The International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC) is an annual conference covering all aspects of parameterized and exact algorithms and complexity. Its 16th edition will be part of ALGO 2021, which also hosts ESA 2021 and a number of more specialized conferences and workshops. ALGO 2021 will take place on September 6-10, 2021, Lisbon, Portugal. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, IPEC might be partially or completely held online.
The 16th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2021) invites papers presenting original research in the area of parameterized and exact algorithms and complexity.
The topics include but are not limited to:
An invited talk is planned by the 2021
EATCS-IPEC Nerode Prize winner.
In addition, the results of the 5th Parameterized Algorithms and Computational Experiments
Challenge (PACE 2021) will be
presented in a special session.
Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings in the Leibniz International
Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl.
Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the symposium, and to
incorporate the comments from the program committee.
A special issue of Algorithmica is planned for selected papers presented at IPEC 2021.
The program committee may award a Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award, both of which may be exceptionally split between two or more papers. A student is someone who has not received a PhD degree before the full paper submission deadline. A paper accepted to the conference is eligible for the Best Student Paper Award if either all its authors are students, or besides student co-author(s) there is one non-student co-author that confirms, at the moment of submission, that a clear majority of conceptual work on the paper was done by the student co-author(s). In the latter case, it is moreover expected that a student gives the presentation at the conference. Papers co- authored by members of the program committee are not eligible for the Best Paper Award or the Best Student Paper Award.
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of up to 12 pages (excluding the title
page and references section) in LIPIcs style, in English, describing original unpublished
research. The title page consists exclusively of the title of the paper, author information,
and abstract. Results previously published in another conference proceedings or journal (or
scheduled for publication prior to IPEC) will not be considered. Simultaneous submission to
other conferences with published proceedings or to journals is not allowed. However, the
authors are encouraged to make full versions of their submissions freely accessible in an
online repository such as arXiv or ECCC. Program committee members
(except the co-chairs)
are allowed to submit papers.
The extended abstract should contain a summary of the main results, their motivation and
importance, and evidence of their correctness. All claims made in the extended abstract must
be fully justified in a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of the
program committee. The authors may choose to either present in the appendix only the
material excluded from the extended abstract or to attach a full version of the paper as the
appendix. In either case, the authors should take a particular notice that the extended
abstract should present their work in a comprehensible and self-contained way and the
quality of the presentation in the extended abstract will be taken into account by the
program committee.
Authors must submit their papers electronically via EasyChair. The use of the LIPIcs style file
(https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/instructions-for-authors)
is
mandatory; no changes to font size, page margins, etc., are permitted.
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipec2021
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IPEC 2021 proceedings will to be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series after the conference.