January 2017 - ENOG

IEEE CAMAD 2017 : Call for Technical Panels
by Yuan Li 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

The 22nd IEEE CAMAD (http://weber.itn.liu.se/~vanan11/CAMAD17/) taking place in Lund University from 19 to 21 of June 2017 will be hosting a series of technical panels. To this end it openly invites the submission of proposals for panels focusing on emerging topics of particular interest to the industry and research communities in the field of 5G wireless communications, networking, and associated applications and services. Panel sessions are 60-minute moderated discussions on a specific topic, which will be scheduled daily between Monday-Wednesday of the conference (19-21 June 2017). Proposal Submission Deadline: · Proposal Deadline: March 30, 2017 · Acceptance Notification: April 6, 2017 Panel Proposal Format Each panel proposal (maximum 5 pages) should include: 1. Title of the panel 2. Names, addresses, and a brief bio of the organizers 3. A brief description (1 page max) of the technical/industry issues that the panel will address, emphasizing its timeliness 4. Names, addresses, and a short biography of proposed 3-5 panelists (it is highly recommended that the proposed panelists represent both academia and industry.) 5. Planned format of the panel, such as planned presenters, topics, etc. Panel Proposal Submission: Please email the panel proposal to the Panel Chairs listed below. Ola Svedin, CEO Mobile Heights, ola.svedin(a)mobileheights.org Dr. Nikos Passas, University of Athens, Greece, passas(a)di.uoa.gr

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PostDoc position in Node Routing Models - University of Lisbon
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

PostDoc position in Node Routing Models Closing date: June 15, 2016 Place: University of Lisbon, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, CMAFCIO Salary: EUR 1450 per month (as a reference, minimum wage in the country is EUR 530 per month) Position from September 15th with the duration of 12 months. Topic of research is: Study and development of ILP models for node routing problems, such as the traveling salesman problem, variants with additional constraints (capacity, time windows, maximum distance), several vehicles. several depots. Also, areas involving routing with electric vehicles or in fishery research are topical as well. Candidates must have a CV showing capability to study some of the topics mentioned before, including a reasonable knowledge of ILP solution methods (PhD topic and/or relevant scientific publications). An interview may be requested. Candidates must be fluent in English both in speaking and writing. Applications in electronic form with the usual documents (certificates, CV, publication list, etc.) are to be submitted at http://www.eracareers.pt/opportunities/index.aspx?task=global&jobId=75478 Informal enquiries regarding these vacancies may be addressed to: Professor Luis Gouveia, Head of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. E-mail: legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt ?

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ESCO 2017
by Bernard Fortz 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

*****European Conference on Stochastic Optimization ECSO***** ECSO 2017 Stochastic Optimization in Service Science Roma Tre University, 20-22 September 2017 - ROME (Italy) http://ecso2017.inf.uniroma3.it/ ****PRELIMINARY CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND SESSIONS*** ECSO 2017 will be held on September 20-22, 2017, in Rome, Italy. It is the 2nd edition of a stream of triennial conferences organized by the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization EWGSO). The previous edition was held in Paris in 2014. The scope of this EWGSO Conference ECSO 2017 Stochastic Optimization in Service Science is to discuss the latest trends and challenges in Stochastic Optimization and its applications. The conference aims to bring together the leading researchers in Stochastic Optimization and practitioners in the field. Participants are welcome from academia and industry, media and institutions concerned with data uncertainty as well as decision making involving stochastic applications in services. Young researchers and PhD students starting or developing their research related to Stochastic Optimization are encouraged to present their work for discussion and take part in the sessions and plenary lectures on the challenging topics of Stochastic Optimization theory and practice, held during the conference. The conference will be held at the Engineering School of Roma Tre University in Rome, Italy. ECSO 2017 will accept contributions related to Stochastic Optimization theory and applications, with particular emphasis on Service Science. The program of the conference consists of plenary lectures and parallel organized sessions. ***Confirmed Plenary Speakers*** Nicholas G. Hall (The Ohio State University) Rüdiger Schultz (Universität Duisburg-Essen) The complete list of Plenary Speakers will be given in the conference website, and in successive announcements. ***Call for Abstracts and Sessions*** We invite authors to submit high quality contributions describing significant results on different research topics related to Stochastic Optimization, including: stochastic programming large-scale stochastic optimization chance constrained programming multistage stochastic programming robustness and stability in stochastic programming problems risk measures and stochastic dominance simulation-optimization machine-learning techniques data-driven methods for stochastic optimization robust optimization modeling support and model management for stochastic programs and on Service Science applications of Stochastic Optimization including, but not limited to, the following domains: finance energy planning healthcare transportation logistics project management smart cities food and sustainability supply chains oil and gas industry equilibrium problems and stochastic gaming environment and sustainable development ICT solutions and networks public sector analytics social networks All researchers, academics, practitioners and students working on the conference themes are invited to participate to ECSO 2017 submitting a contribution proposal, and proposing sessions. ECSO 2017 allows submissions in the following categories: **Contribution proposals (One-Page-Abstract) Deadline: April, 30 2017** Contributions will be selected by the International Program Committee to be presented in the conference and included in the book of abstracts which will be delivered during the conference. An edited volume with the conference proceedings (selected full papers) will be published at the end of the event. Contribution proposals should be submitted as a single PDF file as described in the Conference Website. Information about post-conference special issues on recognized international journals will be given in the Conference Website, and in successive announcements. **Session proposals (Max 3 pages) Deadline: March, 20 2017** Topics of interest include all areas of Stochastic Optimization. ECSO 2017 specifically welcomes sessions (composed of 4 contributions) tackling novel, cutting-edge topics, sessions covering lesser-addressed sub-areas, cross-discipline sessions and sessions dealing with possible and expected future evolutions of the Stochastic Optimization in Service Science. The organizers of approved sessions are responsible for advertising their sessions and will be involved in the review process. Organizers are expected to attend and chair their sessions. Session proposals should be submitted (by email to ecso2017(a)ing.uniroma3.it) as a single PDF file (max 3 pages) containing the following information: title, organizer(s), topic description, and a preliminary/tentative list of contributions. Accepted contributions included in the conference program will appear in the ECSO 2017 booklet of abstract which will be delivered during the event. Information about post-conference Proceedings and Special Issues on indexed international journals will be given in the conference website and in successive announcements. A pdf version of this preliminary CfP and more detailed information about submissions, important dates and registration procedure are given on the Conference Website: http://ecso2017.inf.uniroma3.it/ ***Organization*** **General Conference Chairs** Carlo Meloni (Chair), Politecnico di Bari Dario Pacciarelli (Co-Chair), Università Roma Tre **Local Organizing Committee** Andrea D'Ariano, Università Roma Tre Gabriella Dellino, Politecnico di Bari Renato Mari, ACT-Operations Research Carlo Meloni (Chair), Politecnico di Bari Dario Pacciarelli (Co-Chair), Università Roma Tre Marco Pranzo, Università di Siena Marcella Samà, Università Roma Tre **International Program Committee** Alessandro Agnetis, Italy Giorgio Consigli, Italy Gabriella Dellino, Italy Laureano Escudero, Spain Csaba Fabian, Hungary Milos Kopa, Czech Republic Abdel Lisser, France Francesca Maggioni, Italy Carlo Meloni (Co-Chair), Italy Enza Messina (Chair), Italy Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse, Belgium Georg Pflug, Austria Dario Pacciarelli, Italy Leonidas Sakalauskas, Lithuania Rüdiger Schultz, Germany Asgeir Tomasgaard, Norway Daniele Vigo, Italy Stein W. Wallace, Norway ***Contact Us*** For more detailed information please visit: http://ecso2017.inf.uniroma3.it/ For any inquiry concerning the conference, please contact: ecso2017(a)ing.uniroma3.it

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Tenure Track for Associate or Assistant Professor in Operations Research at Aalto University
by Ahti Salo 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Dear Walid, Bernard, Luís, Knowing your role as the Coordinators of the EWG on Network Optimization, I am happy to let you know that we have an open tenure track position for Associate or Assistant Professor in Operations Research at Aalto University, as described in the two attachments and the following link: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/1140/ The deadline for applications is February 19, 2017. There is also a related flyer in a bigger file, I am therefore sending it through this link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2119947/Aalto_Professor%20in%20Operatio… Information about this position also been posted on the EURO webpages https://www.euro-online.org/web/forum/topic/14840/ I would be most thankful if you could, if at all possible, disseminate information about this position to potentially interested applicants within EWG Network Optimization and perhaps even beyond. We are certainly looking for international candidates, our university is has a strong reputation, and Helsinki has ranked consistently among the most livable cities in the world (see eg http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/08/daily-chart-14) My best wishes for 2017, Ahti Salo _____________________________________________________________ Professor Ahti Salo Systems Analysis Laboratory Department of Mathematics and Systems Analysis Aalto University School of Science Tel.+358(0)50 383 0636 P.O. Box 11100, 00076 Aalto Fax +358(0) 9 863 2048 FINLAND http://sal.aalto.fi/ahti ahti.salo(a)aalto.fi ___________________________________________________________

