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Today's Topics:

1. Post-doc positions in Combinatorics / Discrete Mathematics at
Tel Aviv University (Wojciech Samotij)
2. IFIP/IEEE SUSTAINIT 2013: NSF Sponsored Travel Grant
Application (Valerio Arnaboldi)
3. Postdoctoral position at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
(brun olivier)
4. COST Workshop on MINLP 2013 (CWMINLP13) / Posters and
participation (Leo Liberti)
5. COIN-OR Cup call for submissions: due Mon 16 Sep 2013
(Stefan Vigerske)
6. Final Call for Papers : Autonomic Clouds 2013, Dresden,
Germany- Deadline September 10, 2013 (Ashiq Anjum)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:00:55 +0300
From: Wojciech Samotij <samotij@post.tau.ac.il>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Post-doc positions in Combinatorics / Discrete
Mathematics at Tel Aviv University
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The School of Mathematical Sciences at Tel Aviv University invites
applications for Post-doctoral Fellowships in Combinatorics and
Discrete Mathematics for one year, with a possibility of extension for
an additional year, starting October 1, 2014 (the starting date is
negotiable).

The School of Mathematical Sciences is a leading international
research institution in mathematics. It has a large and very active
research group in Combinatorics (four faculty members and many
research students), with a weekly research seminar.

Further information about the School, including a list of our faculty,
is available from our web site http://www.math.tau.ac.il.

We welcome applications from candidates specializing in Combinatorics,
who will have completed a Ph. D. degree in Mathematics or Computer
Science by September 30, 2014 (but not earlier than October 1, 2010).
Preference will be given to applicants whose research interests are
compatible with those of the relevant faculty in the School.

Post-doctoral Fellowships are strictly research positions and do not
carry any teaching responsibilities.

Stipends for a one year fellowship are approximately 120,000 Israeli
Shekels and are commensurable with entry level academic salaries in
Israel. Additional funds for research related travel will also be
available.

Candidates should arrange the following application materials to be
sent to Ms. Nurit Liberman at nuritl@tauex.tau.ac.il
- CV
- List of Publications
- Research statement
- Three letters of recommendation

Alternatively, all material may be sent by regular mail to
Nurit Liberman
School of Mathematical Sciences
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978
ISRAEL

The deadline for applications is January 1, 2014. Applications
received after the deadline will be considered if positions remain open.

--
Noga Alon, Michael Krivelevich, Wojciech Samotij, and Asaf Shapira



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 11:45:02 +0200
From: Valerio Arnaboldi<valerio.arnaboldi@iit.cnr.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IFIP/IEEE SUSTAINIT 2013: NSF Sponsored Travel Grant
Application
Message-ID: <201309040945.r849j2Pt023700@solitaire.mi.uni-koeln.de>
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NSF SPONSORED TRAVEL GRANT STUDENT APPLICATIONS

The Third IFIP Conference on
Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability
(SustainIT 2013)

http://www.dicgim.unipa.it/networks/sustainit2013

October 30-31, 2013
Palermo, Sicily, Italy

- Technically sponsored by the IFIP TC6 WG 6.3 (Performance of Communication Systems)
- Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Computer Society
- In cooperation with IEEE Communication Society TSGCC (Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing)
- Supported by EINS: The Network of Excellence in Internet Science

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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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The Third IFIP Conference on Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT 2013) will be held in Palermo, Italy on October 30-31, 2013. For details on the conference, visit http://www.dicgim.unipa.it/networks/sustainit2013/. Pending sponsorship from the US National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov), we are pleased to announce travel grants for US-based students to attend the SustainIT'13 conference and co-located events such as Ph.D. forum, WiP, poster, and demo sessions.

This funding is available only for full time students attending US colleges and universities (not necessarily US citizens or permanent residents). Minority and women students from diverse institutions in the US are particularly encouraged to apply. Although student authors will be given priority for travel awards, however, this is not a requirement. Young post-doctoral students and Master's students engaged in research may also be considered for support on a case-by-case basis. To be eligible, US-based students (referred to as "you") must apply via EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14317) no later than September 15, 2013. To apply for travel support, please submit the following:

1. Obtain a letter from your advisor/professor confirming that:
a. You are currently a research student and working in areas related to sustainability.
b. You will be attending the entire SustainIT'13 conference.
c. The remainder of your travel support will be covered (indicate how).

2. Write a personal statement describing your research interests and how you will benefit from attending SustainIT 2013, your student status, and city you will be traveling from.

