From demetres at dis.uniroma1.it Thu Jan 4 05:44:32 2007 From: demetres at dis.uniroma1.it (Camil Demetrescu) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:21 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] WEA 2007 Second CFP Message-ID: WEA 2007 6th International Workshop on Experimental Algorithms http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~wea07 June 6-9, 2007 School of Engineering University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 20, 2007 GENERAL INFORMATION WEA is an international forum for researchers in the area of experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. The preceding Workshops were held in Riga (Latvia, 2001), Ascona (Switzerland, 2003), Angra dos Reis (Brazil, 2004), Santorini (Greece, 2005), and Menorca Island (Spain, 2006). TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to: - Algorithm Engineering - Algorithmic Libraries - Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies - Approximation Techniques - Branch and Bound Algorithms - Combinatorial Structures and Graphs - Combinatorial and Irregular Problems - Communication Networks - Complex Networks - Computational Biology - Computational Geometry - Computational Learning Theory - Computational Optimization - Computer Systems - Cryptography and Security - Data Streams - Data Structures - Distributed Algorithms - Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments - Graph Drawing - Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization - Implementation, Testing, Evaluation, and Fine-tuning - Information Retrieval - Integer Programming - Logistics and Operations Management - Machine Learning and Data Mining - Mathematical Programming - Metaheuristic Methodologies - Network Analysis - Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines - On-line Problems - Parallel Algorithms and Computing - Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods - Randomized Techniques - Robotics - Semidefinite Programming - Simulation - Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms - Telecommunications and Networking - World Wide Web Algorithms IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 20, 2007 (11:59 PM PST) Author notification: March 7, 2007 Camera ready due: March 21, 2007 Conference: June 6-9, 2007 PLENARY SPEAKERS Corinna Cortes (Google) Peter Sanders (U. Karlsruhe) Maria J. Serna (T.U. of Catalonia) PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the WEA 2007 Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series. SPECIAL ISSUE Selected papers from WEA 2007 will be considered for a Special Issue of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA, http://www.jea.acm.org/). SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the Workshop. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors. Submission website and further details: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~wea07 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Susanne Albers (U. Freiburg) Eric Angel (U. Evry Val D'Essonne) Giorgio Ausiello (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research) Jon Bentley (Avaya Labs Research) Adam Buchsbaum (AT&T Labs--Research) Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (U. Patras) Camil Demetrescu (U. Roma "La Sapienza") (chair) Cid de Souza (U. Campinas) Rolf Fagerberg (U. Sourthern Denmark, Odense) Rudolf Fleischer (Fudan U. Shanghai) Monika Henzinger (Google & EPFL) Dorit S. Hochbaum (U. California at Berkeley) Michel Gendreau (U. Montr?al) Giuseppe F. Italiano (U. Roma "Tor Vergata") Riko Jacob (ETH Zurich) Richard Ladner (U. Washington) Kurt Mehlhorn (MPII Saarbruecken) Bernard Moret (EPFL) S. Muthukrishnan (Google) Petra Mutzel (U. Dortmund) Giri Narasimhan (Florida International U.) Robert Sedgewick (Princeton U.) Thomas Stuetzle (U. Libre de Bruxelles) Jan Vahrenhold (U. Dortmund) Renato Werneck (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley) Norbert Zeh (Dalhousie U., Halifax) STEERING COMMITTEE Edoardo Amaldi (Politecnico di Milano) David A. Bader (Georgia Tech) Josep Diaz (T.U. Catalonia) Giuseppe F. Italiano (U. Roma "Tor Vergata") David Johnson (AT&T Labs--Research) Klaus Jansen (U. Kiel) Kurt Mehlhorn (MPII Saarbruecken) Ian Munro (U. Waterloo) Sotiris Nikoletseas (U. Patras & CTI) Jose Rolim (U. Geneva) (chair) Pavlos Spirakis (U. Patras & CTI) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Vincenzo Bonifaci (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Saverio Caminiti (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Fabio Dellutri (U. Roma "Tor Vergata") Camil Demetrescu (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Irene Finocchi (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Luigi Laura (U. Roma "La Sapienza") Andrea Vitaletti (U. Roma "La Sapienza") CONTACT Camil Demetrescu Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Universit? di Roma "La Sapienza" Via Salaria, 113, II piano, 00198 ROMA, ITALY Tel.: (+39) 06 4991 8457, Fax: (+39) 06 85300849 Email: demetres [at] dis [dot] uniroma1 [dot] it -- ________________________________________________________oo_____ Camil Demetrescu, Ph.D. - http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~demetres Dept. Computer and System Sciences, Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza" Via Salaria, 113 - 00198 Roma, Italy, ph. +39-06-4991-8457 From becker at scyld.com Mon Jan 15 10:44:35 2007 From: becker at scyld.com (Donald Becker) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:21 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] BayBUG 2007 meeting plans Message-ID: The BayBUG is moving to Bi-monthly meetings in 2007. The first 2007 meeting will be in February, with two talks: Industry Standard Clusters with Clearspeed's Accelerators and a general talk on site-wide and cluster schedulers from Cluster Resources. -------- "Bay Area Beowulf User Group (BayBUG) Moving to bi-monthly in 2007 First 2007 date: February 20, 2007 2:30 - 5:00 p.m. AMD headquarters Common Building, Room C-6/7/8 991 Stewart Drive, Sunnyvale Speakers: [black bold] - Massimiliano Fatica, Sr. Solutions Architect at ClearSpeed Technology [black bold] - A senior engineer from Cluster Resources Inc [black bold] Join moderator and Beowulf cluster co-inventor Donald Becker for food and drinks and to learn from and network with other Linux HPC professionals." -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Software Scyld Beowulf cluster systems 914 Bay Ridge Road, Suite 220 www.scyld.com Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993