FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIRE 2013
20th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval

 7-9 October, 2013
Jerusalem, Israel

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://websrv.cs.biu.ac.il/spire2013

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

2 May 2013 (Anywhere on Earth)

INTRODUCTION

SPIRE 2013 is the 20th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. The first four editions of the conference focused primarily on string processing and were held in South America under the title WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). WSP was transformed into SPIRE in 1998, when the scope of the conference was broadened to include information retrieval. This was motivated by the increasing relevance of information retrieval and its close inter- relationship with string processing. The last three SPIRE conference sites have been in Los Cabos, Mexico (2010), Pisa, Italy (2011), Cartagena de Indias, Colombia (2012). The conference proceedings have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series since 2002. This tradition continues also in 2013.

 LOCATION

SPIRE 2013 will be organized by the Computer Science Department of Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The conference will take place in Jersalem, Israel. Jerusalem, the capital of Israel is one of the oldest cities of the world. Jerusalem is a holy city to the monotheistic religions and has some of the world’s most important religious sites. Moreover, it is world-known for it’s archeological sites portraying a rich history dating back to King David. The old city has four quarters each with a distinct flavor. Modern Jerusalem has many restaurants and cultural centers while retaining the unique spirit of stone buildings and its semi-religious flavor.

 TOPICS

SPIRE 2013 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, semi-structured data, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern matching, text indexing, text data structures, text and sequence compression, text mining, natural language processing, and automata based string processing.

* Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation, algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search, (micro) blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital libraries.

* Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, evolution and phylogenetics, recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and sequence driven protein structure prediction.

WORKSHOPS

We have reserved October 10^th for possible workshops. More details will be posted on the conference website.

SUBMISSION

SPIRE 2013 will invite submissions in two categories: long papers (12 pages) and short papers (6 pages). Submissions should be anonymous and formatted using LNCS style. At least three reviewers will evaluate each paper based on its originality, quality and significance of theoretical and/or practical contribution, the validity and robustness of the used methodology, and the overall contribution to our understanding of the context of the work. More detailed submission instructions will be posted on the conference website. The submission server will be easychair.

GENERAL CHAIR

Amihood Amir, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS

- Oren Kurland, Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion
- Moshe Lewenstein, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
- Ely Porat, Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giambattista Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni)

Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan University and Johns Hopkins University)

Alberto Apostolico (Univ. of Padova and Georgia Tech)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)

Ayelet  Butman (Holon Institute of Tecnology)

Raphael Clifford (University of Bristol)

Carsten Eickhoff Delft University of Technology)

Johannes Fischer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark)

Roberto Grossi (Universita' di Pisa)

Shunsuke Inenaga (Kyushu University)

Markus Jalsenius (University of Bristol)

Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam)

Tsvi Kopelowitz (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Gad M. Landau (Haifa University)

Avivit Levy (Shenkar College, Israel)

Stefano Lonardi (UC Riverside)

Andrew Mcgregor (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Alistair Moffat (The University of Melbourne)

Ian Munro (University of Waterloo)

Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)

Yakov Nekrich (University of Kansas)

Krzysztof Onak (IBM Research)

Benjamin Sach (University of Bristol)

Srinivasa Rao Satti (University of Aarhus)

Rahul Shah (Louisiana State Univeristy)

Chris Thachuk (University of Oxford)

Dekel Tsur (Ben Gurion University)

Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki)

Oren Weimann (University of Haifa)

David Woodruff (IBM Almaden)

Guido Zuccon (CSIRO)

 

 

ORGANZING COMMITTEE

{Amihood Amir
Tomi Klein
Moshe Lewenstein
Ely Porat}  @  Dept. of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University

IMPORTANT DATES  

May 2:        Deadline for paper submission
June 25:      Notification to authors
July 25:      Camera-ready version due