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Support petition candidate Luigi Fratta as VP Technical and Educational Activities
by Antonio Capone 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Dear colleagues and friends, Our colleague Luigi Fratta needs our help to run as a IEEE ComSoc VP for Technical and Educational Activities. Luigi in his career has opened new research directions and promoted excellence in the area of networking. He has also served the scientific community with organisational roles where he has shown big dedication and excellent skills. I therefore would like to ask for your support to sign his petition. To run petition candidates must reach 600 signatures by the end of January so your support is crucial. He is very close to the target but needs our final push: if you are IEEE ComSoc member (including student members) GO TO THE PETITION: http://vision.ieee.org/pls/htmldb/f?p=194:1 and proceed with the following steps: 1. Click Sign in to IEEE Petition Signature. 2. Click Society Election Petitions and follow the instruction to complete the petition. Thanks a lot in advance for your help. Best Regards Antonio Capone — 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 -- Dear Colleagues, As you may know, I am the current IEEE ComSoc VP-Technical and Educational Activities and will complete my first term by the end of 2017. Based on ComSoc policies and procedures, I am eligible to run and serve for a second term. To do so, I need to be placed on ComSoc ballot of the upcoming 2017 ComSoc election. By running as a petition candidate, I hope to have the opportunity to serve our society and to complete the vision and goals that I laid out in the first term. The experience and success that I earned during my first term are essential to my continued service to ComSoc. To be placed on the ballot for the upcoming 2017 ComSoc election, I need to have around 600 signatures by the end of January 2017. I know that this is possible only with the support and confidence from colleagues like you. Please sign my petition and ask your colleagues to do so as well. You can sign the petition by going to the following petition website: http://vision.ieee.org/pls/htmldb/f?p=194:1 and proceed with the following steps: 1. Click Sign in to IEEE Petition Signature. 2. Click Society Election Petitions and follow the instruction to complete the petition. Note that all full IEEE Communications Society members (including Graduate Student members) can sign the petition. Information about me and my petition statement can be found at http://home.deib.polimi.it/fratta Thank you very much for your support to enter me in the ballot Best regards, Luigi -- Prof. Luigi Fratta Life Fellow IEEE IEEE ComSoc Vice President for Technical and Educational Activities (2016-2017) Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 20133 MILANO Tel.+39-02-2399-3578; Fax.+39-02-2399-3413 email: fratta(a)elet.polimi.it

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CFP: IEEE CAMAD 2017: submission deadline approaching
by Yuan Li 21 Jan '17

