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<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:center" align="center"><img width="133" hspace="12" height="133" align="left"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">IWOCA 2017</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">28<sup>th</sup> International Workshop
on Combinatorial Algorithms</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">17 – 21 July 2017, Newcastle, Australia</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt"> </span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify">The
series of IWOCA conferences grew out of over 25 years history of the
International (since 2007) respectively Australasian (until 2006) Workshops on
Combinatorial Algorithms. Previous IWOCA and AWOCA meetings have been held in
Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Indonesia, India, Italy,
Japan, South Korea, UK, and the US.</p>
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<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify"> This is a very special IWOCA, dedicated to the memory of <b>Professor
Mirka Miller</b>. Mirka was one of the founders of AWOCA and has attended many
gatherings of this workshop since its initiation in 1988. Mirka has been an
active member of the IWOCA Steering Committee since its inception in 2006.<span> </span>Mirka was diagnosed with gastro-oesophageal
cancer in 2015 and died of this disease on 2nd January, 2016. This particular
IWOCA gathering is as much about celebrating the life and work of this
wonderful person as it is in continuing her legacy, of which IWOCA is just one
aspect. </p>
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<p class="gmail-Default"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Topics </span></b>include
but are not limited to: </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Algorithms and Data Structures </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Complexity Theory </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Graph Theory & Combinatorics </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Combinatorial Optimization </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Cryptography & Information Security </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Algorithms on Strings & Graphs </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Graph Drawing & Labelling </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Computational Algebra & Geometry </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Computational Biology </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Probabilistic & Randomised Algorithms</p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• Algorithms for Big Data Analytics </p>
<p class="gmail-Default">• New Paradigms of Computation </p>
<p class="gmail-Default"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Invited Speakers: </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">(confirmed to date)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Martin
Baca (Technical University, Kosice) </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span class="gmail-st1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman"">
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt">Camino
Balbuena (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</span><span class="gmail-st1"><span style="font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(84,84,84)">)</span></span><span class="gmail-st1"><span style="font-size:11.5pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span class="gmail-st1"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman"">
</span></span></span></span>Diane Donovan (University of Queensland)<span class="gmail-st1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Henning
Fernau (University of Trier) </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Costas
Iliopoulos (King’s College London) </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Jennifer
Seberry (University of Wollongong)</p>
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<p class="gmail-Default"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Important dates</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt">: </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Abstract
due <span> </span>7<sup>th</sup> March 2017</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Paper
due <span> </span><span> </span><s>15<sup>th</sup>
March 2017<br>
</s><span> </span><span style="color:red">31<sup>th</sup> March 2017</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Notification
<span> </span>15<sup>th</sup> April 2017</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Camera
ready <span> </span>30<sup>th</sup> April 2017</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>IWOCA
<span> </span>17<sup>th</sup> <span> </span>– 21<sup>st</sup> <span> </span>July 2017</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Submission</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Authors are invited to submit a paper not exceeding 12
single-spaced pages, including references, figures, title, authors,
affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a short (one paragraph) abstract. The
authors are strongly advised to use the LaTeX style file supplied by Springer
Verlag for Lecture Notes in Computer Science </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">. Final
proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly marked
Appendix, which will not count toward the 12 page submission limit, can be
included and will be read at the referees’ discretion. All submissions have to
be made via the EasyChair submission page for the conference at </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwoca2017"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwoca2017</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Papers submitted for review should represent original,
previously unpublished work and surveys of important results. At the time the paper
is submitted to IWOCA, and for the entire review period, the paper (or
essentially the same paper) should not be under review by any other conference
with published proceedings or by a scientific journal. At least one author of
each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the
paper. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Best
Student Paper</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Award</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
(EATCS) will award a prize to the author(s) of the best student paper. To be
eligible for this award, all the authors of the paper have to be students at
the time of submission. <b>Authors who wish their paper to be considered for
the Best Student Paper Award should inform the chairs of their eligibility via
email by the paper submission deadline. </b><span><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif"><span><br></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">Open Problem</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">
<b>Session</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif">In IWOCA tradition, we will hold an open problems session at
IWOCA2017. <span> </span>If you have an open problem
that would like to share with other conference participants or wider IWOCA
community, <b>please email to the open
problems chair Gabriele Fici (<a href="mailto:gabriele.fici@unipa.it">gabriele.fici@unipa.it</a>).</b></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Organising Committee</span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span> 1.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Ljiljana
