ESA 2025: Call for Papers

The European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA) is one of the premier conferences on algorithms. It is organized in collaboration with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and is a part of ALGO 2025, to be held in Warsaw.

The symposium seeks original algorithmic contributions for problems with relevant theoretical and/or practical applications. Papers with a strong emphasis on the theoretical analysis of algorithms should be submitted to Track A, while papers reporting the results of extensive experimental evaluations and/or providing original contributions to the engineering of algorithms for practical applications should be submitted to Track B. Submissions that prove or explain results, possibly already known, in a particularly clear, simple or elegant way should be submitted to Track S.

There will be a Best Student Paper Award as well as a Best Paper Award, both sponsored by EATCS. In order for a paper to be considered for the Best Student Paper Award, all of its authors are required to be students (including PhD candidates) at the time of submission.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract or full paper. Submissions must be formatted in accordance with the LIPIcs proceedings guidelines and may not exceed 500 lines of text. Authors must use the LaTeX class file socg-lipics-v2021.cls; for a quick start, duplicate this Overleaf project.

Proofs omitted due to the line constraint must be placed in an appendix. This appendix can even comprise an entire full version of the paper. The appendix will be read by the program committee members at their discretion. In particular, appendices of accepted papers are not going to be published in the proceedings. The main part of the submission should therefore contain a clear technical presentation of the merits of the paper, including a discussion of the paper’s importance within the context of prior work and a description of the key technical and conceptual ideas used to achieve its main claims.

These guidelines are strict: submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines risk being rejected without consideration of their merits.

Papers must be submitted electronically via the EasyChair submission system.

Results previously published (or scheduled for publication) in another conference proceedings or journal should not be submitted to ESA. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings, journals, or to multiple tracks of ESA 2025, is also not permitted.

By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance, at least one of the authors must register at ALGO 2025, attend the conference on-site and present the paper. Papers with no author fulfilling this requirement may risk being removed from the final conference proceedings (unless there are extenuating circumstances).

Topics

Papers presenting original research in all areas of algorithmic research are sought, including but not limited to:

• Algorithm engineering
• Algorithmic aspects of networks
• Algorithmic game theory
• Algorithmic Data Science
• Approximation algorithms
• Computational biology
• Computational finance
• Computational geometry
• Combinatorial optimization
• Data compression
• Data structures
• Databases and information retrieval
• Distributed and parallel computing
• Graph algorithms
• Hierarchical memories
• Heuristics and meta-heuristics
• Mathematical programming
• Mobile computing
• Online algorithms
• Parameterized algorithms
• Pattern matching
• Quantum computing
• Randomized algorithms
• Scheduling and resource allocation problems
• Streaming algorithms

Double-Blind Reviewing

The conference will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. The purpose of the double-blind reviewing is to help PC members and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias.

Submissions should not reveal the identity of the authors. In particular, authors’ names, affiliations, and email addresses should not appear at the beginning or in the body of the submission. Authors should ensure that any references to their own related work is in the third person (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the work of …”).

Double-blind reviewing is intended to help PC members and reviewers to counter bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult. In particular, important references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web, submit them to arXiv, and give talks on their research ideas. In case there exist publicly available versions of the submission online, the authors might mention this in their submission (without providing references/links), and briefly explain the differences if any. Alternatively, they might communicate the details to the chairs, who will keep them confidential unless revealing them to the PC is needed for a fair judgement.

When submitting a paper, please indicate Conflict of Interest (CoI) with PC members. A CoI is limited to the following categories:

• Family member or close friend.
• Ph.D. advisor or advisee (no time limit), or postdoc or undergraduate mentor or mentee within the past 5 years.
• Person with the same affiliation.
• Involved in an alleged incident of harassment. (It is not required that the incident be reported.)
• Reviewer owes author a favor (e.g., recently requested a reference letter).
• Frequent or recent collaborator whom you believe cannot objectively review your work.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: April 23, 2023, 23:59 AoE (EasyChair)
• Notification: June 23
• Camera ready: July 7
• Conference: September 15-17, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland