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Today's Topics:

1. SIROCCO 2015 - Innovation Award in Distributed Computing and
Invited Speakers (Chen Avin)
2. Non-Standard Multiobjective Optimization - Special Session at
EURO 2015 (Richard Allmendinger)
3. COCOA 2015 Call for Papers (Submission Deadline: July 15)
(Zaixin Lu)
4. Extended Deadline: Session on Multiobjective Optimization and
Decision-Making in Bioinformatics & Bioengineering at CIBCB 2015
in Niagara Falls (Richard Allmendinger)

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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 09:33:28 +0200
From: Chen Avin <avin@cse.bgu.ac.il>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] SIROCCO 2015 - Innovation Award in Distributed
Computing and Invited Speakers
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Dear colleagues,

1. We are happy to announce the winner of the SIROCCO Innovation award
in distributed computing for 2015: *Michel Raynal*. The
detailed announcement can be found bellow. Michel will give a talk at the
prize ceremony during the coming SIROCCCO in
Montserrat, Spain, July 15-17.
2. The Winner of the Innovation award will join the impressive list of
additional invited speakers (partial list).
- Amos Korman
- Bernhard H?upler
- Nati Linial
- Saket Navlakha

See you in Montserrat http://sirocco2015.cs.upb.de/venue.html
(submission deadline April 30th)

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The Innovation award in distributed computing formal announcement:

Laudatio
It is a pleasure to award the 2014 SIROCCO Prize for Innovation in
distributed
computing to Michel Raynal. Michel has made numerous major
contributions to the field of distributed computing. The prize is awarded
for this
lifetime achievement of his, but especially for his contribution to the
research on
problems related to consensus (such as set agreement); even more
specifically,
we note here his work on the conditions-based approach to consensus.
This approach was a fresh and innovative way to look at a fundamental
problem,
thus a very good match for the spirit of the SIROCCO award.

The consensus problem and its celebrated FLP impossibility result are among
the
oldest, most seminal problems studied in the field of distributed
computing. More
generally, an important concern in distributed systems has been to identify
common behaviors of systems, and to design solutions that behave well in
those
scenarios. Researchers have typically looked at partially synchronous
executions,
in one way or another. Michel introduced a surprising and natural new
dimension
to the area. Consider a distributed system where consensus is trying to be
reached, among the values produced by a set of sensors, or by the votes
selecting
a president by a community. It is often the case that some combinations of
values,
which he called conditions, of the sensors or of the electors, are much
more likely
to occur than others. Michel came up with the idea of designing distributed
algorithms that try to adapt to such conditions.

In SIROCCO 2001, Michel considered the condition-based approach to solving
agreement problems. This work considers solutions to agreement problems,
when
some input combinations are known not to appear in system executions. The
idea
spawned a whole new and fruitful line research line, with many follow-up
contributions, including contributions by Michel himself. It has been
possible to
identify conditions that allow to solve various distributed tasks, in
various models
of computation, and in those cases where a solution exist, to study the time
needed to solve a task assuming a given condition on its inputs holds.

An impressive aspect of this work is that Michel has linked two seemingly
unrelated area: error correcting codes and agreement protocols (IEEE
Transactions on Computers 2007). In a nutshell, this captures the following
insight: an input vector for the consensus problem actually encodes a value
that
the processes have to decode in order to decide it. An exciting side-effect
of this
work is a new proof of the impossibility of designing perfect codes when
digit
erasures are possible. Very cleverly, Michel showed that the design of such
codes
is equivalent to solving consensus despite asynchrony and process crashes.
This
is a very ingenious and perceptive work.

Michel has also used the condition-based approach to establish a strong link
between impossibility results in asynchronous fault-prone systems and
efficiency
in synchronous systems. This is also a remarkable achievement that provides
a
better understanding of fundamental computability limitations in distributed
computing.

It is intuitively clear that although consensus is not solvable in
asynchronous
distributed systems where crash failures can occur, it is actually solvable
in most
executions of such a system, and in some sense randomized algorithms
formalize this claim. Michel?s ideas provide an orthogonal perspective,
where one can
quantify and characterize the structure of the inputs that allow solving
consensus
and other coordination tasks, establishing an essential link to the
topology
approach-based to fault tolerance.

Following its introduction by Michel, the innovative condition-based
approach was
investigated by many researchers leading to many follow-up papers, some of
which appeared in forums as prestigious as Journal of the ACM, and several
of
which were published in SIROCCO.