Brankovic (<b>co-chair</b>) </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Joe
Ryan (<b>co-chair</b>) </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Stephan
Chalup </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Yuqing
Lin </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Alexandre
Mendes </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Nasimul
Noman</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>7.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Mira
Park </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>8.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Juliane
Turner</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>9.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Mujiangshan
Wang </p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify"> Proceedings
will be published in Springer <b>Lecture
Notes in Computer Science</b> (LNCS) <b>after
the conference.<span> </span></b>Authors<b> </b>of<b>
s</b>elected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
to a special issue of the <b>Journal of
Discrete Algorithms</b> (JDA).</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify"> <b><span style="font-size:14pt">Conference
Website:</span></b></p>
<p class="gmail-Default"><a href="https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/iwoca/">https://carma.newcastle.edu.au/meetings/iwoca/</a><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default">Please mark your diaries so as not to miss out on this very
special IWOCA.<span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Default"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Program Committee: </span></b><span style="font-size:14pt">(confirmed to date)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>1.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Donald
Adjeroh (West Virginia University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>2.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Hideo
Bannai (Kyushu University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>3.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Cristina
Bazgan (University Paris Dauphine)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>4.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Ljiljana
Brankovic (University of Newcastle, <b>co-chair</b>)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>5.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Pino
Cabellero-Gil (University of La Laguna)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>6.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Charles
Colbourn (Arizona State University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>7.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Tatjana
Davidovic (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>8.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Vlad
Estivill-Castro (Griffith University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>9.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Graham
Farr (Monash University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>10.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Michael
Fellows (University of Bergen)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>11.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Gabriele
Fici (University of Palermo)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>12.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Dalibor
Froncek (<span lang="EN-US">University of
Minnesota Duluth)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>13.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Serge
Gaspers (University of New South Wales)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>14.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Pinar
Heggernes (University of Bergen)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>15.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Seok-Hee
Hong (University of Sydney)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>16.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Peter
Horak (University of Washington, Tacoma)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>17.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Jesper
Jansson (Kyoto University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>18.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Ralf
Klasing (CNRS Bordeaux)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>19.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Christian
Komusiewicz (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>20.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Jan
Kratochvil (Charles University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>21.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Thierry
Lecroq (University of Rouen)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>22.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Zsuzsanna
Lipták (University of Verona)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>23.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Petra
Mutzel (TU Dortmund)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>24.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Kunsoo
Park (Seoul National University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>25.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Vangelis
Paschos (University Paris Dauphine)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>26.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Christophe
Paul (CNRS Montpellier)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>27.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Solon
Pissis (King's College London)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>28.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Simon
J. Puglisi (University of Helsinki)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>29.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Gordon
Royle (<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">University of Western Australia)</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>30.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Frances
Rosamond (University of Bergen)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>31.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Frank
Ruskey (University of Victoria)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>32.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Joe
Ryan (University of Newcastle, <b>co-chair</b>)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>33.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Oliver
Schaudt (University of Köln)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>34.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Andrea
Semaničová-Feňovčíková (Technical University of Kosice)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>35.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Jamie
Simpson (Murdoch University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>36.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Michiel
Smid (Carleton University)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>37.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Bill
Smyth (McMaster University, <b>co-chair</b>)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>38.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Sue
Whitesides (University of Victoria)</p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin-left:18pt"><span><span>39.<span style="font:7pt "times new roman""> </span></span></span>Christos
Zaroliagis (University of Patras)</p>
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