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Today's Topics:

1. Deadline Extended ||The Second International Workshop on
Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014) (sdjahel)
2. Spring School in Stochastic Programming (last announcement)
(Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia)
3. Metaheuristics for optimization probles (stefka fidanova)
4. Computational optimization (stefka fidanova)
5. Postdoc position in algorithms and complexity at University
of Edinburgh (Rahul Santhanam)
6. SSTiC 2014: 15 February, 3rd registration deadline (GRLMC - URV)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 13:13:28 +0000
From: sdjahel <sdjahel@gmail.com>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline Extended ||The Second International
Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014)
Message-ID: <52FA21F8.7090806@gmail.com>
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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

Deadline extension (hard): 20 February 2014
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The Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart
Cities (VTM 2014) (http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/VTM2014/VTM.html)
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To be held in conjunction with The 2014 IEEE 79th Vehicular Technology
Conference (VTC2014-Spring), 18-21 May 2014, Seoul, Korea
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The rapid growth of the number of cars on the roads has created a
plethora of
challenges for road traffic management authorities such as, traffic
congestion, increasing number of accidents, air pollution, etc. Over the
last
decade, researchers from both industry and academia have focused their
efforts
on exploiting advances in sensing and communication technologies to make
the
existing road Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) more efficient.
Their main goal is to improve the traveler?s safety, shorten the travel
time
and reduce the environmental impact.

Road traffic management for smart cities involves monitoring the actual
traffic situation in real-time (including volumes, speeds, incidents, etc.)
and then controlling or influencing the flow using that information in
order
to reduce traffic congestion, deal efficiently with incidents and provide
accurate and reliable traffic information and prediction to both drivers
and
authorities. Moreover, it is foreseen that future smart cities will provide
faster and secure emergency service delivery by granting proper traffic
privileges to emergency vehicles.

This workshop seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and engineers
from various research communities, as well as practitioners and
administrators
who face the challenges of traffic management in smart cities. They are all
welcome to present and discuss their latest research findings, ideas,
simulation tools and applications at the 2014 VTM workshop.

Topics of Interest
------------------
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
? Vehicular traffic management
? Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) protocols
for smart cities
? Data sensing and gathering techniques in urban environments
? Mobile sensing (privacy, trust management and security issues)
? Data fusion and integration for traffic management systems
(techniques, algorithms, data types, etc.)
? Distributed simulations for large scale urban environments
? Route planning protocols and road traffic prediction mechanisms
? Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and VANETs
applied to traffic management systems in smart cities
? Mobility and vehicular traffic measurement, modeling, and simulation
? Security and QoS issues for ITS applications
? V2X feasibility over LTE networks
? M2M communication for data collection in road environment
? Mobile applications for intelligent traffic management
? Deployment issues for smart infrastructure in urban areas
? Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) applications for road traffic management
? Decision making tools for road traffic management
? Electric vehicles

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the VTM2014
workshop and made available through IEEE Xplore.


Important Dates
---------------
Submission deadline ------ 20 February 2014
Acceptance notification ------ 15 March 2014
Camera-ready version ------ 24 March 2014

Keynote speakers
----------------
Prof. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, L3i Lab, University of La Rochelle, France
Dr. Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan



Submission guidelines
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The VTM workshop follows the formatting guidelines of IEEE
VTC2014-Spring. Submissions should be original and limited to 5
double-column pages (Maximum of 2 additional pages allowed - 7 pages in
total - with over-length page fee) in IEEE paper templates. All
submissions should be written in English using 10-point font. Authors
are invited to submit their manuscripts in PDF format through Track
Chair conference system
(http://vtc2014spring-wk.trackchair.com/track/1237/submit). Please
contact Dr. Soufiene Djahel (soufiene.djahel at ucd dot ie), Prof.
Damien Magoni (magoni at labri dot fr) or Dr. Philip Perry (philip.perry
at ucd dot ie) if you have any questions about submitting your manuscripts.

General co-Chairs
-----------------------
Soufiene Djahel
University College Dublin, Ireland

Falko Dressler
University of Innsbruck, Austria

John Murphy
University College Dublin, Ireland

TPC co-Chairs
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Damien Magoni
University of Bordeaux 1, France

Philip Perry
University College Dublin, Ireland

Publicity Chair
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Rahim Kacimi
Paul Sabatier University, France

TPC members
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Wei Wei, Xi?an Jiao Tong University, China
Imad Jawhar, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Amit Pande, University of California Davis, USA
M?lanie Bouroche, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Celimuge Wu, University of Electro-communications, Japan
Yassine Hadjadj Aoul, IRISA, France
Abdelmalik Bachir, Imperial College London, UK
Dalil Moad, City Passenger, France
Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, University of Bourgogne, France
Lyes Khoukhi, University of Troyes, France
Christoph Sommer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Sa?d Gharout, Orange Labs, France
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Ali Hamieh, University of Nevada, USA
Hassine Moungla, University Paris Descartes, France
Yacine Belhoul, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Intesab Hussain, QUEST, Nawabshah, Pakistan
Mikael Asplund, Link?ping University, Sweden
Nafa? Jabeur, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Oman
Huaqun Guo, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore
Ahcene Bendjoudi, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rahim Kacimi, Paul Sabatier University, France
Fen Zhou, Avignon University, France
Said Yahiaoui, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Michael Feiri, University of Twente, Netherlands
Razvan Stanica, INSA de Lyon, France

