[DMANET] STAR Workshop on Random Graphs, Nijmegen, 9-10 April 2015, reminder

Dear colleagues,

We hope to welcome you for a workshop on random graphs in Nijmegen on
9th and 10th of April 2015.

Our programme features plenary talks by Remco van der Hofstad
(Eindhoven), Nelly Litvak (Twente), Mathew Penrose (Bath), Andrzej
Ruciński (Poznań/Emory), Angelika Steger (ETH Zürich), and Andrew
Thomason (Cambridge).

There is no registration fee and the meeting is open to all. For
logistic purposes (especially about included meals and refreshments),
we ask that you register by email to ross.kang@gmail.com, with
specific requested details.

Opportunities to contribute short talks are available to early-career
participants, who should provide a title and abstract with their
registration. Note that some funds are earmarked for partial support
of young contributed speakers from abroad, and interested participants
should indicate their expected travel costs.

For further details, visit http://www.math.ru.nl/~rkang/SWRG2015/

Kind regards,

The organisers
(Ross Kang and Tobias Müller)

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[DMANET] CfP Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management

CfP Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management:
Special Issue on Robust Revenue Management
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Guest Editor: Prof. Catherine Cleophas, RWTH Aachen University

In 2016, a special issue of the Journal of Revenue & Pricing Management
will publish a series of papers on Robust Revenue Management.

Beyond classically considered uncertain demand, sources of uncertainty
motivating robust revenue management include capacity changes, revenue
assigned to booking classes, technical or organizational constraints
affecting the implementation of dynamic pricing, service blackouts leading
to spill between physical products, changes in the competitive situation,
or economic shocks rendering historical data obsolete. As revenue
management is applied to novel application areas, new and adapted process
requirements may create new sources of uncertainty.

The research challenge motivating this call for papers is threefold: 1.
Research is needed to identify sources of uncertainty in revenue management
beyond demand. 2. The short- and long-term impacts of uncertainty depending
on the applied revenue management concept have to be quantified. 3. Making
revenue management more robust calls for new forecast and optimization
algorithms as well as process designs.

In considering robust approaches to revenue management, authors should
explore solutions that reduce uncertainty as well as those that strive to
make the best of uncertain outcomes through increased flexiblity.
Contributors are also particularly encouraged to consider the implications
of designing robust revenue management concepts and information flows with
a view toward human decision makers and behavioral operations research.

Find the call for papers here:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/rpm/cfp-robust_revenue_management.pdf

Deadline for submissions is 15 April 2015. Papers should be submitted by
email to catherine.cleophas@rwth-aachen.de.
The subject line of the email should read "Robust Revenue Management".

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[DMANET] InfoSec 2015: registration deadline 3 March

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INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON INFORMATION SECURITY

InfoSec 2015

Bilbao, Spain
(please notice the change of location)

July 6-10, 2015

Organized by
Deusto University
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/

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AIM:

InfoSec 2015 will be a major research training event addressed to graduates
and postgraduates in the first steps of their academic career. With a global
scope, it aims at updating them about the most recent advances in the
critical and fast developing area of information security, which covers a
large spectrum of current exciting academic research and industrial
innovation. It refers to procedures to defend information from unauthorized
access, use, modification, recording or destruction, with a critical role to
play in order to avoid or minimize risks in the digital world. Renowned
academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the
audience.

Most information security subareas will be displayed, namely: computer
security, cryptography, privacy, cyber security, mobile security, network
security, world wide web security, fraud prevention, data protection, etc.
Main challenges of information security will be identified through 4 keynote
lectures, 33 six-hour courses, and 1 round table, which will tackle the most
active and promising topics. The organizers believe outstanding speakers
will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be
a main component of the event.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduates and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be
differences in the course levels, specific background knowledge may be
required for some of them.

InfoSec 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will
surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers,
industry leaders and innovators.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 4 courses will run in parallel during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

InfoSec 2015 will take place in Bilbao, the capital of the Basque Country
region, famous for its gastronomy and the seat of the Guggenheim Museum. The
venue will be:

DeustoTech, School of Engineering
Deusto University
Avda. Universidades, 24
48014 Bilbao

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), Privacy in a Digital World: a Lost
Cause?

Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), (In)security of Mobile Apps in
Untrusted Networks

Jennifer Seberry (University of Wollongong), The Global Village: the
Beginning of the Need for Computer Security [via videoconference]

Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), Off-line Proximity-based
Social Networking

PROFESSORS AND COURSES:

N. Asokan (Aalto University), [intermediate] Mobile Security: Overview of
Hardware Platform Security and Considerations of Usability

Jan Camenisch (IBM Research, Zurich), [introductory/intermediate]
Technologies to Protect Online Privacy

Hao Chen (University of California, Davis), [intermediate/advanced] Security
of the Mobile App Ecosystem

Nicolas T. Courtois (University College London), [introductory/intermediate]
Security of ECDSA in Bitcoin and Crypto Currency

Claude Crépeau (McGill University, Montréal), [introductory/intermediate]
Quantum Computation, Cryptography and Cryptanalysis

Joan Daemen (ST Microelectronics Belgium, Diegem),
[introductory/intermediate] Sponge Functions, Keccak and SHA-3

Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla),
[intermediate/advanced] Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Challenges and
Opportunities

Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (University of Milan),
[introductory/intermediate] Security and Privacy in the Cloud

Hervé Debar (Télécom SudParis), [introductory/intermediate] Detection and
Reaction to Attacks: from Intrusion Detection to Cyber-Defense

David Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville),
[introductory/intermediate] Secure Multiparty Computation: Techniques,
Theory, and Tools for Building Privacy-Preserving Applications

Rosario Gennaro (City University of New York), [intermediate/advanced] A
Survey of Verifiable Delegation of Computation

Trent Jaeger (Pennsylvania State University, University Park),
[intermediate/advanced] How to Add Security Enforcement to Legacy Programs

Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin, Madison), [intermediate/advanced]
Analysis Techniques in Information Security

Antoine Joux (Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris),
[introductory/intermediate] Discrete Logarithms in Finite Fields

Marc Joye (Technicolor R&I, Los Altos), [introductory/intermediate] Secure
Public-Key Cryptosystems

Lars R. Knudsen (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby),
[introductory/intermediate] Block Ciphers: the Workhorses in Cryptography

Songwu Lu (University of California, Los Angeles),
[introductory/intermediate] Cellular Network Security: Issues and Defenses

Catherine Meadows (Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC),
[introductory/intermediate] Formal Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols

Nasir Memon (New York University), [introductory/intermediate] User
Authentication

