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1. [Last day to Proposal Submission Deadline 30 March 2016] Book
on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid
Communications (Mohamed Amine Ferrag)
2. Deadline 4th of April is approaching for CENTERIS Workshop on
Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise
Information Systems, Porto area, Portugal, 5-7 October 2016
(Iryna Yevseyeva)
3. Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mathematical Optimization
Software dedicated to ICMS 2016 (Ambros Gleixner)
4. Deadline March 31: GreeNets 2016, June 27-29, 2016 -
Valencia, Spain (Sandra Sendra)


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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 05:45:01 -0400
From: Mohamed Amine Ferrag <maferrag@lrs-annaba.net>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [Last day to Proposal Submission Deadline 30 March
2016] Book on Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart
Grid Communications
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****Last day to Proposal Submission Deadline , 30 March 2016 ***

"Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid
Communications"

Edited by: Mohamed Amine Ferrag and Ahmed Ahmim
To be published by: IGI Global, USA

URL1 :
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/2020
URL2
: https://sites.google.com/site/smartgridsigiglobal/

Editorial Advisory Board
Nacira Ghoualmi-Zine, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Djamel Djenouri, CERIST Research Center, Algeria
Albena Mihovska, Center for TeleInFrastructur, Aalborg University,
Aalborg, Denmark
Mehdi Nafa, Badji Mokhtar- Annaba University, Algeria
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, UAP and SEU, Bangladesh/ Islamic University in
Madinah, KSA
Hui Hou, School of Automation, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Hidoussi Faouzi, University Hadj Lakhdar Batna, Algeria
Mubashir Husain Rehmani, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
Wah Cantt, Pakistan
Homero Toral Cruz, University of Quintana Roo, México
Makhlouf Derdour, University of Cheikh Laarbi, Tebessa, Algeria
Lynn M. Batten, Deakin University, Australia
Ram Chakka, RGMCET, RGM Group of Institutions, India
Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain
Sumanth Yenduri, Columbus State University, USA
Chi-Yuan Chen, National Ilan University, Taiwan
P. Venkata Krishna, VIT University, India
Alessio Merlo, University of Genova, Italy
Syed Faraz Hasan, Massey University, New Zealand
Farrokh Aminifar, University of Tehran, Iran
Hossein Akhavan-Hejazi, University of California, USA
Danda B. Rawat, Georgia Southern University, USA

Introduction
Electrical energy storage is a key factor for the future. The
consumption of electrical energy (i.e. the use of air conditioning,
audio and video devices or electric heating) is increasing every year
due; firstly to the increase of the population and secondly by the
appearance of new uses of consumption, such as electric cars. With this
increase consumption, how to ensure the balance between supply and
demand for electricity at all times? To address this problem, the idea
of placing the new generation of smart grids to control this energy has
appeared in recent literature in different flavors in order to provide
electric power supply secure, sustainable and competitive to consumers.
In addition, the revolution in smart grid involves a significant change
in side of the consumer where consumers will also become producer with
the ability of energy storage such as in the vehicle battery, or as a
local generation sources such as photovoltaic panels. However, the smart
grid develops modern solutions for the next-generation network and
digital communication in which many systems and subsystems are
interconnected to provide services from end-to-end network between
various actors and between intelligent devices that are deployed there.
Within each network, a hierarchical structure is composed of different
types of networks, such as the HANs (Home Area Networks), the BANs
(Building Area Networks), the IANs (Industrial Area Networks), the NANs
(Neighborhood Area Networks), the FANs (Field Area Networks), and the
WANs (Wide Area Networks). Currently, large societies propose the use of
cloud computing in smart grid applications connected with the electrical
control center. The main problem in the development of a smart grid is
not located at the physical medium but mainly in delivery of reliability
and security. The possibility of fitting with active or passive attacks
in smart grid network is great to divulge privacy and disrupt energy
(e.g. Wormhole Attack, False Data Injection Attack, Black Hole Attack,
Grey Hole Attack, DoS Attack, Physical Layer Attack, Colluding Adversary
Attack, Routing Table Overflow Attack etc.). Therefore, the security
requirements, including authentication, accountability, integrity,
non-repudiation, access control and confidentiality should be paid more
attention in the future for high performance smart grids. This book will
cover the current scope of various methodologies and mechanisms in the
theory and practice of security, privacy, intrusion detection, and
applied cryptography in smart grid communications in one place.

Objective
This comprehensive and timely publication aims to be an essential
reference source, building on the available literature in the field of
smart grid security in developing countries while providing for further
research opportunities in this dynamic field. It is hoped that this text
will provide the resources necessary for policy makers, technology
developers and managers to adopt and implement smart grid platforms in
developing nations across the globe.

Target Audience
Policy makers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students,
technology developers, and government officials will find this book
useful in furthering their research exposure to pertinent topics in
smart grid security and assisting in furthering their own research
efforts in this field.

Recommended Topics
This book will include (but will not be limited to) the following
topics. Any other related topics in the area of smart grid security are
also welcome :

- Game theoretical models of smart grid security
- SCADA and legacy system security
- Security and Privacy in Mobile Cloud and Grid Computing
- Secure and resilient cyber-physical and communication architectures
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- Machine learning for security
- Computer security visualization techniques
- Intrusion detection based on data mining techniques
- Online money laundering and underground economy
- Hardware vulnerabilities
- Binary analysis and reverse engineering
- Security risk assessment, measurement and management
- Network exfiltration
- Security, privacy, and resource management in Wireless Access Networks
(WPAN, WLAN, WLL, etc.)
- Security, Privacy, and Resource Management in Broadband Wireless
Technologies (HSDPA, HSUPA, LTE, WiMAX, WiRAN, etc.)
- Hardware security
- Quantum cryptography
- Privacy-preserving systems
- New attacks against computers and networks
- Denial-of-Service Attacks
- Insider attack detection
- Formal models, analysis, and standards
- Deception systems and honeypots
- Vulnerability analysis
- Secure software development
- Security and Privacy in Next Generation Mobile Networks
- Protocol security
- Network & active defenses
- Malware and botnet analysis, detection, and mitigation
- PHY/MAC/Routing/Transport/Application layer Protocols and Security
- Tamper-resistant device technologies
- Smartphone and other embedded systems security
- Fraudulent usage, prevention of traffic analysis
- Cryptography, key management, authorization and access control
- False data injection, detection and mitigation
- Performance evaluation, performance/security tradeoff analysis
- Modern infrastructure for cities(roads, power plants, water treatment
plants, sewage systems, transit systems)
- Energy Efficiency including non-conventional energy management
- Green Environment including E-Waste Management, Hospital Management
etc
- Electro-mobility
- Public key and conventional algorithms and their implementations
- Distributed systems security
- Cyber and Cross-Domain (power to cyber) security event detection,
analysis and response
- DoS/DDoS resiliency
- Cloud security
- Embedded systems security
- Security design and verification tools

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before March
30, 2016 (Extended), a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by April10, 2016 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be
submitted by May 15, 2016. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a
double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve
as reviewers for this project. Chapters with multiple authors are
welcome, even encouraged.

Propose a Chapter :
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/2020

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea
Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly
Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference,"
"Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference"
imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please
visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released
in 2016.


