Theory Announcements

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

[DMANET] 1-day symposium on "Combinatorial Optimization and Applications" on 10 Feb 2017 in Edinburgh

A short reminder of the upcoming deadline for registration this Friday.

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The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Dear colleagues,

you are cordially invited to participate in the 1-day symposium "Combinatorial Optimization and Applications" at the University of Edinburgh on the 10th of February 2017.

We are delighted to announce the following invited speakers:
- Horst W. Hamacher (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany)
- Martine Labbé (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).
- Marco Lübbecke (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Alfredo Marín (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
- Pedro Munari (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil)
- François Vanderbeck (Université de Bordeaux, France)

Participation is free of charge, but you are required to register for catering and organizational purposes. The deadline for registration is on the 27th of January 2017.

The symposium will be held at the University of Edinburgh's George Square campus, which is within short walking distance from the city centre and Waverly train station.

More details can be found at: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~jkalcsic/index.html

We are looking forward to meeting you in Edinburgh!

Sergio García Quiles
Jörg Kalcsics

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Joerg Kalcsics
Lecturer in Operational Research
School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh

James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK

Room: 6226
Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953
Email: joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk<mailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk>
Web: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/people/show?person=450

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[DMANET] CFP - (ISUT'2017) International Workshop on Ιntelligent & Sustainable Urban Transportation (in conjunction with ISCC 2017)

Call for Papers

International Workshop on Intelligent & Sustainable Urban Transportation (in conjunction with ISCC 2017)

July 3, 2017 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

(http://isut.aegean.gr/)

Workshop chairs

Damianos Gavalas (University of the Aegean, Greece)

Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Grammati Pantziou (Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece)

Christos Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

Scope and objectives

In the light of the continuous growth of urban areas with respect to population and size, urban transportation systems are facing significant challenges such as traffic congestion, overcrowding, demand management and service availability. Sustainable transportation makes a positive contribution in addressing those challenges, as to its social, economic and environmental impact. It provides affordable access to all groups of citizens, promotes green vehicles, public transportation, new sharing paradigms like vehicle sharing and carpooling and encourages non-motorized modes of transport such as walking and biking. Policy makers, urban traffic planners and transportation system operators realize the need for sustainable transportation, robust transportation policies and demand management strategies. Along this line, they work towards alleviating congestion, making public transport more attractive, maintaining a high level of operational efficiency in the transportation system, responding -and, if possible, predicting and preventing- traffic incidents.

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aim at providing sophisticated management models and tools across all transport modes, traffic management, new-generation systems for infrastructure charging, and innovative real time travel information services. ITS facilitate city authorities and transportation professionals realize their visions as regards implementing and managing multimodal transportation networks and enabling citizens to be informed and make better use of these networks. It is a matter of critical importance for such systems and tools to scale so as to enable cities with different budgets to deploy them.

The ISUT workshop aims at soliciting original research related to frameworks, algorithmic solutions, applications and case studies in the scope of ITS and sustainable mobility in urban environments.

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

ITS planning and implementation

ITS technologies

Green ITS

Public transport network planning

Time-dependent route planning

Dynamic multimodal routing

Multi-criteria multimodal routing

Freight transportation management and planning

Smart parking solutions

Mobility as a Service and single ticketing solutions

Mobility in smart cities

Electric and hybrid vehicles charging and routing: models and solutions

Algorithmic approaches and models in vehicle sharing and carpooling

Traffic prediction

Safety systems and safety aspects of smart transportation

Big data in transportation

Communications in ITS

Vehicular networks

Sustainable urban mobility: planning, implementation and performance indicators

Projects and field operational trials

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: March 27, 2017

Paper Acceptance Notification: April 17, 2017

Camera Ready Papers: April 24, 2017

Technical program committee

Andrea D'Ariano (Universit`a degli Studi "RomaTre", Italy)

Feng Chu (Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France)

Jing Dong (Iowa State University, USA)

Marc Goerigk (Lancaster University, UK)

Andreas Hegyi (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Dionisios Kehagias (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)

Spyros Kontogiannis (University of Ioannina, Greece)

Marco Laumanns (IBM Research, Switzerland)

Xiaoliang Ma (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Valentin Polishchuk (Linköping University, Sweden)

Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA)

Bart De Schutter (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Grazia Speranza (Universita Degli Studi di Brescia, Italy)

Pieter Vansteenwegen (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Dorothea Wagner (KIT, Germany)

Ouri Wolfson (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Monday, January 23, 2017

[DMANET] Recent Advances in Algorithms School: application form is open

Recent Advances in Algorithms
International Computer Science Student School
May 22–26, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia
http://raa-school.org

IMPORTANT DATES
Application: February 10, 2017
Notification: February 20, 2017
Registration: February 27, 2017

AIM OF THE SCHOOL

The school offers the unique opportunity to learn about recent
breakthroughs
in several domains of algorithms: from classical areas like network flow
algorithms
and longest paths in graphs to recently emerged areas like streaming
algorithms
and algorithms for high dimensional data. The lectures will be taught by
the leading
researchers in these areas. Each of the tutorials will provide an
introduction to the
area and gradually bring to the current research frontiers.

The primarily audience consists of PhD students interested in Algorithms.
Bright master students, postdocs, young researchers and even faculty
are also very welcome.

LECTURERS

Michael Kapralov (EPFL)
Streaming Algorithms

Aleksander Mądry (MIT)
Graph Algorithms and Continuous Optimization

Ilya Razenshteyn (MIT)
Algorithms for High-Dimensional Data

Saket Saurabh (IMSc)
Longest Paths in Graphs: Parameterized Algorithms

VENUE

The school is hosted by St. Petersburg Department of V.A. Steklov Institute
of Mathematics
of the Russian Academy of Sciences which is located in the very center of
St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg is particularly beautiful in the late spring — early summer,
the white nights
season. The city is surrounded by wonderful tsar parks and palaces; an
excursion to one
of them will be a social program of the school.

