FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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* 13th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops *
* on Algorithm Theory *
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* (SWAT 2012) *
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* Helsinki, Finland *
* July 4-6, 2012 *
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* http://swat2012.helsinki.fi/ *
* swat2012@helsinki.fi *
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* Co-located with SWAT 2012 is the 23rd Annual Symposium *
* on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2012) *
* Helsinki, Finland, July 3-5, 2012 *
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AIMS AND SCOPE

The symposium, which alternates with the Algorithms and Data
Structures Symposium (WADS), is a forum for researchers in the
area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.
We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on
algorithms and data structures in all areas, including but not
limited to approximation algorithms, parameterized algorithms,
computational biology, computational geometry, distributed
algorithms, external-memory algorithms, exponential algorithms,
graph algorithms, online algorithms, optimization algorithms,
randomized algorithms, streaming algorithms, string algorithms,
sublinear algorithms, and algorithmic game theory.

Contributors must submit their papers using the Easychair system.
Submissions must be of at most 12 pages using 11 point or larger
font and with reasonable line spacing and margins. Additionally,
a clearly marked appendix may be included; this appendix will
not be regarded as part of the submission and will be considered
only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous
submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not
allowed. Symposium proceedings will be published in the "Lecture
Notes in Computer Science" (LNCS) series of Springer.


IMPORTANT DATES

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* Paper submission deadline: February 24, 2012 *
* Notification of acceptance: April 9, 2012 *
* Symposium: July 4-6, 2012 *
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Allan Borodin, University of Toronto
Marek Chrobak, University of California, Riverside
Amin Coja-Oghlan, University of Warwick
Michael Elkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David Eppstein, University of California, Irvine
Rolf Fagerberg, University of Southern Denmark
Fedor Fomin, University of Bergen (chair)
Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens
Fabrizio Grandoni, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Michel Habib, University Paris Diderot
John Iacono, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Giuseppe F. Italiano, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
Petteri Kaski, Aalto University
Andrzej Lingas, Lund University
Daniel Lokshtanov, University of California, San Diego
Andrzej Pelc, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Sofya Raskhodnikova, Pennsylvania State University
Saket Saurabh, Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Christian Sohler, Technische Universität Dortmund
Kavitha Telikepalli, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Dimitrios M. Thilikos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Virginia Vassilevska Williams, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zürich


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Petteri Kaski, Aalto University (contact person)
Matti Järvisalo, University of Helsinki
Mikko Koivisto, University of Helsinki
Valentin Polishchuk, University of Helsinki
Jukka Suomela, University of Helsinki
Pekka Orponen, Aalto University
Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki


STEERING COMMITTEE

Lars Arge, Aarhus University
Magnús M. Halldórsson, Reykjavík University
Andrzej Lingas, Lund University
Jan Arne Telle, University of Bergen
Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki