[hpc-announce] 23rd Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025) - Call for Papers

Thu Nov 7 04:55:25 CST 2024

SEA 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS - apologies for cross-posting

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23rd Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025)
Location:   Venice, Italy
Dates:      July 22-24, 2025
Web site:<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://regindex.github.io/sea2025.github.io__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jFCOHhwM$ >
Submission:<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2025__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jWTzqE98$ >
Important dates:
    - paper submission deadline:  January 26th, 2025
    - notification of acceptance: March 24th, 2025
    - final version:              April 28th, 2025
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The Symposium of Experimental Algorithms 2025 (SEA 2025) will take place from
22 to 24 July 2025 in Venice, Italy, in auditorium "Santa Margherita",
a historical building from the IX century in the Dorsoduro neighborhood of
Venice.

SEA aims to attract papers from the Computer Science community, the Operations
Research/Mathematical Programming community and any other scientific community
that is concerned with the main theme of the symposium, namely 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 the complexity of a problem.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics include but not limited to:

Algorithm Engineering
Algorithmic Libraries and Software Repositories
Algorithmic Cryptography and Security
Algorithmic Natural Language Processing
Algorithmics for Databases
Analysis of Algorithms
Approximation Algorithms
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
Combinatorial Problems and Structures
Communication Networks
Computational Geometry
Computational Optimization
Compressed space algorithms and data structures
Data Structures
Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
Graph Algorithms
Heuristic Algorithms
Integer Programming
Logistics and Operations Management
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mathematical Programming
Multiple Criteria Decision Making
Network Analysis
Online Problems
Randomized Algorithms
Semidefinite Programming
String Algorithms
Streaming and External Memory Algorithms

We emphasize that SEA welcomes submissions that introduce novel
applications of algorithms in other disciplines. Note that the SEA list of
topics was updated with respect to past years.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Giulia Bernardini, University of Trieste<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://sites.google.com/view/giulia-bernardini__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jYrcZMVM$ >
Daniel Lemire, University of Quebec<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://lemire.me/en/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4j2F9G-KE$ >
Sebastiano Vigna, University of Milan<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://vigna.di.unimi.it/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jhOD5Zvo$ >

BEST PAPER AWARD

The program committee will identify a submission as the best paper.

PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International
Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), a series of high-quality conference
proceedings across all fields in informatics established in cooperation with
Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. SEA Proceedings volumes are
published according to the principle of OpenAccess, i.e., they are available
online and free of charge.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The authors should submit a paper not exceeding 12 pages, excluding the
bibliography, the front page (title, keywords, abstract, ...), and a brief
appendix of up to 5 pages (figures and tables should be counted as part of
the space occupied by the appendix). This year, for the first time in ESA,
all papers have to be anonymized so author names and affiliations cannot be
included (see Double-Blind Reviewing section). Non-anonymized papers will be
desk-rejected.

Authors are required to use the LaTeX style file supplied for the LIPIcs
style, without changing default values nor setting font size options in the
"documentclass" statement. Final proceedings papers must be camera-ready
in this format. We emphasize that a clearly marked Appendix of up to 5 pages,
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.

Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished
work or surveys of important results. At the time the paper is submitted to
SEA, 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.
Specifically, no accepted paper will be published unless an author registers
to participate in the conference.

DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING

SEA will implement a double-blind review process for the first time. As such,
submissions must not disclose the authors' identities in any way. In particular,
names, affiliations, and email addresses must be excluded from the paper.
Authors should reference their prior work in the third person (e.g., instead of
writing "We build on our previous work...", they should write "This work builds
on the research of..."). Authors should also take care of the anonymization of
accompanying software and data. In particular, they cannot link software hosted
on their own GitHub page, but they need to link it anonymously (for example,
via DropBox). The authors can insert the public GitHub links back in the
proceedings version of their papers. Authors are free to share their ideas and
drafts as they usually would. For instance, they can submit to repositories like
arXiv or give talks on their research. If there are publicly accessible versions
of the submission, authors may mention this in the submission (without including
links or citations). Alternatively, they can inform the chairs, who will keep
these details confidential unless sharing them is necessary for a fair review.

Double-blind reviewing aims to allow program committee members and external
reviewers to evaluate the paper impartially, without bias. However, it's not
intended to make determining the authors' identity impossible through
investigation. Authors should not compromise the submission's quality or hinder
the review process in the name of anonymity; thus, key references must not be
omitted or anonymized. Any authors with questions about the double-blind review
process should contact the program committee chairs for clarification. All
papers failing to meet anonymization requirements will be desk-rejected.

LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS USAGE POLICY

Papers containing content generated by large language models (LLMs) such as
ChatGPT or images created using deep generative models (DGMs) such as
StableDiffusion are not allowed, except for:

- Generating scientific plots displaying data that the authors obtained from
   experiments (for example: it is allowed to use an LLM for generating Python
   code that generates plots showing experimental results)
- Polishing the text that the authors have personally written.

Despite using LLMs or DGMs, authors remain fully responsible for ensuring their
submissions' accuracy, originality, and quality. We urge authors to maintain the
integrity of the academic publishing process and avoid any actions that could be
considered scientific misconduct, such as plagiarism and misrepresenting figures.

If a submission includes LLM-generated text or DGM-generated images, we require
the authors to disclose this information to the Program Chairs at the moment of
submitting the paper, by checking a dedicated box on EasyChair (and providing
details on how they used these models). If the Program Chairs should have concerns
regarding potential scientific misconduct (which includes using such models and
not declaring it, even for the allowed situations above listed), the submission
may be subjected to checks for plagiarism or other violations. Any papers failing
to meet these requirements will be desk-rejected, even after the review process.

WORKSHOP

On July 25, 2025, there will be a workshop on Compressed Self-Indexes at the
same venue. The occasion of the workshop is the 25th anniversary of the following
two important data structures:

FM-index
Paolo Ferragina, Giovanni Manzini.
Opportunistic Data Structures with Applications.
41st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS '00).
Awarded with the Paris Kanellakis Award '22.

Compressed Suffix Array
Roberto Grossi, Jeffrey Scott Vitter.
Compressed Suffix Arrays and Suffix Trees with Applications to Text Indexing and
String Matching.
32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC '00).

The workshop will feature invited talks by Giovanni Manzini and Roberto Grossi as
well as contributed talks on related topics.

LOCAL INFORMATION

Organizing committee chair: Ruben Becker.
Program committee co-chairs: Petra Mutzel and Nicola Prezza.
Conference Website:<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://regindex.github.io/sea2025.github.io__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jFCOHhwM$ >
Write to<sea25-organization-grpunive at unive.it> for any query about the conference.
Venue address: Auditorium Santa Margherita (ground floor), Campo Santa Margherita,
Dorsoduro 3689, 30123 Venice, Italy<https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://maps.app.goo.gl/t5inP44zU58KmgEb8__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cPSBgGvMmQTZp4YADFFnksU_4lGivtjtdY-6yh9xd8Irdmbrz8Up48IDJ23jhFlcax9858fzXuiPGqIQfzTehXNl3V4jkyQvkhA$ >

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