October 2014 - ENOG

Winter School in Network Optimization (last
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

The 4th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at the Hotel Sana, Estoril, from the 12th to the 16th of January 2015. Its main objective is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to get together and attend high level courses in the field of Network Optimization. Non-PhD students are welcome to attend the school, but the number of participants is limited and priority will be given to PhD students. In this edition of the school, the lecturers and subjects to be addressed are: Bernard Gendron (Univ. Montréal): Decomposition methods for network design Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs): Robust optimization in telecommunications Gerhard Reinelt (Univ. Heidelberg): Ordering problems Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI): Maximum weight cuts in graphs and extensions Daniele Vigo (Univ. Bologna): Solution approaches for vehicle routing problems Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO (Centro de Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as of the ENOG (European Network Optimization Group). The event is also endorsed by the EURO (the Association of European Societies) and APDIO (the Portuguese OR society). Candidates are invited to submit their CVs to NetOpt2015(a)fc.ul.pt before the 5th of November 2014. After a short period of evaluation, the participants will be notified and be invited to register. More information is available at [[[http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt.

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EURO Awards 2015 - Call for nominations
by Sarah Fores 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Dear EURO Working Group Coordinators On behalf of the EURO 2015 jury chairs, may I ask you to disseminate a call for applications for the following two awards. The text for each announcement can be found on the relevant web page listed: *The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA)* *http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda <http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda>* The deadline for submitting applications is *28 February 2015*. The jury chair and contact is Professor Hartmut Stadtler *The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa The deadline for submitting material online is *28 February 2015*. The jury chair and contact is Professor Luca Gambardella -- In addition, EURO working groups can forward nominations for possible award recipients for the following awards: *The EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/255/distinguished-service-medal-award-… The deadline for nominations is *31 January, 2015.* The jury chair and contact is Prof. Jan Weglarz Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5 Poznań Poland Jan.weglarz(a)cs.put.poznan.pl *The EURO Gold Medal (EGM)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/212/gold-medal-egm The deadline for nominations is *31 January, 2015.* The jury chair and contact is Ger Koole Department of Mathematics VU University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands ger.koole(a)vu.nl For completeness EURO also has an *Award for the Best EJOR Paper (EABEP).* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1536/guidelines. Although the finalists are determined by papers already published in EJOR, you may also wish to advertise this to your members. Please let me know if you need any other information. Thank you. Best regards. Sarah -- Dr Sarah Fores Manager of EURO <http://www.euro2015.org/>

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First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
by Friderikos, Vasilis 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems Organized in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015) 8-12 June 2015, London, UK http://conta.uom.gr/IoTCPSsecurity2015/ SCOPE Recent advances in networking, communications, computation, software, and hardware technologies have revolutionized the way humans, smart things, and engineered systems interact and exchange information. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which are the major contributors to this area, will fuel the realization of this new, globally interconnected cyber-world. Yet, the success, prosperity, and advancement of IoT and CPS systems strongly depend on the security, privacy and trust of the IoT and cyber-physical devices as well as the sensitive data being exchanged. While these technologies offer a lot of new possibilities, the increasing complexity of hardware and software as well as the worldwide access increase the vulnerability to security attacks. Successful attacks targeted to IoT devices and CPS systems have in common that not only a single computer is affected, but also interconnected technical systems allowing interaction with the physical world are influenced leading to malfunction of devices and control systems with severe financial, environmental and health losses. This fact highlights the need to develop novel tools that will constitute the heart of a much-needed science of security for IoT and CPS. The goal of the 2015 IoT/CPS-Security workshop is to bring together internationally leading academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results aimed at addressing all aspects of security and privacy for IoT and CPS. TOPICS OF INTEREST To ensure complete coverage of the advances in this field, the 2015 IoT/CPS-Security workshop solicits original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas: Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT and CPS Systems Secure IoT and CPS architectures Security vulnerabilities in IoT and CPS systems Security in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems Detecting and preventing attacks in IoT devices and CPS systems Evaluation of the Threats, Attacks and Risks in IoT and cyber-physical devices Data Security and Privacy in the IoT Game theory for IoT and CPS security Security and Privacy in IoT applications and services (health care, smart cities, smart grid, safety and surveillance systems, etc.) Security and Privacy for RFID, sensors, actuator technologies Security in Smart Grids and Smart Spaces Network-distributed signal processing for security solutions in CPS Joint security and privacy aware protocol design Test-bed and performance metrics of security solutions in CPS Deployment and performance studies of secure CPS Secure network control systems for CPS applications Secure implementation of cyber-physical systems Architectures for secure hardware/software CPS systems SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Papers should be written in English with a standard length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with extra charge if accepted). You may use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats. For more information, please visit the following URL: http://icc2015.ieee-icc.org/content/authors-guidelines. The edas link for paper submission is: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18701&track=66317. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10 January, 2014 Acceptance notification: 14 February, 2015 Final paper ("camera-ready"): 28 February, 2015 Workshop date: 8 June, 2015

