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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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