Friday, June 30, 2017

[DMANET] FMCAD 2017 Student Forum Call for Papers

FMCAD 2017 STUDENT FORUM
TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
2-6 October, 2017

The International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided
Design (FMCAD 2017) will host a forum for graduate students at any career
stage to highlight their research accomplishments and work-in-progress to
the wider Formal Methods community.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: July 21, 2017
Acceptance notification: July 28, 2017
Conference dates: October 2-6, 2017


Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research
ideas or
ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the
scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be
considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly
described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a select
group
of program committee members.

The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of
each
accepted submission, and of a poster that will be on display throughout the
duration of the conference. Accepted submissions will be listed, with title
and author name, in the event description in the conference proceedings.
The
authors will also have the option to make their poster and presentation
available
on the FMCAD student forum web site. The best contribution
(determined by the committee based on the quality of the submission
and the presentation) will be given public recognition and a
certificate at the event.

Limited funds will be available for travel assistance for the students with
accepted contributions. The main author of each contribution will be
given priority over other authors, and because of this the main author
of the contribution needs to be clearly marked in the submission.

Submissions should follow the same formatting guidelines as those for
regular FMCAD conference submissions, except that the length is
limited to 2 pages IEEE format, including all figures and references.

The submissions are to be made in PDF format through the FMCAD
Easychair page to the track "FMCAD 2017 Student Forum" at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad17


We kindly ask faculty members to help us advertise the event to all
eligible students.

If you have questions, please contact the forum chair Keijo Heljanko
(keijo.heljanko@aalto.fi).

For more details visit
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD17/student-forum/

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Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
School of Science
Aalto University

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Thursday, June 29, 2017

[DMANET] Call for papers: ANALCO18

The Call for Papers for the Meeting on Analytic Algorithmics and Combinatorics (ANALCO18) is available here:

http://www.siam.org/meetings/analco18/

ANALCO18 will take place in New Orleans on 8/9 January 2018. It occurs as a session within the SODA meeting.

Deadlines:

July 13, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT - Short Abstract Submission and Paper Registration Deadline
August 3, 2017, 11:00 PM GMT - Deadline - Full Paper Submission

Submissions can be uploaded to EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=analco18

The aim of ANALCO is to provide a forum for the presentation of original research in the analysis of algorithms and associated combinatorial structures. We invite both papers that study properties of fundamental combinatorial structures that arise in practical computational applications (such as permutations, trees, strings, tries, and graphs) and papers that address the precise analysis of algorithms for processing such structures, including: average-case analysis; analysis of moments, extrema, and distributions; probabilistic analysis of randomized algorithms, and so on. Submissions that present significant new information about classic algorithms are welcome, as are new analyses of new algorithms that present unique analytic challenges. We also invite submissions that address tools and techniques for the analysis of algorithms and combinatorial structures, both mathematical and computational.

The scientific program will include invited talks, contributed research papers, and ample time for discussion and debate of topics in this area. ANALCO will be held during the ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA18). ANALCO is also co-located with Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation (ALENEX18). Since researchers in both fields are approaching the problem of learning detailed information about the performance of particular algorithms, we expect that interesting synergies will develop.

ANALCO is supported by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

Best wishes,
Markus Nebel and Stephan Wagner
ANALCO18 Co-chairs
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[DMANET] Open Positions: Assistant and Associate Professors in Computer Science, SDU, Denmark

ASSISTANT AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of
Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, invites applications for a number of
positions in computer science at the levels of assistant and associate
professors. The expected start date is February 1, 2018. An appointment
as associate professor is permanent. An appointment as assistant
professor lasts for three years, and contingent on successful completion
of a lecturer training programme and a positive performance evaluation,
a position for associate professor is normally opened after the three
years, for which the assistant professor can apply.

The successful applicant is expected to have a PhD in computer science
and a strong track record of research at a high international level. We
are seeking applicants in the following areas:

* Machine Learning and Data Mining
* Database Systems
* Theory and Practice of Concurrency
* Cheminformatics

However, exceptional candidates in all areas will be considered.

In addition to research the applicant must be able to teach and advise
in computer science at all levels (undergraduate through PhD) as well as
teach in a broad range of core computer science areas at the
undergraduate level.

Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of Danish is not a
prerequisite for application. More English than Danish is used when
teaching in computer science, and more than half of the faculty members
in computer science are foreigners. However, the primary administrative
language at SDU is Danish and associate professors should therefore be
willing to acquire Danish skills within a couple of years, in order to
also contribute to the administrative tasks.

For a hiring on the level of associate professor, the expectations on
the applicant's track record within research, teaching, and attraction
of funds, is based on an academic age of four years or more after the
PhD-degree. For a hiring on the level of assistant professor, the
expectation is based on an academic age of one to three years past the
PhD-degree. The applicants are requested to state in their letter of
application on which level they wish to apply.

For further information on the department and its research and teaching
activities, see its home page or contact associate professor Fabrizio Montesi,
phone: +45 51 91 09 87, email: fmontesi@imada.sdu.dk.

Application deadline: 15 August 2017.
Link for application: http://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger

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Department of Mathematics and Web: http://www.imada.sdu.dk/~rolf
Computer Science Phone (office): +45 6550 2382
University of Southern Denmark Phone (dept.): +45 6550 2387
Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M Phone (home): +45 6475 1006
Denmark Phone (mobile): +45 2821 1777
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

[DMANET] Two-year postdoc position (Imminent deadline) - Turin - Italy

Dear colleagues,

Applications for a two-year postdoc position at the Mathematics Department,
University of Torino, Italy, are open.
The postdoctoral researcher will be funded within the project "Memory in
Evolving Graphs" (Università di Torino / Compagnia di San Paolo).
Knowledge of random graphs and random time-change techniques is appreciated.
Approximate starting date: September/October 2017.


Deadline for application: 11:59 AM, July 14, 2017 (Rome time)

Call:
https://www.serviziweb.unito.it/albo_ateneo/?area=Albo&action=Read_Download&id_attach=19938

Application procedure: https://pica.cineca.it (look for "Bando assegni di
ricerca - Tornata III 2017")

Full details at:
http://bandi.miur.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/132390


For any clarification or question please write me: federico.polito@unito.it

Best regards,
Federico Polito

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Department of Mathematics
University of Torino
Via Carlo Alberto, 10
10123, Torino, Italy
Email: federico.polito@unito.it
Tel: +39 011 6702862
Web: www.federicopolito.it

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[DMANET] PhD position in Deep Learning and Knowledge Management

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) is looking for a motivated student to be enrolled in their PhD program.

