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Friday, July 25, 2014

dmanet Digest, Vol 77, Issue 18

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Today's Topics:

1. PostDoc Position in GraphDrawing (Andr? Schulz)
2. PhD studentship in Mathematics and Statistics, The Open
University (Robert Brignall)
3. ICDCN 2015: Extended submission deadline to Aug. 4, 2014
(St?phane Devismes)
4. CSoNet'14: Deadline Extended: July 31: Workshop on
Computational Social Networks, Hawaii, Dec. 2014 (Thang N. Dinh)
5. Research Associate, RWTH Aachen, Mathematical Optimization
(L?bbecke)
6. Call for Papers STACS 2015 (Ernst W. Mayr)

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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:52:24 +0200
From: Andr? Schulz <andre.schulz@uni-muenster.de>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] PostDoc Position in GraphDrawing
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We announce

ONE PostDoc Position for 18 months

at the Westf?lische Wilhelms-Universit?t M?nster, Germany, at the Institute of
Mathematical Logic, as part of the research project "Graph Drawing with Low Visual
Complexity" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The position is
for 18 months with the chance of an extension for another 18 month.
The project is supervised by Prof. Andr? Schulz ( http://cs.uni-muenster.de/u/schulz ).

The aim of the project is to develop and to evaluate new algorithms for drawing graphs
in the plane while using a small ground set of geometric objects. The
developed algorithms will be evaluated with theoretical methods and also in
online user studies.

We expect that the candidate has (or is very close to) a PhD in Computer Science
or Mathematics and a solid background in discrete math and algorithms. Ideally, the
applicant has knowledge and interest in at least one of the following fields:

- graph drawing
- algorithms
- graph theory
- computational geometry

Good programming skills are mandatory. Experience in statistical analysis of
empirical data would be a plus.

Please send your applications consisting of

- a cover letter,
- curriculum vitae,
- the PhD thesis (preliminary version, if not finished),
- a letter of reference (to be directly sent to us),

to

Prof. Dr. Andr? Schulz
Institut f?r Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung
Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik der Universit?t M?nster
Einsteinstra?e 62
D-48149 M?nster, Germany

It is also possible to apply via email. In this case send your application as
one single pdf-file to andre.schulz[at]uni-muenster.de .

The deadline is September 30, but applications will be considered until the position
is filled.

If you have further questions about the position, please send an email
to andre.schulz[at]uni-muenster.de .

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:02:58 +0100
From: Robert Brignall <rbrignall@gmail.com>
To: dmanet <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] PhD studentship in Mathematics and Statistics, The
Open University
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Mathematics,
Computing and Technology, The Open University

We have one full-time PhD studentship available, to start 1st October 2014.

The studentship covers full-time fees, and includes a stipend
(currently ?13,726 per annum) and a ?1250 annual travel allocation.
Students are based on-campus in Milton Keynes, UK.

Research projects are available in applied mathematics, pure
mathematics, history of mathematics and statistics, and can be seen at
http://www.mathematics.open.ac.uk/phd
They include one project in discrete mathematics/combinatorics.

Interested persons are strongly encouraged to make informal enquiries to
mcs-mathematics-enquiries@open.ac.uk as soon as possible, and ideally
by 11th August 2014.

Overseas applicants are welcome 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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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:50:23 +0200
From: St?phane Devismes <stephane.devismes@imag.fr>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] ICDCN 2015: Extended submission deadline to Aug. 4,
2014
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[We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.]

16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
January 4-7 2015, Goa, India http://www.icdcn.org

Important Dates
Due date for submission: August 4th 2014 (extended)
Date for notification: September 26th 2014
Date for camera-ready submission: October 15th 2014

ICDCN is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing
advances in Distributed Computing and Communication Networks, which over
the years, has become a leading forum for disseminating the latest
research results in these fields. As in the past, ICDCN 2015 will be
organized in two tracks: Distributed Computing and Networking, and will
comprise a highly selective technical program consisting of refereed
concise papers, panel discussions as well as focused workshops on
emerging topics. Papers describing original research work and practical
experiences/experimental results are solicited on topics including, but
not limited to:

I. Distributed Computing Track
- Distributed algorithms : design, analysis, and complexity
- Local algorithms and Congestion aware algorithms
- Distributed biological algorithms and bio-inspired distributed
algorithms
- Concurrent data structures
- Concurrent, Synchronization, and transactional memory
- Distributed operating systems and distributed database systems
- Embedded distributed systems
- Experiments and performance evaluation of distributed systems
- Fault-tolerance, reliability, and availability
- Multiprocessor & multi-core architectures & algorithms
- Self-organization, self-stabilization, & autonomic computing
- High performance computing, grid/cluster/cloud computing
- Security, cryptography, & game theory in distributed systems
- Distributed computing issues in large scale systems such as the
Internet

