Saturday, January 28, 2012

[DMANET] conference announcement: Baer colloquium in Magdeburg

Reinhold-Baer-Colloquium and Birthday-colloquium

On the occasion of Dieter Jungnickels 60th birthday, the next
Reinhold-Baer-colloquium will take place in Magdeburg
March 23./24. 2012. Speakers are

Simeon Ball
Klaus Metsch
Marco Buratti
Leo Storme

More information is available through

http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~enge/dj60,

information about the series of Baer-colloquiua is here:

http://www.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/fachbereich/Stroppel/Baer.html

Formal registration is not needed, but a short note whether you
will attend is welcome.

If you want to join the conference dinner, please let us know no later
than March 1st (for the dinner, registration is mandatory!).

We are looking forward to meeting you soon in Magdeburg.

Andreas Enge, Alexander Pott, Bernhard Schmidt

--
Prof. Dr. Alexander Pott
Faculty of Mathematics
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Postfach 4120
39016 Magdeburg
Germany

phone (+49) 391 6718321
fax (+49) 391 6711213
mobile (+49) 177 2375622

alexander.pott@ovgu.de

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Friday, January 27, 2012

[DMANET] Final CfP Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation (Euro-Par 2012, Track 12)

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Call for Papers

Track 12: Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation
http://europar2012.cti.gr/topics/topic12

of

Euro-Par 2012,
18th International European Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Computing

http://europar2012.cti.gr/

August 27 - 31, Rhodes Island, Greece
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Scope of Track 12: Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation
=================================================================

Parallelism permeates all levels of current computing systems, from
single CPU machines, to large server farms, to geographically dispersed
"volunteers" who collaborate over the Internet. The effective use of
parallelism depends crucially on the availability of faithful, yet
tractable, models of computation for algorithm design and analysis and
of efficient strategies for solving key computational problems on
prominent classes of computing platforms. No less important are good
models of the way the different components/subsystems of a platform are
interconnected. With the development of new genres of computing
platforms, such as multicore parallel machines, desktop grids, clouds,
and hybrid GPU/CPU-based systems, new models and paradigms are needed
that will allow parallel programming to advance into mainstream
computing.

High-quality, original, papers are solicited, which contribute new
results on foundational issues regarding parallelism in computing and/or
proposing improved approaches to the solution of specific algorithmic
problems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Foundations, Models, and Emerging paradigms for parallel, distributed,
multiprocessor and network computation
- Deterministic and randomized parallel algorithms
- Lower bounds for key computational problems
- Models and algorithms for parallelism in memory hierarchies
- Models and algorithms for real networks (scale-free, small world,
wireless networks)
- Theoretical aspects of routing


Important Dates
===============

Deadline for abstracts: January 31, 2012
Deadline for full papers: February 7, 2012
Decision notification: May 11, 2012
Camera-ready full papers: June 1, 2012
Conference: August 27-31, 2012

Topic Committee
===============

- Geppino Pucci, University of Padova, Italy (global chair)
- Christos Zaroliagis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece (local chair)
- Kieran Herley, University College Cork, Ireland (vice chair)
- Henning Meyerhenke, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany (vice chair)

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[DMANET] Position of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor in Operations Research, VU University, Amsterdam.

Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, VU University Amsterdam, invites applications for the position of

Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor in Operations Research

For more information about the position, see

http://www.vu.nl/nl/werken-bij-de-vu/vacatures/2012/1.2012.00017.asp

or contact Prof. Dr. L. Stougie, (e-mail: l.stougie@vu.nl; phone: +31 20 59 89391). Applications should be received by February 15th, 2012.


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CFP: PPDP 2012 in Leuven, Belgium

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

Call for papers
14th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
PPDP 2012

Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP)

Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2012
(co-located with LOPSTR 2012)

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

PPDP 2012 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative
programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and
functional programming paradigms, but also embracing a variety of other
paradigms such as visual programming, executable specification languages,
database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to
stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying,
performing, and analysing computations, including mechanisms for mobility,
modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static
analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in
industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

* Functional programming
* Logic programming
* Answer-set programming
* Functional-logic programming
* Declarative visual languages
* Constraint Handling Rules
* Parallel implementation and concurrency
* Monads, type classes and dependent type systems
* Declarative domain-specific languages
* Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs
* Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages
* Language extensions for security and tabulation
* Probabilistic modelling in a declarative language and modelling reactivity
* Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems
* Practical experiences and industrial application

This year the conference will be co-located with the 22nd International
Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) and
held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN. The conference will be held in Leuven,
Belgium. Previous symposia were held at Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria),
Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa
(Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence
(Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France).

