2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference
Renaissance Boca Raton, Boca Raton, FL., March 20-22, 2016.
https://sites.psu.edu/informstelecom2016/



FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND 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.



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


Three kinds of submissions are invited, i.e., a proposal can be
submitted 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 (whether
it is a single presentation, a 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.



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.