ICALP 2015

The 42nd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2015) will take place in the period 6-10 July 2015 in Kyoto, Japan. The conference will co-locate with LICS 2015, the 30th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science. The ICALP 2015 conference chair is Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto University). ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS). As usual, the main conference will be preceded and/or followed by a series of workshops.

Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are:

Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games

Algorithmic Game Theory
Approximation Algorithms
Combinatorial Optimization
Combinatorics in Computer Science
Computational Biology
Computational Complexity
Computational Geometry
Cryptography
Data Structures
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Machine Learning
Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing
Randomness in Computation
Quantum Computing

Track B: Logic, Semantics, Automata and Theory of Programming

Algebraic and Categorical Models
Automata, Games, and Formal Languages
Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation
Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory
Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages
Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking
Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems
Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems
Program Analysis and Transformation
Specification, Refinement, Verification and Synthesis
Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi

Track C: Foundations of Networked Computation: Models, Algorithms and Information Management

Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking
Formal Methods for Network Information Management
Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Networks
Mobile and Wireless Networks and Communication
Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks
Networks of Low Capability Devices
Network Mining and Analysis
Overlay Networks and P2P Systems
Specification, Semantics, Synchronization of Networked Systems
Theory of Security in Networks

Important dates

Submission deadline: Tuesday, 17 February 2015, 23:59 PST (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-8)
Author notification: Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Final manuscript due: Thursday, 30 April 2015

Deadlines are firm; late submissions will not be considered.
Proceedings
ICALP proceedings are published in the Springer-Verlag ARCoSS (Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science) subseries of LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
Invited Speakers
Keynote Speakers

Ken Kawarabayashi, NII, Japan
Valerie King, University of Victoria, Canada
Thomas Moscibroda, MSR Asia, China
Anca Muscholl, Universitè Bordeaux, France (Joint with LICS)
Peter O'Hearn, Facebook, UK (Joint with LICS)

Invited Tutorial Speakers (Joint with LICS)

Piotr Indyk, MIT, USA
Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK
Geoffrey Smith, Florida International University, USA

Masterclass speaker

Ryuhei Uehara, JAIST, Japan

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, including references, in LNCS style presenting original research on the theory of Computer Science. All submissions will be electronic via the EasyChair page for the conference, with three tracks (A, B and C):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icalp2015
Submissions should be made to the appropriate track of the conference. No prior publication or simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed. Submissions must adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are too long or formatted incorrectly may be rejected immediately. All the technical details that are necessary for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in a clearly-labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. This includes, in particular, the proofs of all the key theorems in a paper.
Should I submit my paper to Track A or Track C?
While the scope of Tracks A and B are generally well understood given their long history, the situation for Track C may be less obvious. In particular, some clarifications may be helpful regarding areas of potential overlap, especially between Tracks A and C.

The aim for Track C is to be the leading venue for theory papers truly motivated by networking applications, and/or proposing theoretical results relevant to real networking, certified analytically, but not necessarily tested practically. The motivation for the track was the lack of good venues for theory papers motivated by applications in networking. On the one hand, the good networking conferences typically ask for extended experiments and/or simulations, while the TCS community is hardly able to do such experiments or simulations. On the other hand, the good conferences on algorithms tend to judge a paper based only on its technical difficulty and on its significance from an algorithmic perspective, which may not be the same as when judging the paper from the perspective of impact on networks.

Several areas of algorithmic study of interest to track C have a broad overlap with track A. Graph algorithmics can belong in either, though if the work is not linked to networking, it is more appropriate in track A. Algorithmic game theory is another area of major overlap. Aspects involving complexity, the computation of equilibria and approximations, belong more in Track A, while results with applications in auctions, networks and some aspects of mechanism design belong in Track C.