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and
must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed
proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published
workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of
questions). Proceedings will be published by ACM Press*

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend
their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The
papers are expected to include at least 25% extra material over and above the
PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will
be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by
Elsevier of 2013.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission: May 28, 2012
Paper submission: May 31, 2012
Notification: July 6, 2012
Camera-ready: July 18, 2012

Symposium: September 19-21, 2012

Invites for SCP: September 26, 2012
Submission of SCP: December 12, 2012
Notification from SCP: February 7, 2013
Camera-ready for SCP: March 7, 2013

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in
PDF. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors
and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will
be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers
should consist of no more than 12 pages, formatted following the ACM SIG
proceedings template (option 1). The 12 page limit must include references but
excludes well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Referees are not
required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without
them.

Program Committee:

Slim Abdennadher German University in Cairo, Egypt
Puri Arenas Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Marcello Balduccini Kodak Research Labs, USA
Amir Ben-Amram Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel
Philip Cox Dalhousie University, Canada
Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK
Martin Erwig Oregon State University, USA
Martin Gebser University of Potsdam, Germany
Jacob Howe City University London, UK
Joxan Jaffar National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales, Australia
Andy King University of Kent, UK
Julia Lawall INRIA Paris, France
Rita Loogen Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK
Matthew Might University of Utah, USA
Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK
Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden and NTUA, Greece
Taisuke Sato Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Tom Schrijvers University of Ghent, Belgium
Terrance Swift Universidade Nova de Lisboa, USA
Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky, USA
Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania, USA

Program Chair:

Andy King
School of Computing, University of Kent
Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK

General Co-Chairs

Daniel De Schreye and Gerda Janssens
Department of Computer Science
K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

* Confirmation pending

CFP: PPDP 2012 in Leuven, Belgium

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

Call for papers
14th International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
PPDP 2012

Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP)

Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2012
(co-located with LOPSTR 2012)

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

PPDP 2012 is a forum that brings together researchers from the declarative
programming communities, including those working in the logic, constraint and
functional programming paradigms, but also embracing a variety of other
paradigms such as visual programming, executable specification languages,
database languages, and knowledge representation languages. The goal is to
stimulate research in the use of logical formalisms and methods for specifying,
performing, and analysing computations, including mechanisms for mobility,
modularity, concurrency, object-orientation, security, verification and static
analysis. Papers related to the use of declarative paradigms and tools in
industry and education are especially solicited. Topics of interest include,
but are not limited to:

* Functional programming
* Logic programming
* Answer-set programming
* Functional-logic programming
* Declarative visual languages
* Constraint Handling Rules
* Parallel implementation and concurrency
* Monads, type classes and dependent type systems
* Declarative domain-specific languages
* Termination, resource analysis and the verification of declarative programs
* Transformation and partial evaluation of declarative languages
* Language extensions for security and tabulation
* Probabilistic modelling in a declarative language and modelling reactivity
* Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems
* Practical experiences and industrial application

This year the conference will be co-located with the 22nd International
Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) and
held in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN. The conference will be held in Leuven,
Belgium. Previous symposia were held at Odense (Denmark), Hagenberg (Austria),
Coimbra (Portugal), Valencia (Spain), Wroclaw (Poland), Venice (Italy), Lisboa
(Portugal), Verona (Italy), Uppsala (Sweden), Pittsburgh (USA), Florence
(Italy), Montreal (Canada), and Paris (France).

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English, and
must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are
simultaneously submitted to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed
proceedings. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published
workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of
questions). Proceedings will be published by ACM Press*

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to extend
their submissions in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. The
papers are expected to include at least 25% extra material over and above the
PPDP version. Then, after another round of reviewing, these revised papers will
be published in a special issue of SCP with a target publication date by
Elsevier of 2013.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission: May 28, 2012
Paper submission: May 31, 2012
Notification: July 6, 2012
Camera-ready: July 18, 2012

Symposium: September 19-21, 2012

Invites for SCP: September 26, 2012
Submission of SCP: December 12, 2012
Notification from SCP: February 7, 2013
Camera-ready for SCP: March 7, 2013

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in English) in
PDF. Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors
and their affiliations; abstract; and three to four keywords. The keywords will
be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers
should consist of no more than 12 pages, formatted following the ACM SIG
proceedings template (option 1). The 12 page limit must include references but
excludes well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Referees are not
required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without
them.

