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

02 Oct '13

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

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

30 Sep '13

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

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

25 Sep '13

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

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

09 Sep '13

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

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

09 Sep '13

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

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

05 Sep '13

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

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

02 Sep '13

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

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

02 Sep '13

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

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

08 Jul '13

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

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

08 Jul '13

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

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