November 2013 - ENOG

Second CFP: Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks
by Wlodzimierz Ogryczak 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Apologies for possible crossposting. Dear Colleagues, We are editing a Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks: Models, Algorithms and Applications to be published by Journal of Applied Mathematics (an Open Access journal JCR indexed). http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/si/419729/cfp/ The issue of fairness is widely recognized in location and allocation analysis of public services. The need of fair optimization arrives also in more general problems of resource allocation such as in various network systems. Fair network optimization issues are in focus of diverse applications and problems arising in communication networks. These issues are closely related to situations where it is desirable to achieve an equitable allocation of certain resources, shared by competing demands. Fairness, more specifically, lexicographic maximin optimization, Max-Min Fairness and Proportional Fairness, are widely studied in the communication network literature, especially related to bandwidth allocation, and rate adaptation and congestion control in TCP networks. Still, this concept continues to be widely applicable in different settings in network optimization and more specifically in multi-commodity flow networks related applications. The special issue strives to serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to present advances in the field. We invite authors to submit original research articles that propose new models, algorithms and applications of fair network optimization. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Fairness in communication network design including traffic routing, resource allocation, and survivability issues - Fair optimization of transportation networks - Network dimensioning, models and computational methods - Fair optimization of logistic networks - Fairness in sensor networks - Fair allocation of resources, tasks, or costs - Fair scheduling The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2014. Attached, please find the call for papers, which also contains instructions for submissions. Best regards, Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Hanan Luss, Dritan Nace and Michal Pióro (Guest Editors) -- ---------------- Institute of Control and Computation Engineering ______ Wlodzimierz Ogryczak Warsaw University of Technology /_/ | W.Ogryczak(a)ia.pw.edu.pl Nowowiejska 15/19 / / /| | tel. +48 22 234 7750 00-665 Warsaw, POLAND / / _>| | tel. +48 22 234 7397 __________ fax. +48 22 8253719 ________ /_/_/ |_|

