-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SOFSEM 2013 - Call for Participation Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:42:36 +0100 From: sofsem@sofsem.cz To: gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at

C A L L f o r P A R T I C I P A T I O N

SOFSEM 2013

39th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science January 26-31, 2013 Hotel Bedrichov (Spindleruv Mlyn) Czech Republic http://www.sofsem.cz/

Dear Sofsemists, dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate at the upcomming SOFSEM 2013 conference with the following four tracks:

* FOUNDATIONS of COMPUTER SCIENCE, * SOFTWARE and WEB ENGINEERING, * DATA, INFORMATION and KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING, * SOCIAL COMPUTING and HUMAN FACTORS

We hope that you find the SOFSEM 2013 tracks and topics, for details see

http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem13/index.php?page=call ,

interesting. As usual at SOFSEM, a very distinguished feature of the SOFSEM 2013 will be the higher number of Invited Speakers. The list of SOFSEM 2013 invited speakers:

* Major achievements in Software studies

- Wolfgang Paul (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany) Theory of Multicore Hypervisor Verification

- František Plášil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Software Components in Computer Assisted Living?

* Foundations of Computer Science Track:

- Peter Sanders (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany) Engineering Algorithms for Large Data Sets

- Gerhard J. Woeginger (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Coalition formation in hedonic games

* Software & Web Engineering Track:

- Sjaak Brinkkemper (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Software Production: Research Challenges of the Software Industry

- Dirk Riehle (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Best of (our) Empirical Open Source Research

* Data, Information and Knowledge Engineering Track:

- Fabien Gandon (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France France)

- Aldo Gangemi (Semantic Technology Lab, Rome, Italy) Discovering, recognizing, and using knowledge patterns

* Social Computing and Human Factors Track:

- Michael Beetz (University of Bremen, Germany)

- Arnold Smeulders (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Searching things in large sets of images

We are sure each SOFSEM 2013 Invited Speaker will deliver a wonderfull Invited Talk the SOFSEM 2013 participants will fully enjoy similarly to the 37 accepted papers (~ 31 % acceptance rate). The complete list is available at:

http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem13/index.php?page=accepted).

******************* Important dates:

Extended Early Payment Deadline: November 23, 2012 Conference: January 26-31, 2013

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Location, venue and leisure activities of SOFSEM 2013 are presented at:

http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem13/index.php?page=location http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem13/index.php?page=leisure

Please do not hesitate to contact us in case you have any questions.

We are looking forward to see you in Spindleruv Mlyn at SOFSEM 2013,

Peter van Emde Boas (Program Committee Chair) Martin Rimnac (Organising Committee Chair)

--------- The mail has been sent to gustaf.neumann@wu-wien.ac.at.