Call for Papers University of Hamburg, Germany, May 23-25, 2018

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The 14th INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held May 23-25, 2018 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the 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.

Topics of the conference include among others:

* Telecommunications modeling, policy and technology * Network economics * Network design * Traffic routing * Network optimization * Network algorithms and metaheuristics * Sensor networks * Wireless and broadband networks * Vehicle and mobile computing * Cloud computing and fog computing * Semantic networks * Network survivability and reliability * Information security and privacy * Game theory applications * Internet and multimedia * Data mining and big data applications Important Dates

* Jan 15, 2018: Submission of full papers (presentation and proceedings) * Jan 22, 2018: Session and single abstract submission deadline * April 1, 2018: Notification of acceptance * April 20, 2018: Early registration deadline

Guidelines for Submission

Two kinds of submissions are invited, i.e., a proposal can be submitted for:

* a single presentation (abstract / full paper) * an organized session with 3 or 4 presentations

Please submit your papers to EasyChairhttps://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=61743952.vidMvcATytHFXFNR. An abstract of a maximum of 2000 characters is required for each presentation whether it is a single presentation or part of an organized session (not containing formulas, references or abbreviations). The paper length shall not exceed 15 pages. Extensions of the page limit are subject to discussion with the organizing team. Proposals for organized sessions can be submitted directly to Prof. Stefan Voßhttps://www.bwl.uni-hamburg.de/en/iwi/team/mitarbeiter/stefan-voss.html.

Proceedings

A post-conference proceedings volume is planned to be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), Springer

For formatting your paper correctly, please use the LNCS templates.http://www.springer.com/de/it-informatik/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Registration Please register via RegOnline. The registration process will be opened soon. Conference Chairs

* Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß * Dr. Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz * Dr. Leonard Heilig

------------------------------ [Michael] [Bartolacci] [Professor of IST] [Penn State University - Berks] Penn State Berks

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