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Today's Topics:

1. I-CORE Day - register ! (Yishay Mansour)
2. Three pre-doctoral positions in OR/MS @ University of Antwerp
(Kenneth S?rensen)
3. One week left:CFP-POMM 2014: Parallel Optimization using high
perforMance coMputing (As part of HPCS 2014) (Mohand MEZMAZ)
4. [CPAIOR 2014] Registration is now open (Yuri Malitsky)
5. Recreational Discrete Mathematics: Special issue in JIP (CfP)
(Yoshio Okamoto)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:56:19 +0200
From: Yishay Mansour <mansour.yishay@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] I-CORE Day - register !
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I-CORE Day, April 9, 2014
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/workshop/icore-day/

Don't forget to save the Date and Register (It's Free)!


There will be transportation from Tel Aviv University and

Weizmann Institute (details in th registration).



Location:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and
Engineering, Rothberg Buildings.


The I-CORE day will include two plenary talks and four parallel
tracks, on the following research topics:
* Cryptography and Security
* Computer Networks
* Algorithmic Game Theory
* Algorithms and Computation


Schedule
--------------



9:15-10:00: Gathering

10:00-11:00: Prof. Chris Umans (California Institute of Technology)
* (Auditorium, Third floor, Building A, Rothberg Buildings)

11:00-11:30: Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Morning session in tracks


13:00-14:30: Lunch Break

14:30-16:00: Afternoon session in tracks


16:00-16:30: Coffee Break

16:30-17:30: Prof. Luca Trevisan (Stanford University)
* (Auditorium, Third floor, Building A, Rothberg Buildings


Schedules per track:


Cryptography and Security
(Auditorium, Third floor, Building A, Rothberg Buildings)

Morning session:


11:30-12:15: Dr. Gil Segev (The Hebrew University)
12:15-13:00: Ron Rothblum (Weizmann Inst.)


Afternoon session:


14:30-15:00: Prof. Yuval Ishai (Technion):
15:00-15:30: Nir Bitansky (Tel Aviv University)
15:30-16:00: Michael Walfish, NYU (joint slot with Computer Networks track)

Computer Networks
(Room number 220, Second floor, Building B, Rothberg Buildings)

Morning session:

11:30-12:00: Danny Raz (Technion)
12:00-12:30: Yehuda Afek (Tel Aviv University)
12:30-13:00: Eli Meirom (Technion)

Afternoon session:

14:30-15:00: Haya Shulman (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt)
15:00-15:30: Sharon Goldberg (Ben Gurion University)
15:30-16:00: Michael Walfish, NYU (joint slot with Cryptography and
Security track)

Algorithmic Game Theory
(Room number 221, Second floor, Building B, Rothberg Buildings)

Morning session:
11:30-12:00: Prof. Uri Feige (Weizmann Inst.)
12:00-12:30: Prof. Ran Spiegler (Tel Aviv University)
12:30-13:00: Dr. Aviv Zohar (The Hebrew University)

Afternoon session:

14:30-15:00: Dr. Avinatan Hassidim (Bar Ilan University)
15:00-15:30: Yannai Gonczarowski (The Hebrew University)
15:30-16:00: Prof. Amos Fiat (Tel Aviv University)


Algorithms and Computation
(Room number 100, first floor, Building A, Rothberg Buildings)

Morning session:

11:30-12:15: Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli (Yahoo! Labs Haifa)
12:15-13:00: Ilan Cohen (Tel Aviv University)

Afternoon session:


14:30-15:15: Lior Kamma (Weizmann Inst.)
15:15-16:00: Noga Ron-Zewi (The Technion)

We welcome you to use our transportation to The Hebrew University
(details on the online registration form)!


See you there!

I-CORE ALGO Team



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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:58:58 +0100
From: Kenneth S?rensen <kenneth.sorensen@ua.ac.be>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Three pre-doctoral positions in OR/MS @ University
of Antwerp
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Vacancy for three PhD students - application deadline May 2014

The ANT/OR Operations Research group of the Department of Engineering
Management, University of Antwerp, Belgium has vacancies for

three pre-doctoral positions (PhD students) in Operations
Research/Management Science

The selected candidates will be hired for a four-year period subject
to yearly evaluation. They will receive a tax-free PhD scholarship of
approximately 1800 euro per month. They will enroll in the doctoral
program of the Faculty of Applied Economics and work towards obtaining
a PhD during the fourth year. Some light teaching/support activities
may also be demanded of the candidate.