[DMANET] Special Issue on: Operational Research: New Trends and Modern Applications / RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH

International Journal of RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH
indexed by Web of Science Thomson Reuters, SCOPUS, DBLP...

CALL FOR PAPERS

ROADEF2017 Special Issue on: Operational Research: New Trends and Modern
Applications

Guest Editors:
Imed Kacem and Christophe Rapine

Scope
ROADEF2017 conference (http://roadef2017.event.univ-lorraine.fr/) is the
18th edition of the annual conference of the French Society of
Operational Research and Decision Aid (Metz, 22-23-24 February 2017).
The scientific program of this conference includes about 250
contributions and different keynote speeches provided by outstanding
experts. This event has attracted participants from different countries.
This special issue is devoted to ROADEF2017 but the submission is also
extended to any high-quality paper non-presented at the conference.
According to the journal standards, a new review process will be
organized and applied to all the papers submitted to this special issue.

The scope of this special issue is related to the Operational Research
(OR) domain. Both contributions to methodologies and applications are
welcome.

This special issue attempts to present some recent advances in OR and to
publish original papers that contribute to the theory, the solution
methods, and the related applications. The topics include but are not
limited to:

Approximation algorithms;
Mathematical programming;
Exact methods (dynamic programming, cutting plane,
branch-and-[cut/price/bound] algorithms...);
Cutting plane algorithms;
Branch-and-Cut-and-Price algorithms;
Heuristics and metaheuristics;
Graph theory and applications;
Scheduling, planning and lot-sizing;
Constrained optimization;
Markov chains and stochastic optimization;
Transportation and logistics;
Network design and optimization;
Learning, simulation and statistical approaches;
Non-linear and/or global optimization.

Target Dates

Submission starting date: January 30th, 2017
Submission deadline: April 30th, 2017
Notification of the Initial Decision: June 30th, 2017
Submission Deadline for Revised Version: October 15th, 2017
Final Decision: November 15th, 2017
Submission Deadline for Final Version: November 30th, 2017

Submission

Authors should follow the instructions available at the journal website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=ROE&type=ifc

Authors should select "ROADEF2017 Special Issue" type when submitting
their manuscripts. Papers should be submitted in electronic form (in PDF
format) via the submission system. Your submission should be original,
unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication
elsewhere.

Each submission will be evaluated by two independent referees. Quality
and originality of the contribution are the main acceptance criteria.

For any query, please contact the Guest Editors:

Prof. Imed Kacem
Université de Lorraine
LCOMS, Ile du Saulcy
Metz 57000, FRANCE
Tel: +33 3 87 31 52 57
Email: imed.kacem@univ-lorraine.fr

Prof. Christophe Rapine
Université de Lorraine
Ile du Saulcy
Metz 57000, FRANCE
Tel: +33 3 87 31 56 25
Email: chrsitophe.rapine@univ-lorraine.fr

[DMANET] Call for Papers - Annals of Operations Research Special Issue - DEADLINE EXTENSION

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Call for Papers - Annals of Operations Research

Special Issue - DEADLINE EXTENSION - March 15th, 2017

Recent Advances in Decomposition Methods
for Hard Optimization Problems
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Motivation

Divide and conquer, from Latin divide et impera, is one of the key
techniques for tackling combinatorial optimization problems. It relies on
the idea of decomposing complex problems into a sequence of subproblems
that are then easier to handle. Decomposition techniques (such as
Dantzig-Wolfe, Lagrangian, or Benders decomposition) are extremely
effective in a wide range of applications, including cutting & packing,
production & scheduling, routing & logistics, telecommunications,
transportation and many others. Moreover, decomposition techniques are
playing an important role in many different fields of mixed-integer linear
and non-linear optimization, multi objective optimization, optimization
under uncertainty, bilevel optimization, etc. Despite the tremendous amount
of research on these topics, the mathematical optimization community is
constantly faced with new challenges coming from theoretical aspects and
real world applications that require the development of new advanced tools.

This special issue will be a point of reference for researchers and
practitioners that want to learn more about the recent advances in
decomposition techniques for hard combinatorial optimization problems. We
solicit original and high-quality papers presenting the latest improvements
in the field.

Topics

The purpose of this issue is to provide a view on state of the art
decomposition methods in the field of mathematical optimization. We will
consider high-quality manuscripts addressing the development of new
theoretical insights, algorithmic approaches and computational studies in
the context of exact and heuristic methods based on decomposition
techniques.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
- Stabilization techniques
- Row and column generation
- Column generation
- Branch-and-price
- Branch-and-cut-and-price
- Branch-and-cut
- Benders decomposition
- L-shaped method
- Generalized Benders decomposition
- Lagrangian decomposition
- Cross decomposition
- Decomposition for non-linear programming
- Decomposition for robust and stochastic combinatorial optimization
- Heuristic methods derived from exact methods based on decomposition
- Applications to challenging real world problems involving some of the
above techniques

We strongly encourage participants of the EURO 2016 conference to submit
full versions of their presented papers to this special issue. This Call
for Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and
practitioners working in the field of mathematical optimization.

Submission

Prospective authors are asked to follow the Annals of Operations Research
guide for authors
(see http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/
operations+research/journal/10479)

Authors should submit a cover letter and a manuscript by March 15th, 2017,
via the Journal's online submission site. Manuscripts submitted after the
deadline may not be considered for the special volume and may be
transferred to a regular volume.

Please select "SI Decomposition Methods" as the article type during the
submission process. Submitted papers will undergo a regular review process
according to the high standard of Annals of Operations Research.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Open: July 2016
Paper Submission Due: March 15th, 2017
Notification of Review Results: July 2017
Revised Manuscript Due: December 2017
Final Decision: no later than October 2018

Guest Editors

Fabio Furini, Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Ivana Ljubic, ESSEC Business School, France
Emiliano Traversi, Paris 13, France

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[DMANET] Call for Papers - ACM Workshop SecDef 2017

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Call for Papers - ACM Workshop SecDef 2017

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Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the fourth ACM Workshop on Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation in Defense, Security, and Risk Management
(SecDef'2017) will be held in conjunction with the ACM Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in Berlin, Germany, July 15-19,
2017.

With the constant appearance of new threats, research in the areas of
defense, security and risk management has acquired an increasing importance
over the past few years. These new challenges often require innovative
solutions and computational intelligence techniques can play a significant
role in finding them.

We invite completed or ongoing work, with the aim to encourage
communication between active researchers and practitioners to better
understand the current scope of efforts within genetic and evolutionary
computation on defense, security and risk. The ultimate goal is to
understand, discuss, and help set future directions for our community.
Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to one
or multiple topic areas listed below:

Security:
- Intrusion Detection
- Anomaly Detection
- Signature-Based Detection
- Behavior Monitoring
- Network Traffic Analysis
- System Data Analysis
- Application Data Analysis
- Attack Prevention and Defense Systems
- Threat Forecasting Systems
- Anti Spam and/or Antivirus Systems
- Bring Your Own Device
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Advanced Persistent Threats

Defense:
- Design of Military Systems and Sub-Systems
- Logistics and Scheduling of Military Operations
- Strategic Planning and Tactical Decision Making
- Logistics and Scheduling of Military Operations
- Examining Trade-offs in Military and Counter-Terrorism Procedures
- Automated Discovery of Tactics and Procedures for Military and Defense
Systems
- Cyber Warfare
- Cyber Fraud

Risk:
- Identification, Prevention, Monitoring, and Handling of Risks
- Risk Impact and Probability Estimation Systems
- Contingency Plans,
- Real Time Risk Management
- Policy Management

The submission deadline is March 15, 2017. A detailed description of the
workshop and submission instructions may be found at:
https://projects.cs.dal.ca/projectx/secdef2017/callforpapers.html

We look forward to receiving your papers and meeting you at the conference!

Best regards,

Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Gunes Kayacik, Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley, USA
Frank W. Moore, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada

[DMANET] MIC 2017 - extended deadline

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Special Session on "Scheduling"

Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2017)

Barcelona, Spain, July 4th-7th 2015

http://mic2017.upf.edu/special-sessions/
<http://mic2017.upf.edu/special-sessions/>

Submission deadline:*February 10**, 2017 *

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Scheduling is an important problem arising in many different settings
and environments. A wide range of techniques are usually employed to
solve such problems, most notably heuristics and metaheuristics for
complex and large instances. We are organizing a specific session on
scheduling in the next Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC) to
be held in Barcelona from the 4th to the 7th of July, 2017.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) heuristics and
metaheuristics in:

·Machine scheduling (single machine, parallel machines, flowshop, job
shop, hybrid environments)

·Scheduling with additional constraints

·Flexible/Robust scheduling

·Grid scheduling

·Multicriteria/Multiobjective scheduling

·Process Scheduling

·Large Scale Scheduling

·Applications

·Software, etc.

Paper Submissions

Authors are encouraged to submit unpublished and outstanding original
contributions in one of the above topics (Techniques, Empirical and
Theoretical Research, Industrial Applications, Interface of
Metaheuristics and Challenging New Problems). Submission is only
electronic, in PDF format, using the easychair system.

S1) Original research contributions for publication in the conference
proceedings of a maximum of 10 pages.

S2) Extended abstracts of work-in-progress of a maximum of 3 pages.

S3) High-quality manuscripts that have recently, within the last six
months, been submitted or accepted for journal publication.

All contributed paper submissions will be peer reviewed. All submitted
papers must follow the submitted guidelines below. Accepted papers will
be published in the online proceedings that will be available at the
conference. Accepted contributions of categories S1 and S2 will be
published in the MIC 2017 conference proceedings. Accepted contributions
of category S3 will be orally presented at the conference, but not be
included into the conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers to both the general and the special
sessions. During submission authors will be required to specify which
track they are submitting their paper to. Submitted papers (both regular
and special sessions) must be formatted according to MIC/MAEB 2017
guidelines. Full instructions including formatting guidelines and
electronic templates (both LaTeX and Microsoft Word) will be available
soon. Submission is only electronic, in PDF format, using the easychair
system link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic2017

At least one author of each accepted paper and poster is required to
attend the conference to present the work. Authors will be required to
agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Only one paper or
poster per registered author will be accepted (one author cannot present
a paper and a poster at the conference, only one type of presentation)

All papers are due electronically by the deadline reported above.
Submissions that do not meet the length or formatting requirements will
not be accepted for review. No email or fax submissions will be
accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically submitted paper
will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after receipt. If
there are problems with the electronic submission, the program chairs
will contact the designated author by email.

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Submission deadline:*February 10**, 2017*
Notification of acceptance: February 27, 2017
Camera-ready papers: March 6, 2017
Early registration due date:*March 31, 2017*

* Conference: July 4-7 2017***

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[DMANET] 8th International Network Optimization Conference (INOC2017) (deadline extension for extended abstracts)

International Network Optimization Conference 2017, INOC 2017

February 26-28, Lisboa, Portugal

http://inoc2017.fc.ul.pt<http://inoc2017.fc.ul.pt/>

Call for papers:
The paper submission for the Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) number is now closed but the authors are invited to submit 1-2 pages Extended Abstracts. The accepted Extended Abstracts will be available in the conference material.

Important dates (NEW!):
- ENDM (full) paper submission deadline: (closed)
- Extended abstract submission deadline: January 27, 2017
- Acceptance Notification: February 3, 2017
- Early Registration: February 10, 2017

The 8th International Network Optimization Conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, February 26-28, 2017. The aim of this conference is to provide researchers from different areas of Operations Research, with the opportunity to present and discuss their results and research on the field of Network Optimization, in an inspiring and bridge building environment where fruitful ideas may flow freely.

