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Winter School in Network Optimization (last
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 31 Oct '14

31 Oct '14

The 4th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at the Hotel Sana, Estoril, from the 12th to the 16th of January 2015. 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: Bernard Gendron (Univ. Montréal): Decomposition methods for network design Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs): Robust optimization in telecommunications Gerhard Reinelt (Univ. Heidelberg): Ordering problems Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI): Maximum weight cuts in graphs and extensions Daniele Vigo (Univ. Bologna): Solution approaches for vehicle routing problems Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO (Centro de Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as 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). Candidates are invited to submit their CVs to NetOpt2015(a)fc.ul.pt before the 5th of November 2014. After a short period of evaluation, the participants will be notified and be invited to register. More information is available at [[[http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt]http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt.

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EURO Awards 2015 - Call for nominations
by Sarah Fores 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Dear EURO Working Group Coordinators On behalf of the EURO 2015 jury chairs, may I ask you to disseminate a call for applications for the following two awards. The text for each announcement can be found on the relevant web page listed: *The EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award (EDDA)* *http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda <http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/210/doctoral-dissertation-award-edda>* The deadline for submitting applications is *28 February 2015*. The jury chair and contact is Professor Hartmut Stadtler *The EURO Excellence in Practice Award (EEPA)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/209/excellence-in-practice-award-eepa The deadline for submitting material online is *28 February 2015*. The jury chair and contact is Professor Luca Gambardella -- In addition, EURO working groups can forward nominations for possible award recipients for the following awards: *The EURO Distinguished Service Medal Award (EDSM)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/255/distinguished-service-medal-award-… The deadline for nominations is *31 January, 2015.* The jury chair and contact is Prof. Jan Weglarz Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology Plac Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 5 Poznań Poland Jan.weglarz(a)cs.put.poznan.pl *The EURO Gold Medal (EGM)* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/212/gold-medal-egm The deadline for nominations is *31 January, 2015.* The jury chair and contact is Ger Koole Department of Mathematics VU University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1081a 1081 HV Amsterdam The Netherlands ger.koole(a)vu.nl For completeness EURO also has an *Award for the Best EJOR Paper (EABEP).* http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1536/guidelines. Although the finalists are determined by papers already published in EJOR, you may also wish to advertise this to your members. Please let me know if you need any other information. Thank you. Best regards. Sarah -- Dr Sarah Fores Manager of EURO <http://www.euro2015.org/>

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First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems
by Friderikos, Vasilis 24 Oct '14

24 Oct '14

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. CALL FOR PAPERS The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Privacy for Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems Organized in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015) 8-12 June 2015, London, UK http://conta.uom.gr/IoTCPSsecurity2015/ SCOPE Recent advances in networking, communications, computation, software, and hardware technologies have revolutionized the way humans, smart things, and engineered systems interact and exchange information. The Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), which are the major contributors to this area, will fuel the realization of this new, globally interconnected cyber-world. Yet, the success, prosperity, and advancement of IoT and CPS systems strongly depend on the security, privacy and trust of the IoT and cyber-physical devices as well as the sensitive data being exchanged. While these technologies offer a lot of new possibilities, the increasing complexity of hardware and software as well as the worldwide access increase the vulnerability to security attacks. Successful attacks targeted to IoT devices and CPS systems have in common that not only a single computer is affected, but also interconnected technical systems allowing interaction with the physical world are influenced leading to malfunction of devices and control systems with severe financial, environmental and health losses. This fact highlights the need to develop novel tools that will constitute the heart of a much-needed science of security for IoT and CPS. The goal of the 2015 IoT/CPS-Security workshop is to bring together internationally leading academic and industrial researchers in an effort to identify and discuss the major technical challenges and recent results aimed at addressing all aspects of security and privacy for IoT and CPS. TOPICS OF INTEREST To ensure complete coverage of the advances in this field, the 2015 IoT/CPS-Security workshop solicits original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topical areas: Security, Privacy and Trust for IoT and CPS Systems Secure IoT and CPS architectures Security vulnerabilities in IoT and CPS systems Security in Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems Detecting and preventing attacks in IoT devices and CPS systems Evaluation of the Threats, Attacks and Risks in IoT and cyber-physical devices Data Security and Privacy in the IoT Game theory for IoT and CPS security Security and Privacy in IoT applications and services (health care, smart cities, smart grid, safety and surveillance systems, etc.) Security and Privacy for RFID, sensors, actuator technologies Security in Smart Grids and Smart Spaces Network-distributed signal processing for security solutions in CPS Joint security and privacy aware protocol design Test-bed and performance metrics of security solutions in CPS Deployment and performance studies of secure CPS Secure network control systems for CPS applications Secure implementation of cyber-physical systems Architectures for secure hardware/software CPS systems SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The workshop accepts only novel, previously unpublished papers. Papers should be written in English with a standard length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures, without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with extra charge if accepted). You may use the standard IEEE Transactions templates for Microsoft Word or LaTeX formats. For more information, please visit the following URL: http://icc2015.ieee-icc.org/content/authors-guidelines. The edas link for paper submission is: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18701&track=66317. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: 10 January, 2014 Acceptance notification: 14 February, 2015 Final paper ("camera-ready"): 28 February, 2015 Workshop date: 8 June, 2015

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USRR'14: TWO days left to paper submission deadline: 8 days left; Elsevier JCR journal publication for all presented papers
by Jacek Rak 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ !!! All accepted (and presented) USRR 2014 Fall papers will be published !!! in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics journal by Elsevier. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-notes-in-discrete-mathematics/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers USRR 2014 Fall 2nd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks co-located with RNDM 2014 http://www.rndm.pl/2014/USRR/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Fee: 120 EUR (it also covers the Gala Dinner of RNDM 2014) http://www.rndm.pl/2014/program.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Context: ------------------ Emerging network sciences (interdisciplinary science of networks of networks) aim at discovering/identifying, formalizing/representing and analyzing common processes and phenomena underlying physical, chemical, biological, communication, social and cognitive networks. The fundamental objective of this emerging interdisciplinary field is to propose predictive models of these processes and phenomena in these networks that are characterized as adaptive, interdependent, unpredictable, nonlinear, and dynamic. From this perspective, a fundamental question arises as how interdependent network systems can be designed to support unpredictable disturbance and unexpected changes when vulnerable to natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, and changes in its usage patterns due to socio-economic or technological changes. The latter changes could also impact operations for system maintenance as operators running an infrastructure might operate differently than system design assumes. For this purpose, a better understanding of the aforementioned properties characterizing interdependent networks requires to first capture the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience and robustness. Workshop Objective: ------------------ Technical networks exhibit many inter-dependencies which are complex to measure and model but also lead to multi-objective decision problems where uncertainty becomes the transversal notion to capture. To this end, understanding the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience, and robustness becomes essential in order to rejuvenate and/or improve current design and evaluation methods that are currently unable to cope with this fundamental dimension. Topics: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers that describe state-of-the-art research, present work-in-progress, or suggest open problems covering one or more of the topics of interest to the workshop: - Case studies about natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network infrastructure: what happened and what lead to the situation? - Life cycle (data) analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions, parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification, competing failure modes analysis - Quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of (inter-dependent) networks - Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks - Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks - Robust, adaptive and stochastic optimal control for sustainable network systems design - Extend robustness analysis towards a rigorous approach to resiliency analysis by e.g. capturing and representing system dynamics at multiple time scale, multi-scale models and cross-interactions - Energy-aware resilience - Game theoretic and economic aspects of sustainability-vs-resilience trade-offs - Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2014 - Notification deadline: November 4, 2014 - Camera-ready: November 10, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submissions (via EDAS: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741) of original contributions of 4-8 pages, formatted in LaTeX according to the ENDM template available at: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/misc/endm_package.zip Workshop Chairs: ----------------- - Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE - Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE - Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE

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Call for Papers for EWGLA XXII
by Boglárka G.-Tóth 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

EWGLA XXII CALL FOR PAPERS - Submission deadline: 5 January 2015 Dear colleagues, This is the first announcement for the *22nd EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting*, *EWGLA XXI**I,* to be held in *Budapest, Hungary* on *May 20-22, 2015*. The conference will take place at the Corvinus University. More information regarding the conference can be found in the conference web site: www.math.bme.hu/ewgla2015 *Aims and Scope* The meeting intends to gather the operations research community from different parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational analysis We invite participation from all areas related to location theory including: - network location, - continuous location, - discrete location, - obnoxious location, - competitive location, - hub location, - location-routing, - advanced location models, - location applications (logistics, network design), - exact and heuristic solution methods. Contributions are welcome from academia, industry or the public sector. In addition to presentations, the meeting is intended to be a forum for exchange of recent experiences and results. *Important Dates* · Abstract submission deadline: 5 January 2015 · Notification of acceptance: 5 February 2015 · Early registration: 20 March 2015 · Conference: 20-22 May 2015 *Committees* *Scientific Committee:* Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada Emilio Carrizosa Priego - University of Sevilla, Spain Laureano F. Escudero - King Juan Carlos University, Spain Elena Fernandez Areizaga - University Politecnica de Cataluna, Spain José Fernández - University of Murcia, Spain Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (chair) Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece Horst Hamacher - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Dmitry Krass - University of Toronto, Canada Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain Alfredo Marin Perez - University of Murcia, Spain Stefan Nickel - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Olivier Péton - Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Francisco Saldanha da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal Anita Schöbel - University of Goettingen, Germany *Local Committee:* Marianna E.-Nagy - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Boglárka G.-Tóth - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (chair) Kristóf Kovács - Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Miklós Pintér - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary József Temesi - Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary *EWGLA Coordination Board:* Sibel Alumur Alev - University of Waterloo, Canada Ioannis Giannikos - University of Patras, Greece Mercedes Landete Ruiz - University Miguel Hernandez of Elche, Spain We are looking forward to meet you in Budapest! Boglárka G.-Tóth

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INOC 2015 Warsaw, PL: Call for papers; 7 weeks left; Elsevier JCR journal publication for all presented papers
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.inoc2015.pl/INOC2015_CFP.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers INOC 2015 7th International Network Optimization Conference May 18-20, 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://www.inoc2015.pl e-mail: contact(a)inoc2015.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Publication of accepted papers: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier * Special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) for extended versions of top INOC 2015 papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INOC 2015 is the conference of the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG), a working group of EURO. The conference is an excellent forum of professionals for presenting and discussing mathematical models, methods and methodologies, as well as computational tools for tackling problems in graph and network optimization. The current event is the seventh in the series of the INOC editions, following the success of past events held in Tenerife (2013), Hamburg (2011), Pisa (2009), Spa (2007), Lisbon (2005), and Paris (2003). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Combinatorial and discrete optimization, integer, convex, quadratic and linear programming models, together with decomposition methods, are typical optimization approaches dealt with at the INOC conferences. Besides theoretical problems in graph theory, presented solutions are applicable to communication, transportation, and electrical grid networks. The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS their papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and developments in the area of network optimization. Two types of publication of accepted papers will be offered: 1) Full papers to be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier. The total length of these papers should be between 4 and 8 pages prepared in LaTeX according to the ENDM template, 2) Extended abstracts to be distributed in a CD during the conference only. The authors of the top INOC 2015 papers will be invited to prepare the extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2014 - Notification deadline: February 2, 2015 - Camera-ready: February 16,2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------- INOC 2015 Organization: ----------------------- Conference Chair Michał Pióro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Conference Co-chairs Włodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Steering Committee - European Network Optimization Group (ENOG) Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Luis Gouveia, University of Lisbon (PT) Bernard Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Adam Ouorou, France Telecom R&D Division (FR) TPC Chair Artur Tomaszewski, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Co-chairs Roland Wessäly, atesio GmbH (DE) Mateusz Żotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Members E. Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) W. Ben-Ameur, GET/INT-CNRS (FR) A. de Sousa, Univ. de Aveiro (PT) B. Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) A. Frangioni, Universita di Pisa (IT) E. Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) L. Gouveia, Universidade de Lisboa (PT) H. Kerivin, Universite Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) A. Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) G. Laporte, Univ. de Montreal (CA) I. Ljubic, University of Vienna (AT) V. Lozin, Warwick University (UK) N. Mladenovic Brunel University (UK) D. Nace Universite de Technologie de Compigene (FR) W. Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) A. Ouorou Orange Labs R&D (FR) P. Pesneau Univ. de Bordeaux (FR) M. Pioro Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) S. Raghavan University of Maryland (US) J. Rak Gdansk University of Technology (PL) M. Resende AT&T Research Labs (US) F. Rossi Universita dell'Aquila (IT) J.J. Salazar-Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna (ES) M.G. Scutella, Universita di Pisa (IT) D. Shier, Clemson University (US) S. van Hoesel, Universitaet Maastricht (DE) S. Voss Universitaet Hamburg (DE) H. Yaman, BIlkient University (TR)

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CfP USRR 2014 Fall
by Bernard Fortz 01 Oct '14

01 Oct '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers USRR 2014 Fall 2nd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks co-located with RNDM 2014 <http://www.rndm.pl/2014/USRR/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission web page: <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741> All accepted (and presented) USRR 2014 Fall papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) journal by Elsevier. <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-notes-in-discrete-mathematics/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Context: ------- Emerging network sciences (interdisciplinary science of networks of networks) aim at discovering/identifying, formalizing/representing and analyzing common processes and phenomena underlying physical, chemical, biological, communication, social and cognitive networks. The fundamental objective of this emerging interdisciplinary field is to propose predictive models of these processes and phenomena in these networks that are characterized as adaptive, interdependent, unpredictable, nonlinear, and dynamic. From this perspective, a fundamental question arises as how interdependent network systems can be designed to support unpredictable disturbance and unexpected changes when vulnerable to natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, and changes in its usage patterns due to socio-economic or technological changes. The latter changes could also impact operations for system maintenance as operators running an infrastructure might operate differently than system design assumes. For this purpose, a better understanding of the aforementioned properties characterizing interdependent networks requires to first capture the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience and robustness. Workshop Objective: ------------------ Technical networks exhibit many inter-dependencies which are complex to measure and model but also lead to multi-objective decision problems where uncertainty becomes the transversal notion to capture. To this end, understanding the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience, and robustness becomes essential in order to rejuvenate and/or improve current design and evaluation methods that are currently unable to cope with this fundamental dimension. Topics: ------ Authors are invited to submit papers that describe state-of-the-art research, present work-in-progress, or suggest open problems covering one or more of the topics of interest to the workshop: - Case studies about natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network infrastructure: what happened and what lead to the situation? - Life cycle (data) analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions, parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification, competing failure modes analysis - Quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of (inter-dependent) networks - Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks - Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks - Robust, adaptive and stochastic optimal control for sustainable network systems design - Extend robustness analysis towards a rigorous approach to resiliency analysis by e.g. capturing and representing system dynamics at multiple time scale, multi-scale models and cross-interactions - Energy-aware resilience - Game theoretic and economic aspects of sustainability-vs-resilience tradeoffs - Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification Important dates: --------------- - Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2014 - Notification deadline: November 4, 2014 - Camera-ready: November 10, 2014 Submission guidelines: --------------------- We invite submissions (via EDAS: <https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741>) of original contributions of 4-8 pages, formatted in LaTeX according to the ENDM template available at: <http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/misc/endm_package.zip> Workshop registration: --------------------- Workshop Registration Fee: 120 EUR (it also covers the Gala Dinner of RNDM 2014) URL <http://www.rndm.pl/2014/program.html> Workshop Chairs: --------------- - Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE - Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE - Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE Sponsorship: ----------- This workshop is co-organized by the EINS project <http://www.internet-science.eu/>, the FP7 European Network of Excellence (NoE) in Internet Science funded by the European Commission DG CONNECT. -----

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INOC 2015 Warsaw - Call for papers
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.inoc2015.pl/INOC2015_CFP.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers INOC 2015 7th International Network Optimization Conference May 18-20, 2015, Warsaw, Poland http://www.inoc2015.pl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Publication of accepted papers: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier * Special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) for extended versions of top INOC 2015 papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INOC 2015 is the conference of the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG), a working group of EURO. The conference is an excellent forum of professionals for presenting and discussing mathematical models, methods and methodologies, as well as computational tools for tackling problems in graph and network optimization. The current event is the seventh in the series of the INOC editions, following the success of past events held in Tenerife (2013), Hamburg (2011), Pisa (2009), Spa (2007), Lisbon (2005), and Paris (2003). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Combinatorial and discrete optimization, integer, convex, quadratic and linear programming models, together with decomposition methods, are typical optimization approaches dealt with at the INOC conferences. Besides theoretical problems in graph theory, presented solutions are applicable to communication, transportation, and electrical grid networks. The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS their papers describing original, previously unpublished research results, not currently under review by another conference or journal, addressing state-of-the-art research and developments in the area of network optimization. Accepted papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM), Elsevier. The total length of the papers should be between 4 and 8 pages prepared in LaTeX according to the ENDM template. The authors of the top INOC 2015 papers will be invited to prepare the extended versions of their papers for a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley). --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: December 1, 2014 - Notification deadline: February 2, 2015 - Camera-ready: February 16,2015 --------------------------------------------------------------------- INOC 2015 Organization: ----------------------- Conference Chair Michał Pióro, Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) Conference Co-chairs Włodzimierz Ogryczak, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Steering Committee - European Network Optimization Group (ENOG) Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Walid Ben-Ameur, Telecom SudParis (FR) Luis Gouveia, University of Lisbon (PT) Bernard Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) Adam Ouorou, France Telecom R&D Division (FR) TPC Chair Artur Tomaszewski, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Co-chairs Roland Wessäly, atesio GmbH (DE) Mateusz Żotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL) TPC Members E. Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano (IT) W. Ben-Ameur, GET/INT-CNRS (FR) A. de Sousa, Univ. de Aveiro (PT) B. Fortz, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (BE) A. Frangioni, Universita di Pisa (IT) E. Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) L. Gouveia, Universidade de Lisboa (PT) H. Kerivin, Universite Blaise-Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand (FR) A. Koster, RWTH Aachen University (DE) G. Laporte, Univ. de Montreal (CA) I. Ljubic, University of Vienna (AT) V. Lozin, Warwick University (UK) N. Mladenovic Brunel University (UK) D. Nace Universite de Technologie de Compigene (FR) G. Oriolo Univesita di Roma Tor Vergata (IT) A. Ouorou Orange Labs R&D (FR) P. Pesneau Univ. de Bordeaux (FR) M. Pioro Warsaw University of Technology (PL), Lund University (SE) S. Raghavan University of Maryland (US) J. Rak Gdansk University of Technology (PL) M. Resende AT&T Research Labs (US) F. Rossi Universita dell'Aquila (IT) J.J. Salazar-Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna (ES) M.G. Scutella, Universita di Pisa (IT) N. Shepherd, McGIll Univ. (CA) D. Shier, Clemson University (US) S. van Hoesel, Universitaet Maastricht (DE) S. Voss Universitaet Hamburg (DE) H. Yaman, BIlkient University (TR)

