<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">SPIRE 2018<br></div><div dir="ltr">25th International Symposium on<br>String Processing and Information Retrieval<br>October 9-11, 2018, Lima, Peru<br><br><br>**********************************************<br>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br>**********************************************  <br><br>We are happy to invite you to participate in the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), to be held in six week's time in Lima.  The program is now available on the conference website (<a href="https://eventos.spc.org.pe/spire2018" target="_blank">https://eventos.spc.org.pe/spire2018</a>) and includes invited talks by Philip Bille, Natasa Przulj and Rossano Venturini.  The first day of SPIRE will be the last day of the 11th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP, <a href="http://www.sisap.org/2018">http://www.sisap.org/2018</a>) and there will be a common program, so SPIRE attendees can also hear Moshe Vardi's invited talk.<br><br>The full registration fee is $480 US until August 31st and $564 US after that.  The student registration fee is $306 US until August 31st and $368 after that.  If SPIRE participants wish to attend the first two days of SISAP, which are not shared, then they may register to do so for $100.  (The excursion to the Pachacamac archeological site and the conference banquet are shared.)<br><br>The day after SPIRE will be the 13th Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA), which is an an opportunity for early-stage researchers to present and discuss their work without preventing its inclusion in later events (since there are no published proceedings for WCTA).  Thanks to funding from the BIRDS MSCA RISE 2015 project, WCTA is able to offer some travel grants.<br><br>*** The deadline to submit an abstract to WCTA is September 3rd, which is also the deadline to submit an application for a travel grant. ***<br><br>More details about SPIRE can be found below and on the conference website.<br><br>We look forward to seeing you in Lima!<br><br>Travis Gagie, Alistair Moffat and Gonzalo Navarro<br>SPIRE PC Chairs<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">**********************************************<br>LOCATION<br>**********************************************<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>**********************************************<br>SCOPE<br>**********************************************<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>**********************************************<br>BEST PAPER<br>**********************************************<br><br>A Best Paper Award, worth 1000 euros and sponsored by Springer, will</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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">be given to the author(s) of the most outstanding work included in the</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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">proceedings of SPIRE 2018 and presented at the event.</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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">**********************************************<br>SISAP AND WORKSHOPS<br>**********************************************<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" 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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Paweł Gawrychowski and Nicola Prezza and sponsored by the</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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><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" 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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">The venue for both workshops will be the same as for SPIRE.<br><br>**********************************************<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>**********************************************<br><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-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">Main conference: 9th-11th October, 2018<br>Workshops: 8th and 12th October, 2018<br><br>**********************************************<br>INVITED SPEAKERS<br>**********************************************<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">****************</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-inde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University of California Santa Cruz<br>- Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore<br>- Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida<br>- Andrew Trotman, University of Otago<br>- Przemysław Uznański, ETH Zürich<br>- Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev<br>- Guido Zuccon, Queensland University of Technology<br><br>Organizing Committee Chair:<br>Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC)<br><br>Steering Committee:<br>- Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra<br>- Gabriele Fici, Universita' di Palermo<br>- Costas Iliopoulos, King's College London<br>- Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University<br>- Simon Puglisi, University of Helsinki<br>- Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais<br>- Kunihiko Sadakane, University of Tokyo<br>- Tetsuya Sakai, Waseda University<br>- Marinella Sciortino, Universita' di Palermo<br>- Rossano Venturini, Universita' di Pisa<br>- Emine Yilmaz, University College London<br>- Nivio Ziviani, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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