November 2019 - ENOG

Winter School Netopt2020 (1st announcement)
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

? The 9th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at Hotel Estoril-Éden, Monte Estoril, from the 20th to the 24th of January 2020. 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: Arie Koster (RWTH Aachen University) - Robust Network Optimization; Elena Fernandez (Universidad de Cadiz) - Formulations for Location-Routing; Hande Yaman (KU Leuven) - Hub Location Problems; Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC Business School of Paris) - Branch-and-Benders-cut algorithms: modern implementations of Benders Decomposition; Mario Ruthmair (University of Vienna))- Optimization in Social Networks? The school is part of the activities of the 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). Potential participants are invited to submit their CVs to the address netopt2020(a)fc.ul.pt no later than the 31st October. Further information is available in the webpage (http://netopt2020.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt<http://netopt2020.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/>) ?

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INFORMS Telecommunication & Network Analytics Conference 2020 - Call for Papers
by Christine Tawfik 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

*First Announcement and Call for Papers:* Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the INFORMS Telecommunication and Network Analytics Conference (TNAC), which will take place at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB), on March 29 - April 1, 2020 in Berlin, Germany (http://informs_tnac2020.zib.de/) INFORMS TNAC 2020 (previously INFORMS Telecommunications Conference) is the 15th of bi-annual conferences held by the INFORMS Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section. The conference is going to be focused on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications and network analytics, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. Additionally, the conference is going to provide a platform for academics and industry experts working in telecommunications and network analytics to exchange ideas and initiate new collaborations, as in previous conferences. Submissions from the interested researchers are welcome for an organized session with 3-4 presentations, a tutorial session or a single presentation. The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Telecommunications modeling, policy and technology; * Data mining and big data applications in telecommunications; * Machine learning and artificial intelligence in network analytics; * Network economics; * Network design; * Traffic routing; * Network optimization; * Network algorithms and metaheuristics; * Sensor networks; * Wireless and broadband networks; * Vehicle and mobile computing; * Cloud computing and fog computing; * Semantic networks; * Network survivability and reliability; * Information security and privacy; * Game theory applications; * Internet and multimedia; * Quality of service. The abstract submission system is available online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=informstnac2020. Proposals for organized sessions or tutorials can be directly submitted to *informs_tnac2020(a)zib.de.* *Important dates:* Abstract Submission Deadline - January 15, 2020. Acceptance Notification for Presentations - February 1, 2020. End of Early Bird Registration - February 15, 2020. A special issue of the international journal *Networks* (ISSN:1097-0037) on /“Telecommunications and Network Analytics”/ will follow the conference. We are looking forward to your contributions and to greeting you in Berlin in 2020! The Organization Committee: Thorsten Koch, Conference Chair– Zuse Institute Berlin Haldun Süral – Middle East Technical University Christine Tawfik – Zuse Institute Berlin Inci Yüksel-Ergün – Zuse Institute Berlin

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Call for submission on "Optimization problems and advanced methods for network analytics" at IFORS 2020
by Dimitri Papadimitriou 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

Dear all, You are kindly invited to submit to the session on "Optimization problems and advanced methods for network analytics" of the stream "Graphs, Networks and Combinatorial Optimization with Applications" that is organized at the 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2020), Seoul, Korea <http://www.ifors2020.kr/>. Topics for contribution include but not limited to: o) Optimization models and methods (incl. combinatorial, stochastic, numerical) related to -- telemetry/metrology/calibration -- traffic analysis and control -- root cause analysis/diagnostic -- intrusion and anomaly detection/identification -- fault detection/identification and recovery -- resource allocation and control -- etc. o) Optimization of machine learning models for improving/predicting the performance, reliability, and vulnerability of networks o) Cost-effective analysis methods for large volumes of data o) Game theoretic models for network data analysis - etc. If you intend to actively participate, please kindly reply to this email. You will then receive a code to upload an abstract of maximum 1500 characters including spaces, to the EURO Conference submission platform <https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2020/>. Best regards. dr. Dimitri Papadimitriou Dep't of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Antwerp Campus Middelheim, Building G Middelheimlaan 1 2020 Antwerpen - Belgium E: dimitri.papadimitriou(a)uantwerpen.be T: +32 476 961983

