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EURO PHD SCHOOL on Matheuristics and Web-Services
2nd Call for Participants - Deadline November 30th, 2015
http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/
LOCATION AND DATES
The EURO PhD School on Matheuristics and Web-Services will take place in
the Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France, from April 20 to April
28, 2016. Deadline for application is November 30th, 2015.
SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION
The EURO PhD School 2016 is a gathering of PhD students and young
researchers working on the field of *Operations Research*. During one
week, participants will explore the challenging domain of *Matheuristics
*along with its application to the *Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)*.
Additionally, participants will learn how to make their algorithms
available to the research community by means of *web services*. The
EPS2016 will be hosted by the Operations Research Group
<http://or-labsticc.univ-ubs.fr/> of the Université de Bretagne-Sud
<http://www.univ-ubs.fr/> in Lorient, France from *April 20th to 28th,
2016*. This event is organized with the financial support of EURO (The
Association of European Operational Research Societies)
<https://www.euro-online.org/>.
ELIGIBILITY
Participants must be from a EURO member society country (see list on
https://www.euro-online.org/), or must be studying in a EURO member
society country. They have to be enrolled in a PhD program and,
preferably, in an early stage of their studies (first or second year). A
maximum number of 20 participants will be accepted (depending on the
number of application, this limit might be extended but should stay in a
reasonable range). Each participant will be granted with 5 ECTS credits
and will receive a diploma for his/her participation to the EURO PhD School.
SCIENTIFIC PREREQUISITES
Interested students should have notions of linear programming, mixed
integer linear programming, metaheuristics and a programming language
(preferably C++).
APPLICATION
Interested students should send the following documents to
eps2016(a)listes.univ-ubs.fr by November 30th, 2015: Curriculum vitae (2-5
pages); Motivation to attend the school; A recommendation letter from
the supervisor (please visit the website for the complete list of
documents required).
A registration fee of 350€ will be asked to the participants, and thanks
to the Sponsors, this low fee will cover the costs of accommodation,
coffee breaks, lunches and dinners (except on Sunday evening).
Accommodation will be offered in a shared room with twin beds.
WEB SITE
More information can be found
at<http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/>http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Marc Sevaux (chair), André Rossi, Kenneth Sörensen, Andreas Reinholz,
Daniel Palhazi Cuervo, Pierre Bomel.
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Prof.Marc Sevaux <http://people.univ-ubs.fr/marc.sevaux/>
Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France
http://www.univ-ubs.fr/or/ - +33 297 874 564
*** MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ***
We are pleased to announce that the 2016 workshop in Mixed Integer
Programming (MIP 2016) will be held May 23rd-26th at the University of
Miami, in Coral Gables, FL. The 2016 Mixed Integer Programming workshop
will be the thirteenth in a series of annual workshops held in North
America designed to bring the integer programming community together to
discuss very recent developments in the field. The workshop consists of a
single track of invited talks and features a poster session that provides
an additional opportunity to share and discuss recent research in MIP.
Registration details, a list of confirmed speakers, a call for
participation in the poster session, and information about student travel
awards will be made in a subsequent announcement. Please see the workshop
website at https://sites.google.com/site/mipworkshop2016/ for updates.
Program Committee
- Alberto Del Pia (chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sanjeeb Dash, IBM Research
- Fatma Kilinc-Karzan, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dan Steffy, Oakland University
- Kati Wolter, MOSEK ApS
Local Committee
- Tallys Yunes, University of Miami
- Hari Natarajan, University of Miami
Our apologies for multiple receptions
8^th IFAC Conference on "*Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control*"
*MIM 2016*
on /Manufacturing Systems and Logistics/
Technically supported by *IEEE, IFORS, IFIP, INFORMS* and *SCS, SEE, GDR
MACS, GDR RO*
*Troyes, France, on June 28 to 30, 2016*
(http://mim2016.utt.fr/)
*Three Invited Sessions are proposed on Transport and logistics:*
*1)***_Vehicle Routing for services provision_ (*invited sessions code
**f2y51*) chaired by Nacima Labadie, Renata Mansini, Jan Melechovsky
The role of transportation and logistics is well established in numerous
manufacture industries. In the last years, the service sector has
attracted more and more attention of both researchers and practitioners
with a view to reduce costs, ensure quality of service as well as to
meet the ever-growing needs of the population for services provision
such as maintenance and repair services, tourist route planning, home
health care and so on. This session is dedicated to academic works
dealing with new models and algorithms as well as real case studies with
the aim of establishing the recent advances of routing problems in these
application areas.
