<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">1st Call for Participation - SPIRE 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">SPIRE 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">24th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">September 26th-29th, 2017, Palermo,Italy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Flavio Chierichetti (Sapienza Università di Roma)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Moshe Lewenstein (Bar Ilan University)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">- Stéphane Vialette (CNRS & Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">ACCEPTED PAPERS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#accepted_papers" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#accepted_papers</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">REGISTRATION</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#registration" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#registration</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Early Registration Deadline: July 29th, 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Late Registration Deadline: September 11th, 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">VENUE</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#location_and_venue" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/#location_and_venue</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Palermo is a city of Southern Italy. The city is noted for its history,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">culture, architecture and gastronomy. Palermo is located in the </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">northwest of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Palermo in </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the Mediterranean sea. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The conference will be held at Eurostars Centrale Palace**** hotel, located </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">just near the Quattro Canti square (at the crossing of the main streets of </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Palermo historical center: via Maqueda and via Vittorio Emanuele). The square </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">is at the core of the UNESCO’s World Heritage "Arab-Norman Palermo </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and the Cathedral Churches of Cefalù and Monreale".</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">WORKSHOP</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 135, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/wcta.html" class="">http://pages.di.unipi.it/spire2017/wcta.html</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The 12th Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">will be held on September 29th, 2017 (in the same hotel of the main conference)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div></body></html>