The 9th Japan-Korea Joint Workshop on Algorithms and Computation

    July 4-5, 2006
    Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

OBJECTIVES

The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on
algorithms and the theory of computation, to promote the exchange of recent
results, to foster new collaborations among researchers.
Historically, the workshop has established for the purpose of collaboration
of researchers of Japan and Korea; however, participation from any country
is welcome.

The workshop is sponsored by a research project entitled "New Horizons in
Computing" (supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority
Areas of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
of Japan) in cooperation with the Special Interest Group on Theoretical
Computer Science (SIGTCS) of Korean Information Society, the Technical
Committee on Computation (COMP) of the Institute of Electronics,
Information and Communication Engineers, and the Special Interest Group on
Algorithms (SIGAL) of the Information Processing Society of Japan.

TOPICS INCLUDE

   - Automata, languages and computability
   - Algorithms (combinatorial/graph/geometric/randomized)
   - VLSI and parallel algorithms
   - Networks and distributed algorithms
   - Learning theory and data mining
   - Number theory and cryptography
   - Graph drawing and visualization
   - Computational logic
   - Combinatorics and optimization

INVITED SPEAKERS

  TBA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Hiroki Arimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Hwan-Gue Cho (Pusan National University, Korea) 
  Tomio Hirata (Nagoya University, Japan)
  Seokhee Hong (University of Sydney, Australia)
  Takeshi Koshiba (Saitama University, Japan)
  Shuichi Miyazaki (Kyoto University, Japan)
  Koji Nonobe (Hosei University, Japan)
  Jung-Heum Park (Catholic University of Korea, Korea) 
  Shunji Umetani (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
  Mutsunori Yagiura (Nagoya University, Japan)


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  Hyeong-Seok Lim (Chonnam National University, Korea) 
  Hiroshi Nagamochi (Chair, Kyoto University, Japan)
  Osamu Watanabe (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  Tae-Cheon Yang (Kyungsung University, Korea) 


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of their papers (or the
full paper itself) via e-mail to the address

    Prof. Shunji Umetani
    The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
    umetani@se.uec.ac.jp

containing a PDF file (A4, 4-8 pages) in the format as described in
the sample LaTeX file available from

    http://www-or.amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/waac06/waac06.tex

Deadline of the submission is May 28, 2006.
The authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 1, 2006.

The submitted extended abstract is directly used for the proceedings volume
of this symposium, if it is accepted, and

  *** there is no chance of revision or correction. ***

The authors are therefore requested to prepare the extended abstracts very
carefully.

We expect that most participants will submit full version of their papers
to some journals, independently of this symposium.

Location of SYMPOSIUM SITE

The symposium will be held at Centennial Hall, which is located at Sapporo
Campus, Hokkaido University (see no. 5 on Campus Map
http://www.hokudai.ac.jp/bureau/e/index-e.html).

REGISTRATION

 Registration information will be given in our web page later.

IMPORTANT DATES

May 28, 2006    --- deadline of paper submission
June 1, 2006    --- notification of acceptance/rejection
July 4-5, 2006  --- workshop

QUESTIONS or COMMENTS

Please send an e-mail to

          umetani@se.uec.ac.jp

for questions on the submission of papers,

          nag@amp.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

for other questions and comments.