21 Jan '17

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that the submission deadline of IEEE CAMAD will be 12th February 2017. The website of this conference has been published, see http://weber.itn.liu.se/~vanan11/CAMAD17/index.html A Best Paper Award and a Best Demo Award will be given to excellent paper and demo submissions respectivily. =========================================== IEEE CAMAD 2017 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD) 19-21 June 2017 Lund University, Sweden http://weber.itn.liu.se/~vanan11/CAMAD17/index.html =========================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 12th February 2017 Author notification: 26th March 2017 Camera ready: 23rd April 2017 Awards A Best Paper Award and a Best Demo Award will be given to excellent paper and demo submissions respectivily. CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE CAMAD 2017 will be held as a stand-alone event at Lund University, in Scania, Sweden. This year IEEE CAMAD will focus on communication aspects of 5G Networking and beyond. IEEE CAMAD will be hosting several Workshops and Special Sessions, bringing together a diverse group of scientists, engineers, manufacturers and providers to exchange and share their experiences and new ideas focusing on research and innovation results under wireless communications in the 5G domain. In addition to contributed papers, the conference will also include keynote speeches, panel and demo sessions. Areas of Interest ================== IEEE CAMAD is soliciting papers describing original work, unpublished and not currently submitted for publication elsewhere, on topics including, but not limited to, the following: • Wireless PHY layers for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization • Wireless MAC protocols for 5G: design, analysis, and optimization • 5G IoT networks for urban applications • Adaptive content distribution in on-demand services • Backhaul/fronthaul for multi-tier ultra-dense heterogeneous small cell networks • Cognitive and Cooperative Communications • Commercial and Societal Impact of Networks, Data, and Adaptive Services • Context and location-aware wireless services and applications • Cross-layer design for massive MIMO and multiuser MIMO networks • End-to-End Network slicing • Efficient integration of multiple novel 5G air interfaces • Energy harvesting wireless networks • Mobile big data and network data analytics • Mobile cloud and fog networking • Mobile social networks • Mobility, location, and handoff management • Multimedia QoS, and traffic management • Multiple access in machine-to-machine communication • Network estimation techniques • Optical Communications & Fiber Optics for 5G • QoS support and energy efficient MAC • Quality of Experience: Framework, Evaluation and Challenges • Simulation Techniques for Large-Scale Networks • Smart Grids: Communication, Modeling and Design • Software-defined wireless networks • Testbed, experiments, and prototype implementations of systems & services • Traffic Engineering, Modeling and Analysis • Ultra low-latency and ultra high-reliability • Validation of Simulation Models with Measurements • Wireless body area networks and e-health services • Wireless broadcast, multicast and streaming Paper Submissions ================== Prospective authors are invited to submit a full paper of not more than six (6) IEEE style pages including results, figures and references. Papers should be submitted via EDAS. Papers submitted to the conference, must describe unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three TPC members. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings and IEEE digital library. Committees ============ General Chairs =============== Björn Landfeldt, Lund University, Sweden Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Björn Ekelund, Ericsson, Sweden Peter C. Karlsson, Sony, Sweden Technical Program Chairs ====================== Di Yuan, Linköping University, Sweden Petar Popovski, Aalborg University, Denmark George Koudouridis , Huawei, Sweden Charalabos Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece Panel Chairs ============ Ola Svendin, Mobile Heights Center, Sweden Nikolaos Passas, University of Athens, Greece Tutorial Chairs ============= Angelos Antonopoulous, CTTC, Spain Emil Björnson, Linköping University, Sweden Demo Chairs ============= Lars Dittman, DTU Fotonik, Denmark Harri Saarnisaari, CWC – Oulu University, Finland Laura-Marie Feeney, Uppsala University, Sweden Publicity Chairs ============= Emma Fitzgerald, Lund University, Sweden Kiho Lim, University of South Dakota, USA Yuan Li, National University of Defence Tech., PRC Publication Chair =============== Saeed Bastani, Lund University, Sweden Keynote Speakers Chairs ==================== Michael Devetsikiotis, University of N. Mexico, USA Marian Codreanu, CWC – Oulu University, Finland Vangelis Angelakis, Linköping University, Sweden Award Chairs ============= Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Charalabos Skianis, University of Aegean, Greece Workshop and Special Session Chairs ============================== Ilaria Malanchini, NOKIA Bell Labs, Germany Elias Z. Tragos, FORTH, Greece Local Arrangements Chair ====================== Christian Nyberg, Lund University, Sweden Web and Social Media Chairs ======================== Melani Gurdiel, Iquadrat, Spain Lei You, Upsala University, Sweden Steering Committee ================= Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy Michael Devetsikiotis, University of N. Mexico, USA Contact ================= ieeecamad2017-chairs(a)edas.info

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Research internship
by Emmanuel Rachelson 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Dear colleagues Here is an offer for a 6-month internship, on Machine Learning and Combinatorial Optimization in the "Decision support systems" team at ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France. Best regards, -- *Emmanuel Rachelson* Associate professor - ISAE Supaero Dept. of Complex Systems Engineering http://people.isae.fr/emmanuel-rachelson

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CfP&S Telecommunications Stream - IFORS 2017
by Fabio D'Andreagiovanni 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Call for Presentations and Sessions Telecommunications Stream IFORS 2017 - 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies Quebec City, July 17 - 21 2017 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you and any interested colleagues to organize a session (at least 3 abstracts/presentations) or a contributed presentation for the Telecommunications Stream at the IFORS 2017 in Quebec City. The focus of the Telecommunications Stream is broad and encompasses applied and theoretical work in computer science, operations research, management science, information systems, etc. Example topics are, but not limited to: telecommunications modeling, policy, and technology, network economics, network design, algorithms and optimization, sensor networks, wireless and broadband networks, vehicle and mobile computing, semantic networks, network survivability and reliability, information security and privacy, quality of service, internet and multimedia, data mining applications in telecommunications networks. If you would like to organize a session, please contact Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, Stan Dimitrov, or Ivana Ljubic (see below) as soon as possible. If you would like to submit a single presentation, please email (see below) the title and authors to either of us and you will be sent information on what to enter in the IFORS conference abstract submission system. The deadline for entry into that system for the conference is February 10th, 2017, but you should send us the information before February 3rd, 2017. Please submit your abstracts as soon as possible to help in the scheduling process. We look forward to seeing you in Quebec City! The Stream Organizers Fabio D'Andreagiovanni CNRS, Sorbonne University - UTC d.andreagiovanni(a)hds.utc.fr Stanko Dimitrov University of Waterloo sdimitrov(a)uwaterloo.ca Ivana Ljubic ESSEC Business School ivana.ljubic(a)essec.edu

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