Call for Papers
The symposium seeks original algorithmic contributions for problems with relevant theoretical and/or
practical applications. Papers with a strong emphasis on the theoretical analysis of algorithms
should be submitted to Track A, while papers reporting on the results of extensive experimental
evaluations and/or providing original contributions to the engineering of algorithms for practical
applications should be submitted to Track B.
There will be a Best Student Paper Award as well as a Best Paper Award, both sponsored by EATCS. In
order for a paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award, all of its authors are required
to be students.
Paper Submission and Proceedings
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system.
The ESA 2021 proceedings will be published in the Leibniz
International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) series.
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper of at most 11 pages excluding the
title page, references, and an optional appendix. The submission should be typeset using a 10-point
or larger font in a single-column format with ample spacing throughout and 2cm margins all around on
A4-size paper. We recommend, but not strictly require, making your initial submission adhere to LIPIcs
publication guidelines.
Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be placed in an appendix.
This appendix can even comprise an entire full version of the paper. The appendix will be read by
the program committee members at their discretion. In particular, appendices of accepted papers are
not going to be published in the proceedings. The main part of the submission should
therefore contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion
of the paper's importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical
and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims.
These guidelines are strict: submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines risk being
rejected without consideration of their merits.
Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system. Results previously published (or scheduled for
publication) in another conference proceedings or journal will not be accepted at ESA. Simultaneous
submission to other conferences with published proceedings, or to both tracks of ESA 2021, is also
not permitted. By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance, at least
one of the authors must register at ALGO 2021, attend the conference, and present the paper.
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Double-Blind Reviewing
The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Submissions should not
reveal the identity of the authors in any way. In particular, authors' names, affiliations, and
email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should
ensure that any references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., not "We build on
our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ..."). The purpose of the double-blind
reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper
without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try.
Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of
reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or
anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of
their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web,
submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. In case there exist publicly available
versions of the submission online, the authors might mention this in their submission (without
providing references/links), and briefly explain the differences if any. Alternatively, they might
communicate the details to the chairs, who will keep them confidential unless revealing them to the
PC is needed for a fair judgment.
Authors with further questions on double-blind reviewing are encouraged to contact the PC chairs.
Topics
Papers presenting original research in all areas of algorithmic research are sought, including but
not limited to:
- Algorithm engineering
- Algorithmic aspects of networks
- Algorithmic game theory
- Algorithmic Data Science
- Approximation algorithms
- Computational biology
- Computational finance
- Computational geometry
- Combinatorial optimization
- Data compression
- Data structures
- Databases and information retrieval
- Distributed and parallel computing
- Graph algorithms
- Hierarchical memories
- Heuristics and meta-heuristics
- Mathematical programming
- Mobile computing
- Online algorithms
- Parameterized algorithms
- Pattern matching
- Quantum computing
- Randomized algorithms
- Scheduling and resource allocation problems
- Streaming algorithms
