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Today's Topics:

1. ICGT 2014 - Grenoble, France, June 30 - July 4, 2014
(Myriam Preissmann)
2. ADHOC-NOW 2014 (Abstract Subm.: Jan.31, 2014): Benidorm,
Spain (Sandra Sendra)
3. PostDoc/PhD Position in randomized/distributed algorithms
(Tobias Friedrich)
4. Multiple PhD and Postdoc positions in Algorithms at Eindhoven
University (Nikhil Bansal)
5. Professor in quantitative logistics (Hoff Arild)
6. DEBS 2014 - research paper abstracts are due Jan 24th
(Boris Koldehofe)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:51:40 +0100
From: Myriam Preissmann <Myriam.Preissmann@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] ICGT 2014 - Grenoble, France, June 30 - July 4, 2014
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The 9th International Colloquium on Graph Theory and Combinatorics will
take place in Grenoble, France, from June 30 to July 4, 2014.
Registration is now open. Web page: http://oc.inpg.fr/conf/icgt2014/

The following speakers have agreed to give a plenary talk:

Noga Alon (Tel-Aviv University)
Jeff Erickson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Bertrand Guenin (University of Waterloo)
D?niel Marx (MTA SZTAKI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Bojan Mohar (Simon Fraser University and University of Ljubljana)
J?nos Pach (EPFL Lausanne and R?nyi Institute Budapest)
R. Ravi (Carnegie Mellon)
Bruce Reed (McGill University)
Paul Seymour (Princeton University)

Participants who wish to give a talk are invited to submit an extended
abstract of at most four pages, which will be reviewed by the scientific
committee. The submission deadline is March 31, 2014.

This conference is the 9th edition of an event initiated by Claude
Berge in 1976, and organized by the French community in Graph Theory
every 4 or 5 years since then. Previous meetings took place in Marseille
Luminy, and the most recent editions were held in Hy?res in 2005 and
Orsay in 2010.

The purpose of this conference is to highlight major theoretical
advances in the field of Combinatorics and Graph Theory, the development
of new tools, and the most significant new applications of the field to
problems arising in industry and business. It is open to a broad range
of topics dealing with mathematical structures and any topic
establishing direct links between combinatorics and other branches of
mathematics. The conference is also open to theories of discrete
algorithmic computing in the area of combinatorics with strong natural
mathematical flavour.

Talks are solicited in areas including, but not limited to:

* All aspects of Graph Theory,
* Combinatorics (Algebraic, Analytic, Enumerative, Extremal),
* Combinatorial Geometry / Number Theory,
* Algorithms,
* Combinatorial Optimization,
* Designs and Configurations,
* Matroid Theory.

Special Issue

There will be a special issue of Discrete Applied Mathematics (DAM)
devoted to full-version papers presented at the conference. The
deadline for this issue will be in the Fall of 2014.

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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:26:46 +0100
From: Sandra Sendra<sandra.sendra.upv@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] ADHOC-NOW 2014 (Abstract Subm.: Jan.31, 2014):
Benidorm, Spain
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CALL FOR PAPERS

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News: Abstract Submission: January 31th, 2014
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ADHOC-NOW 2014 : Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks
June 22 - 27, 2014, Benidorm, Spain
Link: www.adhocnow.net/

Link for Submissions Guidelines and Electronic Submissions:
http://www.adhocnow.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=85&Itemid=88

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IMPORTANT DATES:

- Abstract Submission: January 31, 2014
- Submission Deadline: Februay 7, 2014
- Author Notification: March 7, 2014
- Camera ready: March 28, 2014

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Since its creation in 2002, the International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW) has become a well-established and well known event dedicated to wireless and mobile computing. It serves as a forum for interesting discussions on
ongoing research and new contributions. The conference addresses both experimental and theoretical research in the areas of ad hoc networks, sensor networks, mesh networks and vehicular networks. It focuses on all issues from link layer up to the application layer. The thirteenth edition of ADHOC-NOW will for the first time be organized in Benidorm, Spain, from the 22nd to the 27th of June, 2014.

We seek original contributions as work in progress, experimental and theoretical research in Wireless Sensor, Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks. Submissions must not be published or under review for another conference or journal. We are interested, but not limited to, research papers in any of the following areas:

-Access Control
-Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
-Algorithmic Issues
-Analytic Methods and Modeling for Performance Evaluation
-Ad Hoc Network Applications and Architectures
-Delay-Tolerant Networking
-Distributed Algorithms for Ad Hoc Networks
-Energy Efficiency
-Geometric Graphs
-Location Discovery and Management
-Mobility Handling and Utilization
-Wireless Mesh Networks
-Mobile Ad Hoc Computing Platforms
-Systems and Testbeds
-Mobile Social Networking
-Quality-of-Service
-Routing Protocols (Unicast, Multicast, etc.)
-Secure Services and Protocols
-Sensor Networks
-Self-Configuration
-Service Discovery
-Timing Synchronization
-Vehicular Networks
-Wireless Internet.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors are invited to submit either regular papers or short papers. Regular papers should not exceed 14 pages in LNCS format. Short papers must be limited to up to 4 pages in LNCS format. The paper should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance. Each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, provided at least one author of the paper registers to present the paper at the conference.

High-quality articles will be invited for submission to a special issue of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks and the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems.

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GENERAL CHAIRS
-Jaime Lloret Mauri, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
-Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

STEERING COMMITTEE
-Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Michel Barbeau, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Thomas Kunz, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
-Ioanis Nikolaidis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
-S. S. Ravi, SUNY University, Albany, USA
-Violet Sirotiuk, Arizona State University, Temple, USA
-Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
-Song Guo, University of Aizu, Japan
-Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS
-Paul Yongli, Deakin University, Australia
-Gongjun Yan, Indiana University, USA
-Sandra Sendra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR
-Stefan Ruehrup, FTW - Viena, Austria

SUBMISSIONS CHAIRS
-Miguel Garcia, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
-Zhen Huang, University of Ottawa, Canada

WEB CHAIR
-Milos Stojmenovic, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia

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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:42:12 +0100
From: Tobias Friedrich <friedrich@uni-jena.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PostDoc/PhD Position in randomized/distributed
algorithms
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Applications are invited for a

PostDoc / PhD Position in randomized/distributed algorithms
(full-time, up to 3 years)

at University of Jena, Germany, in cooperation with University of Cambridge, UK. The position is part of the project "Analysis of Discrete Load Balancing on Heterogeneous Networks (ADLON)", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The applicant will be based in the group of Tobias Friedrich in Jena, but the project will be done in close cooperation with Thomas Sauerwald (Cambridge). The project involves mutual research stays and visits to Cambridge.

Applicants should have an interest in at least one of the following topics:

-- random structures and algorithms
-- distributed and parallel computing
-- analysis of scale-free network models

The salary scale for the position is full-time TV-L E13 (100%) with a monthly gross salary between 3370 EUR and 4860 EUR depending on experience and previous position. The first contract will be limited to two years with the possibility of extension for another year. The position can be started as soon as possible for the applicant.

