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Today's Topics:

1. Metaheuristics for optimization problems (stefka fidanova)
2. Computational optimization (stefka fidanova)
3. DLT 2014 2nd CfP: Invited speakers, Special Session to honor
Arto Salomaa, Satellite Event, Deadline Extension
(Mikhail.Volkov@usu.ru)
4. AFL 2014: Call for Papers (submission deadline extended)
(afl2014@inf.u-szeged.hu)
5. DISC 2014 - Call for Papers (Sebastian Daum)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:06:54 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Metaheuristics for optimization problems
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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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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 12:09:47 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Computational optimization
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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



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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: 3
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:43:30 +0500
From: Mikhail.Volkov@usu.ru
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] DLT 2014 2nd CfP: Invited speakers, Special Session
to honor Arto Salomaa, Satellite Event, Deadline Extension
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Second Call for Papers -- DLT 2014

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SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED: MARCH 24, 2014
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18th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
August 26-29, 2014
http://dlt2014.sciencesconf.org/
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The 18th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory
(DLT 2014) will take place at Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg,
Russia, on August 26-29, 2014 under the auspices of the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
Arto Salomaa, the co-founder of the DLT series and one of the major
contributors to the area as a whole, celebrates his 80th birthday
in June 2014. DLT 2014 plans a special session in Arto's honor.
The opening lecture of the session surveying Arto's achievements
will be delivered by Juhani Karhumaki (University of Turku, Finland).

TOPICS
Typical topics include, but are not limited to, grammars, acceptors and
transducers for words, trees and graphs, algebraic theories of automata;
algorithmic, combinatorial and algebraic properties of words and languages;
variable length codes; symbolic dynamics; cellular automata; polyominoes
and multidimensional patterns; decidability questions; image manipulation
and compression; efficient text algorithms; relationships to cryptography,
concurrency, complexity theory and logic; bio-inspired computing; quantum
computing.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: *******March 24th, 2014******* (Extended deadline)
Notification: April 28th, 2014
Final version: May 12th, 2014
Conference: August 26-29, 2014

SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research. The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Simultaneous submission to journals
or other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.
Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages and should follow the LNCS-style
LaTeX2e (available athttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). All
proofs omitted due to space constraints should be given in an appendix or
made accessible through a reliable link to a freely available electronic
preprint. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF through the
EasyChair system:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dlt20140

INVITED SPEAKERS
Yuri Gurevich (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA)
Martin Kutrib (Universitat Giessen, Germany)
Kai Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
Pascal Weil (Universite Bordeaux I, France)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jorge Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Marie-Pierre Beal, Universite Paris-Est, France
Olivier Carton, Universite Paris Diderot, France
Vesa Halava, University of Turku, Finland
Yo-Sub Han Yonsei University, Korea
Oscar Ibarra University of California Santa Barbara, USA,
Markus Lohrey, Universit"at Siegen, Germany
Dirk Nowotka, Universit"at Kiel, Germany
Giovanni Pighizzini, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool, UK
Elena Pribavkina, Ural Federal University, Russia
Michel Rigo, Universite de Liege, Belgium
Marinella Sciortino, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Italy
Jeffrey Shallit, University of Waterloo, Canada
Arseny Shur (co-chair), Ural Federal University, Russia
Mikhail Volkov (co-chair), Ural Federal University, Russia
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

SATELLITE EVENT
CSEDays. Theory 2014: Computer Science Days in Ekaterinburg
This is a summer school for advanced graduate and PhD students in
mathematics,
computer science and software ingeneering, as well as young researchers and
developers from industry. The main objective of the CSEdays is to expose
the students in computer science and related disciplines to the research
topics usually not covered within the regular university curricula.
The topic of the 2014's edition is "Strings, Languages, and Automata".