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INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 - 2nd announcement
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 (www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt) - 2nd announcement The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 2 - 4, 2014 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 12th 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. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications. Conference chair: Luís Gouveia Conference co-chairs: Maurício Resende and Youngho Lee Plenary speakers: Thomas Bonald (Telecom Paris Tech), Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institut Berlin) and Guy Leduc (Université de Liège) 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will also be held from the 5th to the 7th of March, just after the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement)
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement) The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. ISCO is a biannual symposium whose aim is to gather researchers from combinatorial optimization and other related fields of operations research. Conference Chairs: Luis Gouveia (Univ of Lisbon-CIO) and Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine) Plenary Speakers: Matteo Fischetti (Univ. of Padova), Martin Grotschel (ZIB-Berlin) and Adam Letchford (University of Lancaster) Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2013 Accepted regular papers (with up to 12 pages) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in a post-conference proceedings volume. The authors will have to prepare their camera-ready version two weeks after the end of ISCO 2014. A special issue of Discrete Optimization on "Combinatorial Optimization" will be associated to ISCO2014 This symposium is preceded by a spring school titled "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" School lecturers - Rüdiger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin) For more information on the Symposium and School, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt. The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (2014) will also be held from the 2nd to the 4th of March, just before ISCO 2014, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences
by Bernard Fortz 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Last Call for Abstracts EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences (EURO mini 2014) ============================================================ Dear Colleagues, the organizers of the EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences (EURO mini 2014) have a pleasure to invite you to take part in this conference to be held in Aveiro, Portugal on 5-9 February, 2014, http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/.[1] The conference aims at discussing the latest research in optimization and its applications to the Natural Sciences. The main objective of the meeting is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and recent achievements, and to establish collaborations among researchers and practitioners working in the areas of Computer Science / Optimization / Statistics, and Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medical Sciences. We welcome abstracts related to any aspects of optimization in the Natural Sciences, in particular, related to the following topics: Topics ============================= • Analysis of microarray data or next generation sequencing • Applications of modeling and optimization in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine • Billiard theory and applications • Biomedical engineering • Design optimization • Data visualization for optimal decisions • Image processing • Infinite and semi-infinite optimization with applications • Inverse problems • Linear and nonlinear optimization and applications • Multi-criteria optimization with applications • Multi-scale optimization with applications • Optimal control applied to biological models • Optimal mass transfer • Optimization in bioinformatics and computational biology • Shape optimization • Solution of optimization problems using statistical methods • Statistics in high-dimensional data • Statistical methods and visualization • Statistical and probabilistic modeling • Wave scattering Abstracts should be written in English and contain no more than 600 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present ONE paper at the conference. To submit an abstract, please use the abstract submission system of EURO-Online available on the conference website (http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/).[2] Location and Venue ============================== The conference will be held in Aveiro city (Portugal). Aveiro is located about 80km from the Porto Airport and 250km from Lisbon Airport. However is quite easy and quick to travel from any of these cities to Aveiro: 2h30 from Lisbon and 40min from Porto. Aveiro is situated on the estuary of Vouga river and is surrounded by a system of marshlands that run 50km parallel to the sea. The town has famous channels where typical boats (moliceiro) sail, bridges and pastel-coloured houses that are somewhat reminiscent of Amsterdam or Venice. A special attention deserve: Aveiro Cathedral (15th-18th centuries) and its gothic cross; Misericórdia Church; São Bartolomeu and Senhor das Barrocas chapels; 18th-century churches of Santo António, Nossa Senhora da Apresentação and São Gonçalo; the Regional Museum (housed in the ancient Convento de Jesus); the city hall and beautiful building in the New Art style; the train station and the beautiful tiles of the old Fonte Nova factory (1916) where the Cultural and Congress Center is situated now; the Infante D. Pedro park; the Barra and Costa Nova beaches (the last one is also known for its typical beach houses); Humberto Delgado square; Carcavelos bridge and S. Roque channel. Confirmed Invited Speakers ============================== • Aleksander Dudin, Belarusian State University, Belarus, http://www.apa.bsu.by/[3] • Giuseppe Buttazzo, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy, http://www.dm.unipi.it/pages/buttazzo/[4] • Gueorgui Smirnov, University of Minho, Portugal, http://intranet.uminho.pt/4881.page[5] • Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bunimovh/[6] • Michael Greenacre, Department of Economics and Business, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, http://www.barcelonagse.eu/faculty.php?id=118[7] • Sergey Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Mathematics, USA, http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/[8] Important Dates =============================== • Deadline for abstract submission (extended) 15/11/2013 • Notification of acceptance: 30/11/2013 • Deadline for registration fee payment for inclusion in the abstract book: 15/01/2014 Registration Fee =============================== • Regular early (up to 1/12/2013): 285 euros • Regular late (up to 15/01/2014): 360 euros • Student early (up to 1/12/2013): 150 euros • Student late (up to 15/01/2014): 200 euros • Accompanying person: 50 euros Conference fee includes a get-together party, coffee breaks, participant’s package, abstract book and participation in all the sessions. Organizing Institutions ================================= • EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies, http://www.euro-online.org[9]<http://www.euro-online.org/[10]>. • EUROPT - EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization, http://europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/.[11] • CIDMA - Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications, http://cidma.mat.ua.pt/ma/home.php.[12] • Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, http://www.ua.pt/dmat/.[13] Secretariat ================================ Neusa Lagarto, neusa(a)ua.pt<mailto:neusa@ua.pt[14]>. Contacts ================================= For all questions please contact: DMAT-miniEURO2014(a)ua.pt<mailto:DMAT-miniEURO2014@ua.pt[15]>. Please visit our website http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/[16] for more information.

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Two Assistant Professor Positions at Supélec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
by Mohamad Assaad 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Dear Colleagues, The Telecommunications Department of SUPELEC currently has two openings at the Assistant Professor level in the field of communications networks. Reference TEL 1: In this position, research is related to Queuing analysis and system-level design of wireless networks, and Performance evaluation of communication networks. Therefore, a strong background in some of the following topics is desired: Queuing theory, Stochastic networks, and Traffic modeling. Reference TEL 2: In this position, research is related to Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Proactive optimization of networks harnessing recent developments in context-awareness and social networks, and/or Dynamics of information spread on networks. The candidate should have a strong background in one (or some) of the following topics: Statistical learning, Random graphs, Big Data Analysis, Combinatorial optimization, and Stochastic networks. For both positions, the candidates must have a Ph.D. and a strong research record. They must also be committed to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunications, networks, and related fields. Applications must be submitted to Prof Hikmet Sari via e-mail (hikmet.sari(a)supelec.fr) and should include a motivation letter with a concise statement of research and teaching interests, an extended CV with a list of publications, and three recommendation letters.

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