Notification:                     ** March 31, 2015   **
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SCOPE:   Papers in all areas related to combinatorial pattern
matching and its applications are sought,  including,   but not
limited to:  bioinformatics and computational  biology,  coding
and data compression,  combinatorics on words,  information
retrieval,  data  mining, natural language processing,  pattern
discovery, string  algorithms, string  processing in databases,
and text searching.

Both papers reporting on  original research unpublished else-
where and surveys of important results are welcome.  

PROCEEDINGS: The  proceedings  will  be published  in the  
Springer-Verlag  series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.  

SPECIAL ISSUE: A selection of papers presented at the
conference will be invited to a special issue of ALGORITHMICA
dedicated to CPM 2015.


IMPORTANT DATES:

February 2, 2015: Abstract submission due
February 9, 2015: Paper Submission  due

March 31, 2015: Notification of acceptance or rejection
April 15, 2015:  Camera-ready due
 

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Sorin Istrail (Brown University, USA)
• Rasmus Pagh (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue University, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

• Francine Blanchet-Sadri (University of North Carolina, USA)
• Timothy Chan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Ferdinando Cicalese (University of Salerno, Italy, co-chair)
• Raphaël Clifford (University of Bristol, UK)
• Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Travis Gagie (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Leszek Gąsieniec (University of Liverpool, UK)
• Raffaele Giancarlo (University of Palermo, Italy)
• Inge Li Gørtz (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Roberto Grossi (University of Pisa, Italy)
• John Iacono (New York University, USA)
• Tsvi Kopelowitz (University of Michigan, USA)
• Gregory Kucherov (Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France)
• Eduardo Sany Laber (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
• Gad Landau (University of Haifa, Israel)
• Jesper Larsson (Malmö University, Sweden)
• Noa Lewenstein (Netanya College, Israel)
• Stefano Lonardi (University of California, Riverside, USA)
• Veli Mäkinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Ian Munro (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile, Chile)
• Ely Porat (Bar-Ilan University, Israel, co-chair)
• Simon Puglisi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Kunihiko Sadakane (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Marie-France Sagot (INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France)
• Tatiana Starikovskaya (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
• Jens Stoye (Bielefeld University, Germany)
• Oren Weimann (University of Haifa, Israel)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Ferdinando Cicalese (University of Salerno, Italy)
• Travis Gagie (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Luisa Gargano (University of Salerno, Italy)
• Zsuzsanna Lipták (University of Verona, Italy)
• Ugo Vaccaro (University of Salerno, Italy)

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Alberto Apostolico (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Maxime Crochemore (King's College London, UK)
• Zvi Galil (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)


Further details are available at the symposium web site:

http://www.cpm2015.di.unisa.it