SEA (Symposium on Experimental Algorithms), previously known as WEA (Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is an international forum for researchers in the area of design, analysis, and experimental evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects of computational optimization and its applications. The preceding symposia were held in Riga, Monte Verità, Rio de Janeiro, Santorini, Menorca Island, Rome, Cape Cod, Dortmund, Ischia Island, Crete, Bordeaux, Rome, Copenhagen and Paris. SEA aims to attract papers from both the CS and the OR/Mathematical Programming communities.

The main theme of the symposium is the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures. Submissions should present significant contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of (meta-) heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity
of a problem.

IMPORTANT DATES

Times AoE (Anywhere on Earth):
Abstract submission: January 26, 2016.
Full paper submission: February 2, 2016.
Acceptance notification: March 11, 2016.
Camera-ready version: March 25, 2016.
Conference dates: June 5-8, 2016.

TOPICS
Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Libraries
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Analysis of Algorithms
Algorithms for Memory Hierarchies
Approximation Techniques
Bioinformatics
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
Communication Networks
Complex Networks
Computational Geometry
Computational Learning Theory
Computational Optimization
Computer Systems
Cryptography and Security
Data Streams
Data Structures
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
Experimental Techniques and Statistics
Graph Drawing
Heuristics for Combinatorial Optimization
Implementation, Testing, Evaluation and Fine-tuning
Information Retrieval
Integer Programming
Logistics and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mathematical Programming
Metaheuristic Methodologies
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Network Analysis
Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
Online Problems
Parallel Algorithms and Computing
Railway Optimization using Algorithmic Methods
Randomized Techniques
Robotics
Semidefinite Programming
Simulation
Software Repositories and Platforms for using Algorithms
Telecommunications and Networking
World-Wide-Web Algorithms

ORGANIZERS

Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St. Petersburg of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: sea2016info@gmail.com

SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or a full paper of at most 12 pages, not including references, in the LNCS format (LaTeX, as pdf; final version with source); instructions are here:

http://www.stage.sgw.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Proofs and other material omitted due to space constraints are to be put into a clearly marked appendix to be read at discretion of the referees. Papers must present original (and not previously published) research. Simultaneous submission to journals or to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. The proceedings of the symposium will be published in Springer's LNCS series.

Submissions should be uploaded to the EasyChair Conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2016