25-29 April 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS 5th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation TAMC 2008 http://ictt.xidian.edu.cn/tamc2008/ April 25-29, 2008, Xi'an, China The 5th Annual Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC08) will be held in Xi an, China, April 25 to 29, 2008. Four previous annual meetings were held in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007, with enthusiastic participation from researchers all around the world. (The web site for TAMC06 can be found at http://gcl.iscas.ac.cn/accl06/TAMC06_Home.htm, and for TAMC07 can be found at http://www.tamc07.fudan.edu.cn) The three main themes of the conference TAMC08 will continue to be Computability, Complexity, and Algorithms. It aims to bring together researchers with an interest in theoretical computer science, algorithmic mathematics, and applications to the physical sciences. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: algorithms and data structures, computational complexity, cryptography, computational geometry, computational game theory, algorithmic graph theory and combinatorics, algorithmic algebra, number theory and coding theory, learning theory, computational biology, theoretical problems in networks and security, quantum computing, randomness, on-line algorithms, and parallel algorithms, natural computation, models of computation, automata and neural networks, continuous and real computation, computable mathematics, relative computability and degree structures, Turing definability, generalised and higher type computation, proofs and computation, physical computability, decidability and undecidability. More information about the conference is available on the TAMC 08 web site. Submission and publication: Authors should submit an extended abstract (not a full paper). The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The length of the extended abstract should not exceed ten (10) letter-sized pages (not including bibliography, appendices and gures). Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings. Research that is already submitted to a journal may be submitted to TAMC08, provided that (a) the PC chair is notified in advance that this is the case, and (b) it is not scheduled for journal publication before the conference. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, in the LNCS Series by Springer. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Special issues of Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematical Structures in Computer Science devoted to a selected set of accepted papers of the conference are planned. Important dates Submission deadline: Papers must be received electronically by 11:59 pm EST Nov. 10, 2007. Notification: Acceptance or rejection decisions will be sent by Jan. 8, 2008. Final versions: Final versions of accepted papers are due on Feb. 10, 2008. Abstract submission Authors are required to submit their extended abstracts electronically. A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at the conference web site. Program committee Conference Chair: Dingzhu Du ( University of Texas at Dallas) PC co-Chairs: Manindra Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) Dingzhu Du (University of Texas at Dallas) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University) Angsheng Li (ISCAS) PC members: Manindra Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) Giorgio Ausiello (Rome, Italy) Paola Bonizzoni (University of Milano-Bicocca, 20135 -Milano, Italy ) Jin-Yi Cai (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Cristian S. Calude (University of Auckland ) Jianer Chen (Texas A&M University) Francis Chin (University of Hong Kong) S. Barry Cooper (University of Leeds, UK) Decheng Ding (Nanjing University) Rod Downey (Wellington) Dingzhu Du (University of Texas at Dallas) Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University) Rudolf Fleischer (Fudan University) Hiroshi Imai (University of Tokyo) Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University) Ying Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Valentine Kabanets (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Maciej Koutny (Newcastle Univerisity) Andrew Lewis (University of Leeds) Angsheng Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Xingwu Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Satyanarayana Lokam (Microsoft Research-India) Giuseppe Longo (Paris, France) Janos Makowsky (Israel Institute of Technology) Jaikumar Radhakrishnan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) Rudiger Reischuk (Universitat zu Lubeck) Helmut Schwichtenberg (Mathematisches Institut der Universitat Mnchen) Xiaoming Sun (Tsinghua University) Luca Trevisan (UC Berkeley) Christopher Umans (Cal Tech) Hanpin Wang (Beijing University) Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Mingsheng Ying (Tsinghua University, Beijing) Shengyu Zhang (California Institute of Technology) Ting Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia) Wenhui Zhang (ISCAS) Yunlei Zhao (Fudan University) Hong Zhu (Fudan University, Shanghai) For TAMC08, we gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Xidian University.