Important Dates
March 30, 2016: Proposal Submission Deadline (Extended)
April 10, 2016: Notification of Acceptance
May 15, 2016: Full Chapter Submission
July 30, 2016: Review Results Returned
September 01, 2016: Final Acceptance Notification
September 15, 2016: Final Chapter Submission

Editors

Mohamed Amine Ferrag (Ph.D.)
Department of Computer Science
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Material Science
Guelma University
BP 401 Guelma 24000 – Algeria
Tel.: +2137 96 96 14 53
E-mail: mohamed.amine.ferrag@gmail.com
Homepage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/

Ahmed Ahmim (Ph.D.)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Faculty of Exact Sciences and Sciences of Nature and Life
University of Larbi Tebessi,
Route of Constantine, Tebessa 12000 – Algeria
Tel.: + 213 5 55 86 70 65
E-mail: a.ahmim@gmail.com
Homepage: http://lrs-annaba.net/ahmim/
__________________________________________________
Dr. Mohamed Amine Ferrag
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Guelma University
BP 401 Guelma 24000, Algeria
Tel. : +213 796 961 453
E-mails: maferrag@outlook.fr / mohamed.amine.ferrag@gmail.com
maferrag@lrs-annaba.net
HomePage : https://sites.google.com/site/mohamedamineferrag/
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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 12:01:03 +0000 (UTC)
From: Iryna Yevseyeva <irynayev@yahoo.com>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline 4th of April is approaching for CENTERIS
Workshop on Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in Enterprise
Information Systems, Porto area, Portugal, 5-7 October 2016
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Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to submit a contribution to the International Workshop on Multicriteria DecisionMaking & Applications in Enterprise Information Systems within CENTERIS conference to be held in Portoarea, Portugal, 5-7 October 2016, for more informationabout the conference see http://centeris.eiswatch.org/
WORKSHOPOBJECTIVE  Theaim of the Multicriteria Decision Making & Applications in EnterpriseInformation Systems 2016 (MCDM&EIS) workshop is to provide a forumfor researchers to discuss models for decision making with multipleusually conflicting criteria to be considered simultaneously, and theirreal-life applications.  InMCDA&EIS 2016, we encourage the submission of papers on decision makingfrom both multiobjective optimization and multicriteria decision analysisareas. Novel applications of these methods to real world problems are welcome,particularly in the area of Enterprise Information Systems.  WORKSHOPTOPICS AND AREAS OF INTEREST (not limited to)·      MCDM Theory·      Multiobjective Optimization·      Evolutionary Algorithms andMCDM·      Multiple Criteria DecisionAnalysis/Aiding·      Decision Support Systems·      Multi-attribute Utility orValue Theory·      Group Decision Making andNegotiations·      Behavioral Issues inDecision Making·      Preference Modeling·      Game Theory·      Risk andUncertainty/Prospect Theory·      Applications of MCDM andOptimization in Enterprise Information Systems  SUBMISSIONSWe welcome full research papers (7-10 pages), shortpapers (4-6 pages), posters (3 pages) and industrial papers (4-6 pages) on theworkshop theme. Submittedmanuscripts must be written in English. Each manuscript should not exceed themaximum number of pages predefined for each submission type, considering theformat templates found here:http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=submissionguidelines  For information on post-publications see here:http://centeris.eiswatch.org/index.php?page=proceedingsjournals  Manuscript should be submitted electronically at theCENTERIS webpage until April 4, 2016.Submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blindreview basis, and authors will be notified of the review process results by May22, 2016. Authors of accepted papers can receive recommendations to revisetheir manuscript according to the reviewers' comments and should submit therevised version until June 11, 2016.  IMPORTANTDATESDeadline for paper submission:April 4, 2016Notification ofacceptance/rejection: May 22, 2016Revised version: June 11, 2016Conference Date: October 5-7,2016  PUBLICATIONAccepted full and shortpapers will be published in the conference proceedings (with ISSN).Poster and practitionerpapers will be published in the conference book of abstracts, industry andposter papers (with ISBN).Authors of a selectionof papers will be invited to enhance their manuscripts for inclusion in a bookof chapters or in a journal.
WORKSHOPSCIENTIFIC COMMITTEEAna Viana, PolytechnicInstitute of Porto, and INESC Porto, PortugalAndré Deutz, LeidenUniversity, NetherlandsChristinaHopfe, Loughborough University, UKDanielle Morais, FederalUniversity of Pernambuco, BrasilGu Pang, NewcastleBusiness School, UKHeikeTrautmann, University of Münster, GermanyHisaoIshibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, JapanIgor Linkov, USArmy, USAIurii Mishcheriakov,Kharkov National University of Radioelectronics, UkraineLavoslav Čaklović,University of Zagreb, CroatiaMarkus Borschbach, BergischGladbach University of Applied Sciences, GermanyMaryia Sodencamp,University of Bamberg, GermanyOfer Shir, Tel-HaiCollege, IsraelPhilippe Nemery, SAP,ChinaSalvatoreGreco, University of Catania, Italy, and University of Portsmouth, UKSandra Huber, HelmutSchmidt University, GermanyZhiwei Yang, LeidenUniversity, Netherlands  WORKSHOPCHAIRSIryna Yevseyeva (iryna.yevseyeva@dmu.ac.uk)De Montfort University, Leicester, UK  Michael Emmerich (emmerich@liacs.nl)Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands  Alessio Ishizaka (alessio.ishizaka@port.ac.uk)Portsmouth Business School, Portsmouth, UK


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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:22:21 +0200
From: Ambros Gleixner <gleixner@zib.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Call for Papers: Special Issue on Mathematical
Optimization Software dedicated to ICMS 2016
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CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

Papers on the topic of

MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE

will be considered for peer-reviewed publication in a special issue
of the journal Optimization Methods and Software (OMS):

http://www.tandfonline.com/goms

The journal impact factor is 1.624, and the yearly best publication
in OMS is awarded the Charles Broyden prize:

http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/est/charles-broyden-prize

The quality and topics of the submissions should correspond to the
high standards of publications in OMS and its Aims and Scope:


http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=goms20

This special issue is dedicated, but not limited to presentations
featured at the ICMS 2016 Session on Mathematical Optimization

http://events.zib.de/ICMS_MathOpt_2016

as part of the 5th International Congress on Mathematical Software
held July 11-14, 2016, at Zuse Institute Berlin.


Guest Editors
=============

Ambros Gleixner (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany)
http://www.zib.de/gleixner/

Christian Kirches (IWR Heidelberg/TU Braunschweig, Germany)
http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/optimus/people/kirches/

John Mitchell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
http://www.rpi.edu/~mitchj/

Ted Ralphs (Lehigh University, USA)
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted/

Contact: icms_mathopt_2016@zib.de


Submission Guidelines
=====================

The deadline for submission to the special issue is

September 15, 2016.

The paper length should not exceed 25 journal pages. Submissions
should follow the journal's style and guidelines under


http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=goms20&page=instructions

Manuscript submission must be made online via the journal's
ScholarOne Manuscripts site

http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/goms

which will be open from July 15, right after ICMS 2016. To specify
the special issue, please choose "MOS".

Note that this is independent from the abstract submission deadline
for presenting at ICMS, which is March 31. See the session webpage

http://events.zib.de/ICMS_MathOpt_2016

for further details.


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Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:10:08 +0200
From: Sandra Sendra<sandra.sendra.upv@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline March 31: GreeNets 2016, June 27-29, 2016 -
Valencia, Spain
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====================================================================================
3rd EAI International Conference on Green Communications and Networking - GreeNets 2016
June 27-29, 2016
Valencia, Spain
http://greenets.org/2016/show/home
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2016
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CALL FOR PAPERS

[Scope]

Global warming and climate change have been a growing worldwide concern. Six sources, i.e., transportation, power, buildings, industry, agriculture and forestry, and land use, have been identified as major contributors to the rise of global carbon dioxide (CO2). The mobile industry is seen as a potential enabler to reduce greenhouse gases contributed by these six sources provided that appropriate measures are implemented. On the other hand, the mobile industry itself will also contribute to CO2 emission through network operations, mobile equipments, etc. To meet the requirement of low-carbon economy development, it is necessary to reduce the operation expenditure or energy consumption of mobile networks, while maintaining acceptable quality of service. This conference will explore and explain the scope and challenges of designing, building, and deploying GreeNets. In this regard, the conference aims to establish a forum to bring together research professionals from diverse f!
ields including green mobile networ
ks, system architectures, networking & communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets.


