The fourth international Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) competition, seventh in the EvAAL series, was hosted by the international IPIN conference in Sapporo, Japan, on 17 September 2017.

The IFIP Networking 2018 Conference (NETWORKING 2018), to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, from 14-16 May 2018 is the 17th event of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6). Accepted papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library and submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

by Ana Cavalcanti (University of York), Laure Petrucci (LIPN, CNRS & Université Paris 13) and Cristina Seceleanu (Mälardalen University)

The yearly workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) was organised as a joint event together with the workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS). The resulting FMICS-AVoCS 2017 workshop took place on 18-20 September in Turin, hosted by the University of Turin.

The 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017) took place at the Senate House and Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 16-18 December 2017. Tutorials were given on Friday 15th of December 2017 and the COST IC1408 CRoNoS Winter Course on Copula-based modelling with R took place the 13-14 December 2017. The conference took place jointly with the 11th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2017).