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Today's Topics:

1. CFP: SISAP 2014 (elchavez)
2. Invitation to CENTERIS Workshop on Multicriteria Decision
Making and Applications in Enterprise Information Systems to be
held in Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 within CENTERIS
conference centeris.eiswatch.org Deadline for submissions: April
30, 2014 (Iryna Yevseyeva)
3. 2nd International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and
Perspectives @ IEEE DCOSS 2014 (LAST TWO DAYS) (Valeria Loscri)
4. Final call for participation: Swedish Summer School in
Computer Science 2014 (Jakob Nordstrom)
5. CfP - Summer Lectures on Advanced Approximation Algorithms
(Andreas Baertschi)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:48:09 -0600
From: elchavez <elchavez@fismat.umich.mx>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] CFP: SISAP 2014
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Apologies for cross posting

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CALL FOR PAPERS - SISAP 2014
7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications

http://www.sisap.org/2014/

Los Cabos, Mexico, Oct 29-31, 2014

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Scope
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The 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications
(SISAP) is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in
the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological
problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining,
information retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition,
computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many
others that need similarity searching as a necessary supporting service.

The SISAP initiative (www.sisap.org) aims to become a forum to exchange
real-world, challenging and innovative examples of applications, new
indexing techniques, common test-beds and benchmarks, source code and
up-to-date literature through its web page, serving the similarity
search community. Traditionally, SISAP puts emphasis on the
distance-based searching, but in general the conference concerns both
the effectiveness and efficiency aspects of any similarity search
problem.

The series started in 2008 as a workshop and has developed over the
years into an international conference with Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) proceedings.

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Topics
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The specific topics include, but are not limited to:
-Similarity queries ? k-NN, range, reverse NN, top-k, etc.
-Similarity operations ? joins, ranking, classification,
categorization, filtering, etc.
-Evaluation techniques for similarity queries and operations
-Merging/combining multiple similarity modalities
-Cost models and analysis for similarity data processing
-Indexing and access methods for similarity-based processing
-Scalability issues and high-performance similarity data management
-Feature extraction for similarity-based indexing and retrieval
-Feature selection
-Test collections and benchmarks
-Performance studies, benchmarks, and comparisons
-Similarity search over outsourced data repositories
-Similarity search cloud services
-Languages for similarity databases
-New modes of similarity for complex data understanding
-Applications of similarity-based operations
-Visual analitics for similarity-based operations
-Image, video, voice, and music (multimedia) retrieval systems
-Similarity for forensics and security
-Surveillance and defense

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Paper Submission and Publication
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Papers submitted to SISAP 2014 must be written in English and formatted
according to the LNCS guidelines
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs). Full papers can be up to 12
pages, while short papers, case-studies/applications, and demos can be
up to 6 pages (read below for types of contribution). By submitting a
paper, its authors commit to having the paper presented at the
conference by at least one of them if the paper is accepted.

Papers will be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sisap2014).
If you experience any problems during the submission, you can contact
the organization at sisap2014@icmc.usp.br

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Information Systems Journal special issue
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As in previous editions of SISAP, a selection of the best papers will
be invited to submit extended versions of the papers to a special issue
of the Journal Information Systems (IS), Elsevier. It is important to
highlight that the impact factor of the papers previously published in
these IS special issues is 8.25.


Contributions

Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished papers on their
research in the area of similarity search and applications. Papers
should present original research contributions which bring out the
importance of algorithms to applications. SISAP submissions can be of
three kinds (full details will be announced shortly):
- Research papers (full and short): SISAP accepts both full (12 pages)
and short papers (6 pages). The full papers are expected to be
descriptions of complete technical work, while the short papers will
describe interesting, innovative ideas, which nevertheless require more
work to mature - vision papers should also be submitted as short papers.
All papers, regardless of size, will be given an entry in the conference
proceedings.
- Case-studies and applications: Submissions describe applications of
existing similarity search technologies to interesting problems,
including a description of the encountered challenges, how they were
overcome, and the lessons learned. All papers on this track will be
given an entry in the conference proceedings and a presentation slot,
though the presentation slot duration may be shorter than for full
research papers.
- Demonstration papers: Submissions should provide the motivation for
the demonstrated concepts, the information about the technology and the
system to be demonstrated (including a system description, functionality
and figures when applicable), and should state the significance of the
contribution. Evaluation criteria for the demonstration proposals
include: the novelty, the technical advances and challenges, and the
overall practical attractiveness of the demonstrated system.
Demonstration papers will also be given an entry in the conference
proceedings ? online demos are expected at the conference.

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Important
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When: Oct 29-31, 2014
Where: Los Cabos, Mexico
Abstract Registration: May 12, 2014
Submission Deadline: May 19, 2014
Notification: Jun 23, 2014
Final Version: Jul 12, 2014

Publication: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and a selection
of the best papers will be published in a special issue of Journal
Information Systems.

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Program Chairs
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Agma Juci Machado Traina, University of S?o Paulo, Brazil
Caetano Traina Jr., University of S?o Paulo, Brazil


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Iryna Yevseyeva <irynayev@yahoo.com>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Invitation to CENTERIS Workshop on Multicriteria
Decision Making and Applications in Enterprise Information Systems to
be held in Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 within CENTERIS
conference centeris.eiswatch.org Deadline for submissions: April 30,
2014
Message-ID:
<1395408262.56478.YahooMailNeo@web164705.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Dear Colleague,


We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to the International Workshop on Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems to be held in Troia, Portugal, 15-17 October 2014 within CENTERIS conference http://centeris.eiswatch.org/

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE
The aim of the Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems 2014 (MCDM&EIS) session is to provide a forum for researchers to discuss models for decision making with multiple usually conflicting criteria to be considered simultaneously, and their real-life applications.

In MCDA&EIS 2014, we encourage the submission of papers on decision making from both multiobjective optimization and multicriteria decision analysis areas. Novel applications of these methods to real world problems are welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS AND AREAS OF INTEREST (not limited to)
MCDM Theory
Game Theory
Decision Support Systems
Multiobjective Optimization
Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis/Aiding
Group Decision Making and Negotiations
Evolutionary Algorithms and MCDM
Multiattribute Utility or Value Theory
Behavioral Issues in Decision Making
Preference Modelling
Risk and Uncertainty/Prospect Theory
Applications of MCDM and Optimization in Enterprise Information Systems

SUBMISSIONS
We welcome full research papers (7-10 pages), short papers (4-6 pages), posters (3 pages) and industrial papers (4-6 pages) on the workshop theme.
Submitted manuscripts must be written in English. Each manuscript should not exceed the maximum number of pages predefined for each submission type, considering the format templates found here: http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=submissionguidelines

For information on post-publications see here: http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=proceedingsjournals

Manuscript should be submitted electronically at the CENTERIS webpage until April 30, 2014.
Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis, and authors will be notified of the review process results by May 26, 2014. Authors of accepted papers can receive recommendations to revise their manuscript according to the reviewers? comments and should submit the revised version until June 10, 2014.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for paper submission (strict): April 30, 2014
Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 26, 2014
Revised version: June 10, 2014
Conference Date: October 15-17, 2014

PUBLICATION
Accepted full and short papers will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISSN).
Poster and practitioner papers will be published in the conference book of abstracts, industry and poster papers (with ISBN).
Authors of a selection of papers will be invited to enhance their manuscripts for inclusion in a book of chapters or in a journal.

WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Gu Pang, Newcastle Business School, UK
Maryia Sodencamp, University of Bamberg, Germany
Igor Linkov, US Army, USA
Martin Josef Geiger, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany
Maria Dementieva, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Christina Hopfe, Loughborough University, UK
Tommi Tervonen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Katya Vladislavleva, Evolved Analytics Europe, Belgium
Heike Trautmann, University of M?nster, Germany
Nanlin Jin, Northumbria University, UK
Philippe Nemery, SAP, China
Salvatore Greco, University of Catania, Italy, and University of Portsmouth, UK
Iurii Mishcheriakov, Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, Ukraine

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Iryna Yevseyeva (iryna.yevseyeva@ncl.ac.uk) University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Michael Emmerich (emmerich@liacs.nl) Leiden University, the Netherlands
Alessio Ishizaka (alessio.ishizaka@port.ac.uk) Portsmouth Business School, UK

Kind Regards,
Iryna Yevseyeva, Michael Emmerich and Alessio Ishizaka



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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:59:03 +0100 (CET)
From: Valeria Loscri <valeria.loscri@inria.fr>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] 2nd International workshop on Internet of Things -
Ideas and Perspectives @ IEEE DCOSS 2014 (LAST TWO DAYS)
Message-ID: <1818230487.188395.1395410343825.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr>
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Call for papers
IEEE DCOSS
2nd International workshop on Internet of Things - Ideas and Perspectives (IoTIP-14)
May 28, 2014
Marina Del Rey, USA https://iotip2014.hds.utc.fr/

Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for
publication in IEEE IoT Journal

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Important dates
Submission Deadline: March 9th 2014,
Acceptance Notification: April 1st 2014,
Camera Ready Due: April 13th 2014,
Workshop Date: May 28th, 2014


Call for papers
Slowly but steadily the Internet of Things (IoT) is penetrating and transforming our lives. The first stage of the IoT evolution consisted in the deployment of RFID tags for facilitating routing, taking inventory and loss prevention of goods. After that we witnessed the first wave of RFID and sensor network integration toward vertical-market applications. Nowadays, new generations of RFID tags, in particular active RFID tags, often include built-in sensing capabilities. Whereas, applications based on sensor networks often require means for unique identification and discovery of objects, which are monitored by the sensor network. The convergence of sensing and identification technologies, together with communication and computation systems, enables us to gain impressive awareness about the state of the real world and will drastically change the way we interact with our environment. Urban planning, smart cities, intelligent shopping, smart meters, home automation, security and!
surveillance, industrial applications like process industry automation, supply chain, smart product management and agricultural applications are examples of potential applications for real-world systems. Even though the advent of the IPv6/6LoWPAN protocol suite solved several technical issues, many challenges are still open in the research and development communities concerning the choice of communication paradigms, architectures and technology.

The main focus of this workshop is on technologies, applications and paradigms of the IoT that are already deployed or are under investigation and that belong to the second stage of the IoT evolution.?The next step in the evolution of the IoT is its characterization as the underlying technological layer needed to shape and substantiate higher layer concepts such as semantic web and personalization. In fact, the IoT is the enabling technology to allow virtual and physical worlds to converge in what has already been defined as Web 3.0. If, currently, the IoT is the most suited companion of blogging, podcasting, tagging and social networking, we can imagine that its evolution will foster the rise of statistical, machine-constructed semantic tags and algorithms through the construction and exploitation of semantic databases empowered by distributed and cloud computing. The integration of the IoT with semantic databases, capable of delivering accurate information about the nature!
and the state of every physical object will introduce a staggering amount of new applications opportunities as well as potentially lead to an ultimate "Big brother scenario". Therefore, a particular interest will have to be given to appropriate security and privacy control mechanisms.
The secondary focus of this workshop is on IoT vision and perspective towards Web 3.0.

IoTIP features two tracks:
- Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation;
- Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- IoT paradigms, architectures, applications and technologies
- IoT systems and components
- IoT for semantic web and personalization
- Tools for developing IoT applications
- Blogging, Podcasting, Tagging and Social networking through the IoT
- Cloud vs distributed computing for the IoT
- Security and privacy control mechanisms
- Performance assessment and management (QoS, scalability, reliability, etc)
- PHY layer, Spectrum management for IoT radio communications
- MAC protocols (e.g., scheduling, power control etc.) for IoT
- Mobility management
- Naming, address management and End-to-End Addressability
- Object, device and service management
- RFID, sensors, actuator technologies
- Middleware for IoT
- Sustainable design and technologies (e.g. energy-efficiency)
- Test-beds and field trials
- Standardization and regulatory issues

Submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on IoTIP research topics. Standard IEEE conference templates for LaTeX/Word formats can be found at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html . Papers should be submitted through EDAS at the following address: http://edas.info/N17145 . All submissions should be written in English using 10 point font and be six (8) printed pages long maximum using 10 point font and including figures and tables. The papers should be submitted to one of the two tracks:

- Current ideas: for technical works currently under investigation;
- Future perspectives: for vision papers envisaging possible future technologies, paradigms and applications for IoT.

Authors must suggest their preferred track for their paper at the time of submission. The workshop chairs, however, reserve the right to switch papers between tracks if they deem them a better fit for another track.

Please note that the proceedings of this workshop will appear in IEEEXplore and will be included in DCOSS conference proceedings.
Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for publication in IEEE IoT Journal.


