Final Call for Papers

CPM 2016

27th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching

June 27-29, 2016, Tel Aviv, Israel

https://faculty.biu.ac.il/~cpm2016

HIGHLIGHTS

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1. As of this CPM the CPM proceedings will be in LIPIcs of Dagstuhl - an open access publisher.

2. A best-paper award in memory of Alberto Apostolico will be initiated at CPM 2016.

3. Following CPM, on June 30th, there will be a special day of research in honor of Amihood Amir’s 60th

birthday.

4. Of course, there will be a traditional tour and dinner. The conference hotel is across the street from the beach and wonderful weather is expected. Bikes are available for hotel guests.

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SCOPE: Papers on original research unpublished else-

where 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 and enumeration, string algorithms, string processing

in databases, and text searching.

The proceedings will be published in LIPIcs (Dagstuhl proceedings).  Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Algorithmica.  The Alberto Apostolico best paper award will be awarded during the conference.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Abstract Submission: January 21, 2016              ** Deadline is strict ** (only abstract and title required)

Full Paper Submission: January 28, 2016           ** Deadline is strict **

Notification: March 14, 2016

Final version: April 3, 2016

Symposium: June 27-29, 2016

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Gregory Kucherov,  U. Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée

Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Amir Abboud, Stanford U.

Jérémy Barbay, U. of Chile

Philip Bille, Technical U. of Denmark

Maxime Crochemore, King's College

Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers U.

Pawel Gawrychowski, U. of Wroclaw

Roberto Grossi, U. of Pisa  (chair)

Concettina Guerra, Georgia Tech

Tomohiro I, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu U.

Giuseppe Italiano, U. of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Tsvi Kopelowitz, U. of Michigan

Ravi Kumar, Google

Avivit Levy, Shenkar College

Moshe Lewenstein, Bar-Ilan U.  (chair)

Zsuzsanna Liptak, U. of Verona

Giovanni Manzini, U. of Piemonte Orientale

Ian Munro, U. of Waterloo

Yakov Nekrich, U. of Waterloo

Laxmi Parida, IBM Research

Solon Pissis, King's College

Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan U.

Rajeev Raman, U. of Leicester

Sharma Thankachan, Georgia Tech

Stéphane Vialette, U. Paris-Est

Hjalte Vildhøj, Technical U. of Denmark

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Avivit Levy

Moshe Lewenstein

Noa Lewenstein

Ely Porat

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Maxime Crochemore (King's College London, UK)

• Zvi Galil (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Further details are available at the symposium website: