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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Dear LSD&LAW 2020 Participant and All, </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">We warmly invite submissions to the LSD&LAW 2020 special issue of the<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">"</span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Algorithmica</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">" </span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">journal
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">CALL FOR PAPERS: </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">This special issue on<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">the journal "</span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Algorithmica</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">"<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">will
be devoted to topics on novel algorithms for biological sequence and structure analysis, phylogeny reconstruction, and combinatorial algorithms. Submissions presenting original research within these areas are invited. </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">This
issue will also contain full versions of selected presentations from<span> </span></span><span style="color:blue"><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/LSD&LAW20/)">LSD&LAW 2020</a> </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)">held at King's College
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<b><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Algorithms and Data Structures</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Complexity Theory</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Graph Theory & Combinatorics</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Combinatorial Optimization</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Sequence analysis</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Online Algorithms</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Streaming Algorithms</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Big data</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Biostatistics</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Image analysis</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Network and graph models</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Scientific data management and data mining</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Machine learning</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Pattern recognition</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Computational evolutionary biology</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">* Computational genomics</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Papers which are pure theory, theory supported by experimentation, and applied research are encouraged.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Papers must contain previously unpublished material.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Survey papers which are relevant to the topics of the special issue are welcome and will be considered at the discretion of the editors.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Submissions by non-participants will be considered subject to relevance.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** All submitted papers will be refereed according to the usual Algorithmica Journal refereeing process, namely a minimum of two reviews but usually three.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Full papers should be submitted via Algorithmica submission server link:</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">choose explicitly in the special issue submission step under 'Additional Information' as<span> </span><b>Article Type S.I.: The 28th London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Please use Algorithmica Journal style, details of which can be found here: </span></p>
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<a href="https://www.springer.com/journal/453/submission-guidelines"><span style="color:blue">https://www.springer.com/journal/453/submission-guidelines</span></a><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">The preliminary schedule:</span></b><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Deadline for submission: 31 August 2020, however, the submission server is open and you can submit your paper before the deadline.<span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<a></a><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** We will do our best to achieve a thorough and fast review process and publish this issue by early 2021.</span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30)"></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">** Please let us know if you intend to submit a manuscript by responding to this email in few days.<br>
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<b><span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Best Regards from the Guest Editors,</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Mai Alzamel</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25,25,25)">Prof. Costas Iliopoulos</span></p>
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