Program Committee:

Slim Abdennadher German University in Cairo, Egypt
Puri Arenas Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Marcello Balduccini Kodak Research Labs, USA
Amir Ben-Amram Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel
Philip Cox Dalhousie University, Canada
Marina De Vos University of Bath, UK
Martin Erwig Oregon State University, USA
Martin Gebser University of Potsdam, Germany
Jacob Howe City University London, UK
Joxan Jaffar National University of Singapore, Singapore
Gabriele Keller University of New South Wales, Australia
Andy King University of Kent, UK
Julia Lawall INRIA Paris, France
Rita Loogen Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany
Greg Michaelson Heriot-Watt University, UK
Matthew Might University of Utah, USA
Henrik Nilsson University of Nottingham, UK
Catuscia Palamidessi INRIA Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden and NTUA, Greece
Taisuke Sato Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Peter Schneider-Kamp University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Tom Schrijvers University of Ghent, Belgium
Terrance Swift Universidade Nova de Lisboa, USA
Mirek Truszczynski University of Kentucky, USA
Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania, USA

Program Chair:

Andy King
School of Computing, University of Kent
Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK

General Co-Chairs

Daniel De Schreye and Gerda Janssens
Department of Computer Science
K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

* Confirmation pending

CFP: LOPSTR 212 in Leuven, Belgium

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

Call for papers
22nd International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2012

http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/lopstr12
Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2012
(co-located with PPDP 2012)

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


The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively,
friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal
proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can
incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

The 22nd International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) will be held in Leuven, Belgium; previous
symposia were held in Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice,
London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester,
Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, Manchester and
Odense (you might have a look at the contents of past LOPSTR
symposia). LOPSTR 2012 will be co-located with PPDP 2012
(International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
Declarative Programming).

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program
development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full
papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas
are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of
logic-based program development, including, but not limited to:

* specification
* verification
* analysis
* specialization
* composition
* certification
* transformational techniques in SE
* synthesis
* transformation
* optimisation
* inversion
* program/model manipulation
* security
* applications and tools

Survey papers, that present some aspect of the above topics from a new
perspective, and application papers, that describe experience with
industrial applications, are also welcome.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal,
conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).
Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer*
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: May 21,2012
Paper submission: May 25, 2012
Notification (for pre-proceedings): June 29, 2012
Camera-ready (for pre-proceedings): July 8, 2012
Symposium: September 18-20, 2012

Submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. They cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding
well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Referees are not
required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be
intelligible without them.

Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal
proceedings to be published by Springer in the LNCS series or accepted
only for presentation at the symposium. After the symposium, all
authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for
presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions
in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after
another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published
in the formal proceedings.

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in
English) in PDF or Postscript (Level 2). Each submission must include
on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations;
contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords. The
keywords will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers
for the paper. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact
the program chair for information on how to submit hard copies.

Papers should be submitted to the submission website for LOPSTR 2012.

Program Committee:

Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Sergio Antoy Portland State University, US
Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy
Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark
Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Danny De Schreye K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Istanbul
Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK
John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark
Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Robert Glück University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rémy Haemmerlé Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Reiner Hähnle TU Darmstadt, Germany
Geoff Hamilton Dublin City University, Ireland
Carsten Fuhs RWTH Aachen, Germany
Gerda Janssens K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Isabella Mastroeni University of Verona, Italy
Paulo Moura Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Kazutaka Matsuda Tohoku University, Japan
Johan Nordlander Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Andrey Rybalchenko Technische Universität München, Germany
Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden
Francesca Scozzari Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti, Italy
Valerio Senni Universtà di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
German Vidal Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Program Chair:

Elvira Albert
Department of Computer Science (DSIC)
Complutense University of Madrid
Madrid, Spain

General Co-Chairs

Daniel De Schreye and Gerda Janssens
Department of Computer Science
K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

* Confirmation pending

CFP: LOPSTR 212 in Leuven, Belgium

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

Call for papers
22nd International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2012

http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/lopstr12
Leuven, Belgium, September 18-20, 2012
(co-located with PPDP 2012)

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


The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively,
friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal
proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can
incorporate this feedback in the published papers.

The 22nd International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2012) will be held in Leuven, Belgium; previous
symposia were held in Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice,
London, Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester,
Leuven, Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, Manchester and
Odense (you might have a look at the contents of past LOPSTR
symposia). LOPSTR 2012 will be co-located with PPDP 2012
(International ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
Declarative Programming).

Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program
development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full
papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas
are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of
logic-based program development, including, but not limited to:

* specification
* verification
* analysis
* specialization
* composition
* certification
* transformational techniques in SE
* synthesis
* transformation
* optimisation
* inversion
* program/model manipulation
* security
* applications and tools

Survey papers, that present some aspect of the above topics from a new
perspective, and application papers, that describe experience with
industrial applications, are also welcome.

Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal,
conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).
Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer*
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Important Dates

Abstract submission: May 21,2012
Paper submission: May 25, 2012
Notification (for pre-proceedings): June 29, 2012
Camera-ready (for pre-proceedings): July 8, 2012
Symposium: September 18-20, 2012

Submissions must be formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. They cannot exceed 15 pages including references but excluding
well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Referees are not
required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be
intelligible without them.

Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal
proceedings to be published by Springer in the LNCS series or accepted
only for presentation at the symposium. After the symposium, all
authors of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for
presentation will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions
in the light of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after
another round of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published
in the formal proceedings.

