WAOA 2009

7th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms

10-11 September 2009 Copenhagen, Denmark

http://algo2009.itu.dk/7th-waoa

SCOPE: Approximation and online algorithms are fundamental tools that deal with computationally hard problems and problems in which the input is gradually disclosed over time. Both kinds of problems have a large number of applications arising from a variety of fields.

The workshop focuses on the design and analysis of algorithms for online and computationally hard problems. It also covers experimental methods used to design and analyze efficient approximation and online algorithms. WAOA 2009 will be part of ALGO 2009, which also hosts ATMOS, ESA, and IWPEC.

ALGO will take place 7-11 September 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

TOPICS: Papers are solicited in all research areas related to approximation and online algorithms, including, but not limited to:


 * algorithmic game theory
 * approximation classes
 * coloring and partitioning
 * competitive analysis
 * computational finance
 * cuts and connectivity
 * geometric problems
 * inapproximability results
 * mechanism design
 * network design
 * packing and covering
 * paradigms for design and analysis of approximation and online algorithms
 * parameterized complexity
 * randomization techniques
 * real-world applications
 * scheduling problems

PUBLICATION: Proceedings will be published after the workshop takes place in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Instructions for authors can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. The proceedings of WAOA 2003, WAOA 2004, WAOA 2005, WAOA 2006, WAOA 2007 and WAOA 2009 have appeared as volumes 2909, 3351, 3879, 4368, 4927 and 5426 respectively, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 12 pages describing original unpublished research. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. The title page of the submission should include the authors' full names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and an abstract summarizing the results in roughly 100-200 words; the remainder of the submission should contain a description of the main results and an explanation of their importance. The submission must include a full proof of the results, part of which can be placed in the appendix, whose length is not constrained.

Authors who wish to submit a paper must submit a PostScript or PDF file with their paper. Information about the electronic submission system will be made available at the workshop website. The submission must be received by 23:59 (GMT) on June 3, 2009. Each accepted paper must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submissions: June 3, 2009. Notifications: July 15, 2009. Workshop: September 10-11, 2009. Camera Ready: November 1, 2009.

PROGRAM CHAIRS
 * Evripidis Bampis, University of Evry
 * Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel

PROGRAM COMMITTEE This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP
 * Vincenzo Auletta, University of Salerno
 * Evripidis Bampis, University of Evry
 * Nikhil Bansal, IBM Watson
 * Constantinos Daskalakis, Microsoft Research and MIT
 * Christoph Durr, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique
 * Friedrich Eisenbrand, EPFL Lausanne
 * Thomas Erlebach, University of Leicester
 * Klaus Jansen, University of Kiel
 * Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras
 * Sanjeev Khanna, University of Pennsylvania
 * Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA Lugano
 * Yuval Rabani, Technion Haifa
 * Nicolas Schabanel, CNRS, University Paris 7
 * Roberto Solis-Oba, University of Western Ontario
 * Neal Young, University of California Riverside
 * Guochuan Zhang, Zhejiang University Hangzhou