Applicants should have an excellent first academic degree in mathematics, computer science or a related discipline. Applications should include a detailed CV, a copy of master (or PhD) thesis, a brief statement of research interests, and a list of publications (if applicable). Please also mention one or two references -- preferably one from the thesis advisor. Applicants interested in doing a PhD should also include a list of courses and grades.

Interested candidates should direct their questions and applications via email to Tobias Friedrich (friedrich@uni-jena.de) before February 15, 2014.

Friedrich Schiller University of Jena
Chair of Theoretical Computer Science I
Prof. Dr. Tobias Friedrich
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2
07743 Jena, Germany
WWW: http://www.theinf.uni-jena.de/

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:51:03 +0100
From: Nikhil Bansal <bansal@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Multiple PhD and Postdoc positions in Algorithms at
Eindhoven University
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Multiple PhD and Postdoc positions are available at the Eindhoven
University of Technology. The
positions are supported by the ERC Consolidator grant: ACUITY
(Algorithms for coping with
uncertainty and intractability), led by Nikhil Bansal.

The goal of the project is to develop new algorithmic methods for
addressing NP-Hard problems
(approximation algorithms), and for dealing with problems involving
uncertainly (online algorithms).

Application deadline: January 31, 2014 (for full consideration)

For more details about the position and the application process, please
see http://www.win.tue.nl/~nikhil/vacancies.html

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:05:31 +0000
From: Hoff Arild <Arild.Hoff@himolde.no>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Professor in quantitative logistics
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Dear colleague
I apologize for cross-posting.

Molde University College (HiM) is searching for a professor in logistics. The Professorship is within the area of quantitative logistics, encompassing topics such as operation research, operations management, informatics, mathematics, or other quantitative approaches related to logistics. We are searching for an active researcher in his or her field, and with a strong publication record.

Possible application areas may include:
.Rich vehicle routing problems. This implies using VRP methodology to solve real-word problems.
.Production planning and inventory control models.
.Models for profit maximization and price controlled demand.
.Game-theoretic approaches to supply chain co-operation
.Stochastic problems - how to include uncertainties in the problem formulations
.Parallel processing implementation - to obtain increased computing speed by utilizing multiple kernels and/or a large number of CPU's.

The professor is expected to have an international focus. The person filling the position will have particular responsibility to initiate, participate in, and sustain research activities in logistics.?

The full announcement and application details can be found on
http://himolde.easycruit.com/vacancy/1110341/42153?iso=no

The application deadline is 1st March 2014

Best regards
___________________________
Arild Hoff
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, Master programs in Logistics
Molde University College
P.O.Box 2110, 6402 Molde, Norway
Phone: +47 71 21 42 02
Mob. +47 91 13 14 10
E-mail: arild.hoff@himolde.no
http://home.himolde.no/~arildh/

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:13:10 +0100
From: Boris Koldehofe <boris.koldehofe@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de>
To: DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] DEBS 2014 - research paper abstracts are due Jan
24th
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DEBS 2014: 8th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event Based
Systems
May 26th-29th 2014, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India,
Co-sponsored by ACM SIGMOD and ACM SIGSOFT

http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/debs2014/

The scope of DEBS conference covers all topics relevant to event-based
computing ranging from those discussed in related disciplines (e.g.,
software systems, distributed systems, data management, dependability,
knowledge management, networking, programming languages, security and
software engineering), to domain-specific topics of event-based
computing (e.g., real-time analytics, mobile computing, social
networking, pervasive, green computing and ubiquitous computing, sensors
networks, user interfaces, big data processing, spatio-temporal
processing, Cloud computing, the internet of things, peer-to-peer
computing, embedded systems and stream processing), and
enterprise-related topics (e.g., complex event detection, enterprise
application integration, real-time enterprises and web services).

=== DEBS2014 tracks:

- A Research Track featuring high-quality, peer-reviewed research papers.
- An Industry Track for systems and concepts and experience reports.
- A Tutorial Track geared towards both academia and industry.
- A Demonstration and Posters Track with practical demonstrations and
early work.
- A Grand Challenges Track to test research and commercial systems.
- A Doctoral Workshop.

=== DEBS 2014 Important Dates:

Research Track:

Abstracts due January 24, 2014
Full papers due February 1, 2014
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready papers April 15, 2014

Industry Track
Papers due February 15, 2014
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready papers April 15, 2014

Tutorials:
Proposals due February 1, 2014
Presenter Notification March 15, 2014
Tutorials date May 26, 2014

Grand Challenge
Grand Challenge Problem Posted November 22, 2013
Submissions due March 1, 2014
Author Notification March 31, 2014
Camera Ready Submission April 15, 2014

Doctoral Symposium:
Papers due April 5, 2014
Author Notification April 15, 2014

Poster and Demo Track
Submissions due April 5, 2014
Author Notifications April 15, 2014
Camera Ready Copies due April 20, 2014

=== Submissions

All submissions must be original and unpublished. Accepted papers will
be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library.

More information about the tracks and submission information can be
found on the DEBS 2014 website:

http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/debs2014/

=== Scope of the Conference

The topics addressed by the conference include (but are not limited to):

*** Models, Architectures and Paradigms

- Event-driven architectures
- Big Data (event-processing in Big Data)
- Internet of Things (event-processing in M2M)
- Basic interaction models
- Event algebras, event schemas and type systems
- Languages for event correlation and patterns, streaming and continuous
queries, data fusion
- Models for static and dynamic environments
- Complex event processing
- Design and programming methodologies
- Event-based business process management and modeling
- Experimental methodologies
- Performance modeling and prediction based on analytic approaches
- Functional Reactive Programming

*** Middleware Infrastructures for Event-Based Computing

- Federated event-based systems
- Middleware for actuator and sensor networks
- Algorithms and protocols
- Optimization techniques for event-based (or streaming) systems
- Event dissemination based on p2p systems
- Context and location awareness
- Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability, and recovery
- Security issues
- (Self-)Management
- Mobility and resource constrained device support
- Streaming queries, transformations, or correlation engines
- Logic-based event processing
- Semantic event processing
- Business Process Management with events

*** Applications, Experiences, and Requirements

- Use cases and applications of event-based systems
- Real-world application deployments using event-based middleware
- Domain-specific deployments of event-based systems
- Real-world data characterizing event-based applications
- Benchmarks, performance evaluations, and testbeds
- Application requirements for next-generation event-based solutions
- Relation to other architectures
- Enterprise application integration
- Event-driven business process management
- Information logistics
- Seamless integration of event-based mechanisms into middleware platforms

=== Organization:

General Co-Chairs:
Umesh Bellur (IIT Bombay, India)
Ravi Kothari (IBM India Research Labs)

Program Co-Chairs:
Dharanipragada Janakiram (IIT Madras, India)

Pascal Felber (U. of Neuchatel, Switzerland)