The selected candidates will perform research on a specific topic
within the broad domain of Operations Research/Management Science. Two
research topics have already been defined:

- City bike repositioning. Bicycle sharing systems are popping up all
over the world, but bike stations tend to empty out or fill up. The
PhD student selected for this topic will analyze the problem of
repositioning bicycles in a bike sharing system. This research will
entail statistical analysis of demand/supply patterns of bikes at the
different stations, as well as the development of (exact and
metaheuristic) algorithms to optimize the activities of the
repositioning vehicles.

- Smart plant optimization in the petrochemical industry. The PhD
student selected for this topic will develop models and methods for
planning the semi-continuous production of a petrochemical companhy,
also looking at tactical decisions like plant layout and
configuration. Antwerp is the second largest petrochemical cluster in
the world and this research project will be executed in collaboration
with partners from the chemical industry.

Other potential topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Applications of metaheuristics in various fields (especially
transportation and logistics, humanitarian aid, public transportation,
...). The topic will be defined in collaboration with the PhD
supervisor.

- Metaheuristic theory: A large number of different metaheuristics
exist: tabu search, evolutionary algorithms, simulated annealing, ant
colony optimization, ... To solve a large number of theoretical and
real-life optimization problems, metaheuristics typically outperform
all other methods. However, very little knowledge is available on why
and how these methods work and an overarching theory of metaheuristic
development is still lacking? The aim of this topic is to work towards
a better theoretical understanding of metaheuristic optimization.

The ideal candidate has a good background in operations research
(www.scienceofbetter.org), statistics, and mathematics, including good
programming skills and a good command of the English language. Typical
activities the candidate will perform are the development of heuristic
optimization algorithms, implementation in a programming environment,
running computational experiments, and analyzing the results
statistically, as well as writing research papers and giving
conference presentations.

The candidates will join the ANT/OR research group (antor.ua.ac.be), a
young and dynamic team of researchers mainly working on applications
of operations research. They will work under the direct supervision of
Prof. Kenneth S?rensen (www.uantwerpen.be/kenneth-sorensen) and/or
prof. Trijntje Cornelissens (www.uantwerpen.be/trijntje-cornelissens).
They will work at the city campus of the University of Antwerp.
Antwerp is a lively city in the center of Europe, well-known for its
history, its fashion and diamond industry, and its generally excellent
quality of life.

To apply, go to http://antor.ua.ac.be/apply and submit your complete
file (instructions can be found on the website). Application deadline
is 1 May 2014 but early application is encouraged. Final-year master
students who have not yet received their degree are also encouraged to
apply when interested. The selected PhD students will be expected to
start working before 1 October 2014.

For more information, contact kenneth.sorensen@uantwerpen.be.



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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:02:39 +0100
From: Mohand MEZMAZ <mohand.mezmaz@gmail.com>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] One week left:CFP-POMM 2014: Parallel Optimization
using high perforMance coMputing (As part of HPCS 2014)
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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.

*************************************************************************************
* Parallel Optimization using high perforMance coMputing (POMM 2014)
* http://www.umons.ac.be/pomm2014
* As part of The International Conference on High Performance
Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2014)
* http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info
* July 21 - July 25, 2014
* The Savoia Hotel Regency
* Bologna, Italy
*************************************************************************************

Submission Deadline: March 25, 2014
Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters

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PURPOSE AND SCOPE
-----------------------------------------
Plenty of hard problems in a wide range of areas including engineering
design, telecommunications, logistics, biology, etc., have been
modeled and tackled successfully with optimization approaches. These
approaches fall into two major categories: meta-heuristics
(evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, ant or bee colonies,
simulated annealing, Tabu search, etc.) and exact methods
(Branch-and-X, dynamic programming, etc.).

Nowadays, optimization problems become increasingly large and complex,
forcing the use of parallel computing for their efficient and
effective resolution. On the other hand, multi and many-core computing
(e.g. GPU, FPGA) has recently undergone a significant evolution with
the emergence of new high performance computing environments. Indeed,
multi and many-core computing are provided in laptops, high
performance workstations, clusters, grids, and clouds.

The design and implementation of parallel optimization methods raise
several issues related to the characteristics of these methods and
those of the new hardware execution environments at the same time.
This workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for the researchers to
present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced
(discrete or continuous, single or multi-objective, static or dynamic,
deterministic or stochastic, hybrid) optimization methods and
distributed and/or parallel multi/many-core computing, and any related
issues.

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The POMM Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
the following:
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- Parallel models for optimization methods.
- Parallel mechanisms for hybridization of optimization methods.
- Redesign of parallel real or simulation-based optimization algorithms.
- Implementation issues of parallel optimization algorithms.
- Parallel-aware frameworks for parallel optimization techniques.
- Computational studies reporting results for hard and challenging
optimization problems.
- Issues and novel approaches and experiments in parallel solving
real-world applications.
- Theory and performance metrics for parallel optimization.

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION
-----------------------------------------
You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to Parallel Computing for Simulation
and Optimization. Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover
page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone
numbers, and email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the
corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list
of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full
manuscript should be at most 8 pages using the two-column IEEE format.
Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Short papers (up to 4
pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to
http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/home/posters for the posters submission
details) will also be accepted for submission. In case of multiple
authors, an indication of which author is responsible for
correspondence must be indicated. Please include page numbers on all
submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful
comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop submission
site at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pomm2014.
Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission.

Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of
three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality,
relevance, contributions, technical clarity and presentation.
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper, if accepted. Authors of accepted
papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and
presented at the workshop.

-----------------------------------------
Proceedings
-----------------------------------------
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be
posted on the HPCS 2014 web site. It is our intent to have the
proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be
available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are to be
published as ISBN proceedings by the IEEE and will be available online
through IEEE Digital Library and indexed by major indexing services
accordingly (e.g., EI indexing).

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop,
please feel free to contact the workshop organizers.

-----------------------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
-----------------------------------------
- Paper Submissions: March 25, 2014
- Acceptance Notification: April 15, 2014
- Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 06, 2014
- Conference Dates: July 21 - 25, 2014

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
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Nouredine Melab
Universit? Lille 1/INRIA Lille - Nord Europe/CNRS LIFL
Phone: +33 3 59 57 78 86
Fax: +33 3 28 77 85 37
Email: nouredine.melab(at)lifl.fr

Mohand Mezmaz
Universty of Mons
Phone: +32 65 37 46 91
Fax: +32 65 37 46 45
Email: mohand.mezmaz(at)umons.ac.be

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International Program Committee
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- Ahc?ne Bendjoudi, Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique
et Technique, Algeria
- Didier El Baz, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
- Bertrand Le Cun, Universit? de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La d?fense, France
- Young Choon Lee, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Andrew Lewis, Griffith University, Australia
- Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium
- Malika Mehdi, University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria
- Nouredine Melab, Universit? de Lille1, France
- Mohand Mezmaz, University of Mons, Belgium
- Sanaz Mostagim, Universit?t Karlsruhe, Germany
- Celso C. Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
- Catherine Roucairol, Universit? de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La d?fense, France
- Valeria Ruggiero, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Franciszek Seredynski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- El-Ghazali Talbi, Universit? de Lille1, France
- Daniel Tuyttens, University of Mons, Belgium
- Gaetano Zanghirati, University of Ferrara, Italy



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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:06:32 +0000
From: Yuri Malitsky <yuri.malitsky@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [CPAIOR 2014] Registration is now open
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REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Registration for the Eleventh International Conference on Integration
of Artificial
Intelligence and Operations Research Techniques in Constraint
Programming (CPAIOR'14)
is now open and can be found on the conference website:

http://4c.ucc.ie/cpaior2014/

Deadline for early registration is March 31.

