SPAA 2007 Call for Papers

The 19th Annual ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA '07) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) and Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) and organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.

SPAA '07 will feature regular papers, each with a 25-minute talk, and brief announcements, each with a 10-minute talk. The SPAA brief announcements are for brief communications including work in progress or demos.

This year, SPAA will have a best paper award for the first time. Eligible are all regular papers.

In a tradition starting in 2001, SPAA defines "parallel" very broadly to encompass any computational system, or model, that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. As a consequence, contributed papers are sought in ALL areas of parallel algorithms and architectures, and of related fields including (but not limited to) game theory and collaborative learning, social networks, the Internet and the World Wide Web, peer-to-peer and wireless systems, multi-core architectures and quantum and DNA computing. Examples are

• Models, algorithms and software tools for multi-threaded, multi-core and reconfigurable architectures.
• Architectures and algorithms for peer-to-peer, mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks.
• Models as well as experimental and theoretical investigations concerning social networks, the Internet, and the World Wide Web.
• Approximation algorithms and online algorithms for network and resource management (such as time, space, bandwidth or power).
• Algorithms and architectures for self-stabilizing, fault-tolerant or secure parallel or distributed systems.
• Game theory, mechanism design, and collaborative learning and filtering approaches.

Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a one-page abstract (each marked as a brief announcement) in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences.

Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically. More details will follow. The deadlines for electronic submissions are

• December 18 for regular papers and
• January 8 for brief announcements.

Authors who are unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair, Christian Scheideler, at scheideler@in.tum.de to receive instructions. Do not send electronic submissions to this email address.

The cover page should include

1. title,
2. authors and affiliation,
3. postal and e-mail address of the contact author,
4. a brief abstract describing the content of the paper, and
5. an indication of whether this is a regular presentation or a brief announcement

Submissions of regular presentations should include the cover page followed by an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. It should not exceed 10 printed pages on letter-size paper in 11-point font or larger (excluding the cover page and the references). More details (such as figures and proofs) may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee.

A submission for the SPAA brief announcements should be no longer than 3 pages (excluding the cover page) on letter-size paper using at least 11-point font.

For authors who are not sure about the right format, a simple Latex template can be accessed here.

Authors will be sent notification of acceptance or rejection by e-mail or letter mailed on or before February 11. A camera-ready copy of each accepted abstract must be prepared according to the ACM guidelines for inclusion in the proceedings of the conference and must be received by March 22.