Proceedings Chairs:
David Eyers (U. of Otago, New Zealand)

Industry Co-Chairs:
Koustuv Dasgupta (Xerox Research Center, India)
Todd Montogomery (Informatica, USA)

Local Organization Chair:
Shruti Kunde (Xerox Research Center India)

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
R K Shyamsundar (TIFR, India)
Alexander Wolf (Imperial College, London, UK)

Poster & Demo Co-Chairs:
Vana Kalogeraki (U. of Athens, Greece)
Puru Kulkarni (IIT Bombay, India)

Doctoral Workshop Co-Chairs:
Niloy Ganguly (IIT Kharagpur, India)
Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA)

Grand Challenge Co-Chairs:
Zbigniew Jerzak (SAP AG, Germany)
Holger Ziekow (AGT International, Germany)

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Annika Hinze (U. of Waikato, New Zealand)
Boris Koldehofe (U. of Stuttgart, Germany)
Madhu Kumar SD (NIT Calicut, India)

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1. NMA2014 conference CFP (stefka fidanova)
2. computational optimization (stefka fidanova)
3. SSTiC 2014: 18 January, 2nd registration deadline (GRLMC - URV)
4. SPAA 2014 - final call for papers (Jeremy Fineman)
5. CEC Special Session at IEEE WCCI 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS CLOSE (Sergey Polyakovskiy)

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:08:31 +0200
From: stefka fidanova <stefka.fidanova@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] NMA2014 conference CFP
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Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we invite you to participate in
the special session (workshop) on "METAHEURISTICS FOR OPTIMIZATION
PROBLEMS" at the
8th Conference on Numerical Methods and Applications NM&A'14,
to be held 20-24 August 2014 in Borovets, Bulgaria.
The session is organized by:
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova (stefka@parallel.bas.bg)
from the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

Topics

The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

- unconstrained and constrained optimization
- combinatorial optimization
- global optimization
- multi-objective optimization
- optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
- large scale optimization
- parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
- random search algorithms (simulated annealing, tabu search, free
search and other derivative free optimization methods).
- nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms,
ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune
artificial systems etc.).
- hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
- optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
- computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, biology, engineering etc

Proceedings
The refereed and presented papers will be published as a special
volume of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts
April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of the talks on the basis of the
submitted abstract
April 30, 2014
Deadline for submission of full papers
May 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance of full papers
June 30, 2014
Submission of accommodation forms
July 15, 2014

Abstracts and contributed papers
The abstracts (up to 1 page stating clearly the originality of the
results) are to be written in standard LaTeX. The length of the
contributed papers is limited up to 8 pages. It is assumed that one
participant will present not more than one talk.

Send the abstracts and papers to special session organizers and
conference organizers, indicating the name of the special session.
After sending the abstract go to the conference web page and fill in
the registration form (personal data of the participants, minimum one
per paper, and the name of the special session).

Information about abstract and paper preparation, accommodation,
transportation, registration form and conference location you can find
at the conference web page http://parallel.bas.bg/dpa/NMA_2014/

Special session organizers
Assoc. Prof. S. Fidanova, Institute of Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of
Science, stefka@parallel.bas.bg
Gabriel Luque (gabriel@lcc.uma.es) from University of Malaga, Spain.

--
Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:26:28 +0200
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Call for Papers

7th Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2014
Warsaw, Poland, September 7 - 10, 2014

organized in the framework of FEDERATED CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE
AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
FedCSIS - 2014

http://www.fedcsis.org/

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

We invite original contributions related with both theoretical and
practical aspects of optimization methods.
The list of topics includes, but is not limited to:

* unconstrained and constrained optimization
* combinatorial optimization
* global optimization
* multiobjective optimization
* optimization in dynamic and/or noisy environments
* large scale optimization
* parallel and distributed approaches in optimization
* random search algorithms, simulated annealing, tabu search and other
derivative free optimization methods
* nature inspired optimization methods (evolutionary algorithms, ant
colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, immune artificial
systems etc)
* hybrid optimization algorithms involving natural computing
techniques and other global and local optimization methods
*computational biology and optimization
* distance geometry and applications
* optimization methods for learning processes and data mining
* application of optimization methods on real life and industrial problems
* computational optimization methods in statistics, econometrics,
finance, physics, medicine, engineering etc

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

Important dates:

11.04.2012 (April 11, 2014) ? Full paper submission

12.05.2014 (May 12, 2014) - Position paper submission

19.05.2011 (May 19, 2014) ? Notification of acceptance

17.06.2012 (June 17, 2014) ? Camera-ready version of the accepted
paper and registration

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

Submission and Publication

* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF.
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available at http://www.fedcsis.org/.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their
scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference
Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore database (pending) and
indexed in the DBLP.
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s), we will announce later the
publisher.
====================

If you have any question do not hesitate to send a mail to wco2014@fedcsis.org .

Organizing Committee

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria
Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Antonio Mucherino, IRISA, France

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Assoc. Prof. Stefka Fidanova
IICT-BAS
Acad. G. Bonchev str. bl.25A
1113 Sofia Bulgaria
Ph. +359-2-9796642

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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:02:42 +0100
From: "GRLMC - URV" <grlmc@urv.cat>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] SSTiC 2014: 18 January, 2nd registration deadline
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/

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--- January 18, 2nd registration deadline ---

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AIM:

SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the
previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/

SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD
students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It
intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse
branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose,
renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with
the audience.

SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5
keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses dealing with some of the most
lively topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding
speakers will really attract the brightest students.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites
in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there
will be several levels among the courses, reference may be made to specific
knowledge background in the description of some of them.

SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches
of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss
with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole
event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be
willing to attend as well as to move from one to another.

VENUE:

SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of
Barcelona. The venue will be:

Campus Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of
Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), Open and Closed Problems in
NP-Completeness

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past,
Present, & Future

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), Explicit and Implicit Semantics: Two Sides of One
Coin

Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), Social Modeling

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable
Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures

Pierre Baldi (U California, Irvine), [intermediate] Big Data Informatics
Challenges and Opportunities in the Life Sciences

Stephen Brewster (U Glasgow), [introductory] Multimodal Human-computer
Interaction

Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing

John M. Carroll (Pennsylvania State U, University Park), [introductory]
Usability Engineering and Scenario-based Design

Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara),
[introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software
Development, and Emerging Apps

Amr El Abbadi (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] The Distributed
Foundations of Data Management in the Cloud

Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and
Distributed Simulation

Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education
Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science

David S. Johnson (Columbia U, New York), [introductory] The Traveling
Salesman Problem in Theory and Practice

George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming
Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing

Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern U, Evanston), [intermediate]
Optimization Techniques for Sparse/Low-rank Recovery Problems in Image
Processing and Machine Learning

Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization

Carl Lagoze (U Michigan, Ann Arbor), [introductory] Curation of Big Data

Bijan Parsia (U Manchester), [introductory] The Empirical Mindset in
Computer Science

Charles E. Perkins (FutureWei Technologies, Santa Clara), [intermediate]
Beyond LTE: the Evolution of 4G Networks and the Need for Higher Performance
Handover System Designs

Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for
Test of Digital Logic Circuits

Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models

Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd
Analysis

Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web

Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection
for Twitter and the Social Web

Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford U), [introductory] MapReduce Algorithms

Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate]
Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications

Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and
Life

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php

The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is
only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be
helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course.

Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be
processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will
be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very
convenient to register prior to the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or
most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to
participate to all courses. They vary depending on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the
School in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SSTiC 2014
Lilica Voicu
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:39:43 -0500
From: Jeremy Fineman <jfineman@cs.georgetown.edu>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] SPAA 2014 - final call for papers
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Update: previous announcements said 10-point font, but a 9-point font is allowed.

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SPAA 2014 Call for Papers
======================================================

26th ACM Symposium on
Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2014)
June 23-25, 2014 Prague, Czech Republic
http://www.spaa-conference.org

This year, the submissions format differs from recent years.
There will also be a rebuttal period.

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

Important Dates:

Submission deadlines:
- Abstract: January 22, 11:59pm EST
- Full versions: January 25, 11:59pm EST

Rebuttal period: March 12-16
Notification: March 31

Camera-ready: April 30

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

Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and
architectures, encompassing any computation system that can perform multiple
operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

- parallel and distributed algorithms
- parallel and distributed data structures
- green computing & power-efficient architectures
- management of massive data sets
- parallel complexity theory
- parallel and distributed architectures
- multi-core architectures
- instruction level parallelism and VLSI
- compilers and tools for concurrent programming
- supercomputing architecture and computing
- transactional memory hardware and software
- the internet and the world wide web
- game theory and collaborative learning
- routing and information dissemination
- resource management and awareness
- peer-to-peer systems
- mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks
- robustness, self-stabilization, and security
- synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming, and architecture

Conference presentations will have two formats:

Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10
pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions
reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference.

Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page
abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief
communications, which may be published later in other conferences.

Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program
committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among
multiple papers.

Submission:

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript
electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org
for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable
to submit electronically should contact the program chair Peter Sanders at
sanders@kit.edu to receive instructions on how to proceed.

Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction
understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and
a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not
exceed 10 double-column pages in 9-point font, including figures, tables, and
references. More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to
be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief
announcements should be no longer than two double-column pages in 9-point
font.

Rebuttal Period:

There will be a rebuttal period in which the authors can point out
misunderstandings or comment on critical questions that PC members may have.
The rebuttal period will take place on March 12-16.

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

Program Committee:

Susanne Albers, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Gianfranco Bilardi, Padua University, Italy
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Labs Pittsburg, USA
Martin Hoefer, MPI Informatics Saarbruecken, Germany
Dariusz Kowalski, University of Liverpool, UK
Fredrik Manne, University of Bergen, Norway
Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Germany
Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn, Germany
Seth Pettie, University of Michigan, USA
Vijaya Ramachandran, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Oded Schwartz, UC Berkeley, USA
Sandeep Sen, IIT Delhi, India
Jiri Sgall, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Nodari Sitchinava, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA
Alexander Tiskin, University of Warwick, UK
Jesper Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Phiilippas Tsigas, Chalmers University Gothenburg, Sweden
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zuerich, Switzerland

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

Conference Committee:

Program Chair
Peter Sanders, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

General Chair
Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University

Secretary
Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn

Treasurer
David Bunde, Knox College

Publicity Chair
Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University

Local Arrangements Chair
Petr Kolman, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:36:06 +1030
From: "Sergey Polyakovskiy" <Sergey.Polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: [DMANET] CEC Special Session at IEEE WCCI 2014 CALL FOR
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**** CEC Special Session at IEEE WCCI 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS ****

Heuristic Methods for Multi-Component Optimization Problems
CEC Special Session at IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence
(WCCI 2014)
July 6 - 11, 2014, Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China
http://cs.adelaide.edu.au/~optlog/CEC2014/

** Motivation **

Real-world optimization problems often consist of several NP-hard
combinatorial optimization problems that interact with each other. Such
multi-component optimization problems are difficult to solve not only
because of the contained hard optimization problems, but in particular,
because of the interdependencies between the different components.
Interdependence complicates a decision making by forcing each sub-problem to
influence the quality and feasibility of solutions of the other
sub-problems. This influence might be even stronger when one sub-problem
changes the data used by another one through a solution construction
process. Examples of multi-component problems are vehicle routing problems
under loading constraints, the maximizing material utilization while
respecting a production schedule, the relocation of containers in a port
while minimizing idle times of ships, and the traveling thief problem.

The goal of this special session is to provide a forum for researchers in
computational intelligence working on multi-component optimization problems.
While the main focus of this session is evolutionary computation, other
approaches as well as combinations with fuzzy systems or neural networks are
highly welcome, too. The scope of this special session is very broad and
includes all topics related to multi-component problems.

** Paper Submission **

Follow the IEEE CEC 2014 submission website
http://ieee-cis.org/conferences/cec2014/upload.php.
On the submission system you must select "SS23. EC23: Heuristic Methods for
Multi-Component Optimization Problems" as "Main Research Topic".

Special session papers are treated in the same way as regular conference
papers.

** Important dates **

* Paper submissions: January 20, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2014
* Final paper submission: April 15, 2014

** Scope **

Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Applications of evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence methods to
multi-component problems
* Benchmark design
* Hybrid approaches (including fuzzy systems and neural networks) for
multi-component problems
* Industrial applications
* Theoretical investigations

** Special Session Organizers **

* Sergey Polyakovskiy
* Markus Wagner
* Mohammad Reza Bonyadi
* Frank Neumann
* Zbignew Michalewicz

School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide
Adelaide, Australia

** Contacts **

Sergey Polyakovskiy (sergey.polyakovskiy@adelaide.edu.au)

********

This special session is organized as a part of the IEEE Task Force on
Evolutionary Scheduling and Combinatorial Optimization

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1. Full-time Studentships at the Open University, UK
(Robert Brignall)
2. PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh on Mixed
Integer Programming applied to aerospace system arquitecture
(Sergio Garc?a Quiles)
3. Last Mile, January 27 || CONTENT 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014 -
Venice, Italy (Cristina Pascual)
4. Post-doc position at Orange Labs (Issy-les-Mx, France)
(GOURDIN Eric)

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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:21:33 +0000
From: Robert Brignall <rbrignall@gmail.com>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Full-time Studentships at the Open University, UK
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics,
Computing and Technology, The Open University
FULL-TIME PHD STUDENTSHIPS IN MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
AVAILABLE FROM 1 OCTOBER 2014

We invite applications for several full-time three-year PhD
studentships in Mathematics and Statistics commencing 1 October 2014.
Studentships cover full-time fees and include a stipend (currently
?13,726 per annum).

