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[DMANET] 17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018) - Call for papers

Call for Papers

17th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2018)
June 27-29, 2018, L'Aquila, Italy
http://cs.gssi.it/sea2018


SEA (Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously known as WEA
(Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is an international forum for
researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation
and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of
combinatorial optimization and its applications. The preceding symposia
were held in Riga, Monte Verità, Rio de Janeiro, Santorini, Menorca
Island, Rome, Cape Cod, Dortmund, Ischia Island, Crete, Bordeaux, Rome,
Copenhagen, Paris, St. Petersburg, and London.

SEA aims to attract papers from both the Computer Science and the
Operations Research/Mathematical Programming communities.

The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and of
algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of
algorithms and data structures. Submissions should present significant
contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological
issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of
(meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the
understanding of the complexity of a problem.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not
limited to:

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Libraries
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Analysis of Algorithms
Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies
Algorithms for the World-Wide-Web
Approximation Techniques
Bioinformatics
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
Communication Networks
Complex Networks
Computational Geometry
Computational Learning Theory
Computational Optimization
Computer Systems
Cryptography and Security
Data Streams
Data Structures
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
Experimental Techniques and Statistics
Graph Drawing
Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning
Information Retrieval
Integer Programming
Logistics and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mathematical Programming
Metaheuristic Methodologies
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Network Analysis
Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
Online Problems
Parallel Algorithms and Computing
Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods
Randomized Techniques
Robotics
Semidefinite Programming
Simulation
Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms
Telecommunications and Networking

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The authors should submit an extended abstract not exceeding 12 pages,
including figures, title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a
short abstract. References will not be counted in the page limit. At
least 10-point font should be used. Authors are strongly advised to use
the LaTeX style file supplied for the LIPIcs style here. Final
proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly marked
Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission limit, can
be included and will be read at the referees' discretion. All
submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for the
conference at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2018

Authors are encouraged to include a link to the source code and/or
datasets to increase confidence in the reproducibility of their
experiments; the code may be read and/or executed at the referees'
discretion.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously
unpublished work or surveys of important results. At the time the
extended abstract is submitted to SEA, and for the entire review period,
the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under review by
any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific
journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to
attend the conference and present the paper.

IMPORTANT DATES

Times AoE (Anywhere on Earth):

Abstract submission: February 8, 2018.
Full paper submission: February 15, 2018.
Acceptance notification: March 27, 2018.
Camera-ready version: April 10, 2018.
Conference dates: June 27-29, 2018.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Giuseppe F. Italiano, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Mauricio G. C. Resende, Amazon.com, Inc.
Dorothea Wagner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Ittai Abraham, VMware Research, Israel
Martin Aumüller, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Vincenzo Bonifaci, IASI-CNR, Italy
David Coudert, Université Côte d'Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France
Maxime Crochemore, Université Paris-Est, France, and King's College
London, UK
Gianlorenzo D'Angelo, GSSI, Italy (Chair)
Mattia D'Emidio, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Simone Faro, University of Catania, Italy
Paola Festa, University of Naples FEDERICO II, Italy
Daniele Frigioni, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Loukas Georgiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece
Ralf Klasing, CNRS - LaBRI - Université de Bordeaux, France
Arie Koster, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy
Andrea Lodi, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Andrea Marino, University of Pisa, Italy
Henning Meyerhenke, University of Cologne, Germany
Matúลก Mihalák, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Nicolas Nisse, Université Côte d'Azur, Inria, CNRS, I3S, France
Mauricio G. C. Resende, Amazon.com Inc., USA
Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France
Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria
Anita Schöbel, University of Göttingen, Germany
Sabine Storandt, University Würzburg, Germany
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, University of Utah, USA
Renato F. Werneck, Amazon.com Inc., USA
Norbert Zeh, Dalhousie University, Canada

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published in the Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) open-access series.

SPECIAL ISSUE

A special issue of selected papers will be published in the ACM Journal
of Experimental Algorithmics.

VENUE

Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), L'Aquila, Italy


FURTHER INFORMATION AND CONTACTS

Web: http://cs.gssi.it/sea2018
Email: sea2018@easychair.org
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