Call for Papers

International Symposium on Combinatorics, Algorithms, Probabilistic and
     Experimental Methodologies
  (ESCAPE 2007)
        April 7-9, 2007, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
         http://www.math.zju.edu.cn/zgc/escape/homepage.htm

Scope

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:

  Algebraic computation and number theory
  Bioinformatics
  Combinatorics and experimental design
  Corpus linguistics
  Financial data processing and analysis
  Geometric information processing and communication
  Grid computing and network resource allocation
  High performance computing techniques and applications
  Heuristic evaluation methodologies
  Internet algorithms and protocols
  Large system scheduling methodologies
  Methodologies of simulation evaluation and applications
  Parameterized algorithms, heuristics and analysis
  Probabilistic method and randomized algorithms
  Real time data processing and online algorithms
  Robust optimization
  Sampling techniques in data analysis

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 proceedings all accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) of Springer Publications (pending approval).

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 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.

Best Paper Prize

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

Deadline of submissions: October 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance: November 30, 2006
Camera-ready version: January 5, 2007
Symposium: April 7-9, 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

(Please see a complete list at http://www.math.zju.edu.cn/zgc/escape/Committees.htm)

Bo Chen (Chair), University of Warwick
Guochuan Zhang (Co-chair), Zhejiang University

Organizing Committee

(Please see a complete list at http://www.math.zju.edu.cn/zgc/escape/Committees.htm)

Guochuan Zhang (Chair), Zhejiang University