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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The 4th International Workshop on the Synergy between Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2020)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">CALL FOR PAPERS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<a href="http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> or </span><a href="http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">December 10 – December 14, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Barcelona, Spain (Online Event)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Submission Deadline: September 21, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Plenty of hard optimization problems in a wide range of areas such as health, manufacturing and production, logistics and supply chain management, energy, engineering, etc. are increasingly large and complex in terms
of number of input parameters, decision variables, objective functions and landscape complexity. These problems are often tackled using optimization approaches including greedy algorithms, exact methods (dynamic programming, Branch-and-X, constraint programming,
A∗, etc.) and metaheuristics (evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm, ant or bee colonies, simulated annealing, Tabu search, etc.). Solving efficiently and effectively large and complex problems requires the joint use of these approaches and massively parallel
heterogeneous computing.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">In addition, for many real-world problems (e.g. in engineering design) the evaluation of the objective function(s) often consist(s) of the execution of an expensive simulation as a black-box complex system. This
is for instance typically the case in aerodynamics where a CFD-based simulation may require several hours. Optimization algorithms, even if combined with parallel computing, fail to solve these simulation-based optimization problems. A typical approach to
deal with the computational burden is to use (instead of exact values) cheaper data-driven approximations of the objective function(s) so-called surrogates or meta-models. A wide range of surrogates was applied during the last decade including: classical regression
models such as polynomial regression or response surface methodology, support vector machines, artificial neural networks (ANN), radial basis functions, and kriging or Gaussian process. ANN is probably the most prevalent of them with the recent “explosion”
of the deep learning popularized thanks to GPGPUs.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The PaCOS Workshop topics include the following:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">The PaCOS workshop seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers to present their original contributions on the joint use of advanced single- or multi-objective optimization methods, simulation and/or its data-driven
approximation, and distributed and/or parallel multi/many-core computing, and any related issues. The PaCOS topics include (but are not limited to) the following:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Simulation-based optimization.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Parallel exact optimization/metaheuristics for solving complex problems on multi-core processors, accelerators/co-processors (e.g. GPU), clusters, grids/clouds, etc.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • (Parallel) hybrid algorithms combining optimization and simulation.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • (Parallel) surrogate-assisted optimization.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Implementation issues of methods combining optimization, simulation and/or parallel computing.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Software frameworks for the design and implementation of parallel and/or distributed simulation and/or surrogate-assisted techniques.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Simulation-based optimization applications including healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, biological applications, advanced big data analytics, engineering design, etc.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> • Computational/theoretical studies reporting results on solving complex problems using the joint use of parallel computing, optimization and simulation.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to synergy between parallel computing, optimization and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published
or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages
will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally
responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to </span><a href="http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> for
posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop EasyChair paper submission site at </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacos2020" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pacos2020</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical
clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the
HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the workshop.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">PROCEEDINGS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings
formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">SPECIAL ISSUE</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference
website.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">IMPORTANT DATES</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Paper Submissions: --------------------------------------------- September 21, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Acceptance Notification: --------------------------------------- October 6, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------- October 16, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Conference Dates: ---------------------------------------------- December 10-14, 2020</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Dr. Gregoire DANOY</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Phone: (+352) 46 66 44 53 06</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Email: </span><a href="mailto:gregoire.danoy@uni.lu" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">gregoire.danoy@uni.lu</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Dr. Jan GMYS</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> INRIA Lille – Nord Europe</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Lille, France</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Phone: (+33) 3 59 35 86 49</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Email: </span><a href="mailto:jan.gmys@inria.fr" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">jan.gmys@inria.fr</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">Ali Hebbal</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> ONERA – The French Aerospace Lab</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Palaiseau, France</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Phone: (+33) 1 80 38 66 06</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> Email: </span><a href="mailto:ali.hebbal@onera.fr" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">ali.hebbal@onera.fr</a><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">International Program Committee*:</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the symposium technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">(* IPC formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.)</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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<span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about
the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: </span><a href="http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> or
</span><a href="http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20" style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20</a><span style="font-family: ArialMT;" class=""> or contact one of the Conference's organizers.</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT;" class="">
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