The 23rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2012) will be held at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-21, 2012. The symposium is intended to provide a forum for researchers working in algorithms and theory of computation. Papers presenting original research in the areas of algorithms and theory of computation are sought. Papers in relevant applied areas are also welcome.

The topics include, but are not limited to:
Algorithmic game theory
Algorithms and data structures
Approximation algorithms
Combinatorial optimization
Computational biology
Computational complexity
Computational geometry
Cryptography
Experimental algorithms
Graph drawing and graph algorithms
Internet algorithms
Online algorithms
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Quantum computing
Randomized algorithms

INVITED SPEAKERS
Timothy M. Chan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Erik D. Demaine (MIT, USA)
John E. Hopcroft (Cornell University, USA)

SYMPOSIUM CHAIR
Der-Tsai Lee (National Chung Hsing University/Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Greg Aloupis (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Lars Arge (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Tetsuo Asano (JAIST, Japan)
Franz Aurenhammer (Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria)
Giorgio Ausiello (Università di Roma, Italy)
Timothy M. Chan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) (Co-chair)
Siu-Wing Cheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Richard Cole (New York University, USA)
Bhaskar DasGupta (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Rudolf Fleischer (GUtech, Muscat, Oman)
Cyril Gavoille (Université de Bordeaux, France)
Seok-Hee Hong (University of Sydney, Australia)
John E. Hopcroft (Cornell University, USA)
Tsan-sheng Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) (Co-chair)
Hiroshi Imai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tao Jiang (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Rolf Klein (University of Bonn, Germany)
Gad M. Landau (University of Haifa, Israel)
Martin Middendorf (University of Leipzig, Germany)
Heejin Park (Hanyang University, Korea)
Peter Rossmanith (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Xiaoming Sun (China Academy of Sciences, China)
Chuan Yi Tang (Providence University, Taiwan)
Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University, Japan)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Ke Yi (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Louxin Zhang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Kun-Mao Chao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Feipei Lai (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Yuh-Dauh Lyuu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Hung-Lung Wang (National Taipei College of Business, Taiwan) (Chair)
Yue-Li Wang (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan)

PUBLICATION
The symposium proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Selected papers will be invited to special issues of Algorithmica, Theoretical Computer Science, and International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION
The submission should contain a scholarly exposition of ideas, techniques, and results, including motivation and a clear comparison with related work. The main text of the submission, including title, abstract, and references, should not exceed 10 pages in LNCS style. An optional appendix should be used to provide proof details that do not fit in the main text. Submitted papers must describe work not previously published. They must not be submitted simultaneously to another conference with refereed proceedings or to a journal. Drafts which contain essentially the same results as papers under review in other conferences or journals at the moment of submission cannot be submitted to ISAAC 2012. Only electronic submission will be allowed via the easychair submission server: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isaac2012.

AWARDS
A Best Paper and a Best Student Paper will be awarded. A paper is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if all authors are full-time students at the time of submission. To indicate that a submission is eligible, please add the phrase "Eligible for the Best Student Paper Award" as the last sentence in the "Abstract" field in the Web form of the submission server as well as in the paper.

Contact: isaac2012@csie.ntu.edu.tw