The call for papers for the first annual conference on Innovations in Computer Science has been released. ICS is a new theoretical computer science conference, with a very small but stellar program committee (Avrim Blum, Shafi Goldwasser, Sanjeev Khanna, Christos Papadimitriou, Rafael Pass, Nir Shavit, Vijay Vazirani, Andrew Yao (Chair)) with the goal of “encouraging new ideas, approaches, perspectives, conceptual frameworks and techniques.” To quote further from the call for papers:
- Novel and promising ideas will be given preference in the selection process. The program committee of ICS will assign significant weight to the conceptual message communicated by the submission.
- The program committee will prefer papers that open new and fruitful directions of explorations. In other words, ICS will prefer papers that make first steps in new directions and raise new questions, over papers that provide the last word on a well-established direction.
- At the discretion of the program committee, the evaluation process may be interactive, so as to include questions to the authors and clarifications by them, if necessary.
Or as Vijay Vazirani said at lunch, they want the first paper (of many) on a topic, not the last (or even worse, the next).
Submissions are due September 15, 2009, which might be after the announcement of papers accepted to SODA 2010, in case you're thinking of submitting a paper that SODA will find too novel, promising, or conceptual. The conference itself is January 4-7, 2010 in Beijing, roughly two weeks before SODA.
More details are promised at the business meeting tonight.
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