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STACS 2016 - Call for Papers

33rd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science
February 17-20, 2016, Orléans, France

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Submission deadline: Sep 18, 2015
http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/events/STACS2016/
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SCOPE

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished
research on theoretical aspects of computer science. Typical areas
include (but are not limited to):
- algorithms and data structures, including: parallel, distributed,
approximation, and randomized algorithms, computational geometry,
  cryptography, algorithmic learning theory, analysis of algorithms;
- automata and formal languages;
- computational complexity, parameterized complexity, randomness in
computation;
- logic in computer science, including: semantics, specification and
verification, rewriting and deduction;
- current challenges, for example: natural computing, quantum
computing, mobile and net computing.



INVITED SPEAKERS

- Jérôme Leroux, Bordeaux, France
- Carsten Lutz, Bremen, Germany
- Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Stanford, USA



TUTORIAL

- Jarkko Kari, Turku, Finland



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Isolde Adler (Frankfurt)
- Nathalie Bertrand (Rennes)
- Nader Bshouty (Haifa)
- Arkadev Chattopadhyay (Mumbai)
- Philippe Duchon (Bordeaux)
- Henning Fernau (Trier)
- Samuel Fiorini (Brussels)
- Danny Hermelin (Beersheba)
- Rahul Jain (Singapore)
- Artur Jeż (Wrocław)
- Stefan Kiefer (Oxford)
- Andreas Krebs (Tübingen)
- Gregory Kucherov (Marne-la-Vallée)
- Sławomir Lasota (Warsaw)
- Guillaume Malod (Paris)
- Conrado Martínez (Barcelona)
- Nicole Megow (Munich)
- Nicolas Ollinger (Orléans), co-chair
- Giovanni Pighizzini (Milan)
- Dror Rawitz (Ramat Gan)
- Christian Sohler (Dortmund)
- Stefan Szeider (Vienna)
- Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Salt Lake City)
- Heribert Vollmer (Hannover), co-chair
- James Worrell (Oxford)
- Marc Zeitoun (Bordeaux)



SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12
pages (excluding the references section).

The usage of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style file (see below) are
mandatory; no changes to font size, page geometry etc. are permitted.
Submissions not in the correct format or submitted after the deadline
will not be considered.

The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their
motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of
their significance, accessible to non-specialist readers.

Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix, to
be read by the program committee members at their discretion.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings
or to journals is not allowed. PC members are excluded from submitting.

There will be a rebuttal period for authors. Authors will receive
the reviews of their submissions (via EasyChair) on Nov 13/14 and have
three days (Nov 14 – 16) to submit rebuttals (via EasyChair). These
rebuttals become part of the PC meeting, but entail no specific
responses.

The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2016



PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium.
As usual, these proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International
Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl.
This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the
authors retain the rights over their work. With their submission,
authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program committee
chairs to organize the electronic publication of their paper, provided
the paper is accepted.

Further details are available on www.stacs-conf.org and on the
conference website http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/events/STACS2016/



IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Sep 18, 2015
Rebuttal period: Nov 14-16, 2015
Author notification: Dec 4, 2015
Final version due: Jan 2, 2016
Symposium: Feb 17-20, 2016



LIPICS STYLE FILES

LIPIcs homepage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics
tar ball: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz



CONTACT INFORMATION

http://www.univ-orleans.fr/lifo/events/STACS2016/ (for general information)
pc-chairs-stacs2016@easychair.org  (for information regarding paper submission)