Full-time PhD students are based at the University?s Walton Hall
campus in Milton Keynes and are allocated office space and computer
facilities in the Department. Full-time students have an automatic
travel and subsistence allocation (currently ?1250 per annum for three
years) to cover training and conference participation. Students are
also supported to join an appropriate learned society.

Details of research areas covered in the Mathematics and Statistics
Department, including combinatorics, are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/mathematics.htm and
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/statistics.htm.

Applications in all research areas covered by the Department are
welcomed. A detailed research proposal is not required, but applicants
should make clear their principal area of interest. Applications for
research projects highlighted inhttp://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/phd
are especially welcomed. Interested persons are strongly encouraged to
make informal enquiries to mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk.

General information about studying for a research degree with the Open
University is available from the Research Degrees Prospectus
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/index.htm and, in
particular,http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/degrees_we_offer/doctor_of_philosophy.htm.

Completed application forms, together with a covering letter
indicating your suitability and reasons for applying, should be sent
to research-degrees-MCT@open.ac.uk to arrive by 5pm on Friday, 28
February 2014. Application forms are available from
http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/explained/how_to_apply/mphil_and_phd_application_process.htm

Overseas applicants are welcomed but those from a non-European
Economic Area country that is not majority English-speaking must hold
a Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
certificate for English at B2 level or higher.

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 12:35:24 +0000
From: Sergio Garc?a Quiles <sergio.garcia-quiles@ed.ac.uk>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PhD studentship at the University of Edinburgh on
Mixed Integer Programming applied to aerospace system arquitecture
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There is a Ph.D. studentship starting in September/October 2014 at the
Operational Research group at the School of Mathematics at the
University of Edinburgh on the topic "Mixed Integer Programming
techniques dedicated to the robust design of aerospace system
architecture". The deadline for applications is 31 January 2014. The
expected starting date is September/October 2014 and the duration of the
studentship is 3.5 years. Details on the procedure can be found at
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/pg/prosp.shtml. For details on the case,
please contact Dr Sergio Garc?a Quiles (sergio.garcia-quiles@ed.ac.uk).

1. Context : EADS Innovation Works

EADS is a global leader in aerospace, defense and related services that
designs and manufactures aircrafts, helicopters, launchers or
satellites. It is the mother company of AIRBUS, ASTRIUM and EUROCOPTER.
The research and development activities of EADS are done through a
global transnational network of technical capability centres, called the
EADS Innovation Works (IW).

EADS IW covers the skills and technology fields that are identified as
strategic for EADS. These activities cover a wide spectrum of
technological domains; they are targeted at the different levels in the
value chain and structured according to the timelines of short
term/committed programmes, medium term/optional programmes and long
term/advanced concepts for the introduction of new technologies into the
company products and processes.

EADS IW has two main sites in Suresnes (Paris) and Ottobrunn (Munich)
and employs approximately 600 people including doctorates and
undergraduate interns. Proximity centres are maintained in Toulouse,
Nantes, Hamburg, Bremen and Stade to support knowledge transfer to
Business Units in these locations. In addition, EADS Innovation Works
operates centres in Singapore, and Newport and Filton in the UK, and has
also launched a centre in Getafe (Madrid), and most recently in
Bangalore, India, and California, US. A liaison office operates in
Moscow, which facilitates relations with Russia scientific institutes.

2. Department of Applied Mathematics

The Ph.D. thesis will be done in collaboration with the Applied
Mathematics department of EADS IW. This department counts more than 20
researchers and engineers working on several topics that are of critical
importance for EADS aerospace applications. Among these topics, one can
mention: uncertainties propagation, probabilistic modelling, numerical
optimization, numerical analysis, high performance computing, diagnostic
and pronostic.

3. Towards Mixed Integer Programming activity at EADS IW

Over the last ten years, some very good knowledge and capabilities have
been developed in continuous optimization (non-linear programming
essentially) in this department and successfully demonstrated on
industrial applications (aerodynamics, electromagnetism, acoustics...).
Today there is an ever increasing demand from the design offices for
taking into account discrete variables in their optimization processes.
For this reason, it is important to develop knowledge and capabilities
around this topic (Mixed Integer Programming, MIP). Attention will be
paid on mathematical formulation, modelling formulation and link to
relevant tools.

4. Ph.D. thesis: Mixed Integer Programming techniques dedicated to the
robust design of aerospace system architecture

The objective of the Ph.D. thesis is to contribute to consolidate the
expertise in MIP and demonstrate it on representative industrial
applications. The first year will be devoted to a comprehensive
bibliographic survey on Mixed Integer Programming. A particular
attention will be paid on the following sub-topics:

1. Large scale issues, in terms of number of variables and constraints.
2. Non linearity of the objective function and constraints.
3. Model of sensitivity analysis for discrete variables.
4. Robustness issues (how to qualify the robustness of the solution of a
MIP problem).

As it is very important for us to integrate in our products the
state-of-the-art optimization technologies, this comprehensive study
should establish the theoretical and technological maturity of all the
methods and their ability to be deployed efficiently into an industrial
context. For the technologies that are not still mature, the study
should provide recommendations in terms of research axis to develop. In
addition, all the methods that will be described by the study will be
illustrated by representative "academic" software test-cases.

The second and third year will be devoted to the study of the industrial
application, i.e., the optimization of the cockpit system architecture.

The first step will be dedicated to the writing of the general
formulation of the underlying MIP problem. The driving idea of the Ph.D.
is to address successively the four previous sub-topics on the
industrial test cases in order to make the problem and consequently the
formulation progressively harder. Of course, a key question will be to
determine how the algorithms proposed during the first year and tested
on simple academic test cases can be re-used or adapted when dealing
with an industrial application.

The second year will be dedicated to large scale and non-linearity
issues. The third year will be dedicated to sensitivity analysis and
robustness issues: it is very important for industrial applications to
be able to provide information about the level of margins of an
optimized solution.
The Ph.D. student will be located in the School of Mathematics at the
University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Dr Sergio Garc?a
Quiles. There will be regular jointly remote meetings with Dr Vassili
Srithammavanh as well as face-to-face meetings in Paris (around two per
year).

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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:48:30 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Last Mile, January 27 || CONTENT 2014 || May 25 -
29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to CONTENT 2014.