3. Upload the above documents, along with your two-page CV, on EDAS (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14317) as part of the SustainIT 2013 NSF supported travel grant for US students.

4. Students granted with a SustainIT 2013 NSF supported travel grant are expected to present their research work in areas related to sustainability as a poster during one of the SustainIT Events.

Please note that the SustainIT'13 conference may not be able to reimburse you for all of your travel expenses due to limited budget. Eligible expenses for reimbursement include advance student registration fee, hotel, and travel (air, bus, or train). Expenses that are not eligible for reimbursement include regular and/or on-site registration, meals, car rental, or parking. Student travel grants are available in the form of reimbursements that are sent only after the completion of the conference and providing all required documentation and receipts. The reimbursement amount will be based on the number of awards and distance traveled, and will vary between $1,000 and $1,500 per student.

For any questions, please contact the General Co-Chair and NSF Travel Grant Award Chair, Prof. Sajal K. Das at sdas@mst.edu.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- September 15, 2013: Complete Application deadline (via EDAS at (https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=14317))
- September 25, 2013: Award Decisions
- October 30-31, 2013: SustainIT Events




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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:01:24 +0200
From: brun olivier <brun@laas.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Postdoctoral position at LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
Message-ID: <52272114.70306@laas.fr>
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Sorry for the multiple copies
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The SARA team (http://www.laas.fr/SARA-EN/) at LAAS-CNRS
(http://www.laas.fr/), Toulouse, France, is seeking a 1-year postdoc
(possible extension to 18 months) to work on the FP7 project PANACEA.
The project is to be started in October 2013. The main objective of
PANACEA is to provide Proactive Autonomic Management of Cloud Resources.
The position is to be filled by April 2014 at latest. The selected
candidate will join a research group composed of Olivier Brun
(http://homepages.laas.fr/brun/), Urtzi Ayesta
(http://homepages.laas.fr/urtzi/) and Balakrishna Prabhu
(http://homepages.laas.fr/bala/). The monthly gross salary is around ?
2,500. The selected candidate will be encouraged to apply to CNRS and
Universit? de Toulouse in order to obtain a permanent appointment at LAAS.

Title: Design of autonomic communication overlays
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Context:
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It is now broadly admitted that the performances of individual Internet
flows could be improved by selecting alternate paths to the one proposed
by IP routing protocols. As well, a number of recent studies have shown
that the IP routing protocols are slow to react and recover from link
failure or congestion. Unfortunately, the routing infrastructure of the
Internet has become resistant to major changes. The use of overlay
networks has been proposed as an alternative solution that can
potentially provide the desirable flexibility and control over the
routing infrastructure. An overlay network instantiates a virtual
network on top of a physical network by deploying a set of overlay nodes
above the existing Internet routing substrate. Overlay nodes cooperate
with each other to route packets on behalf of any pair of communicating
nodes, forming an overlay network.

By monitoring the functioning and quality of the Internet paths and
using advanced machine-learning algorithms, the PANACEA architecture
will enable: (a) to predict traffic anomalies (e.g., traffic congestion,
link/node failures), and (b) to dynamically reconfigure the
communication paths so as to optimize application-specific routing
metrics before these anomalies happen. Our goals are thus to design an
architecture solution based on dynamic overlays that can enable the
users: (a) to specify the required application properties, (b) to design
the most adequate overlay for his application, and (c) to control how
the overlay is reconfigured in reaction to predicted adverse events.


Candidate Profile:
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The candidate must have:
- a PhD degree in computer science or control theory,
- excellent skills in stochastic modelling (queueing theory, MDPs,...),
optimization or game theory,
- knowledge in the domain of communication networks,
- good organizational and communication skills.

Application:
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Each application must contain the following documents:
- a detailed CV
- a cover letter with a short description of previous works
- one or two references with contact addresses

Applications should be sent electronically to Olivier Brun (brun@laas.fr).



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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:36:09 -0400
From: Leo Liberti <leoliberti@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] COST Workshop on MINLP 2013 (CWMINLP13) / Posters
and participation
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COST Workshop on MINLP 2013 (CWMINLP13)
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CALL FOR POSTERS AND PARTICIPATION

Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2013
Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France

Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) is concerned with finding
optimal solutions of optimization problems involving continuous and
integer variables, as well as nonlinear terms in the objective function
and constraints.

The EU COST Action TD1207 "Mathematical Optimization in the Decision
Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks" sponsors the
event, so the broad topic of energy networks is one that we plan to
emphasize at the workshop.

Call for posters: if you want to present a poster, please send:
author names, title and a short abstract (max 1 page) to
cwminlp@gmail.com, BEFORE SEPT. 18.

To register, just send your name and affiliation to cwminlp@gmail.com
There is no registration fee. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPT. 20.

Confirmed speakers so far:

Amir AHMADI (IBM Research, USA)
Aysegul ALTIN (TOBB University, Turkey)
Immanuel BOMZE (Universitaet Wien, Austria)
Christoph BUCHHEIM (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Sonia CAFIERI (Ecole Nationale de l?Aviation Civile, France)
Emilio CARRIZOSA (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Sandrine CHAROUSSET (Electricite` de France)
Antonio FRANGIONI (Universita` di Pisa, Italy)
Joao GOUVEIA (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Christoph HELMBERG (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
Eligius HENDRIX (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Christian KIRCHES (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany)
James LUEDTKE (University of Winsconsin-Madison, USA)
Martin MEVISSEN (IBM Research, Ireland)
Ruth MISENER (Imperial College London, UK)
Shmuel ONN (Israel Institute of Technology)
Frederic ROUPIN (Universite de Paris 13, France)
Nikolaos SAHINIDIS (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
Stefan VIGERSKE (GAMS)
Julius ZILINSKAS (Vilnius University, Lithuania)

Program/organizing Committee:

Andrea Cassioli (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Claudia D'Ambrosio (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France) -- Co-chair
Gustavo Dias (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Thorsten Koch (Zuze-Institut Berlin, Germany)
Jon Lee (University of Michigan, USA)
Leo Liberti (Ecole Polytechnique, France & IBM Research, USA) -- Co-chair
Andrea Lodi (Universita` di Bologna, Italy)
Evelyne Rayssac (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Sebastian Sager (Universitaet Magdeburg, Germany)
Angelika Wiegele (Alpen-Adria-Universitaet, Austria)

For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/cwminlp13/
Email: cwminlp@gmail.com

Supported by:
- EU COST action TD1207 (Mathematical Optimization in the Decision Support
Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks)
http://www.cost.eu/domains_ actions/ict/Actions/TD1207
- Institut Henri Poincare (ihp.fr)

The CWMINLP13 will be followed by a related workshop (Optimization and
energy) organized by the "Programme Gaspard Monge pour l'Optimization"
(PGMO) on 3-4 Oct. 2013 at the Ecole Nationale Superieure de
Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), on the campus of Ecole Polytechnique
(http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/pgmo/conferences/2013).
Participants to CWMINLP13 are encouraged to attend.



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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:50:39 +0200
From: Stefan Vigerske <vigerske@math.hu-berlin.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] COIN-OR Cup call for submissions: due Mon 16 Sep
2013
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Apologies for cross-posting.

We are now seeking submissions for the ninth annual

COIN-OR INFORMS Cup

competition.

Rules:

- A submission or nomination must contain:
1. A synopsis of an effective use of COIN-OR or valuable
contribution to COIN-OR (or both!).
2. An explanation of its significance.

- The winner must accept the prize in person at the 2013 INFORMS
meeting - so we can all celebrate appropriately (see "Celebration"
below).

- Submission deadline: Monday, September 16, 2013

- Please email submissions to: coin-cup@coin-or.org

- Self-nomination is welcomed.

- We especially encourage nominations of effective use of COIN-OR that
the community may not know about.

Submissions will be judged by a committee including members of the
COIN-OR Foundation, Inc.

Celebration: The 2013 COIN-OR INFORMS Cup will be awarded during the
INFORMS Annual meeting in Minneapolis, MN. All entrants and their
supporters are welcome to join in the celebration and regale, rile, and
roast the prize winners.

- Celebration sponsorship: to be announced, see
http://www.coin-or.org/coinCup/coinCup13.html.

- Date, time and location: to be announced, see
http://www.coin-or.org/coinCup/coinCup13.html.

Details of the winning entry will be announced at this celebration
event, and posted on the COIN-OR Cup website
http://www.coin-or.org/coinCup/coinCup.html.

Please e-mail your submissions to coin-cup@coin-or.org

Previous Winners: http://www.coin-or.org/coinCup/coinCup.html

Enter, come, possibly win, and raise your cup with us!