Please follow these links for more details

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/phd-position-deep-learning-knowledge-management-annalisa-riccardi

http://icelab.uk/vacancies/phd-dea/

Candidates can contact directly annalisa.riccardi@strath.ac.uk
Application deadline: 31st of July 2017

Best regards,

Annalisa Riccardi, PhD
Lecturer, Chancellor's Fellow

ICE Lab
the Intelligent Computational Engineering Laboratory
www.icelab.uk
info@icelab.uk
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Aerospace Centre of Excellence
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Strathclyde University
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G1 1XJ Glasgow
+44.141574.5169

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

[DMANET] OPODIS 2017 Call for Papers

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========================= *CALL FOR PAPERS* ============================
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OPODIS 2017
The 21st International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems

18-20 Dec, Lisbon
http://opodis2017.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt

Schedule

Abstract registration: 21 August 2017
Submission deadline: 28 August 2017
Acceptance notification: 30 October 2017
Final version due: 13 Nov 2017
Conference: 18-20 Dec 2017, Lisbon


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OPODIS is an open forum for the exchange of state-of-the-art knowledge on
distributed computing and distributed computer systems. All aspects of
distributed systems are within the scope of OPODIS.
OPODIS solicits papers in all aspects of distributed systems, including
theory, specification, design, performance, and system building.
With a strong background in the theory of distributed systems, OPODIS
has recently expanded its scope to cover the whole range between the
theoretical aspects and practical implementations of distributed systems.

*TOPICS*

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Design and analysis of distributed algorithms
- Synchronization, concurrent algorithms, shared and transactional memory
- Design and analysis of concurrent and distributed data structures
- Communication networks (protocols, architectures, services,
applications)
- High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing
- Mesh and ad-hoc networks (wireless, mobile, sensor), location and
context-aware systems
- Mobile agents, robots, and rendezvous
- Internet applications, social systems, peer-to-peer and overlay networks
- Distributed operating systems, middleware, and distributed database systems
- Programming languages, formal methods, specification and verification
applied to distributed systems
- Embedded and energy-efficient distributed systems
- Distributed event processing
- Distributed storage and file systems, large-scale systems, and big data
analytics
- Dependable distributed algorithms and systems
- Self-stabilization, self-organization, autonomy
- Security and privacy, cryptographic protocols
- Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing
- Randomization in distributed computing
- Biological distributed algorithms

*PUBLICATION*

OPODIS has post-proceedings published by Leibniz International Proceedings in
Informatics (LIPIcs) in gold open access mode. The proceedings become available
online, free of charge, after the conference. Preliminary versions of the
proceedings will be available to participants at the conference electronically.
The camera-ready version of a paper must have the same format and be of the
same length as its submitted version.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a
special issue of Theoretical Computer Science (Elsevier).

*SUBMISSION*

Papers are to be submitted electronically through Easychair at the following
link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opodis2017.
Submissions must be in English in PDF format and they must be prepared using the
LaTeX style templates for LIPIcs and choosing the A4 paper option. A submission
must not exceed 16 pages, including the cover page, figures, tables and
references. The cover page should include the title of the paper, the authors'
names, affiliations and e-mails, an abstract, information about the contact
author, and a list of keywords.

Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix or as
supplementary material which will be read at the discretion of the reviewers.
Submissions are expected to be intelligible and complete without such additional
details.

A submission must report on original research that has not previously appeared
in a journal or conference with published proceedings. It should not be
concurrently submitted to such a journal or conference. Any overlap with a
published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. The
Program Chairs reserve the right to reject submissions that are out of scope,
or of clearly inferior quality, or that violate the submission guidelines.
Each of the remaining papers will undergo a thorough reviewing process.

*BEST PAPER AWARD*

OPODIS features a best paper award. All accepted papers will be evaluated for
the best paper award. The best paper award aims to encourage work that combines
theory and practice and demonstrates excellence of research in at least one of
these two areas. Such work could be an advance in theory that sheds lights on
an interesting system problem or an advance in system work that builds upon
strong theoretical results.

*GENERAL CHAIR*

Alysson Bessani, University of Lisboa, Portugal

*PROGRAM CHAIRS*

Pascal Felber, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
James Aspnes, University of Yale, USA

*PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

Sara Bouchenak, INSA Lyon, France
Armando Castaneda, UNAM.Mexico
Bogdan Chlebus, University of Colorado, USA
Xavier Defago, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Oksana Denysyuk, Pure Storage, Italy
David Doty, University of California, USA
Jim Dowling, SICS/KTH, Swedish
Patrick Eugster, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Wojciech Golab, University of Waterloo, Canada
Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney, Australia
David Ilcinkas, LaBRI, CNRS & Bordeaux University, France
Taisuke Izumi, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Christoph Lenzen, MPI for Informatics, Germany
Rui Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Emanuel Onica, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Sebastiano Peluso, Virginia Tech, USA
Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, England
Maria Potop-Butucaru, Université Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Laurent Réveillère, Bordeaux INP/Labri, France
Etienne Rivière, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Luis Rodrigues, INESC-ID / IST - University of Lisboa, Portugal
Paolo Romano, INESC-ID / IST - University of Lisboa, Portugal
Romain Rouvoy, University of Lille / Inria / IUF, France
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Paul Spirakis, Research Academic Computer Technology Institute / University of
Patras, England
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
Maarteen van Steen, University of Twente, Netherlands
Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway
Spyros Voulgaris, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Yukiko Yamauchi, Kyushu University, Japan
Haifeng Yu, National University of Singapore, Singapore

*STEERING COMMITTEE*

Christian Cachin, IBM Research, Zurich, Switzerland
Panagiota Fatourou, FORTH ICS & University of Crete, Greece
Alessia Milani, University of Bordeaux, France
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Maria Potop-Butucaru, Université Paris-VI Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, France
Giuseppe Prencipe, Università di Pisa , Italy
Etienne Rivière, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Sebastien Tixeuil, IUF & Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France (chair)

*ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE*

Ibéria Medeiros (local arrangements chair), FCUL, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Miguel Matos (publicity chair), INESC-ID / IST, University of Lisboa, Portugal
João Leitão (publication chair), University Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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[DMANET] New journal 'Online Social Networks and Media'