The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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

============== CONTENT 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

CONTENT 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Creative Content Technologies

May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CONTENT14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCONTENT14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCONTENT14.html

Submission deadline: January 27, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

CONTENT 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

BASICS: Content producers/distributors

Product-innovation and creative content platforms; Creative processes; Product and content innovation; Knowledge representation for content creativity; Content injection, cashing, storage, and distribution; Producing and transmitting streaming content; Content localization services; Content and customers profiles; Documenting and content authoring; Authorizing topic-based content; Content customization and metadata; On-demand content; Content retrieval from archives (alarm-based, time stamp-based); Content management solutions and systems; Unstructured content environment; Multi-channel content delivery/publishing strategies; Content reuse

WEBCONTENT: Web content

Architectures and frameworks for Web content ; Web content mining; Content retrieval on multimedia Web; XML and non-XML Web content; Ontology and semantic for processing Web content; Recommenders for Web content; Content-driven workflow design and management; Web content performance, accuracy, security, and reliability; Web content modeling; Web content-based applications

SOCIAL: Tools for producing and handling social content

On-line content; Games technologies; Multi-user and mono-user games; For-kids contents and programs; Social content and tools (YouTube, FaceBook, etc.); Open portals (e-Democracy, e-Health, etc.); Email lists challenges (membership, spamming, etc.); Virtual social communities; Hybrid real and virtual reality technologies

GRAPHICS: 3D Graphics

Interactive 3D graphics; High-performance 3D graphics; Mixed and augmented reality; Interactive on-line gaming; Animated humanoids and complex reactive characters; 3D documents and web/multimedia; User-interface for real-time 3D graphics and virtual environments; Innovative 3D web applications /industry, science, medicine, technology, culture/; 3D content creation technologies and tools; Interactive 3D graphics for mobile devices

ANIMA: Animation/cinematography

Computer animation; Computational cinematography; Virtual videography; Autonomous interactive characters; Traditional animation and 3D computer animation; Re-cinematography; Casual video; Cinematography; Image stabilization; Virtual Cinematography; Relighting through computation

MEDIMA: Medical image producing, transmission and management

Medical image devices, mechanisms and procedures; Medical imaging systems; Medical image capture and processing; Feature extraction and pattern recognition; Matching and computing anatomical atlases; Surface and volume registration; Medical image analysis (static and motion analysis); Medical image analysis (functional, metabolic); Multi-modal image analysis; Image segmentation; Multidimensional data visualization; Statistical methods (population-based analysis); Image guided diagnosis, surgery and therapy; Medical image transmission and storage (protocols, databases)

AUDIO: Audio producing, transmission and management

Audio transmission and reception systems and devices; Digital audio transmission signal processing; Audio transmission over Internet; Audio Multiplexing Transmission Systems; Stereo audio transmission signal; Digital infrared audio transmission; Multi-stream and multi-path audio transmission; Wireless-compressed digital audio transmission; Perceptual coding for audio; Transmission and storage; Laser audio transmission; Synchronizing video and audio transmission; Wide-band audio transmission; Index-frame audio transmission; Digital audio transmission rights; Noise in wireless audio transmission; Audio tools and products; Standards

DATA: Data transmission and management

Data transmission and reception mechanisms and techniques; Enhanced tools for video data integrity; Data mining, filtering, and reporting; Secure data transmission; Transmission media and data encoding; Text reading devices (super-pen, pen-elite, reading-pen); Scanned and generated lossy (progressive) multi-page text; (Visually) lossless mechanisms; Pricing data transmission; Differential data transmission systems; Data transmission equipments and transmission rates; Delay-constrained data transmission; Undersea and satellite data transmission techniques; Performance evaluation of data transmission; Multicast data transmission; High speed data transmission; Data transmission control; Integrity and privacy in data transmission; Data transmission standards

VOICE: Voice producing, transmission and management

Planning and implementing voice networks and systems; Voice transmission systems; Voice transmission performance; Quality real-time voice transmission; Metrics for quality of voice transmission; Stereophonic voice transmission systems; Header compression for VoIP over WLAN; Voice over IP solution for mobile radio interoperability; VoIP over cable TV networks; VoIP over Wi-Max; WiFi and cellular dual mode phones and services; Voice over WLANs and Wi-Fi to cellular roaming; Voice transmission via the Internet; Wi-Fi voice transmission; Bluetooth-based Ad-Hoc networks for voice transmission; Standards for voice processing and transmission

VIDEO: Coding/Transmission/Processing

Video coding standards (H.264, SMPTE 421M, AVS-China); Video coders and decoders; Video surveillance and privacy; Network video recorders; Video streaming; Video data integrity (error detection, error resilience, error concealment, tamper resistance); Motion detection, object tracking; Distributed video coding; Video quality assessment; Omnidirectional video; 3D video

IMAGE: Image producing, transmission and management

Model-based progressive image transmission; Wireless image transmission; Computer generated images; Image security, scrambling, and regions of interest; Timing requirements for image transmission; Transmission of still and moving images; Protocols for low bit rate; Error-prone image transmission; Energy efficient image transmission; Multi-technology image formation; Devices for image capturing and processing (cams, web-cams, etc.); Scanning and sampling, quantization and halftoning, color reproduction; Image representation and rendering, display and printing systems; Image quality assessment; Image search and sorting, video indexing and editing; Integration of images and video with other media; Image authentication and watermarking; Image storage, retrieval and multimedia; Image and video databases; Generic coding of moving pictures; Media stream packetization; Modes for archival playback; Image-based applications; Standard for image processing; Image analysis and segmentati!
on; Image filtering, restoration an
d enhancement; Image representation and modeling; Pattern recognition

SPEECH: Speech producing, transmission and management

Tooling, architectures, components and standards; Voice modulation, frequencies; Linguistics, phonology and phonetics; Discourse and dialogue; Speech analysis, synthesis, coding, and recognition; Speech enhancement and noise reduction; Speech features, production, and perception; Speech coding and transmission; Speech signal processing; Spoken language generation and synthesis; Speech QoS enhancement; Speaker characterization and recognition; Spoken language resources and annotation; Spoken/Multi-modal dialogue technology and systems; Spoken language information extraction/retrieval; Speech transmission technology for the aged and disabled; Audio-visual speech processing; Biomedical applications of speech analysis; Spoken document retrieval; Speech processing in a packet network environment; Automatic speech recognition in the context of mobile communications; Human factors in speech and communication systems; Automatic speech recognition and understanding technology; Speech!
to text
systems; Spoken dialog systems; Multilingual language processing; New applications of spoken language technology and systems

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCONTENT14.html

CONTENT Advisory Chairs
Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University - Leicester, UK
Jalel Ben-Othman, Universit� de Versailles, France
Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Wolfgang Fohl, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Zhou Su, Waseda University, Japan

CONTENT Industry/Research Chairs
Ajith Abraham, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), USA
Hans-Werner Sehring, T-Systems Multimedia Solutions GmbH, Germany
Ren� Berndt, Fraunhofer Austria Research GmbH, Austria

CONTENT Publicity Chairs
Lorena Parra, Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia, Spain
Samuel Kosolapov, Braude Academic College of Engineering, Israel
Wilawan Inchamnan, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Javier Quevedo-Fernandez, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:21:39 +0100
From: GOURDIN Eric <eric.gourdin@orange.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Post-doc position at Orange Labs (Issy-les-Mx,
France)
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The Traffic Resources Modeling department at Orange Labs Networks
invites applications for a post-doc fellowship in the context of an
internal research project devoted to optimization tools for sustainable
development.