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in
English) in PDF or Postscript (Level 2). Each submission must include
on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations;
contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords. The
keywords will be used to assist us in selecting appropriate reviewers
for the paper. If electronic submission is impossible, please contact
the program chair for information on how to submit hard copies.

Papers should be submitted to the submission website for LOPSTR 2012.

Program Committee:

Elvira Albert Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Sergio Antoy Portland State University, US
Demis Ballis University of Udine, Italy
Henning Christiansen Roskilde University, Denmark
Michael Codish Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Danny De Schreye K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Esra Erdem Sabanci University, Istanbul
Maribel Fernandez King's College London, UK
John Gallagher Roskilde University, Denmark
Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Robert Glück University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rémy Haemmerlé Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Reiner Hähnle TU Darmstadt, Germany
Geoff Hamilton Dublin City University, Ireland
Carsten Fuhs RWTH Aachen, Germany
Gerda Janssens K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Isabella Mastroeni University of Verona, Italy
Paulo Moura Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Kazutaka Matsuda Tohoku University, Japan
Johan Nordlander Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Andrey Rybalchenko Technische Universität München, Germany
Kostis Sagonas Uppsala University, Sweden
Francesca Scozzari Università "G. D'Annunzio" di Chieti, Italy
Valerio Senni Universtà di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
German Vidal Technical University of Valencia, Spain

Program Chair:

Elvira Albert
Department of Computer Science (DSIC)
Complutense University of Madrid
Madrid, Spain

General Co-Chairs

Daniel De Schreye and Gerda Janssens
Department of Computer Science
K.U.Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200 A, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium

* Confirmation pending

[DMANET] Computational Optimization

[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.]

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Call for Papers

5th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2012)
Wroclaw, Poland, September 9 - 12, 2012

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2012

http://www.fedcsis.org/

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

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

* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* combinatorial optimization
* global optimization
* multiobjective optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* large scale optimization
* parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
* random search algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other
derivative free optimization methods
* nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant
colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial
systems etc)
* hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
*computational biology and optimization
* distance geometry and applications
* optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
* application of optimization methods on real life and industrial problems
* computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, engineering etc

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

Important dates:

22.04.2012 (April 22, 2012) – Full paper submission

17.06.2011 (June 17, 2012) – Notification of acceptance

8.07.2012 (July 8, 2012) – Camera-ready version of the accepted paper
and registration

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

Submission and Publication


* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (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 workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s) of Studies of Computational
Intelligence of Springer.
====================


Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgaria
Josef Tvrdik, Czech Republicc
Daniela Zaharie, Romania
Antonio Mucherino, France
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[DMANET] Call for PRIZE NOMINATION: Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

--- Call for PRIZE nominations - Deadline February 28, 2012 ---

(Please note that the deadline for papers for the conference is
different; the prize will be given at the conference this year, in
Iceland!)

Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing

Awarded by the Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication
Complexity
(SIROCCO)

The Prize for Innovation In Distributed Computing was established
to recognize individuals whose research contributions expanded the
collective investigative horizon in SIROCCO's area of interest. That is,
they formulated new problems, or identified new research areas, that were
at the time of their introduction unorthodox and outside the mainstream,
but later attracted the interest of SIROCCO's community.

This community is interested in the relationships between information and
efficiency in decentralized computing. The prize recognizes originality,
innovation, and creativity -- the qualities that reflect the spirit of
the SIROCCO conference.

The prize is presented at the annual meeting of the SIROCCO conference,
but may not necessarily be awarded every year.

Eligibility

The following conditions must be met by the nominees to be eligible for
the prize.

(1) The original innovative contribution was introduced by the nominee(s)
for the first time in a publication at least five years before the
nomination deadline, and the publication must have appeared in a
conference proceedings or a scientific journal.

(2) At least one paper (co)authored by the nominee(s), either the
original paper, or a paper directly related to the innovative
contribution, must have appeared in SIROCCO proceedings.

Past SIROCCO papers and authors can be found at indexing sites, e.g.
Google Scholar or
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/sirocco/index.html.

Selection process

The prize winners are selected by the Award Committee composed of the
current Steering Committee (SC) Chair of the SIROCCO conference,
the PC chairs, including co-chairs, of the three SIROCCO conferences
immediately preceding the nominations deadline, plus one additional
member of the Advisory Board, selected by the Steering Committee for the
current year.

In 2012, the Award Committee consists of:
Shay Kutten (Technion)- chair
Evangelos Kranakis (Carleton)
Boaz Patt-Shamir (Tel Aviv University)
Alexander A. Shvartsman (University of Connecticut)
Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University)

A call for nomination is disseminated every year in the main mailing
lists of the Distributed Computing community, at least four months prior
to the date of that year's SIROCCO meeting.

