Wednesday, December 13, 2017

[DMANET] FAW 2018: Last Call For Papers

FAW 2018 Call for Papers

The 12th International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW 2018 , http://itcs.shufe.edu.cn/FAW2018) will be held on May 8-10, 2018 at Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China. FAW 2018 will provide a focused forum on current trends of research on algorithms, discrete structures, operation research, combinatorial optimization and their applications, and will bring together international experts at the research frontiers in these areas to exchange ideas and to present significant new results.

Keynote Speaker
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua University)

Invited Speakers:
Yijia Chen (Fudan University)
Ran Duan (Tsinghua University)
Nick Gravin (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Mingji Xia (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Important Dates
Submission deadline Dec. 29, 2017 (23:59 Beijing Time)
Author Notification of acceptance Feb. 1, 2018
Final version due Feb. 19, 2018
Conference Dates May 8-10, 2018

Special Issue
Selected high quality papers will be invited to a special issue in the journal of Theoretical Computer Science. The invited papers will go through the normal reviewing process.

Program Committee

Jianer Chen, co-chair
Pinyan Lu, co-chair
Hee-Kap Ahn
Georgios Barmpalias
Xiaohui Bei
Wenbin Chen
Yukun Cheng
Radu Curticapean
Ran Duan
Fedor Fomin
Mordecai J. Golin
Heng Guo
Xin Han
Iyad Kanj
Bundit Laekhanukit
Lap-Kei Lee
Minming Li
Bingkai Lin
Tian Liu
Neeldhara Misra
Kim Thang Nguyen
Pan Peng
Venkatesh Raman
Dominik Scheder
Dimitrios Thilikos
Changjun Wang
Ge Xia
Boting Yang
Chee Yap
Deshi Ye
Chihao Zhang
Jialin Zhang

Submission Guidelines and Publication Information

The submission deadline is December 29, 2017 (23:59 Beijing Time). All submissions are electronic via EasyChair, and the submission server is now available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=faw2018.
Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines: Papers must be formatted using the LNCS style, file without altering margins or the font point. A submission should not exceed 12 pages, including references, but excluding the optional appendix. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their discretion. Papers that deviate from these guidelines risk being rejected without consideration of their merits.
The proceedings of the Conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be available for distribution at the conference.

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