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) consists of a set of servers and caches
that are strategically deployed in the network so as to deliver high
quality contents (e.g. video) to end-users. Some studies are conducted
in the department, and in the literature, to optimize the placement of
caches in the network, while improving the quality of service of content
delivery. In this context, the purpose of the fellowship is to analyze
and to model optimization problems related to the minimization of the
energy consumption of such networks, which is a recent, and increasing,
trend in network design.

The candidate will investigate approaches where real traffic data are
used (within simulation tools or analytical models), either as input
parameters in the optimization models, or as scenarios to validate the
output solutions. The combined approaches should allow tackling
realistic situation and deriving operational solutions.

The research will be conducted within the Traffic Resources Modeling
(TRM) department in close collaboration with several optimization and
performance evaluation experts.

The start date is: asap

Applications should consist of a resume, a short research statement and
up to 3 contacts persons that could act as references. The applications
should be sent to: eric.gourdin at orange.com
Profile: the candidate should have defended her/his Ph.D. within less
than one year.

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3. IPDPS 2014 - Advance Registration Open (Francesco Silvestri)
4. Last Mile, January 27 || COGNITIVE 2014 || May 25 - 29, 2014
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5. Trends in Online Algorithms (TOLA 2014) - call for abstracts
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:48:51 +0100
From: Alexander Skopalik <skopalik@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 1st German Day on
Computational Game Theory
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Dear All,

Following the nice tradition of our Dutch neighbors, the

1st German Day on Computational Game Theory

will take place on Thursday, February 13th at the Heinz Nixdorf
Institute at Paderborn University.
We want to bring together researchers from Germany and neighboring
countries who are interested in algorithmic or computational aspect of
game theory, social choice and related areas. This one-day event shall
provide an opportunity to foster collaboration, present research, and
exchange new ideas.

The program will consist of invited talks and contributed presentations.
If you want to give a talk at the workshop, please send an email with
title and abstract to Skopalik@mail.upb.de no later than January 31st.

Participation in the workshop is free and lunch and coffee will be
provided. For organizational purposes, please send an email to
Skopalik@mail.upb.de no later than February 5th if you plan to attend.

We will also organize a dinner if there is enough interest from the
participants. Please also let us know in your registration email if you
are interested in joining the dinner.

We hope to welcome many of you in Paderborn
Best regards ,
Alexander Skopalik

--
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Skopalik

Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Universit?t Paderborn
Algorithms and Complexity
F?rstenallee 11
33102 Paderborn

Telefon: +49 (0) 52 51 / 60 64 57
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 01:26:23 +0400
From: "The International Conference on Digital Information,
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To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] CFP:: DINWC2014- Ostrava- Czech Republic
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C A L L F O R R E S E A R C H P A P E R S
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The International Conference on Digital Information, Networking,
and Wireless Communications (DINWC2014)
VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
June 24-26, 2014.
http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/dinwc2014/
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The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by
researchers from the international community, including presentations from
keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:26:26 +0100
From: Francesco Silvestri <silvest1@dei.unipd.it>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IPDPS 2014 - Advance Registration Open
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IPDPS 2014
January 10, 2014 Release
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28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
May 19-23, 2014
Arizona Grand Resort
PHOENIX (Arizona) USA
www.ipdps.org

March 25, 2014 - Advance Registration Deadline

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IPDPS 2014 ALERTS
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...Registration for IPDPS 2014 is open; see
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_registration.html
...Only one more PhD Forum poster due date for applications: February 1, 2014
...Many of the 2014 workshops have due dates after January 10, 2014;
some have been extended.
...See invitation for Commercial Participation at
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_commercial_participation.html.

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IPDPS 2014 PhD FORUM
For details go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_phd_forum.html
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Only one more submission date:
...February 1st Submissions .......Acceptance notice will be sent by
February 7, 2014

Bring your students to the IEEE IPDPS 2014 PhD Forum! It is good value!!
IPDPS 2014 in Phoenix will provide a comprehensive venue for students
to better prepare for their research and career path in parallel and
distributed computing. Participating students will have the
opportunity to both present their research work and interact with
senior academic and industry people in an informal setting and also to
be part of mentoring sessions on communication skills, career
planning, and the latest research topics ? all while enjoying the
IPDPS main conference and many associated workshops. IPDPS 2014 will
prioritize student travel fund allocation to PhD Forum participants
(those presenting posters) within the pool of all applicants.

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IPDPS 2014 WORKSHOPS - SEE SUBMISSION DUE DATES BELOW
Go to http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_workshops.html for link to
each workshop.
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See new workshops added:
Graph Algorithms Building Blocks (GABB) - no submissions
Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop (CHIUW) with due date 17 JAN 2014.

Held on the first and last day of the conference, workshops are a
major part of the IPDPS week-long compendium of events and provide the
IPDPS community with an opportunity to explore special topics and/or
present work that is more preliminary or cutting-edge than the more
mature research presented in the main symposium. Proceedings of the
workshops are published by the IEEE Digital Library and are
distributed at the conference. Please note that each workshop has its
own requirements and schedule for submissions, and all the workshops
are linked from the workshops page on the IPDPS Website. Check the
IPDPS Webpage to confirm the following dates.

WORKSHOP ACRONYM
Workshop Name-Description
PAPER SUBMISSION DUE DATE

HCW
Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop
10 JAN 2014 -CLOSED

RAW
Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
20 DEC 2013 - CLOSED

HIPS
Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments
14 JAN 2014

NIDISC
Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing
8 JAN 2014 - CLOSED

HiCOMB
Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
12 JAN 2014

APDCM
Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models
20 JAN 2014

HPPAC
High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing
14 JAN 2014

HPGC
High-Performance Grid and Cloud Computing Workshop
03 JAN 2014 - CLOSED

ASHES
Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems
04 JAN 2014 - CLOSED

PLC
Programming Models, Languages and Compilers Workshop for Manycore and
Heterogeneous Architectures
14 JAN 2014

EduPar
NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education
21 JAN 2014

GABB
Graph Algorithms Building Blocks
- no submissions

PDSEC
Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing
20 JAN 2014

DPDNS
Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems
31 DEC 2013 - CLOSED

MTAAP
Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications
19 JAN 2014

LSPP
Workshop on Large-Scale Parallel Processing
13 DEC 2013 - CLOSED

PCO
Parallel Computing and Optimization
06 JAN 2014 - CLOSED

ParLearning
Parallel and Distributed Computing for Machine Learning and Inference Problems
10 JAN 2014 - CLOSED

HPDIC
High Performance Data Intensive Computing
15 JAN 2014

CloudFlow
Workflow Models, Systems, Services and Applications in the Cloud
13 JAN 2014

JSSPP
Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
19 JAN 2014

ViPES
Virtual Prototyping of Parallel and Embedded Systems
31 DEC 2013 - CLOSED

CHIUW
Chapel Implementers and Users Workshop [new]
17 JAN 2014

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IPDPS 2014 COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION
For details go to
http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2014/2014_commercial_participation.html
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There are several ways for your company to participate in IPDPS 2014
and share the benefits of associating with our international community
of top researchers and practitioners in fields related to parallel
processing and distributed computing. Visit the IPDPS Website for
details.