INOC is the conference of the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG), a working group of EURO and the previous editions were held in Warsaw (2015), Tenerife (2013), Hamburg (2011), Pisa (2009), Spa (2007), Lisboa (2005) and Paris (2003). The conference is also part of the activities of the CMAFCIO (the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais e Centro de Investigação Operacional), University of Lisbon.

Conference Chairs:
Luis Gouveia (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon-CMAFCIO)
Pedro Moura (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon-CMAFCIO)

Keynote speakers:
W. Cook, University of Waterloo (Canada)
A. Martin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Germany)
R. Möhring, TU Berlin (Germany)
A. Schrijver, Univ. of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Contact email: contactinoc2017@fc.ul.pt<mailto:contactinoc2017@fc.ul.pt>

Sunday, January 22, 2017

[DMANET] PhD studentship in optimization/renewable energy, Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK)

A PhD studentship in optimization is available at the Dept. of Management Science, University of Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, UK, for the project topic entitled "Optimization of Offshore Renewable Energy Arrays for Minimal Life-Cycle Costs".

Funding is available to cover 3 years of tuition fees plus a tax free stipend (£14,653 for 2017-18, and projected to increase to £15,020 for 2018-19 and £15,395 for 2019-20). The studentship is open to candidates from any nationality (UK/EU/international), however, the fees will be covered at the UK/EU level.

The application deadline is 28th February 2017.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

A fundamental difficulty in developing offshore renewable energy (ORE) sites is that the uncertain environmental conditions make accurately assessing the life-cycle costs of a site a challenging problem. In particular, logistical operations throughout the life of a site are subject to uncertain operating conditions, and it is therefore difficult to plan and schedule these operations, and to estimate the resulting durations and costs. Similarly, the generating potential throughout the operation of a given site is dependent on the realised weather as well as the availability of each asset, and uncertainties in each of these make it difficult to accurately predict the profits to be gained from energy production. Decisions on aspects such as the size, layout and composition of a site are therefore difficult to accurately quantify and compare.

This project will aim to develop optimisation models to identify the best strategy for designing an ORE site. A complimentary PhD project in the Dept. of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering at Strathclyde will take an alternative approach to the problem, and as both projects progress in parallel, mutual developments will feed into both projects. This will provide a cross-disciplinary approach to a challenging research problem with potential industry impact.

FUNDING AND ELIGIBILITY

Funding is available to cover 3 years of tuition fees at the UK/EU level, plus a tax free stipend of £14,653 for 2017-18, and projected to increase to £15,020 for 2018-19 and £15,395 for 2019-20. The student will be given opportunities to attend a conference and/or specialized training every year.

The PhD project requires a highly numerate graduate with interests in renewable energy. Candidates should have at least a strong Honours degree or equivalent (a strong 2:1 Honours degree, or a B.Sc. degree with 3.3 GPA in a 4.0 system), or preferably a Master's degree in a quantitative discipline such as industrial engineering, operations research, mathematics or computer science (amongst others). Experience in programming and fundamental knowledge in optimization are not essential but highly desirable. Candidates who are not native English speakers will be required to provide evidence for their English skills (such as by IELTS or similar tests that are approved by UKVI, or a degree completed in an English speaking country).

Applications are admitted until 28th February 2017, or until a suitable candidate is found thereafter.

HOW TO APPLY

Please submit your complete applications at:

http://www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/scholarships/strathclydebusinessschoolscholarships/managementsciencescholarships/simulationandoptimisationofoffshorerenewableenergyarraysforminimallife-cyclecosts/

Candidates are expected to submit a cover letter, CV, any university degree certificates and transcripts, English test results (if applicable), two recommendation letters (or contact details of two referees, if letters are not available to them), and any other supporting documents.

More information about the department can be found here: http://www.strath.ac.uk/business/managementscience/

Informal enquiries about the project to Dr Kerem Akartunali (kerem.akartunali@strath.ac.uk) or Dr Euan Barlow (euan.barlow@strath.ac.uk).

[DMANET] Conference announcement and call for abstracts: "Mathematical Optimization in the Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks" Final Conference (Modena, Italy, March 29-31 2017)

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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"Mathematical Optimization in the Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks" Final Conference
Modena, Italy, March 29-31 2017
Conference website: http://www.cost-td1207conference.unimore.it/

Objective of the conference:
The COST project final conference "Mathematical Optimization for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks" is the final event that aims to:
- Strengthen cooperation with and interaction between industry and optimization and energy research communities;
- Advances in theory and methodology by establishing and tightening cross-border research collaborations;
- Promotion of mathematical optimization methodology in the energy sector (gas, heat, and electricity) and algorithmic research for energy applications in the optimization community.

Confirmed Speakers:
Iiro Harjunkoski (ABB AG, Germany)
Frauke Liers (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
Andrea Lodi (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
Henrik Madsen (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Emanuele Martelli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Claudia Sagastizabal (Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Konstantin Turitsyn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Energy Conversion Systems Scheduling and Design Optimization,
Nonlinear and discrete optimization methods,
Robust and Stochastic Optimization,
Gas, Heat & Electricity Transmission, Distribution/sub-transmission,
Electric and Thermal storage optimal integration and scheduling,
Energy markets, Advances in Smart Grids, Economic dispatch, Demand response, Virtual Power Plants (VPP), etc.,
Short term and long term problems,
Load forecast and renewable energy sources integration,
Integrated gas-, heat- and electric- energy infrastructures optimization,
Unit commitment,
Nuclear reactors outage,
Machine learning for energy related challenges

Abstract submission:
Abstracts must be written in English and contain no more than 1500 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed).
Important dates:
19 February 2017 – Deadline for abstract submission
24 February 2017 – Authors notification
3 March 2017 – Registration deadline
If you wish to submit an abstract, please do so by using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=td12072017

Scientific Committee
Aldo Bischi (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russian Federation), co-chair
Sandrine Charousset (EDF, France)
Claudia D'Ambrosio (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France), co-chair
Antonio Frangioni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Christoph Helmberg (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany)
Thorsten Koch (ZIB, Germany)
Martin Mevissen (IBM, Ireland)