[Topics]

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Communications and Networking:
Communication techniques and protocols for GreeNets
Energy-efficient transmission technologies based on the cooperation communication
Scalable and flexible energy efficiency mobile network architectures, deployments, and applications

- Energy-efficient network architecture & protocols:
Scalability and mobility issues in energy efficiency cross-layer design
MAC Protocols and QoS Designing for mobile networks

- Systems and Technology:
Transactions and workflows in green mobile networks
Adaptability and stability of green mobile networks
Mobile and multimedia supported green mobile networks
Experimental and test bed studies for energy efficiency mobile networks, simulation tools

- Energy-efficient management:
Energy-efficient traffic balance, cooperation and management
Distributed energy efficiency resource management techniques
Protocols for cooperative management and control

[Publications]

- All accepted papers will be submitted for publication in Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library, one of the world's largest scientific libraries.

- Proceedings are submitted for inclusion to the leading indexing services: DBLP, Google Scholar, Thomson Scientific ISI Proceedings, EI Elsevier Engineering Index, CrossRef, Scopus, as well as ICST's own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

- Selected papers will be invited to a Special Issue on Green Communications and Networking 2016 in: International Journal ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET): http://www.springer.com/engineering/signals/journal/11036

- Selected papers will be invited to publish in the EAI Endorsed Transactions on Energy Web and in the special issue of EAI Transactions on Intelligent Communication Protocols and Algorithms (http://eai.eu/transaction/intelligent-communication-protocols-and-algorithms).


[Paper submission]

- Papers should be in English.

- Regular papers should be up to 8 pages in length.

- Previously published work may not be submitted, nor may the work be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. Such papers will be rejected without review.

- The paper submissions must follow the SPRINGER formatting guidelines: http://greenets.org/2016/show/authors-kit

- All the papers formatted according with the instructions have to be submitted through the conference online system at: http://greenets.org/2016/show/initial-submission

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GreeNets 2016 also seeks proposals for posters and live demonstrations describing novel work on green mobile networks, system architectures, networking and communication protocols, applications, test-bed and prototype, traffic balance and energy-efficient cooperation transmission, system and application issues related to GreeNets. Posters and demonstrations will be presented during a reception at the conference. The poster/demo session is meant to introduce new and ongoing work and provide opportunities for authors to interact directly with conference attendees. Posters sessions provide a forum for researchers to present their work in progress that can generate discussion or promising new ideas from experts. On the other hand, live demos session will offer a unique opportunity to showcase real prototypes, tools, and systems to the conference attendees.

The areas of interest for both poster and demo abstracts are the same as for full research papers.

[Demo/Poster submission]

- Demo and poster abstracts must not exceed 3 pages. Titles should start with "Poster: ..." or "Demo: ..." depending on the case. The page limits include figures, tables, and references. Submissions may not be anonymous.

- Please use the main GreeNets conference paper style (http://greenets.org/2016/show/authors-kit) and submission guidelines.

- Poster and demo abstracts will be reviewed by at least three members of the poster/demo committee to ensure quality and matching to the goals of the poster/demo session as well as to the conference?s topics. Accepted poster and demo abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings.


Demo and poster proposals should include the following:

- The purpose and goals of the work.

- Any background and motivation needed to understand the work.

- Any critical hypotheses and assumptions that underlie the work.

- A clear summary of the contribution and/or results, in sufficient detail for a (re)viewer to understand the work and its relevance. If the work is at an initial stage, it is especially important to state clearly the anticipated contributions and any early results towards them.

- The relationship to other related efforts, where appropriate. Authors of accepted posters may be asked to point out relationships to work represented by other accepted posters.

- Where to find additional information (a web site where viewers can go to find additional information about the work how to contact the authors, including email addresses citations for any papers, books, or other materials that provide additional information)

If selected, authors shall prepare a final, camera ready version of the extended abstract, taking into account all feedback from reviewers, and formatted according to the GreeNets conference.


[Presentation at the conference]

In addition to space given to every accepted abstract during the poster/demo session, one author of the abstract will be given a slot in a further "10-minute madness" session within the main program. In this session, authors will have the opportunity to describe their work to the entire conference audience with a single slide and a 10-minute speech.

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[Important dates]

Full Paper Deadline: March 31, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: April 25, 2016
Camera-ready Deadline: May 22, 2016
Conference dates: 27th - 29th June 2016

[Conference organising committees]

General Chair:
Jaime Lloret, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

TPC Chair:
Elsa Macias-L�pez, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria University, Spain

Publicity and Social Media Chair / Co-Chairs:
Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor, Koya University, Iraq

Workshops Chair:
Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management- Kerala (IIITM-K), India

Sponsorship & Exhibits Chair:
Raquel Lacuesta, University of Zaragoza

Publications Chair:
Jose Miguel Jimenez, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain
Lorena Parra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia,Spain

Panels Chair:
Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University,Belgrade, Serbia

Tutorials Chair:
Jose Maria Alcaraz, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland,UK

Demos, Posters and PhD Track Chair:
Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

Local Chair:
Sandra Sendra, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain

Web Chair:
Alejandro Canovas, Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia,Spain
====================================================================================

ABOUT EAI
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: 1
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:44:02 +0300
From: Yuval Emek <yemek@ie.technion.ac.il>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Game theory post-doc applications in the Technion
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The GameTheory@Technion research group
(https://sites.google.com/site/gametheorytechnion/home) invites
applications for several post-doctoral research fellowships in game
theory and its applications. Positions are for 1 year and are
renewable for up to 3 years. A PhD degree obtained between October 1,
2011 and September 30, 2016 is required.

Review of applications will start on 1/04/2016 and continue through
30/4/2016 or until all positions are filled. Applications should be
addressed to GameTheory@technion.ac.il and should include a CV, one
research paper (possibly published) and a short research statement (no
more than 200 words).

For more information please visit
https://sites.google.com/site/gametheorytechnion/post-doc-positions-2


--
Yuval Emek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
http://ie.technion.ac.il/~yemek/


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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:44:21 +0300 (IDT)
From: Ely Porat <porately@macs.biu.ac.il>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Postdoc positions
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Several postdoctoral research positions are available in the research
group of Prof. Ely Porat at Bar Ilan University. Applicants are expected
to have a PhD in computer science, mathematics, or a related field, and
have a strong record of research in algorithms and data structures,
combinatorics, or optimization.

The research group focuses on streaming algorithms (with an emphasis on
pattern matching problems), sparse recovery and compressed sensing (with
an emphasis on problems that arise with big data), conditional lower
bounds, distributed computing and data structures.

The ideal starting time of the position is Fall 2016, though there is
considerable flexibility here. Please send your application (including a
CV, a list of publications, and the names of two-three references) to
datalabrecruit@gmail.com.
Applications will be reviewed starting April 3rd and until the positions
are filled.


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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:30:15 +0100
From: Ana Viana <aviana@inesctec.pt>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Post-Doctoral Research grant - Combinatorial
Optimisation - Kidney Exchange Programmes
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Project mKEP - Models and optimisation algorithms for multi-country kidney exchange programmes

Post-Doctoral Research grant

INESC TEC is inviting applications for a Post-Doctoral research position to work in project "mKEP - Models and optimisation algorithms for multi-country kidney exchange programmes"
Candidates must have solid knowledge on Combinatorial Optimization, experience in programming, and proficiency in English.

