Friday, December 11, 2015

[DMANET] 2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference


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.
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