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USRR 2014 Barcelona CFP: ENDM journal (Elsevier) publication for all presented papers
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ !!! All accepted (and presented) USRR 2014 Fall papers will be published !!! in Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics journal by Elsevier. http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electronic-notes-in-discrete-mathematics/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers USRR 2014 Fall 2nd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks co-located with RNDM 2014 http://www.rndm.pl/2014/USRR/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Fee: 120 EUR (it also covers the Gala Dinner of RNDM 2014) http://www.rndm.pl/2014/program.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Context: ------------------ Emerging network sciences (interdisciplinary science of networks of networks) aim at discovering/identifying, formalizing/representing and analyzing common processes and phenomena underlying physical, chemical, biological, communication, social and cognitive networks. The fundamental objective of this emerging interdisciplinary field is to propose predictive models of these processes and phenomena in these networks that are characterized as adaptive, interdependent, unpredictable, nonlinear, and dynamic. From this perspective, a fundamental question arises as how interdependent network systems can be designed to support unpredictable disturbance and unexpected changes when vulnerable to natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, and changes in its usage patterns due to socio-economic or technological changes. The latter changes could also impact operations for system maintenance as operators running an infrastructure might operate differently than system design assumes. For this purpose, a better understanding of the aforementioned properties characterizing interdependent networks requires to first capture the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience and robustness. Workshop Objective: ------------------ Technical networks exhibit many inter-dependencies which are complex to measure and model but also lead to multi-objective decision problems where uncertainty becomes the transversal notion to capture. To this end, understanding the fundamental interplay between sustainability, resilience, and robustness becomes essential in order to rejuvenate and/or improve current design and evaluation methods that are currently unable to cope with this fundamental dimension. Topics: ------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers that describe state-of-the-art research, present work-in-progress, or suggest open problems covering one or more of the topics of interest to the workshop: - Case studies about natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions, malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network infrastructure: what happened and what lead to the situation? - Life cycle (data) analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions, parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification, competing failure modes analysis - Quantifying and evaluating the sustainability of (inter-dependent) networks - Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks - Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks - Robust, adaptive and stochastic optimal control for sustainable network systems design - Extend robustness analysis towards a rigorous approach to resiliency analysis by e.g. capturing and representing system dynamics at multiple time scale, multi-scale models and cross-interactions - Energy-aware resilience - Game theoretic and economic aspects of sustainability-vs-resilience trade-offs - Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification --------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: October 24, 2014 - Notification deadline: November 4, 2014 - Camera-ready: November 10, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite submissions (via EDAS: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=18741) of original contributions of 4-8 pages, formatted in LaTeX according to the ENDM template available at: http://www.elsevier.com/inca/publications/misc/endm_package.zip Workshop Chairs: ----------------- - Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE - Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE - Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE

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RNDM 2014 Barcelona - deadline extension: July 26, 2014
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Dear Colleagues, Below, I am sending you the CFP of RNDM 2014, with paper submission deadline extended till July 26, 2014. !!! Extended versions of top RNDM 2014 papers OF ANALYTIC/OPTIMIZATION ORIENTATION will be considered !!! for publication in a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley). We are looking forward to your submissions and meeting you in Barcelona this November. Best regards, Jacek Rak, PhD, SMIEEE Gdansk University of Technology, Poland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/CFP_RNDM2014.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers RNDM 2014 6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling November 17-19, 2014, Barcelona, Spain http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IEEE Communications Society IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- S2CN 2014 Workshop(Survivable Content-Oriented and Cloud-Ready Networking) co-located with RNDM 2014: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/S2CN/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - coordination of multilayer survivability operations, - design of dedicated/shared backup paths, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - energy efficiency in survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - fast service recovery, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - fault management and control in survivable networks, - Future Internet reliability, - green networks reliability, - impact on detection accuracy and latency on survivability, - management issues in reliable networks design, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability, - metrics of reliable communications, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks survivability, - network dependability, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - network reliability standardization aspects, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - p-cycles and other protection structures, - planning and optimization of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - planning and optimization of reliable networks, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - restoration strategies under different types of failures, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - reliability and resilience of in data centers, - reliability of wireless-wired communications, - reliability of wireless sensor networks, - reliability of multi-domain communications, - reliability of emerging communication technologies, - reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures and solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - role of redundancy in survivable networks, - security-related issues in reliable networks, - self-regenerative networks, - service-oriented survivability, - service resilience differentiation, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - survivability of P2P and overlay systems, - survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks, - theory and methods of reliability and availability, - use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117) full 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 will 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: - Extended submission deadline: July 26, 2014 - Notification deadline: Sept. 15, 2014 - Camera-ready: Sept. 30, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2014 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK) 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 Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) 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) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking SE (DE) 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) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Egemen Cetinkaya, Missouri University of Science and Technology (US) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds (UK) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo (CA) Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology (JP) 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) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Annalisa Morea, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs(FR) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) 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) Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Marcus Schoeller, NEC (DE) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) 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) Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (GR) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Jean Philippe Vasseur, CISCO (FR) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (FR) 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) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Hongfang Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)

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Workshop "Recent advances in multi-objective optimization" in Vienna, Sept 12 2014
by Ivana Ljubic 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

Dear Colleague, On Friday, September 12 2014, we will be hosting the workshop * Recent advances in multi-objective optimization * * moo.univie.ac.at * It will be a small, single-day, single-stream workshop focusing on recent advances in exact methods in multi-objective (mixed) integer optimization. Keynote talks will be given by Xavier Gandibleux and Matthias Ehrgott. We herewith invite you to participate in the workshop. The workshop venue is the new building of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics and the Faculty of Mathematics of the University in Vienna. The preliminary program is as follows: * Thursday, September 11, 18:00: Welcome reception. * Friday, September 12, 09:00 - 18:00: Scientific program. * Friday, September 12, 19:30: Conference dinner. The participation fee is 50 EUR and includes the conference dinner, free coffee/tea and soft drinks between sessions, and a light lunch. PhD students are entitled to a reduced fee of 30 EUR. Important Dates: * August 15, 2014: Registration deadline. * September 12, 2014: Workshop. We are looking forward to meeting you in Vienna. Do not hesitate to contact us for additional information. Best regards, Ivana Ljubic and Sophie Parragh

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NetOPt2015: 4th Winter School on Network Optimization (1st announcement)
by Bernard Fortz 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

NetOPt2015: 4th Winter School on Network Optimization (1st announcement) The 4th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at the Hotel Sana, Estoril, from the 12th to the 16th of January 2015. 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: Bernard Gendron (Univ. Montréal): Decomposition methods for network design Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs): Robust optimization in telecommunications Gerhard Reinelt (Univ. Heidelberg): Ordering problems Giovanni Rinaldi (IASI): Maximum weight cuts in graphs and extensions Daniele Vigo (Univ. Bologna): Solution approaches for vehicle routing problems Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO (Centro de Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as 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). Candidates are invited to submit their CVs to NetOpt2015(a)fc.ul.pt before 30th October 2014. After a short period of evaluation, the participants will be notified and be invited to register. More information is available at http:NetOpt2015.fc.ul.pt.

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ISMP 2015 in Pittsburgh
by Fatma Kilinc-Karzan 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Announcement: ISMP 2015 in Pittsburgh www.ismp2015.org The 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2015) will take place in Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the world congress of mathematical optimization where scientists as well as industrial users of mathematical optimization meet in order to present the most recent developments and results and to discuss new challenges from theory and practice. Plenary are semi-plenary speakers for ISMP have been announced: Plenary speakers Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California, Berkeley Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland Dan Spielman, Yale University Steve Wright, University of Wisconsin Semi-plenary speakers Sam Burer, University of Iowa Roberto Cominetti, University of Chile, Chile Michele Conforti, University of Padova, Italy Tammy Kolda, Sandia Labs Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Werner Roemisch, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Frank Vallentin, University of Koeln, Germany Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia Yaxian Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Conference Venue The Symposium will take place at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel located at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s famed Three Rivers. Important Dates The abstract submission will open in the Fall of 2014 and the conference registration will open before December 2014. More details (including important dates, registration rates and hotel prices etc.) will be soon available on the conference website at www.ismp2015.org. We are looking 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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EJCO Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications
by Bernard Fortz 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

EURO Journal on Computational Optimization Special Issue on Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications Following the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, a special issue of the EURO Journal on Computational Optimization (EJCO) dedicated to "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications" will be edited by Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) and Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt). The deadline for the paper submission has been extended to July 15, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. To submit a paper, please visit https://www.editorialmanager.com/ejco/ and choose S.I.: Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications as Article Type. Best regards, Bernard Fortz Luis Gouveia

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CFP: RNDM 2014 Barcelona - Reliable Networks Design and Modeling
by jrak＠pg.gda.pl 12 Jun '14

