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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
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Subject: [DMANET] SIROCCO 2015 - Innovation Award in Distributed
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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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