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USRR'14: TWO days left to paper submission deadline: 8 days left; Elsevier JCR journal publication for all presented papers
by Jacek Rak 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ !!! All accepted (and presented) USRR 2014 Fall papers will be published !!! in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics journal by Elsevier. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-notes-in-discrete-mathematics/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers USRR 2014 Fall 2nd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks co-located with RNDM 2014 http://www.rndm.pl/2014/USRR/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Fee: 120 EUR (it also covers the Gala Dinner of RNDM 2014) http://www.rndm.pl/2014/program.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Context: ------------------ Emerging network sciences (interdisciplinary science of networks of networks) aim at discovering/identifying, formalizing/representing and analyzing common processes and phenomena underlying physical, chemical, biological, communication, social and cognitive networks. The fundamental objective of this emerging interdisciplinary field is to propose predictive models of these processes and phenomena in these networks that are characterized as adaptive, interdependent, unpredictable, nonlinear, and dynamic. From this perspective, a fundamental question arises as how interdependent network systems can be designed to support unpredictable disturbance and unexpected changes when vulnerable to natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, and changes in its usage patterns due to socio-economic or technological changes. The latter changes could also impact operations for system maintenance as operators running an infrastructure might operate differently than system design assumes. For this purpose, a better understanding of the aforementioned properties characterizing interdependent networks requires to first capture the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience and robustness. Workshop Objective: ------------------ Technical networks exhibit many inter-dependencies which are complex to measure and model but also lead to multi-objective decision problems where uncertainty becomes the transversal notion to capture. To this end, understanding the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience, and robustness becomes essential in order to rejuvenate and/or improve current design and evaluation methods that are currently unable to cope with this fundamental dimension. Topics: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers that describe state-of-the-art research, present work-in-progress, or suggest open problems covering one or more of the topics of interest to the workshop: - Case studies about natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network infrastructure: what happened and what lead to the situation? - Life cycle (data) analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions, parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification, competing failure modes analysis - Quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of (inter-dependent) networks - Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks - Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks - Robust, adaptive and stochastic optimal control for sustainable network systems design - Extend robustness analysis towards a rigorous approach to resiliency analysis by e.g. capturing and representing system dynamics at multiple time scale, multi-scale models and cross-interactions - Energy-aware resilience - Game theoretic and economic aspects of sustainability-vs-resilience trade-offs - Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2014 - Notification deadline: November 4, 2014 - Camera-ready: November 10, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submissions (via EDAS: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741) of original contributions of 4-8 pages, formatted in LaTeX according to the ENDM template available at: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/misc/endm_package.zip Workshop Chairs: ----------------- - Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE - Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE - Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE

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Call for Papers for EWGLA XXII
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

EWGLA XXII CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 5 January 2015 Dear colleagues, This is the first announcement for the *22nd EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting*, *EWGLA XXI**I,* to be held in *Budapest, Hungary* on *May 20-22, 2015*. The conference will take place at the Corvinus University. More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference web site: www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015 *Aims and Scope* The meeting intends to gather the operations research community from different parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational analysis We invite participation from all areas related to location theory including: - network location, - continuous location, - discrete location, - obnoxious location, - competitive location, - hub location, - location-routing, - advanced location models, - location applications (logistics, network design), - exact and heuristic solution methods. Contributions are welcome from academia, industry or the public sector. In addition to presentations, the meeting is intended to be a forum for exchange of recent experiences and results. *Important Dates* · Abstract submission deadline: 5 January 2015 · Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2015 · Early registration: 20 March 2015 · Conference: 20-22 May 2015 *Committees* *Scientific Committee:* Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada Emilio Carrizosa Priego - University of Sevilla, Spain Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University, Spain Elena Fernandez Areizaga - University Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain José Fernández - University of Murcia, Spain Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (chair) Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto, Canada Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain Alfredo Marin Perez - University of Murcia, Spain Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal Anita Schöbel - University of Goettingen, Germany *Local Committee:* Marianna E.-Nagy - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (chair) Kristóf Kovács - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Miklós Pintér - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary József Temesi - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary *EWGLA Coordination Board:* Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain We are looking forward to meet you in Budapest! Boglárka G.-Tóth

