SOTICS 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics

May 29th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

SOTICS 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Social Eco-Informatics

October 12 – 16, 2014 – Nice, France

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SOTICS14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPSOTICS14.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitSOTICS14.html

Contributions:

– regular papers

– short papers (work in progress)

– posters

– ideas

– presentations

– demos

– doctoral forum submissions

Proposals for:

– symposia

– workshops

Submission deadline: June 4, 2014

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

Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

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 Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.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 conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html

SOTICS 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


Digital resource domains

Social networks; Digital computing; Digital health care; Digital mapping; Digital human faces; Digital libraries; Eco-informatics; Micro-contribution by masses

Social evaluation and metrics

Metric on quality of experience and satisfaction; Social mobility; Social interactions; Social learning; Social media; Social models; Mutual social credentials

Social applications

On-line entertainment; Games and citizens; Social networking and social software; Tagging and micro-blogging; Collaborative filtering and tagging; Social simulation (mobility, groupware, etc.); Very large social networks; Deep web social information; Blogs and mini-blogs; E-books

Social mobility

Social mobile networks with the Web 2.0; Mobile social architecture and services; Open service capabilities; Open exposure of telco capabilities; Open Web APIs, SOA and SDP; Interworking strategies; Mobile terminals as sources for User-generated content; Architecture and services for user-generated content; Auto-description and metadata synthesis for telecom-generated for user-generated content; Social mobile networks; User behavior profiling; Social connections (social graphs, contacts, etc); Services and architectures/solutions for social mobile services

Mechanisms for social services

eSociety; Accessibility; Social education; Social opinion; Digital eco-systems; Ecology and social justice; eGovernments; Digital economy; eCommerce; Digital cities; Tourism; Democracy and social groups; Patent laws; Social tools; Web enterprises and services

Challenges in social environments

Computational thinking; Natural language processing; eImpact on children knowledge and abilities; Opinion and sentiment analysis; Computing and philosophy; Threats in social networks; Trusted computing; Reputation systems; Pervasive social computing; Real-time ubiquitous social semantic; Social creativity; Social trust; Ethics


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComSOTICS14.html


SOTICS General Chairs

Philip Davis, Bournemouth and Poole College – Bournemouth, UK

David Newell, Bournemouth University – Bournemouth, UK


SOTICS Advisory Chairs

Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada & IARIA, USA

Krzysztof Juszczyszyn, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Ulrike Lucke, University of Potsdam, Germany

Abdulrahman Yarali, Murray State University, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Social Networks

Feng Gao, Microsoft Corporation, USA

Lynne Hall, University of Sunderland, UK


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on eGovernment

Jennifer Watkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Cities

Tom Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Digital Libraries

Paolo Garza, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


SOTICS Special Area Chairs on Media

Claus Atzenbeck, Hof University, Germany / Aalborg University, Denmark


SOTICS Publicity Chairs

Nima Dokoohaki, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) – Stockholm, Sweden

Christine Langeron, Hubert Curien Laboratory, Lyon University, France

Sandra Sendra Compte, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain

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COLLEGE of ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

May 29th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin
UTSA – The University of Texas at San Antonio

COLLEGE of ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT of MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 

The Department of Mechanical Engineering is recruiting students for Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering with Manufacturing Concentration in the following research areas:

1. Supply Chain / Logistics Modeling.
2. Metaheuristics to solve supply chain/manufacturing problems.
3. Quality Control and Reliability.
4. Applications in healthcare, sustainability, energy, transportation, and defense. 

To apply, please send your CV and a copy of all university transcripts to Dr. Castillo Krystel.Castillo@utsa.edu

            http://engineering.utsa.edu/~castillo/index.php

You will join a dynamic research group at the Manufacturing Systems and Automation Lab.

 
Financial assistantships are available with full tuition and competitive salaries.
IMCA, Instituto de Matemática y Ciencias Afines 
Lima, Perú
 
The Instituto de Matemática y Ciencias Afines – IMCA, announces the opening of 3 postdoctoral research fellows. We invite young scientists interested in a postdoctoral career development opportunity to submit proposals for a 1 year research project
—

Eladio OCAÑA ANAYA

IMCA, Instituto de Matemática y Ciencias Afines
Calle Los Biólogos 245
Urb. San Cesar, La Molina
Lima 12
Lima, Perú
Tlf.: +51-1-349-1892    

http://www.imca.edu.pe/

 

 

School of Industrial Engineering
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

The School of Industrial Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) invites applications for multiple tenured/tenure-track faculty positions that will complement and enrich the School’s current research and education thrusts, and will contribute to consolidate its thriving PhD program. Two positions are available, at junior or senior levels, depending on the candidate’s background. The starting date of the appointment is between September 2014 and March 2015. Preference will be given to candidates that might qualify for the School’s Graduate Faculty, which entails producing high impact publications and developing externally funded research programs.

 Candidates must hold a PhD with strong methodological background and research interests and experience in one or more of the following areas Management Science, Manufacturing and Production Systems, Operation Research and Management, Systems Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Stochastic Modeling or Computer Science. Candidates should also demonstrate a strong commitment to quality research and teaching in their discipline and enthusiasm for collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarly work at an international level. 

The School is especially interested in candidates who will collaborate, through their research, teaching and/or service, in fostering excellence in its academic environment.  The development of the candidate’s line of research should strengthen or contribute to the PhD program areas in Operations Research and Quantitative Methods or Systems Modeling, with applications in diverse areas such as planning, scheduling, design, project management, shop control, supply chain management, and network organizations.
 
Appointment level and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and accomplishments.  Salary is competitive at the international level, and is complemented with research incentives and access to support funds.
 
Candidates must provide:
·  Current Curriculum Vitae
·  Statement discussing teaching, research and professional goals
·  Contact information for two professional references
·  Copies of published work and articles under review in indexed journals
 
Inquiries and applications must be sent to the School’s Search Committee at concurso.eii@ucv.cl
Application deadline: July 15, 2014.
Expected starting date: September 2014 through March 2015
 

 

Universidades de Avignon (França)

Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil),
Federal Fluminense (Niterói, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) e
Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, localizada no estado do Ceará, nordeste do Brasil)
Prezadas e prezados,
 
Dentro de um projeto franco-brasileiro, as Universidades de Avignon (França), Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil), Federal Fluminense (Niterói, estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) e Federal do Ceará (Fortaleza, localizada no estado do Ceará, nordeste do Brasil) têm duas  bolsas de pós-doutorado a se REALIZAR no BRASIL até novembro de 2016.  Decidimos lançar uma primeira chamada à participação, cujo prazo é dia  15 de junho (meia-noite, horário da França), para que os candidatos comecem sua pesquisa na universidade de acolhimento em setembro ou outubro de 2014 .
 
Os candidatos receberão uma remuneração de 59.000 reais para os 12 meses da estadia.
 
Os temas de interesse são relacionados à Otimização Combinatória (ou à   Programação Inteira), e incluem, mas não são limitados a, os seguintes campos:
 
– Análise Poliédrica e métodos baseados na geração de cortes ou facetas,
– Métodos exatos baseados em métodos de decomposição,
– Meta-heurísticas,
– Problemas de roteamento de veículos,
– Programação quadrática em variáveis binárias, ou, mais geralmente,
programação inteira ou mista não-linear,
– Problemas de localização ,
– …
 
Espera-se assim que os candidatos proponham um tema de pesquisa em Otimização Combinatória, possivelmente em um dos temas acima ou em outros campos. A universidade de acolhimento será escolhida em função do projeto de pesquisa.
 
Note-se que essas vagas são abertas a candidatos de qualquer nacionalidade, a recém doutores e a jovens Docentes.
 
