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Today's Topics:

1. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Optimisation/Operational Research
at Queen Mary, University of London (M Jerrum)
2. Second Call for Papers - SEA 2017 (Rajeev Raman)
3. IFORS 2017: Stream "Scheduling in Health Care" -- Call for
invited sessions -- Call for papers -- deadline February 10, 2017
(Roberto Aringhieri)
4. Preannouncement of 4th Erice Summer School on "Graph Theory,
Algorithms and Applications" (Giuseppe F. Italiano)
5. 9th International Conference on Computational Collective
Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and Special
Sessions & Workshops Proposals (Announce Announcements)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 22:59:20 +0000
From: M Jerrum <m.jerrum@qmul.ac.uk>
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Subject: [DMANET] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Optimisation/Operational
Research at Queen Mary, University of London
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The School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London is
advertising a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship in Optimisation/Operational
Research

https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobRef=QMUL10299

"Applications are invited for a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship
in Optimisation/Operational Research. We are seeking to appoint an outstanding
candidate with a track record of applying rigorous research methods to address
real-world problems. He or she will be expected to develop a research platform
and interact with one or more of the existing research groups in the School
of Mathematical Sciences, as well as the newly established Operational Research
Group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science."

The deadline for applications is 5th February 2017, and interviews are expected
to be held on 7th March 2017.


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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 08:49:22 +0800
From: Rajeev Raman <r.raman@mcs.le.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Second Call for Papers - SEA 2017
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Call for Papers

16th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2017)

June 21-23, 2017, London, United Kingdom

http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/SEA2017/

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SEA (Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously known as WEA
(Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is an international forum for
researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation
and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of
computational optimization and its applications. The preceding symposia
were held in Riga, Monte Verità, Rio de Janeiro, Santorini, Menorca Island,
Rome, Cape Cod, Dortmund, Ischia Island, Crete, Bordeaux, Rome, Copenhagen,
Paris, and St. Petersburg.

SEA aims to attract papers from both the CS and the OR/Mathematical
Programming communities.

The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and
of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of
algorithms and data structures. Submissions should present significant
contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological
issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of
(meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen
the understanding of the complexity of a problem.

In 2017 the proceedings of SEA will be published for the first time
in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)
open-access series.

IMPORTANT DATES

Times AoE (Anywhere on Earth):
Abstract submission: 6 February, 2017.
Full paper submission: 13 February, 2017.
Acceptance notification: 27 March, 2017.
Camera-ready version: 6 April, 2017.
Conference dates: June 21-23, 2017.

TOPICS
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Libraries
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Analysis of Algorithms
Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies
Approximation Techniques
Bioinformatics
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
Communication Networks
Complex Networks
Computational Geometry
Computational Learning Theory
Computational Optimization
Computer Systems
Cryptography and Security
Data Streams
Data Structures
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
Experimental Techniques and Statistics
Graph Drawing
Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning
Information Retrieval
Integer Programming
Logistics and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mathematical Programming
Metaheuristic Methodologies
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Network Analysis
Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
Online Problems
Parallel Algorithms and Computing
Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods
Randomized Techniques
Robotics
Semidefinite Programming
Simulation
Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms
Telecommunications and Networking
World-Wide-Web Algorithms


INVITED SPEAKERS

Graham Cormode (University of Warwick)
Martin Farach-Colton (Rutgers University)
Ruth Misener (Imperial College London)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Maike Buchin, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Christina Burt, University of Melbourne, Australia
Sandor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Irene Finocchi, University of Rome - La Sapienza, Italy
Ambros Gleixner, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Dominik Kempa, University of Helsinki, Finland
Nicole Megow, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Ulrich Meyer, Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Shin-Ichi Minato, Hokkaido University, Japan
Petra Mutzel, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile
Giuseppe Ottaviano, Facebook, USA
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Solon Pissis, King's College London, UK - co-chair
Simon J. Puglisi, University of Helsinki, Finland - co-chair
Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK - co-chair
Barna Saha, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Alassandra Sala, Nokia Bell Labs, Ireland
Sabine Storandt, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa, Italy
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Renato Werneck, Amazon, USA
Christos Zaroliagis, University of Patras, Greece

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract not exceeding
12 single-spaced pages, including references, figures, title, authors,
affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a short (one paragraph) abstract.
Authors are strongly advised to use the LaTeX style file supplied for
the LIPIcs style here:

https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors/

Final proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly
marked Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission
limit, can be included and will be read at the referees' discretion. Authors
are encouraged to include a link to the source code and/or datasets to increase
confidence in the reproducibility of their experiments; the code may be read
and/or executed at the referees' discretion.

All submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for
the conference at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2017

Papers submitted for review should present original, previously
unpublished work or surveys of important results. At the time the
extended abstract is submitted to SEA, and for the entire review period,
the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under review by
any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific
journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to
attend the conference and present the paper.

FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS

Web:http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/events/SEA2017/

--
Rajeev Raman (http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~rraman)

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 14:26:11 +0100
From: Roberto Aringhieri <roberto.aringhieri@unito.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IFORS 2017: Stream "Scheduling in Health Care" --
Call for invited sessions -- Call for papers -- deadline February 10,
2017
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Stream "Scheduling in Healthcare" - 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2017)
Abstracts: max. 1500 chars | Submission deadline: February 10, 2017
Submission page: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2017 | Session code: d605b5f5

---------- Apologies for any cross postings ----------

Scheduling in Healthcare is a wide topic of research concerning several problems arising in the everyday healthcare practice. I would like to invite you to contribute to the stream "Scheduling in Healthcare" that I'm organizing for the IFORS 2017 conference. As you may know, IFORS 2017, the 21th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, will be held in Quebec, Canada, from July 17 to 21, 2017 (http://ifors2017.ca/).

Following the theme proposed at EURO 28, the stream aims at exploring state-of-the-art OR techniques and to provide an overview on new significant approaches and methods in the large and complex field of scheduling health care activities, that is activity and people planning and scheduling in Health Care, including, but not limited to:
- Operating room planning and scheduling
- Generic modelling of planning and scheduling problems for various types of examinations and treatment, for both in- and outpatients
- Integration of planning and scheduling (today, these are mostly kept separate due to complexity, at least for longer planning horizons)
- Planning and scheduling under uncertainty, with a focus on recourse actions involving rescheduling and maximizing plan stability and robustness
- Efficient re-scheduling, considering regular and non-regular objectives
- Nurse and doctor scheduling
- Workforce scheduling based on forecasted demand
- Home Health Care Scheduling
- Online and Flexible scheduling in health care

Your contribution could be an abstract for an oral presentation or a proposal for a session with a number of talks. Either way, please get in touch by emailing me (see below) with your interest and, if relevant, the topic of the proposed session. If you would like to directly submit your abstract, please use the following code: d605b5f5

With my best regards, Roberto (roberto.aringhieri@unito.it)

--
Dr Roberto Aringhieri, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino
Corso Svizzera 185, I-10149 Torino, Italy
Office: +39 011 6706755 - Mobile: +39 331 1239026
http://di.unito.it/aringhieri
Associate Editor for Operations Research for Health Care

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 20:21:05 +0100
From: "Giuseppe F. Italiano" <pino.italiano@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Preannouncement of 4th Erice Summer School on "Graph
Theory, Algorithms and Applications"
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

School on "Graph Theory, Algorithms and Applications"
International School of Mathematics -- "Guido Stampacchia"
Centre "Ettore Majorana" for Scientific Culture
Erice, Sicily (Italy)
May 5--13, 2017
http://www.graphalgorithms.it

LECTURERS:
* Paolo Boldi, University of Milan, IT
* Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv University, IL
* Andrew V. Goldberg, Amazon.com Inc., US
* Giuseppe F. Italiano, University of Rome Tor Vergata, IT
* Jon Lee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US
* Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal, CA
* Piotr Sankowski, University of Warsaw, PL
* Martin Skutella, Technische Universität Berlin, DE
* Mariagrazia Speranza, Claudia Archetti, University of Brescia, IT
* Ola Svensson, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH
* Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University, US
* Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, IT

DIRECTORS OF THE SCHOOL:
Prof. Raffaele Cerulli, University of Salerno
Dr. Andrew V. Goldberg, Amazon.com Inc.
Prof. Giuseppe F. Italiano, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Prof. Robert E. Tarjan, Princeton University

DIRECTORS OF THE COURSE:
Prof. Franco Giannessi

LOCATION:
Erice is among the oldest cities in Sicily. The town is placed on the
homonymous mount Eryx, religious center of the Elimi, which is famous
for its temple where the Phoenicians worshipped Astarte, the Greeks
Aphrodite and the Romans Venus. Throughout history Erice was contended
by many different populations, and each of them left a palpable sense
of history. Erice is nowadays an enchanting wonderfully preserved
Mediaeval town offering the most breathtaking views in Sicily.

