COCOON 2005 Call for Papers

                     http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~lwang/COCOON2005/

The11th Annual International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON'05) will be held during Aug 16-19, 2005, in Kunming, Yunnan, P.R.China. Original research papers in the areas of theoretical computer science and combinatorics related to computing are solicited. In addition to theoretical results, we are particularly interested in submissions that report on experimental and applied research of general algorithmic interest. Special consideration will be given to research that is motivated by real-world problems. Experimental and applied papers are expected to show convincingly the usefulness and efficiency of the algorithms discussed in a practical setting. Typical, but not exclusive, topics of interest include:
　

• Algorithms and data structures;
• Automata, languages, logic, and computability;
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology;
• Combinatorics related to algorithms and complexity;
• Complexity theory;
• Computational algebra,  geometry, and number theory;
• Computational learning theory and knowledge discovery;
• Cryptography, reliability and security, and database theory;
• Graph drawing and information visualization;
• Graph theory, communication networks, and optimization;
• Parallel and distributed computing;
• Experimental analysis of algorithms

Submissions: The submission deadline is Feb. 18, 2005. COCOON'05 will only accept electronic (PS, PDF) submissions. You  can  send an e-mail to cocoon05@cs.cityu.edu.hk with subject "Cocoon 2005 submission" and attach the PS or PDF file. An e-mail will be sent to you to confirm the receiving of your submission within 24 hours. If you have any problem or question, please contact Lusheng Wang at lwang@cs.cityu.edu.hk or cocoon05@cs.cityu.edu.hk

A submission should start with the title of the paper, the author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a one-paragraph summary of the results. This should be followed by a scholarly exposition of the ideas, techniques,
and a full description of the results achieved.  A clear indication of the motivation and comparison with prior or related work should be presented. The paper should not exceed 10 pages on letter-size paper using 11 point or larger font.

Submissions that deviate significantly from these guidelines and electronic submissions that are unprintable risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, and will be available for distribution at the conference. 

Special Issues: High quality papers will be invited to special issues in  Algorithmica and Journal of Combinatorial Optimization.
　

Program Committee:

• Tatsuya Akutsu  (Kyoto University, Japan),
• Vineet Bafna  (University of California, San Diego, USA),
• Zhi-Zhong Chen (Tokyo Denki university, Jappan),
• Siu-Wing Cheng ( The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China),
• Francis Chin (The university of Hong Kong, China),
• Sunghee Choi (KAIST, Korea ),
• Bhaskar DasGupta (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA),
• Martin  Farach-Colton (Rutgers University, USA),
• Qizhi Fang (Ocean University of China, China),
• Raffaele Giancarlo (University of Palermo, Italy),
• Mordecai Golin (Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology, Hong Kong),
• Peter Hammer (Rutgers University, USA),
• Tsan-sheng Hsu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan),
• Sorin C. Istrail (Celera, USA),
• Samir Khuller (University of Maryland, USA),
• Michael A. Langston (University of Tennessee, USA),
• Jianping Li (Yunnan University, China),
• Weifa Liang (The Australian National University, Australia),
• Guohui Lin (University of Alberta, Canada),
• Bernard Mans (Macquarie University, Australia),
• Satoru Miyano (The University of Tokyo, Japan),
• C. K Poon (City University of Hong Kong, China),
• R. Ravi  (Carnegie Mellon University, USA),
• David Sankoff (University of Ottawa,Canada),
• Shanghua Teng (Boston University, USA),
• H. F. Ting ( The university of Hong Kong),
• Seinosuke Toda (Nihon University, Japan),
• Takeshi Tokuyama (Tohoku University, Japan),
• Pengjun Wan (City University of Hong Kong, China),
• Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong, China, Chair),
• Todd Wareham (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada),
• Jinhui  Xu (State University of New York, USA), 
• Xizhong Zheng (Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany),
• Kaizhong Zhang (University of Western Ontario, Canada),
• Binhai Zhu ( Montana State University, MT, USA)

Location: The conference will be held in Kunming, Yunnan, P.R.China.