Ethan L. Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz),
[intermediate/advanced] Securing Stored Data in a Connected World

Stefano Paraboschi (University of Bergamo), [introductory/intermediate] Data
Protection in Network-enabled Systems

Bart Preneel (KU Leuven), [introductory/intermediate] Cryptology: State of
the Art and Research Challenges

Jean-Jacques Quisquater (Catholic University of Louvain),
[introductory/intermediate] The History of RSA: from Babylon to Smart Cards

Shantanu Rane (Palo Alto Research Center), [introductory/intermediate]
Privacy-preserving Data Analytics: Problems, Solutions and Challenges

Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham), [introductory/intermediate] Designing
Security Protocols: Electronic Voting, and Electronic Mail

Rei Safavi-Naini (University of Calgary), [introductory/intermediate]
Information-theoretically Secure Communication

Stefan Saroiu (Microsoft Research, Redmond), [advanced] Protecting Data on
Smartphones and Tablets Using Trusted Computing

Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, Los Angeles),
[introductory/intermediate] Introduction to the Emerging Science of Security
Games

Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine), [intermediate/advanced]
Security and Privacy in Candidate Future Internet Architectures

Yang Xiao (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa), [introductory/advanced]
Security in Smart Grids

Wenyuan Xu (University of South Carolina, Columbia), [intermediate] Security
and Privacy Analysis of Embedded Systems

Yuliang Zheng (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), [introductory]
Cryptography and the Future of Money

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu
Carlos Martín-Vide (co-chair)
Borja Sanz (co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu

REGISTRATION:

The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/InfoSec2015/registration.php

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

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

FEES:

Fees are a flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week.
There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the
registration deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Deusto University
Rovira i Virgili University


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[DMANET] NetSys 2015: Last Call for Participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - ONLINE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APPROACHING

NetSys 2015
2nd International Conference on Networked Systems
http://www.netsys2015.com

Cottbus, Germany, March 9-12, 2015
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* Registration: https://www.netsys2015.com/registration/
* Online registration deadline: February 28th, 2015

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The Conference on Networked Systems – NetSys 2015 – provides an
international forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry,
and government to discuss recent innovations in the realm of networked
systems - including aspects of networking, distributed systems,
communications, middleware, and applications. NetSys is a biennial
conference that originates from the major scientific event on networked
systems in German-speaking countries KiVS (Kommunikation in Verteilten
Systemen) - a series of conferences that was founded more than 30 years
ago. In 2013 NetSys was first organized on an international scale in
Stuttgart. NetSys is organized by the special interest group
"Communication and Distributed Systems" (KUVS) of the German
Informatics Society (GI).

NetSys 2015 is sponsored by GI and VDE-ITG.
The conference receives Technical Co-Sponsorship from the IEEE.

Conference Highlights:
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This year's conference highlights include an outstanding technical
program on recent advances in computer communications and networking
comprising:

* Keynote addresses by Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA) and Marc Dacier (Qatar Computing Research
Institute)

* Poland is the NetSys'15 Guest of Honour. We look forward to keynotes
by Maciej Stroinski and Norbert Meyer (Poznan„ Supercomputing and
Networking Center) as well as Tadeusz Czachorski (Polish Academy of
Sciences)

* 22 technical papers reporting original research on networking,
distributed systems, middleware, security and privacy aspects as well
as networked applications

* Two half-day workshops:
- Workshop on Middleware for a Smarter Use of Electric Energy
(MidSEE 2015)
- Workshop on Software-Defined Networking and Network Function
Virtualization for Flexible Network Management (SDNFlex 2015)

* Five half-day tutorials:
- Algorithmic Methods for Complex Network Analysis
- Communications Security and Privacy of Smart Grid and Microgrid
Optimization
- Machine-to-Machine Communications and Internet of Things as
enablers of Smart City
- Software‐defined Networking
- Vehicular Networking

* An excursion to the power station Schwarze Pumpe

* Software demonstrations and the Communication Software Award

* Doctoral forum with poster session

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Organizing Committee:
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* General Chairs:
- H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
- P. Langendoerfer, IHP Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

* Program Co-chairs:
- K. Zielinski, AGH Krakow, Poland
- H. Koenig, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

* Workshop and Tutorial Chair:
- P. Langendoerfer, IHP Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

* Doctoral Forum Chairs:
- C. Becker, Univ. of Mannheim, Germany
- K. Wehrle, RWTH Aachen, Germany

* Demonstration Chair:
- H. Hellbrueck, Univ. of Applied Sciences Luebeck, Germany

* Local Organization Chair:
- M. Kirsche, K. Willhoeft, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

* Publication Chair:
- M. Brzozowski, IHP Frankfurt (Oder), Germany

* Publicity Chair:
- A. Paul, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany

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We look forward to welcome you in Cottbus!
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[DMANET] CFP (MCDMT 2015) - 1st Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation (in conjuction with IISA 2015)

**Due in one week**



Call for Papers



1st Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation, July 6, 2015, Corfu, Greece



in association with the



6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and
Applications ( IISA 2015 )



(http://iisa2015.unipi.gr/mcdhm-1st-workshop-on-modeling-computing-and-data-
handling-for-marine-transportation/)





Workshop Chairs: Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus,
Greece), Grammati Pantziou, (Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.)
of Athens, Greece), Stavros Perantonis

(National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos")



The Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation (MCDMT 2015) is going to take place in Corfu, Greece, on July
6, 2015, in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on
Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2015). Nowadays,
advancements on Marine Transportation require the synergy of both computer
science and maritime science and the technical focus of the workshop is upon
the latest developments on Computing Methodologies for Marine
Transportation.



Papers with novel theoretical as well as applied research are welcome for
submission. We would like to invite papers addressing research efforts that
aim at making sea transportation more effective and safer, targeting complex
and large-scale optimization problems with conflicting criteria, requiring
innovative solution techniques and ideas from mathematical optimization,
theoretical computer science, massive data analysis and operations research.



Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:



- Graph and Network algorithms for Marine Transportation

- Combinatorial optimization techniques for Marine Transportation

- Weather Routing

- Environmentally Safe Shipping

- Safety and Security of Maritime Shipping

- Risk and Safety Analysis, Assessment and Prediction

-Piracy Protection

- GIS in Maritime Applications

- Spatiotemporal and Marine Data Handling

- Route Planning and Monitoring

- Maritime Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications: surveillance,
maritime traffic control, anomaly detection, emergency management, situation
recognition, etc.

- Decision Support Tools for Marine Transportation

- Integration of Heterogeneous Marine Data Sources



Important Dates



Paper Submission Deadline: February 27, 2015

Paper Acceptance Notification: March 27, 2015

Camera Ready Papers: April 15, 2015



Workshop Program Committee



Fillia Makedon, Chair, University of Texas at Arlingthon, USA



Eleni Charou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos" , Greece



Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy



Ignacy Kaliszewski, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland



Zoe Nivolianitou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos" ,
Greece



Maria Grazia Scutellà, University of Pisa, Italy



Carlos Guedes Soares, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal



Joanna Szlapczynska, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland



Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece



Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece



Zaili Yang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK




George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece



Jin Wang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK







Instructions for Authors



Submitted papers should include original work not previously published or
being under consideration in any journal, conference or other workshop.
Papers should be submitted as a pdf file and follow the IEEE CPS format,
according to the general Instructions for Authors of IISA 2015. See the
IISA2015 Instructions for Authors page for appropriate templates for both
Latex and MS Word. Papers for MCDMT 2015 should be submitted through the
general IISA2015 paper submission system (EasyChair).



Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Proceedings of IISA2015 and
will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that
their paper will be presented at the workshop.

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[DMANET] Deadline extension: DATA ANALYTICS 2015 || July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

INVITATION:

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The submission deadline is March 12, 2015.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to DATA ANALYTICS 2015.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== DATA ANALYTICS 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

DATA ANALYTICS 2015, The Fourth International Conference on Data Analytics

July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/DATAANALYTICS15.html

Call for Papers:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPDATAANALYTICS15.html

Submission page:
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitDATAANALYTICS15.html


Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini-symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: March 12, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

DATA ANALYTICS 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on
the site)

Fundamentals for data analytics
Tools, frameworks and mechanisms for data analytics; Open API for data
analytics; In-database analytics; Pre-built analytics (pattern,
time-series, clustering, graph, statistical analysis, etc.); Analytics
visualization; Multi-modal support for data analytics;
Google/FaceBook/Twitter/etc. analytics; High-performance data analytics

Mechanisms and features
Scalable data analytics; Big data analytics; Deep data analytics; Mass
data analytics; Storing, dropping and filtering data;
Relevant/redundant/obsolete data analytics; Volume vs. semantics
analytics; Nomad analytics; Predictive analytics; Trust in data
analytics; Legal issues analytics; Failure on data analytics

Sentiment/opinion analysis
Architectures for generic sentiment analysis systems; Sentiment analysis
techniques on social media; Document-level analysis; Sentence-level
analysis; Aspect-based analysis; Comparative-sentiment analysis;
Sentiment lexicon acquisition; Optimizing sentiment analysis algorithms;
Applications of sentiment analysis.

Application-oriented analytics
Statistical applications; Simulation applications; Crawling web
services; Cross-database analytics; Forecast analytics; Financial risk
management; ROI analytics

Target analytics
Business analytics; Malware analytics; Cyber-threats analytics; Mining
user logs; Reputation analytics; User choice analytics; Branding
analytics; Utility proximity-search analytics; Survey-based online asset
analytics; Online employment analytics; Geology analytics; Global
climate analytics; Remote learning analytics; Homecare analytics;
Population growth and migration analytics; Food-borne illness outbreaks
analytics

Big Data
Foundational models for Big Data; Big Data Analytics and Metrics; Big
Data processing and management; Big Data search and mining; Big Data
platforms; Big Data persistence and preservation; Big Data and social
networks; Big Data economics

Huge data
Knowledge Discovery from Huge Data; Computational Intelligence for Huge
Data; Linked Huge Data; Security Intelligence with Huge Data

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComDATAANALYTICS15.html
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[DMANET] PPDP 2015: 2nd call for papers

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Call for papers
17th International Symposium on
Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming
PPDP 2015

Special Issue of Science of Computer Programming (SCP)

Siena, Italy, July 14-16, 2015
(co-located with LOPSTR 2015)

http://costa.ls.fi.upm.es/ppdp15

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 20 MARCH, 2015

PPDP 2015 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 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 analyzing
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 modeling in a declarative language and modeling reactivity
* Memory management and the implementation of declarative systems
* Practical experiences and industrial application

This year the conference will be co-located with the 25th
International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2015).

The conference will be held in Siena, Italy. Previous symposia were
held at Canterbury (UK), Madrid (Spain), Leuven (Belgium), 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). You might have a look at the contents of
past PPDP symposia.

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).

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 30% 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 2016.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission: 14 March, 2015
Paper submission: 20 March, 2015
Notification: 14 May, 2015
Camera-ready: To be announced

Symposium: 14-16 July, 2015

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the full paper in
PDF. Papers should be submitted to the submission website for PPDP
2015. 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 the program committee in
selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Papers should consist
of the equivalent of 12 pages under the ACM formatting
guidelines. These guidelines are available online, along with
formatting templates or style files. Submitted papers will be judged
on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and
clarity. They should include a clear identification of what has been
accomplished and why it is significant. Authors who wish to provide
additional material to the reviewers beyond the 12-page limit can do
so in clearly marked appendices: reviewers are not required to read
such appendices.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with LOPSTR)
Martin Hofmann, LMU Munich, Germany
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Program Committee

Michael Adams, University of Utah, USA
Puri Arenas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Amir Ben-Amram, Tel-Aviv Academic College, Israel
Ines Castro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA
Gregory Duck, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Thom Frühwirth, University of Ulm, Germany
Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Michael Hanus, CAU Kiel, Germany
Andy King, University of Kent, UK
F. López-Fraguas, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Ian Mackie, University of Sussex, UK
Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France
Torsten Schaub, University of Potsdam, Germany
Tom Schrijvers KU Leuven, Belgium
Frank D. Valencia, CNRS and LIX, Ecole Polytechnique, France
German Vidal, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Marina Vos, University of Bath, UK
Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College London, UK

Program Chair

Elvira Albert
Complutense University of Madrid
C/ Profesor Garcia Santesmases
E-28040 Madrid, Spain
Email: elvira@sip.ucm.es

Symposium Chair

Moreno Falaschi
Department of information engineering and mathematics
University of Siena, Italy
Email: moreno.falaschi@unisi.it
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[DMANET] LOPSTR 2015: 2nd Call for Papers

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25th International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2015

Special Issue of Formal Aspects of Computing

http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/

University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015
(co-located with PPDP 2015)


DEADLINES
Abstract submission: April 6, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015

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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 25th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena,
Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, Madrid,
Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London,
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven,
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester.
LOPSTR 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International 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:

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

Survey papers that present some aspects 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).


