dmanet Digest, Vol 79, Issue 10

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Today's Topics:

1. Seeking PhD student in similarity search at ITU Copenhagen
(Rasmus Pagh)
2. Workshop "Tractable special cases of hard combinatorial
optimization problems" (Eranda Dragoti-Cela)
3. Deadline Extension (19 September 2014) for the 8th
International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies
and Tools - VALUETOOLS2014 (Valerio Luconi)
4. 2nd CfP - EvoMUSART2015 - 4th International Conference on
Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and
Design (Colin Jonhson)
5. Professor of Operations Research, University of Newcastle,
Australia (Hamish Waterer)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:28:19 +0000
From: Rasmus Pagh <pagh@itu.dk>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Seeking PhD student in similarity search at ITU
Copenhagen
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The Scalable Similarity Search project (http://sss.projects.itu.dk) is seeking a talented PhD student with a strong background in algorithms theory, mathematics, or statistics, to be supervised by professor Rasmus Pagh.

The project is funded by the European Research Council (ERC), runs in the years 2014-19, and will include a total of 3 PhD and 3 post-doc positions. The aim of the project is to improve theory and practice of algorithms for high-dimensional similarity search, and to extend similarity search algorithms to work in settings where data is distributed (using a communication complexity perspective) or uncertain (using a statistical perspective). The ideal candidate will have proven his/her talent for research through an outstanding thesis, or by publishing in reputable international conferences or journals.

The proposed starting date is February 1, 2015.

More info: https://delta.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&departmentId=3439&ProjectId=180629&MediaId=5




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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:52:04 +0200
From: Eranda Dragoti-Cela <cela@math.tugraz.at>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Workshop "Tractable special cases of hard
combinatorial optimization problems"
Message-ID: <5416D2E4.8070703@math.tugraz.at>
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Dear colleagues!

This is the first announcement of the workshop

"Tractable special cases of hard combinatorial optimization problems",
www.opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at/scco14

we will be hosting at the Department of Optimization and Discrete
Mathematics
of the Graz University of Technology from December 15 to December 16,
2014.

This will be a two-day, single stream event focussing at polynomially
solvable or approximable
special cases of provably hard combinatorial optimization problems.
This line of research deals with NP-hard combinatorial optimization
problems which become
polynomially tractable if specific structural properties are imposed on
their input.
The identification of the sometimes thin boarderline between hard and
tractable cases
is often a hard and interesting challenge.

The workshop will host invited talks in the mornings as well as
contributed talks and discussions
or working sessions in the afternoons.

Confirmed invited speakers are:

* Vladimir Deineko, Warwick Business School, UK
* Abraham Punnen, Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Frits Spieksma, KU Leuven, Belgium
* Gerhard Woeginger, Eindhoven Unioversity of Technology, The Netherlands

We herewith invite you to participate in the workshop and submit a
contribution related
to the workshop topic.

The workshop venue is the building of the Department of Optimization and
Discrete Mathematics,
Graz University of Technology, Steyrergasse 30, 8010 Graz, Austria.

There will be a small participation fee payable on site. This will
cover
the lunches on December 15 and 16 and the refreshments during the
workshop breaks.
The participants will be responsable for their own travel and
accomodation expenses.

Important Dates:

* October 31, 2104: Deadline for the submission of contributed talks
* November 15, 2014: Registration deadline
* December 15-16, 2014: Workshop

We are looking forward to meeting you in Graz. Please do not hesitate to
contact us for any additional information.

Best regards,
Eranda Cela and Bettina Klinz

--
Eranda Dragoti-Cela, PhD, Associate Professor (ao. Univ.-Prof.)

