CALL FOR PAPERS

            Mathematical Methods in Computer Science 2008
                       (MMICS 2008)

            December 17-19, 2008
            Karlsruhe, Germany

            http://iks.ira.uka.de/mmics/

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The "Mathematical Methods in Computer Science" conference 
will be held in memory of Thomas Beth. Its scope is defined 
by the research areas of Thomas Beth. Topics of interest 
include, but are not restricted to:
- Coding Theory
- Cryptography
- Design Theory
- Quantum Information
- Signal Processing
- Symbolic Computation.

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers 
(at most 20 pages long) in PDF format using the MMICS`08 
submission page, at the EasyChair conference system.
Authors are encouraged to use the Springer llncs class
files. The necessary style files and instructions can be
found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. 
The submission page for MMICS`08 is 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmics08
All submissions will be reviewed by at least two referees.
A blind review process will be enforced, thus AUTHORS
SHOULD NOT REVEAL AUTHORSHIP DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH 
REFERENCES.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
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Proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series (as a commemorative LNCS
Festschrift). They will be available at the conference.
Only accepted papers whose authors have registered at the
date of receipt of the final version will appear in the
proceedings.

IMPORTANT DATES
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 Submission: July 20th, 2008
 Notification: September 10th, 2008
 Final Version: October 13th, 2008

ORGANIZERS
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Jacques Calmet, Willi Geiselmann, Joern Mueller-Quade, 
Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Bruno Buchberger, RISC Linz, Austria
Jacques Calmet, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
Reiner Creutzburg, Brandenburg University of Applied
  Sciences, Germany
Willi Geiselmann, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany
Dieter Gollmann, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg,
  Germany
Maria Isabel Gonzalez Vasco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos,
  Madrid, Spain
Markus Grassl, Oesterreichische Akademie der
  Wissenschaften, Austria
Hideki Imai, Research Center for Information Security,
  AIST, Japan
Dominik Janzing, Max  Planck  Institute for Biological
  Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
Dieter Jungnickel, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
Andreas Klappenecker, Texas A&M University
Wolfgang Mathis, Universitaet Hannover, Germany
Joern Mueller-Quade, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany 
  (Program Chair)
Harald Niederreiter, National University of Singapore
Markus Pueschel, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Rainer Steinwandt, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Felix Ulmer, Universite Rennes 1, France
Roland Vollmar, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Germany