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INOC 2015 Warsaw, PL: Call for papers; 7 weeks left; Elsevier JCR journal publication for all presented papers
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.inoc2015.pl/INOC2015_CFP.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers INOC 2015 7th International Network Optimization Conference May 18-20, 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://www.inoc2015.pl e-mail: contact(a)inoc2015.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Publication of accepted papers: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier * Special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) for extended versions of top INOC 2015 papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INOC 2015 is the conference of the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG), a working group of EURO. The conference is an excellent forum of professionals for presenting and discussing mathematical models, methods and methodologies, as well as computational tools for tackling problems in graph and network optimization. The current event is the seventh in the series of the INOC editions, following the success of past events held in Tenerife (2013), Hamburg (2011), Pisa (2009), Spa (2007), Lisbon (2005), and Paris (2003). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Combinatorial and discrete optimization, integer, convex, quadratic and linear programming models, together with decomposition methods, are typical optimization approaches dealt with at the INOC conferences. Besides theoretical problems in graph theory, presented solutions are applicable to communication, transportation, and electrical grid networks. The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS their papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and developments in the area of network optimization. Two types of publication of accepted papers will be offered: 1) Full papers to be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier. The total length of these papers should be between 4 and 8 pages prepared in LaTeX according to the ENDM template, 2) Extended abstracts to be distributed in a CD during the conference only. The authors of the top INOC 2015 papers will be invited to prepare the extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2014 - Notification deadline: February 2, 2015 - Camera-ready: February 16,2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------- INOC 2015 Organization: ----------------------- Conference Chair Michał Pióro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Conference Co-chairs Włodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Steering Committee - European Network Optimization Group (ENOG) Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Luis Gouveia, University of Lisbon (PT) Bernard Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Adam Ouorou, France Telecom R&D Division (FR) TPC Chair Artur Tomaszewski, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Co-chairs Roland Wessäly, atesio GmbH (DE) Mateusz Żotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Members E. Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) W. Ben-Ameur, GET/INT-CNRS (FR) A. de Sousa, Univ. de Aveiro (PT) B. Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) A. Frangioni, Universita di Pisa (IT) E. Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) L. Gouveia, Universidade de Lisboa (PT) H. Kerivin, Universite Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) A. Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) G. Laporte, Univ. de Montreal (CA) I. Ljubic, University of Vienna (AT) V. Lozin, Warwick University (UK) N. Mladenovic Brunel University (UK) D. Nace Universite de Technologie de Compigene (FR) W. Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) A. Ouorou Orange Labs R&D (FR) P. Pesneau Univ. de Bordeaux (FR) M. Pioro Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) S. Raghavan University of Maryland (US) J. Rak Gdansk University of Technology (PL) M. Resende AT&T Research Labs (US) F. Rossi Universita dell'Aquila (IT) J.J. Salazar-Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna (ES) M.G. Scutella, Universita di Pisa (IT) D. Shier, Clemson University (US) S. van Hoesel, Universitaet Maastricht (DE) S. Voss Universitaet Hamburg (DE) H. Yaman, BIlkient University (TR)

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CfP USRR 2014 Fall
by Bernard Fortz 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers USRR 2014 Fall 2nd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks co-located with RNDM 2014 <http://www.rndm.pl/2014/USRR/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission web page: <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741> All accepted (and presented) USRR 2014 Fall papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) journal by Elsevier. <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-notes-in-discrete-mathematics/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Context: ------- Emerging network sciences (interdisciplinary science of networks of networks) aim at discovering/identifying, formalizing/representing and analyzing common processes and phenomena underlying physical, chemical, biological, communication, social and cognitive networks. The fundamental objective of this emerging interdisciplinary field is to propose predictive models of these processes and phenomena in these networks that are characterized as adaptive, interdependent, unpredictable, nonlinear, and dynamic. From this perspective, a fundamental question arises as how interdependent network systems can be designed to support unpredictable disturbance and unexpected changes when vulnerable to natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, and changes in its usage patterns due to socio-economic or technological changes. The latter changes could also impact operations for system maintenance as operators running an infrastructure might operate differently than system design assumes. For this purpose, a better understanding of the aforementioned properties characterizing interdependent networks requires to first capture the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience and robustness. Workshop Objective: ------------------ Technical networks exhibit many inter-dependencies which are complex to measure and model but also lead to multi-objective decision problems where uncertainty becomes the transversal notion to capture. To this end, understanding the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience, and robustness becomes essential in order to rejuvenate and/or improve current design and evaluation methods that are currently unable to cope with this fundamental dimension. Topics: ------ Authors are invited to submit papers that describe state-of-the-art research, present work-in-progress, or suggest open problems covering one or more of the topics of interest to the workshop: - Case studies about natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network infrastructure: what happened and what lead to the situation? - Life cycle (data) analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions, parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification, competing failure modes analysis - Quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of (inter-dependent) networks - Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks - Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks - Robust, adaptive and stochastic optimal control for sustainable network systems design - Extend robustness analysis towards a rigorous approach to resiliency analysis by e.g. capturing and representing system dynamics at multiple time scale, multi-scale models and cross-interactions - Energy-aware resilience - Game theoretic and economic aspects of sustainability-vs-resilience tradeoffs - Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification Important dates: --------------- - Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2014 - Notification deadline: November 4, 2014 - Camera-ready: November 10, 2014 Submission guidelines: --------------------- We invite submissions (via EDAS: <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741>) of original contributions of 4-8 pages, formatted in LaTeX according to the ENDM template available at: <http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/misc/endm_package.zip> Workshop registration: --------------------- Workshop Registration Fee: 120 EUR (it also covers the Gala Dinner of RNDM 2014) URL <http://www.rndm.pl/2014/program.html> Workshop Chairs: --------------- - Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE - Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE - Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE Sponsorship: ----------- This workshop is co-organized by the EINS project <http://www.internet-science.eu/>, the FP7 European Network of Excellence (NoE) in Internet Science funded by the European Commission DG CONNECT. -----

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