For additional information on the project and project team please check http://www.inescporto.pt/~aviana/mKEPcall/mKEP/mKEP.html

Application guidelines are availablehttps://www.inesctec.pt/ip-en/work-with-us/bolsas-inescporto/concurso-para-a-atribuicao-de-1-bolsa-de-pos-doutoramento-projeto-mkep?set_language=en&cl=en

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:40:39 +0200
From: Valeria Loscri <valeria.loscri@inria.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Deadline extended--CFP: CoWPER In conjunction with
SECON 2016
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Call For Papers
CoWPER, Toward A City-Wide Pervasive EnviRonment
27 - 30 June 2016, LONDON - UK
-------------------In conjunction with SECON 2016--------------------

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Web link: www.ieee-secon.org/cowper <http://www.ieee-secon.org/cowper>
EDAS submissions: https://edas.info/N22207 <https://edas.info/N22207>

Important dates
Abstract Registration: April 11th, 2016
Submission deadline: April 18th, 2016
Notification of acceptance: April 25th, 2016
Camera Ready: May 11th, 2016
Program: June 1st, 2016
Accepted papers will be published on IEEE Xplore

Scope
The increasing availability of smart objects will radically change our cities. It is in fact a common opinion that, in the near future, our cities will be populated by a potentially higher number of devices that actively participate to the execution of pervasive and advanced services. Being massively distributed into the environment, such devices may generate, collect, exchange and process big data, provide distributed services, offer computational resources, and cooperate to perform some tasks locally, as well as to delegate the their execution to more powerful nodes in the infrastructure or at the network edge.

At the same time, end-user mobile devices are becoming more and more pervasive. In many countries, the number of mobile cellular subscriptions greatly overcomes the current population (even more than +150%). Furthermore today's smartphones/devices are provided with increasing sensing/communication/computation capabilities and they are capable to produce fine-grained context-information by properly analysing/mining the data produced by embedded sensors, such as accelerometer, gyroscope, microphone, etc.

In this futuristic scenario the citizens with their smartphones, tablets and portable devices, will assume the very special role of information prosumers (PROducers and conSUMERS). In fact, they will be constantly connected with whatever surroundings them and they will be formidable information consumers. At the same time, citizens roaming around the city may be considered as mobile probes that, by making uses of cyber and physical data accessible by smartphones, will analyze the situation and will produce reports to the community. Furthermore the citizen's smartphones will actively contribute in creating the communication infrastructure by forwarding data coming from surrounding devices thus partially relieving the communication infrastructure from the heavy burden of the huge amount of data produced in the envisioned scenario.

All in all, cities are going to become a new complex ecosystem which has the potentiality to offer many amazing features and support innovative application. Unfortunately, fully exploiting, managing and accessing that ecosystem are still far to be fully viable and their fulfillment surely poses a formidable challenge.

The CoWPER workshop aims to solicit contributions on novel algorithms, methodological studies and experimentations on how to enable the formerly described ecosystem. Specifically, on how devise a city-wide networking infrastructure capable to efficiently guarantee communication in the new envisaged ecosystem, to manage the complexity of heterogeneous devices and access technologies, and to guarantee robust, ubiquitous, and secure connectivity over the urban environments.

In line with such objectives, original contributions are solicited in topics of interest including, but not limited to, the following:
• Models of network components' interactions on a smart-city
• Self-organizing wireless networks for pervasive urban access;
• Distributed Sensing and Control in Smart Cities;
• Mobile-aware cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches for smart cities
• Smartphone-based sensing systems, tools, applications in Smart City environments;
• Smartphone and mobile systems and applications;
• Cyber-physical interactions with smartphones;
• Crowd sourcing in smart cities;
• IoT architectures and middleware for smart cities;
• Novel communication protocols for M2M Communications;
• Device-2-Device Communications (D2D);
• Dynamic trust management models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
• Cooperation incentive models for Smartphone based networks and applications;
• Reliability, Security, Privacy and Trust in smart cities ecosystems;
• Business model to promote users collaboration and resources sharing in smart cities ecosystems;
• Testbed demonstrating the feasibility of Smartphone based networks and interaction with Cyber physical Systems;
• Applications, Business, Standards, and Social Issue;
• Cooperative Smart Objects supporting Wireless Networks Interoperability and Management

All accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

Submission Instructions:
Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical paper by the deadline of 27th March 2016. Submissions will be accepted through EDAS (https://edas.info/N22207 <https://edas.info/N22207>). All submissions must be written in English and be at most six (6) printed pages in length, including figures.
For full details, please visit the following website: http:www.ieee-secon.org/cowper <http://www.ieee-secon.org/cowper>

TPC Co-Chairs
Valeria LOSCRI', Inria Lille-Nord Europe, FUN, France
Giuseppe RUGGERI, Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
Zhengguo SHENG, University of Sussex, UK.
Athanasios, VASILAKOS, Lulea University of Technology Sweden

(Potential) TPC Members:
DavideAdami - CNIT-University of Pisa, Italy
Jesus Alonso-Zarate - CTTC: Centre TecnològicTelecomunicacions Catalunya, Spain
Luca Bedogni - Univesity of Bologna – Italy
Orazio Briante - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
Marcos FagundesCaetano - Universityof Brasilia, Brasil
Claudia Campolo - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
Marco Di Felice - University of Bologna,Italy
Yaser P. Fallah - West Virginia University (WVU), USA
HassanGhasemzadeh - Washington State University, USA
Stefano Giordano - Universityof Pisa, Italy
XipingHu - The university of British Columbia, Canada
Antonio Iera - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
Hao Liang - University of Alberta, Canada
Annamaria Mandalari - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain
Pietro Manzoni - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Liang Ma - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA
NathalieMitton - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Antonella Molinaro - Universityof Reggio Calabria, Italy
Enrico Natalizio - Compiegne Technology University, France
SemaOktug -Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan -International Islamic University (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
TahiryRazafindralambo - Inria Lille-Nord Europe / FUN, France
Pratap Kumar Sahu - University of Montreal, Canada
Anna Maria Vegni - Universityof Roma Tre, Italy
RangaRaoVenkatesha Prasad - EWI – TUDelft, The Netherlands


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:48:22 +0200
From: "Dijk Thomas" <thomas.van.dijk@uni-wuerzburg.de>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Call for abstracts EOM 2016 - International Workshop
on Exploring Old Maps
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International Workshop on Exploring Old Maps (EOM 2016)
June 8, 2016 *** University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval
https://exploringoldmaps.uni.lu
(co-located with DH Benelux<http://www.dhbenelux.org/>)

DESCRIPTION
Many libraries own an extensive collection of historical maps. Beside their value as historical objects, these maps are
an important source of information for researchers in various scientific disciplines. This ranges from the actual
history of cartography and general history to the geographic and social sciences. With the progressing digitisation of
libraries and archives, these maps become more easily available to a larger public. A basic level of digitisation
consists of scanned bitmap images, tagged with some basic bibliographic information such as title, author and year of
production. In order to make the maps more accessible, further metadata describing the contained information is
desirable. This would enable more user-friendly interfaces, relevant queries of a database, and automatic analyses.

TARGETED AUDIENCE
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for the communication of results (which may appear elsewhere) that
may be useful to the community. Researchers and practitioners of all areas working on unlocking the content of old maps
are welcome to participate. We welcome humanities scholars, developers, computer and information scientists as well as
librarians, archivists and curators. Submissions are welcome from researchers at all career stages.

SCOPE OF INTEREST
Relevant topics are (but are not limited to) the following:
* Spatial analysis and applications of GIS concerning old maps
* Design and application of algorithms for analysis and visualisation methods
* Digital media, digitisation, curation of digital objects
* Crowdsourcing, user research, citizen science, and public humanities
* Digital Libraries for old maps
* Visualisation of old maps
* Virtual Research Environments and Infrastructures

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
* Wolfgang Crom, Head of Map Department, Staatsbibliothek Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Germany)
* Catherine Jones, Digital Humanities Lab Coordinator, CVCE - Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe
(Luxembourg)
* Petr Pridal, CEO, Klokan Technologies (Switzerland)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for presentations, posters and demonstrations.