II. Networking Track
- Ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks
- BANs, PANs and home networks
- Cellular networks (4G/LTE/WiMax)
- Vehicular area networks
- Integration of heterogeneous networks
- Network virtualization
- Data center and cloud networking
- Software defined and cognitive radio networks
- Future Internet design
- Next generation & converged network architectures
- Overlay & peer-to-peer networks and services
- Internetworking protocols & Internet applications
- Network security & privacy
- Energy-efficient networking
- Networking for the smart grid
- Pricing and network economics

GENERAL CHAIRS
Sajal K. Das (Co-chair), Missouri University of Science and Technology,
USA, sdas@mst.edu
Dilip Krishnaswamy (Co-chair), IBM Research, Bangalore, India,
dilikris@in.ibm.com
Santonu Sarkar (Vice-chair), Infosys Labs, Bangalore, India
Santonu_Sarkar01@infosys.com

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
TRACK PC CHAIRS
Amos Korman, CNRS, Univ of Paris, France, amos.korman@gmail.com
Srikanth Sastry, Google, New York, USA, ssastry@google.com

NETWORKING TRACK PC CHAIRS
Mohan Kumar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, mjkvcs@rit.edu
Marius Portmann, University of Queensland, Australia, marius@itee.uq.edu.au

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Bharat Deshpande (Chair), BITS-Goa campus, India,
bmd@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in
Sanjay Kumar Sahay, BITS-Goa campus, India,
ssahay@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in

STUDENT SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS
Kishore Kothapalli, IIIT Hyderabad, India, kkishore@iiit.ac.in
Sathya Peri, IIT Patna, India, peri.sathya@gmail.com

STEERING COMMITTEE
Sajal K. Das (Co-chair), Missouri University of Science and Technology,
USA, sdas@mst.edu
Sukumar Ghosh (Co-chair), University of Iowa, USA. sukumar-ghosh@uiowa.edu
Vijay Garg, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research, Bangalore, India
Sanjoy Paul, Accenture, India
David Peleg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Michel Raynal, IRISA, France

Submisson Instructions
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Papers should not exceed 10 pages double column including figures,
tables, and references in standard ACM format. Additional details may be
included in a clearly-marked appendix, not exceeding one page that will
be read at the discretion of the program committee. Papers must be
submitted electronically in printable pdf form via the EasyChair
submission management system at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdcn2015.
Templates for the standard ACM format can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Both strict
and alternate styles are acceptable for submission. No changes to
margins, spacing, or font sizes are allowed from those specified by the
style files. Papers violating the formatting guidelines will be returned
without review. The proceedings will be published through ACM and will
be available in ACM Digital library. Some papers not accepted as regular
papers may be accepted as "Concise papers" with 4 ACM pages in the
proceedings while full papers will be allowed 10 ACM pages.
Warning: It is ACM policy not to allow double submissions, where the
same paper is submitted to more than one conference/journal
concurrently. Any double submissions detected will be immediately
rejected from all conferences/journals involved. At least one author of
each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper.

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:29:52 -0400
From: "Thang N. Dinh" <tdinh@cise.ufl.edu>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] CSoNet'14: Deadline Extended: July 31: Workshop on
Computational Social Networks, Hawaii, Dec. 2014
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Our apology if you receive multiple copies of this
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CFP: 3rd Workshop on Computational Social Networks
CSoNet 2014 - http://csonet14.vcu.edu/
Dec. 21, 2014, Maui, Hawaii, In conjunction with COCOA '14
==========================================================

Computing in social network science has recently become one of the
central themes across mathematical science, information and
communication technology, which attracts a significant interest from
researchers in mathematics, computer science, system science, and
social science. The objective of this workshop is to advance and
promote the theoretical foundation, mathematical aspects as well as
applications of social computing.

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Mathematical modelling and analysis
* Real-world complex systems
* Information retrieval in social contexts, political analysts
* Network structure analysis
* Network dynamics optimization
* Complex network robustness and vulnerability
* Information diffusion models and analysis
* Security and privacy
* Searching in complex networks
* Efficient algorithms

IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission due: ***July 31, 2014***
* Notification of Acceptance: August 21, 2014
* Camera-ready: September 04, 2014

PUBLICATION
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Accepted papers will be published in LNCS - Springer along with main
papers of COCOA 2014. Extended version of selected papers will be
published in a special issue of Computational Social Networks journal
by Springer.

SUBMISSION
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Authors who are interested in the above topics can submit their
unpublished work to this workshop via Easychair using LNCS style. The
maximum length of paper (including references) is 10 pages.