12 Jun '14

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pdf version of Call for papers: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/CFP_RNDM2014.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extended versions of top RNDM 2014 papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Networks journal (Wiley) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers RNDM 2014 6th International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design and Modeling November 17-19, 2014, Barcelona, Spain http://www.rndm.pl technically co-sponsored by: ---------------------------- IEEE Communications Society IFIP TC6 WG 6.10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117 --------------------------------------------------------------------- S2CN 2014 Workshop(Survivable Content-Oriented and Cloud-Ready Networking) co-located with RNDM 2014: http://www.rndm.pl/2014/S2CN/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop each time attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling. RNDM 2014 follows the success of the first five events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010), Budapest (2011), and Almaty (2013) accordingly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following: - businesses aspects of resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - coordination of multilayer survivability operations, - design of dedicated/shared backup paths, - end-to-end resilience, - energy efficiency in survivable networks, - energy efficiency in survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - fast service recovery, - fault and disruption tolerance evaluation, - fault management and control in survivable networks, - Future Internet reliability, - green networks reliability, - impact on detection accuracy and latency on survivability, - management issues in reliable networks design, - management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of survivability, - metrics of reliable communications, - modeling different types of failures, - modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks, - models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling, - multilayer networks survivability, - network dependability, - network reliability vs. economy-related issues, - network reliability standardization aspects, - new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks, - optical networks survivability, - p-cycles and other protection structures, - planning and optimization of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - planning and optimization of reliable networks, - QoS and QoE in reliable communications, - restoration strategies under different types of failures, - reliable networks performance evaluation, - reliability and resilience of in data centers, - reliability of wireless-wired communications, - reliability of wireless sensor networks, - reliability of multi-domain communications, - reliability of emerging communication technologies, - reliability of vehicle-to-vehicle communications, - resilient cloud computing architectures and solutions, - resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions, - role of redundancy in survivable networks, - security-related issues in reliable networks, - self-regenerative networks, - service-oriented survivability, - service resilience differentiation, - simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience in content-oriented and cloud-ready networks, - Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networking, - survivability of anycast and multicast networks, - survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV), - survivability of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), - survivability of grid and distributed computing systems, - survivability of P2P and overlay systems, - survivability under traffic grooming in multilayer networks, - theory and methods of reliability and availability, - use of self-healing techniques in surviving attacks, - wireless access networks survivability, - wireless mesh networks survivability The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS (https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=17117) full 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 will 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: July 20, 2014 - Notification deadline: Sept. 15, 2014 - Camera-ready: Sept. 30, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------- RNDM 2014 Organization: ----------------------- General Chair Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Co-chairs Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN) James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster University (UK) 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 Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa (CA) Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US) 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) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Program Committee Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR) Achim Autenrieth, ADVA Optical Networking SE (DE) 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) Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL) Egemen Cetinkaya, Missouri University of Science and Technology (US) Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU) John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA) George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY) Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Leeds (UK) Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT) Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR) Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT) Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT) Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR) Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR) Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN) Anwar Haque, Bell (CA) Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP) Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO) Pin-Han Ho, University of Waterloo (CA) Yutaka Ishibashi, Nagoya Institute of Technology (JP) 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) Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE) Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU) Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR) Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL) Annalisa Morea, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs(FR) Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR) Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR) Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR) 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) Sarah Ruepp, Technical University of Denmark (DK) Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA) Marcus Schoeller, NEC (DE) Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US) Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES) Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE) 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) Ioannis Tomkos, Athens Information Technology (GR) Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT) Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US) Jean Philippe Vasseur, CISCO (FR) Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES) Dominique Verchere, Alcatel-Lucent (FR) 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) Hideaki Yoshino, Nippon Institute of Technology (JP) Hongfang Yu, Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China (CN) Jie Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN) Wen-De Zhong, Nanyang Technological University (SG) Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)

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3rd call for contributions: MOPTA-2014
by Boris Defourny 07 Jun '14

07 Jun '14

With apologies for cross-postings: ============================================== THIRD CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== The 14th annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, August 13-15, 2014. We cordially invite you to attend and to submit your abstract for a contributed oral presentation. Important dates, abstract submission, registration: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ Confirmed plenary speakers: * Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren B. Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) Confirmed invited session organizers: * Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Watson Research Center) * Tsvetan Asamov (Princeton University): Stochastic search and approximate dynamic programming * Frank Curtis (Lehigh University): Algorithms for large-scale nonlinear optimization * Hongbo Dong (Washington State University): Convex relaxations for nonconvex problems * Peter Frazier (Cornell University): Learning and optimization of expensive functions * Daniel Jiang (Princeton University): Stochastic optimization in energy * Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University): Convexification of nonconvex quadratic problems * Abdullah Konak (Pennsylvania State University): Hybrid optimization * Nathan Krislock (Northern Illinois University) * Qihang Lin (University of Iowa): Stochastic first order methods * Gudimella S.R. Murthy (Indian Statistical Institute): Industrial OR applications: Live case studies * Raghu Pasupathy (Virginia Tech) * Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Institute of Technology): Information theory and optimization * Rommel G. Regis (Saint Joseph's University): Black-box and derivative-free optimization * Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers University): Risk-averse optimization * Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh University) * Larry Snyder (Lehigh University) * Martin Takac (University of Edinburgh) * Robert Vanderbei (Princeton University): Optimization algorithms for big data problems * Natasha Vermaak (Lehigh University): Topological optimization and advanced manufacturing * Luis Zuluaga (Lehigh University): Smart grids ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 11, 2014. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Tamás Terlaky Boris Defourny (Chair) Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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INFORMS Telecommunications Conference - Special issue of EJCO
by Bernard Fortz 06 Jun '14

06 Jun '14

As announced in the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal last March 2-4, 2014, there will be a special issue of EJCO dedicated to the conference. The topic for this special issue is "Computational Optimization Methods in Telecommunications". We invite every participant at the conference, to submit a full paper corresponding to his/her oral presentation. The deadline for the paper submission is June 30, 2014. We plan on having the review of all submitted papers by December 31, 2014. The Guest Editors for this special issue are Bernard Fortz (bernard.fortz(a)ulb.ac.be) Université Libre de Bruxelles Luis Gouveia (legouveia(a)fc.ul.pt) CIO, Unversidade de Lisboa

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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Alberto J. Lamadrid 07 May '14

07 May '14

================================================= LAST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, There is still time to encourage your students to participate in the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor’s responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluaga(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Alberto J. Lamadrid Assistant Professor of Economics Engineering and Economics of Electricity Research Group (E3RG) Rauch Business Center 451 Lehigh University Bethlehem, PA 18015, U.S.A. +1 212.496.2492 http://www.pserc.cornell.edu/ajlamadrid/

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Announcement and CfP --- MOPTA 2014. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014
by Boris Defourny 05 May '14

05 May '14

============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== Dear Friends and Colleagues With apologies for cross-postings... We cordially invite you to contribute to the fourteenth annual "Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications" (MOPTA) conference, organized at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014. MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings. We welcome contributed talks, and we are also very interested in hearing from people who could organize a session centered around one of their topics of expertise. MOPTA sessions have 3 speakers, with 30 mins per presentation including Q&A's. Speakers will be kindly asked to submit their abstract on the MOPTA website. The deadline for abstract submission is June 13th. Please contact Boris Defourny (defourny(a)lehigh.edu) if you would like to organize a session for MOPTA. Boris Defourny. Organizing Committee Chair See more at http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta ============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ============================================== The fourteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 13-15 (Wednesday to Friday), 2014. Confirmed plenary speakers: * Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Boris Defourny (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Luis Zuluaga 25 Feb '14

25 Feb '14

================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and AIMMS (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor's responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluaga(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Luis F. Zuluaga, Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University

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IFORS 2014 Barcelona - Telecommunications and Network Optimization stream
by Bernard Fortz 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the stream Network Optimization of the forthcoming 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies that will be held from 13-18 July 2014 in the city of Barcelona. http://www.ifors2014.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/ifors2014/ and use invitation code ce75a554 The deadline for abstract submission is January 31, 2014. 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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6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Luis Zuluaga 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 6th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the sixth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/) and Paragon Decision Technology (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2014 MOPTA Conference to be held August 13-15, 2014 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2013-2014 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor’s responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition/ for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 13 June 2014 (but please register as soon as you start work on the problem) Solutions Due: 13 June 2014 Finalists Chosen: 4 July 2014 Conference Begins: 13 August 2014 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluagas(a)lehigh.edu and Alberto J. Lamadrid, ajlamadrid(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Luis F. Zuluaga, Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University

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Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA-2014) conference: Call for contributions
by Boris Defourny 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Dear Friends and Colleagues With apologies for cross-postings... We cordially invite you to contribute to the fourteenth annual "Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications" (MOPTA) conference, organized in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014. ============================================== ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for contributions MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 ============================================== The fourteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 13-15 (Wednesday to Friday), 2014. Confirmed plenary speakers: Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) Gerald Cornuejols (Carnegie Mellon University) Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Warren Powell (Princeton University) Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University) This is an invitation for participation, contributed talks, and posters. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014. Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be a small number of invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Boris Defourny (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W Packer Ave Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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PhD positions, Oxford University
by Coralia Cartis 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

The University of Oxford Mathematical Institute is launching a new EPSRC-supported doctoral training programme, InFoMM, linking numerical analysis, mathematical modelling and their application to industry. We invite applications to the doctoral programme, currently being accepted for the 2014 academic year. Full funding is available for over ten studentships per year, including for overseas applicants.The four year programme of study includes a first year of coursework, projects, and interactions with industrial partners such as: Amazon, BP, Dupont, IBM, NAG, Schlumberger, Siemens, and Thales. Research projects are available in: numerical optimisation, numerical linear algebra, numerical differential equations, high performance computing, signal / image processing, and a variety of modelling specialisations. Further information is available at: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/courses/infomm where a list of application deadlines can also be found. Overseas applicants are advised to apply for the 24 January deadline to have the maximum chance of receiving funding. Scholarships cover full fees and provide a grant for living expenses. Applications may be submitted via: https://apply.embark.com/grad/Oxford/17/ Informal inquiries may be addressed to Dr Coralia Cartis, cartis(a)maths.ox.ac.uk ----------------------- Dr Coralia Cartis Associate Professor of Numerical Optimization Mathematical Institute and Balliol College University of Oxford http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/cartis

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Fwd: FW: ISCO 2014 (Final announcement)
by Bernard Fortz 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

ISCO 2014 (Final announcement) The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. ISCO is a biannual symposium whose aim is to gather researchers from combinatorial optimization and other related fields of operations research. Conference Chairs: Luis Gouveia (Univ of Lisbon-CIO) and Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine) Plenary Speakers: Michel Balinski (CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique Paris), Matteo Fischetti (Univ. of Padova) and Martin Grotschel (ZIB-Berlin) ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NEW DATE December 22, 2013 Accepted regular papers (with up to 12 pages) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in a post-conference proceedings volume. The authors will have to prepare their camera-ready version two weeks after the end of ISCO 2014. A special issue of Discrete Optimization on "Combinatorial Optimization" will be associated to ISCO2014 For more information on the Symposium, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt. This symposium is preceded by a spring school titled "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications", see also ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt. The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (2014) will also be held from the 2nd to the 4th of March, just before ISCO 2014, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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Fwd: FW: Spring School in Stochastic Programming (announcement)
by Bernard Fortz 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Spring School in Stochastic Programming (announcement) The spring school "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" will take place in Lisbon, March 3-4 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. School lecturers - Rüdiger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin) The school precedes and is associated to the 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) that will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. For more information on the School and the Symposium, how to register, registration deadline and registration fees, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt.