Department of Optimization and Discrete Mathematics,
Graz University of Technology,
Steyrergasse 30, A-8010 Graz, Austria
Tel. ++43 316 873 5366, Fax: ++43 316 873105366,
Email: cela@math.tugraz.at






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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:18:03 +0200
From: "Valerio Luconi" <valerio.luconi@for.unipi.it>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline Extension (19 September 2014) for the 8th
International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and
Tools - VALUETOOLS2014
Message-ID: <20140915141805.2FD40412F4@smtp.unipi.it>

*** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***
The submission deadline for regular papers has been extended to 19 September,
2014
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8th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
VALUETOOLS 2014
In-cooperation with ACM SIGMETRICS

9-11 December, 2014
Bratislava, Slovakia

CALL FOR PAPERS

SCOPE
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ValueTools focuses on methodologies and practices in modeling, performance
evaluation and optimization of complex systems, gathering researchers from
different communities, such as Computer Science, Networks and
Telecommunications, Operations Research, Optimization, Control Theory and
Manufacturing.

ValueTools 2014 solicits previously unpublished contributions on new performance
evaluation methodologies and new tools. Three types of contributions are called
for: regular papers, tool papers, and tutorials.

Papers should be no more than 10 pages in length.

Detailed submission and formatting instructions are available at
http://www.valuetools.org/2014/

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. A special issue in
the Performance Evaluation Journal is planned. Papers may also be published in
EAI Transactions on Algorithms Engineering.

TOPICS
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- Discrete event systems
- Stochastic models
- Simulation techniques
- Game theory
- Queues and network of queues
- Mean field techniques
- Large scale performance analysis
- Control theory
- Machine learning and neural networks
- Performance optimization

APPLICATION AREAS
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- Communication and computer networks
- Distributed systems
- Interdisciplinary methodologies (economic, biological and social models)
- Manufacturing systems and supply chains
- Resource allocation
- Road traffic and transportation systems
- Secure Networks

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission regular papers: *** extended to 19 September, 2014 ***
- Submission tool papers and tutorials: 30 September, 2014
- Notification: 30 October, 2014
- Camera-ready: 9 November, 2014

CONFERENCE WEB PAGE
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http://www.valuetools.org/2014/


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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General Chair
Daniele Miorandi, Create-Net Research Association and U-Hopper srl, Italy

Technical Program Chairs
Moshe Haviv, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
William Knottenbelt, Imperial College London, United Kindom
Lorenzo Maggi, Create-Net Research Association, Italy

Publicity Chair
Valerio Luconi, University of Pisa, Italy

Local chair
Daynier Delgado, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Web chair
Mattia Zeni, University of Trento, Italy

ABOUT EAI
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The European Alliance for Innovation is a dynamic eco-system for fostering ICT
enabled innovation to improve European competitiveness and to benefit society.
EAI uses open e-platforms to inspire grassroots collaboration among all relevant
actors, from organizations to individuals, to stimulate community driven
innovation to its institutional and individual members worldwide. Through EAI,
organizations find ideas and talent, and individual innovators find
organizations for their ingenuity and craft.

Join the innovation community at www.eai.eu


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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:49:38 +0100
From: Colin Jonhson <evomusart@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] 2nd CfP - EvoMUSART2015 - 4th International
Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art
and Design
Message-ID:
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
EvoMUSART 2015
http://www.evostar.org/2015/cfp_evomusart.php

4th International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design

April 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark
Part of evo* 2015
evo*: http://www.evostar.org

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NEW THIS YEAR: LEONARDO Galery
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The journal LEONARDO will be publishing a Gallery Section (online and in the
print edition) associated with the conference. This will consist of a number
of visual artworks based on ideas and techniques presented at the conference.
A separate call for this will be issued after papers have been selected for
the conference.

http://www.leonardo.info/gallery/

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Following the success of previous events and the importance of the field of
evolutionary and biologically inspired (artificial neural network, swarm,
alife) music, sound, art and design, evomusart has become an evo* conference
with independent proceedings since 2012. Thus, evomusart 2015 is the
fourth International Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired
Music, Sound, Art and Design.

