[DMANET] SPIRE 2024 - Second Call for Papers - Keynote Speakers, Special Issue

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SPIRE 2024 — Second Call for Papers
31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
September 23-25, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

http://computo.fismat.umich.mx/spire2024/

The International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE) will be held on the Pacific Ocean beach in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is a world-class tourist destination, with warm, sunny weather year-round, and a strategic location for all SPRIE attendees. Puerto Vallarta's International Airport provides easy access worldwide (more than 200 weekly direct flights from 85 destinations).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Juliana Freire, New York University, US
Marinella Sciortino, University of Palermo, Italy
Gerardo Sierra, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico

SCOPE

SPIRE 2024 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* String Processing: ​ string pattern matching, text indexing, data structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching, automata based string processing, combinatorics on words
* Information Retrieval: Web search. Retrieval models and ranking. Theoretical models and foundations of information retrieval and access. Efficiency and scalability, e.g., efficient data structures for IR, indexing, etc. Queries and query analysis. Content analysis for search. Knowledge acquisition. Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for search, e.g., Core ML, Question answering, Conversational systems, Explicit semantics. Knowledge representation and reasoning. User-centric aspects of IR including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems. Evaluation. Fairness, accountability, transparency. Domain-specific applications, e.g., local and mobile search, social search, multimedia search, health, digital libraries
* Computational Biology: algorithms for DNA sequencing, assembly, alignments, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, gene and regulatory element recognition, motif finding, pangenomics, variants discovery, phylogenetics, genome rearrangements

SUBMISSIONS

SPIRE 2024 invites submissions in two categories:
- Long papers: Up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.
- Short papers: Up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.

Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair via the following link:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2024

As in past editions, the proceedings of SPIRE 2024 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The use of LNCS templates is mandatory. Suitable templates are available at the Springer Website and on Overleaf. Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as given. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted.

At least one author per accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and present the paper. The conference will be in-person, with online presentations only in special cases (e.g., authors with travel difficulties).

SPECIAL ISSUE

Authors of selected papers presented at SPIRE 2024 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue of the journal Theory of Computing Systems.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper deadline: June 3, 2024 (anywhere on Earth)
Notification: July 22, 2024
Camera-ready due: July 29, 2024
Early bird registration: until July 31, 2024
Conference: Sept. 23-25, 2024
Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA): Sept. 26

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy
Edleno Silva de Moura, Federal University of Amazonas and Jusbrasil, Brazil

GENERAL CHAIRS

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, EAI, Northeastern University, USA
Karina Mariela Figueroa Mora, Universidad Michoacana, Mexico

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Omar Alonso, Amazon, US
Diego Arroyuelo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile
Golnaz Badkobeh, City University of London, UK
Djamal Belazzougui, CERIST (Research Centre for Scientific and Technical Information), Algeria
Giulia Bernardini, University of Trieste, Italy
Marília Braga, Bielefeld University, Germany
Laurent Bulteau, CNRS - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France
Edgar Chavez, CICESE, Mexico
Manuel Cáceres, Aalto University, Finland
Edleno Silva de Moura, Federal University of Amazonas and Jusbrasil, Brazil (co-chair)
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Jonas Ellert, ENS – PSL, France
Antonio Fariña, University of A Coruña, Spain
Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland
Daniel Gibney, University of Texas at Dallas, US
Inge Li Gørtz, Technical University of Denmark
Meng He, Dalhousie University, Canada
Katharina T. Huber, University of East Anglia, UK
Tomohiro I, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Tomasz Kociumaka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany
M. Oguzhan Kulekci, Indiana University Bloomington, US
Dominik Köppl, University of Yamanashi, Japan
Susana Ladra, University of A Coruña, Spain
Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy (co-chair)
Felipe A. Louza, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil
Camille Marchet, CNRS, France
Viviane P. Moreira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Cinzia Pizzi, University of Padova, Italy
Svetlana Puzynina, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Narad Rampersad, University of Winnipeg, Canada
Kunihiko Sadakane, University of Tokyo, Japan
Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Blerina Sinaimeri, LUISS University of Rome, Italy
Jouni Sirén, University of California Santa Cruz, US
Tatiana Starikovskaya, École Normale Supérieure, France
Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa, Italy
Aaron Williams, Williams College, US
Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel


STEERING COMMITTEE

Diego Arroyuelo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data, Chile
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, EAI, Northeastern University, USA
Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen Normandy, France
Franco Maria Nardini, ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy
Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy
Barbara Poblete, University of Chile and Amazon, Chile
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google Inc., USA, and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Hélène Touzet, CNRS Lille, France
Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa, Italy
Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil


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