The workshop will not have formal proceedings. Therefore, abstracts submitted to the EOM 2016 may report on work in
progress, be submitted to other places, and they may even already have appeared or been accepted elsewhere. We
particularly welcome submissions that have the potential to stimulate the collaboration between Humanities and Computer
Science. The reviewing process will mainly determine whether a submitted abstract promises to fit into the scope of this
workshop. Based on the review and its mandate to create a balanced and varied program, the Program Committee will decide
about the acceptance of submissions.

The authors of the papers accepted for EOM 2016 will be invited to submit the final versions of their abstracts for
on-line publication in the digital workshop booklet. Abstracts must be submitted to EOM 2016 via
EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eom2016>. Each submission must specify its type in the EasyChair
submission form. The abstracts must not exceed 2 pages and the second page must contain only references and figures. All
submissions must use the provided Word or LaTeX
template<http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html> in DIN A4. Abstracts for
demonstrations should include descriptive screenshots and a description of the system's functionalities.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions of abstracts: Sunday, 24 April 2016 (hard deadline)
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Workshop Exploring Old Maps: Wednesday, 8 June 2016


ORGANISATION
Program Chairs
* Christoph Schommer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg
* Thomas van Dijk, Dept. of Co* Geoffrey Caruso, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Luxembourg
* Jacob Mendt, Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB)
* Thomas Schwotzer, Applied Computer Science, HTW Berlin
* Alexander Wolff, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg

Organisation Committee
* Benedikt Budig, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Wuerzburg
* Winfried Hoehn, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg
* Anita Lucchesi, Dept. of Humanities, University of Luxembourg
* Christoph Schommer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Luxembourg

VENUE
The workshop will take place at the University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval.
Address:
Maison du Savoir, 3rd floor
2, Avenue de l'Université
L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette

EOM 2016 is co-located with the Digital Humanities Benelux Conference, which takes place on June 9-10, 2016.

CONTACT
The workshop's website is available at https://exploringoldmaps.uni.lu.
For any question concerning the workshop, please feel free to contact exploringoldmaps@uni.lu.

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Today's Topics:

1. GECCO 2016: Hot-Off-the-Press Track (Benjamin Doerr)
2. TAMC 2016 - Deadline extended to April 20, 2016 (Sun,Xiaoming)
3. Call for papers - CP 2016 Music Track (22th International
Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming)
(Dorien Herremans)
4. [ACM CHANTS 2016] First Call for Papers (Elisabetta Biondi)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:01:56 +0200
From: Benjamin Doerr <doerr@lix.polytechnique.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] GECCO 2016: Hot-Off-the-Press Track
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**** GECCO 2016: Hot-Off-the-Press Track ****

2016 ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016)
July 20-24, 2016, Denver, Colorado, USA
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/

Hot-Off-the-Press Track
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Hot+off+the+Press
Track chair: Benjamin Doerr, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Deadline: April 10, 2016
NEW: Abstracts appear in the proceedings companion


The Hot-Off-the-Press track offers authors of recent papers the
opportunity to present their work to the GECCO community, both by giving
a talk on one of the three main days of the conference and by having a
2-page abstract appear in the proceedings companion, in which also the
workshop papers, late-breaking abstracts, and tutorials appear.

We invite researchers to submit summaries of their own work recently
published in top-tier conferences and journals. Contributions are
selected based on their scientific quality and their relevance to the
GECCO community. Typical contributions include (but are not limited to)
evolutionary computation papers appeared at venues different from GECCO,
papers comparing different heuristics and optimization methods that
appeared at a general heuristics or optimization venue, papers
describing applications of evolutionary methods that appeared at venues
of this application domain, or papers describing methods with relevance
to the GECCO community that appeared at a venue centered around this
methods domain. In any case, it is the author's responsibility to make
clear why this work is relevant for the GECCO community, and to present
the results in a language accessible to the GECCO community.

The deadline for submission is April 10, 2016. For the precise rules of
the track and the submission procedure, please consult the track page at
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/index.html/Hot+off+the+Press


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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 07:39:26 +0800
From: "Sun,Xiaoming" <sunxiaoming@ict.ac.cn>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] TAMC 2016 - Deadline extended to April 20, 2016
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The 13th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of
Computation

http://cs.xidian.edu.cn/tamc2016/

Xi'an, China July 20-22, 2016

Welcome to The 13th annual conference on Theory and Applications of Models
of Computation (TAMC), which will take place at Xi'an, China from 20th to
22nd, July, 2016. The event is supported by School of Computer Science and
Technology and School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University.

Venue

Tangcheng Hotel

South Hanguang Road #229

Xi'an, China

All major events take place in this building. There is a fully equipped
lecture hall with a capacity for 200 attendees as well as a series of
lecture rooms, each of which can support 50 attendees. Of course, all
participants of TAMC-16 will have free internet access during the
conference.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: 11:59 pm EST April 20, 2016

Notification of authors: May 31, 2016

Final versions deadline: June 15, 2016

Post Conference Publications

A special issue of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences devoted to a
select set of accepted papers of the conference is planned.

Submission of Papers

Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper). The
submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and
results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work.The
length of the extended abstract should not exceed ten (10) letter-sized
pages (not including bibliography and appendices.) Submitted papers must
describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted
simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings.

Please be advised that TAMC will consider submissions by the PC members
(those submissions will be assigned to another PC member to be reviewed).

The submission server is now available at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tamc16

Conference Chair

Jianfeng Ma (Xidian University)

Zhiyong Liu (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Programme Committee Chair

Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin)

Programme Committee Co-Chairs

Jiangtao Cui (Xidian University)

Xiaoming Sun (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of
Sciences)

Steering Committee

Manindra Agrawal

Jin-Yi Cai

Barry Cooper

John Hopcroft

Angsheng Li

Zhiyong Liu

Local Organising Committee

Jianfeng Ma http://web.xidian.edu.cn/jfma/

Jiangtao Cui http://web.xidian.edu.cn/cuijt/

Hui Li http://web.xidian.edu.cn/hli/

Aims and Scope

TAMC 2016 aims at bringing together a wide range of researchers with
interests in computational theory and applications. The main themes of the
conference are computability, complexity, algorithms, models of computation
and systems theory. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:

Algebraic computation

Algorithmic coding theory

Algorithmic number theory

Approximation algorithms

Automata theory

Circuit complexity

Combinatorial algorithms computability

Computational biology, and biological computing

Computational complexity [including circuits, communication,
derandomization, PCPs, proof complexity, structural complexity]

Computational game theory

Computational logic

Computational geometry

Continuous and real computation

Cryptography

Data structures

Design and analysis of algorithms

Distributed algorithms

Domain models [Assets, Price of Abstraction, frameworks]

Fixed parameter tractability

Geometric algorithms

Graph algorithms

Information and communication complexity

Learning theory

Memory hierarchy tradeoffs

Model theory for computing [modal and temporal logics, specification,
verification, synthesis or automated software construction, aesthetics,
software behavior, transformation of models]

Natural computation

Nature inspired computing

Networks in nature and society

Network algorithms optimization

Online algorithms

Parallel algorithms

Philosophy of computing [emerging paradigms, morality, intentionality]

Privacy and security

Property testing

Proof complexity

Process models [for software construction, validating software under
construction, supply-chain]

Quantum computing

Randomness pseudorandomness

Randomized algorithms

Space - time tradeoffs

Streaming algorithms

Systems theory [Concurrent, Timed, Hybrid and Secure systems]

VLSI Models of Computation [Models for Hardware - Software Co-design]


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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 13:06:18 +0100
From: Dorien Herremans <dorien.herremans@gmail.com>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Call for papers - CP 2016 Music Track (22th
International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2016 International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming (CP 2016)
ABSTRACTS
September 5-9, 2016, Toulouse, France

Submission deadline: April 13th, 2016
http://cp2016.a4cp.org/
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The International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint
Programming will take place in Toulouse, France, from September 5th to
September 9th 2016. It will include a special Music Track.

This is the 22nd edition of the annual conference on all aspects of
computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments,
languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making,
resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. The Association
for Constraint Programming <http://www.a4cp.org> has a list of previous
conferences <http://www.a4cp.org/events/cp-conference-series> in this
series.

The CP 2016 program will include presentations of high quality scientific
papers on constraints technology. In addition to the usual technical track,
the CP 2016 conference will feature thematic tracks. Each track has a
specific sub-committee to make sure that competent reviewers will review
the papers submitted by people of these domains.

A number of invited talks on important topics relevant to the field will
also be presented. Beyond the usual workshop
<http://cp2016.a4cp.org/program/workshops/>, tutorial
<http://cp2016.a4cp.org/program/tutorials/> and doctoral programs, we will
repeat the published paper track in which important results that have
recently appeared in journals or sister conferences will be presented, the
journal publication fast track for outstanding submissions, and the
industry outreach program. Finally, we introduce this year a challenge
based on a realistic industrial grade optimization problem.
Music Track

Since its early beginning, Constraint Programming has a long history of
musical applications, like automatic harmonization, rhythm generation
tools, musical generation in a given style, constraint languages for music,
etc. The music track welcomes articles on any kind of musical application,
including (but not restricted to): music or sound generation or processing,
music modelling or analysis, generation of a particular musical aspect
(chords, notes, rhythms, etc.) of a musical piece, etc. On the CP side, we
welcome submissions for any kind of CP techniques, whether they are used in
a classical way (solving) or a less classical way (modelling languages, use
of CP solving traces, auralization, etc.).

submission instructions <http://cp2016.a4cp.org/dates/all-tracks.html>

*Importante dates:*
• Abstract submission deadline: April 13 2016
• Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2016 / April 22
• Provisional reviews to authors: May 22, 2016
• Author feedback: May 26, 2016
• Acceptance/rejection notification: June 6, 2016
• Camera ready version: June 20, 2015

*Program committee:*
• Gérard Assayag, IRCAM, France
• Mathieu Giraud, CNRS, France
• Dorien Herremans, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Justin Pearson, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Camilo Rueda, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Cali, Colombia
• Örjan Sandred, University of Manitoba, Canada


--
Dorien Herremans, PhD

Queen Mary University of London
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
C4DM - Centre for Digital Music, London

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:34:01 +0200
From: Elisabetta Biondi<chants16_publicity@iit.cnr.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] [ACM CHANTS 2016] First Call for Papers
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===============================================================================
===============================================================================

ACM CHANTS 2016 - 11th Workshop on Challenged Networks

co-located with ACM MobiCom 2016
October 3-7, 2016, New York, USA

www.acm-chants.org

===============================================================================
===============================================================================


Challenged networks comprise those situations where communication is desired,
but traditional Internet architectures fail to provide it effectively. Such
networks may be characterized by intermittent connectivity, a heterogeneous mix
of nodes, frequent nodal churn, and widely varying network conditions. Examples
of challenged networks include deployments in rural and remote areas, networks
to support emergency response operations, inter-planetary networks, sensor and
wildlife monitoring networks, underwater networks, road vehicle networks, and,
more recently, networks of micro aerial vehicles. The applications of challenged
networks range from time-critical communications such as for disaster relief to
delay-tolerant transmission in poorly connected regions or where censorship
should be counteracted. However, challenged networking has also found many
applications in everyday settings, for which they were not initially conceived,
such as opportunistic networking supporting data-centric communications, traffic
offloading from cellular networks, mobile cloud/edge computing, opportunistic
and participatory sensing, challenged IoT. The increasing availability of
wireless communications in embedded devices as well as integration of
technologies such as Wi-Fi direct on Android platforms and LTE's D2D
(device-to-device) communication on general purpose mobile devices, will further
push the development of challenged networking solutions. Challenged networking
has also chartered new directions for inter-disciplinary research, e.g.,
applying findings from social networks and network science.

This workshop builds on the success of the ten previous CHANTS workshops, and
WDTN 2005, and aims to stimulate research on the most novel topics of challenged
networking research. This year's edition encourages submission of theoretical
and experimental work (including studies of real deployment), with a primary
interest in the **new directions of challenged networking such as mobile
cloud/mobile edge computing, IoT, mobile data offloading, and challenged SDN**.
The workshop seeks original work presented in the form of research papers
describing new research approaches and results, as well as demo submissions.
Highly disruptive work-in-progress and position papers are also welcome,
provided they focus on particularly innovative, out-of-the-box, solutions or
applications for challenged networks. All papers shall be forward-looking,
describe their relationship to existing work, and shall argue their impact and
implications for ongoing or future research.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Delay/disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), opportunistic communication and computing
- Architecture, design, and implementation of communication systems for challenged networks
- Modeling, analysis, and characterization of challenged networks and protocols
- Challenged networking techniques for mobile cloud computing
- Mobile data offloading via challenged networks
- Challenged networking techniques for participatory and opportunistic sensing
- Challenged networking in the Internet of Things
- Big data analytics in challenged networking
- Software-defined networking in challenged environments
- Security/trust/privacy concerns and solutions in challenged networks
- Energy-efficient communication in challenged networks
- Information centric and content-centric networking in challenged networks
- Real-world mobility trace collection, analysis, and modeling for challenged environments
- Network science methods for challenged networks
- Network coding in challenged networks
- Novel challenged networking systems (e.g., networks of micro aerial vehicles)
- Real deployment and case studies in various stages of use
- Disrupted scenarios for challenged networks (e.g., disaster relief and emergency management)
- Daily use applications (e.g., mobile social networking, crowdsourcing, censorship evasion, sensor networks, smart cities)
- Test and simulation tools for evaluating challenged network systems
- Configuration, management, and monitoring of challenged networks.

PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
----------------------------------------
Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 pages, and should adhere to the
standard ACM conference proceedings format. Demo proposals (to be published as
part of the proceedings) must not be longer than 2 pages plus 1 page description
of the precise setup and requirements (the 1-page setup description will not be
published in the proceedings). Reviews will be single-blinded. Papers should
neither have been published elsewhere nor being currently under review by
another conference or journal.


EDITORIAL FOLLOW-UPS
--------------------
Extended versions of the selected workshop papers will be considered for
possible fast track publication on the Computer Communications Journal
(Elsevier), in a special section on Challenged Networks.

IMPORTANT DATES
---------------

- Abstract Registration: 25 May 2016
- Submission Deadline: 1 June 2016
- Acceptance Notification: 6 July 2016
- Camera Ready Due: 20 July 2016


PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS
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Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Marcelo Dias de Amorim (UPMC and CNRS, France)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Kevin Almeroth (UC-Santa Barbara, USA)
Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)
Guohong Cao (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Marco Cello (Nokia Bell Labs)
Vania Conan (Thales Communications & Security, France)
Luis Costa (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Do Young Eun (North Carolina State University, USA)
Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)
Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews, UK)
Andrea Hess (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Pan Hui (Hong Kong Unive. of Science and Technology)
Karin Anna Hummel (JKU Linz, Austria)
Mohan Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
Kyunghan Lee (UNIST, Korea)
Anders Lindgren (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)
Mirco Musolesi (University College London, UK)
Katia Obraczka (UC Santa Cruz, USA)
Melek Onen (Eurecom, France)
Joerg Ott (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany)
Elena Pagani (Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)
Eric Rozner (IBM Research, USA)
Pavlos Sermpezis (FORTH, Greece)
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (Eurecom, France)
Stavros Toumpis (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece)
Thierry Turletti (INRIA, France)
Yu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
Eiko Yoneki (University of Cambridge, UK)
Xiaolan Zhang (Fordham University, USA)

WEB CHAIR
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Fehmi Ben Abdesslem (SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden)

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Elisabetta Biondi (IIT-CNR, Italy)

STEERING COMMITTEE
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Kevin Almeroth (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
Kevin Fall (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stephen Farrell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Jorg Ott (Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany)
Andrea Passarella (IIT-CNR, Italy)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 08:59:29 +0000
From: Uwe Aickelin <Uwe.Aickelin@nottingham.edu.cn>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [DMANET] Job Opportunity
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Reference: UNNC428

Closing Date: Monday, 4th April 2016

Job Type: Research & Teaching

Department: Opportunities at the University of Nottingham in Ningbo China

Salary: £34576 to £46414 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.

Join a unique British University in China. The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) was the first Sino-foreign university to open its doors in China. This award winning campus offering a UK style education has grown to establish a student body of over 6,000 in just 10 years.

Applications are invited for the above post in the School of Computer Science within the Faculty of Science & Engineering based at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. The School of Computer Science at UNNC is part of the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK, which is ranked among the top UK Computer Science departments (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/). The School at UNNC is expanding and is introducing a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate computer science programmes. Supported by major research grants, the School of Computer Science at UNNC is developing strong research in areas including Big Data and Visual Analytics, Computational Intelligence, Software Implementation and Testing, and Visual Information Processing.

Candidates must have a PhD (or be very close to obtain a PhD) in computer science or closely related disciplines such as engineering and mathematical sciences, together with an established track record in high quality research. The ability to attract external research funding is a distinct advantage. Teaching and tutorial experience in Computer Science subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate level in an international English-speaking institution is also essential.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to teaching and curriculum development for undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, participate in assessing and examining students, supervise PhD students, perform high quality research and obtain external research grants.

Salary will be within the range of £34,576 - £46,414 per annum depending on qualifications and experience (salary progression beyond this is subject to performance). In addition, an attractive package including accommodation allowance, travel allowance and insurance will be provided for international appointments.

The post will initially be offered on a fixed term contract with the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China for a period of up to 5 years with effect from 1 September 2016. This contract may be extended on an indefinite basis by mutual agreement, subject to revised terms and conditions.

ALL applicants are required to formally apply online (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies) for the position.

Informal enquiries regarding these vacancies may be addressed to:

Professor Guoping Qiu, Head of School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. Email: guoping.qiu@nottingham.edu.cn<mailto:guoping.qiu@nottingham.edu.cn> Please note that applications sent directly to this address will not be accepted. Applications must be submitted on-line.

Interviews will take place in Ningbo, China and your referees will be contacted prior to interview.

For more details and/or to apply on-line please access: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/jobs/currentvacancies/ref/UNNC428 you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, Tel: +86 8818 1454. Please quote ref. UNNC428. Closing date: 4 April 2016


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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:50:29 +0100
From: Martin Loebl <loebl@kam.mff.cuni.cz>
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Subject: [DMANET] Assistant Professorship in Computer Science-
Analytic Combinatorics, Charles University, Prague
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Applications
are invited for a 3-year position as Assistant Professor in Computer
Science with specialization in Analytic Combinatorics at the Department
of
Applied Mathematics (KAM), Faculty of Mathematics
and Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, with the
possibility of renewal and shift to tenure track.

Candidates should have a PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science or
Operations Research, and demonstrate strong potential for excellence in
research.

The successful candidate will be expected to conduct research related
to
analytic and structural combinatorics, graph theory, probabilistic
methods
and analysis of algorithms.

The successful applicant will teach in English and within three
years also in Czech, topics mainly from mathematical analysis, discrete
mathematics and computer science. Good knowledge of Czech is
advantageous
but not necessary.

Desirable are a previous postdoc in combinatorics and strong background
in
analytic methods and graph theory.

Signed application in paper form, accompanied by curriculum vitae,
proof
of education, list of publications, and a description of pedagogical
experience should be sent to the Personnel Department of the MFF UK, Ke
Karlovu 3, 121 16 Prague 2, Czech Republic, by April 30; early
application is encouraged. The candidates should also arrange for two
recommendation letters to be sent electronically to
Martin Loebl (head of KAM) loebl@kam.mff.cuni.cz

The official announcement is at
http://www.mff.cuni.cz/fakulta/prace/20160308-kam.htm

Selected candidates will be invited for interview in May.

Department web page:
http://kam.mff.cuni.cz/


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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:09:25 +0000
From: Per Kristian Lehre <PerKristian.Lehre@nottingham.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] CFE: Awards for Human-Competitive Results Produced
by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
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Call For Entries
for 13th Annual (2016) "Humies" Awards
for Human-Competitive Results
Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
www.human-competitive.org

To be Held at
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO)
July 20-24, 2016 (Wednesday-Sunday)
Denver, Colorado

http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org
http://www.human-competitive.org

Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for
human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of
genetic and evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to
genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies,
evolutionary programming, learning classifier systems, grammatical
evolution, gene expression programming, differential evolution, etc.)
and that have been published in the open literature between the
deadline for the previous competition and the deadline for the current
competition.

The competition will be held as part of the 2016 Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference operated by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG)
on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). Presentations of
entries will be made at the conference. The winners of the awards
will be announced during the conference. See
http://gecco-2016.sigevo.org/

IMPORTANT DATES:

Monday June 1, 2016 Deadline for entries (consisting of one TEXT file
and one or more PDF files). Send entries to
koza at human-competitive dot org

Monday June 22, 2016 Finalists will be notified by e-mail

Thursday July 6, 2016 Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g.,
PowerPoint, PDF) for posting on the competition web site. Send
presentations to koza at human-competitive dot org

July 20-24,2016 (Wednesday-Sunday) The GECCO conference

Wednesday July 20, 2016 (TENTATIVE) Presentations before judging
committee at public session of the GECCO conference

Sunday July 24, 2015 (TENTATIVE) Announcement of awards at plenary
session of the GECCO conference


JUDGING COMMITTEE

- Erik Goodman
- Una-May O'Reilly
- Wolfgang Banzhaf
- Darrell Whitley
- Lee Spector


CALL FOR ENTRIES

Techniques of genetic and evolutionary computation are being
increasingly applied to difficult real-world problems - often yielding
results that are not merely academically interesting, but competitive
with the work done by creative and inventive humans. Starting at the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in 2004, cash
prizes have been awarded for human-competitive results that had been
produced by some form of genetic and evolutionary computation in the
previous year.

This prize competition is based on published results. The publication
may be a paper at the GECCO conference (i.e., regular paper, poster
paper, or any other full-length paper), a paper published anywhere in
the open literature (e.g., another conference, journal, technical
report, thesis, book chapter, book), or a paper in final form that has
been unconditionally accepted by a publication and is in press (that
is, the entry must be identical to something that will be published
imminently without any further changes). The publication may not be
an intermediate or draft version that is still subject to change or
revision by the authors or editors. The publication must meet the
usual standards of a scientific publication in that it must clearly
describe a problem, the methods used to address the problem, the
results obtained, and sufficient information about how the work was
done in order to enable the work described to be independently
replicated.

An automatically created result is considered "human-competitive" if
it satisfies at least one of the eight criteria below.

(A) The result was patented as an invention in the past, is an
improvement over a patented invention, or would qualify today as a
patentable new invention.

(B) The result is equal to or better than a result that was accepted
as a new scientific result at the time when it was published in a
peer-reviewed scientific journal.

(C) The result is equal to or better than a result that was placed
into a database or archive of results maintained by an internationally
recognized panel of scientific experts.

