[CPM-SPIRE-L] SPIRE 2016 - First CFP

[Shunsuke Inenaga]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIRE 2016
23rd International Symposium on
String Processing and Information Retrieval
October 18-20, 2016, Beppu, Oita, Japan

https://sites.google.com/site/spire2016jp/home

Abstract submission: May 9, 2016 (AoE)
Paper submission: May 16, 2016 (AoE)
Notification: June 27, 2016

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LOCATION
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SPIRE 2016 will be organized by the Department of Informatics, Kyushu 
University, Japan. The conference will take place in the city of Beppu, 
Oita prefecture, Japan. Beppu, one of the most popular hot spring 
resorts in Japan, can be reached in about 2 hours by train/bus from 
Fukuoka, the capital of the Kyushu Island in Japan. With approx. 2,000 
sources of hot springs, Beppu offers various types and shapes of baths 
and, eight famous fiery hot springs so-called "Hells of Beppu" for 
viewing rather than bathing. The conference venue will be the Suginoi 
resort hotel, located on a hill with a nice view to the downtown of 
Beppu and the ocean.

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SCOPE
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SPIRE 2016 covers research in all aspects of string processing, 
information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications. 
Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data 
structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data 
structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern 
matching, automata based string processing.

- Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation, 
algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR 
systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text 
analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic 
modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop 
search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search, (micro) 
blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital libraries.

- Computational Biology: high-throughput DNA sequencing (assembly, read 
alignment, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, 
proteomics), evolution and phylogenetics, gene and regulatory element 
recognition, motif finding, protein structure prediction

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SUBMISSION
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SPIRE 2016 will invite submissions in two categories: long papers (12
pages) and short papers (6 pages). Unlike the past editions of SPIRE, 
the reviewing process of SPIRE 2016 will be single-blind, namely, each 
submission should be **non-anonymous**. The submission server will be 
easychair. The proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of 
Springer-Verlag.

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WORKSHOPS
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The following workshops will be organized before SPIRE 2016.

String Masters in Fukuoka: October 12-14, 2016 (in Fukuoka)
Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA):
October 17, 2016 (in Beppu)

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: May 9, 2016 (AoE)
Paper submission: May 16, 2016 (AoE)   ** firm **
Notification: June 27, 2016
Final version: July 11, 2016
String Masters in Fukuoka: October 12-14, 2016
WCTA: October 17, 2016
SPIRE Symposium: October 18-20, 2016

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Koji Tsuda (University of Tokyo)
- TBA
- TBA

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COMMITTEES
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Program Committee Chairs:
- Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu University)
- Kunihiko Sadakane (University of Tokyo)
- Tetsuya Sakai (Waseda University)

Program Committee:
- Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow)
- Philip Bille (Technical University of Denmark)
- Praveen Chandar (University of Delware)
- Raphael Clifford (University of Bristol)
- Shane Culpepper (RMIT University)
- Zhicheng Dou (Renmin University of China)
- Hui Fang (University of Delaware)
- Simone Faro (University of Catania)
- Johannes Fischer (TU Dortmund)
- Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! JAPAN Research)
- Travis Gagie (University of Helsinki)
- Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Warsaw)
- Simon Gog (University of Melbourne)
- Roberto Grossi (Universita' di Pisa)
- Ankur Gupta (Butler University)
- Wing-Kai Hon (National Tsing Hua University)
- Makoto P. Kato (Kyoto University)
- Gregory Kucherov (CNRS/LIGM)
- Moshe Lewenstein (Bar Ilan University)
- Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University)
- Mihai Lupu (Vienna University of Technology)
- Florin Manea (Christian-Albrechts-Universität)
- Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)
- Yakov Nekrich (University of Waterloo)
- Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
- Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow)
- Simon Puglisi (University of Helsinki)
- Hiroshi Sakamoto (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
- Leena Salmela (University of Helsinki)
- Srinivasa Rao Satti (Seoul National University)
- Young-In Song (Wider Planet)
- Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia)
- Kazunari Sugiyama (National University of Singapore)
- Aixin Sun Nanyang (Technological University)
- Wing-Kin Sung (National University of Singapore)
- Julián Urbano (University Carlos III of Madrid)
- Sebastiano Vigna (Universita' degli Studi di Milano)
- Takehiro Yamamoto (Kyoto University)

Organizing Committee:
- Hideo Bannai (Kyushu University)
- Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu University)

Steering Committee:
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)
- Maxime Crochemore (King's College London)
- Costas Iliopoulos (King's College London)
- Oren Kerland (Technion)
- Moshe Lewenstein (Bar-Ilan University)
- Ely Porat (Bar-Ilan University)
- Simon J. Puglisi (University of Helsinki)
- Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais)
- Edleno Silva de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas)
- Emine Yilmaz (University College London)