SCOPE
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Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on theoretical 
aspects of computer science. Typical areas include (but are not limited to):

* algorithms and data structures, including: parallel, distributed,
    approximation, and randomized algorithms, computational geometry,
    cryptography, algorithmic learning theory, analysis of algorithms;
* automata and formal languages, games;
* computational complexity, randomness in computation;
* logic in computer science, including: semantics, specification and
    verification, rewriting and deduction;
* current challenges, for example: natural computing, quantum
    computing, mobile and net computing.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Eric Allender, Rutgers U.
- Pablo Barceló, U. de Chile
- Frédérique Bassino, U. Paris 13
- Artur Czumaj, U. of Warwick
- Hervé Fournier, U. Paris Diderot
- Edward A. Hirsch, Steklov Institute, St. Petersburg
- Iordanis Kerenidis, U. Paris Diderot
- Michal Koucký, Czech Academy of Sciences
- Dieter Kratsch, U. de Lorraine
- Andrei Krokhin, Durham U.
- Antonín Ku?era, Masaryk U.
- Markus Lohrey, U. of Leipzig
- Katarzyna Paluch, U. of Wroclaw
- Natacha Portier, ENS Lyon, co-chair
- Kirk Pruhs, U. of Pittsburgh
- Peter Rossmanith, RWTH Aachen
- Günter Rote, Freie Universität Berlin
- Thomas Sauerwald, MPI Saarbrücken
- Sandeep Sen, IIT Delhi
- Subhash Suri, UC Santa Barbara
- Jacobo Toran, Ulm U.
- Jouko Väänänen, U. of Helsinki and U. of Amsterdam
- Thomas Wilke, Kiel U., co-chair
- Carsten Witt, Technical U. of Denmark
- Gerhard Woeginger, TU Eindhoven
- Marc Zeitoun, U. Bordeaux 1

INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh
- Kurt Mehlhorn, MPI Saarbrücken and Saarland University
- Stéphan Thomassé, Université Montpellier II

TUTORIAL
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Dániel Marx, MTA SZTAKI: Algorithmic Graph Structure Theory

SUBMISSIONS
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Authors are invited to submit a draft of a full paper with at most 12 pages. The usage of pdflatex 
and the LIPIcs style file (see below) are mandatory; no changes to font size, page geometry etc. 
are permitted.

The paper should contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of 
the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, accessible to non-specialist 
readers.  Proofs omitted due to space constraints must be put into an appendix to be read by the 
program committee members at their discretion.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

The submission site, which opens on June 1, 2012, is
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=stacs2013 .

PROCEEDINGS
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Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium.
As usual, these proceedings will appear in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics 
(LIPIcs) series, based at Schloss Dagstuhl.
This guarantees perennial, free and easy electronic access, while the authors retain the rights 
over their work.

In addition, the proceedings will also be available as archives in the open access electronic 
repository HAL.

With their submission, authors consent to sign a license authorizing the program committee chairs 
to organize the electronic publication of their paper, provided the paper is accepted.

Further details are available on www.stacs-conf.org and on the conference website, 
http://www.stacs2013.uni-kiel.de .

Each participant of the conference will receive a USB flash drive with an electronic version of 
the proceedings. It is also planned to publish selcted papers in a journal.

IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission website opens: Jun 1, 2012
Submission deadline:      Sep 21, 2012
Notification:             Dec 7, 2012 
Final version due:        Jan 9, 2013
Symposium:                Feb 27-Mar 2, 2013

LIPICS STYLE FILES
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LIPIcs homepage: http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics
tar ball: http://drops.dagstuhl.de/styles/lipics/lipics-authors.tgz

CONTACT INFORMATION
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info@stacs2013.uni-kiel.de (for general information) pc-chairs@stacs2013.uni-kiel.de 
(for information regarding paper submission)