Important Dates

Abstract submission: April 6, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015
Notification: May 25, 2015
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): June 15, 2015
Symposium: July 13-15,
2015


Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in
English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. 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 which will be used to assist
the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers
should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing
their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references
but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication.
Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers
should be intelligible without them.
Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for
LOPSTR 2015, which can be accessed through the website of LOPSTR 2015.


Proceedings

The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal
proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and
inclusion in informal proceedings. 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.


Special journal issue

After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to
a special issue of the 'Formal Aspects of Computing' journal. The
submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the
proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing
process.


Invited speakers

Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP)
Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France


Program Committee

Slim Abdennadher, German University of Cairo, Egypt
Maria Alpuente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Demis Ballis, University of Udine, Italy
Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK
Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Moreno Falaschi, University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair)
Jerome Feret, INRIA and ENS, France
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
Jurgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Arnaud Gotlieb, SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA, Spain
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Mediterranee, France
Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, UK
Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jorge Navas, NASA, USA
Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan
Carlos Olarte, ECT, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Albert Rubio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium


Program and Symposium Chair:

Moreno Falaschi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics,
Univ. of Siena, Italy
(moreno.falaschi@unisi.it)


Organizing Committee

Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Andrea Machetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Simonetta Palmas, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Simone Rinaldi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Elisa Tiezzi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Ugolini, Dip. Informatica, Univ. of Pisa
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[DMANET] 1-day colloquium in graph theory at Hamburg, 10 March

On 10 March 2015, there will be a 1-day colloquium in finite and infinite graph theory at Hamburg, to honour Thomas Andreae who will be retiring on 1 April. Invited speakers only, but everyone interested is most welcome to join us for the day: we expect some exciting talks, see below.

Speakers: Carsten Thomassen, Agelos Georgakopoulos, Johannes Carmesin, Matthias Kriesell, Matthias Hamann, Norbert Sauer, Nathan Bowler

Programme: http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/spag/dm/Andreae-Fest/Program.pdf

Please write to Philine Kortmann at <sekr.dm@math.uni-hamburg.de> to let us know you're coming, and in particular if you wish to have a hotel reservation made or join us for the banquet in the evening.

I look forward to seeing you on 10 March!

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[DMANET] DLT 2015 (Liverpool, UK) Second Call for Papers

Second Call for Papers -- DLT 2015
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19th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
July 27-30, 2015
http://dlt2015.csc.liv.ac.uk/

Deadline for submissions: 12 March, 2015
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The 19th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory (DLT 2015)
will take place in Liverpool, UK on July 27-30, 2015 under the auspices of the
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). The conference
will be hosted by the Liverpool University Department of Computer Science.

The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic,
research, and industrial community who have an interest in formal languages,
automata theory, and related areas.

INVITED SPEAKERS
- Mikołaj Bojańczyk (Warsaw University)
- Patrick Dehornoy (Université de Caen)
- Vesa Halava (University of Turku)
- Markus Lohrey (Universität Siegen)
- Wolfgang Thomas (RWTH Aachen)

TOPICS
Typical topics include, but are not limited to, grammars, acceptors and
transducers for words, trees and graphs, algebraic theories of automata;
algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages;
variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes
and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation
and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography,
concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum
computing.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submissions: 12 March, 2015
Notification to authors: 27th April, 2015
Final Version : 11th May , 2015
DLT 2015 : July 27-30, 2015

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals
or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style
LaTeX2e (available athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All
proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or
made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic
preprint. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the

EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt2015

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Srecko Brlek (Montreal, Canada)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig, Germany)
Artur Jez (Wroclaw, Poland)
Natasha Jonoska (Tampa, USA)
Rusins Freivalds (Riga Latvia)
Mika Hirvensalo (Turku, Finland)
Markus Holzer (Giessen, Germany)
Juraj Hromkovic (Zurich, Switzerland)
Juhani Karhumaki (Turku, Finland)
Gregory Kucherov (Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Pierre McKenzie (Montreal, Canada)
Igor Potapov (Liverpool, UK)
Daniel Reidenbach (Loughborough, UK)
Marinella Sciortino (Palermo, Italy)
Jean-Éric Pin (Paris, France)
Rick Thomas (Leicester, UK)
Mikhail V. Volkov (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei, Taiwan)

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Web: http://dlt2015.csc.liv.ac.uk/

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[DMANET] Deadline extension: SEMAPRO 2015 || July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

INVITATION:

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The submission deadline is March 12, 2015.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to SEMAPRO 2015.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== SEMAPRO 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SEMAPRO 2015, The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Semantic
Processing

July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SEMAPRO15.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPSEMAPRO15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitSEMAPRO15.html

Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini-symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: March 12, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SEMAPRO 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Basics on semantics
Fundamental of semantics processing; Semantic-based techniques for
feature selection; Semantic-based pruning; Semantic interoperability;
Semantics uncertainty; Semantics pre-processing and post-processing;
Semantics harmonization; Constraint-based semantics processing; Embedded
semantics into the discovery process; Semantics in spatial and
spatio-temporal models

Ontology fundamentals for semantic processing
Ontology learning; Ontology for semantic interoperability; Ontologies
and data pre-processing; Ontology-based evaluation and semantic
patterns; Global core ontologies; Progressive ontologies; Bridging
semantics through ontologies; Ontology mapping and ontology
visualization; Ontology in information systems; Ontology-based semantic
mediation; Ontology design and maintenance for conceptual model
integration; Reverse engineering of ontologies from conceptual model;
Ontologies for explanation generation

Semantic technologies
Basics of Ontology and Semantic Web; Semantic storing, computing,
representation, communications; Semantic-driven system design; Syntactic
and semantic processing models; Hardware and software support for
semantic processing; Microprocessors for semantic processing;
Multi-model semantic systems; Semantic annotation of multimedia
supports; Semantic multimedia information retrieval; Natural language
semantic processing; Context-based semantic processing; Content-based
semantic processing; Scalability to the Web level; Performance in
semantic processing; Information security in semantic processing;
Explaining semantic processing and its results

Models and ontology-based design of protocols, architectures and services
Fundamentals in theory; Modeling methodologies; Models and
Ontology-driven Technologies (for the communications system design);
Models and ontology relationships; Multi-models coherence. Models and
ontology-based communications services and protocols; Semantics of
services and service modeling; Protocol models and semantics;
Application and quality of experience semantics; Services and protocols
semantics; Models and ontology-based cross-layer services and
architectures design; Models and ontology-based software frameworks;
Composition of Services and Composability rules; Cross-layering services
models, components and implementations