INVITED LECTURERS:
Mario Guarracino (High Perfomance Computing and Networking Institute, Italy)
Gregory Kucherov (University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Andreas Maletti (University of Stuttgart)
Narad Rampersad (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Further information about the school is on the website http://www.csedays.ru/

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
Web: http://dlt2014.sciencesconf.org/
E-mail: dlt2014@sciencesconf.org




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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:21:30 +0100 (CET)
From: afl2014@inf.u-szeged.hu
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] AFL 2014: Call for Papers (submission deadline
extended)
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3rd Call for Papers
Automata and Formal Languages, AFL2014
14th International Conference
Szeged, May 27--29, 2014.
http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/afl2014

*Topics*
The AFL series, initiated by the late Professor Istv\'an
Pe\'ak in 1980, has a long tradition. The AFL conferences
cover all aspects of automata and formal languages,
including theory and applications.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
grammars, acceptors and transducers for strings, trees,
graphs, arrays, etc., algebraic theories for automata and
languages, combinatorial properties of words and languages,
formal power series, decision problems, efficient algorithms
for automata and languages, relations to complexity theory
and logic, picture description and analysis, quantum
computing, cryptography, concurrency, applications of
automata and language theory in biology, natural language
processing, and other fields.

The scientific program will consist of invited lectures
and contributed presentations selected by the international
program committee.

*Invited Speakers*
Arnaud Carayol (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Markus Holzer (Giessen)
Christof L\"oding (Aachen)
Sebastian Maneth (Edinburgh)

*Program Committee*
Marie-Pierre B\'eal (Marne-la-Vall\'ee)
Symeon Bozapalidis (Thessaloniki)
Erzs\'ebet Csuhaj-Varj\'u (Budapest)
J\"urgen Dassow (Magdeburg)
Volker Diekert (Stuttgart)
P\'al D\"om\"osi (Debrecen, Ny\'\i regyh\'aza)
Frank Drewes (Umea)
Zolt\'an \'Esik (Szeged, chair)
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op (Szeged, co-chair)
Viliam Geffert (Kosice)
Oscar H. Ibarra (Santa Barbara, CA, USA)
Masami Ito (Kyoto)
Martin Kutrib (Giessen)
Kamal Lodaya (Chennai)
Markus Lohrey (Siegen)
Andreas Maletti (Stuttgart)
Alexander Okhotin (Turku)
Friedrich Otto (Kassel)
Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan)
Libor Pol\'ak (Brno)
Antonio Restivo (Palermo)
Kai Salomaa (Kingston, ON, Canada)
Pedro V. Silva (Porto)
Gy\"orgy Vaszil (Debrecen)
Pascal Weil (Bordeaux)
Hsu-Chun Yen (Taipei)

*Important dates*
Paper submission deadline: *March 21, 2014.*
Modification of submitted papers will be possible
until March 23 midnight PST.
Author notification: *April 22, 2014.*
Camera-ready deadline: *May 5, 2014.*
Conference: *May 27--29, 2014.*

*Submission guidelines*
Submissions to AFL2014 must not exceed 15 pages
(in EPTCS style and including bibliography).
If the authors believe that more details are
essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read
at the discretion of the program committee.

Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings or submitting
previously published papers is not allowed.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format are accepted.
Information about the submission procedure is
available on the conference web page.
The proceedings will be published in the EPTCS series.

A special issue of the
*International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science*
containing expanded versions of selected papers will
be published after the conference.

*Contact*
Zolt\'an \'Esik:ze@inf.u-szeged.hu
or
Zolt\'an F\"ul\"op:fulop@inf.u-szeged.hu

The conference is organized by the Department of Foundations
of Computer Science, Faculty of Science and Informatics,
University of Szeged, Hungary.



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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:37:04 -0500
From: Sebastian Daum <sdaum@cs.uni-freiburg.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] DISC 2014 - Call for Papers
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(Apologies for crosspostings)

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CALL FOR PAPERS

- DISC 2014 -

The 28th International Symposiom on Distributed Computing
October 12-15, 2014
Austin TX, USA
http://www.disc-conference.org/wp/disc2014

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DISC is the International Symposion on Distributed Computing, organized
in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer
Science (EATCS).