CALL FOR PAPERS

Online Social Networks and Media journal
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/

*** The first issue is available online:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/24686964 ***

Issued quarterly, OSNEM is an Elsevier peer-reviewed international journal that publishes high-quality scientific articles (both theoretical and experimental) and survey papers covering all aspects of online social networks and media: from OSNEM protocols and applications to the use of data mined from OSNEM for modeling and understanding the human behavior in the cyber-physical world.
It is a multidisciplinary journal for the wide community of computer and network scientists working on developing OSNEM platforms and services and using OSNEM as a big data source to mine, learn and mode the (online) human behavior. The journal also welcomes contributions applying a wide range of (computer- and network-science) techniques and tools to OSNEM for investigating how social relationships affect other scientific fields, e.g., social and political sciences, economic and financial sciences, medical sciences.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- OSNEM platforms, protocols and applications;
- Decentralized, mobile and location-based OSNEM;
- Trust, reputation, privacy and security in OSNEM;
- Dynamics of trends, information and opinion diffusion in OSNEM;
- Recommendations and advertising in OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of popular online social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flickr, etc.);
- Data mining, and machine learning in OSNEM systems;
- Social media analysis and social analytics;
- Information extraction and search in OSNEM;
- Complex-network analysis of OSNEM;
- Measurement, analysis and modeling of social behavior through OSNEM data;
- Analysis of the use of OSNEM in the urban context;
- Crowdsourcing and online social networks;
- Multidisciplinary applications of OSNEM (economics, medicine, society, politics, homeland security, etc.).

Marco Conti
Founding EiC
Elsevier Journal on Online Social Networks and Media
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[DMANET] GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization: *9 July* Extended and Final Deadline

**Apologies for possible multiple copies of this message **

Please consider taking part in the GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching
Methods for Multi-modal Optimization, even if you cannot come to the
conference.

The deadline is on the *9th of July* (extended and final), so there is
still time to start working on an entry.

Please find more information about this competition on our web-site:
http://www.epitropakis.co.uk/gecco2017/

Please also notice the updated submission format.

Looking forward to receiving your entries.

>From the Organizers,
GECCO 2017 Competition on Niching Methods for Multi-modal Optimization
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[DMANET] Deadline Approaching: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2017)

******************************** IEEE DSS-2017 CFP *******************************
The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2017)
Bangkok, Thailand
December 18 - 20, 2017
http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/dss2017/ <http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/dss2017/>

INTRODUCTION
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In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognized that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses.
As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media.
Data Systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need.
DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. 2017 is the 3rd event following the success in 2015 (DSDIS 2015) and 2016 (DSS 2016).

SCOPE AND TOPICS

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A. Data Science

• Foundational theories and models of data science

• Foundational algorithms and methods for big data

• Data classification and taxonomy

• Data metrics and metrology

• Machine learning and deep learning

• Data analytics

• Data provenance

• Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability

• Security, privacy and trust in Data

B. Data Processing Technology

• Data sensing, fusion and mining

• Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers

• Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques

• Stream data processing and integration

• Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources

• Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories

• Information visualization and visual data analytics

• Information retrieval and personalized recommendation

• Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure

• MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms

• Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis

• Replication, archiving, preservation strategies

• Stream data computing

• Meta-data management

• Remote data access

C. Data Systems

• Storage and file systems

• High performance data access toolkits

• Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing

• Compiler and runtime support

• Future research challenges of data intensive systems

• Real-time data intensive systems

• Network support for data intensive systems

• Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms

• Green (power efficient) data intensive systems

• Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs

• Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems

• Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems

D. Data Applications

• HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications

• Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases

• Data-intensive applications and their challenges

• Innovative data intensive applications such as health, energy, cybersecurity, transport, food, soil and water, resources, advanced manufacturing, environmental Change, and etc.


IMPORTANT DATES
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· Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2017 (Extended)
· Authors Notification: August 15, 2017
· Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2017
· Early Registration Due: September 15, 2017
· Conference Date: December 18 - 20, 2017

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE
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Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site.

PUBLICATIONS
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Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference.
Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.
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Monday, June 26, 2017

[DMANET] EUROCOMB 2017 - Early bird registrations ends on June 30

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4th ANNOUNCEMENT
EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON COMBINATORICS,
GRAPH THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
EUROCOMB 2017
http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/
Vienna, August 28 - September 1, 2017
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The conference Eurocomb 2017 will take place at the TU Wien (Vienna,
Austria)
from August 28 - September 1, 2017.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocomb2017

********* Early-bird-registration ends on JUNE 30 ************

http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/registration_page/reg.html


PROGRAM

The scientific program (with 140 contributed talks) is already online:
http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/index.php/beispiel-seite/


INVITED SPEAKERS

Guillaume Chapuy, Université Paris Diderot
Julia Chuzhoy, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute
Zoltan Füredi, Hungarian Acad. Sci
Yoshi Kohayakawa, Universidade de São Paulo
Andrew Suk, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lauren Williams, University of California, Berkeley
Gerhard Wöginger, RWTH Aaachen
Paul Wollan, University of Rome


SCOPE.

In the tradition of EuroComb'01 (Barcelona), Eurocomb'03 (Prague),
EuroComb'05 (Berlin),
Eurocomb'07 (Seville), Eurocomb'09 (Bordeaux), Eurocomb'11 (Budapest),
Eurocomb'13 (Pisa),
and Eurocomb'15 (Bergen), this conference will cover the full range of
Combinatorics and Graph Theory
including applications in other areas of Mathematics, Computer Science
and Engineering.
Topics include, but are not limited to:

Algebraic Combinatorics
Combinatorial Geometry
Combinatorial Number Theory
Combinatorial Optimization
Designs and Configurations
Enumerative Combinatorics
Extremal Combinatorics
Graph Theory
Ordered Sets
Random Methods
Topological Combinatorics


IMPORTANT DATES:
Early registration deadline: June 30, 2017
Conference: August 28 - September 1, 2017


REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION

The registration is open (students's fee € 150, regular fee € 270 till
June 30):
http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/registration_page/reg.html

Furthermore a list a hotels close to the venue with a special Eurocomb
prize is also availabe:
http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/index.php/accommodation/


ORGANIZATION:

The conference is organized in Vienna at the TU Wien, in collaboration
with the University of Vienna,
the TU Graz, and the Center for Discrete Mathematics, Theoretical
Computer Science
and Applications (DIMATIA) of Charles University.

