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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Dear LSD&LAW 2020 Participant and All, </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">We warmly invite submissions to the LSD&LAW 2020 special issue of the<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">"</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Algorithmica</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">" </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">journal
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">CALL FOR PAPERS: </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">This special issue on<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">the journal "</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Algorithmica</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">"<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; 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="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">This
issue will also contain full versions of selected presentations from<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: blue"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Finformatics%2Fevents%2FLSD%26LAW20%2F)&data=01%7C01%7Cmai.alzamel%40kcl.ac.uk%7Ce28597848a274b883db308d8122fa235%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=OruBnUUqJLmE3xqbIxKxTeG%2FyqQbesBotXBddfyZoDs%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="Verified" originalsrc="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/LSD&LAW20/)" title="Original URL: https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/LSD&LAW20/). Click or tap if you trust this link." style="margin: 0px">LSD&LAW
2020</a> </span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)">held at King's College London, UK.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Algorithms and Data Structures</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Complexity Theory</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Graph Theory & Combinatorics</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Combinatorial Optimization</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Sequence analysis</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Online Algorithms</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Streaming Algorithms</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Big data</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Biostatistics</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Image analysis</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Network and graph models</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Scientific data management and data mining</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Machine learning</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Pattern recognition</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Computational evolutionary biology</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">* Computational genomics</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">** Papers which are pure theory, theory supported by experimentation, and applied research are encouraged.</span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; 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="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; 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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<b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">The preliminary schedule:</span></b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; 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 style="margin: 0px"> </span><span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<a style="margin: 0px"></a><span style="margin: 0px; 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="margin: 0px; color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Best Regards from the Guest Editors,</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Mai Alzamel</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Prof. Costas Iliopoulos</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Dr. Dimitrios Letsios</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">King’s College London, UK</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">Dr. Nicola Prezza</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(25, 25, 25)">LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy</span></p>
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