ORGANIZERS
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Steering Committee
My T. Thai, University of Florida, USA
Zhi-Li Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA
Weili Wu, University of Texas - Dallas, USA

PC Chairs
My T. Thai, University of Florida, USA
Thang Dinh, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Publicity Chair
Nam P. Nguyen, Towson University, USA

Technical Program Committee
Nitin Agarwal, (University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA)
Thang Dinh, (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) (Co-Chair)
Carol Fung, (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
Konstantinos Georgiou, (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Donghyun Kim, (North Carolina Central University, USA)
Sang-Wook Kim, (Hanyang University, South Korea)
Ee-Peng Lim, (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Ramasuri Narayanam, (IBM Research, India)
Nam Nguyen, (Towson University, USA)
Vinh Nguyen, (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Georgios Piliouras, (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Panos Pardalos, (University of Florida, USA)
Yang Song, (IBM Research, USA)
My Thai, (University of Florida, USA) (Co-Chair)
Mario Ventresca, (Purdue University, USA)
Anil Kumar Vullikanti, (Virginia Tech, USA)
Ying Zhao, (Tsinghua University, China)

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:39:39 +0000
From: L?bbecke, Marco <marco.luebbecke@rwth-aachen.de>
To: "dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de" <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Research Associate, RWTH Aachen, Mathematical
Optimization
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RWTH Aachen University, Operations Research, www.or.rwth-aachen.de

research associate in
mathematics, computer science, operations research

We invite applications for a position as the scientific and technical team lead in the RWTH Aachen university course timetabling project "carpe diem!". The position as research associate is paid according to German TV-L E13 100%, and should be filled as soon as possible. The project duration is 1.5 years, to be extended by 2.5 more years.

Our team of nine research staff is interested in integer programming, computational optimization, algorithm engineering, scheduling, and graph and network algorithms, both in theory and practical applications thereof. The "carpe diem!" project is a joint effort together with many university members, in collaboration with the TU Berlin, with the aim of providing course timetables which are most beneficial for students and teaching staff. It is a challenging task in many ways.

The successful candidate is responsible for the further development of mathematical optimization models and algorithms, to research in practically relevant directions, such as robust timetabling and mechanism design for gathering teaching preferences. We expect a profound knowledge in mathematical (in paticular discrete and integer) optimization. A talent in producing theoretical results is as desired as a determination to successfully solve real-world optimization problems. The existing software needs to be maintained and extended. Therefore, very good computer skills in general and experience with software development are a must. The post requires strong communication skills, creativity, curiosity, and commitment. There is no teaching obligation. Fluency in the German language is indispensable.

We provide the opportunity to work towards a doctoral degree. It is natural to pick a research topic related to the practical project, but this is not a requirement.

For more information on formal requirements and how to apply please follow the link to the German official opening: http://www.zhv.rwth-aachen.de/mainzhv.php?scriptid=job&param=vorschau&nr=14277&typ=wiss

Application deadline is August 15, 2014.

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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:12:39 +0200
From: "Ernst W. Mayr" <mayr@in.tum.de>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Call for Papers STACS 2015
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(apologies for duplicates)

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STACS 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS

32nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science

March 4 - 7, 2015, Garching near Munich, Germany

Submission Deadline: Sep 21, 2014 (23:59:59 GMT/UTC)

http://www14.in.tum.de/STACS2015

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SCOPE
*****
Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Typical areas include
(but are not limited to):

- algorithms and data structures, including: parallel, distributed,
approximation, and randomized algorithms, computational geometry,
cryptography, algorithmic learning theory, algorithmic game theory,
analysis of algorithms;
- automata and formal languages;
- computational complexity, parameterized complexity, randomness in
computation;
- logic in computer science, including: semantics, specification
and verification, rewriting and deduction;
- current challenges, for example: natural computing, quantum computing,
mobile and net computing.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*****************
Andris Ambainis, FPM, U Riga
Hagit Attiya, CS, Technion, Haifa
Johannes Bl?mer, CS, U Paderborn
Mikolaj Bojanczyk, II, U Warsaw
Tom?s Br?zdil, Masaryk U, Brno
Niv Buchbinder, SOR, Tel Aviv U
Anuj Dawar, CL, U Cambridge
Adrian Dumitrescu, CS, U Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Matthias Englert, DIMAP/DCS, U Warwick
Funda Ergun, SoIC, Indiana U
Fedor Fomin, IN, U Bergen
Tobias Friedrich, FMI, FSU Jena
Christian Gla?er, I1, U W?rzburg
Etienne Grandjean, GREYC, Caen
Tomasz Jurdzinski, U Wrozlaw
Manfred Kufleitner, FMI, U Stuttgart
Jerome Leroux, CNRS, LaBRI, Bordeaux
Ernst W. Mayr, TUM, M?nchen (co-chair)
Peter Bro Miltersen, CS, U Aarhus
Nicolas Ollinger, LIFO, Orl?ans (co-chair)
Sylvain Perifel, LIAFA, Paris 7
Jayalal Sarma, IIT, Madras
Nicolas Schabanel, CNRS, LIAFA, Paris 7
Lutz Schr?der, FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg
Dimitrios M. Thilikos, CNRS, LIRMM, Montpellier
Gerhard Woeginger, TUE, Eindhoven