Organizing Committee
Mauro DELL'AMICO (Chair)
Manuel IORI
Selini Natalia HADJIDIMITRIOU
Stefano NOVELLANI
Michela APRUZZESE
Marco CUZZOCREA

[DMANET] Junior-Professor Position at the University of Siegen

With 20,000 students, 2,000 employees and 1,100 scientists the
University of Siegen is an innovative institution with a particular
focus on interdisciplinary orientation. Offering a broad variety of
departments, ranging from liberal arts to social and economic sciences
as well as natural sciences and engineering, the University of Siegen
provides an excellent research and teaching environment with a wide
range of inter- and transdisciplinary activities. In addition, Siegen
University offers numerous opportunities to reconcile work and family
life balance. In this sense, we provide a "Dual Career Service" and have
been officially certified as "family-friendly university" since 2006.

The School of Economic Disciplines (Faculty III) at the University of
Siegen invites outstanding candidates to apply for a
Junior-Professorship (Salary Group W1 ÜBesG NRW) in Information Systems
esp. „Human-centered Design of Cyber-Physical Systems"

Holders of this position will represent the subject of cyber-physical
systems and its human-centered design in research and teaching.
Applicants should demonstrate a research focus on the following research
topics:

• User-Centered Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Practice-oriented Development and Implementation of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Design of Methods for Researching Cyber-Physical Systems
• Participatory Design of Cyber-Physical Systems
• Impact of Cyber-Physical Systems on Society

Applicants should have an excellent academic track record, including
publications in high-quality academic journals and conferences in the
field of Human-Computer Interaction and have wide experiences in
acquiring research funding. A PhD degree is required. Successful
applicants will be part of the iSchool ("School of Media and
Information") and will apply a multi-disciplinary research perspective
towards digitalization as well as its impact on work and organizational
practices. The professorship will be further linked to the research
training group "Locating Media" as well as the collaborative research
center "Media of Cooperation".
Applicants should have expertise and years of experience regarding the
design, development, deployment and/or usage of human-centered IT-tools
and cyber-physical systems in complex applications fields. An emphasis
is on small and medium enterprises and how to support these kinds of
enterprises with socio-technical systems and innovative methods in order
to deploy digitalization strategies. Applications should further support
the deployment of a competency center about Industry 4.0.
Applicants should contribute to the continuous improvement of the
bachelor programs and master programs in „Information Systems" as well
as "Human-Computer Interaction". The position includes mentoring and
advising students and student applicants.
Successful applicants will initially be employed for three years as
civil servant for a limited period. After positive evaluation, the
contract will be extended by another three years.
The University of Siegen is an equal opportunities employer and actively
encourages applications from women. The university facilitates viable
combination of professional and family needs. Among candidates with
equal qualification, preference will be given to people with physical
disabilities.

Please send your application documents (CV, copies of required degrees,
diplomas and certificates, records of publication, project
acquisition/management and teaching experience) in writing and as an
electronic copy via e-mail to the Dean of the School of Economic
Disciplines (Faculty III), Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf
(dekanat@wiwi.uni-siegen.de), 57068 Siegen. The application deadline for
this opening is Feb. 20, 2017.
Information on the University of Siegen is available online:
http://www.uni-siegen.de.

Friday, January 20, 2017

[DMANET] Extended Deadline CFP- DCOSS 2017 (Ottawa, Canada)

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IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline:

Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017

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Call-For-Papers: 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in
Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2017)
Ottawa, Canada, June 5 - 7, 2017
http://www.dcoss.org/
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DCOSS 2017 is the 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in
Sensor Systems to be hosted in Ottawa, Canada in June 5-7, 2017. Due to
their potential of impacting an entire host of application areas,
distributed sensor systems have become a highly visible research area. The
focus of DCOSS series of conferences is on distributed computing issues in
large scale networked sensor systems, including, but not limited to,
algorithms and applications, systems design techniques and tools, and
in-network signal and information processing. DCOSS puts together a highly
selective program where it primes for quality and innovation on works.

Potential authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts
that demonstrate current research on computational aspects of distributed
sensor systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Social networks and applications
Sensors for smart grid systems, green networks and sustainability
Computation and programming models
Energy models, minimization, awareness
Distributed collaborative information processing
Detection and tracking
Theoretical performance analysis: complexity, correctness, scalability
Abstractions for modular design
Fault tolerance and security
Task allocation, reprogramming and reconfiguration
Dynamic resource management
Scalable, heterogeneous architectures (node and system-level)
Middleware interfaces, communication and processing primitives
Design, simulation and optimization tools for deployment and operation
Design automation and application synthesis techniques
Closed-loop control for sensing and actuation
Case studies: lessons from real world deployments
Network coding and compression

Paper Submission and Publication:

High-quality original papers are solicited. Papers must be unpublished and
must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be
reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and other experts active in
the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference.

Please submit your paper through EDAS link (https://edas.info/N23046). More
detailed instructions about paper submissions can be fount at the link
below.
- http://www.dcoss.org/

IMPORTANT: Extended Deadline:

Paper Submission (Extended): January 23rd, 2017

Organizing Committee:

GENERAL CHAIR
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Australia
Soumaya Charkaoui, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

[DMANET] CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2017 Workshop - 2nd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for
Computational Social Systems
June 2 2017, Orlando, Florida USA.
Conference Website : http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial
(In conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing
Symposium (IPDPS))

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline : February 1, 2017
Notification of acceptance : February 27, 2017
Camera-ready papers : March 13, 2017
Workshop : June 2, 2017
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ABOUT PARSOCIAL
Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social
information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods,
such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how
social information can be utilized to better understand social processes,
and model the evolution of social systems over time. We have also seen a
rapid proliferation of sensor technologies, such as smartphones and medical
sensors, for collecting a wide variety of social data, much of it in real
time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of
multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, such as
MapReduce, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and
simulation, and new tools for analysis. These two trends have dramatically
broadened the scope of computational social systems research, and are
enabling researchers to tackle new challenges. These challenges include
modeling of real world scenarios with dynamic and real-time data, and
formulating rigorous computational frameworks to embed social and
behavioral theories. The IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial) provides a platform
to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, such as
computer science, social sciences, applied mathematics and computer
engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social
systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed
processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing.