/**/Key Words: /Operations Research; Supply chains and networks;
Transportation science/
*2)* _Risk management and transportation _(*invited sessions code
**q98j6*) chaired by Murat Afsar, Caroline Prodhon, Nubia Velasco
In a world with conflicts, economic crisis, terrorism and instability,
the strategic and operational risks related to transport and logistics
are even more pronounced. As supply chains continue to become more
global and complex, the risk of disruption intensifies. Yet while most
companies recognize the increased risk potential, many are ill prepared
to handle a disruption. All logistic activities imply risks that need to
be evaluated and managed. One should identify and reduce these risks
whilst minimizing their consequences and impacts. In transportation
science, such problems can be regrouped into two categories: Risk
management during transportation Carrier delays and non-performance
Product safety during transportation Lack of inventory Logistic
responses to potential risk events in unsafe environments Disaster
management and humanitarian logistics Hazardous material transportation
In this session of Risk Management and Transportation, we encourage
researchers who integrate risk identification, evaluation mitigation and
minimization in transportation.
/**/Key Words: /Transportation science; Supply chains and networks;
Operations Research/
*3)* _Green transportation logistics_ (*invited sessions code **s12m3*)
chaired Philippe Lacomme, Daniele Vigo, Thibaut Vidal, Caroline Prodhon
The main objective of logistics is to coordinate transport activities,
storage, inventory management, handling, in order to meet customer
requirements at minimum cost. If in the past, that cost was defined in
purely monetary terms, today's environmental concerns encourage
companies to take into account the indirect costs that affect pollution
(water, air, noise, ...). The purpose of this session is to present
recent academic research trends in green transportation logistics with
new models and algorithms as well as real case studies. Potential themes
include, but are not limited to: Green-VRP, Pollution Routing Problem,
VRP in Reverse Logistics, Electrical VRP, Car pooling...
/**/Key Words: /Transportation science; Supply chains and networks;
Operations Research /
*Important dates:*
Invited papers submission deadline: November 1st, 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2016
Registration: March 31, 2016
*Submission steps:*
Click on "Submit a contribution to MIM 2016" on the following page
https:////ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
Submit as "Invited paper".
Enter the "invited sessions code" corresponding to the targeted session.
More details about submissions are available at
http://mim2016.utt.fr/soumission.htm.
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H. Murat AFSAR
Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor
Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
Institut Charles Delaunay - FRE CNRS 2848
Laboratoire d'Optimisation des Systèmes Industriels (LOSI)
Bureau G105
12, rue Marie Curie - BP 2060
10010 Troyes cedex - France
Tél : +33 (0)3 25 71 58 60
May the force be with you
FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
VeRoLog 2016
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization - VeRoLog
*Nantes, France, June 6-8 *
http://verolog2016.sciencesconf.org/
The fifth meeting of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and
Logistics Optimization will take place at the Mines Nantes Graduate
School of Engineering, in Nantes 6-8 June 2016.
The VeRoLog conference is an annual meeting bringing together the large
community of researchers and practitioners interested in vehicle routing
optimization and its relationship with logistics. The conference is open
to high quality methodological contributions, relevant real-world
applications, and case studies from industry and the service sector.
*Abstract submission *
To participate, an abstract of 1/3 page (max. 250 words) must be
submitted electronically via the link "Submissions". Accepted abstracts
with a registered presenter will be included in the book of abstracts.
At most one presentation per registered participant will be accepted.
All selected abstracts will be presented within parallel sessions during
the conference. A list of relevant topics for the conference is given
below.
Selected high quality papers will be included in special issues of
international journals edited after the conference.