The aim of the conference is to bring together interested researchers
from Constraint
Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Operations Research
(OR) to present
new techniques or new applications in combinatorial optimization and
to provide an
opportunity for researchers in one area to learn about techniques in
the others. A main
objective of this conference series is also to give these researchers
the opportunity to
show how the integration of techniques from different fields can lead
to interesting
results on large and complex problems.

After a successful series of five CPAIOR international workshops in
Ferrara (Italy),
Paderborn (Germany), Ashford (United Kingdom), Le Croisic (France),
and Montreal (Canada),
in 2004 CPAIOR evolved into a conference. More than 100 participants
attended the first
meeting held in Nice (France). In the subsequent years, CPAIOR was held in
Prague (Czech Republic), Cork (Ireland), Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France),
Pittsburgh (USA), Bologna (Italy), Berlin (Germany), Nantes (France) and
Yorktown Heights (USA).

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LOCATION:

CPAIOR'14 will be held May 19-23, 2014, in Cork, Ireland.

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS:

Barry O'Sullivan
Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland
b.osullivan [at] cs.ucc.ie

Helmut Simonis
Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland
h.simonis [at] 4c.ucc.ie

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REGISTRATION OPTIONS:

Regular Registration Early:
Registration for conference, workshops and masterclass before March 31: EURO 400

Student Registration Early:
Student registration for conference, workshops and masterclass before
March 31: EURO 250

Regular Registration Late:
regular registration for conference, workshops and masterclass after
March 31: EURO 480

Student Registration Late:
student registration for conference, workshops and masterclass after
March 31: EURO 350

Workshop/Masterclass only:
registration for workshops and masterclass only: EURO 100

Accompanying person:
for welcome reception on Wednesday 21st May and conference dinner 22nd May: EURO 80


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:26:35 +0900
From: Yoshio Okamoto <okamotoy@uec.ac.jp>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Recreational Discrete Mathematics: Special issue in
JIP (CfP)
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Call for Papers
Journal of Information Processing
Special issue of "Recreational Discrete Mathematics"

The Editorial Committee of the Journal of Information Processing

Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is pleased to announce the
call for papers for a special issue of "Recreational Discrete
Mathematics."
This special issue will focus on research papers that describe
mathematics of recreations (e.g., puzzles and games). The topics
include, but not limited to: solving methods of puzzles, winning
strategies of games, complexity analyses of games and puzzles, and
algorithms for generating puzzle instances.

**********************************************************************
Journal of Information Processing (JIP) is currently encouraging more
submissions from outside of Japan.
Any papers electronically submitted to JIP before July 31, 2015 are
free of publication charge when accepted.
Non members of IPSJ can also submit papers to JIP.
**********************************************************************

Submission Guidelines
1. All papers must be submitted electronically. Please access the
following URL and proceed under the submission instructions:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit_en.do
? Note that this URL is for English papers only.
If you plan to submit a paper in Japanese, please visit another
page at:
https://www.ipsj.or.jp/prms/author_pre_submit.do

2. All papers will be reviewed. The review process will be carried
out in the same manner as regular issues. However, you have shorter
time than usual (two months) for preparation of your responses to
inquiries.

3. Submission deadline is July 31st, 2014.

4. The special issue will be published on the J-Stage website in
July, 2015.
Preprint will be published on the IPSJ Journal in May, 2015.

5. The Editorial Committee
Editor in-Chief: Hiro ITO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications)
Editorial Board: Takashi HORIYAMA (Saitama Univ.)
Editorial Committee: Yoshifumi MANABE (Kogakuin Univ.),
Yoshio OKAMOTO (The Univ. of Electro-Communications),
Hirotaka ONO (Kyushu Univ.), Ryuhei UEHARA (JAIST),
Yushi UNO (Osaka Prefecture Univ.)


Official Web page: http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/jip/cfp/15-L.html

--
Yoshio Okamoto, Assoc. Prof. <okamotoy@uec.ac.jp>
Dept. of Communication Engineering and Informatics
University of Electro-Communications
Chofugaoka 1-5-1, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585


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