[DMANET] CFP: London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop Special Issue in Theoretical Computer Science

Dear friends and colleagues of LSD/LAW workshops,

We thank you for your interest and participation in this series of workshops held at King's College London since 1993. The 2025 edition was held in honour of Professor Costas Iliopoulos, known in the community simply as Costas, who initiated these workshops in the heart of London, thus creating an academic hub in the field. It was wonderful to see such a collegiate scientific gathering at this 2025 event.

We warmly invite you to submit your LSD/LAW related research contributions to a Special Issue of Theoretical Computer Science.

The theme of the special issue is strings, graphs, and applications. The scope of the special issue encompasses both theory and applications: stringology, graph theory, combinatorics on words, data patterns & analysis, algorithms and data structures, bioinformatics, musicology, information retrieval, algorithm engineering & implementation.

We invite original previously unpublished research contributions to the special issue from:

* Participants of LSD/LAW workshops held 2019-2025 where participants include: presenters, attendees, committee members, and organisers. (Please contact the editors if you want to discuss a potential submission related to an earlier workshop.)

* Past collaborators of Costas where the topic of the submission fits the theme/scope of the special issue. Note these submissions may include posthumous publication with Costas.

* Survey papers that are clearly focussed on the theme/scope of the special issue with substantial content (guideline at least 20 PDF pages).

* Full versions of conference papers on the theme/scope of the special issue which include additional novel content (guideline 30%). In this case please concatenate the conference paper(s) for the convenience of the reviewers (format: journal submission appears first before the conference paper(s)).

All submissions must be made in PDF format to the submission portal:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/tcs/default2.aspx
All submissions must be made in PDF. Please select "VSI:LSD/LAW 2025" when they reach the “Article Type� step in the submission process.

Please refer to the useful links below for further submission information.
The publication schedule follows with submission subject to at least 2 reviews:

* Submission 30th June 2025.
* Notification 15th November 2025.
* Revised versions 15th January 2026.
* Final versions 31st January 2026.


We look forward to your submission!

Any questions? please contact the editors.

Kind regards,
W.F. Smyth, Senior Executive Editor
smyth@mcmaster.ca

Zara Lim, Co-editor
zara.lim@kcl.ac.uk

Jacqueline W. Daykin, Co-editor
jackie.daykin@gmail.com

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/theoretical-computer-science
https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/theoretical-computer-science/publish/guide-for-authors