55th Meeting of the EURO Working Group “Commodities and Financial Modelling”

55th Meeting of the EURO Working Group “Commodities and Financial Modelling”

METU, Ankara, Turkey, May 14-16, 2015

First Call For Papers

http://ewgcfm2015.iam.metu.edu.tr/

55th Meeting of the EWGCFM (EWGCFM 2015) is organized by Institute of
Applied Mathematics (IAM; http://iam.metu.edu.tr/) of Middle East
Technical University (METU), EURO Working Group “Commodities and
Financial Modelling” (EWGCFM; http://www.ewgfm.eu/) and The
Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO;
http://www.euro-online.org/). This conference will take place at the
campus of METU (http://www.metu.edu.tr/) in Ankara, Turkey, on May
14-16, 2015.

EWGCFM 2015 is an element of the conference series, whose 54th meeting
is going to take place in Milano, Italy, in December 2014. The EURO
Working Group EWGCFM was founded in September 1986 in Lisbon. The
primary field of interest for the working group can be described as
“financial models that help to solve problems faced by financial
managers in the firm”. EWGCFM 2015 will contribute to this purpose in
modelling and problem solving through advances in theory, methods and
practice, by applications of mathematics and statistics, economics and
management sciences, engineering and environmental sciences, supported
by modern Operational Research.

We are pleased to announce the following Invited Speakers of the conference:

•             Vedat Akgiray  (Bogazici University, Turkey),
•             Constantinos Kardaras  (London School of Economics, UK),
•             Rüdiger Kiesel  (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany),
•             Stan Uryasev  (University of Florida, USA).

Abstract Submission:

We invite all researchers, academicians, practitioners, as well as
students interested in commodities and financial modelling to
participate at the conference and to present their research. Abstract
submission and registration are both online, via the conference web
page (http://ewgcfm2015.iam.metu.edu.tr/). Abstracts with max. 3000
characters should be submitted online latest by February 15, 2015.

The Conference also offers its registered participants submit their
full manuscript to the “Special Issue of Annals of Operations Research
– Advances of OR in Commodities and Financial Modelling”. Authors
should select the category “Special Issue: Advances of OR in
Commodities and Financial Modelling” when looking for the (right)
special issue in the submission system.

Institute of Applied Mathematics (IAM), established in the year 2002,
is a Graduate School and interdisciplinary centre with four programs:
Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Scientific Computing and
Cryptography; it fosters various research and teaching activities in
mathematical sciences. IAM supports and coordinates mathematics-based
interdisciplinary education and research at METU, and it initiates and
undertakes collaborative research with different industries and
scientific organizations in Turkey, Europe and all over the world. IAM
is pleased to welcome colleagues and friends from Europe and all over
the world to celebrate an unforgettable premium conference at the
beautiful campus of METU in Ankara, capital of hospitable Turkey!

Sevtap Selçuk-Kestel   skestel@metu.edu.tr,
Yeliz Yolcu Okur   yyolcu@metu.edu.tr,
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber   gweber@metu.edu.tr

DBKDA 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications

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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

DBKDA 2015, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/DBKDA15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitDBKDA15.html

Events schedule: May 24 – 29, 2015 – Rome, Italy

Contributions:

– regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

– short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

– ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

– doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

– mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

– workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

– tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

– panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: January 16, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

DBKDA 2015 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPDBKDA15.html

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Advances in fundamentals on databases

Foundations and architectures; Design features (data quality, performance, robustness, scalability, security, privacy, parallel and distributed approaches, mobility, etc.); Data quality, data structures, and data modeling; Advanced indexing methods; Advanced ranking algorithms and uncertainty; Physical organization and performance; Federated choreographies; Temporal conformance; Evolutionary clustering and dynamic hierarchical clustering

Databases and other domains

Leading-edge database technology and applications; Heterogeneous databases interoperability and mediation; Databases and Web services; Databases and artificial intelligence; Databases and agents; Advances in database management systems; Advanced transaction and workflow management; Advances on XML and databases

Databases technologies

Self-managing databases; Mobile databases;  Database access; Embedded databases; Very large scale databases; Spatial and spatio-temporal databases; Data warehousing; Multimedia databases; Semantic databases; Data integration resources on the Internet; Object-oriented databases; Web-based databases; Deductive and active databases

Databases content processing

Mining for complex data; Mining for text, video, and pictures; Knowledge discovery and classification; Process mining; Scalable data extraction; Query processing and optimization; Query rewrite rules; Navigational path expressions; Load-balancing in accessing distributed databases; Incompleteness, inconsistency, uncertainty; Storage and replication; Patterns and similarities in data streams; Fast matching; Multiple views

Knowledge and decision bases

Knowledge representation and management; Knowledge discovery (business intelligence); Semantic information; Ontology and advanced knowledge search; Heuristics and meta-heuristics; Intelligent knowledge querying; Feature sampling and feature selection; Context-aware knowledge base; Blogs and social relationship search; Deductive reasoning; Reasoning databases; Ontology-based reasoning

Specifics on application domains databases

Database applications in Life Sciences; Advanced database applications; Bioinformatics databases; Healthcare databases; Finance and marketing databases; Telecom databases; Geospatial databases; Census databases; Meteorological databases; Business intelligence databases; e-Business databases

XML-driven data, knowledge, databases

Data /dissemination, distributed, processing, management/; XML-data /storage, exchange, compress, metadata/; XML-data and metadata management; XML repositories; Knowledge discovery from XML repositories; XML-data processing /queries, indexing, management, retrieval, mining/; XML data and knowledge /representation, discovery, mining, orchestration/; XML-data in advances environments /clouds, P2P, multimedia, mobile, finance, biotechnologies, geospatial, space/; XML-data and process /data warehouse, workflow, web, learning, control/;

Data privacy

Privacy models; Privacy metrics; Privacy preservation; Watermarking; Data Hiding; Background knowledge; Privacy /data streams, social networks, databases, semantic web/; Privacy mechanisms /cryptography, privacy-aware access control, generalization-based algoritm, perturbation-based algorithm, preservation, sequental releases/; Practical studies /privacy leaking, privacy breach, threats to privacy, privacy in outsourcing/

Data quality and uncertainty

Models, frameworks, methodologies and metrics for data quality; Quality of complex data /documents, semi-structured data, XMLs, multimedia data, graphs, bio-sequences/; Uncertain and noisy data; Uncertain data representation; Processing uncertain data /querying, indexing, mining/; Mining uncertain data/probabilistic, spatially- and temporally- uncertain, uncertain streams/ Data lineage and provenance; Data profiling and measurement; Data integration, linkage and fusion; D uplicate detection and consistency checking; D ata mining and data quality assessment; Quality methods and algorithms / data transformation, reconciliation, consolidation, extraction, cleansing/; User perception on data quality and cleansing;

Data querry, access, mining, and correlation

Data access technologies, Query optimisation, Discovering multi-modal correlations; Mining structural data from non-structural mixed-media documents; Data stream mining /frequent patterns, bursty event detection/; Profile mining; Corelation and anomaly in multi-modal-data /social networks, web traffic logs, sale transactions/; Information retrieval on a mixed collections; Multimedia data mining; Data mining system for medical multimedia data; Contents-based image/video retrieval systems

Data and process provenance

Provenance architectures and algorithms; Provenance modelling; Information management for provenance data; Provenance ontology and semantic; Provenance querying; Provenance annotation; Security, trust, and privacy for provenance information; Case studies and practice; Reasoning over provenance; Provenance analytics, mining and visualization

Data management

Distributed Query Languages; Query processing and optimization; Adaptive query processing; Management of mobile data; Managing data privacy and security; Data storage and management; Data stream systems; Data locating; Data warehouse management; Management of dynamic data; Workload adaptability; Transaction management; Performance evaluation and benchmarking or data management

ICAS 2015 | ENVIROSENS 2015 | Call for Papers

============== ICAS 2015 | ENVIROSENS 2015 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

ICAS 2015, The Eleventh International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ICAS15.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitICAS15.html

Events schedule: May 24 – 29, 2015 – Rome, Italy

Contributions:

– regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

– short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

– ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

– posters:  slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

– demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]

– doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]

Proposals for:

– mini symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html

– workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html

– tutorials:  [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

– panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org]

Submission deadline: January 16, 2015

Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org

Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org

The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.

Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

ICAS 2015 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPICAS15.html

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SYSAT: Advances in system automation

Methods, techniques ant tools for automation features; Methodologies for automating of design systems; Industrial automation for production chains; Nonlinear optimization and automation control; Nonlinearities and system stabilization; Automation in safety systems; Structured uncertainty; Open and closed automation loops; Test systems automation; Theory on systems robustness; Fault-tolerant systems
AUTSY: Theory and Practice of Autonomous Systems

Design, implementation and deployment of autonomous systems; Frameworks and architectures for component and system autonomy; Design methodologies for autonomous systems; Composing autonomous systems; Formalisms and languages for autonomous systems; Logics and paradigms for autonomous systems; Ambient and real-time paradigms for autonomous systems; Delegation and trust in autonomous systems; Centralized and distributed autonomous systems; Collocation and interaction between autonomous and non-autonomous systems; Dependability in autonomous systems; Survivability and recovery in autonomous systems; Monitoring and control in autonomous systems; Performance and security in autonomous systems; Management of autonomous systems; Testing autonomous systems; Maintainability of autonomous systems

AWARE: Design and Deployment of Context-awareness Networks, Services and Applications

Context-aware fundamental concepts, mechanisms, and applications; Modeling context-aware systems; Specification and implementation of awareness behavioral contexts; Development and deployment of large-scale context-aware systems and subsystems; User awareness requirements and design techniques for interfaces and systems; Methodologies, metrics, tools, and experiments for specifying context-aware systems; Tools evaluations, Experiment evaluations
AUTONOMIC: Autonomic Computing: Design and Management of Self-behavioral Networks and Services

Theory, architectures, frameworks and practice of self-adaptive management mechanisms; Modeling and techniques for specifying self-ilities; Self-stabilization and dynamic stability criteria and mechanisms; Tools, languages and platforms for designing self-driven systems; Autonomic computing and GRID networking; Autonomic computing and proactive computing for autonomous systems; Practices, criteria and methods to implement, test, and evaluate industrial autonomic systems; Experiences with autonomic computing systems
CLOUD: Cloud computing and Virtualization

Hardware-as-a-service; Software-as-a-service [SaaS applicaitions]; Platform-as-service; On-demand computing models; Cloud Computing programming and application development; Scalability, discovery of services and data in Cloud computing infrastructures; Privacy, security, ownership and reliability issues; Performance and QoS; Dynamic resource provisioning; Power-efficiency and Cloud computing; Load balancing; Application streaming; Cloud SLAs, business models and pricing policies; Custom platforms; Large-scale compute infrastructures; Managing applications in the clouds; Data centers; Process in the clouds; Content and service distribution in Cloud computing infrastructures; Multiple applications can run on one computer (virtualization a la VMWare); Grid computing (multiple computers can be used to run one application); Virtualization platforms; Open virtualization format; Cloud-computing vendor governance and regulatory compliance

MCMAC: Monitoring, Control, and Management of Autonomous Self-aware and Context-aware Systems

Agent-based autonomous systems; Policy-driven self-awareness mechanisms and their applicability in autonomic systems; Autonomy in GRID networking and utility computing; Studies on autonomous industrial applications, services, and their developing environment; Prototypes, experimental systems, tools for autonomous systems, GRID middleware
CASES: Automation in specialized mobile environments

Theory, frameworks, mechanisms and case studies for satellite systems; Spatial/temporal constraints in satellites systems; Trajectory corrections, speed, and path accuracy in satellite systems; Mechanisms and case studies for nomadic code systems; Platforms for mobile agents and active mobile code; Performance in nomadic code systems; Case studies systems for mobile robot systems; Guidance in an a priori unknown environment; Coaching/learning techniques; Pose maintenance, and mapping; Sensing for autonomous vehicles; Planning for autonomous vehicles; Mobile networks, Ad hoc networks and self-reconfigurable networks

ALCOC: Algorithms and theory for control and computation

Control theory and specific characteristics; Types of computation theories; Tools for computation and control; Algorithms and data structures; Special algorithmic techniques; Algorithmic applications; Domain case studies; Technologies case studies for computation and control; Application-aware networking

