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Today's Topics:

1. [padabs'14] - Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on Parallel and
Distributed Agent-Based Simulations (Gennaro Cordasco)
2. Workshop on Challenges in Algorithmic Social Choice, October
8-11, 2014, Bad Belzig (near Berlin) (Rolf Niedermeier)
3. MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS at Columbia University, New
York City, May 12-14, 2014 - registration open (S B Cooper)
4. DEADLINE EXTENDED, MAY 18 (2014), PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL
DATABASES (PSD) 2014, LNCS proceedings, Eivissa, Balearic
Islands, September 2014 (Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro)


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Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 11:46:34 +0200
From: Gennaro Cordasco <cordasco@dia.unisa.it>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [padabs'14] - Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on
Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations
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August 25-26th, 2014, Porto (Portugal), jointly with Euro-Par 2014
http://www.padabs.org.

Deadlines:

Workshop papers due: May 30, 2014
Workshop author notification: July 4, 2014
Workshop early registration: July 25, 2014
Workshop: August 25/August 26th 2014
Workshop camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2014

Organizers:

Vittorio Scarano (Universit? di Salerno, Italy), chair
Gennaro Cordasco (Seconda Universit? di Napoli, Italy)
Rosario De Chiara (Poste Italiane, Italy)
Ugo Erra (Universit? della Basilicata, Italy)

Program Committee:

Maria Chli (Aston University, United Kingdom)
Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA)
Biagio Cosenza (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Nick Collier (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy)
Andrew Evans (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Bernardino Frola (The MathWorks, Cambridge, UK)
Joanna Kolodziej (Cracow University of Technology and AGH University
of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland)
Nicola Lettieri (Universit? del Sannio e ISFOL, Italy)
Sean Luke (George Mason University, USA)
Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Mario Paolucci (CNR, Italy)
Paul Richmond (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Arnold Rosenberg (Northeastern University, USA)
Flaminio Squazzoni (University of Brescia, Italy)
Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA)


Objectives of the Workshop

Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for
research and management in many fields such as ecology, economics,
sociology, etc.. In some fields, such as social sciences, these models
are seen as a key instrument to the generative approach, essential for
understanding complex social phenomena. But also in policy-making,
biology, military simulations, control of mobile robots and economics,
the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based Simulation Models is
recently recognized.
Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms
that can help the development and testing of new models in each
specific field by providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed
up and make massive simulations possible.
The key objective of this Second Workshop on Parallel and Distributed
Agent-Based Simulations is to bring together the researchers that are
interested in getting more performances from their simulations, by
using synchronized, many-core simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly
coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI) and loosely coupled,
distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting).
Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this
field. They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to
Distributed simulation environments. In the first category, you can
find FLAME GPU, that allows also non GPU specialists to harness the
GPUs performance for real time simulation and visualization. For
tightly-coupled, large computing clusters and supercomputers a very
popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing
(REPAST-HPC), a C++-based modeling system. On the distributed side,
recent work on Distributed MASON, allows non specialists to use
heterogeneous hardware and software in local area networks for
enlarging the size and speeding up the simulation of complex
Agent-Based models.

Topics of interest

Frameworks for parallel/distributed ABSs
Case studies of ABSs in parallel/distributed settings, with an
emphasis on the technical implementation, architectural choices and
their impact on performances
Benchmark parallel/distributed ABSs
Debugging parallel/distributed ABSs
Formal methods and algorithms for ABSs in parallel/distributed models
Load Balancing algorithms, techniques and frameworks
Management and deployment of parallel/distributed ABSs
Visualization of parallel/distributed ABSs


Paper submission

The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format,
5 pages for short papers) and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 2
reviewers of the Program Committee. Acceptance as regular/short papers will
depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to the Workshop theme.

Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops. Submissions and
reviewing will be through EasyChair via
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws

Contact information:

Vittorio Scarano: vitsca@dia.unisa.it
Ugo Erra: ugo.erra@unibas.it
Gennaro Cordasco: gennaro.cordasco@unina2.it
Rosario De Chiara: dechia24@posteitaliane.it



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Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 18:10:56 +0200
From: Rolf Niedermeier <rolf.niedermeier@tu-berlin.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Workshop on Challenges in Algorithmic Social Choice,
October 8-11, 2014, Bad Belzig (near Berlin)
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CALL FOR APPLICATION AND PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Challenges in Algorithmic Social Choice
October 8-11, 2014, Eisenhardt Castle, Bad Belzig (near Berlin), Germany

http://akt.tu-berlin.de/menue/casc14

The workshop goal is to stimulate and discuss new research topics in a
thriving field of research at the interface of social choice theory
and computer science, algorithms and computational complexity. It
aims at bringing together young researchers and prominent researchers
working in the area of Computational Social Choice.

