ISAAC 2013 Call For Papers

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
ISAAC 2013
The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation
December 16-18, 2013
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
http://www.cs.hku.hk/isaac2013/


The 24th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2013)
will be held in Hong Kong, December 16-18, 2013. The symposium is intended
to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of
computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms
and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are
also welcome.


INVITED SPEAKERS
Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University, USA.
Moni Naor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.


IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: June 15, 2013 (23:59 Honolulu Time)
Notification date: Late August, 2013


PUBLICATION
The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS
series. Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica
and International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.


PAPER SUBMISSION
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas,
techniques, and results, including motivation and a comparison with
related work. The main text, including title, abstract, and references,
should not exceed 11 pages in LNCS style. An optional appendix should be
used to provide proof details that do not fit in the main text. Submitted
papers must describe unpublished work. Authors should not submit papers
with the same results or essentially the same results that are accepted
or published or under review by a conference with refereed proceedings
or a journal. Only electronic submission will be allowed and only pdf
files will be accepted. It will be done via Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2013


AWARDS
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper may be awarded. A paper is eligible
for the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students
at the time of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible,
please add the phrase "Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" in
the abstract.


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Chung-Keung Poon, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hing-Fung Ting, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Leizhen Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Siu-Wing Cheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Tak-Wah Lam, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University, USA
Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH, South Korea
Boris Aronov, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo, Canada
Hubert Chan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jianer Chen, Texas A&M University, USA
Xi Chen, Columbia University, USA
Pavol Hell, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan
Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan
Ming-Yang Kao, Northwestern University, USA
Stefan Kratsch, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
Stefan Langerman, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lap-Chi Lau, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
James Lee, University of Washington, USA
Jian Li, Tsinghua University, China
Hsueh-l Lu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Julian Mestre, University of Sydney, Australia
Pat Morin, Carleton University, Canada
Benjamin Moseley, Toyota Institute of Technology at Chicago, USA
Evanthia Papadopoulou, Universita della Svizerra italiana, Switzerland
Christophe Paul, CNRS, LIRMM, France
Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK
Kunihiko Sadakane, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jan Arne Telle, University of Bergen, Norway
Hing Fung Ting, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Rob van Stee, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
Antoine Vigneron, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology,
Saudi Arabia
Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yajun Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool, UK
Yitong Yin, Nanking University, China
Neal Young, University of California, Riverside, USA
Shengyu Zhang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong