16th Cologne-Twente Workshop (CTW16) on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
June 18-20, 2018, Paris (France)
Call for papers
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The Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization
2018 welcomes contributions on theory and applications of discrete
algorithms, graphs and combinatorial structures in the wide
sense. CTW18 will be organized by CNRS LIX, École Polytechnique, and will
take place at the Conservatoire National d'Arts et Métiers (CNAM), in
the center of Paris.
Contacts
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URL: http://ctw18.lipn.univ-paris13.fr/
EMAIL: ctw18paris(a)gmail.com
Invited speakers
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Thomas Seiller, Univ. de Paris-Nord
Angelika Wiegele, Alpen-Adria-Univ. Klagenfurt
Registration fee
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EUR 250 if the payment is received by May 2, 2018, and EUR 300
afterwards. For PhD/MSC students and/or postdocs, EUR 100 if received
by May 2, 2018, and EUR 125 afterwards (PhD studentship / postdoc status
proof is required). The registration fee includes entry to all technical
sessions, coffee-breaks and the social event.
Abstract Submission
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Submit extended abstracts of at most 4 pages using the Easychair link
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ctw18>, no later than
Feb 1st, 2018, using the templates (coming soon too) available on the
website. The scientific committee will select the presentations for
the workshop on the basis of the extended abstracts received and on
the available number of slots.
Proceedings volume
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A special issue of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics is planned
as a post-conference proceedings outlet.
Scientific committee
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Ali Fuat Alkaya, Marmara Univ.
Alberto Ceselli, Univ. Milan
Roberto Cordone, Univ. Milan
Ekrem Duman, Ozyegin Univ.
Ulrich Faigle, Univ. Koeln
Johann Hurink, Univ. Twente
Leo Liberti, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique
Bodo Manthey, Univ. Twente
Gaia Nicosia, Univ. Roma Tre
Andrea Pacifici, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata
Stefan Pickl, Univ. des Bundeswehr Muenchen
Bert Randerath, Technische Hochschule Koeln
Giovanni Righini, Univ. Milan
Heiko Roeglin, Univ. Bonn
Britta Peis, RWTH Aachen
Oliver Schaudt, Univ. Koeln
Rainer Schrader, Univ. Koeln
Rudiger Schultz, Univ. Duisburg-Essen
Frank Vallentin, Univ. Koeln
Local organization
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Fabio Furini, Univ. Paris-Dauphine
Amelie Lambert, CNAM Paris
Lucas Letocart, Univ. Paris-Nord
Leo Liberti, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique (chair)
Ivana Ljubic, ESSEC Paris
Emiliano Traversi, Univ. Paris-Nord
Roberto Wolfler Calvo, Univ. Paris-Nord
EMAIL: <ctw18paris(a)gmail.com>
URL: <http://ctw18.lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
Apologies for any cross-postings.
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Joint EURO/ALIO International Conference 2018 on Applied Combinatorial Optimization
The Joint EURO/ALIO International Conference 2018 on Applied Combinatorial Optimization is an event jointly promoted by the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO) and the Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operational Research Societies (ALIO), both within the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).
Bologna, Italy, June 25-27, 2018
https://events.unibo.it/euroalio2018
Call for papers
Contributions dealing with any aspect of Applied Combinatorial Optimization are welcome. This includes theoretical achievements, algorithm development and real-world implementations.
Two kinds of submission are possible: short abstracts of at most 1500 characters including up to three references, and extended abstracts of up to 8 pages. All submissions will undergo a review process.
Short abstracts will be distributed at the conference. Extended abstracts will be published on a special issue of Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (ENDM) associated with the conference.
A Feature Cluster of the European Journal of Operational Research, devoted to Applied Combinatorial Optimization, will be published. High quality papers presented at the conference will be invited to this cluster.