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Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization: call for papers
by Michael Poss 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

The *Open Journal of Mathematical Optimization* ( https://ojmo.centre-mersenne.org) is calling for papers. This newly established scholarly journal, provided on a Fair Open Access basis – without cost to both readers and authors, see below – welcomes original and high-quality articles dealing with every aspect of mathematical optimization, ranging from numerical and computational aspects to theoretical questions related to mathematical optimization problems. The topics covered by the journal are classified into four areas: * Continuous Optimization * Discrete Optimization * Optimization under Uncertainty * Computational aspects and applications The journal welcomes regular papers (no page limit) and short notes (no more than 8 pages). While the editorial board will guarantee a first answer within 3 months for the short papers, both types of papers will be refereed with the same (high) standards and need to follow rigorously the journal template upon submission, available at https://ojmo.centre-mersenne.org/page/instructions/ The steering committee of the journal consists of * Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT, USA) * Martine Labbé (ULB, Belgium) * Eva K. Lee (Georgia Tech, USA) * Marc Teboulle (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) The full list of editorial board members can be found under https://ojmo.centre-mersenne.org/page/editorial-team_en/ As a Fair Open Access journal, * it is owned and controlled by the scholarly community independent of commercial publishers, * authors retain copyright of their works, which are published under a standard open access license as outlined in the editorial policy. For more information, please see the journal website ( https://ojmo.centre-mersenne.org/)

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[Deadline Extension] CFP: Special session, Applications of Bio-Inspired Techniques on Social Networks, at EvoStar 2020
by Giovanni Iacca 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Dear all, Due to a large number of requests for late submissions, the EvoStar submission websites will stay open until *Friday, November 15*! Authors who have already submitted, can update their work until this time. Best regards, Giovanni ---- *Overview* If you have an interest in *social networks and bio-inspired soft computing*, join us at a special session <http://www.evostar.org/2020/evoapps/biosocnet/> dedicated to social networks at EvoStar 2020 <http://www.evostar.org/2020/>, the main European event on bio‑inspired computation. Social networks are simple models used to describe complex phenomena that emerge in various fields such as social sciences, digital communication platforms, economics, business, international relations, environmental sciences, and medicine. For example, social networks are used to model social interactions on web platforms such as Facebook or Twitter, the spreading of contagious illnesses, news and information, the mutual influence between voters during an electoral campaign, the adoption of new goods on the market, the correlation between purchases on e-commerce platforms, or the interaction between agents, bots and humans. In this special session we seek contributions where original soft computing techniques, for instance new bio-inspired or physics-inspired metaheuristics, are applied to solve specific social network problems or to define new social network models. Real-world experimental studies, as well as presentations of new datasets, or algorithmic studies on novel techniques tested on publicly available datasets and scalability studies are especially welcome. We also encourage contributions from the Operational Research and Complex Networks/Statistical Physics perspectives based on bio- inspired or physics-inspired principles. *Topics and applications of interest* include, but are not limited to: - Influence maximization - Vaccination optimization - Virus diffusion control - Sentinel optimal placement for event detection - Community detection - Network clustering - Models of influence spread - Models of network dynamics *Chairs*: Giovanni Iacca, University of Trento, Italy Doina Bucur, University of Twente, The Netherlands *Important Dates*: Submission deadline: 15 November 2019 *Publication*: Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of EvoApplications, published in a volume of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Submission details can be found at: http://www.evostar.org/2020/?page_id=80 . -- Giovanni Iacca, Ph.D. Assistant Professor (RTD-b) Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science University of Trento Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Povo - Trento (Italy) ph. +39 0461 28 5220 / +39 389 80 88 796 web: https://sites.google.com/site/giovanniiacca

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