INVITED SPEAKERS
****************
Sanjeev Arora, CS, Princeton
Manuel Bodirsky, CNRS, LIX, Palaiseau
Peter Sanders, KIT, Karlsruhe

TUTORIAL
********
Felix Brandt, TUM, Munich: Computational Social Choice
tba: Algorithmic Game Theory

IMPORTANT DATES
***************
Submission website opens: Jun 22, 2014
Submission deadline: Sep 21, 2014 (23:59:59 GMT/UTC)
Rebuttal period: Nov 15 - 17, 2014
Notification: Dec 5, 2014
Final version due: Jan 7, 2015
Symposium: Mar 4 - 7, 2015

SUBMISSIONS
***********
Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages
(excluding the references section). The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs
style file (see below) are mandatory; no changes to font size, page geometry
etc. are permitted. Submissions not in the correct format or submitted
after the deadline will not be considered.

The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their
motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their
significance, accessible to non-specialist readers. Proofs omitted due to
space constraints must be put into an appendix, to be read by the program
committee members at their discretion.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or
to journals is not allowed. PC members are excluded from submitting. As a
novelty for STACS, there will also be a rebuttal period for authors. Authors
will receive the reviews of their submissions (via EasyChair) on Nov 14/15
and have three days (Nov 15 - 17) to submit rebuttals (via EasyChair). These
rebuttals become part of the PC meeting, but entail no specific responses.

The submission site, which opens on Jun 22, 2014, is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2015

LIPICS STYLE FILES
******************
LIPIcs homepage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics
tar ball: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz

CONTACT INFORMATION
*******************
http://www14.in.tum.de/STACS2015 (for general information)
pc-chairs-stacs2015@easychair.org (for information regarding paper
submission)

_______________________________________________________________________
Prof. Ernst W. Mayr Tel.: +49-89-289-17704
Lehrstuhl f?r Effiziente Algorithmen Sekr.: +49-89-289-17706
Fakult?t f?r Informatik, I14 Fax: +49-89-289-17707
TU M?nchen E-Mail: mayr@in.tum.de
Boltzmannstra?e 3
85748 Garching Raum: MI 03.09.052
Germany URL: http://www.in.tum.de/~mayr/
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INTERNATIONAL WINTER SCHOOL ON BIG DATA

BigDat 2015

Tarragona, Spain

January 26-30, 2015

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/bigdat2015/

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--- 2nd registration deadline: July 23, 2014 ---

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AIM:

BigDat 2015 is a research training event for graduates and postgraduates in
the first steps of their academic career. It aims at updating them about the
most recent developments in the fast developing area of big data, which
covers a large spectrum of current exciting research, development and
innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific
discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself.
Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views
with the audience.

All big data subareas will be displayed, namely: foundations,
infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and
applications. Main challenges of analytics, management and storage of big
data will be identified through 4 keynote lectures and 24 six-hour courses,
which will tackle the most lively and promising topics. The organizers
believe outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated
students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.

ADDRESSED TO:

Graduate and postgraduates from around the world. There are no formal
pre-requisites in terms of academic degrees. However, since there will be
differences in the course levels, specific knowledge background may be
required for some of them.

BigDat 2015 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep
themselves updated on recent developments and future trends. They will
surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with major researchers,
industry leaders and innovators.

REGIME:

In addition to keynotes, 3 courses will run in parallel 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:

BigDat 2015 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:

Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory), tba

Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), Mapping Big Data
Applications to Clouds and HPC

C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, University Park), Scholarly Big
Data: Information Extraction and Data Mining

William D. Gropp (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), tba

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

Hendrik Blockeel (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [intermediate] Decision
Trees for Big Data Analytics

Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano),
[introductory/intermediate] End-User Access to Big Data Using Ontologies

Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), [introductory/intermediate]
Programming with Big Data

Edward Y. Chang (HTC Corporation, New Taipei City), [introductory/advanced]
>From Design of Distributed and Online Algorithms to Hands-on Code Lab
Practice on Real Datasets

Ernesto Damiani (University of Milan), [introductory/intermediate] Process
Discovery and Predictive Decision Making from Big Data Sets and Streams

