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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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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
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Best regards,
Giovanni
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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
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.