS conference
format a different model has been adopted starting in 2010 in which the yearly
ICLP call for submissions takes the form of a joint call for a) full papers to
be considered for publication in a special issue of the journal, and b) shorter
technical communications to be considered for publication in a separate,
standalone volume, with both kinds of papers being presented by their authors at
the conference. Together, the journal special issue and the volume of short
technical communications constitute the proceedings of ICLP.
The journal proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Logic
Programming are the first of a series of yearly special issues of Theory and
Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP) putting this new model into practice. It
contains the papers accepted from those submitted as full papers (i.e., for
TPLP) in the joint ICLP call for 2010. The collection of technical
communications for 2010 in hand appears in turn as Volume 7 of the Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, published on line
through the Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server (DROPS). Both sets of
papers were presented by their authors at this 26th ICLP.

See also:
* Frontmatter incl. table of contents: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.i
* Preface: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2010.XI

== About the LIPIcs Series ==

"LIPIcs: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics" is a series
of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics
established in cooperation with "Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz Center of
Informatics". LIPIcs volumes are published according to the principle
of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available online and free of charge.

See also:
* http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/


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Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics
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[DMANET] RTA'10 Proceedings published open access (LIPIcs,Vol.6)

= Book Announcement =

Title: Proceedings of RTA'10 (21st International Conference on Rewriting
Techniques and Applications)
Editor: Christopher Lynch
Series: LIPIcs (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics)
Volume: 6
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Dagstuhl Publishing
ISBN: 978-3-939897-18-7

Access: Open Access (online and free of charge) at

http://www.dagstuhl.de/dagpub/978-3-939897-18-7


== About the RTA Conference ==

RTA is the major conference on rewriting and covers all aspects related to
rewriting such as termination, equational reasoning, theorem proving, Lambda
calculus, higher-order rewriting, unification, verification, constraints, and
software tools.

See also:
* http://rewriting.loria.fr/rta/

== About the Proceedings ==

This volume contains the papers presented at the 21st International Conference
on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA 2010) which was held from July 11
to July 13, 2010, in Edinburgh, Scotland as part of the 5th International
Federated Logic Conference (FLOC 2010). For RTA 2010, 23 regular research papers
and three system descriptions were accepted out of 48 submissions.

See also:
* Frontmatter incl. table of contents: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2010.i
* Preface: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.RTA.2010.XIII

== About the LIPIcs Series ==

"LIPIcs: Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics" is a series
of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics
established in cooperation with "Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz Center of
Informatics". LIPIcs volumes are published according to the principle
of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available online and free of charge.

See also:
* http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/


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STACS 2011: Second Call for Papers

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28th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science

STACS 2011 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

March 10-12, 2011, Dortmund, Germany

Deadline for submission: September 24, 2010
Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2011

http://stacs2011.de/
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SCOPE
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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and
unpublished research on theoretical aspects of computer
science. Typical areas include (but are not limited to):

* Algorithms and data structures, including: parallel and distributed
algorithms, computational geometry, cryptography, algorithmic
learning
theory;
* Automata and formal languages;
* Computational and structural complexity;
* Logic in computer science, including: semantics, specification, and
verification of programs, rewriting and deduction;
* Current challenges, for example: biological computing, quantum
computing, mobile and net computing.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Dietmar Berwanger, ENS Cachan
Patrick Briest, Paderborn University
Christian Choffrut, LIAFA, Université Denis Diderot
Benjamin Doerr, MPI Saarbrücken
Christoph Dürr, Ecole Polytechnique (co-chair)
Leah Epstein, University of Haifa
Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester
Michele Flammini, University of L'Aquila
Nicolas Hanusse, LaBRI Bordeaux
Markus Holzer, Gießen University
Dániel Marx, Tel Aviv University
Claire Mathieu, Brown University
Colin McDiarmid, Oxford University
Rolf Niedermeier, Jena University
Nicolas Ollinger, Aix-Marseille Université
Marco Pellegrini, CNR Pisa
Jean-Francois Raskin, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thomas Schwentick, TU Dortmund University (co-chair)
Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo
Till Tantau, University of Lübeck
Sophie Tison, Université de Lille
Ronald de Wolf, CWI Amsterdam

INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Susanne Albers, Humboldt University Berlin
- Veronique Cortier, LORIA Nancy
- Georg Gottlob, Oxford University

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12
pages (STACS style or similar - e.g. LaTeX article style, 11pt
a4paper) at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2011.

