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--></style></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Final CFP for CPM 2025 in Milan, Italy</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><a href="https://cpm2025.pangenome.eu"><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>https://cpm2025.</span></a></span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC'><a href="http://pangenome.eu"><span lang=EN-US>pangenome.eu</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>================================</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Call for papers]</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><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 class=apple-converted-space> </span>Extended versions of best papers will be invited to be submitted to Algorithmica.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Two call rounds]</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Topics of Interest]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Bioinformatics and computational biology</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Coding and data compression</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Combinatorics on words</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Data mining</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Information retrieval</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Natural language processing</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Pattern discovery</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- String algorithms</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- String processing in databases</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Symbolic computing</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Text searching and indexing</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Keynote speakers]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Nicola Prezza (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Kunihiko Sadakane (Tokyo, University, Japan)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Important dates]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- First round call submission (closed)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Second round call submission deadline: February 21, 2025 (AoE)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Author notification: March 21, 2025</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>- Conference: June 17-19, 2025</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Submission]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span 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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2025"><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpm2025</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Submission format]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span 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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span 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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span 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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal.</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span 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 style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><br><br style='caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>[Programme Committee]</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Amihood Amir (Bar Ilan University, Israel)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Hideo Bannai (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Giulia Bernardini (University of Trieste, Italy)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milano -Bicocca, Italy), co-chair</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Manuel Cáceres (Aalto University, Finland)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Bastien Cazaux (University of Lille, CNRS, France)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Panagiotis Charalampopoulos (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Nadia El-Mabrouk (University of Montreal, Canada)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Johannes Fischer (TU Dortmund, Germany)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Travis Gagie (Dalhousie University, Canada)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Wroclaw, Poland)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jan Holub (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu University, Japan)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dominik Kempa (Stony Brook University, USA)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Tomasz Kociumaka (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gregory Kucherov (Gustave Eiffel University, France)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Avivit Levy (Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art, Israel)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Veli Mäkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland), co-chair</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Sabrina Mantaci (Università di Palermo, Italy)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile, Chile)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Solon Pissis (CWI, Netherlands)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Cinzia Pizzi (University of Padova, Italy)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Giulia Punzi (University of Pisa, Italy)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Svetlana Puzynina (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Rajeev Raman (University of Leicester, UK)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Joe Sawada (University of Guelph, Canada)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Teresa Anna Steiner (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Jens Stoye (University of Bielefeld, Germany)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Philip Wellnitz (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)</span><span style='font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>