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Today's Topics:
1. PhD position "Robust Spanner Networks in the Face of
Uncertainty" at TU Eindhoven (Kevin Buchin)
2. ETAPS 2017 1st call for papers (Tarmo Uustalu)
3. IPDPS 2017 - Call for workshops, deadline extended
(Ana Lucia Varbanescu)
4. 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2016):
Call for Industry Track Papers (Announce Announcements)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:36:54 +0200
From: Kevin Buchin <k.a.buchin@tue.nl>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] PhD position "Robust Spanner Networks in the Face of
Uncertainty" at TU Eindhoven
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*PhD position "Robust Spanner Networks in the Face of Uncertainty" at TU
Eindhoven*
We are looking for a strong, motivated PhD candidate with a background
in computer science and/or mathematics for a four-year project on the
intersection between algorithms and probability theory.
*Project description.*
Complex networks are ubiquitous and their failure has severe
consequences. Therefore robustness is an essential property of networks.
The quality of geometric networks like road networks is often measured
based on distances: a good network should provide relatively short
routes between the nodes of the network. Geometric spanners are networks
that have a relatively short route between any pair of nodes. In this
project we will analyze the robustness of geometric spanners under
random failures and develop algorithms to construct and augment spanners
that are robust to random failures. The project is part of the NETWORKS
program (see below) and is a joint project of the Algorithms Group and
the Probability and Statistics Group at the TU Eindhoven, under the
daily supervision of Kevin Buchin and Tim Hulshof, and additional
supervision of Mark de Berg and Remco van der Hofstad.
*Requirements.*
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate who has an MSc in
mathematics or computer science. The candidate should be interested in
algorithms as well as in probability theory, and preferably already have
a good background in at least one of these two areas.
*NETWORKS.*
NETWORKS is a 10-year research program funded by the Dutch Ministry of
Education, Culture and Science through the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research. The NETWORKS consortium consists of top researchers
from four different institutions: University of Amsterdam (UvA),
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Leiden University (UL) Center
for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI). The program started in the
summer of 2014 and covers a broad range of topics dealing with
stochastic and algorithmic aspects of networks. The aim of the programme
is to address the pressing challenges posed by large-scale networks with
the help of stochastics and algorithmics. See
http://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/ for more details.
Through the NETWORKS programme we offer various post-graduate
educational opportunities to our PhDs. This comes mainly in the form of
"Training Weeks", where one or more experts give an intensive week-long
course on a topic relevant to NETWORKS, as well as the opportunity for
PhDs to do a more extensive, guided internship in a different scientific
group (or company) associated with NETWORKS.
*The TU/e Algorithms Group.*
The algorithms group, headed by prof. Mark de Berg, performs fundamental
research in computational geometry, I/O-efficient algorithms, and FPT
and graph algorithms, with applications to, for instance, geographic
information systems. Currently the group consists of Mark de Berg, Kevin
Buchin, Herman Haverkort, and Bart Jansen, and several PhD students.
Hans Bodlaender (Utrecht University) is associated to the group as a
part-time professor.
*The TU/e Stochastics Section.*
The Stochastics section at the TU/e consists of about sixty people
divided into two groups focussing on Probability and Statistics, and on
Stochastic Operations Research, respectively. The Probability and
Statistics group is headed by professors Edwin van den Heuvel and Remco
van der Hofstad. Other members of the group are Rui Castro, Tim Hulshof,
Julia Komjathy, and Francesca Nardi, as well as several postdocs and PhD
students. The research interests of the group are varied, but the main
focus is on probabilistic and statistical aspects of networks, applied
statistics, machine learning, and statistical physics.
Associated with the Stochastics Section is the EURANDOM institute, which
hosts many international workshops on topics related to probability,
statistics and stochastic operations research throughout the year.
*The TU Eindhoven and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science*.
The TU Eindhoven (TU/e) was established in 1956 as a polytechnic. It has
grown into a university with nine faculties. The TU/e now has
approximately 3000 employees (incl. PhD students) and 8000 BSc and MSc
students. The Department of Computer Science offers several bachelor and
master programs, all of which are taught in English. It has eight
well-established research groups, one of which is the Algorithms Group.
The TU/e campus is in the center of Eindhoven. The city of Eindhoven is
located in the south of the Netherlands. It is a lively city with about
200,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city of the
Netherlands. Including suburbs the population is about 400,000.