*Keynote speakers *
Michael Hewitt (Loyola University Chicago)
Recent advances in service network design
Stefan Ropke (Technical University of Denmark)
10 years of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (ALNS)
*Organizing committee *
Christelle Guéret (University of Angers, LARIS)
Fabien Lehuédé (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Jorge E. Mendoza (Polytech Tours, LI)
Olivier Péton (Mines Nantes, IRCCyN)
Marc Sevaux (University of South Brittany, LabSTICC)
*Important dates *
Jan 06, 2016: submission deadline
March 01, 2016: acceptance notification
April 01, 2016: camera ready submission deadline
April 15, 2016: early bird registration closes
May 18, 2016: registration closes
*Registration *
Early student: 250 euros
Late Student: 350 euros
Early regular: 350 euros
Late regular: 450 euros
The fee includes lunch and coffee breaks, the social program and
conference dinner.
*Follow us on Facebook and Twitter: *
http://www.facebook.com/verolog2016http://www.twitter.com/verolog2016
*Research topics include but are not limited to: *
+ Decision support systems in logistics
+ State-of-the-art methods for exact solution of routing and
logistic optimization problems
+ Innovative methods for heuristic solutions of routing and
logistics optimization problems
+ Planning tools and tool-based environments for routing and logistics
+ Design and management of logistic infrastructure and networks
+ Analysis and evaluation of environmental impact induced by
logistics (e.g., air and noise pollution)
+ Sustainable design and operation of logistic facilities
+ Integrated planning and control of logistic infrastructures
+ Analysis of logistic operations
+ Heuristic and meta-heuristic implementation in logistic-related
models
+ ERP and information systems-related applications in logistics
+ Geographic information systems related to routing and logistics
+ On-board navigation and positioning systems
+ Dynamic routing optimization
+ Strategies and operations of logistic service providers
+ Service integration of agents or carriers within the logistics
industry
+ Consolidation and distribution for agents or shippers within the
logistics industry
+ Cooperation in intermodal supply chains
+ Fleet management
8^th IFAC Conference on "*Manufacturing Modelling, Management, and Control*"
*MIM 2016*
on /Manufacturing Systems and Logistics/
Technically supported by *IEEE, IFORS, IFIP, INFORMS* and *SCS, SEE, GDR
MACS, GDR RO*
*Troyes, France, on June 28 to 30, 2016*
(http://mim2016.utt.fr/)
*Three Invited Sessions are proposed on Transport and logistics:*
*1)***_Vehicle Routing for services provision_ (*invited sessions code
**f2y51*) chaired by Nacima Labadie, Renata Mansini, Jan Melechovsky
The role of transportation and logistics is well established in numerous
manufacture industries. In the last years, the service sector has
attracted more and more attention of both researchers and practitioners
with a view to reduce costs, ensure quality of service as well as to
meet the ever-growing needs of the population for services provision
such as maintenance and repair services, tourist route planning, home
health care and so on. This session is dedicated to academic works
dealing with new models and algorithms as well as real case studies with
the aim of establishing the recent advances of routing problems in these
application areas.
/**/Key Words: /Operations Research; Supply chains and networks;
Transportation science/
*2)* _Risk management and transportation _(*invited sessions code
**q98j6*) chaired by H. Murat Afsar, Caroline Prodhon, Nubia Velasco
In a world with conflicts, economic crisis, terrorism and instability,
the strategic and operational risks related to transport and logistics
are even more pronounced. As supply chains continue to become more
global and complex, the risk of disruption intensifies. Yet while most
companies recognize the increased risk potential, many are ill prepared
to handle a disruption. All logistic activities imply risks that need to
be evaluated and managed. One should identify and reduce these risks
whilst minimizing their consequences and impacts. In transportation
science, such problems can be regrouped into two categories: Risk
management during transportation Carrier delays and non-performance
Product safety during transportation Lack of inventory Logistic
responses to potential risk events in unsafe environments Disaster
management and humanitarian logistics Hazardous material transportation
In this session of Risk Management and Transportation, we encourage
researchers who integrate risk identification, evaluation mitigation and
minimization in transportation.