The workshop consists of six one-hour big-picture talks, short
contributed research talks, and sufficient room for small-group
discussions.

The big-picture talks are given by Edith Elkind (University of
Oxford), Ariel Procaccia (Carnegie Mellon University), Clemens Puppe
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Arkadii Slinko (University of
Auckland), Toby Walsh (NICTA and University of New South Wales),
Gerhard J. Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology).


LOCATION AND COSTS:
We expect about forty participants, all hosted in Eisenhardt Castle
where also the talks and discussions will take place. Eisenhardt
castle is in the small spa town Bad Belzig about 70 kilometers
southwest of Berlin. It can directly be reached by a local train from
Berlin taking about one hour. Due to capacity constraints, regular
participants are asked to share doublerooms. The participation fee is
100 Euros, covering accommodation in the castle hotel and all food for
three days. The workshop starts with a welcome reception on Wednesday
evening,
October 8, and ends with a lunch on Saturday, October 11.


PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT:
Experienced researchers can directly contact the organizers by
email. Otherwise, potential participants are requested to apply
(through the workshop webpage) by providing a short CV and a short
statement concerning their motivation to participate, also sending a
few-line abstract of a potential short talk (around 15 minutes).


IMPORTANT DATES:
Application deadline: June 30, 2014 (through workshop webpage).
Notification: July 15, 2014.
Registration for successful applicants: July 31, 2014.
Workshop: October 8-11, 2014 (participants are expected to stay for
the whole workshop).


SUPPORT AND ORGANIZATION:
The workshop is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG,
project PAWS NI 369/10), the DFG Research Training Group "Methods for
Discrete Structures", and TU Berlin.
The workshop chairs are Piotr Faliszewski (AGH University, Krakow,
Poland) and Rolf Niedermeier (TU Berlin).
The organizing committee consists of Robert Bredereck (chair), Jiehua
Chen, Rolf Niedermeier, Nimrod Talmon, and Christlinde Thielcke.
Conditioned on the availability of sufficient funding, we try to make
available further support for participants with very limited budget.



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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 23:22:32 +0100 (BST)
From: S B Cooper <pmt6sbc@maths.leeds.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS at Columbia
University, New York City, May 12-14, 2014 - registration open
Message-ID: <201405082222.s48MMWul028855@maths.leeds.ac.uk>

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Registration is now open - numbers are limited:

The Turing Centenary Research Project
MIND, MECHANISM AND MATHEMATICS

2nd Workshop, Columbia University, New York City, May 12-14, 2014

http://turing.colorwork.com
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?710

Free registration and schedule at:
http://turing.colorwork.com/Schedule.html

The workshop:

The second annual workshop of the Turing Centenary Research Project will
be held May 12-14 at the Morningside Campus of Columbia University, New
York City. The research project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation,
is a multidisciplinary activity focused on a number of issues related to
computability in a broad sense - see:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?704

The first workshop was held in Milan, Italy, in June 2013:
http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/give-page.php?709

2015 in New York City:

This more public event is open to all. As well as short talks from the
winners of the 2012 Turing Centenary competition, this exciting event
features a number of distinguished speakers from a spectrum disciplines.
The meeting will be of particular interest to participants from
mathematics, computer science, biology, linguistics, artificial
intelligence, philosophy - extending to those concerned with
computability-theoretic issues in the humanities, arts and social
sciences.

Invited speakers include:

ERIC ALLENDER (Rutgers), MARTIN DAVIS (New York University and UC
Berkeley), RAY DOUGHERTY (New York University), STUART KAUFFMAN
(University of Vermont), BENJAMIN KOO (Tsinghua University), RUSSELL
MILLER (City University of New York), KLAUS SUTNER (Carnegie Mellon
University), STEPHEN WOLFRAM (Wolfram Research)

Turing Research Project speakers:

MARK BRAVERMAN (Princeton), STEPHANIE DICK (Harvard),
DAVID GAMEZ (University of Sussex), PAUL GRANT (Cambridge),
NOAM GREENBERG (Victoria University of Wellington),
RUTGER KUYPER (Radboud University Nijmegen),
ANDREW MARKS (CALTECH), SIMON MARTIEL (University of
Nice-Sophia Antipolis), REBECCA SCHULMAN (Johns Hopkins)

Please feel free to register at
http://turing.colorwork.com/Schedule.html
for all events you are interested in attending. Registration is free.

