SEA 2025: Call for Papers

The 23rd Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025) will be held in Venice, Italy, from July 22-24, 2025.

SEA aims to attract papers from the Computer Science community, the Operations Research/Mathematical Programming community and any other scientific community that is concerned with the main theme of the symposium, namely the role of experimentation and of algorithm engineering techniques in the design and evaluation of algorithms and data structures. Submissions should present significant contributions supported by experimental evaluation, methodological issues in the design and interpretation of experiments, the use of (meta-)heuristics, or application-driven case studies that deepen the understanding of the complexity of a problem.

Topics of Interest

Contributions solicited cover a variety of topics including but not limited to:

• Algorithm Engineering
• Algorithmic Libraries and Software Repositories
• Algorithmic Cryptography and Security
• Algorithmic Natural Language Processing
• Algorithmics for Databases
• Analysis of Algorithms
• Approximation Algorithms
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
• Combinatorial Problems and Structures
• Communication Networks
• Computational Geometry
• Computational Optimization
• Compressed space algorithms and data structures
• Data Structures
• Distributed and Parallel Algorithms
• Graph Algorithms
• Heuristic Algorithms
• Integer Programming
• Logistics and Operations Management
• Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Mathematical Programming
• Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Network Analysis
• Online Problems
• Randomized Algorithms
• Semidefinite Programming
• String Algorithms
• Streaming and External Memory Algorithms

Submission Guidelines

• Full papers must be submitted via EasyChair by February 2nd, 2025, AoE (extended).
• Authors will be notified of acceptance status by March 31st, 2025 (extended).
• Final version due: April 28th, 2025.
• Paper Length: Not exceeding 12 pages, excluding the bibliography, the front page (title, keywords, abstract, ...), and a brief appendix of up to 5 pages (figures and tables should be counted as part of the space occupied by the appendix).
• Format: Authors are required to use the LaTeX style file supplied for the LIPIcs style, without changing default values nor setting font size options in the "documentclass" statement. Final proceedings papers must be camera-ready in this format. A clearly marked Appendix of up to 5 pages, which will not count toward the 12 page submission limit, can be included and will be read at the referees' discretion.
• Submission System: All submissions have to be made via the EasyChair submission page for the conference: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sea2025.
• Originality: Papers submitted for review should represent original, previously unpublished work or surveys of important results. The paper should not be under review by any other conference or journal during the review period.
• Presentation: At least one author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the conference and present the paper. No accepted paper will be published unless an author registers to participate.

Double-Blind Reviewing

SEA will implement a double-blind review process. Submissions must not disclose the authors' identities. Names, affiliations, and email addresses must be excluded. Prior work should be referenced in the third person (e.g., "This work builds on the research of..."). Authors should anonymize accompanying software and data, and avoid linking to personal GitHub pages.

Any authors with questions about the double-blind review process should contact the program committee chairs for clarification. All papers failing to meet anonymization requirements will be desk-rejected.

Large Language Models (LLMs) Usage Policy

Papers containing content generated by large language models (LLMs) or images created using deep generative models (DGMs) are not allowed, except for:

• Generating scientific plots displaying data obtained from experiments.
• Polishing text that the authors have personally written.

Authors remain responsible for their submissions' accuracy, originality, and quality. Disclosure of LLM/DGM usage to the Program Chairs at the moment of submitting the paper (via a dedicated box on EasyChair) is required. Failure to disclose may lead to desk-rejection.

Proceedings

The conference proceedings will be published in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), a series of high-quality conference proceedings across all fields in informatics established in cooperation with Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. SEA Proceedings volumes are published according to the principle of Open Access.

Best Paper Award

The program committee will identify a submission as the best paper.

Contact

You can contact us at: sea25-organization-grpunive@unive.it.

Important Note on Venice Access

Participants not staying within the municipality of Venice may be required to pay the access fee to Venice on July 25. Please check the details here: https://cda.veneziaunica.it/en.