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INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 - 3rd announcement
by Bernard Fortz 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 (www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt) - 3rd announcement The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 2 - 4, 2014 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 12th Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications. Conference chair: Luís Gouveia Conference co-chairs: Maurício Resende and Youngho Lee Plenary speakers: Thomas Bonald (Telecom Paris Tech), Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institut Berlin) and Guy Leduc (Université de Liège) 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2014 The INFORMS meeting precedes the 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) that will abe held from the 5th to the 7th of March, just after the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration field for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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Second CFP: Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks
by Wlodzimierz Ogryczak 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Apologies for possible crossposting. Dear Colleagues, We are editing a Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks: Models, Algorithms and Applications to be published by Journal of Applied Mathematics (an Open Access journal JCR indexed). http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/si/419729/cfp/ The issue of fairness is widely recognized in location and allocation analysis of public services. The need of fair optimization arrives also in more general problems of resource allocation such as in various network systems. Fair network optimization issues are in focus of diverse applications and problems arising in communication networks. These issues are closely related to situations where it is desirable to achieve an equitable allocation of certain resources, shared by competing demands. Fairness, more specifically, lexicographic maximin optimization, Max-Min Fairness and Proportional Fairness, are widely studied in the communication network literature, especially related to bandwidth allocation, and rate adaptation and congestion control in TCP networks. Still, this concept continues to be widely applicable in different settings in network optimization and more specifically in multi-commodity flow networks related applications. The special issue strives to serve as a platform for researchers and practitioners to present advances in the field. We invite authors to submit original research articles that propose new models, algorithms and applications of fair network optimization. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Fairness in communication network design including traffic routing, resource allocation, and survivability issues - Fair optimization of transportation networks - Network dimensioning, models and computational methods - Fair optimization of logistic networks - Fairness in sensor networks - Fair allocation of resources, tasks, or costs - Fair scheduling The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2014. Attached, please find the call for papers, which also contains instructions for submissions. Best regards, Wlodzimierz Ogryczak, Hanan Luss, Dritan Nace and Michal Pióro (Guest Editors) -- ---------------- Institute of Control and Computation Engineering ______ Wlodzimierz Ogryczak Warsaw University of Technology /_/ | W.Ogryczak(a)ia.pw.edu.pl Nowowiejska 15/19 / / /| | tel. +48 22 234 7750 00-665 Warsaw, POLAND / / _>| | tel. +48 22 234 7397 __________ fax. +48 22 8253719 ________ /_/_/ |_|

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INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 - 2nd announcement
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 (www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt) - 2nd announcement The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 2 - 4, 2014 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 12th Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications. Conference chair: Luís Gouveia Conference co-chairs: Maurício Resende and Youngho Lee Plenary speakers: Thomas Bonald (Telecom Paris Tech), Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institut Berlin) and Guy Leduc (Université de Liège) 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will also be held from the 5th to the 7th of March, just after the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement)
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (2nd announcement) The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. ISCO is a biannual symposium whose aim is to gather researchers from combinatorial optimization and other related fields of operations research. Conference Chairs: Luis Gouveia (Univ of Lisbon-CIO) and Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine) Plenary Speakers: Matteo Fischetti (Univ. of Padova), Martin Grotschel (ZIB-Berlin) and Adam Letchford (University of Lancaster) Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2013 Accepted regular papers (with up to 12 pages) will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series in a post-conference proceedings volume. The authors will have to prepare their camera-ready version two weeks after the end of ISCO 2014. A special issue of Discrete Optimization on "Combinatorial Optimization" will be associated to ISCO2014 This symposium is preceded by a spring school titled "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" School lecturers - Rüdiger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin) For more information on the Symposium and School, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt. The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (2014) will also be held from the 2nd to the 4th of March, just before ISCO 2014, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) for reduced fees for people attending the two conferences.

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EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences
by Bernard Fortz 06 Nov '13

06 Nov '13

Last Call for Abstracts EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences (EURO mini 2014) ============================================================ Dear Colleagues, the organizers of the EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences (EURO mini 2014) have a pleasure to invite you to take part in this conference to be held in Aveiro, Portugal on 5-9 February, 2014, http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/.[1] The conference aims at discussing the latest research in optimization and its applications to the Natural Sciences. The main objective of the meeting is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and recent achievements, and to establish collaborations among researchers and practitioners working in the areas of Computer Science / Optimization / Statistics, and Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medical Sciences. We welcome abstracts related to any aspects of optimization in the Natural Sciences, in particular, related to the following topics: Topics ============================= • Analysis of microarray data or next generation sequencing • Applications of modeling and optimization in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine • Billiard theory and applications • Biomedical engineering • Design optimization • Data visualization for optimal decisions • Image processing • Infinite and semi-infinite optimization with applications • Inverse problems • Linear and nonlinear optimization and applications • Multi-criteria optimization with applications • Multi-scale optimization with applications • Optimal control applied to biological models • Optimal mass transfer • Optimization in bioinformatics and computational biology • Shape optimization • Solution of optimization problems using statistical methods • Statistics in high-dimensional data • Statistical methods and visualization • Statistical and probabilistic modeling • Wave scattering Abstracts should be written in English and contain no more than 600 characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each attendee is allowed to present ONE paper at the conference. To submit an abstract, please use the abstract submission system of EURO-Online available on the conference website (http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/).[2] Location and Venue ============================== The conference will be held in Aveiro city (Portugal). Aveiro is located about 80km from the Porto Airport and 250km from Lisbon Airport. However is quite easy and quick to travel from any of these cities to Aveiro: 2h30 from Lisbon and 40min from Porto. Aveiro is situated on the estuary of Vouga river and is surrounded by a system of marshlands that run 50km parallel to the sea. The town has famous channels where typical boats (moliceiro) sail, bridges and pastel-coloured houses that are somewhat reminiscent of Amsterdam or Venice. A special attention deserve: Aveiro Cathedral (15th-18th centuries) and its gothic cross; Misericórdia Church; São Bartolomeu and Senhor das Barrocas chapels; 18th-century churches of Santo António, Nossa Senhora da Apresentação and São Gonçalo; the Regional Museum (housed in the ancient Convento de Jesus); the city hall and beautiful building in the New Art style; the train station and the beautiful tiles of the old Fonte Nova factory (1916) where the Cultural and Congress Center is situated now; the Infante D. Pedro park; the Barra and Costa Nova beaches (the last one is also known for its typical beach houses); Humberto Delgado square; Carcavelos bridge and S. Roque channel. Confirmed Invited Speakers ============================== • Aleksander Dudin, Belarusian State University, Belarus, http://www.apa.bsu.by/[3] • Giuseppe Buttazzo, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, Italy, http://www.dm.unipi.it/pages/buttazzo/[4] • Gueorgui Smirnov, University of Minho, Portugal, http://intranet.uminho.pt/4881.page[5] • Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bunimovh/[6] • Michael Greenacre, Department of Economics and Business, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, http://www.barcelonagse.eu/faculty.php?id=118[7] • Sergey Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Mathematics, USA, http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/[8] Important Dates =============================== • Deadline for abstract submission (extended) 15/11/2013 • Notification of acceptance: 30/11/2013 • Deadline for registration fee payment for inclusion in the abstract book: 15/01/2014 Registration Fee =============================== • Regular early (up to 1/12/2013): 285 euros • Regular late (up to 15/01/2014): 360 euros • Student early (up to 1/12/2013): 150 euros • Student late (up to 15/01/2014): 200 euros • Accompanying person: 50 euros Conference fee includes a get-together party, coffee breaks, participant’s package, abstract book and participation in all the sessions. Organizing Institutions ================================= • EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies, http://www.euro-online.org[9]<http://www.euro-online.org/[10]>. • EUROPT - EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization, http://europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/.[11] • CIDMA - Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications, http://cidma.mat.ua.pt/ma/home.php.[12] • Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, http://www.ua.pt/dmat/.[13] Secretariat ================================ Neusa Lagarto, neusa(a)ua.pt<mailto:neusa@ua.pt[14]>. Contacts ================================= For all questions please contact: DMAT-miniEURO2014(a)ua.pt<mailto:DMAT-miniEURO2014@ua.pt[15]>. Please visit our website http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/[16] for more information.

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Two Assistant Professor Positions at Supélec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
by Mohamad Assaad 03 Nov '13

03 Nov '13

Dear Colleagues, The Telecommunications Department of SUPELEC currently has two openings at the Assistant Professor level in the field of communications networks. Reference TEL 1: In this position, research is related to Queuing analysis and system-level design of wireless networks, and Performance evaluation of communication networks. Therefore, a strong background in some of the following topics is desired: Queuing theory, Stochastic networks, and Traffic modeling. Reference TEL 2: In this position, research is related to Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Proactive optimization of networks harnessing recent developments in context-awareness and social networks, and/or Dynamics of information spread on networks. The candidate should have a strong background in one (or some) of the following topics: Statistical learning, Random graphs, Big Data Analysis, Combinatorial optimization, and Stochastic networks. For both positions, the candidates must have a Ph.D. and a strong research record. They must also be committed to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in telecommunications, networks, and related fields. Applications must be submitted to Prof Hikmet Sari via e-mail (hikmet.sari(a)supelec.fr) and should include a motivation letter with a concise statement of research and teaching interests, an extended CV with a list of publications, and three recommendation letters.

