Explain what ICALP 2020 is.

Important Dates

• Submission: Feb 12, 2020, anywhere on Earth February 18, 2020, 6am GMT
• Notification: April 15, 2020
• Camera ready: April 28, 2020

ICALP 2020 General Chair

• Xiaotie Deng (Beijing, China)

ICALP 2020 Program Committee Chair

• Artur Czumaj (Warwick, UK), PC chair track A
• Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK), PC chair track B

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 12 pages, excluding references and the front page(s) (authors, affiliation, keywords, abstract, ...), presenting original research on the theory of computer science. All submissions must be formatted in the LIPIcs style and submitted via Easychair to the appropriate track of the conference.

The use of pdflatex and the LIPIcs style are mandatory: papers that deviate significantly from the required format may be rejected without consideration of merit.

No prior publication and no simultaneous submission to other publication outlets (either a conference or a journal) is allowed.

Technical details necessary for a proper scientific evaluation of a submission must be included in the 12-page submission or in a clearly labelled appendix, to be consulted at the discretion of program committee members. Authors are strongly encouraged to also make full versions of their submissions freely accessible in an on-line repository such as ArXiv, HAL, ECCC.

According to the ICALP policy, for every accepted paper it is required that at least one author attends the meeting and delivers the talk. The paper may be excluded from the proceedings if none of the authors attends the conference.

Best Paper Awards

There will be best paper and best student paper awards for each track of the conference. In order to be eligible for a best student paper award, a paper should be authored only by students and should be marked as such upon submission.

Topics

Papers presenting original research on all aspects of theoretical computer science are sought. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest are:

Track A (Algorithms, Complexity and Games)

• Algorithmic Aspects of Networks and Networking
• Algorithms for Computational Biology
• Algorithmic Game Theory
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Combinatorics in Computer Science
• Computational Complexity
• Computational Geometry
• Computational Learning Theory
• Cryptography
• Data Structures
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• Foundations of Machine Learning
• Foundations of Privacy, Trust and Reputation in Network
• Network Models for Distributed Computing
• Network Economics and Incentive-Based Computing Related to Networks
• Network Mining and Analysis
• Parallel, Distributed and External Memory Computing
• Quantum Computing
• Randomness in Computation
• Theory of Security in Networks

Track B (Automata, Logic, Semantics and Theory of Programming)

• Algebraic and Categorical Models
• Automata, Games, and Formal Languages
• Emerging and Non-standard Models of Computation
• Databases, Semi-Structured Data and Finite Model Theory
• Formal and Logical Aspects of Learning
• Logic in Computer Science, Theorem Proving and Model Checking
• Models of Concurrent, Distributed, and Mobile Systems
• Models of Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic Systems
• Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages
• Program Analysis and Transformation
• Specification, Verification and Synthesis
• Type Systems and Theory, Typed Calculi