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* ALENEX25: SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments
* Astor Crowne Plaza
* New Orleans, LA, United States, January 12-13, 2025
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Conference Website: https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/alenex25
Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alenex25
Submission Deadline: July 18, 2024 (AoE)


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| About the Conference
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The aim of ALENEX is to provide a forum for the presentation of original
research in the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of
algorithms and data structures. Typical submissions will include an extensive
experimental analysis of nontrivial algorithmic results, ideally bridging the
gap between theory and practice. We also invite submissions that address
methodological issues and standards in the experimental evaluation of
algorithms and data structures.

Relevant areas of applied algorithmic research include but are not limited to
databases; geometry; graphs and networks, including web applications;
operations research; combinatorial aspects of scientific computing; and
computational problems in the natural sciences or engineering.

Also encouraged are submissions that address algorithms and data structures for
advanced models of computing, including memory hierarchies and parallel
computing, ranging from instruction parallelism over multicore computing to
high-performance and cloud computing.

Proceedings will be posted online in January 2025. ALENEX is supported by SIAM.

Since researchers in all fields are approaching the problem of learning
detailed information about the performance of particular algorithms, we expect
that interesting synergies will develop between the co-located conferences.

The following conferences will be held jointly:
- ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
) https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/soda25
- SIAM Symposium on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX)
) https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/alenex25
- SIAM Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA)
) https://www.siam.org/conferences/cm/conference/sosa25


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| Program Committee Co-chairs
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- Jonathan Berry, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S.
- Kathrin Hanauer, University of Vienna, Austria

Program Committee
- Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon - LIP, France
- Christina Boucher, University of Florida, U.S.
- Maike Buchin, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
- David Bunde, Knox College, U.S.
- Donatella Firmani, Sapienza University, Italy
- Kasimir Gabert, Sandia National Laboratories, U.S.
- Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S.
- Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, U.S.
- Jakub Łącki, Google Research, U.S.
- Johannes Langguth, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
- Richard Peng, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.
- A. Erdem Sarıyüce, University at Buffalo, U.S.
- Christian Schulz, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Martin P. Seybold, University of Vienna, Austria
- Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Christos Zaroliagis, CTI and University of Patras, Greece


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| Steering Committee Chair
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Martin Farach-Colton, New York University, U.S.

Steering Committee
- Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy
- Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratory, U.S.
- Solon Pissis, CWI, Netherlands
- Alex Pothen, Purdue University, U.S.
- Julian Shun, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.
- Helen Xu, Georgia Institute of Technology - Atlanta, U.S.


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| How to Participate
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== Format ==
Submissions must be PDF, formatted according to the double column macro posted
here. (Note that there is also a single column macro, but ALENEX uses the
double-column one.) Submissions must not exceed 10 pages, excluding front
matter (title and abstract), references, and a clearly marked appendix (further
described below).

== Content ==
Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, which begins
with the title of the paper as well as a short abstract. This should be
followed by the main body of the paper that begins with a precise statement of
the problem considered, a succinct summary of the results obtained (emphasizing
the significance, novelty, and potential impact of the research), and a clear
comparison with related work. The remainder of the extended abstract should
provide sufficient details to allow the program committee to evaluate the
validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. Clarity of presentation
is very important; the entire extended abstract should be written carefully,
taking into consideration that it will be read and evaluated by both experts
and non-experts, often under tight time constraints.

== Appendix and Additional data ==
All details needed to verify the results must be provided. Supporting
materials, including proofs of theoretical claims and experimental details,
that do not fit in the 10 page limit should be given in an appendix. If more
appropriate, the full version may be given as the appendix. In both cases,
however, the authors should include in the main part specific pointers to the
relevant locations in the appendix. The appendix will be read by the program
committee members and subreviewers at their discretion and will not be
published as part of the proceedings. Thus, the paper without the appendix
should be able to stand on its own. Experimental and implementation results
(independent of paper type) must be reproducible and verifiable. Authors are
encouraged to put accompanying software and relevant data, in a repository
accessible to the reviewers. Authors are asked to indicate which of the
supporting materials will remain publicly available if their papers are
accepted.

== Double-blind ==
ALENEX will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions
should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular,
authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the
beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should ensure that any
references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., not "We
build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ...").
Particular care needs to be taken with accompanying software or data, which
need to be linked anonymously (for example, via a DropBox folder or the like).
Upon registering a submission, the authors will declare conflicts of interest
with PC members. The purpose of lightweight double-blind reviewing is to help
PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper
without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if
they were to try. Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft
versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post
drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on
their research ideas. We encourage authors with further questions on
double-blind reviewing to contact the PC chairs.

== Previous or Simultaneous Submissions ==
Results previously published or accepted for publication in the proceedings of
another conference cannot be submitted. Simultaneous submissions of the results
to another conference with published proceedings are not allowed. Exempted are
workshops and conferences without formal proceedings, but possibly with
handouts containing short abstracts. Results that have already been accepted
(with or without revision) for publication in a journal at the time of their
submission to the symposium are not allowed. A paper submitted to a journal but
not yet accepted for publication can be submitted to the symposium. In such
cases, the authors must mention this on the front page of the submission and
clearly identify the status of the journal submission at the date of the full
paper submission deadline.

== Accepted Papers ==
Final proceedings versions of accepted papers must use the same double column
formatting macro as the submissions. Title, abstract, and body of the paper
altogether must not exceed 12 pages, followed by unlimited references. If any
supporting material (including complete proofs of theoretical claims and
experimental details) does not fit in the specified limit, then the full
version of the paper containing this information must be referenced in the
conference version and made available at a public repository, such as arXiv, by
the time the final version is submitted. Where applicable, we encourage the
authors to make accompanying software and/or data publicly accessible, with
proper references in the paper.

== Artifact Evaluation ==
To verify and facilitate reproducibility of the results described in ALENEX
papers, we encourage authors of accepted papers to submit their artifacts (e.g.
code and data) for Artifact Evaluation (AE). The artifact submission deadline
for accepted papers will be Sep. 9. A separate committee will examine the
artifacts, with notification by Oct. 13. Participation in artifact evaluation
is not mandatory and will not influence paper acceptance. However, AE results
will be considered when inviting top papers for journal publication. Papers
that pass Artifact Evaluation will be awarded SIAM badges for availability and
reproducibility, which will be printed directly on the papers giving the
readers greater confidence in the results presented in them. Participation in
the AE phase will not be made public except for the papers that receive badges.


The Easy Chair submission site is available:
) https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alenex25


== Proceedings ==
The proceedings will be posted online in mid-January 2025.

== Acceptance Notification ==
The Program Committee chairs will distribute acceptance notices and final paper
submission instructions to authors of accepted papers in late August 2024.

SIAM will distribute a follow-up notice in early October 2024; a list of
accepted papers will be posted at this time.