WALCOM 2018 : The 12th International Conference and Workshop on Algorithms and Computation (WALCOM)

Call for Papers - WALCOM 2018

The 12th 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 2018 will be held during March 03- 05, 2018 at Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is being organized in cooperation with IEICE Technical Committee on Theoretical Foundations of Computing (COMP), the Special Interest Group for ALgorithms (SIGAL) of the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) and the EATCS Japan Chapter.

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 (Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=walcom2018). Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings or to a journal.

PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Following the tradition of the previous editions of WALCOM it is expected that the proceedings will be included in the Springer-Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

VENUE WALCOM 2018 will be held at the Department of CSE, BUET, ECE Building, West Palasi, Dhaka.

IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: 22 September (Friday) 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification: 17 November (Friday) 2017 Camera Ready Version: 01 December (Friday) 2017 Conference Dates: 03 March (Saturday) - 05 March (Monday) 2018

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Hee-Kap Ahn, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea Muhammad Jawaherul Alam, Amazon, USA Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, BUET, Bangladesh Guillaume Blin, Université de Bordeaux, France Jackie Daykin, King's College, London, UK Amr Elmasry, Alexandria University, Egypt Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney, Australia Giuseppe F. Italiano, Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan Ralf Klasing, Université Bordeaux 1, France Gad M. Landau, University of Haifa, Israel Hon Wai Leong, National University Singapore, Singapore Giuseppe Liotta, University of Perugia, Italy Stefano Lonardi, University of California, Riverside, USA Debajyoti Mondal, University of Waterloo, Canada Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile Solon P Pissis, King's College, London, UK Sheung Hung Poon, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Simon J Puglisi, University of Helsinki, Finland Tomasz Radzik, King's College, London, UK M. Sohel Rahman (Co-Chair), BUET, Bangladesh Md. Saidur Rahman, BUET, Bangladesh Atif Hasan Rahman, BUET, Bangladesh Kunihiko Sadakane, The University of Tokyo, Japan William F. Smyth, McMaster University, Canada Paul Spirakis, University of Liverpool, UK and University of Patras, Greece Wing-Kin Sung (Co-Chair), National University Singapore, Singapore Etsuji Tomita, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Ryuhei UEHARA (Co-Chair), JAIST, Japan Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Bruce Watson, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Sue Whitesides, University of Victoria, Canada Prudence Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

INVITED SPEAKERS Giuseppe Di Battista Professor of Computer Science & Vice President for Research Università Roma Tre, Italy

And

Naoki Katoh Department of Informatics Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES Special issues dedicated to WALCOM 2018 will be published at the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications (http://www.jgaa.info/) and Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/theoretical-computer-science/).

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 all authors are students at the time of submission.

CONTACT ADDRESS

M. Sohel Rahman Professor & Head Department of CSE BUET, Dhaka-1000 Bangladesh E-mail: msrahman@cse.buet.ac.bd http://msrahman.buet.ac.bd/

Wing-Kin Sung Professor of Computer Science National University of Singapore E-mail: ksung@comp.nus.edu.sg http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ksung

Ryuhei Uehara Professor School of Information Science Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology E-mail: uehara@jaist.ac.jp https://www.jaist.ac.jp/~uehara/index-e.html