Scope

The spirit of this conference is to gather researchers from different communities but exploiting common advanced methodologies and tools for the purposes of evaluation, design, and model reduction. Traditionally, communities like the Communication Network, Computer Science, Control, Operation Research, and Signal Processing communities are involved in VALUETOOLS but the organization and steering committees encourage any community to contribute and share its know-how with other communities.

Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Performance evaluation techniques

• Advanced simulation tools
  • Simulation of rare events
  • Parallel/distributed simulations
  • Variance reduction techniques
  • Large deviations
  • Hybrid system simulation
• Control theory
  • Optimal control
  • Multiobjective optimization and control
  • Stochastic control
  • Robust control and stabilization
  • Model predictive control
  • Hybrid and switched systems
  • Control and performances
  • Differential games control
• Discrete event systems
  • Petri nets
  • Max-plus algebra
  • Automata, timed automata
• Game Theory
  • Algorithmic game theory
  • Dynamic games
  • Equilibrium analysis
  • Learning in games
  • Mechanism design
• Large system performance analysis
  • Random matrix theory
  • Mean field theory
  • Types
• Learning
  • Learning automata
  • Learning theory
  • Machine learning
  • ODE approximations, stochastic differential equations
• Monte Carlo methods
  • Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
  • Sequential Monte Carlo methods
• Queueing theory
  • Markovian queues and networks
  • Network calculus
  • Analytical methods
  • Approximation methods
  • (In)Sensitivity
  • Dynamic Fluid Models
  • Diffusion models
  • Dam processes
  • Perturbation approaches
  • Control of Queues
• Stochastic models
  • Stochastic geometry
  • Long-range dependence
  • Self-similarity
  • Point processes
  • Traffic models and measurements
• Other important topics
  • Decision theory
  • Game Theory
  • Viability theory
  • Supervisory control
  • Reliability/performability tools
  • Neural networks and decision tools
  • Complex networks

Applications

• Communication networks
• Computer networks (including peer-to-peer systems and traffic control services)
• Computer systems (e.g., grid computing)
• Distributed systems (e.g., distributed control and distributed communication networks)
• Interdisciplinary methodologies (economic, biological and social models)
• Limit performance of detection, estimation, decoding techniques (e.g., Cramer-Rao bounds, Shannon limits)
• Machine learning
• Manufacturing systems and supply chains
• Network information theory
• Optimization
• Resource allocation
• Road traffic and transportation systems
• Secure Networks
• Public utility networks
• Telecommunications

Submission

Submitted papers should be uploaded through the Easychair conference management system. If you don't have an account on Easychair yet, the above link will also allow you to create one. Please prepare the manuscript according to the corresponding guidelines. Once you upload your manuscript, you will be able to update it until the submission deadline. Papers eligible for the best student paper award should be explicitly flagged as "student papers" in the submission page, and they are required to enlist a student as a first author.

Important dates:

Publication and awards

Selected high-quality papers will be invited to Special Issues in several top ranked Journals. A Best Paper and Best Student Paper will be selected by peer reviews and will be acknowledged with awards presented during the social event. All papers (general conference and conference workshops) are eligible for both awards.

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