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<div class="moz-text-html" lang="x-unicode"> Dear Colleagues<br>
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We would like to draw your attention to an upcoming special
issue of Mathematical Programming B on Optimization Models and
Algorithms for Data Science.<br>
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Data and decisions are more strongly linked in the information
age than ever before. This special issue focuses on modelling
and optimization approaches that deal with large data sets, as
well as applications from business analytics and machine
learning that have emerged in the last decades as data
accumulates from multiple sources such as internet traffic,
social and sensor networks.<br>
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Successful submissions to this call are expected to provide a
substantial methodological contribution to<br>
<ul>
<li><i>data-related modelling issues in optimization</i>,
such as tractable reformulations of problems involving
uncertain data (e.g. using stochastic, robust or
data-driven optimization techniques); or</li>
<li><i>numerical solution schemes for optimization problems
involving large data sets</i>, such as solution
approaches for large, sparse optimization problems or
real-time optimization methods.<br>
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This call is being advertised via the British-French-German
Conference on Optimization 2015
(optimisation.doc.ic.ac.uk/bfg2015). Attendance at the
conference is not a pre-requisite for submitting a paper to
the special issue, however.<br>
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Authors should submit their papers via <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/mapr/">http://www.editorialmanager.com/mapr/</a>
and select article type "S.I.: Data Science — Series B" for
consideration in this special issue.<br>
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Papers will be refereed according to the standards of
Mathematical Programming, Series A. We are requesting that all
papers be submitted using MP style files, and conform to a
maximum of 25 pages. The necessary LaTeX files can be
downloaded at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Edr241/MPB/MPB">www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~dr241/MPB/MPB</a>-
Springer-latex-style-files.zip.<br>
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<b> </b> <b>Deadline for submission of full papers:</b>
December 1, 2015. We aim at completing a first review of all
submissions by May 15, 2016.<br>
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Additional information about the special issue can be obtained
from the guest editors:<br>
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<b>Ruth Misener</b><b><br>
</b>Department of Computing<br>
Imperial College London<br>
London SW7 2AZ, U.K.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:r.misener@imperial.ac.uk">r.misener@imperial.ac.uk</a><br>
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<b>Danny Ralph</b><b><br>
</b>Judge Business School<br>
University of Cambridge<br>
Cambridge CB2 1AG, U.K.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:d.ralph@jbs.cam.ac.uk">d.ralph@jbs.cam.ac.uk</a><br>
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<b>Panos Parpas</b><b><br>
</b>Department of Computing<br>
Imperial College London<br>
London SW7 2AZ, U.K.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:p.parpas@imperial.ac.uk">p.parpas@imperial.ac.uk</a><br>
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<b>Wolfram Wiesemann</b><b><br>
</b>Imperial College Business School<br>
Imperial College London<br>
London SW7 2AZ, U.K.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:ww@imperial.ac.uk">ww@imperial.ac.uk</a><br>
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