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--></style></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Second CFP for CPM 2025 in Milan, Italy</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The 36th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2025) will be held in Milan, Italy, on June 17-19, 2025.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://cpm2025.</span></a><u><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>pangenome.eu</span></u><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Call for papers]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Papers on original research unpublished elsewhere in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications are sought. The proceedings will be published by LIPIcs (of Dagstuhl). </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Two call rounds]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>This edition is piloting a two call rounds system: The First round call aims to select half of the papers and the Second round call the rest. Papers rejected from the First round call can be resubmitted in the Second round call, competing with the solicited fresh submissions. </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Topics of Interest]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Bioinformatics and computational biology</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Coding and data compression</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Combinatorics on words</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Data mining</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Information retrieval</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Natural language processing</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Pattern discovery</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- String algorithms</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- String processing in databases</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Symbolic computing</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Text searching and indexing</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Keynote speakers]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Nicola Prezza (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Kunihiko Sadakane (Tokyo, University, Japan)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Important dates]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- First round call submission deadline: November 16, 2024 (AoE)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Author notification: December 23, 2024</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Second round call submission deadline (tentative): February 21, 2025 (AoE)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Author notification (tentative): March 21, 2025</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Conference: June 17-19, 2025</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Submission]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Submission is through the EasyChair conference system, by using the link below. The submission process requires registration to create an EasyChair account prior to submission.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2025"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2025</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Submission format]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 12 single-spaced pages on A4 paper, excluding the title page (containing title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, a short abstract, and keywords) and the references. The authors are required to use the LaTeX style file supplied by Dagstuhl (LIPIcs). Papers must be submitted as a single file in PDF format.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Additional material intended for the referees but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit. The program code of experimental papers should be made public, with reasonable documentation, such that the PC may evaluate replicability of experimental results.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work and surveys of important results. At the time the extended abstract is submitted to CPM, and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper at the conference as a registered participant. The conference will be held in person at the University of Milano-Bicocca, within easy reach from the city center of Milan, Italy.</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Programme Committee]</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Amihood Amir (Bar Ilan University, Israel)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hideo Bannai (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Giulia Bernardini (University of Trieste, Italy)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milano -Bicocca, Italy), co-chair</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Manuel Cáceres (Aalto University, Finland)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Bastien Cazaux (University of Lille, CNRS, France)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Panagiotis Charalampopoulos (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal, Canada)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Johannes Fischer (TU Dortmund, Germany)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Travis Gagie (Dalhousie University, Canada)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu University, Japan)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dominik Kempa (Stony Brook University, USA)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Tomasz Kociumaka (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gregory Kucherov (Gustave Eiffel University, France)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Avivit Levy (Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Veli Mäkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), co-chair</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sabrina Mantaci (Università di Palermo, Italy)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile, Chile)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Solon Pissis (CWI, Netherlands)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova, Italy)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Giulia Punzi (University of Pisa, Italy)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Rajeev Raman (University of Leicester, UK)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Joe Sawada (University of Guelph, Canada)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Teresa Anna Steiner (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)</span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span 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