Tenth Annual International Symposium
                          on Algorithms And Computation
                                  (ISAAC '99)
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                             December 16-18, 1999
                      Hotel Taj Coromandel, Chennai, India

                                Call for Papers
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o Symposium Chair

   * Pandu Rangan C (IIT, Madras, India)

o Program Committee Co-Chairs

   * Alok Aggarwal (IBM, India)
   * Pandu Rangan C (IIT, Madras, India)

o Program Committee

   * Alok Aggarwal (IBM, India) 
   * Antonios Symvonis (U. Sydney, Australia)
   * Aravind Srinivasan (Bell Labs, U.S.A)
   * Cai Mao-cheng (CAS, China)
   * Hisao Tamaki (U. Meiji, Japan) 
   * Jung-Heum Park (Catholic U. Korea, South Korea)
   * Lusheng Wang (City U. Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 
   * Mark Keil (U. Saskatchewan, Canada)
   * Pandu Rangan C (IIT, Madras, India)
   * Prabhakar Raghavan (IBM, U.S.A) 
   * Ramesh Kumar Sitaraman (U. Massachusetts, U.S.A)
   * Seinosuke Toda (U. Nihon, Japan) 
   * Tadao Takaoka (U. Canterbury, New Zealand)
   * Tak-wah Lam (U. Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
   * Wen-Lian Hsu (Academia Scinica, Taiwan, R.O.C)

o Organizing Committee

   * Kamakoti V
   * Rangarajan K
   * Rama R
   * Boopal E
   
o Invited Speakers                                           

   * Eva Tardos (Cornell, U.S.A)                             
   * Kokichi Sugihara (U. Tokyo, Japan) 
   * Shafrira Goldwasser (MIT, U.S.A)                        

o Submissions

Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished 
research on symposium themes listed here.  Papers in applied areas with a 
strong foundational emphasis are also welcome. Authors may submit drafts 
of full papers or extended abstracts. Submissions are limited to 12 A4-size
pages, with 1.5 inch top margin other margins 1 inch wide and 11 point or 
larger font.  Authors who feel that more details are necessary may include 
a clearly marked appendix which will be read at the discretion of the 
Program Committee.  Each paper should contain a short abstract.  If 
available, e-mail addresses and fax numbers of the authors should be 
included.

Electronic submission is strongly encouraged.  Self-contained uuencoded 
gzipped Postscript versions of the paper may be sent by e-mail.  If this
is not possible, authors may submit five (5) hard-copies of the paper by
post to the address below.  For an accepted paper to be included in the 
proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at 
the conference.  Accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.

o Address for Submissions

Dr.C.Pandu Rangan - ISAAC'99
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Fax : +91-44-2350509
E-mail : rangan@iitm.ernet.in
URL : http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~tcslab/isaac99

o Symposium Themes

   * Algorithmic Engineering
   * Algorithms and Data Structures
   * Approximate and Randomized Algorithms
   * Automata and Formal Languages
   * Combinatorial Optimization
   * Computational Biology
   * Computational Geometry
   * Computational Learning Theory
   * Cryptography and Complexity Theory
   * Parallel and Distributed Algorithms

o Important Dates

Submission of paper              25 May, 1999.
Notification to authors          25 July, 1999.
Submission of Camera-Ready form  15 Aug, 1999.

o Events

  * A tutorial  on Web Algorithmics  by Monica Henzinger  (DEC Research Center)  is 
scheduled as a joint event on 15 December 1999. 
  * A tutorial on Approximate  Algorithms by R.Ravi (CMU,  U.S.A) and Naveen Garg 
(IIT, New Delhi) is scheduled on 19th and 20th Dec. 1999, as post-conference event.
  * A theme session on Algorithmic Engineering is to be organized as joint  session for 
both FST&TCS and ISAAC by Kurt Mehlhorn (MPI, Germany).

o Another well known International Conference FST&TCS, held annually 
in India, is also scheduled at Madras during 13-15 December 1999 with
joint events mentioned above. The URL for this conference is :
http://www.imsc.ernet.in/~fsttcs99.