[DMANET] ACDA'27 Call for papers: SIAM Activity Group on Applied & Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA)

SIAM Activity Group on Applied & Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA) *February 23-24, 2027**, **Pittsburgh, PA, USA* We are happy to announce the SIAM Activity Group on Applied & Computational Discrete Algorithms (ACDA), which will be held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA, on February 23-24, 2027. ACDA26 brings together researchers who design and study combinatorial and graph algorithms motivated by applications. ACDA27 includes in its scope all topics where models and algorithms from discrete mathematics are applied to solve problems in computer science, scientific computing, data science, physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, social and information sciences, etc. ACDA27 invites papers on the formulation of combinatorial problems from applications; theoretical analyses; design of algorithms; computational evaluation of the algorithms; and deployment of the resulting software to enable applications. The ACDA27 conference will include refereed proceedings as well as talks without proceedings papers (in the conventional SIAM style of conferences), posters, tutorials, invited talks, and industry sessions. Awards will be given for best paper, best poster, and best student presentation. Contact If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the organizers: *Program Committee Chairs:* Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile) gnavarro@dcc.uchile.cl Yihan Sun (University of California, Riverside) yihans@cs.ucr.edu *Organizing Committee chairs:* Paul Hovland (Argonne National Laboratory) hovland@anl.gov Henning Meyerhenke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) meyerhenke@kit.edu Useful Links *ACDA Website*: https://www.siam.org/conferences-events/siam-conferences/acda27/ *Submission Site*: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acda27 *Submission guidelines*: https://www.siam.org/conferences-events/siam-conferences/acda27/submissions/ Important Dates · September 8, 2026: Short Abstract submission and submission registration · September 15, 2026: Archival Proceedings Presentations and Non-Archival Presentations submission · November 2, 2026: Author Notifications (papers & extended abstracts) rejected papers have an opportunity to submit poster · November 9, 2026: Posters submission (prior years rejected papers/talks were given the opportunity to submit posters) · November 23, 2026: Camera-ready deadline · January 29, 2027: Early registration deadline · February 22–24 , 2027: Conference Included Themes Topics of interest include but are not limited to discrete or combinatorial problems and algorithms arising in: · Algorithm engineering · Algorithmic differentiation (AD) · Combinatorial optimization and mathematical programming, including scheduling and resource allocation problems · Combinatorial scientific computing (CSC) including models, algorithms, applications, numerical methods, and problems arising in data analysis · Computational biology and bioinformatics · Data management and data science · Design and analysis of application-inspired exact, approximation, randomized, streaming, and learning-augmented algorithms · Graph and hypergraph algorithms, including problems arising in network science and complex networks · Interaction between algorithms and modern computing platforms, including challenges arising from memory hierarchies, accelerators, and novel memory technologies · Machine learning and statistical methods for solving combinatorial problems · Numerical linear algebra, including sparse matrix computations and randomized approaches · Parallel and distributed computing, including algorithms, architectures, distributed systems, and all parallelism ranging from instruction-level and multi-core all the way to clouds and Exascale computing · Other applications arising from security, computational finance, computational chemistry/physics, quantum computing, etc. · Numerical linear algebra, including sparse matrix computations and randomized approaches · Parallel and distributed computing, including algorithms, architectures, distributed systems, and all parallelism ranging from instruction-level and multi-core all the way to clouds and Exascale computing · Other applications arising from security, computational finance, computational chemistry/physics, quantum computing, etc. Submission Guidelines Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acda27. There are three types of submissions to ACDA: archival Proceedings Papers, non-archival Extended Abstracts, and Posters. Each accepted submission of archival proceedings papers and non-archival extended abstracts will have an oral presentation. *Archival proceedings papers* Submissions may be up to 12 pages in length, excluding references, and must present original research that is not published or submitted elsewhere. Due dates for submissions are included below. The submissions will be refereed and authors will be provided an opportunity to respond to the reviews. Notification of acceptance or rejection with final camera-ready copy will be provided a few weeks later. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings published by SIAM. Submissions should use the LaTeX macros at the web page: http://www.siam.org/proceedings/macros.php. An author of an accepted proceedings paper will be expected to register and present the paper at the ACDA25 conference. Authors may, at their option, include an appendix containing proofs, details, or additional experimental results. The appendix will be read by the program committee members at their discretion and will not be included in the proceedings. The main part of the submission should therefore contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's significance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. All accepted proceedings papers must use the double-column LaTeX macro at the bottom of the following web page: https://www.siam.org/publications/proceedings/ *Double-blind reviewing of archival proceedings papers: *ACDA will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process for proceedings papers (but not for the other two submission categories). Proceedings submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. Please refer to the ACDA website ( https://www.siam.org/conferences-events/siam-conferences/acda27/submissions/) for more details. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the PC chairs. We strongly encourage also making code and data available; please keep in mind the double-blind nature of the review process. We recommend including a link to an anonymized version that makes a 'best-effort' to avoid revealing the identity of the authors (e.g., using Anonymous Github or an anonymous Dropbox/Google Drive folder). *Non-Archival Extended Abstracts* These submissions are 2-page extended abstracts, are not considered for archival publications, and will not appear in the proceedings. The primary criterion for review will be broad interest to the ACDA community. Reviews of extended abstracts will *not* be double-blind. Authors will be asked to indicate whether they want to be considered for a talk only, considered for a poster only, or considered for either. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection after review. Rejected extended abstracts will be considered for a poster presentation, unless the author specifies "talk only". Submissions should use the LaTeX macros at the web page: http://www.siam.org/proceedings/macros.php. An author of an accepted abstract will be expected to register and present at ACDA25. Talks for extended abstracts will be of the same length as talks for proceedings papers. ACDA seeks to cast a wide net for extended abstracts, emphasizing talks that are closely connected to applications. Abstracts may describe work in progress or work of interest to the ACDA community that is being published archivally elsewhere. An abstract should specify the source of the problem it describes: Is it from a paper in the literature? A newly invented problem? From a project or person (in academia, labs, industry) that will use the results in practice? Will the community have access to real or surrogate data for the problem? ACDA welcomes all abstracts, but there will be a preference for work that is motivated by specific real-world problems. ACDA is particularly interested in descriptions of industrial problems and applications. *Posters* A poster submission is in the form of a 2-page (maximum) abstract. Posters are not considered archival, and reviewing of posters will *not* be double-blind. Authors will be asked to indicate whether they want to be considered for a talk only, considered for a poster only, or considered for either. ********************************************************** * * Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to * * DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de * * Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be * addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. 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