Michel is one of the most prolific researchers in distributed computing. He
belongs
to a very small group of researchers who are leaders in establishing
distributed
computing as a flourishing research area. In particular, he published 13
papers in
SIROCCO. In particular, in the list below, the first paper is the above
mentioned
SIROCCO paper on the condition-based approach [1].

The 2015 award committee:

Thomas Moscibroda (Microsoft), Guy Even (Tel Aviv University), Shay Kutten
(Technion)- chair, Andrzej Pelc (Universite du Quebec en Outaouais),
Masafumi Yamashita (Kyushu University)*

Selected publications related to Michel Raynal's contribution:

*1. **Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal, Matthieu Roy:
Efficient Condition-Based Consensus. SIROCCO 2001:275-292*

2. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal, Matthieu Roy: A
Hierarchy of Conditions for Asynchronous Interactive Consistency. *PACT
2003*:130-140

3. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal, Matthieu Roy:
Condition-Based Protocols for Set Agreement Problems. *DISC 2002*:48-62

4. Achour Most?faoui, Eric Mourgaya, Philippe Raipin Parv?dy, Michel
Raynal: Evaluating the Condition-Based Approach to Solve Consensus. *DSN
2003*:541-550

5. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal: Conditions on
input vectors for consensus solvability in asynchronous distributed
systems. *J. ACM* 50(6):922-954 (2003). (Previously in *STOC* 2001.)

6. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal, Matthieu Roy:
Condition-based consensus solvability: a hierarchy of conditions and
efficient protocols. *Distributed Computing *17(1):1-20 (2004). (Previously
in *PODC 2001*.)

7. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal: Synchronous
condition-based consensus. *Distributed Computing* 18(5):325-343 (2006).
(Previously in *DISC 2003* and *DISC* 2004.)

8. Roy Friedman, Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal:
Asynchronous Agreement and Its Relation with Error-Correcting Codes. *IEEE
Trans. Computers* 56(7):865-875 (2007)

9. Achour Most?faoui, Sergio Rajsbaum, Michel Raynal, Corentin Travers:
The Combined Power of Conditions and Information on Failures to Solve
Asynchronous Set Agreement. *SIAM J. Comput.* 38(4):1574-1601 (2008)
(Previously in *PODC* 2005.)

10. Yoram Moses, Michel Raynal: No Double Discount: Condition-Based
Simultaneity Yields Limited Gain. *Inf. Comput.* 214: 47-58 (2012)
(Previously in *DISC* 2008)

11. Fran?ois Bonnet, Michel Raynal: Conditions for Set Agreement with an
Application to Synchronous Systems. *J. Comput. Sci. Technol. *24(3):418-433
(2009). (Previously in *ICDCS* 2008.)

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We wish to thank the nominators for the nomination and for contributing
heavily to this text

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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 13:33:45 +0000
From: Richard Allmendinger <richard.allmendinger@gmail.com>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Non-Standard Multiobjective Optimization - Special
Session at EURO 2015
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Dear Colleagues,
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We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session on

*Non-Standard Multiobjective Problems *

as part of the forthcoming EURO 27 Conference in Glasgow,
July 12-15, 2015 (http://www.euro2015.org/?). A detailed description of the
session is given below.

To submit your abstract, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27
and use the invitation code 1fe5a562. The submission deadline is on
March 16.

In order to submit a paper, you need to have a EURO account. If you do
not have one, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/web/accounts/register/
and sign up for a new account.

The session organizers,
Richard Allmendinger and Joshua Knowles?

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This session invites abstracts that address the development of optimization
techniques for non-standard multiobjective problems. The features of such
problems might include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Instead of evaluating the objective and constraint functions by
computational means, the execution of*physical experiments in the real
world* (i.e., cosmetics, detergents, pharmaceuticals, wind tunnel
experiments, taste experiments, to mention a few) is required. Such
experimental problems may be subject to time-consuming and expensive
evaluations, changing variables or objectives (e.g. due to an updated
problem formulation). Moreover, the evolution may be affected by
interruptions or unavailable resources, and the experimental equipment may
dictate some of the algorithm setup choices such as population size.

- The objective and/or constraint functions are *heterogeneous* in the
sense that some functions take longer to be evaluated than others, or are
more complex to optimize or satisfy than others due to differing landscape
structures, feasible regions and borders. Such problems may lead to missing
function values and introduce difficulties in converging to optima with
respect to some of the objective functions and/or satisfying some of the
constraints.