Nominations can be made by any member of the scientific community. Each
nomination must identify the person(s) being nominated, and justify the
nomination by a short text including:

(a) a brief description of the innovative contribution in Distributed
Computing to be recognized by the award, and an explanation of its
originality and significance,

(b) the paper(s) of the nominee(s) that establish their eligibility as
described in the Eligibility section above items (1) and (2).

Nominations for 2012 should be sent to the Steering Committee chair of
SIROCCO: kutten@ie.technion.ac.il by February 28, 2012. Please write
SIROCCO Prize Nomination in the subject line.
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[DMANET] 2nd CfP SIROCCO 2012

SIROCCO 2012

19th International Colloquium on Structural Information and
Communication Complexity
June 30 - July 2, Reykjavík, Iceland

http://sites.google.com/site/sirocco2012iceland/

Important dates
Submission deadline: Monday, 27 February, 2012 (23:59 EDT)
Author notification: 31 March, 2012
Camera-ready submission: 21 April, 2012
Conference dates: 30 June - 2 July, 2012

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

Conference
SIROCCO has a tradition of interesting and productive
scientific meetings in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, attracting
leading researchers in a variety of fields in which communication and
knowledge play a significant role. This year, SIROCCO is held in
Reykjavík, Iceland.

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

SIROCCO Award
The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing is awarded annually
in the SIROCCO conference to recognize individuals whose research
contributions had a major impact on the understanding of the
relationships between information and efficiency in decentralized
computing. Only authors of papers that were published in SIROCCO are
eligible to receive the award. More details are available in the
SIROCCO 2012 web site.

Invited talks
To be announced.

Submission
Full papers are to be submitted electronically using the EasyChair server.
The link is https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sirocco2012
Submission guidelines are available in the conference web page.

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

Submissions are limited to 12 single-column pages on letter/A4-size
paper (using at least 11 point font, 1 inch margins, standard line
spacing). This includes figures, but excludes references and an
optional appendix (to be read at the program committee's discretion).

Publication
As in previous years, the proceedings of SIROCCO 2012 will be published by
Springer-Verlag as a volume of the LNCS series. Information for LNCS
Authors can found here.

Selected papers are planned to be invited to a special issue of the
journal Theoretical Computer Science.

Program Committee:
Dimitris Achlioptas, UCSC
James Aspnes, Yale U.
Nikhil Bansal, TU Eindhoven
Thomas Erlebach, Leicester U.
Guy Even, Tel-Aviv U. (co-chair)
Magnus M. Halldorsson, Reykjavik U. (co-chair)
Fabian Kuhn, USI
Stefano Leonardi, Sapienza U.
Toshimitsu Masuzawa, Osaka U.
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, U. Paderborn
Sriram V. Pemmaraju, U Iowa
Harald Raecke, TU Munich
Ignasi Sau, LIRMM
Thomas Sauerwald, MPI Informatik
Christian Schindelhauer, U. Freiburg
Hadas Shachnai, Technion
Christian Sohler, TU Dortmund
Subhash Suri, UCSB
Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers University of Technology
Shmuel Zaks, Technion

Steering Committee:
Ralf Klasing,CNRS and University of Bordeaux, France
Shay Kutten, Technion, Israel (Chair)
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Alex Shvartsman, MIT and Univ. of Connecticut, USA
Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu University, Japan

Local Arrangement Chair
Magnus M. Halldorsson, Reykjavik U., Iceland

Publicity Chair
Yvonne Anne Pignolet,  ABB Corporate Research
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

[DMANET] Book announcement: "Optimization in computer engineering -- Theory and applications"

Book announcement: "Optimization in computer engineering -- Theory and
applications"

http://www.scirp.org/book/DetailedInforOfABook.aspx?bookID=486&bookTypeID=2

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of classic as well as
new research results on optimization problems and algorithms. Beside
the theoretical basis, the book contains a number of chapters
describing the application of the theory in practice, that is, reports
on successfully solving real-world engineering challenges by means of
optimization algorithms. These case studies are collected from a wide
range of application domains within computer engineering. The
diversity of the presented approaches offers a number of practical
tips and insights into the practical application of optimization
algorithms, highlighting real-world challenges and solutions.
Researchers, practitioners and graduate students will find the book
equally useful.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I - Theory
    Chapter 2: Fundamentals of Optimization Algorithms
    Chapter 3: Some Common Combinatorial Problems and Algorithms
    Chapter 4: Recent Advances in Typical-Case Complexity
    Chapter 5: Metric-Based Approximation Algorithms for Graph Cut Problems
Part II - Applications
    Chapter 6: Optimization Issues on the Motion Planning of
Kinematically Redundant Manipulators
    Chapter 7: Suboptimal Robot Team Coordination
    Chapter 8: Applying Graph Coloring to Frequency Assignment
    Chapter 9: Routing in the 3-Dimensional Grid
    Chapter 10: Total Variation Regularization in Maximum Likelihood Estimation
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[DMANET] Postdoc/PhD position in algebraic complexity theory, Saarland University