Gautam Das (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate/advanced] Mining
Deep Web Repositories

Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam), tba

Geoffrey C. Fox (Indiana University, Bloomington), [intermediate] Using
Software Defined Systems to Address Big Data Problems

Minos Garofalakis (Technical University of Crete, Chania)
[intermediate/advanced], Querying Continuous Data Streams

Vasant G. Honavar (Pennsylvania State University, University Park)
[introductory/intermediate], Learning Predictive Models from Big Data

Mounia Lalmas (Yahoo! Research Labs, London), [introductory] Measuring User
Engagement

Tao Li (Florida International University, Miami),
[introductory/intermediate] Data Mining Techniques to Understand Textual
Data

Kwan-Liu Ma (University of California, Davis), [intermediate] Big Data
Visualization

Christoph Meinel (Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam),
[introductory/intermediate] New Computing Power by In-Memory and Multicore
to Tackle Big Data

David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [intermediate] Data
Parallel Programming

Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, Piscataway), [intermediate] Big Data in
Simulation-based Science

Srinivasan Parthasarathy (Ohio State University, Columbus), [intermediate]
Scalable Data Analysis

Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina), [intermediate] Online Social
Networks

Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana, Lafayette),
[introductory/intermediate] Visual Analytics of Time-evolving Large-scale
Graphs

Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan), [intermediate], Data Security and
Privacy in the Cloud

Peter Sanders (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology),
[introductory/intermediate] Algorithm Engineering for Large Data Sets

Johan Suykens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), [introductory/intermediate]
Fixed-size Kernel Models for Big Data

Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Rende), [intermediate] Scalable Data
Mining on Parallel, Distributed and Cloud Computing Systems

Jieping Ye (Arizona State University, Tempe), [introductory/advanced]
Large-Scale Sparse Learning and Low Rank Modeling

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/bigdat2015/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 and the on-line registration facility disabled when the capacity
of the venue will be complete. It is much recommended to register prior to
the event.

FEES:

As far as possible, participants are expected to stay full-time. Fees are a
flat rate covering the attendance to all courses during the week. There are
several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration
deadline.

ACCOMMODATION:

Suggestions of accommodation will be provided in due time.

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu@urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:32:00 +0500
From: "Dr. Muaz Niazi" <thhgttg@gmail.com>
To: <dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
Subject: [DMANET] Call for Book Chapters: Ensuring Patient Safety and
Confidentiality through Secure Health Information Management
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: July 30, 2014
Ensuring Patient Safety and Confidentiality through Secure Health
Information Management

A book edited by Prof. Dr. Muaz A. Niazi?(COMSATS Institute of IT,
Islamabad, Pakistan)

To be published by IGI Global: http://bit.ly/1lmxT69

Propose a chapter for this book
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1424

Introduction
With the advent of modern smartphones and other devices as part of the
growing Internet of Things vision, different infrastructures and
establishments from our everyday life have started to extensively develop
and use systems to facilitate daily routines. While some of these uses are
for non-critical areas, patients, hospitals and associated systems are not
only critical but also vulnerable. These systems require extremely personal
information about patients to be stored in them. However, it is not easy to
safeguard such information. While the law and common sense dictates that
this information should be limited to the betterment of patients, technology
has yet to come to par with these ideas in a conclusive manner.?

Objective of the Book
One key problem in the domain of?Patient Safety and confidentiality?is the
absence of a readable compendium of works with a?multidisciplinary?focus
from researchers across disciplines. The goal of the book will be a
presentation of the state of the art in addition to workable proposals for
the betterment and improvement of technologies and ideas in the domain of
patient confidentiality and safety through secure health information
management and?related areas. The goal of this book is to fill this gap and
to serve as a reference guide for researchers as well as patients.

Target Audience
The target audience of this book will be researchers, ?NGOs, social
workers/scientists, medical practitioners, clinicians, computer scientists,
software engineers, intellectuals either working in related fields or having
interest in them?or even patients and their families.?The audience will be
interested in examining various aspects as well as understanding issues and
case studies in patient data management and privacy such as with interest in
security, cryptography, internet of things, body sensor networks, RFIDs,
operations research, modeling and simulation and cloud computing among
others.?