- The 'objective' functions include *subjective criteria*, such as taste
or comfort. Expert or crowd-sourced evaluations are needed.?

- The input and preferences of several disciplines (e.g. aerodynamics
and structural input in an aircraft design problem) needs to be accounted
for to make optimal decisions in a *multidisciplinary optimization
environment*. Challenges in such problems include the intelligent
combination of different preferences, shared variables and objectives, and
ensuring consistency in the decision-making process.

We encourage submission of abstracts describing new concepts, strategies,
challenges and decision-making techniques in or for non-standard
multiobjective problems. In addition, we are interested in application
studies discussing the power and applicability of these novel methods to
real-world problems.

If you have any questions related to the session, then please contact the
session organizers, Richard Allmendinger (r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk) and
Joshua Knowles (j.knowles@manchester.ac.uk).

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:57:10 -0400
From: Zaixin Lu <zaixinlu@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] COCOA 2015 Call for Papers (Submission Deadline:
July 15)
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*COCOA 2015 Call for Papers*

*The 9th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and
Applications*

http://theory.utdallas.edu/COCOA2015/

*December 18-20, 2015 Houston, Texas, USA*

The 9th Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and
Applications (COCOA 2015) will be held during December 18-20, 2015 in
Houston, Texas, USA. Original research papers in the areas of combinatorial
optimization and its applications are solicited. In addition to theoretical
results, we are particularly interested in submissions that report on
experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest. Special
consideration will be given to research that is motivated by real-world
problems. Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincingly
the usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical
setting.

The topics include, but are not limited to:

- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Approximation Algorithms
- Operation Research
- Communication Network Optimization
- Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
- Optimal Resource Management
- Social Networks
- Complex Network Optimization
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Algebra
- Computational Geometry
- Computational Biology
- Computational Financing
- Computational Game Theory
- Computational Learning Theory
- Computational Number Theory
- Graph Theory
- Graph Search
- Distributed Computational Systems
- Urban Transportation Networks
- Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
- Scheduling

*Important Dates*
Submission: July 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance: Aug. 15, 2015
Final Version Submission: Sep. 1, 2015

*Paper Submission*
The submission should contain scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques,
and results, including the motivation and a clear comparison with related
work. The length of the submission should not exceed twelve pages in LNCS
style. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They
must not be submitted simultaneously to any other conference with refereed
proceedings or to journals. We regard the following case as a simultaneous
submission. Submission of drafts which contain the essentially same results
from papers under review in other conferences or journals at the moment of
the submission. Only electronic submission will be allowed via the Springer
Online Conference System.

*Publication*
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. After the conference, selected
papers will be published in special issues of journals: Algorithmica,
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Theoretical Computer Science, and
Computational Social Networks.

*Awards*
The Best Paper and the Best Student Paper will be awarded. A paper is
eligible for the Best Student Paper if all authors are full-time students
at the time of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible,
please add the phrase "Eligible for best student paper" as the last
sentence in the "Abstract" field in the web form on the submission server
as well as in the paper.

*General co-Chairs*
Wei Wayne Li, Texas Southern University
Weili Wu, University of Texas at Dallas

*Program Committee co-Chairs*
Zaixin Lu, Marywood University
Donghyun Kim, North Carolina Central University
Ding-Zhu Du, University of Texas at Dallas

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:05:02 +0000
From: Richard Allmendinger <richard.allmendinger@gmail.com>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Extended Deadline: Session on Multiobjective
Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics & Bioengineering at
CIBCB 2015 in Niagara Falls
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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*Special Session on Multiobjective Optimization and Decision-Making in
Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (MODMBB)*
2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and
Computational Biology (CIBCB 2015)
August 12-15, 2015, Niagara Falls, Canada
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucberal/SS-MODMBB-IEEE_CIBCB_2015.html
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucberal/SS-OMBB-IEEE_SSCI_2014.html>

Submission deadline: *3** April 2015*
Submission details: http://cibcb2015.cosc.brocku.ca/submission.html
<http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/ssci2014/upload.php>
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Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the Special Session on
*Multiobjective
Optimization and Decision-Making in Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
(MODMBB) *at the 2015 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB 2015) in Niagara Falls,
Canada.

We encourage submission of papers describing new concepts, strategies,
challenges and decision-making techniques in the area of Bioinformatics and
Bioengineering (BB). In addition, we are interested in application papers
discussing the power and applicability of these novel methods to real-world
multiobjective problems in BB. You are invited to submit papers that are
unpublished original work for this special session at CIBCB 2015. The
topics are, but not limited to, the following

* Multiobjective optimization techniques for Bioinformatics and
Bioengineering (BB)? problems
- Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms
- Swarm Intelligence
- Metaheuristics
- Hybrid optimization algorithms (combinations of heuristics and exact
methods)

* Multicriteria decision making techniques for BB problems
- Preference elicitation and representation
- Aggregation-based techniques
- Fuzzy logic-based techniques
- Bayesian-based techniques

* Experimental multiobjective optimization of BB problems
- Experimental optimization platforms
- Closed-loop multiobjective challenges
- Resourcing issues (interruptions, missing objective function values,
changes of variables, etc.)
- Closed-loop multiobjective applications

* Learning in multiobjective optimization of BB problems
- Link between Decision Maker's learning and model's learning
- Capturing and learning from user preferences
- Integrating multiobjective optimization with machine learning
- Interactive multiobjective learning and optimization techniques

* Tuning of multiobjective optimization and decision-making techniques for
BB problems
- Performance measures
- Test and benchmark problems
- Visualization techniques
- Optimization and visualization software

* Emerging Topics in multiobjective optimization and decision-kaking in BB
- Novel applications (process design, manufacturing, etc)
- Novel challenges (large-scale problems, dynamic problems, mixed integer
problems, uncertainty, expensive and limited evaluations, etc)
- Bilevel and multilevel optimization
- Interactive visualization techniques
- Multiobjective data mining
- Predictive fitness landscape design
- Many-objective optimization
- Surrogate methods

Submission Instructions
We welcome original contributions describing ongoing projects or completed
work. The instructions for authors, and links to LaTeX and Word templates
can be found at http://cibcb2015.cosc.brocku.ca/submission.html
<http://www.ieee-ssci.org/submission.html>

Key Dates
Paper Submissions due: *3 April 2015*
Notification of Acceptance: 22 May 2015
Camera-Ready Papers due: 26 June 2015

Organizers
Richard Allmendinger, University College London, UK
Sanaz Mostaghim, Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany

Program Committee
Allmendinger Richard, University College London, UK
Ashlock Daniel, University of Guelph, Canada
Ashlock Wendy, York University, Canada
Branke J?rgen, University of Warwick, UK
Brown Michael, University of Maryland University College, USA
Coker James, University of Maryland University College, USA
Emmerich Michael, Leiden University, Netherlands
Farid Suzanne, University College London, UK
Handl Julia, University of Manchester, UK
Houghton Sheridan, Brock University, Canada
Jin Yaochu, University of Surrey, UK
Knowles Joshua, University of Manchester, UK
Langdon Bill, University College London, UK
Lavygina Anna, Imperial College London, UK
Mostaghim Sanaz, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
Wiese Kay, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Contact
For further information please contact Richard Allmendinger (
r.allmendinger@ucl.ac.uk)
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2. EURO 2015 --- Deadline Extension --- March 30
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3. CFP: (EXTENDED DEADLINE) IEEE SmartVehicles 2015 - new
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 01:05:33 +0100
From: Danupon Nanongkai <danupon@gmail.com>
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A postdoctoral position is available in the Theoretical Computer Science
Department at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. A successful candidate
will work with Danupon Nanongkai (
https://sites.google.com/site/dannanongkai/), but is also encouraged to
persue his/her own research interest. The research focus for this position
will be on developing algorithms and hardness results for basic graph
problems in dynamic, distributed and streaming settings. Considered graph
problems include, but not limited to, shortest paths, maximum matching,
minimum cut, and routing. Candidates that have backgrounds related to these
areas and problems are encouraged to apply. Related areas do not only
include dynamic, distributed and streaming algorithms, but also online
algorithms, sublinear-time algorithms, property testing, and graph
algorithms in general.

This is a full-time position. It is initially available for 6 months. Those
who prefer a long-term position are encouraged to contact me to discuss the
possibilities. The successful candidate is expected to start in July 2015,
although this is to some extent negotiable.

To apply, send your CV and a list of references to danupon@gmail.com.

