The Eleventh INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held
March 15-17, 2012 at the Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton,
FL. In the tradition of the previous “Boca” conferences, the
Eleventh Conference will focus on the theory and application of
operations research and management science to problems in
telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging
technologies.
Topics for the Conference include, but are not limited to:
Telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network
design, algorithms, optimization, network economics and
techno-economics, sensor networks, wireless and broadband
networks, mobile computing, semantic networks, network
survivability and reliability, information security and privacy,
pricing, quality of service, Internet and multimedia, data mining
applications in telecommunications networks.
Guidelines for submission:
Three kinds of submissions are invited: proposals for (i) an
organized session with multiple presentations, (ii) a single
presentation, and (iii) a tutorial presentation. An extended
abstract in PDF is required for each talk (whether it is a single
presentation or part of an organized session).
Proposals for organized sessions and tutorials can be submitted
by email directly to one of the program co-chairs (see below) for
a quick decision. All single presentation abstracts must be
submitted via the online submission system (available soon at
http://www.informs.org/Community/Telecom).
Conference volume:
Conference participants will be eligible to submit papers based
on their presentations for a special issue of Netnomics featuring
select papers from the conference.
Important dates:
December 30, 2011: Doctoral dissertation award (see opposite page for details)
January 9, 2012: Session, tutorial, and single abstract submission deadline
January 16, 2012: Acceptance notification
Conference Committee:
Conference Chair:
Eli Olinick
Southern Methodist University
olinick(a)smu.edu
Program Co-Chairs:
Luis Gouveia
University of Lisboa
legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt
Mauricio G. C. Resende
AT&T Labs Research
mgcr(a)research.att.com
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for contributed sessions/talks/posters
MOPTA 2012, July 30 to August 1, 2012 , Lehigh University
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The 12th Annual MOPTA (Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications)
Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, from
Monday
to Wednesday, July 30 to August 1, 2012.
Plenary speakers include:
Kurt M. Anstreicher (University of Iowa)
Edgar Blanco (MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics)
Andrew V. Goldberg (Microsoft Research)
Mark S. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh)
Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University)
Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)
Stephen J. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
This is an invitation for contributed talks as well as organized sessions
and
poster sessions. If interested please contact: Luis F. Zuluaga <
inmopta(a)lehigh.edu>
Current program information is available at:
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/
MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both
discrete and continuous
optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will
be a small number of
invited talks from distinguished speakers and contributed talks, spread
over three days.
Our target is to present a diverse set of exciting new developments from
different optimization
areas while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased
interaction among
the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the
theoretical and applied
communities who do not usually have the chance to interact in the framework
of a medium-scale
event.
We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA.
Organizing Committee:
Luis F. Zuluaga (Chair)
Tamás Terlaky
Katya Scheinberg
Ted K. Ralphs
Robert H. Storer
Aurélie C. Thiele
Larry V. Snyder
Eugene Perevalov
Frank E. Curtis
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 W. Packer Ave.
Bethlehem PA 18015
Fax: 610-758-4886
Apologies for any cross-posting.
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