The papers selected for ParSocial will be published in the workshop
proceedings. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference
and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after
the conference.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR PARSOCIAL 2017
Dr. James A. Hendler
Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences
Director, Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), USA.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Areas of research interests and domains of applications include, but are
NOT LIMITED to:

*Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems*
Social network based models
Models of social interactions (e.g. influence spread, group formation,
group stability, and social resilience)
Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models (e.g. modeling emergence in social
systems)
Models incorporating socio-cultural factors
Novel agent based social modeling and simulation
Modeling with uncertain, incomplete social data
Models using real-time social data
Representations of social and behavioral theories in computational models
Simulation methodologies for social processes including numerical and
statistical methods
Models for network dynamism
Modeling human and social elements in cyber systems (e.g. cyber-physical
systems, socio-technical systems, and network centric systems)
Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms

*Analysis of massive social data*
Algorithms for dynamic social data
Algorithms for social network analysis
Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data
Social analysis methods on parallel and distributed frameworks
Social computing for emerging architectures (e.g. cloud,
multi-core/many-core, GPU, and mobile computing architectures)

*Application*
Emergency management (e.g. infrastructure resilience, natural disaster
management)
National security (e.g. political stability, counter-terrorism, and
homeland security)
Health science (e.g. disease spread models, health informatics, and health
care analytics)
Social media analytics (e.g. business analytics, political analysis, and
economic analysis)

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column
pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference
style), including figures, tables, and references.
Please visit the workshop website(http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial) for
details on submission.

*Workshop Organization*

**Workshop Co-Chairs**
Eunice E. Santos, Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair and Professor of
Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
John Korah, Research Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA

**Steering Committee**
George Cybenko, Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering,
Dartmouth College, USA
Eugene Santos Jr., Professor of Engineering, Dartmouth College, USA
V. S. Subrahmanian, Professor of Computer Science, University of
Maryland, USA
James A. Hendler, Tetherless World Professor of Computer Science,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

[DMANET] Open Postdoc Position in Graph Theory and Combinatorics at KIT

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of
the University of Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe. It is a
unique institution in Germany, which combines the mission of a university
with that of a large-scale research center of the Helmholtz Association.
With 8000 employees and an annual budget of EUR 650 million, KIT is one of
the largest research and education institutions worldwide.

The Department of Mathematics at the KIT offers a

Research Associate Postdoctoral Position
(Akademische/n Mitarbeiter/in)

to work on Graph theory and Combinatorics.

Young researchers with strong background in discrete mathematics are
invited to apply for this postdoctoral position. A Ph.D. in mathematics or
theoretical computer science is required. Knowledge and experience in graph
theory and combinatorics are expected. An excellent knowledge of English is
required, knowledge of German is preferred.

Specific research topics include generalized Ramsey-type problems, graph
coloring problems, extremal problems in set systems and posets, extremal
problems in graphs. The position responsibility includes teaching four
academic hours per week.

The position is available starting October 1, 2017. The salary grade is E13.

KIT is pursuing a gender equality policy. Women are therefore particularly
encouraged to apply. If qualified, handicapped applicants will be
preferred.

Please submit your application, including a curriculum vitae, a publication
list if any, an outline of your research interests, and arrange for at
least two letters of reference. Applications and reference letters should
preferably be sent via e-mail to maria.aksenovich@kit.edu. Alternatively,
please use:

Prof. Dr. Maria Axenovich
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Campus Süd
Institut für Algebra und Geometrie
Englerstr. 2
76131 Karlsruhe,
Germany
maria.aksenovich@kit.edu

For further inquiries on the position, see
http://www.math.kit.edu/iag6/~axenovich/media/ad-postdoc.pdf or contact
Prof. Maria Axenovich via e-mail.

[DMANET] Two open positions in Siegen

The new Optimization group at the University of Siegen, Germany offers

Two positions (Postdoc or Phd) for 3 years

The research focus of the group which will be headed by Prof. Rob van
Stee is online algorithms, approximation algorithms, and algorithmic
game theory.

The positions are part-time (75%) with salary according to TV-L 13. The
3-year contract comes with the possibility of an extension. Both
positions come with teaching duties (designing course material, grading
assignments, supervising students).

For a postdoc we expect that the candidate has (or is very close to) a
PhD in Computer Science or Mathematics and has a solid background in
discrete math and algorithms.

The applicant should have knowledge and interest in at least one of the
following fields:

- online algorithms
- approximation algorithms
- algorithmic game theory
- graph algorithms
- combinatorics

Please send your applications containing a CV, list of grades and the
names of one or two references by email to rvs4[[at]]mcs.le.ac.uk.

The deadline is 17 February 2017.

If you have further questions, please send an email to the same address.

[DMANET] computational optimization

Call for Papers

10th International Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO17)
Prague, Czech Republic, September 4-7, 2017

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2017

https://fedcsis.org/wco

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

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

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

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

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Best paper award

The best WCO17 paper will be awarded during the social dinner of FedCSIS2017.
The best paper will be selected by WCO17 co-Chairs by taking into
consideration the scores suggested by the reviewers, as well as the
quality of the given oral presentation.

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Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers in PDF format.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages for regular
paper and 4 pages for short papers (IEEE style). IEEE style templates
are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and presented papers will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database and submitted for
different indexations (Position paper will only appear in the
conference proceedings).
* Extended versions of selected papers presented at WCO17 will be
published in edited books of the series "Studies of Computational
Intelligence", Springer.

