Scope

Papers in all areas related to combinatorial pattern matching and its applications will be considered, including, but not limited to, coding and data compression, computational biology, data mining, information retrieval, natural language processing, web algorithms, pattern recognition and discovery, string algorithms, string processing in databases, text searching and word statistics. Both papers reporting on original research unpublished elsewhere and surveys of important results are welcome.

The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag series, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching started in 1990, and has since taken place every year. Proceedings of previous CPM conferences were published as LNCS volumes 644, 684, 807, 937, 1075, 1264, 1448, 1645, 1848, 2089, 2373, 2676, 3109, 3537, 4009, 4580 and 5029.


Steering Committee

Alberto Apostolico (Georgia Tech and University of Padua)
Maxime Crochemore (King's College London and University of Paris-Est)
Zvi Galil (Tel-Aviv University)

Program committee (includes all former CPM (co-)chairs)

Tatsuya Akutsu (Kyoto)
Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan and Johns Hopkins)
Alberto Apostolico (GeorgiaTech and Padua)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)
Edgar Chavez (Univ Michoacana)
Maxime Crochemore (King's College London and Univ Paris-Est)
Martin Farach-Colton (Rutgers)
Paolo Ferragina (Univ Pisa)
Zvi Galil (Tel-Aviv)
Raffaele Giancarlo (Univ Palermo)
Dan Gusfield (UC Davis)
Daniel Hirschberg (UC Irvine)
Costas Iliopoulos (King's College London)
John Kececioglu (Univ Arizona Tucson)
Gregory Kucherov (CNRS, co-chair)
Gad Landau (Univ Haifa)
Moshe Lewenstein (Bar-Ilan)
Stefano Lonardi (Univ California Riverside)
Bin Ma (Univ Western Ontario)
S. Muthukrishnan (Google Inc.)
Eugene Myers (Howard Hughes)
Kunsoo Park (Seoul National Univ)
Mike Paterson (Warwick)
Wojciech Rytter (Warsaw)
S. Cenk Sahinalp (Simon Fraser Univ)
David Sankoff (Ottawa)
Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu Univ)
Hélène Touzet (INRIA, Univ Lille 1)
Esko Ukkonen (Helsinki, co-chair)
Gabriel Valiente (Tech Univ Catalonia)
Kaizhong Zhang (Univ Western Ontario)

Organizing committee

Gregory Kucherov (CNRS, LIFL and J.-V.Poncelet Lab, Moscow)
Hélène Touzet (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)
Sandrine Catillon (INRIA Lille Nord Europe)
Mathieu Giraud (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)
Stéphane Janot (LIFL, Polytech'Lille, INRIA)
Antoine de Monte (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)
Laurent Noé (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)
Maude Pupin (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)
Jean-Stéphane Varré (LIFL, Université Lille 1, INRIA)


Important dates

* Submission : January 12, 2009
* Notification : March 9, 2009
* Final version due : March 27, 2009
* Conference : June 22 - 24, 2009