--
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Dr. Soufiene Djahel
Research Fellow
Performance Engineering Lab
University College Dublin
http://csserver.ucd.ie/~sdjahel/index.html



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 12:20:53 +0000
From: Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia <legouveia@fc.ul.pt>
To: "DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Spring School in Stochastic Programming (last
announcement)
Message-ID:
<4752EA098FED804AB3DF056A70B41214568C7B531A@FC-MBXCLUSTER.fc.ul.pt>
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Spring School in Stochastic Programming (last announcement)

The spring school "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications"
will take place in Lisbon, March 3-4 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal.

School lecturers - R?diger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ALREADY AVAILABLE.

The school precedes and is associated to the 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) that will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal.

For more information on the School and the Symposium, how to register, registration deadline and registration fees, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt.


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 15:58:04 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Metaheuristics for optimization probles
Message-ID:
<CAAL360v9w6Bq6uQiHhWSRGquEVcGY8ixoabUuxWdJADX-Dj5gQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "METAHEURISTICS FOR OPTIMIZATION
PROBLEMS" at the
8th Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications NM&A'14,
to be held 20-24 August 2014 in Borovets, Bulgaria.
The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- unconstrained and constrained optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- global optimization
- multi-objective optimization
- optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
- large scale optimization
- parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
- random search algorithms (simulated annealing, tabu search, free
search and other derivative free optimization methods).
- nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms,
ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune
artificial systems etc.).
- hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
- optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
- computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, biology, engineering etc


Proceedings
The refereed and presented papers will be published as a special
volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
April 30, 2014
Deadline for submission of full papers
May 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of full papers
June 30, 2014
Submission of accommodation forms
July 15, 2014


Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one
participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one
per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/dpa/NMA_2014/

Special session organizers
Assoc. Prof. S. Fidanova, Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of
Science, stefka@parallel.bas.bg
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

--
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642


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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:00:58 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Computational optimization
Message-ID:
<CAAL360uXWm+Zfks5jzVusFJKBF=nDU8hwqZUXZgR_MhSspY79g@mail.gmail.com>
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[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.]

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Call for Papers

7th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2014
Warsaw, Poland, September 7 - 10, 2014

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2014

http://www.fedcsis.org/

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

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

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



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

Important dates:

11.04.2012 (April 11, 2014) - Full paper submission

12.05.2014 (May 12, 2014) - Position paper submission

19.05.2011 (May 19, 2014) - Notification of acceptance

17.06.2012 (June 17, 2014) - Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper and registration

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

Submission and Publication


* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s), we will announce later the
publisher.
====================

If you have any question do not hesitate to send a mail to wco2014@fedcsis.org .

Organizing Committee

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



--
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:32:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Rahul Santhanam <rsanthan@inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Postdoc position in algorithms and complexity at
University of Edinburgh
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1402121621300.15006@bolt.inf.ed.ac.uk>
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A postdoc position in algorithms and complexity is available at the
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. The position is funded
by the ERC Consolidator Grant ALUnif (Algorithms and Lower Bounds: A
Unified Approach), held by Rahul Santhanam.

The goal of the project is to use recently discovered connections between
complexity lower bound techniques and algorithmic design and analysis to
design new and improved algorithms for SAT and other NP-complete problems, as
well as to prove new complexity lower bounds.

Candidates should have a strong background in theoretical computer
science, preferably in complexity theory and/or exact algorithms for
NP-hard problems. Candidates should also have a PhD, or be close to
completion of a PhD.

The application deadline is March 12, 2014, and the application link is
here:
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=026229

Informal queries may be directed to Rahul Santhanam
at the e-mail address rsanthan@inf.ed.ac.uk

------------------------------------------------




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



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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:07:14 +0100
From: "GRLMC - URV" <grlmc@urv.cat>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] SSTiC 2014: 15 February, 3rd registration deadline
Message-ID: <032901cf283e$c9d1d890$6400a8c0@GRLMC.local>
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- February 15, 3rd registration deadline ---

*********************************************************************

AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose,
renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with
the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 6
keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding
speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites
in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific
knowledge background in the description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches
of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss
with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One
Coin

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), You and Your Research and The Elements of Style

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Dinesh Manocha (U North Carolina, Chapel Hill), [introductory/intermediate]
Robot Motion Planning

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance
Handover System Designs

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and
Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php

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

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very
convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or
most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the
School in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili




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