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Postdoctoral position in optimization of transportation networks
by Shahin Gelareh 02 Oct '13

02 Oct '13

Dear Colleagues There is an 18-month (up to 24 months) postdoc position available at our research lab, LGI2A (www.lgi2a.univ-artois.fr) at Bethune, France, under the general topic of *optimization of transportation networks* in urban service networks. The candidate is expected to have solid knowledge in the following domains: - - MIPs and Decomposition algorithms (in particular Branch-and-price and Benders) - - Robust optimization and/or stochastic programming - - Location and/or routing problems The salary before tax is* 3,800* euro per month. The candidate must have an experience equivalent to at least two years of postdoc outside France. The age limit is 35 years. The deadline for application is October 13, 2013 and the work will start around May 2014. Interested candidates are invited to contact: Shahin.Gelareh(a)univ-artois.fr Gilles.Goncalves(a)univ-artois.fr Best regards, Shahin --

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Deadline Extension - Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis"
by Sibel Alumur Alev 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

New Submission Deadline: October 28, 2013 Call for Papers Computers & Operations Research Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis" Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur, Bahar Y. Kara The subjects of interest within location analysis are of many kinds, centering on the optimal choice of locations for one or more facilities, within any framework (the classical settings being discrete, network, and planar) in a way that optimizes a certain objective such as minimizing transportation costs, providing equitable service to customers, capturing the largest market share, etc. Many other fields have direct connections with location analysis, either by subject such as transportation and routing, supply chain management, environmental studies, layout and design, data and cluster analysis, or as techniques, like mathematical (linear, integer, non-linear, convex, global, ...) programming, multi-criteria analysis, approximation theory, computational geometry, statistics, etc. Recently, there have been several new developments in location analysis. The aim of this special issue is to collect high quality papers that address recent advances in theory, practice and application. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * network location, * continuous location, * discrete location, * obnoxious location, * competitive location, * hub location, * location-routing, * location applications (logistics, network design), * exact and heuristic solution methods. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this special issue as an outlet to publish their high quality work on the topic. Submission Guidelines: All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cor> http://ees.elsevier.com/cor. Corresponding author must select Special Issue: Recent Advances in Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that the paper will be considered for the special issue. Important Dates: The deadline for submission to the special issue is October 28, 2013. The plan is to publish the special issue in early 2015. Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur Department of Industrial Engineering TOBB University of Economics and Technology Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:salumur@etu.edu.tr> salumur(a)etu.edu.tr Bahar Y. Kara Department of Industrial Engineering Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:bkara@bilkent.edu.tr> bkara(a)bilkent.edu.tr

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APMOD 2014: Call for Papers
by apmod wbs 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Dear Colleague(s), We would like to invite you to participate in the 11th International Conference on Applied Mathematical Optimization and Modelling (APMOD 2014), 9-11 April 2014, by organising an invited session and/or submitting a contributed paper. The conference will be held at Warwick Business School, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, http://www.apmod2014.org<http://www.apmod2014.org/>. APMOD 2014 is the eleventh conference in the series of successful events that bring together distinguished researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas and results in a broad range of topics relevant to mathematical optimization, modelling languages and software, theory and practice of computational methods and solution algorithms. The relevant application areas include, but are not restricted to health, transportation, logistics, engineering, finance, supply chain management, statistics, scheduling, and energy. The methodological focus of the previous conferences has been on mathematical programming and more recently heuristics, meta-heuristics. In APMOD 2014, the scope will be extended to include business analytics and big data. We will appreciate it if you could inform us of the titles of the sessions that you wish to organize and information of all contributed talks for those sessions by 15 January 2014. Individual contributed talks can also be submitted via the conference website by 15 January 2014. Finally, we would kindly ask you to disseminate the conference information and hope that you will encourage colleagues and students to organise sessions and submit papers to APMOD 2014. Please find the pdf file for "Call for Papers" attached. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in Annals of Operations Research. If you need further information about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact us via apmod(a)wbs.ac.uk<mailto:apmod@wbs.ac.uk>. On behalf of the APMOD 2014 organising team, I would like to thank you for your consideration in advance. We look forward to seeing you in Warwick. Kind regards, The conference organizers Nalan GULPINAR (chair), Arne STRAUSS and Vinh DOAN (co-chairs)

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2nd Call for Papers - Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis"
by Sibel Alumur Alev 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

Second Call for Papers Computers & Operations Research Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis" Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur, Bahar Y. Kara The subjects of interest within location analysis are of many kinds, centering on the optimal choice of locations for one or more facilities, within any framework (the classical settings being discrete, network, and planar) in a way that optimizes a certain objective such as minimizing transportation costs, providing equitable service to customers, capturing the largest market share, etc. Many other fields have direct connections with location analysis, either by subject such as transportation and routing, supply chain management, environmental studies, layout and design, data and cluster analysis, or as techniques, like mathematical (linear, integer, non-linear, convex, global, ...) programming, multi-criteria analysis, approximation theory, computational geometry, statistics, etc. Recently, there have been several new developments in location analysis. The aim of this special issue is to collect high quality papers that address recent advances in theory, practice and application. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * network location, * continuous location, * discrete location, * obnoxious location, * competitive location, * hub location, * location-routing, * location applications (logistics, network design), * exact and heuristic solution methods. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this special issue as an outlet to publish their high quality work on the topic. Submission Guidelines: All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cor> http://ees.elsevier.com/cor. Corresponding author must select Special Issue: Recent Advances in Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that the paper will be considered for the special issue. Important Dates: The deadline for submission to the special issue is October 1, 2013. The plan is to publish the special issue in early 2015. Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur Department of Industrial Engineering TOBB University of Economics and Technology Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:salumur@etu.edu.tr> salumur(a)etu.edu.tr Bahar Y. Kara Department of Industrial Engineering Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:bkara@bilkent.edu.tr> bkara(a)bilkent.edu.tr

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DRCN 2014
by Arie M.C.A. Koster 09 Sep '13

09 Sep '13

[Apologies for receiving multiple copies of this message] 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS DRCN 2014 2014 / 10th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks April 1-3 (Tutorials: March 31), 2014, Gent, Belgium www.drcn2014.org DRCN is a well-established annual forum for scientists, engineers, designers and planners from industry, government and academia who have interests in the reliability and availability of communication networks and services. The conference covers topics from equipment and technology for survivability to network management & public policy, through theory and techniques for survivable and robust networks and application design. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from industry, government and academia in those disciplines in a lively forum. A special issue in a top journal related to conference topics is being negotiated by the organizing committee. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The conference is supported by IFIP and IEEE sponsorship is requested. The 10th DRCN edition will be held in the glorious city of Ghent, Belgium. The conference will be enriched by a set of tutorials and invited talks. We seek papers that address theoretical, experimental, systems-related and regulatory issues in the area of dependability and survivability of communication networks, end-systems and infrastructure. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following areas: Network design and operational aspects: • Survivability of optical and multi-layer networks • Recovery techniques for IP routing and Layer-2 switching • Resilient wired access networks • Reliability of wireless access and mesh networking • Dependability of mobile networks • Network reliability and dependability in cloud computing and grid networks • Reliability and recovery of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network (Function) Virtualization (NFV) • Self-healing and autonomic networks • Survivability Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Information-Centric Networks (ICN) • Fault management, monitoring, and control • Resilience of multi-domain connections in the Internet • Management of survivable networks • Green Networking and reliability Theory and modelling: • Network reliability analysis • Methods and theory for survivable network and systems design, analysis and operation (including scalability and complexity) • Planning and optimization of reliable networks, systems, and services • Simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience Resiliency of network services: • Reliability requirements and metrics for individual users, businesses, and the society • Restoration of services under various types of failures • Service differentiation based on recovery methods • Dependability of networked applications • Recovery of overlay and peer-to-peer networks • Application and service-specific survivability techniques • Reliability and resilience of data centre networks • Robustness of compound services Broad context: • Communication networks as an element of critical infrastructures • Public policy issues for survivability and resilience • Standardization of network resilience and reliability • Network resilience combined with economics and commercial issues • Quality of experience and network survivability • Security issues in networks and their relation to survivability • Dependability and energy consumption trade-offs • Risk and reliability in the Internet and enterprise networks • New and emerging threats IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: October 18, 2013 Acceptance notification: January 13, 2014 Camera-ready due: January 31, 2014 AUTHOR GUIDELINES All submissions should be written in English with a max. paper length (all included) of 8 double-column printed pages (10-point font) including figures. All papers must be formatted according to the IEEE manuscript template for conference proceedings and submitted via EDAS. Please check the website for detailed guidelines. At least 1 author of accepted papers must be registered to the conference as presenter in order to appear in the proceedings. STEERING COMMITTEE Piet Demeester, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium Prosper Chemouil, Orange Labs, France Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Roberto Clemente, Telecom Italia, Italy Robert Doverspike, AT&T Labs, USA Deep Medhi, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA Ken-ichi Sato, Nagoya University, Japan Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany David Tipper, University of Pittsburgh, USA TPC CHAIRS Didier Colle, Ghent University–iMinds, Belgium Wouter Tavernier, Ghent University-iMinds, Belgium Dominic Schupke, Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany GENERAL CHAIR Piet Demeester, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR Mario Pickavet, Ghent University – iMinds, Belgium FURTHER INFORMATION website:www.drcn2014.org e-mail:drcn2014@intec.ugent.be -- Prof. Dr. Arie M.C.A. Koster RWTH Aachen University Lehrstuhl II für Mathematik Wüllnerstr. 5b D-52056 Aachen E: koster(a)math2.rwth-aachen.de W: http://www.math2.rwth-aachen.de/~koster/ T: +49 (0)241 80-94995 (Secretary) -94524 (Direct) F: +49 (0)241 80-92136