Postdoc/PhD position in algebraic complexity theory available at Saarland
University, Saarbrücken. Duration is for up to three years, salary is
TV-L E13
(about 1800 Euros net income for singles). Send applications
by email to Markus Bläser (mblaeser*at*cs.uni-saarland.de).
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PhD Position - Theoretical Analysis of Evolutionary Processes

PhD Studentship
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Reference : SCI1102
Closing Date : 09 February 2012

Theoretical Analysis of Evolutionary Processes

Applications are invited for PhD studentships funded by the School of
Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Studentships are available
from October 2011 for a period of three and a half years and include
payment of fees at the UK/EU rate and a postgraduate stipend of
£13,590 in year one with increments in line with Research Council
Rates.

Evolutionary algorithms and other randomised search heuristics have
been successfully applied to various industrial optimisation
domains. However, the theoretical understanding of these methods has
been limited. Recently, there has been significant progress in
analysing the runtime (also called optimisation time) of randomised
search heuristics using rigorous techniques from probability theory,
randomised algorithms, and computational complexity. Results about the
runtime give insights into how the behaviour of a randomised search
heuristic depends on its parameter-settings and on the characteristics
of the underlying optimisation problem.

The successful candidate will contribute to this exciting research
area, which lies at the interface between theoretical computer science
and computational intelligence. The aim is to develop theory that aids
in predicting and controlling the behaviour of general evolutionary
processes.

The topic is mathematically challenging and requires an excellent
degree in computer science or mathematics. In particular, the
candidate should have a strong background in probability theory,
discrete mathematics, and/or theoretical computer science.

The work will be carried out in collaboration with leading
international researchers in the area. The studentship is locally
associated with the Automated Scheduling, OptimisAtion and Planning
(ASAP) research group, one of the five main Research Groups within the
School of Computer Science at Nottingham.

For further information, please contact, Per Kristian Lehre,
email: PerKristian.Lehre@nottingham.ac.uk
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pkl

To apply, please access:
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This studentship will remain open until filled.

[DMANET] PhD Position - Theoretical Analysis of Evolutionary Processes

PhD Studentship
School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Reference : SCI1102
Closing Date : 09 February 2012

Theoretical Analysis of Evolutionary Processes

Applications are invited for PhD studentships funded by the School of
Computer Science, University of Nottingham. Studentships are available
from October 2011 for a period of three and a half years and include
payment of fees at the UK/EU rate and a postgraduate stipend of
£13,590 in year one with increments in line with Research Council
Rates.

Evolutionary algorithms and other randomised search heuristics have
been successfully applied to various industrial optimisation
domains. However, the theoretical understanding of these methods has
been limited. Recently, there has been significant progress in
analysing the runtime (also called optimisation time) of randomised
search heuristics using rigorous techniques from probability theory,
randomised algorithms, and computational complexity. Results about the
runtime give insights into how the behaviour of a randomised search
heuristic depends on its parameter-settings and on the characteristics
of the underlying optimisation problem.

The successful candidate will contribute to this exciting research
area, which lies at the interface between theoretical computer science
and computational intelligence. The aim is to develop theory that aids
in predicting and controlling the behaviour of general evolutionary
processes.

The topic is mathematically challenging and requires an excellent
degree in computer science or mathematics. In particular, the
candidate should have a strong background in probability theory,
discrete mathematics, and/or theoretical computer science.

The work will be carried out in collaboration with leading
international researchers in the area. The studentship is locally
associated with the Automated Scheduling, OptimisAtion and Planning
(ASAP) research group, one of the five main Research Groups within the
School of Computer Science at Nottingham.

For further information, please contact, Per Kristian Lehre,
email: PerKristian.Lehre@nottingham.ac.uk
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pkl

To apply, please access:
https://my.nottingham.ac.uk/pgapps/welcome/.
This studentship will remain open until filled.


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[DMANET] MIP 2012: CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

*** MIP 2012: CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS ***

Date: July 16–19 , 2012
Location: UC Davis, Davis, CA
Web site: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/mip2012
Poster submission deadline: March 30, 2012

You are cordially invited to submit abstracts for poster presentations
in the upcoming workshop in Mixed Integer Programming (MIP 2012).
The 2012 Mixed Integer Programming workshop will be the ninth in a
series of annual workshops held in North America designed to bring
the integer programming community together to discuss very recent
developments in the field. The workshop is especially focused on
providing opportunities for junior researchers to present their most recent
work. The workshop series consists of a single track of invited talks.