/**/Key Words: /Transportation science; Supply chains and networks;
Operations Research/
*3)* _Green transportation logistics_ (*invited sessions code **s12m3*)
chaired Philippe Lacomme, Daniele Vigo, Thibaut Vidal, Caroline Prodhon
The main objective of logistics is to coordinate transport activities,
storage, inventory management, handling, in order to meet customer
requirements at minimum cost. If in the past, that cost was defined in
purely monetary terms, today's environmental concerns encourage
companies to take into account the indirect costs that affect pollution
(water, air, noise, ...). The purpose of this session is to present
recent academic research trends in green transportation logistics with
new models and algorithms as well as real case studies. Potential themes
include, but are not limited to: Green-VRP, Pollution Routing Problem,
VRP in Reverse Logistics, Electrical VRP, Car pooling...
/**/Key Words: /Transportation science; Supply chains and networks;
Operations Research /
*Important dates:*
Invited papers submission deadline: October 15th, 2015
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2016
Registration: March 31, 2016
*Submission steps:*
Click on "Submit a contribution to MIM 2016" on the following page
https:////ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
Submit as "Invited paper".
Enter the "invited sessions code" corresponding to the targetted session.
More details about submissions are available at
http://mim2016.utt.fr/soumission.htm.
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H. Murat AFSAR
Maître de Conférences / Associate Professor
Université de Technologie de Troyes (UTT)
Institut Charles Delaunay - FRE CNRS 2848
Laboratoire d'Optimisation des Systèmes Industriels (LOSI)
Bureau G105
12, rue Marie Curie - BP 2060
10010 Troyes cedex - France
Tél : +33 (0)3 25 71 58 60
May the force be with you
Dear friends,
The organizing committee of Land-Translog III would very much appreciate if this CFA could be sent to ENOG members.
Please, let me know.
Best Regards,
Vlad
Vladimir Marianov
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Call for Abstracts
LAND - TRANSLOG III
Joint Workshop on Location and Network Design - Transportation and Logistic
Santa Cruz, Chile. March 13 - 17, 2016
www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/>
The Complex Engineering Systems Institute (ISCI) has the pleasure to announce the Workshop LAND - TRANSLOG III, a special joint workshop, which is a continuation of a series of previous successful events that were held in 2009 and 2011 in Chile, and invites you to submit an abstract.
The goal of the first LAND workshop, held in March 2009, was to gather together researchers in the fields of Location and Network Design. In parallel, the TRANSLOG Workshop, organized in December 2009, focused on Transportation and Logistics. However, it included topics that overlapped with those in the LAND Workshop, and attracted people that would feel comfortable attending both workshops. In December 2011 we took one more step in promoting interaction and exchange of ideas among people coming from the two fields, and organized the joint event LAND-TRANSLOG II, which was very successful in exploring common interests and learning how researchers from other fields address the same or similar problems. In 2013, our group also organized the last TRISTAN Conference in the North of Chile. After that effort, and with the intention of keeping continuity in this interaction of very interesting and fruitful research topics, we decided to organize a new version of the LAND - TRANSLOG series, to be held in the Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, in the beautiful town of Santa Cruz-Chile, in March 13 - 17 next year.
Presentations are encouraged focusing on theory, modeling or applications of Location and Network Design, including but not limited to Health, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, Natural Resources, Environment, etc.; presentations dealing with methodology, including exact methods, heuristics and simulation are also welcome. From the transport and logistics side, the workshop will include topics spanning classic problems in transportation and logistics, planning and control strategies, fleet management, routing, timetabling and vehicle scheduling, crew scheduling, real-time optimization of operational schemes, among other areas of interest.
Confirmed Speakers
- Richard Church, University of California-Santa Barbara
- Leandro Coelho, Université Laval, Quebec
- Michel Gendreau, École Polythecnique de Montréal
- Abilio Lucena, Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro
- Vladimir Marianov, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
- Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- George Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mikael Ronqvist, Université Laval, Quebec
- Vedat Verter, McGill University, Montréal
Important Dates & General Information
- Abstract submission: October 20th, 2015
- Maximum abstract length: 500 words
- Acceptance date: November 15th, 2015
- Workshop: March 13-17, 2015
- Early Registration: January 10th, 2015
- Venue: Hotel Santa Cruz Plaza, Santa Cruz, Chile
- Abstract submission and more information: www.land-translog.cl<http://www.land-translog.cl/>
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Call for Papers
ENIC 2015
The Second European Network Intelligence Conference
September 21-22, 2015, Karlskrona, Sweden
http://enic.cse.bth.se/
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Paper submission web page:
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It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in The Second European
Network Intelligence Conference, ENIC 2015 September 21-22, 2015,
Karlskrona, Sweden http://enic.cse.bth.se/.
