******* SoCG 2019, Call for Papers*************
The 35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)
will be held in Portland, Oregon, June 18-21, 2019, as part of the
Computational Geometry (CG) Week. We invite submissions of high quality
that describe original research on computational problems in a geometric
setting. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Design, analysis, and implementation of geometric algorithms and data
structures;
• Lower bounds on the computational complexity of geometric problems;
• Mathematical, numerical, and algebraic issues arising in the
formulation, analysis, implementation, and experimental evaluation of
geometric algorithms and heuristics;
• Discrete and combinatorial geometry;
• Computational topology, topological data analysis, and topological
combinatorics;
• Applications of computational geometry in any field.
To ensure that a submission is evaluated on its own merits, authors will
need to identify the main strengths of their submission, as captured by
four possible paper types. Please consult the last section of this CFP
(or the conference web-page) for a detailed description of the paper types
and associated evaluation criteria. There are no quotas for the paper
types and submissions can be labeled with more than one paper type at the
time of submission.
*Conference Web Page*
http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/socg19
*EasyChair Link*
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cgweek2019
*Important Dates*
• November 28, 2018 (Wednesday): Abstracts due (23:59 PST)
• December 5, 2018 (Wednesday): Papers due (23:59 PST)
• February 15, 2019 (Friday): Notification of acceptance/rejection
• March 15, 2019 (Friday): Final versions of accepted papers due
• June 18-21, 2019 (Tuesday-Friday): Symposium
*Submission Guidelines*
Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the LIPIcs proceedings
guidelines and not exceed 500 lines, excluding front matter, references,
and a clearly marked appendix (further described below). Note that figures
and tables are not counted towards the 500 lines, but their captions are.
To ensure an accurate line counting, authors must use the LaTeX class file
socg-lipics-v2018, which is a wrapper around the standard class. The
class file, as well a document describing the motivation and
technicalities behind this class, are available from the SoCG webpage
(http://computational-geometry.org). We trust the authors not to put
excessive amounts of texts in parts in which lines are not counted
automatically. If authors need constructs that contain large amounts of
uncounted text, they should compensate for this by reducing the final
count accordingly.
Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, which
begins with the title of the paper, each author's name and affiliation, as
well as a short abstract. This should be followed by the main body of the
paper that begins with a precise statement of the problem considered, a
succinct summary of the results obtained (emphasizing the significance,
novelty, and potential impact of the research), and a clear comparison
with related work. The remainder of the extended abstract should provide
sufficient details to allow the program committee to evaluate the
validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. Clarity of
presentation is very important; the entire extended abstract should be
written carefully, taking into consideration that it will be read and
evaluated by both experts and non-experts, often under tight time
constraints. All details needed to verify the results must be provided.
Supporting materials, including proofs of theoretical claims and
experimental details, that do not fit in the 500-line limit should be
given in an appendix. If more appropriate, the full version may be given
as the appendix. In both cases, however, the authors should include in
the main part specific pointers to the relevant locations in the appendix.
The appendix will be read by the program committee members at their
discretion and will not be published as part of the proceedings. Thus,
the paper without the appendix should be able to stand on its own.
Experimental and implementation results (independent of paper type) must
be reproducible and verifiable. Authors of all types of papers are
encouraged to put accompanying software and relevant data, if there are
any, in a repository accessible to the reviewers. Authors are asked to
indicate which of the supporting material will remain publicly available
if their papers are accepted.
Submissions deviating from the above guidelines risk being rejected
without further consideration.
Results previously published or accepted for publication in the
proceedings of another conference cannot be submitted. Simultaneous
submissions of the results to another conference with published
proceedings are not allowed. Exempted are workshops and conferences
without formal proceedings, but possibly with handouts containing short
abstracts. Results that have already been accepted (with or without
revision) for publication in a journal at the time of their submission to
the symposium are not allowed. A paper submitted to a journal but not yet
accepted for publication can be submitted to the symposium. In such
cases, the authors must mention this on the front page of the submission
and clearly identify the status of the journal submission as of November
28, 2018.
