<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont" size="3" color="black"><span style="font-size:12pt" dir="ltr" id="gmail-divtagdefaultwrapper"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt">Announcement: ESA Track S</span><br></div><div>
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Next year, the <span id="gmail-ms-rterangepaste-start"></span>European Symposium on Algorithms <span id="gmail-ms-rterangepaste-end"></span>ESA’22 will have a Track S <br>
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<div>(for Simplicity) inviting contributions that simplify algorithmic results.<br>
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We would like to expand the community around simplification of algorithmic<br>
results, encourage and reward research towards simplification and clarity. <br>
We find that simpler algorithms are easier to implement, bridging the gap<br>
between theory and practice, and we find that new simple or elegant proofs<br>
are easier to understand and to teach, and may contain interesting new<br>
insights whose relevance only the future will reveal.<br>
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Scope: We invite submissions that prove or explain known results in a<br>
much clearer, simpler or more elegant way than done before. Submissions<br>
that improve on the state of the art from a theoretical or practical<br>
viewpoint should instead be submitted to tracks A or B.<br>
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Paper assessment: Contingent on being in scope for ESA, submitted<br>
papers will primarily be judged on the simplicity and elegance of their<br>
proofs or algorithms, and the clarity of their presentation.<br>
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Track S will run as an experiment for the 2022 ESA in Potsdam, Germany. <br>It will have its own PC and PC chair, and the submission/acceptance<br>
deadlines follow the schedule for tracks A and B.<span style="font-size:12pt"> </span><br><br>--<br>Eva Rotenberg</div></span></font></div></div>