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
? Issues and case studies in patient data management?
? Privacy
? Security
? Cryptography
? Internet of things
? Body sensor networks
? RFIDs
? Operations research
? Modeling and simulation?
? Cloud computing
? Data collection from hospitals
? Data encryption
? Data masking and obfuscation
? Data Privacy
? Data Quality
? Decision support systems
? Development of necessary policies and legislation of health information
management (information governance and health information management)
? Development of necessary standards for data transmission, data quality,
and data vocabularies
? Dissemination of best practices in HIM (e.g., electronic signatures, CPOE,
privacy impact assessments, risk assessment, and record retention, storage,
and destruction)
? Electronic health information and fully realized electronic record issues
(e.g., constituting legal records, secondary uses of data, privacy and
confidentiality of health data, necessary data and transmission standards,
and coding standards)
? Evaluation of security of individuals as the custodian of the health
record
? Expert systems
? Future of health information management
? Green Computing
? Hash algorithms for privacy
? Healthcare data management issues
? Healthcare informatics
? Healthcare record management and dissemination systems
? Identity Management
? Identity Theft
? Information Disclosure
? Internet of Things
? Issues related to primary versus secondary uses of health data (e.g., data
mining, data warehouses, disease surveillance, registry development,
de-identification, and anonymization of health data)
? Issues related to the consequences of sharing HIM across boundaries,
nationally, and internationally
? Mobile Computing
? Ontologies
? Patient data management and confidentiality in lab tests
? Pervasive computing
? Policies for electronic record retention, storage, and destruction
? Privacy and confidentiality of health data
? Privacy and health information management in cloud computing
? Procedures and protocols in labs, hospitals, and research institutes
? Risk management
? Role of HIM professionals (e.g., data stewardship/data custodians, privacy
officers, and health information analysts)
? Semantic Web
? Smart cards
? Smart grids
? Surveillance of record usage
? Use of digital certificates
? Use of emergency services using pervasive technology
? Use of social simulation methods to evaluate healthcare and privacy
policies
? Use of statistical methods
? Web 2.0
? Web services for data sharing

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before July 30,
2014, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the
mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified about the status of their proposals and sent
chapter guidelines as per the timeline given below. Subsequently, ?full
chapters are expected to be submitted. All submitted chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested
to serve as reviewers for this project.

All proposals should be submitted through the link at the bottom of this
page

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group
Inc.), an international academic publisher of the ?Information Science
Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference), ?Medical Information Science
Reference,? ?Business Science Reference,? and ?Engineering Science
Reference? imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books,
scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on
a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to,
education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management,
information science and technology, engineering, public administration,
library and information science, media and communication studies, and
environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher,
please visit?www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be
released in 2015.

Important Dates
July 30, 2014:?Proposal submission deadline
September 30, 2014:?Full chapter submission deadline
October 30, 2014:?Review process ends and review results returned to authors
December 30, 2014:?Revised chapter submission deadline
January 30, 2015:?Final submission

Inquiries can be forwarded to
Dr. Muaz A. Niazi
Chief Scientific Officer (Professor)
Department of Computer Science
COMSATS Institute of IT, Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel.: +92 321 5310906
E-mail:?muaz.niazi@ieee.org
muaz.niazi@gmail.com

Propose a chapter for this book

http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1424

To find related content in this research area, visit InfoSci?-OnDemand:
Download Premium Research Papers
http://www.igi-global.com/infosci-ondemand/search/

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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:26:18 +0200
From: "Giovane C. M. Moura" <g.c.moreiramoura@tudelft.nl>
To: dmanet@zpr.uni-koeln.de
Subject: [DMANET] IFIP/IEEE IM 2015 in Ottawa, Canada - Submissions
due in less than 8 weeks
Message-ID: <53CE748A.502@tudelft.nl>
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CALL FOR PAPERS - IFIP/IEEE IM 2015

The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service
Management

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 11-15 May 2015

http://www.ieee-im.org/

(Paper Submission Date: September 15, 2014)

"Integrated Management in the Age of Big Data"
<http://im2015.ieee-im.org/>

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The 14th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service
Management (IM 2015) will be held 11-15 May 2015 in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada and hosted by the Ottawa Convention Centre. Held in
odd-numbered years since 1989, IM 2015 follows the 27 years tradition
of NOMS and IM as the primary IEEE Communications Society's forum for
technical exchange on management of information and
communication technology focusing on research, development,
integration, standards, service provisioning, and user communities. IM
2015 will focus on the theme "Integrated Management in the Age
of Big Data" presenting recent, emerging approaches and technical
solutions for dealing with Big Data as well as
using it for management solutions. IM 2015 will offer five
types of sessions: technical, experience, poster, panel and
dissertation.

High quality will be assured through a well qualified Technical
Program Committee and stringent peer review of paper submissions. A
special call for demonstrations is organized to allow
industry partners and researchers to demonstrate early products and
prototypes.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Authors are invited to submit papers that fall into or are related to
the topic areas that are listed below. In addition, we invite
submissions of proposals for demonstrations, exhibits, technical
panels, tutorials and workshops. Papers can be submitted as
technical session full papers, technical session
short papers, experience session papers and dissertation papers.