*Format of Accepted Papers*
Final proceedings versions of accepted papers must be formatted in
accordance with the LIPIcs proceedings guidelines and not exceed 500
lines, excluding a title page and references. These final versions must
be submitted by March 15, 2019. If any supporting material (including
complete proofs of theoretical claims and experimental details) does not
fit in the specified limit, then the full version of the paper containing
this information must be referenced in the conference version and made
available at a public repository, such as arXiv, by March 15, 2018. Where
applicable, we encourage authors to make accompanying software and/or data
publicly accessible, with proper references in the paper.
An author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the symposium
and present the paper (approximately 20 minutes). An award will be given
to the best paper, and if it is of interest to a broad audience, its
authors will be invited to submit an extended version of it to the Journal
of the ACM. Authors of a selection of papers from the symposium will be
invited to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues of
Discrete & Computational Geometry and Journal of Computational Geometry.
*Program Committee*
Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, South Korea
Alexandr Andoni, Columbia University, USA
Sunil Arya, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
Gill Barequet (co-chair), Technion—Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel
Mark de Berg, TU Eindhoven, Netherlands
Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University, Canada
Frédéric Cazals, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France
Tamal K. Dey, The Ohio State University, USA
Kyle Fox, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA
Joachim Gudmundsson, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Chaya Keller, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Stephen Kobourov, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Francis Lazarus, CNRS Grenoble, France
Clément Maria, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France
Tillmann Miltzow, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Zuzana Patáková, Inst. of Science and Technology, Austria
Amit Patel, Colorado State University, USA
Raimund Seidel, Saarland University, Germany
Christian Sohler, TU Dortmund, Germany, and Google, Switzerland
Noam Solomon, Harvard University, USA
Subhash Suri, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Kasturi Varadarajan, Univ. of Iowa, USA
Birgit Vogtenhuber, Graz Univ. of Technology, Austria
Bei Wang, University of Utah, USA
Yusu Wang (co-chair), The Ohio State University, USA
*Paper types*
When writing or evaluating a SoCG paper, it is important to keep in mind
that there are different types of contributions, each with their own
strengths. Results of all kinds (theoretical and practical) need to be
reproducible and verifiable. To ensure that each submission is evaluated
on its own merits, authors need to identify the main strengths of their
submissions, as captured by four possible paper types. These paper types
are described in detail below, together with their associated evaluation
criteria. These criteria will serve as the basis for all reviews, both by
PC members and by external subreviewers, and for the subsequent discussion
in the PC. There are no quotas for the paper types and submissions can be
labeled with more than one paper type at the time of submission.
Mathematical Foundations
A typical paper will contain theorems and proofs describing new results in
discrete or combinatorial geometry, or in topological combinatorics. The
paper will primarily be evaluated on its technical depth, the importance
of the results, the elegance of the solution, the connection of the
problem studied to computational geometry and topology, and the potential
future impact on algorithm development.
Algorithmic Complexity
A typical paper will contain algorithms, data structures, theorems,
proofs, or lower bound constructions describing new results on
computational geometry problems. The paper will primarily be evaluated on
the (mathematical or computational) relevance and importance of the
problem studied, its technical depth, the elegance of the solution, and
the potential future impact of the results or the proposed new methods and
techniques.
Experimental & Implementation
A typical paper will make a clear contribution to the implementation and
evaluation of geometric algorithms, such as exact, approximate, or
algebraic computation, algorithms engineering, or the experimental
evaluation of competing algorithmic approaches. The paper will primarily
be evaluated on the completeness and the expected impact of the proposed
implementation, the soundness of the experiments, the quality and quantity
of testing, and on the general amount of knowledge gained.
Applications
A typical paper will describe the modeling and algorithmic choices made
when developing or adapting computational geometry techniques for an
application area. The paper will be primarily evaluated on the soundness
of the modeling decisions, the ingenuity of the solution, the
effectiveness of the proposed method, and the expected impact in the
application area. One might also consider the lesson learned regarding
the applicability or suitability of computational geometry tools to the
specific area.
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