Further information from the Co-Chairs:
S Barry Cooper pmt6sbc@leeds.ac.uk, Gautam Dasgupta gd18@columbia.edu

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Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 11:19:09 +0200
From: Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro
<joaquin.garcia_alfaro@telecom-sudparis.eu>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] DEADLINE EXTENDED, MAY 18 (2014), PRIVACY IN
STATISTICAL DATABASES (PSD) 2014, LNCS proceedings, Eivissa, Balearic
Islands, September 2014
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PRIVACY IN STATISTICAL DATABASES 2014 (PSD 2014)
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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: ***DEADLINE EXTENSION MAY 18, 2014***

Eivissa, Balearic Islands, Sep. 17-19, 2014

http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014

1. AIMS AND GOALS
-----------------

Privacy in statistical databases is about finding tradeoffs to the
tension between the increasing societal and economical demand for
accurate information and the legal and ethical obligation to protect
the privacy of individuals and enterprises which are the respondents
providing the statistical data. In the case of statistical databases,
the motivation for respondent privacy is one of survival: statistical
agencies or survey institutes cannot expect to collect accurate
information from individual or corporate respondents unless these feel
the privacy of their responses is guaranteed.

Beyond respondent privacy, there are two additional privacy dimensions
to be considered: privacy for the data owners (organizations owning or
gathering the data, who would not like to share the data they have
collected at great expense) and privacy for the users (those who
submit queries to the database and would like their analyses to stay
private).

"Privacy in Statistical Databases 2014" (PSD 2014) is a conference
sponsored and organized by the UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy
(http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat) with proceedings published by
Springer-Verlag in Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Its purpose is
to attract world-wide, high-level research in statistical database
privacy.

PSD 2014 is a successor to PSD 2012 (Palermo, Sep. 26-28, 2012,
http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2012), PSD 2010 (Corfu, Sep.
22-24, 2010, http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2010), PSD 2008
(Istanbul, Sep. 24-26, 2008,
http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2008), PSD 2006 (Rome, Dec.
13-15, 2006, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2006) and PSD 2004
(Barcelona, June 9-11, 2004, http://crises-deim.urv.cat/psd2004), all
with proceedings published by Springer in LNCS 7556, LNCS 6344, LNCS
5262, LNCS 4302 and LNCS 3050, respectively. Those six PSD conferences
follow a tradition of high-quality technical conferences on SDC which
started with "Statistical Data Protection-SDP'98", held in Lisbon in
1998 and with proceedings published by OPOCE, and continued with the
AMRADS project SDC Workshop, held in Luxemburg in 2001 and with
proceedings published in Springer LNCS 2316.

Like the aforementioned preceding conferences, PSD 2014 originates in
Europe, but wishes to stay a worldwide event in database privacy and
SDC. Thus, contributions and attendees from overseas are welcome.

2. ORGANIZATION
---------------

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

John Abowd (Cornell University, USA)
Elisa Bertino (CERIAS, Purdue University, USA)
Aleksandra Bujnowska (EUROSTAT, European Union)
Jordi Castro (Polytechnical University of Catalonia)
Lawrence Cox (NISS, USA)
Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Joerg Drechsler (IAB, Germany)
Khaled El Emam (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Mark Elliot (Manchester University, UK)
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Luisa Franconi (ISTAT, Italy)
Sarah Giessing (Destatis, Germany)
Julia Hoeninger (Statistik Berlin, Germany)
Lloren? Huguet (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic Islands)
Anco Hundepool (The Netherlands) Alan Karr (NISS, USA)
Julia Lane (American Institutes for Research, USA)
Bradley Malin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Josep M. Mateo-Sanz (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA)
Krish Muralidhar (University of Kentucky, USA)
Anna Oganian (National Center for Health Statistics, USA)
Christine O'Keefe (CSIRO, Australia)
Yosef Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel)
Gerd Ronning (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Juan Jose Salazar (University of La Laguna, Spain)
Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy)
David Sanchez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Eric Schulte-Nordholt (Statistics Netherlands)
Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester, UK)
Michelle Simard (Statistics Canada)
Aleksandra Slavkovic (Penn State University, USA)
Jordi Soria-Comas (TSS, Catalonia)
Tamir Tassa (The Open University, Israel)
Vicenc Torra (IIIA-CSIC, Catalonia)
Vassilios Verykios (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
William E. Winkler (Census Bureau, USA)
Peter-Paul de Wolf (Statistics Netherlands)
Laura Zayatz (Census Bureau, USA)

