WEA 2007 Extended Deadline

                               WEA 2007
         6th International Workshop on Experimental Algorithms
                   http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~wea07

                            June 6-9, 2007
                        School of Engineering
             University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

                         LAST CALL FOR PAPERS

       *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO: January 27, 2007 ***

GENERAL INFORMATION WEA is an international forum for researchers in the area of experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications.

The preceding Workshops were held in Riga (Latvia, 2001), Ascona (Switzerland, 2003), Angra dos Reis (Brazil, 2004), Santorini (Greece, 2005), and Menorca Island (Spain, 2006).

TOPICS OF INTEREST Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

• Algorithm Engineering
• Algorithmic Libraries
• Algorithmic Mechanism Design
• Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies
• Approximation Techniques
• Branch and Bound Algorithms
• Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
• Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
• Communication Networks
• Complex Networks
• Computational Biology
• Computational Geometry
• Computational Learning Theory
• Computational Optimization
• Computer Systems
• Cryptography and Security
• Data Streams
• Data Structures
• Distributed Algorithms
• Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
• Graph Drawing
• Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
• Implementation, Testing, Evaluation, and Fine-tuning
• Information Retrieval
• Integer Programming
• Logistics and Operations Management
• Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Mathematical Programming
• Metaheuristic Methodologies
• Network Analysis
• Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
• On-line Problems
• Parallel Algorithms and Computing
• Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods
• Randomized Techniques
• Robotics
• Semidefinite Programming
• Simulation
• Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms
• Telecommunications and Networking
• World Wide Web Algorithms

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: January 27, 2007 (11:59 PM PST) Author notification: March 7, 2007

Camera ready due:       March 21, 2007
Conference:             June 6-9, 2007

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Corinna Cortes          (Google)
Peter Sanders           (U. Karlsruhe)
Maria J. Serna          (T.U. of Catalonia)

PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will appear in the WEA 2007 Proceedings published by Springer Verlag in the LNCS series.

SPECIAL ISSUE Selected papers from WEA 2007 will be considered for a Special Issue of the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA, http://www.jea.acm.org/).

SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the Workshop. Simultaneous submission to other conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be provided to the authors.

Submission website and further details:
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~wea07

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Susanne Albers          (U. Freiburg)
Eric Angel              (U. Evry Val D'Essonne)
Giorgio Ausiello        (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Ricardo Baeza-Yates     (Yahoo! Research)
Jon Bentley             (Avaya Labs Research)
Adam Buchsbaum          (AT&T Labs--Research)
Ioannis Chatzigiannakis (U. Patras)
Camil Demetrescu        (U. Roma "La Sapienza") (chair)
Cid de Souza            (U. Campinas)
Rolf Fagerberg          (U. Sourthern Denmark, Odense)
Rudolf Fleischer        (Fudan U. Shanghai)
Monika Henzinger        (Google & EPFL)
Dorit S. Hochbaum       (U. California at Berkeley)
Michel Gendreau         (U. Montréal)
Giuseppe F. Italiano    (U. Roma "Tor Vergata")
Riko Jacob              (ETH Zurich)
Richard Ladner          (U. Washington)
Kurt Mehlhorn           (MPII Saarbruecken)
Bernard Moret           (EPFL)
S. Muthukrishnan        (Google)
Petra Mutzel            (U. Dortmund)
Giri Narasimhan         (Florida International U.)
Robert Sedgewick        (Princeton U.)
Thomas Stuetzle         (U. Libre de Bruxelles)
Jan Vahrenhold          (U. Dortmund)
Renato Werneck          (Microsoft Research Silicon Valley)
Norbert Zeh             (Dalhousie U., Halifax)

STEERING COMMITTEE

Edoardo Amaldi          (Politecnico di Milano)
David A. Bader          (Georgia Tech)
Josep Diaz              (T.U. Catalonia)
Giuseppe F. Italiano    (U. Roma "Tor Vergata")
David Johnson           (AT&T Labs--Research)
Klaus Jansen            (U. Kiel)
Kurt Mehlhorn           (MPII Saarbruecken)
Ian Munro               (U. Waterloo)
Sotiris Nikoletseas     (U. Patras & CTI)
Jose Rolim              (U. Geneva) (chair)
Pavlos Spirakis         (U. Patras & CTI)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Vincenzo Bonifaci       (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Saverio Caminiti        (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Fabio Dellutri          (U. Roma "Tor Vergata")
Camil Demetrescu        (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Irene Finocchi          (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Luigi Laura             (U. Roma "La Sapienza")
Andrea Vitaletti        (U. Roma "La Sapienza")

CONTACT Camil Demetrescu
Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Via Salaria, 113, II piano, 00198 ROMA, ITALY Tel.: (+39) 06 4991 8457, Fax: (+39) 06 85300849 Email: demetres [at] dis [dot] uniroma1 [dot] it Received on Sat Jan 20 2007 - 12:16:38 CET