CONFERENCE POSTER:

http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Eurocomb-Poster-1.pdf


CONTACT:

The organizing committee can be contacted at: michael.drmota@tuwien.ac.at
For up to date information consult the conference web site:
http://www.dmg.tuwien.ac.at/eurocomb2017/


PROCEEDINGS

A proceedings book will be published in ENDM. The proceedings will
include full
papers (7 pages limit).

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE

It is planned to publish a special issue in a Combinatorics Journal that
will be devoted to selected papers contributed to the conference.
The usual high standards of the journals will be applied through a
strict and thorough refereeing process.

EUROPEAN PRIZE IN COMBINATORICS

Continuing with the tradition established at EuroComb'03 in Prague the
European Prize in Combinatorics
will be awarded during the conference EuroComb 2017. The prize is
established to recognize excellent
contributions in Combinatorics, Discrete Mathematics and their
Applications by young European researchers
(eligibility of EU) not older than 35. The prize carries a monetary
award of 2500 Euro.


Looking forward to see you in Vienna.

Michael Drmota and Jarik Nesetril
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Sunday, June 25, 2017

[DMANET] FSTTCS 2017 --- Call for Papers [papers due by July 24]

(apologies for multiple copies/cross posting)

CALL FOR PAPERS
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37th Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and
Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2017)
Kanpur, India, December 11 - 15, 2017
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Conference website: http://fsttcs.org/
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fsttcs2017

Paper submission deadline: Monday, July 24, 2017 (Anywhere on earth)
Notification to Authors: Monday, September 18, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: Monday, October 16, 2017
Conference: December 11 - 15, 2017


Overview
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The 37th Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer
Science (FSTTCS) conference will take place at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur, during December 11 (Mon) - 15 (Fri), 2017, under the
auspices of the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science
(IARCS). Submissions presenting original results in foundational aspects
of Computer Science and Software Technology are invited. Representative
areas include, but are not limited to, the following.

- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics
- Approximation Algorithms
- Automata and Formal Languages
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Communication Complexity
- Computational Biology
- Computational Complexity
- Computational Geometry
- Computational Learning Theory
- Cryptography and Security
- Game Theory and Mechanism Design
- Logic in Computer Science
- Model Theory, Modal and Temporal Logics
- Models of Concurrent and Distributed Systems
- Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems
- Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms
- Parameterized Complexity
- Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages
- Program Analysis and Transformation
- Proof Complexity
- Quantum Computing
- Randomness in Computing
- Specification, Verification, and Synthesis
- Theorem Proving, Decision Procedures, and Model Checking
- Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing


Invited Speakers
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Sham Kakade (University of Washington, USA)
Anca Muscholl (LaBRI & Universite' de Bordeaux, France)
Devavrat Shah (MIT, USA)
Vinod Vaikuntanathan (MIT CSAIL, USA)
Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany)


Submission Information
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Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair using the LIPIcs
LaTeX style file. Submissions must not exceed 12 pages (excluding
bibliography), but may include a clearly marked appendix containing
technical details. The appendix will be read only at the discretion of
the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other
conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. More detailed
submission instructions are provided on the FSTTCS 2017 submission page.

Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in
the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) as a free,
open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full
rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a
CC-BY license. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings,
one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the
conference.


Program Committee
----
Alexandr Andoni (Columbia University),
Arnab Bhattacharyya (IISc Bangalore),
Eshan Chattopadhyay (IAS Princeton),
Nicola Galesi (Sapienza Universita Roma, Italy),
Sumit Ganguly (IIT Kanpur),
Prateek Jain (MSR Bangalore),
Rahul Jain (NUS, Singapore),
Neeraj Kayal (MSR Bangalore),
Satya Lokam (MSR Bangalore, co-chair),
Daniel Lokshtanov (University of Bergen, Norway),
Ruta Mehta (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),
Manoj Prabhakaran (IIT Bombay),
Alon Rosen (IDC Herzliya, Israel),
Alex Samorodnitsky (HUJI, Israel),
Srikanth Srinivasan (IIT Bombay),
Nikhil Srivastava (University of California, Berkeley),
Justin Thaler (Georgetown University),
Kasturi Varadarajan (University of Iowa),

S Akshay (IIT Bombay),
Christel Baier (TU Dresden),
Stephanie Delaune (IRISA & CNRS Rennes),
Tim French (UWA, Perth),
Prasad Jayanti (Dartmouth College),
Daniel Kroening (University of Oxford),
Ranko Lazic (University of Warwick),
Rupak Majumdar (MPI),
Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA),
Paritosh K. Pandya (TIFR, Mumbai),
Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University),
R Ramanujam (IMSc Chennai, co-chair),
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca (Universita di Torino),
Sunil Simon (IIT Kanpur),
Sonja Smets (University of Amsterdam),
B Srivathsan (CMI, Chennai),
Lidia Tendera (Uniwersytet Opolski),
Nobuko Yoshida (Imperial College).
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[DMANET] IFORS OR-Resources to Developing Countries

Dear colleagues,

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

Regarding IFORS Developing Countries OR resources website, its regular
updates - and your possible submission of "free" (not copyright protected)
material, you might occasionally visit

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


"Operational Research" (OR) is the discipline of applying advanced
analytical methods to help make better decisions. By using techniques
such as problem structuring methods and mathematical modelling to
analyze complex situations, Operational Research gives executives the
power to make more effective decisions and build more productive
systems.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS;
http://ifors.org/) is an almost 60-year old organization which is
currently composed of more than 50 national societies. Regional Groups
of IFORS are:

ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research),
APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research
Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research
Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations
Research Societies).

IFORS conferences are taking place every three years; IFORS 2017 will
be celebrated in Quebec, Canada.


Thank you very much for your attention.

With kind regards,
best wishes.

PS: Feedback is welcome via webmaster@ifors.org, gweber@metu.edu.tr.


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Friday, June 23, 2017

[DMANET] 3 PhD positions at University of Osnabrück

The Research Training Group "Graphs and Networks" at Osnabrück
University's School of
Mathematics/Computer Science invites applications for

3 Positions for PhD Candidates.

The starting date for these positions is October 1st, 2017.
The contract is given for 3 years.
The position is within the E 13 TV-L German public sector pay scale and
offered at a 100% base.

