WEA 06: 1st Call for Papers

                                CALL FOR PAPERS

                                    WEA 2006

                Fifth International Workshop on Experimental Algorithms

                                   May 24-27, 2006

                                 Menorca Island, Spain

                              http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~wea/


SCOPE:

The WEA Workshops are intended to be 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 Workshops 
were held in Riga, Monte Verita, Rio de Janeiro and Santorini.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

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

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Mechanism Design
Analysis of Algorithms
Approximation Techniques
Branch and Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial Structures and Graphs
Combinatorial and Irregular Problems
Communication Networks
Complex Networks
Computational Learning Theory
Computational Optimization
Computer Systems
Cryptography and Security
Data Structures
Distributed Algorithms
Evaluation of Algorithms for Realistic Environments
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
Network Analysis
Novel Applications of Algorithms in Other Disciplines
On-line 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

PAPER SUBMISSION:

Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper describing original, 
unpublished research with at most 12 pages (in LNCS style or similar). 
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be 
read by the program committee members at their discretion. Electronic 
submissions should be formatted in postscript or pdf. The proceedings will 
be published in Springer's LNCS series. Simultaneous submission to other 
conferences or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. See 
the conference website at  http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~wea/
for details on how to submit or contact the workshop organizers at 
wea@lsi.upc.edu for further information.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions Due: January 20, 2006
Notification: March 7, 2006
Final Papers Due: March 17, 2006


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mark de Berg, T.U. Eindhoven, NL
Christian Blum , T.U. of Catalonia, ES
Aaron Clauset, Univ. of New Mexico, US
Camil Demetrescu, Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", IT
Thomas Erlebach, Univ. of Leicester, UK
Catherine McGeoch, Amherst College, US
Ulrich Meyer, MPI fur Informatik, DE
Ian Munro, University of Waterloo, CA
Stefan Naher, Universitat Trier, DE
Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, CL
Panos M. Pardalos, Univ. of Florida, US
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, CH
Adi Rosen, Technion, IL
Peter Sanders, Universitat Karlsruhe, DE
Guilhem Semerjian, Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", IT
Maria Serna, chair, T.U. of Catalonia, ES
Paul Spirakis, Univ. of Patras and CTI, GR
Osamu Watanabe, Tokyo Inst. Technology, JP
Peter Widmayer, ETH Zurich, CH

STEERING COMMITTEE

Edoardo Amaldi,  Politecnico di Milano, IT
David A. Bader,  Georgia Institute of Technology, US
Josep Diaz,  T.U. of Catalonia, ES
Giuseppe Italiano,  Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", IT
David Johnson,  AT&T Labs, US
Klaus Jansen,  Universitat Kiel, DE
Kurt Mehlhorn,  Max-Plack-Institut fur Informatik, DE
Ian Munro,  University of Waterloo, CA
Sotiris Nikoletseas,  University of Patras and CTI, GR
José Rolim  (chair), University of Geneva, CH
Paul Spirakis,  University of Patras and CTI, GR

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Carme Alvarez
Maria Blesa
Amalia Duch
Leonor Frias
Helena Nesetrilova
Maria Serna (Chair)


CONTACT INFORMATION

Maria Serna
Dept. Llenguatges i Sistemes Informtics
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
c/ Jordi Girona 1-3, 235 Campus Nord
E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
Tel.: (+34) 93 4137850, Fax: (+34) 93 4137787
http://www.lsi.upc.edu/~wea
wea@lsi.upc.edu