Semantic Deep Web
Ontology plug-in search; Information extraction from the Deep Web
/e-commerce sites/; Semantic Deep Web annotation and indexing; Deep
Web-based ontology; Semantic Deep Web crawlers; Semantic browsing and
visualization; Semantic Deep Web data fusion; Semiautomatic ontology
generation; Metrics for quality of ontology; Similarity measures for
ontology alignment; Measurements for quality of search; Tools for
semantic Deep Web; Experience extraction from the Web

Semantic reasoning
Reasoning methods; Reasoning for the Web; Ontology expressiveness;
Ontology alignment, mapping and merging; Expressing formal semantics;
Languages (RDF, RDF Schema, OWL, etc); Robustness of reasoning on the
Web; Patterns on semantic reasoning; Querying and searching; Scalable
and tolerant reasoning; Dynamic reasoning for the Semantic Web;
Ontologies and problem-solving methods; Computational learning theory;
Approximate reasoning/computing; Strategies for abstraction and
compression of information; Cognitive semantic reasoning; Attention
semantic scoping; Recency-based self-optimizing memory; Cost-benefit
trade-off reasoning models; Negotiation in obtaining near-optimal
reasoning results under bounded resources; Case-based reasoning

Semantic content searching
Methodologies for innovative information retrieval technologies;
Combinatorial search; Massive search-spaces with heuristics (e.g., based
on Monte Carlo simulations); Searching using metadata, semantics, and
ontology; Advanced searching in digital libraries; Advanced use of RDF
and OWL; Expressiveness of the content ontologies; Inherent
inconsistency and incompleteness of data on the Web; Scalability of
semantic processing; Specialized search engines (Hakia, Matrixware and
seekda)

Hypertext and hypermedia semantic
Hypertext techniques and semantic applications; Hypertext and
ontologies; Hypertext semantic models; Spatial semantic hypertext;
Self-organized hypertext; Semantic adaptive hypertext; Web and hypertext
link analysis; Hypertexts and semantic Web; Hypertext semantic applications

Semantic voice-video-speech (VVS) searching
Engines and methods for VVS advanced searching; Patterns in VVS
searching; Contextual VVS searching; Rapid VVS searching; Accuracy in
VVS searching; Noise in VVS searching; Performance in VVS searching;
Metrics for VVS searching; Text and VVS searching; Applications of VVS

Semantic multimedia
Efficient storage of structured data that scale to a very large size;
Automatic generation of multimedia presentations; Advanced process for
multimedia information mining; Semantic metadata extraction; Annotation
tools and methods for content semantics; Media ontology
generation/learning/reasoning; Semantic multimedia streaming; Semantics
enabled multimedia applications
/annotation/browsing/storage/retrieval/visualization

Semantic social media
Community detection and evolution in social media; Recommendation and
ranking systems; Search in social media; Event detection, trend
identification and tracking in social media; Influence, trust and
reputation in social media; Opinion/sentiment analysis, polarity
identification; Feed distillation and ranking blogs; Mining
microblogging and real time data; Folksonomy, tag semantics, clustering
and usage; Advertising models for the social web; Indexing social media
content, index freshness; Visualizing social network data; Spam
detection, social network spam and profile spam

Semantics for sentiment/opinion analysis
Architectures for generic sentiment analysis systems; Sentiment analysis
techniques on social media; Document-level analysis; Sentence-level
analysis; Aspect-based analysis; Comparative-sentiment analysis;
Sentiment lexicon acquisition; Optimizing sentiment analysis algorithms;
Applications of sentiment analysis

Semantic networking
Semantic-based QoS (Quality of Service) control and scheduling; Semantic
QoE (Quality of Experience) evaluation; Semantic-based Internet data
streaming and delivery; Semantics enabled networking and middleware;
Semantic routing; Semantic interfaces

Domain-oriented semantic applications
Semantics for managing pharmaceutical data; Semantic processing for
biomedical knowledge; Speech, text and picture recognition; Semantic
email workflow and content; Semantic blogs and wikis; Semantic email
addressing; Semantic web and digital libraries; Semantic processing in
e-Health; Semantic-driven tutoring systems

Economics and governance of semantics technologies
Organizational views; Legal; Business; Regulations; Assessment;
Standards; Harmonization; Cross-nation mediation

Semantic applications/platforms/tools
Market for semantic technologies; Applications, services and systems
based on semantic processing; User friendly semantic system integration
tools; Ontology-based data transformation and data migration tools;
Ontology mapping tools and languages; Ontology-enabled interoperability
in e-science, life sciences, e-business, culture; Commercial cost models
for semantic applications; Semantic solutions for business intelligence;
Semantic processing platforms ; Supporting ontology platforms/tools
(Prot�g�, etc); Semantic query languages (SPARQL, etc); Ontology-enabled
search engines; Semantic Web search engines; Interoperability of data,
systems, and organizations; Experiments and lessons learned; Standard
activities

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComSEMAPRO15.html
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[DMANET] CfP: IJCAI International Workshop on Graph Based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Dear colleague, apologies for cross-posting.

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The Fourth IJCAI International Workshop on Graph Based
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, July 2015, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.

Organizing Committee:

· Madalina Croitoru <http://www.lirmm.fr/~croitoru>, Univ
Montpellier, France

· Pierre Marquis
<http://www.cril.univ-artois.fr/~marquis/Home,_sweet_home.html>,
CRIL-CNRS, France

· Sebastian Rudolph <http://sebastian-rudolph.de/doku.php?id=home>,
TU Dresden, Germany

· Gem Stapleton <https://sites.google.com/site/stapletongem/home>,
Engineering and Mathematics Moulescoomb Brighton, UK

Important dates:

· Submission Deadline: April 26th, 2015

· GKR 2015 Workshop (1 day): *July 25th-31st, 2015*

*Post proceedings of the workshop will be published in a special
issue of the SPRINGER LNAI Series.*

Different paradigms for knowledge representation and their subsequent
manipulation by dedicated reasoning systems have been successfully
studied in the past. Nevertheless, new challenges, problems and issues
have appeared in the context of knowledge representation in AI that
involve the logical manipulation of increasingly large information sets
(see for example Semantic Web, the Open Linked Data initiative, Social
Networks etc.) Therefore, research into KRR must move towards
investigating structures for representation optimally manipulated to
perform large scale reasoning, given very new and different constraints
to those existing only few years ago.

