The Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, WADS, which alternates with the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT, is intended as a forum for researchers in the area of design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

WADS 2023 will take place July 31-August 2, 2023 at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.  CCCG 2023, the 35th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, is planned for August 2-4 at the same location.

We invite submissions of papers presenting original research on the theory and application of algorithms and data structures in all areas including, but not limited to: approximation algorithms, parametrized algorithms, distributed algorithms, parallel algorithms, external-memory algorithms, data structures, computational geometry and topology, exponential time algorithms, online algorithms, randomized algorithms, streaming algorithms, sub-linear algorithms. The algorithmic problems considered may be motivated by applications, e.g. in optimization, graph analysis, bioinformatics, visualization, string processing, information retrieval, machine learning, algorithmic game theory, or mechanism design.

WADS participates in SafeToC and is committed to preventing and combatting harassment in the Theory of Computing community. The ToC advocates for WADS are Faith Ellen and Pat Morin. Authors who submit papers will have an opportunity to declare a conflict of interest with potential reviewers.

WADS 2023 will have a best paper award in memory of Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz and a best student presentation award. The paper that receives the memorial award will be presented in a non-parallel time slot.  The best student presentation will be chosen by a subset of the program committee with input from session chairs.  The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Two special issues of papers selected from WADS are planned for the journals Algorithmica and Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Contributors are invited to submit a full paper in Springer LNCS format. The title, abstract, and body of the paper may not exceed 12 pages and the total length including references may not exceed 14 pages. An appendix, beyond the 14 pages, may be added and may be read at the reviewers’ discretion. Please format your paper in the Springer Lecture Notes style available here: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. Submissions will be handled through EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wads2023. For further information, see the WADS 2023 website.

Program Committee

• Pankaj Agarwal, Duke University   
• Therese Biedl, University of Waterloo 
• Prosenjit Bose, Carleton University 
• Maike Buchin, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. 
• Sergio Cabello, University of Ljubljana 
• Siu-Wing Cheng, Hong Kong U of Science & Technology 
• Maria Chudnovsky, Princeton University 
• Leah Epstein, University of Haifa 
• Omrit Filtser, The Open University of Israel 
• Pawel Gawrychowski, University of Wroclaw 
• Daniel Lokshtanov, University of California, Santa Barbara 
• Michael Mitzenmacher, Harvard University 
• Pat Morin (co-chair), Carleton University 
• David Mount, University of Maryland 
• Lata Narayanan, Concordia University 
• Yakov Nekrich, Michigan Technological University 
• Michał Pilipczuk, University of Warsaw 
• Maria Potop-Butucaru, Sorbonne University 
• Manish Purohit, Google 
• Benjamin Raichel, University of Texas, Dallas 
• Jared Saia, University of New Mexico 
• Saket Saurabh, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 
• Rodrigo Silveira, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya 
• Tatiana Starikovskaya, École Normale Supérieure 
• Subhash Suri (co-chair), University of California, Santa Barbara 
• Csaba Toth, California State University Northridge 
• Birgit Vogtenhuber, Graz University of Technology 
• Haitao Wang, University of Utah 
• Jie Xue, New York University Shanghai 
• Meirav Zehavi, Ben-Gurion University 

Organizing committee

• Denis Pankratov, Concordia University

Invited Speakers

• Joseph Mitchell, Stony Brook University
• Tselil Schramm, Stanford University
• Valerie King, University of Victoria

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the program chairs, Pat Morin and Subhash Suri.