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      8th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms

                    http://www.sea2009.org
                        June 3-6, 2009
           Technische UniversitŠt Dortmund, Germany

                       Call for Papers

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline:	January 19, 2009 (11:59 pm PST)
Author notification:	March 6, 2009
Camera ready due:	March 20, 2009
Symposium:		June 3-6, 2009


SCOPE

SEA, previously known as WEA (Workshop on Experimental Algorithms), is
an international forum for researchers in the area of experimental
evaluation and engineering of algorithms, as well as in various aspects
of computational optimization and its applications.

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 a problem's complexity.

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

- Algorithm Engineering
- Analysis of Algorithms
- Approximation Techniques
- Bioinformatics
- Combinatorial Structures and Graphs	
- Communication Networks
- Computational Geometry
- Computational Learning Theory
- Computational Optimization
- Cryptography and Security
- Data Structures	
- Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
- Experimental Techniques and Statistics
- Graph Drawing
- Information Retrieval
- Logistics and Operations Management
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Mathematical Programming
- Metaheuristic Methodologies
- Multiple Criteria Decision Making
- Network Analysis
- On-line Problems
- Randomized Techniques
- Robotics
- Software Repositories and Platforms


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Mark de Berg (TU Eindhoven)
Gerth S. Brodal (MADALGO, Aarhus)
Sandor P. Fekete (TU Braunschweig)
Carlos M. Fonseca (U. Algarve)
Giuseppe F. Italiano (U. Roma Tor Vergata)
Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz (U. Waterloo)
Petra Mutzel (TU Dortmund)
Panos M. Pardalos (U. Florida)
Mike Preuss (TU Dortmund)
Rajeev Raman (U. Leicester)
Mauricio G. C. Resende (AT&T Labs)
Peter Sanders (U. Karlsruhe)
Matt Stallmann (NCSU)
Laura Toma (Bowdoin College)
Jan Vahrenhold (TU Dortmund, chair)
Xin Yao (U. Birmingham)


PLENARY SPEAKERS

Michael A. Bender (Stony Brook University and Tokutek, Inc.)
Christof Hellmis (Nokia gate5 GmbH)
Marc Schoenauer (INRIA - Saclay-Ile-de-France)


SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts reporting
original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics
related to the symposium. Simultaneous submission to other conferences
or workshops with published proceedings is not allowed. 

Submissions must not exceed 12 pages formatted according to LNCS
style plus an optional, clearly marked appendix of reasonable
length. All papers will be peer reviewed and comments will be 
provided to the authors.

The submission system can be accessed via http://www.sea2009.org.


PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will appear in the SEA 2009 proceedings published by
Springer in the LNCS series.

Selected papers from SEA 2009 will be considered for a special issue of
the ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (http://www.jea.acm.org).


CONTACT

Jan Vahrenhold, Faculty of Computer Science, Computer Science XI,
Technische UniversitŠt Dortmund, 44221 Dortmund, Germany.

E-mail:	sea2009 (insert an @ here) cs.tu-dortmund.de
Phone: 	+49 (0) 231 755-7711
Fax:	+49 (0) 231 755-7740