About KTH: KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the largest and oldest
technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden's
technical research and engineering education capacity at university level
is provided by KTH. The School of Computer Science and Communication (KTH
CSC) is one of the leading research environments in Information Technology
in Sweden with activities at KTH and partly at Stockholm University. The
Theoretical Computer Science department (http://www.csc.kth.se/tcs/) offers
a strong research environment covering a wide range of research topics such
as complexity theory and approximation algorithms, computer and network
security, cryptography, formal methods and natural language processing. The
group has a consistent track record of publishing in the leading
theoretical computer science conferences and journals worldwide, and the
research conducted here has attracted numerous international awards and
grants in recent years.

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:58:04 +0200
From: Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber <gweber@metu.edu.tr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] EURO 2015 --- Deadline Extension --- March 30
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EURO 2015 in Glasgow
www.euro2015.org

Due to a large number of requests, the program committee has decided
to extend the deadline for submission of abstracts until

Monday, March 30, 2015.

We already have received more than 1900 interesting abstracts, and
more than 550 sessions have been organized, so please sign up for this
unique event where we can share knowledge and get inspired.

Below is the most recent CfP.

Professor Tim Bedford, Professor Val Belton and Professor David Pisinger
Co-chairs of EURO 2015

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Submit Your Abstract
By Monday 30 March (extended deadline)

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

The next European Conference on Operational Research, takes place at
the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, from 12-15 July 2015
(www.euro2015.org). One of the main themes is "Operational Research in
Practice".

It is the place to present your work and find out about cutting edge
ideas emerging from the Operational Research community.

We have already received more than 550 session proposals but new
proposals are still being received and are welcome.

Abstract submission is still open with extended deadline Monday 30 March 2015.

Visiting Glasgow:

In addition to the conference, EURO2015 also provides the opportunity
to visit the lively city of Glasgow and the beautiful countryside of
Scotland. Host to the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow was recently
voted the 'friendliest city in the world' in a Rough Guides' poll and
named a Must Visit destination by The Guardian and The New York Times,
earning its reputation as one of the world's greatest cities.

You can expect a very warm welcome and when you add world-class
architecture, a vibrant and cosmopolitan restaurant scene described by
Lonely Planet as 'the best and most eclectic dining city in Europe',
breathtaking parks, remarkable art galleries and museums, including
the 2013 European Museum of the Year, and outstanding shopping, you
might never want to leave!

One of the beauties of Glasgow is its compact size - you can see a lot
of the city in a remarkably short space of time. And in only a short
journey from the city centre you can be exploring ancient castles,
picture-postcard distilleries, tranquil lochs, outstanding golf
courses and miles of unspoilt coastline.

The EURO2015 Conference:

Just to remind you. Practitioners, students, researchers and academics
interested in any branch of Operational Research, mathematical
modelling or economic analysis are invited to submit abstracts or
organise sessions in EURO2015. If you would like to organise a
session, please contact the Programme Committee.

More information is on the website www.euro2015.org, including details
of the main topical areas, the Programme and Organising Committee
members, and details of how to submit your abstract.

We are really looking forward to welcoming you to Glasgow.

Kind regards

Professor Tim Bedford, Professor Val Belton and Professor David Pisinger
Co-chairs of EURO2015

Contact:

EURO2015 Conference Secretariat
c/o MCI UK Ltd
Suite 4.1
Turnberry House
175 West George Street
Glasgow
G2 2LB

Tel: +44 (0) 141 354 1660
Twitter: @euroconf2015
Email: euro2015@mci-group.com

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Paper Registration Deadline: March 22, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Full manuscript due: March 22, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notification: April 20, 2015

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Second IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on
Smart Vehicles: Connectivity Technologies and ITS Applications
(SmartVehicles 2015)
June 14-17, 2015, Boston, MA, USA
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2015

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SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
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The development of smart vehicles and more sustainable transportation systems has emerged as one of the most fundamental societal challenges of the next decade. At the same time, automotive manufacturers are striving to make vehicles safer and more environmentally friendly to fulfil consumers' expectations and new regulations. To revolutionise our mobile lifestyle towards a more sustainable and connected future it is of paramount importance to develop innovative cooperative systems enabling road users and other actors to exchange information in real time and in an autonomous manner, pervasive sensing to monitor the status of vehicles and the surroundings, big data analytics for the processing of sheer amount of data coming from the transportation infrastructure, middleware platforms for information management and sharing, and appropriate interaction interfaces between drivers and vehicles. Clearly, the seamless integration between mobile devices, vehicular communication netw!
orks, and information and transportation systems will face a number of technical, economical and regulatory challenges.

Authors are encouraged to submit full papers presenting recent developments, current research challenges and future directions in the use of networking, communications, data management, and applications to realise vehicular mobility systems that are more connected, sustainable and safe.