MODEL: Modeling, virtualization, any-on-demand, MDA, SOA

Modeling techniques, tools, methodologies, languages; Model-driven architectures (MDA); Service-oriented architectures (SOA); Utility computing frameworks and fundamentals; Enabled applications through virtualization; Small-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Resource containers, physical resource multiplexing, and segmentation; Large-scale virtualization methodologies and techniques; Management of virtualized systems; Platforms, tools, environments, and case studies; Making virtualization real; On-demand utilities; Adaptive enterprise; Managing utility-based systems; Development environments, tools, prototypes

SELF: Self-adaptability and self-management of context-aware systems

Novel approaches to modeling and representing context adaptability, self-adaptability, and self-manageability; Models of computation for self-management context-aware systems; Use of MDA/MDD (Model Driven Architecture / Model Driven Development) for context-aware systems; Design methods for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Applications of advanced modeling languages to context self-adaptability; Methods for managing adding context to existing systems and context-conflict free systems; Architectures and middleware models for self-adaptable context-aware systems; Models of different adaptation and self-adaptation mechanisms (component-based adaptation approach, aspect oriented approach, etc.); System stability in the presence of context inconsistency; Learning and self-adaptability of context-aware systems; Business considerations and organizational modeling of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Performance evaluation of self-adaptable context-aware systems; Scalability of self-adaptable context-aware systems
KUI: Knowledge-based user interface

Evolving intelligent user interface for WWW; User interface design in autonomic systems; Adaptive interfaces in a knowledge-based design; Knowledge-based support for the user interface design process; Built-in knowledge in adaptive user interfaces; Requirements for interface knowledge representation; Levels for knowledge-based user interface; User interface knowledge on the dynamic behavior; Support techniques for knowledge-based user interfaces; Intelligent user interface for real-time systems; Planning-based control of interface animation; Model-based user interface design; Knowledge-based user interface migration; Automated user interface requirements discovery for scientific computing; Knowledge-based user interface management systems; 3D User interface design; Task-oriented knowledge user interfaces; User-interfaces in a domestic environment; Centralised control in the home; User-interfaces for the elderly or disabled; User-interfaces for the visually, aurally, or mobility impaired; Interfacing with ambient intelligence systems; Assisted living interfaces; Interfaces for security/alarm systems

AMMO: Adaptive management and mobility

QoE and adaptation in mobile environments; Content marking and management (i.e. MPEG21); Adaptive coding (H.265, FEC schemes, etc.. ); Admission control resource allocation algorithms; Monitoring and feedback systems; Link adaptation mechanisms; Cross layer approaches; Adaptation protocols (with IMS and NGNs scenarios); QoE vs NQoS mapping systems; Congestion control mechanisms; Fairness issues (fair sharing, bandwidth allocation…); Optimization/management mechanisms (MOO, fuzzy logic, machine learning, etc.)

Soft Computing and Sensory Analysis

“Soft Computing and Sensory Analysis” to be held within next IFSA-EUSFLAT2015 conference, from June 30th to July 3rd 2015 in Gijón, Asturias (Spain). All details about the session are at:
 
                The deadline for paper submission is January 16th, 2015. Papers submitted for special sessions are to be peer-reviewed with the same criteria used for the rest of contributed papers. As a result, all accepted papers will be included in the proceedings of IFSA-EUSFLAT2015 to be published by Atlantis Press. They will be available online in Open Access mode before the start of the conference. Moreover, conference papers will be indexed in DBLP, EI-Compendex and ISIProceedings.
 
                If you are interested in submitting a paper for this session, please do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers: a tentative title of the paper to be submitted along with a list of authors and an e-mail address for further contact would be highly appreciated.
 
                It is worthy to note this session is already advertised by:
                + The Sensometric Society (http://www.sensometric.org/events)
                + The European Sensory Science Society (http://www.e3sensory.eu/?p=2462)
                + The Spanish Professionals Association of Sensory Science, AEPAS (http://www.aepas.es/2014/11/sensory-analysis-and-soft-computing/)
               
The organizers,
+ Cécile Coulon-Leroy, Laboratoire GRAPPE, École Supérieure d’Agriculture d’Angers, France (c.coulon@groupe-esa.com)
+ Jose M. Alonso, Computing with Perceptions Research Unit, European Centre for soft Computing, Spain (jose.alonso@softcomputing.es)
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