from Stefan Kraft: APPROX 2014 and RANDOM 2014

APPROX 2014 and RANDOM 2014

17th Intl. Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial
Optimization Problems - APPROX 2014
&
18th Intl. Workshop on Randomization and Computation - RANDOM 2014

http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/

Sep. 4-6, 2014
UPC, Barcelona

Call for papers

SCOPE

The 17th. International Workshop on Approximation Algorithms for
Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX'2014), and the 18th.
International Workshop on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM'2014)
will be held on 4-6 September 2014 in Barcelona.
APPROX'2014 focuses on algorithmic and complexity theoretic issues
relevant to the development of efficient approximate solutions to
computationally difficult problems, while RANDOM'2014 focuses on
applications of randomness to computational and combinatorial problems.
RANDOM'2014 is the eighteenth workshop in the series; APPROX'2014 is
the seventeenth in the series.

TOPICS

Papers are solicited in all research areas related to randomization and
approximation, including, but not limited to:

APPROX

- design and analysis of approximation algorithms
- hardness of approximation
- small space, sub-linear time and streaming algorithms
- embeddings and metric space methods
- mathematical programming methods
- combinatorial problems in graphs and networks
- algorithmic game theory and economics
- computational geometric problems
- approximate learning
- online algorithms
- approaches that go beyond worst case analysis
- other applications

RANDOM

- design and analysis of randomized algorithms
- randomized complexity theory
- pseudorandomness and derandomization
- random combinatorial structures
- random walks/Markov chains
- expander graphs and randomness extractors
- probabilistic proof systems
- random projections and embeddings
- error-correcting codes
- average-case analysis
- property testing
- computational learning theory

SUBMISSIONS

Abstract Format: Electronic submissions are solicited. Please consult
the following servers:

For submission of APPROX papers:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=approx2014
For submission of RANDOM papers:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=random2014

Note: You will be asked to login using an EasyChair account. Directions
on how to register for such an account are available at the submission
servers (you may also have an old account from a previous conference
submission).
The submission must be received by 17:00pm (PDT) of April 17 for your
submission to be considered.
Submission Format: Submissions should start with the title of the
paper, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, followed by
a one-paragraph summary of the results to be presented. This should
then be followed by a technical exposition on single-spaced pages on
letter-size paper, using reasonable margins and at least 11-point
font. The first 10 pages should contain the main ideas and techniques
used to achieve the results including motivation and a clear comparison
with related work (not including the references). There is no page
limit but any material beyond the first 10 pages will be read at the
sole discretion of the program committee.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings
is not allowed.

PROCEEDINGS
Accepted papers will be published in the online proceedings of the
conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in
Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl. This guarantees
perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain
the rights over their work. Further detail will be available early
January at the conference website.

Previous proceedings of APPROX appeared as LNCS 1444, 1671, 1913, 2129,
2462, 2764, 3122, 3624, 4110 and 4627 while previous proceedings of
RANDOM appeared as LNCS 1269, 1518, 1671, 2129, 2483, 2764, 3122, 3624,
4110, 4627 and as Proceedings in Informatics 8.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submissions: April 17th, Thursday
Notifications: June 6th, Friday
Camera ready: June 20th, Friday

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Approx

Niv Buchbinder - Tel-Aviv University
Deeparnab Chakrabarty - Microsoft Research, India
Siu On Chan - Microsoft Research, New England
Shuchi Chawla - University of Wisconsin
Eden Chlamtac - Ben Gurion University
Nikhil Devanur (Chair) - Microsoft Research, Redmond
Alina Ene - Princeton University
Konstantinos Georgiou - University of Waterloo
Telikepalli Kavitha - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Ken Ichi Kawarabayashi - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Amit Kumar - Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi
Konstantin Makarychev - Microsoft Research, Redmond
Debmalya Panigrahi - Duke University
Thomas Rothvoss - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barna Saha - AT&T Shannon Research Laboratory, New Jersey
Bruce Shepherd - MCGill University
Aravind Srinivasan - University of Maryland
David Williamson - Cornell University


Random

Louigi Addario-Berry - MCGill University, Canada
Nayantara Bhatnagar - University of Delaware
Amin Coja-Oghlan - Goethe University, Germany
David Galvin - University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Valentine Kabanets - Simon Fraser University, Canada
Michael Molloy - University of Toronto
Cris Moore (Chair) - Santa Fe Institute
Assaf Naor - New York University
Krzysztof Onak - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dana Ron - Tel-Aviv University
Alex Russell - University of Connecticut
Dominik Scheder - Aarhus University
Devavrat Shah - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Perla Sousi - University of Cambridge
Mario Szegedy - Rutgers University
Amnon Ta-Shma - Tel-Aviv University
Thomas Vidick - Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK


Program Chairs

APPROX
Nikhil Devanur - Microsoft Research, Redmond
email: nikdev@microsoft.com

RANDOM
Cris Moore - Santa Fe Institute
email: mmore@santafe.edu

Workshop Chairs
José Rolim, U. of Geneva
e-mail: jose.rolim@unige.ch
Klaus Jansen, U. of Kiel
e-mail: kj@informatik.uni-kiel.de

Organizing Commitee Chair
Carme Alvarez - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
email: alvarez@lsi.upc.edu


CONFERENCE WEB PAGE
http://cui.unige.ch/tcs/random-approx/