WALCOM 2020

Venue

Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NUS

Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 3 Prince George's Park, Singapore 118402

Organizing Team

Ho Siew Foong (National University of Singapore)
Zaini Mohd (National University of Singapore)
Kwok Pui Choi (National University of Singapore)
Vaibhav Rajan (National University of Singapore)
Wing-Kin Sung, Ken (National University of Singapore)

More people will be on board soon

Steering Committee

Kyung-Yong Chwa (KAIST, Korea)
Costas S. Iliopoulos (KCL, UK)
M. Kaykobad (BUET, Bangladesh)
Petra Mutzel (TU Dortmund, Germany)
Shin-ichi Nakano (Gunma University, Japan)
Subhas Chandra Nandy (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)
Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku University, Japan)
C. Pandu Rangan (IIT, Madras, India)
Md. Saidur Rahman (BUET, Bangladesh)

Program Committee

Hee-Kap Ahn (POSTECH)
Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid (BUET, Bangladesh)
Guillaume Blin (Universiti de Bordeaux)
Hans Bodlaender (Utrecht University)
Gautam K Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Jackie Daykin (Royal Holloway College)
Mark de Berg (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Wing-Kai Hon (Nation Tsing Hua University)
Seok-Hee Hong (University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA)
Jesper Jansson (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Ralf Klasing (CNRS and University of Bordeaux)
Gad M. Landau (University of Haifa and NYU)
Inbok Lee (Korea Aerospace University)
Giuseppe Liotta (University of Perugia)
Takaaki Mizuki (Tohoku University)
Debajyoti Mondal (University of Saskatchewan)
Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya (Indian Statistical Institute)
Shin-Ichi Nakano (Gunma University)
Solon Pissis (CWI)
Simon Puglisi (University of Helsinki)
Tomasz Radzik (King's College London)
M. Sohel Rahman (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology), Chair
Atif Rahman (CSE, BUET)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw University)
Kunihiko Sadakane (The University of Tokyo), Chair
William F. Smyth (McMaster University)
Paul Spirakis (University of Liverpool)
Wing-Kin Sung (Nuational University of Singapore), Chair
Etsuji Tomita (The University of Electro-Communications)
Ryuhei Uehara (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Bruce Watson (Stellenbosch University)
Sue Whitesides (University of Victoria)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University)

Invited Speakers

Prof. Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Tech

Prof. Louxin Zhang, NUS

Prof. Md. Saidur Rahman, BUET

Proposed Programme

DAY 1 ( 30 MAR 2020 ):

Tutorials from invited speakers on a Special Topic Related Combinatorial Methods for String and Graph

Day 2-4 ( 31 Mar – 2 Apr 2020 ): WALCOM 2020

1 night conference banquet
~3 keynotes
Contributed paper presentations

Call for Papers

The 14th International Conference and Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM) is intended to provide an international forum for researchers working in the areas of algorithms and computation. WALCOM 2020 will be held during March 31 - April 02, 2020 at National University of Singapore, Singapore. It is being organized in cooperation between Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NUS), School of Computing (NUS), The Special Interest Group for ALgorithms (SIGAL) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and Technical Committees on Theoretical Foundations of Computing (COMP) of The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE).

SCOPE

The range of topics within the scope of WALCOM includes but is not limited to:

Approximation Algorithms
Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Combinatorial Algorithms
Combinatorial Optimization
Computational Biology
Computational Complexity
Computational Geometry
Discrete Geometry
Data Structures
Experimental Algorithm Methodologies
Graph Algorithms
Graph Drawing
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
Parameterized Algorithms
Parameterized Complexity
Network Optimization
Online Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms
String Algorithms

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS

Authors are invited to submit papers (extended abstracts) describing original research of theoretical or practical significance to algorithms and computation. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS style. Papers significantly shorter than 12 pages are also welcome. If the authors feel that more details are essential to substantiate the main claim of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Only electronic submissions via Easychair will be allowed (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=walcom2020). Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work and surveys of important results. At the time the paper is submitted to WALCOM 2020, and for the entire review period, the paper (or essentially the same paper) should not be under review by any other conference with published proceedings or by a scientific journal. At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the paper.

AWARDS

Two awards, namely, "The Best Paper" and "The Best Student Paper" will be awarded. A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper if the paper is presented by an author, who is a full-time student.

PROCEEDINGS AND SPECIAL ISSUE

Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the tradition of the previous editions of WALCOM the proceedings will be included in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to Journal special issues in Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) and Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA).

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline : September 15, 2019 (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: October 28, 2019
Camera-ready Submission and Author Registration: November 08, 2019
Conference Dates: March 31-April 02, 2020

Contact: ksung@comp.nus.edu.sg.
Conference website: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~walcom20
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=walcom2020

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