2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL., March 20-22, 2016. https://sites.psu.edu/informstelecom2016/ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Thirteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference will be held March 20-22, 2016 at the Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL. 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. The conference is organized by the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications (TST). IMPORTANT DATES - January 31, 2016: Session, tutorial and single abstract submission deadline - February 15, 2016: Notification of acceptance - February 28, 2016: Early registration deadline - March 20-22, 2016: 2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference - April 30, 2016: Full paper submission deadline. CONFERENCE TOPICS - Telecommunications modeling, policy and technology; - Network economics; - Network design; - Traffic routing; - Network optimization; - Network algorithms; - Sensor networks; - Wireless and broadband networks; - Vehicle and mobile computing; - Semantic networks; - Network survivability and reliability; - Information security and privacy; - Quality of service; - Internet and multimedia; - Data centers; - Data mining applications in telecommunications networks; - Big data business applications in telecommunications. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Submissions are welcome for: - an organized session with 3 or 4 presentations; - a tutorial presentation; - a single presentation. An abstract of a maximum of 2000 characters not containing formulas, references or abbreviations is required for each presentation (single presentation, tutorial or part of an organized session). All abstracts should be submitted through the online submission system: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/telecom2016/. Proposals for organized sessions can be submitted directly to telecom2016@euro-online.org. PLENARY SPEAKERS The following outstanding speakers have accepted to deliver a plenary talk at the conference: - Walid Ben-Ameur (TELECOM SudParis) - S. Raghavan (University of Maryland) - Rina Schneur (Verizon) BEST PAPER AWARD Applications for the TST Best Paper Award are now open. It will reward an outstanding paper applying OR techniques in the context of telecommunications. The finalist four papers will be presented in a special session in the Thirteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference. Rules and submission guidelines: https://sites.psu.edu/informstelecom2016/dissertation-award/. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Mike Bartolacci Penn State University MBartolacc@aol.com Mauricio G. C. Resende Amazon.com resendem@amazon.com PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Bernard Fortz Université Libre de Bruxelles bernard.fortz@ulb.ac.be Dimitri Papadimitriou Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs dimitri.papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.com POST-CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS A post-conference proceedings volumes with full papers will be published. The deadline for submission is April 30, 2016. A specific call for papers will be issued soon.