{"id":205,"date":"2020-11-30T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T15:27:49","slug":"first-call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/first-call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Call for Papers is Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Call for Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WADS 2021<br>Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium<br>August 9-11, 2021<br>Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wads.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium<\/a>, WADS, which alternates with the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT, is intended as a forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.<br><br>We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on the theory and application of algorithms and data structures in all areas, including combinatorics, computational geometry, databases, graphics, and parallel and distributed computing.<br><br>Contributors are invited to submit a full paper in Springer LNCS format. The title, abstract, and body of the paper may not exceed 12 pages and the total length including references may not exceed 14 pages. An appendix, beyond the 14 pages, may be added and may be read at the reviewers&#8217; discretion. Please format your paper in the Springer Lecture Notes style available here: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/authors.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.springer.de\/comp\/lncs\/authors.html<\/a>.<br>Submissions will be handled through EasyChair\u00a0 <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=wads2021\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=wads2021<\/a><br>For further information, see the WADS 2021 website <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/<\/a><br><br>WADS participates in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/safetoc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SafeToC<\/a> and is committed to preventing and combatting harassment in the Theory of Computing community.\u00a0The ToC advocates for WADS are Faith Ellen and Stephane Durocher. Authors who submit papers will have an opportunity to declare a conflict of interest with potential reviewers.\u00a0 See the WADS web page for further details on <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/code-of-conduct\/\">Conflict of Interest<\/a>.<br><br>WADS 2021 will have a best paper award in memory of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cs.uwaterloo.ca\/~alopez-o\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz<\/a>, and a best all-student paper award.\u00a0The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag series <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/us\/computer-science\/lncs\" target=\"_blank\">Lecture Notes in Computer Science<\/a>. Two special issues of papers selected from WADS are planned for the journals <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.springer.com\/journal\/453\" target=\"_blank\">Algorithmica<\/a> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.elsevier.com\/computational-geometry\" target=\"_blank\">Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications<\/a>.<br><br>WADS 2021 is planned for August 9-11, 2021.\u00a0The symposium will most likely be fully online. It may have an in-person component, which will be held at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dalhousie University<\/a>, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. This depends on the covid-19 situation.\u00a0In any case, authors of accepted papers who cannot attend in person will be able to give their talks online.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/cccg2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CCCG 2021<\/a>, the 33rd Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, is planned for August 10-12 at the same location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important Dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Paper submission deadline<\/td><td>February 20, 2021, 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC -12)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Acceptance\/rejection notification<\/td><td>April 13, 2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Camera-ready version due<\/td><td>May 21, 2021<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Symposium<\/td><td>August 9-11, 2021<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Invited Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cglab.ca\/~vida\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vida Dujmovi\u0107<\/a>, University of Ottawa<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theory.epfl.ch\/osven\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ola Svensson<\/a>, EPFL<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The abstracts of the invited talks are <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.cs.dal.ca\/wads2021\/invited-speakers\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"289\">available<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chairs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/web.cs.dal.ca\/~mhe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meng He<\/a>, Dalhousie University, Canada (local arrangements)<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cs.uwaterloo.ca\/~alubiw\/Site\/Anna_Lubiw.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Lubiw<\/a>, University of Waterloo, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca\/~mreza\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Salavatipour<\/a>, University of Alberta, Canada<br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sharif.edu\/~abam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mohammad Ali Abam<\/a>, Sharif University of Technology, Iran<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cglab.ca\/~biniaz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmad Biniaz<\/a>, University of Windsor, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/math.ryerson.ca\/~abonato\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Bonato<\/a>, Ryerson University, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/parinyachalermsook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parinya Chalermsook<\/a>, Aalto University, Finland<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maastrichtuniversity.nl\/p70068141\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Chaplick<\/a>, Maastricht University, Netherlands<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dia.uniroma3.it\/~dalozzo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giordano Da Lozzo<\/a>, Roma Tre University, Italy<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ku.ac.ae\/academics\/college-of-arts-and-sciences\/department\/department-of-computer-science\/dr-khaled-elbassioni\" target=\"_blank\">Khaled Elbassioni<\/a>, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.math.cinvestav.mx\/rfabila\" target=\"_blank\">Ruy Fabila-Monro<\/a>y, CINVESTAV, Mexico<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cs.haifa.ac.il\/~moranfe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moran Feldman<\/a>, University of Haifa, Israel<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/computerscience\/faculty-staff\/travis-gagie.html\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Gagie<\/a>, Dalhousie University, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ii.uib.no\/~pinar\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinar Heggernes<\/a>, University of Bergen, Norway<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/i.cs.hku.hk\/~zhiyi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zhiyi Huang<\/a>, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/di.ulb.ac.be\/algo\/iacono\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Iacono<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.umanitoba.ca\/~kamalis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shahin Kamali<\/a>, University of Manitoba, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.bgu.ac.il\/~matya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Matya Katz<\/a>, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca\/~ghlin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Guohui Lin<\/a>, University of Alberta, Canada<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/brlucier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Lucier<\/a>, Microsoft Research, USA<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cglab.ca\/~morin\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/cglab.ca\/~morin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pat Morin<\/a>, Carleton University, Canada<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/cs\/department\/people\/faculty\/nekrich\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yakov Nekrich<\/a>, Michigan Technological University, USA<br><a href=\"http:\/\/dopal.cs.uec.ac.jp\/okamotoy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yoshio Okamoto<\/a>, University of Electro-Communications, Japan<br><a href=\"https:\/\/users.encs.concordia.ca\/~denisp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denis Pankratov<\/a>, Concordia University, Canada<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imsc.res.in\/~vraman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venkatesh Raman<\/a>, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India<br><a href=\"https:\/\/research.tue.nl\/en\/persons\/laura-sanit%C3%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Laura Sanita<\/a>, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dim.uchile.cl\/~jsoto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jose Soto<\/a>, University of Chile, Chile<br><a href=\"https:\/\/homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk\/hsun4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">He Sun<\/a>, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thilikos.info\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dimitrios Thilikos<\/a>, Universit\u00e9 de Montpellier, France<br><a href=\"http:\/\/users.eecs.northwestern.edu\/~aravindv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Aravindan Vijayaraghavan<\/a>, Northwestern University, USA<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.tulane.edu\/~carola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carola Wenk<\/a>, Tulane University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers WADS 2021Algorithms and Data Structures SymposiumAugust 9-11, 2021Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada The Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, WADS, which alternates with the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT, is intended as a forum for 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