Included in this new generation of KRR systems are graph-based knowledge
representation formalisms. Such graph-based techniques have been
successfully deployed in different research areas as dedicated
formalisms. The advantages of graph-based KRR techniques are three-fold:
(1) graphs provide a natural paradigm for modeling domains with a very
complex structure; (2) a graph-based knowledge representation allows for
a very intuitive graphical explanation of the knowledge reasoning
process and (3) a graph-based knowledge representation typically allows
for structure-based optimization of the reasoning process. Graph-based
knowledge representation and reasoning is thus a growing area of
research, spanning across different domains, with more and more
important contributions appearing over the last few years. It is the
investigation of further developments of KRR graph techniques that we
address within this workshop.

The workshop welcomes contributions on graph-based representation, query
and reasoning paradigms (e.g. Baysian Networks (BNs), Semantic Networks
(SNs), RDF/S, SPARQL \& RIF, Conceptual Graphs (CGs), Formal Concept
Analysis (FCA), Euler Diagrams, CP-Nets, GAI-Nets, etc.) from a
theoretical and application viewpoint. The papers will be judged from
two perspectives: technical and application. Technical results will
include graph theory based results for novel structures for
representation, extensions of existing structures for added
expressivity, conciseness, optimisation algorithms for reasoning,
reasoning explanation mechanisms etc. Papers reporting on application
experience will be expected to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed
solutions. Examples of such domains include Semantic Web, Grid
Computing, BioInformatics, Multi Agent Systems, Recommender Systems etc.
The workshop is expected to bring together people from different
research communities that are actively pursuing this line of research.
We hope that the presentation of different perspectives on employing
graphs for knowledge representation and reasoning will be mutually
enriching and will stimulate further research.

--
Dr Jim Burton
Senior Lecturer in Computing
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
University of Brighton

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[DMANET] Deadline extension: AMBIENT 2015 || July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France

INVITATION:

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The submission deadline is March 12, 2015.

Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate
groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original
scientific results to AMBIENT 2015.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article
versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== AMBIENT 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

AMBIENT 2015, The Fifth International Conference on Ambient Computing,
Applications, Services and Technologies

July 19 - 24, 2015 - Nice, France


General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/AMBIENT15.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPAMBIENT15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitAMBIENT15.html

Contributions:
- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]
- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]
- doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:
- mini-symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html
- workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html
- tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]
- panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: March 12, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA
Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.:
http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library:
http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of
concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations,
running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors
are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under
review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not
limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in
terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress,
Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the Editorial rules:
http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

AMBIENT 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Track 1: Ambient computing environments, sensors and hardware
Fundamental for ambient computing and mechanisms; Environmental sensing
and computing; Distributed ambient and artificial intelligence;
Autonomic ambient networks and communications; Smart environments and
applications; Ubiquitous and mobile computing

Track 2: Ambient computing and modeling
Sentient Computing; Tracking and sensing networks; Location-based
computing; Ambient context modeling and reasoning; Context-aware
computing; Local and global sensing; Multi-sensory and multi-modal fusion

Track 3: Ambient devices, applications and systems
Ambient media and devices; Ambient content and methods for adding
intelligence to media objects; Sentient offices; Smart phones; Glasses
and filters for ambient game and movie; Social networks and social
computing; Semantic-location; Body sensors; Wearable devices; Smart sensors

Track 4: Ambient services, technology and platforms
Personalized services; Ambient assisted living (AAL) ; Social games;
Domotics (Home Automation) ; Domestic robotics; Intelligent homes;
Tele-care and Telemedicine; Mobile media; Mobile learning; Emergency
services; Ambient-oriented technologies (wireless, social networks) ;
Universal access; Ambient platforms; Ambient and mobile social networks

Track 5: User Friendly Interfaces
Haptic interfaces; Smart user interfaces; Ambient interfaces (touch,
gesture, haptics, biometrics) ; Multimodal interfaces and interaction

Track 6: Ambient Business Models, Privacy and Trust
Business model and business cases, security, privacy and trust,
Real-life implementations

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComAMBIENT15.html
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[DMANET] Winter Combinatorics Meeting, 4th March, Open University, UK

The 16th Annual Winter Combinatorics Meeting

Wednesday 4th March 2015
CMR Room 15, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

All are welcome -- this event is free, and no registration required.
For full details, maps and abstracts, see
http://wcm.open.ac.uk/

Schedule:
10:15 -- 11:00 Arrival; Tea/Coffee

11:00 -- 11:40 Klara Stokes (Linköping University, Sweden)
"Linear patterns of ideals of numerical semigroups (with applications
to configurations)"

11:45 -- 12:25 Robert Jajcay (Comenius University, Slovakia)
"Symmetric cages"

12:30 -- 2:00 Lunch

2:00 -- 2:40 Maurice Pouzet (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France)
"Decompositions of relational structures and enumeration"

2:45 -- 3:25 Christina Goldschmidt (University of Oxford, UK)
"The scaling limit of the minimum spanning tree of the complete graph"

3:30 -- 4:00 Tea/Coffee

4:00 -- 4:40 Vadim Lozin (University of Warwick, UK)
"Deciding the Bell number for hereditary graph properties"

Dinner: Please email grahame.erskine@open.ac.uk if you would like to
join the organisers for an early evening dinner after the meeting.

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[DMANET] WORDS 2015: First Call for Papers

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1st CALL FOR PAPERS
10th International Conference on WORDS 2015
Kiel, Germany
September 14-18, 2015
http://words2015.uni-kiel.de/
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IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission deadline: April 17, 2015
Notification of authors: May 27, 2015
Deadline for final versions: June 10, 2015
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WORDS is a biannual international conference covering the mathematical
theory of words (sequences of symbols) from all points of view:
combinatorial, algebraic, algorithmic, as well as its applications to
biology, linguistics, physics, and others.

The previous WORDS conferences have taken place in Rouen (1997, 1999),
Palermo (2001), Turku (2003, 2013), Montreal (2005), Marseille (2007),
Salerno (2009), Prague (2011). This year we celebrate the 10th edition of
WORDS.

Please mark the conference dates in your agendas for 2015.

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Jörg Endrullis (Amsterdam), Markus Lohrey (Siegen), Jean Néraud (Rouen),
Dominique Perrin (Paris), Michaël Rao (Lyon), Thomas Stoll (Nancy).

For WORDS 2015, we are looking for original contributions on the topics of
the conference, in the form of extended abstracts, for publication in a
refereed proceedings volume published in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series of the Springer-Verlag. We particularly invite papers
establishing connections between different parts of the research community.

In the tradition of the previous WORDS conferences, authors are also
invited to submit high level contributions, which might not meet the
requirements of the proceedings volume, for publication in a local
abstract-booklet.

