SoCG 2012 - 28th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2012)

We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing original research on geometric algorithms and data structures, their mathematical foundations and correctness, their implementation, and their applications.

Final versions of accepted papers will be published by ACM in the symposium proceedings. Proceedings will be distributed to symposium participants and will also be available from ACM for purchase and through the ACM digital library. An author of each accepted paper will be expected to attend the Symposium and give a presentation (approximately 20 minutes) of the paper. Authors of a selection of papers from the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue of one or more journals. This year we also plan to confer two Best Paper Awards, and a Best Student Presentation Award. The Student Presentation award will be based on the quality of the presentation of a paper by a student during the conference.

Paper Submission

All submissions should be made electronically; see the EasyChair SoCG2012 web page https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socg20... for detailed submission instructions (to be available shortly). If electronic submission is not feasible, please contact the program committee chairs, Tamal Dey and Sue Whitesides, well in advance of the submission deadlines.

Submission Guidelines
Papers should be submitted in the form of an extended abstract, which begins with the title and abstract page that contains the title of the paper, each author’s name, affiliation, and e-mail address followed by a short abstract. The main body of the extended abstract should begin with a precise statement of the problem considered, a succinct summary of the results obtained (emphasizing the significance, novelty, and potential impact of the research), and a clear comparison with related work. The remainder of the extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to evaluate the validity, quality, and relevance of the contribution. Clarity of presentation is very important; the whole extended abstract should be written carefully, taking into consideration that it will be read and evaluated by both experts and non-experts, often under tight time constraints.

Submissions should be typeset in single column format, using 11-point or larger font, with at least 1 inch/2.54 cm margins and single line spacing. Excluding the title page and bibliography, the extended abstract must not exceed 10 pages. Submissions deviating from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits.

All necessary details to verify the results must be provided. If they cannot fit within the 10-page limit, a clearly marked appendix containing omitted details should be included. Appendices are not counted in the 10 page limit, so while they may serve as a reference, they will be read by the program committee members at their discretion. The paper excluding the appendix should clearly describe the results and the approach to achieve them, and give sufficient confidence for their validity. The appendix should then give all the necessary details to verify correctness.

Anticipating the usual high overall quality of submissions, the program committee intends to interpret the scope of the conference broadly, and will seriously consider all papers that are of significant interest to our research community.

Authors must submit the title and an abstract (at most 300 words) of their papers by November 22, 2011. This pre-submission will be used to help make program committee reading assignments. Extended abstracts must be received by December 2, 2011 (23:59, Honolulu time). There will be no extension of these deadlines; late submissions will not be considered. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by February 17, 2012. The final proceedings papers must be formatted in accordance with ACM proceedings guidelines; LaTeX style files will be made available to authors of accepted papers.

Concurrent submission of the same (or essentially the same) abstract to SoCG and to another conference with published proceedings is not allowed. An extended abstract of a paper that is under journal review, or scheduled for publication in a journal after June 2012, may be submitted, when it is clear that the extended abstract differs substantially from the journal version. In such cases, the authors must include the journal version in an appendix that clearly identifies the status of the journal submission.