Description of responsibilities:

- Cooperation in the research activities of the Research Training
Group, culminating in a PhD
- Teaching duties (4 hours per week during the semester)

Required qualifications:

- an excellent MSc/diploma degree in computer science or mathematics
- research interests in the topic of the Research Training Group

The central idea of the Research Training Group is the research
cooperation between mathematics
and computer science in the area of graphs and networks. More
information and a list of possible
PhD topics can be found at www.mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de/graphs

The position is available on a full-time or part-time basis.

Osnabrück University has been certified as a family-friendly university
committed to help
working/studying parents and careers balance their family and work life.

The university aspires to ensure equal opportunities for men and women
and strives to
work towards a gender balance in schools or departments where new
appointments are made.

If equally qualified candidates apply, preference will be given to those
with special needs.

Applications should include all relevant documents, a significant
reference letter, and an
accompanying statement explaining the scientific connections to the
research idea of the
Research Training Group.

Applications should be submitted via email as a single PDF file to
Prof. Dr. Markus Chimani, markus.chimani@uni-osnabrueck.de, no later
than July 22nd, 2017.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Markus Chimani, Tel.
+49 541 969 2478,
or Prof. Dr. Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Tel. +49 541 969 2554.

We look forward to receiving your application.

https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/arbeiten_an_der_universitaet/stellenausschreibung/122_fb_6_phd_positions.html
https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/universitaet/arbeiten_an_der_universitaet/stellenausschreibung/122_fb_6_wiss_mitarbeit.html

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Thursday, June 22, 2017

[DMANET] [IEEE MoD@ITSC'17] Call for Papers - Deadline fast approaching

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IEEE MoD@ITSC 2017

1st Workshop on Modelling, Analysis and Control of
Intelligent Mobility-on-Demand Systems

co-located with IEEE ITSC 2017
October 16-19, 2017, Yokohama, Japan

http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mod2017/

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After decades of little innovation, personal urban mobility is undergoing rapid transformations due to the introduction of disruptive technologies (e.g. connected and driverless cars), new IT applications (e.g. app-based services) but also due to changes in individual preferences and social behaviours, with a growing trend towards a shifting from car ownership to sharing. This gave new life to several mobility on demand (MoD) services which were ideated decades ago but never established themselves as viable mobility solutions and created new variations of them, such as ride-sharing, bike-sharing programs, car-pooling and car-sharing services, on-demand bus and delivery services, etc. The rapid growth and the forecasted (large) scale of these new mobility services is expected to radically change individual travel patterns, and conventional frameworks for the modelling, analysis, simulation and control of transportation systems are not appropriate any more. For instance, novel demand modelling tools are needed for measuring, modelling and predicting behavioural choice and individual preferences for the new mobility solutions, as well as forecasting the level of market uptake of the different mobility services. Similarly, new analytical models and simulation frameworks are required to accurately characterise the peculiar properties of MoD systems. Then, the insights obtained may serve as basic input to advanced optimization frameworks, which can provide decision tools for the planning and optimal operation of such systems. Key issues to address are infrastructure planning, fleet sizing and management, supply rebalancing, and efficient cooperation with other transportation modes (e.g. public transport).

The goal of this workshop session is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences from industry, researchers and the public sector. We solicit original papers covering different aspects of MoD systems, including modelling, optimisation, management systems, field applications and new paradigms.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Data mining, machine learning, and data analytics for MoD systems
- Large scale simulation of agent-based models for MoD systems
- Modelling, analysis, and control of MoD systems
- On-demand mobility in Public Transport
- Cooperative Systems and Connected Vehicles for MoD services
- Autonomous driving for MoD services
- ITS technologies for MoD services
- Social and emergent behaviours for MoD services
- Travel behaviour and travel demand for MoD systems
- Discrete choice modelling for MoD systems
- Field tests and implementation of MoD services
- Cooperation between different modes of MoD
- MoD and Smart Cities
- Complex network theory for MoD systems
- Robotic MoD systems
- Electric MoD systems
- Operations research in MoD systems
- Drones as the new frontier for MoD


PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal.

Paper should be submitted via EDAS using the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23861&track=86364

Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible publication in a Springer book on Mobility-on-Demand systems (currently under negotiation).


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission Deadline: 30 June 2017
- Acceptance Notification: 25 July 2017
- Camera Ready Due: 10 August 2017


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Chiara Boldrini (IIT, Italian National Research Council)
Raffaele Bruno (IIT, Italian National Research Council)
Francesco Ciari (Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zurich)
Hironori Kato (Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Kara Kockelman (Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)
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Javier Alonso-Mora (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology)
Goncalo Homem de Almeida Correia (Transport & Planning Department, TU Delft)
Marco Fiore (CNR - IEIIT)
Dirk C. Mattfeld (Institut fur Wirtschaftsinformatik, Technische Universitat Braunschweig)
Rahul Nair (Transportation Analytics, IBM Research - Ireland)
John D Nelson (Centre for Transport Research, University of Aberdeen)
Marco Pavone (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University)
Helen Porter (Peter Davison Consulting)
Susan Shaheen (Transportation Sustainability Research Center & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley)


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[DMANET] ALGO 2017 First Call for Participation

ALGO is the leading annual event in Europe combining the premier algorithmic conference European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) with several specialized conferences and workshops.

ALGO 2017 will be held in Vienna, Austria, September 4-8, 2017, and will comprise the following six conferences and workshops:

ESA 2017 – The 25th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms
IPEC 2017 – The 12th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation
WAOA 2017 – The 15th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms
ALGOSENSORS 2017 – The 13th International Symposium on Algorithms and Experiments for Wireless Networks
ATMOS 2017 – The 17th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization, and Systems
ALGOCLOUD 2017 – The 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing

ALGO 2017 keynote speakers:

- Daniel Delling, Apple Inc.
- Babak Falsafi, EcoCloud and EPFL
- Jie Gao, Stony Brook University
- Fabrizio Grandoni, University of Lugano
- David Mount, University of Maryland
- Kirk Pruhs, University of Pittsburgh
- David Woodruff, IBM Almaden

ALGO 2017 will also host a Parameterized Complexity Summer School as a pre-congress event (September 1-3).

