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18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2007), Newcastle (Australia), 5-9 Nov 2007

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18th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms
http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/~iwoca2007
5 ~V 9 November 2007

Venue: Rafferty's Resort, Lake Macquarie, NSW 2281 Australia

Host: School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of Newcastle
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/elec-eng-comp-sci/

Sponsors: The University of Newcastle, Australia

After 17 years as a successful regional conference, AWOCA (Australasian
Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms) is going global as IWOCA!
AWOCA has been held at many venues in Australia (last year at Ayers Rock, a
world heritage site), once in Korea, three times in Indonesia. At the Ayers
Rock conference, in view of the increased recognition of AWOCA, the
participants decided unanimously to upgrade, to focus more on high-quality
presentations, but also on problems sessions, and to have the Proceedings
published by a well-known academic publisher. To provide more flexibility in
venue for the upgraded conference, and to make its results more widely
accessible, it has also been renamed. All submissions to IWOCA will be
refereed by three referees selected by Program Committee members.
IWOCA 2007 will be held in the vicinity of Newcastle at Rafferty's Resort,
Lake Macquarie. Newcastle started life as a steel town, but has been
transformed into a charming small seaside city close to the renowned Hunter
Valley wine-growing area and a centre of picturesque resort towns on the New
South Wales coast. The fourth day of the workshop will be taken up with an
optional tour of spectacular scenic areas, arts-and-crafts centres, and some
of the finest wineries in the world. IWOCA 2007 focuses on current important
research in combinatorial algorithms, featuring both expository talks and
problems sessions. For further details on problem submission, please access:
http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/~iwoca2007
and see the attached letter from Jamie Simpson, Problems Chair.

IWOCA topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

Algorithms and Data Structures
Complexity Theory
Graph Theory & Combinatorics
Combinatorial Optimization
Cryptography & Information Security
Algorithms on Strings & Graphs
Graph Drawing & Labelling
Computational Algebra & Geometry
Computational Biology
Communications Networks
Probabilistic & Randomised Algorithms
New Paradigms of Computation

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jerrold Griggs, University of South Carolina, USA
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Czech Republic
Gadi Landau, University of Haifa, Israel
Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Brendan McKay, Australian National University, Australia
Takao Nishizeki, Tohoku University, Japan
Kristina Vuskovic, University of Leeds, UK

STEERING COMMITTEE

Costas Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK
Mirka Miller, University of Ballarat, Australia
Bill Smyth, McMaster University, Canada & Curtin University, Australia

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Mousa Alfalayleh, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Ljiljana Brankovic, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Beti Georgievski, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Yuqing Lin, The University of Newcastle, Australia (Chair)
Alexandre Mendes, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael Quinlan, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Huilin Ye, The University of Newcastle, Australia

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Martin Baca, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia
Edy Tri Baskoro, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Ljiljana Brankovic, The University of Newcastle, Australia (Co-Chair)
Hajo Broersma, Durham University, UK
Pino Caballero, University of La Laguna, Spain
Kun-Mao Chao, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Arbee L. P. Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Francis Y. L. Chin, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Charlie Colbourn, Arizona State University, USA
Derek Corneil, University of Toronto, Canada
Jackie Daykin, Royal Holloway College, UK
Frank Dehne, Carleton University, Canada
Diane Donovan, University of Queensland, Australia
Genghua Fan, Fuzhou University, China
Andrei Kelarev, University of Tasmania, Australia
Jan Kratochvil, Charles University, Czech Republic
Selda Kucukcifci, Koc University, Turkey
Gadi Landau, University of Haifa, Israel
Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen, France
Jimmy Ho Man Lee, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong
Paulette Lieby, NICTA, Australian National University, Australia
Yuqing Lin, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA
Prabhu Manyem, University of Ballarat, Australia
Laurent Mouchard, University of Rouen, France
Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile
Takao Nishizeki, Tohoku University, Japan
Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Andrzej Proskurowski, University of Oregon, USA
Bharati Rajan, Loyola College, India
Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK
Wojciech Rytter, Warsaw University, Poland
Zdenek Ryacek, University of West Boehmia, Czech Republic
Joe Ryan, University of Ballarat, Australia
Jamie Simpson, Curtin University, Australia (Problems Chair)
Jozef Sirn, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Michiel Smid, Carleton University, Canada
Bill Smyth, McMaster University, Canada & Curtin University, Australia
(Co-Chair)
Kathleen Steinhfel, King's College London, UK
Anne Street, University of Queensland, Australia
Athanasios Tsakalidis, University of Patras, Greece
Gabriel Valiente, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain
Koichi Wada, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Sue Whitesides, McGill University, Canada
Chee Yap, New York University, USA

SUBMISSION

Submissions should be submitted on or before Monday 16 July 2007 (Sydney
time) in postscript or PDF format at:
http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/~iwoca2007

Each submission should be an "extended abstract" of at most 10 pages in
length, a limit that is strictly enforced. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

LNCS format should be used: for further instructions and style files, please
see the IWOCA website: http://www.iwoca.org/.

After refereeing has taken place, notifications to authors will be sent by
Monday 3 September 2007. Camera-ready copies of accepted papers are due by
Monday 17 September 2007.

PUBLICATION

In the past accepted papers at AWOCA have been published by the host
university. This year, the IWOCA Proceedings will be published by College
Publications (http://www.collegepublications.co.uk) and be made available
world-wide. Thus for the first time conference papers will find a universal
audience among researchers in combinatorial algorithms.

In order that an accepted paper should qualify for publication, at least one
author will be required to register for IWOCA 2007 and guarantee that the
paper will be presented. For further information, see http://www.iwoca.org
or contact one of the following:

IWOCA2007 (iwoca2007@cs.newcastle.edu.au)
Ljiljana Brankovic (Ljiljana.Brankovic@newcastle.edu.au)
Bill Smyth (smyth@mcmaster.ca)

PROBLEMS SUPPLEMENT

Dear colleague,

The program for IWOCA 2007 will include Problems Sessions for which we need
unsolved problems. If you have anything suitable (related to combinatorial
algorithms), please send it to me at simpson@maths.curtin.edu.au

Your submission should contain a clear statement of your problem with your
name and affiliation, and may include motivation, known related results,
references, partial solutions, and so on. A typical submission might range
from 20 to 500 words, though these bounds are not strict and of course
depend on the amount of relevant material available.

I will collate the problems and circulate them a few weeks before the
meeting. This will give people time to study them and, perhaps, contribute
to their solution at the workshop.

Afterwards the problems will be kept on the permanent IWOCA website, so that
they can be reconsidered at future IWOCAs. Any progress made will also
appear on the website. A similar arrangement is used by the Western Number
Theory Conference in the USA.

With best wishes.
Jamie Simpson