Important Dates
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Abstract Registration: May 9, 2014
Paper Submission: May 14, 2014
Notification: July 11, 2014
Camera-Ready Submission: August 5, 2014
Conference: October 12-15, 2014


Scope
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Original contributions to theory, design, implementation, modeling,
analysis, or application of distributed systems and networks are
solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed algorithms; correctness and complexity
- Concurrency, synchronization, and transactional memory
- Distributed operating systems, middleware, database systems
- Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems
- Wireless, mobile, sensor and ad-hoc networks
- Fault tolerance, reliability, availability
- Game-theoretic approaches to distributed computing
- Specification, verification, and testing: tools, methodologies
- Networks: protocols, architectures, services, applications
- Multiprocessor and multicore architectures and algorithms
- Security in distributed computing, cryptographic protocols
- Distributed computing issues in the Internet and the Web
- Cloud and peer-to-peer computing
- Mobile agents and autonomous robots

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Program Committee
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James Aspnes, Yale University, USA
Hagit Attiya, Technion, Israel
Chen Avin, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Shiri Chechik, Microsoft Research SVC, USA
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, Canada
Vijay Garg, University of Texas, Austin, USA
George Giakkoupis, INRIA Rennes, France
Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL, Switzerland
Bernhard Haeupler, Microsoft Research SVC, USA
Danny Hendler, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Majid Khabbazian, University of Alberta, Canada
Fabian Kuhn (chair), University of Freiburg, Germany
Christoph Lenzen, MIT, USA
Victor Luchangco, Oracle Labs, USA
Dahlia Malkhi, Microsoft Research SVC, USA
Thomas Moscibroda, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Yoram Moses, Technion, Israel
Danupon Nanongkai, Brown University, USA
Boaz Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Andrzej Pelc, University of Quebec, Canada
Jared Saia, University of New Mexico, USA
Thomas Sauerwald, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Christian Schindelhauer, University of Freiburg, Germany
Jukka Suomela, Aalto University, Finland
Sebastien Tixeuil, UPMC Sorbonne University, France


Organization Committee
----------------------
Chen Avin (publicity), Ben Gurion University, Israel
Sebastian Daum (publicity), University of Freiburg, Germany
Mohamed Gouda (general chair), University of Texas, Austin
Alessia Milani (workshops/tutorials), LaBRI, France
Corentin Travers (workshops/tutorials), LaBRI, France


Steering Committee
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Marcos Aguilera, Microsoft Research SVC, USA
Yehuda Afek, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion, Israel
Shlomi Dolev, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Antonio Fernandez Anta (chair), IMDEA Netw., Spain
Fabian Kuhn, University Freiburg, Germany
Achour Mostefaoui, University Nantes, France

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Submission
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Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines on
the conference web page. Submissions must be in English, in .ps or .pdf
format, and begin with a cover page (not a cover letter) including:
(1) title,
(2) authors? names and affiliations,
(3) contact author?s postal and email address,
(4) a short abstract of the paper,
(5) indication of whether this is a regular paper or a brief
announcement, and
(6) indication of whether the paper is eligible for best student paper
award.

A submission for a regular presentation must report on original research
that has not previously appeared, and has not been concurrently
submitted to a journal or conference with published proceedings. Any
overlap with a published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly
indicated. A regular submission must not exceed 10 single-column pages
using at least 11 point font on letter paper (excluding cover page and
references). Authors are expected to include all the ideas necessary for
an expert to verify the central claims in the paper. If necessary, the
details may appear in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at
the discretion of the program committee.

A brief announcement submission must not exceed 3 pages in the same
format. It is permissible for the material in brief announcements to be
published in other conferences. Submissions not conforming to these
rules and papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected
without consideration. If requested by the authors on the cover page, a
regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation can
be considered for the brief announcement format. Such a request will not
affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.


Publication
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The proceedings will be published as a volume in the ARCoSS Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Camera-ready versions of
accepted papers must be submitted in the LNCS format.


Awards
------
Awards will be given to the best paper and the best student paper. To be
eligible for the best student paper award at least one of the paper
authors must be a full-time student at the time of submission, and the
student(s) must have made a significant contribution to the paper.



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