We are more and more surrounded by different kinds of networks,
interconnected systems and vast amounts of interrelated data. Various
web collaborative portals, blogs, wikis, video publishing services
(youtube), ecommerce sites (eBay), social networking sites (Facebook)
sensor networks, smart phones users exchanging multimedia as well as IT
systems collaborating with one another in most organisations are good
example of networks that require new adequate analytical methods.
The aim of the annual European Network Intelligence Conference (ENIC) is
to create an open premier forum to exchange knowledge and experience as
well as to discuss recent advances, theories, and techniques related to
both various types of networks and intelligent analytical computational
methods.
Every edition of the conference will focus on only few selected more
specific scientific domains - tracks. The second event will include two
such tracks: Social network and social media analysis, and Intelligent
Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks. The tracks will
bring together the research groups from the specified disciplines, along
with many of the e-commerce companies interested in applications of the
intelligent tools in their products. The track will enable researchers
and practitioners to present their latest research and identify
challenges in recommendation systems. The special interest will be
focused on the design cooperation platform for academia and industry.
Initially, the conference will be led and hosted by the ENGINE Centre
and partnering organisations and substantially supported by the Seventh
Framework Programme, however, we hope to create a wider active ENIC
community for the future
Since ENIC 2015 is sponsored by the ENGINE Project, authors of up to 50
best accepted papers will be registered free of charge; one author per
paper. The ENGINE Centre will cover their participation, proceedings
costs, coffee brakes and banquet but only if they will present in person
their accepted paper during the conference. It does not include travel
and accommodation costs.
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Key dates
- Full paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015 (EXTENDED)
- Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2015
- Camera-ready papers due: July 15, 2015
- Conference: September 21-22, 2015 (Monday-Tuesday)
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Keynote Speakers
- Jennifer Neville, Purdue University, USA
- Felix S. Wu, UC Davis, USA
- Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
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ENIC 2015 Tracks
(1)Social network and social media analysis (SNA / SMA)
Track Chairs:
Piotr Br�dka, Wroc�aw University of Technology, Poland
Henric Johnson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada
Przemys�aw Kazienko, Wroc�aw University of Technology, Poland
List of topics (the authors are not strictly limited to this list):
- Application of social network and social media analysis
- Big data approach to SNA / SMA
- Blog and microblog analysis
- Collaborative query processing and optimization
- Community discovery and analysis in large scale social networks
- Contextual social network analysis
- Crowd sourcing
- Cultural, anthropological and political aspects in SNA / SMA
- Data acquisition and social relationship extraction for SNA/SMA
- Data integration and identification in SNA / SMA
- Data models for social networks and social media
- Data protection and security issues in SNA / SMA
- Deep web SNA / SMA
- Dynamics of networks and social communities
- Dynamics and patterns in social media data
- Economic impact of social network discovery
- Efficiency in SNA / SMA
- Evaluation of SNA / SMA
- Evolution of social networks and social media
- Exchange networks
- Graph-based algorithms for SNA/SMA
- Impact of social networks on recommendations systems (overlaps the
second track)
- Information diffusion and spread of influence in social networks
- Knowledge networks
- Large graph and parallel processing
- Machine learning methods for SNA / SMA
- Measures, similarity and dissimilarity in SNA / SMA
- Multi-agent based social network and social media modelling and
analysis
- Multiple / multilayer social network analysis
- Multiple social network interaction and multiple media system
correlation
- Outlier and misbehaviour detection in SNA/SMA
- Pattern discovery on the web data and in large organizations
- Personalization in social services (overlaps the second track)
- Privacy and security in SNA / SMA
- Reasoning fort social and media data
- Recommender systems in establishment of social relations (overlaps
the second track)
- Scalability of social networking, search algorithms and social media
data processing
- Sentiment analysis
- Signed graphs and multigraphs in SNA / SMA
- Simulations and computational models for social networks
- Social intelligence
- Social role identification
- Social search analysis
- Spatial networks
- Statistical modelling of large networks
- Trust networks and evolution of trust
- Visual representation of dynamic social networks and social media
evolution
- Wikipedia-based data analysis
Track Programme Committee (tentative):
Harith Alanith, KMi, The Open University, UK
Martin Boldt, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Piotr Brodka, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Bengt Carlsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Michele Coscia, Harvard University, USA
Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Damien Fay, Bournemouth University, UK
Elena Ferrari, University of Insubria, Italy
Enrique Frias-Martinez, Telefonica Research, Spain
David Garcia, ETH, Switzerland
NathanGriffiths, University of Warwick, UK
Heinz Ulrich Hoppe, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jaroslaw Jankowski, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Poland
Tomasz Kajdanowicz, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Vassilis Kostakos, University of Oulu, Finland
Hishan Liu, LinkedIn, USA
Nadine Lucas, GREYC CNRS Caen University, France
Paul Lukowicz, University of Passau, Germany
Matteo Magnani, Uppsala University, Sweden
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dunja Mladenic, J.Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Katarzyna Musial-Gabrys, King's College London, UK
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Zbigniew Smoreda, Orange Labs, France
Boleslaw Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Thanassis Tiropanis, University of Southampton, UK
Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, ESIGETEL, France
Baoshi Yan, LinkedIn, USA
John Yen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Katharina Zweig, Kaiserslautern University, Germany
Anna Zygmunt, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
(2)Intelligent Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks
(IMOCN)
Track Chairs:
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroc�aw University of Technology
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano
Recent developments in communications and networking technologies have
reached unprecedented level, however still many new challenges and
opportunities are emerging. Starting from the physical layer with new
approaches of Elastic Optical Network, 5G mobile, MANET and VANET
technologies up to recent ideas in higher network layers including
software defined networks (SDN) and network function virtualization
(NFV) trigger the need to deploy new intelligent methods to optimize the
network resources. Among the most vital optimization goals for
communication networks of various types, the following must be
enumerated: OPEX costs, CAPEX costs, energy efficiency, scalability,
delay, survivability, security.
To ensure complete coverage of the advances in field, the Intelligent
Methods for Optimization of Communication Networks track solicits
original contributions in, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Metaheuristics for optimization of communication networks including
tabu search, simulated annealing, evolutionary algorithms, swarm
optimization, ant algorithms, GRASP, artificial bee colony
Combinatorial and discrete optimization algorithms
- Integer linear programming modeling
- Graph theory
- Greedy algorithms
- Random algorithms
- Column generation methods
- Elastic Optical Networks
- Optical network architectures, design and performance evaluation
- Traffic grooming
- Optical networks in support of Grid, Cloud Computing and Storage
- Mobile networking, mobility and nomadicity
- 5G networks
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications
- Sensor networks
- Mobile ad hoc network (MANETs)
- Wireless mesh networks
- Smart grids
- Next-Generation access networking
- Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)
- Delay tolerant networks
- Congestion and admission control
- Future Internet and next-generation networking architectures
- Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Overlay networks
- Peer-to-peer networks
- Cloud computing
- Unicast routing
- Anycast routing
- Multicast routing
- Multihoming
- Content-oriented networks
- Network survivability and resilience
- Switch and router performance
- Packet scheduling
- Intrusion and attack detection/prevention
- Multi-layer networks,
- Energy efficiency
- Green communications
- Context and location aware networking
Track Programme Committee (tentative):
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroc�aw University of Technology
Davide Careglio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology
Marija Furdek, The Royal Institute of Technology
Teresa Gomes, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Coimbra
Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University
Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications
Qingzhi Liu, Technology University of Delft
Paolo Monti, The Royal Institute of Technology
Dimitri Papadimitriou, Bell Labs
Jordi Perell�, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Michal Przewozniczek, Wroc�aw University of Technology
Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology
Pablo Gabriel Romero Rodriguez, Facultad de Ingenier�a UdelaR
Arun Sen, Arizona State University
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano
Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of W�rzburg
Krzysztof Walkowiak, Wroc�aw University of Technology
Florian Wamser, University of W�rzburg
Piotr Zwierzykowski, Poznan University of Technology
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Publications
Accepted and presented papers will be included in the ENIC 2015
Conference Proceedings and forwarded for inclusion in IEEE Computer
Society Digital Library (CSDL), IEEE Xplore and the ACM Digital Library.