(D) The result is publishable in its own right as a new scientific
result independent of the fact that the result was mechanically
created.

(E) The result is equal to or better than the most recent
human-created solution to a long-standing problem for which there has
been a succession of increasingly better human-created solutions.

(F) The result is equal to or better than a result that was considered
an achievement in its field at the time it was first discovered.

(G) The result solves a problem of indisputable difficulty in its
field.

(H) The result holds its own or wins a regulated competition involving
human contestants (in the form of either live human players or
human-written computer programs).

Contestants should note that a pervasive thread in most of the above
eight criteria is the notion that the result satisfy an "arms length"
standard - not a yardstick based on the opinion of the author, the
author's own institution (educational or corporate), or the author's
own close associates. "Arms length" may be established in numerous
ways. For example, if the result is a solution to "a long-standing
problem for which there has been a succession of increasingly better
human-created solutions," it is clear that the scientific community
(not the author, the author's own institution, or the author's close
associates) have vetted the significance of the problem. Similarly, a
problem's significance may be established if the result replicates or
improves upon a scientific result published in a peer-reviewed
scientific journal, replicates or improves upon a previously patented
invention, constitutes a patentable new invention, or replicates or
improves a result that was considered an achievement in its field at
the time it was first discovered. Similarly, a problem's significance
may be established if the result holds its own or wins a regulated
competition involving live human players or human-written computer
programs. In each of the foregoing examples, the standard for
human-competitiveness is being established external to the author, the
author's own institution, or the author's close associates. It is also
conceivable to rely only on criterion G ("The result solves a problem
of indisputable difficulty in its field"); however, if only criterion
G is claimed, there must be a clear and convincing argument that the
problem's "difficulty" is indeed "indisputable."

The competition will be held as part of the annual Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference. Presentations of entries
are to be made at the conference. The awards and prizes will be
announced at the conference.

Cash prizes of $5,000 (gold), $3,000 (silver), and bronze (either one
prize of $2,000 or two prizes of $1,000) will be awarded for the best
entries that satisfy one or more of the criteria for
human-competitiveness. The awards will be divided equally among
co-authors unless the authors specify a different division at the time
of submission. Prizes are paid by check in U.S. dollars after the
GECCO conference. The judges may, based on submissions, rearrange the
prize amounts and prize categories within the total amount available
for prizes.

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENTERING THE "HUMIES"

If you plan to make an entry into this competition, please check the
web site at www.human-competitive.org for updated information and for
possible changes immediately prior to submitting your entry.

If you make an entry, please re-check the web site prior to the
conference for possible changes in the instructions or the schedule.

All entries are to be sent electronically to koza at human-competitive
dot org. All entries will be promptly acknowledged, so please make an
inquiry if you do not receive a reasonably prompt acknowledgment
shortly after your submission.

An entry must consist of one TEXT file and one or more PDF files. If
the same authors are making multiple entries, please submit separate
e-mails, each containing the required TEXT file and PDF file(s)
supporting the entry.

The TEXT file must contain the following 10 items. Please be very
careful to include ALL required information. Contestants are alerted
to the fact that items 6 and 9 are especially important and will be
the main basis by which entries will be judged. The papers and
presentations from earlier competitions (starting in 2004) are posted
at the competition web site at www.human-competitive.org. These
previous entries may be informative and helpful in crafting your
entry.

1. the complete title of one (or more) paper(s) published in the open
literature describing the work that the author claims describes a
human-competitive result;

2. the name, complete physical mailing address, e-mail address, and
phone number of EACH author of EACH paper(s);

3. the name of the corresponding author (i.e., the author to whom
notices will be sent concerning the competition);

4. the abstract of the paper(s);

5. a list containing one or more of the eight letters (A, B, C, D, E,
F, G, or H) that correspond to the criteria (see above) that the
author claims that the work satisfies;

6. a statement stating why the result satisfies the criteria that the
contestant claims (see examples of statements of human-competitiveness
as a guide to aid in constructing this part of the submission);

7. a full citation of the paper (that is, author names; publication
date; name of journal, conference, technical report, thesis, book, or
book chapter; name of editors, if applicable, of the journal or edited
book; publisher name; publisher city; page numbers, if applicable);

8. a statement either that "any prize money, if any, is to be divided
equally among the co-authors" OR a specific percentage breakdown as to
how the prize money, if any, is to be divided among the co-authors;

9. a statement stating why the authors expect that their entry would
be the "best," and

10. An indication of the general type of genetic or evolutionary
computation used, such as GA (genetic algorithms), GP (genetic
programming), ES (evolution strategies), EP (evolutionary
programming), LCS (learning classifier systems), GE (grammatical
evolution), GEP (gene expression programming), DE (differential
evolution), etc.

The PDF file(s) are to contain the paper(s). The strongly preferred
method is that you send a separate PDF file for each of your paper(s)
relating to your entry. Both the text file and the PDF file(s) for
each entry will be permanently posted on a web page shortly after the
deadline date for entries (for use by the judges, conference
attendees, and anyone else who is interested) and will remain posted
on the web as a permanent record of the competition. If your paper is
only available on the publisher's web site and your publisher
specifically requires that your published paper may appear only on
your own personal page, the second choice is that you send link(s) to
a separate web page on your web site containing link(s) to the PDF
file(s) of the paper(s) that constitute your entry. This separate web
page is to contain nothing else, so the interested parties may quickly
locate your paper(s). If you use this second-choice option, you must
ALSO supply a link to a permanent web site maintained by your
publisher where your specific paper may be viewed or purchased (that
is, not a link merely to the publisher's general home page, but a link
to the specific web page containing your paper on the publisher's
site). The objective, in each case, is to provide a permanent record
of the entries and to make it easy for anyone to locate your material.

Generally, only one paper should be submitted. Note that this is a
competition involving a result that satisfies the criteria for being
human-competitive (not a competition involving an evaluation of the
author's entire body of work). More than one paper should be
submitted only if no single paper fully describes the specific result
or method.

The judging committee will review all entries and identify a short
list for presentation at the GECCO conference. Finalists will be
notified by an e-mail to the corresponding author. Please acknowledge
receipt of this message, so the judges know that you received your
notice. Finalists must then make a short oral presentation to the
judging committee at a public session of the GECCO conference. The
presentations will be held on one of the early days of the conference,
and the winners will be announced a day or two later at the
conference.

Finalists must submit their presentation (e.g., a PowerPoint, PDF) by
e-mail to koza at human-competitive dot org. All submissions will be
promptly acknowledged, so please make an inquiry if you do not receive
a reasonably prompt acknowledgment. These presentations will be posted
on the web page for the competition.

At the GECCO conference, there will be 10-minute oral presentations by
the finalists to the judging committee. The presentations will be
open to all conference attendees at a special session of the
conference. The oral presentation should primarily focus on

1. why the result qualifies as being human-competitive and

2. why the judges should consider the entry as "best" in comparison to
other entries that may also be "human-competitive" (because, as
previously mentioned, these are the two main standards by which
entries will be judged by the judges).

In the short oral presentation to the judges, a description of the
work itself is decidedly secondary. By the time of the presentation
the judges will be familiar with the papers. Thus, the focus of the
presentation is on reasons why the work being presented should win a
prize - not an explanation or presentation of the work itself.

In the unlikely event that a presenter is scheduled to make a
presentation elsewhere at the GECCO conference at the same time,
please notify the judging committee, so they can rearrange time slots.

After the oral presentations, the award committee will meet and
consider the presentations.

The presenting author for each entry must register for the GECCO
conference.

A judge will recuse himself or herself if he or she is closely
associated with a finalist (e.g., a current academic advisor, current
collaborator, co-author with the finalist of related work).

Additional information is at www.human-competitive.org


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