imai@csce.kyushu-u.junet (Hiroshi Imai) (09/29/89)
Call for Papers SIGAL International Symposium on Algorithms Tokyo, Japan, August 16-18, 1990 The SIGAL International Symposium on Algorithms will be held at the CSK Information Education Center, Tokyo, Japan in August 16-18, 1990. The Symposium is organized by the Special Interest Group on Algorithms (SIGAL) of the Information Processing Society of Japan. Papers presenting original contributions in the areas of algorithms are being sought. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include: * combinatorial algorithms on graphs, networks and VLSI * computational geometry and algebra * data structures * probabilistic and approximation algorithms * parallel and distributed algorithms * cryptography * computational complexity The Symposium will consist of several invited talks and contributed papers. Proceedings will be available at the Symposium. The official language of the Symposium is English. The Symposium will be held just before the International Congress of Mathematicians 1990 at Kyoto, Japan. Authors are requested to send twelve copies of a detailed abstract of at most ten double-spaced pages by February 15, 1990, to: Tetsuo Asano Osaka Electro-Communication University Hatsu-cho, Neyagawa, Osaka 572 Japan e-mail: b51847@jpnkudpc.bitnet SCHEDULE: Deadline of Submissions: February 15, 1990 Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: April, 1990 Camera-Ready Papers: May, 1990 INVITED SPEAKERS: Bernard Chazelle (Princeton U), Zvi Galil (Columbia U), Rafael Hassin (Tel-Aviv U), Kurt Mehlhorn (U Saarlandes), Nicholas Pippenger (U British Columbia) LOCATION: CSK Information Education Center is located in the west of Tokyo, and can be reached within 40 minutes by trains from downtown. The Center has 140 single rooms and 10 twin rooms all of which are to be used by the Symposium attendants. Many rooms have personal computers connected by LAN with a host computer. It also has a swimming pool, a tennis court and an athletic gymnasium. The registration fee, including board, accommodation, banquet and proceedings, is about 30,000yen in total. SYMPOSIUM CHAIRS: A. Nozaki (ICU), T. Nishizeki (Tohoku U) PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Takao Asano (Sophia U), Tetsuo Asano (Osaka EC U, CO-CHAIR), T. Ibaraki (Kyoto U, CHAIR), Y. Igarashi (Gunma U), K. Iwano (IBM Tokyo Research Lab), T. Matsumoto (Yokohama NU), T. Mizoguchi (Mitsubishi), K. Nakamura (NEC), H. Nakano (Osaka U), K. Sugihara (U Tokyo), M. Yamashita (Hiroshima U), H. Yasuura (Kyoto U) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Y. Igarashi (Gunma U, CHAIR), Takao Asano (Sophia Univ, CO-CHAIR) -- Someday has arrived