Network Management & Operational Experience
- Software Defined Networks (SDN)
- Smart Cities, Smart Grids
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Future Internet
- Content Distribution Networks (P2P, CDN, ICN)
- Virtual and Overlay Networks
- Data Centers, Storage Area Networks
- Cyber-Physical Systems
- Wireless and Mobile Networks (Ad-Hoc, Mesh, Sensor, Vehicular)
- Smart Devices and Home Networks
- Broadband Access Networks
- Cognitive Radio Networks
- IP/MPLS Networks
- Optical Networks
- Heterogeneous Networks

Service Management
- Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
- IT Service Management
- Multimedia and Data Services
- QoE-Centric Management
- Service Discovery, Migration and Orchestration
- Resource Provisioning and Management
- Hosting and Virtualized Infrastructures
- OTT Service Management
- Management as a Service

Business Management
- Legal and Ethical Issues
- Process Management

Functional Areas
- Deployment
- Fault Management
- Diagnostics, Tracing, Troubleshooting
- Configuration Management
- Accounting and Billing Management
- Performance Management
- Service Level Management
- Security Management, IDS, IPS

Management Approaches
- Centralized management
- Distributed management
- Autonomic and self-management
- Policy-based management
- Federated Management
- Pro-Active Management
- Energy-Aware Management
- Management Architectures

Management Enablers & Technologies
- Network Programmability
- Cloud Computing
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Service Chaining
- (Big) Data, Information and Semantic Modeling
- Protocols and Languages
- Message and Software Buses
- Middleware, Grids
- Mobile Agents
- Social Networking
- Human-Machine Interactions
- Operations and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS)

Methodologies for Network Operations and Management
- (Big) Data Analytics and Data Mining
- Monitoring and Measurements
- Control Theories
- Optimization Theories
- Economic Theories
- Machine learning and Genetic Algorithms
- Probability, Stochastic Processes, and Queuing Theory
- Design and Simulation
- Experimental Studies
- Visualization

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit original contributions (written in
English) in PDF format through the IM 2015 web site. Only original
papers that have not been published or submitted for publication
elsewhere can be submitted.

Each submission will be limited to 8 pages (full papers) or 4 pages
(short papers) in IEEE 2-column style. Papers exceeding these
limits, multiple submissions, and self-plagiarized papers will be
rejected without further review. The authors of the
IM 2015 top papers will be encouraged to extend their work and
submit to IEEE TNSM (IEEE Transactions on Network and Service
Management. These extended papers will undergo the normal TNSM
peer-review process.

More information about technical paper submissions on:
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/technical-session-papers

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: September 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2014
Camera ready submission: February 1, 2015

SUMMARY OF IM 2015 CALLS

Technical Papers (deadline: September 15, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/technical-session-papers

Experience Papers (deadline: September 15, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/experience-session-papers

Dissertation Papers (deadline: October 30, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/dissertation-papers

Panel Proposals (deadline: October 31, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/panels

Tutorial Proposals (deadline: October 17, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/tutorials-0

Workshop Proposals (deadline: August 1, 2014)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/workshops-0

Exhibit and Demo Proposals (deadline: January 30, 2015)
http://www.ieee-im.org/content/demos

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Wahab Almuhtadi, Algonquin College, Canada

TPC CO-CHAIRS

- Shingo Ata, Osaka City University, Japan
- Remi Badonnel, TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA, France
- Jin Xiao, IBM T.J. Watson, USA

STEERING COMMITTEE

- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland
- Alex Clemm, Cisco, USA
- Olivier Festor, Telecom Nancy, France
- Nobuo Fujii, NTT, Japan
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Doug Zuckerman, Telcordia Technologies, USA