The title page must contain a classification of the topic
covered, preferably using the list of topics above. The paper should
contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a
summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their
significance, accessible to non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due
to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the
program committee members at their discretion. Submissions deviating
from these guidelines risk rejection. Electronic submissions should be
formatted in PDF.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published
proceedings is not allowed.

PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the Symposium.
As usual, these proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International
Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss
Dagstuhl. This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access,
while the authors will retain the rights over their work. In
addition, the proceedings will also be available as archives in the
open access electronic repositories HAL and arXiv. With their
submission, authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program
committee chairs to organize the electronic publication of their paper
if it is accepted. Further details are available on www.stacs-conf.org
and on the conference website, stacs2011.de. Participants of the
conference will receive a USB-stick with an electronic version of the
proceedings. It is also planned to publish in a journal a selection
of papers.

IMPORTANT DATES
***************
Deadline for submission: September 24, 2010
Notification to authors: November 29, 2010
Final version: January 3, 2011
Symposium: March 10-12, 2011

[DMANET] 4th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO'2010), 2-4 December 2010, Kucing Borneo Sarawak, Malaysia

Dear Respected and Honored Colleague:
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO'2010)
ISBN 978-983-44483-3-2
http://www.pcoglobal.com
2-4 December 2010, Kucing Borneo Sarawak, Malaysia

http://www.springer.com/engineering/energy+technology/book/978-0-7354-0785-5
Damai Puri Resort, Kucing, Sarawak
http://www.damaipuriresort-kuching.com

It is our great pleasure to announce the Fourth Global Conference on
Power Control and Optimization PCO 2010, which will be held in Damai
Puri Resort, Kucing, Sarawak, Malaysia from 2 - 4 December 2010.
Scope of the conference is contemporary and original research and
educational development in the area of electrical power engineering,
control systems and methods of optimization.
Prospective authors from universities or institutes and industries are
invited to submit the full paper by email before the deadline. All
papers will be peer reviewed by independent specialists.
Conference proceeding will be published online by AIP. Selected papers
will be published in Elsevier, Springer, Inderscience, Professional
Engineering, and other Journals.
Proposal for holding special sessions, tutorial, exhibition and
workshop are invited from prospective authors, industrial bodies and
academicians should be addressed to the conference secretariat.


The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the
following topics:
* Hybrid renewable energy and energy saving
* Power systems, protection and reliability
* Controllers, drives and machine design
* Smart system and dynamic robust system
* Mechatronics and nano physics
* NEMS and MEMS
* Simulators and software engineering
* Soft computing and computational intelligent
* Fuzzy and hybrid optimization
* Bioinformatics and body sensors
* Inventory, queuing and game theory
* Control Systems
* FEM
* Power Electronics
* Robotics and Sensors
* Artificial immune systems & neural network
* Evolutionary algorithms
* Ant colony, genetic and swarm optimization
* probabilistic and possibilistic optimization
* Production design and rough set
* Line, pattern searches and decision making
* Micro transportation and civil structure
* Cams & gear design and optimum valves
* Network communication and wireless sensor
* Scheduling and assignment problems
* Graph theory and supply chain management
* Simulation and Modeling
* Operational Research
* Intelligent Systems & Applications
* Energy, Hydrogen energy, Bio-energy and Fuel
* Heat transfer & Biomass
* Fusion technology
* Automatic computing, Biological computing
* Coordinative intelligence, Granular computing
* Humanized intelligence,Cloud computing
* Hybrid artificial & Natural intelligence and computing
* ComputerScience & Computer Engineering
* Climate & energy systems, wind energy, fuel cells & Hydrogen, Solar
energy, Nuclear technologies
* Financial optimization
* Fuzzy statistics

