shannon@luap.cs.indiana.edu (Greg Shannon) (05/23/91)
INFORMATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS
DIMACS Workshop on Computational Support for Discrete Mathematics
March 12-14, 1992
SCOPE
With the recent technological advances in workstations, graphics,
graphical user interfaces, and object oriented programming languages, a
significant number of researchers are developing general-purpose
software and integrated software systems for domains in discrete
mathematics, including graph theory, combinatorics, combinatorial
optimization, and sets. The goal of such software is to provide
effective computational tools for research, applications prototyping,
and teaching in their specific domains. Developing such software and
systems produces new problems that are significant in their own right.
They include: managing large objects or sets internally, externally, and
for display; designing reusable software, interfaces, and algorithm
libraries; developing object models for interactive algorithm
development and programming; and developing graphical user interfaces.
Unfortunately, there are no obvious conferences, journals, special
interest groups, or newsletters for researchers, developers, and
educators interested in software for discrete mathematics to report
results, announce new systems, exchange ideas, or outline important
research directions and strategies. Due to this lack of communication,
there is gross duplication of effort, ad hoc progress in research, and a
lack of viability, acceptability, and application of this area's work.
The goal of the proposed workshop is to facilitate working relations
between the researchers, developers, and educators in this field, to
identify common research interests and applications, to demonstrate
current systems, and to identify how and where workers in this area can
regularly communicate and meet.
WORKSHOP FORMAT
The workshop will be Thursday through Saturday, March 12-14, 1992, at
the DIMACS center at Rutgers Universtiy. and include three keynote
speakers, 10-15 invited speakers, 10-15 contributed presentations,
informal discussion sessions, and software demonstrations.
(DIMACS is a National Science Foundation science and technology center
for discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.)
A primary goal of the workshop is to document the current and past
research in this area through a substantial proceedings. The final
edited and reviewed proceedings will appear as a volume in the DIMACS
monograph series sponsored by ACM and AMS. The proceedings will include
papers from the keynote, invited, and contributed talks, and a catalogue
of current systems and software for discrete mathematics.
Though the workshop will focus on software instrumentation issues for
experimental discrete mathematics, researchers interested in experimental
techniques and experimental algorithms work in general are encouraged
to attend and contribute. Contact the organizers for more information.
Travel support will be available for invited speakers and some graduate
students.
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Papers relating to experimental discrete mathematics may include, but
are not limited to, descriptions of current software for discrete
mathematics, experience with specific implementation issues,
experimental applications, experimental techniques and results,
and applications in education.
Authors are invited to submit five copies of an extended abstract
by November 1, 1991 to:
Gregory E. Shannon
CSDM Workshop Co-organizer
215 Lindley Hall
Computer Science Department
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
Abstracts should be about 10 pages long, outline the domain studied,
and state whether the paper deals with instrumentation, experimental
techniques, experimental results, applications, or education. Authors
will be notified of acceptance or rejection by December 15, 1991.
Some authors of contributed papers may be asked to give invited
presentations.
ORGANIZERS
Nathaniel Dean Gregory E. Shannon
Bell Communications Research Indiana University
Morristown, NJ 07960 Bloomington, IN 47405
(201) 829-5211 (812) 855-7071
nate@bellcore.com shannon@cs.indiana.edu
If you are interested in attending or contributing, please send a
message to shannon@cs.indiana.edu with the information requested below.
This will help in planning the workshop.
Name:
Affiliation:
E-mail:
Areas of interest:
instrumentation,
experimental techniques,
experimental results,
applications,
education.