Being a PhD student in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, every PhD
student gets paid a salary; no additional grants are needed. Moreover,
although PhD students sometimes take courses, there is no minimum
requirement. Hence, PhD students are more like employees than like
students. Indeed, the Dutch word for PhD student translates to "research
trainee". The work of a PhD student may include assisting in courses of
BSc or MSc programs of the department. This amounts to at most 20% of
the time; the remaining time is spent on research and research-related
activities. Foreign PhD students need not speak Dutch: it is easy to get
by with English, not only at the university but also in everyday life.
*We offer.*
We offer a PhD position on an exciting topic at the intersection of
algorithms and probability theory. The project will take place in a
strong and stimulating environment: the Algorithms Group and the
Probability and Statistics Group are among the largest and strongest
groups world-wide in their respective research areas, and the embedding
into the NETWORKS project offers great opportunities post-graduate
educational opportunities in the form of training weeks, workshops and
internships. Gross salary ranges from € 2.174 per month in the first
year increasing up to € 2.779 in the fourth year. The TU Eindhoven
offers a broad package of fringe benefits (e.g. excellent technical
infrastructure, child daycare and excellent sports facilities).
*Further information.*
For more information about the project or about the working conditions,
please contact Mark de Berg (mdberg@win.tue.nl
<mailto:mdberg@win.tue.nl>), or Kevin Buchin (k.a.buchin@tue.nl
<mailto:k.a.buchin@tue.nl> ).
*How to apply.*
Applications must be done through the Networks website:
http://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/15/PhD-position-on-project-%E2%80%9CRobust-Spanner-Networks-in-the-Face-of-Uncertainty%E2%80%9D-at-TU-Eindhoven
Your application should contain in a combined pdf: a letter of
motivation, CV and a list of courses and grades. In addition, please
provide one or (preferably) two letters of reference. These letters
should be sent directly (by the person providing the letter) to
info@thenetworkcenter.nl <mailto:info@thenetworkcenter.nl> . The subject
line of the email should be: "Letter of recommendation for ..." (with
the name of the applicant inserted).
*Closing Date.*Wed 31 Aug 2016
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:00:18 +0300
From: Tarmo Uustalu <tarmo@cs.ioc.ee>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] ETAPS 2017 1st call for papers
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JOINT CALL FOR PAPERS
20th European Joint Conferences on Theory And Practice of Software
ETAPS 2017
Uppsala, Sweden, 22-29 April 2017
http://www.etaps.org/2017
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-- ABOUT ETAPS --
ETAPS is the primary European forum for academic and industrial
researchers working on topics relating to software science. ETAPS,
established in 1998, is a confederation of five main annual
conferences, accompanied by satellite workshops. ETAPS 2017 is the
twentieth event in the series.
-- MAIN CONFERENCES (24-28 April) --
* ESOP: European Symposium on Programming
(PC chair Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford, UK)
* FASE: Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
(PC chairs Marieke Huisman, Universiteit Twente, The
Netherlands, and Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia,
Canada)
* FOSSACS: Foundations of Software Science
and Computation Structures
(PC chairs Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München,
Germany, Andrzej Murawski, University of Warwick, UK)
* POST: Principles of Security and Trust
(PC chairs Matteo Maffei, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany,
Mark D. Ryan, University of Birmingham, UK)
* TACAS: Tools and Algorithms for
the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(PC chairs Axel Legay, INRIA Rennes, France,
and Tiziana Margaria, LERO, Ireland)
TACAS '17 hosts the 6th Competition on Software Verification
(SV-COMP).
-- INVITED SPEAKERS --
* Unifying speakers:
Michael Ernst (University of Washington, USA)
Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, DK)
* FoSSaCS invited speaker:
Joel Ouaknine (University of Oxford, UK)
* TACAS invited speaker:
Dino Distefano (Facebook and Queen Mary University of London, UK)
-- IMPORTANT DATES --
* Abstracts due (ESOP, FASE, FoSSACS, TACAS): 14 October 2016
* Papers due: 21 October 2016
* Rebuttal (ESOP and FoSSaCS only): 7-9 December 2016
* Notification: 22 December 2016
* Camera-ready versions due: 20 January 2017
-- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS --
ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers
and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the
proceedings and have presentations during the conference.
ESOP and FoSSaCS accept only research papers.
A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one
of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation.
Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They
must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere (this
does not apply to abstracts). In particular, simultaneous submission
of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is
forbidden. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research
in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at
the URL
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
and be submitted electronically in pdf through the EasyChair author
interface of the respective conference.
Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be
rejected immediately.
FASE will use a light-weight double-blind review process (see
http://www.etaps.org/2017/fase).
- Research papers
FASE, FOSSACS and TACAS have a page limit of 15 pp (excluding
bibliography of max 2 pp) for research papers, whereas POST allows at
most 20 pp (excluding bibliography of max 2 pp) and ESOP 25 pp
(excluding bibliography of max 2 pp).
Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication
in the final version - for example, details of proofs - may be placed
in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page
limit. ETAPS referees are at liberty to ignore appendices and papers
must be understandable without them.
In addition to regular research papers, TACAS solicits also case study
papers (at most 15 pp, excluding bibliography of max 2 pp).
Both TACAS and FASE solicit also regular tool papers (at most 15 pp,
excluding bibliography of max 2 pp).
The rationale of a separate page limit for the bibliography is to
remove the possibility to win space for the body of a
paper by cutting the bibliography, a practise that has a negative
effect on our competitiveness as a community.
- Tool demonstration papers
Submissions should consist of two parts:
* The first part, at most 4 pages, should describe the tool
presented. Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and
provide information that illustrates the maturity and robustness of
the tool. (This part will be included in the proceedings.)
* The second part, at most 6 pages, should explain how the
demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including
screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the
proceedings, but will be evaluated.
ESOP and FOSSACS do not accept tool demonstration papers.
TACAS has a page limit of 6 pages for tool demonstrations.
-- SATELLITE EVENTS (22-23 April, 29 April) --
Around 20 satellite workshops will take place before and after the
main conferences.
-- HOST CITY --
Uppsala city holds a rich history, having for long periods
been the political, religious and academic centre of Sweden.
Uppsala University is over 500 years old and ranked among
the top 100 in the World and has hosted many great
scientists over the years, for instance Carl von Linné, Anders
Celsius and Anders Jonas Ångström. The proximity to the
capital of Sweden, Stockholm, provides additional benefits
as a potential site for arranging both pre- and post congress
tours, as well as for excursions or tourism.
-- HOST INSTITUTION --
ETAPS 2017 is hosted by the Department of Information Technology,
Uppsala University.
-- ORGANIZERS
Parosh Abdulla (General chair), Mohamed Faouzi Atig,
Andreina Francisco, Kaj Lampka, Philipp Rümmer, Konstantinos Sagonas,
Björn Victor, Wang Yi, Tjark Weber, Yunyun Zhu
-- FURTHER INFORMATION --
Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at
parosh.abdulla@it.uu.se, mohamed_faouzi.atig@it.uu.se
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:56:25 +0200
From: Ana Lucia Varbanescu <a.l.varbanescu@uva.nl>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IPDPS 2017 - Call for workshops, deadline extended
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25 July 2016 Release
IEEE IPDPS 2017 - 31st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed
Processing Symposium
May 29 – June 2, 2017
Buena Vista Palace Hotel
Orlando, Florida USA
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - Due ***10 August 2016*** (deadline extension)
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WORKSHOPS CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Bora Uçar (CNRS and ENS Lyon, France)
Erik Saule (University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA)
WORKSHOPS PROCEEDINGS CHAIR and VICE-CHAIR
Ramachandran Vaidyanathan (Louisiana State University, USA)
Kyle Chard (University of Chicago, USA)
WORKSHOPS COMMITTEE
Olivier Beaumont (Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest, France)
Sunita Chandrasekaran (University of Delaware, USA)
Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University, USA)
Chris J. Newburn (CJ) (Nvidia, USA)
Cynthia A. Philips (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Sivasankaran Rajamanickam (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
Min Si (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Alan Sussman (University of Maryland, USA)
Jesper Larsson Traff (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
IPDPS 2017 CALL FOR NEW WORKSHOPS
The proposals should contain the following information:
* Description: Provide brief description of the workshop, its scope and
topics; the list of organizers with the confirmed chair(s); the program
committee members (indicate whether the members have been confirmed);
and the important dates.
* Organizers: Provide a short vita of the organizers by listing the
current affiliation, position, and previous experience in organizing
other events including workshops/conferences/panels at IPDPS or other
venues.
* History: If re-running (earlier editions were held somewhere other
than IPDPS), provide general information by listing the name of the
workshop, the hosting conference, year, number of papers submitted,
number of papers accepted, number of attendees; if there were
posters/panels, their numbers and topics (for panels), and URL's of the
existing web pages.
* Targeted papers and audience: Provide information on targeted papers
and audience: (i) Where are the papers from (government labs,
universities, industry); (ii) What is the expected profile of the
participants (speakers + audience)? (iii) How will the workshop be
advertised?
* Format of the workshop: Provide a short overview of the format by
indicating if the workshop (i) will have peer reviewed papers in the
proceedings? (ii) will be half day or full day long? (iii) will have a
keynote talk? If yes, provide a tentative list of speakers; (iv) will
have a panel? If yes, provide the topic and the potential panelists?
WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT
The proposals can be submitted using the link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipdpsw2017proposals.
Submitted proposals may not exceed three (3) single-spaced double-column
pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference
style), including figures, tables, and references.
IPDPS 2017 UPDATE FOR EXISTING IPDPS WORKSHOPS
IPDPS Workshops from the preceding year(s) should apply for renewal. For
more information, please contact the workshops chair at workshops@ipdps.org.
REVIEW OF NEW WORKSHOP PROPOSALS and RENEWALS
All submitted proposals and renewal requests will be reviewed by the
workshops committee. Both new workshop proposals and renewal requests
are due 29 July 2016. Notification of final decisions for new proposals
and renewal requests are expected to be mailed on 2 September 2016.
ABOUT IPDPS WORKSHOPS
Held on the first and last day of the conference, IPDPS workshops
provide an extended forum that allows the IPDPS community an opportunity
to fully explore special topics and to present work that is more
preliminary and cutting-edge or that has more practical content than the
more mature research presented in the main symposium. Each workshop has
its own requirements and schedule for submissions. Workshop papers'
submission dates typically fall after the notification date for main
symposium papers. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the
conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital
Library after the conference.
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 13:30:16 +0300
From: Announce Announcements <announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM
2016): Call for Industry Track Papers
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FM 2016 Industry Track
part of the 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=ZG1hbmV0CQkJZG1hbmV0QHpwci51bmkta29lbG4uZGUJMjFzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIFN5bXBvc2l1bSBvbiBGb3JtYWwgTWV0aG9kcyAoRk0gMjAxNik6IENhbGwgZm9yIEluZHVzdHJ5IFRyYWNrIFBhcGVycwk1MQlMaXN0cwkyNDcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffm2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy%2Fcfpindustrytrack.html
Limassol, Cyprus, November 7-11, 2016
IMPORTANT DATES
* Industry Track Submission: July 31, 2016 (AoE)
* Industry Track Notification: August 22, 2016
* Industry Track Camera Ready: September 5, 2016
* Industry Track Date: November 10, 2016
CALL FOR INDUSTRY TRACK PAPERS
FM 2016 is the 21st in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together innovators and practitioners in precise mathematical methods for software and systems development, industrial users, as well as researchers. The industry track of FM 2016 welcomes short papers and extended abstracts describing industrial applications of formal methods, experience with introducing formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how the use of formal methods has overcome engineering and qualification problems, led to improvements in design or provided new insights.
A survey of industrial applications of formal methods has been conducted and is continuously being extended (now with more than 100 entries). It would be welcome if submissions to the industrial track also would take the time to supply an entry to this survey (http://fm2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy/img/EntryTemplate.xlsx). We hope during the industry track of FM 2016 to provide a new status of this survey so you will be able to see how your findings compare to others.
PAPER SUBMISSION
Industry track papers should not exceed 6 pages (including appendices and references) for short papers. Accepted short papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended abstracts of 2-4 pages are also welcome and will be added in a conference report.
Submitted papers (written in English) should not have been published or submitted elsewhere concurrently for publication, shall not contain any proprietary information that might hamper publication (to be checked and confirmed by author prior to submission) and should be in Springer's LNCS format. All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the industry track program committee. Accepted papers shall be presented at the conference in person by at least one of the authors of the paper. Papers should be submitted through the FM 2016 Industry Track EasyChair web site.
http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=ZG1hbmV0CQkJZG1hbmV0QHpwci51bmkta29lbG4uZGUJMjFzdCBJbnRlcm5hdGlvbmFsIFN5bXBvc2l1bSBvbiBGb3JtYWwgTWV0aG9kcyAoRk0gMjAxNik6IENhbGwgZm9yIEluZHVzdHJ5IFRyYWNrIFBhcGVycwk1MQlMaXN0cwkyNDcJY2xpY2sJeWVzCW5v&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dfm2016
(select "FM Industry Track" when adding a new submission)
A number of invited papers from the industry are also expected for presentation in the Industry track of FM 2016.
INDUSTRY TRACK PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Ewen Denney, NASA, US
Thai-Son Hoang, University of Southampton, UK
Ralf Huuck, NICTA, AU
Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, CY (co-chair)
Thomas Kropf, Bosch, DE
Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, FR
Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero, IE (co-chair)
Nico Plat, West Consulting BV, NL
Judi Romijn, Movares, NL
Andreas Roth, SAP, DE
Marcel Verhoef, European Space Agency, NL (co-chair)
Aneta Vulgarakis, Ericsson Research, SE
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