The use of biologically inspired techniques for the development of artistic
systems is a recent, exciting and significant area of research. There is a
growing interest in the application of these techniques in fields such
as: visual art and music generation, analysis, and interpretation; sound
synthesis; architecture; video; poetry; design; and other creative tasks.

The main goal of evomusart 2015 is to bring together researchers who are
using biologically inspired computer techniques for artistic tasks, providing
the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.

The event will be held in April, 2015 in Copenhagen, Denmark,
as part of the Evo* event.

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Publication Details
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Submissions will be rigorously reviewed for scientific and artistic merit.
Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and
included in the evomusart proceedings, published by Springer Verlag in a
dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
The acceptance rate at evomusart 2014 was 26.7% for papers accepted for oral
presentation, or 36.7% for oral and poster presentation combined.

Submitters are strongly encouraged to provide in all papers a link for
download of media demonstrating their results, whether music, images, video,
or other media types. Links should be anonymised for double-blind review,
e.g. using a URL shortening service.

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Topics of interest
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Submissions should concern the use of biologically inspired computer
techniques -- e.g. Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Life,
Artificial Neural Networks, Swarm Intelligence, other artificial
intelligence techniques -- in the generation, analysis and
interpretation of art, music, design, architecture and other artistic
fields. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

-- Generation
- Biologically Inspired Design and Art -- Systems that create
drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs,
webpages, buildings, etc.;
- Biologically Inspired Sound and Music -- Systems that create
musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound
analysis, etc.;
- Robotic-Based Evolutionary Art and Music;
- Other related artificial intelligence or generative techniques in
the fields of Computer Music, Computer Art, etc.;

-- Theory
- Computational Aesthetics, Experimental Aesthetics; Emotional
Response, Surprise, Novelty;
- Representation techniques;
- Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area; identification
of weaknesses and strengths; comparative analysis and classification;
- Validation methodologies;
- Studies on the applicability of these techniques to related areas;
- New models designed to promote the creative potential of
biologically inspired computation;

-- Computer Aided Creativity and computational creativity
- Systems in which biologically inspired computation is used to
promote the creativity of a human user;
- New ways of integrating the user in the evolutionary cycle;
- Analysis and evaluation of: the artistic potential of biologically
inspired art and music; the artistic processes inherent to these
approaches; the resulting artefacts;
- Collaborative distributed artificial art environments;

-- Automation
- Techniques for automatic fitness assignment;
- Systems in which an analysis or interpretation of the artworks is
used in conjunction with biologically inspired techniques to produce
novel objects;
- Systems that resort to biologically inspired computation to perform
the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of
artistic object.

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Important Dates (to be confirmed)
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Submission: 15 November 2014
Notification to authors: 07 January 2015
Camera-ready deadline: 21 January 2015
Evo*: 8-10 April 2015

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Additional information and submission details
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Submit your manuscript, at most 12 A4 pages long, in Springer LNCS format
(instructions downloadable from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) no later than
November 15th, 2014.

Page limit: 12 pages

The reviewing process will be double-blind; please omit information about
the authors in the submitted paper.