Program committee members
Daniele Alessandrelli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Yacine Challal, Universit? de Technologie de Compi?gne, France
Flavio Esposito, Boston University, USA
Samira Hayat, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria
Antonio Iera, Universit? "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Abdelmajid Khelil, Huawei European Research Center, Germany
Srdjan Krco, Ericsson/University of Belgrade, Serbia
Satish Kumar, Coastal Carolina University, USA
Thomas D.C. Little, Boston University, USA
Valeria Loscr?, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France (publicity chair)
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, France (workshop chair)
Enrico Natalizio, Universit? de Technologie de Compi?gne, France (workshop chair)
Giuseppe Ruggeri, Universit? "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Italy
Anna Maria Vegni, Universit? degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
Konrad Wrona, NC3A, Netherlands



Valeria Loscri
Research Scientist FUN Team

Inria Lille-Nord Europe .
Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne
40, avenue Halley - B?t A - Park Plaza
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq - France


www.inria.fr

Follow us
Twitter ? twitter.com/inria
YouTube? youtube.com/inriachannel





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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:10:10 +0100
From: "Jakob Nordstrom" <jakobn@kth.se>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Final call for participation: Swedish Summer School
in Computer Science 2014
Message-ID:
<efbc7490ae0e7a9e8a584812c04c61fc.squirrel@webmail.csc.kth.se>
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The application deadline is approaching for the Swedish Summer School in
Computer Science 2014 (http://s3cs.csc.kth.se/). The summer school will be
held from June 29 to July 5 in the beautiful Stockholm archipelago at
Djuronaset (http://djuronaset.com/en/welcome).

The school runs for a full week Monday-Friday at the beginning of July
when Sweden is at its loveliest, with arrival on Sunday evening and
departure Saturday morning. It consists of two mini-courses on "Sums of
Squares" by Boaz Barak and "Analysis of Boolean Functions" by Ryan
O'Donnell.

The courses are primarily intended for PhD students, but postdocs and
bright masters students are also welcome. The registration fee, which is
3000 SEK (around 350 EUR or 450 USD), includes full accommodation and all
meals.

TIMELINE
Sun March 30: Application deadline.
Fri April 11: Notification of acceptance to course (or placement in
waiting list).
Sun May 4: Deadline for confirming participation and paying registration fee.
Sun June 29 -- Sat Jul 5: The summer school

CONTACT
Please send e-mail to s3cs-2014@csc.kth.se if you have any questions.




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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:14:01 +0100
From: Andreas Baertschi <andreas.baertschi@inf.ethz.ch>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] CfP - Summer Lectures on Advanced Approximation
Algorithms
Message-ID: <532C7359.3060103@inf.ethz.ch>
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Call for Participation - Summer Lectures on Advanced Approximation
Algorithms


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Summer Lectures on Advanced Approximation Algorithms
Lecturer: Fabrizio Grandoni (IDSIA)
When: 16-20 June 2014
Where: Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland
Website: http://pwgrp1.inf.ethz.ch/summerlectures14/

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ABSTRACT
Most optimization problems that we need to solve in practice turn out to
be NP-hard. The goal of approximation algorithms is to compute efficiently
an approximate solution to a NP-hard optimization problem.

In these lectures we will describe some of the most relevant and recent
results
and techniques in the area of approximation algorithms. We will study a few
fundamental problems, which appear in several real-world applications,
such as: vertex and set cover, independent and dominating set, knapsack
and bin packing, traveling salesman, Steiner tree and its
generalizations, k-center, facility location, maximum satisfiability and
many others.

Along the way, we will illustrate some common and powerful techniques in
the design and analysis of approximation algorithms: dynamic programming,
greedy heuristics, local search, randomized algorithms, LP rounding,
the primal-dual method, iterative rounding, etc.

We will also discuss the limits of approximation algorithms, by
presenting some approximation lower bounds and inapproximability
results.


ORGANIZATION

Prerequisites:
Familiarity with basic notions in probability theory, linear programming
and algorithm theory.
However, all the useful definitions and results will be summarized
during the lectures.

Target audience:
PhD Students and excellent Master students in Computer Science and
Mathematics.
Master students need to submit a Transcript of Records with their
application.

Duration:
Daily: 3 hours of lectures, before and after Lunch.
Assignments for students: Around the lectures; will be discussed daily.
At the end of the lectures there will be an exam.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Registration: To register, please fill in the registration form on the
website.
There is no participation fee, but registration is mandatory.

Venue:
The summer lectures will take place at ETH Z?rich in the CAB building.
The full address is:
ETH Z?rich, Department of Computer Science
Universit?tstrasse 6
8006 Z?rich
Switzerland

Accomodation:
Z?rich and Switzerland are attractive tourist destinations,
hence it is better to book as early as possible.
There is no administrative or financial travel support available.


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