 As candidaturas devem incluir :
– Um curriculum vitae, incluindo uma lista de publicações e o nome
completo, data e local de nascimento, número do passaporte (em Inglês
ou Português)
– Um projeto de pesquisa com, no máximo, 2 páginas (em Inglês ou Português)
– 2-3 cartas de recomendação (em Inglês ou Português)
 
e devem ser enviadas (antes do dia 15 de Junho, meia-noite ) a cada
uma das seguintes pessoas numa única mensagem:
 
 
– Nelson Maculan :  maculan@cos.ufrj.br
 
–  Luiz Satoru Ochi : satoru@ic.uff.br
 
– Manoel Campêlo  : mcampelo@lia.ufc.br
 
– Philippe Michelon : philippe.michelon@univ-avignon.fr
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INNOV 2014, The Third International Conference on Communications, Computation, Networks and Technologies

May 29th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS

INNOV 2014, The Third International Conference on Communications, Computation, Networks and Technologies

October 12 – 16, 2014 – Nice, France 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/INNOV14.html

Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPINNOV14.html

Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitINNOV14.html


Contributions:

– regular papers

– short papers (work in progress)

– posters

– ideas

– presentations

– demos

– doctoral forum submissions


Proposals for:

– symposia

– workshops


Submission deadline: June 4, 2014

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


Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options.

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 conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


INNOV 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)


NETWORKING

Network architectures and protocols; Cross-layer designs and architectures; Mobility management and topology control; Spectrum, network, context, environment, location awareness; Heterogeneous networking; Wireless networking; Ad hoc, sensor and mesh networks; Devices for ubiquity networking (smart-phones, tablets, and netbooks)

OPTIMIZATION AND PROTECTION

Performance modeling and analysis; Internet modeling; Parameter estimation for adaptation of wireless communication systems; Trust, security and privacy issues; Encryption algorithm in sensor networks; Web Services Security; Adaptive wireless communication systems; Quality of Service, scalability and reliability; Power aware and energy efficient design; Emission modeling and environmental impact assessment of vehicular networks

SHARED RESOURCES

Medium access control and routing protocols; Spectrum sensing techniques, spectrum efficiency and soft spectrum usage; Femto-cells and cognitive radios networks; Ultra-wideband for spectrum sharing; New applications in TV-band white space; Interference mitigation and awareness; Spectrum-management regulation and policy making; Mobility or handover technology; Application of software defined radio advanced communication systems; Information content security; Storage performance and scalability; File systems, object-based storage, and block storage; Energy-aware storage

COMPUTING PARADIGMS

Green Computing; Grid Computing; Cloud Computing; Collaborative Computing; Mobile computing; Internet of Things

CONTENT AND COMMUNICATION

Content distribution networks; Multimedia Communications; Audio, Image and Video Processing; Information aggregation and dissemination; Data-collection, organization and dissemination methods; Data management in mobile Peer-to-Peer networks; Data stream processing in mobile/sensor networks; Ultrawideband systems; Optical communications and networks; Vehicular communications; Smart grid communications; Green communications and networks; Cognitive Communications

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND SERVICES

New Architectures for Web-based social networks; Collaborative social systems (e/m-learning, e-healthcare, gaming); Information propagation on social networks; Resource and knowledge discovery using social networks; Peer-to-Peer social networks; Sensor networks and social sensing; Social networking solutions for pervasive and mobile environments; Social search; Measurement studies of current social networks; Simulation models for social networks; User interfaces and usability issues from mobile applications mobile social networks

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

New ITS and Telematics applications; ITS and Telematics services; Design with multiple wireless data links; Mobility or handover technology; Multiple antenna systems; Physical layer and antenna technologies; RF propagation models for vehicular networks


Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComINNOV14.html


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International Conference on Risk Analysis of Meteorological Disasters (RAMD’14)

May 29th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Risk Analysis of Meteorological Disasters (RAMD’14)

October 12-13, 2014, Nanjing, China

http://ramd2014.nuist.edu.cn/dct/page/70033

About the Conference

Since the industrial revolution in the mid-18th century, global climate has been undergoing significant changes with global warming as the main feature. Entering the 21st century, the trend of global warming is increasing (IPCC, 2013). As the climate gets warmer, various kinds of weather disasters gradually increase and result in more and more severe loss and impacts. According to the statistics of the International Committee for Disaster Reduction, meteorological disasters account for 75%-80% of all natural disasters, and the loss caused by meteorological disasters in the global world accounts for about 3%-6% of the world GDP in total.
How to deal with the significant risk of meteorological disasters has become a major challenge faced by the international community today.