Confirmed speakers:

Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Tech
Gennadiy Averkov, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Sam Burer, The University of Iowa
Philipp Christophel, SAS
Jesús A. De Loera, University of California, Davis
Alberto Del Pia, ETH Zurich
Friedrich Eisenbrand, EPFL
Ricardo Fukasawa, University of Waterloo
Vineet Goyal, Columbia University
Marcos Goycoolea, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
Yongpei Guan, University of Florida
Volker Kaibel, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Kiavash Kianfar, Texas A&M University
Mustafa Kilinc, University of Pittsburgh
Fatma Kilinc-Karzan, Carnegie Mellon University
David Morton, The University of Texas at Austin
Ted Ralphs, Lehigh University
Edward Rothberg, Gurobi Optimization
Siqian Shen, University of Michigan
Renata Sotirov, Tilburg University
Dan Steffy, ZIB and Oakland University
Alejandro Toriello, University of Southern California
Christian Wagner, ETH Zurich


In addition to the invited talks, there will be a poster session for
which we invite all participants to submit an abstract. To submit an
abstract, please email a 2 page PDF containing your abstract to
mip2012@math.ucdavis.edu by March 30. Space for posters may be limited,
and we may not be able to accommodate all posters; we expect to send
out notifications by April 15.

The workshop is designed to provide ample time for discussion and
interaction between the participants, as one of its aims is to
facilitate research collaboration. Thanks to the generous support by
our sponsors, registration is free, and travel support is available for
students and postdocs presenting posters. If you would like to apply
for travel support please note this in your abstract submission.
We expect to make funding decisions by April 30.

Finally, we note that this year we will have a best poster award given
at the workshop. Barring conflicts of interest, all presented posters
will be automatically eligible for the award.

See you in Davis!

Sincerely,

Claudia D'Ambrosio, CNRS École Polytechnique
Matthias Köppe, UC Davis
Jim Luedtke, University of Wisconsin-Madison
François Margot, Carnegie Mellon University
Juan Pablo Vielma , University of Pittsburgh

(MIP 2012 Organizing Committee, mip2012@math.ucdavis.edu)


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Position in security: 3 PhDs + 1 PostDoc (University of Luxembourg)

-------------- APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE RECEIVINGS -----------------

Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
and University of Luxembourg.
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** 2 Ph.D. Students in Computer Security
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Duration: 3 years (extension up to 4 years).

** 1 Ph.D. Student in Socio-Technical Aspects of Security
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[DMANET] ADHOC-NOW 2012: Call For Papers

Call for Papers
ADHOC-NOW 2012
The 11th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless
Belgrade, Serbia, July 9-11, 2012
http://www.adhocnow.com/

Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc
Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) has become a well-established and
well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. In the
ERA Conference Ranking Exercise, ADHOC-NOW is considered as a B
conference (same ranking as IEEE conferences ICC, Globecom, MASS,
DCOSS, etc.) ADHOC-NOW serves as a forum for interesting discussions
on ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses
both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc
networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It
focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer.
The eleventh edition of this series will take place in Belgrade, Serbia,
from the 9th to the 11th of July, 2012.

We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and
theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless
Networks. Submissions must not be published or under review for another
conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research
papers in any of the following areas:
* Access Control
* Algorithmic Issues
* Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation
* Applications and Architectures
* Autonomous Intelligent Systems
* Computing Platforms, Systems and Testbeds
* Data Communication Protocols
* Delay-Tolerant Networking
* Distributed Algorithms
* Energy Efficiency
* Geometric Graphs
* Location Discovery and Management
* Mobility Handling and Utilization
* Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms
* Mobile Social Networking
* Quality-of-Service
* Robot Networks
* Secure Services and Protocols
* Self-Configuration
* Sensor Networks
* Service Discovery
* Timing Synchronization
* Vehicular Networks
* Wireless Mesh Networks
* Wireless Internet

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission: February 17, 2012
Author Notification: March 30, 2012
Final Submission: April 13, 2012

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part
of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (pending). Each
accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, provided
at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the
conference. High-quality articles will be invited for submission to a
special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: An International
Journal (AHSWN), SCIE-indexed.

General Chair
Ivan Stojmenovic, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada, and Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia

TPC Co-Chairs
Xiangyang Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Symeon Papavassiliou, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

Publicity Co-Chairs
Hannes Frey, University of Paderborn, Germany
Marcio Almeida, University of Ottawa, Canada
Sandra Sendra, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Local arrangements
Mirjana Prljic, Impala, Belgrade, Serbia

Proceedings Co-Chairs
Rafael Falcon, University of Ottawa, Canada
Stefan Ruehrup, Telecommunications Research Center Vienna, Austria

Submission Chair
Xu Li, INRIA Lille Ð Nord Europe, France

Webchair and Organizing Committee Chair
Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University, Serbia

Steering Committee Chair
Evengelos Kranakis, Carleton University,Canada
Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Canada.
Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Canada.
Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Canada.
S. S. Ravi, SUNY Albany, USA.
Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University, USA.
Ivan Stojmenovic, SITE University of Ottawa, Canada.

