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2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference

  • 1.  2016 INFORMS Telecommunications Conference

    Posted 01-14-2016 09:12

    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 .

    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

    Mauricio G. C. Resende
    Amazon.com

    Program Co-Chairs

    Bernard Fortz
    Université Libre de Bruxelles

    Dimitri Papadimitriou
    Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs

    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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    Bernard Fortz
    Professor
    Université Libre de Bruxelles
    Bruxelles
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