June 2014 - ENOG

INOC 2015 Warsaw - Call for papers
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS their papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and developments in the area of network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. Accepted papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier. The total length of the papers should be between 4 and 8 pages prepared in LaTeX according to the ENDM template. 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) G. Oriolo Univesita di Roma Tor Vergata (IT) 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) N. Shepherd, McGIll Univ. (CA) 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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EJCO Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications
by Bernard Fortz 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications Following the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, a special issue of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (EJCO) dedicated to "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications" will be edited by Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) and Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt) The deadline for the paper submission has been extended to July 15, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. To submit a paper, please visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejco/ and choose S.I.: Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications as Article Type. Best regards, Bernard Fortz Luis Gouveia

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CFP: RNDM 2014 Barcelona - Reliable Networks Design and Modeling
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/CFP_RNDM2014.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended versions of top RNDM 2014 papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers RNDM 2014 6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling November 17-19, 2014, Barcelona, Spain http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IEEE Communications Society IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- S2CN 2014 Workshop(Survivable Content-Oriented and Cloud-Ready Networking) co-located with RNDM 2014: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/S2CN/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - coordination of multilayer survivability operations, - design of dedicated/shared backup paths, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - energy efficiency in survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - fast service recovery, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - fault management and control in survivable networks, - Future Internet reliability, - green networks reliability, - impact on detection accuracy and latency on survivability, - management issues in reliable networks design, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability, - metrics of reliable communications, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks survivability, - network dependability, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - network reliability standardization aspects, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - p-cycles and other protection structures, - planning and optimization of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - planning and optimization of reliable networks, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - restoration strategies under different types of failures, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - reliability and resilience of in data centers, - reliability of wireless-wired communications, - reliability of wireless sensor networks, - reliability of multi-domain communications, - reliability of emerging communication technologies, - reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures and solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - role of redundancy in survivable networks, - security-related issues in reliable networks, - self-regenerative networks, - service-oriented survivability, - service resilience differentiation, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - survivability of P2P and overlay systems, - survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks, - theory and methods of reliability and availability, - use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117) full papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and development in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. All submitted papers will be reviewed. The total length of a paper should not exceed 7 pages formatted according to the two-column template. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The Best Paper Award will be given. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2014 - Notification deadline: Sept. 15, 2014 - Camera-ready: Sept. 30, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2014 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK) Steering Commiittee Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Josep Sole Pareta, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - IBBT (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster Univ. (UK) Publicity Co-chairs Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) William Liu, Auckland University of Technology (NZ) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking SE (DE) Peter Babarczi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Thomas Bauschert, Chemnitz University of Technology (DE) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Eusebi Calle, University of Girona (ES) Cicek Cavdar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Egemen Cetinkaya, Missouri University of Science and Technology (US) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds (UK) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo (CA) Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology (JP) Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University (CA) Jason Jue, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Noriaki Kamiyama, NTT (JP) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Annalisa Morea, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs(FR) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell (BE) Michal Pioro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Marco Quagliotti, Telecom Italia (IT) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Pablo Romero, Universidad de La Republica (UY) Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Marcus Schoeller, NEC (DE) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Suresh Subramaniam, George Washington University (US) Marco Tacca, University of Texas, Dallas (US) Janos Tapolcai, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) David Tipper, Pittsburgh University (US) Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (GR) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Jean Philippe Vasseur, CISCO (FR) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (FR) Krzysztof Wajda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroclaw University of Technology (PL) Roland Wessaely, atesio GmbH (DE) Lena Wosinska, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Hongfang Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)

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3rd call for contributions: MOPTA-2014
by Boris Defourny 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

With apologies for cross-postings: ============================================== THIRD CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== The 14th annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 13-15, 2014. We cordially invite you to attend and to submit your abstract for a contributed oral presentation. Important dates, abstract submission, registration: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ Confirmed plenary speakers: * Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren B. Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) Confirmed invited session organizers: * Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Watson Research Center) * Tsvetan Asamov (Princeton University): Stochastic search and approximate dynamic programming * Frank Curtis (Lehigh University): Algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization * Hongbo Dong (Washington State University): Convex relaxations for nonconvex problems * Peter Frazier (Cornell University): Learning and optimization of expensive functions * Daniel Jiang (Princeton University): Stochastic optimization in energy * Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University): Convexification of nonconvex quadratic problems * Abdullah Konak (Pennsylvania State University): Hybrid optimization * Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois University) * Qihang Lin (University of Iowa): Stochastic first order methods * Gudimella S.R. Murthy (Indian Statistical Institute): Industrial OR applications: Live case studies * Raghu Pasupathy (Virginia Tech) * Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Institute of Technology): Information theory and optimization * Rommel G. Regis (Saint Joseph's University): Black-box and derivative-free optimization * Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers University): Risk-averse optimization * Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh University) * Larry Snyder (Lehigh University) * Martin Takac (University of Edinburgh) * Robert Vanderbei (Princeton University): Optimization algorithms for big data problems * Natasha Vermaak (Lehigh University): Topological optimization and advanced manufacturing * Luis Zuluaga (Lehigh University): Smart grids ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 11, 2014. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Tamás Terlaky Boris Defourny (Chair) Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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INFORMS Telecommunications Conference - Special issue of EJCO
by Bernard Fortz 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

As announced in the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, there will be a special issue of EJCO dedicated to the conference. The topic for this special issue is "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications". We invite every participant at the conference, to submit a full paper corresponding to his/her oral presentation. The deadline for the paper submission is June 30, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. The Guest Editors for this special issue are Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) Université Libre de Bruxelles Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt) CIO, Unversidade de Lisboa

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