Topics of interest for SmartVehicles 2015 include, but are not limited to:

+ Vehicular Network as a Sensor Network;
+ V2V, V2I and V2X communications
+ Vehicular mobility support in next-generation wireless technologies
+ Communications protocol design (MAC, routing, data dissemination)
+ Data storage, management, and retrieval in vehicular networks
+ Solutions to connect vehicles with the Internet
+ Big data analytics for ITS applications
+ Security and privacy in ITS applications
+ Multimedia applications, infotainment
+ Cooperative driving, autonomous and smart vehicles
+ Traffic management and efficiency applications
+ Electrification of transportation systems
+ Simulation environments, experimental testbeds, field operational tests
+ Mobile (smart) device integration in vehicles and transport systems
+ Integration of cloud technologies in ITS applications

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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Submission will be managed electronically through EDAS (http://edas.info/N19487).

Papers should neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at: http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/smartvehicles2015

Accepted papers will appear in the symposium proceedings published by IEEE. Workshop papers will be included and indexed in the IEEE Digital Library (IEEEXplore), showing their affiliation with IEEE WoWMoM. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present his/her work at the workshop in order for that paper to appear in the proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper Registration Deadline: March 22, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Paper Submission Deadline: March 22, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Notification Deadline: April 20, 2015
Workshop Date: June 14-17, 2015

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Workshop Co-Chairs
Raffaele Bruno, IIT, CNR, Italy
Salil Kanhere, UNSW, Australia
John B. Kenney, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA

Publicity Chair
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT, CNR, Italy

Program Committee
Jose M. Barcelo-Ordinas, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Gaurav Bansal, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, USA
Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada
Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
David Eckhoff, University of Erlangen, Germany
Marco Di Felice, University of Bologna, Italy
Marco Fiore, IEIIT-CNR, Italy
Emma Fitzgerald, Lund University, Sweden
Raphael Frank, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Javier Gozalvez, University Miguel Hernandez, Spain
Jerome Harri, EURECOM, France
Hannes Hartenstein, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Geert Heijenk, University of Twente, Netherlands
Daniel Jiang, Mercedes-Benz R&D North America, USA
Frank Kargl, Ulm University, Germany
Kun-chan Lan, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Evangelos Mitsakis, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Radovan Miucic, Honda R&D, USA
Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH, Sweden
Yves Roudier, EURECOM, France
Robert Schmidt, Denso Automotive Dtld. GmbH, Germany
Katrin Sjoberg, Volvo, Sweden
Erik Strom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University, Sweden
Alberto Zanella, IEIIT-CNR, Italy

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:34:01 +0100
From: Elisabetta Biondi<aoc2015_publicity@iit.cnr.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IEEE WoWMoM 2015 Workshop on Autonomic and
Opportunistic Communications (AOC) - DEADLINE EXTENDED
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Full manuscript due: March 20, 2015 (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notification: April 20, 2015
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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ninth IEEE International Workshop on
Autonomic and Opportunistic Communications
(AOC 2015)

http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015

sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society,
EU FP7 MOTO Project

June 14-17 2015, Boston, MA, USA

The diffusion of lightweight, powerful portable devices, also enriched with a
variety of sensing capabilities, is enabling new ways for users' communication,
and laying the foundation for realizing the ubiquitous networking idea. Acting
either as the main communication mode or as complement to existing mobile
network infrastructures, opportunistic networking can leverage the mobility of
end users and enhance their communication capabilities. The opportunistic
exploitation of extemporary contacts among the users of the network paves the
way to a number of applications but also poses new and challenging problems to
the networking research community. The AOC 2015 workshop aims at serving as a
meeting point for people working in the area and a forum for exchanging ideas,
discussing solutions, and sharing experiences among researchers, professionals,
and application developers, both from industry and academia. As with the
previous eight editions of the AOC workshop series, the scope of this year's
workshop will remain on general issues related to opportunistic networking and
computing. Yet, AOC 2015 will have a primary interest in new directions of
opportunistic communications, such as mobile social networking, autonomous
solutions for smart cities, big data for autonomic and opportunistic systems
service composition techniques, scenarios of co-existence with infrastructure
networks, and insights to their operation coming from other disciplines such as
game theory and cognitive psychology. The workshop will solicit original papers
addressing theoretical and practical aspects of autonomic and opportunistic
communications but also papers describing prototype implementations and
deployments.

