[Tccc] Workshop on Networking across disciplines : Communication Networks, Complex Systems and Statistical Physics (in IEEE ICC 2013) - DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan.25
Iordanis Koutsopoulos
jordanatuth.gr
Thu Jan 10 09:28:49 EST 2013
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on :
Networking across disciplines: Communication Networks,
Complex Systems and Statistical Physics
(NETSTAT 2013)
http://netstat-workshop.com/
Held in conjunction with ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary
(SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED to Jan.25, 2013)
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Marc Mezard, Ecole Normale Superieure
John S. Baras, University of Maryland, College Park
SCOPE
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Communication networks experience a culmination in their evolution, as they
have
evolved into multifarious architectural paradigms (such as sensory, mobile
ad-hoc,
wireless peer-to-peer or femto-cell based), while a myriad of heterogeneous
devices
create a networked environment of unprecedented complexity. Parallel to that,
social networking creates a stratum of user interaction that has a profound
impact
on the way information is accessed and retrieved. The increasing quest for
information
in today's networked world, together with the need to efficiently access,
handle
and transport the torrents of information call for real-time online decision
making
and optimal control, oftentimes amidst partial state information. A more
efficient
use of network resources becomes increasingly more important, due to the
substantial energy consumption by communication systems in general, and by
routers
in particular, and increasing pressure on existing infrastructure. Complex
behaviors
are anticipated as more entities become embedded in the massive internet
infrastructure, giving rise to non-trivial microscopic interactions which in
turn
influence global system behaviors at the macroscopic level.
Statistical physics aims at understanding the collective behavior of large
disordered
systems of heterogeneous, randomly interacting components that engage in
localized
interactions. It provides a solid framework for studying how small-scale
randomness
generates global-scale phenomena like phase transitions, which are essentially
nonrandom and are governed by system parameters and external conditions.
Recent success stories in understanding the nature of hard combinatorial
problems
attest to the strong potential of insights offered by statistical physics. The
decoding process of Shannon-capacity approaching codes in digital communication
and
the construction of new codes benefitted from such insights. Belief propagation
approaches that emanate from statistical physics have facilitated the landmark
achievement of reaching the information theoretic capacity in different types
of noisy channels.
The NETSTAT workshop aims at bringing together individuals from a number of
communities
such as communication theory, information theory, networking, and statistical
physics
with the following objectives:
* Delineate a common foundational framework at the interface between these
disciplines
* Harness techniques that are inspired from statistical physics principles to
advance
state of the art in information communication theory and network optimization
problems
* Propose methods that remove the barrier of combinatorial complexity in
network control
problems by leveraging statistical physics based techniques
* Enhance statistical physics methodologies with a pragmatic view dictated by
networking problems and rigorous approaches by the information theory community.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Original contributions are solicited in areas that include (but are not limited
to) the following:
* Statistical physics inspired techniques for communication network modeling
and
resource allocation
* Information Communication theory and statistical physics
* Network inference problems and approaches based on statistical physics
* Non-cooperative and cooperative game models for networks
* Compressed sensing and application in networking problems
* Statistical physics inspired techniques for social networking problems
* Applications of belief propagation techniques in wireless networking, in
information
theory, and in digital communication
* Phase transition phenomena in digital communications and networking
* Disordered systems, glass systems theory and other statistical physics
principles,
and their applications to information theory and networking
* Network inference problems
IMPORTANT DATES
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* Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2013 (Extended deadline)
* Paper acceptance notification:February 22, 2013
* Camera-ready papers due: March 8, 2013
* Workshop date: June 9 or 13 (TBD), 2013
COMMITTEES
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Workshop Co-Chairs:
* Iordanis Koutsopoulos (University of Thessaly and CERTH, Greece)
* David Saad (Aston University, UK)
Technical Program Committee:
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* Dimitrios Achlioptas, National Kapodestrian University of Athens
* Tansu Alpcan - University of Melbourne
* Erik Aurell - KTH, Stockholm
* John S. Baras - University of Maryland College Park
* Misha Chertkov - Los Alamos National Lab
* Silvio Franz- Universit Paris-Sud
* Leonidas Georgiadis - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
* Paolo Giaccone - Politecnico di Torino
* Dongning Guo - Northwestern University, Chicago
* Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Tokyo Tech.
* Igor Lerner - Birmingham University
* Emilio Leonardi - Politecnico di Torino
* Enzo Marinari - Universita Roma La Sapienza
* Neri Merhav - Technion, Haifa, Israel
* Andrea Montanari Stanford
* Aris Moustakas - National Kapodestrian University of Athens
* Ralf Mller -Norwegian Univ. of Science & Technology
* Georgios Rodolakis, CERTH
* Toshiyuki Tanaka - Kyoto University
* Leandros Tassiulas - University of Thessaly and CERTH
* Stavros Toumpis - Athens University of Economics and Business
* Rudiger Urbanke, EPFL
* Michael Wong - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
* Igor Yurkevich - Aston University
* Riccardo Zecchina, Politecnico di Torino
* Haijun Zhou - Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
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