PDADS-2023: The Third International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Decision Sciences Salt Lake City, UT, United States, August 7-10, 2023 |
Conference website | https://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/PDADS2023/index.html |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdads2023 |
Submission deadline | June 3, 2023 |
The goal of this workshop is to create a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners to present, discuss and collaborate on new results/ideas in the intersection of algorithms research, computational sciences, decision sciences and optimization. There is a growing recognition that a variety of use-cases in modern science and engineering, including social sciences and engineering applications, are poised to benefit from fast real-time decision-making capabilities. Increasingly powerful computing technologies are expected to solve optimization and decision science problems that were considered computationally prohibitive for integration within scientific and engineering workflows, especially those needing real-time decision-making capabilities. The workshop encourages topics on the theory, design and applications of novel methods and algorithms for different types of optimization problems that arise within the broader purview of decision-making capabilities in areas such as scientific/engineering workflows, logistics, transportation and urban planning, public health, manufacturing, energy (e.g., electric grids), digital twin systems (e.g., precision agriculture, smart cities, earth systems), operations management, machine learning, finance and others. Both regular papers as well as short position papers describing work-in-progress with innovative ideas related to the workshop topics are being solicited.
Important Dates
For information on PDADS 2023, please visit: https://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/PDADS2023/index.html .
IMPORTANT DATES
- Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 3, 2023 (AoE)
- Author Notification: June 24, 2023 (AoE)
- Camera-Ready Deadline: June 30, 2023 (AoE)
- Workshop: August 7, 2023
Submission Guidelines
This workshop will focus on R&D efforts in cross-cutting areas at the intersection of algorithms research, computational sciences, decision sciences and optimization. Both regular papers as well as short position papers describing work-in-progress with innovative ideas related to the workshop topics are being solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Parallel algorithms for integer/mixed-integer programming, linear/nonlinear programming, stochastic programming, robust optimization, combinatorial optimization, feasibility problems (SAT, CP, etc.).
- Parallel heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms.
- Parallel evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, ant colonies, other.
- Parallel local and complete search methods.
- Learning approaches for optimization in parallel and distributed environments.
- Parallel and distributed approaches for parameter tuning, simulation-based optimization, and black box optimization.
- Parallel algorithm portfolios.
- Quantum optimization algorithms.
- Use of randomization techniques for scalable decision support systems.
- Application of decision support systems on novel computing platforms (shared/distributed memory, edge devices, cloud platforms, field programable gate arrays, quantum computers, etc.).
- Use of parallel computing for timely and/or higher quality decision support.
- Theoretical analysis of convergence and/or complexity of parallel optimization algorithms and decision support systems.
- Optimization techniques in machine learning, such as high-performance first and higher order iterative optimization algorithms for minimizing loss and optimizing weight and bias tensors.
- Application-centric manuscripts involving optimizations for decision-making capabilities in systems such as logistics, transportation and urban planning, public health, manufacturing, energy (e.g., electric grids), digital twin systems (e.g., precision agriculture, smart cities, earth systems) operations management, finance and other areas are especially encouraged.
- Novel AI applications in systems and decision sciences on massively parallel computers.
Committees
Program Committee
- TBD
Organizing committee
- Sudip K. Seal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Yan Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Meinolf Sellman, Shopify
- Jim Ostrowski, Universoty of Tennessee
Publication
The Second PDADS-2023 Workshop Proceedings will be published as a separate volume along with the ICPP 2023 conference proceedings. More details coming soon!
Venue
The conference will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and co-hosted with the 52nd International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) between August 7-10, 2023.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to yanliu@ornl.gov or sealsk@ornl.gov