Steering Committee
Prof. Dr. Felix Chernousko, Russia
Prof. Dr. Andrew Kusiak, USA
Dr. Kenneth Adan, Malaysia
Dr. Rami Hikmat, Jordan
Dr. Sermsak Uatrongjit, Thailand
Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Turkey
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Nader Barsoum, Malaysia (Chairman)
Dr. Pandian Vasant, Malaysia
Dr. Rabi W Yousif, Malaysia
Dr. Jeffrey Webb, Malaysia
Dr. Manas Kumar Haldar, Malaysia
Dr. Su Hieng Tiong, Malaysia
Dr. Yuehui Chen, China
Keynote Speaker
Prof. Dr. Milun Babic, Serbia
Prof. Dr. Tsu Tian Lee, Taiwan
Prof. Dr. Mingcong Deng, Japan
Prof. Dr. T. S. Zhao, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Yew Soon Wong, Singapore
Prof. Dr. Alan Oxley, Malaysia
Prof. Dr. M. Ahmad Al-Nimr, Jordan
Prof. Dr. Robert Grubbstrom, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Fedorov, Russia
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Borutzky, Germany
Prof. Dr. Vitezslav Benda, Czech Republic
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Höflinger, Austria


International Program Committee
Please refer to http://www.pcoglobal.com


Important Dates
Submission of Full Papers: 01/08/2010
Notification with Peer Review: 01/09/2010
Camera-ready Paper: 15/10/2010
Registration with Full Payment: 15/10/2010


All correspondence should be addressed to the conference secretariat:
Tel: 605 3711 416, 6085 44 3821
Email: pcoglobal@gmail.com
Website: http://www.pcoglobal.com

Sincerely yours,
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[DMANET] Stellenausschreibung TU Chemnitz

S T E L L E N A U S S C H R E I B U N G

An der Fakultaet fuer Mathematik der Technischen Universitaet Chemnitz
ist an der Professur Algorithmische und Diskrete Mathematik fuer die
Bearbeitung der Teilprojekts

'Konvexe Chance-Constraint Modelle fuer Robuste Kommunikationsnetze'

innerhalb des BMBF-Verbundprojekts 'Robuste Kommunikationsnetze' (ROBUKOM)
zum 1. Oktober 2010 eine Stelle als

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
( Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L)

befristet bis zum 30.06.2013 zu besetzen. Die befristete Einstellung
erfolgt gemaess den Regelungen des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes
(WissZeitVG) und des Saechsischen Hochschulgesetzes (SaechsHSG) in der
jeweils geltenden Fassung.

Der Aufgabenbereich umfasst die Entwicklung, wissenschaftliche
Dikussion und algorithmische Umsetzung von Chance-Constraint Modellen
mit Ganzzahligkeitsforderungen und entsprechenden L�sungsverfahren
fuer die robuste kapazitive Auslegung von Kommunikationsnetzen.

Einstellungsvoraussetzung ist ein abgeschlossenes wissenschaftliches
Hochschulstudium auf dem Gebiet der Mathematik, welches zur Zulassung
zum h�heren Dienst berechtigt. Weiterhin sind die
Einstellungsvoraussetzungen gemaess � 71 Saechsisches Hochschulgesetz zu
erfuellen.

Der/die Kandidat(in) soll ein mathematisches Studium mit
ueberdurchschnittlichem Erfolg abgeschlossen haben, die Promotion oder
eine h�here Qualifikation auf einem Gebiet der Optimierung oder der
Algorithmischen und Diskreten Mathematik anstreben und m�glichst
folgende Qualifikationen vorweisen k�nnen:

- Solide Kenntnisse und m�glichst praktische Erfahrung in mathematischer,
insbesondere konvexer oder gemischt-ganzzahliger Optimierung
- Beherrschung von C++ oder einer vergleichbaren Programmiersprache
- vorteilhaft sind Vorkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der stochastischen
Optimierung oder in der Modellierung von Kommunikationsnetzen

Die Technische Universitaet Chemnitz strebt einen hohen Anteil von
Frauen in der Lehre und Forschung an. Qualifizierte Frauen sind deshalb
ausdruecklich aufgefordert, sich zu bewerben. Schwerbehinderte Menschen
werden bei gleicher Eignung bevorzugt beruecksichtigt.