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 20:30:51 +0000
From: Ashiq Anjum <Ashiq.Anjum@cern.ch>
To: "DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Final Call for Papers : Autonomic Clouds 2013,
Dresden, Germany- Deadline September 10, 2013
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The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013)

http://www.derby.ac.uk/computing/itaac2013

In association with

The 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2013), December 9-12, 2013, Dresden, Germany

Call for Papers

Autonomic computing refers to principles and techniques for designing, building, deploying and managing computing systems with minimal human involvement. An autonomic system should be capable of adapting its behaviour to suit its context of use through methods of self-management, self-tuning, self-configuration, self-diagnosis, and self-healing.

Autonomic approaches are particularly suitable for use in Cloud Computing systems, where rapid scalability is required across a pool of resources to support various unpredictable demands, and where the system should automatically adapt to avoid failures in the underlying hardware impacting on the user experience. Autonomic Clouds emerge as a result of applying autonomic computing techniques to Cloud Computing, resulting into robust, fault tolerant and easy to manage and operate cloud architectures and deployments.

The application of intelligent approaches to Autonomic Clouds is gaining prominence in research and industry. Such intelligent approaches include evolutionary techniques, multi-objective and combinational optimization heuristics, genetic algorithms, neural networks, swarm intelligence, and multi-agents systems. Application of these intelligent approaches to Clouds can improve how computing systems and applications are built, used, managed and optimized, maximizing the benefits for users, applications and systems by reducing the operational, maintenance and usage costs of clouds. The interplay of intelligent approaches and Clouds offers numerous challenges.

The international workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC 2013) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across Cloud Computing, Intelligent Systems, and Autonomic Computing to discuss issues at the intersection of these disciplines. Key questions to be addressed include: How do emerging cloud architectures satisfy or contradict the vision of autonomic computing? How does the vision of autonomic computing satisfy the vision of self managing and self healing clouds? How do contemporary and emerging intelligent techniques support and enable both of these? Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit original work on the theory and practice of intelligent and autonomic clouds.

Key topics

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

* Theory and foundations of Intelligent Clouds
* Quality of Service and Intelligent Clouds
* (auto)scaling of Clouds
* Self-organizing, self-healing and self-managing Cloud systems
* Intelligent deployment, configuration and maintenance approaches for Clouds
* Agent based techniques for Clouds
* Adaptive and Evolutionary Approaches for Clouds
* Intelligent Cloud Workflows, Planning and Scheduling
* Intelligent Cloud Resource Management and Discovery in Clouds
* Autonomic Clouds of Sensors
* Intelligent Management and Monitoring for Clouds
* Intelligent approaches to Cloud Service Level Agreement satisfaction
* Applications, Toolkits and frameworks for Intelligent and Autonomic Clouds
* Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis due to Clouds

Submissions that offer position statements, theoretical and industrial perspectives, lessons learned, comparisons, evaluations and technical contributions to intelligent autonomic clouds are also welcome.

Paper submission guidelines

All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format. The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages, following strictly the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style<http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting>, using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 6 pages. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore.

All papers should be submitted online using EasyChair submission system https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=itaac2013

High quality articles will be invited to become part of the Journal of Cloud Computing Advances, Systems and Applications (JoCCASA)

Workshop Chairs

* Professor Nick Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK
Email: n.antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk<mailto:n.antonopoulos@derby.ac.uk>
* Dr Ashiq Anjum , University of Derby, UK
Email: a.anjum@derby.ac.uk<mailto:a.anjum@derby.ac.uk>
* Dr Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK
Email: l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk<mailto:l.gillam@surrey.ac.uk>.

Programme Committee

* Antonio Liotta, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
* Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
* Richard McClatchey, UWE Bristol, UK
* Morris Riedel, J?lich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Forschungszentrum J?lich, Germany
* Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* David Wallom, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK
* Jianxin Li, Beihang University, China
* Kurt Stockinger, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
* Adel Taweel, Kings College London, UK
* Fatos Xhafa, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
* Daniel S. Katz, Computation Institute, University of Chicago, USA
* Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
* Richard Hill, University of Derby, UK
* Muhammad Atif, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
* Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK
* Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan
* Saad Liaquat Kiani, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
* Silvio Pardi, University of Naples, Naples, Italy
* Zaheer Khan, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
* Liangmin Wang, Jiangsu University, China
* Taimoor Khan, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Important Dates

* Manuscript Submission Due: 10 September 2013
* Notification of Acceptance: 20 September 2013
* Final Manuscript Due: 27 September 2013
* Author Registration Due: 27 September 2013
* Conference Dates: 9 - 12 December 2013



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