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open position (PhD candidate or Post-Doc) in the field of network optimization
by Thomas Bauschert 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

For a project on communication network optimization in Chemnitz, Germany, we have one open (PhD candidate or Post-Doc) full-time position. Employment will be at the Chair for Communication Networks at TU Chemnitz. The position will become available for a period of one year starting from 1st October 2013 at the earliest. Further continuation is possible. Research Field: The research project VINO (VIrtual Network Optimization) addresses two problem statements related to communication network planning and optimization: - Optimum configuration and dynamic adaptation of Flexgrid optical transport networks (Flexgrid Optical Network Design (FOND) problem) - Embedding and dynamic adaptation of virtual networks within a physical network infrastructure (Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem) Responsibilities: The following research tasks should be performed by the candidate in the project: - Design and evaluation of online algorithms to handle incoming resource requests (i.e. optical connections in case of FOND and virtual network requests in case of VNE) in real time (online optimization problem) - Re-optimization of the network configuration while the network is in service Requirements: - MSc or equivalent degree in Mathematics or Information Technology / Computer Science - Background in at least one of the following areas: - discrete optimization (especially mixed-integer linear programming) - online optimization - communication network architectures and protocols - Experience with solvers for linear optimization problems (e.g. CPLEX) - Programming skills (e.g. C/C++) - Good English language skills Applicants should submit their documents (including a letter of interest, CV, copies of academic certificates and previous scientific work such as master or diploma thesis) preferentially via Email to: Technische Universität Chemnitz Chair for Communication Networks Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Bauschert D-09107 Chemnitz, Germany E-Mail: thomas.bauschert(a)etit.tu-chemnitz.de

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CFP Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks: Models, Algorithms and Applications
by Wlodzimierz Ogryczak 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Dear Colleagues, We are editing a Special Issue on Fair Optimization and Networks: Models, Algorithms and Applications to be published by Journal of Applied Mathematics. http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/si/419729/cfp/ Contributors are invited to submit original research papers that propose new models, algorithms and applications of fair network optimization. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Fairness in communication network design including traffic routing, resource allocation, and survivability issues - Fair optimization of transportation networks - Network dimensioning, models and computational methods - Fair optimization of logistic networks - Fairness in sensor networks - Fair allocation of resources, tasks, or costs - Fair scheduling The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2014. Attached, please find the call for papers, which also contains instructions for submissions. Best regards, Wodzimierz Ogryczak, Hanan Luss, Dritan Nace and Michal Pióro (Guest Editors) I hope you could submit a paper related to fair networks to the following special issue: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jam/si/419729/cfp/ and in this way strengthen our efforts to make the MMF concept better known to the networking community. Best regards, -- ---------------- Institute of Control and Computation Engineering ______ Wlodzimierz Ogryczak Warsaw University of Technology /_/ | W.Ogryczak(a)ia.pw.edu.pl Nowowiejska 15/19 / / /| | tel. +48 22 234 7750 00-665 Warsaw, POLAND / / _>| | tel. +48 22 234 7397 __________ fax. +48 22 8253719 ________ /_/_/ |_|

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First announcement for the XIII ISOLDE (International Symposium On Locational DEcision) - Napoli/Capri 16-20 June 2014
by Giuseppe Bruno 02 Sep '13

02 Sep '13

Dear friends, The XIII Edition of the International Symposium On Locational DEcision (ISOLDE) will be held on June 16th-20th, 2014, in Naples and Capri (Italy), in conjunction with the XXI Meeting of EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA). ISOLDE is a triennial Symposium which gathers researchers and practitioners from all over the world aiming at integrating different approaches to deal with locational decisions. Experts from operational research, mathematics, management science, geography, economics and engineering (among others) will present their more recent advances in modelling, theory and applications. Contributions dealing with Logistics, Manufacturing, Transportation and Telecommunication industries are welcome. As usual, the Conference will be organized into a single plenary stream and in two different sites: after the first two days in Naples, participants will be transferred to the Island of Capri. For the participation, the submission of a short abstract is required. Special issues of international journals will be devoted to selected papers presented at the conference. Deadline for abstract submission: 28 February 2014 WEBSITE: www.isolde2014.org Attached: ISOLDE2014 postcard Sorry for multiple emails. Prof. Giuseppe Bruno (Ph.D.) Department of Industrial Engineering (Group of Management Engineering) University of Naples Federico II Piazzale Tecchio 80 - 80125 Napoli Tel. +39 081 7683637 - Fax +39 081 7682154 email: giuseppe.bruno(a)unina.it www.giubruno.wordpress.com

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ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (1st announcement)
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

ISCO 2014 and Spring School in Stochastic Programming (1st announcement) The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will take place in Lisbon, March 5-7 2014, in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. ISCO is a biannual symposium whose aim is to gather researchers from combinatorial optimization and other related fields of operations research. Conference Chairs: Luis Gouveia (Univ of Lisbon-CIO) and Ridha Mahjoub (University Paris-Dauphine) Plenary Speakers: Matteo Fischetti (Univ. of Padova), Martin Grotschel (ZIB-Berlin) and Adam Letchford (University of Lancaster) Abstract submission deadline: December 15, 2013 This symposium is preceded by a spring school titled "Stochastic Programs with Integer Variables: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" School lecturers - Rüdiger Schultz (University of Duisburg) and Jonas Schweiger (ZIB-Berlin) For more information on the Symposium and School, see ISCO2014.fc.ul.pt. The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference (2014) will also be held from the 2nd to the 4th of March, just before ISCO 2014, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) on a reduced conference for people attending the two conferences.

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FW: INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 - 1st announcement
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

INFORMS Telecommunications 2014 (www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt<http://www.informstelecom2014.fc.ul.pt/>) - 1st announcement The 12th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 2 - 4, 2014 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 12th Conference will focus on the theory and application of operations research and management science to problems in telecommunications, with particular emphasis on new and emerging technologies. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications. Conference chair: Luís Gouveia Conference co-chairs: Maurício Resende and Youngho Lee Plenary speakers: Thomas Bonald (Telecom Paris Tech), Martin Grötschel (Zuse Institut Berlin) and Guy Leduc (Université de Liège) 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award for Operations Research in Telecommunications Abstract submission: January 3rd, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium in Combinatorial Optimization (ISCO 2014) will also be held from the 5th to the 7th of March, just after the INFORMS Telecommunications Conference, also at Campo Grande, Lisbon. See the registration (to be updated) on a reduced conference fee for attending both conferences.

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MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013
by Frank E. Curtis 10 Jun '13

10 Jun '13

Apologies for any cross-postings... ============================================== FOURTH/FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for participation MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013 ============================================== The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 14-16 (Wednesday to Friday), 2013. Confirmed plenary speakers: Brian Denton (University of Michigan) Abhijit Deshmukh (Purdue University) Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin) Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University) Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota) Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University) Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo) Confirmed invited session organizers: Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Research): Eigenvalue Optimization and Applications Miguel F. Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal): Optimization for Smart Grids Hande Y. Benson (Drexel U.): Applications of MINLP Hongbo Dong (U. of Wisconsin at Madison): Semidefinite Optimization Jackie Griffin (Northeastern U.): Healthcare Jason Hicken (RPI): PDE-Constrained Optimization Alberto Lamadrid (Lehigh U.): Models for Electricity Markets Eugene Perevalov (Lehigh U.): Optimization, Information and Complexity Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh U.): Machine Learning / Derivative Free Optimization Larry Snyder (Lehigh U.): Optimization for Smart Grids Robert J. Vanderbei (Princeton U.): Recent Advances in Sparse Linear Programming Andreas Wächter (Northwestern U.): Nonlinear Optimization This is an invitation for participation, contributed talks, and posters. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *June 14, 2013*. Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be a small number of invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Frank E. Curtis (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W. Packer Ave. Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013: Invitation to organize sessions, etc.
by Frank E. Curtis 09 May '13

09 May '13

Apologies for any cross-postings... ============================================== THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for sessions, talks, and posters MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013 ============================================== The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 14-16 (Wednesday to Friday), 2013. Confirmed plenary speakers: Brian Denton (University of Michigan) Abhijit Deshmukh (Purdue University) Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin) Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University) Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota) Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University) Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo) This is an invitation for session organizers, contributed talks, and posters. If interested, then please contact: Frank E. Curtis <frank.e.curtis(a)lehigh.edu> ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 14, 2013. Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be a small number of invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger meetings. We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA! Organizing Committee: Frank E. Curtis (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Luis F. Zuluaga Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W. Packer Ave. Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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Call for papers - Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis"
by Sibel Alumur Alev 02 May '13

