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CALL FOR PAPERS
Second Announcement

ISSAC-2004
International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation
University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2004

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ISSAC is the yearly premier international symposium in Symbolic and
Algebraic Computation. It provides an opportunity to learn of new
developments and to present original research results in all areas of
symbolic mathematical computation. Planned activities include invited
presentations by *Pablo Parrilo, Francisco Santos and Jan Verschelde*,
submitted research papers, poster sessions, tutorial courses, vendor
exhibits, and software demonstrations.

ISSAC 2004 will be held at the University of Cantabria in Santander, 
Spain,
from July 4 to 7, 2004.

Paper Submission
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Authors should submit full papers before midnight Eastern Standard Time on 
7 January 2004. Papers must describe original, previously unpublished work
that has not been simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere.
Students presenting papers of which they are an author will have their
registration fee waived.

Submission should be done electronically via the web form:
https://issac2004.risc.uni-linz.ac.at

Important Dates
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*Deadline for Submissions: January 7, 2004

*Notification of Acceptance: March 3, 2004

*Camera-ready copy received: April 16, 2004

Conference Topics
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Topics of the meeting include, but are not limited to:

-Algorithmic mathematics: Algebraic, symbolic and symbolic-numeric
algorithms. Simplification, function manipulation, equations, summation,
integration, ODE/PDE, linear algebra, number theory, group and geometric
computing.
-Computer Science: Theoretical and practical problems in symbolic
computation. Systems, problem solving environments, user interfaces,
software, libraries, parallel/distributed computing and programming
languages for symbolic computation, concrete analysis, benchmarking,
theoretical and practical complexity of computer algebra algorithms,
automatic differentiation, code generation, mathematical data
structures and exchange protocols.
-Applications: Problem treatments using algebraic, symbolic or
symbolic-numeric computation in an essential or a novel way. Engineering,
economics and finance, physical and biological sciences, computer science,
logic, mathematics, statistics, education.

Instructions to Authors
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Original research results and insightful analyses of current concerns are
solicited for submission. Submissions must not substantially duplicate 
work published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Late submissions 
will be rejected.

Papers will be reviewed by a program committee and additional referees.
Proceedings will be distributed at the symposium.

Papers must be in English and should not exceed 8 pages in the standard
format for ACM proceedings, or 20 to 22 pages of text in LaTeX 12pt 
article style.

Each paper should have an abstract as well as an introductory section 
that:

-Describes the problem.
-Motivates the study of the problem.
-States the main results and compares them to other work
(including theoretical or empirical performance).
-Summarizes the original aspects of the contribution.

Formatting requirements will be based on the ACM Proceedings Templates. 
For instance in LaTeX2e you should use the acm_proc_article-sp.cls 
document class to format your document. For information concerning ACM 
Proceedings Templates see www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html.

Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the
symposium, or make arrangements to have it presented, and will be required
to sign the ACM copyright agreement www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html).
Some papers may be accepted for poster-session presentation; these will 
not appear in the proceedings.

Abstracts of all posters will be distributed at the symposium. For poster
submissions see www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/issac2004/cfposter.html.

Best student author award
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This award will be given to the best student author. An author who is a
Full-time student at the time of submission is eligible for the award. 
This status should be indicated when the paper is submitted. For details
concerning the selection procedure for this award as well as the procedure
for the ISSAC Distinguished Paper Award, see
www.acm.org/sigsam/ISSAC_Awards.html.

Organizing Committee
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General Chair:
Josef Schicho

SIGSAM Chair:
Emil Volcheck

Program Committee Chair:
Michael Singer

Program Committee :
Moulay Barkatou
Arjeh M. Cohen
Shuhong Gao
Karin Gatermann
Patricia Gianni
Serkan Hosten
Richard Liska
Bernard Mourrain
Masayuki Noro
Marie-Francoise Roy
Bruno Salvy
Rafael Sendra
Gilles Villard
Dongming Wang
Stephen Watt

Poster Committee:
Howard Cheng
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod
Ilias Kotsireas
Ha Le
Wen-shin Lee
Ziming Li (chair)

Tutorials:
Thomas Sturm

Proceedings Editor:
Jaime Gutierrez

Local Arrangements:
Luis M. Pardo

Treasurer:
Carsten Schneider

Publicity Committee:
Tobias Beck
Janka Pilnikova
Ibolya Szilagyi

Web/Online Registration:
Gabor Bodnar


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Please send all the comments to the appropriate contact:
issac2004@risc.uni-linz.ac.at