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14th European Symposium on Algorithms: ESA 2006 (ETH Zurich, Switzerland, September 2006)

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

       14th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms - ESA 2006

        ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, September 11-13, 2006

                   http://www.ti.inf.ethz.ch/algo06/
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SCOPE

The symposium covers research in the use, design and analysis of
efficient algorithms and data structures in computer science,
discrete applied mathematics, operations research and mathematical
programming. It has two tracks, which deal respectively with:

* the design and mathematical analysis of algorithms (the "Design
  and Analysis" track);

* real-world applications, engineering and experimental analysis of
  algorithms (the "Engineering and Applications" track).

ESA 2006 is sponsored by EATCS (the European Association for
Theoretical Computer Science) and organized in the context of
ALGO 2006. For updated information see the website
http://www.ti.inf.ethz.ch/algo06/.

TOPICS

Papers presenting original research in all areas of algorithmic
research are sought, including but not limited to: Algorithmic
Aspects of Networks; Approximation and On-line Algorithms;
Computational Biology; Computational Finance and Algorithmic Game
Theory; Computational Geometry; Data Structures; Databases and
Information Retrieval; External-Memory Algorithms; Graph and Network
Algorithms; Graph Drawing; Machine Learning; Mobile and Distributed
Computing; Pattern Matching and Data Compression; Quantum Computing;
Randomized Algorithms. The algorithms may be sequential, distributed
or parallel.

Submissions are especially encouraged in the areas of mathematical
programming and operations research, including Combinatorial
Optimization, Integer Programming, Polyhedral Combinatorics and
Network Optimization.

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at
most 12 pages. The paper should contain a succinct statement of the
issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a
brief explanation of their significance, accessible to non-specialist
readers. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into
an appendix to be read by the program committee members at their
discretion.

Papers must be submitted electronically; procedures for electronic
submission will be available on the ESA 2006 website. Authors of
papers that include an experimental aspect can make supporting source
code or data sets available on a webpage (referenced in the submitted
paper) or send them by e-mail to esa06code@mcs.le.ac.uk; such
supporting files will be considered by the program committee members
at their discretion.

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSION

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published
proceedings, or to both tracks of ESA 2006, is not permitted.
A paper submitted to one track of ESA 2006 may be switched
to the other track if, in the opinion of the PC chairs, the
paper is better suited to the other track.  Authors are
expected to present their accepted papers at the conference. 

BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD

ESA 2006 offers the EATCS award for the best student paper at
ESA 2006. Please indicate "student paper" on the front page of
the submission if all authors are students.

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes
in Computer Science. Each paper will receive an allotment of 12 pages
in the proceedings in LNCS-style. Previous proceedings of ESA, 2001
in Aarhus, 2002 in Rome, 2003 in Budapest, 2004 in Bergen, and 2005 in
Mallorca, appeared as LNCS 2161, 2461, 2832, 3221 and 3669. Previous
proceedings of the precursor to the Engineering and Applications
track, the Workshop on Algorithm Engineering, held in 1999 in London,
2000 in Saarbruecken and 2001 in Aarhus, appeared as LNCS 1668, 1982
and 2141. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEES

Design and Analysis Track:

  Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University
  Lars Arge, University of Aarhus
  Yossi Azar, Tel-Aviv University (Chair)
  Nikhil Bansal, IBM T.J. Watson
  Allan Borodin,  University of Toronto
  Martin Dyer, University of Leeds
  Dimitris Fotakis, University of Aegean
  Magnus M Halldorsson, University of Iceland
  Monika Henzinger, Google & ETH Lausanne
  Tibor Jordan, Eotvos University, Budapest
  Jan Karel Lenstra, CWI, Amsterdam
  Yishay Mansour, Tel-Aviv University
  Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn
  Alessandro Panconesi, University La Sapienza, Rome
  Rob van Stee, Karlsruhe University
  Mariette Yvinec, INRIA Sophia Antipolis

Engineering and Applications Track:

  Edoardo Amaldi, Politecnico di Milano
  Leah Epstein, University of Haifa
  Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester (Chair)
  Lene Favrholdt, University of Southern Denmark
  Alexander Hall, ETH Zurich
  Dan Halperin, Tel Aviv University
  Ulrich Meyer, MPI-INF Saarbruecken
  Rolf Niedermeier, University of Jena
  Cliff Stein, Columbia University
  Roberto Tamassia, Brown University
  Suresh Venkatasubramanian, AT&T

ESA/ALGO'06 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Michael Hoffmann, ETH Zurich (Chair)
Angelika Steger, ETH Zurich
Emo Welzl, ETH Zurich
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission deadline:       April 15, 2006
Notification to authors:   May 31, 2006
Final version:             June 26, 2006
Symposium:                 September 11-13, 2006