APPLICATION:
Advanced undergraduates, MS and PhD students, and young scientists (35
or under) interested in graph algorithms are encouraged to apply.
Qualified candidates should complete their application on the School
Website (http://www.graphalgorithms.it) by February 28, 2017.
Application material includes a short CV and optional recommendation
letters. Space is limited. Acceptance notifications will be sent
around March 2017.

REGISTRATION:
The registration fee for the School is 900 Euro. It includes meals and
accommodation for 8 days, i.e., from May 5 (evening) to May 13
(morning).

FURTHER DETAILS:
More information is avalaible on the School Web Site
(http://www.graphalgorithms.it)

FOLLOW US ON:
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/EriceSchool/)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/EriceGraphs) @EriceGraphs

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Giuseppe F. Italiano
Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata"
via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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Tel. +39-06-72597394, Fax +39-06-72597460
Email: giuseppe.italiano@uniroma2.it
URL: http://people.uniroma2.it/giuseppe.italiano/
Skype: pinoitaliano62
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Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 12:14:48 +0200
From: Announce Announcements <announce@cs.ucy.ac.cy>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] 9th International Conference on Computational
Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2017): Third Call for Papers and
Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals
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*** Third Call for Papers and Special Sessions & Workshops Proposals ***

9th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence

ICCCI 2017

Hilton Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

27 - 29 September, 2017

http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=ZG1hbmV0CQkJZG1hbmV0QHpwci51bmkta29lbG4uZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBTcGVjaWFsIFNlc3Npb25zICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1CUxpc3RzCTIxMwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcyprusconferences.org%2Ficcci2017%2F


Computational Collective Intelligence is most often understood as an AI
subfield dealing with soft computing methods which enable making group
decisions or processing knowledge among autonomous units acting in
distributed environments. Web-based systems, social networks and
multi-agent systems very often need these tools for working out consistent
knowledge states, resolving conflicts and making decisions. ICCCI 2017 is
the 9th edition of the conference organized by the University of Cyprus and
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology in Poland, in cooperation with
the IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence.
The aim of the conference is to provide an internationally respected forum
for scientific research in the computer-based methods of collective
intelligence and their applications in (but not limited to) such fields as
group decision making, consensus computing, knowledge integration,
semantic web, social networks and multi-agent systems.


Instructions to Authors

Prospective authors of papers are invited to submit contributions for
presentations at ICCCI 2017. The submissions should present the results
of original research or innovative practical applications relevant to the
conference topics. Practical experiences with state-of-the-art in CCI
methodologies are also acceptable to reflect lessons of unique value for
the conference attendees. Contributions should be original and not
published elsewhere or intended to be published during the review process.

The conference language is English.

The conference proceedings of ICCCI 2017 will be published in the
prestigious Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series by Springer and
indexed by ISI(CPCI-S), Web of Science, EI, Scopus, DBLP, ACM Digital
Library. All submissions should follow the LNCS/LNAI style and not
exceed 10 pages. At least one full registration is required for each
accepted paper in order to be included in the ICCCI 2017 proceedings.

Each paper is to be submitted electronically as a single PDF file through
EasyChair at http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=ZG1hbmV0CQkJZG1hbmV0QHpwci51bmkta29lbG4uZGUJOXRoIEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBDb21wdXRhdGlvbmFsIENvbGxlY3RpdmUgSW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlIChJQ0NDSSAyMDE3KTogVGhpcmQgQ2FsbCBmb3IgUGFwZXJzIGFuZCBTcGVjaWFsIFNlc3Npb25zICYgV29ya3Nob3BzIFByb3Bvc2Fscwk1CUxpc3RzCTIxMwljbGljawl5ZXMJbm8=&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Diccci2017 .
To ensure high quality, all papers will be thoroughly reviewed by the ICCCI
2017 International Program Committee. Referees will be asked to nominate
papers for a Best Paper award to be announced at the conference.
All accepted papers must be presented by one of the authors who must
register for the conference and pay the author registration fee.
A selected number of accepted and personally presented papers, will be
expanded and revised for possible inclusion in special issues of high
quality scientific journals.


