Call for Papers


Middle-European Conference on Applied Theoretical Computer Science
(MATCOS-19)

*** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***

Koper, Slovenia, October 10th and 11th, 2019.
http://matcos.iam.upr.si

Held in conjunction with
the 22nd Multi-Conference on Information Society,
October 7th-11th, 2019, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (http://is.ijs.si)

Scope and Topics
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During the past years, other fields have used several subjects,
methods and approaches of Theoretical Computer Science, and several
results have been integrated into practical applications. Solutions
for NP-hard problems, algorithmic-oriented AI and data science, new
models and methods in system biology and bioinformatics, automata
theory approaches in software and hardware verification, practical
quantum computing solutions and the development of other prospective
new models of computation are good examples to buttress the above
statement.

We set double aims as the scope of this conference: on one hand side
we expect ideas and solutions from the field of Theoretical Computer
Science which have been directly applied in real world
applications. On the other side we want to collect theoretical results
based on some fruitful idea that may be useful to adopt for practical
problems.

Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
- Automata and formal languages, computability,
- Algorithms and data structures,
- Computational complexity,
- Artificial intelligence, machine learning,
- Optimization, approximation methods, NP-hard problems,
- Graph theory,
- Computational geometry.

There is a special emphasis on use in applications such as simulation,
bioinformatics, digital signal and image processing, data science,
digital forensics, logistics, smart homes/cities and IoT etc.

Program Committee
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Andrej Brodnik (Koper, Ljubljana, Slovenia) co-chair
Gábor Galambos (Szeged, Hungary) co-chair
Neil Hurley (Dublin, Ireland)
Gabriel Istrate (Timisoara, Romania)
Ivana Kolingerova (Plzen, Czech Republic)
Miklós Krész (Szeged, Hungary and Koper, Slovenia)
Ujjwal Maulik (Kolkata, India)
Silvano Martello (Bologna, Italy)
Benedek Nagy (Famagusta, Cyprus, Turkey)
Rolf Niedermeier (Berlin, Germany)
Ion Petre (Turku, Finland)
Ulrich Pferschy (Graz, Austria)
Gerhard Reinelt (Heidelberg, Germany)
Giovanni Rinaldi (Rome, Italy)
Borut Žalik (Maribor, Slovenia)


Keynote speaker
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Thomas Pock, TU Graz, Austria


Paper submission
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Papers presenting original research in conference topics are being
sought. Papers (regular and short) must be in English and provide
sufficient details to allow the program committee to assess their
merits. The submissions of regular papers, as well as their final
versions, are limited to 4 pages sharp and will be published in an
Information Society multiconference proceeding. The submissions of
short papers must include an abstract at least. Revised and extended
versions of selected papers will appear in a special issue of the
journal Informatica (http://www.informatica.si/). Instructions for
preparing the papers can be downloaded from Conference Website.

Only electronic submissions will be accepted (in pdf format), via
EasyChair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=matcos2019


Important dates
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Paper submission: August 25th, 2019. (*** EXTENDED ***)
Notification: September 1st, 2019.


Website and Contacts
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More detailed on-line information is at http://matcos.iam.upr.si.
Personal inquires should be sent to matcos19@iam.upr.si.

Organized by University of Primorska, Institute Andrej Marušič, and
Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies
in cooperation with InnoRenew CoE.


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University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Computer and Information Science