Important Deadlines
Submission of Extended Abstracts 08/01/2018
Submission of Short Abstracts 19/02/2018
Early Registration 16/03/2018
Plenary Speakers
Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Nelson Maculan, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
David Pisinger (EURO Plenary Speaker), Technical University of Denmark
Venue
The conference will be held at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Viale del Risorgimento, 2 Bologna. The School is within walking distance from the city center, hotels, bars and restaurants.
The city of Bologna offers a lively cultural environment, and is well connected by high-speed trains to Florence (35min), Venice (1h 25min), Milan (1h), Rome (2h), Turin (2h 15min), Naples (3h 30min).
A short video on the city of Bologna:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObBreSoNzZY
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Paolo Toth, Valentina Cacchiani, Enrico Malaguti
Dear Colleagues,
The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering & Applied Science at Lehigh
University invites applications and nominations for the position of Chair
of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE). We seek a
high-profile, accomplished researcher who is a dynamic leader with a vision
to build upon the continued growth and success of the Department and to
expand its interdisciplinary efforts within Lehigh.
The Department currently has 14 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and
three Professors of Practice. Our undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D.
programs are vibrant and growing, with current enrollments of approximately
180 undergraduate, 190 Masters, and 40 Ph.D. students. ISE faculty members
maintain outstanding international reputations in a variety of areas,
including mathematical optimization, analytics, high performance computing,
data science, manufacturing systems, financial optimization, healthcare
systems, logistics, and supply chain analysis. Research expenditures
currently exceed $3 million.
ISE has extensive interdisciplinary ties with other academic departments at
Lehigh. It also plays active roles with various programs, centers, and
other initiatives, such as with the Integrated Business and Engineering
(IBE) Honors Program, the Research Computing Group, the Analytical Finance
Program, the Integrated Networks for Electricity (INE) Center, and Lehigh’s
ADVANCE initiatives. The Department houses the Enterprise Systems Center,
offers a Masters of Engineering in Healthcare Systems Engineering, and
maintains excellent computational and manufacturing/robotics laboratory
facilities. For its achievements, the Department has been recognized as a
four-time finalist for the UPS-INFORMS George D. Smith Prize for innovative
programs to educate OR/Analytics professionals. Further information can be
found through the Department website: http://ise.lehigh.edu/.
Lehigh University is in Bethlehem, PA, in the rapidly growing Lehigh Valley
metropolitan area. The Lehigh Valley, with a population over 800,000, is
located approximately 1 hour north of Philadelphia and 1.5 hours west of
New York City. The University has a current enrollment of approximately
5,000 undergraduate students and 2,000 graduate students, and is planning
to increase these enrollments significantly in the next few years. Lehigh
is investing substantially over the next few years in new innovative
research and academic programs to enhance its intellectual footprint. These
investments, based on faculty-driven initiatives, will advance the
University’s commitment to enhance student experiences.
We welcome applications from, and nominations for, individuals with a
strong background in any ISE- relevant discipline, including industrial
engineering, operations research, and applied mathematics. A candidate
should possess a Ph.D., have an exemplary record of achievement in
research, teaching, and service at a level sufficient for appointment as a
tenured Professor, and demonstrate commitment to supporting the advancement
of fellow faculty members at all levels. The candidate should also be able
to communicate a clear vision for the future of the Department. The
audience for this communication should include members of the industrial,
governmental, academic, and alumni communities.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the
position is filled. For full consideration, application materials should be
received on-line https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9673 by October
15, 2017. Candidates should provide a statement of educational, research,
and leadership philosophy, a curriculum vitae, full contact information of
at least three references, and a cover letter. Any inquiries regarding this
search should be directed to Professors Wojciech Z. Misiolek and Frank E.
Curtis, Co-Chairs of the Search Committee at (ISE.Chair.Search(a)lehigh.edu).
Applications and nominations from female or minority candidates are
strongly encouraged. Lehigh University is an affirmative action/equal
opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, color,
disability, gender, gender identity, genetic information, marital status,
national or ethnic origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran
status. Lehigh provides competitive salaries and comprehensive benefits,
including partner benefits.
Regards,
Frank E. Curtis
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http://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/frankecurtis
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*SPECIAL ISSUE ON:
Optimization for heterogeneous wireless networks integrating cellular
and ad-hoc networks*
*Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing - Hindawi-Wiley open
access journal*
*Important DATES
*Submission Deadline Friday, 27 October 2017
*Publication Date March 2018
*TOPIC SUMMARY*
In our networked society, wireless devices will constantly interact with
each other as well as with their environment, communicating over
licensed and unlicensed frequency bands, employing any possible link,
from short-range device-to-device communications integrated into the
existing and evolving cellular infrastructure to satellite
communications. The efficient and effective management of these
heterogeneous network architectures requires new optimization
approaches, including central and distributed optimization schemes, or a
combination thereof, where optimization can have very different
objectives, including spectral efficiency, latency, reliability, energy
efficiency meeting constraints on the available spectrum, backhaul
network capacity, and deployment or operational costs.
In this special issue we solicit contributions on optimization-based
approaches to the design, dimensioning, deployment and operation of
heterogeneous wireless networks integrating cellular and ad-hoc
networks, using low and high frequencies, including traditional cellular
and millimeter wave bands. The topics addressed may include, but are not
limited to:
• Exact and heuristic optimization approaches for the dimensioning,
deployment, and efficient management of heterogeneous networks;
• Optimization techniques for cellular and heterogeneous networks in
decentralized scenarios;
• Multi-objective optimization approaches for heterogeneous networks;
• Cooperative and non-cooperative game theoretic analysis of cellular
and ad-hoc networks,
• Optimal spectrum allocation algorithms for cellular systems with
multiple-antenna terminals;
• Optimal spectrum sharing between multi-operator cellular and ad-hoc
networks;
• Radio resource optimization for shared terrestrial and satellite
networks;
• Optimal interference management for full-duplex and cognitive radio in
LTE networks;
• Optimal resource sharing between cellular and ad-hoc networks for
ultra-reliable low-latency communications.
**GUEST EDITORS* *
Paolo Detti, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Andrea Abrardo, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Gabor Fodor, Royal Institute of Technology, and Ericsson Research,
Stockholm, Sweden
Marco Moretti, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Ana Pérez-Neira, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya,
Castelldefels, Spain
Angela Yingjun Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
People's Republic of China
*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
The Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal is published
using an open access publication model.
Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking
System at https://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/wcmc/ocni/
The Call is available at:
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/WCMC/si/237462/cfp/
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Paolo Detti
Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics
University of Siena
Via Roma, 56
53100 Siena, Italy
phone: +39-0577-234850 (int. 1022)
fax: +39-0577-233602
e-mail:detti@dii.unisi.it
Home page:http://www.dii.unisi.it/~detti/
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** With apologies for cross-postings **
NATCOR PhD Course on Combinatorial Optimisation
4 to 8 September 2017
University of Southampton
http://www.natcor.ac.uk/course.asp?courses_id=31
Contributors:
Bo Chen (University of Warwick)
Vladimir Deineko (University of Warwick)
Trivikram Dokka (Lancaster University)
Adam Letchford (Lancaster University)
Chris Potts (University of Southampton)
Dolores Romero Morales (Copenhagen Business School)
Tolga Bektas (University of Southampton)
The course content includes computational complexity, network algorithms,
dynamic programming, Lagrangean relaxation, constraint satisfaction,
branch and bound, branch and cut, branch and price, Dantzig-Wolfe and
Benders decomposition, applications in supply chains and data science.
Registration will close on 18 August 2017. Please visit www.natcor.ac.uk
for further information including the course fees, registration and EURO
bursaries.
Dear all,
An internship position is available in the ML & OR team at ISAE-SUPAERO,
in Toulouse, France. See description attached to this message.
Candidates should write to emmanuel.rachelson(a)isae-supaero.fr and
luca.mossina(a)isae-supaero.fr.
