February 2015 - ENOG

ISMP 2015 - call for presentations and session proposals
by Fatma Kilinc-Karzan 20 May '15

20 May '15

Announcement: ISMP 2015 - call for presentations and session proposals 22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING (ISMP 2015) www.ismp2015.org The organizers of ISMP 2015 have the great pleasure of inviting you to Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the world congress of mathematical optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society. Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS Presentations on all theoretical, computational and practical aspects of mathematical programming in one of the program clusters are welcome. Invited and contributed presentations will be organized in parallel sessions, each session consisting of three talks. Interested session organizers are invited to contact the cluster chairs for their particular topic. Abstract submission and registration are now open. The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations is March 2, 2015. There is a one talk per speaker policy at ISMP, i.e., no participant will be able to register more than one presentation. Abstract submission and registration can be done online, via the conference web page at www.ismp2015.org. Plenary and semi-plenary speakers for ISMP have been announced: Plenary Speakers Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland Daniel A. Spielman, Yale University, USA Stephen J. Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Semi-plenary Speakers Samuel A. Burer, University of Iowa, USA Roberto Cominetti, University of Chile, Chile Michelangelo Conforti, University of Padova, Italy Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Werner Roemisch, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Frank Vallentin, University of Koeln, Germany Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia Ya-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Conference Venue The Symposium and opening ceremony will take place at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel located at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s famed Three Rivers. The conference banquet will be on Wednesday July 15th and that scientific talks are Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm. Important Dates* ***March 2, 2015: abstract submission deadline April 15, 2015: early registration deadline June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel* * Early registration rate for 2015 MOS members: Student or retiree: $190 Lifetime member: $290 Regular member: $375 Early registration rate for non-2015 MOS members: Student: $210 Retiree: $220 All others: $435 The registration rates for late registration will be higher. More details (including clusters, cluster chairs, all registration rates, discounted MOS membership for 2016-2018, hotel, sponsorship opportunities, exhibits etc.) are available on the conference website at www.ismp2015.org. We look forward to welcoming you next year in Pittsburgh! The ISMP Organizing Committee -- Fatma Kilinc Karzan Assistant Professor of Operations Research Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University fkilinc(a)andrew.cmu.edu (+1) 412 268 9198

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RNDM 2015 Munich: Call for Papers
by Jacek Rak 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Extended versions of top RNDM 2015 papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of OPTICAL SWITCHING AND NETWORKING (Elsevier) http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers RNDM 2015 7th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling October 5-7, 2015, Munich, Germany http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 IEEE Germany Section ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19351 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop for participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. 7th edition of RNDM follows the success of the first six events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), Almaty (2013), and Barcelona (2014), accordingly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience, - cost evaluation of network resilience, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - Future Internet resilience, - green networks resilience, - fault management, control, and monitoring, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of resilience, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks resilience, - network dependability, - network redundancy optimization, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - optimization issues in resilient networks design, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - recovery of P2P and overlay systems, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - resilience of data centers, - resilience of wireless-wired communications, - resilience of wireless sensor networks, - resilience of multi-domain communications, - resilience of emerging communication technologies, - resilience of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures/solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - security-related issues in resilient networks design, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - standardization of network resilience, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks, - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - theory of network resilience, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability. The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19351) 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 are planned to 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: April 20, 2015 - Notification deadline: June 15, 2015 - Camera-ready: June 30, 2015 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2015 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Carmen Mas Machuca, Technische Univ. Muenchen (DE) Eiji Oki, The University of Electro-Communications Tokyo (JP) 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 Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Scence and Technology (PL) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) 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) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) 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) Bijoy Chand Chatterjee, The University of Electro-Communications-Tokyo (JP) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Roza Goscien, Wroclaw University of Technology (PL) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Michael Grottke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Poul Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) 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) Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications (PL) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) 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) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster Univ. (UK) 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) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University (SE) 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) Hongfang Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)

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Call for PhD students - 5G anticipatory networks
by Antonio Capone 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Call for PhD students - 5G anticipatory networks We look for brilliant PhD students, we offer an exiting research program and a very competitive salary. Deadline: March 15 The rapid growth in mobile broadband network data lead to the unprecedented speed of 4G LTE deployment. The evolution calls for sustainable capacity growth and performance improvement in the next generation of wireless systems, namely 5G. The success of 5G heavily relies on delivering satisfactory user experience at a low operational cost. In this context, research and development (R&D) is required not only for technological innovation at the device level, but also management system design for the flexibility necessary to predict and adapt to network usage. To this end, anticipation is a promising and new approach. By predicting and adapting to upcoming events at various time scales, an anticipatory-enabled 5G network dramatically improves the operation quality and efficiency in comparison to the existing systems. Deploying anticipatory networking with effective prediction of network behaviour offers a twin advantage: First, resources ranging from spectrum and power to network interfaces buffers can be managed optimally. Second, network operators can jointly plan how to share infrastructure and resources to provide service with substantially reduced expenditure. The ACT5G project takes an inter-sector approach for anticipatory networking for 5G. The project fuses and integrates the scientific expertise of the participating academic sites with the industrial know-how of the consortium. The R&D core of ACT5G consists of models, methods, concepts, and algorithms for network anticipation and network reaction. The R&D tasks are carried out along with researcher training. The PhD training programme of ACT5G is designed the maximize the partners' synergy, to promote career opportunities of the ACT5G Early-Stage Researchers in the European ICT arena, and thus generate new expertise and human capital for the European Research Area. The ACT5G Consortium is starting the recruiting process for four PhD students as “Early-Stage Researchers” (ESRs) at Linköping University (LiU - Sweden) and Politecnico di Milano (Polimi - Italy), on the research area of Anticipatory Networking, aiming at predicting traffic and environment changes in order to optimize wireless network resources and operations. In particular the following four topics will be assigned to the recruited researchers: • ESR1: Network Data Analytics [Academic Site: Polimi] • ESR2: Wireless Link Status Anticipation [Academic Site: LiU] • ESR3: Resource & Management Optimization for Wireless Software-defined Networking [Academic Site: LiU] • ESR4: Performance and Enablers of Infrastructure and Resource Sharing [Academic Site: Polimi] Each post is funded for 36 Months by the EU under the rules of the MSCA ITN EID Scheme1 and provides a very competitive salary (3710 euro/month before taxes and social security fees, +600 euro/month if family obligations exist). The recruited researchers are required to • follow a PhD program at the respective academic sites and • spend 50% of their project involvement at Alcatel Lucent - Bell Labs, in Stuttgart, Germany. For more information and application: http://act5g.itn.liu.se Call for applications in PDF: http://act5g.itn.liu.se/info.pdf -- Antonio Capone, PhD Professor, Politecnico di Milano, DEIB, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy Email: antonio.capone(a)polimi.it, Tel: +39 02 2399 3449, Web: http://home.dei.polimi.it/capone, http://antlab.elet.polimi.it -- Antonio Capone, PhD Professor, Politecnico di Milano, DEIB, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy Email: antonio.capone(a)polimi.it<mailto:antonio.capone@polimi.it>, Tel: +39 02 2399 3449, Web: http://home.dei.polimi.it/capone, http://antlab.elet.polimi.it

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EURO 2015 Glasgow - Telecommunications and Network Optimization stream
by Bernard Fortz 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the stream Telecommunications and Network Optimization of the forthcoming EURO Conference that will be held from 12-15 July 2015 in the city of Glasgow. http://www.euro2015.org/ The stream is organized by the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG). If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro27/ and use invitation code 6c4cb9d5 The deadline for abstract submission is 16th March 2015. If (even better!) you would like to organize a full session of 3-4 papers, please contact one of us directly. Best regards, Walid Ben-Ameur, Bernard Fortz, Luis Gouveia

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