Finally, it should be noted that algorithms and complexity of message-passing based distributed computing belong squarely in track C, while certain other aspects of distributed computing do not fall under its scope.
Best Paper Awards
As in previous editions of ICALP, there will be best paper and best student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and should be marked as such upon submission.
Organizers
Conference Chair: Kazuo Iwama, Kyoto University
Program Chairs
Track A: Bettina Speckmann, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Track B: Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Track C: Magnus M. Halldorsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Program Committees
Track A: Algorithms, complexity, and games

Peyman Afshani, Aarhus University, Denmark
Hee-Kap Ahn, POSTECH, South Korea
Hans Bodlaender Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Karl Bringmann, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany
Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Ken Clarkson, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Éric Colin de Verdière, CNRS and École Normale Supérieure Paris, France
Stefan Dziembowski, University of Warsaw, Poland
David Eppstein, University of California at Irvine, USA
Dimitris Fotakis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Paul Goldberg, University of Oxford, UK
MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Jesper Jansson, Kyoto University, Japan
Andrei Krokhin, Durham University, UK
Asaf Levin, Technion, Israel
Inge Li Gørtz, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Pinyan Lu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Frédéric Magniez, Université Paris Diderot, France
Kazuhisa Makino, Kyoto University, Japan
Elvira Mayordomo, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Wolfgang Mulzer, Free University Berlin, Germany
Viswanath Nagarajan, University of Michigan, USA
Vicky Papadopoulou, European University Cyprus, Cyprus
Michał Pilipczuk, University of Bergen, Norway
Liam Roditty, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Ignaz Rutter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Rocco Servedio, Columbia University, USA
Jens Schmidt, TU Ilmenau, Germany
Bettina Speckmann (chair), TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Csaba D. Tóth, California State University Northridge, USA
Takeaki Uno, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Erik Jan van Leeuwen, Max-Planck Institut für Informatik, Germany
Rob van Stee, University of Leicester, UK
Ivan Visconti, University of Salerno, Italy

Track B: Logic, semantics, automata and theory of Programming

Andreas Abel, Chalmers and Gothenburg University, Sweden
Albert Atserias, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Lars Birkedal, Aarhus University, Denmark,
Luís Caires, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wei Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ugo Dal Lago, University of Bologna, Italy
Thomas Ehrhard, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, France
Zoltán Ésik, University of Szeged, Hungary
Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Shin-ya Katsumata, Kyoto University, Japan
Naoki Kobayashi (chair), The University of Tokyo, Japan
Eric Koskinen, New York University, USA
Antonín Kučera, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University, Israel
Annabelle Mclver, Macquarie University, Australia
Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay, France
Markus Müller-Olm, University of Münster, Germany
Andrzej Murawski, Univeristy of Warwick, UK
Joel Ouaknine, Univeristy of Oxford, UK
Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada
Pawel Parys, University. of Warsaw, Poland
Reinhard Pichler, TU Vienna, Austria
Simona Ronchi Della Rocca, University of Torino, Italy
Jeremy Siek, Indiana University, USA

Track C: Foundations of networked computation: Models, algorithms and information management

Ioannis Caragiannis, Univ. Patras, Greece
Katarina Cechlarova, Pavol Jozef Safarik Univ., Slovakia
Shiri Chechik, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
Yuval Emek, Technion, Israel
Sándor Fekete, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Pierre Fraigniaud, CNRS and Paris Diderot, France
Leszek Gąsieniec, Univ. Liverpool, UK
Aristides Gionis, Aalto Univ., Finland
Magnús M. Halldórsson (chair), Reykjavik Univ, Iceland
Monika Henzinger, Univ. Wien, Austria
Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USAL
Fabian Kuhn, Freiburg, Germany
Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard Univ, USA
Massimo Merro, Univ. Verona, Italy
Gopal Pandurangan, Univ. Houston, USA
Pino Persiano, Salerno, Italy
R. Ravi, CMU, USA
Ymir Vigfusson, Emory Univ., USA
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Masafumi Yamashita, Kyushu Univ., Japan