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The International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) is an annual conference covering all aspects of parameterized and exact algorithms and complexity. Its 16th edition will be part of ALGO 2021, which also hosts ESA 2021 and a number of more specialized conferences and workshops. ALGO 2021 will take place on September 6-10, 2021, Lisbon, Portugal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IPEC might be held online.
Webpage: http://algo2021.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/IPEC2021/index.html <http://algo2021.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/IPEC2021/index.html>
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Topics
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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;
- 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.
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Special Events
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An invited talk is planned by the 2021 EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize winner.
The program will include an invited tutorial by Edouard Bonnet (CNRS, ENS Lyon, France), "Twin-width of graphs".
In addition, the results of the 5th Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments Challenge (PACE 2021) will be presented in a special session.
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Conference
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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, and to incorporate the comments from the program committee.
A special issue of Algorithmica is planned for selected papers presented at IPEC 2021.
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Awards
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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 the presentation at the conference. Papers co-authored by members of the program committee are not eligible for the Best Paper Award or the Best Student Paper Award.
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Submission Guidelines
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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. Program committee members (except the co-chairs) are allowed to submit papers.
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 program committee.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EasyChair. The use of the LIPIcs style file (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors <https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors>) is mandatory; no changes to font size, page margins, etc., are permitted.
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipec2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipec2021>
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Important Dates
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Paper Submission: June 29, 2021 (23:59 AoE)
Notification of acceptance: July 30, 2021
Conference dates: September 8-10, 2021
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Program Committee
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Akanksha Agrawal, IIT Madras, India
Fahad Panolan, IIT Hyderabad, India
Dimitrios Thilikos, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, France
Eduard Eiben, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Ignasi Sau, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, France
Jesper Nederlof, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Jiehua Chen, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Karl Bringmann, Saarland University, Germany
Karthik C. S., New York University, USA
Martin Koutecky, Charles University, Czech Republic
Meirav Zehavi (co-chair), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nimrod Talmon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Pascal Schweitzer, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
Petr Golovach (co-chair), University of Bergen, Norway
Sebastian Siebertz, University of Bremen, Germany
Saket Saurabh, Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India, and University of Bergen, Norway
Vincent Cohen-Addad, Google Zurich, Switzerland
William Lochet, University of Bergen, Norway
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