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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>**Extended Paper Submission Deadline: April 17, 2015**<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1st Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation, July 6, 2015, Corfu, Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>in association with the<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications ( IISA 2015 )<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(<a href="http://iisa2015.unipi.gr/mcdhm-1st-workshop-on-modeling-computing-and-data-handling-for-marine-transportation/">http://iisa2015.unipi.gr/mcdhm-1st-workshop-on-modeling-computing-and-data-handling-for-marine-transportation/</a>)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop Chairs: Charalampos Konstantopoulos (University of Piraeus, Greece), Grammati Pantziou, (Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Athens, Greece), Stavros Perantonis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(National Center for Scientific Research “Dimokritos”)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Workshop on Modeling, Computing and Data Handling for Marine Transportation (MCDMT 2015) is going to take place in Corfu, Greece, on July 6, 2015, in conjunction with the 6th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2015). 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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Submissions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Graph and Network algorithms for Marine Transportation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Combinatorial optimization techniques for Marine Transportation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Weather Routing<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Environmentally Safe Shipping<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Safety and Security of Maritime Shipping<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Risk and Safety Analysis, Assessment and Prediction<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Piracy Protection<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- GIS in Maritime Applications<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Spatiotemporal and Marine Data Handling<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Route Planning and Monitoring<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Maritime Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Applications: surveillance, maritime traffic control, anomaly detection, emergency management, situation recognition, etc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Decision Support Tools for Marine Transportation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Integration of Heterogeneous Marine Data Sources<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Important Dates<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paper Submission Deadline: February 27, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Paper Acceptance Notification: March 27, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Camera Ready Papers: April 15, 2015<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Workshop Program Committee<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Fillia Makedon, Chair, University of Texas at Arlingthon, USA<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Eleni Charou, National Center for Scientific Research “Dimokritos” , Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Stefano Giordano, University of Pisa, Italy <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ignacy Kaliszewski, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zoe Nivolianitou, National Center for Scientific Research “Dimokritos” , Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Maria Grazia Scutellà, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carlos Guedes Soares, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Joanna Szlapczynska, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Yannis Theodoridis, University of Piraeus, Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Theodoros Tzouramanis, University of the Aegean, Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Zaili Yang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>George Vouros, University of Piraeus, Greece<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jin Wang, Liverpool John Moores University, UK <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Instructions for Authors<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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 2015. See the IISA2015 Instructions for Authors page for appropriate templates for both Latex and MS Word. Papers for MCDMT 2015 should be submitted through the general IISA2015 paper submission system (EasyChair).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Proceedings of IISA2015 and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library (IEL, <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org">http://ieeexplore.ieee.org</a>). Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the workshop.<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>