September 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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CFP: Special session, Applications of Bio-Inspired Techniques on Social Networks, at EvoStar 2020
by Giovanni Iacca 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

Dear all, If you have an interest in *social networks and bio-inspired soft computing*, join us at a special session <https://sites.google.com/site/giovanniiacca/cfp> 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: 1 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 . Best regards, Giovanni -- 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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CFA IV LAND-TRANSLOG December 8-12, Chile (extended submission deadline: Sept 30)
by Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Dear colleagues, The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) invites you to submit an abstract for LAND-TRANSLOG IV, a unique workshop that has been held in Chile with great success since 2011, merging the previously separate workshops LAND and TRANSLOG. The workshop will take place from December 8 to December 12, 2019 at a new great location; the Dreams Valdivia hotel in the south of Chile. We are glad to announce our keynote speakers: Michel Gendreau, Stefan Nickel, Mikael Rönnqvist, Francisco Saldanha Da Gama and Cristián Cortés. We anticipate a variety of contributions.* Please send your abstract by September 30 (new deadline)*. Acceptance notifications will be sent as soon as possible. Important: If required for travel fund purposes, we will happily provide express acceptance of papers upon reception of abstracts. For further information please visit the following link: http://land-translog.cl/19/en/inicio Sincerely yours, Eduardo Álvarez, Cristián Cortés, Vladimir Marianov, Andrés Weintraub.

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