[CPM-SPIRE-L] CFP: 29th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), November 8-10, 2022, Concepción, Chile

[Diego Arroyuelo]

SPIRE 2022 - *29th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval*

November 8-10th, 2022, Concepción, Chile

http://spire2022.inf.udec.cl/

Abstract deadline: June 8th, 2022 (anywhere on Earth)

Paper deadline: June 15th, 2022 (anywhere on Earth)

Notification: August 12th, 2022

Camera-ready due: August 22th, 2020

Early bird registration: TBA

The Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) will be held on November 11th.


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 LOCATION
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SPIRE 2022 will be held in the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad de Concepción, in the city of Concepción, located next to the BioBio river and the Pacific Ocean. Concepción is the second largest city in Chile and can be reached via direct flight from Santiago (about 45 minutes). Universidad de Concepción is the largest educational institution in the city, being also one of the most traditional and prestigious universities in Chile. Its beautiful campus is a touristic attraction by itself, with its famous "campanil" overlooking both the University and the city. The University hosts more than 20 thousand students in its three campuses, and it has become a symbol of pride for the city. Concepción is a vibrant city with many universities, shopping centers, and surrounded by beautiful nature and picturesque locations such as the Dichato beach (for swimming and seafood eating), Caleta Tumbes (with numerous seafood restaurants), and Chiflón del Diablo (a former underground coal mine). Many touristic areas are also relatively close to Concepción, such as Termas de Chillán (a hot spring facility close to the Andes), Pucón (a city surrounded by several National Parks, lakes like Villarrica and Caburgua, hot springs, and the magnificent Villarrica Volcano), and Valdivia (a historical city, close to the sea and surrounded by rivers and a breathtaking natural scenery). Other touristic places in Chile (like San Pedro de Atacama, in northern Chile) can be reached via direct flight from Concepción. The conference will have a hybrid format (on-site + on-line), yet it can change to a full on-line format depending on the pandemic situation in November.


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SCOPE
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All aspects of string processing,  information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications are covered.  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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INVITED SPEAKERS
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TBD


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SUBMISSION
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SPIRE’ 22 invites submissions of length up to 12 pages (excluding references and optional appendices). The reviewing process will be single-blind, namely each submission should be non-anonymous. The submission server will be EasyChair  (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=spire2022). The proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag. The use of either LaTeX or Word LNCS templates is mandatory.  Suitable templates are available at the Springer Website (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted.


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BEST PAPER
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TBA


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COMMITTEES
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Program Committee Chairs:

Diego Arroyuelo (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile)
Barbara Poblete (University of Chile and Amazon, USA)


Program Committee:

TBD

Organizing Committee:

José Fuentes-Sepúlveda (University of Concepción)
Cecilia Hernández (University of Concepción and Centre for Biotechnology and Bioengineering)

Steering Committee:

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Northeastern University, USA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and University of Chile)
Christina Boucher (University of Florida, USA)
Nieves R. Brisaboa (University of A Coruña, Spain)
Thierry Lecroq (University of Rouen Normandy, France)
Simon J. Puglisi, (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Sharma Thankachan (University of Central Florida, USA)
Hélène Touzet (CNRS, Lille, France)
Nivio Ziviani (Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil)


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CONTACT
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For more information about the conference, please contact spire2022 at easychair.org.