Submission page: http://myreview.csregistry.org/evomusart15/

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Programme committee
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Adri?n Carballal, University of A Coruna, Spain
Alain Lioret, Paris 8 University, France
Alan Dorin, Monash University, Australia
Alejandro Pazos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Amilcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Amy K. Hoover, University of Central Florida, USA
Andrew Brown, Griffith University, Australia
Andrew Gildfind, Google, Inc., Australia
Andrew Horner, University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Anna Ursyn, University of Northern Colorado, USA
Antonino Santos, University of A Coruna, Spain
Antonios Liapis, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Arne Eigenfeldt, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Benjamin Schroeder, Ohio State University, USA
Benjamin Smith, Indianapolis University, Purdue University,Indianapolis, USA
Bill Manaris, College of Charleston, USA
Brian Ross, Brock University, Canada
Carlos Grilo, Instituto Polit?cnico de Leiria, Portugal
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Colin Johnson, University of Kent, UK
Dan Ashlock, University of Guelph, Canada
Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University, USA
Daniel Jones, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Daniel Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Douglas Repetto, Columbia University, USA
Eduardo Miranda, University of Plymouth, UK
Eelco den Heijer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Eleonora Bilotta, University of Calabria, Italy
Gary Greenfield, University of Richmond, USA
Hans Dehlinger, Independent Artist, Germany
Jonathan E. Rowe, University of Birmingham, UK
Jane Prophet, City University of Hong Kong, China
Jon McCormack, Monash University, Australia
Jonathan Byrne, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jonathan Eisenmann, Ohio State University, USA
Jos? Fornari, NICS/Unicamp, Brazil
Juan Romero, University of A Coruna, Spain
Kate Reed, Imperial College, UK
Marcelo Freitas Caetano, IRCAM, France
Marcos Nadal, University of Vienna, Austria
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University, USA
Mauro Annunziato, Plancton Art Studio, Italy
Maximos Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, University of Patras, Greece
Michael O?Neill, University College Dublin, Ireland
Nicolas Monmarch?, University of Tours, France
Pablo Gerv?s, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Palle Dahlstedt, G?teborg University, Sweden
Patrick Janssen, National University of Singapure, Singapure
Paulo Urbano, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Pedro Abreu, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Pedro Cruz, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Peter Bentley, University College London, UK
Peter Cariani, University of Binghamton, USA
Philip Galanter, Texas A&M College of Architecture, USA
Philippe Pasquier, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rafael Ramirez, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Roger Malina, International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, USA
Roisin Loughran, University College Dublin, Ireland
Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Scott Draves, Independent Artist, USA
Somnuk Phon-Amnuaisuk, Brunei Institute of Technology, Malaysia
Stephen Todd, IBM, UK
Takashi Ikegami, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Vic Ciesielski, RMIT, Australia
Yang Li, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China


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Conference chairs
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Colin Johnson
University of Kent, UK
c.g.johnson(at)kent.ac.uk

Adri?n Carballal
University of A Coru?a, Spain
adriancarballal(at)gmail.com

Publication chair
Jo?o Correia, University of Coimbra
jncor(at)dei.uc.pt



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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:41:04 +1000
From: Hamish Waterer <hamish.waterer@newcastle.edu.au>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Professor of Operations Research, University of
Newcastle, Australia
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<CADq54rz-AcO8O72XY8u-phF0EqG_-aPyiiGrpuLOJ7dXtSoTQw@mail.gmail.com>
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PROFESSOR OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science and Information Technology
University of Newcastle, Australia
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/

An opportunity exists for an outstanding individual to provide vision
and leadership for the optimisation / operations research discipline.
The successful candidate will promote and foster a collaborative,
dynamic, productive and globally competitive research environment
through research collaboration, external grant income, publication
outputs, and research higher degree graduates. The promotion of
excellence in teaching and learning through appropriate curriculum
development and delivery is also a key requirement of this role.

The successful candidate will demonstrate leadership in operations
research and its applications in any mainstream or emerging area of
the field, as well as a successful track record of attracting research
funding, underpinned by an understanding of the Australian research
funding system and national research priorities.

This is an exciting time to be part of the Faculty of Science and
Information Technology. This position offers exceptional opportunities
to lead a strong team of academics in fundamental and applied research
and to collaborate with supply chain and food technologies to bring
together industry and academics to achieve optimal outcomes.

The Professor of Operations Research is offered as a full-time,
ongoing Professorial (Academic Level E) position. An attractive
remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidate.

Initial enquiries, in confidence, should be made to Dr Rosalind De
Sailly, De Sailly Consulting, on +61 (0) 414 574 945 or email
OperationsResearch@desailly.com.au

Applications close Friday 3 October 2014.
https://hronline.newcastle.edu.au/pls/alesco/WK8127$VAC.QueryView?P_VACANCY_REF_NO=2561


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