European Symposium on Algorithms

ESA 2021


Interdisciplinary Studies (General)



Scope
The European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) is one of the premier conferences on algorithms. It is organized in collaboration with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and is a part of ALGO 2021.
We hope that by September it will be possible to travel to Portugal from many parts of the world, but we also expect that it may be unsafe, difficult or impossible for some people to attend in person. If your paper is accepted we hope it will be possible for you to present it on location, but remote participation options will be available, and the choice of whether to travel would be yours entirely.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: May 3, 2021 (23:59 AoE)
Notification: June 23, 2021
Camera ready: July 3, 2021
Conference: September 6 - 8, 2021, in Lisbon, Portugal
Call for Papers
The symposium seeks original algorithmic contributions for problems with relevant theoretical and/or practical applications. Papers with a strong emphasis on the theoretical analysis of algorithms should be submitted to Track A, while papers reporting on the results of extensive experimental evaluations and/or providing original contributions to the engineering of algorithms for practical applications should be submitted to Track B. There will be a Best Student Paper Award as well as a Best Paper Award, both sponsored by EATCS. In order for a paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award, all of its authors are required to be students.
Paper Submission and Proceedings
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system. The ESA 2021 proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 11 pages excluding the title page, references, and an optional appendix. The submission should be typeset using a 10-point or larger font in a single-column format with ample spacing throughout and 2cm margins all around on A4-size paper. We recommend, but not strictly require, making your initial submission adhere to LIPIcs publication guidelines. Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix. This appendix can even comprise an entire full version of the paper. The appendix will be read by the program committee members at their discretion. In particular, appendices of accepted papers are not going to be published in the proceedings. The main part of the submission should therefore contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims. These guidelines are strict: submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines risk being rejected without consideration of their merits. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system. Results previously published (or scheduled for publication) in another conference proceedings or journal will not be accepted at ESA. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings, or to both tracks of ESA 2021, is also not permitted. By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance, at least one of the authors must register at ALGO 2021, attend the conference, and present the paper.
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Double-Blind Reviewing
The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should ensure that any references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of the double-blind reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. In case there exist publicly available versions of the submission online, the authors might mention this in their submission (without providing references/links), and briefly explain the differences if any. Alternatively, they might communicate the details to the chairs, who will keep them confidential unless revealing them to the PC is needed for a fair judgment. Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the PC chairs.
Topics
Papers presenting original research in all areas of algorithmic research are sought, including but not limited to:
Algorithm engineering
Algorithmic aspects of networks
Algorithmic game theory
Algorithmic Data Science
Approximation algorithms
Computational biology
Computational finance
Computational geometry
Combinatorial optimization
Data compression
Data structures
Databases and information retrieval
Distributed and parallel computing
Graph algorithms
Hierarchical memories
Heuristics and meta-heuristics
Mathematical programming
Mobile computing
Online algorithms
Parameterized algorithms
Pattern matching
Quantum computing
Randomized algorithms
Scheduling and resource allocation problems
Streaming algorithms
COMMITTEES
Chairs
Rasmus Pagh (track A), University of Copenhagen
Petra Mutzel (track B), University of Bonn
Steering Committee
Hannah Bast (SC Chair), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Michael Bender, Stony Brook University
Fabrizio Grandoni, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI
Robert Krauthgamer, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Petra Mutzel (Chair), University of Bonn
Rasmus Pagh , University of Copenhagen
Eva Rotenberg, Technical University of Denmark
Peter Sanders, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Sabine Storandt, University of Konstanz
Ola Svensson, EPFL Lausanne
PC Members (track A)
Akanksha Agrawal, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Andrea Lincoln, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew McGregor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Asaf Levin, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Benjamin Doerr, Ecole Polytechnique
Chaitanya Swamy, University of Waterloo
Clément Canonne, University of Sydney
Debarati Das, University of Copenhagen
Édouard Bonnet, École normale supérieure de Lyon
Elias Koutsoupias, University of Oxford
Eric Price, University of Texas at Austin
Frances Rosamond, University of Bergen
Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo
Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile
Gramoz Goranci, University of Toronto
Guy Kortsarz, Rutgers University
Harald Räcke, Technical University Munich
Huacheng Yu, Princeton University
Ilan Reuven Cohen, Bar Ilan University
Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Irina Kostitsyna, Eindhoven University of Technology
Jakub Łącki, Google Research
Jason Li, Carnegie Mellon University
Jeff M. Phillips, University of Utah
Johannes Fischer, Technical University of Dortmund
Justin Thaler, Georgetown University
Laxman Dhulipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Leo van Iersel, Delft University of Technology
Maarten Löffler, Utrecht University
Marco Molinaro, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Marvin Künnemann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Melanie Schmidt, University of Cologne
Michał Pilipczuk, University of Warsaw
MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi, University of Maryland
Naveen Garg, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Omri Weinstein, Columbia University and Hebrew University
Paloma T. Lima, University of Bergen
Pierre Fraigniaud, Université de Paris and CNRS
Ran Duan, Tsinghua University
Rasmus Kyng, ETH Zurich
Rasmus Pagh (Chair), University of Copenhagen
Richard Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology
Riko Jacob, IT University of Copenhagen
Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa
Simon Apers, Université libre de Bruxelles and CWI Amsterdam
Talya Eden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tobias Christiani, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Tobias Friedrich, Hasso Plattner Institute and University of Potsdam
Yusuke Kobayashi, Kyoto University
Zachary Friggstad, University of Alberta