[CPM-SPIRE-L] SEA 2020 - Final Call for Papers

Simone Faro faro at dmi.unict.it
Wed Jan 1 23:46:26 PST 2020 

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18th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2020)
June 16-18, 2020, Catania, Italy
http://www.sea2020.dmi.unict.it

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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SEA (International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously  
known as Workshop on Experimental Algorithms (WEA), is an  
international forum for researchers in the area of the design,  
analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms,  
as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its  
applications.
The Conference will be held in Catania (Italy) at the Benedictine  
Monastery of ?San Nicolò?, a unique place that tells us about the  
human and historic events of the city on the slope at the foot of  
Etna, from the ancient times until today.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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SEA aims to attract papers from both the Computer Science and the  
Operations Research/Mathematical Programming communities. Submissions  
should present significant contributions supported by experimental  
evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of  
experiments, the use of (meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case  
studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity of a problem.
SEA calls papers for a main general track, covering the above  
concepts, and two specific tracks, covering aspects of string  
processing and aspects of graph theory, as presented below.

Main Track on Experimental Algorithms
This track covers the main themes of the symposium and specifically  
the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in  
the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures. Topics  
include but are not restricted to:
     - Algorithm engineering
     - Algorithmic libraries
     - Analysis of algorithms
     - Algorithms for memory hierarchies
     - Algorithms for the World-Wide-Web
     - Approximation techniques
     - Bioinformatics
     - Branch-and-bound algorithms
     - Combinatorial problems and combinatorial structures
     - Computational geometry and computational optimization
     - Cryptography and security
     - Heuristics for combinatorial optimization
     - Information retrieval
     - Integer programming
     - Logistics and operations management
     - Machine learning and data mining
     - Mathematical programming
     - Metaheuristic methodologies
     - Multiple criteria decision making
     - Novel applications of algorithms in other disciplines
     - Online problems
     - Parallel algorithms and computing
     - Railway optimization using algorithmic methods
     - Randomized techniques
     - Robotics
     - Semidefinite programming
     - Simulation
     - Software repositories and platforms for using algorithms
     - Telecommunications and networking

Track on Experimental Algorithms on Strings
This track covers research in all aspects of experimental algorithms  
on string processing, including but not restricted to:
     - Algorithms for pattern matching in strings
     - Text indexing, data structures for string processing
     - Coding and text compression
     - Compressed data structures
     - Compressed string processing
     - Text mining, 2D pattern matching
     - Automata based string processing
     - Searching for regularities

Track on Experimental Algorithms on Graphs
This track covers research in all aspects of experimental algorithms  
on graphs, including but not restricted to:
     - Design and analysis of sequential, parallel algorithms on graphs
     - Randomized and parameterized algorithms on graphs
     - Distributed graph and network algorithms
     - Structural graph theory with algorithmic or complexity applications
     - Computational complexity of graph and network problems
     - Graph grammars
     - Graph rewriting systems and graph modeling
     - Graph drawing and layouts
     - Graph mining
     - Random graphs and models of the web and scale-free networks


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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 12 pages,  
including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and  
a short abstract. References will not be counted in the page limit. At  
least 10-point font should be used. Authors are strongly advised to  
use the LaTeX style file supplied for the LIPIcs style here. Final  
proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly  
marked Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission  
limit, can be included and will be read at the referees? discretion.  
All submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for  
the conference at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2020

Authors are encouraged to include a link to the source code and/or  
datasets to increase confidence in the reproducibility of their  
experiments; the code may be read and/or executed at the referees'  
discretion.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously  
unpublished work or surveys of important results. At the time the  
extended abstract is submitted to SEA, and for the entire review  
period, the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under  
review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a  
scientific journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be  
expected to attend the conference and present the paper.

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Times AoE (Anywhere on Earth):

     Abstract submission: January 10, 2020
     Full paper submission: January 17, 2020
     Acceptance notification: March 20, 2020
     Camera-ready version: April 10, 2020
     Conference dates: June 16-18, 2020

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INVITED SPEAKERS
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     Martin Aumüller, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
     Stefan Edelkamp, King's College London, UK
     Nicola Prezza, University of Pisa, Italy

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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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     Golnaz Badkobeh, Goldsmiths University of London (UK)
     Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova (Italy)
     Christina Boucher, University of Florida (USA)
     Domenico Cantone (chair), University of Catania (Italy)
     Pierluigi Crescenzi, Université de Paris-IRIF (France)
     Maxime Crochemore, Kings College London (UK)
     Simone Faro (chair), University of Catania (Italy)
     Paola Festa, University of Naples Federico II (Italy)
     Irene Finocchi, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
     Travis Gagie, Dalhousie University (Canada)
     Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
     Oguzhan Kulekci, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
     Susana Ladra, University of A Coruña (Spain)
     Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen Normandy (France)
     Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki (Finland)
     Petra Mutzel, TU Dortmund (Germany)
     Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile (Chile)
     Panos Pardalos, University of Florida (USA)
     Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa (Italy)
     Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
     Simon J. Puglisi, University of Helsinki (Finland)
     Ilya Razenshteyn, Microsoft Research (USA)
     Mauricio Resende, Amazon.com Inc. (USA)
     Marie-France Sagot, INRIA (France)
     Alessandra Sala, Bell Labs (Ireland)
     Peter Sanders, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
     Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna (Austria)
     Sabine Storandt, Universität Konstanz (Germany)
     Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
     Renato Werneck, Amazon.com Inc. (USA)
     Weili Wu, University of Texas at Dallas (USA)

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PROCEEDINGS
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The conference proceedings will be published in the Leibniz  
International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), a series of  
high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics  
established in cooperation with Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for  
Informatics. SEA Proceedings volumes are published according to the  
principle of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available online and free of  
charge.

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SPECIAL ISSUE
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A special issue of selected papers will be published in the ACM  
Journal of Experimental Algorithmics.

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VENUE
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The Conference will be held in Catania (Italy) at the Benedictine  
Monastery of ?San Nicolò?, a unique place that tells us about the  
human and historic events of the city on the slope at the foot of  
Etna, from the ancient times until today.

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FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS
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Web: http://www.sea2020.dmi.unict.it
Email: sea2020 at easychair.org

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