ESCAPE 2007 Call For Papers

April 7-9, 2007, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

With the Internet, bio-technology, video digital data processing, as well as global geometric data applications, the enormous dataset size has been pushing our limits in data processing. Both theoreticians and Practitioners are challenged to an extent that has never seen before. A growing pressure has been put on different experts, such as Computer Scientists, Combinatorics Experts, and Statisticians, dealing with their own large data processing problems, to reach out beyond their own disciplines, to search for ideas, methodologies, and tool boxes, to find better, faster and more accurate solutions.

The intErnational Symposium on Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and Experimental methodologies (ESCAPE 2007), is intended to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers across their discipline boundaries to exchange their approaches, to foster innovative ideas as well as to develop commonly interested research agenda. The novelty of ESCAPE is to study practical large data processing problems with different, and eventually converging, methodologies from major important disciplines.   

Program Topics

The program topics include but are not limited to:

Paper Submission

All submissions will be rigorously peer reviewed and evaluated on the quality, originality, soundness, and significance of their contributions. Application and position papers presenting novel ideas, issues, challenges and directions are all welcome. As post-proceedings all accepted papers presented at the symposium will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (www.springer.com/lncs) of Springer Publications. To maximize quality of publications, authors of accepted papers shall have the opportunity to revise their papers in the light of the feedback they would receive upon presentation of their works at the conference.

Authors should submit an extended abstract. The extended abstract should start with the title of the paper, each author's name, affiliation, and email address, followed by a brief (one or two paragraphs) summary of the results to be presented. This should then be followed by a technical exposition of the main ideas and techniques used to achieve these results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The abstract should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (including bibliography) on A4-size paper (210 mm x 297 mm) and should be in single-column format. If the authors believe that more details are essential to substantiate the main claims of the paper, they may include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the program committee.

Only electronic submissions are acceptable. A detailed description of the electronic submission process is available at http://www.math.zju.edu.cn/zgc/escape/Paper_Submission.htm

Presentation of Accepted Papers: One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present it at the conference. A brief (one or two paragraphs) summary of the results of all accepted papers will be available to participants of the symposium. Please note that only those accepted papers that are presented at the Symposium will be published in LNCS.

Best Paper Award

Of accepted papers, four will be selected by the Award Panel as finalists for the Best Paper Award. Authors of the four selected papers will be invited (one author of each paper is free of registration fees) to give presentations in a special plenary session, in which the Best Paper will be identified to win the Prize, as well as a cash award of USD 1000.

Important Dates

(Extended) deadline of submissions: November 30, 2006
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2007
Symposium: April 7-9, 2007
Camera-ready version of extended abstract: 5 May, 2007

Award Panel

Rainer E. Burkard Technical University of Graz
Xiaotie Deng City University of Hong Kong
Ronald Graham University of California at San Diego
Peter Hammer Rutgers Center for Operations Research
Kazuo Iwama Kyoto University
Silvano Martello University of Bologna
Mike Paterson (Chair) University of Warwick

Program Committee

Susanne Albers University of Freiburg
David Avis McGill University
Yossi Azar Tel-Aviv University & Microsoft Research
Allan Borodin University of Toronto
Rainer E. Burkard Technical University of Graz
Bo Chen (Chair) University of Warwick
Guoliang Chen University of Science and Technology of China
Vladimir Deineko University of Warwick
Xiaotie Deng City University of Hong Kong
Dingzhu Du Universuty of Texas at Dallas
Patrick Dymond York Universuty
Peter Eades University of Sydney
Thomas Erlebach University of Leicester
Mike Fellows University of Newcastle
Ronald Graham University of California at San Diego
Peter Hammer Rutgers Center for Operations Research
Winfried Hochstättler University of Hagen
Jeff Hong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hiroshi Imai University of Tokyo
Kazuo Iwama Kyoto University
Klaus Jansen University of Kiel
David Kirkpatrick University of British Columbia
Rolf Klein University of Bonn
Kim Skak Larsen University of Southern Denmark
Der-Tsai Lee Academia Sinica (Taipei)
Silvano Martello University of Bologna
Helen Meng The Chinese University of Hong Kong
See-Kiong Ng National University of Singapore
Mike Paterson University of Warwick
Franz Rendl University of Klagenfurt
Mitsuhisa Sato University of Tsukuba
Jiri Sgall Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
Martin Skutella University of Dortmund
Paolo Toth University of Bologna
Denis Trystram ID-IMAG
Emo Welzl ETH Zurich
Gerhard Woeginger  TU Eindhoven
Masafumi Yamashita Kyushu University
Yinyu Ye Stanford University
Guochuan Zhang (Co-chair) Zhejiang University

Organizing Committee

Guangting Chen  Hangzhou Dianzi University
Zhiyi Tan   Zhejiang University
Enyu Yao Zhejiang University
Deshi Ye Zhejiang University
Guochuan Zhang (Chair) Zhejiang University

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