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[DMANET] EURO 2012: CfP to Stream "Generalized Differentiation and Optimization"

Call for Papers (Presentations):

Stream "Generalized Differentiation and Optimization"

25th EURO Conference (EURO XXV),
July 8-11 of 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania

We are organizing a stream of sessions devoted to Generalized
Differentiation and Optimization for the 25th European Conference on
Operational Research (EURO XXV) which will be held in Vilnius,
Lithuania on 8-11 July, 2012. The website of the conference is:
http://www.euro-2012.lt

Those interested in these or related topics are invited to submit a
paper to the stream. In particular, we are interested in research and
applications with an interdisciplinary approach to problems in any of
these subjects.

If you'd like to organize one session consisting of 3-4 talks, please,
let us know the title of your session and we'll include your session
in the abstract submission system. It enables you to conveniently
invite people to your session and handle the submissions. By accepting
this invitation you agree to be in charge of your session and chair it.

Otherwise, if you just want to contribute and trust on stream's
organisers, then submit your contribution to the following general
sessions making use of the provided code. Later on, your abstract will
be reallocated depending on the final number of accepted contributions:

General Session: Code:
Generalized Differentiation 59e4ffe2
Optimality Conditions abb4bd56
Regularity in Nonsmooth Analysis cd3803cb
Stability in Continuous Optimization 512f0755
Generalized Convexity 6aaf6be0

Participants will find the stream an ideal forum for sharing,
networking and learning.

To submit your abstract, the author guidelines can be found at:
http://www.euro-2012.lt/abstract-submission1

Important Dates
Submission for abstracts starts: November 2011
Deadline for abstract submission: February 29, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2012
Deadline for early registration: April 22, 2012
Deadline for author registration May 1, 2012
Conference: July 8-11, 2012

Stream Organizers:
Boris Mordukhovich (boris@math.wayne.edu)
Alexander Kruger (a.kruger@ballarat.edu.au)
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (gweber@metu.edu.tr)
Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz (JuanEnrique.Martinez.Legaz@uab.cat)


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[DMANET] ECCO 2012 - Call for papers for Green Logistics

**Apologies for cross-postings.**

Call for papers for the Green Logistics session in ECCO 2012

This session is part of the Emerging Applications of Combinatorial Optimization stream within ECCO 2012 - the 25th conference of European Chapter on Combinatorial Optimization. This session welcomes contributions describing models, tools, techniques and methodologies for environmentally friendly or sustainable ways of planning transport operations, in domains such as:

*   city logistics,
*   intelligent transportation systems,
*   intermodal transportation,
*   network design and planning,
*   passenger transportation,
*   reverse logistics,
*   green logistics,
*   road, rail, air and maritime freight operations,
*   supply chain management,
*   terminal operations management and planning,
*   vehicle routing and scheduling.

Interested authors may submit their abstracts by going to the abstract submission page http://www.eccoxxv.org/ using the code 7bc540f5.

The deadline for abstract submissions is February 1, 2012. If you would like to submit an abstract but are not ready yet to do so, or wish to discuss your prospective submission, then please get in touch with me at T.Bektas "at" soton.ac.uk

The ECCO 2012 conference will be held in Antalya, Turkey from April 26-28, 2012.

Thanks,

Dr Tolga Bektas
Southampton Management School
University of Southampton.

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[DMANET] Full Professor Position at Ecole Polytechnique

Ecole Polytechnique is hiring a full professor of computer science.

The applicants should be scientists recognized at the highest
international level. They will join the computer science laboratory
at Ecole Polytechnique (LIX), whose main current research themes
include: algorithmics and algorithm analysis (complexity, models
of computation, combinatorics, optimization, operational research,
symbolic computations, computer graphics, bio-informatics,...),
networks (protocols, cryptography,...), logic and formal methods
(proof theory and formalization of mathematics, concurrency,
computer algebra, system modeling and safety,...)

The applicants are also expected to show a high motivation for
teaching computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, and to present
innovative teaching projects and pedagogical skills.

Professors of Ecole Polytechnique salaries follow the grid for
"Professeurs de classe exceptionnelle" which is the highest rank in
French academia.

Support for helping the installation for the applicant as well as
her/his team are negociable.

For any further information, potential candidates can turn to Benjamin
Werner, head of the CS department and Olivier Bournez, director of the
laboratory.

(Benjamin.Werner@polytechnique.fr, Olivier.Bournez@polytechnique.fr)


Secretary: Catherine Bensoussan (+33 1 69 33 40 33) catherine.bensoussan@polytechnique.edu

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