The submissions for WORDS 2015 should be in PDF format (maximum 12 pages
using the LNCS style; proofs omitted due to space constraints may be put
into an appendix, to be read by the reviewers at their discretion). Authors
who wish their paper to be considered for inclusion in the LNCS volume must
explicitly declare so during the submission process.

The submission site is open:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=words2015

The PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, that will select the papers to be presented at the
conference, consists of:
Maxime Crochemore (London), Juhani Karhumäki (Turku), Dirk Nowotka (Kiel -
chair), Stepan Holub (Prague), Antonio Restivo (Palermo), Manfred
Kufleitner (Stuttgart), Gad Landau (Haifa), Michel Rigo (Liege), James
Currie (Winnipeg), Mikhail V. Volkov (Ekaterinburg), Wojciech Plandowski
(Warsaw), Luca Zamboni (Lyon).

The web-site of the conference is: http://words2015.uni-kiel.de/
Questions regarding the conference can be addressed to the organisers (Dirk
Nowotka, Florin Manea) via E-mail:
info@words2015.uni-kiel.de

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[DMANET] House of Graphs: a database of interesting graphs -- an update

Already in 2012 we announced the website "House of Graphs" --
http://hog.grinvin.org/ -- through this mailing list. In the meantime
several new lists of graphs, "interesting graphs", and invariants have
been added to the website.

"House of Graphs" hosts lists of graphs (like Snarks, Fullerenes, etc.)
and links to other pages with lists of combinatorial structures (like
vertex transitive graphs, Ramsey graphs, etc.). But its main feature is
a searchable database of graphs that already occurred as counterexamples
to conjectures, as extremal graphs or in other contexts. In short we
call this the database of "interesting graphs".

The key idea is that although already for small vertex numbers extremely
many graphs exist, there are some that serve again and again as
counterexamples and that a database of these graphs should be
established. In this database one can e.g. search for graphs with
certain invariant values, graphs with a certain name (e.g. Petersen,
Heawood, Balaban, etc.) or graphs that are marked as being interesting
for a certain invariant (e.g. marked as being interesting for the
girth). These searches can of course also be combined and the results
downloaded so that one gets good candidates for testing new conjectures
one is working on.

Users can also add graphs to the database. If the graphs are not yet in
the database, the system computes invariant values for the graphs. So
the database can also be used as a repository. If you discover new
interesting graphs, you can make them available to other users by
submitting them to the database together with a text identifier (e.g.
counterexample_this_conjecture). Then other scientists can find and
download the graph from "House of Graphs".

More information on "House of Graphs" and its functionalities is given in:

Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 161, Issues 1-2, Jan. 2013, pages
311-314
Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.07.018

and

http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3549

while "House of Graphs" can be accessed at: http://hog.grinvin.org/


Gunnar Brinkmann, Kris Coolsaet, Jan Goedgebeur and Hadrien Melot

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Jan Goedgebeur
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281 - S9
B - 9000 Ghent

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[DMANET] 1st Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory at IJCAI - Preliminary CFP

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1st Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory at IJCAI
Buenos Aires, Argentina
July 24-31, 2015
http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/agt2015

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Deadlines:

April 27, 2015 - Submission of contributions to workshops;
May 20, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification;
May 30, 2015 - Deadline for final camera ready copy to workshop organizers.

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Scope:

Over the past fifteen years, research in theoretical computer science,
artificial intelligence, and microeconomics has joined forces to
tackle problems involving incentives and computation. This research
field, commonly named Algorithmic Game Theory, is becoming
increasingly more relevant

The main aim of this one-day long workshop is to bring together the
rich variety of scientists that IJCAI attracts in order to have a
multidisciplinary forum within which discuss and analyze current and
novel challenges that the research in Algorithmic Game Theory faces.

Submission:

All paper submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated on the basis
of the quality of their contribution, originality, soundness, and
significance. Industrial applications and position papers presenting
novel ideas, issues, challenges and directions are also welcome.
Submissions are invited in, but not limited to, the following topics:

- Algorithmic mechanism design
- Auction algorithms and analysis
- Behavioral Game Theory
- Bounded rationality
- Computational advertising
- Computational aspects of equilibria
- Computational social choice
- Convergence and learning in games
- Coalitions, coordination and collective action
- Economic aspects of security and privacy
- Economic aspects of distributed and network computing
- Information and attention economics
- Network games
- Price differentiation and price dynamics
- Social networks

Papers are to be submitted electronically on easychair. Submission
link and submission format will be available on the workshop website
in due course.

Publication:

To widen participation and encourage discussion, there will be no
formal publication of workshop proceedings. Therefore, submissions of
preliminary work and papers to be submitted or in preparation for
submission to other major venues in the field are encouraged.

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Program Committee:

Ioannis Caragiannis (University of Patras)
Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT)
Edith Elkind (University of Oxford)
Diodato Ferraioli (Università di Salerno)
Martin Gairing (University of Liverpool)
Enrico H. Gerding (University of Southampton)
Vasilis Gkatzelis (Stanford)
Umberto Grandi (IRIT)
Gianluigi Greco (Università della Calabria)
Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)
Jerome Lang (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Kate Larson (University of Waterloo)
Katrina Ligett (California Institute of Technology)
Emiliano Lorini (IRIT)
Brendan Lucier (MSR New England)
Vangelis Markakis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Noam Nisan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
David Parkes (Harvard University)
Maria Polukarov (University of Southampton)
Valentin Robu (Heriot-Watt University)
Francesca Rossi (Università di Padova)
Eva Tardos (Cornell)
Orestis Telelis (University of Piraeus)
Vijay V. Vazirani (Georgia Tech)
Angelina Vidali (UPMC Sorbonne Universities)
Toby Walsh (NICTA and and UNSW)

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Organizing Committee:

Georgios Chalkiadakis (Technical University of Crete)
Nicola Gatti (Politecnico di Milano)
Reshef Meir (Harvard University)
Carmine Ventre (Teesside University)

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[DMANET] 3rd CfP --- EURO 2015 in Glasgow

The next European Conference on Operational Research, EURO2015:
Operational Research In Practice, will take place at the University of
Strathclyde in Glasgow from 12-15 July 2015. It is the place to
present your work and find out about cutting edge ideas emerging from
the Operational Research community.

The deadline for abstract submissions is March 16. Researchers,
academics, practitioners, and students interested in any branch of
Operational Research, mathematical modelling or economic analysis are
invited to submit abstracts or organise sessions. If you would like to
organise a session, please contact the Programme Committee. More
information is on the website www.euro2015.org, including details of
the main topical areas, the Programme and Organising Committee
members, and details of how to submit your abstract.