The conference proceedings will be submitted for Web of Science indexing
as well as EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.
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Submission Instruction
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to
the above topics from both tracks are solicited. The papers will
reviewed by a minimum of two subject experts � Programme Committee
members. Full paper manuscripts must be in English with a maximum length
of 8 pages using the IEEE CPS two-column template. Papers should be
submitted to the Conference Web site:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enic2015 with additional
selection of the right tracks. IEEE will retain the copyright for
accepted papers and the IEEE copyright form found at
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/copyrightmai…
will therefore have to be completed. Papers will be accepted for the
conference based on the reviewers comments on their originality,
timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. If the
paper is accepted, the paper will appear in the proceedings of the
conference if one author presents the paper at the conference and at
least one author register as a full conference participant.
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Organisation
Local chair, incl. registration and submission: Fredrik Erlandsson
fredrik.erlandsson(a)bth.se
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Extended versions of top USRR 2015 papers of optical networking
orientation will be considered for publication in a special issue
of OPTICAL SWITCHING AND NETWORKING (Elsevier)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/
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Accepted and presented papers are planned to be published in the
conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
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Call for Papers
USRR 2015
3rd International Workshop on Understanding the inter-play
between Sustainability, Resilience, and Robustness in networks
co-located with RNDM 2015
October 7, 2015, Munich, Germany
http://www.rndm.pl/2015/USRR/
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Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=20431
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Context:
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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:
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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:
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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 including natural disasters, (un)voluntary disruptions,
malfunctions, failures, etc. in (inter-dependent) network
infrastructure
- Data analysis for inter-dependent networks: life stat. distributions,
parametric and non-parametric methods, life data classification,
competing failure modes analysis, multivariate data analysis
- Quantitative methods, mathematical models, criteria and metrics for
ecological network analysis
- Robust optimization of large-scale (inter-dependent) networks
- Robust decision methods for resilient (inter-dependent) networks
- Stochastic optimal/adaptive control of energy-aware networks
- Formal methods and mathematical models for network resiliency analysis
at multiple time and space scale
- Energy-aware resilient (inter-dependent) networks
- Game theoretic and economic analysis of sustainability-vs-resilience
trade-offs
- Predictive simulation and uncertainty quantification
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Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: June 15, 2015 (extended, FIRM)
- Notification deadline: July 10, 2015
- Camera-ready: July 25, 2015
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We invite submissions (via EDAS) of original contributions of 4-8 pages,
formatted according to the IEEE two-column conference template.
Workshop Chairs:
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- Dimitri Papadimitriou, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, BE
- Bart Lannoo, iMinds, University of Ghent, BE
- Heiko Niedermayer, TU Munich, DE
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Extended versions of top RNDM 2015 papers will be considered for
publication
in a special issue of OPTICAL SWITCHING AND NETWORKING (Elsevier)
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/optical-switching-and-networking/
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Call for Papers
RNDM 2015
7th International Workshop on Reliable
Networks Design and Modeling
October 5-7, 2015, Munich, Germany
http://www.rndm.pl
technically co-sponsored by:
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IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Germany Section
IFIP TC6 WG 6.10
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Paper submission web page: https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19351
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RNDM'14 summary is available in May'15 issue of IEEE Communications
Magazine
at:
http://www.comsoc.org/files/Publications/Magazines/gcn/pdf/GCN_2015_05.pdf
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RNDM has been established as a single-track workshop for participants
from
both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks
design
and modeling. 7th edition of RNDM follows the success of the first six
events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009, 2012), Moscow (2010),
Budapest (2011), Almaty (2013), and Barcelona (2014), accordingly.