Registration is now open at https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/registration/

Further information can be found at the ALGO website https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/

The ALGO 2017 organizing committee:

Doris Dicklberger
Wolfgang Dvorak
Robert Ganian (co-chair)
Ronald de Haan
Fabian Klute
Andreas Müller
Nysret Musliu
Martin Nöllenburg (co-chair)
Sebastian Ordyniak
Günther Raidl
Mihaela Rozman
Stefan Szeider (chair)
Stefan Woltran

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[DMANET] PMS 2018: First Call for Papers

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PMS 2018
16th International Conference on Project Management and Scheduling
April 17-20, 2018
Rome - Italy
www.pms2018.ing.uniroma2.it
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PMS is an international conference series initialized by the EURO PMS
Working Group, devoted to project management and scheduling
(http://www.cs.put.poznan.pl/pms/). The workshop is held every two
years in different locations around Europe. This conference brings
together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines of
Computer Science, Operational Research, Optimization Engineering,
Mathematical Programming and Industrial Engineering. The conference
covers theoretical results and algorithmic developments in the fields
of Project Management and Scheduling, including project management and
scheduling practice and applications to real-life situations.

PMS 2018 (16th International Workshop on Project Management and
Scheduling) is organized by the Department of Enterprise Engineering
of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Rome, Italy). The workshop
will be held in Rome - Italy - on April, 17-20, 2018 at Residenza di
Ripetta, strategically located in the heart of the City - a few steps
away from Piazza del Popolo and Piazza di Spagna.

The workshop website is http://www.pms2018.ing.uniroma2.it

The workshop will cover the following but non exhaustive list of topics:
- Project Management: Network modeling, Project scheduling, Resource
management, Due-date management, Project risk management, Project
scheduling under uncertainty, Proactive/reactive project scheduling,
Multicriteria project scheduling, Applications, Software
- Machine Scheduling: Shop scheduling, Scheduling with additional
constraints, Machine assignment and scheduling, Flexible/robust
scheduling, Grid scheduling, Multicriteria scheduling, Applications,
Software.

The workshop will consist of technical and selected presentations as
well as invited presentations made by esteemed researchers working on
Project Management and Scheduling.

Plenary speakers confirmed are:
- Jacques Carlier - Université de Technologie de Compiègne
- Rolf Möhring - Technische Universität Berlin
- Erwin Pesch - Universität Siegen

All researchers, academics, phd students and practitioners working on
the conference themes are invited to participate to PMS 2018
submitting an extended abstract (length 4 single-spaced A4 pages).
Templates and guidelines to authors are available on the PMS 2018
website. These 4-page submissions will be reviewed according to the
standard reviewing process of international conferences. A selection
of submissions will be presented during the workshop.

After the workshop, the authors will have the opportunity to submit
full papers to a special issue of Annals of Operations Research (see
the PMS 2018 website).

Important deadlines:
Paper submission: 31st October 2017
Notification of acceptance: 19th January 2018
Final paper presentation: 12th February 2018
Early registration: 15th February 2018

A list of hotels will be made available on the PMS 2018 website soon.
We remind you that Rome is very crowded in the period of the
Conference. Hence, we warmly invite all the participants to reserve
their accommodation as soon as possible in order to find solutions at
best rates.

For detailed information about the conference and the venue, please,
visit the Conference website: http://www.pms2018.ing.uniroma2.it, or
send an email to caramia@dii.uniroma2.it.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,
Massimiliano Caramia (Conference Chair)


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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

[DMANET] PhD studentship in Algorithms/Distributed algorithms at Loughborough University. Closing date: July 3rd, 2017

A PhD studentship in the general area of algorithms and distributed
algorithms is available in the department of Computer Science at
Loughborough University . Dr. Amitabh Trehan
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/staff/academic-teaching/trehanamitabh/>
will be the primary supervisor. Applicants should have a strong background
in Computer Science, Mathematics or a related subject.

More information and a link to application is available at:
<http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYE112/phd-studentship-distributed-and-resilient-graph-algorithms/>
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BCG461/phd-studentship-graph-algorithms-and-foundations-for-networks-of-the-future/

*** Closing date for applications: 3rd July 2017 ***

Loughborough University is one of the best known universities in the UK. It
is a top-ten rated university in England for research intensity (REF2014)
and presents an outstanding student life having been consistently ranked as
a top UK university for student satisfaction. It has one of the largest
closed university campuses in the UK and is internationally renowned for
its sports (World #1 in QS rankings). Computer Science
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/> is a vibrant department in
the school of Science <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/science/>with a cohesive
community of researchers and outstanding research:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/compsci/ .

The student will also benefit from the active national and international
collaboration of the supervisor and his colleagues with institutes across
the UK, USA, mainland Europe, Israel, Mexico and India.

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*Outline of possible research avenues:*

This studentship seeks to design and mathematically analyse algorithms and
build foundational theory motivated by present day and futuristic networks
(particularly graph based algorithms with tools from areas such as graph
theory, algorithm analysis, probability, game theory etc). Networks are
pervasive and diverse and, with social networks and the upcoming Internet
of Things (IOT), likely to be deeply integrated into our society. Networks
often rely upon distributed protocols for their functioning. Failure of
components and security also make resilience a critical issue. Distributed
graph algorithms allow us to model, explore and design solutions for all
kinds of networks. This project seeks to emphasize these scenarios and
explore questions about decentralisation.

We seek candidates with strong interest in and willing to explore topics
from, but not restricted to the following: i) Graph algorithms and theory,
ii) Self-healing, byzantine and other forms of resilient algorithms, iii)
Compact routing and memory limited algorithms, iv) Static and dynamic
Leader election and consensus, v) Connections between distributed
algorithms and research areas such as parameterised complexity, topology,
combinatorics, communication complexity, spectral, algebraic tools, vi)
Algorithmic game theory and decision making, vi) Modelling and application
to modern networks such as IOT and SDN.

The successful candidate will work closely with active research groups
centred around both CS theory and networks. In particular, the candidate
can benefit from interaction with upcoming research on compact self-healing
routing algorithms supported by EPSRC (EPSRC research grant EP/P021247/1
<http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/projects?ref=EP%2FP021247%2F1>).

the succesful candidate willDr Trehan has extensive publications on the
above topics () and
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ALGOCLOUD 2017 - final call for papers

(Due to numerous requests, Extended Deadline:1st July)

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2017

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3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)

co-located with ALGO 2017

September 4th - 5th, 2017 ??? Vienna, Austria

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ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering.

ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc.

***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) ***

TOPICS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Algorithmic aspects of elasticity

- Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures

- Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases

- Resource provisioning and management

- Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments

- Analysis of containerized applications

- Cloud deployment tools and their analysis

- Query languages and novel programming models

- Content delivery through cloud infrastructures

- Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems

- Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores

- Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores

- Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications

- Machine learning, analytics and data science

- Resource availability, reliability and fail-over

- NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration

- Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP

- Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee).

Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>).

By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: July 1, 2017

- Author notification: July 25, 2017

- Workshop: September 4-5, 2017

COMMITTEES

Workshop Chairs???

- Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria)

- Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)

Proceedings and Publicity Chair

- George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

PC Members???

- Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)

- Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia)

- Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

- Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK)

- Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria)

- Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)

- Gabriel Istrate (University of Timi??oara & e-Austria RI, Romania)

- Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK)

- Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece)

- Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

- Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

- Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)

- Luis Rodrigues (Universidade T??cnica de Lisboa, Portugal)

- Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK)

- Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark)

- Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia)

- Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland)

- Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece)

Steering Committee

- Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece)

- Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK)

- Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

[DMANET] ALGOCLOUD 2017 - final call for papers

(Due to numerous requests, Extended Deadline:1st July)

[Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this call]

Submission Deadline: July 1st, 2017

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3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2017)

co-located with ALGO 2017

September 4th - 5th, 2017 ??? Vienna, Austria

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ALGOCLOUD (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/algocloud/>) is the international forum bringing together international researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is co-located with the ALGO conference (https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/ <https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/>), a leading international meeting of researchers working in algorithms and their engineering.

ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modeling, practices for constructing and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc.

***Keynote Speaker: Prof. Babak Falsafi (EPFL, Switzerland) ***

TOPICS

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

- Algorithmic aspects of elasticity

- Search and retrieval algorithms for cloud infrastructures

- Scale-up and -out for NoSQL and columnar databases

- Resource provisioning and management

- Monitoring and analysis of elasticity for virtualized environments

- Analysis of containerized applications

- Cloud deployment tools and their analysis

- Query languages and novel programming models

- Content delivery through cloud infrastructures

- Load-sharing and caching for cloud systems

- Data structures and algorithms for eventually-consistent stores

- Scalable access structures and indexing for cloud data-stores

- Algorithmic aspects for cloud applications

- Machine learning, analytics and data science

- Resource availability, reliability and fail-over

- NoSQL and schema-less data modeling and integration

- Consistency, replication and partitioning CAP

- Transactional models and algorithms for cloud data-stores

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs <http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format (excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee).

Papers should be submitted electronically via the Easy Chair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud17>).

By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2017 or ALGOCLOUD 2017, and present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: July 1, 2017

- Author notification: July 25, 2017

- Workshop: September 4-5, 2017

COMMITTEES

Workshop Chairs???

- Dan Alistarh (IST, Austria)

- Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece)

Proceedings and Publicity Chair

- George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

PC Members???

- Stergios Anastasiadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)

- Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia)

- Marco Canini (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

- Aleksandar Dragojevic (Microsoft Research, UK)

- Schahram Dustdar (TUW, Austria)

- Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)

- Gabriel Istrate (University of Timi??oara & e-Austria RI, Romania)

- Thomas Karagiannis (Microsoft Research, UK)

- Nectarios Koziris (NTUA, Greece)

- Fernando Pedone (University of Lugano, Switzerland)

- Florin Pop (University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)

- Raj Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)

- Luis Rodrigues (Universidade T??cnica de Lisboa, Portugal)

- Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK)

- Stefan Schmid (Aalborg University, Denmark)

- Zahir Tari (RMIT, Australia)

- Vasileios Trigonakis (Oracle Labs, Switzerland)

- Dimitris Tsoumakos (Ionian University, Greece)

Steering Committee

- Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University, Greece)

- Peter Triantafillou (University of Glasgow, UK)

- Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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[DMANET] CALL FOR PAPERS - Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal - Special issue on Optimization for heterogeneous wireless networks

*CALL FOR PAPERS*


*Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi-Wiley open
access journal *

*****SPECIAL ISSUE ON:
Optimization for heterogeneous wireless networks integrating cellular
and ad-hoc networks *

*Important DATES
*Submission Deadline Friday, 27 October 2017
Publication Date March 2018

*TOPIC SUMMARY*
In our networked society, wireless devices will constantly interact with
each other as well as with their environment, communicating over
licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, employing any possible link,
from short-range device-to-device communications integrated into the
existing and evolving cellular infrastructure to satellite
communications. The efficient and effective management of these
heterogeneous network architectures requires new optimization
approaches, including central and distributed optimization schemes, or a
combination thereof, where optimization can have very different
objectives, including spectral efficiency, latency, reliability, energy
efficiency meeting constraints on the available spectrum, backhaul
network capacity, and deployment or operational costs.

In this special issue we solicit contributions on optimization-based
approaches to the design, dimensioning, deployment and operation of
heterogeneous wireless networks integrating cellular and ad-hoc
networks, using low and high frequencies, including traditional cellular
and millimeter wave bands. The topics addressed may include, but are not
limited to:
• Exact and heuristic optimization approaches for the dimensioning,
deployment, and efficient management of heterogeneous networks;
• Optimization techniques for cellular and heterogeneous networks in
decentralized scenarios;
• Multi-objective optimization approaches for heterogeneous networks;
• Cooperative and non-cooperative game theoretic analysis of cellular
and ad-hoc networks,
• Optimal spectrum allocation algorithms for cellular systems with
multiple-antenna terminals;
• Optimal spectrum sharing between multi-operator cellular and ad-hoc
networks;
• Radio resource optimization for shared terrestrial and satellite networks;
• Optimal interference management for full-duplex and cognitive radio in
LTE networks;
• Optimal resource sharing between cellular and ad-hoc networks for
ultra-reliable low-latency communications.

*
GUEST EDITORS*
Paolo Detti, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Andrea Abrardo, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Gabor Fodor, Royal Institute of Technology, and Ericsson Research,
Stockholm, Sweden
Marco Moretti, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ana Pérez-Neira, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya,
Castelldefels, Spain
Angela Yingjun Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
People's Republic of China


*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
The Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal is published
using an open access publication model.
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking
System at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/wcmc/ocni/

The Call is available at:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/WCMC/si/237462/cfp/

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[DMANET] ATMOS 2017: Deadline extension

Dear colleagues,

Due to numerous requests, the submission deadline for ATMOS 2017 has
been extended to July 1, 2017.

Extended abstract can be submitted at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2017
<https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2017>.

For your information, the Call for Papers with the new deadline can be
found below.

