<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px">WALCOM 2018 Call for Papers:</p><p style="margin:0px">=========================</p><p style="margin:0px">The
 12th International Conference and Workshop on Algorithms and 
Computation (WALCOM) is intended to provide an international forum for 
researchers working in the areas of algorithms and computation. WALCOM 
2018 will be held during <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date">March 03</span>-
 05, 2018 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is being organized in cooperation 
with IEICE Technical Committee on Theoretical Foundations of Computing 
(COMP), the Special Interest Group for ALgorithms (SIGAL) of the 
Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and the EATCS Japan 
Chapter.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">Scope:</p><p style="margin:0px">======</p><p style="margin:0px">The
 range of topics within the scope of WALCOM includes (but is not limited
 to): Approximation Algorithms; Algorithmic Graph Theory and 
Combinatorics; Combinatorial Algorithms; Combinatorial Optimization; 
Computational Biology; Computational Complexity; Computational Geometry;
 Discrete Geometry; Data Structures; Experimental Algorithm 
Methodologies; Graph Algorithms; Graph Drawing; Parallel and Distributed
 Algorithms; Parameterized Algorithms; Parameterized Complexity; Network
 Optimization; Online Algorithms; Randomized Algorithms; String 
Algorithms.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p></div></div><div>Authors' Instructions:</div><div>=================</div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">Authors
 are invited to submit papers (extended abstracts) describing original 
research of theoretical or practical significance to algorithms and 
computation. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style. Papers 
significantly shorter than 12 pages are also welcome. If the authors 
feel that more details are essential to substantiate the main claim of 
the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read 
at the discretion of the Program Committee. Only electronic submissions 
via Easychair will be allowed (Link: <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=walcom2018" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=walcom2018</a></span>).
 Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must
 not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed 
proceedings or to a journal.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><div><div>Invited Speakers:</div><div>==============</div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://dibattista.dia.uniroma3.it/" target="_blank">Giuseppe Di Battista</a></span><br>Università Roma Tre, Italy<br><br> <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://sci-tech.ksc.kwansei.ac.jp/en/faculty/naoki-katoh/" target="_blank">Naoki Katoh</a></span><br> Department of Informatics<br> Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px"><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Ewongls/" target="_blank">Limsoon Wong</a></span><br> School of Computing and School of Medicine</p><p style="margin:0px">National University of Singapore, Singapore</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">Proceedings:</p><p style="margin:0px">===========</p><p style="margin:0px">Accepted
 papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the 
tradition of the previous editions of WALCOM the proceedings will be 
included in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science.</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Journal Special Issues:</p><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">==================</p><p style="margin:0px">Special issues dedicated to WALCOM 2018 will be published at the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (<span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.jgaa.info/" target="_blank">http://www.jgaa.info/</a></span>) and Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier (<span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-computer-science/" target="_blank">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-computer-science/</a></span>).</p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Venue:</p><p style="margin:0px">======</p><p style="margin:0px">WALCOM 2018 will be held at the Department of CSE, BUET, ECE Building, West Palasi, Dhaka.</p></div></div><div class="gmail-vc_custom_heading" style="text-align:left"><br></div><div class="gmail-vc_custom_heading">Important Dates:<div>==============</div><div><p style="margin:0px">Paper Submission Deadline   :       22 September (<span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date">Friday</span>), 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)</p><p style="margin:0px">Notification of Acceptance      :      17 November (<span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date">Friday</span>), 2017</p><p style="margin:0px">Camera-ready Submission     :      01 December (<span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date">Friday</span>), 2017</p><p style="margin:0px">Conference Dates                   :      03 March – <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171_com_zimbra_date">05 March, 2018</span></p></div><br>Program Committee:</div><div class="gmail-vc_custom_heading" style="text-align:left">=================<div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://tcs.postech.ac.kr/%7Eheekap/" target="_blank">Hee-Kap Ahn</a></span>, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/%7Emjalam/" target="_blank">Muhammad Jawaherul Alam</a></span>, Amazon, USA</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT174_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/bayzid/" target="_blank">Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid</a></span>, BUET, Bangladesh</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT175_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.labri.fr/perso/gblin/" target="_blank">Guillaume Blin</a></span>, Université de Bordeaux, France</li><li><a target="_blank">Jackie Daykin</a>, King’s College, London, UK</li><li><a target="_blank">Amr Elmasry</a>, Alexandria University, Egypt</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT176_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cse.buet.ac.bd/walcom2018/cfp/www.cs.nthu.edu.tw/%7Ewkhon/" target="_blank">Wing-Kai Hon</a></span>, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT177_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Eshhong/" target="_blank">Seok-Hee Hong</a></span>, University of Sydney, Australia</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT178_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://people.uniroma2.it/giuseppe.italiano/" target="_blank">Giuseppe F. Italiano</a></span>, Universita’ di Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT179_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://sunflower.kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/%7Ejj/" target="_blank">Jesper Jansson</a></span>, Kyoto University, Japan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT180_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.labri.fr/perso/klasing/" target="_blank">Ralf Klasing</a></span>, Université Bordeaux 1, France</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT181_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cs.haifa.ac.il/%7Elandau/" target="_blank">Gad M. Landau</a></span>, University of Haifa, Israel</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT182_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Eleonghw/" target="_blank">Hon Wai Leong</a></span>, National University