Before the idea of meteorological disaster risk management appeared, mankind mainly defended to meteorological disasters passively. Then people started to set up the philosophy of active management to meteorological disasters and entered the stage of meteorological disasters risk management. Researches on meteorological disaster risk started since the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) programme initiated by the UN in 1989. Its focus was to explore the mechanisms and measures to reduce the loss and the impact of a variety of natural and environmental disasters on human economy, society, resources and environment; to reveal the mechanism of the formation of disasters by evaluating the danger of hazards factors, the stability of the environment and the vulnerability of the hazard bearing body, etc., and to identify the driving forces of the disasters. In 2003, the first World Conference on Risk Analysis hosted by the International Society of Risk Analy!
 sis (SRA) emphasized the important change of disaster studies from disaster analysis to disaster risk analysis and disaster risk management, etc. Since then, the concept of risk entered into the field of meteorology, and the focus of research on meteorological disasters also shifted from meteorological disaster defence to meteorological disasters risk management.

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology is one of China’s key universities with meteorology as the main discipline.
The discipline of “Atmospheric Sciences” ranked first in the academic ranking organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education in 2013. The university has more than 1,500 full-time faculties including the Academician of Chinese Academy of Science, Professor Shi Guangyu. In recent years, one of the main directions of the university discipline development is “meteorological disaster forecasting, warning and assessment.” In order to better make use of the advantages in terms of the university discipline, personnel, facilities and other conditions, to promote academic exchange and cooperation among researchers around the world in meteorological disaster risk management, the university intends to hold an International Conference on Risk Management of Meteorological Disasters in Nanjing on October 12-13.

Organizers

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Conference Time and Venue

Conference Time: October 12-13

Conference Venue: Nanjing, China

Scope: RAMD’14 is soliciting papers for the following (but not limited to) topics:

Theme I: Meteorological Disasters and Financial Risk Management

Theme II: Meteorological Disaster Assessment and Disaster Prevention and Reduction Strategies

Theme III: Dynamic Analysis, Impact Assessment and Strategies for Drought/Flood Risk

Theme IV: Major Meteorological Disaster Emergency Response and Risk Management

Paper Submission

All papers must be unpublished and should not be under simultaneous review for any other conferences and workshops. Paper format please refer to the relevant requirements of Information Science. All papers should be submitted electronically via E-mail:2014RAMD@gmail.com. All papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the RAMD’14 program committee and selected reviewers.

Important Dates

The deadline for paper submission August 30th, 2014

The date for notification September 30th, 2014

The date for camera-ready paper submission October 10th, 2014

Contact information

Tel: +86 025 58699839

Email: 2014RAMD@gmail.com

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2014 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (ISCS’14)

May 29th, 2014 CI2S Enterprise Content Admin
2014 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems (ISCS’14)
taking place from Sept. 15-18 at University of Florence, Italy.

A: Important Dates:

– Submission of 5-10 page papers: June 15

– Registration: July 31

B: Keynote Speakers:

– Rudolf Kalman (ETH)

– Yuri Manin (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)

– Karoline Wiesner (University of Bristol)

– Antonio Politi (University of Aberdeen)

– Anne-Ly Do (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems)

C: Galilei-Turing Round-Table Panelists:

– Barry Cooper (University of Leeds)

– John Symons (University of Kansas)
– Rudolf Kalman (ETH)
– Yuri Manin (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics)
– Karoline Wiesner (University of Bristol)
– Antonio Politi (University of Aberdeen)
– Anne-Ly Do (Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems)

D: Tutorials for Students (as official credits):


Point 1: More info about the symposium: http://iscs-symposium.org

Point 2: Poster of the symposium is attached.

Point 3: Based upon the invitation of the University of Florence, Prof. Rudolf Kalman will give another talk on Sept. 19 for engineer/physics audience on the invention of the Kalman Filter and the subsequent evolution of the GPS. Everyone is very welcome to attend in that talk.

Looking forward very much to meeting you.
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