02 May '13

Call for Papers Computers & Operations Research Special Issue on "Recent Advances in Location Analysis" Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur, Bahar Y. Kara The subjects of interest within location analysis are of many kinds, centering on the optimal choice of locations for one or more facilities, within any framework (the classical settings being discrete, network, and planar) in a way that optimizes a certain objective such as minimizing transportation costs, providing equitable service to customers, capturing the largest market share, etc. Many other fields have direct connections with location analysis, either by subject such as transportation and routing, supply chain management, environmental studies, layout and design, data and cluster analysis, or as techniques, like mathematical (linear, integer, non-linear, convex, global, ...) programming, multi-criteria analysis, approximation theory, computational geometry, statistics, etc. Recently, there have been several new developments in location analysis. The aim of this special issue is to collect high quality papers that address recent advances in theory, practice and application. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: * network location, * continuous location, * discrete location, * obnoxious location, * competitive location, * hub location, * location-routing, * location applications (logistics, network design), * exact and heuristic solution methods. Researchers from all relevant disciplines are invited to consider this special issue as an outlet to publish their high quality work on the topic. Submission Guidelines: All manuscripts should be submitted electronically via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) <http://ees.elsevier.com/cor> http://ees.elsevier.com/cor. Corresponding author must select Special Issue: Recent Advances in Location Analysis as the Article Type to make sure that the paper will be considered for the special issue. Important Dates: The deadline for submission to the special issue is October 1, 2013. The plan is to publish the special issue in early 2015. Guest Editors: Sibel A. Alumur Department of Industrial Engineering TOBB University of Economics and Technology Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:salumur@etu.edu.tr> salumur(a)etu.edu.tr Bahar Y. Kara Department of Industrial Engineering Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey e-mail: <mailto:bkara@bilkent.edu.tr> bkara(a)bilkent.edu.tr

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Call for Papers: OR55 -The OR Society Annual Conference
by Ibrahim küçükkoç 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Call for Papers: OR55 -The OR Society Annual Conference *3-5 September 2013, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK* The planning for OR55 is well underway and the Conference Committee is in place to make sure things run smoothly. We now need to encourage a supply of interesting, informative and challenging papers. Academics, practitioners, researchers and students with interests in any aspect of Operational Research are invited to present their work at OR55. Details of all streams are available on our website at www.theorsociety.com/OR55 and more streams are expected to be finalised soon. Authors are welcome to discuss proposals for papers with stream organisers in advance of submission. *Keynote Papers:* Each stream is encouraged to have a Keynote paper if at all possible. Such a paper is expected to present a state of the art review of an area and discuss future directions for research in the field. Keynote papers will be highlighted in the Conference Programme and will be allocated additional time in the Schedule. They can also be published in the Keynote Papers Handbook and referenced with an ISBN number, if the speaker produces a full written version (maximum six pages). Keynote Guidelines and a template for Keynote Papers is available on the website. *Extended Abstracts:* In addition, an Extended Abstract would be considered. Extended Abstracts are shorter than Keynote Papers (about 1000 words) and depending on demand could be published in either a handbook, CD or website. Acceptance of Extended Abstracts is at the discretion of the Keynote Editor and/or Stream Organiser. A half hour slot is generally allocated. Please use the Keynote Guidelines and template on the website as a guide to producing an extended abstract.Unfortunately, there are no concessions on registration fees/exps for presenting a Keynote paper or Extended Abstract. *Important Deadlines* – please note that these may be subject to change February 2013 Submission of abstracts starts 14 June 2013 Deadline for submission of Titles and abstracts to appear in the Conference Programme. 14 June 2013 Deadline for submission of full Keynote Papers and Extended Abstracts. 21 June 2013 Notification of Acceptance to be sent re Keynote Papers and Extended Abstracts. 30 June 2013 Deadline for early reduced registration fee 02 July 2013 Deadline for final revision of abstracts. Presenters can make changes up to this date. 08 July 2013 Deadline for registration if the abstract or paper is to be scheduled for presentation. Thereby ensuring their talk will appear in the final programme. The conference committee reserve the right to exclude papers if bookings are not made by this date. *The Conference Committee* Philip Jones, Dstl Joint Chair prjones(a)dstl.gov.uk David Smith, Retired Univ. Exeter. Joint Chair davidandtina(a)endfield.org.uk Ken McNaught, Cranfield Univ. Programme Scheduler k.r.mcnaught(a)cranfield.ac.uk Hara Papachristou, Lanner Group Sponsorship/Exhibiter Organiser HPapachristou(a)lanner.com Ibrahim Kucukkoc, Univ. Exeter Co-Keynote Editor I.Kucukkoc(a)exeter.ac.uk Kevin Connell, Dstl Programme co-ordinator kevin.connell555(a)btinternet.com Navonil Mustafee, Univ. Exeter Programme co-ordinator, Co-Keynote Editor N.Mustafee(a)exeter.ac.uk Hilary Wilkes, The OR Society Conference organiser Hilary.Wilkes(a)theorsociety.com *Conference website: **www.theorsociety.com/OR55 **.* -- *Ibrahim Kucukkoc* Exeter Manufacturing Enterprise Centre College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences University of Exeter EX4 4QF Exeter / UK http://w3.balikesir.edu.tr/~ikucukkoc *P Please consider the environment before printing this email.*

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PhD position - robust optimization - Université de Technologie de Compiegne
by Michael Poss 12 Apr '13

12 Apr '13

A PhD position in Operations research is available at Heudiasyc Laboratory from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne in France. Application deadine : 30 April PhD topic: Robust Optimization The candidate should start working in September 2013. The position is meant to improve and generalize the use of decomposition algorithms and cutting planes for robust optimization problems and distributionally robust optimization problems. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact Michael Poss at michael.poss(a)hds.utc.fr. The prospective candidate should be acquainted with Operations Research (Linear Programming, Integer Programming), Probability Theory, and possess some programming skills. A strong taste for mathematical reasoning would be appreciated. Interested candidate should send a CV to michael.poss(a)hds.utc.fr. -- ==================================== Michael Poss, Ph. D. CNRS researcher in computer science. www.hds.utc.fr/~possmich Université de Technologie de Compiegne U.M.R. C.N.R.S. 7253 Heudiasyc Centre de recherches de Royallieu F-60205 Compiegne Cedex FRANCE ====================================

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EURO-INFORMS Rome - Telecommunications and Network Optimization stream
by Bernard Fortz 09 Mar '13

09 Mar '13

*** Deadline extended to March 14 *** Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the stream Telecommunications and Network Optimization of the forthcoming EURO-INFORMS conference in Rome, July 1-4, 2013. http://euro2013.org/ The stream is jointly organized by the European Network Optimization Group (ENOG) and the Telecommunications Section of INFORMS. If you would like to submit a paper for the stream, please visit http://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro26/?page=welcome and use invitation code dd77dbd5 The deadline for abstract submission is March 1, 2013. 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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5th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition
by Luis Zuluaga 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: 5th AIMMS/MOPTA International Optimization Modeling Competition (http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition) ================================================= Dear Colleagues, It is with great pleasure that we announce the fifth AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition. The competition is jointly organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA and Paragon Decision Technology (http://www.aimms.com). Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the 2013 MOPTA Conference to be held August 14-16, 2013 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. Teams of at most three students can participate. The team leader has to be a graduate student, though the other members of the team can be advanced undergraduate students. Each member of the team must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2012-2013 academic year. Students with a background in optimization, regardless of their actual field of study, are eligible. Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each team must declare a team advisor with which the team may consult about the problem and their solution. It is the team advisor’s responsibility to ensure that the students have appropriate knowledge for the competition. The team advisor should not be involved as a participant in the solution process. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English. The competition problem has been posted; please visit: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition for a description of the problem and further details. All teams must *register* for the competition in order to participate. Important Dates: Registration Due: 14 June 2013 Solutions Due: 14 June 2013 Finalists Chosen: 28 June 2013 Conference Begins: 14 August 2013 For questions, please contact Luis F. Zuluaga, luis.zuluagas(a)lehigh.edu ================================================= Luis F. Zuluaga, Assistant Professor Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University

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Mathematics on Operations and Logistics Conference
by herminia 20 Feb '13

20 Feb '13

Apologies for any cross-postings... Call-for-abstracts: Mathematics of Operations and Logistics Conference June 26-28, 2013 - Zaragoza (Spain) Dear Colleague, You are cordially invited to submit an abstract to the 2013 Mathematics of Operations and Logistics Conference to be held in Zaragoza, Spain from June 26 to June 28, 2013. We are planning an intimate academic meeting, consisting of a mix of plenary and contributed-work sessions. This conference will bring together a select group of key speakers to present and discuss new advances in the crossroads of operations and mathematics. Abstract Submission: Authors are cordially invited to submit an abstract for review by March 27, 2013. The abstract will not exceed 400 words and should be submitted through the <http://molc-zlc.unizar.es/formulario/regis_form.html>2013 MOLC submission online system by clicking here. Please bear in mind that the abstract submitted is the final abstract. Abstract Review: Abstracts will be evaluated by the 2013 MOLC Academic Committee and acceptance/rejection decisions will be notified by April 12, 2013. Abstracts will be evaluated according to topic suitability, findings and contribution to the field. Topics of interest for this conference will include: Transportation; Facility Location; Inventory Management; Coordination; Supply Chain Disruptions; and Vehicle Routing Problems. This list is by no means exclusive and other topics relating to mathematics and supply chain management will be considered. Please send your topic proposal to <mailto:molc@unizar.es>molc(a)unizar.es. The 2013 MOLC Academic Committee will accept abstracts for review on the believe that the submitted work is original. Current conference information is available at: http://molc-zlc.unizar.es/ Key Deadlines: · Abstract Submission: March 27, 2013 · Abstract Admission Notification: April 12, 2013 · Author Registration: Early bird, up to May 10, 2013: 100 (academic/professional) / 50 (student) Late registration, from May 11, 2013: 150 (academic/professional) / 75 (student) The 2013 MOLC meeting is an initiative of the University of Zaragoza and the Zaragoza Logistics Center with the collaboration of the University of Calgary. We will be holding the first conference that we hope to be repeated successfully in the future. Sincerely, Dr. Herminia I. Calvete University of Zaragoza Dr. Mozart Menezes University of Calgary Dr. Alejandro Serrano Zaragoza Logistics Center 2013 MOLC Organizing Committee

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