******* 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 original LIPIcs class file is still needed.) 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, Technion—Israel Inst. of Technology, 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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