Bewerbungen mit den ueblichen Unterlagen richten Sie bitte
bis zum 03.09.2010 an:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmberg
Technische Universitaet Chemnitz
Fakultaet fuer Mathematik
Reichenhainer Str. 39
09126 Chemnitz
Telefon: 0371 531 34122
christoph.helmberg@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de

[DMANET] Call for Papers WALCOM 2011

Call for papers


Workshop on Algorithms and Computation 2011 (WALCOM 2011)
http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~amitk/walcom/


The Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM) is intended
to provide an international forum for researchers working in the areas
of algorithms and computation. WALCOM 2011 will be held on February
18-20, 2011 at New Delhi, India.

SCOPE
The range of topics within the scope of the workshop of
algorithms and computation includes (but is not limited to):

Approximation Algorithms
Combinatorial Algorithms
Computational Biology
Computational Geometry
Data Structures
Graph Algorithms
Graph Drawing
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
Parameterized Complexity
Network Optimization
Online Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms
String Algorithms

CALL FOR PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit papers (extended abstracts)
describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to
algorithms and computation. Papers should not exceed 12 pages for long
papers and 6 pages for short papers in LNCS style. Papers must be
labeled as either long or short and prepared using LaTex / LaTex2e. If
the authors feel that more details are essential to substantiate the
main claim of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that
will be read at the discretion of the program committee. Only electronic
submission will be allowed.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted submissions will be published in the conference
proceedings, which will likely be included in the Springer-Verlag series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

VENUE

The workshop will be held in India International Center, New
Delhi. The workshop will be organized by Indian Institute of Technology
and Faculty of Sciences, Delhi University.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission : September 17, 2010
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : November 2, 2010
Cameraready version due : November 12, 2010
Workshop : February 18-20, 2011

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Naoki Katoh (Kyoto University,Japan) -- co-chair
Amit Kumar (IIT Delhi, India) -- co-chair
Takehiro Ito (Tohoku University, Japan)
Khaled Elbassioni (Max-Planck Institute, Saarbrucken, Germany)
Anupam Gupta (CMU, USA)
Yogish Sabharwal (IBM India Research Lab, India)
Takeaki Uno (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Tetsuo Shibuya (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Ovidiu Daescu (UT Dallas, USA)
Hirotaka Ono (Kyushu University, Japan)
Kasturi Varadarajan (Iowa, USA)
Stefan Langerman (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Subhas Nandy (ISI Kolkata, India)
Friedrich Eisenbrand (EPFL, Switzerland)
Kamesh Munagala (Duke, USA)
Hee-Kap Ahn (Pohang University, Korea)
Seokhee Hong (University of Sydney, Australia)
Yoshio Okamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Jinhui Xu (SUNY Buffalo, USA)
Rudolf Fleischer (Fudan University, China)
Sohel Rahman (BUET, Bangladesh)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Neelima Gupta (University of Delhi)
Naveen Garg (IIT Delhi)
Vasudha Bhatnagar (University of Delhi)
Naveen Kumar (University of Delhi)
Manisha Bansal (University of Delhi)

CONTACT DETAILS

Prof. Naoki Katoh
Dept. of Architecture and Architectural Systems
Graduate School of Engineering
Kyoto University, Japan
E-mail: naoki@archi.kyoto-u.ac.jp


Dr. Amit Kumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Delhi
New Delhi, India - 110016
Email: amitk@cse.iitd.ac.in

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Naveen Garg
Computer Sc.& Engg
IIT Delhi
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

[DMANET] ODSA --- extended deadlines

We have extended some deadlines for the conference to July 31st.


OPTIMAL DISCRETE STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS (ODSA 2010)

September 13-15, 2010, Rostock, Germany


INVITED SPEAKERS

Michal Karonski (Poznan)
Imre Leader (Cambridge) <<<<NEW!!>>>>
Kurt Mehlhorn (Saarbruecken)
Walter Wallis (Carbondale)
Peter Widmayer (Zuerich)
Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven)

CONTRIBUTED TALKS

We invite submission of short abstracts of 25-minute talks to be
presented at the conference in parallel sections. The deadline for
submission is now

July 31st, 2010.

See http://www.math.uni-rostock.de/odsa/ for submission details.


REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE FEE

The deadline for registration is now

July 31st, 2010.

The conference fee of

Euro 50 (students: Euro 35)

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[DMANET] IEEE MASS 2010: Call for Participation and Important Dates for Demos CFP

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

IEEE MASS 2010
7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc
and Sensor Systems
https://mass2010.soe.ucsc.edu/

November 8-12, 2010 - San Francisco, CA, USA

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Commitee on
Distributed Processing and IEEE Computer Society Technical Commitee on
Simulation

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CONFERENCE SITE:
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The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor
Systems (IEEE MASS 2010) will be held in San Francisco, California, USA.


SCOPE:
------
Wireless ad-hoc communication has applications in a variety of
environments, such as conferences, hospitals, battlefields and
disaster-recovery/rescue operations, and is also being actively
investigated as an alternative paradigm for Internet connectivity in
both urban and rural areas. Wireless sensor and actuator networks are
also being deployed for enhancing industrial control processes and
supply-chains, and for various forms of environmental monitoring. The
IEEE MASS 2010 aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop
ad-hoc and sensor networks, covering topics ranging from technology
issues to applications and test-bed development. Please keep checking
the IEEE MASS 2010 web-space for more information and regular updates.


REGISTRATION:
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Registration to IEEE MASS is now available at the conference website.
Early registration ends on September 3rd.


WORKSHOPS:
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- The Third Workshop on Mobile Entity Localization and Tracking (MELT)
- The Second Workshop on SCEnarios for Network Evaluation Studies (SCENES)
- The Sixth Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Network Security (WSNS)
- The Fourth Workshop on Enabling Technologies and Standards for
Wireless Mesh Networking (MESHTECH)
- The First BioSense Workshop: Networking and Environmental Sensing meet
Epidemiology and Biology
- The Second International Workshop on Intelligent Vehicular Networks
(InVeNet)


CFP DEMOS – IMPORTANT DATES:
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Abstract submission deadline: 30 July 2010
Acceptance notification: 27 August 2010
Camera-ready submission: 10 September 2010
IEEE MASS 2010: 8-12 November 2010


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE:
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS
Mario Gerla, University of California, Los Angeles
Katia Obraczka, University of California, Santa Cruz

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Guohong Cao, Pennsylvania State University
Prasant Mohapatra, University of California, Davis


TPC SUB-AREA CHAIRS
- Protocols and Cross-Layer Technologies
Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida

- Systems, and applications
Chenyang Lu, Washington Unviersity in St. Louis

- Algorithms and theory
Dong Xuan, Ohio State University

- Reliability, security and privacy
Radha Poovendran, University of Washington


WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Cedric Westphal, DoCoMo Labs
Christine Pepin, DoCoMo Labs


DEMO CHAIR
Rajeev Koodli, Starent Networks
Marcelo Dias Amorim, LIP 6, Universite' Paris 6


WEB CHAIR
Venkatesh Rajendran, Wionics


FINANCE AND REGISTRATION CHAIR
Zhen Jiang, West Chester University


PUBLICATION CHAIR
Dajin Wang, Montclair State University


PUBLICITY CHAIR
Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS
Kumar Viswanath, NTT Labs
Ignacio Solis, PARC

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
Dharma P. Agrawal, University of Cincinnati


CHAIR OF IEEE TC ON DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING
Jie Wu, US National Science Foundation


CHAIR OF IEEE TC ON SIMULATION
Dave Cavalcanti, Phillips Research

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

[DMANET] Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry: CCCG 2010

conference announcement: call for participation

CANADIAN CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY (CCCG 2010)
August 9-11, 2010, Winnipeg, Canada

The 22nd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG 2010)
will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on August 9-11, 2010, at
the University of Manitoba.

CCCG focuses on the design of efficient algorithms, the development of
software, and the study of the mathematical foundations of
computational problems whose formulations involve geometric
constraints. The field of computational geometry is motivated by
problems from a broad range of application areas, as diverse as
computer graphics and animation, computer vision, computer-aided
design and manufacturing, geographic information systems, pattern
recognition, wireless communications, robotics, urban planning, graph
drawing, or statistical analysis to name just a few.

CCCG is a forum, accessible to a broad community of researchers, to
disseminate and discuss new theoretical and applied results in
discrete and computational geometry. The intended audience for this
conference includes graduate and undergraduate students, researchers
in the area, and members of industry whose work involves geometric
computation. Selected papers from the conference will be invited for
submission to a special issue of the journal Computational Geometry:
Theory and Applications.

INVITED SPEAKERS

David Avis - McGill University (Paul Erdos Memorial Lecturer)
David Eppstein - University of California, Irvine
David Kirkpatrick - University of British Columbia

IMPORTANT DATES

Early Registration Deadline: July 23, 2010
Conference: August 9-11, 2010

CONFERENCE WEB PAGE

For additional details, including submission instructions and local
information, please visit the conference webpage:
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~cccg2010

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Greg Aloupis Academia Sinica
Tetsuo Asano Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Binay Bhattacharya Simon Fraser University
Prosenjit Bose Carleton University
Helen Cameron University of Manitoba
Paz Carmi Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Sebastien Collette Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Adrian Dumitrescu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Stephane Durocher (co-chair) University of Manitoba
Will Evans University of British Columbia
Sandor Fekete Braunschweig University of Technology
Chris Gray Braunschweig University of Technology
John Howat Carleton University
John Iacono Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Mark Keil University of Saskatchewan
Marc van Kreveld Utrecht University
Stefan Langerman Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Anna Lubiw University of Waterloo
Avner Magen University of Toronto
Anil Maheshwari Carleton University
Andrea Mantler University of Manitoba
Pat Morin Carleton University
Jason Morrison (co-chair) University of Manitoba
Bardia Sadri University of Toronto
Stephen Wismath University of Lethbridge
Norbert Zeh Dalhousie University

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Helen Cameron University of Manitoba
Stephane Durocher (co-chair) University of Manitoba
Mark Keil University of Saskatchewan
Andrea Mantler University of Manitoba
Jason Morrison (co-chair) University of Manitoba

SPONSORS

We thank the following organizations for generously supporting CCCG 2010.

Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
Faculty of Science, University of Manitoba
Faculty of Engineering, University of Manitoba
Fields Institute
Pacific Institute for Mathematical Studies (PIMS)
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[DMANET] TAMC 2011 - May 23-25, 2011, Tokyo, Japan - Call for papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

TAMC 2011
8th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation
May 23 -- 25, 2011, Tokyo, Japan

EMAIL: tamc2011@easychair.org
http://www.jtlab.ice.uec.ac.jp/tamc/

After six annual meetings in China ('04-'09) and one in Czech
Republic ('10), TAMC2011 will be held in Japan, at the University
of Electro-Communications, approximately 10 miles southwest of
the Shinjuku district in Tokyo.

AIM AND SCOPE

TAMC aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with interests
in computational models and their applications. The main themes of the
conference are computability, complexity, and algorithms. The topics of
interest include (but are not limited to):

- algebraic computation,
- approximation algorithms,
- automata theory,
- biological computing,
- circuit complexity,
- computability,
- computational biology,
- computational complexity,
- computational game theory,
- computational logic,
- computational geometry,
- cryptography,
- data structures,
- distributed algorithms,
- graph algorithms,
- information and randomness,
- learning theory,
- natural computation,
- network algorithms,
- neural computational models,
- online algorithms,
- parallel algorithms,
- proof complexity,
- quantum computing,
- randomized algorithms,
- streaming algorithms.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE

Submission is through EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tamc2011.

