19-21 June 2008
Changsha, China
Call for Papers
The Second International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop
(FAW 2008)
June 19 ? 21, 2008, Changsha, China
(http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/faw)
The Second International Frontiers of Algorithmics Workshop (FAW 2008) will
be held from June 19 - 21, 2008 in Changsha, China, in close proximity to
the famous and beautiful Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, which is a World
Natural Heritage Site.
The Workshop will provide a focused forum on current trends in research on
algorithms, discrete structures, and their applications, and will bring
together international experts at the research frontiers in those areas to
exchange ideas and to present significant new results. The mission of the
workshop is to stimulate the various fields for which algorithmics can
become a crucial enabler, and to strengthen the ties between the Eastern and
Western algorithmics research communities. While interesting results in all
areas of algorithmics are welcome, different topics may be emphasized each
year to reflect contemporary trends and developments. In addition, each year
there will be a few special focus themes to ensure a critical mass of
participants in the selected areas and an intense exchange of ideas and
experiences in those areas.
Contributions to FAW 2008 are solicited in (but are not limited to) the
following topics:
. Algorithms in medical research
. Approximation and online algorithms
. Bioinformatics
. Computational statistics
. Discrete structures
. Games and incentive analysis
. Geometric information processing and communication
. Graph algorithms
. Internet algorithms and protocols
. Multicore parallel algorithms
. Parameterized algorithms, heuristics and analysis
The special focus themes for 2008 are algorithms in biomedical research,
games and incentive analysis, and multicore parallel algorithms.
Paper Submission
All submissions will be rigorously peer-reviewed and evaluated based on the
quality, originality, soundness, and significance of their contributions.
Application and position papers presenting novel ideas, issues, challenges
and directions are all welcome. Only on-line submissions (in ps or pdf
format) will be considered. Simultaneous submissions of papers to any other
conference with published proceedings and submissions of previously
published papers are not allowed. The proceedings of the Workshop will be
published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(pending approval).
Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract in single
column format, using 11-point or larger font, with reasonable margins and
line spacing. Excluding the title page and bibliography, the extended
abstract must not exceed ten pages. A clearly marked appendix with
additional technical details, which is to be read by the program committee
members at their discretion, may be included at the end of the extended
abstract. It is highly recommended to use the Springer LNCS LaTeX style
format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Submissions
deviating significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without
consideration of their merits.
Authors should submit papers to the submission web site
http://www.easychair.org/FAW2008/. Questions regarding the Workshop or the
submission process should be directed to faw_2008@engineering.uiowa.edu.
Important Dates
Jan 18, 2008 Submission Deadline
March 7, 2008 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
April 3, 2008 Camera-ready Submission
May 1, 2008 Early Registration
June 19 ? 21, 2008 Conference
Program Committee
Nancy Amato Texas A&M University, USA
Tetsuo Asano Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan
Mikhail Atallah Purdue University, USA
David A. Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Chandra Chekuri University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Jianer Chen Texas A&M University, USA
Kyung-Yong Chwa Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology,
Korea
Bhaskar DasGupta University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Qizhi Fang Ocean University of China, China
Michael R. Fellows University of Newcastle, Australia
Michael T. Goodrich University of California ? Irvine, USA
Horst W. Hamacher University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Pinar Heggernes University of Bergen, Norway
Kazuo Iwama Kyoto University, Japan
Der-Tsai Lee Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica,
Taiwan
Erricos J. Kontoghiorghes Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Lian Li Hefei University of Technology, China
Xiang-Yang Li Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Andy McLennan University of Queensland, Australia
Franco P. Preparata Brown University, USA (chair)
Detlef Seese Universitt Karlsruhe, Germany
Kasturi Varadarajan University of Iowa, USA
Guoqing Wu Wuhan University, China
Xiaodong Wu University of Iowa, USA (co-chair)
Jinhui Xu State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Jinyun Xue Jiangxi Normal University, China
Chee Yap New York University, USA
Jianping Yin National University of Defense Technology, China
(co-chair)
Ramin Zabih Cornell University, USA
Louxin Zhang National University of Singapore, Singapore