ICALP 2015

http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/icalp2015/

Second Call for Papers ======================

The 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) will take place in the period 6-10 July 2015 in Kyoto, Japan. The conference will co-locate with LICS 2015, the 30th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. The ICALP 2015 conference chair is Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University).

ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, the main conference will be preceded and/or followed by a series of workshops.

Important dates ---------------

Submission deadline: Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 23:59 PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8) Author notification: 15 April 2015 Final manuscript due: 30 April 2015

Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered.

Proceedings -----------

ICALP proceedings are published in the Springer-Verlag ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Invited Speakers =================

Ken Kawarabayashi, NII, Japan Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada Thomas Moscibroda, MSR Asia, China Anca Muscholl, Universite Bordeaux, France (Joint with LICS) Peter O'Hearn, Facebook, UK (Joint with LICS)

Invited Tutorial Speakers (Joint with LICS) ------------------------------------------- Piotr Indyk, MIT, USA Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University, USA

Masterclass speaker ------------------- Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST, Japan

Topics ======

Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are:

Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games -----------------------------------------

* Algorithmic Game Theory * Approximation Algorithms * Combinatorial Optimization * Combinatorics in Computer Science * Computational Biology * Computational Complexity * Computational Geometry * Cryptography * Data Structures * Design and Analysis of Algorithms * Machine Learning * Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing * Randomness in Computation * Quantum Computing

Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming -------------------------------------------------------------

* Algebraic and Categorical Models * Automata, Games, and Formal Languages * Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation * Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory * Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages * Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems * Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems * Program Analysis and Transformation * Specification, Refinement, Verification and Synthesis * Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi

Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management ------------------------------------------------------

* Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking * Formal Methods for Network Information Management * Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Networks * Mobile and Wireless Networks and Communication * Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks * Networks of Low Capability Devices * Network Mining and Analysis * Overlay Networks and P2P Systems * Specification, Semantics, Synchronization of Networked Systems * Theory of Security in Networks

Submission Guidelines --------------------

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, including references, in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science. All submissions will be electronic via the EasyChair page for the conference, with three tracks (A, B and C):

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2015

Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference. No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed.

Submissions must adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are too long or formatted incorrectly may be rejected immediately. All the technical details that are necessary for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. This includes, in particular, the proofs of all the key theorems in a paper.

Should I submit my paper to Track A or Track C? ------------------------------------------------

While the scope of Tracks A and B are generally well understood given their long history, the situation for Track C may be less obvious. In particular, some clarifications may be helpful regarding areas of potential overlap, especially between Tracks A and C.

The aim for Track C is to be the leading venue for theory papers truly motivated by networking applications, and/or proposing theoretical results relevant to real networking, certified analytically, but not necessarily tested practically. The motivation for the track was the lack of good venues for theory papers motivated by applications in networking. On the one hand, the good networking conferences typically ask for extended experiments and/or simulations, while the TCS community is hardly able to do such experiments or simulations. On the other hand, the good conferences on algorithms tend to judge a paper based only on its technical difficulty and on its significance from an algorithmic perspective, which may not be the same as when judging the paper from the perspective of impact on networks.

Several areas of algorithmic study of interest to track C have a broad overlap with track A. Graph algorithmics can belong in either, though if the work is not linked to networking, it is more appropriate in track A. Algorithmic game theory is another area of major overlap. Aspects involving complexity, the computation of equilibria and approximations, belong more in Track A, while results with applications in auctions, networks and some aspects of mechanism design belong in Track C.

Finally, it should be noted that algorithms and complexity of message-passing based distributed computing belong squarely in track C, while certain other aspects of distributed computing do not fall under its scope.

Best Paper Awards -----------------

As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and should be marked as such upon submission.

Committees ==========

Track A: Algorithms, complexity, and games ------------------------------------------

Peyman Afshani, Aarhus University, Denmark Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH, South Korea Hans Bodlaender Utrecht University, The Netherlands Karl Bringmann, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Ken Clarkson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA Eric Colin de Verdiere, École Normale Supérieure Paris, France Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw, Poland David Eppstein, University of California at Irvine, USA Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Paul Goldberg, University of Oxford, UK MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan Andrei Krokhin, Durham University, UK Asaf Levin, Technion, Israel Inge Li Gortz, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Pinyan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China Frederic Magniez, Universite Paris Diderot, France Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany Wolfgang Mulzer, Free University Berlin, Germany Viswanath Nagarajan, University of Michigan, USA Vicky Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus, Cyprus Michal Pilipczuk, University of Bergen, Norway Liam Roditty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Rocco Servedio, Columbia University, USA Jens Schmidt, TU Ilmenau, Germany Bettina Speckmann (chair), TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands Csaba D. Toth, California State University Northridge, USA Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany Rob van Stee, University of Leicester, UK Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy

Track B: Logic, semantics, automata and theory of Programming -------------------------------------------------------------

Andreas Abel, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark, Luis Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, France Zoltan Esik, University of Szeged, Hungary Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan Naoki Kobayashi (chair), The University of Tokyo, Japan Eric Koskinen, New York University, USA Antonín Kucera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel Annabelle Mclver, Macquarie University, Australia Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay, France Markus Mueller-Olm, University of Münster, Germany Andrzej Murawski, Univeristy of Warwick, UK Joel Ouaknine, Univeristy of Oxford, UK Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada Pawel Parys, University. of Warsaw, Poland Reinhard Pichler, TU Vienna, Austria Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino, Italy Jeremy Siek, Indiana University, USA

Track C: Foundations of networked computation: Models, algorithms and information management ------------------------------------------------------

Ioannis Caragiannis, Univ. Patras, Greece Katarina Cechlarova, Pavol Jozef Safarik Univ., Slovakia Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel Sandor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Paris Diderot, France Leszek Gasieniec, Univ. Liverpool, UK Aristides Gionis, Aalto Univ., Finland Magnus M. Halldorsson (chair), Reykjavik Univ, Iceland Monika Henzinger, Univ. Wien, Austria Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USAL Fabian Kuhn, Freiburg, Germany Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard Univ, USA Massimo Merro, Univ. Verona, Italy Gopal Pandurangan, Univ. Houston, USA Pino Persiano, Salerno, Italy R. Ravi, CMU, USA Ymir Vigfusson, Emory Univ., USA Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu Univ., Japan