<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:12.8px">FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div dir="ltr"><br>SPIRE 2018<br>25th International Symposium on<br>String Processing and Information Retrieval<br>October 9-11, 2018, Lima, Peru<br><br><a href="http://eventos.spc.org.pe/spire2018/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://eventos.spc.org.pe/spir<wbr>e2018/</a><br><br>Paper submission: May 18, 2018 (anywhere on Earth)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>***Abstracts must be submitted by May 18th but we will allow papers</div><div>to be updated until May 25th (23:59 AoE)***</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Notification: July 9, 2018<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>LOCATION<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>SPIRE 2018 will take place in Lima, the capital of Peru.<br>The area around Lima had already been inhabited for centuries<br>when Spanish troops founded the city in 1535. In 1542 it was<br>made the seat of the Viceroyalty of Peru, which contained most<br>of Spanish-ruled South America, and in 1551 the oldest<br>continuously-functioning university in the Americas was founded<br>there. Lima is located on the Pacific coast and is famed for<br>its beaches and cuisine. October is early spring and the<br>temperatures are usually around 20 degrees Celsius or 68 degrees<br>Fahrenheit, both highs and lows. There are direct flights from<br>New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Mexico City, Madrid, Paris,<br>Amsterdam and many major cities in South America, and visitors<br>from Asia and Oceania can arrive via Santiago de Chile, for example.<br>The conference venue will be the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología<br>(UTEC), winner of the inaugural RIBA International Prize for<br>architecture and described by The Guardian as "Peru's modern-day<br>Machu Picchu", across the street from the Museum of Modern Art<br>and a 15-minute walk from the beach.<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>SCOPE<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>SPIRE 2018 covers research in all aspects of string processing,<br>information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications.<br>Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):<br><br>- String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data<br>structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data<br>structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern<br>matching, automata-based string processing.<br><br>- Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation,<br>algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR<br>systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text<br>analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic<br>modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop<br>search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search, (micro)<br>blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital libraries.<br><br>- Computational Biology: high-throughput DNA sequencing (assembly, read<br>alignment, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics,<br>proteomics), evolution and phylogenetics, gene and regulatory element<br>recognition, motif finding, protein structure prediction.<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>SUBMISSION<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>SPIRE 2018 invites submissions in two categories: long papers (up to 12<br>pages, excluding references and optional appendices) and short papers<br>(up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices). The<br>reviewing process of SPIRE 2018 will be single-blind, meaning submissions<br>should not be anonymous. The submission server will be EasyChair<br>(<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire18" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/confere<wbr>nces/?conf=spire18</a>).<br>The proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag.<br>The use of either LaTeX or Word LNCS templates is mandatory.<br>Suitable templates are available at the Springer Website<br>(<a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://www.springer.com/gp/c<wbr>omputer-science/lncs/conferenc<wbr>e-proceedings-guidelines</a>).<br>Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title<br>page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given.<br>Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings<br>is not permitted.<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>BEST PAPER<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>A Best Paper Award, worth 1000 euros and sponsored by Springer, will</div><div dir="ltr">be given to the author(s) of the most outstanding work included in the</div><div dir="ltr">proceedings of SPIRE 2018 and presented at the event.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span><span> </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks to sponsorship by eBay and Google, we will be able to offer ten $500 US</div><div>student travel grants.  Priority will be given to presenters, women and minorities</div><div>in STEM.  Applications for the grants will be due in early August.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>SISAP AND WORKSHOPS<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>SPIRE 2018 will be co-located with SISAP 2018, the 11th<br>International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications<br>(<a href="http://www.sisap.org/2018" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.sisap.org/2018</a>), which will run October 7th-9th.<br><br>There will be a StringMasters workshop on Monday October 8th,<br>immediately before the conference.<br>The Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) will be held<br>on Friday October 12th, chaired by José Fuentes Sepúlveda,</div><div dir="ltr">Paweł Gawrychowski and Nicola Prezza and sponsored by the</div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">BIRDS MSCA RISE 2015 project</span>.</div><div dir="ltr">The venue for both workshops will be the same as for SPIRE.<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>Paper deadline: May 18th, 2018 (anywhere on Earth)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">***Abstracts must be submitted by May 18th but we will allow papers</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">to be updated until May 25th (23:59 AoE)***</div>

<br>Notification: July 9th, 2018<br>Camera-ready due: July 23rd, 2018<br>Early bird registration: July 23rd, 2018<br>Main conference: 9th-11th October, 2018<br>Workshops: 8th and 12th October, 2018<br><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>INVITED SPEAKERS<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>- Philip Bille, Technical University of Denmark<br>- Natasa Przulj, University College London<br>- Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa<br><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">The invited talks are sponsored by eBay, CeBiB (<a href="http://cebib.cl/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">cebib.cl</a>) and Google.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">REGISTRATION<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Registration will include a copy of the proceedings, a welcome cocktail,<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">coffee breaks, </span>the conference excursion to Pachacamac and the conference dinner.</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Registration fees will be in line with previous years.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span> </div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">SPONSORSHIP</div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">******************************</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><wbr>****************</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Many thanks to our sponsors:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">eBay and Google will each contribute $5000 US for the invited talks and travel grants;</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">CeBiB (<a href="http://cebib.cl/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">cebib.cl</a>) will contribute $2500 US for the invited talks;</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Springer will contribute 1000 euros for the Best Paper Award;</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">BIRDS will sponsor WCTA.</span></div><br>******************************<wbr>****************<br>COMMITTEES<br>******************************<wbr>****************<br><br>Program Committee Chairs:<br>- Travis Gagie, Diego Portales University<br>- Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne<br>- Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile<br><br>Program Committee:<br>- Diego Arroyuelo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María<br>- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br>- Hideo Bannai, Kyushu University<br>- Ilaria Bordino, UniCredit R&D<br>- Christina Boucher, University of Florida<br>- Broňa Brejová, Comenius University<br>- Nieves Brisaboa, Universidade da Coruña<br>- Ruey-Cheng Chen, RMIT University<br>- Shane Culpepper, RMIT University<br>- Fabio Cunial, MPI-CBG<br>- Antonio Fariña, Universidade da Coruña<br>- David Fernández-Baca, Iowa State University<br>- Allyx Fontaine, Université de Guyane<br>- Simon Gog, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br>- Roberto Grossi, Universita' di Pisa<br>- Inge Li Gørtz, Technical University of Denmark<br>- Cecilia Hernandez, Universidad de Concepción<br>- Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsing Hua University<br>- Tomohiro I, Kyushu Institute of Technology<br>- Katharina Jahn, ETH Zürich<br>- Dominik Kempa, University of Helsinki<br>- Roberto Konow, eBay<br>- Gregory Kucherov, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée<br>- Susana Ladra, Universidade da Coruña<br>- Gad M. Landau, University of Haifa and NYU<br>- Yiqun Liu, Tsinghua University<br>- Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki<br>- Matthias Petri, University of Melbourne<br>- Cinzia Pizzi, Universita' di Padova<br>- Giovanna Rosone, Universita' di Pisa<br>- Leena Salm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