Topics of Interest

We welcome all submissions in the subjects of CCI related (but not limited)
to the following topics:

· Agent Theory and Application
· Automated Reasoning
· Cognitive Modeling of Agent Systems
· Collective Intelligence
· Collective Processing
· Computational Biology
· Computer Vision
· Computational Intelligence
· Computational Security
· Consensus Computing
· Cooperative Systems and Control
· Cybernetics for Informatics
· Data Integration
· Data Mining for Social Networks
· Distributed Intelligence
· Evolutionary computing
· Fuzzy Systems
· Geographic Information Systems
· Grey Theory
· Group Decision Making
· Hybrid Systems
· Information Retrieval and Integration
· Information Hiding
· Intelligent Architectures
· Intelligent Applications
· Intelligent Buildings
· Intelligent Control
· Intelligent E-learning/Tutoring
· Intelligent Image Processing
· Intelligent Networks
· Intelligent Transportation Systems
· Knowledge Integration
· Knowledge Representation
· Knowledge-Based Systems
· Logic in Intelligence
· Machine Learning
· Mobile Intelligence
· Multicriteria Decision Making
· Natural Language Processing
· Optimization and Swarm Intelligence
· Pattern Recognition
· Probabilistic and Uncertain Reasoning
· Rough Sets
· Semantic Web
· Smart Living Technology
· Smart Sensor Networks
· Soft Computing
· Social Networks
· Ubiquitous Computing
· Web Intelligence and Interaction


Call for Special Sessions and Workshops Proposals

ICCCI 2017 invites proposals for Special Sessions and Workshops to be
held during the conference. They intend to provide researchers in focused
areas the opportunity to present and discuss their work, as well as to
offer a forum for interaction among a broader community of researchers.
A Special Session or Workshop will consist of a group of papers in a
sub-discipline of Computational Collective Intelligence related to the
main topics of ICCCI 2017.

The papers will be required to meet the same standards as ICCCI 2017
papers and will be published in the conference proceedings, in a bound
volume by Springer in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.
All the Special Sessions and Workshops will be centralized as tracks in the
same conference submission and reviewing system (EasyChair) as the
regular papers.

Please send the Special Session and Workshop proposals with the following
information:
· Title & acronym of the special session
· Brief profiles of special session organizers
· General description of the special session scope
· List of topics
· Proposed Session Program Committee (to be invited)

The format for the Special Session or Workshop proposal should follow
the pattern of the template available on the conference web site.

The organizers will be responsible for the advertisement and promotion of
the Special Sessions or Workshops and the conference including the Special
Sessions and Workshops webpage preparation. The management of papers
review will be achieved by Special Session and Workshops Committees, using
the Conference System (a separate EasyChair track will be provided for each
Special Session and Workshop). The organizers are responsible for managing
the review process. All the reviews should be submitted through EasyChair.
Each paper should obtain at least two reviews.

For Special Sessions and Workshops Issues please contact:
Bogdan Trawinski
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
bogdan.trawinski@pwr.edu.pl


Important Dates

· Special Session & Workshop Proposals: February 15, 2017
· Special Session & Workshop Acceptance: February 22, 2017
· Submission of Papers: April 1, 2017
· Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission: May 15, 2017
· Registration and Payment for Authors: June 15, 2017
· Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2017


Organization

Honorary Chairs
· Costas Christophides, Rector of University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa, Canada
· Cezary Madryas, Rector of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

General Chairs
· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs
· Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania
· Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
· Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan

Organising Chair
· Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Special Sessions and Workshops Chairs
· Achilleas Achilleos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Bogdan Trawinski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Doctoral Track Chair
· George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Publicity Chair
· Christos Mettouris , University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organising Committee
· Marios Komodromos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Christos Mettouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
· Rafa? Kern, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· Marcin Pietranik, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
· Zbigniew Telec, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland

Steering Committee
· Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (chair), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology,
Poland
· Piotr J?drzejowicz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland
· Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology,
Taiwan
· Kiem Hoang, University of Information Technology, VNU-HCM, Vietnam
· Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia, Australia
· Geun-Sik Jo, Inha University, Korea
· Janusz Kacprzyk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
· Ryszard Kowalczyk, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
· Toyoaki Nishida, Kyoto University, Japan
· Manuel Núñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain


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