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Important dates:

Paper submission (sharp / no extensions) : May 10th, 2017
Position paper submission : May 31th, 2017
Author notification : June 14th, 2017
Final paper submission and registration : June 28, 2017
Conference date : September 4-7, 2017

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Organizing Committee

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

If you have any question do not hesitate to send an email to :
wco2017@fedcsis.org

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Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

[DMANET] PhD positions in Algorithmic Game Theory and Approximation Algorithms

The computer science department of Drexel University is offering PhD
positions on the topics of Algorithmic Game Theory and Approximation
Algorithms, under the supervision of Dr. Vasilis Gkatzelis. The positions
are fully funded for 5 years, starting September 2017.

The department is part of the newly formed College of Computing and
Informatics (http://drexel.edu/cci/) of Drexel University, located in the
university city district of Philadelphia, which is also the home of the
University of Pennsylvania. Apart from collaborating with relevant faculty
at Drexel, a successful candidate will also have the opportunity to
collaborate with theory faculty at Penn (http://theory.cis.upenn.edu/).

To receive full consideration, candidates should ensure that a complete
application has been submitted by 15 February 2017. Emails requesting more
information regarding these positions should be sent to gkatz@drexel.edu

Directions regarding how to apply can be found at
http://drexel.edu/cci/programs/graduate-programs/phd-computer-science/

[DMANET] 2018 Flajolet Lecture Prize : call for nominations by 28 Feb 2017

2018 FLAJOLET LECTURE PRIZE

Call for Nominations: the due date is 28 February 2017

The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize for outstanding contributions to
analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms is awarded every two
years by the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA) community that owes its
existence to Philippe Flajolet. The first Flajolet Lecture was
presented by D. E. Knuth at the 2014 AofA International Conference on
Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of
Algorithms, Paris, France, and the second one by Bob Sedgewich at the
2016 AofA Conference in Krakow, Poland.

The prize is named in honor and recognition of the extraordinary
accomplishments of late Philippe Flajolet, who spent most of his
scientific life at INRIA, France. Philippe is best known for
fundamental advances in mathematical methods for the analysis of
algorithms. His research laid the foundation of a subfield of
mathematics, now known as analytic combinatorics. Analytic
combinatorics is a modern basis for the quantitative study of
combinatorial structures (such as words, trees, mappings, and graphs),
with applications to probabilistic study of algorithms that are based on
these structures. It also strongly influences research in other
scientific domains, such as statistical physics, computational biology,
and information theory. Flajolet's work takes the field forward by
introducing original approaches in combinatorics based on two types of
methods: symbolic and analytic. The symbolic side is based on the
automation of decision procedures in combinatorial enumeration to derive
characterizations of generating functions. The analytic side treats
those functions as functions in the complex plane and leads to precise
characterization of limit distributions. Beyond these foundational
contributions, Philippe's research opened new avenues in various domains
of applied computer science, including streaming algorithms,
communication protocols, database access methods, data mining, symbolic
manipulation, text-processing algorithms, and random generation.

The next Flajolet Lecture will be delivered at the 2018 AofA Conference
in Uppsala, Sweden. Nominations are due on 28 February 2017. The winner
will be selected by a Prize Committee consisting of:

Michael Drmota, Chair (TU Wien)
Mireille Bousquet-Melou (Univ. Bordeaux)
Peter Winkler (Dartmouth College)
Bob Sedgewick, ex officio (Princeton University)

The nomination letter should summarize his/her contributions in one or
two pages. All nominations should be sent to Michael Drmota at
michael.drmota@tuwien.ac.at .

In selecting the Flajolet-Prize winner, the Committee will pay
particular attention to a sustained record of high-impact, seminal
contributions to the research areas most directly impacted by the work
of Flajolet: the foundations of analysis of algorithms and/or analytic
combinatorics. The selection may also be based partly on educational
accomplishments and contributions such as fundamental textbooks and
high-quality students. The final selection will be approved by the
Steering Committee of the AofA.

[DMANET] Workshop on Deep Learning for Music - Call for Abstracts/papers

International Workshop on Deep Learning for Music

In conjunction with the 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks

(IJCNN 2017))

14-19 May (1 day), Anchorage

More info <http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/>

There has been tremendous interest in deep learning across many fields of
study. Recently, these techniques have gained popularity in the field of
music. Projects such as Magenta (Google's Brain Team's music generation
project), Jukedeck and others testify to their potential.

While humans can rely on their intuitive understanding of musical patterns
and the relationships between them, it remains a challenging task for
computers to capture and quantify musical structures. Recently, researchers
have attempted to use deep learning models to learn features and
relationships that allow us to accomplish tasks in music transcription,
audio feature extraction, emotion recognition, music recommendation, and
automated music generation.

With this workshop we aim to advance the state-of-the-art in machine
intelligence for music by bringing together researchers in the field of
music and deep learning. This will enable us to critically review and
discuss cutting-edge-research so as to identify grand challenges, effective
methodologies, and potential new applications.

Topics

Papers and abstracts on the application of deep learning techniques on
music are welcomed, including but not limited to:

Deep learning applications for computational music research
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Modeling hierarchical and long term music structures using deep learning
-

Modeling ambiguity and preference in music
-

Software frameworks and tools for deep learning in music

More info <http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/>

Invited speakers

Invited speakers include Dr. Oriol Nieto (*Pandora*), Prof. Dr. Douglas Eck
(the Head of the *Google* Magenta team) (tentatively confirmed), and Dr.
Kat Agres (*A*STAR* Institute of High Performance Computing).

Submissions of Papers

Papers of up to 5 pages using the following template are welcomed for a
talk. Submissions will be evaluated according to their originality,
technical soundness, and relevance to the workshop. The guidelines outlined
in the workshop's latex template
<http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/dlm17template.zip> should be followed.
Contributions should be in PDF format and submitted to
d.herremans@qmul.ac.uk with the subject line: [DLM17 paper
submission]. Submissions
do not need to be anonymised. Papers will be peer-reviewed and published in
the proceedings of the workshop.

