INFORMS Telecommunications Conference 2018
University of Hamburg, Germany, May 23-25, 2018
Thank you very much for making this conference such a great success!
The Fourteenth INFORMS Telecommunications Conference was held on May 23-25, 2018 at the University of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the conference focused 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 was organized by the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Hamburg.
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- Conference Program and Presentations
- Conference Topics
- Important Dates for Post-Conference Proceedings
- Conference Fees
- Conference Chair
- Program Co-Chairs
- Information on the Proceedings
- Conference Venue
Conference Program and Presentations
For attendees only! NEW slides included on June 19! Here you can find collected slides of the presentations held during the conference. In order to access these slides, please read the instructions that will be send to you by e-mail through the RegOnline system.
DAY 1: Wednesday, May 23 |
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09:00-10:00 |
Stefan Voß | Plenary | Lecture Hall 6 |
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10:00-10:30 |
Coffee Break | Museum | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Chair: Abdullah Konak |
Session 1: Network Optimization I | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Debasis Mitra and Qiong Wang | Dynamical Network Model and Optimum Operating Strategies for Knowledge-Reliant Organizations | ||
| Ahlam Mouaci, Ivana Ljubic, Nancy Perrot, Eric Gourdin and Fabio Furini | Benders Decomposition for Virtual Network Functions Placement and Routing Problem (VNFP-RP) | ||
| Abdullah Konak and Sadan Kulturel-Konak | Distributed Algorithms for Exploring Unknown Networks | ||
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | Museum | |
| 13:30-15:30 |
Chair: Leonard Heilig |
Session 2: Routing and Allocation | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Yulia Anoshkina and Frank Meisel | Technician Teaming and Routing with Service-, Cost- and Fairness-Objectives | ||
| Ivana Ljubic, Ashwin Arulselvan and Andreas Bley | MIP Modeling of Incremental Connected Facility Location | ||
| Tung Bui | Toward the Institutionalization of Communication Practices in Social Media Platforms | ||
| Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, Angelo Trotta, Marco Di Felice, Enrico Natalizio and Kaushik Roy Chowdhury | Towards an energy-efficient Video Surveillance of Cities by UAVs | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | Museum | |
| 16:00-18:00 | Chair: Tung Bui |
Session 3: Network Optimization II | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Grigory Pastukhov, Alexander Veremyev, Vladimir Boginski and Oleg Prokopyev | On the Maximum Degree‐Based γ‐quasi‐Clique Problem | ||
| Foad Mahdavi Pajouh | Minimum Edge Blocker Clique Problem | ||
| Martin Baumung, Christian Behre, Hans-Jürgen Sebastian and Dieter Pütz | Optimizing large multi-layered Wide Area Telecommunication Networks | ||
| Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, Silvia Schwarze, and Stefan Voß | A Matheuristic Approach for the p-cable Trench Problem | ||
DAY 2: Thursday, May 24 |
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| 09:00-09:45 |
Dr. Felix Wissel, Deutsche Telekom Chair: Matthias Fricke, Deutsche Telekom |
Session 4: Keynote: Quantum Key Distribution (from a network providers' point of view) |
Lecture Hall 6 |
| 09:45-10:30 | Coffee Break | Museum | |
| 10:30-11:45 | Chair: Ivana Ljubic |
Session 5: Robust Optimization and Scaling | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Vladimir Boginski | Critical Nodes in Interdependent Networks with Deterministic and Probabilistic Cascading Failures | ||
| Seung Min Baik and Young Myoung Ko | Distributed Speed Scaling and Workload Routing Algorithm for Large-scale Data Centers: A Second-Order Approach | ||
| 11:45-13:00 | Lunch | Museum | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Chair: Sadan Kulturel-Konak |
Session 6: Game Theory Applications | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Debasis Mitra and Abhinav Sridhar | The Case for Formation of Service-Content Provider Consortiums by Nash Bargaining for Internet Content Delivery | ||
| Soheil Sibdari | Persuasive Advertising and Price Competition for a Multi-Attribute Product | ||
| Sadan Kulturel-Konak and Abdullah Konak | Solving the Competitive Facility Location Problem- A Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm | ||
| 14:30-15:30 | Chair: Michael Bartolacci | Session 7: Best PhD Thesis Award | Lecture Hall 6 |
| 16:00-18:00 | INFORMS Telecommunications Section Meeting | ||
| 19:00-open | Conference Dinner | info below | |
DAY 3: Friday, May 25 |
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| 09:00-11:00 | Chair: Leonard Heilig |
Session 8: Machine Learning Applications | Lecture Hall 6 |
| Veena Mendiratta, Cheolmin Kim and Marina Thottan | Unsupervised Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Mobile Networks | ||
| Lei Lei, Lei You, Di Yuan, Symeon Chatzinotas and Björn Ottersten | Efficient Resource Optimization in Wireless Networks: A Deep-Learning Assisted Approach | ||
| Mateusz Zotkiewicz | Classifiers in Repeatable Optimization Problems | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break | Museum | |
| 11:30 | Closing Ceremony | Lecture Hall 6 | |
The Conference Dinner took place aboard the MS Concordia.
Topics for the Conference included among others
- Telecommunications modeling, policy and technology
- Network economics
- Network design
- Traffic routing
- Network optimization
- Network algorithms and metaheuristics
- Sensor networks
- Wireless and broadband networks
- Vehicle and mobile computing
- Cloud computing and fog computing
- Semantic networks
- Network survivability and reliability
- Information security and privacy
- Game theory applications
- Internet and multimedia
- Data mining and big data applications
Important Dates for Post-Conference Proceedings in the Jounal Netnomics
Please check back soon for more information.
Conference Fees
| Status | Early Registration in € | Regular Registration in € |
| member | 360 | 410 |
| non-member | 410 | 485 |
| student | 160 | 210 |
Conference Chair
- Prof. Dr. Stefan Voß
Program Co-Chairs
- Dr. Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz
- Dr. Leonard Heilig
Information on Proceedings
Please submit your papers to EasyChair . An abstract of a maximum of 2000 characters is required for each presentation, whether it is a single presentation or part of an organized session (not containing formulas, references or abbreviations). The paper length shall not exceed 15 pages. Extensions of the page limit are subject to discussion with the organizing team.
Selected papers will be proposed for fast-track refereeing and publication in a special issue of Netnomics (http://www.springer.com/journal/11066).
Conference Venue
The conference venue were the lecture halls 5 and 6 at the Geomatikum at Bundesstraße 55, 20146 Hamburg:
