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WADS, the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium, is an international
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in the field of
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, focusing on
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s.WADS web page
WADS is held every second year, usually in
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and always in
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. It is held in alternation with its sister conference, the Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT), which is usually held in
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and always in
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. Historically, the proceedings of both conferences were published by
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through their
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series. Springer continues to publish WADS proceedings, but starting in 2016, SWAT proceedings are now published by
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.


History

The first SWAT took place in 1988, in
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. The first WADS was organised one year later, in 1989, in
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,
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. Until 2007, WADS was known as the Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, and until 2008, SWAT was known as the Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory.SWAT 2008 web page


See also

* The
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contains other academic conferences in computer science.


Notes


References

* . Also available as a Princeton University technical repor
TR-521-96
Section 13.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of "major algorithms conferences" with "a large amount of geometry": SODA, ISAAC, ESA, WADS, SWAT. * . Section 7.3.2 mentions the following conferences (in this order) as examples of conferences that publish articles on pattern matching (in addition to more narrow conferences CPM, COCOON, RECOMB, SPIRE, ISMB): DCC, ESA, FOCS, FSTTCS, ICALP, ISAAC, MFCS, SODA, STACS, STOC, SWAT, WAE, WADS. * Th

Conferences on tier A ("... would add to the author's respect...") include SWAT and WADS.


External links


Bibliographic information about SWAT
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Bibliographic information about WADS
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