Submissions of Abstracts

Structured abstracts of max 2 pages can be submitted for a shorter talk.
The abstracts should follow the same template as the papers and will be
included in the proceedings. Abstracts should be in PDF format and
submitted to d.herremans@qmul.ac.uk with the subject line: [DLM17 abstract
submission]. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed and included in the
proceedings of the workshop.

Special Issue in Journal

Authors will be invited to submit a full paper version of their extended
abstract for a special issue in an indexed journal. More details on this
will be available soon.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: February 28th

Acceptance Notification: March 12th

Final versions due: March 23, 2017

Workshop Date: one day during conference May 14-19, 2017

Registration

Workshop registration will be handled by the main conference, please check
IJCNN for more details.

Organizers

Dorien Herremans (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Ching-Hua Chuan (University of North-Florida, US)

Programme Committee

Dorien Herremans (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Ching-Hua Chuan (University of North-Florida, US)

Louis Bigo (Université Lille 3, France)

Maarten Grachten (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
Austria)

Sebastian Stober (University of Potsdam, Germany)

More info

--
Dorien Herremans
<http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/>
<http://dorienherremans.com/dlm2017/>

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

[DMANET] Stellenausschreibung einer/s Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin / Mitarbeiters in Operations Research an der Universität Wuppertal

In der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft – Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
am Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Research

ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt, befristet bis zu 3 Jahren (siehe unten),

die Stelle einer/s

Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin / Mitarbeiters

zu besetzen.

Stellenwert: E 13 TV-L

Fachliche und persönliche Einstellungsvoraussetzungen:
- Überdurchschnittlich abgeschlossenes Universitätsstudium (Master oder vergleichbar) in der Informatik / Wirtschaftsinformatik / Mathematik / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftsingenieur-
wissenschaften
- Erwünscht sind Kenntnisse der Implementierung und praktischen Validierung spezieller Optimierungsverfahren
- Interesse an der Bearbeitung praxisrelevanter Forschungsprobleme
- Zudem sind gute englische Sprachkenntnisse erforderlich
- Interesse an nationalen und internationalen Forschungs- und Praxiskontakten

Aufgaben und Anforderungen:
- Mitwirkung in der Lehre (im Umfang von max. 4 LVS) sowie bei Prüfungen
- Erstellung einer Dissertation
- Mitarbeit in Forschungsprojekten zusammen mit Universitäts- und/oder Praxispartnern

Es handelt sich um eine Qualifizierungsstelle im Sinne des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes (WissZeitVG), die zur Förderung eines Promotionsverfahrens dient. Die Stelle ist befristet für die Dauer des Promotionsverfahrens, jedoch vorerst bis zu einem Zeitraum von 3 Jahren, zu besetzen.

Eine Verlängerung zum Abschluss der Promotion ist innerhalb der Befristungsgrenzen des Wiss-ZeitVG ggf. möglich.

Kennziffer: 16201

Bewerbungen sind mit aussagekräftigen Unterlagen, unter Angabe der Kennziffer, zu richten an Prof. Dr. Stefan Bock, Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Research, Fakultät Wirt-schaftswissenschaft, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20, 42097 Wuppertal oder auf elektronischem Wege an: info@winfor.de oder sbock@winfor.de

Frauen werden bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung bevorzugt berücksichtigt, sofern sie in der Organisationseinheit unterrepräsentiert sind und sofern nicht in der Person eines Mitbewerbers liegende Gründe überwiegen. Die Rechte der Schwerbehinderten, bei gleicher Eig-nung bevorzugt berücksichtigt zu werden, bleiben unberührt.

Bewerbungsfrist: 22.02.2017

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bock

University of Wuppertal
Business Computing and Operations Research
Schumpeter School of Business and Economics
Gaußstraße 20
D-42097 Wuppertal
Germany

Phone: +49-202-439 2442, 2444 (Secretary)
Fax: +49-202-439 3434

E-Mail: sbock@winfor.de
WWW: http://www.winfor.de

Theory Announcements

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

[DMANET] 1-day symposium on "Combinatorial Optimization and Applications" on 10 Feb 2017 in Edinburgh

[DMANET] CFP - (ISUT'2017) International Workshop on Ιntelligent & Sustainable Urban Transportation (in conjunction with ISCC 2017)

Monday, January 23, 2017

[DMANET] Recent Advances in Algorithms School: application form is open

[DMANET] Special Issue on: Operational Research: New Trends and Modern Applications / RAIRO-OPERATIONS RESEARCH

[DMANET] Call for Papers - Annals of Operations Research Special Issue - DEADLINE EXTENSION

[DMANET] Call for Papers - ACM Workshop SecDef 2017

[DMANET] MIC 2017 - extended deadline

[DMANET] 8th International Network Optimization Conference (INOC2017) (deadline extension for extended abstracts)

Sunday, January 22, 2017

[DMANET] PhD studentship in optimization/renewable energy, Strathclyde Business School (Glasgow, UK)

[DMANET] Conference announcement and call for abstracts: "Mathematical Optimization in the Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks" Final Conference (Modena, Italy, March 29-31 2017)

[DMANET] Junior-Professor Position at the University of Siegen

Friday, January 20, 2017

[DMANET] Extended Deadline CFP- DCOSS 2017 (Ottawa, Canada)

[DMANET] CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2017 Workshop - 2nd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems

[DMANET] Open Postdoc Position in Graph Theory and Combinatorics at KIT

[DMANET] Two open positions in Siegen

[DMANET] computational optimization

Thursday, January 19, 2017

[DMANET] PhD positions in Algorithmic Game Theory and Approximation Algorithms

[DMANET] 2018 Flajolet Lecture Prize : call for nominations by 28 Feb 2017

[DMANET] Workshop on Deep Learning for Music - Call for Abstracts/papers

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

[DMANET] Stellenausschreibung einer/s Wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin / Mitarbeiters in Operations Research an der Universität Wuppertal

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