PROGRAM AND GENERAL CHAIR

Josep Domingo-Ferrer (UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy,
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro (Telecom SudParis, France)
Sara Hajian (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Jesus Manjon (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Tamar Molina (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia)
Marilina Tur (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Balearic Islands)

3. TOPICS OF INTEREST
---------------------

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- New SDC methods for tabular data
- New SDC methods for microdata (including non-conventional microdata
types such as trajectories, graphics, etc.)
- Best SDC practices for tabular data
- Best SDC practices for microdata
- Balancing data quality and data confidentiality in SDC
- Differential privacy
- SDC transparency issues
- Onsite access centers - Remote access facilities - SDC software
- Estimating disclosure risk in SDC
- Record linkage methods
- Real-life disclosure scenarios in EU-member states and abroad
- Privacy preserving data mining (both cryptographic and non-cryptographic)
- Private information retrieval
- Privacy in web-based e-commerce
- Privacy in healthcare
- Privacy in official and corporate statistics
- Other data anonymization issues

4. SUBMISSIONS
--------------

Full papers containing either original technical contributions or
high-quality surveys on the above topics or on related topics are
sought.

A submission should be clearly marked either as an original
paper or a survey. Submissions should contain a cover letter
indicating:

1) whether the submission is a survey or an original
contribution;
2) the title of the submission;
3) keywords classifying the paper topic;
4) the names and affiliations of authors;
5) the e-mail, telephone and facsimile numbers of the
contact author.

Easychair submission link of PSD 2014:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psd2014

Camera-ready versions of accepted papers should be prepared using the
LaTeX2e style or the Word template of Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. For LaTeX2e, a macro package llncs.zip and an
example file typeinst.zip can be downloaded from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 For
Microsoft Word, a template word.zip can be downloaded from the same
page above.

We encourage authors to use the above formats already for their
submissions.

LENGTH OF SUBMISSIONS.

Using the above format with 11 point font, the paper should be at most
12 pages excluding bibliography and appendices, and at most 16 pages
total. Committee members are not required to read appendices; the
paper should be intelligible without them. Submissions not meeting
these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

5. PROCEEDINGS
--------------

Among PSD 2014 accepted papers, a selection will be made based on
quality and coverage and the selected papers will be published in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. This
follows the tradition of PSD 2012 (LNCS 7556), PSD 2010 (LNCS 6344),
PSD 2008 (LNCS 5262), PSD 2006 (LNCS 4302), PSD 2004 (LNCS 3050) and
the AMRADS Workshop on SDC (LNCS 2316).

The remaining accepted papers will be published in a CD with an ISBN.
It is possible to submit a paper directly for the CD, which benefits
from a later submission deadline (see CD-only dates below).

The form of publication of an accepted paper will be clearly specified
in the acceptance message. Both the LNCS volume and the CD will be
*available at the conference*.

5. IMPORTANT DATES
------------------

Submission deadline extended to: **MAY 18, 2014**
Acceptance notification: June 20, 2014
Proceedings version due: July 3, 2014
Conference: Sep. 17-19, 2014

CD-only submission deadline: July 5, 2014
CD-only acceptance notification: July 24, 2014
CD-only proceedings version due: Aug. 3, 2014

6. VENUE AND TRAVEL
-------------------

The conference will take place in downtown Eivissa-city, in the
Balearic island of Eivissa. The venue will be the building owned by
the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Eivissa-city. Address:

Antic edifici de la Comandancia Militar
Carrer del Calvari, 1
E-07800 Eivissa

http://www.uib.cat/lauib/localitzacio/Seu-dEivissa-i-Formentera/
http://www.uib.cat/lauib/Estructura/Seus-universitaries/saee/instal/

Further venue, travel and accommodation information will be posted in
due course at http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014

A number of travel grants are made available by the UNESCO Chair in
Data Privacy, especially for authors and delegates from transition
countries. Information on grants is posted in the conference web site.

7. REGISTRATION
---------------

Registration information will be posted no later than June 2014 at
http://unescoprivacychair.urv.cat/psd2014





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