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28th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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The 28th IEEE-IPDPS will be held 19-23 May in Phoenix at the Arizona
Grand Resort, an all-suites, family-friendly resort and meeting place.
Phoenix has an international airport and is the hub for several US
airlines. It is only a six hour drive from Los Angeles and Las Vegas
and the starting point for one day tours of the Grand Canyon as well
as other historic communities in the area. The IPDPS event offers a
rich program of workshops, a PhD Forum, and the technical program of
contributed papers, invited speakers, and tutorials. Check the IPDPS
Web pages for updates and information as the full program develops.

GENERAL CHAIR
Manish PARASHAR (Rutgers University, USA)
PROGRAM CHAIR
David A. BADER (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
WORKSHOPS CHAIR
?mit V. ?ATALY?REK (Ohio State University, USA)
WORKSHOPS VICE-CHAIR
Yogesh SIMMHAN (University of Southern California, USA)
PhD FORUM CO-CHAIRS
Luc BOUG? (ENS Cachan, France)
Bo HONG (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRY CHAIR
Kalyana CHADALAVADA (NCSA, USA)

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...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/IPDPS
...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IPDPS
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Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical
Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society
Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:43:58 +0100
From: Cristina Pascual<cris.pascual.gonzalez@gmail.com>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] Last Mile, January 27 || COGNITIVE 2014 || May 25 -
29, 2014 - Venice, Italy
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INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to COGNITIVE 2014.

The submission deadline has been extended to January 27, 2014.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
=================

============== COGNITIVE 2014 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

COGNITIVE 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications

May 25 - 29, 2014 - Venice, Italy

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/COGNITIVE14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPCOGNITIVE14.html

- regular papers

- short papers (work in progress)

- posters

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitCOGNITIVE14.html

Submission deadline: January 27, 2014

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

COGNITIVE 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

BRAIN: Brain information processing and informatics

Cognitive and computation models; Human reasoning mechanisms; Modeling brain information processing mechanisms; Brain learning mechanisms; Human cognitive functions and their relationships; Modeling human multi-perception mechanisms and visual, auditory, and tactile information processing; Neural structures and neurobiological process; Cognitive architectures; Brain information storage, collection, and processing; Formal conceptual models of human brain data; Knowledge representation and discovery in neuroimaging; Brain-computer interface; Cognition-inspired complex systems

COGNITION: Artificial intelligence and cognition

Expert systems, knowledge representation and reasoning; Reasoning techniques, constraint satisfaction and machine learning; Logic programming, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and uncertainty; State space search, ontologies and data mining; Games, planning and scheduling; Natural languages processing and advanced user interfaces; Cognitive, reactive and proactive systems; Ambient intelligence, perception and vision; Pattern recognition

AGENTS: Agent-based adaptive systems

Agent frameworks and development platforms; Agent models and architectures; Agent communication languages and protocols; Cooperation, coordination, and conversational agents; Group decision making and distributed problem solving; Mobile, cognitive and autonomous agents; Task planning and execution in multi-agent systems; Security, trust, reputation, privacy and safety in agent-based systems; Negotiation brokering and matchmaking in agent-oriented protocols; Web-oriented agents (mining, semantic discovery, navigation, etc.; SOA and software agents; Economic agent models and social adoption

AUTONOMY: Autonomous systems and autonomy-oriented computing

Self-organized intelligence nature-inspired thinking paradigms; Swarm intelligence and emergent behavior; Autonomy-oriented modeling and computation; Coordination, cooperation and collective group behavior; Agent-based complex systems modeling and development; Complex behavior aggregation and self-organization; Agent-based knowledge discovery and sharing; Autonomous and distributed knowledge systems; Autonomous knowledge via information agents; Ontology-based agent services; Knowledge evolution control and information filtering agents; Natural and social law discovery in multi-agent systems; Distributed problem solving in complex and dynamic environments; Auction, mediation, pricing, and agent-based market-places; Autonomous auctions and negotiations

APPLICATIONS

Agent-oriented modeling and methodologies; Agent-based interaction protocols and cognitive architectures; Emotional modeling and quality of experience techniques; Agent-based assistants and e-health; Agent-based interfaces; Knowledge and data intensive classification systems; Agent-based fault-tolerance systems; Learning and self-adaptation via multi-agent systems; Task-based and task-oriented agent-based systems; Agent-based virtual enterprise; Embodied agents and agent-based systems applications; Agent-based perceptive animated interfaces; Agent-based social simulation; Socially planning; E-Technology agent-based ubiquitous services and systems

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Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComCOGNITIVE14.html

COGNITIVE Advisory Chairs
Hermann Kaindl, TU-Wien, Austria
??Sugata Sanyal, ??Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India
Po-Hsun Cheng (???), National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, UNIMAS, Malaysia
Susanne Lajoie, McGill University, Canada
Jose Alfredo F. Costa, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
Terry Bosomaier, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Hakim Lounis, UQAM, Canada
Darsana Josyula, Bowie State University; University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Om Prakash Rishi, University of Kota, India

COGNITIVE Industry/Research Chairs
Qin Xin, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Arnau Espinosa, g.tec medical engineering GmbH, Austria
Knud Thomsen, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 08:37:51 +0100
From: Joan Boyar <joan@imada.sdu.dk>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Trends in Online Algorithms (TOLA 2014) - call for
abstracts
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TRENDS in ONLINE ALGORITHMS (TOLA 2014)
- a satellite workshop of ICALP 2014
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
July 7, 2014
www.imada.sdu.dk/~kslarsen/Events/TOLA2014/

The workshop, Trends in On-Line Algorithms 2014 (TOLA 2014),
will take place on July 7, 2014, between SWAT 2014 and ICALP 2014,
both of which will be held in Copenhagen. The purpose of this
workshop is to bring together researchers interested in all aspects
of online algorithms, including classical competitive analysis,
alternative performance measures, and advice complexity.

Anyone can register for participation, but in order to be
scheduled to give a talk, submission of an abstract is required.
The workshop will be informal, with no published proceedings.
If you are interested in speaking, please submit a two-page
abstract, excluding references, through the EasyChair system,
using the following URL:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tola2014
A submission should consist of a two-page abstract, not counting
the bibliography, in PDF format.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 22, 2014, 23:59 (CEST)
Notification: May 13, 2014
Workshop date: July 7, 2014

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Yossi Azar - Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Marek Chrobak - University of California, Riverside, USA
Leah Epstein - University of Haifa, Israel
Lene Monrad Favrholdt (chair) - University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Alejandro L?pez-Ortiz - University of Waterloo, Canada

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Joan Boyar (chair) - University of Southern Denmark
Lene M. Favrholdt - University of Southern Denmark
Kim S. Larsen - University of Southern Denmark

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