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Abdelkader Lahmadi, ENSEM, France
- Adarsh Sethi, University of Delaware, USA
- Adel El-Atawy, Google, USA
- Aiko Pras, University of Twente, Netherland
- Akihiro Nakao, The University of Tokyo, Japan
- Alberto Gonzalez, Cisco Systems, USA
- Aldri dos Santos, Universidade Federal do Paran?, Brazil
- Alexander Clemm, Cisco Systems, USA
- Alexander Keller, IBM Global Technology Services, USA
- Alva Couch, Tufts University, USA
- Andrzej Kochut, IBM T. J. Watson, USA
- Anna Sperotto, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Anwar Haque, Bell Canada, Canada
- Arosha Bandara, The Open University, UK
- Artur Ziviani, LNCC, Brazil
- Bradley Simmons, York University, Canada
- Brendan Jennings, TSSG - Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Carlos Westphall, Federal Uiversity of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Chonggang Wang, InterDigital Communications, USA
- Choong Seon Hong, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
- Christopher Ward, SiriusXM, USA
- Clarissa Marquezan, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
- Danny Raz, Technion, Israel
- David Breitgand, IBM - Haifa Research Lab, Israel
- David Hausheer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
- Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
- Edmundo Madeira, UNICAMP, Brazil
- Emil Lupu, Imperial College, UK
- Fetahi Wuhib, Ericsson Research, Sweden
- Filip De Turck, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Gabi Dreo Rodosek, University of Federal Armed Forces, Munich Germany
- George Pavlou, University College London, UK
- Gerard Parr, University of Ulster, UK
- Giovane Moura, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Guillaume Doyen, UTT, France
- Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Helmut Reiser, Leibniz-Supercomputing Centre, Germany
- Henning Sanneck, Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG, Germany
- Hongtaek Ju, Keimyung University, South Korea
- Isabelle Chrisment, Universit? de Lorraine, France
- Iyad Katib, King Abdulaziz University Saudi, Arabia
- James Hong, POSTECH, South Korea
- Javier Baliosian, University of the Republic, Uruguay
- J?r?me Fran?ois, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France
- Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, EPFL, Switzerland
- Jeroen Famaey, Ghent University - iMinds, Belgium
- Jerry Rolia, HP Laboratories, USA
- Jiahai Yang, Tsinghua University, China
- Jinho Hwang, IBM Research, USA
- Joan Serrat, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya, Spain
- Joe Betser, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
- John Strassner, Huawei Technologies (US), USA
- Jorge L?pez de Vergara, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain
- Jorge Lobo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
- Jos? De Souza, UFC, Brazil
- Jose-Marcos Nogueira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Juergen Schoenwaelder, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
- Kazuhiko Kinoshita, Osaka University, Japan
- Liam Fallon, Ericsson, Ireland
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, UFRGS, Brazil
- Luca Deri, ntop.org, Italy
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, UFRGS, Brazil
- Lucy Cherkasova, Hewlett Packard Labs, USA
- Malgorzata Steinder, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Marcus Brunner, Swisscom, Switzerland
- Marinos Charalambides, University College London, UK
- Mario Golling, University of Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany
- Masum Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA
- Mauro Tortonesi, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Maxwell, Young Drexel University, USA
- Metin Feridun, IBM Research, Switzerland
- Michael Bauer, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Michael Menth, University of Tuebingen, Germany
- Michele Nogueira, Universidade Federal do Paran?, Brazil
- Nancy Samaan, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Nikos Anerousis, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
- Noriaki Kamiyama, Osaka University/NTT Laboratories, Japan
- Noura Limam, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University, Canada
- Olivier Festor, TELECOM Nancy, France
- Omar Cherkaoui, University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada
- Osamu Akashi, NTT, Japan
- Paulo Simoes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Peer Hasselmeyer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
- Philippe Owezarski, LAAS-CNRS, France
- Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
- Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France
- Qi Zhang, University of Toronto, Canada
- Quanyan Zhu, New York University, USA
- Radu State, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Rami Langar, UPMC - Paris University, France
- Ramin Sadre, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Reaz Ahmed, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Ritu Chadha, Applied Communication Sciences (formerly Telcordia), USA
- Roberto Riggio, CREATE-NET, Italy
- Rocky K. C. Chang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Sejun Song, University of Missouri Kansas City, USA
- Serge Mankovskii, CA Labs, USA
- Sidath Handurukande, Ericsson Ireland, Ireland
- Stefan Wallin, Tail-f Systems, Sweden
- Stefano Secci, Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6, France
- Steven Latre, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium
- Sven van der Meer, Ericsson, Ireland
- Taghrid Samak, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Tamar Eilam, IBM, USA
- Thomas Bocek, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Thomas Magedanz, Fraunhofer Institut FOKUS, Germany
- Thomas Schaaf, University of Munich (LMU), Germany
- Toshio Tonouchi, NEC, Japan
- Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux, France
- Tsuyoshi Ide, IBM Research, Japan
- Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Inc., USA
- Yacine Ghamri-Doudane, University of La Rochelle, France
- Yang Song, IBM Research, USA
- Yixin Diao, IBM Research, USA
- Yoshiaki Kiriha, NEC, Japan
- Young-Tak Kim, Yeungnam University, South Korea
- Zhikui Wang, HP Laboratories, USA

For more information, please feel free to contact the TPC chairs
at im2015tpcchairs@gmail.com or visit http://www.ieee-im.org

--
Giovane C. M. Moura, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher
Economics of Cybersecurity Group
Faculty of Technology, Policy, and Management
Delft University of Technology
http://homepage.tudelft.nl/6a4w6/

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