SYNASC2020: International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing West University of Timisoara Timisoara, Romania, September 1-4, 2020 |
Conference website | https://synasc.ro/2020 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2020 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/SYNASC2020/ |
Submission deadline | July 5, 2020 |
SYNASC aims to stimulate the interaction among multiple communities focusing on defining, optimizing and executing complex algorithms in several application areas. The focus of the conference then ranges from symbolic and numeric computation to formal methods applied to programming, artificial intelligence, distributed computing and computing theory. The interplay between these areas, in fact, is essential in the current scenario where economy and society demand for the development of complex, data intensive, trustable and high performant computational systems.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages in the two-columns paper style).
- System descriptions and experimental papers describing implementation results of experimental data, with a link to the reported results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style).
- Work in progress papers, describing ongoing work and/or preliminary results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style).
- PhD Students Papers, describing ongoing work and research challenges of PhD students (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style).
Important Dates
- 01 April 2020 Proposals for workshops, special sessions, tutorials
- 15 June 2020 Paper submission for main tracks (extended deadline)
- 15 June 2020 Paper submission for workshops and special sessions
- 15 July 2020 Notification of acceptance
- 01 August 2020 Registration and revised papers for pre-proceedings
- 01-04 September 2020 Symposium
- 30 November 2020 Final papers for post-proceedings
Publication
SYNASC2020 post-proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society - Conference Publishing Services.
List of Topics
- Symbolic Computation
- computer algebra
- symbolic techniques applied to numerics
- hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms
- numerics and symbolics for geometry
- programming with constraints, narrowing
- Numerical Computing
- iterative approximation of fixed points
- solving systems of nonlinear equations
- numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations
- numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization
- parallel algorithms for numerical computing
- scientific visualization and image processing
- Logic and Programming
- automatic reasoning
- formal system verification
- formal verification and synthesis
- software quality assessment
- static analysis
- timing analysis
- Artificial Intelligence
- intelligent systems for scientific computing
- recommender and expert systems for scientific computing
- scientific knowledge management
- agent-based complex systems modeling and development
- uncertain reasoning in scientific computing
- explainability and interpretability of AI models
- computational intelligence
- soft computing
- machine learning
- deep learning
- data mining, text mining and web mining
- natural language processing
- computer vision
- intelligent hybrid systems
- Distributed Computing
- parallel and distributed algorithms for clouds, GPUs, HPC, P2P systems, autonomous systems. Work should focus on scheduling, scaling, load balancing, networks, fault-tolerance, gossip algorithms, energy saving
- applications for parallel and distributed systems, including work on cross disciplinary (scientific) applications for grids/clouds, web applications, workflow platforms, network measurement tools, programming environments
- architectures for parallel and distributed systems, including self-managing and autonomous systems, negotiation protocols, HPC on clouds, GPU processing, PaaS for (inter)cloud, brokering platforms, mobile computing
- modelling of parallel and distributed systems including models on resources and networks, semantic representation, negotiation, social networks, trace management, simulators
- any other topic deemed relevant to the field
- Advances in the Theory of Computing
- data structures and algorithms
- combinatorial optimization
- formal languages and combinatorics on words
- graph-theoretic and combinatorial methods in computer science
- algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online, approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms
- computational complexity theory, including structural complexity, boolean complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity, derandomization and property testing
- logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory
- algorithmic and computational learning theory
- aspects of computability theory, including computability in analysis and algorithmic information theory
- proof complexity
- computational social choice and game theory
- new computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum, holographic and other non-standard approaches to computability
- randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and typical-case complexity
- automata theory and other formal models, particularly in relation to formal verification methods such as model checking and runtime verification
- applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks, computational biology and computational economics
- experimental algorithmics
Invited Speakers
- Roman Beck, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Ioana Leuștean, University of Bucharest, Romania
<list to be extended>
Special Sessions
- ACSSA - Advances in Computational, Symbolic and Secure Algorithms for Permissioned and Permissionless Blockchains
- Special Session for PhD students
Workshops
- ACSys - Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems
- BiD - Workshop on Big Data Applications
- DIPMAI - Workshop on Digital Image Processing for Medical and Automotive Industry
- GeoInfo - Workshop on Geoinformatics
- IAFP - Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points
- NCA - Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications
Committees
Program Committee
- Honorary Chair:
- Bruno Buchberger, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
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Steering Committee:
- Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
- Laura Kovacs, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Stephen Watt, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- General Chairs:
- Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Program Chairs:
- Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Track Chairs:
- Symbolic Computation
- James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
- Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Numerical Computing
- Stephen Takacs, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
- Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Logic and Programming
- Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
- Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
- Laura Kovacs, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
- Artificial Intelligence
- Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK
- Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Distributed Computing
- Marc Frincu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Advances in the Theory of Computing
- Gabriel Istrate, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
- Florin Manea, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germana
- Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Symbolic Computation
- Special Sessions and Workshops Chair:
- Daniel Pop, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Tutorial Chair:
- Florin Fortis, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Proceedings Chairs:
- Elisabetta di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Organizing committee
- Organizing Commitee Chairs:
- Monica Sancira, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Isabela Dramnesc, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Publicity Chairs:
- Silviu Panica, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
- Sebastian Stefaniga, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Technical Support:
- Theodor Grumeza, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- David Perta, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Venue
SYNASC 2020 will be organized as an online conference
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to contact@synasc.ro