Kind regards,

Gianlorenzo D'Angelo and Twan Dollevoet
ATMOS PC Chairs

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17th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling,
Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2017)

(https://algo2017.ac.tuwien.ac.at/atmos/)

Second Call for Papers – with extended deadline

The workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling,
Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS) is an annual event bringing together
researchers and practitioners who are interested in all aspects of
algorithmic methods and models for transportation optimization. The
workshop provides a forum for the exchange and dissemination of new
ideas and techniques. The aim of making transportation better gives rise
to very complex and large-scale optimization problems requiring
innovative solution techniques and ideas from mathematical optimization,
theoretical computer science, and operations research. Applicable tools
and concepts include those from graph and network algorithms,
combinatorial optimization, approximation and online algorithms,
stochastic and robust optimization.

Topics

We invite authors to present work that advances optimization methods and
algorithms to facilitate planning and operational management of freight
and passenger transportation and traffic. The workshop welcomes but is
not limited to papers addressing the following challenges:

- Demand Forecasting

- Models for User Behavior

- Design of Pricing Systems

- Infrastructure Planning

- Multi-modal Transport Optimization

- Mobile Applications for Transport

- Congestion Modeling and Reduction

- Line Planning

- Timetable Generation

- Routing and Platform Assignment

- Vehicle Scheduling

- Route Planning

- Crew and Duty Scheduling

- Rostering

- Delay Management

- Routing in Road Networks

- Traffic Guidance

The workshop welcomes but is not limited to papers applying and
advancing the following techniques: Graph and Network Algorithms,
Combinatorial Optimization, Mathematical Programming, Approximation
Algorithms, Methods for the Integration of Planning Stages, Stochastic
and Robust Optimization, Online and Real-time Algorithms, Algorithmic
Game Theory, Heuristics for Real-world Instances, Simulation Tools.

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at
most 12 pages (including title page and abstract, but not counting
references and an optional appendix). Submissions must be formatted in
LaTeX, using the OASIcs style file. The paper should contain a succinct
statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main
results, and a brief explanation of their significance, accessible to
non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due to space constraints can be
put into an appendix to be read by the program committee members at
their discretion. Papers must be submitted electronically via the
EasyChair submisson system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atmos2017. The submission
must be received by June 24, 2017. By submitting a paper the authors
acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must
register at ALGO 2017 or ATMOS 2017, attend the conference, and present
the paper.

The proceedings will be published online and as open-access in the
Dagstuhl Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs).

Important dates

Submission: 01.07.2017

Notification of acceptance: 24.07.2017

Camera-ready version: 04.08.2017

Workshop: 08.09.2017


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[DMANET] [IEEE MoD@ITSC'17] Call for Papers - Deadline fast approaching

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IEEE MoD@ITSC 2017

1st Workshop on Modelling, Analysis and Control of
Intelligent Mobility-on-Demand Systems

co-located with IEEE ITSC 2017
October 16-19, 2017, Yokohama, Japan

http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/mod2017/

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After decades of little innovation, personal urban mobility is undergoing rapid transformations due to the introduction of disruptive technologies (e.g. connected and driverless cars), new IT applications (e.g. app-based services) but also due to changes in individual preferences and social behaviours, with a growing trend towards a shifting from car ownership to sharing. This gave new life to several mobility on demand (MoD) services which were ideated decades ago but never established themselves as viable mobility solutions and created new variations of them, such as ride-sharing, bike-sharing programs, car-pooling and car-sharing services, on-demand bus and delivery services, etc. The rapid growth and the forecasted (large) scale of these new mobility services is expected to radically change individual travel patterns, and conventional frameworks for the modelling, analysis, simulation and control of transportation systems are not appropriate any more. For instance, novel demand modelling tools are needed for measuring, modelling and predicting behavioural choice and individual preferences for the new mobility solutions, as well as forecasting the level of market uptake of the different mobility services. Similarly, new analytical models and simulation frameworks are required to accurately characterise the peculiar properties of MoD systems. Then, the insights obtained may serve as basic input to advanced optimization frameworks, which can provide decision tools for the planning and optimal operation of such systems. Key issues to address are infrastructure planning, fleet sizing and management, supply rebalancing, and efficient cooperation with other transportation modes (e.g. public transport).

The goal of this workshop session is to provide a forum to exchange ideas, discuss solutions, and share experiences from industry, researchers and the public sector. We solicit original papers covering different aspects of MoD systems, including modelling, optimisation, management systems, field applications and new paradigms.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Data mining, machine learning, and data analytics for MoD systems
- Large scale simulation of agent-based models for MoD systems
- Modelling, analysis, and control of MoD systems
- On-demand mobility in Public Transport
- Cooperative Systems and Connected Vehicles for MoD services
- Autonomous driving for MoD services
- ITS technologies for MoD services
- Social and emergent behaviours for MoD services
- Travel behaviour and travel demand for MoD systems
- Discrete choice modelling for MoD systems
- Field tests and implementation of MoD services
- Cooperation between different modes of MoD
- MoD and Smart Cities
- Complex network theory for MoD systems
- Robotic MoD systems
- Electric MoD systems
- Operations research in MoD systems
- Drones as the new frontier for MoD


PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the standard IEEE conference proceedings format. Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal.

Paper should be submitted via EDAS using the following link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23861&track=86364

Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE digital libraries (Xplore) along with papers from the main conference. Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for possible publication in a Springer book on Mobility-on-Demand systems (currently under negotiation).


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission Deadline: 30 June 2017
- Acceptance Notification: 25 July 2017
- Camera Ready Due: 10 August 2017


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Chiara Boldrini (IIT, Italian National Research Council)
Raffaele Bruno (IIT, Italian National Research Council)
Francesco Ciari (Institute for Transport Planning and Systems, ETH Zurich)
Hironori Kato (Dept. of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
Kara Kockelman (Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (preliminary)
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Javier Alonso-Mora (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology)
Goncalo Homem de Almeida Correia (Transport & Planning Department, TU Delft)
Marco Fiore (CNR - IEIIT)
Dirk C. Mattfeld (Institut fur Wirtschaftsinformatik, Technische Universitat Braunschweig)
Rahul Nair (Transportation Analytics, IBM Research - Ireland)
John D Nelson (Centre for Transport Research, University of Aberdeen)
Marco Pavone (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University)
Helen Porter (Peter Davison Consulting)
Susan Shaheen (Transportation Sustainability Research Center & Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley)


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