Regards,
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*Emmanuel Rachelson*
Associate professor - ISAE Supaero
Dept. of Complex Systems Engineering
http://people.isae.fr/emmanuel-rachelson
*With apologies for cross-postings*
Please note that the deadline for submission of full papers to the ICCL
2017 has been extended to 08 June 2017.
Abstracts (for presentation only) can be submitted until 25 June 2017.
The conference is being held in Southampton, UK, from 18 to 20 October
2017.
Further information is available at:
https://iccl2017.wixsite.com/main
Thanks,
Tolga.
Dear Colleagues,
I strongly endorse prof. Luigi Fratta for the vice-president technical activities position in the IEEE ComSoc Elections. Luigi is currently holding the position and doing a great job, and I support his run for a second term.
I’m forwarding Luigi’s message where you can find some more information on his commitment for IEEE ComSoc.
You can access ballot here:
https://eballot4.votenet.com/IEEE<https://mandrillapp.com/track/click/30979961/eballot4.votenet.com?p=eyJzIjo…>
Thanks for your attention.
Best regards
Antonio Capone
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Antonio Capone, PhD
Professor,
Politecnico di Milano, DEIB, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy
Email: antonio.capone(a)polimi.it<mailto:antonio.capone@polimi.it>, Tel: +39 02 2399 3449, Web: http://home.dei.polimi.it/capone, http://antlab.elet.polimi.it<http://antlab.elet.polimi.it/>
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Dear IEEE ComSoc Member,
This is to bring your attention to the IEEE ComSoc Election and invite you to vote since a large participation of the members is very important for the continuing success of our society.
I am honoured to be a candidate for Vice President of Technical and Educational Activities, a position that I hold for the present term (2016-17).
If re-elected I will be able to complete the projects that have started a year ago and are now successfully progressing.
I hope that you share my vision ( http://home.deib.polimi.it/fratta) and will support me with your vote.
Please, encourage colleagues, friends, and graduate students to do the same.
For a continuing growing of ComSoc I am committed to:
· Energizing Technical Committees Activities
· Encouraging Academia and Industry Cooperation
· Improving Interdisciplinary and Emerging Technical Areas to Engage Younger Members
· Extending Education & Training Programs
Thanks for your attention and be sure to express your vote.
Best regards
Luigi
Optimization 2017
Faculdade de Ciências - Universidade de Lisboa
September 6-8, 2017
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2017
http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt/submission.html
Optimization 2017 is the ninth edition of a series of Optimization international conferences held every three or four years, in Portugal. This meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
with common interests in optimization. This conference series has international recognition and is being organized under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society).
In this edition, we feel honored to celebrate the 60th birthday of our dear colleague Luís Gouveia (Univ. of Lisbon).
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Immanuel Bomze | Universität Wien
Marco Campi | Università degli Studi di Brescia
Donald Goldfarb | Columbia University
Jacek Gondzio | The University of Edinburgh
Martine Labbé | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Giovanni Rinaldi | IASI Roma, CNR
For additional information: http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt
We look forward to meeting you in Optimization 2017,
Miguel Constantino (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)
Pedro Moura (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)?
Optimization 2017
Faculdade de Ciências - Universidade de Lisboa
September 6-8, 2017
Abstract submission deadline: 15 May 2017
Early Registration deadline: 30 June 2017
http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt/submission.html
Optimization 2017 is the ninth edition of a series of Optimization international conferences held every three or four years, in Portugal.
This meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners with common interests in optimization. This conference series has international recognition and is being organized under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese Operations Research Society).
In this edition, we feel honored to celebrate the 60th birthday of our dear colleague Luís Gouveia (Univ. of Lisbon).
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Immanuel Bomze | Universität Wien
Marco Campi | Università degli Studi di Brescia
Donald Goldfarb | Columbia University
Jacek Gondzio | The University of Edinburgh
Martine Labbé | Université Libre de Bruxelles
Giovanni Rinaldi | IASI Roma, CNR
For additional information: http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt<http://optimization2017.fc.ul.pt/>
We look forward to meeting you in Optimization 2017,
Miguel Constantino (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)
Pedro Moura (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)