Preliminary Call for Papers The 12th International Computer Science Symposium in Russia, CSR-2017 Kazan, Russia June 8-12, 2017 http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2017/ --------------------------------- CSR is an annual conference that intends to reflect the broad scope of international cooperation in computer science. The topics covered vary from year to year, but in general try to cover as much of the contemporary computer science as possible. They include, but are not limited to: algorithms and data structures combinatorial optimization constraint solving computational complexity cryptography combinatorics in computer science formal languages and automata algorithms for concurrent and distributed systems, networks applications of logic to computer science, e.g. proof theory, model checking and verification formal and algorithmic aspects of bio-informatics current challenges such as quantum computing --------------------------------- Important dates Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2016 (23:59 anywhere on Earth). Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2017. Conference dates: June 8-12, 2017. --------------------------------- Distinguished opening lecture and invited lectures TBA --------------------------------- Submission and publication Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original research in the conference topics, in electronic form (pdf format) via EasyChair. Submissions must be unpublished, not under review for publication elsewhere, and provide sufficient information to judge their merits. Submissions must be in English, and not exceed 12 pages, including the title page, in Springer's LNCS LaTeX style (instructions available here). Additional material, to be read at the discretion of reviewers and PC members, may be provided in a clearly marked appendix or by reference to a manuscript on a web site. Accepted papers will be published in an LNCS volume by Springer. Instructions for formatting camera-ready versions will be communicated to the authors of accepted papers. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. --------------------------------- Yandex Awards for the best paper and for the best student paper will be given by the PC. --------------------------------- Organizers and sponsors CSR is organized by Kazan Federal university (Volga region), with the support of (tentative list): The Russia Foundation for Basic Research, http://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng/info Kazan Federal University, http://kpfu.ru/eng Yandex, https://www.yandex.com/ --------------------------------- Organizing committee (tentative) The organizing committee can be reached at the following address: CSR2017.Kazan@gmail.com Farid Ablayev (KFU), chair Aida Gainutdinova (KFU) Anton Marchenko (KFU) Daniil Musatov (MIPT) Alexander Vasiliev (KFU) Valeria Volkova (KFU) Mansur Ziatdinov (KFU) Marsel Sitdikov (KFU) --------------------------------- Program Committee Farid Ablayev (Kazan, RU) Ittai Abraham (Jerusalem, IL) Isolde Adler (Leeds, UK) Fr??d??rique Bassino (Paris Nord, FR) V??ronique Bruy??re (Mons, BE) Maike Buchin (Bochum, DE) Hubie Chen (San Sebastian, ES) Anuj Dawar (Cambridge, UK) St??phanie Delaune (Cachan, FR) Anna Frid (Marseille, FR) Elena Grigorescu (Purdue, US) Krishna S (Mumbai, IN) K.N. Kumar (Chennai, IN) Fr??d??ric Magniez (Paris, FR) Meena Mahajan (Chennai, IN) Grigory Marshalko (Moscow, RU) Catuscia Palamidessi (Saclay, FR) Victor Selivanov (Novosibirsk, RU) Kavitha Telikepalli (Mumbai, IN) Thomas Thierauf (Aalen, DE) Szymon Torunczyk (Warsaw, PL) H??l??ne Touzet (Lille, FR) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg, RU) Dorothea Wagner (Karlsruhe, DE) Pascal Weil (Bordeaux, FR), chair --------------------------------- Steering Committee for the CSR series Edward A. Hirsch (St.Petersburg, RU) Juhani Karhum??ki (Turku, FI) Ernst W. Mayr (Munich, DE) Alexander Razborov (Chicago, US and Moscow, RU) Mikhail Volkov (Ekaterinburg, RU) --------------------------------- Previous CSR conferences CSR 2016 took place in St.Petersburg, Russia The list of previous CSR webpages can be found at http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/~csr/ UNSUBSCRIPTION: If you do not wish to receive any news regarding CSR conferences, please reply to this mail and we will remove you from the mailing list. [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]