A submission must be typeset with LaTeX using the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes style. Its length must be no more than ten pages. A clearly marked
appendix may be added, but it will be read at the discretion of PC.
Submission of papers accepted for publication in journals is not
permitted. Nor is simultaneous submission to other conferences with
published proceedings.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published as a volume in Lecture Notes
in Computer Science.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES

A special issue of selected papers from TAMC2011 in Theoretical Computer
Science is being planned. Another TAMC special issue may be published in
Mathematical Structures in Computer Science.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Tetsuo Asano (JAIST, Japan)
Richard Lipton (Georgia Tech., USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Olaf Beyersdorff (Hannover, Germany)
Cristian Calude (Auckland, New Zealand)
Amit Chakrabarti (Hanover, USA)
Danny Chen (Notre Dame, USA)
Zhi-Zhong Chen (Tokyo, Japan)
Marek Chrobak (Riverside, USA)
Pierluigi Crescenzi (Firenze, Italy)
William Gasarch (College Park, USA)
Tero Harju (Turku, Finland)
Miki Hermann (Palaisseau, France)
Sanjay Jain (Singapore, Singapore)
Ming-Yang Kao (Chicago, USA)
S Rao Kosaraju (Baltimore, USA)
Carlos Martin Vide (Tarragona, Spain)
Peter Bro Miltersen (Aarhus, Denmark)
Mitsunori Ogihara, chair (Miami, USA)
Ruediger Reischuk (Luebeck, Germany)
Christian Sohler (Dortmund, Germany)
Jun Tarui, co-chair (Tokyo, Japan)
Takeshi Tokuyama (Sendai, Japan)
Chee-Keng Yap (New York, USA)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Manindra Agrawal (Kanpur, India)
Jin-Yi Cai (Madison, USA)
S. Barry Cooper (Leeds, UK)
John Hopcroft (Ithaca, USA)
Angsheng Li (Beijing, China)

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline Jan. 10, '11
Notification of Acceptance Feb. 18, '11
Final Version Due Mar. 7, '11
Early Registration Deadline Mar. 28, '11

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Friday, July 16, 2010

Workshop on Advances in Algorithmic Game Theory, CWI Amsterdam, Sep. 2-3, 2010

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY

Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 2-3, 2010

Workshop website: http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10

***** PLEASE REGISTER BEFORE AUGUST 16, 2010 *****

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Algorithmic game theory has become a highly active research field that contributed successfully to
the understanding of many fundamental games in recent years. The aim of the workshop is to
provide an international forum for researchers that are active in this field to present and discuss
recent results, exchange ideas and identify potential future research directions. The workshop will
also offer young scientists the opportunity to get an overview of the state-of-the-art of the field.

The two-day workshop will be hosted at the Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
in Amsterdam and will take place September 2-3, 2010. There will be four keynote talks and
about 16 contributed talks. The keynote speakers are:

* Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras, Greece)
* Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
* Jason Hartline (Nothwestern University, USA)
* Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, USA)

A preliminary program is available on the website

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/program.html

REGISTRATION

The participation at the workshop is free of charge. Please register before August 16, 2010 if you
want to attend the workshop:

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/registration.html

ACCOMMODATION

We reserved a block of rooms in two hotels that are close to CWI. For more information, please
refer to

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/accommodation.html

Local organizer:
Guido Schaefer

New DARPA Programs in Cryptography

DARPA-BAA-10-81: PROgramming Computation on EncryptEd Data
DARPA-RA-10-80: PROgramming Computation on EncryptEd Data
Frequently Asked Questions


Initial Responses due August 24, 2010.
Here is some relevent text:

The goal of the PROCEED research effort is to develop practical
methods for computation on encrypted data without decrypting the data
and to develop modern programming languages to describe these
computations. PROCEED is a comprehensive research effort with six
primary research thrusts:

- Mathematical Foundations of Fully Homomorphic Encryption –
Discovery and development of new mathematical underpinnings for
efficient computation on encrypted data is needed in a noninteractive
setting. The solution might involve fully homomorphic encryption
[Gentry09, Gentry10, Smart10] that allow noninteractive computation on
encrypted data. This area is captured in RA-10-80, and interested
proposers are referred to that solicitation.