Singapore, Singapore</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT183_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://mozart.diei.unipg.it/liotta/" target="_blank">Giuseppe Liotta</a></span>, University of Perugia, Italy</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT184_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.cs.ucr.edu/%7Estelo/" target="_blank">Stefano Lonardi</a></span>, University of California, Riverside, USA</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT185_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/%7Edmondal/" target="_blank">Debajyoti Mondal</a></span>, University of Waterloo, Canada</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT186_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.dcc.uchile.cl/%7Egnavarro/" target="_blank">Gonzalo Navarro </a></span>, University of Chile, Chile</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT187_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/solon.pissis/" target="_blank">Solon P Pissis</a></span>, King’s College, London, UK</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT188_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.cs.nthu.edu.tw/%7Espoon/" target="_blank">Sheung Hung Poon</a></span>, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT189_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/puglisi/" target="_blank">Simon J Puglisi</a></span>, University of Helsinki, Finland</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT190_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/tomasz.radzik/" target="_blank">Tomasz Radzik</a></span>, King’s College, London, UK</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT191_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://msrahman.buet.ac.bd" target="_blank">M. Sohel Rahman (Co-Chair)</a></span>, BUET, Bangladesh</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT192_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://saidurrahman.buet.ac.bd" target="_blank">Md. Saidur Rahman</a></span>, BUET, Bangladesh</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT193_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cse.buet.ac.bd/faculty/facdetail.php?id=atif" target="_blank">Atif Hasan Rahman</a></span>, BUET, Bangladesh</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT194_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www-imai.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/%7Esada/" target="_blank">Kunihiko Sadakane</a></span>, The University of Tokyo, Japan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT195_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/%7Ebill/cv.shtml" target="_blank">William F. Smyth</a></span>, McMaster University, Canada</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT196_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://ru1.cti.gr/Paul_Spirakis/" target="_blank">Paul Spirakis</a></span>, University of Liverpool and University of Patras, UK and Greece</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT197_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cse.buet.ac.bd/walcom2018/cfp/www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Eksung/" target="_blank">Wing-Kin Sung (Co-Chair)</a></span>, National University Singapore, Singapore</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT198_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.etlab.ice.uec.ac.jp/%7Etomita/index_e.html" target="_blank">Etsuji Tomita</a></span>, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT199_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.jaist.ac.jp/%7Euehara/index-e.html" target="_blank">Ryuhei UEHARA (Co-Chair)</a></span>, JAIST, Japan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT200_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.is.titech.ac.jp/%7Ewatanabe/" target="_blank">Osamu Watanabe</a></span>, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT201_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.informatics.sun.ac.za/ikm/index.php?section=staff&page=watson" target="_blank">Bruce Watson</a></span>, Stellenbosch University, South Africa</li><li><a target="_blank">Sue Whitesides</a>, University of Victoria, Canada</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT202_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cse.buet.ac.bd/walcom2018/cfp/www.csc.liv.ac.uk/%7Epwong/" target="_blank">Prudence Wong</a></span>, University of Liverpool, UK</li><li><span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT203_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/%7Eyen/" target="_blank">Hsu-Chun Yen</a></span>, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</li></ul></div></div><br class="gmail-vc_custom_heading" style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">Awards:</p><p style="margin:0px">======</p><p style="margin:0px">Two
 awards, namely, “The Best Paper” and “The Best Student Paper” will be 
awarded. A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper if all authors 
are students at the time of submission.</p></div></div><h3 style="text-align:left" class="gmail-vc_custom_heading"><br></h3><div class="gmail-wpb_text_column gmail-wpb_content_element"><div class="gmail-wpb_wrapper"><p style="margin:0px">Contact:</p><p style="margin:0px">========</p><p style="margin:0px"><br></p><p style="margin:0px">M. Sohel Rahman<br> Professor & Head<br> Department of CSE<br> BUET, Dhaka-1000<br> Bangladesh<br> E-mail: <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT204_ZmEmailObjectHandler"><a href="mailto:msrahman@cse.buet.ac.bd">msrahman@cse.buet.ac.bd</a></span><br> <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT205_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://msrahman.buet.ac.bd/" target="_blank">http://msrahman.buet.ac.bd/</a></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Wing-Kin Sung<br> Professor of Computer Science<br> National University of Singapore<br> E-mail: <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT206_ZmEmailObjectHandler"><a href="mailto:ksung@comp.nus.edu.sg">ksung@comp.nus.edu.sg</a></span><br> <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT207_com_zimbra_url"><a href="http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/%7Eksung" target="_blank">http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ksung</a></span><br></p><p style="margin:0px">Ryuhei Uehara<br> Professor<br> School of Information Science<br> Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology<br> E-mail: <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT208_ZmEmailObjectHandler"><a href="mailto:uehara@jaist.ac.jp">uehara@jaist.ac.jp</a></span><br> <span class="gmail-Object" id="gmail-OBJ_PREFIX_DWT209_com_zimbra_url"><a href="https://www.jaist.ac.jp/%7Euehara/index-e.html" target="_blank">https://www.jaist.ac.jp/~uehara/index-e.html</a></span><br></p></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. M. Sohel Rahman<br>Professor & Head<br>Department of CSE, BUET<br></div><div>&<br></div><div><span>Senior Member, ACM & IEEE<br>Member, London Mathematical Society<br></span>Address:<br>ECE Building<br>West Palasi<br>Dhaka-1205<br>Bangladesh<br>URL: <a href="http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/msrahman" target="_blank">http://msrahman.buet.ac.bd/</a><br></div><div>Google Scholar: <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IUwFD9gAAAAJ" target="_blank">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IUwFD9gAAAAJ</a> <br></div><div><span>Researchgate</span>:<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad_Rahman42" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad_Rahman42</a><br></div><div> <br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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