[Opt-Net] CFP (MCDMT 2016) - 2nd Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation (in conjuction with IISA 2016)

[Charalampos Konstantopoulos]

*Apologies for cross-postings*

Call for Papers

2nd Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation
 (MCDMT 2016), July 13, 2016, Chalkidiki, Greece

in association with the

7th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and
Applications  ( IISA 2016 )

(http://iisa2016.unipi.gr/mcdmt/)


Workshop Chairs: Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus,
Greece),  Grammati Pantziou (Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of
Athens, Greece), Stavros Perantonis
(National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos")

The Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine
Transportation (MCDMT 2016) is going to take place in Chalkidiki, Greece, on
July 13, 2016, in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on
Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2016). Nowadays,
advancements on Marine Transportation require the synergy of both computer
science and maritime science and the technical focus of the workshop is upon
the latest developments on Computing Methodologies for Marine
Transportation.

Papers with novel theoretical as well as applied research are welcome for
submission.  We would like to invite papers addressing research efforts that
aim at making sea transportation more effective and safer, targeting complex
and large-scale optimization problems with conflicting criteria, requiring
innovative solution techniques and ideas from mathematical optimization,
theoretical computer science, massive data analysis and operations research.

Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

- Graph and Network algorithms for Marine Transportation
- Combinatorial optimization techniques for Marine Transportation
- Weather Routing
- Environmentally Safe Shipping
- Safety and Security of Maritime Shipping
- Risk and Safety Analysis, Assessment and Prediction
- Piracy Protection
- GIS in Maritime Applications
- Spatiotemporal and Marine Data Handling
- Route Planning and Monitoring
- Maritime Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications: surveillance,
maritime traffic control, anomaly detection, emergency management, situation
recognition, etc. 
- Decision Support Tools for Marine Transportation
- Integration of Heterogeneous Marine Data Sources


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: April 11, 2016
Paper Acceptance Notification: May 16, 2016
Camera Ready Papers:  June 6, 2016

Workshop Program Committee

Eleni Charou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos", Greece

Marco Cococcioni, University of Pisa, Italy

Shahin Gelareh, Universit? d'Artois, France

Ignacy Kaliszewski, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Poland

Zoe Nivolianitou, National Center for Scientific Research "Dimokritos",
Greece

Meng Qiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Joanna Szlapczynska, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland

Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece

Zaili Yang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK			

George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece

Jin Wang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Instructions for Authors

Submitted papers should include original work not previously published or
being under consideration in any journal, conference or other workshop.
Papers should be submitted as a pdf file and follow the IEEE CPS format,
according to the general Instructions for Authors of IISA 2016. See the
IISA2016 Instructions for Authors page for appropriate templates for both
Latex and MS Word. Papers for MCDMT 2016 should be submitted through the
general IISA2016 paper submission system (EasyChair).

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Proceedings of IISA2016 and
will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL,
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that
their paper will be presented at the workshop.