- Mathematical Foundations of Secure Multiparty Computation –
Discovery and development of new mathematical underpinnings for
efficient computation on encrypted data is needed in an interactive
setting. Secure multiparty computation [Yao86, Bickson10] has a rich
history of interactive computation on encrypted data, but requires
further improvements to be truly practical.

- Mathematical Foundations of Supporting Security Technologies –
Computation on encrypted data preserves the confidentiality of the
data being computed on, but does not inherently protect the integrity
of the computation, nor provide strong protection of the program,
among other potentially desirable security goals. Techniques to
address these and other related security issues are sought in the
PROCEED research effort.

- Implementation/Measurement/Optimization – To make computation on
encrypted data practical, highly optimized implementations, possibly
including programmable hardware, will be needed. Experience shows
there can be at least an order of magnitude difference in the
performance of highly optimized cryptography implementations over less
sophisticated implementations.

- Algorithms – Practical computation on encrypted data will require
libraries of data structures and algorithms that are optimized for
efficiency in the encrypted domain.  Most current approaches to
computation on encrypted data work by turning a program (with a
bounded maximum input size) into a circuit.1 An important goal for
optimization is minimizing circuit depth, which is traditionally a
goal of hardware designers, not programmers.

- Programming Languages – More advanced languages are sought, with
type systems that embed cryptographic knowledge, making programming
computation on encrypted data no more difficult than conventional
programming. Today’s languages for computation on encrypted data, such
as the one in the FairPlay system [Malkhi04] are simple, imperative
languages that have little, if any, type system support for
cryptography.

[DMANET] Workshop on Advances in Algorithmic Game Theory, CWI Amsterdam, Sep. 2-3, 2010

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
==========================================================

WORKSHOP ON ADVANCES IN ALGORITHMIC GAME THEORY

Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 2-3, 2010

Workshop website: http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10

***** PLEASE REGISTER BEFORE AUGUST 16, 2010 *****

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

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contributed successfully to the understanding of many fundamental
games in recent years. The aim of the workshop is to provide an
international forum for researchers that are active in this field to
present and discuss recent results, exchange ideas and identify
potential future research directions. The workshop will also offer
young scientists the opportunity to get an overview of the state-of-
the-art of the field.

The two-day workshop will be hosted at the Center for Mathematics and
Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and will take place September 2-3,
2010. There will be four keynote talks and about 16 contributed talks.
The keynote speakers are:

* Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras, Greece)
* Michal Feldman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
* Jason Hartline (Nothwestern University, USA)
* Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University, USA)

A preliminary program is available on the website

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/program.html

REGISTRATION

The participation at the workshop is free of charge. Please register
before August 16, 2010 if you want to attend the workshop:

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/registration.html

ACCOMMODATION

We reserved a block of rooms in two hotels that are close to CWI. For
more information, please refer to

http://www.cwi.nl/~schaefer/agt10/accommodation.html

Local organizer:
Guido Schaefer


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[DMANET] Biomarker Discovery Conference (BDC 2010)

CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE 17th August!!

Event Title: Biomarker Discovery Conference (BDC 2010)

Location: Shoal Bay Resort and Spa, Port Stephens NSW Australia.

Start Date: Monday December 6, 2010
End Date: Friday December 10, 2010

Contact: MTCi, Secretariat BDC @ Shoal Bay
Email: bdc@mtci.com.au

Details: The Inaugural Biomarker Discovery Conference will be held in magnificent Shoal Bay, NSW. It showcases the latest innovations in Biomarker Discovery using genomic, proteomic and metabolomic tools and methods. International experts in all these fields and bioinformatics will be presenting at the meeting. Cancer and Neurobiology will be important topics and there will be specialist workshops on aspects of biomarker discovery, bioinformatics and applications.
A number in each session will be contributed talks. Submit your abstract online to be considered for inclusion in the program. For more information please see our web site http://bdc.mtci.com.au/.


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