Topics of interest for AOC 2015 include, but are not limited to:

- Techniques for data dissemination and replication
- Context and social awareness mechanisms and algorithms
- Autonomous and self-adaptive systems for smart cities
- Autonomous solutions for IoT and cyber-physical systems
- Big data for autonomic and opportunistic systems
- Mobile social networking algorithms and applications
- Co-existence of opportunistic networks with infrastructure mobile wireless
networks
- Mobility models and statistical analysis of mobility traces
- Service composition in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Cognition-driven information processing and decision making
- Performance modelling, scaling laws, and fundamental limits for autonomic and
opportunistic communications
- Participatory and urban sensing in autonomic and opportunistic networks
- Game-theoretic insights to the operation of autonomic and opportunistic
networks
- Trust, security, and reputation
- Autonomic and opportunistic communication testbeds and prototypes, measurement
data from real experiments
- Socio-economic models for autonomic and opportunistic communications
- Autonomic and opportunistic solutions for mobile cloud applications
- Applications and middleware support
- Routing, transport, and reliability issues

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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All submissions must describe original research, not published or
currently under review for another workshop, conference, or journal.
Papers must be submitted electronically through EDAS. You can find
detailed submission instructions at:
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015/submission.html

IEEE AOC 2015 is using the EDAS Conference Management Software.
Paper submission is possible via this link:
http://edas.info/N19275

Manuscripts are limited to 6 pages, single spacing, double column, and must strictly adhere to the IEEE conference template format. Guidelines on paper submission and formatting are available at http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015/submission.html

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Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to attend the workshop
and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of
IEEE WoWMoM 2015 and published in the IEEE Digital Library. Workshop organizers
reserve the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the workshop
(e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.

There will be no separate registration for workshop, but one single registration
will cover both conference and workshops participation. At least one author of
each accepted paper is required and present his/her work at the workshop.
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EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UP
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Extended versions of workshop selected papers will be considered for possible
fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier).

IMPORTANT DATES (EXTENDED DEADLINES)
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- Full manuscript due: March 20, 2015 (EXTENDED)
- Acceptance notification: April 20, 2015
- Camera Ready: May 7, 2015

CONTACTS
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For further information, please visit the conference website at
http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/aoc2015, or contact the PC Chairs:
aoc2015@iit.cnr.it

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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WORKSHOP Co-Chairs
Lorenzo Valerio, IIT-CNR, Italy
Matteo Mordacchini, IIT-CNR, Italy

STEERING Committee
Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy
Silvia Giordano, SUPSI, Switzerland
Ioannis Stavrakakis, University of Athens, Greece

PUBLICITY Chair
Elisabetta Biondi, IIT-CNR, Italy

PROGRAM Committee
Andreea Picu, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Anna Forster, SUPSI, Switzerland
Chiara Boldrini, IIT-CNR, Italy
Christian Rohner, Uppsala University, Sweden
Daniele Miorandi, Create-net, Italy
Daniele Puccinelli, SUPSI, Switzerland
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge, UK
Elena Pagani, University of Milano, Italy
Eleonora Borgia, IIT-CNR, Italy
Franck Legendre, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Franco Zambonelli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gunnar Karlsson, KTH, Sweden
Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK
Jorg Ott, Aalto University, Finland
Katia Obraczka, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Konstantinos Oikonomou, Ionian University, Greece
Kyunghan Lee, North Carolina State University, USA
Michela Papandrea, SUSPSI, Switzerland
Melek Onen, EURECOM, France
Nils Aschenbruck, University of Osnabruck, Germany
Roger Whitaker, Cardiff University, UK
Sebastian Zander, Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia
Serge Fdida, UPMC Sorbonne Universites, France
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, EURECOM, France
Tristan Henderson, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
Valerio Arnaboldi, IIT-CNR, Italy
Valtteri Niemi, University of Turku, Finland
Vania Conan, Thales Communication and Security, France

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:53:04 +0100
From: J?r?me DURAND-LOSE <jerome.durand-lose@univ-orleans.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] MCU'15: final CFP, extended deadline: 2015, March 26
Message-ID: <55083FD0.5050406@univ-orleans.fr>
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Dear Colleagues,

Due to several requests the deadline for submissions to MCU'15 is extended,
please find the final call for papers below.