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The topics cover, but are not necessarily limited to the following:
- businesses aspects of resilience,
- cost evaluation of network resilience,
- end-to-end resilience,
- energy efficiency in survivable networks,
- fault and disruption tolerance evaluation,
- Future Internet resilience,
- green networks resilience,
- fault management, control, and monitoring,
- management of survivable content-oriented and cloud-ready networks,
- methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of resilience,
- modeling different types of failures,
- modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks,
- models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling,
- multilayer networks resilience,
- network dependability,
- network redundancy optimization,
- network reliability vs. economy-related issues,
- new and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented
networks,
- optical networks survivability,
- optimization issues in resilient networks design,
- QoS and QoE in reliable communications,
- recovery of P2P and overlay systems,
- reliable networks performance evaluation,
- resilience of data centers,
- resilience of wireless-wired communications,
- resilience of wireless sensor networks,
- resilience of multi-domain communications,
- resilience of emerging communication technologies,
- resilience of vehicle-to-vehicle communications,
- resilient cloud computing architectures/solutions,
- resilient content-oriented networks architectures and solutions,
- security-related issues in resilient networks design,
- simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience,
- Software-Defined Networks (SDN) for survivable content-oriented
and cloud-ready networking,
- standardization of network resilience,
- survivability of anycast and multicast networks,
- survivability of converged services (VoIP, IP-TV, Mobile TV),
- survivability of Content Delivery Networks,
- survivability of grid and distributed computing systems,
- theory of network resilience,
- wireless access networks survivability,
- wireless mesh networks survivability.
The authors are encouraged to submit via EDAS
(https://www.edas.info/newPaper.php?c=19351) 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.
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Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: May 27, 2015 (EXTENDED)
- Notification deadline: June 25, 2015
- Camera-ready: July 10, 2015
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RNDM 2015 Organization:
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General Chair
Jacek Rak, Gdansk University of Technology (PL)
Co-chairs
Carmen Mas Machuca, Technische Univ. Muenchen (DE)
Eiji Oki, The University of Electro-Communications Tokyo (JP)
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
Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Scence and Technology (PL)
Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT)
Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University (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)
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Technical Program Committee
Nail Akar, Bilkent University (TR)
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)
Jiajia Chen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)<br>
Bijoy Chand Chatterjee, The University of Electro-Communications-Tokyo
(JP)
Piotr Cholda, AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)
Tibor Cinkler, Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU)
Gerard Damm, Alcatel-Lucent (US)
John Doucette, TRLabs, University of Alberta (CA)
George Ellinas, University of Cyprus (CY)
Luigi Fratta, Politecnico do Milano (IT)
Maurice Gagnaire, Telecom ParisTech (FR)
Alessio Giorgetti, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (IT)
Teresa Gomes, University of Coimbra (PT)
Roza Goscien, Wroclaw University of Technology (PL)
Eric Gourdin, Orange Labs (FR)
Michael Grottke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
Lei Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Ece Guran Schmidt, Middle East Technical University (TR)
Anwar Haque, Bell (CA)
Hiroshi Hasegawa, Nagoya University (JP)
Poul Heegaard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Bjarne Helvik, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University (CA)
Jason Jue, University of Texas, Dallas (US)
Noriaki Kamiyama, NTT (JP)
Burak Kantarci, Clarkson University (US)
Sun-il Kim, University of Alabama in Huntsville (US)
Miroslaw Klinkowski, National Institute of Telecommunications (PL)
Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen (DE)
Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS (RU)
William Liu, Auckland University of Technology (NZ)
Darli Mello, University of Brasilia (BR)
Wojciech Molisz, Gdansk University of Technology (PL)
Dritan Nace, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne (FR)
Sema Oktug, Istanbul Technical University (TR)
Eleni Palkopoulou, CISCO (GR)
Mario Pickavet, Ghent University - iMinds (BE)
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)
Samir Sebbah, Concordia University (CA)
Gangxiang (Steven) Shen, Soochow University (CN)
Arun Somani, Iowa State University (US)
Salvatore Spadaro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya - UPC (ES)
Dimitri Staessens, Ghent University - iMinds (BE)
James P.G. Sterbenz, The University of Kansas (US), Lancaster Univ.
(UK)
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)
Massimo Tornatore, Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Kishor Trivedi, Duke University (US)
Luis Velasco, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (ES)
Alexey Vinel, Halmstad University (SE)
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)
Hongfang Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
(CN)
Mateusz Zotkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology (PL)