Our plenary speaker sessions are superb, confirmed to date:

Risk and Reliability in Stochastic Optimization - R.Tyrrell
Rockafellar, University of Washington

Public Policy & Governance, Sustainable Cities - Sir Alan Wilson,
Professor of Urban Regional Systems, Centre for Advanced Spatial
Analysis, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London

Trends in Transportation and Logistics - M Grazia Speranza, Professor
in Operations Research, University of Brescia

Our further speaker programme includes:

OR Education in the Age of Analytics - Ariela Sofer, Systems
Engineering and Operations Research (SEOR), George Mason University,
Virginia

Optimizing and Transforming the Healthcare System - Eva K. Lee,
Centre for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta

Operations Research Models in Evacuation Planning - Horst Hamacher,
Optimization Working Group, Department of Mathematics, University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany

OR Models and Algorithms for Bioinformatics - Jacek Blazewicz,
Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology, Poland

Advances in Criterion Space Search Methods for Multiobjective Mixed
Integer Programming - Martin Savelsbergh, H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta

Behavioural Operational Research - Raimo P. Hamalainen, Systems
Analysis Laboratory, Aalto University, Finland

Is Optimal Still Good Enough? - Modern Supply Chain Planning - Stefan
Nickel, Institute for Operations Research, Karlsruhe Institute of
Technology (KIT), Germany

Automatic Algorithm Configuration: Advances and Perspectives - Thomas
Stuetzle, IRIDIA, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

OR at the heart of Government - how the Government OR Service
influences decision making - Tony O'Connor, Chair of the Government
Operational Research Service (GORS), UK

Be a part of EURO2015 which takes place in an inspiring and lively
city, has a great social programme and is the place for OR in 2015.

We look forward to seeing you in Glasgow.

Kind regards
Professor Tim Bedford, Professor Val Belton and Professor David
Pisinger, Co-chairs of EURO2015

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[DMANET] FINAL CFP: OPTMAS 2015@AAMAS2015 (Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

*** Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 18th, 2015 ***

The International Workshop on

Optimisation in Multi-Agent Systems (OptMAS)

May 4-5, 2014, Istanbul, Turkey

in conjunction with AAMAS 2015

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Workshop Website

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* http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~wyeoh/OPTMAS2015/

Call

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The OPTMAS workshop invites works from different strands of the multi-agent
systems community that pertain to the design of algorithms, models, and
techniques to deal with multi-agent optimisation problems. We will also
place a particular emphasis on DCR approaches, which include the modeling,
formulation and solution of DCR problems, including both Distributed
Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization problems.

Important dates

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* February, 18, 2015 - EXTENDED Submission of contributions to workshops

* March 6, 2015 - Workshop paper acceptance notification

* March 15, 2015 - Submission of camera-ready version

* May 4-5, 2015 - Workshop takes place in conjunction with AAMAS 2015

Keywords

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Topics include but are not limited to:

* Distributed constraint optimization/satisfaction

* Winner determination algorithms in auctions

* Coalition formation algorithms

* Algorithms to compute Nash and other equilibria in games

* Optimization under uncertainty

* Optimization with incomplete or dynamic input data

* Algorithms for real-time applications

* GPU for general purpose computations (GPGPU)

* Multi-core and many-core computing

* Cloud, distributed and grid computing

Submissions

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Participants should submit a paper (maximum 15 pages), describing their
work on one or more of the topics relevant to the workshop. Alternatively,
participants may submit a shorter paper (maximum 5 pages) presenting a
research statement or perspective on topics relevant to the workshop.
Accepted papers will be presented during the workshop and will be published
in the workshop proceedings.

Authors are requested to prepare their papers by following the LNCS
Springer instructions found at:http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

All submissions are conducted via the OptMAS 2015 EasyChair website:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=optmas2015

Submissions should include the name(s), affiliations, and email addresses
of all authors in the body of the email. We welcome the submission of
papers rejected from the AAMAS 2015 technical program. The deadline for
receipt of submissions is February 18, 2015. Papers received after this
date may not be reviewed.

Submissions will be refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty,
significance, and clarity. Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by
at least two program committee members.

For questions about the submission process, contact the workshop co-chairs.

Reviewing process

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Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 program committee members. Criteria
for selection of papers will include: technical quality, novelty,
significance, and clarity.

Publication

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Pre-proceedings containing all accepted papers are provided electronically
on a USB stick as a part of the AAMAS workshop registration package. Best
papers from OptMAS 2008 and OptMAS 2009 were selected for publication in
the special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent System of the Journal of
Autonomous and Multiagent Systems. Best papers from OptMAS 2011 and 2012
were invited to submit to a special issue on Optimisation in Multi-Agent
System of the Computer Journal. We plan to continue this initiative for the
current and next editions.

Organizing comittee

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* Dr. Archie Chapman, University of Sydney.

* Dr. Marc Pujol-Gonzalez, IIIA-CSIC.

* Dr. Meritxell Vinyals, CEA-LIST.

* Dr. William Yeoh, New Mexico State University.

* Dr. Roie Zivan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Programme comittee

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* Bo An, Nanyang Technological University

* Tal Grinshpoun, Ariel University

* Valentin Robu, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh

* Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar, IIIA-CSIC

* Robert N. Lass, Drexel University

* Kate Larson, University of Waterloo

* Hala Mostafa, SMU

* Matthew E. Taylor, Washington State University

* Ana L. C. Bazzan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

* Sven Koenig, University of Southern California

* Talal Rahwan, University of Southampton

* Marius Silaghi, FIT

* Tomas Klos, Delft University of Technology

* Francisco Cruz, IIIA-CSIC

* Patricia Gutierrez, IIIA CSIC

* Christopher Kiekintveld, University of Texas at El Paso

* Jesus Cerquides, IIIA-CSIC

* Toni Penya-Alba, IIIA-CSIC

* Katsutoshi Hirayama, Kobe University

* Mohamed Wahbi, Insight, University College Cork

* Harel Yedidsion, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

* Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Lab

* Luke Teacy, University of Southampton

* Gauthier Picard, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne

* Fei Fang, University of Southern California

* Filippo Bistaffa, University Of Verona

* Tom Holvoet, Dept. of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven

* Alessandro Farinelli, Verona University

* Cédric Herpson, LIP6, University Pierre and Marie Curie

* Kagan Tumer, Oregon State University

* Logan Yliniemi, Oregon State University

* Pedro Meseguer, IIIA - CSIC

* Makoto Yokoo, Kyushu University

* Yoonheui Kim, University of Massachusetts

* Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, University of Geneva

* Amnon Meisels, Ben-Gurion University

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