COCOA'07 Call for Papers
The 1st Annual International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization
and Applications (COCOA'07) will be held during August 12--15, 2007, in Xi'an,
Shaanxi, China.
Original research papers in the areas of combinatorial optimization
and its applications are solicited.
In addition to theoretical results, we are particularly interested in
submissions that report on experimental and applied research of
general algorithmic interest. Special consideration will
be given to research that is motivated by real-world problems. Experimental
and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the usefulness and
efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical setting.
After the conference, some selected papers will be published
as a special issue in the Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.
Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
- Algorithms and data structures
- Approximation Algorithms
- Computational Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory
- Computational Biology and bioinformatics
- Computational Financing
- Computational Game Theory
- Computational Learning Theory
- Extreme graph theory
- Graph theory, communication networks
- Network Flow
- Network Optimization Problems
- Operation Research
- Optimal Resource Management
- Parallel and distributed computing
- Scheduling
Submissions:
COCOA'07 will only accept electronic submissions through
the Easychair submission system.
The detailed instructions can be checked
paper submission page.
A submission should start with the title of the paper,
the author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address,
and a short abstract summarizing the main results of the paper. This should
be followed by a scholarly exposition of the ideas, techniques, and a full
description of the results achieved. A clear indication of the motivation
and comparison with prior or related work should be presented. The paper
should not exceed 10 pages using 11 point or larger font. Submissions that
deviate significantly from these guidelines and electronic submissions
that are unprintable or formatted for paper size other than 8.5 by 11
inch paper risk rejection without consideration of their merits.
The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes of Computer Science series.
Invited Speakers: Bailin Hao (CAS, China) and Kurt Mehlhorn (MPI, Germany)
Program Committee co-Chairs:
- Andreas Dress (Bielefeld University, Germany)
- Yinfeng Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
- Binhai Zhu (Montana State University, USA)
Program Committee Members:
- Tetsuo Asano (JAIST, Japan)
- Kyung-Yong Chwa (KAIST, Korea)
- Bill Chen (Nankai University, China)
- Bo Chen (University of Warwick, UK)
- Peter Eades (University of Sydney, Australia)
- Omer Egecioglu (UC-Santa Barbara, USA)
- Rudolf Fleischer (Fudan University, China)
- Bin Fu (University of Texas-Pan American, USA)
- Mordecai Golin (HKUST, Hong Kong)
- Ron Graham (UC-San Diego, USA)
- Pavol Hell (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Xiao-Dong Hu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
- Marek Karpinski (University of Bonn, Germany)
- Minghui Jiang (Utah State University, USA)
- Michael Langston (University of Tennessee, USA)
- Hanno Lefmann (TU Chemnitz, Germany)
- Ko-Wei Lih (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- Andy Mirzaian (York University, Canada)
- Brendan Mumey (Montana State University, USA)
- Mauricio G.C. Resende (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
- Takao Nishizeki (Tohoku University, Japan)
- Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
- Zheng Sun (Google, USA)
- My T. Thai (University of Florida, USA)
- Kanliang Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
- Michael Waterman (University of Southern California, USA)
- Gerhard Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
- Boting Yang (University of Regina, Canada)
- Wenan Zang (HKU, Hong Kong)
- Alex Zelikovsky (Georgia State University, USA)
Local Organizers:
- Kanliang Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
- Yinfeng Xu (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China)
- Binhai Zhu (Montana State University, USA)
Important Dates:
- Submission of Papers: March 9, 2007
- Notification of Acceptance: April 21, 2007
- Final Version: May 4, 2007
Location:
The conference Web site
provides more information about the conference.
Email:
Please email to cocoa07@cs.montana.edu for any relevant question.