CFP: WADS 2003

[Michiel Smid]

Call For Papers


Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS)

July 30 - August 1, 2003
Ottawa, Canada


  NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 20, 2003


The Workshop, which alternates with the Scandinavian Workshop on
Algorithm Theory, is intended as a forum for researchers in the
area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures. 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, parallel and distributed computing.

Contributors are invited to submit a full paper (not exceeding 12
pages). Detailed submission instructions are located at
http://www.wads.org. Submissions must arrive on or before
Feb. 20 at 12:00 noon EST. Authors will be notified of acceptance or
rejection by April 21, 2003. Proceedings will be published in the
Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The final
versions of accepted papers must arrive in camera-ready form before
May 12, 2003 to ensure the availability of the proceedings at the
conference.
Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue
of Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.

Invited Speakers: Gilles Brassard, Daniel Spielman, Dorothea Wagner.

Special Presentation:
Wing T. Yan (Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP, www.nelligan.ca),
"Protecting your intellectual property".

Pre-Workshop Special Event:
one-day seminar on "Neural Networks in System Identification and
Forecasting: Principles, Techniques, Applications" by
Georg Zimmermann, Siemens AG, Muenchen


Conference Chair: Michiel Smid

Program Committee:
Co-Chairs: F. Dehne, J.-R. Sack, M. Smid.

PC-Members:
Lars Arge (Duke)
Susanne Albers (Freiburg)
Michael Atkinson (Dunedin)
Hans Bodlaender (Utrecht)
Gerth Brodal (Aarhus)
Tom Cormen (Dartmouth)
Timothy Chan (Waterloo)
Erik Demaine (MIT)
Mike Fellows (Newcastle)
Pierre Freigniaud (Paris-Sud)
Naveen Garg (Delhi)
Andrew Goldberg (Microsoft)
Giuseppe Italiano (Rome)
Ravi Janardan (Minneapolis)
Rolf Klein (Bonn)
Stephan Naeher (Trier)
Giri Narasimhan (Florida International University)
Rolf Niedermeier (Tuebingen)
Viktor Prasanna (Southern California)
Andrew Rau-Chaplin (Halifax)
R. Ravi (Carnegie Mellon)
Paul Spirakis (Patras)
Roberto Tamassia (Brown)
Jeff Vitter (Purdue)
Dorothea Wagner (Konstanz)
Peter Widmayer (Zurich)

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