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7th International conference MCU '15

Machines, Computations and Universality 2015

Famagusta, North-Cyprus, 9-11 September 2015

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 26 March 2015

The International conference MCU series traces its roots back to the
mid 90's, and has always been concerned with gaining a deeper
understanding of computation and universality through the study of
models of general purpose computation.
The MCU conference series was initiated in Paris in 1995. Following
editions were held in Metz in 1998, in Chisinau in 2001, in
St. Petersburg in 2004, in Orleans in 2007, and in Zurich in 2013.

SCOPE

The scope of the conference topics includes, but is not limited to,
computation in the setting of various discrete models (Turing
machines, register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems,
rewriting systems, molecular computing models, neural models...) and
analog and hybrid models (BSS machines, infinite time cellular
automata, real machines, quantum computing...) and the meaning and
implantation of universality in these contexts. Particular emphasis is
given towards search for frontiers between decidability and
undecidability in the various models, search for the simplest
universal models, computational complexity of predicting the evolution
of computations in the various models... Parallel computing models
and their connections to decidability, complexity and universality.

TOPICS ADDRESSED

MCU 2015 conference topics include, but not exclusively:

* Analog computation
* Automata theory
* Cellular automata
* Classical computability and degree structures
* Computability theoretic aspects of programs
* Computable analysis and real computation
* Computable structures and models
* Continuous computing
* Decidability of theories
* DNA computing, self-assembly and tiling
* Dynamical systems and computational models
* Emerging and non-standard models of computation
* Finite model theory
* Generalized recursion theory
* Higher type computability
* Hypercomputational models
* Infinite time Turing machines
* Membrane computing
* Molecular computation
* Morphogenesis and developmental biology
* Multi-agent systems
* Natural computation and Hybrid systems
* Neural nets and connectionist models
* Physics and computability
* Proof theory and computability
* Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity
* Relativistic computation
* Swarm intelligence and self-organisation
* Theory of Petri nets
* Turing, Counter, Register, Signal machines
* Universality of systems

We particularly welcome submissions in emergent areas, such as
parallel models of computing, bioinformatics and unconventional
computation...

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Deadline: 26 March 2015
Notification of authors: 27 May 2015
Deadline for final version: 20 June 2015

SUBMISSIONS

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the
conference. Submitted papers must describe work not previously
published, and they must neither be accepted nor under review at a
journal or at another conference with refereed proceedings.
Authors are required to submit their manuscripts electronically in PDF
using the LNCS style. Authors using LaTeX can download the needed macros
at Springer-Verlag site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages; full proofs
may appear in a clearly marked technical appendix which will be read at
the reviewers' discretion.
The submission process is managed by EasyChair.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcu2015

The proceedings will be available at the conference venue. It will be an
LNCS volume by Springer Verlag.

There will be a best paper and a best student paper award.

INVITED SPEAKERS

* Matthew Cook (University of Z?rich and ETH Z?rich, Switzerland)
* Jetty Kleijn (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
* Linqiang Pan (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
* Anne Siegel (IRISA/CNRS, Dyliss, France)
* Mike Stannett (University of Sheffield, UK)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Andrew Adamatzky, University of the West of England, UK
* Rza Bashirov, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta
* Laurent Bienvenu, CNRS, Universit? Paris Diderot
* Erzs?bet Csuhaj-Varj?, E?tv?s Lor?nd University, Hungary
* J?r?me Durand-Lose, University of Orl?ans, France (co-chair)
* Henning Fernau, University of Trier, Germany
* Rudolf Freund, University of Vienna, Austria
* Gabriel Istrate, West University of Timisoara, Romania
* Jarkko Kari, University of Turku, Finland
* Martin Kutrib, Universit?t Gie?en, Germany
* Peter Leupold, University of Leipzig, Germany
* Maurice Margenstern, University of Lorraine, France
* Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima University, Japan
* Benedek Nagy, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta and
University of Debrecen, Hungary (co-chair)
* Turlough Neary, University of Z?rich and ETH Z?rich
* Matthew Patitz, University of Arkansas, USA
* Gheorghe Paun, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
* Igor Potapov, University of Liverpool, UK
* Kumbakonam Govindarajan Subramanian, University of Science, Malaysia
* Klaus Sutner, University Carnegy-Mellon, USA
* Gy?rgy Vaszil, University of Debrecen, Hungary
* Sergey Verlan, University of Paris Est, France

Contact: Benedek Nagy - mcu2015 (at) emu.edu.tr
J?r?me Durand-Lose - jerome.durand-lose (at) univ-orleans.fr
Website: http://mcu2015.emu.edu.tr
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