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15th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2020)
International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) is an
annual conference covering all aspects of parameterized and exact
algorithms and complexity. Its 15th edition will happen online in 2020.
------ Topics ------
Papers presenting original research in the area are sought, including but
not limited to:
* new techniques for the design and analysis of parameterized and exact
algorithms;
* fixed-parameter tractability and kernelization results;
* parameterized complexity theory;
* parameterized (in)approximability results;
* relationships between parameterized complexity and traditional
complexity classifications;
* applications of parameterized and exact computation; and
* implementation issues of exact, parameterized, and kernelization
algorithms.
Theoretically grounded studies on parameterized and exact computations and
kernelization for real-world applications and algorithmic engineering are
especially encouraged.
------ Conference ------
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IPEC 2020 will be an online event taking
place on 14–18 December 2020. On each day, there will be two roughly
90-minute sessions of invited and contributed talks with a 30-minute break
in between, scheduled between 8am and noon UTC (i.e., spanning European
morning / Asian afternoon or evening). The conference will also feature
virtual rooms for coffee break discussions. Participating in the conference
will be free of charge.
Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at
Schloss Dagstuhl. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their
work at the symposium (preferably by a live online talk or at the very
least by a prerecorded talk), and to incorporate the comments from the
program committee. Authors are also encouraged to be present at virtual
coffee breaks at least after the session with their talk. A special issue
of Algorithmica is planned for selected papers presented at IPEC 2020.
------ Awards ------
The program committee may award a Best Paper Award and a Best Student
Paper Award,
both of which may be exceptionally split between two or more papers. A
student is someone who has not received a PhD degree before the full
paper submission
deadline. A paper accepted to the conference is eligible for the Best
Student Paper Award if either all its authors are students, or besides
student co-author(s) there is one non-student co-author that confirms, at
the moment of submission, that a clear majority of conceptual work on the
paper was done by the student co-author(s). In the latter case, it is
moreover expected that a student gives a presentation at the conference.
Papers co-authored by members of the programme committee are not eligible
for the Best Paper Award or the Best Student Paper Award.
------ Special events ------
An invited talk is planned by the 2020 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize winner. In
addition, there will be a session presenting the results of the 5th
Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE
2020).
------ Submission guidelines ------
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 12 pages
(excluding the title page and references section) in LIPIcs style, in
English, describing original unpublished research. The title page consists
exclusively of the title of the paper, author information, and abstract.
Results previously published in another conference proceedings or journal
(or scheduled for publication prior to IPEC) will not be considered.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings or
to journals is not allowed. However, the authors are encouraged to make
full versions of their submissions freely accessible in an online
repository such as ArXiv or ECCC.
The extended abstract should contain a summary of the main results, their
motivation and importance, and evidence of their correctness. All claims
made in the extended abstract must be fully justified in a clearly marked
appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee. The
authors may choose to either present in the appendix only the material
excluded from the extended abstract or to attach a full version of the paper as
the appendix. In either case, the authors should take a particular notice
that the extended abstract should present their work in a comprehensible
and self-contained way and the quality of the presentation in the extended
abstract will be taken into account by the programme committee.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipec2020 . The use of the LIPIcs
style file (
https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors) is
mandatory; no changes to font size, page margins, etc., are permitted.
Program committee members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit
papers.
------ Important Dates ------
Submission deadline: 15th July 2020 (AoE)
Notification: by 18th September 2020
Camera-ready deadline: 30th September 2020
Conference: 14th-18th December 2020
------ Program Committee ------
Marthe Bonamy (CNRS Bordeaux, France)
(co-chair) Yixin Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China)
Yijia Chen (Fudan University, China)
David Eppstein (UC Irvine, USA)
Eun Jung Kim (CNRS, France)
Marvin Künnemann (MPII, Germany)
Euiwoong Lee (New York University, USA)
Pasin Manurangsi (Google Research, USA)
Pranabendu Misra (MPII, Germany)
Irene Muzi (TU Berlin, Germany)
(co-chair) Marcin Pilipczuk (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Marc Roth (University of Oxford, UK)
R.B. Sandeep (IIT Dharwad, India)
Darren Strash (Hamilton College, USA)
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